Most devastating loss of a save file

[One Seven One]

Hmm, my entire Super Smash Brothers game data, completed, AND my entire Prince of Persia Two Thrones data, I was on the final boss. >_>

Eventually got my Smash brothers back to where I was and eventually beat Two Thrones.

 

[captainwolfos]

Pokemon Red; my battery died while saving. I WAS SO DEPRESSED.

 

[Futurenerd]

Minecraft, a file with a continent-spanning fortress and even a small nether castle.

 

[inFAMOUSCowZ]

Luckily I have rarely ever had this happen to me, but I was playing Kingdom Hearts when it first came out ( I was like 7). SO I of course loved the game, also I was doing all the side quests, and everything. I'm at Beasts castle, save and get off. I get back on the file is corrupted, I was devastated. For this to ahppen to a 7 year old, is just wrong. Though it was probably my fault, since I probably turned the console off before saving. Now to this day I am always careful.

 

[KiraTaureLor]

I've never lost game progress because me, and brothers all had our own memory cards for game cube. We still have too much space in our ps3, and individual accounts, so no accidents there. I have lost a computer memory card that had original poems, and art saved in, I still can't find it.


Thanks for bringing back bad memories....

 

[Pirakahunter788]

Borderlands.
Max level.
2 modded weapons and a modded shield I got from some random guy. (Be aware I play on PS3.)
Cried for an hour.

 

[Vault Girl]

years ago my cousin deleted my diddy kong racing save file. for an 8 year old i was devastated

 

[Subeer]

I recently just lost my save file in Final Fantasy 3. I want to beat it but I can't bring myself to play the countless hours again just to be back to where I was.

 

[Ailia]

My GC memory card got corrupted a few years back. My usually unshakeable brother was a crying mess.
The most devastating loss was my Tales of Symphonia files. I'd started new files by loading up completed games so at that point I'd gone through it 6 times on the one 'file'. My monster book was almost complete, I'd hunted every last treasure chest and everyone had almost every single title.
Needless to say I haven't touched the game since, I'm still hurting.

 

[Neo10101]

lost my entire 1056 gamecube memory card, all my RE games, melee, harvest moon, and so much more. I was exceptionally sad that day.

 

[WonderWillard]

I was playing Assassin's Creed (1) a little while after it came out, a friend had sold it to me for 10 bucks, and I was playing it for completion. I had gotten almost all the flags in all the cities, and I think I was in the 3rd set of assassinations (numbers 7-9) when it happened. It has that autosave feature, you know? Well, it froze mid autosave, so I was like oh that kinda sucks, I rebooted and went back to load it back up again, and it said "save file corrupted". Then it really sucked.

 

[PublicToast]

Well I lost some important saves on Fallout. I got stuck playing in a glitch where I lost a follower (for good). Also when I changed my hard drive I lost one of Halo 3's map packs, but it was fine thanks to ODST copy and paste.

 

[SageRuffin]

I had just unlocked Sai Fong with Bayonetta and I accidentally overwrote my save file with some Jeanne data.

The kicker? The "are you sure you want to overwrite" prompt didn't come up! D:

 

[Quellist]

For my Gamecube i was stupid enough to buy a 3rd party memory card, it wiped taking away 90% progress on Metroid Prime and 75% or so of Skies of Arcadia Legends. I was so pissed off i couldnt start those games over so i never got to finish them (maybe that makes me a wuss or something but after i put in many many hours only to see them wiped away those games lost a lot of their shine in my eyes).

Not exactly devastating but enough to seriously piss me off.

 

[Yankeedoodles]

Morrowind. I had completed virtually all of the faction quests and side quests and was just about to beat go climb the mountain and fight the final bosses when the computer kind of died and needed to be completely rebooted. Pissed me off something fierce for a bit. But Morrowind is one of my favorite games of all time so after I played something else for a bit I just got back into it, did it all again and beat it.

 

[kasperbbs]

My hard drive died with all my saves (me/me2 and a lot of other stuff that i didn't really care about), and that hard drive also had FO3 and oblivion modded beyond recognition, both games took up 60GB's of hdd space because of added content, it took me forever to make all that junk work together.

 

[Rogue 9]

My house was robbed several years ago now and they stole my GameCube, all my games... and the memory card in the GameCube. The memory card had my save file for SSX Tricky, wherein I'd gotten Gold medals on every Race and Showoff event with every character and unlocked all their boards. That, along with the loss of my save files for Star Fox Adventures and The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker, both of which I'd almost finished and never have to this day, was utterly devastating.

 

[Professor James]

My profile got corrupted somehow and I had to recover it but first I had to delete the old profile and I accidentally pressed "delete profile and items" instead of just "delete profile." There goes a good chunk of my saves, luckily my online data remained but everything else disappeared.

 

[kieranwilson32]

Losing my Just Cause 2 save. I'm a completest, and spent ages doing as much as I could in that game. There's just too much sameyness there, so it quickly becomes a grind.

 

[Ice Car]

Don't hate because I play it.

I deleted my Animal Crossing Wild World file on purpose. Because I wanted to play from the beginning again.

I had all the rooms, all debts paid off, had fully themed/accessorized rooms (Full Snowman Set even), and had about 180,000 HRA Points. Only after a few hours from deleting my file/town, did I realize how horrible a mistake I just made. Only 80 more hours to go to get half of the shit I've gone through already done again. ;-;