Saturday May 3rd 2008
GTA IV - Always save your game manually before cheating…
Once in a while when I’ve been playing GTA IV for a bit, I’ll opt to use the cheat codes to give myself health and armor, as well as all weapons, and go fucking crazy. Sort of a stress relief, ya know? 
I had the game on auto-save, and had been playing out the story for two hours this afternoon when I decided to lay waste to Rockstar’s version of Manhattan. Seeing as how my game had been saved automatically, I figured that I would manually save later, so I gave myself everything, and set to work. I was blowing up cars, bringing down helicopters, and generally raining down pure Armageddon for about an hour, and was going to quit, when I remembered that as I was in a cop car, I could partake in vigilante mode. I selected a crook, and then chased after him as he sped off for his life, and finally brought him down.
As soon as he died, the game auto-saved again.
Two hours of actual story progression, gone.
Fuck.
It’s not really surprising that the game would automatically save after a mini-mission like that, but still, after having cheats enabled, you’d think that Rockstar would have programmed GTA IV to put up a warning stating that the game was about to save and give you the option of not overwriting your previous auto-save which DIDN’T have cheats enabled. Seeing it from the other side, I guess I could have turned off auto-save prior to going on a killing spree, but it just didn’t occur to me.
Ah well. I’ll remember that for next time. It just means that I’ll be playing parts of the story over, and perhaps I’ll do better this time round. Still, that’s pretty fucking irritating.
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