Have you ever had a save get corrupted?

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I just lost a few hours of gameplay I put into Hitman Absolution on my ps3, because the game froze while it was saving. Unfortunately it left a couple of corrupt files and wanted me to start the game over. PS+ to the rescue... Now I have to start from the last day I played. >.< Has this ever happened to anyone else. I hate having to redo everything I did. But I guess it could be worse. I could possibly have not had a cloud backup. =/

that stinks.

Whats worse in my opinion is games with badly designed save mechanisms.

For example fallout 3, which by default saves the game every time you walk through a door.

Not good when you're entering a room full of enemies when you've only got a smidgen of health and a couple of bullets left.

i feel your pain. back in the day when kingdom hearts 2 came out, i had over 99+ hours put into it and basically everything you can earn. i mean, i basically was THEE keyblade master. and then my data got corrupted... and it was back to level 1. hell broke lose and i think i killed a couple neighbor kids. these things happen

I sometimes encounter corrupted save-games in The Elder Scrolls. This happens both in Oblivion and Skyrim... but oddly not Fallout 3 and New Vegas despite an almost identical game engine. It may be due to the fact that I usually play TES heavily modded, while I mostly play the vanilla Fallout games.

I've gotten used to saving very frequently to avoid corruption, though. And Skyrim can be modded on the PC to have rotating quick saves, which means that you would have to be *extremely* unlucky to lose *all* your recent saves at once.

What was worse for me was when I accidentally managed to overwrite my entire progress in LA: Noire (since it doesn't store chapter advancement separately), and I had to start over from scratch... Not a single quarter was given that day.

Once I had a corrupted save in Far Cry 2. All currently spawned enemies would home in on my location the instant the game was loaded, and the AI was all messed up, they would be running backwards and stuff.

Once, my sava data for Super Mario RPG was corrupted, but here's the juicy part. It was during my first playthrough and my last save was the VERY last room before the final boss. (I would have continued, but I was told to get off by now.) Next day, I was ready to defeat Smithy, what is the first thing I seen? My data was extremely corrupted, so I had to delete the data. After that, I think more than a year and a half passed before I even played it again. Of course, my Densetsu no Stafy games oddly lose data every now and then. (The GBA games.)

I think the bigger question is if anyone has ever not had their save data corrupted.

I had Castlevania 64 go bad right before I went to fight Dracula =| I think the battery in my third-party gamepak was going dry. Borrowed a first-party one from my friend, but my heart just wasn't in it. I'd like to get back into it sometime, though, I liked that game a lot.

Lots of other saves have gone bad, but that's the only one I can think of where I was almost done with the game.

I had Ultima VIII go bad on me, and my backup saves weren't really helping =/ I don't remember being too terribly close to the end, but I guess I was close enough...I ended up using the debug codes to fly to the end of the game so I could see the ending =P That was the one that really taught me to make as many saves as I can, just in case.

Other examples, well my Batman Arkham Origins game got corrupted in missions not being right, an update seemed to fix up most of it.

I feel that I should have more, but I am mostly drawing a blank. I think that m copy of Star Wars episode I racer on N64 had a some corruption that I had to restart.

It's happened a few times in Gothic II, but in this game, I save every five minutes or so anyway.

I was a few minutes from beating psychonauts when it crashed and the save corrupted.

I've had quite a few SNES cartridges lose their save files on me. The worst was Final Fantasy 6. I was just about to go to Kefka's tower and I turned the game on and the save was gone.

I lost my Tekken 5 data last gen. I had played through story mode with every character, completed Devil Within, and reached Tekken Lord status with Ling Xiaoyu. It's actually my fault my data got corrupted, because I was about to lose my Tekken Lord status, so I shut off the system while the game was saving, and ended up losing a lot more than that, and then some. I learned a valuable lesson then, and though I almost cried, I decided to get it all back the old fashioned way, and I did, and then some. I got Tekken Lord status with Xiaoyu again, and got further with Panda and Asuka Kazama than I was before I lost my data, and of course, I did all that other stuff again. I was probably more of a man back then than I am now, because if something like that happened to me now, I would probably just put the game away and not play it again for a very long time.

Yeah, that game did it to me, too. I was borrowing it from a friend, and had just gotten to the new world...I said "You know what, I don't like this game that much anyway." and returned it @_@

I can't recall any corrupted saves, but my PS1 card actually deleted my Tales of Destiny & Parappa the Rapper saves ( I was at the end of ToD & had some sick Parappa scores, too ) and my SNES copies of Super Punch-Out!! & Kirby Super Star deleted themselves too....not to mention Pokemon Silver

I remembered when my brother and I had a nes and our save for Zelda II kept disappearing from time to time. My brother beat it at some point. The 8-bit and 16-bit age was my worst gaming experience. I beat very few games. RPGs I could beat. Action oriented games were very iffy. I wasn't very good at them. No save spots and even when I had save spots in the 16-bit era, I still had issues, but that's another subject.

Today my Sims 3 got ruined and no longer works. I can't play it at all any more.