Most embarrasing gaming moments?

[octavius]

So, disregarding instance when you were too young to know any better, have you ever completely misunderstood a game, or not even got past the copy protection?

For me two instances stand out:

1. Not being able to play Leisure Suit Larry due to failing the prove-you-are-over-18-questions. My gaming buddy and I were 18-20 at the time, but being hopeless nerds not experienced in the ways of the world, we failed horribly.

2. Ultima 5. I thought the whole game was in the same scale as the first village (or just a hut IIRC), and back then I was an even more compulsive mapper that I am now. I mapped the entire Ultima IV, for example (I still have those maps, actually). For some reason I thought a new game, set in the same land, would have a more detailed map, which was "confirmed" by the first area.
Just as well, maybe, since the Amiga version of U5 was not very good, from what I've read.

 

[kwanzabot]

you actually tried to buy leisure suit larry and you looked too retarded?

holy fuck lmao

you gotta be the biggest aspie on these forums and that says alot

 

[Excidium II]

I don't really remember any. I guess my brain supresses those memories.

One dumb shit I used to do was buying games and blindly hoping it would run even though my computer was crap and didn't meet the requirements. Project IGI is one I recall not working.

 

[Tigranes]

I tried Darklands for an hour, and never figured out how the hell the combat works. One day...

 

[Whisky]

I was once very excited for Dragon Age 2.

 

[Gregz]

Pulling a lair boss in Everquest by mis-click after 1 hour of prep work with ~40 people leading to a wipe.

 

[Average Manatee]

Went through my entire first game of Fallout 2 choosing the weapons with the highest AP value because I thought it meant armor penetration.

 

[taxalot]

I'm playing Ultima III these days and wondering what the fuck I am doing with my life.

 

[octavius]

When I played Ultima III the Guards accused me of stealing. I wished there was some way of telling them the floppy I used was one I had copied for personal use.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Time I replayed NWN SoU, and expecting to fight Heurodis, I buffed myself to high heaven and walked in bravely-

To kill a couple of medusae and those animated suits.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Due to my enthusiasm for Daggerfall and Morrowind, TES IV: Oblivion was a . Never have I so completely misunderstood a game.

 

[Spectacle]

you actually tried to buy leisure suit larry and you looked too retarded?

holy fuck lmao

you gotta be the biggest aspie on these forums and that says alot

You just failed your Gaming Lore roll hard bro, this is not looking good

 

[GewuerzKahn]

1. A kid in grade school puked on his pokemon cards while playing a game.

2. While I was taking a nap my cousin took my Pokemon Yellow cartridge and traded all my high lvl Pokemons against his shitty ones from Pokemon Blue or something. I called him out after I noticed this crime scene of a former awesome pokemon team, but he denied it. Later I made an idiot of myself explaining my uncle what the fuck Pokemon is and that he has a dirty thief as a son. He did nothing and I realized how unfair the world can be. I never took revenge and for that I'm embarrassed and disappointed today.

 

[warpig]

-Buying, playing and finishing Dragon Age 2. Another funny thing, when I bought it, it was "locked" in my country and I had to get a crack (for a fucking legal copy XD).
-Took some time to realize how shitty Bethesda games are, played Oblivion for 30something hours...omg it's so shit, what am I doing with my life. Fallout 3 - same(I actually finished this one). Skyrim - same. Fallout 4...1 hour, quit, uninstall.
-Playing Lineage 2 (some of my friends were playing it and convinced me to give it a try), I played on a pirate server with a lot of rooooskies so the grinding wasn't as brutal but still...I had a "wtf am I doing" moment, I felt like a CWC tier loser weirdo wasting time on really stupid crap. MMOs ->not even once.
-when I was 16(or something) and my dad walked in my room while I was playing a JRPG (Xenogears), "wtf is this shit son XD" just fucking loled at me. I would prefer to be caught fappin' to some porny magazine tbqhwyl.

 

[DraQ]

Reading kwanzabot's posts.


I don't find *every* retard embarrassing, mind you, but this is like watching one that figured they can take a dump without taking their pants off and basks in his self-perceived genius.

 

[Trash]

Selling a 15 years in the making collection of original boxed games including gems like Darklands, Fallout, Monkey Island II, Dark Sun: Shattered Lands, Sam and Max, Torment: Planescape, Ultima 7, Buck Rogers: Countdown for Doomsday and countless more for mere scrap. Because I didn't have the room and could use the drinking money. Fucking asshole that I was.

 

[Mr. Pink]

1. Spore. I tricked myself into believing it was a good game until I spent 3 hours just fucking clicking towards the center of the galaxy killing countless grox to get a screen crawl and congratulations from will wright.

2. I traded my hats in tf2 for some weapons I didn't have. This was right after the economy update.

3. Scammed in runescape. Multiple times

4. I went through all of Demons Souls not knowing about lock-on.

5. played DOOM a few days ago out of nostalgia, got motion sick and puked all over my desk and mousepad.

 

[Major Malfunction]

To be honest, I'm more embarrassed about how quickly I can get into games due to my extensive gaming experience. At my age you're supposed to make a fool of yourself playing anything remotely complex and friends in my age group stick to casual gaming. Few years ago an Irish friend of mine revealed that he had bought Civ 5 which suckered me into buying it as well, otherwise I was rather content with Civ 2 and Civ 4 for all the cool mods. Long story short, I accidentally destroyed him within the first 20 or so minutes and we never played again. Same trend whenever I play with my best mate, and he gets competitive and tryhards as hell even in co-op games so that shit always turns sour. Anyway, it's not that I'm any good but that my pals tend to be pretty bad.

4. I went through all of Demons Souls not knowing about lock-on.

Only scrubs use lock-on.

 

[warpig]

5. played DOOM a few days ago out of nostalgia, got motion sick and puked all over my desk and mousepad.

I was sick from Wolfenstein3d when I was a kid. Head "spinning" and being close to puking. Never had it with any other games later.

4. I went through all of Demons Souls not knowing about lock-on.

this is deserves both and

 

[laclongquan]

Play Fallout 2 and pick Fast Learner and Educated, derp~

 

[J_C]

Playing any kind of competitive multiplayer game is emberrassing for me. I get trashed all the time.

Oh, and I got scammed from 7 TF2 keys, because the other guy "promised" he will give me the game, but only after I give him the keys in advance. I really felt like an idiot.

 

[catfood]

When I first got into gaming I had no idea what the "save" and "load" functions did (not a native english speaker) and for a while I assumed that in order to finish a game you had to beat it from the beginning to the end in one sitting, unless it had some sort of level selection screen in the menu.

 

[J_C]

When I first got into gaming I had no idea what the "save" and "load" functions did (not a native english speaker) and for a while I assumed that in order to finish a game you had to beat it from the beginning to the end in one sitting, unless it had some sort of level selection screen in the menu.

 

[MediantSamuel]

Probably my worst was my first playthrough of Baldur's Gate, my very first rpg. I picked an elf male ranger because I thought elves were mystical and awesome, then proceeded to mash my way through dialogue by choosing an option at random without reading any of it first.

Spoiler

Funnily enough the game doesn't change much if at all by actually choosing specific options and hoping for consequences

I got to Nashkel, nerdraged about not understanding what the hell I was supposed to be doing and then promptly deleted my character and started a fresh playthrough where I decided to learn how to read again. I'm a native English speaker, I guess I was just retarded as a child.

 

[Outlander]

Selling my SNES and a bunch of cartridges for dirt cheap.

Practically giving away my NES cartridge of Maniac Mansion, which was a royal pain in the ass to get in the first place (pre-internet days).

Preordering Gothic 3.

In game: Beating Mecha-Hitler in Wolf3D using the MIL cheat (played it on my dad's 386 with a CRT monitor obviously and it was to this day the only game that made my head hurt)