Dumbest mistake you've made in a game?

17 years ago
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When I first played pokemon
I couldn't get out of the goddamn house. I wandered that stupid house in pokemon blue for hours wondering how the hell you get out. Bad times XD
I wanted to kick myself when I eventually done it 🤣
Me too 😲 i walked circles for hours
second most stupid thing is accutually something that happens a lott with me like in mario (yeah the first one its ancient) or prince of persia sands of time just jumping in the same hole and dieing over and over
Same here. Especially in Prince of Persia after attempting to not fall in the whole for like the tenth time I think I make it only to fall in another whole about 10 mins later.
17 years ago
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Halo 3 where you have to fight the two scarabs with the fighter things. I didn't realise you could fly the fighter things so i got on the wing and jumped on to the first one and killed it with grenades then jumped off and killed the second one from the ground with a rocket launcher and some frag grenades. This took over 4 hours and more than 30 restarts. Then 40 minutes later I watched my little brother do it the easy way in less 3 minutes
17 years ago
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I think the worst I've done was in Touch Detective 2 1/2. After working so hard completing the game and almost completing the touch list... I started a new game and saved it over my completed one... Oo' The other one was playing Children of Mana... I accidently saved the same file twice so I deleted the other one.. Except after deleting it, the first one got deleted too... So I had to restart the game. I think another time [a long tme ago when gameboy advances and gameboy colors was considered new] was when I got so far in a hard game... Then my gameboy ran outta batteries.

17 years ago
Posts: 139
Dumbest mistake I've ever made with a game
was with Twilight Princess. I should have made
2 saves files instead of one. I had invested more
then 80 hours into that game only to have my dad
get drunk and erase it. I had everything, all the hearts,
all the treasure chests in every dungeon and the world map,
pretty much everything AND I was in the last dungeon!! I was
pissed for weeks and pretty much still am -.-

17 years ago
Posts: 18
In World of Warcraft if you trick one of the opposing faction into attacking you in a neutral town (like Gadgetzan) the NPC guards immediately attack you en-masse. I'm alliance and one of the Horde challenged me to a duel (a duel is an organised fight and not like a brawl, so doesn't count) during the 5 second countdown I started hammering my spell button, eager to get the 1st attack. Trouble is the horde scum was tagged for PvP so this instantly took effect, cancelling the duel and the NPC's came and slaughtered me while he laughed.
Much longer ago, there was a game called syndicate on the Amiga where you control agents on assassination missions. I could not complete this one mission and my friend said "why don't you just follow the radar?" I'd been through almost the whole game not realising the line on the radar pointed to your target. I'd painstakingly slaughtered whole cities because of this (though, admittedly on Syndicate that was kinda fun 🙂 )

17 years ago
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I finally remembered something to post here.
Since I don't play games much I didn't have too many opportunities to do something too stupid. 🤣
So here's what happened to me (refering to Ragnarok Online):
I was playing with my fav character a High Priestess (~97 at the time, max level is 99). So I found myself a party to L3. Some people were stuck somewhere, so I decided to lure some monsters.
Great decision that was, since I accidentally got killed and lost points. And on top of that, the MS broke my armor so I had to fly back to get it fixed~.~
Also when I got killed 5 times on level 98 because of net problems...
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16 years ago
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Fire Emblem. Getting it was stupid enough.
when the PS2 first came out, i rented whatever the resident evil game there was at that time and played it for like 6 hours with mu older sister. we didnt have a memory card at that point so we couldn't turn it off or anything. my dumb little brother (piratealex) came in and asked to play. i said sure cuz i was very tired and out of it. i took a nap and when i woke up, he was still playing. and doing better than me. still being groggy, i kinda tripped over the cord and unplugged it. ten hours of data lost.
the next day i bought a memory card
In Star Wars Battlefront, letting an NPC drive the vehicle I was in, he flew
it into the ground. 😀
In Suikoden, a warning came up when I tried loading my save saying "data is corrupt, load anyway?" and I clicked yes, the game crashed and only showed the top corner of one of the towns in black and white o.O

16 years ago
Posts: 139
Actually, I haven't made that many huge gaming mistakes in my life. o.o
Though, there was this time a couple of weeks ago when I was playing Persona 3. If you take too long to fight a bunch of small battles in the game (around 10-15 minutes), you'll have to fight a boss called Death, which is notoriously the hardest boss in the game. Basically, if you're not at the absolute max level, you WILL die at his hands.
Anyway, I was playing the game late at night, and accidentally fell asleep with my PS2 on while I was fighting all of those smaller battles. I then woke up the next morning, facing a "Game Over" menu screen. Needless to say, Death kicked my sorry arse, making me lose approximately 3 hours of data that I had neglected to save. 😐
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...With this alone, I have gone too far. 😐

16 years ago
Posts: 167
The dumbest thing I've ever done was save over the wrong file 😲
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16 years ago
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Most of my games mistakes are from Tomb Raider Series.
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In TR3, On London stage, I accidentally saved the game while Lara was falling on the pit.
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In TR4(Last Revelation), I forgot to save the game where I was playing this weird board game and fall accidentally(again) on the cliff and started waaay back from the Car Chase again. X__X
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In TR5(Chronicles), On the last level, I repeated the same place 5X where there's a LASER trap that was hard to dodge and then forgot to save my game on the "sneak-attack" scene.
But on the latest installment on TR, I had no more problem.
Autosave saves it all! 😛

16 years ago
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The only mistake I've made recently comes from turning off the autosave function of the game and going through most of the game without manually saving it quickly forgetting that I disabled the autosave function.
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Just because someone's head was chopped off doesn't mean they're dead. That's just silly.
Grinding in Last Remnant and getting the Battle Rank up too quickly 😔
Oh I made one recently with a friend in Elder Scrolls Oblivion.
We were killing time before heading out to a movie by playing TES IV at his house and decided to try being a vampire. We had the autosave feature enabled (he hadn't made any other saves since just before he exited the sewer for the first time) and fast traveled out to a bandit camp near an area for a quest and ended up in the day.
As a vampire we lost health in the sun... we had low health and because of the autosave feature we were stuck in an endless cycle of death and reloading into the sun....
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