Your worst save file accident?

[AntiChri5]

I am paranoid about losing progress, and anyone who didn't save frequently on New Vegas before a great deal of patches soon learned to regret it so i was being extra paranoid, making a new save each time and saving very frequently.

I didn't know you could only have 100 saves on the Xbox version of New Vegas. No problem, right, just delete the early saves and keep going? Sure, except that i accidentally deleted one too many saves and ended up completely wiping out a character with more then 70 hours. Oh the tears that were shed.

But wait! It gets even better!

I ended up recreating that character, because i had unfinished business damnit. Got about 30 hours in until a mysterious glitch made that file unplayable.

Fuck you, New Vegas.

 

[Poetic Nova]

I got 2 save file corruptions in Borderlands, both where roughly 50 to 80 hours in *facepalm* got burned out on BL1. Luckily there's BL2 which runs like a dream.

And there was Spyro: Season Of Ice, I was close to 100 percenting it untill a niece played it and erased my savefile (only one save was allowed)....

 

[loc978]

...my very first save file in Final Fantasy VI, the one I started in 1995 on the cartridge I got for christmas that year... where I had every character ground up to level 99 and had the legitimate paladin shield... Overwritten by my brother in 2006. He was storing my old video games while I was deployed overseas at the time. I've made another endgame save on the cartridge, but not to the level my old one was.

 

[FFP2]

Far Cry 2. Anyone that has played that game knows how fustrating/difficult it is. Bear this in mind.

I was running 3 save files:

1st- Near the beginning of the game in case I ever felt like replaying it without doing that awful tutorial again (which I did not feel like doing after this incident).

2nd- Right before the "point of no return" bit. I powered through the game and only did the story/gunshop missions. Was going to use this to 100% the game after I had done the story.

3rd- My normal save file that got saved at every savepoint.

Cue to the part right at the end of the game. The last chance you get to save your game.

I saved my no. 3 save in my no. 2 saveslot by accident.

Finished the game and swore to never buy another Ubisoft product again. I know that it's not their fault but I have never been so angry in my entire life.

 

[MrBenSampson]

After completing the main story and most of the side missions in Saint's Row 2, I created a new character for a co-op campaign with a friend. After playing for a couple hours, I decided to save our progress. I wasn't thinking about what I was doing, and out of habit I overwrote my primary save file. I actually felt despair.

 

[The Artificially Prolonged]

Pokemon Blue. High level pokemon and a complete pokedex, lost to leaving the cartridge in my pants when they went through the wash >.<

 

[waj9876]

Depends. A legitimate one? I accidentally saved over the save file on Skyrim I had spent months working on. I had this habit of keeping only two or three saves and deleting all of the quicksaves I don't need.

There was another one that I had thought was game-ending. In Pokemon Silver I saved after starting the Elite 4. Took me a while to realize I just needed to defeat them all to escape.