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[conman]

The dip-shits who made Assassin's Creed 3 spoiled their own game. Though it's been subsequently patched, the in-game log originally revealed major plot twists. Totally ruined major parts of the game's plot.

Thankfully, the rest of the game was also a major disappointment, so that original set of spoilers bothered me a lot less. Or at least, it didn't bother me any worse than anything else about that disaster of a game.

 

[Thorgal]

I finally managed to reach the last boss in kingdom hearts on proud mode on my fat PS3 in 2007 and beat him with everything done in the game .

Then at that exact moment the electricity fell out .

My moment of glory denied . =(

 

[DiscoShrew]

Fell for the Akatosh Save You Prank in Oblivion a long while ago, with my max 500hrs+ character. Basically, I deleted all my saves and jumped off dive rock and died. Never played it ever again, so much lost...

 

[EraldoCoil]

Halo 2

I had got the game a few hours after and my buddy called me and asked if I was playing it so I said, "yeah, I'm playing it right now" and then he proceeds to spoil the game for me by saying, "have you got to the part where you play as the elite?"

fuuuuuuuuuuuu

 

[Lyte Edge]

Let me change it up slightly- I was the one who ruined a game for someone else!

Back in 1990-1991, my brother made it to the last dungeon in the original Final Fantasy and was working on grinding to take out the boss.

I decided to try the game. Started a new game, created some characters, did a few battles, then went to the Inn.

A few days later, my brother comes running over to me and says "YOU SAVED OVER MY GAME!!!!!" He was pretty pissed, but started playing all over again.

Later on, when he was more than halfway done, I tried playing again. He comes over to me again and screams that I saved over the game. I had no idea that sleeping at the Inn saved over the game and he didn't tell me that the first time around, lol.

My brother never played Final Fantasy again.

 

[Crateman]

Definitely on the top of the list is finding out that

Spoiler

Big Boss

made an appearance at the end of Metal Gear Solid 4. I was so obsessed with the game pre-launch that I stumbled across a very grainy image on GAF that depicted the moment.

Never again.

 

[Aurongel]

-Some asshole Gaffer spoiled the part in Bioshock Infinite where it's revealed that

Spoiler

Booker is Comstock

.

-Another asshole Gaffer linked a video on Youtube of the intro to The Last of Us before release and the video thumbnail on mobile gave away the setting and character both.

 

[Creaking]

-Some asshole Gaffer spoiled the part in Bioshock Infinite where it's revealed that

Spoiler

Booker is Comstock

.

You should probably mention what point in the game that spoiler is from. Some games have lots of reveals.

 

[Morrigan Stark]

Near the end of Red Dead Redemption, the game gives you six shots against

Spoiler

the government agents in a row, looking to kill John.

Well, apparently I got enough to earn the trophy for killing 500 enemies with pistols.

So I got a trophy "In a Hail of Bullets" (complete with the happy "Ding!" notification) alongside the sight of

Spoiler

watching John die in a hail of bullets.

That was great.

Similar thing with The Walking Dead.

Spoiler

Kenny smashes Larry's head with a block of salt.

Get the trophy, "Too Much Salt Will Kill You".

"Ding!"

Yeah, I hate that shit too. Tried to turn off the 360 achievements notifications, but I couldn't. As soon as the PS3 firmware update gave the option to turn off the trophy notification, I turned that shit off and never looked back.

 

[Manmedaz]

Example of dick parenting.



Example of GREAT parenting.

Well, to his defense it was not the first time I did it. I guess he tried to impress me and though that I would stop if he succeeded, I don't think that he wanted to break the console. Needless to say it didn't change anything though .

 

[Aurongel]

You should probably mention what point in the game that spoiler is from. Some games have lots of reveals.

If you haven't beaten the game then you shouldn't be nosing through general spoilers anyway. If someone were that sensitive in the first place then they wouldn't dare click it.

 

[Morrigan Stark]

Well, to his defense it was not the first time I did it. I guess he tried to impress me and though that I would stop if he succeeded, I don't think that he wanted to break the console. Needless to say it didn't change anything though .

Did he pay for the repairs, at least?

 

[TheOGB]

Any moment where you're about to complete something and the system you're playing on freaks out.

Certain driver updates for my graphics card make it so after about a half hour of playing a game the display will just shut off. The amount of times that has fucked me over playing TF2 is maddening.

 

[4lejandro]

Was playing SFII on the SNES, trying to get the best ending (hardest difficulty, single credit, no round losses, etc), resetting the game when I lost a round etc and having the hardest time in my 12 year old life (or so, can't remember clearly) beating the world warriors; was on a great run and winning round 2 against Balrog (boxer), suddenly, a cousin came by (this was a fairly rare occurrence btw, he was my "gamer" cousin, always had the latest games/consoles, etc, and would kick my ass in SF any day of the week, but I was getting better at it every day, though), before saying Hello, he took controller 2 and pressed Start (FFFFUUUUU), I kicked his ass in 2 rounds (even getting 1 perfect) and had to start over, eventually I was able to master the game and get the best endings consistently on the SNES versions of SFII, but that day I learned to channel my rage into the gamepad on a positive way :lol

 

[jay]

My friend and I were playing the long four part forest battle in Path of Radiance when my roommate decides to show my then girlfriend the circuit box in our apartment and how it turns on and off. Of course, he had to demonstrate.

 

[Holy Order Sol]

People talking to me while I was watching the ending of MGS, wtf.

 

[RangerX]

My dad took San Andreas away from me, because he heard cuss words. And I was 15. I was hearing cuss words in school every day.

I had only done a handful of missions, and was loving it. Without a doubt my #1 ruined gaming experience.

Man i never understood parents that strict. Thats not protecting a kid in any way thats just ridiculous. I mean curse words are'nt the worst thing a teenager can do.

 

[Gameboy415]

Back in college, I was playing Fatal Frame 2 on PS2 at my apartment and was maybe 30 minutes into the game when my roommate comes home with his idiot friend:
Him: "Oooh, is this Fatal Frame 2??"
Me: "Yeah! I just started it - it's awesome so far."
Him: "Yeah, I couldn't believe that *MIND-BLOWING ENDING SPOILER*"

I literally dropped the controller and yelled out "what the HELL! I JUST told you I JUST started the game! Why the F&#K would you tell me the ending!?!"
I completely went off on him and he got all defensive saying stuff like "oh I thought you knew". (what kind of idiotic logic is THAT?)

The same guy went on to spoil 2-3 other games for me back then - I eventually started leaving the room any time my roommate invited him over.

I still get angry when I think about it to this day...

 

[Tuck]

Uncharted 3's plane sequence - saw pretty much the whole thing before the game was even out.

 

[flyover]

Near the end of Red Dead Redemption, the game gives you six shots against

Spoiler

the government agents in a row, looking to kill John.

Well, apparently I got enough to earn the trophy for killing 500 enemies with pistols.

So I got a trophy "In a Hail of Bullets" (complete with the happy "Ding!" notification) alongside the sight of

Spoiler

watching John die in a hail of bullets.

That was great.

Similar thing with The Walking Dead.

Spoiler

Kenny smashes Larry's head with a block of salt.

Get the trophy, "Too Much Salt Will Kill You".

"Ding!"

God, I hate trophy notifications. So glad Sony finally added the option on PS3 to disable them.

 

[NG28]

I got to Mexico in Red Dead and that song started playing. It was awesome for all of about 10 seconds before I accidentally fell off the side of the cliff and died.

 

[dab0ne]

When I was in 8th grade (Summer of 1996) I saved up all summer to buy my own Playstation. I got it home and my older brother said "Cool!" and opened the box. I was pretty pissed.

 

[encephalon]

OH GOD I JUST HIGHLIGHTED THIS OUT OF MUSCLE MEMORY NOOOOO

I do this all the time.

 

[DirtyDeedsDoneDirtCheap]

Shadow Hearts Covenant was a PS2 JRPG with a cute little "Profiles" option that let you check a small backstory for all the named characters and their elemental affinity, even NPCs.

It also detailed which member of your party was going to be a traitor.

Granted, that was like

Spoiler

a couple minutes

into the game so you were hardly invested in the character but still that was a pretty hilarious way of giving it away.

 

[OmnipotentO]

More recently I went full retard and read a Persona 3 spoiler on gamefaqs message boards. Still playing through but god damn it:

 

[Brannon]

Considering how much I hate FF8 and how it just completely killed the series for me, this post makes me feel that extra kind of good.

Feasting on my pain

But then, to be honest, as much as I hate the song due to it being abused all summer, "Thong" is still a hell of a lot better that that "Eyes" crap in FF8. I don't know what was going on with that.

 

[flyover]

Feasting on my pain

But then, to be honest, as much as I hate the song due to it being abused all summer, "Thong" is still a hell of a lot better that that "Eyes" crap in FF8. I don't know what was going on with that.

Whenever sang my song
On the stage
In my thong...

 

[B-Genius]

During L.A. Noire's ending scene, the game glitched and it was kind of traumatic.

Spoiler

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.

Haha, this is a good one.

When I first completed Sonic 2 on the Megadrive, my mum came in the room just as he was bailing out of the Death Egg and free-falling (before Tails catches him).

She goes "oh, is he dead?"

My poor child self was like .____________.

I told her NO and strictly made her watch the rest, but I kept thinking about it. What if Sonic had actually died? ... What if, man? I was almost in tears singing the school hymn in asembly the next day...

Edit:

Another one - when playing MGS3 for the first time, a bunch of dorm friends decided to see what I was so excited about. It was a veritable party in my room while I was going through the opening cutscenes and Virtuous Mission. Everyone was laughing and making fun of the cheesy script and Snake's "awkward animations". I remember chuckling along and being all "yeah... hehe... pretty dumb, right?"

But inside... inside I was a black sinking hole of nothigness.

 

[Deleted member 47027]

I told her NO and strictly made her watch the rest, but I kept thinking about it. What if Sonic had actually died? ... What if, man? I was almost in tears singing the school hymn in asembly the next day...

This is so good. So good.

 

[gotoadgo]

MGS2 had just come out and I'd been taking my time. My friend had been playing it on easy so he'd gotten ahead of me. Anyway, he decided it'd be funny to tell me you fight all the Rays toward the end of the game. Not a huge spoiler in terms of story but I was so hyped for that game I hated him for a little while after that.

 

[Angel Abaddon]

End of Darksiders. Had moved back to my parents while looking for a place for myself, so was getting meals and all. As I finished the final boss, got the dinner call. Said I'd be down in a second, realised the ending was going on for a bit thought "Well, stick it on Guide button and resume it when I finish". No dice, brought the Guide up and the scene carried on in the background. And the cutscene kept going. and going. At this point I'm doing something akin to the toilet dance because I don't want to miss the ending, replay the boss OR let my food go cold. Ended up watching it all as it wasn't all that long, but basically begging the game to finish definitely ruined the "No...not alone" moment.

 

[kriskizlyk]

I have a few...

Anyone that posts and does not know how to

Spoiler

USE THE SPOILER BUTTON

!

FF7, I was I think 16 at the time, dad wanted me to come out and pick roots with him. I started playing in the morning and Dad flipped the breaker on me for the house as I was delaying wanting to pick. Nothing like picking roots for 12 hours and then coming back to redo the Shinra Building all over to realize that the save point was in the same room I was in. FACK!

Metacritic reviews have always made me disappointed about games from the shit that people put in the comments sections and do not mark them as spoilers.

1. I loved Mass Effect, loved it.

Spoiler

When people starter giving shittiy reviews for Mass Effect 3 it really put me in a bad mood because I had not had a chance to play it and see for myself and make my own judgement about the ending. I liked the ending, but it was tainted from the reviews.

2. Some "loser" put the ending of Max Payne 3 in the comments section for Diablo 3. An you had to read it because they posted it 20+ times in a row.

From there on, I do not read and reviews on Metacritic.

 

[Deleted member 47027]

2. Some homo put the ending of Max Payne 3 in the comments section for Diablo 3. An you had to read it because they posted it 20+ times in a row.

Karma for you I guess.

 

[thoseAREmySHOES]

Spoiler

Would you kindly...

I'll never forgive the guy who did that to me.

E: Bioshock 1 spoilers up thur.

This, absolutely this.

Also, I remember when I was younger and playing through Golden Sun for the first time. I was horribly underleveled and trying to beat the final boss anyways. I died a ton of times, but I was finally having a successful run... and my mom storms in and says TURN OFF THE DAMN GAME BOY AND GO OUTSIDE. I start stammering, saying I can't save right here and I'm about to beat the game, but she kept yelling until I shut the system off in front of her.

 

[kriskizlyk]

Karma for you I guess.

Learned my lesson...

 

[malfcn]

Mine was looking up the voice actor for Booker and seeing

Spoiler

that he was Comstock!

 

[chupon]

I had a pretty crappy glitch which I still don't know how I hit in Costume Quest. It's a game breaking bug because you can't progress due to it. I had to restart from the beginning since there's no save system. Really sucked, but I managed to finish the game.

 

[flyover]

2. Some homo put the ending of Max Payne 3 in the comments section for Diablo 3.

Learned my lesson...

I'm not sure you have...

 

[Aaron-Lagann]

My mom has a habit of walking in and talking to me at the end of games with unpausable cut-scenes. Recently with Saints Row 4 I ended up lightly snapping at her because of interrupting at a crucial part of the story.

The worst offender of this was when Brad Shoemaker was getting the Mile High achievement and she started talking to me just as he was about to get it, totally ruined the moment. Still, I'll never forget.

Also, I love my mom and I'm never actually rude to her over this, it's just an annoying coincidence that has ruined a few moments.

 

[MCN]

Who the Origami Killer was. Should've known better since it was in the Youtube comments.

On the plus side, it saved you the unpleasantness of actually having to "play" the "game".

 

[terrisus]

Some homo

Yeah, you're going to want to edit that.

 

[TalOrtRal]

I missed that incredible ride to mexio in RDR that everyone talks about all because I saved at the fucking campfire.

I made an account to basically say the same thing. I crossed the bridge and had maybe 5 seconds of that incredible moment. Then I instinctively shot a bird and got off the horse to collect it.

Had no idea getting off the horse would stop the music and you can never start it again.