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Nancy · 08-17-2004, 12:03 AM

I'm surprised that no one has made a thread like this before?!

Anyway I was playing FFX-2 last week and I got to the Heart of the Far Plane and on to the point where you have to play the notes by stepping onto the different platforms in order to continue. I had written each note down on my way so I merrily skipped about on each platform creating the melody which I thought was correct. And what do I do? I SAVE before I go to the last note. Normally that would be a smart move so I wouldn't have to do it all over again in case I died during the last boss fight right? But I didn't even give it a thought that the melody I had created could be incorrect. Of course that was the case so the last note unleashed a level 70 monster which I couldn't beat. Boy was I in a bad mood after that! I couldn't go back and make the correct melody because I had saved and I was too lazy to run around and level up so I was able to beat that little bastard so instead I borrowed my brother's saved game and finished the game that way. *sigh*

I'm wondering how many of you have made similar or perhaps bigger mistakes during a game. Ok ok.. I'm HOPING that at least some of you have made mistakes so I won't be the only one

Nancy · 08-17-2004, 12:04 AM

Come come now people don't be shy! Surely your mistakes can't be *that* embarrasing?!

TheShadow · 08-17-2004, 12:30 AM

Well, I've saved over (on the SNES mostly) games which I spent hours upon hours playing. Although I'm guessing you mean in-game blunders...

sadistikdreams · 08-17-2004, 12:31 AM

Lets see... So many!

Spiderman 2: There's a level with this huge solar plasma thingie that expands and de-expands, and you're supposed to avoid it. Well, I swung right into the motherfucker.

Also, there's missions where you have to rescue people from a sinking boat. Well, several times I would jump onto the boat, grab someone, and jump back to land, but miss and make the person drown. Misson OVER!

Jet Set Radio Future: During a race, I would jump onto a rail, but miss and fall into the water and lose the race.

Nancy · 08-17-2004, 12:42 AM

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Originally Posted by sadistikdreams

Lets see... So many!

Spiderman 2: There's a level with this huge solar plasma thingie that expands and de-expands, and you're supposed to avoid it. Well, I swung right into the motherfucker.

I bet that looked graceful!

LNCPapa · 08-17-2004, 12:43 AM

I restarted the first disc of FFVII 4 times because I refused to accept Aeris's death. I just knew I'd find a way to save her. Does that count?

Halx · 08-17-2004, 12:54 AM

I remember when I used to play Unreal Tournament Instagib Capture The Flag. I was the flag runner on my team. I'd grab the flag, run out of the base and try to make it back to my own base. Well, somwhere in the middle, I'd get into a little firefight and lose my bearings, so I'd start off on my way again, only to find myself back in the enemy base.

Other times, the action would be so hectic, that I'd make a pass at the flag, miss it, but assume that I had gotten it, and run all the way back to my base, wondering why the way back had been so damn easy. I'd jump on my flag to cap it, but nothing would happen. Ouch!

When you're playing 5 on 5 clan matches where everyone is depending on you, that's really embarassing.

Nancy · 08-17-2004, 12:59 AM

Nice one Halx!

Fremen · 08-17-2004, 01:07 AM

I got a good long way into Turok II on the Nintendo64, when the little kid my sister-in-law was babysitting came rushing by me going hellbent-for-leather.
I thought she was going to knock my machine off the stand so I swooped down to cover and protect it, but I stumbled in my haste and disconnected the whole thing without saving a bit of it.
I couldn't bring myself to play it after that, I was so mad and dissapointed at myself. (and the kid, truth be told)

I still get a pang in my heart thinking about it to this day.

Gabbyness · 08-17-2004, 04:28 AM

Get this.

The original Resident Evil, my friends and I are playing it years ago at someone's house, we started at like 9pm. 4am rolls around and we're still going strong, however, no one BROUGHT A MEMORY CARD. So we're playing "hardcore mode," so to speak. Suddenly, a Hellhound comes bounding up the stairs and I try and blast it with the shotgun. Oops. It got me. Seven hours, zip.

My friends looked at me like I was already dead to them. I hid until the covers (I was 12). They talked about that for years!

*shudder*

hu-man · 08-17-2004, 04:32 AM

Oh, saving woes! How many times have I not quicksaved right before being ripped to shreds by some unknown monster? As soon as yesterday I was playing Doom3 for the very first time, and I thought I was save, so I quicksaved. One split second later an imp, who wasn't there before - I swear, tore my back to shreds, and hurled a couple of fireballs at me. I was at full health before, now at 5%. Quickloading a couple of times produced no better results. Great!

Nancy · 08-17-2004, 04:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Gabbyness

Get this.

The original Resident Evil, my friends and I are playing it years ago at someone's house, we started at like 9pm. 4am rolls around and we're still going strong, however, no one BROUGHT A MEMORY CARD. So we're playing "hardcore mode," so to speak. Suddenly, a Hellhound comes bounding up the stairs and I try and blast it with the shotgun. Oops. It got me. Seven hours, zip.

My friends looked at me like I was already dead to them. I hid until the covers (I was 12). They talked about that for years!

*shudder*

/laughing my ass off

what a BITTER experience! You poor guy Gabbyness

inferno360 · 08-17-2004, 06:37 AM

Man! Ok...
So I'm playing Super Mario RPG (One of the best RPGs of all time. IMO) and I've gotten pretty far after playing it and I'm back at bowser's castle doing the various quizzes and puzzles to get the sword boss, saving along the way of course.

And then my friend who's been on vacation calls me saying that he's back and that I should come over. He's got a big screen T.V. and a snes as well so I pocket my Super Mario RPG and go over. I pop in the game and turn on the SNES, everythings groovy, and then the load screen comes up. It's empty, No Saves are recorded.

I lost all of my saved game, about 20-25 hours down the drain.

Oddly enough after I got over that, I put it on the other day and all of my saves were back, VERY STRANGE.

Rand007 · 08-17-2004, 09:09 AM

I was playing Legend of Zelda Wind Waker for hours and I had finally found all the triforce charts and had the money to get them translated. Then I leaned back a little and pulled the controller, which then pulled the GC off the shelf and subsiquently unplugged it loosing a few hours of progress that I had failed to save. SUCKS, I'm still upset about that one

Kadath · 08-17-2004, 11:03 AM

I did one like yours, Nancy, in Record of Lodoss War for the Dreamcast. I was playing along and got to the castle with a really hard-ass boss, and I'd been doing just the story, not any extra stuff, so the guy really handled me. Unfortunately, my save was inside the castle once I'd picked up an NPC who you can't get rid of and won't leave the castle -- so I had to start over. That was a hard hit.

I've also hit the quickload when I meant to hit the quicksave, which costs me some time, and I've done the opposite, which costs me a lot more.

Nancy · 08-17-2004, 11:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Kadath

I did one like yours, Nancy, in Record of Lodoss War for the Dreamcast. I was playing along and got to the castle with a really hard-ass boss, and I'd been doing just the story, not any extra stuff, so the guy really handled me. Unfortunately, my save was inside the castle once I'd picked up an NPC who you can't get rid of and won't leave the castle -- so I had to start over. That was a hard hit.

I've also hit the quickload when I meant to hit the quicksave, which costs me some time, and I've done the opposite, which costs me a lot more.

Ugh!

At least my brother had completed about 49% of the FFX-2 game so I only had to play like 3 hours to get to the heart of the far plane. Still annoying of course but not as irritating as starting all over like you

BigGov · 08-17-2004, 12:58 PM

Besides the obvious RPG saving mishaps my biggest blunder is probably killing myself with a claymore in SOCOM 2.

saut · 08-17-2004, 01:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Halx

I remember when I used to play Unreal Tournament Instagib Capture The Flag. I was the flag runner on my team. I'd grab the flag, run out of the base and try to make it back to my own base. Well, somwhere in the middle, I'd get into a little firefight and lose my bearings, so I'd start off on my way again, only to find myself back in the enemy base.

Other times, the action would be so hectic, that I'd make a pass at the flag, miss it, but assume that I had gotten it, and run all the way back to my base, wondering why the way back had been so damn easy. I'd jump on my flag to cap it, but nothing would happen. Ouch!

When you're playing 5 on 5 clan matches where everyone is depending on you, that's really embarassing.

I've had similar experiences when I played TFC. Sometimes I would play offensive soldier (big rocket launcher and lots of grenades) and just try and kill everything in the enemy base for my teammates... a few times I got disoriented and ended up attacking my own base. This is especially not good when you somehow manage to kill just about your entire defense, which I did at least once.

MPower · 08-17-2004, 02:25 PM

1. Back in the old commodore64 days, I played questron till 4am or so. Went to save, put save disk in drive and turned off computer. Never actually told the game to save. I was so tired it took me about 5min before I realized what I did.

2. Pre C64 I had a Ti99. No tape drive or anything. I used to sit around for an hour or so typing in a basic program from a magazine. Play the game then turn off the computer when done. Not really a blunder, but a complete waste of time. Course it helped me learn BASIC which is really useful nowadays.

3. My dog pulled one of my memory modules out of my gamecube and used it for a chewtoy last week. Dont know what I lost and Im afraid to look.

fhqwhgads · 08-17-2004, 05:32 PM

F5 was quicksave, F6 was quickload. Or perhaps it was the other way around. I didn't know then, and I still don't know now.

I don't remember which game it was, but NUMEROUS times I'd hit the quickSAVE button just after I died. The game had a female voice which would say "Quicksave" whenever you saved it, and "quickload" whenever you loaded a game.

It sounded something like this:

Fhq: Damnit, I died again!
Computer: "Quicksave"
Fhq: Son of a bitch!
Friend of fhq: Dumbass!

My best friend would taunt me relentlessly everytime he heard the computer say "quicksave" and then heard me scream. Damn game...
*shakes fist at quicksave*

MontanaXVI · 08-18-2004, 06:55 AM

geesh Nancy a thread like this could never ever end, baan playing video games for 20+ years now I have many tales of woe but I will throw my most recent one out.

Playing the new NCAA 2005 football for PS2 online against a buddy of mine, I am Florida State, he is Ohio State and I am playing on his home field. EASILY whooping his ass 27-3 or something crazy well I jump up out of the recliner to call and talk a little shit to him when my leg yanks the controller out of the port I leap over plug it right back in and get a message I was removed from the game for too many controller disconnects :x Did I mention there was only 32 seconds left in the game and I had the ball? :/

So on my online record I have a DNF or Quit and it shows the score and actually has a 99% next to it showing how far into the game I was

Nancy · 08-18-2004, 07:45 AM

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Originally Posted by fhqwhgads

F5 was quicksave, F6 was quickload. Or perhaps it was the other way around. I didn't know then, and I still don't know now.

I don't remember which game it was, but NUMEROUS times I'd hit the quickSAVE button just after I died. The game had a female voice which would say "Quicksave" whenever you saved it, and "quickload" whenever you loaded a game.

It sounded something like this:

Fhq: Damnit, I died again!
Computer: "Quicksave"
Fhq: Son of a bitch!
Friend of fhq: Dumbass!

My best friend would taunt me relentlessly everytime he heard the computer say "quicksave" and then heard me scream. Damn game...
*shakes fist at quicksave*

/laughing real hard

what kind of stupid game includes such important commands placed so close to one another!? SHEEZ!

Nancy · 08-18-2004, 07:48 AM

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Originally Posted by MontanaXVI

geesh Nancy a thread like this could never ever end

That's what I'm hoping... Then we'd all have a place where we're bound to get a good laugh or a place to rant about our own mistakes

Nancy · 08-18-2004, 07:50 AM

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Originally Posted by MPower

3. My dog pulled one of my memory modules out of my gamecube and used it for a chewtoy last week. Dont know what I lost and Im afraid to look.

/turns head away so you can't see how much I'm laughing right now

nukeu666 · 08-18-2004, 08:21 AM

mhm......
accidently deleting all my GTA3 savegames after finding half the hidden packages

didnt save after 3 hours of nethack and reaching lvl12 dungeon...my best till today
zapping myself with a wand of death(it wasnt identified yet) in nethack
blowing myself up with 3 thermal detonators in KOTOR

my mouse button got stuck while playing Q3(3player FFA) on lan....i was running around with rockets and plasma flying continuously...noone came close to me till i was empty...i ended up gauntleting up both of them

oblar · 08-18-2004, 08:39 AM

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Originally Posted by fhqwhgads

F5 was quicksave, F6 was quickload. Or perhaps it was the other way around. I didn't know then, and I still don't know now.

I don't remember which game it was, but NUMEROUS times I'd hit the quickSAVE button just after I died. The game had a female voice which would say "Quicksave" whenever you saved it, and "quickload" whenever you loaded a game.

It sounded something like this:

Fhq: Damnit, I died again!
Computer: "Quicksave"
Fhq: Son of a bitch!
Friend of fhq: Dumbass!

My best friend would taunt me relentlessly everytime he heard the computer say "quicksave" and then heard me scream. Damn game...
*shakes fist at quicksave*

i have done things like this all the time. Sometimes I would save when I meant to die.. Usually though, it would be a particularly hard part, so I would try to quicksave, but while in the process of doing that I would be somewhat vulnerable and I would die.. so I could load it back up to an enemy that cannot be avoided.

one of my main blunders was in FFV and quicksave. I kept saving and got through this really hard part. Then I talked to my friend, telling him this area was crazy. He then told me I wasn't supposed to get there without the legendary weapons. Well, I was halfway through the area, saved, and I couldn't go back out because the enemies were too annoying to beat (they all took quite a bit of luck). I stopped playing after that.

NoSoup · 08-18-2004, 08:40 AM

Nancy, I have done that with countless games...

The time that ticked me off the most though was with Dragon Warrior. I am standing in the middle of a poisionous swamp that damages me every time I move. Keep in mind, this is near the end of the game...

I save it, not realizing that I only have like 5% of my health left, and I need at least 30 left to walk out of that damn swamp...

Stupid Swamp *shakes fist*

omega2K4 · 08-18-2004, 09:06 AM

I played The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (Xbox) so much, one day The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind - Game of the Year Edition came out, and I bought it. Mainly because it had bug fixes, and 2 huge expansion packs included. I imported my saved character from the original, I still had my über-character, all his money, possessions, houses, etc. I played that for about a week, then my Xbox died. I was so pissed. I lost my Morrowind save which I easily spent over 250 hours on since it first came out. I should have backed it up to a memory card, but I never bought an Xbox memory card.

opackfan · 08-18-2004, 10:22 AM

This blunder happens all to often and is usually preceded by this thought, "Ok, now is a good time to reload." I will leave what happens next to the imagination

MPower · 08-18-2004, 10:27 AM

Ah, I forgot one. Some old game in the early 90's. Got a disk from pcgamer or something with patches on it. (pre-easy internet you had to buy game magazines for the disks with patches and mods on them, for you young'ens). Installed the patch THEN read the read-me which stated that the version was incompatible with earlier saved games. D'oh.

Nancy · 08-18-2004, 11:57 AM

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Originally Posted by opackfan

This blunder happens all to often and is usually preceded by this thought, "Ok, now is a good time to reload." I will leave what happens next to the imagination

tell me about it

Rabid Bunny · 08-18-2004, 01:31 PM

I was playing Counterstrike a long while ago and I was on a streak, getting about 20 kills in a row without dying. I forget what map I was playing on but a guy came up on my right suddenly so I pushed my mouse hard to the right to align the shot quickly before he could get a chance to kill me and ruin my record but I miscalculated the space between the mouse and the side of the table and I slammed the mouse hard against the table crushing my pinky. My pinky could barely bend for a week because it swelled up so much.

Not really a in-game blunder but still pretty stupid of me.

fhqwhgads · 08-18-2004, 07:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Nancy

/laughing real hard

what kind of stupid game includes such important commands placed so close to one another!? SHEEZ!

I was thinking about this, and I finally remembered what games it was. It was the Crusader games, No Regret and No Remorse. I dug up the old manuals and figured it out. F4 was quickload, and F5 was quicksave.

Damn game.

NeverBorn · 08-18-2004, 07:14 PM

My roomate makes alot of stupid mistakes like that. It angers me..

guthmund · 08-18-2004, 10:57 PM

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Originally Posted by sadistikdreams

Spiderman 2: There's a level with this huge solar plasma thingie that expands and de-expands, and you're supposed to avoid it. Well, I swung right into the motherfucker.

Also, there's missions where you have to rescue people from a sinking boat. Well, several times I would jump onto the boat, grab someone, and jump back to land, but miss and make the person drown. Misson OVER!

That whole stupid plasma sphere thing sucked hard. I'd sneak up to line up my jump and the damn thing would expand and then Spidey would go flying back, flinging around like a rag doll, bouncing off stuff and finally slide to a stop only to be hit by it again or one of those well placed lightning bolts.

As for those stupid boats....well I just find it a bit ridiculous that ol' Spidey can hang from a helicopter, but can't dog paddle.

I've saved, erased, formatted memory cards losing all sorts of things. Way too many times to seriously count.

My biggest problem in FPS games are the big explosive weapons. I blow myself and my comrades up. In Goldeneye, I'd get real excited at the possiblity of shooting someone and shoot the rocket launcher into the wall or ricochet a grenade back at myself.

In Halo,when playing on teams or in co-op mode, I'm not allowed to pick up the big grenade launcher and they really don't like me lobbing grenades.

Ripp3r · 08-20-2004, 01:04 AM

I was playing Fallout tactics and got pretty far in it
saving regularly, but using the same savegame all the time.

anyway, at a certain point I get a choice of 2 missions, I pick one and start it
being the dumbass that i am i save and lose all chances of taking the other mission first ...
after about 2 hours in the same mission I figure out I can't beat the mission with this equipment, so I start looking for a walktrough, I notice this is one of the last missions and they clearly state that the one i'm in, cannot be completed easily without finding the powerarmor in the other mission first ...
boy was I disappointed, and angry with myself... since then I don't re-use the same savegame anymore...
didn't want to replay the entire game either, so it just lay there, catching dust.

Gortexfogg · 08-20-2004, 04:51 PM

Letting my Shenmue save game get in the hands of my little sister. I was trying to get all the stuff and I let her play some (I thought she would use the save I created for her.) I come back later and my game is completely gone... I haven't played the game since...

Also, I remember quicksaving as I died in Jedi Knight 2.

irateplatypus · 08-21-2004, 08:16 PM

i think i've mentioned this before, but i inadvertantly erased a banjo-kazooie savegame that was 3/4 the way through. for some reason i cannot even power that game on anymore. i just get pissed thinking about it.

MSD · 08-22-2004, 12:09 AM

Diablo II:

There was the time, right after the game came out, that I accidentally turned my Silks of the Victor into an Iron Golem (my second Silks was stolen with a corpse loot exploit and also turned into an Iron Golem, but not by me)

Then, there was the time I was holding ALT to highlight items on the ground, and went to turn on Holy Shock so I could get to and pick up the unique armor and sword on the ground, and didn't stop to think that Holy Shock was hotkeyed to, you guessed it, F4

I accidentally sold my Nokozan Relic, fortunately they're fairly common

CityOfAngels · 08-22-2004, 12:03 PM

1) I was playing FF7 and made it up to Cosmo Canyon. I had the car by that time, and once I exited Cosmo Canyon, I saved immediately. So what happens next? There's a glitch that will only let my car turn, but not move, as if it's STUCK to Cosmo Canyon! It won't let me exit the car either! I reloaded the saved game and the exact same thing happened. All those hours of FF7 down the drain because of an unknown glitch I just so happened to save on.

2) I got even farther in FF7; almost up to the death of Aeris. Thing is, I was saving my game on my brother's memory card. My brother took his memory card with him to his girlfriend's house, and when he comes back, my saved game is GONE. I later find out that his girlfriend wanted to "try out" Rayman, so she deleted my save so she could save her own game. The icing on the cake was she didn't even like Rayman and never played it again.

3) Recently I was playing Resident Evil 2 Dual Shock on Arrange mode (free rocket launcher!!!). I decided that since the rocket launcher could destroy just about everything before it gets near me, I can hold off on saving until I get close to the lab area. Well, I clear almost all of the precinct and what do I see? A group of hellhounds. I figure, "Eh, I got a rocket launcher, so what!" I shoot the rocket launcher, and the rocket flies OVER the dogs. I have NO other guns on me at the time and soon realize that as they rip me to shreds.

4) I was playing Duck Hunt with my mom, and she got all excited and pulled on the light gun, which pulled my Nintendo, ultimately pulling on the RF unit, destroying the RF input for my TV.

5) I was playing Summoner and rarely saved. I got down into the sewers and found that all the golems and monsters in there were pretty easy to beat, so why save?

I turn one corner, ONE FREAKING WRONG TURN, and this group of thieves ambushes my party. I figure they'd be as easy as the rest of the enemies in the sewer, even easier since they're HUMAN, so I stay and fight. They're indestructible, and needless to say, they kill me with ease.

08-17-2004, 12:03 AM	#1 (permalink)
Nancy Femme Fatale Location: Elysium	Your biggest blunders during a game I'm surprised that no one has made a thread like this before?! Anyway I was playing FFX-2 last week and I got to the Heart of the Far Plane and on to the point where you have to play the notes by stepping onto the different platforms in order to continue. I had written each note down on my way so I merrily skipped about on each platform creating the melody which I thought was correct. And what do I do? I SAVE before I go to the last note. Normally that would be a smart move so I wouldn't have to do it all over again in case I died during the last boss fight right? But I didn't even give it a thought that the melody I had created could be incorrect. Of course that was the case so the last note unleashed a level 70 monster which I couldn't beat. Boy was I in a bad mood after that! I couldn't go back and make the correct melody because I had saved and I was too lazy to run around and level up so I was able to beat that little bastard so instead I borrowed my brother's saved game and finished the game that way. sigh I'm wondering how many of you have made similar or perhaps bigger mistakes during a game. Ok ok.. I'm HOPING that at least some of you have made mistakes so I won't be the only one __________________ I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust. Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don't know why. My nightly bloodlust has overflown into my days. I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy. I think my mask of sanity is about to slip. Last edited by Nancy; 08-17-2004 at 12:08 AM..

08-17-2004, 12:04 AM	#2 (permalink)
Nancy Femme Fatale Location: Elysium	Come come now people don't be shy! Surely your mistakes can't be that embarrasing?! __________________ I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust. Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don't know why. My nightly bloodlust has overflown into my days. I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy. I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.

08-17-2004, 12:30 AM	#3 (permalink)
TheShadow Crazy Location: Vancouver, Canada	Well, I've saved over (on the SNES mostly) games which I spent hours upon hours playing. Although I'm guessing you mean in-game blunders... __________________ You know that song that goes like...

08-17-2004, 12:31 AM	#4 (permalink)
sadistikdreams lonely rolling star Location: Seattle.	Lets see... So many! Spiderman 2: There's a level with this huge solar plasma thingie that expands and de-expands, and you're supposed to avoid it. Well, I swung right into the motherfucker. Also, there's missions where you have to rescue people from a sinking boat. Well, several times I would jump onto the boat, grab someone, and jump back to land, but miss and make the person drown. Misson OVER! Jet Set Radio Future: During a race, I would jump onto a rail, but miss and fall into the water and lose the race. __________________ "Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials." -Lin Yutang hearts, by d.a.

08-17-2004, 12:43 AM	#6 (permalink)
LNCPapa Crazy Location: Notre Dame	I restarted the first disc of FFVII 4 times because I refused to accept Aeris's death. I just knew I'd find a way to save her. Does that count? __________________ No mercy for the bandwidth impaired

08-17-2004, 12:54 AM	#7 (permalink)
Halx Please touch this. Owner/Admin Location: Manhattan	I remember when I used to play Unreal Tournament Instagib Capture The Flag. I was the flag runner on my team. I'd grab the flag, run out of the base and try to make it back to my own base. Well, somwhere in the middle, I'd get into a little firefight and lose my bearings, so I'd start off on my way again, only to find myself back in the enemy base. Other times, the action would be so hectic, that I'd make a pass at the flag, miss it, but assume that I had gotten it, and run all the way back to my base, wondering why the way back had been so damn easy. I'd jump on my flag to cap it, but nothing would happen. Ouch! When you're playing 5 on 5 clan matches where everyone is depending on you, that's really embarassing. __________________ You have found this post informative. -The Administrator [Don't Feed The Animals]

08-17-2004, 12:59 AM	#8 (permalink)
Nancy Femme Fatale Location: Elysium	Nice one Halx! __________________ I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust. Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don't know why. My nightly bloodlust has overflown into my days. I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy. I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.

08-17-2004, 01:07 AM	#9 (permalink)
Fremen With a mustache, the cool factor would be too much Location: left side of my couch, East Texas	I got a good long way into Turok II on the Nintendo64, when the little kid my sister-in-law was babysitting came rushing by me going hellbent-for-leather. I thought she was going to knock my machine off the stand so I swooped down to cover and protect it, but I stumbled in my haste and disconnected the whole thing without saving a bit of it. I couldn't bring myself to play it after that, I was so mad and dissapointed at myself. (and the kid, truth be told) I still get a pang in my heart thinking about it to this day. __________________ Google

08-17-2004, 04:28 AM	#10 (permalink)
Gabbyness Chicken scratch. Location: Japan!!!	Get this. The original Resident Evil, my friends and I are playing it years ago at someone's house, we started at like 9pm. 4am rolls around and we're still going strong, however, no one BROUGHT A MEMORY CARD. So we're playing "hardcore mode," so to speak. Suddenly, a Hellhound comes bounding up the stairs and I try and blast it with the shotgun. Oops. It got me. Seven hours, zip. My friends looked at me like I was already dead to them. I hid until the covers (I was 12). They talked about that for years! shudder

08-17-2004, 04:32 AM	#11 (permalink)
hu-man The one that got away Location: Over the hill and far away	Oh, saving woes! How many times have I not quicksaved right before being ripped to shreds by some unknown monster? As soon as yesterday I was playing Doom3 for the very first time, and I thought I was save, so I quicksaved. One split second later an imp, who wasn't there before - I swear, tore my back to shreds, and hurled a couple of fireballs at me. I was at full health before, now at 5%. Quickloading a couple of times produced no better results. Great!

08-17-2004, 06:37 AM	#13 (permalink)
inferno360 Upright Location: Mississauga, Ontario, Canada	Man! Ok... So I'm playing Super Mario RPG (One of the best RPGs of all time. IMO) and I've gotten pretty far after playing it and I'm back at bowser's castle doing the various quizzes and puzzles to get the sword boss, saving along the way of course. And then my friend who's been on vacation calls me saying that he's back and that I should come over. He's got a big screen T.V. and a snes as well so I pocket my Super Mario RPG and go over. I pop in the game and turn on the SNES, everythings groovy, and then the load screen comes up. It's empty, No Saves are recorded. I lost all of my saved game, about 20-25 hours down the drain. Oddly enough after I got over that, I put it on the other day and all of my saves were back, VERY STRANGE. __________________ If it's stupid but it works, it's not stupid.

08-17-2004, 09:09 AM	#14 (permalink)
Rand007 Upright Location: Oklahoma City	I was playing Legend of Zelda Wind Waker for hours and I had finally found all the triforce charts and had the money to get them translated. Then I leaned back a little and pulled the controller, which then pulled the GC off the shelf and subsiquently unplugged it loosing a few hours of progress that I had failed to save. SUCKS, I'm still upset about that one __________________ Bombing for peace is like fucking for virginity. -Unknown

08-17-2004, 11:03 AM	#15 (permalink)
Kadath Muffled Location: Camazotz	I did one like yours, Nancy, in Record of Lodoss War for the Dreamcast. I was playing along and got to the castle with a really hard-ass boss, and I'd been doing just the story, not any extra stuff, so the guy really handled me. Unfortunately, my save was inside the castle once I'd picked up an NPC who you can't get rid of and won't leave the castle -- so I had to start over. That was a hard hit. I've also hit the quickload when I meant to hit the quicksave, which costs me some time, and I've done the opposite, which costs me a lot more. __________________ it's quiet in here

08-17-2004, 12:58 PM	#17 (permalink)
BigGov WoW or Class... Location: UWW	Besides the obvious RPG saving mishaps my biggest blunder is probably killing myself with a claymore in SOCOM 2. __________________ One day an Englishman, a Scotsman, and an Irishman walked into a pub together. They each bought a pint of Guinness. Just as they were about to enjoy their creamy beverage, three flies landed in each of their pints. The Englishman pushed his beer away in disgust. The Scotsman fished the fly out of his beer and continued drinking it, as if nothing had happened. The Irishman, too, picked the fly out of his drink but then held it out over the beer and yelled "SPIT IT OUT, SPIT IT OUT, YOU BASTARD!"

08-17-2004, 02:25 PM	#19 (permalink)
MPower Psycho	1. Back in the old commodore64 days, I played questron till 4am or so. Went to save, put save disk in drive and turned off computer. Never actually told the game to save. I was so tired it took me about 5min before I realized what I did. 2. Pre C64 I had a Ti99. No tape drive or anything. I used to sit around for an hour or so typing in a basic program from a magazine. Play the game then turn off the computer when done. Not really a blunder, but a complete waste of time. Course it helped me learn BASIC which is really useful nowadays. 3. My dog pulled one of my memory modules out of my gamecube and used it for a chewtoy last week. Dont know what I lost and Im afraid to look.

08-17-2004, 05:32 PM	#20 (permalink)
fhqwhgads Junkie	F5 was quicksave, F6 was quickload. Or perhaps it was the other way around. I didn't know then, and I still don't know now. I don't remember which game it was, but NUMEROUS times I'd hit the quickSAVE button just after I died. The game had a female voice which would say "Quicksave" whenever you saved it, and "quickload" whenever you loaded a game. It sounded something like this: Fhq: Damnit, I died again! Computer: "Quicksave" Fhq: Son of a bitch! Friend of fhq: Dumbass! My best friend would taunt me relentlessly everytime he heard the computer say "quicksave" and then heard me scream. Damn game... shakes fist at quicksave

08-18-2004, 06:55 AM	#21 (permalink)
MontanaXVI Junkie Location: Go A's!!!!	geesh Nancy a thread like this could never ever end, baan playing video games for 20+ years now I have many tales of woe but I will throw my most recent one out. Playing the new NCAA 2005 football for PS2 online against a buddy of mine, I am Florida State, he is Ohio State and I am playing on his home field. EASILY whooping his ass 27-3 or something crazy well I jump up out of the recliner to call and talk a little shit to him when my leg yanks the controller out of the port I leap over plug it right back in and get a message I was removed from the game for too many controller disconnects :x Did I mention there was only 32 seconds left in the game and I had the ball? :/ So on my online record I have a DNF or Quit and it shows the score and actually has a 99% next to it showing how far into the game I was __________________ Spank you very much

08-18-2004, 08:21 AM	#25 (permalink)
nukeu666 Junkie Location: India	mhm...... accidently deleting all my GTA3 savegames after finding half the hidden packages didnt save after 3 hours of nethack and reaching lvl12 dungeon...my best till today zapping myself with a wand of death(it wasnt identified yet) in nethack blowing myself up with 3 thermal detonators in KOTOR my mouse button got stuck while playing Q3(3player FFA) on lan....i was running around with rockets and plasma flying continuously...noone came close to me till i was empty...i ended up gauntleting up both of them __________________ Why did the Comp. Engineer get X-mas and Halloween mixed up? Because Oct(31) == Dec(25)

08-18-2004, 08:40 AM	#27 (permalink)
NoSoup Non-Rookie Location: Green Bay, WI	Nancy, I have done that with countless games... The time that ticked me off the most though was with Dragon Warrior. I am standing in the middle of a poisionous swamp that damages me every time I move. Keep in mind, this is near the end of the game... I save it, not realizing that I only have like 5% of my health left, and I need at least 30 left to walk out of that damn swamp... Stupid Swamp shakes fist __________________ I have an aura of reliability and good judgement. Just in case you were wondering...

08-18-2004, 09:06 AM	#28 (permalink)
omega2K4 Natalie Portman is sexy. Location: The Outer Rim	I played The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (Xbox) so much, one day The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind - Game of the Year Edition came out, and I bought it. Mainly because it had bug fixes, and 2 huge expansion packs included. I imported my saved character from the original, I still had my über-character, all his money, possessions, houses, etc. I played that for about a week, then my Xbox died. I was so pissed. I lost my Morrowind save which I easily spent over 250 hours on since it first came out. I should have backed it up to a memory card, but I never bought an Xbox memory card. __________________ "While the State exists there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State." - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin "Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form."- Karl Marx

08-18-2004, 10:22 AM	#29 (permalink)
opackfan Tilted Location: St. Paul	This blunder happens all to often and is usually preceded by this thought, "Ok, now is a good time to reload." I will leave what happens next to the imagination

08-18-2004, 10:27 AM	#30 (permalink)
MPower Psycho	Ah, I forgot one. Some old game in the early 90's. Got a disk from pcgamer or something with patches on it. (pre-easy internet you had to buy game magazines for the disks with patches and mods on them, for you young'ens). Installed the patch THEN read the read-me which stated that the version was incompatible with earlier saved games. D'oh.

08-18-2004, 01:31 PM	#32 (permalink)
Rabid Bunny Tilted Location: Pennsylvania	I was playing Counterstrike a long while ago and I was on a streak, getting about 20 kills in a row without dying. I forget what map I was playing on but a guy came up on my right suddenly so I pushed my mouse hard to the right to align the shot quickly before he could get a chance to kill me and ruin my record but I miscalculated the space between the mouse and the side of the table and I slammed the mouse hard against the table crushing my pinky. My pinky could barely bend for a week because it swelled up so much. Not really a in-game blunder but still pretty stupid of me.

08-18-2004, 07:14 PM	#34 (permalink)
NeverBorn I'm a pepper bitch..	My roomate makes alot of stupid mistakes like that. It angers me..

08-20-2004, 01:04 AM	#36 (permalink)
Ripp3r Tilted Location: Dublin, Ireland	I was playing Fallout tactics and got pretty far in it saving regularly, but using the same savegame all the time. anyway, at a certain point I get a choice of 2 missions, I pick one and start it being the dumbass that i am i save and lose all chances of taking the other mission first ... after about 2 hours in the same mission I figure out I can't beat the mission with this equipment, so I start looking for a walktrough, I notice this is one of the last missions and they clearly state that the one i'm in, cannot be completed easily without finding the powerarmor in the other mission first ... boy was I disappointed, and angry with myself... since then I don't re-use the same savegame anymore... didn't want to replay the entire game either, so it just lay there, catching dust. __________________ We All Have Questions What Seperates The Men From The Boys Is The Ability To Use Google To Find Our Answers

08-20-2004, 04:51 PM	#37 (permalink)
Gortexfogg I and I Location: Stillwater, OK	Letting my Shenmue save game get in the hands of my little sister. I was trying to get all the stuff and I let her play some (I thought she would use the save I created for her.) I come back later and my game is completely gone... I haven't played the game since... Also, I remember quicksaving as I died in Jedi Knight 2.

08-21-2004, 08:16 PM	#38 (permalink)
irateplatypus can't help but laugh Location: dar al-harb	i think i've mentioned this before, but i inadvertantly erased a banjo-kazooie savegame that was 3/4 the way through. for some reason i cannot even power that game on anymore. i just get pissed thinking about it. __________________ If you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves. ~ Winston Churchill

08-22-2004, 12:09 AM	#39 (permalink)
MSD The sky calls to us ... Super Moderator Location: CT	Diablo II: There was the time, right after the game came out, that I accidentally turned my Silks of the Victor into an Iron Golem (my second Silks was stolen with a corpse loot exploit and also turned into an Iron Golem, but not by me) Then, there was the time I was holding ALT to highlight items on the ground, and went to turn on Holy Shock so I could get to and pick up the unique armor and sword on the ground, and didn't stop to think that Holy Shock was hotkeyed to, you guessed it, F4 I accidentally sold my Nokozan Relic, fortunately they're fairly common

08-22-2004, 12:03 PM	#40 (permalink)
CityOfAngels Oh shit it's Wayne Brady! Location: Passenger seat of Wayne Brady's car.	1) I was playing FF7 and made it up to Cosmo Canyon. I had the car by that time, and once I exited Cosmo Canyon, I saved immediately. So what happens next? There's a glitch that will only let my car turn, but not move, as if it's STUCK to Cosmo Canyon! It won't let me exit the car either! I reloaded the saved game and the exact same thing happened. All those hours of FF7 down the drain because of an unknown glitch I just so happened to save on. 2) I got even farther in FF7; almost up to the death of Aeris. Thing is, I was saving my game on my brother's memory card. My brother took his memory card with him to his girlfriend's house, and when he comes back, my saved game is GONE. I later find out that his girlfriend wanted to "try out" Rayman, so she deleted my save so she could save her own game. The icing on the cake was she didn't even like Rayman and never played it again. 3) Recently I was playing Resident Evil 2 Dual Shock on Arrange mode (free rocket launcher!!!). I decided that since the rocket launcher could destroy just about everything before it gets near me, I can hold off on saving until I get close to the lab area. Well, I clear almost all of the precinct and what do I see? A group of hellhounds. I figure, "Eh, I got a rocket launcher, so what!" I shoot the rocket launcher, and the rocket flies OVER the dogs. I have NO other guns on me at the time and soon realize that as they rip me to shreds. 4) I was playing Duck Hunt with my mom, and she got all excited and pulled on the light gun, which pulled my Nintendo, ultimately pulling on the RF unit, destroying the RF input for my TV. 5) I was playing Summoner and rarely saved. I got down into the sewers and found that all the golems and monsters in there were pretty easy to beat, so why save? I turn one corner, ONE FREAKING WRONG TURN, and this group of thieves ambushes my party. I figure they'd be as easy as the rest of the enemies in the sewer, even easier since they're HUMAN, so I stay and fight. They're indestructible, and needless to say, they kill me with ease.