10 Video Game Glitches That Made Saving DELETE Your Progress Instead
When saving does its job backwards!
Saving is a gamer's best friend, no matter what game they're playing. You don't want to lose the progress that you've worked so hard on, so it's important to save it as frequently as possible.
However, although this is typically good advice, it isn't always recommended to press the save button. Because sometimes saving can be the worst mistake of your gaming career!
Due to nasty bugs, in some games, saving can lead to terrible consequences. The error in programming can cause it to corrupt your file, fill it with more glitches, or, in extreme cases, even delete all of your progress altogether.
Losing your save file to what you used to create it in the first place feels like a gross betrayal of the most basic rule of gaming. Unfortunately it does happen, and since the bug is saving-related, there's usually not much you can do in terms of data recovery.
If you want to avoid losing your progress, make sure to keep an eye out for the following glitches! It might protect your save files... from themselves!
10. The Cherry Popper Ice Cream Company - Grand Theft Auto Vice City
When you say the word glitch to an OG Grand Theft Auto fan, the first thing that comes to their mind is probably the swing set from GTA IV that can catapult you across all of Liberty City.
However, there is another more infamous glitch that most fans would rather forget, because instead of fun, it created misery.
This is, of course, a reference to the dreaded Cherry Popper Ice Cream factory corruption that used to plague the early copies of GTA Vice City for the PlayStation 2.
The bug caused all saves made inside the ice cream factory to become corrupted and completely unplayable.
The reason for why this one specific location caused these issues is unknown, but the glitch was still common enough that the factory quickly gained notoriety among early Vice City players, who eventually started warning each other of the error.
Honestly, the glitch (or lack thereof) might be the only thing the new remaster of Vice City has over the original release.
This still doesn't make it a better game, but hey! At least somewhere bothered to fix this decades-old issue.