Tell Me Your Dumbest Moment In Gaming! - Blu-ray Forum

Denoku · 08-05-2010, 06:11 AM

Tell me about the time you were stuck on a puzzle for countless hours and then to only realized it was the simplest thing.

I know I have plenty but the only one that comes to mind for me is God Of War 2. The part where you're in a room and there is a river on either side of you. I could not figure out how to get out of this room and I was getting pretty upset. Then after 30mins-1hour I remembered you have to take the body, throw it in the river, pick it up on the other side. So easy, yet it took me forever

Ok let's hear it...I won't judge

Batman1980 · 08-05-2010, 06:13 AM

Final Fantasy VI, the first time I played through it I took forever to get back into Narshe because I forgot about the hidden door in the wall.

Denoku · 08-05-2010, 06:13 AM

Wow that was quick lol

Al_The_Strange · 08-05-2010, 06:40 AM

I'm sure I've had too many dumb moments to even remember. Failed to shoot the right people in time ("CoD Modern Warfare," "Battlefield Bad Co")...built an army only to find that I still had an army deployed elsewhere ("Warcraft III," "C&C")...got lost on a small map (countless games)...walked into fire and died ("Dragon Age Origins")...

And of course, my first experiences with WoW. I was such a noob.

jsteinhauer · 08-05-2010, 11:57 PM

This might be better titled "...Dumbest Moment in a Game!" Because, I suspect many of us have had dumb moments in different games that can't be compared.

I've been playing Singularity. I think I played the train boss sequence over 50 times before I noticed the damage to the train car that gave away the pattern of attack. Avoid the damaged areas, avoid damage. Piece of cake!

However, in UC2:AT, there is a courtyard, I'd say 1/2 to 2/3 through the game that it took me well over an hour how to figure out how to exit THE SECOND TIME THROUGH!

Every time my horse got killed by a mountain lion in Red Dead: Redemption, I felt pretty dumb.

ReverendSlim · 08-08-2010, 09:14 PM

Splinter Cell: Double Agent. Toward the very beginning of the game, you have to sneak onto a rooftop and tap a satellite dish. There's no cover of darkness and you can't shoot anyone or you fail. I tried every route, every method, every website walkthrough, etc... and got nowhere. This went on for several days. I finally said, "Man, F#%K this game!" and returned it. It was just nothing like the other Splinter Cell games, and I couldn't get past this one stupid part to even see the rest of the supposedly cool stuff in the game.

So my friends all get the game... and all make it past that part on the first try. I guess it was just that I still had that Splinter Cell mindset. :P

krazeyeyez · 08-11-2010, 01:22 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjUz8IT0CYg

the part that takes place at 5:08 in this vid, this pissed me off right to a broken controller and a hole in the wall back in the day.

Secretagentnumber6 · 08-11-2010, 08:14 PM

Final Fantasy 7 when you go to Red XIII's village. You have to fight the Monster that is like a Zombie Native American. I died so many times trying to beat that guy then I figured out if you use a Life Spell with Aerith it is an auto kill, I felt like an idiot for not trying it so much earlier.

squijee · 08-11-2010, 08:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by krazeyeyez

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjUz8IT0CYg

the part that takes place at 5:08 in this vid, this pissed me off right to a broken controller and a hole in the wall back in the day.

AGH i hated the part!!! i tried to jump over it so many times then finally realize i could just walk over it pissed me off so much

Suntory_Times · 08-11-2010, 09:50 PM

In God of War 3 last night I spent around 15 minutes trying to mfigure out what I thought was a puzzle, but itt turns out you just had to jump across the chasm.

Monkey · 08-12-2010, 12:51 AM

Damn that NES Turtles game to Hell!!

Speaking of God of War II (that part was tricky I though) I'm stuck later on, I'm sure it is something so stupid and obvious but just not obvious to me.. I can't even describe it right now as it has been about a month since I tried.

I got stuck on the dam Harry Potter demo as well and had to create a thread here.

Some games I miss doorways due to art styles and I'm like "where the hell do I go?"

Overwriting a save on accident, that has happened a few times..

Killing a boss, doing something stupid right after forcing me to have to battle the boss again.. aghh!!!

Cheated on Blaster Master one time (cheat involves pausing the game during an explosion, keeps adding damage to the boss.. I paused it on damage to myself, lol)

ChadFL · 08-12-2010, 02:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by krazeyeyez

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjUz8IT0CYg

the part that takes place at 5:08 in this vid, this pissed me off right to a broken controller and a hole in the wall back in the day.

+1

I probably spent an hour plus trying to jump across that. Why the hell would a logical person assume you have to walk across a huge gap?!?

That TMNT on the NES still gives me nightmares.

Sabotage · 08-12-2010, 02:49 AM

I remember back in like 2003 or 2004 I rented this MLB game. Shittiest game ever. You could only throw fastballs in order to get the ball in the strike zone which sucked because they would always hit the ball. After an hour of playing the game, the score was 30-0 for the other team and I smashed by controller on the metal frame of my bed. Haven't touched an MLB game since.

Quad · 08-16-2010, 11:20 PM

The one I do the most is leaving a tank or armored vehicle to kill someone nearby because they are planting a bomb on it and they get in as soon as I get out.

The most embarrassing thing I ever did was when I was playing the old version of half life's two fortresses. I was sick of the lack of teamwork and clowning so I was happy to find a server where everyone was on the same page, encouraging others, spotting enemies, I would type in my own comments, the games were competitive. I came back to the same server the next day to find that the conversation was very much the same as the last time. Turns out I was the only human playing, everyone else was a bot. The team text was all scripted. The bots would jump up and down and shoot in the air during the countdown like real gamers, it was very convincing. Typed in some props to the owner of the server, laughed and left.

Kenneth M · 08-16-2010, 11:53 PM

First one that comes to mind is "Metal Gear Solid" for the PS1.

At the beginning, when it starts off and you're in the area with the water and the metal ducting, I must've wandered around for an hour in the same 4 square foot area yelling obscenities because I couldn't figure how to get out of it.

Denoku · 08-17-2010, 03:40 AM

You must of had a hell of time in the cave of MGS3.

MrFattBill · 08-17-2010, 03:54 AM

It wasn't a moment I had persay but I was involved in it:

Call of Duty 4 - Hardcore Team Deathmatch (you can kill your own teammates)

A friend of ours was playing and didn't know what hardcore meant so I told him it meant you can kill your own teammates..he took this to mean killing your own teammates was encouraged. Well as we were waiting for the countdown and the map to start I could hear him laughing....map starts and he promptly shoots me in the back of the head killing me, I in turn drop a grenade (martyrdom perk) and kill the rest of our team. Some of them were other friends and some were not, lol. The ones who were not were super pissed about the situation while the rest of us were laughing uncontrollably.

Bill

Denoku · 08-17-2010, 04:03 AM

Lol that can always be fun when you know the person. When it's not it's annoying. When I play plunder in UC2(grab a treasure put in chest to score) I'll have the treasure and people on my time will nade me so they can put the treasure in. But it's stupid because were a team and the individual person doesn't get points for scoring.

Drew664 · 08-17-2010, 04:44 AM

I rented Zelda: A Link to the Past on the SNES way back in the day. Well, after you rescue the princess and you have to escape the castle to get to the sanctuary, you have to shove the throne from the left. I had read it as to the left. I spent the next day or so mad because I couldn't advance from the very friggin beginning of the game! A day later as I'm playing it again, my brother's friend spends the night and says "just push it from this side".

This is still one of my favorite games ever, but a bone head moment for sure.

Ex Accountant · 08-17-2010, 05:04 AM

My dumbest moments in gaming had to have been staying awake until all hours playing Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix FSP online when I had to wake up the next morning after 2 or 3 hours of sleep. Or just playing it for hours at a time when I should have been playing legos & trains with my son. That game was addictive. I decided to finally give it up and haven't played since November.

Another dumb thing would be to get angry when my extended ratio wasn't at least 2:1. I'd keep thinking I'm better than 1.7:1 or 1.8:1. I can kill these bastards! It's amazing how many expletives can come out of someone's mouth because of a videogame!

There. I feel better now. Thanks.

08-05-2010, 06:11 AM	#1
Denoku Moderator Top contributor Member since:Dec 2009 Location:Tampa PSN:hotsauce2888 Home Theater Gallery:25 Blu-ray collection:290 DVD collection:3	Tell Me Your Dumbest Moment In Gaming! Tell me about the time you were stuck on a puzzle for countless hours and then to only realized it was the simplest thing. I know I have plenty but the only one that comes to mind for me is God Of War 2. The part where you're in a room and there is a river on either side of you. I could not figure out how to get out of this room and I was getting pretty upset. Then after 30mins-1hour I remembered you have to take the body, throw it in the river, pick it up on the other side. So easy, yet it took me forever Ok let's hear it...I won't judge

08-17-2010, 04:44 AM	#19
Drew664 Blu-ray Guru Top contributor Member since:Oct 2007 Location:South Dakota Home Theater Gallery:28 Blu-ray collection:68	I rented Zelda: A Link to the Past on the SNES way back in the day. Well, after you rescue the princess and you have to escape the castle to get to the sanctuary, you have to shove the throne from the left. I had read it as to the left. I spent the next day or so mad because I couldn't advance from the very friggin beginning of the game! A day later as I'm playing it again, my brother's friend spends the night and says "just push it from this side". This is still one of my favorite games ever, but a bone head moment for sure. Last edited by Drew664; 08-17-2010 at 04:47 AM.

08-05-2010, 06:13 AM	#2
Batman1980 Blu-ray Jedi Member since:Feb 2009 Location:District 13 Home Theater Gallery:8 4K collection:146 Blu-ray collection:394 DVD collection:57 Blu-ray reviews:22 Trading Score:48	Final Fantasy VI, the first time I played through it I took forever to get back into Narshe because I forgot about the hidden door in the wall.

08-05-2010, 06:40 AM	#4
Al_The_Strange Blu-ray Prince Top contributor Member since:Apr 2009 Location:Out there...past them trees... Home Theater Gallery:126 4K collection:1123 Blu-ray collection:4947 DVD collection:530 Digital collection:1008 Blu-ray reviews: 132 Trading Score:32	I'm sure I've had too many dumb moments to even remember. Failed to shoot the right people in time ("CoD Modern Warfare," "Battlefield Bad Co")...built an army only to find that I still had an army deployed elsewhere ("Warcraft III," "C&C")...got lost on a small map (countless games)...walked into fire and died ("Dragon Age Origins")... And of course, my first experiences with WoW. I was such a noob.

08-05-2010, 11:57 PM	#5
jsteinhauer Gaming Moderator Member since:Aug 2007 Blu-ray reviews:120 Trading Score:66	This might be better titled "...Dumbest Moment in a Game!" Because, I suspect many of us have had dumb moments in different games that can't be compared. I've been playing Singularity. I think I played the train boss sequence over 50 times before I noticed the damage to the train car that gave away the pattern of attack. Avoid the damaged areas, avoid damage. Piece of cake! However, in UC2:AT, there is a courtyard, I'd say 1/2 to 2/3 through the game that it took me well over an hour how to figure out how to exit THE SECOND TIME THROUGH! Every time my horse got killed by a mountain lion in Red Dead: Redemption, I felt pretty dumb.

08-08-2010, 09:14 PM	#6
ReverendSlim Power Member Member since:Oct 2009 Location:Mobile, AL Home Theater Gallery:24 4K collection:330 Blu-ray collection:904	Splinter Cell: Double Agent. Toward the very beginning of the game, you have to sneak onto a rooftop and tap a satellite dish. There's no cover of darkness and you can't shoot anyone or you fail. I tried every route, every method, every website walkthrough, etc... and got nowhere. This went on for several days. I finally said, "Man, F#%K this game!" and returned it. It was just nothing like the other Splinter Cell games, and I couldn't get past this one stupid part to even see the rest of the supposedly cool stuff in the game. So my friends all get the game... and all make it past that part on the first try. I guess it was just that I still had that Splinter Cell mindset. :P

08-11-2010, 01:22 PM	#7
krazeyeyez Blu-ray Samurai Member since:Dec 2007 Location:the guy on the couch Home Theater Gallery:18 Blu-ray collection:287 Blu-ray reviews:4	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjUz8IT0CYg the part that takes place at 5:08 in this vid, this pissed me off right to a broken controller and a hole in the wall back in the day.

08-11-2010, 08:14 PM	#8
Secretagentnumber6 Blu-ray Guru Member since:Mar 2008 Location:St Louis Area Home Theater Gallery:15 Blu-ray collection:212 Trading Score:4	Final Fantasy 7 when you go to Red XIII's village. You have to fight the Monster that is like a Zombie Native American. I died so many times trying to beat that guy then I figured out if you use a Life Spell with Aerith it is an auto kill, I felt like an idiot for not trying it so much earlier.

08-11-2010, 09:50 PM	#10
Suntory_Times Blu-ray Champion Member since:Mar 2008 Location:The Grid Blu-ray reviews:16 Trading Score:23	In God of War 3 last night I spent around 15 minutes trying to mfigure out what I thought was a puzzle, but itt turns out you just had to jump across the chasm.

08-12-2010, 12:51 AM	#11
Monkey Blu-ray Knight Member since:Sep 2006 Trading Score:31	Damn that NES Turtles game to Hell!! Speaking of God of War II (that part was tricky I though) I'm stuck later on, I'm sure it is something so stupid and obvious but just not obvious to me.. I can't even describe it right now as it has been about a month since I tried. I got stuck on the dam Harry Potter demo as well and had to create a thread here. Some games I miss doorways due to art styles and I'm like "where the hell do I go?" Overwriting a save on accident, that has happened a few times.. Killing a boss, doing something stupid right after forcing me to have to battle the boss again.. aghh!!! Cheated on Blaster Master one time (cheat involves pausing the game during an explosion, keeps adding damage to the boss.. I paused it on damage to myself, lol)

08-12-2010, 02:49 AM	#13
Sabotage Expert Member Member since:Dec 2009 Location:Vancouver, British Columbia Blu-ray collection:84 Blu-ray reviews:1	I remember back in like 2003 or 2004 I rented this MLB game. Shittiest game ever. You could only throw fastballs in order to get the ball in the strike zone which sucked because they would always hit the ball. After an hour of playing the game, the score was 30-0 for the other team and I smashed by controller on the metal frame of my bed. Haven't touched an MLB game since.

08-16-2010, 11:20 PM	#14
Quad Expert Member Member since:Oct 2007	The one I do the most is leaving a tank or armored vehicle to kill someone nearby because they are planting a bomb on it and they get in as soon as I get out. The most embarrassing thing I ever did was when I was playing the old version of half life's two fortresses. I was sick of the lack of teamwork and clowning so I was happy to find a server where everyone was on the same page, encouraging others, spotting enemies, I would type in my own comments, the games were competitive. I came back to the same server the next day to find that the conversation was very much the same as the last time. Turns out I was the only human playing, everyone else was a bot. The team text was all scripted. The bots would jump up and down and shoot in the air during the countdown like real gamers, it was very convincing. Typed in some props to the owner of the server, laughed and left.

08-16-2010, 11:53 PM	#15
Kenneth M Senior Member Member since:Feb 2009 Location:US Blu-ray collection:307 Trading Score:1	First one that comes to mind is "Metal Gear Solid" for the PS1. At the beginning, when it starts off and you're in the area with the water and the metal ducting, I must've wandered around for an hour in the same 4 square foot area yelling obscenities because I couldn't figure how to get out of it.

08-17-2010, 03:40 AM	#16
Denoku Moderator Top contributor Member since:Dec 2009 Location:Tampa PSN:hotsauce2888 Home Theater Gallery:25 Blu-ray collection:290 DVD collection:3	You must of had a hell of time in the cave of MGS3.

08-17-2010, 03:54 AM	#17
MrFattBill Blu-ray Ninja Top ranked HT gallery Top contributor Member since:Aug 2009 Location:jO-hio Home Theater Gallery:206 Blu-ray collection:578 Trading Score:5	It wasn't a moment I had persay but I was involved in it: Call of Duty 4 - Hardcore Team Deathmatch (you can kill your own teammates) A friend of ours was playing and didn't know what hardcore meant so I told him it meant you can kill your own teammates..he took this to mean killing your own teammates was encouraged. Well as we were waiting for the countdown and the map to start I could hear him laughing....map starts and he promptly shoots me in the back of the head killing me, I in turn drop a grenade (martyrdom perk) and kill the rest of our team. Some of them were other friends and some were not, lol. The ones who were not were super pissed about the situation while the rest of us were laughing uncontrollably. Bill

08-17-2010, 04:03 AM	#18
Denoku Moderator Top contributor Member since:Dec 2009 Location:Tampa PSN:hotsauce2888 Home Theater Gallery:25 Blu-ray collection:290 DVD collection:3	Lol that can always be fun when you know the person. When it's not it's annoying. When I play plunder in UC2(grab a treasure put in chest to score) I'll have the treasure and people on my time will nade me so they can put the treasure in. But it's stupid because were a team and the individual person doesn't get points for scoring.

08-17-2010, 05:04 AM	#20
Ex Accountant Special Member Member since:Feb 2007 Trading Score:54	My dumbest moments in gaming had to have been staying awake until all hours playing Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix FSP online when I had to wake up the next morning after 2 or 3 hours of sleep. Or just playing it for hours at a time when I should have been playing legos & trains with my son. That game was addictive. I decided to finally give it up and haven't played since November. Another dumb thing would be to get angry when my extended ratio wasn't at least 2:1. I'd keep thinking I'm better than 1.7:1 or 1.8:1. I can kill these bastards! It's amazing how many expletives can come out of someone's mouth because of a videogame! There. I feel better now. Thanks.

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