Okay so like most of us here i couldnt get into the strip so i literally did every possible side mission i could find and completed most of them to amuse myself and wait for the patch so i can finish the main campaign. after 40 + times of trying to get into the strip and getting crash errors with a blank screen amd music playing, i finally made it!!! as soon as i got in a did one mission and then went and saved it twice so i wouldnt have to worry bout that sh*t again. Guess what happens? now i cant load EITHER of the save datas that starts in the strip as the game just freezes!!! now 17 + hours ARE GONE!!!! is my data corrupted? am i going to have to start over? are they going to fix thisd in a patch???? o and dont tell me bout the hat trick because again, BOTH saves are in the strip thus they wont load. if i have to start over again I REFUSE TO DO SO AFTER ALL THE SIDE QUESTS AND SPECIAL STUFF I FOUND/BOUGHT/RECEIVED. PLEASE help me!!! This is horroble not only did i preorder this game and go to the midnight release but i was even stupid enought o buy the collectors edition stragedy guide and for what? NOTHING.

Not that this is gonna help you now, but you should really back up all your saves on a flash drive regularly. Ever since my HDD got corrupted (I lost all my saves, including one for oblivion with about 100 hours in it) a year ago, after every "session" I back up everything I did onto my ($12) 4G flash drive before turning off the ps3.

so you cant load it or you load it and it freezes right away?

hi, this happened to me, and yes, you are screwed.


no clue as to when or if they will release a patch that will restore the lost saves..


i just started over and hoped for the best, as i really enjoy the game.

I'm going to do this. There's no way I'm starting from scratch after crawling around in vaults, cazadores nests and deathclaw caves for 60 hours while enduring dozens of game-breaking crashes.