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Post by Xicrog on Aug 16, 2007 10:52:48 GMT -5
Note I said stupid gamING moments, not stupid game moments. Here, we discuss mistakes made while playing video games that have made us want to whack ouselves over the head with our controller repeatedly.
I will say this once and only once. In Suikoden 5, I got lost in the Deep Twilight Forest...with a map.
It took me four months to find Diobarg in Wild ARMS 3. Guess what I was doing wrong? Looking on the wrong continent.
Missed the sidequests in Tales of Legendia. All of them.
Tried to get Luke's Tactical Leader title by fighting the...er, the super-secret boss on Very Hard mode. Not a good idea.
Speaking of that, everybody except for Guy (whom I was controlling) died because I didn't bring enough gels and I have godawful reflexes. I was almost out of TP with him, and without artes I didn't have a prayer of winning. So seeing as Guy is by far the fastest and most agile character in the game, I opted to see how long he could last if I made him run around in circles. It was at least ten minutes before the boss FINALLY pegged him with Frigid Coffin and he died.
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Post by Zylaa on Aug 16, 2007 15:09:39 GMT -5
Well, I'm doing something stupid in Kingdom Hearts in the tarzan place, because I can't find out how to get to the next area. I keep swinging on the vines the only way they'll allow, and it keeps leading me to a dead end. In the previous world, Wonderland or whatever they call it, I routinely tried every single door I could except the one that would lead me to the boss battle like I needed it to.
I'm sure I've made many more mistakes, but I can't think of any more off the top of my head...
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Post by Xicrog on Sept 2, 2007 20:39:53 GMT -5
Okay. Two nights ago, I bought Wild Arms 5 (great game, BTW) and since I was going to be bereft of my beloved games for the next two weeks due to college, I decided to play for almost two and a half days straight with less than five hours of total rest. That? Not smart, even with caffeine, taurine, and guarana.
I did not do anything mind-numbingly stupid until about the tenth hour in. I was at the Baskar's hideout on the tenth floor, where you are supposed to solve a puzzle that involves changing the colors of six or possibly seven glowing spheres with magic bullets.
So, pretty normal Wild Arms fare, and a pretty easy puzzle. It took me thirty minutes to solve, though part of that was me trying to multitask and hack into our neighbor's wireless network to access the wonders of GameFAQs. Oh, here's the worst part- I already knew how to solve it. I had seen a video of the JP release on Youtube involving that particular puzzle, and it took that guy about as long as me to solve it. And for about ten minutes I was yelling out the solution to the monitor because I'm bad about that kind of thing. I'm well-versed in Filgaia logic, just not when I'm half-asleep.
The game show segment? Two hours. The logic labyrinth thing used Filgaia logic instead of Earth logic. How was I supposed to know that "two squares over" didn't mean "two square-shaped floor tiles over?" That, and the host was driving me slowly insane. Insaner than usual, I mean. Also....THERE WAS A MAZE. I WAS DOOMED TO FAILURE, I TELL YOU. DOOMED! On the bright side, with how often I ended up in penalty rounds, my characters ended up grieveously overleveled.
Oh, the other thing I did was repeatedly run Dean off sharp precipices and/or into lakes and other bodies of water, but I do that all the time in Wild Arms games. Usually, it's on accident. Seriously, it's a miracle Dean, Jet, Virginia, Ashley, Clive, Kanon, and Jude never died or broke every bone in their bodies (okay, so maybe it wasn't such a miracle with Kanon then. Or possibly Jet. Did they ever explain how his physiology works?) with how often they flung themselves from extreme heights.
The one that was absolutely hysterical at the time was when I first got the monowheel (most epic form of transportation ever!) and was driving around, enjoying myself greatly, forgot how to brake, and then promptly drove straight off a mountain. Or rather did the Filgaian version of driving off a mountain, which is actually driving straight into a magic invisible barrier surrounding the mountain and rebounding six feet into the air.
At that point in time, I decided that running into objects is a highly effective form of braking (I didn't read the tutorial too carefully, if you couldn't tell) and proceeded to ram into some trees. The monowheel's tendency to bounce when it hits things made this even funnier.
Okay, summary of things learned from that experience:
-Don't do drugs -Get eight hours of rest every night -Nobody dies in Wild Arms games except for some unfortunates who I shall not mention (CURSE YOU, WILD ARMS 4!) -Running into trees causes you to brake -Multitasking isn't fun at two in the morning.
(Parentheses abuse!)
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Post by Zylaa on Sept 3, 2007 13:35:40 GMT -5
XD You driving off the mountain reminds me of when katanal and two guys and I were hanging out in the games store... they found a motorcycle racing game and decided that, instead of playing the game, they were going to attempt spectacular wipeouts by doing things like, yes, driving off the mountain.
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Post by Xicrog on Sept 3, 2007 15:05:18 GMT -5
OMG. Renames. They are so much fun. Too bad RPGs nowadays don't use them anymore.
I already mentioned BOB! in the Misread Signs thread. Of course, substituting Bob for anything is funny.
In FF9, I renamed Steiner as Obvious so I would get quotes like..."Captain Obvious, you're the reason why I joined the Pluto Knights!"
Also in FF9, I renamed everyone as Kuja in another playthrough. It was phenomenally confusing. "Kuja searches for man called Kuja. I called Kuja." "Kuja told me about you! You're Kuja!" And so on and so forth. I had to give up on that one because after a while I had no idea what was going on.
There was a playthrough of Wild Arms 3 where I named every character (and I do mean all of them, you can rename NPCs in earlier Wild Arms games) after Jethro Tull band members. All of the leads were named after the original lineup too...if I recall, Clive remained Clive, Gallows became Mick, and as an homage to their true luv (which was only hinted at BUT THAT WAS MY ORIGINAL OTP DANGIT) Jet became Ian and Virginia was Shona.
Another related note was naming the Prophets after literary characters whom they resemble. Malik became Oedipus, Melody was going to be Lady Macbeth but that didn't fit so she was just Macbeth, and Leehalt was...Brutus, I think? Or maybe Cassius...
You can rename spells in the Wild Arms series. It's such fun. The fire-based ones always become something like Burninante.
I was absolutely furious when I found out you can't rename characters in US Tales of the Abyss like you could in the JP version. Because I was so going to have a playthrough where all the main characters were named after mental disorders. It would have worked perfectly. Luke could have been Retro (-grade amnesia, obviously I'd have to compromise on that one), Jade could have been Antisocial, Anise was Psychopath, Guy was Phobia (of the haphe variety), Ion was Martyr (complex) and Tear was Sane. I never did work out what Natalia could have been.
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Post by Elycien on Sept 8, 2007 17:09:17 GMT -5
XDDDDD Xicrog, that reminds me of my first time playing Pokemon games - I was really little, seven or eight or so. And I named my character "DOGGY" and my rival was named "BUMM." Which I thought was just about the funniest thing ever. xP
A really stupid thing I did one time was during the final battle with Xemnas in Kingdom Hearts. Minimizing spoilers in my description here... Sora was on a ship-type-thing, shooting at Xemnas, while he was shooting at me. And both of them were flying through the air, and Sora's ship-thing automatically followed Xemnas around. So I go through this battle, and I'm shooting at Xemnas and blocking some of his shots... but there was one type of shot that couldn't be blocked. I died. Rain passed it (my r/l friend, for those who don't know her; we were on the phone while playing KH2). I was all "D: Is there any way to block those kind of shots?" Rain said, "Just dodging it." Me: "Oh. ....... you can MOVE?" Rain was cracking up and was all, "YES, Elcie, you can MOVE. XD"
That was about the dumbest thing I've done ever. :3
And another stupid moment, but it wasn't me who was being dumb this time, I only witnessed it. (C&P'd from my post on the NTWF's MapleStory thread)
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Post by Xicrog on Sept 8, 2007 17:40:56 GMT -5
Oh, I remember the first time I played the Pokemon games. I wasn't as creative then as I am now, so I think my rival was named "STUPID" or something like that.
I just remembered some stupid FFX moments.
You know in the beginning, when Tidus is getting swamped by his fans? The fact that I could push them out of the way didn't occur to me. So I spent at least ten minutes doing nothing and waiting for the fans to push me to where I was supposed to be.
And the other one was near the end where you fight Yunalesca. I was young and stupid, so I followed the crappy strategy guide's advice and let her zombify my characters. Yuna was among them, and she was low on MP. I needed her to use Holy one last time....so I used an Ether. And cried.
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Post by Zylaa on Sept 8, 2007 18:07:53 GMT -5
XDDD You didn't realize you could move?
Well, I can't really talk- in the battle after that, when it told you to use the buildings for reaction commands, I tried to use the moving buildings, then got hit, of course, so then I gave up and didn't use the stationary buildings that you were supposed to use. So I was floating and dodging things for about ten minutes straight.
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Post by Xicrog on Sept 14, 2007 14:18:17 GMT -5
I told Zylaa about this IRL, but I'll post it here so everyone can laugh at me.
In WA3, there is a branching segment where you can run off and do three tasks in whatever order you so desire. I decided to do the hardest one- getting the four Guardian Lords- first.
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.........I SUCCEEDED! HAHAHAHA! By that point in time, I was feeling pretty invincible. So I ran off to do another one of the tasks- getting into...er...Dim Root Path, I think? Where ever it is you fight Humbaba.
Now, let me tell you something. Humbaba is one of the hardest bosses in the game. But the Maxwell gang was insanely overleveled due to the previously mentioned Diobarg fiasco, and I had the stat boosts and new spells from the Guardian Lords. So I was feeling pretty darn invincible.
Two turns. I died. TWO. TURNS. See, Humbaba has an attack that is unavoidable instant death unless you have a character with...IDK, either SOS Invincible, Deathproof, or the Holy Grail gear. Or some combination of all of the above. Theoretically, SOS Invincible would work, they'd just have to be in the red before Humbaba's Curse. Here's the kicker- I read ahead in an FAQ and knew about this, it just slipped my mind at the time.
It was the stupidest thing. Clive had Cosmic Cog, and I swear I gave him Deathproof. I didn't make that mistake twice.
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Post by katanal on Oct 21, 2007 13:23:46 GMT -5
I haven't play video games in almost 6 months!! Ah! Scary. Anyway. It was late at night. I had been playing Fable for about 7 or 8 hours. And I was in this part where you had to hit these giant stone shrines with letters on them to spell out this guardian's name. The letters available were S, H, I, and T. So of course I spell out "curses" for kicks and giggles. Then three giant werewolves dropped out of the sky. I died.
I was escorting this kid in some mines. And he was a pain in the butt to keep from dying. So I was like "okay. that's it. if i kill him, maybe the bandits will stop trying to kill me." So I stabbed the kid. And then a bandit stabbed me. And I died.
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Post by Shadaras on Oct 21, 2007 14:34:21 GMT -5
xD I remember that part in Fable. I spelt that out too. I don't remember the werewolves, though. 'Course, by that time I almost never died, IIRC.
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Post by katanal on Oct 21, 2007 20:36:11 GMT -5
!!! unfair gods of gaming!
i have a bad habit of rushing through games and thus getting behind in levels, etc. And then having to spend like 5 hours levelling up at some later point in the game. Lucky levelling in fable is fun ^_^
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Post by Zylaa on Oct 21, 2007 21:23:14 GMT -5
I really need to play Fable at some point.
"Then three giant werewolves dropped out of the sky. I died." <- XD That made my day.
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Post by PFA lurking on Oct 25, 2007 18:07:56 GMT -5
Hai. I'm a lurker who decided she wants to post here. :3
I remember one time I was playing Pokemon... either Gold or Silver. I guess it doesn't really matter. XD Anyway, you know how when you first come across your rival, and he says name is ???... and then at the later part where you actually get to pick his name, I thought I was supposed to put down what he said and named him ???. XDDDD
I think I did that, too. XDDD Or something very similar.
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Post by Shadaras on Oct 25, 2007 19:55:40 GMT -5
!!! unfair gods of gaming! i have a bad habit of rushing through games and thus getting behind in levels, etc. And then having to spend like 5 hours levelling up at some later point in the game. Lucky levelling in fable is fun ^_^ I almost never die in any game. Seriously. Or rather, my party members are almost never all dead at the same time. In single character games I guard myself very carefully, however. Join, PFA. Please?
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