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    Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light

    Game » consists of 4 releases. Released Aug 18, 2010

    A departure from the usual gameplay of the Tomb Raider franchise, this download-only game features a fixed, isometric camera angle and concentrates on co-op combat, platforming, and puzzle solving.

    HUGE glitch in Guardian of Light

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    #1  Edited By Geno

    Buyer beware: this game has one of the most harmful glitches of all time. It will randomly delete your save game. The game operates on only a single autosave, and if that gets corrupted somehow then you're screwed. I was on the last boss and the game crashed citing an insufficient hardware problem (despite me playing through the entire rest of the game at 60fps with no problems, and despite the game operating perfectly right before the error). I started it up again and I was only allowed to start a new game. After closing the game, the game synced with Steam Cloud and saved my blank save. Therefore there was no way to even retrieve it from the Cloud. Several hours down the tube. Searching the Steam and Eidos forums, it appears this issue is prevalent. 
     
    The game was excellent, but unfortunately no matter how good a game is, it's pretty awful if it deletes your progress when you are mere minutes from finishing it.

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    That is terrible.

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    #3  Edited By jasta

    Bummer. =|

    How long is your average playthrough?

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    #4  Edited By Geno
    @Jasta said:
    "

    Bummer. =|

    How long is your average playthrough?

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    Must've been something like 8 hours. 
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    #5  Edited By AhmadMetallic
    @Geno:  thanks for the heads up, i was thinking about buying it for PC
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    #6  Edited By jasta
    @Geno said:
    " @Jasta said:
    "

    Bummer. =|

    How long is your average playthrough?

    "
    Must've been something like 8 hours.  "

    Dude! Gutted!

    Thats a major deterrent knowing you may never finish it.

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    #7  Edited By jim_dandy
    @Geno said:
    "The game was excellent, but unfortunately no matter how good a game is, it's pretty awful if it deletes your progress when you are mere minutes from finishing it. "
    Holy fuck. That's the worst kind of bug.
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    #8  Edited By Geno
    @Jasta: Well I was looking to experience the Co-Op campaign anyway I guess, but I would've certainly liked to have finished my first playthrough. 
     
    I'll just have to manually backup the autosave folder each time I finish playing. Not the best of options, but it will do. It's lucky that the game was good, and that I have a friend to play the Co-Op with or I would really be mad. Kind of makes me wonder how the developer made such a polished game but had the huge oversight of not utilizing hard saves :/

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