Fallout 3 - I was using only 2 save slots... and game corrupted both of my saves after about 30h of game.. (while crashing).
Fallout Tactics: I have completed all chapters except last one in hardcore mode and... Couldn't continue. I was traveling A LOT and found all secrets at that point. So when I was leaving base and game was trying to show me random encounter (when all of them were seen before) game was crashing xD
I guess I have bad luck with fallout series xD
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I lost 30 hours of Eschalon 2 due to a corrupted save file. I really loved the game yet did not have the will to get back to it even when the 3rd Eschalon is sitting in my library for a good year or two.
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Lost all my saves for my PS2 games when I lost my hard drive recently. Along with my games too. :/ ;-; 'Twas a sad day indeed. I probably had hundreds of hours total in those saves... ._.
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I'm not ready for a sad story :(
Do you want my save game? It's in my memory card for PS1, also it's not FFV xD
Asides from my bad joke, trying to kinda cheer you up but failed immediately
I've been playing FFIX like 3-4 times, I forgot
If I can, you can too! xD
Well I know every person is different, but for FF classic fan.. I regret nothing for replaying them
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I lost the saves for many old games installed on my Pentium 2 when the second hard disk died 6 years ago. I hadn't made any backup copies on a USB flash drive or my other PC. At least I had completed nearly all of them. Fortunately I haven't lost any other saved games since then.
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That sucks. The worst that happened to me was playing Arkham Asylum for like 8 hours and losing the saved game, wasn't that bad compared to yours though :P
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I keep a games backup folder on my computer and every time I start a new game, I make a new folder there to backup my save files for that game. Some games are easy to find the save files and others can be really annoying in a hidden folder, but I always find it on every game I play. I would highly recommend you do your own manual save backups, especially when playing a game that you invest that many hours into.
One of the other reasons I backup my saves is because some games only give you a limited number of save slots or even just one and then it is impossible to go back if you really screw something up in the game.
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I got rarely in PC game to lost my savegame. The last thing I lost is Borderlands 2 at 40 hours play, because I log on to 2nd window user and play my steam account there and replace the cloud save when load the game. Anyway it is not problem, because I can play it again until 200+ hours.
But, in Playstation & Playstation 2 era ... it was my horrible times to keeping savegame from memory card that get corrupted. I lost majority of my games from all of my memory card that I'd have. Luckyly, a few of my PS2 savegame is safe because I copied them to PC from Memory Card to USB flashdisk with ps2 homebrew software. For how many hours that I lost, I don't want to remember ... because it made me sad.
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My condolences, i know that pain too. I lost my PS2 memory card (10 games inside), the most painful being Persona 4, 150 hours
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Back before Steam and internet gaming and hard drives I used to be able to lose whole games I had invested hours in, let alone save games. Young whippersnappers today, etc...
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I've lost my saves for Watch Dogs. Never gonna forget that thing. Ubisoft you can sck ma dck
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i think it happened to everyone at some point,
My biggest pain i remember was when my ironman save at crusaders kings 2 went corrupt and i owned with vikings half europe after only 100 years
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I always try to make backups of my saves. I have a folder on my desktop just for that
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Hope you can recover your savegames, the last year i've lost:
Terraria: 200h
Fallout NV: 107h
Borderlands: 130h
Borderlands 2: 83h
All due to a faulty PSU. I managed to recover some useless files that were lying in the HDD for a long time, but the savegames were all lost.
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Ouch, But PSU? caused harddrive failure, files got corrupted or?
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It's a weird story. All started with some random freezes that later turned into random devices not working properly, i was thinking the failures were related to previous freezes so the the first thing i think was to format and do a clean OS install.
I plugged and old working HDD that i was using in another PC and started to backup all my savegames and documents, the process seemed to be successful (the windows progress bar was filled up and all the files and folders were shown trough windows explorer) so i've just proceeded to reinstall OS.
When the install process finished, all seemed to be working correctly, so i plugged the HDD again to recover the saves and some documents, but to my surprise it was like i've never did a backup, the disk was empty.
Later on, failures started to happen again, so doing a little research i've found that sometimes a PSU failure can make some devices to stop working or to fail due to not receiving enough energy.
Tried with another PSU for a couple days with no failures or freezes. As a last hope to recover at least some of the files i've tried using recuva on both the "empty" and the formatted HDD, but as i've said, only recovered some old crap.
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FF5 with 60 hours, think FF13 too. Might try a recuva tommorow, but i am afraid it won't work.
Turned off cloudsaves a long time ago (can't remember why but think there were some downsides).
https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/gn6qt/cyber-sentinel
[Edit] Still haven't managed to do a deepscan for the whole drive to look for possible other games that i may have forgot about, but atleast i found the savegame for FF5 and it worked. :)
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