Oh My God, What Have I Done...

Wow...Unless you find out some reverse hard drive tips (made that up) I think you might have shot yourself in the leg Plexico style.... Sorry to here that bro...IrishBrew

I'm so pissed off about this that I don't even want to play the game anymore. If I have to hack the damn disc, then so be it.

Their is nothing you can do about it...I did something similar with Oblivion, my advice: Stop playing for a while and then come back to the game. Otherwise it will feel like a grind and you don't want that do ya?

I read the thread title and thought, "Uh oh, he must have self-destructed the Enterprise." (Yeah, yeah, nerdy joke.)

Anyway, wow, that really sucks. I have no suggestions for you, but you have my sympathy. In any game where you can save at will, I always keep at least two alternating saves. In an RPG, I also archive saves as I go along. In Oblivion, I keep a save at 100, 200, and so on, so that if I do **** something up, I have a backup.

I was playing Fallout 3 as my evil character that I put a TON of work into (I have a good character as well) and I decided to switch characters to do a couple things. I ended up overwriting my good character's save over my evil one's and I feel so incredibly horrible. Please, does anyone know if there is ANY way whatsoever to reclaim the file? I don't care what I have to do, just is there a way to do it??Shinobi_Daisuke

GAME OVER,sorry to say.

Sorry to hear about that. It's an easy mistake to make.

I'm afraid there isn't. The EXACT SAME THING to me (same game, same scenario with multiple different Karma characters) hap and there was nothing I could do about it; I completely understand how you feel and what's happened. But hey, after losing 25 hours of gameplay and a lot of work I was ready to just stop playing the game forever, but I realized how amazing the game was and just kept playing. Now look where I am just a few weeks later - I've nearly tripled all the work that I lost and I have a single achievement left to get in the game.

But yeah sorry man there's absolutely nothing you can do to reverse what's happened, but I highly suggest you don't let it discourage you from continuing to play the game. Just out of curiosity, exactly how much progress did you lose? As in what level were you and how many hours were put into the save?

The game is 10 hours long. You'll get over it in one sitting.philradz18

Wow...Unless you find out some reverse hard drive tips (made that up) I think you might have shot yourself in the leg Plexico style.... Sorry to here that bro...IrishBrew

Wow...Unless you find out some reverse hard drive tips (made that up) I think you might have shot yourself in the leg Plexico style.... Sorry to here that bro...IrishBrew

LMAO! Thanks for the laugh. Unfortunately, it cost the team the game today, imo :(.

The game is 10 hours long. You'll get over it in one sitting.philradz18

You know that when you make the game as easy as possible you can't judge the games length based off of that right?

can't you have more than one save per character? or does the game just keep over writing the same save file each time you save?kidrock17xp

You can have as many saves as you want.

[QUOTE="kidrock17xp"]can't you have more than one save per character? or does the game just keep over writing the same save file each time you save?craigalan23

You can have as many saves as you want.

this was avoidable then. In an RPG you should always use 2 or 3 saves so you can go back. It's not like they take up a ton of space or anything.

I never overwrite saves. Whenever I get to a big point in a game, I create a new save file. Sure it uses up more HDD space, but it prevents things like this from happening.

Every time I do something major, I make a new save file so if I screw up, I won't be sent back. Auto save overwrites your previous save, so I save files at big places in the game.

[QUOTE="craigalan23"]

[QUOTE="kidrock17xp"]can't you have more than one save per character? or does the game just keep over writing the same save file each time you save?kidrock17xp

You can have as many saves as you want.

this was avoidable then. In an RPG you should always use 2 or 3 saves so you can go back. It's not like they take up a ton of space or anything.

Yes it was i have four save files and i believe they add up to 703 saves on one playthrough.

If it was a case of simply reclaiming data from your average HD you could find a ton of ways to get your save back.But in the case of 360's HD (and the reason why its such an expensive piece of hardware) there are just too many locks and protections on the thing to make sure that the gts are secure.So sorry m8 but you can't do much.

As someone suggested above leave the game for some time and the come back and start anew...

The saving file feature of fallout is so stupid. I actually did the very same thing on my main character when I was playing through oblivion.

Sucks bro but take it like a man and replay it, you know it's worth it!

Golden Rule for any RPG. Use all the save slots you can. If there's 8 slots, overwrite the oldest one each time. In a game like Fallout 3, that has no limit on the slots, never ever overwrite any save you make. You can tell the diference between someone who's been playing rpgs for a few decades compared to someone who's only done a few. They have 2856 saves in Oblivion.dlindenb2000

Amen. I'm currently replaying KOTORII and after I had to start over due to a corrupted save 8 hours in, I rotate my saves over 9 different files, no more than an hour or so apart.

Over the summer I only used one save file on Mass Effect, and then wound up getting running iinto a load screen that never loaded fully on Noveria. So there went 13 hours and one truly BA custom Shepard...

Wow...Unless you find out some reverse hard drive tips (made that up) I think you might have shot yourself in the leg Plexico style.... Sorry to here that bro...IrishBrew

[QUOTE="IrishBrew"]Wow...Unless you find out some reverse hard drive tips (made that up) I think you might have shot yourself in the leg Plexico style.... Sorry to here that bro...cardcollect

LMAO! Thanks for the laugh. Unfortunately, it cost the team the game today, imo :(.

lol, that sucks. It happened to me a couple years ago with Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic a few hours before finishing the game, and Amped: Freestyle Snowboarding (Xbox) when I was a few steps from winning the game.

My advice: have two or three game saves.

I always have as many saves as possible.... not just for RPG's, but for any game that allows it. I've been gaming long enough to know better. :P

Ouch... reminds me of the time I started Resident Evil 4 over again to try something and saved over my almost-finished save. Or the time I took my almost-finished-Pokedex game of Pokemon Yellow out of my Game Boy without turning it off, and when I put it back in, it was erased.

If you're lucky (and are willing to shell out cash to get your save back) you could try one of those computer forensic kits that the police use to recover deleted data from hard drives, but I'm guessing your new save physically overwrote the old one on the hard drive, so it might not even be recoverable that way.

I think Fall Out Boy said it besst "
I don't care (I don't care)
You said I don't care (I don't care)
Said I don't care,
I don't care
I don't care (I don't care), I said-a
I don't care

The best of us can find happiness
In misery"

I know it sucks, just remember you would've stopped playing the game at a certain point anyway (I for one found F3 to be horrible, it's just so boring, and this comes from a person who spent 140 hours on his oblivion character)