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Your most embarrassing moments in gaming

Started by Shoulders?-Stomach!, January 17, 2011, 12:49:57 PM

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Cerys

Glad I'm not alone in game embarrassment.

Ahem.

Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation.  Khufu's Queens Pyramids level.  Utterly stuck.  Think, 'I've tried everything.  Nothing works.  They must have gone back on how they used to do things and started putting in switches and triggers in levels earlier than the things they affect'.  Go back to start of game.  Play through all the way to problem level, finding nothing.  Arrive at problem area.  More or less instantly spot small chunk of moveable rock.  Bang head against wall.

Shoulders?-Stomach!

Oh, I just remembered. Spending about 2 hours trying to complete the second level of Doom II because I didn't know about holding the shift button to Run.

Shoulders?-Stomach!

As for Morrowind, spare a thought.

It's retarded in a different way to that though, because Balmora is still a piece of piss to get to on foot.

What you have to remember is that early on nearly everything will kill you. If you go for a walk you get tired out and you will die. If you use a weapon you have no skill in you will land no hits and you will die. If anything, nearly anything at all fights you, you will die.

Fun game though.

Custard

The most pissed off I've ever been during a game, was waaaay back on GTA: Vice City. It was that early mission where you had to chase and kill the cunty pizza delivery driver on his moped.

I swear it took me over 30 goes, and i nearly cried. AND IT WASNT EVEN ONE OF THE HARD BITS. Apparently.

I remember throwing the controller twice and doing a banshee style scream around the 20th attempt. Did a lap of the room when I eventually done him in. The pizza prick.

Famous Mortimer

Quote from: Shameless on January 19, 2011, 12:10:27 AM
The most pissed off I've ever been during a game, was waaaay back on GTA: Vice City. It was that early mission where you had to chase and kill the cunty pizza delivery driver on his moped.

I swear it took me over 30 goes, and i nearly cried. AND IT WASNT EVEN ONE OF THE HARD BITS. Apparently.

I remember throwing the controller twice and doing a banshee style scream around the 20th attempt. Did a lap of the room when I eventually done him in. The pizza prick.
Me and you both, Shameless. Fuck that motherfucker. There were some missions that, when I caved and read walkthroughs, just had the walkthrough guy going "this is really simple". I felt like emailing them and going "no it fucking isn't!"

mjki5gs2

Quote from: madhair60 on January 17, 2011, 09:20:27 PM
In an attempt to record a "Let's Play" of the original Super Mario Bros, I ran into the first Goomba on the first level.
This is what I was going to post. The other year my friend and I wanted to do levels and lives to see if we could still complete it on the NES (no warping), and I ambled into the first Goomba like a twat.

bennett

Quote from: Famous Mortimer on January 19, 2011, 01:19:08 PM
Me and you both, Shameless. Fuck that motherfucker. There were some missions that, when I caved and read walkthroughs, just had the walkthrough guy going "this is really simple". I felt like emailing them and going "no it fucking isn't!"

I came to the GTAs late on the xbox and got 3 and Vice City in a double pack. I gave up 3 at exactly this point and moved on to the next one and haven't played it since.

Also - have a propensity for accidently shooting the person I'm supposed to be looking after on GTA missions.  I'm also remarkably adept at accidently driving off cliffs in Halo while playing team battles with a warthog or tank full of allies - apologies If i've done that to any of you..

But for sheer embarrassment - nothing beats pleading with your wife to let you play just another ten minutes while forgetting you've got your headset turned on. 

VegaLA

Quote from: bennett on February 10, 2011, 01:35:34 PM

But for sheer embarrassment - nothing beats pleading with your wife to let you play just another ten minutes while forgetting you've got your headset turned on.

Classic. "Do you want this steak or shall I feed it to the dog?"

gmoney

Quote from: bennett on February 10, 2011, 01:35:34 PM

Also - have a propensity for accidently shooting the person I'm supposed to be looking after on GTA missions.  I'm also remarkably adept at accidently driving off cliffs in Halo while playing team battles with a warthog or tank full of allies - apologies If i've done that to any of you..

When I first had a go on Red Dead Redemption I managed to shoot my horse in the head while I was riding and then skin it because of a series of confused button mashing. At that point I didn't know you could skin things in the game.

rudi

Quote from: gmoney on February 10, 2011, 05:19:42 PMWhen I first had a go on Red Dead Redemption I managed to shoot my horse in the head while I was riding and then skin it because of a series of confused button mashing. At that point I didn't know you could skin things in the game.

Why does this sound like a great David Cross sketch?

Good work, anyway fella.

Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth

There was a bit in Ico with a window ledge situated high above some sort of piston. It seemed obvious that you had to jump from the piston in order to reach the window but, after failing to do so for the fiftieth bloody time, I started to think that there must be more to it and started backtracking though the castle as far as I could go to see if I'd missed something. Finally, on the verge of giving up, I had one last go at making the jump and nailed it on the first try.

Quote from: gmoney on February 10, 2011, 05:19:42 PM
When I first had a go on Red Dead Redemption I managed to shoot my horse in the head while I was riding and then skin it because of a series of confused button mashing. At that point I didn't know you could skin things in the game.

Pissed myself.

Phil_A

Quote from: Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth on February 10, 2011, 08:33:31 PM
There was a bit in Ico with a window ledge situated high above some sort of piston. It seemed obvious that you had to jump from the piston in order to reach the window but, after failing to do so for the fiftieth bloody time, I started to think that there must be more to it and started backtracking though the castle as far as I could go to see if I'd missed something. Finally, on the verge of giving up, I had one last go at making the jump and nailed it on the first try.

I can do worse than that. I once got stuck for several hours on the first room of Ico, cos I couldn't work out how to make Yorba open the door. Lost track of the number of times I must've run up and down that spiral staircase looking for a hidden ledge or switch. Boy, was my face red when I found out how ridiculously obvious it was.

ozziechef

In Starfox Adventures on the gamecube, in the intro section they talk in dinosaur language.

I thought id picked up a Japanese version of the game and took it back. If I'd waited 2 minutes I would have picked u the translator device and all would have been fine.

Big Jack McBastard

^ Love it.

Oh just thought of one, much like Cerys and t'Tomb Raider.

I was scorewhoring my way through the Fallout 3: The Pitt addon on the Xbox and I was convinced I'd scoured every inch of the place looking for the 100 steel ingots, I'd gotten to 97 and got quite fucked off thinking it was a glitch that had gypped me and so in a huff binned my purple haired fella (like an idiot I only kept two saves both in this glitchy fecking add-on so there was no way to reset it, *fume*), started a fresh character in the original game to try it out (this translated to a hefty sentence as I needed about 18 levels and a shit load of good loot in the main game before I could even touch it).

So I grind my way up over a couple of weeks and finally get going on it, it was a tough slog to get where I needed/wanted to be and I managed to clear the place of enemies by the skin of my teeth, totally shafting my stash of aid in the process.

'Right start at the opening, pen and paper, go through these buggers methodically.' I thinks.

5 seconds later...

"Hang on, what's that door there on the ground floor? I've never been in there!...."

I spent the remainder of the day facepalmed.

Custard

I love this thread, and everything within.

More please!

leelo

Quote from: bennett on February 10, 2011, 01:35:34 PMBut for sheer embarrassment - nothing beats pleading with your wife to let you play just another ten minutes while forgetting you've got your headset turned on.

Back when it first came out, a couple of friends and I used to play WoW on one of the PVP servers and like a lot of people, we used Teamspeak for communication etc.

One Saturday afternoon, after a couple of hours of cowardly ganking, one of my friends tells me that he'd better go because he had some tidying up to do before his wife got home from work.  He leaves the game and I hear the rustle and clunk of him removing his headset and plonking it down on his desk.  Thirty seconds later the sounds of porn come wafting in over the airwaves.

You know when you're at school, and the harder you try not to laugh at something, the funnier it becomes?  I tried my best, but one little 'snort' escaped my nose. Cue clattering noise and the Teamspeak "Player has left" audio alert.

I've never mentioned it, and neither has he....

Neil

I was doing a lot of jumping around last night, while playing Kinect online.  I then forgot that remedying my hungry arse would be reflected by my onscreen avatar. 

Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth



weekender

In Doctor Who: The Adventure Games: Blood Of The Cybermen there's a bit at the end where you have to escape the underground base before some sort of radiation bomb goes off.

I tried everything, I ran to nearly every area of the building trying to find a way out or a place to hide, before getting killed horribly.  I explored that bloody level, studied all the clues, and no matter what I did, I died.

It turns out that the solution was to get in a lift.

In my defence, I didn't - and still don't - think that a lift would be good protection from a radiation bomb.  Considering I died from the bomb 10 seconds after running past the lift, it didn't seem like an option - no lift would surely escalate quickly enough to escape the radiation bomb?  But no, there it was.

bennett

Quote from: gmoney on February 10, 2011, 05:19:42 PM
When I first had a go on Red Dead Redemption I managed to shoot my horse in the head while I was riding and then skin it because of a series of confused button mashing. At that point I didn't know you could skin things in the game.

Awesome.

While playing Gears of War 2 with my wife over the weekend we were struggling on the hardest setting at one of the bits where you have to split up.  I was upstairs fighting wretches for the umpteenth time - where previously I'd died repeatedly -  as they overrun the room and had reduced my foes down to a single wretch, though I was very low on health.  Happy that I was about to finally get through the section I was less than gratified to have my wife say 'Got it' and realise that she'd thrown a grenade from below straight in front of me.  We stopped playing after that.

rudi

Ha ha! That's a heart-warming Valentine's tale I may have to steal and pass off as my own.

Utter Shit

Oh God I have loads of these.

On Modern Warfare 2, I was playing one of the very first scenarios (might even have been the first one, it was shortly before you get flash bombed and ambushed) and when I heard gunfire I quickly ran into the bushes. And couldn't find my way out. I could hear the gunfight, I could hear the shouts of both the enemy and my colleagues...but I couldn't find my way out of the undergrowth, and ended up having to deliberately blow myself up with a grenade just so I could get back to my last save point. At moments like that you can only reflect on how this would pan out in reality. I can just imagine my man being the younger brother of one of the team, and him getting abuse off the rest of the team, "We TOLD you not to bring him along", as they fail to locate me and then hear an explosion from the undergrowth.

I woke up one morning in a hungover state and loaded up Championship Manager 01-02 to find that my so-far successful plans to dominate the league using a counter-attacking 4-5-1 formation that prioritised defensive security over attacking ambition had been blown apart by an inadvisable drunken abandoning of those tactics in favour of a 2-3-5 formation the night before. I'd also signed two or three strikers at great expense to fill the new attacking spots, and so now didn't even have any money to rectify my plummeting league form with some quality additions. I can't remember the exact results but I went from top by a few points to sixth or seventh after a run of six defeats, conceding something like 25 goals along the way.

My favourite embarrassing moment (because let's be honest, we do all enjoy being able to tell people about them) was on GTA4. For once I was actually trying to play the game properly rather than going on a pointless and vindictive crime spree, and was moving from one location to the next. GTA's driving system being how it is, I accidentally clipped a police car and had to make a quick getaway. Sped off, got to a dead end and jumped out of the car, and decided to run the rest of the distance to the escape zone. On route, I bumped into an old man, and GTA being how it is, he mouthed off at me, so I punched him a stiff one before continuing my getaway. Sprinted the rest of the way out of the police awareness zone, and turned to find that the old man had chased me. I had very little health so decided rather than risk a beating I'd simply leg it. Sprinted around a corner into an alleyway, turned round and the cunt was on me again. Pulled out a knife and stabbed me to death.

It's what makes me love GTA so much. You can complain about the repetitive missions etc but there is no other game capable of blowing up such ridiculous situations from nothing while still feeling organic.

Jack Shaftoe

Took me ten goes, over three months, to get up the wall and out of the first room in Assassin's Creed.

bennett

Quote from: Utter Shit on February 15, 2011, 12:13:20 PM
It's what makes me love GTA so much. You can complain about the repetitive missions etc but there is no other game capable of blowing up such ridiculous situations from nothing while still feeling organic.

Indeed.  Forgetting to save after a very long involved mission and then going on a celebratory crime spree ending in my own incarceration so that when I re-load to get my weapons back I realise that it's just cost me the last mission as well.  Priceless.

Huzzie

I gave in on Splinter Cell because I couldn't figure out how to get past the training room.

Mister Six

Quote from: Huzzie on March 17, 2011, 08:05:50 PM
I gave in on Splinter Cell because I couldn't figure out how to get past the training room.

This, but with the original Driver.

gmoney

Took me about 3 days to get passed the fucking driving test bit on Driver. I hate that game.

mcbpete

Noone could do the driving test bit in driver, not quite sure what they were thinking when they set the difficulty curve in that game...