Worst videogame moment

[quote name='SDC']I suppose this isn't my WORST videogame moment, but it is certainly the most aggrivating thing in recent memory. After finishing Chapter 4 in FFX-2 (Those godawful comsphere segments, oh my Jesus), I'm on my way to getting Episode Completes and the Mascot dressphere. And I go to the Mihen Highroad to complete it, and apparently I didn't watch enough stupid crap to finish the sidequest.
I can't even finish the game now. I'm debating wether to beat it and playthrough again, restart (even though, I know, this game was made for newgame+), or let it sit even longer.[/QUOTE]

HAHAHA, similar thing happened to me, but I couldn't get episode complete in the calm lands. It wasn't that great of a game, so I just said screw it and put it on the shelf, probably never to be played again.

Probably one of the worst things to happen to me was in Chronicles of Riddick on Xbox, I was aaallmost done with it, and was just passing through an auto-save part when my power went out. Because it was saving when the power went out, my save got corrupted. Still haven't replayed it to beat it.
 
[quote name='sabin23']which NES game are you talking about?[/QUOTE]

[quote name='evo t rex']It sounds like The Guardian Legend.[/QUOTE]

That's the one. I can't believe I forgot to say that...
 
[quote name='Ledhed'][In all seriousness, this happened to me. I was probably 13, and had gotten a good 32 hours into the game. My sister was playing with her friend (they were both around 9), and I got up to go to the bathroom. They're wrestling on the floor, and the game is set to the profile selection screen. Somehow, whilst rolling around on the floor, my sister's friend deleted my gamesave. Sonofabitch.

Only took me about 16 hours to get back to where I had been, but damn was I mad.[/QUOTE]

I had that happen when I was first playing Shinobi for PS2. Took me forever to get to the last boss, then a friend wanted to see it so he started a game on the first level. I didn't remember, though, that the game autosaved and only allowed for one save game. So, I got fucked.
 
Somebody just had their worst gaming moment a day or two ago and doesn't know it yet. I went to Gamecrazy today and found a minty fresh, perfect SNES for $25. Decent price and I needed a backup (my other one is okay, but a bit flaky sometimes). The guy told me that a lady had come in and traded in the SNES, a lime green N64, some Game Boys, etc. and some games. Apparently her son had gone off to college and it was in his room. He's going to have one hell of an "OH SHIT" moment when he comes back home, I hope he's not a CAG!!!
 
[quote name='secretvampire']Somebody just had their worst gaming moment a day or two ago and doesn't know it yet. I went to Gamecrazy today and found a minty fresh, perfect SNES for $25. Decent price and I needed a backup (my other one is okay, but a bit flaky sometimes). The guy told me that a lady had come in and traded in the SNES, a lime green N64, some Game Boys, etc. and some games. Apparently her son had gone off to college and it was in his room. He's going to have one hell of an "OH SHIT" moment when he comes back home, I hope he's not a CAG!!![/QUOTE]

Why?

Why don't parents ever respect their kid's belongings... this type of situation seems to happen all too often.
 
This was in 2002. My PS2 memory card just stopped being read in my PS2 after transferring files over and filling it up with many saves (rentals of games I now own). I lost many save files, had to have been 20-30+ files in various stages of completion. Ratchet and Clank was on the very last level just before the final boss. I quickly set it in my car, for some future trip to EB/GS to trade it in, and it's been there ever since.
 
1. When I moved back to my hometown when I was 21 I asked my parents if they still had my old NES. They had sold it at a yard sale a while back along with Mario 1,2 and 3 (god i loved mario 3), TMNT 1, Legendary Wings and a bunch of other stuff.

2. I loved the X-men 4 player arcade game and had heard there was an X-men game for NES. Back in the day pretty much all you had to go on was the back of the box, no internet, no good gaming magazines. I got suckered into that dungeon crawler piece of crap they cranked out.

3. About 5 minutes after setting up my new Playstation, my fiancee's daughter asks if she can play it. I hadn't really gotten furniture set up yet to where the cord didn't have to run all the way across the room and to get more comfortable she yanks the cord and the Playstation takes about a 4 foot drop while it's loading up Twisted Metal. It survived but I nearly had a heart attack.

4. Calling Playstation and explaining that my system was overheating and acting up. They asked me if I was using all Sony products and without thinking I said I was using ("insert random 3rd party here") controller. They basically explained that I was screwed and hung up.
 
[quote name='SDC']I suppose this isn't my WORST videogame moment, but it is certainly the most aggrivating thing in recent memory. After finishing Chapter 4 in FFX-2 (Those godawful comsphere segments, oh my Jesus), I'm on my way to getting Episode Completes and the Mascot dressphere. And I go to the Mihen Highroad to complete it, and apparently I didn't watch enough stupid crap to finish the sidequest.
I can't even finish the game now. I'm debating wether to beat it and playthrough again, restart (even though, I know, this game was made for newgame+), or let it sit even longer.[/QUOTE]

You do know you can press L1, L2, R1, R2, Select, and Start all at once to go back to the title screen and it will have newgame plus all over again, no matter where in the game you saved it last?

My worst gaming moment - I was playing the final boss of Legend of Legaia (Cort), and I had been fighting him for nearly 10 minutes, and I was pretty sure he was just about finished off. I leave it on my turn to select combos and such and go get a drink. After I get my drink and I come back, I find my little brother sitting there and using "Spirit" for all my characters (which is basically guard, it allows for longer combos). I got to sit and watch the final boss literally destroy my characters with one of his better attacks. I was sure I could have finished him off that turn, I wanted a drink to be able to enjoy his defeat better and what do I get? Game over.

I still beat the game later on though.
 
i got this weird game where you fight 2 player or vs comp but the characters were bubble figures and all had the same moves and looked very much alike aside from their color, forgot what system or title it is but man it sucked ass
 
Me and my cousin had been playing Seperation Anexity and we could never beat it. One day we somehow glitched the game on accident and we had infinte lives. We were finally about to beat it (we were on the last level) and my cousin's brother walks in and pulls the power cord from the Genesis and says" Thats enough videogames. Go play outside." What a douche. Needless to say I never played SA again after being so heart broken.
 
2 of them:

The first time I watch the ending to Super Mario Brothers 2

when my mega memory card died and I lost 30+ hours of progress in The Legend of Legaia, to this day I still have not caught back up to that point.
 
When my Action Replay 4 in 1 on Saturn decided to erase all my files. I don't know if it's because I hadn't used it in a couple years or what. It works fine now.
 
When I was younger I played games in my room with my feet recliend, pressing on my TV. I hate spiders so when I played Resident Evil the first time it came out for the PS1 I enter the DORM section of the game with the large spiders. One of the spider drpped on the character's head and I pushed my feet on the TV and the TV went into the wall. Thanks alot Capcom, that came out of my allowance.
 
[quote name='Rodimus Donut']When I was younger I played games in my room with my feet recliend, pressing on my TV. I hate spiders so when I played Resident Evil the first time it came out for the PS1 I enter the DORM section of the game with the large spiders. One of the spider drpped on the character's head and I pushed my feet on the TV and the TV went into the wall. Thanks alot Capcom, that came out of my allowance.[/QUOTE]

:rofl:

But that sucks, man.
 
my worst gaming momment has to be when my sister came to visit my family. she lives in san diego and i live far up north in cali. it was her last day and they were about to leave. her kids and herself. i had to leave early for work and when i came back from work my slim ps2 that i recently bought was gone and so was my controllers and 2 games. called up my sister and found out that she took em.
 
When I first tried playing 'A Boy and his Blob' for the Game Boy.

That was the day I learned not all video games were worth the value of the cardboard carton they came in.
 
I was about 10 at the time.

All I can remember is hearing

"this game sucks"

then I watched as the ps1's lid was opened by my friend.

Just before I passed out I remember seeing the light reflect off of my freshly rented copy of Rayman as it flew through the air like a glorious frisbee...and then shattered into about 12 pieces when it hit the concrete basment wall.

The video rental store charged us for the game, I went two months with no allowance.
 
i think i've got one to make just about any of you caggers cringe


my brother and I had been serious gamers ever since we played an NES console, basically we came from an upper middle class family who really provided us with just about any video game system we could ever desire, we had a 3do, virtual boy, sega genesis (with a 32x, segacd and a few strange european addons), sega nomad, SNES, NES console, turbografx 16, several game boys, not to mention the TONS and TONS and TOOOONS of games, all put in storage after our family had a falling out and I moved with my mother away from my dad, it stayed in storage for a good 7 or 8 years before my mom finally decides, LETS TAKE A ROAD TRIP to go pick up some of the stuff, she comes back with a whole truckload of old forgotten clothes and junk, where are my video games?


... :cry: I'll never know, she hasn't given me an answer...
 
I had put about 10 hours into Beyond Good & Evil w/o saving and of course the game froze. I haven't played it since. I might throw it back in the ole PS2 during fall break. Great game just remember to always save.
 
My story is a running theme in this forum. I was playing (insert game here) forgot to save losing everything and never played again. I think everyone one of us has a few of those stories.

Now if we were going for stupidest moment I would say selling my sega genesis, cd, 32x, and 40 games back in 2000. Don't get me wrong I made some good money off them, but some the games I had for the core system I will never be able to replace...
 
gather round my friends, for i have a tale of a bad video game moment...

its was the fall of 1997; bill clintion was settling in to his lame duck period, the simpsons was starting their (i believe) 7th season, and a little squaresoft rpg called final fantasy vii was released.

now, this was exciting for me, having only recently gotten into role playing games (i think prior to this the only ones ive played were final fantasy 3, chrono trigger, suikoden, and wild arms) thrilled as a fourteen year old boy can be, i was looking forward to this game all summer, per-ordered it the first day you could (got a shirt and a demo) and even bought the guide for $15, i mean, the whole nine yards, you know?

so sept rolls around, and i pick up the game (first day, obviously) i actully had to pre-order it at a store pretty far from my house to get the pre-order bonuses (the ones close to me hadnt received the bonuses yet) which my mom was thrilled about im sure...

soo i begin the epic adventure...

im progressing nicely and at some point (either late sept, or early oct) i go to a friends house for the weekend, this particular friend was also a gamer, so i get to his house, and we prolly just talked about ffvii and played the parappa demo all weekend.

once home i realize something. something is missing. a memory card is gone, a memory card with..
MY TWENTY-FIVE HOUR FINALLY OFF THE FIRST DISC OF THE LONGEST GAME IVE EVER PLAYED IN MY LIFE UP TO THIS POINT ARIES IS DEAD AND IM ABOUT TO UNLEASH SOME FOURTEEN YEAR OLD VENGENCE SAVE FILE!!

i called him, and he looked all over for it, but it was no where to be found =o(

i started over though, you guys are a bunch of quitters ^^
 
[quote name='Rei no Otaku']In Lunar 1 you can't trade Alex's flute to another character. Now before the game came out, WD released a demo. I got the demo, and found out that you could save your progress so you could pick right up when the game came out. In the demo though you could trade the flute. So I gave it to Nall to have room. When I got to the very end of the game after beating the last boss, you need the flute. Game wouldn't let me trade it back. I was quite furious. Had to start the whole game over.[/QUOTE]

Ocarina.

Relating to Lunar, the first time I played through it, I had given the bromides to different characters, to make space for other things. Well, I didn't know Jess, Kyle, Nash, and Mia would leave the party right at the end of the game...I was unable to get the bromides back from them! :(

I rented SMRPG from the local videogame store. Our town had a population of 550, so the games were pretty much all for me! My parents would let me get it on the weekends, and I had nearly finished the game when it was time to take it back. They closed down the next day, without warning.... :bomb: (I later found a copy of the game and was able to play through it!)

I'm sure I have a lot more...but nothing too frustrating comes to mind...
 
[quote name='kjauburn']My story is a running theme in this forum. I was playing (insert game here) forgot to save losing everything and never played again. I think everyone one of us has a few of those stories.
[/QUOTE]

It's even worse when it's work related. Slightly off topic, one morning last week I was working on this project in AutoCad for about 4 hours, not saving once. A friend of mine sent me a video, which I of course opened and crashed my computer. I had to spend the afternoon working on the same crap to recover what I had lost.
 
what???? Are you drunk or something? The ending was beautiful ;_ )

better than that ff crap people play to death because Square shoves it in our face.

[quote name='Genocidal']The ending in Grandia II. I loved everything about the game up until that point, and when I watched the ending it was a huge disappointment.[/QUOTE]
 
When my brother broke a neighbors light bulb (gardening light or something) with our neighbor, I was watching. So then the neighbor kid goes and TELLS on us and then we are like "WTF HE DID IT TOO!!! (In a more 8/10 year old way)" but our parents didn't believe us. So they sold our NES and we had to pay for the bulbs AND apologize. I later *accidently* pulled up my genesis controller and it knocked the whole system of and the tv's outlet was broken. God was my neighbor a bitch. The worst part about the NES thing was we had like 100 games and they gave it away to one of my cousins who lost it all, how do you lose 100 cartidges and a nes TOASTER!!!?!

Being banned from Steam because I used a program that disabled a setting in Counter-Strike Source, and apparently to do it it had to hack into the server (the setting was r_3dsky, which I didnt want cuz it slowed my fps).

My ps2 cards getting erased because of my brother (Had GTA3, Vice City, at %100, San Andreas at %93 and the DBZ: Budokai games with everything unlocked, which is painfully hard). I punched him in the face...





...with verbal abuse!
 
my worst gaming moment would be buying syphon filter omega strain thinking it could live up to the PS1 syphon filters. Boy was I wrong
 
My brother was dating this girl about 7 years ago, she lived kind of far away so he took our snes over there to have something to do all of the time. I didn't care at the time because I was playing playstation. He took all of our games, Chrono Trigger being one of them. Needless to say they ended up breaking up and that bitch pawned off the system and the games for some crack money. That still pisses me off today.

The same thing happened with my sister, but it was my NES and my ex brother in law. I still haven't been able to replace either of those collections.
 
[quote name='Stick821']He took all of our games, Chrono Trigger being one of them. I still haven't been able to replace either of those collections.[/QUOTE]

[quote name='Stick821']Currently Playing: Chrono Trigger[/QUOTE]

It appears you have to some degree. ;)
 
[quote name='2fast_2fuhrer']Not being able to save or use level passwords in Maximum Carnage. That has to be the hardest game...[/QUOTE]

Tell me about it, I sometimes think I'm the only one who beat that game without cheating (at least in my city).
 
[quote name='2fast_2fuhrer']Not being able to save or use level passwords in Maximum Carnage. That has to be the hardest game...[/QUOTE]

Tell me about it, I sometimes think I'm the only one who beat that game without cheating (at least in my city). Carange was so cheap! :bomb:
 
This is about as bad as it gets:

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[quote name='Ledhed']It appears you have to some degree. ;)[/QUOTE]

Actually I'm playing it on PS. I still haven't found it for SNES again.
 
I was around 5 or 6 years old and was on the final boss in Mega Man 3, after playing for hours with friends watching, and my mother pulled the NES power cable out of the wall without knowing it connected to the Nintendo - to do what? To vacuum!

Argh!
 
Final Fantasy 8
I'm rushing through the game to beat it before my friend does.
I get to the Lunatic Pandora, fight my way through, and get to the boss, Adel. He keeps kicking my ass with Meteor. So, I thought I would try to level up a bit. For those who don't know, the random battles in the Lunatic Pandora are level 1, so you get next to nothing for experience. Here's the kicker, there is no way to get out of that damn place!!! So, either fight battles for days, or start over. I chose the latter, 40 hours, down the drain.

I started over, maxed out my characters, completed all side quests, went to the Lunatic Pandora, and dropped the bomb on Adel. Bastard.
 
having to buy a ps2 three diffirent times, first one got stolen, second one just stop working, third I had to get a slim one :) . I also had a friend who gets really excited when he beats me in any videogame, So he decided to spike my ps2 controller into the floor after winning a match of tekken tag v.s me (56-1 was the count at the time)
 
I have quite a few.
i had about 40 hours of baten kaitos, got corrupted.
Lufia for the snes, lost saved after lil bro tripped over the cords.
My mother gave away my original nes collection.
Sold chrono trigger for 14 bucks.
Got ripped off by Darksaiyan here on CAG.
oh and had a tons of games saved over by friends just wanting to play. RDR save all gone.

um, but i think all the awesome deals and trades here on cag has made up for it.
 
[quote name='jshendel']Final Fantasy 8
I'm rushing through the game to beat it before my friend does.
I get to the Lunatic Pandora, fight my way through, and get to the boss, Adel. He keeps kicking my ass with Meteor. So, I thought I would try to level up a bit. For those who don't know, the random battles in the Lunatic Pandora are level 1, so you get next to nothing for experience. Here's the kicker, there is no way to get out of that damn place!!! So, either fight battles for days, or start over. I chose the latter, 40 hours, down the drain.

I started over, maxed out my characters, completed all side quests, went to the Lunatic Pandora, and dropped the bomb on Adel. Bastard.[/QUOTE]

Man - I remember how hard that fight was.
 
when my pso save with my lvl 115 character got corrupted. i tried to get back into it, but i just quit when i level a couple times.
 
the 70 fiend challenge with the cat bitches in Ninja Gaiden Black is really pissing me off. I'm trying to beat it without using a talisman or great spirit elixir.
 
I've been pretty lucky.

I was playing Star Tropics on NES. I lamost beat it, and when the dude showed up and started saving my game, my firend decided to romp in, accidentally kick my NES, it turns off, data is corrupted. AAAAGH!

Oh, and whenever I do some serious pokemon leveling up and forget to save. -_-
 
I have a couple.

1. When I fell asleep on an airplane after changing a CD on my walkman, put my CD case in the chair bag thingy. My sister also fell asleep and some jackhole steals it, with my entire PSX game collection in it. FF7, FFT, RE 1:DC, RE2, Parappa1, Castlevania, all non GH. Gone.

2. Using a gameshark to compress saves on my PSX. Corrupts my entire memory card, including my save on my rebought FFT.

3. Having that FFT stolen out of my locker at school.

4. Rebuying FFT, only to have it stolen yet a fucking gain from the local game store I hung out at. Also had my Time Crisis stolen. But they LEFT THE BLOODY GUN.

5. Playing Kartia, spill milk in my PSX. PSX somehow does not catch fire, but completely locks up and is destroyed.


God damn, that playstation was the worst console I ever had.
 
I would have to say the worst moment for me would have to be:

When my cousin got so mad that I kept beating him in different fighting games he broke my PS2 controller in frustration. (Tekken Tag Team, DOA 2: Hardcore, Tekken 3)
 
It's only after joining these forums and seeing how valuble a game is that I realize just how stupid I was.

It was a couple years ago, I was a stupid idiot and had just gotten a game for christmas. Had the guide and everything, right off the store shelves. I plugged it into my playstation and played it, didn't really like it, so I put it back on the shelf and forgot about it. Anyway, skip ahead a week or two when I was moving stuff about and I dropped that certain game, and a rather heavy textbook which dropped directly on the game; cracking the front and the first disc. Thinking it was a waste, I trashed the rest of the game, eventually trading off the guide at GS a while back. The game? Valkyrie Profile.
 
a few:

- having my 72 hr chrono trigger file saved over (the longest i had ever spent on an rpg at the time)
- letting a friend borrow said chrono trigger game, only to hear that he moved during the summer and didn't give my game back

one i witnessed:

- final round of an sf3: third strike tourney, my friend is playing ken, other guy is playing chun... my friend seemingly hits a shippu jinrai kyaku for the win, and turns away from the cabinet all celebrating, only to find out chun had a pixel of life left... and here comes houyokou sen up the ass
 
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