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Your Greatest Ruined Moments of Gaming?

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Have you ever reached an incredible part of a game, or a part of a game that is supposed to be incredible, only to have it ruined by some outside source? Perhaps a spoiler, or an annoying interruption, or just some negative thought or occurrence that bled into your experience, leaving it soured.


Thread was inspired because I just beat Journey a minute ago, and, in a moment of tragic comedy, just as I reached the summit, someone decided to start vacuuming in the other room.

I didn't even have headphones.



Tag spoilers wisely please.
 
Probably not a big deal to some, but before Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep came out, I wondered what Vanitas looked like under his mask, because Nomura likes to keep things like that hidden until just the right time. One day while surfing another forum, I came across a signature that happened to have his face in full view.

I thought it was a joke picture because it looked like
another character from the franchise
, but nope. Pure. Unadulterated. Spoiler. To this day, I will never frequent that forum ever again. I love that trope in video games, the masked/hooded man/woman is awesome, and to have it spoiled in my favorite franchise is unforgivable.
 
I once had a save file for Final Fantasy VII where I leveled up a few characters to level 99. I was going to finally take out Ruby Weapon. One day I was playing a different save file, and when I went to save the game, I accidentally overwrote the level 99 save. I've barely played the game since then. I think that was around 2003.
 
My sister came home from work and haaaaaaaaaaaad to use the shared family computer when I was right in the middle of an intense part of Half-Life 2. Like, couldn't wait 10 minutes for me to wrap up and wouldn't leave me alone.
 
When I was fighting the final boss in Silent Hill 2, my Dad was blasting incredibly loud reggae music in his office.

He does it twice a day, so I'm used to it.
 
I was dominating in game of Conquest on one of the new Endgame games. Lost connection to the server. Ending up accidentally breaking my Turtle Beaches out of frustration.
 
The first time I got to the ending of Metal Gear Solid my Dad for some reason started going crazy about doing the dishes.

"But Dad just give me like 10 min-"

"GO DO THE DISHES NOW"

Had to leave the game going and go do them. I could faintly hear the ending going in the other room as I did them....

Started my save over from Metal Gear Rex and beat it again to see the ending. But BOY did that kill the mood.
 
I'm on the last chapter of Killer 7
(where you have to decide to kill Matsuoka or not)
, and out of nowhere my drunk brother comes stumbling in the room and starts talking about how I should be already looking for my financial future, how the world is a jungle, etc, etc. By the time he was done, the impact from the scene in the game was gone as I stood there with a "WTF" face while he made his way to the bathroom to puke.

I finished the game rather upset and went to bed. On my 2nd go, I made sure to lock my room door, just in case :V
 
During that epic ride near the end of RDR when the music starts playing and you're leaving the snowy mountain I ran into a bear right as I was riding away and thought to shoot it. It mauled me to death and it just loaded me up like any other death and I missed that entire moment of culmination. It auto saved after that spot so there was no way to relive that moment for me.
 
During L.A. Noire's ending scene, the game glitched and it was kind of traumatic.
When Roy Earle was giving the eulogy, the music was replaced by this ominous, booming crescendo. I could barely hear what any of the characters were saying and for the longest time I thought the game was actually supposed to sound like that. Pretty sure the same sound played over the credit sequence and I just uncomfortably sat there. I hated the game because of it, very very creepy.
 
cr_blah_blah said:
During that epic ride near the end of RDR when the music starts playing and you're leaving the snowy mountain I ran into a bear right as I was riding away and thought to shoot it. It mauled me to death and it just loaded me up like any other death and I missed that entire moment of culmination. It auto saved after that spot so there was no way to relive that moment for me.
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Dammmmmmnnnnnnn this one really sucks.
 
This just happened seconds ago i was playing Dissidia 012 FF on my vita doing the labrynth section. I was taking all the right paths got some great gear and got to fight at the very end chaos.

I only had one lvl 100 character so i dumped all the best boosters on him thinking it was one on one fight. I was doing fine got him down to 5000 HP then he gets me against a wall and my mom walks in telling me to go get the trash all the while the game was on so my character was getting his ass handed to him well needless to say that cost me the match.

I wasnt so angry since i had spare characters left so i can just take the exit no need loosing all my good loot on a gamble. Sadly without knowing this was a party battle so all five of my characters were forced to fight and they got there asses handed the added fact that i cant restart the fight just sealed my fate. I lost all my characters were gone and got the game over screen so all my loot is lost as well. yea i got mad salty.
 
CraftySkills said:
I missed that incredible ride to mexio in RDR that everyone talks about all because I saved at the fucking campfire.
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I did something similar.

Then I read online about about some ride into Mexico and wondered what the fuck everyone was talking about.
 
The Last of Us, during the final moments at the climax right before the finale, Ellie's body was untextured and neon purple like the model failed to load. Oh and there was no music, didn't find out about that till the survivor play through.
 
mullet2000 said:
The first time I got to the ending of Metal Gear Solid my Dad for some reason started going crazy about doing the dishes.

"But Dad just give me like 10 min-"

"GO DO THE DISHES NOW"

Had to leave the game going and go do them. I could faintly hear the ending going in the other room as I did them....

Started my save over from Metal Gear Rex and beat it again to see the ending. But BOY did that kill the mood.
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Your dad was just teaching you life lessons. Work before play.
 
This is sort of timely.

I was sitting on the couch with my wife playing through Final Fantasy VII. It wasn't a new game by then, but it was her first time seeing it. We had literally just wrapped up 'the death scene' (you know the one), and were sort of soaking up the moment.

Literally minutes later I received word about the World Trade Center attack. Sort of put the whole thing in perspective.
 
Back when I was around 6 my brother was playing the TMNT game on our NES and I was sitting on the bed. This is obviously back in the day when cords were everywhere, so they were on the bed with me. We had some family friends visiting at the time, so when he FINALLY got to the last level, I said "I'm gonna go tell [our friend]!!" and jumped out of the bed, ripping the power cord out of the wall.

I felt like the worst little brother in the world.
 
I'm pretty sure most PS3 games were ruined by unstoppable achievements popping up on the screen. They only recently patched to stop it.

Le sigh.
 
Purchased my PS3 last year and always wanted to play Heavy Rain, as I was buying it, my girlfriend told me the killers name
by saying she was the killer(her name is Shelby)
. I was so annoyed in a I love you kind of way, but why are you the way you are. The plot holes actually helped me with this game though because I still doubted her somewhat. The reason I wasn't that mad was because only until recently have I stopped looking up spoilers.
 
No spoilers really, but in Majora's Mask during the intro cutscene to the boss of the Ikana Canyon dungeon my mum came into the room and happily announced that lunch was ready while placing a bowl of soup down on my coffee table. Said table also had the Nintendo 64 on it and that slight jostle caused by the soup bowl made the game lock up.

My brother and I just went "Uh, yep... Thanks." And then dreaded having to go back through the entire dungeon again.
 
I was in college. I was alone in my dorm room playing some Space Harrier on my Sega Master System. And I was kicking holy ass. So much ass that I made it to the final boss. I decided to call up one of my gaming buddies to come over and observe my victory. He came over, I reached over to unpause the game, but he said, "No, you sit and get ready, I'll unpause it." So sit, I did. He approached the TV from the side, as to not block my view, and then enthusiastically smacked the pause button. Too enthusiastically, it turned out. As the console screen went black, and then booted back up, having reset. I never got that far into that game again. My friend was really apologetic. And bummed out.
 
Probably Far Cry 3. The reason it was ruined for me was because Angry Joe spoiled it in his review. He told everyone that
Vaas isn't the last boss in the game and also he showed a scene that is literally in the end, and that scene with Vaas sister
so in other words I went through the game knowing everything due to massive spoilers throughout the review, your not supposed to tell people that in a review. I didn't have the game yet, but I still bought it and played it because it looked epic.
 
Friends come over just as I'm beating Mass Effect for the first time, one who has already finished it. His wife and my wife proceed to make fun of Liara and start laughing as he joins in like he's never played it before.

They're laughing so hard that I can't even hear the game anymore. Life threats were made that night.
 
My mom ruined the end of The Walking Dead for me.

I'm getting all sad and she pops her head in with "DOING LAUNDRY SUCKS".

Then a couple minutes later when I'm getting back into the mood of the ending again "YOUR SISTER HAS SO MANY CLOTHES".

Credits.

:/
 
Not my glitch, but the Video Games Awesome playthrough of DuckTales Remastered had one of the most hilarious and maddening ending-ruiners ever.

Watch from 22 minutes onward to see such madness as:
The audio overlays a copy of itself that's one second behind the regular audio, creating a weird delayed echo. Then the audio becomes distorted and demonic.
Then the ending cutscene has a distorted Scrooge sound effect saying "OUCH" over and over.

The worst part?
It plays over the ending credit scroll, becomes a different audio glitch when starting the game, then returns to "OUCH OUCH OUCH OUCH" at the main menu.

Hilarity ensues.
 
One morning, before going to junior highschool, I boot up Shenmue on my Dreamcast. I loved the game so much that I could not resist playing it. I had some time before leaving, but my dad decided that I should stop *right away*. The problem was that I was right in the middle of a long and glorious QTE. I told him it was not possible, because I could not save the game at the moment. Well... he found a way by taking the console and throwing it on the couch.

Outcome : one broken Dreamcast to send back to repair and no gaming for about a month. In the end, I never finished Shenmue, as the game was not mine and I had to give back to the friend I had borrowed it from :(. Luckily, this scenario did not repeat itself for Shenmue 2.
 
I was enjoying Wind Waker and my little cousin(who was 15) walked up to me and told me gcn is kiddy and how I don't play games anymore.

yeah he didn't ruined the game or anything, but still........it was annoying lol.
 
Waited an age to borrow Twisted Metal World Tour from my local video store. When it was finally available my Mum (saint of a woman) picked it up on the way home from work but I had to go to bed for school.

I plotted my excuse to be sick from school and successfully pulled it off. As soon as the house was clear I set up the PS1 (remember when you had to put consoles away?) and grabbed the case for twisted metal. I popped open the case...

Post-It note that read "Nice try, Love you"
 
When I was a younger I had a few mates sleeping over and we were playing some N64 games. We paused and put the controller down for dinner and when we came back we discovered that my dog (a German Sheppard) has diarrhea-puddled one of the controllers. As in, there was a huge puddle of brown and the N64 controller stood out like an island in the ocean... My mum, cleaned it up but it was forever known as the bad controller which no one uses any more. The A button sticks in...
 
Last of Us spoiler:
I was watching a video on Youtube that didn't involve The Last of Us. A video popped up in the suggestions called "Ellie Kills David". Fuck you, Youtube and fuck you, video creator.
Also, I just read a review for W101 that spoiled some of the secret characters (including images). It's the Destructoid review if you want to avoid it.
 
Playing Final Fantasy IX, my disc glitched when
Lindblum is attacked by the Esper/Summon thing CGI movie
.

It was supposed to be a high emotional point. Instead I had to replace my copy and the surprise was ruined.
 
The Red Dead Redemption ending, no doubt some major stuff from Bioshock Infinite, some hints at some important stuff for The Last of Us and the mid-way character-based-twist from Portal 2. Wasn't a happy bunny after all of them. Fuck YouTube comments, seriously.
 
Got disconnected when my guild took down the twilight drake +3, we'd been working on it for a couple weeks and we got to the point in the battle that we were going to win for sure and I got DCed, heard all the cheering on Vent though and still got the title but it sucked
 
CraftySkills said:
I missed that incredible ride to mexio in RDR that everyone talks about all because I saved at the fucking campfire.
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I did get to do the ride to Mexico but the song everyone was talking about never played for me. Instead I got a song from the regular soundtrack. So when I was finished I just sat there wondering "That's the moment that everybody was raving about online?"
 
Lactose_Intolerant said:
Your dad was just teaching you life lessons. Work before play.
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Stop being silly. Sometimes parents just give you assignments out of nowhere and they have to respect the fact that you might be busy if they suddenly want to interrupt whatever you're doing. When I lived at my parents place, I told them "Give me x minutes/hours, I'm in the middle of something" and they always respected that.
 
Sad but true but just about any time my wife is near when I'm playing a game anymore.

Just got that hot new story driven game I've been waiting months for, pop that bad boy in, set up the lights and sounds get comfy. Press start and as soon as the game begins out of nowhere my wife pops up and just starts talking to me about bullshit that I give zero shits about. EVERY FUCKING TIME

In the final 10 minutes of The Last of Us? Hey let me talk to you

Starting up Bioshock Infinite after waiting for me to finish watching my housewife shows? Let me talk to you about the people on this podcast that you don't listen to or care about.

The worst part is that she is almost always in the room completly silent and minding her own business but as soon as that game starts she just HAS to talk to me. Not before I'm playing, not after, not when I take a break. Even if I put headphones on she will just stand there to the side and talk and talk and then get pissed that I don't hear her. I love my wife, I just needed to rant a bit.

I've mostly avoided big game spoiler this gen after MGS4. Damn the hype, I ruined the shit out of that game for myself before it was even out. But then again the story was such shit in that one that even Gamefaqs posters pretty much had it all guessed out even when mgs3 had only recently come out.

Uncharted 2 was pretty much ruined by Naught Dog themselves, After that I pretty much avoid all games coverage after the initial reveal if it's a game that I care about being spoiled.

Bioshock was another that was ruined for me but I didn't really care since I didn't play it until a year later anyway.
 
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