There was this time when i was playing Final Fantasy 7; the disc was borrowed and it was kinda scratched but it haven't give me any problems.
Then, i was in this part where the party is in a kind of a fair, and the CG cutscene when they're on the rollercoaster started, and suddenly the game suddenly skips to the part when Sephirots stabs Aerith. I was like "WTF?!?!" for a while until i realized the game somehow has skippe a big chunk of the game and it has actually spoiled me.
Later when i was actually at the part where Aerith dies, i was more in a "Meh" mode 'cause i already know what happened.
There was this time when i was playing Final Fantasy 7; the disc was borrowed and it was kinda scratched but it haven't give me any problems.
Then, i was in this part where the party is in a kind of a fair, and the CG cutscene when they're on the rollercoaster, and suddenly the game suddenly skips to the part when Sephirots stabs Aerith. I was like "WTF?!?!" for a while until i realized the game somehow has skippe a big chunk og the game and it has actually spoiled me.
Later when i was actually at the part where Aerith dies, i was more in a "Meh" mode 'cause i already know what happened.
I remember playing Final Fantasy 8, and the last few hours were a slog because the story decided to take a pissant twist for the worst, but I pushed through it. Right as I end the final fight, some roommates and a bunch of their friends come in. One of them recognizes the ending and says "AW SHIT HE BEAT THE GAME! CELEBRATE!!"
Cue the umpteen millionth time that a person plays "The Thong Song" by Sisqo. So now I want all of you to youtube the FF8 ending, mute it, and then the Thong Song, and jam that one up to max and that is my FF8 ending experience. Every moment tinged with Thongs.
Choking on hotdogs-thongs, dance-thongs, end song-thong, k-i-s-s-t-h-o-n-g... An aural boot stomping thongs on your eardrums, forever. I was mad, but at the same time I couldn't BE mad because the whole thing was ridiculous in how it... it fit. Still, it's the principle! Always wanted to play it again proper wise but man, that story...
Towards the end of a long session of Majora's Mask, I had just finished collecting the 15 Stray Fairies in the Stone Tower Temple, gone and received the Great Fairy's Sword as my prize and was feeling great as I headed to the save statue... And then my sister and her friend tripped over power cord and unplugged the N64. I had to start all over . _.
When I was younger I had a PS1 and I lost my memory card.
My parents could not buy a new one right away the only thing I did for a few weeks was see how far I could get in Spyro year of the dragon before I had to shut it off for the night. The first few areas in that game are forever burned into my brain.
Had no feels when Aeris died in FF7 because I read that spoilers weeks before playing it. Sort of glad that I did though because I would have been more mad about leveling her and then losing her.
While playing through the last part of Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter there was someone next to me that bothered the crap out of me because I had promised to teach him how to do a table in html and couldn't wait anymore. The whole hour+ of that awesome ending section was basically ruined. I don't blame him though, it was my fault for putting it off for days because I wanted to play BoF way too much that week neglecting my responsibilities.
I played the whole of Journey in one sitting after reading & hearing all the positive press, and I couldn't enjoy it as much as I could have because I was expecting an experience.
It ruined the whole experience for me.
I only have myself to blame.
The big secret of Bioshock Infinite was ruined for me by a Rule 34 picture on the front page of 4chan. Imagine that??? Fucking annoying.
Also Wikipedia is a great fucking ruiner of video games. Wanna look some shit up that isn't specific to the story about a video game, like the developer or release date? Well don't fucking go to Wikipedia until after you've beaten the game. Ruined so many games.
I remember playing Final Fantasy 8, and the last few hours were a slog because the story decided to take a pissant twist for the worst, but I pushed through it. Right as I end the final fight, some roommates and a bunch of their friends come in. One of them recognizes the ending and says "AW SHIT HE BEAT THE GAME! CELEBRATE!!"
Cue the umpteen millionth time that a person plays "The Thong Song" by Sisqo. So now I want all of you to youtube the FF8 ending, mute it, and then the Thong Song, and jam that one up to max and that is my FF8 ending experience. Every moment tinged with Thongs.
Choking on hotdogs-thongs, dance-thongs, end song-thong, k-i-s-s-t-h-o-n-g... An aural boot stomping thongs on your eardrums, forever. I was mad, but at the same time I couldn't BE mad because the whole thing was ridiculous in how it... it fit. Still, it's the principle! Always wanted to play it again proper wise but man, that story...
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.
First thing that I remember having spoiled for me was who Sheik was in Ocarina of Time, which people had posted online a bit before the game's release.
I think I've been spoiled by some hot Elizabeth pics too, but they were worth it.
I remember my parents kept coming into my room and telling me to come watch some youtube video while I was doing the final battle in MGS4, it was so annoying.
Someone on the comments section on youtube spoiled the ending for RE5 since it released in Japan first. At the time, everyone still believed it to be a good RE game, so this was a big issue.
A bigger problem for me hapened with Onimusha (4) Dawn of Dreams. I was on the 96th floor of the Dark Realm when my parents decided to install a new light switch in the kitchen. It didn't take more than 10 minutes to do that, vut you can't save in the Dark Realm, and you need to defeat all enemies on a floor to be given the option to continue or to return and then save. Enemies at that floor are very tough and respawn more times, so teling them to wait was not an option. I lost ~2 hours of gameplay that day. Keep in mind that this was with one character, and there were 5 for a total of 500 floors, so this was a massive loss time wise.
Me and my two friends bought mgs4 together and borrowed ps3 from one other friend. We played the game through in two days. It was the worst way to play it and I regret playing it with them. I wanted to sneak around and they wanted to shoot way through. Both of them talked all the time some stupid shit and laughed during cut scenes.
I was watching the 2013 Sony e3 conference with one of my psn buddies in a chat and he lives on the west coast so he was getting the stream like 10 seconds and he ruined everything but I was so upset when he started screaming kh3 and just destroyed that moment for me
I played RDR a few days after its Release. My dad sat near me and watched me playing and we both liked the story the setting etc. My mom walked by and said
"Oh a western game. Does the protagonist die at the end?"
Man, I love me some story games, but this thread is a great example of why "immersion" should stop being used as an excuse for bad game design. Not every game should put everything into something that can fall apart so easily. Good gameplay can't be ruined by such mundane things.
Someone saying "hi" to you can absolutely murder an otherwise fantastic scene.
Square had demo reels of FFVII showing Sephiroth killing Aeris before/around the time of the games release.
Speaking of FFVII, I had spent hours grinding for the gold chocobo to get Knights of the Round. Did so on a school night, sometime at around 2 or so in the morning. Got the summon, tried it on the little dudes on the island, was amazed and accidentally turned my PSX off too soon and corrupted my save file. I was ready to fight Sephiroth and everything.
I have a good one. I got the Pokemon Blue version bundle back in the day. My brother got the Red bundle. My other brother got the yellow gameboy color with Pokemin pinball ( I loved that game so much). They were imported as in, they were bought in the US, but we lived in El Salvador, so replacing the thing was not an option.
My blue gameboy color had the cable port busted. It didn't work. Since it was my first time with it, I didn't know what it was for, so I let it be. My Pokemon Blue copy, however, was busted too. Sometimes it did not save my game at.all, and when it did, it only supported 3 saves max. I only knew a couple of words in English, but even then, I borrowed my other brother's yellow gameboy color and used my blue copy of the game.
I pushed through with my limited English and my two AA batteries to get to the end in one day. I played it all morning since I had school in the afternon, and I kept the system on during classes and played during breaks. I played late at night just rushing through without leveling up much if at all until I got to Mewtwo. The legendaries were tricky to get because I did not have the liberty of resetting the game. Once I had them, I would transfer them to my brother's red version so that I could use them. Blue version had some exclusive Pokemon and interesting extras. After that, it took me a while to figure out why my high level Pokemon weren't listening to me.
I don't remember any really bad moments, but my worst one was when I had bought a pre-owned copy of Pikmin 2 at around launch and played it to hell and back. Just as I finished paying the debt, a special cinematic would play and then the game would lock up every single time.
That was the last pre-owned game I've ever bought as long as getting a new copy was even remotely possible.
I think I've also experienced quite a few cases of somebody else tripping on a cord and crashing games, or getting asked to do something just as I was in the middle of something really interesting, but I guess none of those cases were that important since I don't remember the specifics at all.
I kept meaning to play Bioshock, but never really got round to it. Nevertheless, Would You Kindly is quoted and discussed often enough that I now have no inclination to go back and play it.
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.
I can't remember any really big ones, but last night I was playing Amnesia A Machine for Pigs, in spite of the review scores and my better judgement, and (semi-spoiler, isn't very far into game)
I was legitimately scared for a good majority of the first hour, or two hours, until I got to the first monster. It was so disappointing, because I trailed behind him as he passed by me and began examining him. It's so dumb that they removed the insanity meter and I can actually look at the monsters and realize how unscary they are. All the build-up up until then to be let down. I stopped playing then.
I'll probably go back to it tonight, though, and see if it redeems itself..
It wasn't too bad but on completing the Walking Dead I had to very quickly compose myself as some friends knocked on the door. Could have done with soaking it up a bit more. Also, 'I'm fine, I just... I just completed a video game...' is not a good way to explain your emotional state to friends who couldn't care less about games
Bought Nier at the recommendation of the people here. Put in the disc, sat down and watched how the intro trailer spoiled half of the entire first playthrough. Game still ended up being enjoyable and the story was great regardless of the spoilers,
although the lack of subtlety in its storytelling was a bit off-putting.
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Got to the true ending of Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts. Managed to get to the final boss and was just about to finish him off with my very last life. That moment was so unbelievably intense that I actually forgot I was playing a game. After all the blood and tears, I was finally going to end. This. Fucking. GAME! THESE HANDS OF MINE GLOW WITH AN AWESOME POWEEER! ITS BURNING GRIP TELLS ME TO DEFEAT YOU! TAKE THIS! MY LOVE! MY ANGER! AND ALL OF MY SORROW! SHINING. FINGEEEE--dead lol.
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First Persona game I ever played was Persona 3. My only experience with the SMT series was Devil Survivor on the DS, so I found out the hard way just how brutal the game and its status effects were. I played it when it got released on PSN and apart from massive flickering issues that turned levels into rave parties, I never encountered a significant glitch. I started out switching between two save files, just in case I wanted to get back to a slightly earlier point in the game for whatever reason. That only lasted for an hour or 30 though, as I eventually stopped doing so and sticked to a single save file. Anyway, no problems whatsoever. Nearing the ending of the game, my entire team ready and every single thing left to do was completed. After 110 hours, I was finally ready to finish this game, but I had to save and quit, as I ran out of time.
Came back a day later, booted up game...save file gone. "What? WHAT? WHAT'S GOING ON. WHERE'S MY SAVE FILE?!" I go back to the main menu and then back to the loading screen. It's still not there. "NO. FUCK SHIT NO!". I reset my console, load up the game again. Nothing. I check the save files manually, but no luck. I looked it up on the web, only to find out that this can happen with the PSN version and that it is recommended to use multiple saves. 80 hours of massive amounts of effort. Gone.
Thankfully, I still forced myself to play through the game from the 30-hour save file and it only made the amazing ending of the game that much more incredible.
when I had just started Persona 4 the first time, I saw a big ass wallpaper featuring ALL THREE of the last dungeons' bosses, of which I recognized the most obvious one and the other two I [very stupidly] inspected and recognize who they were.
Didn't quite ruin the game for me, but it did suck pretty hard.
Oh and, while I didn't have The Walking Dead spoiled for me per say,
the constant commenting on how sad it was led me to correctly deduce the ending.
What really ruined the experience for me though was (semi-spoilers for TLoU)
having finished it the very same night I beat TLoU, and I'm not sure what it was, maybe I was just emotionally spent, but I wasn't able to feel quite the same way that I had felt during many, many points in TLoU. The anticipation probably attributed to the dulling of my emotions, as well.
Finally got to the Joker in the original Batman for NES, when my Mom told me that I had played enough. I asked to just finish out this game and then I'd be done, but she went ahead and hit the power button.
I played RDR a few days after its Release. My dad sat near me and watched me playing and we both liked the story the setting etc. My mom walked by and said
"Oh a western game. Does the protagonist die at the end?"
I was playing FFVII for the first time, and I was trying to beat the boss needed
to recruit Vincent Valentine as a party member
. It was late, my parents had gone to bed, and I was still up in the game room, door closed, lights on, and I guess a few hours had passed. My mom suddenly busts into the room all "Why are you still up?"
And I'm just like 'FFFFF-' in my head.
I tell her, I need to beat this guy, I can't stop, and I can't save until afterward. I thought for sure she was going to be like "I DON'T CURR" and turn it off.
Nope.
She sat down on the floor next to me and waited, asking me questions about the game as I played. About 30 minutes later, I beat the boss,
I was in the middle of the second Scarecrow battle in Arkham Asylum when my PS3 crashed while I was in the middle of jump. Ended up being yellow light of death and I lost a lot of save data (including all of my Arkham progress). Don't think anything else in my gaming life will top that for worst way to ruin a moment.
N64 release day. I waited for months, got it home, hooked it up, put Mario 64 into the cartridge slot, flipped the power switch... and then my dad tells me the family's going shopping and I have to come.
I just remembered another event, the most obnoxious one that happened to me:
So, I had Mario Party 2, and had painsakenly beaten all screens of the mini-game course thing with the difficulty set to hard (read: AI cheats against you and sucks ass when it's your 2v2 partner), but was currently stuck on the fire jump-the-rope game since the rope moved way to freaking fast for my hand-eye coordination to keep up with. Then, one day decided to play it again on Easy just to fool around while making sure not to save, and got to the end... only to realize the game had overwritten my previous save anyway! After I had been trying for several months to beat the last few set of challenges to get some secret mini-game thing, and as the amounts of hax I had to endure to get to that point had been excruciating already, I swore not to ever touch that blasted cartridge again.
