Horrible time to save
 

Have you ever saved at the worst possible time? Even now I am so used to limited data room that I normally dont make more then one file for a given game.

I was playing Fallout 3 and the last hard save I did was several hours ago. I hacked a computer with someone around, as a result someone started shooting. I ran out and it autosaved over my most recent file.

The floor of my house is now adorned with half the town

In IWBTG, I saved while I was hurtling off a cliff into a room full of spikes that I was never able to get past.

That sucked.

Near the end of the first Megaman Battle Network on the GBA I saved extremely close to the platform where Magicman would spawn in.

Whenever I loaded it put me 1 pixel closer than I was when I saved, activating the cutscene.

Fallout 3, just before turning around to a mirelurk to the face.

I had 10 hp and one save file. The last autosave had been halfway across the wasteland. -_-

On Blue Dragon, I was once trapped for some time by a dillema of my own (accidental) design. I had a tendancy to be impatient and skip past most basic mob battles or random encounters, thus causing me to miss out on most of the exp I would have otherwise gotten by fighting in those battles. When I got to the part where Kluke had a bomb on her neck and you have a limited time to get through like 4 boss fights, I kept getting killed by the fight where you go against Nene's four robot guys and then Szabo. I couldn't leave and level up because of the time limit, and I couldn't move forward because my party was too underpowered to beat the boss battles. It was quite difficult. In the end I just had to start the whole game over.

Yeah, most of my saving screw ups have been in games made by Bethesda. You just forget to save until the worst possible time. I once saved after accidentally locking myself in one of the Telvanni vaults, and I didn't have any teleportation spells (teleportation? who needs it?) so I had to pick my way out, angering every guard ever in the process. I was about level 4.

My first time playing Half Life 2, the autosave kicked in right as I died. That was annoying as hell as I had to restart the whole level.

After beating some boss in Final Fantasy 2 for the GBA I saved. I happened to be in the middle of the dungeon, half-dead, horribly under-leveled, and out of potions/mp. On top of this, due to how the random battles work in FF2, taking a single step would cause one.

I eventually managed to flee from it and get out, but it was by no means fun.

In Baten Kaitos Origins, you're prompted to save at the end of Disc 1. Disc 2 begins with one of the hardest bosses in the game. So if you hadn't grinded (ground?) enough in Disc 1, you were just screwed.

Heck, the first Baten Kaitos did something like that too. In that game you had to use a blue flower to transport yourself to a church and pray in order to level up, and there was this one section of the game where you were trapped inside a flying ship until you beat the ship's boss, who also happened to be one of the hardest bosses in the game. The catch was that there was only a red flower in the ship, not a blue flower, meaning that although you could save, you couldn't level up at all, so if you weren't a high enough level before you got onto the ship and you happened to save inside the ship, you pretty much had to start the game over.

Luckily for me I bought the game two weeks after release and heard about it beforehand, but man, I'd hate to be one of the unlucky saps who bought it on the day of release and just tried to speed through it. That fight takes place, like, 20 hours into the game, too.

That's what I was going to post. I was like... fuck. The game gives absolutely no indication it's going to fuck you over like that, too. I was even decently levelled going into that area.

Fallout 2, during a sequence where the game crashed every time I tried to leave the screen. It sucked too, 'cause I had just pulled off a victory that was way above my level.