Lost progress

[manic_depressive13]

Hi, I was just wondering what was the greatest amount of progress you've ever lost on a game (can me measured in hours or levels) and what game was it? When this happened did you rage quit, or did you go through and do it over again?

I was playing Pokemon today on my DS when it suddenly glitched. I had raised my pokemon about 12 levels since the last time I had saved. I doubt I'll go back to it.

Please share your experiences.

PS. I'm really, really sorry if this has been done before. I used the search bar and as far as I could tell there were no threads dedicated to this topic, but then I am a noob.

 

[Fightbulb]

I once got to the 4th campaign in Gear of War in one sitting, and when I picked it up a few weeks later, the entire save was missing. I wasn't happy about that one.

 

[Dantes Alaska]

ALOT of stuff from Soul caliber 3, several times

 

[Kajt]

The screen froze after I completed 2 temples in TLoZ: Majora's Mask.

I forgot to save at all and had to start all over again.

 

[Legion]

I was on the 10th level of Ninja Gaiden 2 (out of 12 levels) and I got a glitch in a cut-scene that required the game be started from the very beginning, because even previous saved files would end in the same glitch when I got to that cut-scene again.

 

[DragonsAteMyMarbles]

Final Fantasy VIII, only a couple of boss fights from the end. Came home a couple of weeks ago to find my memory card swimming in a puddle of cheap lager after my flatmate's mate felt the need to drunkenly tear it out and fling it across the room so he and my flatmate could play FIFA.

Understandably, he's no longer welcome at my place.

 

[EscapeGoat_v1legacy]

Its a tie between Guitar Hero III, Pokemon Red and Final Fantasy X.

On Guitar Hero III I'd completed the game apart from Expert Career when we had a powercut during the saving process. Bye bye, save game.

Pokemon Red's pretty old anyway, so I wasn't too surprised when it died on me, but I was sad. All my Pokemon, gone, just like that...sniff....

As for Final Fantasy X, I was getting the Anima aeon and hadn't saved for quite a while since I was having a long session, and I just turned it off and went to sleep. Woke up about 10 minutes later and thought "SHIT!"

 

[VitalSigns]

Xbox froze while the save was happening on My Just finished skate character, lost everything.

 

[Guy32]

I lost my gamecube memory card a few years back. There goes about 500 hours of gameplay and 10 games I'll never play again.

 

[sirdanrhodes]

Oblivion... Need I say any more?

 

[Pandalisk]

a years worth of gaming on the PS3

 

[Daveman]

Started playing crysis again the other day, had just cleared out an entire town and surrounding area when I get jumped by a bunch of guys and die. Forgot to quicksave part way through and took me all the way back to the beginning.

I then proceeded to ragequit. Other than that I'm pretty good with saving etc.

 

[UberMore]

On Pokemon Silver, I had managed, through roughly 4 years playing it, 3 months total playing time, scraping through my friends games and anybody i met who had any of the original 5, trying to get all the Pokemon. I had 241...

I went back to play on it a few months ago and the Internal Clock had broken...not to big, I went into my game and still had all my Pokemon.

I pick it up again a few weeks ago, and there is no "CONTINUE GAME"...ashamed to say it, but I cried like a ***** that day...I'm 16 ffs! it shouldn't mean that much!!!!

In one sitting would have to be getting to the 3/4 point of disc 1 on Legend Of Dragoon, only to step on my memory card and decimate it around my mates house.

 

[623S]

I lost my Pokemon Ruby game save to the cold or some devilish car gnomes. I had beaten the Elite Four and I had caught every Pokemon which had been available to me at that point. I left my GBA in the car on a particularly cold night and when I got it the next morning, s'all gone. I was PISSED.

 

[ravensshade]

depends on how much time between last save how annoying and how many times it happens
once? meh i'll do it again
twice? ahh wasn't that long
thrice? SCREW THIS

 

[Kermi]

My Simpsons Hit & Run savegame on my PS2 memory card glitched on the final mission - I had found all of the collectibles and just needed to finish the last mission to beat the game. I took a break and when I came back to it later it had reset somehow.
Lost everything.

 

[Grayjack]

I was playing the first Golden Sun, and my GBA died just as I was saving, which corrupted my data. I had to start a new game. I lost about 12 hours worth of gameplay.

 

[matsm]

Almost finished Doom 3 then computer fried.
Could never be botherd to start it again

 

[D_987]

The Last Remnant - that game has no autosave option and after beating two difficult bosses I died and had to replay them all over again. Needless to say I haven't beaten said bosses since.

I know its not exactly on topic but its as close as anything like that has happened to me.

 

[Outcast107]

I was on chapter 15 on Ninja Gaiden(the first one for xbox). I couldn't get pass the skull boss, and my parents left so I could get the big Tv. I pack my xbox from my room to the living room..and the xbox broke...I lost..all that progress on the first Ninja Gaiden. The whole summer..wasted...