At first I thought I was the only one who could have fallen into such a catastrophic trap as this, and I have finally decided this cannot be true by my own powers of deduction, and by the fact that I don't want to believe that I'm the only one stupid enough to do it.
After finishing said level and feeling accomplished, I proceed to save the game because, as is customary, after trying the level for the 13th time it has become all work and no play and I have become a very dull boy. In order to liven myself up, I wander around my house marveling at my accomplishment and have a snack. When I've finished the celebratory lunch of hot pockets, coca-cola and chocolate, I decide to continue the game, if only to become frustrated further.
After starting up the game, pressing the load button and waiting for the game to load the screen that allows me to load the game, I find that the file I am looking for is not present. What is this? There must be some kind of mistake. I load whatever game happens to be there in hopes that a fairly complex programming error has occurred and the only remedy is to load what would appear to be a previously saved game. Needless to say, I was wrong, and I was very upset with said game.
After throwing my xBox out my window, retrieving it, and begging its forgiveness in hope that I would not be cursed with three red lights, I decided to not finish the game. You can take this as laziness because that's all I can think it to be. Unlike some people who can seem to get an infinite amount of enjoyment out of playing a game over and over and over again into the wee hours of eternity, I like to beat a game and be done with it. Although if you knew the man who I traded my copy of Bioshock to in order to get Lego Star Wars, he would tell you I beat it once on easy, twice on normal, and five times on hard, twice with only using a wrench and one time using the powers of positive thinking.
I don't feel inclined to get every ending in a game, and if I forget once to press the “A” button a third time in order to “really” save my game, then I'll just Wikipedia the plot and trade in the game.
I can also chock it up to being forgetful sometimes. “What's this? You want me to go find the third power-up so that the magical kingdom will become open to me? But I already did that. I don't remember where it was, I don't want to go through the process of talking to the mysterious townsperson who knows everything about anything and can recite Beowulf off the top of his head in order to help me solve the puzzle because I've already done that, and I don't remember how to solve the stupid puzzle. Getting confused all over again will do nothing to help my self esteem. I don't care about the little mushroom heads anymore, they can all go roast in with the Devil.”
So to summarize, if I say I want to save, then I want to save, don't ask me if I'm sure, why wouldn't I want to? It makes me almost as angry at game designers as people who think Johnny Depp is the bee's knees.
My apologies to the game designers, I don't hate you that much.
