Times you are stupid in games

[Mo-Nercy]

I suppose I mess up the most in racing games. I tend to be a bit too impatient to muck around with set-ups and just jump into the race only to find I'm on the wrong tyres or something.

I can also be pretty stupid when it comes to puzzle games. If insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, then I must've been the craziest person in the world to play Catherine.

[Futan]

Only time I can think of was while playing one of the first three Splinter Cell games at my grandparents while on vacation. I forget which one it was, but I got to some point where I had to do a split jump in order to progress or some other similar technique. Instead I ran around for a while with no clue where to go. Eventually I did notice the opening above me I needed to get to, but could find no way to reach it. Eventually my uncle told me I just needed to do the split jump. By this point I was more than half way through the game, hadn't used it the entire time, and completely forgot it existed because I went through most of the game never needing it until reaching the only obstacle that required it. I was not very pleased.

Was it like a Chinatown sort of area or maybe it was just outside a Chinese restaurant? I vaguely remember having done something similar if not the same thing. lol. I spent HOURS trying to figure it out. But either way, that's more of a game design fail than a player fail.

I just remembered it. It was an alley with a Chinese restaurant. You would sneak through it into the kitchen where there was a ladder to the second floor. Except I didn't see that ladder and wasted hours trying to get to the second floor from the alley. So yeah. Player fail for me. Game design still for you. Lol.

[Karifean]

The Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney series has the habit of making me feel really stupid every 20 seconds.