dover, ben

I don't know if any of you have ever played Golden Sun II on GBA, but there's this one temple where the boss is a giant snake that in order to beat you have to go do something above him in the temple ( don't remember exactly what ) but it weakens him according to the storyline. Basically if you don't do it then the boss has infinite health no matter how long you fight him. However, not knowing this I must have wasted around 3 hours repetively trying to beat him until I gave up. I came back a week later and just wandered around to find something else I could do and ended up finding out what you have to do to weaken him. Not a huge blunder like gamesaves or erasing anything, but still wasted time plus I felt pretty stupid.

rocinante2003

Me and a friend would play an old Amiga soccer game called kickoff. I dont have enough fingers to count how many times I would be sprinting down or up the field, to score an easy goal, just to realise I scored in my own goal...

Fremen

In Goldeneye, in the statue graveyard where you retrieve the flight recorder box, for two days I was trying to defeat the men at the gate to exit the 'yard, and whatever I tried, be it sneak up on them, rush them with guns-ablazing, or slowly walk up to them, they always ended up serving my ass on a platter for lunch.
Needless to say, I was near tears of frustration, and even resorted to banging my controller against the arm of the couch in a fit of pique, like a child in a temper tantrum.
I finally quit for about a week, 'til I calmed down.
Then, I called the Nintendo help-line and they told me I was supposed to surrender to the guards instead of attacking them.
I felt like the biggest idiot.

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Splinter Cell : Pandora Tomorrow

Quick save mistake

I was at sneaking about this guard. And what we did (me and my friend) was that we wanted to sneak about him and KNOCK him out coz we can't use lethal force. So we snuck there.. and right before he turned around the corner we QUICKSAVED!

haha, the problem is .. right after we quicksaved, he spots us, sounds the final alarm (already got 2 active.. 3 would mean disaster), and Fisher is called out of the mission..

Bummer.. Quickload!!! And the same thing, he spots us.

We play over from checkpoint

That really sucKeD!

heccubusiv

playing counter strike, minus all of the hostage kills, and using the boom stick on servers that drain your life while carrying one, forgot the name but i was the person the team was trying to protect and I did not know where i was going and fell down the ladder and killed myself when my team had a huge advantage and was going to win the map

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CityOfAngels

I'm surprised no one has said anything about the first level in Resident Evil: Outbreak when you have to jump rooftops. I've never fallen, myself, but it's always funny seeing other people fall. They try to jump it, then grab onto the ledge, and don't know what to do so they just fall, hehe.

Orchrist

Doom 2:

Connected over a modem with a buddy of mine we used to play through the game and every set of maps we could find co-op. So this one time, in one of the official co-op maps, we managed to lead a Cyberdemon back to our spawn point. Well yea, you guessed it, as soon as we'd spawn BAM, instantly blow up, because Mr. Cyberdemon was sending an endless barrage of rockets at the spawnpoint. About half the time we spawned, we managed to get off a single pistol shot, so all in all it only took a few hours to kill him.

Amano

I picked the red potion over the big heart in Legend of Zelda.

I was also 6 years old and didn't know better

Reese

Max Payne 2 pissed me off when I found out you restart from your last save point when you die instead of the beginning of the level. I went for 5 hours without saving until I died.

I was playing a 3 vs 3 game on warcraft 3. I was in the back and pretty sheltered from attacks so I had a badass army built up and two high level heros. I sent out every unit I had from the bottom left to the top right corner of the map, I watched as my heros pass the sleeping dragons in the center, I turned my head for a second, and when I looked back 90% of my army was gone and a dragon was flying out of my lighted area. I couldn't believe I was wiped out by the dragons so when I viewed the replay, not only was it the dragons, but two enemy groups which took advantage of my guys fighting, the enemy had teleported back to base where my heroes and what was left of my troops were attacking, I lost a hero before I fumbled around and teleported back to base. It was very embarrassing but my team mates still lead us to victory.

I'll think of more.

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thriolith

Yep, that's pretty much it, accidentally saving before I was about to die. Stupid poison, meh. Didn't realize I had been poisoned, couldn't use the antidote in time either.

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RedCometChar

In Resident Evil: Code Veronica, you play as Claire for the first part of the game, then switch over to Chris for the second. Right near the end, there's a part where you have to go back to Claire, so I unequipped all of Chris's guns and put them in the inventory box for Claire. Took them all out, did the short Claire bit (turns out you didn't even need any gun for it), went back to Chris and saved. All the good weapons were still in Claire's inventory though, so I didn't have anything to fight the end boss with but a pistol and a knife.

It sucked, but I happened to have a spare save that only required about a half-hour of retracing. I started saving on alternating files after a third-party memory card corrupted my FFV data. And I also ran right up to the Goldeneye guards guns blazing for about a week before I got the point.

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Ninjasideshow

On Earthbound I wondered around and missed picking up a submarine somehow.

By the time I needed the submarine I had gotten to a point in the game that there was no turning back from.

It was there that I learned the value of multiple saves.

I sold the game shortly thereafter, which is a shame because I was enjoying the story. Anyone remember how it ends?

Bim

I dont want to steal this topic or anything, so ill just link you here. -= Everything you ever wanted to know about Mother 2 and then some=-.

Best RPG Ever!

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filtherton

I made the mistake of using a third party memory card to store my ff7 saves. I was right at the end, most sidequests completed, wasting my real life trying to level up to 99. 82 hours, gone in one corrupted instant. I tried to make myself play through again using the gameshark to start out at a ridiculously high level, but i eventually just gave up. fuck.

Panopticon

The only blunders I can recall are the countless (and I mean COUNTLESS) times that I played all nighters on Phantasy Star Online (Dreamcast). I used to get to a point where I was so proud of what I had just done that I decided to end on a positive note. Most of the time, suffering from an apparent momentary lapse of reason, I would simply shut off my Dreamcast while I was still connected to the server. Any players of PSO know that, when you do this, your game does not save and you lose everything you worked so hard to attain. I used to lose a ton of kick ass weapons, not to mention an uncountable number of experience points.

Moral of the story: Keep your composure when playing and quitting Phantasy Star Online.

Another one that stands out is when I was playing Metal Gear Solid on PSX. I got to the part where you enter that one building, only to be caught Revolver Ocelot and his crew. Ignoring Mei Ling's constant pleads for a save, I entered the building and proceeded to face the big, bad electrocution device. Well, I'm mashing those buttons like crazy. I make it through the first round unscathed. On to the second. I try to get a better grip on the controller by holding it with my left hand right in the middle and mashing the button with my right. Well, as I'm frantically mashing away, I gripped the controller a wee bit too tight and hit the Selecet button, ultimately forfeitting to Revolver Ocelot. You are probably saying to yourself right now, "No big deal. You'll just get a different ending." You'd be right. However, in a moment of shear frustration over what I had just done, and figuring that my game was over right there, I marched over to my PSX and jammed down the on the power button. I had to start over basically from the beginning, as I had apparently not saved since I made it up past Vulcan Raven and his tank. I get back to that part and save right before I go in.

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bermuDa

used to play counter strike, and every so often would run into a server with friendly fire on. My mishaps would usually involve being a little to quick to shoot someone around the corner, only to find out that he was my cursing teammate.

8 times out of 10 an apology would suffice, but every so often the entire game would fall apart and everyone would just kill their teamates at the beggining of the round.

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orangeaidcow

PSO (phantasy star online)(xbox) level 99 force... a friends memory card

we don't have him anymore
we had at least 120 hours on him

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dancin_homer

On half life (right at the end I had one save and It was Eternal Death I also did one of these in Max Payne. Very Annoying

guy44

My biggest screw-up was saving-related. I had built up a pretty good Ranger in Neverwinter Nights, and obsessively done everything and explored everywhere and everything through about 3 and a half levels (i dunno, 30, 35 hours total?). I'd been quicksaving my games, rarely saving it under a named file.

My roommate asked me what I was playing, so I showed him. The next day, I came home to find that quickloading brought me a level 1 sorcerer. Hmmm.

Why yes, said my roomie, I did start up a game without asking you if I could use your computer.

I should have known - rule #1 - save fully, and save often. Sigh.

P.S. I just waited for him to get his sorcerer to where I had gotten, and created a seperate save for my version of his character. I still wonder what it would have been like to win with a ranger...

freddy b

not really an in-game mistake but way back i tried copying a saved game of wipeout 2097 from a friend a thought i was copying the thing well i erased the motherfucker
he was very happy with me back then

pottsynz

I got robbed while playing an arcade game, can't remember what it was...TMNT maybe...or SF2

pacaveli

in dioablo 2 i was gettin rushing to mephesto for item in nightmare, and the mother fucker I KID YOU NOT droped the grandfather, and i quit, i new it was the GF because of the way it looked, i was so pissed even though i was an amazon, think of the trade value!

mkultra

Not patching Fallout as soon as I installed it. I played for three weeks with damn near 15 minute loading times until I found out that there was a patch that cut the time down to less than a minute. And then when I did install it it invalidated all my saved games, ughhh. Luckily that game was so good that it was worth goin back and replaying again and again.

Probably the dumbest actual in-game thing I ever did was one time while playing Day of Defeat I jumped over a sandbag barrier and immediately hit the 'prone' key to go down flat on my stomach. About half way dropping to the ground I panned the screen around and saw 4 players from the opposite team crouching in the back of the mg nest. I proceeded to get beat to death by four shovels (the melee weapon for that team). When ever you see the little shovel or knife kill icon in the corner of the screen you know someone screwed up royally.

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Palamidian

One time i saved over my brother's game in DA2 accidentally. Let's just say he was pretty pissed...

portwineboy

I had one of the transport choppers in BF:V and I was running team mates out to enemy flags and then heading back to base for another load. I did it 3 or 4 times with no problem. The last trip I had about 7-8 guys in the chopper and I was trying to get off the pad fast because there were enemy jets all around. I saw that no one was taking off from the runway so I crossed it at about 50 feet in an attempt to get into the valley beyond fast. What I didn't see was the jet coming in from the opposite side very low above the runway for rearming. Wham! Final damage was 9-10 dead, 1 jet and 1 helo destroyed, all friendly. People were a bit peeved, to say the least.

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Max Payne 2.
Spent about an hour in the begining of the first level in the parking lot outside the warehouse. I couldn't find the gate in the fence on the right hand side.

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boom29

I was playing NCAA 2005 and had been down by 28 points in the second half. I manage to cut the lead to seven, and had the ball with a little over a minute left on the clock. Anyways, I drive down the field with the ball at the seven with about 20 seconds left, but instead of calling a timeout and setting up a play, I hurry up and run the same play. Needless to say, the pass is intercepted and returned for a touchdown. I had come back from so far only to fall inches short. This was the first game where I genuinely felt sick after losing. Not to mention it was the game that decided the conference. ARGGH!!