Game Ending Save Corruptions

I fought my way through Final Fantasy 13.

After putting up with the worst character of all time, Hope Estheim, and his incessant whining, dealing with a shoddy battle system, and just an all around not enjoyable experience, I make it to the final boss...

And my fricking save corrupts.

I did most of the side quests and extra battles too.

I actually went to Gamestop and sold it to them that day.

My main Morrowind file back on the original Xbox got corrupted with dozens of hours of play. I think it was because I put too many items on the floor of my player home.

Minecraft PS3 a few years ago. Creative mode. Had a medieval kingdom I was building. Had 400 hours into it and had been building the kingdom for 2+ years off and on. Saved and exited. Loaded up a few days later, wouldn't load- save file corrupted. Tried to recover previous save from PSN cloud but the corrupted save had uploaded and corrupted all other saves as well, somehow.

Now, all I have are a few screenshots to remind me of what once was. But now I have an even more massive kingdom on PS4. If it corrupts too, I'm fricking done

My GTA IV save file got corrupted at about 75% completion on the main story because I ran out of HD space on my PC.

Luckily I found a website on the internet where, after much trouble, I downloaded a save game that stopped at the mission I left off. Had to remove GFWL from the game and downgrade to the version before the latest update in order to get it all to work.

GTA IV on PC doesn't have Steam cloudsave support either which I found astounding.

It was my 2nd play through, I usually do about 50% on the 1st and then want to see the ending, on my 2nd I go ham and do it all in most games.

With any luck, they will be remaking it for PS5, so you’ll get another chance

Played Fallout 2, got about halfway through the game, got a corrupted save file that not only killed my save but also perma-killed any character I’d killed in that run.

Couldn’t even start over without reinstalling the game to fix the issue.

Oh boy...the worst memory ever.

Back when Pokémon red was big, I decided to do a game shark mod for infinite health. It was a good perk, made the Pokémon invincible, but that was ultimately what screwed me.

So I was playing the final gym and I had gotten through all but two trainers. I think you had a meter for attacks or whatever and if it ran too low, your attack for the round was struggle or something which only did minimal damage. Well the perk wasn’t good for keeping this attack meter filled, and what happened was on the second to last trainer the attack energy on all my Pokémon ran out. But I had dealt just enough damage to win that round.

Then I made the mistake of saving. So with literally the last trainer left, I had to fight using struggle against what was the strongest Pokémon in the game. And while I thought I’d be able to nickle and dime my way through the whole boss fight, the boss was able to heal itself, way more than the damage I’d do each round. If my Pokémon were to die, I’d wake up in the hospital outside the gym and could go on with the game. But since the perk wasn’t reversible my guys would have infinite help and keep getting hit. It turned out to be an endless cycle of taking damage, and it healing itself. Never was able to play it after that.