Stupid gaming experiences...

[The Vault Dweller]

el_Prez]Playing Diablo 2 online for like 500 hours (not an exaggeration), trying to get an Uber character, hitting level 70-something and then just taking a step back, thinking... and saying "Fuck this game."

... Getting to Level 99 on a Sorceress, PvPing for like an hour, then taking a step back and thinking.. "Fuck this game".

Buying the game for next to nothing, playing for 8 hours, then thinking I was basically masturbating online and saying "Fuck this game".

I didn't play it more than a few hours before I realised it was just Diablo 1 with better graphics and a larger world. Glad I borrowed it from a friend and didn't buy it.

when I was in middle school, a friend had one of those 4player adapters for the old NES - we played Gauntlet for about 6 or 8 straight hours only to realize there was no ending to the game.

Then somebody told me a couple months ago that Gauntlet did have an ending. I don't know if it's true, but no way I'm going to waste one more minute of my life having anything remotely to do with Gauntlet. Except bitch and complain, of course.

You sir are awesome.

I remember once going to an arcade with my cousin where you play like ten dollars and the games were free for the whole day. At one point we came across two guys playing a game who asked us to fill in for them. They said they had been playing this game for hours to get to the 100th level and "end" it, but they were running out of time and had to leave. We saw the game was Gauntlet. Remembering all our fun playing the game, but never getting very far it was always an awesome, but impossible dream of getting to level 100. Me and my cousin jumped in and replaced the two guys and starting at around level 70 we got up to 99. Then when we were on 100 we figured that finishing 100 would finish the game...it didn't. We traded it off to other's around level 120.

I'm going to look up online if their is an ending to it.

Sincerely,
The Vault Dweller

 

[Misteryo]

Buying my first copy of Deus Ex and playing it a half-hour at a time only once a week or so for a few months, mostly starting over from the beginning every time, because I didn't remember anything (life was busy then). Then, I come into a week of vacation time. On day two I realize I have time to play this game for real. I'm excited. I fire it up. I'm getting into it.

Only then do I learn I have the demo version disc with only the first few levels. It was several more years before I bought the game-of-the-year edition and got into it again.

Misteryo

 

[SL¥DE]

Buying my first copy of Deus Ex and playing it a half-hour at a time only once a week or so for a few months, mostly starting over from the beginning every time, because I didn't remember anything (life was busy then). Then, I come into a week of vacation time. On day two I realize I have time to play this game for real. I'm excited. I fire it up. I'm getting into it.

Only then do I learn I have the demo version disc with only the first few levels. It was several more years before I bought the game-of-the-year edition and got into it again.

Misteryo

That's so tragic I actually want to hug you to make you feel better.....no homo.

I actually bought the game from some hole-in-the-wall, underground (Not figuratively, physically, it was in the rarely ventured into basement of a shitty mall) computer game store.

Lesse, I once played through Zelda Ocarina of Time, just to get everything, and I almost did get everything, including that stupid secret fish, only to find out I forgot the very first gold spider in the first dungeon of the game.

I bought Final Fantasy Legend...Didn't do anything stupid in it, as buying it was dumb enough.

I bought Oni. But then again it was like $5 new, so.

 

[cazsim83]

In the same game I kept trying to use the Giant's knife, and whenever it broke I'd get it fixed, all the while not knowing of the biggoron's sword.

lol yeah that fucking sucked.

edit - to whoever said they got to lvl 70 and dropped D2 - I lucked out, I only hit lvl 45 (lol)

VD - I felt vindicated around 15 or so, when my friend worked at a pizza place as the games guy to get quarters from if the machines stole your money - When the new Gauntlet (Legends?) came out, when you could save your character, he would just open up the machine and hit the credits switch about 50 times. I would play 'til he got off. We maxed out 2 characters each. Pretty sweet

 

[[PCE]el_Prez]

Oh shit i just remembered a good one (little long - but what else do you guys got to do?). Check this out:

I became friends with a new kid in school. He just moved to AZ - he used to be an AirForce brat but his dad got a job w/ Southwest Airlines. Anyway, his family was living in an apt. complex while his house was being built (this is standard procedure for many families out here), and the apt. complex was like a couple blocks from my house. So we'd hang out and shit - play Red Alert over the phone line (remember that?).

After his house gets built, his family is packing shit up so his computer and everything is in a box. He's comes over the night before moving into his other house and brings a game with him. That game - FALLOUT. I'd seen it before on the best buy shelf, but I'd never played it. He got it right before he moved out to AZ and never got a chance to play it.

So we load it up, however we don't do the FULL install (we figured - why waste the disk space?). We get to playing and of course: AWESOMENESS. We clear Shady Sands and Junktown - and now we're getting into bigger fish - The Hub. All of a sudden - we look up and we've been playing this game all night! It's morning and he's got to go home. We're both hooked - but when he leaves - he takes the disk with him (because he can't wait to move his shit into his room and hook up his computer so he can play).

So I'm sitting there by myself - completely addicted to fallout - but I don't own the game, don't have the disk, and don't have a car to drive me to best buy to pick up a copy. That day SUCKED. In fact, every day sucked until I got my hands on that game.