10 Time Murphy's Law Invaded Your Video Game
5. An Autosave Locks You In A Death Loop
Autosaves
are an insidious curse. While manual saves force one to think about
where and when a save should be dropped, the autosave lulls one into
a false sense of security with the promise that any mishap will mean,
at most, only a few minutes of lost progress.
That is, until the autosave file gets corrupted. Inevitably, the this joyful self-immolation will occur at the culmination of a 40-hour campaign, and, just as inevitably, your last – and only – manual save was six hours worth of gameplay (and priceless loot) ago.
Ouch.
But it could be worse. When that autosave just so happens to save seconds before a monster kills you, one that you did not know was there, and you just dropped a manual save at the exact same location, and you are on the other side of a tough boss battle that took you an hour to beat, that is enough to bring a grown man to tears. Or smash his controller. Or both.
Like a blundering Bethesda, this is one annoyance that will be with us for the rest of time.