Your Shameful Gaming Secrets

That'd be Fridge Logic (and by extension, Fridge Horror or Fridge Brilliance), actually; the trope you linked is about in-universe reactions.

I've never played a Resident Evil game.

I used to have an irrational fear of Staff Ghosts in Mario Kart games.

Just barely got over that a few days ago.

Up until I was 20, I was so afraid of zombies that I couldn't play any game with them unless the graphics were cartoony, or a generation or so out of date.

Remember this? Well, for some reason, at about age 5 or 6 (I was fine with it before that), I became absolutely terrified of this tune. It took me until my early teens when my fear was finally conquered. I still to this day have no idea where the fear came from. Complete mystery.

edited 16th Oct '14 9:18:57 AM by MrLavisherMoot

My entire gaming "career" is one big shameful secret.

• Sega Genesis (~1995-1998)
  • This mushroomy foe◊from Wonder boy in Monster World scared me enough to swear off bosses in platform games for a very long time afterwards.
  • The above is part of the reason I have only finished three games in it. They are Quack Shot (which still had the hudle of a language barrier to jump over), Spot Goes to Hollywood and partially, Super Hang-On (most played game of that era, still didn't beat the Expert course in Arcade Mode, or made any significant progress in the Original Mode).
  • Only owned the first Sonic game, and only made it far in it once (partly due to the above phobia and partially due to the cart being a pirate with 40 starting lives). And by far I mean only Labyrinth Zone.
  • Every game I played, I would lower the difficulty to rock bottom. Toki: Going Ape Spit is a good example of how far I would go - it allows for 9 lives, 7 continues and an Easy difficulty level. Never saw the real ending.
  • This was, comparatively speaking, a very unfulfilling start for video gaming for me. I never conquered a single Nintendo Hard game, never had any kind of multiplayer mayhem of any sort and never got to experience the joys of a RPG story.

• Early PC Era (1998-2002)
  • My addiction to Easy Modo continued and evolved into something even worse: in commercial games (because I also played a lot of those dumb tiny games for Windows 3.1/95), mostly their demos, I would also blatantly cheat on top of that easy difficulty and then proceed to play the games in a very aimless manner. No kidding - them ClassicCheatCodes were the major reason I wanted internet access back then.
  • I would also come to play console games in rental stores, almost only racing, eventually cheat unlocks, fail at them and frequently end races early because I wasn't doing well.

• Late PC Era (2002-2006)
  • Finally there I started shedding the horrible habits I had up until that point. Slowly I came to cheat less in games and play them as they were intended to.
  • Unfortunately, I still quit a lot when things didn't go my way, and lowered difficulty was still something I did a lot when possible (like rediscovering MAME and playing Aero Fighters 2 and Metal Slug games at Level 1 difficulty and 7 lives to the credit)

• The Age of Discovery (2006-2012)
  • My pinnacle in gaming, where I finally accomplished some things worth noting and made a move into online.
  • Also my only period of split-screen fun with other live human beings, with the aid of emulators a plenty.
  • Successes of note include gold medals on much of the first two Trackmania games and getting 100 points on every level of Yoshi's Island on the GBA, and getting 100% in the first Crash Bandicoot.
  • 2010 was my greatest year in gaming. I was a skilled Mario Kart Wii player who commanded respect and had a pretty sizable circle of friends.
  • In 2011 I abandomed MKW for Modnation Racers, where I too was successful until a series of run-ins with a specific player started breaking my self-esteem even more (2008-2011 was a pretty tense moment IRL for me, where a mishandled transition into higher education eventually caused me to break into diagnosed full-blown depression in 2012) and by August 2012 I became a "wanderer".

• The Age of the Wanderer (2012-)
  • I jump from game to game a lot, berating myself hard for failing at them, and even more for considering lower (as in, under what the middle setting usually is) difficulty levels. Unsuccessful ventures include: NFS World, Drift City, Awesomenauts, Touhou games, osu!, Magicka, and several more.
  • Perhaps also because I've never accomplished anything of note since 2011, I'm feeling like I am a terrible gamer because I struggle with almost anything I choose to play. The most recent problematic game for me is Borderlands 2 - a game I had placed high hopes on by pre-purchasing much of the DLC it had, only for my experience to be a die-fest before even hitting the tens.
  • Were it not for that bright spot from 2006-2012 I'd say there was no worse gamer than I.

edited 16th Oct '14 3:55:35 PM by AngelG55th

I lost in counter strike against a 8 years old....but In my defense, she was THAT good(I was sitting, prepared to jumb and shoot...and the moment I jump she just shoot me...In the eye..that was depressing)

I know how you feel, i haven't played plenty of rpgs and action games because I just KEEP....DYING!!!!!

I haven't played Skyrim which I bought about 3 weeks ago for 2 weeks after I kept dying!

I'm also pretty bad at most games in general, you should see me when I play games on my PC or at my friends house where I don't know the controls. I'm not at all used to shooters or complex RP Gs so I struggle. I also don't have the best attention span.

I make so many mistakes in those games that my friend probably thinks there's something wrong with me.

I'm not awful at everything though. I'm really good at the Pikmin games and have beat all 3, with the 3rd I breezed through thanks to my experience with the first 2. (It also wasn't that hard)

Was pretty good at Mario Kart 7 and finished first quite a lot online. Still made stupid mistakes and would lose though.

Mario Kart 8 however I'm finishing 4th or below normally. That game's a lot more competitive!

I can also mostly tolerate platformers, and I'm pretty good with those. Still gets to a point where I'm done though.

Other than that, I'm mostly decent to bad at video games. It's pretty frustrating at times.

edited 16th Oct '14 7:00:41 PM by the8thdigidestined

I've never played a single game that has a medical profession as the main draw.

I deal with that enough in real life to know that the games will do literally no justice.

Very much true. Silly docs and their Space-Invaders-parasite-killing, bomb-disabling shenanigans.

edited 16th Oct '14 8:10:26 PM by Elbruno

This guy scared the crap outta me as a kid.

He scares the crap outta me, and I'm an adult 22.

Oh Jesus!! I've never seen that before, that is scary! >.<

I was unable to play Braid for more than a few levels, because of how much the game's art style disgusted me.

I can't get my Monsters past A Cup in Monster Rancher. I'm lucky to even get past C and B Cup.

^ I know your pain! I never even worked out what "permission" was.

I think ONE time I managed to get a Monster to S Cup. Then she died. :(

I used to play Gran Turismo 2 alot when I was younger. You need to get various license levels to particpate in races and I made it all the way to International C before I realised that I had to use the brake while going around corners on the license tracks. DX

edited 20th Oct '14 6:48:40 PM by MachThreeSlug

I got to level 46 as a Froglok Paladin in the original Everquest without once being told or learning what "tanking" was.

edited 20th Oct '14 6:53:43 PM by DuneTheWanderer

When I was growing up, I had the Sega Genesis version of Primal Rage, and it was one of my favorite games. One time I got ahold of the code to unlock the cheats menu, and I discovered an interesting Easter Egg. If you set the cheats to enable Invincibility on yourself and One-Hit-Point Wonder on your opponent, then play as Diablo, one of your worshippers will have a giant Satan head. That freaked the hell out of me, and from then until that console generation was over, I'd respond to an impending loss to Diablo when playing normally with a Rage Quit to prevent whatever unspecified misfortune it would inflict on me.

edited 20th Oct '14 7:01:44 PM by Lightblade

It took me forever to beat the final boss of Mega Man Battle Network 1.

I tried to return copy of Minecraft first time I played it because I didn't realise you had to click and hold to punch wood.

I used to avoid Zul'Farrak for a long time. In the early days of WoW, there was...something about that place that turned almost every group I got for it into easily angered flame warriors. The group would then fall apart and no progress in the dungeon was made. I was so fed up by it happening every time that I would stand at the westernmost point of Gadgetzan, look westward toward Zul'Farrak, and shout "Fine! Keep them!"

When I was little I called the Nintendo Help Line to ask them to make a Kirby cartoon. I even sang a song.

Was that before or after they actually made one? (I've seen bits and pieces of it on Saturday mornings.)