Freezes, glitches, and save files lost... NERD RAGE!

[Opa Opa]

Yeah I got stuck in the bed frame in my house in Fallout 3

Ooooohh man! That reminds me of all my characters in Morrowind. I always got acrobatics up to the max and would jump everywhere. It made for efficient and speedy land travel and scaling mountains was a breeze but I always managed to get stuck on a railing or in between rocks. I'd always lose about 45 minutes to an hour of gameplay.

[yomomma1]

This reminds me when I first played ff6 for the first time, which was about a year ago. I was playing it on the snes, and was a good 30 or so hours in. For some reason the cartridge was loose, and I moved it the wrong way, which made me lose all of my saves. I did finally finish the game about 2 months after I had originally started it, but it was worth it, because ff6 is probably the only game I have gone to play again after the save has been lost.

[Jonesy47]

One of the more heart-breaking moments of my teenage life was the day when I came home and my 40-memory-cards-in-one psx memory card died, thus deleting the last 3-4 years of my gaming. I kinda went into shock for a sec, like it didnt register but man did that suck bad...I never bought a third party memory unit ever again. It actually ended up blowing out my controller ports and memory card drives in the process so I needed a new playstation to boot...sad day...

[Xeogred]

If I lose over 2 hours of progress in an RPG then it's generally a game breaker for me. It's not even that I rage over it, I just usually don't feel like re-doing over 2 hours worth of stuff, and then I end up never bothering to play the game again.

Happened with me and Xenosaga. Anyone who's played it can probably remember a segment quite a ways into the game, where you have to go around this large portion of a city saving a bunch of people... I swear it took about 2-3 hours to complete, only for me to get utterly destroyed by the boss at the end and I never saved. Probably 8 some years later and I haven't touched it since...

The most epic glitch I've ever discovered on my own with a friend I'd say would be the infinite jumping glitch on the first mine cart level in Donkey Kong Country. I forgot how exactly to trigger it, but when you get hit when you have both DK/Diddy, when the second character jumps out of the cart if you start hitting the roll/jump button nearly simultaneously you can continually keep doing it and jump throughout the entire stage. I have no idea how my friend and I discovered it, but it was amazing. Back then we were stoked to put it on GameFAQ's or call up Tips & Tricks magazines or some crazy stuff, don't think we ever did though. haha

[BoringSupreez]

One of the more heart-breaking moments of my teenage life was the day when I came home and my 40-memory-cards-in-one psx memory card died, thus deleting the last 3-4 years of my gaming. I kinda went into shock for a sec, like it didnt register but man did that suck bad...I never bought a third party memory unit ever again. It actually ended up blowing out my controller ports and memory card drives in the process so I needed a new playstation to boot...sad day...

That's the worst case of lost saves I've ever heard.

[Bradtemple87]

Super Mario RPG Legend of the Seven Stars

Lets just say I made it all the way to the volcano, the system accidentally got bumped, and my save was deleted!

[Pabstblueribbon]

I have had a very, very bad relationship with Metal Gear Solid.

I never had any playstation consoles until Xmas this year. When i was 13, my friend let me borrow his ps1 in exchange for my n64 for a week. the game i wanted to play the most was metal gear solid. I was sooo pumped. I played the shit out of it. I beat the first disk, only to have the second one not work. I was devastated, as no one else had a copy around here, and i had to give the playstation back.

Fast forward to about a month ago(almost exactly 10 years later) I obtained a copy for the PC. I was stoked that I would finally, FINALLY, be able to beat this friggin game... it worked great, until almost the exact same spot in the game...it kept crashing, no matter what I did, turns out it runs like crap on windows 7...uggghhh. I'm going to end up buying a playstation copy and playing it on my PS2, but its enough to make me want to scream. I dont want to play any of the other games in the series till I at least beat the first one, and I own 2 and 3 right now that I got a hell of a deal on...ugh.

[Eskimo]

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past is the only save file I have had die on me. A friend told me I was about half finished with the game and loaned me his copy. Seven years later I still need to play it or return his cart. My copy of FFIX has a scratch on disk 2 that causes it to lock up, I've been too lazy to even try buffing it. I really was enjoying myself with both games but something about those situations takes the desire out of it for me.

[dunpeal2064]

Super Mario RPG Legend of the Seven Stars

Lets just say I made it all the way to the volcano, the system accidentally got bumped, and my save was deleted!

Aww, so close to the end too!

The worst for me was Final Fantasy 10. I was playing the game very near its release, and I was really into it. Some friends came over on my birthday, and one of them was playing the game along side me. He wanted to show me a weapon he had crafted, so he loaded up his file, showed me the weapon, and then out of complete habit, saved his game... right over my file.

He is a really good guy, so I know he didn't do it on purpose, but it was really tough working my way back through it. The worst part? Before turning the game off, I had just reached the final save point, right before jecht.

[MidnightRider]

....so many reminders of why I don't like RPG's, adventures, and post 4th gen gaming....

It's like saving was one of the worst features that could have happened to the industry.