Well... Shit.

[Valkyira]

I JUST accidentally overwrote my 98% save file on Red Dead Redemption and as you can imagine, I'm a little pissed off at this.

How many of you have done something like this recently? I know a lot of people overwrite save files accidentally, but what was your biggest loss?

My apologies if this has been done before.

 

[JWRosser]

I did this on Fallout 3. Saved over a file that had about 30 hours play time. After that I vowed to be an evil character.

 

[Zetsubou-Sama]

I tripped over a cable and my ps turned off after 2 hours of game without saving. I'm still pissed.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

When I reformatted my computer, I had all my games on one of my hard drives and I thought "ehh, they are just games, I can just reinstall them all". Well, half way through installing the OS I remember the 200ish level files I made for games just go deleted.

Another time I was making a park on THPS2 and playing with some ball on my bed. I had just gotten the park down after working for hours on it, and I threw the ball up in the air... the ball landed on the power button of my playstation. :/

 

[Jovlo]

No-one feels like contributing?

Maybe everyone who tried up till now had a seizure before they could type due to that avatar of yours.
Seriously, I can't look at it for long, but never mind.

On topic, it happened to me once with Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.
Luckily, I was only about 33% into the story.

 

[HTID Raver]

shit, i can remember the name of the game it was but i was alost done.. then i erased it and was so pissed off!

lol i think it was pokemon

 

[pSY'oniK]

In Gothic there was a part when you change from the open world and head of to a dungeon (as far as I remember its the only one in the game) and you need to pull some leaver in some room to open a door BUT you can pass that by using a scroll of transform into meatbug and sneak under the door. Now I played and kept saving constantly and saved over the part in which I was still on the other side of the door. Where is the problem ? I head you ask, well it's there that I didn't have another scroll at me hence that meant starting the game all over again >_> after about 10 or so hours of gametime.

 

[Snork Maiden]

I accidentally deleted my 39 hour save file on FFXIII. That pissed me off an unbelievable amount.

I always found I naturally do a "new save" on FFXIII by mistake which is fairly irritating, but at least I have plenty of backups. I did once erase my FFVII save back in the day, though - goodbye Omnislash and Gold Chocobo.

 

[Radeonx]

Well, it hasn't happened so much with game saves, but when I reinstalled Windows, I deleted around 3 GB of graphic design work that I had done, and around 4 self made games that each took a very long time to make, let alone play.

 

[JWRosser]

shit, i can remember the name of the game it was but i was alost done.. then i erased it and was so pissed off!

lol i think it was pokemon

On the newer ones you have to physically delete your old file before saving over it on a new game. I did not realise this, and I started a new game and was about 2 or so hours in. I go to save...and I cannot.

 

[Vhite]

In Gothic there was a part when you change from the open world and head of to a dungeon (as far as I remember its the only one in the game) and you need to pull some leaver in some room to open a door BUT you can pass that by using a scroll of transform into meatbug and sneak under the door. Now I played and kept saving constantly and saved over the part in which I was still on the other side of the door. Where is the problem ? I head you ask, well it's there that I didn't have another scroll at me hence that meant starting the game all over again >_> after about 10 or so hours of gametime.

Wow, someone actually knows that game.

 

[Reaper195]

Uninstantiated Oblivion from my computer once, lost over a hundred hours and a couple of gigabytes of mods...

 

[imnot]

my brother deleted my 90% game on destroy all humans, and a dog turned the xbox off and i had'nt saved in a long time.

 

[Rarhnor]

GTA: San Andreas.

90 hours in, and i got thrown back the pre San Fierro. Damn, I was pissed.

 

[Withall]

I once deleted my Pokemon Gold data- I had collected every single little (and not so little) bastard out there. I think my mind broke a little back then.

 

[LarenzoAOG]

I did this on Fallout 3. Saved over a file that had about 30 hours play time. After that I vowed to be an evil character.

I saved over my 170 hour game, all was not lost though, that day me and my friends started a paintball team, and my autosave was still intact (didn't find out until a week later).

 

[teutonicman]

I've developed a bit of a bad habit when playing pokemon. I forget to save before shutting it off. It's never(rarely) more than 30 min at a time but still it's a bit of a piss off. OH! Also I was clearing some space on my 360 by deleting old save files from fallout 3. I didn't realize until I was almost done that instead of going from least to most recent save I was going the opposite way. Fortunately I quickly realize that I still had an intact auto save.

 

[Burwood123]

On the newer ones you have to physically delete your old file before saving over it on a new game. I did not realise this, and I started a new game and was about 2 or so hours in. I go to save...and I cannot.

Oh my god. Same here, cept i knew you had to delete before hand, but i was adamant that they wouldnt change the format of pokemon, being the first game id played since crystal, about an hour in save "saving is impossible" curse my arrgogance

 

[Marter]

I had worked for about 50 hours on an MLB roster file. I overwrote it accidentally. I was none too pleased.