Horrible gaming experiences.

[Levian]

I'm sure you've all had some horrible gaming experiences, huh? :scary::scary::scary::scary:

Anyway, here are two that I remember quite good:

Super Mario 4: At the end of a hard level, there was only a small gap between myself and the goal. So I walked forward, and I pressed another button instead of the jump button, so I walked right into the little gap, dying into tiny little pieces. :mad2:

Resident Evil: I was eating corn flakes and playing at the same time. WHAM!!!!1 MONSTER!!!!!11 Corn flakes everywhere. I was cursing for at least 5 minutes there :freak:

Moral: Don't eat corn flakes, and misfit is a stupid poop (just because).

[Erdrick Holmes]

Nice going, dude.

I was playing Ninja Gaiden for XBox. The developers had to be stupid and make the game so unbarably hard that I threw my controller against the wall. Now the analog sticks wont work right.

Moral: Don't play Ninja Gaiden

[Levian]

Or destroy the walls before you start playing it.

[Rusty]

Final fantasy VIII

I had an 80 hour game saved, nearly at the end and quite proud of myself. Till I got a bit bored from playing it 4 hours straight. Then decided to start a new game just for kicks.
I saved over my 80 hour game by accident with my new game that only had maybe an hour on it. The TV nearly got the remote control through it and I swore I would never play it again.

Two days later in my still depressed state I was starting all over again.

[edczxcvbnm]

Don't play games when tired...ATB RPGs are the worst. I use to fall asleep in battle(Never died) and would wake up with and be in a mad rush to heal and take down the baddies. Talk about crazy rush of being awake...until the next battle.

[m4tt]

My mom's friend's kis erased one of my n64 memory cards once. It was a long time ago, so I can't remember what I had saved on it, but I was really mad at the time. >=\

I was playing Doom3 about a month ago. It was at night, I was home alone with my dog, and I had the lights off in my room. I forgot that my dog was under my desk and when I was walking through some hallway she moved and scared the crap out of me. I kicked her as a reaction then she almost knocked over my desk when she tried to get up. Noooot fun.

[Chris]

My mom's friend's kis erased one of my n64 memory cards once. It was a long time ago, so I can't remember what I had saved on it, but I was really mad at the time. >=\

I was playing Doom3 about a month ago. It was at night, I was home alone with my dog, and I had the lights off in my room. I forgot that my dog was under my desk and when I was walking through some hallway she moved and scared the crap out of me. I kicked her as a reaction then she almost knocked over my desk when she tried to get up. Noooot fun.

:mad2: ....

.... :D

[Levian]

You are horrible people. You forget to add morals. Every story needs a moral.

[Necronopticous]

The first time I ever beat Final Fantasy VI on Super Nintendo I freaked out because I had been trying for like a week and getting slaughtered by Kefka after the long ass tower fight. Instead of leveling up to fight him I just kept trying to prepare better and I FINALLY beat him. Like I said, I freaked out, foot went off of the bed on top of the SNES and the game froze as Kefka was fading away. I felt cursed. Only took me another 3 or 4 tries to beat him again, however.

Moral: When you're about to beat a game, strap yourself to your bed or chair.

[edczxcvbnm]

Moral: Use your brain and figure it out for yourself :D

[BlkKnight]

Tales of Symphonia: I was going through the book dungeon (i.e. that optional dungeon with no savepoints) and managed to have some decent luck with the random stuff on each level. I managed to get to the final boss of the place and reduced it to about 1/3 to 1/4 of its HP. Then the power flickers off and on effectively destroying over an hour's worth of work. I haven't touched the game since.

[Erdrick Holmes]

I was fighting the boss form of I-No on Guilty Gear XX and she was freakin' hard because she has this one supermove that can KO you even if you block. I kept wondering how to beat her when a friend of mine suggested something that I laughed at myself for overlooking, Faultless defence. Pressing and holding back+slash+heavy slash allows you to use your tension bar to generate a field that can block any attack. I used the stuff and I beat her that night. Moral: USE FAULTLESS DEFENCE.

[Jack]

Playing a game with a girl when I was 12, my friend beat her and she threw a strop and dumped his ass. It was funny because it didn't happen to me.
Moral? DON'T MAKE YOUR LOVED ONE LOOK STUPID

[Rainecloud]

Sonic Advance 2 for the GBA makes my blood boil. Some of the bosses are stupidly difficult to beat, and this totally ruins the game. Robotnik got me so mad, I had to sell the game to a friend.

Repeatedly dying in an old game called Nebulus for the Atari made me angry. Very angry. The object of the game was to reach the top of a lighthouse - but there were enemies along the way that would knock you off. The most annoying of these enemies was a small flying robot who would appear at the most inconvenient times. I'd be very close to finishing a level after half an hour of blood, sweat and tears, and that stupid flying robot would knock me all the way back to the bottom again.

Mortal Kombat II was unbelievably annoying. Enough said.

That's enough for one night, methinks, as my blood is literally boiling inside me right now.

[SomethingBig]

Sonic Advance 2 for the GBA makes my blood boil. Some of the bosses are stupidly difficult to beat, and this totally ruins the game. Robotnik got me so mad, I had to sell the game to a friend.
HAHAHA, I was playing that during the ride to and from Florida, this past summer, since it was a 15-20 hour drive. That one boss that was a wheel and had that extending hand and laser was the BIGGEST female dog ever. It took me, literally, 7 tries to beat it. The next two bosses were extremely easy, though, but Robotnik was unnecessarily difficult.

Moral: Try and try until you win... Until you get to Robotnik.

Okay, this one was from FFX. So, the game loads up and, before I know it, I'm taking an axe to my PS2, my PS2 controllers, my TV, and, heck, even my face.

Moral: Don't play FFX.

Viewtiful Joe. For those that have played this game, you know exACTLY what I'm talking about. That lion boss was incomparably difficult. After 10 tries, I got him down to only half of his health. HALF. THAT WAS THE MOST AGGRAVATING THING I'VE EVER FOUGHT. 8 months, 2 days, 6 hours, and 2 seconds later, I still have not beaten it. Viewtiful Joe will forever lay unbeaten in a standing on my shelf of video-games. *Sigh*

Moral: When you encounter a lion that has flames coming out of it as a final/second to final boss, don't bother. You're only going to poop yourself, then cry at night. You will cry like a baby and you will cry to sleep. You will run into your parents' room and cry like a baby.

[StarlightAngel]

Tales of Symphonia: I'm increadibly forgetful. As in, I save, look away for a split second, and look back at the game wondering if I saved. Anyway, I was playing, an thanks too my forgetfulness, I forgot to save. I lost against a boss and had to start back at I don't remember where. I hate my memory skills. :(

[Erdrick Holmes]

Doomsday: Mortal Kombat games suck anyway (except for Deception)

Oh, I just played Zero Tolorance for the Genesis/Megadrive. Worst FPS game of all time.

Moral: Don't play this game

[Lindy]

DK64, that village/forest/whatever world, in the barn, there's a bonus barrel. In that bonus barrel is the most inocuous little mine cart minigame.

Except it's the most EVIL minigame in the whole entire world, it took me about 50 tries to beat, and after each mind bendingly, heart crushing failure, I smacked the side on the controller with my right hand in anger.

After about attempted 49, I smacked it so hard that I broke it, and the memory card/rumble pack fell out and smashed into my foot, leaving me with a broken memory card, broken controller, seriously painful foot and swollen right hand.

I calmed down, beat the damned minigame, and moved on.

In pain.

Moral : Rare are evil.

[SephirothsMistress]

Bubsy 3D: This game frightened me. Honestly, the scenery was bland, and the music scared me http://forums.eyesonff.com/images/smilies/lovesmile.gifhttp://forums.eyesonff.com/images/smilies/lovesmile.gifhttp://forums.eyesonff.com/images/smilies/lovesmile.gifhttp://forums.eyesonff.com/images/smilies/lovesmile.gifless.
Moral: Dont play games that scare you http://forums.eyesonff.com/images/smilies/lovesmile.gifhttp://forums.eyesonff.com/images/smilies/lovesmile.gifhttp://forums.eyesonff.com/images/smilies/lovesmile.gifhttp://forums.eyesonff.com/images/smilies/lovesmile.gifless with their warped, mentally damaging music.

FF1 and FF2: Getting into unwanted random battles when you are on very little health.

Moral: Make sure you get anger management before playing these games.

EDIT: What's with the smilies?

[Ryth]

Well I was playing FFII and well I was walking around a very hard area and 2 of my guys were dead 1 was alive at critical HP and zero MP (I had only 3 members) & no items to help me and everytime I walked 1 (!!!!!) step and a bunch of monsters attack I can never survive I'm stuck there no where to go and if it was legal blood would've been spilled that day but instead pieces of my wall were broken off from my fists of mighty fury!

Moral: When traveling in FF use all life expenses on Phoenix Downs, Potions, Cure spells, potions, and wander off only at high levels and then level up more and spend even more money on Phoenix Downs ,potions, and cure spells.


I was helping my little bro with a game (forget what it was) and I ended up staying up there for hours because he ended up keeping me in their against my will with the assistance of mom and dad of course.

Moral: NEVER HELP A YOUNGER SIBLING (ESPECIALLY THE BRATTY ONES)!

[Lord Chainsaw]

I just finished Star Ocean 3 yesterday, so I believe it is fitting.

I decided to enter the final dungeon at level 60. I had 20 blackberries and 12 mental enhancers. There's a swarm of bosses along the way which I did not count on. By the time I reached the final save point I was down to only 2 blackberries and 11 mental enhancers. Those were my only MP restoring items. You can be incapacitated by either HP or MP reaching 0 in Star Ocean, so I was scared the last boss would MP kill me. My friend beat the game a week ago and told me he died 12 times on the last boss.

Moment of truth, I engage his ass. Cliff goes in strong with Fists of Fury, Albel is backing him up with Palm of Destruction. Sophia is sitting back casting fairy light. It's too bad the final boss DOES damage your mp. I'm getting MP and HP hit with every attack. I finally beat him and am down to 0 blackberries and 10 mental enhancers. But it isn't over. I have to fight him a second time.

This is where I realize how my friend had to try this guy 12 times. This bastard opens up with Flame Divide which hits over and over and over again in a large radius and damages HP and MP. I've got to keep my HP up and still watch my MP. Fists of Fury is hitting for 6000 total and Palm is hitting for 4000. I'm constantly getting MP killed and am wasting all of my revival items. Just when things are looking up, he uses a new attack: Perfect Symmetry. He goes invincible and unleashes a huge explosive right on my head which MP kills 2 of my 3 characters. I revive the other two in time for him to use his ultimate attack: Insanity Prelude. Needless to say I'm wiped out.

I Game Over 5 more times before I finally beat him. I end up actually soloing the bastard, dodging his attacks and sneaking in a Palm of Destruction when I can. The lesson to be learned here is that if you can almost beat a boss, there is no need to go back and level up some more. You just have to try a few more times until you get lucky.

[TasteyPies]

EDIT: What's with the smilies?

Its the naughty word filter.

Bad experiances? every second of X2

[krissy]

"hey sis wanna play ff8 too?"

"ok cool, here let me save in balamb garden 6 mins in"

"...you saved three times."

"yeah wanted to eb sure"

"over my 50 h saves"

",,,,?"

moral: dont share rpg's with siblings. or memory cards for that matter.

[Rostum]

Letting my sister play Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and having to do all the puzzles for her and bosses. Same with Kingdom Hearts (she only played it because of Disney... and yes she is 19 years old).

I used to get really angry when playing a lot of SNES and NES games back in the day, used to throw the controler around because I couldn't do something. =)

[Xander]

Let's see..

- Any of the times I attempted to play FFVIII

- This one level in Toejam and Earl: Panic on Funkotron, which I described in a topic once before, it was just a very hard and annoying level which took me aggggges and for a person with not much patience anyway, well..it got me pretty mad >=O Although I forgive it for being the most fun game ever <3

- Grim Fandango. I was just hurt at the 3D-ness/lack of mouse pointer/lack of "Walk to/Look at/Pick up" in a LucasArts game. So I played about 10 seconds of it. xD

[Wuggly Blight]

FF10/-2 was a shocker...
Tunnel B1, I was payed to play it.
All the doom clones, they bug me to hell. Doom wasnt that great anyway.
Sonic Adventure 2, sucked as all the good features was removed... greaaattttt choice.
Casper, I was tricked into buying it.

[SeeDRankLou]

Super Mario Bros. 3: When I was much younger, I played this game. But I never was able to beat it. I enter the last area with 100+ lives, and there was this one level I just couldn't beat for the life of me. After three-ish hours of depleting my lives to zero, I still didn't beat, it was upseting.

Parasite Eve: It was hard enough beating Eve's child (forgot its name), but then you have to escape from the boat. And there's this part where you have to turn around and somehow avoid Eve's child chasing you. Much easier said than done, I tried this about twelve times before I just gave up. One of my friends helped me and I finally saw the ending.

SimCity2000: For weeks when I first got this game, no matter how hard I tried I just couldn't get a city to get going. I didn't know what was wrong, I thought I was using all of my resources. However, it seems that people don't like living without water. I didn't know of the water system, and when I finally found that out, cities started going.

.hack//MUTATION: Magus isn't really that bad. It has an attack which wipes out about 75% of my characters' HP, which I quickly restore. Then, out of no where, that same attack suddenly becomes uberpowerful and deals like 2000+ damage, which my characters can't sustain. I've only tried twice, but I still haven't beat it.

Diablo II: LoD:
MultiShot Lighting Enchanted Enemy + Barbarian = Death
Mana Burn Extra Fast Cold Immune Enemy + Sorceress = Death

Super Smash Bros. Melee: Event 51. I spent many many many hours trying to beat this before I finally beat it. And that was after spending about a half hour figuring out how to beat Event 50. And when I finally figured it out, I felt a bit silly for not thinking of the solution sooner. But you know, when do you ever think to use Jigglypuff for anything?

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time: This is pretty dumb on my part. In the Deku Tree, you go to the room with the rising platforms and and the Gold Skulltulla. You have to light the torch to unlock the room. I must have spent about thirty minutes in that room, not realizing that one can light a Deku Stick on fire. I was just walking near the lit torch with a Deku Stick and it caught fire by accident. Silly me.

[Shlup]

TheAbominatrix saved over my Final Fantasy VII save. She very nearly died that day.

[SetsuntaMew]

For some reason, I couldn't beat Cerberus the first time in Kingdom Hearts. I swear, I tried at least 20 times. And then my little brother was like, "hey, why don't you try using dodge roll?" I did, and I won. I won't ever do that battle again. It made me angry.

And then there was the time in FF7 when I used the save crystal in the northern crater near the top. And then I saved over my save file instead of a new one. I was so angry, I wouldn't touch the game for weeks. And then I got over it and beat it.

[XxSephirothxX]

Once, a friend and I played all the way through Vatti's Tower in The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords for the GBA. It didn't take all that long, but wasn't exactly the easiest process. We got to Vatti, and he kept talking and talking...I was excited, and trying to skip the text. I absently started hitting buttons and reset my gameboy.

...D'oh! Moral:...Never hit A, B, Start, and Select at the same time!!

[SetsuntaMew]

Another one:
The day I got my Gameboy Advance, I went out and bought a Kirby game (forget which one, and I'm too lazy to go get it). I was playing it for awhile and then the battery light came on AND I COULDN'T FIGURE OUT HOW TO SAVE. I was so angry, I haven't touched it since.

[icegoddess]

i once tried playing dark cloud *shudders*

moral: dont play dark cloud

[*ETERNAL FANTASY*]

went to a friends house to show off my ff7 save.....DID EVERYTHING all i had to do is beat the last boss....

I showed him....i guess it was taken out early then as soon as i got home the save was erased

MORAL: DONT GET A BIG HEAD AND DONT SHOW OF YOUR GOOD SAVES

[XxSephirothxX]

i once tried playing dark cloud *shudders*

moral: dont play dark cloud

Yeah...I still have scars.

[Jolts]

This happened to me recently. I got to the very end of disc3 for FFVIII, and I had just finished all the side-quests that can only be done on disc3. The next time I go to play it, I find that the entire memory card got corrupt, except for three files (and only one was important, FFT). Not only did I lose my FFVIII file, but I also lost my BOFIII, FFVII, FFVI, etc...
Moral: Don't ever try removing a memory card while the power is still on, unless you are at the "Browser/Configuration" screen (PS2) or the "Memory Card/CD Player" screen (PS).

This is also recent. I got to chapter 2 of FFX-2 and realized that I forgot to visit Mushroom Rock altogether and also forgot to do any of the Publication and Matchmaker points thing.
Moral: FFX-2's easily missable crap sucks, but the game's alright overall. Also, check everywhere that's not a "hotspot" before doing said "hotspot"s.

[Shadowdust]

Don't play games when tired...ATB RPGs are the worst. I use to fall asleep in battle(Never died) and would wake up with and be in a mad rush to heal and take down the baddies. Talk about crazy rush of being awake...until the next battle.

I've been there. Except I usually wake up at Game Over. :p

My worst gaming experience is just Final Fantasy X-2. What happened? I played it. How much worse could it get. :rolleyes2

I've done all the usual stuff like save over files and make a silly move that ended up costing me a Game Over. One time my Final Fantasy III (VI) cartridge for the SNES, reset on me (the battery that is) and I lost all my saved games.

[Vincent like's MUFFINS]

i once tried playing dark cloud *shudders*

moral: dont play dark cloud
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Dark cloud?ha i'm 100 hours in and at final boss WITH headache killin dark genie.I died many [like 3!] in a row because of the shear idiocy of ranged attacks.

:angel: the moral:Don't play dark cloud with a headache or with weak ranged charicters.