[General Discussion] Damn, I forgot to save.

I'm sure out of all the games we have ever played we have encountered this situation on more than one occassion.

You get so involved with a game so much you just forget to save whether it was due to the fact that you were just absent minded at that one particular moment or you felt so confident that you could beat a level and nothing could possibly stop you, then you die without expecting it. Then all those hours of gaming you just spent doing a level or a dungeon were lost just because you forgot to save.

I would like to think that everybody has an interesting story of how this had happened to them. This has happened to me one more than one occassion and here are some of most furious moments in which this has happened to me. I apologize in advance since this post is a little long.

Parasite Eve: I was doing the EX game for the first time, and it was during my first runthrough of the Chrysler Building. I had seen someone attempt the Chrysler building once before so I knew it was going to be challenging. The furthest I had seen someone do it was to the cockroach boss. I was finishing up the 5th set of floors and I managed to beat the cockroach boss on the first try. When I beat him I should of saved, because the last time I saved was when I beat centipede at the end of the 4th set of floors. I got cocky and thought I should not have any problems progressing through the rest of the chrysler building until the final boss. I thought wrong and it wasn't even the other sub bosses that did me in. It was a combination of those mutant squirrels (confusion missle attack) and the mutant dogs (massive attack power) that did me in. I lost about three hours of gameplay and I had to do it over again.

Valkyrie Profile 2: Jut one of those cases in which I got so involved with the game I totally forgot to save. My last save point was at the beginning of the forest of spirits. I got a little worried about the dungeon (Ravine Caverns)that had the timer on it but I managed to get through it on my first try (barely). I had managed to start Yggdrasil and I was probably going to save at the top of this dungeon. I got into a battle against a few blue soul flames and the first thing they did was cast a spell, that put transfer status on my entire party. GAME OVER. I lost a little over 4 hours of gameplay that day.

On an unrelated note, the largest amount of time I ever lost playing a game was over 50 hours and it was all due to the fact that I'm such a video game perfectionist and so fucking absent minded. I was playing Lunar: The Silver Star Story for the PS, and I had already beaten the game before. This time I wanted to beat it by collecting everything and getting all the bromides. If it was one bromide I kept missing out was the Jess bromide you could get in Lann. The guide kept telling me I could get it in Lann before Nash destroyed the airship, but I never got it even though I followed the working desgins guide completely. I finally found out that you had to get it the moment your entire party was reunited after the black dragon fortress dungeon. I ended up getting it after playing the game for the third time. I beat the final boss and I had collecting every item, and during the epilogue I was ready to finish the bromide collection by buying the bromides in ramsus store. I went to this store and for the first time I noticed they weren't there. I found out afterwards, I had to pay gold to a person in burg that ramsus had sold a fake golden egg at the very beginning of the game in order to get those bromides during the epilogue. I was so pissed and I think I invited a few new curse words that day. So I had started over,and wasted 50 hours of playing a game in which I thought I had it completed but unfortunately I didn't.

To the GFF community what have been some of most frustrating moments in all your video gaming lives that has resulted from the fact that you forgot to save.

How ya doing, buddy?