Dumb Moves in Gaming History
Sunday, June 24. 2007
Last week I did one of the dumbest things I think I've ever done in my gaming history. I've been playing through Castlevania: Symphony of the Night on my 360 via the Xbox Live Arcade. I've completed the game before (5 or 6 times over the past 10 years) but never got the elusive 200.6% castle exploration. Now that there is a Xbox 360 achievement associated with it, ("Seeker") I figured I'd go for it, since I never had a real incentive before.Anyway, I am completing the rooms and got up to 199.9% with only the last few rooms to go where Dracula is in the inverted castle. I saved, exited the game, and went to reload my save so I could check my exploration %. (you can only check this from the file load screen). I must have been moving fast through the menus and I accidentally pressed the D-pad down and selected the "File Delete" menu instead of the "File Select" menu. I dutifully hit A, then A again to (what I thought) load the game. The game didn't load. WTF? I thought. Then it hit me. I just DELETED MY DAMN SAVE FILE!
12 hours down the tubes. Luckily I love SOTN so playing through again is hardly a bother, but to be so close...
So, any of you have similar stories of lost games, deleted games, or just general dumb moves in your gaming histories to share? Post a comment or join the discussion over at the Tech Report forums!
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4 hours through a PS1 RPG when a power surge hits and I hadn't saved....
I had to play the same story over again, fight the same boring battles again, etc.
Not to mention the time where I had a Playstation Emulator on my PC that played the actual games when you put it in the CD tray. I got half way through a 50 hour game with Legend of Dragoon when the emulator craps out and won't progress the game leading me to have to buy a real PS1 and replay over 20 hours of effort and story.
When things like losing lost time in video games happened to me when I was in High School, I would go psycho and sometimes destructive too. Good thing I care less about that sort of thing nowadays. Just keeping a cool head is what I do now.
I had to play the same story over again, fight the same boring battles again, etc.
Not to mention the time where I had a Playstation Emulator on my PC that played the actual games when you put it in the CD tray. I got half way through a 50 hour game with Legend of Dragoon when the emulator craps out and won't progress the game leading me to have to buy a real PS1 and replay over 20 hours of effort and story.
When things like losing lost time in video games happened to me when I was in High School, I would go psycho and sometimes destructive too. Good thing I care less about that sort of thing nowadays. Just keeping a cool head is what I do now.
Yeah, a cool head is good advice. :) I ended up playing through again and completing it in about 9 hours. SOTN is so good I didn't mind. ;)
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