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ConfusedTorchic posted...

that sucks nowadays we have auto save backups for a reason

Mass Effect had them then as well.

As long as they didn't delete the entire character, or overwrite their last autosave, it should theoretically be recoverable.



Zangulus posted...

Always backup everything before deleting anything when it comes to saved games.

I was almost to the end of FF6 when my wife accidentally saved over my game. Ive never beaten it lol.

FFVI is the reason why I always do staggered saves. The first time I played back on the SNES I powered through the game, got to the Floating Continent, and then got stuck because I hadn't leveled enough. I was too weak to win a single fight, but I also couldn't leave because of the shit design where you can only leave the Floating Continent at certain points (so you basically have to fight your way to an escape point). I couldn't go forward, and I couldn't go back. Had to delete the save and start over from the beginning. Lost 16 hours worth of gameplay.

From that point on I started doing staggered saves, so if I ever messed something up or had to backtrack, I'd have 2-3 saves at earlier points I could revert to. And I've been so incredibly thankful for that over the years, because there've been tons of times where I need to go back to an earlier save, or even if one save gets corrupted you can still try to go back to an uncorrupted save to keep going. It's so useful. Which is part of the reason why I kind of hate games that only have autosave and don't allow manual saves at this point.

Of course, the other advantage of staggered saves is that if you do them, you never lose all that much if you accidentally delete a save/overwrite the wrong save.