I tend to get frustrated with the game, turn it off, and then forget to ever go back and finish playing it. It's happened to Fable 2, Banjo Kazooie N&B, and PoP on my 360 and I haven't touched any of them since. I still have a hard time figuring out why my 360 randomly gets disk read errors while I'm playing the game from my harddrive.

EDIT: I don't get frustrated with a game and then turn it off without saving, I get frustrated with my game AFTER my 360 randomly decides to get a disk read error and I lose hours of progress.

If there's one thing I've learned, it's that you need to save as often as possible with 360 games. :P

this is pretty common for me - or at least the symptoms are the same.

i'll really get into a game but then i'll be forced to leave it for an extended period of time. i'll either forget what my objective was and/or how to play. i try starting from the last save or the beginning and i'll never finish the game.

lost saves drive me crazy though.

angrily

I lost my first everquest character.

A month of playing, gone.

I was not happy.

Don't get me fucking started on this shit. In NHL 09 for the 360, you HAVE to have your EA management shit logged in as the main, or whatever it is. If your batteries go out, it logs you out. You can ONLY log in at the main menu.

So. You're in the fucking playoffs. You're down 3-1. You come back and tie the fucking series. You go to save, all stoked that you're making a miraculous comeback. YOU NEED YOUR PROFILE SIGNED IN. I FUCKING CAN'T. :@ :@ :@

It is very tough for me to go back and play a game after losing the save file. It has to be a great game for me to even think about taking it out of its case again.

Usually I put the game aside, either for a few hours or a day, and then get back into it.

I garner immense satisfaction from getting past the point where things went wrong last time. Games don't beat me; I beat them. It feels like I'm teaching the designers a lesson in toughness, even though I know that's not true.

"Oh, a Red Dragon in a treasure chest, eh!? All right - I'll come back tomorrow, and we'll see how your punk ass likes being Berserked and not able to use your Thermal Ray at all!"

Really, it depends on the cause.

Saving over a completed file? A brief "damn it!" moment, then I just keep going 'cause it's not like I was ever going to load that file again anyway.

Forgetting to save or having a battery die on me before I can save? A longer "damn it!" moment, but I usually get back to it within 30 minutes to 24 hours, depending on how much progress was lost and how good the game is.

Cheap death after having not saved for a while? Big "damn you!" moment, often resulting in a decent-sized period (sometimes months) of not playing out of spite towards the game. Unless it's a game I've played plenty of times and love to death, in which case the spite rarely lasts more than an hour.

Getting TKO'd in the first random encounter of the game, first time ever playing said game? Instant trip straight back to the game box, likely never to be played again. SaGa Frontier 2 is currently the only game to suffer that fate for me.

This didn't exactly happen to me in FF2 in Final Fantasy Origins, but it felt like it did. It's taken me a few years to get back into it, and that primarily because I want to say I've beaten the whole series.

I'm glad I did, I suppose, but some of the fights in this game are hard.

this reminds of the time i was playing REmake trying to do the under 3 hours thing with jill, i got to the the fight at the end of disc 1 and decided i was not gonna save until disc 2 and the boss kicked me off the platform, the first time on my 4 playthroughs, all back to square one again.