Catatologist
Recently, I played Mario 3 and got killed by the first goomba.
What makes a good man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?
Einhänder- Stayed too near Salamander when it died, its flailing-like-a-drowning-man arms killed me (Yes, they still deal Collision Damage).
...eheh
When I was a kiddo I couldn't capture Articuno. Some groveling before my best friend's older brother might've ensued.
Part of the Problem
I was playing Megaman xtreme 2 last week, (A game I beat when I was 5) and game overed to the auto scroll segment in Overdrive Ostrich's stage. 8 times in a row.
Mudkip's final evolution is in fact NOT Mudkipperino.
A nice butterfly
I stood in the fire.
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes
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What game?
Think of the mooks!
Out of habit, I still buy the magic spells in the NES version of Final Fantasy that say they do certain things even when I know that they weren't implemented properly. And I still cast them in battle.
Reminder: Offscreen Villainy does not count towards Complete Monster.
A nice butterfly
Warcraft, of course.
World Of Warcraft classic:
I used my pet to pull Ebonroc in BWL (that was still according to plan), and when the boss arrived I charged an aimed shot at him and had a high crit before the tank could even get to the boss (not according to plan). Luckily my feign death wasn't resisted, and I'm not sure if anyone noticed - but if that had been resisted I would have single-handedly wiped the 40 man group and wasted around 20 minutes of everyone's time. ^^
Mummy Woomy
Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire: My first Pokémon game. I promptly used the Master Ball with the first Mon I came across.
edited 5th Sep '14 3:38:23 PM by Elbruno
"Yeah, it's a shame. Here we are in an underground cave with all these lasers, and instead of having a rave we're using it for evil."
I died within thirty seconds of my first playthrough of Dark Souls II. By stepping off a cliff. The game awarded me a trophy for it.
Not as angry as the name would suggest.
When playing Ace Attorney for the first time, I had completely forgotten about the metal detector, so I spent forever trying to prove that von Karma had a bullet lodged in his arm...
edited 5th Sep '14 4:19:02 PM by KarkatTheDalek
Oh God! Natural light!
Two-bit blockhead
I used to like Earthworm Jim 3D.
Okay, okay... I spent six years terrified of the Moon from Majora's Mask. We're talking "tense up and turn away until it's gone" terrified.
Wouldn't be so bad if I was a kid at the time. But no, i developed this phobia at the age of thirteen. Wasn't until I was a college freshman until I grew a pair and got over it.
As you can imagine, Melee was hard to play sometimes.
Weird in a Can (updated M-F)
Not as angry as the name would suggest.
Well, just look at the thing. It's not just scary on an aesthetic level, either...
edited 5th Sep '14 4:36:38 PM by KarkatTheDalek
Oh God! Natural light!
Two-bit blockhead
For what it's worth, I still think it's freaky-looking, and I felt a sense of dread coming from it constantly hanging overhead when I played it.
But I kinda dig it now, y'know? It's like a good horror movie. It's supposed to be scary, and works because of it.
(If only I could apply that logic to another N64 game that terrified me as a child, but I've accepted that I'll probably never get over that one)
Weird in a Can (updated M-F)
The Shrouded Knight
I had a similar attitude toward Kabal's face in Mortal Kombat 3. Out of all the gore in that game, this
is what had me afraid to turn off the lights at bedtime.
Also, more recently, I was playing Bravely Default. During one boss fight, one of my characters was an Arcanist/Black Mage. The Arcanist class has a skill called "Exterminate", which deals massive damage to poisoned characters, whether friend of foe. During the fight, I somehow managed to poison the boss. So, I have my character queue up Exterminate.
Then the boss outsped him and poisoned my entire party, resulting in a self-inflicted Total Party Kill.
The Living Guildpact rules that coffee is an acceptable substitution for rest as specified in subsection … whatever.
Dead Punny
When I first played the first Pokemon Mystery Dungeon game, I got up to the midpoint of last story dungeon and stopped there because I thought my character would actually return to the human world and not come back. A month later I mentioned it to my friend who also played the game and he told me what happen. I felt so silly.
This was a few years ago and I was quite young but still.
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Badass Normal
Thought it would be a good idea to run right in front of a Blood Dragon during the first few hours of Skyrim. I'm level 10 and use two handed weapons. I decide that I'm not like those fools with arrows in their knees and run right up a large hill to fight the mighty beast.
...I promptly get my ass handed to me as the dragon scoops me up in its mouth in one swift lunge just as I reach it and tosses me a million miles away like a ragdoll. I fly through the air for a good five seconds before I slam into the side of a nearby mountain and die instantly.
"Marth likes just the tip, Lucina likes the whole thing."
You can do that, you just have to fight it from an angle where it won't grab you with his mouth.
MY NAME IS GUNDHAM TANAKA
The fact that I did nothing but hack my way through gen 4 Pokémon (as an 11-13 year old) and even went up against friends online who thought my team was legitimately trained is an embarrassing Old Shame of mine.
edited 5th Sep '14 7:07:04 PM by RavenKingSage
What is a fandom? A miserable little pile of flame wars! 3DS FC: 0387-9377-7408 PSN ID: Raven King Sage
The King Without a Kingdom
In Smash Bros Melee, when I first played it, I only knew how to use the standard A combo and the standard B special. As a result, I could only beat Classic Mode with Pikachu.
It's been 3000 years…
The Wanderer
I'm still creeped out by the Moon 14 years after I first played Majora's Mask.
Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.
Cynical Culture Enthusiast
Got a gaming-related story that you're embarrassed about? Why not post it on the internet? :P
I died to a random encounter in Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure, widely considered one of the easiest RPGs ever made. And this was on a replay.
In my defense it was an early-game dungeon and I ran into the metal slimes with super strong DEF and attack for that point in the game.
Edited by lalalei2001 on Jan 30th 2023 at 8:45:47 AM
The Protomen enhanced my life.