Stupid things you've done in Video Games?

[Hurbster]

Jan 4, 2014 16:23:08 GMT -5 The Ichi said:

Fallout New Vegas for the first time:

"Hmm, let's go North."

Ouch.

I got lost in the Death Star in X-Wing:Alliance.

[pegasuswarrior]

Jan 4, 2014 2:02:52 GMT -5 @lesscra said:

I borrowed a friends N64 once because I wanted to delve into the game Hybrid Heaven. The problem is that the game requires the memory pack in order to save and I didn't have that.

For an entire week, I played the game dutifully in my off-time and just left the system on when I would work or go wherever.

I'm fairly confident that I was nearing the end. I pick it up one day, start running down a corridor to the next area and am kind of hopping around because.... woohoo, video games! and managed to veer right over a guardrail into a bottomless pit thus invalidating an entire week of effort in one useless whim.

No disrespect to anyone else. Good stories. But we have a winner.

[Eunös ✈]

Racing against a friend on Forza

I have a nice comfortable lead and decide to get all cocky on the final straight and do a Donut Celebration across the line.. Except I end up crashing into the wall and not even getting past the Line.

He then drives past and takes the win >.<

[MrBRulzOK]

I once stayed up for twenty-four hours to play Suikoden V.

True story. I spent about half of that time in the damn Deep Twilight Forest because I was so tired at the time I couldn't figure out where the heck I was supposed to go. And even if I had been awake it was still way too confusing. And the constant random battles didn't help, of course.

And then after I did beat the dungeon, which was considerably easier... I had to find my way back to the exit when I emerged. And so the process began all over again.

[Mozenrath]

Jan 5, 2014 3:20:48 GMT -5 MrBRulzOK said:

I once stayed up for twenty-four hours to play Suikoden V.

True story. I spent about half of that time in the damn Deep Twilight Forest because I was so tired at the time I couldn't figure out where the heck I was supposed to go. And even if I had been awake it was still way too confusing. And the constant random battles didn't help, of course.

And then after I did beat the dungeon, which was considerably easier... I had to find my way back to the exit when I emerged. And so the process began all over again.

Suikoden 5 is a hell of a game! I recall being pretty easily lost there as well.

[Deleted]

Following NPCs in Fallout 3 always leads to Deathclaws.

The Last Of Us: "Bloaters? f*** that noise, I'll hit it with a brick."

I had a period in my life where I would shout "SUB-ZERO KING OF THE AFTERLIFE!" when I played games... Not just Mortal Kombat.

Wasting ammo in the early Resident Evil games guaranteed death more times than not.

Probably more that I can't recall at the moment.

["Gentleman" AJ Powell]

Have my friend beat in WWE 13, he's pretty much done, yet I decide to put the cherry on top with a Moonsault, leaving him to get his knees up and tombstone me. Literally the only time I've lost to him.

[Ash Kingston]

I caught four separate MissingNo's in one of my Pokemon Blue save files. That was pretty damn stupid in hindsight, as it was pretty freaking useless and ended up screwing the save file up pretty badly, IIRC.

Oh, and one time during The Burning Crusade, I was farming Primal Airs on my rogue and went to dismount near the edge of Shadowmoon Valley... and my poor rogue kept her momentum while running. So she went soaring off the edge of the cliff into the void and died. I just laughed my ass off when it happened and released my spirit.

[SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman]

In the SNES version of Shadowrun, at some point you are stuck in some kind of slum (like, worse than most places even by Shadowrun standards) and must give the leader of the place something like 4000 Nuyens to be allowed to leave and move on with your quest. Now 4000 nuyens is A LOT of money and unless you save up like crazy, it's unlikely that you will have anything close to this amount by this point, but the NPCs helpfully inform you that there is an arena where you can fight for money. So I look around and can't find it, until I stumble upon an area with a few enemies (the only area with enemies in these slums, in fact). I figure that's the arena, kill the enemies and pick up the money they drop... and promptly wonder if the developers are f'n with me as, depending on the number of enemies that spawn, you can make from 10 to 50 nuyens per battle, which gives you an idea on how long it takes to bring it to 4000.
But still, I eventually manage to raise the money I need and buy my way out of these slums. A while later, I needed for some reason to go back there... and that's when I realized that there was a narrow, barely visible passageway to a different area where the ACTUAL arena was, which allows you to make the money you need in just a few fights, and I wasted my time getting it one scrap at a time for no reason.

With that said however, I actually ended up being glad I did it the way I did as the absurd amount of fighting I did allowed me to raise my skills a lot, even maxing out some of them, and with the arena now available, I could make a ton of money that would allow me to buy the most expensive (and efficient) guns and cyberware. Also, the arena is pretty tough so I'm not sure how well I would have faired at this point anyway.

[Deleted]

Jan 5, 2014 9:44:22 GMT -5 SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman said:

In the SNES version of Shadowrun, at some point you are stuck in some kind of slum (like, worse than most places even by Shadowrun standards) and must give the leader of the place something like 4000 Nuyens to be allowed to leave and move on with your quest. Now 4000 nuyens is A LOT of money and unless you save up like crazy, it's unlikely that you will have anything close to this amount by this point, but the NPCs helpfully inform you that there is an arena where you can fight for money. So I look around and can't find it, until I stumble upon an area with a few enemies (the only area with enemies in these slums, in fact). I figure that's the arena, kill the enemies and pick up the money they drop... and promptly wonder if the developers are f'n with me as, depending on the number of enemies that spawn, you can make from 10 to 50 nuyens per battle, which gives you an idea on how long it takes to bring it to 4000.
But still, I eventually manage to raise the money I need and buy my way out of these slums. A while later, I needed for some reason to go back there... and that's when I realized that there was a narrow, barely visible passageway to a different area where the ACTUAL arena was, which allows you to make the money you need in just a few fights, and I wasted my time getting it one scrap at a time for no reason.

With that said however, I actually ended up being glad I did it the way I did as the absurd amount of fighting I did allowed me to raise my skills a lot, even maxing out some of them, and with the arena now available, I could make a ton of money that would allow me to buy the most expensive (and efficient) guns and cyberware. Also, the arena is pretty tough so I'm not sure how well I would have faired at this point anyway.

There's like a weird, yet profound life lesson to be learned from this post.

[Deleted]

I convinced my daughter to do something stupid in Minecraft just for a laugh. She was standing next to a huge lava pit, just showing me the world she built, and she was looking for a way around it.
"What happens if you go in the lava?"
"You die and have to start at the beginning."
"Just go in the lava. It's Thursday. It's opposite day. You won't die."
She goes in, and of course she dies. Cool thing about her is that she didn't get upset; she just looked at me and yells in surprise, "DAD!?" (I know nothing about Minecraft, so I got away with it.)

She's forgiven me for that, and now pulls that same trick on other unsuspecting players.

(For the record, she's 14. I wouldn't have done that if she were like, under 10.)