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Your Greatest Ruined Moments of Gaming?

Not a video game but I'll never forget this. My best bud and I were watching Training Day, and Denzel is delivering his fucking badass Scarface moment:

King Kong ain't got nothing, on--

::Knock knock knock::

On--

::Knock knock knock:::

I wanted to tear my mother's head off for a moment, then brought myself back to sanity, hit the pause button and answered the door. It ruined the movie.
 
The day before I was going to play God of War 3, I was in California visiting some family. My dad had already picked the game up for me at home, so I was going to fly in and play it the next day at home. I was just about to go to bed, when I decide to check Facebook one last time. While scrolling down my feed, I see a status which spoils who the origami killer is in Heavy Rain. Not having played the game yet, I sighed and decided to click on the comments because hey, it can't get any worse right? I was wrong. Another person spoiled the ending to God of War 3 in the comments. I went to bed very angry that night.
 
someone in this forum spoiled the secret about Raiden being the second playable character ONE DAY before MGS2 released. I was so mad and disappointed that someone would do that.
 
Creaking said:
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.
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Journey for me, too. It wasn't so much a moment, but someone made sure my day was going to be shitty and put me in a bad mood right when I got started playing, and I couldn't shake the buzzkill feeling the whole time. I still enjoyed it, but I felt deprived. It was like that "I'm not even supposed to be here today!" feeling Dante had in Clerks.
 
Jamie OD said:
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?"
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If you get off your horse at any time it stops the music IIRC.
 
Metroid Other M- as soon as I finished the game having loved it (Coming from someone who has played the series since he was literally a toddler) to hear all the whining and crap the fanbase was spewing.



MGS2&3 HD, by making the cutscenes 60FPS (it is just too smooth and home video like for me, for something that is supposed to be "cinematic". Not to mention MGS3' HD's framerate is unstable as a horse with a crooked back and no saddle)

Also all the missing content, errors and bugs. (These games were really deserving of a Wind Waker HD/Halo Anniversary style HD version. I hope someday MGS4 gets one on the PS4/PC/XBOne , but also with better Anti Aliasing. Which is also something MGS5 desperately needs. )
 
Not game-related, but this reminds me of something else. I had to work during the Canada-USA gold medal hockey game at the Vancouver olympics. Someone just casually told me Canada won in OT.
I'm Canadian.
 
I did not get the RDR ride to Mexico like many others here, but I thought of another one.

There was a fire in my room a little bit before GTA SA came out. So there I was with my bed and all of my stuff in my dads living room for about a month with his bedroom right next to it. Any time I would play GTA they would be dropping N bombs everywhere and all the cussing he was like what is this shit!? He acted like a I was a 10 year old he caught watching porn, I was in my second year of college by this point.

Normally he didn't care about stuff like that, but this game and seemingly only this game, REALLY pissed him off for some reason.

edit: LGom09 love the avatar
 
My PS1 CD-ROM lens was worn out as hell and when playing FFVIII, the game froze during an FMV on disc three. I then found out I had not saved for a while.

Felt bad, smashed my head against a wall, replayed it... and the game froze again near the same place.
 
I walked in "Yeah hey I got the new Kingdom Hearts."

Wife: "Oh?"

Me: "Yeah I like these games. Wanna get something to go with that 3DS so I figured this might be decent."

Wife: "Oh yeah, I read about it." *Says minor story description*

Me: Heh, cool stuff.

Wife: Yeah and *THE ENDING*

Me: ...Thanks. Thanks for that.
 
Prior to the release of Heavy Rain, someone posted on N4G with the username (Heavy Rain end spoilers)
Scott_Shelby_Origami_Killer
. Totally soured my experience with the game.
 
I did both the RDR ones

The Mexico one I got off the horse before it even started so didn't realise there was a song and then the end one I was loving and got off the horse for some reason and the song stopped

Real oversight there
 
Almost every console port to PC when it goes to ultra compressed FMV for all the most important story parts so it looks like complete and total shit.

Many new console ports to PC when you boot it up and it forces you to play through a whole prologue in the shittiest graphics settings possible before you can even access a fucking menu.

Having that along with modding and various other stuff on PC, you learn to not be so sensitive about games being perfect little artistic creations.
 
24FrameDaVinci said:
Not a video game but I'll never forget this. My best bud and I were watching Training Day, and Denzel is delivering his fucking badass Scarface moment:

King Kong ain't got nothing, on--

::Knock knock knock::

On--

::Knock knock knock:::

I wanted to tear my mother's head off for a moment, then brought myself back to sanity, hit the pause button and answered the door. It ruined the movie.
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I had a similar moment when I was watching iron man on an aeroplane, and the waitress came by to ask if I wanted anything RIGHT BEFORE he says "I am Iron man". Made me sad :(
 
Toward the end of Skyward Sword
when you finally catch up to Zelda and Impa and they reveal the origins of the goddess Hylia and all that shit
my two friends arrived and started just sitting around making jokes and stuff.

Really ruined the moment.
 
Had the Red Dead Redemption ending spoiled (here on GAF!) when I had literally 3 or 4 missions left in the game. It was described in quite the detail as well.
 
I'll forever associate Grandia with throwing up constantly. I played only a few hours of it when I was really sick. To this day I still can't be bothered to give it another try, eventhough I'm well aware that this is pretty unfair of me to hold this against it.
 
Red Dead Redemption - Mexico scene

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUXGW6sWYDY

This doesn't happen if you don't use the horse they give you.

[edit]

Looks like I'm late.

But seriously, why would I use that shitty horse? I had gotten myself one of those golden ones at that point, no way was I gonna get rid of that.
 
Another vacuum story here : at the end of Beyond Good & Evil, my mother started vacuuming the living room (where I'd play) during the end boss + video.

Oh, well...
 
LoserMakesGood said:
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.
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I have similar issues with my fiancee. My solution is to play Civ5 when she's around and save the story games for when she's not.
 
Reading this thread has only strengthened my long-held belief that it should become a universal standard that all games are pause-able, at any point, whether that be ordinary gameplay, or an FMV, or the ending itself.

There are just too many ways for someone or something to demand your instant undivided attention: a telephone has to be answered in about 15-30 seconds, a doorbell maybe 10, and a parent in, what, maybe three?

And unfortunately society has decided that unlike the telephone or even the television, video games aren't something that serve as an excuse to ask someone to wait even a few moments. I'd like for that to change, but until it does, let us pause the action whenever we like so that we can attend to the all-important Non-Video-Game World.
 
Last of us me and my friend were playing together drunk and sleep deprived ... She took so long thru the final section I just ign walkthrough videoed that whole section lol ... So I spoiled myself I guess
 
I was in the middle of the battle with The End in MGS3 when my neighbours above me decided to put on a Britney Spears track at volume 11.
Years later I played the HD version... they decided to have a loud argument complete with throwing stuff around.
 
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-"
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As if 10 minutes would be close to enough. :P

Hmm, I have a couple. I'm a very, very meticulous gamer, and I'll go everywhere, sometimes more than once, to find every last hidden item or even just money (well...I'm a little better now). I played Kingdom Hearts 2 and had a savefile that was about 40-50 hours in, which turned out to be, I kid you not, barely a fourth of the game's story, not to mention side stuff. This was around the time of the ps2 (Viewtiful Joe?) demo disc error that wiped your memory card. I was pretty depressed about losing my save and didn't pick KH2 back up for a couple of years out of frustration.

Also I have .hack//Infection, and that game's difficulty just jumps out of nowhere. I died one day after a few hours of leveling for the next field and hadn't saved at all. I was so mad I haven't played it since.
 
The end of Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete has all of the characters that have joined your party over the course of the adventure saying a few inspirational things to Hiro, complete with animated cut scene and voice acting. Now, you can only see this once as the game auto saves right after that point for some reason, it's literally the only place in the series where you have a save forced on you. Just as the first guy starts talking, my grandmother starts in with this loud conversation with my grandfather behind me about some damn thing. I missed the whole thing.

To this day, I don't know what they said to Hiro. I always meant to look it up on Youtube, but I've just never gotten around to it.
 
Dunan said:
Reading this thread has only strengthened my long-held belief that it should become a universal standard that all games are pause-able, at any point, whether that be ordinary gameplay, or an FMV, or the ending itself.

There are just too many ways for someone or something to demand your instant undivided attention: a telephone has to be answered in about 15-30 seconds, a doorbell maybe 10, and a parent in, what, maybe three?

And unfortunately society has decided that unlike the telephone or even the television, video games aren't something that serve as an excuse to ask someone to wait even a few moments. I'd like for that to change, but until it does, let us pause the action whenever we like so that we can attend to the all-important Non-Video-Game World.
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Yes. Not everyone has a mancave. Plus even if we did sometimes you realize you can no longer ignore the fact you have to take a piss, and that happens in the middle of a 10 minute cutscene or something. Just let me pause the damn game. IDGAF if it's your bullshit scripted tutorial or the ending movie or even in the middle of a fucking QTE. You know why? Because no one in the world other than me who is playing does. I am not allowed to care. Sometimes I have to pause the game and just leave it that way for 20 minutes. Those interruptions are annoying enough without stupid game design meaning I have to restart a whole section when I return.
 
Brother and I playing ESPN Baseball Tonight on the SNES. One of us about to win with a home run. The ball is in mid air about to go over the fence.....power outage!
 
Creaking said:
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.
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I watched my partner play through Journey shortly after I completed it, so we could discuss it. Unfortunately at the end of the game as you're supposed to be climbing towards the summit, she fell through the cliffs and got stuck behind some world geometry. That was that!

Leeness said:
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.

:/
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I laughed mighty hard at this story and your plight. Thanks for sharing it.
 
Loved Burnout Paradise and completed it on 101%. Was very excited for upcoming DLC (new Island), just before it launched my save-game became corrupted. Never got myself to play it again.
 
Manmedaz said:
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.
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Example of dick parenting.


ProcrasDANation said:
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"
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Example of GREAT parenting. :D
 
In Legend of Dragoon just when I beat the boss near or at the end of the first disc and the unpausable cutscene started I got a phone call. It was from a counselor who was calling all the students who completed middle school to congratulate them and talk about high school.

When I came back to the game Lavitz was dead.
 
Just a couple of weeks ago. DR: Case Zero, sound cut out on the final cinematic. Will need to see if I can get it on youtube.
 
Lapidus' Beard said:
I was in the middle of the battle with The End in MGS3 when my neighbours above me decided to put on a Britney Spears track at volume 11.
Years later I played the HD version... they decided to have a loud argument complete with throwing stuff around.
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"I saw him come home with the MGS3 HD version the other day, wanna ruin the ending for him again?"
"Sure!"
*starts huge fake argument*
 
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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Guhh, same. Utterly clueless at what incredible ride everyone was talking about.

Also the ending shot of RDR
after Jack kills that one cop, before the credits roll? In my personal playthrough.. JACK HAS HIS EYES FUCKING CLOSED FOR THE CLOSE UP SHOT and looked like a total dork.
Ruined such a tense moment.

So, for the longest time I couldn't understand why people though RDR had the 'coolest ending shot'.
 
I got Ico with PS+ a while back.

Just as I've finished the game game and the final cut-scene starts there is someone at the door. I'm afraid to press start or select in case that might skip the cut-scene so I press the PS-button to go to the menu since that usually pauses the game. It doesn't.

I go and open the door and have to go outside for 5-10 minutes. When I get back
I'm on a beach.

The last savepoint is way before the end so I have to watch the ending cut-scene on YouTube which kind of ruined the mood a bit.
 
I loathe, LOATHE, when games spoil significant parts, or even the whole flipping game, in their own trailers.
 
I've deviced certain techniques for ensuring my immersion isn't broken when I'm deep in some great game. My girlfriend started figuring the perfect time to talk to me was when someone was saying something in Mass Effect 3. So I sat her down and explained that when people are moving their lips, I cannot be bothered. And if she did talk at an unopportuned time, I wouldn't want to break my immersion, and she understood that, so she agreed to the general "I'm showing you the back of my hand now"-gesture, and it works pretty well.

Also, I do some simulation racing races. They can be hours long. At that time, I alert anyone in the house and pretty much seal myself in a room, not to be disturbed. Still, there were some times during The Last of Us that my parents would decide to start talking to me at a story tense moment. I guess I should explain to people that the times you aren't actually using the controller isn't times you're just staring blankly at the screen..
 
Red Dead Redemption - both instances where the atmospheric songs kick in during long rides into new areas were ruined for me. On the first ride I was attacked by an animal without provokation which ended the music prematurely and the second song stopped when I accidentally got of my horse during the ride. I wish Rockstar would have made sure that the music kept playing.
 
El-Suave said:
Red Dead Redemption - both instances where the atmospheric songs kick in during long rides into new areas were ruined for me. On the first ride I was attacked by an animal without provokation which ended the music prematurely and the second song stopped when I accidentally got of my horse during the ride. I wish Rockstar would have made sure that the music kept playing.
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I want Jose Gonzalez to serenade me while I am mauled by cougars.
 
Sonic 3 + Sonic Knuckles, my nephew (slightly older than me) watching and cheering me on as I reach the final stages, I grab the last emerald after failing to do so a few times, nearing the final boss encounter when we're interrupted and asked to go to the supermarket. We insist we can't but it wasn't an option, so we pause the game and go.

We return, hoping that nothing went wrong in the meantime, press start to unpause the game. Nothing happens. Press all the keys in the controller, nothing happens. Unplug and plug back the controller, nothing happens.

We stare blankly at the television, at the frozen picture of Sonic going full speed in Super form and coming to the realisation that we lost all of our progress and effort.

My nephew begrudgingly resets the console. We look at the start screen, turn the console off again and go outside to stare at clouds.
 
I can't think of one for myself right now but there was a video on YouTube showing the end of Red Dead
where a guy gets attacked by a wolf during the showdown with the Marshall on the final mission.
. Can't find the video now though.
 
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