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When saved games go wrong...
Velmeran
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I spent about 4 hours trying to beat an early level in Jeanne D'Arc on my PSP. This is because I saved before going into combat, but unfortunantly you can't LEAVE the pre-combat screen. So I entered into a level where I was severly under-leveled and a third of my characters could be single shotted, and the rules for the level were to get EVERYONE to the other side, if one falls, its game over.
It was the most frustrating, teeth grinding, explanative filled four hours I've had with a game in quite possibly years. All due to me saving at the wrong time.
Anyone else had this happen before? I know in FPS's and such I've done the dreaded "quick save" before some sniper kills you, sometimes forcing a complete restart of the game if you have no other save.
It's funny since saves are usually the thing we see as our best friends, especially if you grew up with NES carts with no saving or password systems, being forced to restart whole games from the beginning.
It was the most frustrating, teeth grinding, explanative filled four hours I've had with a game in quite possibly years. All due to me saving at the wrong time.
Anyone else had this happen before? I know in FPS's and such I've done the dreaded "quick save" before some sniper kills you, sometimes forcing a complete restart of the game if you have no other save.
It's funny since saves are usually the thing we see as our best friends, especially if you grew up with NES carts with no saving or password systems, being forced to restart whole games from the beginning.
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Yeah, those ones.
I learned the hard way that FFT requires 2 save slots.
The first time I was playin an RPG and it actually had a message in the game along the lines of "OH NOES, YOU'VE LOST YOUR SAVE GAME" accompanied by some horrifying music was a soul crushing experience (first happened playing Shining in the Darkness).
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By good tactics I mean spam cheese like your life depends on it, mainly because it does.
That area with all the soldiers and the vortiguants going toe to toe and you run into it and blow em all up.
Welp I was down to one last marine and we were on either side of a big crate.
I threw a grenade on a shallow arc over the crate, heard it explode and smiled to myself while I hit quicksave.
His grenade landed in front of my face and went off two seconds later.
Took me 15 reloads to figure out which piece of cover would leave me with 1 health when it went off.
Because of this I had to stop playing Doom 3 and never started again. Although by that point I was already pretty bored and that just gave me an excuse to stop playing.
I'd been having fun being a vampire, but I decided I'd had enough and started going on the quest for the cure. I forget the situation exactly, but I think I was visiting one of the NPCs who helped with the quest, and my only save was in her house. If I left, it was broad daylight and I burnt to death before I could get anywhere. If I tried to stay until night, the invincible NPC flipped out for some reason and kicked the shit out of me no matter what I did.
What about fast traveling? Or wailing on her till she's out cold, then feeding on her and bolting?
I kept booting up my old game, and it would kick me to the main menu, all I got to see was what looked like Master Chief laying on a light up piece of ground with text appearing so fast that I couldn't read it.
It took going into the Campaign menu and booting it up to realize what the text was saying.
"Area Not Safe- Waiting to Respawn"
I was then booted to the campaign menu.
"A member of your party has left the game"
You got that totally backwards.
The big one is that solo ramza fight on part two of an encounter in act 3. It's certainly possible to get there with a ramza that simply isn't strong enough to do what is necessary to get to the group part of that fight. I'll admit that the first time I came across that, back in 1998, I had to restart to a different save sometime in act 2. It sucked.
... of course, I still lose about three or four hours to the aforementioned FFT fight.
Edit: Then you got to save Rafa from those assassins. Fuck Riovanes castle.
That being said, sitting and pondering how you're going to kill a pair of elites and three grunts with just 22 pistol rounds brings out a certain MacGyverish sensibility in a man.
I think I was able to salvage my game by abusing move-find item though, picking up a Chameleon Robe or something and winning the fight with mere tens of HP.
I never asked for this!
The only other save I had was the checkpoint at the beginning of the level. That put me off that game for a while.
Oh it's such a nice day, I think I'll go out the window! Whoa!
Apparantley people who prefer to send Billy up to the second floor with the hookshot aren't allowed to finish the game. Oh, and by the time you've found out this, you've already saved at the convenient typewriter.
Oh and a hilarious moment in HL2 was when I shot down the gunship with the airboat..... while it was right above me. Seeing as the game autosaves as soon as the ship is shot down, the process went like this:
Die. "Crap!" Load. Die. "Huh?" Load. Die. "AHAHAHAHA".
Luckily all I had to do was reload the save before the fight.
Dead fucking Rising.
Yes, This
Also, i remember having a fuck up with a tomb raider, i forget which one. It was maybe 2, but i think i saved on a trap or something stupid.
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Twilight Princess cannon room.
That is all.
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There was nothing I could do and I had quick saved while he was running off. I left the console on forl ike 10 hours hoping he would run off or something, but nope. He was one persistant motherfuck, I couldn't even hit him through the door, it really sucked
Kings Quest 5. Pie.
I've never been so pissed off at someone named Graham in my god damned life.
Oh god yes.
How about in VI, when the horse-head guy holds you up at swordpoint near the fucking painting? Or the Minotaur's maze?
That happened to you? I heard about that bug before I reached that place in the game, but I think that's an odd place to save and shut down the game.
By that time I had learned. "What do you mean I've only got 99 save game slots?!"
Still, shaking with rage ain't the words.
I also had 260 megs worth of Deus Ex saves, and I never even finished that game.
Well after flying way out into the ocean the game auto saves and de-spawns ship I was riding in, causing me to fall to my death only to re-spawn and repeat the process five seconds later.
Needless to say I was forced to restart the entire level on the legendary difficulty.
When I turned the game on at his house the cartridge was clean.
I also had a scare where I washed my psone memory card. Strangely enough, it was OK. But that would have been horrible beyond words.
Of course, I then proceeded to replay to that section, jump across (it's possible), finish that part, then find myself unable to come back again.
Kind of a back tracker, huh? That's an epic amount of saves.
The last name I lost a bunch of saves was about 1999, which was also when I stopped buying cheap memory cards for my PS1. Only sort of cheap ones from then on.
Acctually, I was a fly's wing away from saving and quitting here. I'd taken a week off of work for the Wii-launch and this game, and I think it was a late Wednesday night when I gotten to this point. At the time my play sessions would sometimes go for eight hours and this was no different. I'd just beaten a dungeon and got to this point and thought 'Dang it's getting late, maybe I'll just stop here before this story point', but then I srugged off sleep and continued on.
Needless to say, it would have been a very unhappy week if I hadn't narrowly avoided the bug.
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