Save data corruption.

So all my save data for the Xbox 360 just got destroyed, erased, and nuked. It's not that big of a deal to me for now because I can continue from where I left off on Halo: Reach, which was the main game I was playing. However, this got me thinking about saved games and how they affect how we play a video game. I guess I've got good enough games to show as examples, so here we go.
 

Quicksaving

Half Life, Opposing Force, Blue Shift

Autosaving/Checkpointing

Halo: Reach

I'm not going to do this anymore

• My level 61 Brick
• My Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga data like 50,000,000 freaking times
• Metroid Zero mission about 25,000,000 freaking times
• Wind Waker data got erased quite a bit too if I remember correctly
  

So all my save data for the Xbox 360 just got destroyed, erased, and nuked. It's not that big of a deal to me for now because I can continue from where I left off on Halo: Reach, which was the main game I was playing. However, this got me thinking about saved games and how they affect how we play a video game. I guess I've got good enough games to show as examples, so here we go.
 

Quicksaving

Half Life, Opposing Force, Blue Shift

Autosaving/Checkpointing

Halo: Reach

I'm not going to do this anymore

• My level 61 Brick
• My Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga data like 50,000,000 freaking times
• Metroid Zero mission about 25,000,000 freaking times
• Wind Waker data got erased quite a bit too if I remember correctly
  

I'm sorry for you, that really sucks. :(
There's so much time and effort (especially in something like your Brick, 61 levels ain't something you do in a day) in those saves.
Which reminds me, can't we back up saves on the xbox now with the usb sticks allowed and what not? Or is that fishy business?  

And funny how your avatar is Samus from Metroid Prime 3: Corruption 
(Sorry xD)

Persona 3 FES...
 
My main and only save got corrupt right at the last boss.
 
AT THE GOD DAMN LAST MOTHER FU... ahem... Last boss.
 
I had to finish the game on some other save file I downloaded off of Gamefaqs. It was on a second playthrough with all kinds of upgrades so the boss was too easy. Pity I couldn't change the name to my character at the very least.
 
Oh and accidentally deleted my finished GTAIV file. But I needed an excuse to play through it again so it wasn't that bad.

I turned off my PS3 using the power switch in the back too many times, corrupted my harddrive , had to reformat, lost years of save game files including 700+ hour demons souls save. 
The problem with ps3 is that the save files are locked, so you cant just get someone else's save file and use that, and there is no one working on ways to  edit save files so it will work unlike the 360 which has some program you can use to change the profile name on the save.

My KZ2 save got corrupted and I lost the 50+ hours I spent in the Campaign as well as all the blood and tears I shed while completing Elite difficulty. I also lost my 300+ hour save in FF Tactics.

I lose my Rachet and Clank: Crack in time save due to a power flicker while the game was autosaving. The PS3 is most sensitive piece of electronics I've ever owned. I still remember it to, the flash wasn't even long enough to reset the clocks and it still turned off my PS3.  I was a really close to a couple silver and gold trophies too. 
 
Not quite a corruption or deletion but while playing FF Tactics on PSP I had to restart after 30 hours due to a shitty thing where the game tells you to save, so I did, wasn't strong enough for the next boss fight and then couldn't leave to level up. Lesson learned >.>

I lost 100 hours on Tales of Symphonia...
made me go insane!!
but in the end i finished it with 121 hours in =P

Lost my level 48(?) Roland when I switched xboxs. 
Lost my Psersona 3 Fes playthrough where I was fifty hours in when my PS3 died. Yeah, all those saves I had on my old PS3.

I look forward to cloud saving coming to the PS3.

Speaking of clouds, Dark Cloud 2 while 2/3rd through the game.  Lost because my roommate was using some kind of PS2 savegame transfer peripheral he bought to pull his Prince of Persia save from our PS2 memory card to the PS3.  Erased the whole stupid card, and didn't even copy properly.  It wasn't even the good Prince of Persia (the one with Godsmack music).