I bought Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga in 2009. Only ever had the one save. Taught my now adult brother how to game on it when he was a child.
I started working on the Challenge level, where you need to find the 10 blue minifigs in 10 minutes.
Thought I'd finally 100% the game on Star Wars Day, the 4th of May.
Save was at 94%, only a dozen challenge levels to go.
Wake up an hour early, head downstairs to get some gaming done before work.
My 15 year old save, gone.
Deleted by my son who plays the xbox when I'm at work.
sigh
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My condolences.
Now you will have to get it all back together!
It’s time to sell the child.
“Hello, I would like to report a lost child”
r/KidsAreFuckingStupid
Time to teach your child the importance of not touchin things that aren’t ours. I’d be gutted if that happened to me but on the plus side it’s not like he’s spent a fortune on your credit card (unless that’s already happened)
Been there. Many years ago, I had dedicated an obscene amount of time to fully completing Diddy Kong Racing. Reached the final boss, gave it a couple tries and got stomped. It was late, went to bed.
My little brother loved watching me play this game. He musta been about four or five at the time. Anyway, I come back the next day after school, ready to play. I call him in so he can watch and we can hang out, and he seems really subdued.
I turned the game on, and found he’d accidentally saved over my file with his. He immediately copped to it and still speaks of the valuable lesson he learned that day.
**Edit:** It was a lesson about being careful with save files, you guys! One of you implied I broke his thumbs! I didn’t hurt him, he was just a kid. It was very much one of those, “I’m not mad, I’m just disappointed,” things.
Iv seen children sent to Tatooine for less
The wife doesn’t play games any more but she did have Crash Bandicoot sat at 98% complete until the daughter decided to delete it 🤦🏾♂️😂🤣
This is why my kids don’t play on my account. I don’t understand not creating “At the Least” a Guest account for kids who play the console regularly. -.-
Great opportunity to teach him not to sweat the small stuff, it’s only a game and if he knew I doubt he would do it. He’s 4.
I feel your pain. Back when I was a kid and playing Pokemon Blue I had caught around 130 of the Pokemon in the game and my brother let a family friend play it without telling me and he accidentally overwrote my save. I lost all my steam and never played it again.
I had this happen to me on Beyond Good and Evil on the PS2 back in the day. I maybe had and hour or two left until I beat it and my five-year-old deleted and/or saved over my save accidentally.
I was unthrilled to say the least…
Thats a lesson for you
…Younglings…
I’ve been here before.
Only difference is that it was LSW: The Skywalker Saga. And my child deleted the save FOUR TIMES. The first one was somewhere in the neighborhood of 76% complete.
I completely understand your anguish.
Xbox don’t have any cloud saves?
Welcome to having kids!
I did this many times to my older brothers save files when I was 3 – 4 years old.
It literally comes with the territory, rough go though.
This is the type of thing I beat the snot out of my brothers over. Then started taking my save card to school with me… which then got stolen when I took it out of my pocket at gym class and I set it down in the padded wall. My ideal childhood methodologies didn’t work and eventually I gave up. Just like my Lego collection.
Do you have save backups and recovery on XBXL? Can you set up different profiles for yourself and your child?
May the force be with you to hug your son, and not whoop him like a previous generation would. Then look in the mirror, and say to yourself you’re a dumbass for not having other saved games & leaving that game unattended.
Make a new one. New Child not to start a new game
Now you have an excuse to 100% it again
Now that’s pod racing!
That’s a condom ad if I ever saw one.
I was gaming at 4, so you could teach him about this game and play it with him to get the progress back. Im sure if he understood what it means to you he would grind it back for/with you
Forgive me if this is obvious, but doesn’t Xbox include Cloud Saves? If so, contact Xbox support and they may be able to restore yours from a recent backup.