Dee Yun: (contact-deleteme[at]-deleteme-direman [dot] com) 2010-09-03 03:49:12

Fail State

This happened to me in Call of Duty 2. I had been slogging through the masochistic "Veteran" difficulty setting for achievement points, when the checkpoint system autosaved my progress a split second before a mortar round zeroed me.

Thinking back, this has happened to me numerous times through various games over the decades, whether via glitch or poor game design. I love save points (particularly when they override previous ones) that bookmark your progress in a fail state.