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Member 446

Level 30.06

Mar 2006

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Sep 8, 2006, 08:14 PM
Local time: Sep 9, 2006, 02:14 AM
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Most valued save data.
Of all the memory card blocks, computer files, and internal cartridge memory space you've written to, drawing from your entire collection of games and spanning every platform you own: which single piece of saved data strikes you as the most valuable? The one piece of data you would have spared above all, if some catastrophic mass saved game wiping took place.
For me, it'd be my Deathtank (Sega Saturn real-time Scorched Earth style multiplayer tank-em-up) save file. It's the #1 competitive multiplayer game amongst my mates, and the save file has tallied some 5 or so years worth of stats from every game played. Each person to have played the game has their points, kill data, and resulting ranking placement recorded from all of this accumulated data over the years, and it'd be quite a loss for it all to disappear. I'm also well in the lead of everyone else.
Other conceivable choices, like single player high scoring achievements in Radiant Silvergun, don't come close in the end, because they're probably shit scores anyway. Even though they're the best I can personally come up with, the Internet ruined everything by forcing me to compare with gamers in Japan, a country where people are just genetically better at shoot-em-ups than round eyes (though comfortingly worse at FPS).
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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