So who's done it? Admit it, whos has accidentally overwritten an important save file in a game? Stings doesnt it? :P Those 200 hour accounts on epic RPGs lost to a unfortunatly timed lapse in concentration, or maybe a every car in GT4 earnt (you poor poor bastard) lost to vodka and intoxicated thumb waggling. Oh the horror, and no one ever understands. They just look at you bewildered and demand its just a game. Bastards, heh. Anyway own up.

One save on FFVII...end of disc 2...rushed for time...overrite...*uber facepalm* (cue now you're gone, basshunter)

Ohhh lord, why do they have to make the saving process so boring and ask you at least 5 times if you're sure and finished? It has the exact opposite effect on me! Instead of going, "Hey, the game is trying to help me out here, it knows I'm making a mistake." I ignore it. So many saves lost...

Nope, never done it. I've saved over them on purpose and regretted it later, but never accidentally.

Very rarely... Like, none in the past two years. A lot of recent RPGs have put in safeguards, like saving different characters in different "folders".

It's only happened to me a couple of times, mainly on PC FPS games, when the quick save and quick load buttons are too close to each other.

The worst I've done was quick save after detonating a Satchel charge in the rigged room in the original Half-Life. You know, the one that you instantly lose if you break the beam and take down the entire room.

NEVER!
Why would anyone overwrite savegames anyways?

Only on Oblivion, but then they are all 200 hour save files.

I saved over my wife's save in Simpsons Hit & Run on the PS2 too many times to count - she was usually ahead of me in the game when it happened, so she'd make me play the game until I got up to the mission she was on so she could continue without losing any progress.

The irony is, my memory card corrupted when we were both at the final mission of the game so neither of us ever finished it.

Thank god for seperate profiles on current gen systems.

I accidentally overwrote one of my Morrowind saves after I had logged in over 150 hours of gameplay...
yeah.

jak 2 on heroic mode at the end boss...havent played since. been at least 2 years now

My cousin overwrite my pokemon red that had all 150. Till this day I always treat him like a child with technology, if he wants to look at something I gently pass it to him and look over his shoulder.

I also have a tendency to rely on quicksaves, then put one in the worst moment, either after accidently killing someone, buying that 100,000 gold item I don't need while making myself broke or most often 2 seconds away from dying. In one game I was unconscious and being stabbed to death, could only load and watch.

Only occasion I've done it was yesterday when I blew away one of my Sonic Chronicles saves.

Microsoft Office FTW ("Save as")

I've done a few times. It generally begins with me freezing for a moment and thinking "I did save that right?" and often results in me screaming at my Tv for a few minutes in pure annoyance.

One of the most annoying ones was when someone restarted a half-life file on my 360. Of course not bothering to sign out my profile, resulting in him saving over my data with his lame attempt at gaming.
The kicker was a described where i was in the game to a friend and he said "Oh you were like 2 minutes away from completing it."

I live on quicksave, and that has only bitten me in the arse once.

Call of Duty 2, English campaign in the Desert were the Germans are assaulting your fortified town. Quicksaved, as running round the corner into a fatal shot.

Gave up after that.

I remember lending my copy of Banjo-Tooie to a friend, who then deleted all my progress and blamed it on his little sister. Same happened with my copies of Smash Bros and Conkers' BFD... needless to say the game-lending soon stopped. I've never accidentally overwritten anything myself.

Lost 3 PS1/PS2 memory cards to my little brother. He pried them open with a screw driver to see what was inside them.

Oh, my brother went one stage better.
Started saving his Gran Turismo game, realised that he didn't actaully want to save (spending money he wanted for other things), so he turned the console off halfway through saving!

Ugh the horror of loosing the game file of metroid prime 1 after defeating Metal Ridley for the first time. then the game turns off, then "Data has been lost!" then THE PAIN!

Only once, 'cause the clock on my console was odd.

I once overwrote my Dragon Quest savefile where I basically had everything (best weapons and armors, all Dragons killed, etc.) with a new savefile. Lvl 1 char ftw...

I have never done it, apparantly I am a robot. I have lost save files because i game crashed, though...

I once accidentally overwrote a save on Simpsons Hit and Run, one that I had spent many hardworking hours completing. I had gathered almost every collectable possible.

You could imagine the agony I felt when I absent mindedly deleted it.

Don't it once to my brother's crash team racing save, where he had just beaten the rat boss ( can't remember his name) and once to his pokemon yellow when he was up to the elite four. But he ended up getting all 150 in pokemon and passing CTR.

This reminds me I need another save card for my PS2. I have more games than memory and as a result am having to delete old , incomplete game saves to make room for the new stuff.

darthzew:
Very rarely... Like, none in the past two years. A lot of recent RPGs have put in safeguards, like saving different characters in different "folders".

This has made me think that I had lost my first play-through of KotOR, I think it was, when my friend was round and saved, and he left, I went to load, and saw that it was the only file there. Didn't notice the 'change character' button. Started again, played for ages. Saved. Went to load. Saw it was just that one save file. Looked harder. Facepalmed.