Aliens: Colonial Marines Suffers Save Wipe Bug on Xbox 360

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Zeraki

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Oh man, everything about this game is just a train wreck. I don't want to look but I can't help myself due to morbid curiosity.
 

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Wow, this game is cursed.

Or Gearbox is. By finishing Duke Nukem Forever they gave life to That Which Was Not Meant To Be, and now they're suffering cosmic retribution.
Hahah, well said. But ... I don't think Gearbox is cursed. I think they're just bad at their jobs.
 

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FizzyIzze said:
"Since save data doesn't appear to be stored on local systems."
Wait a minute here. What exactly does that mean? Does that mean that game save data isn't normally saved on the 360's they're being played on by design??? Is it basically cloud storage of your game save? That can't be, can it? Surely you can back up your data to a thumb drive or something.

Can anybody confirm/deny this?
Yeah there is no physical save data on your 360 HDD in the Aliens where the installed game and bonus content is stored. Just like Left 4 Dead.
 

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Heh, I'm gonna go ahead and say it, Duke Nukem Forever was entertaining to me, only outdated as hell, outdated to the point where, even though it was entertaining, and true to the Duke spirit, I couldn't play it with a constant smile on my face... Now, here we go: DNF is probably better than ACM... lol oh fuck that's BAAAAAAD
 

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FizzyIzze said:
"Since save data doesn't appear to be stored on local systems."
Wait a minute here. What exactly does that mean? Does that mean that game save data isn't normally saved on the 360's they're being played on by design??? Is it basically cloud storage of your game save? That can't be, can it? Surely you can back up your data to a thumb drive or something.

Can anybody confirm/deny this?
Yeah there is no physical save data on your 360 HDD in the Aliens where the installed game and bonus content is stored. Just like Left 4 Dead.
I didn't know that either, many other games do that? Well, if I take my game, to a friend`s console, and login there, I can play MY save right? Cool when it works :D
 

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FizzyIzze said:
Yeah there is no physical save data on your 360 HDD in the Aliens where the installed game and bonus content is stored. Just like Left 4 Dead.
Normally I'd be disturbed by this. Conceptually I find it more disturbing than mandatory always-on DRM, but I suppose if personal hardware fails then your game saves are safe in the cloud. Also having the option to do a local backup would be smarter though.
 

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Milanezi said:
squid5580 said:
FizzyIzze said:
"Since save data doesn't appear to be stored on local systems."
Wait a minute here. What exactly does that mean? Does that mean that game save data isn't normally saved on the 360's they're being played on by design??? Is it basically cloud storage of your game save? That can't be, can it? Surely you can back up your data to a thumb drive or something.

Can anybody confirm/deny this?
Yeah there is no physical save data on your 360 HDD in the Aliens where the installed game and bonus content is stored. Just like Left 4 Dead.
I didn't know that either, many other games do that? Well, if I take my game, to a friend`s console, and login there, I can play MY save right? Cool when it works :D
All your stats carry over so it is easier to D/L your gamertag and keep right on going than worry about your saves and their saves and whatnot.
 

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Why do I see nobody defending this game... I've been playing it since launch and I like it, it's not glorious but it's fun.

Nobody even gave the damned game a chance, and what do you get, a bunch of people who jumped on the troll bandwagon, like they did with brink or too human. How many of you have actually played the game without just marching to the rhythm of the reviewers wardrums.
Don't trust reviewers, they spew opinion or get payed to lie.

Now stop bashing something you've never even touched.

EDIT: I can't wait for Yahtzee to "playfully" attack it and watch you people take it for gospel.
 

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squid5580 said:
FizzyIzze said:
"Since save data doesn't appear to be stored on local systems."
Wait a minute here. What exactly does that mean? Does that mean that game save data isn't normally saved on the 360's they're being played on by design??? Is it basically cloud storage of your game save? That can't be, can it? Surely you can back up your data to a thumb drive or something.

Can anybody confirm/deny this?
Yeah there is no physical save data on your 360 HDD in the Aliens where the installed game and bonus content is stored. Just like Left 4 Dead.
Okay. So how do people play it offline and have their stats and all still saved? Because I've played both Left 4 Dead and Aliens offline and don't have it saved elsewhere. In fact, I've never gone online with my Aliens.
 

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It seems unlikely that anyone would want to answer someone who refers to their product in that way, even if it is shit. Though that is a pretty awful bug, one of the worst I've had to deal with. It never happened to me on a console, but too many times on PC.
 

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FoolKiller said:
squid5580 said:
FizzyIzze said:
"Since save data doesn't appear to be stored on local systems."
Wait a minute here. What exactly does that mean? Does that mean that game save data isn't normally saved on the 360's they're being played on by design??? Is it basically cloud storage of your game save? That can't be, can it? Surely you can back up your data to a thumb drive or something.

Can anybody confirm/deny this?
Yeah there is no physical save data on your 360 HDD in the Aliens where the installed game and bonus content is stored. Just like Left 4 Dead.
Okay. So how do people play it offline and have their stats and all still saved? Because I've played both Left 4 Dead and Aliens offline and don't have it saved elsewhere. In fact, I've never gone online with my Aliens.
Likely saved to your Gamertag.
Like the Intel in Call of Duty 4.

They screwed me out of my achievements. :L
 

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Geez, the never ending cavalcade of errors is just marching along, isn't it?

Gearbox should be getting more flak for this then BioWare did for the ME3 fiasco.
im going to have to agree with this, its just embarrasing how messed up this game is
 

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...This is not going well, is it?

As bad as I feel for the people who had high hopes for this game, this trainwreck of a game is in some ways reasonably hilarious.
 

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No no no no! Don't you see? The X-box is simply trying to protect you!

See, even the Xbox 360 knows how bad this game is and the second it's saved the system simply goes "Oh HELL NAW!" and promptly deletes it from it's hard-drive. It's done because it knows what effect this game will have on the players, and also because it can't stand having it on it's system.