Your most embarrassing moments in gaming

[Big Jack McBastard]

Not to worry you's lot weren't missing much, my brother got going on the proper game and it was one of the most spanner-handed, unfair, wonky camera having piles I'd the misfortune to attempt to play.

Recent outings of NHL <insert year here> from about '02 onwards have increased the level of complexity required to do the simplest of things, I think the last one I attempted was '09 and I gave up on the demo.

[hoverdonkey]

NHL has been ace since '10, because they made the right stick responsible for your hockey stick, so instead of pressing buttons to shoot, you can move the stick left/right to deke and flick it forward to shoot. Pull back then forward for a slap shot. It's very intuitive

[Little Hoover]

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.

Eh? This can only happen if you haven't finished the mission.

[momatt]

Eh? This can only happen if you haven't finished the mission.

Or if you've turned off the autosave.

[unky herb]

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...

I have to admit it is a bit trickier than most other training rooms, but it did have the advantage of teaching you how to do everything and preparing you for the main game. If you can't get out of the car park then you really can't expect to be able to out run a cop car.

Incidentally, if you watch the movie 'The Driver' from 1978 you can see how much of the look, feel and dialogue style was incorporated into the game. It oozes cool.

[VegaLA]

Here we go again....

decided to run around on GTA4 this past weekend, only to discover that I can enter a Hospital, despite it not showing on the map. I mention that because I thought buildings you can enter would be displayed on the in-game map but no. Wondering if the Wiki article will map and mention all the buildings you can enter? Will certainly be playing this up until the release of GTA5 as I still have some assasinations to take care of as well as some delivery jobs.

Despite the flak this game gets on this board, it's now four years on and it still entertains me.

[Hangthebuggers]

Most of mine involve alchohol and MMORPG's.

Lost count of the amount of times i've logged in to Eve online to find a torrent of hate mail from something I did when drunk, such as stirring up shit between player run corporations, accusing team members of being spies and losing very expensive ships in idiotic ways much to the dismay of my own corporation.

Minecraft: Managed to get myself stuck in the nether dimension after losing my flint and tinder and being unable to re-light the potal back home. So I had to miather another player to come and rescue me 'as I didn't want to lose my equipment' - so the other player abandons his current tasks, treks halfway across the map, jumps through the active side of the portal to come and activate it on my side. I immediately jump through. Sadly, he was not so lucky and got caught in the cross fire of a ghast, sending him plummeting off a cliff and losing all of his hard earned diamonds and equipment in the all consuming lava below. But I was fine.

Also accidently saved over my mates 70-hour long Final fantasy VII session with my new saved game. Not cool.

[Jack Burton]

Physically jumping in scaredness in front of my flat mate whilst facing Death Knights suddenly popping up for the first time on the later levels of Diablo, he still mentions it to this day.

Also in Skyrim it took me a while to work out that holding E rather than pressing Z actually picked up objects.  So during that interim period of realisation I (unwittingly) had Whirlwind Sprint equipped and after having picked off a Drauger on a bridge I thought it would be fun to drop its body in to the ravine below, but of course instead I pressed Z and rushed off the bridge to my inevitable death.  I hadn't saved since entering the cavern of course.

[lazarou]

I'm sure I've done much more embarrassing stuff, but the first thing that comes to mind is getting stuck on adventure game puzzles when I've got the walkthrough right in front of me. I've played through Full Throttle a good five times at least, but on every single pass I get stuck for a shamefully long time on the 'kick the wall' puzzle.

In fairness though, it's a fucking terrible puzzle.

[Sexton Brackets Drugbust]

In fairness though, it's a fucking terrible puzzle.

Oh aye, the kick the wall puzzle is astonishingly bad. I struggle with it every time myself - it's so specific and the instructions are too vague.

[Utter Shit]

I don't have anything new to add but can I just say this is one of the funniest topics the forums have had in ages.

[madhair60]

Bought a massive jet in Just Cause 2 for $FuckLoads of my hard-earned.  It spawned on a hotel balcony, utterly unusable.

[alan nagsworth]

Just remembered when I got Final Fantasy VIII for Xmas '99, aged 12, with no prior knowledge of the game series whatsoever. Became completely dumbfounded by this totally new gaming format that wasn't a shooter/platformer. Spent about three weeks just roaming the halls of Balamb Garden and thinking the whole game would just be four discs of pratting around in a school. Eventually I realised you could go outside and got into a fight with a T-rex all like WHAT THE FUCK.

[DJ Solid Snail]

Played 30+ hours of Fallout 3 before realising what the fuck "VATS" was. The "Press LB" prompt always flew up too quickly, especially as I'd be busy capping folks at the time, so I'd try the button after they were dead, it wouldn't do anything, so I decided to ignore it after that. I guess it was more of a challenge that way, anyway.

First time I played Metal Gear Solid, not used to such a diplomatic gun-toting hero sadistically bent on ammo conservation, I was so trigger-happy by the time the first boss rolled around I sprinted into the room and unloaded my entire SOCOM clip into the poor beat-up hostage tied to the chair. I was somewhat perplexed when a Game Over flashed up accompanied by husky-voiced chuckling. With the cut-to-black and my noticing that somebody's life-bar had shot right down, I'd figured it an extremely brief and simple boss battle. Ocelot may or may not have labelled me an idiot. I may have skipped the cutscene, which I duly watched the next time around, trying to make some sense of the situation.

And I've jumped wrong onto plenty of mines on Worms in my time... Probably almost as often as I've fucked myself over misfiring bazookas.

[Vader Time]

Started a game as Lancaster City on an old version of Football Manager, and lost the first friendly...against my own reserve team. I like a lower league challenge, but that one didn't last too long.

[vrailaine]

When I was young, perhaps 10, my friend lent me FFVII. Near the start, the first boss you have to defeat is a big scorpion. I listened to my friend's tales of always attacking it when it's tail was up like the game told you to and then always dying. I did the same, and kept dying. The game seemed so stupid. Only when my brother played it did he tell me how much of a fucking idiot I was - you were obviously meant to attack it when its tail was down. Once I got past that bit, I couldn't be bothered going through the next three discs.

They explained how to defeat that boss in the manual iirc.


Most of my embarrassing moments were just on the train home from Dublin realising I spent a few hundred euro on games I didn't like and they'd have to occupy me for the next few months as almost my sole source of leisure.

[thehungerartist]

Purchasing L.A. Noire on release at full price, though pulling the head off it to Tomb Raider upon discovering the nude Lara patch runs that pretty close. Damn your parental locks AOL.

[Hank Venture]

Felt like a shitwizard when I discovered how you should open the Nord gates in Skyrim after just trying all the possible combinations on x amounts of the bastards. Snapping one off to San Andreas' Hot Coffee mod probably won't feature in the highlight reel of my life either.

[Utter Shit]

Not entirely embarrassed by this as I had a great deal of fun doing it, but in the original Metal Gear Solid I suspect I probably spent more time being a dickhead to unsuspecting guards than actually going through the story. On one of the early snow levels in particular, I could quite happily spend ages just making noises to get their attention then run behind them/hide in the shadows/hide in a box.

WHOSE FOOTPRINTS ARE THESE?

[chand]

Playing PES 2012 the other night, got scored on by Fernando Torres. Boy was my face red!

[mcbpete]

Played 30+ hours of Fallout 3 before realising what the fuck "VATS" was. The "Press LB" prompt always flew up too quickly, especially as I'd be busy capping folks at the time, so I'd try the button after they were dead, it wouldn't do anything, so I decided to ignore it after that. I guess it was more of a challenge that way, anyway.

Took me about 25 hours before I realised you could fix weapons by having more than two of them in your inventory and then just press the 'repair' button. As for the VATS, I'm more of a melee weapon person so I hardly ever use it (and is probably why I've found the game so tough !)

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Accidentally jumping on mines playing Worms is awesome. The amount of time taken to leap and the inevitable explosion gives your brain time to kick itself in the nuts, while the people you're playing against caterwaul with laughter.

Comedically, it's one of the best games.

[Nobody Soup]

I just remembered one from when I got frontier:elite for the amiga. I'm sure most people know the rough idea, jump about different solar systems, trading, taking on hit contracts, doing missions, no real plot just kicking about in a spaceship, and if you'd played it you'd know landing on a space station is just clicking on the one you want, requesting docking permission, then bunging it on autopilot and speeding up time, you're doing it every 10 minutes.

however, I bought it on the strength of the blurb on the box, not really getting what I was supposed to be doing, and not reading the manual so with less idea how to do it. I would launch from a space station, drift about in the surrounding space (didn't know about hyperjumps) and then try to land on the nearest moon. however, I tried to do this manually, I think I must have had the game about 2 months and all I did was crash the ship into the moon over and over again, particularly unhelpful was the graphics of the time meaning the moon was just a giant green circle and it was impossible to know if you were level with the ground unless you came in at the most gentle angle possible, you almost had to circumnavigating half the globe. one time my friend came up and we were determined to do it, I am not exagerating when I say it took me about 2-3 hours,

and then of course nothing. because there's bollocks all you can do when all you've done is parked your spaceship in the middle of an empty moon.

oh and there was the time me and my brother ran endless computer v computer simulations on sensible soccer while wildly hitting our controllers thinking we were playing, we would rush home from school to do this, and even go to painstaking effort to update the teams with a copy of world soccer so they were accurate. I think it was nearing a week before we figured out that you had to set the teams to 'p' not 'c'.

[Big Jack McBastard]

sensible soccer

The cartridges for the Megadrive used to store saved data on them, this was a fact I was unaware of until visiting Blockbuster to re-rent a copy of Sensi Soccer and was told by the guy behind the till not to save teams with pornographic names as they'd pop up on the next renter's console too.

"I'd never do such a thing! I are offended!"

Cue me scuttling home with my (thankfully still rented) copy and deleting all the fucking outrageous[nb]Probably not that bad in retrospect[/nb] filth I'd renamed half the teams (and players[nb]I distinctly remember Left and Right Tit were my centre forwards[/nb].) for a laugh.

[jfjnpxmy]

Deus Ex, the Hong Kong stage. After having Maggie Chow's perfidy revealed to me, went a bit apey and introduced all and sundry to the joys of being knocked unconscious with a crowbar and thrown out of a high rise window, and then subjected the poor passers by to a rain of Maggie Chow's furniture. This left poor Denton a touch weak and low on Aug energy, and, as he limps back to the main market area of Hong Kong, some little kid goes "I know what you did, I'm watching you".

One panicked infanticide and corpse hiding session later, I realise all the kids say that, no matter what. Who says art doesn't imitate life, eh?

[madhair60]

Accidentally jumping on mines playing Worms is awesome. The amount of time taken to leap and the inevitable explosion gives your brain time to kick itself in the nuts, while the people you're playing against caterwaul with laughter.

Comedically, it's one of the best games.

My question is, why have they continued to make further iterations of Worms, when World Party is absolutely, objectively the perfect incarnation of the game?  Every subsequent Worms effort has been shockingly shite by comparison.

[Dark Sky]

Did they ever manage to make a good 3D Worms game?

[madhair60]

Yeah, it was called Hogs of War.

[I accept the terms of the]

Did they ever manage to make a good 3D Lemmings game? Note: the answer is no. In fact, any Lemmings game not using the engine from the original is poison.

[Consignia]

Not even Lemmings 2: The Tribes?