How do you react to loosing a saved game file?

[AdamRBi]

The further I get into a game before deletion, the longer my knees-on-the-ground-shouting-to-the-sky NOOOOO is and the least likely I am to try and play through it again.

Unless, UNLESS it is a game where you just have to unlock additional content. Like racing or fighting games. Then, after a significant amount of time has passed, I'm actually glad the data was erased so I have a reason to play it again. (This just happend recently to my copy of Burnout Paradise, I couldn't be happier having reason to play that game again.)

 

[Liberaliter]

Losing my 200 hour + Morrowind save?

'DON'T DO IT, YOU HAVE TOO MUCH TO LIVE FOR! PUT THE GUN DOWN!'

 

[Trivun]

Well, nowadays I very rarely lose a save file, almost never, in fact. So if it does happen I tend to just get pretty annoyed, then calm down and leave the game for a while, coming back to it later and simply starting again after maybe a week or two.

In the past, though, I used to lose save files quite a bit, purely because my brother tended to delete my files out of spite if we'd been arguing, or by accident when playing on the same console. We have a shared PS2 at home, but I'm at university now and live in a differnet city so that problem isn't exactly a problem now. Back when it was, I usually dealt with the problem by flying off the handle at my brother, causing him physical pain if he'd done it deliberately (which was usually the case), then starting a new game.

Nowadays, as I say, it's no longer a problem. When I'm home for holidays we tend to play different games, so neither of us accidentally deletes anyone's save file, and we usually share a file on sandbox and casual games (the only ones that we both like to play). He's grown out of deleting my files out of spite, thank God. As for my mum's Wii, or my Xbox 360, we have different accounts. I don't mind him playing on my Xbox, provided he only uses his own Gamer profile, if he ever uses mine without permission then violence will ensue (but he's smart enough and sensible enough not to do that). So that's enough to ensure our save files are kept seperate and nothing gets deleted by accident .

 

[drbarno]

I think the biggest save file I lost was my sonic adventure 2 battle one where I had 175/180 emblems, I decided to do the purple world glitch in the chao world for lulz and the game froze when I visited the chao stadium, when I reloaded the game up, the save file was blank, no information on it, and when I checked it, it was all gone. The only thing not destroyed was the Chao garden file, which stopped the whole thing from being a disaster.

 

[Midnight Crossroads]

Depends on the game. It's enough to rage quit for months if it's a Final Fantasy long game, I'm on disc three, and the file corrupts.

Call of Duty long games, it's just a chance to go take a bathroom break. I never prestige, anyway. Waste of my damn time.

 

[Joshroom]

When I was living at home I shared my PS2 with my bros. I had a file on FF12, nice 40 hour file, and one of my brothers asks if he can start playing the game. I say yes. He saves over my file. Brotherly abuse ensues.
In all honesty I wasn't too fussed really, I'd kinda grown tired of the game. But still, seeing all that progress flitting away is really quite painful.

 

[The Arc of Eden]

I haven't had an accident like that since the last gen consoles. These newfangled things we call personal accounts really solved that problem.
I can sum up every file override thats happened to me like this: Whoever had the #1 save slot got theirs overridden by whoever was using the #2 save slot because we would just keep tapping the X button (Or other console equivalent) to power through the menus and accidentally override the #1 slot.

 

[imnot]

Destroy all humans 97%
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUu

 

[Koroviev]

I run around and try to catch it. Damn save files, always getting loose.

Snarky remarks aside, I don't play the game for a long, long time.

 

[AnAngryMoose]

If I was far into the game then I will sit there in silence for a bit, put the controller down and eject the disk. I then will not play the game again for a long time, if not ever.

 

[chromewarriorXIII]

I lost my Fallout 3 file at one point due to corruption. Only lost about 20 hours though and ever since then I've been saving in 2 slots. I was angry and frustrated but I just started anew and it was all good.

 

[Blame]

My reaction to losing me "Perfect-92Hour-Level99-6GoldChocobos-AllMateria-AllWeaponsandLimitBreaks" Final Fantasy VII file is still recorded as the loudest sound ever found in nature.

 

[Woodsey]

I fuck shit up.

[sub]In a different game.[/sub]

 

[djfranza]

I will play something else for about a year, then start over. I will get a tad upset, but just enought to throw my head back and groan, then whine until my girlfriend feels bad for me and gets me some ice cream.

 

[LupusDei]

Violent outbursts of profanity, Involving the game in questions mother.

 

[GWarface]

Dont think i ever lost a save..
But i just died in Minecraft, on my way back to base, after running around the world and gathering ALOT of good stuff...

In my mind, its the same as loosing a saved game... And i promply ragequited...

 

[Eatbrainz]

FFFFFFFFFF-

 

[mark-the-stampede]

how do i react you ask? with rage and occasionally a broken controller

 

[MassiveGeek]

I look like this for a couple of hours:

 

[YoBadMama]

I erased my entire playstation memory card in a freak accident, then I was like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYXYmYq3kWc