This doesn't seem half as bad compared to everyone else's stories now, but still...
So, one random evening, my friend Pat shows up at our dorm with his xbox, and a copy of "dungeons and dragons", a hack 'n' slash adventure romp, which supported up to 4 people playing at the same time. Pat, his girlfrend Sonia, Joe, and myself decide that we're going to play through it. All of it. In one go.
Anyway, we start, and we push through it, and after a while, Pat and Sonia drop out, leaving it all down to me and Joe. We are not a very good team, and spend more time swearing at each other (creatively!) than actually killing mooks, but we're slowly getting through the game. We're a good way in, and we've gotten every piece of the Fancy Super Weapon.
It's around this point the sun starts coming up. We're near the area boss, and we go to grab the 15th piece of the Fancy Super Weapon. The little animation plays to show our weapon transforming... and it freezes. Completely. We reload, try it again. Autosave was lost when it crashed mid-autosave.
One day, Joe and I will go back, and find out what the Fancy Super Weapon looks like, and then stab the big bad with it/fill the screen with magic missile so I can't see what I'm doing goddamnit Joe. One day.