I was stupid once - Your Stupid Moments in Video Games

[turbojet]

Portal 2.

Surprisingly, I didn't have much problem getting through most of the puzzles in the game. In fact, on my first try, I only died once in the game. Then...it happened. Wheatley is in control of the facility and can I say that some of his puzzles were fucking broken? One in particular stumped for 2 hours. I couldn't figure it out. I wasn't sure what the hell to do. The fuck?

[VO.SUPER]

When I was about 6 or 5, I didn't know how to beat the first boss in Starfox 64.

[Jeffhog]

Wait, I got a good one.

Eternal Engine - Sonic Adventure 2: Battle

My first encounter with the Artificial Chaos.

I was fucking scared of those guys.

I couldn't kill it.

It kept coming at me with its tentacles. (inb4 "I've seen enough hentai to see where this is going") They were coming out way too fast, giving me zero time to react and kill it while its head was out as I was trying to get away from its range, which was freaking long.

Right, he also shot fucking lasers at me!

Whenever I got into the room, BAM! It attacks me!

I didn't play the game for weeks until I grew enough balls to give it another go.

Edited January 25, 2012 by VizardJeffhog

[Tyranno128]

Donkey Kong 64, when I was a little kid I got the green N64 and it came with this game. After I watched the opening cutscene, I couldnt read what to do next so I assumed you had to climb the trees and jump into the background to progress cuz there seemed to be a wall with a space. I tried for so many fucking hours to break the boundries and I jumped as high as physically possible in that game to get further into the jungle and one day I visited Crankeys shack and got the Simian Slam and slammed the DK Pad at the end of the cave and feasted my eyes at the freedom that was DK Isles.

[NiGHTS]

I recently found my old NES so i went to my box of amazing games.... there laid Silver Surfer. The entire game was just.... erg. The worst experence I had was a gamer was those 13 hours straight I tried beating it and failed. Worst game ever -__- never again.

[MykonosFan]

*flash back to young me*

"Oh cool, Pokemon Red! Awesome, I've got AAAAAAAAAA, my trusty Charmander!"

"Huh? RELEASE PKMN? What could that me- OH MY GOSH WAIT HANG ON A SECOND"

"RELEASE POKEMON! THAT MUST LET THEM FOLLOW YOU AROUND LIKE IN YELLOW VERSION"

"Gone forever? That must mean I just can't choose another Pokemon to follow me around! I'm okay with this!"

But um. I hadn't just started the game. I was much, much, much farther, and it was a Charizard, not AAAAAAAA the Charmander.

...*sniff*

[Place]

I have one with Final Fantasy X-2:

(has anybody played that oh please god tell me i'm not the only one)

In that game, there was an optional mini-game-type-thing where you have to find mechanical pieces which are buried in the desert sands. You are rewarded with the game's main currency known as Gil, and the process can be repeated as many times as you like. The concept of endless Gil was definitely an intriguing one, so whenever I needed extra cash, I would turn to that mini-game. However, it turned out that the pieces you find are sent to a secret organization to power a weapon of mass destruction that is fought at the very end of the game. Every time you play that mini-game, the robot gets stronger, and after a certain amounts of plays, it becomes completely invincible.

Goodbye good ending it was nice knowing you

[Burnt Ash]

That last room in Crazy Gadget, the one with the colored platforms. That switch on the purple platform that led to green platform was evil.

[novelty]

Starfox Adventures:

I actually thought it was complicated, I even looked up interference in the dictionary.

The actual tip is to use the camouflage and to sneak around both pterodactyl cases.

But my god, a ton of tries and booyah.

Edited January 25, 2012 by novelty

[Commissar Hurricane]

My first Pokemon game was Yellow and that was when I was little, I had no clue about some of the more important things. For example Pokemon types and their weakness and their connection attacks.

So what happens when I reach Brock? I lose, several times, over and over.

So what to do? Catch a bunch of Pokemon and train them!(But none of them where the ones that might be useful in the fight.)

I eventually just threw them at Brock and manged to win.

Perhaps the worst part is that I could have easily asked my cousin for help, she had already beaten the game before me.

[SuperStingray]

My favorite brain fart came from Portal. After I escaped the death trap after the last test chamber, I just stood there, crouching and facing the floor for about an hour, assuming I was actually SUPPOSED to assume the party escort position. Oh, mfw I figured out you're supposed to fling up into the wall.

[Noir]

Well see like Pokémon Ruby was my first experience with Pokémon and let's be fair, the way to the first two gyms is always populated by like fifteen thousands people who try to drill in every single piece of information about the games into your stupid six year old brain

so people kept telling me how I could only have SIX POKéMON AT A TIME but I conveniently forgot the "at a time" bit so I was like YES GOT THIS ONLY SIX POKéMON FOREVER I'M LIKE A TOTAL PRO NOW I KNOW THIS SHIT. I also conveniently apparently ignored whoever taught you that you could store pokémon in boxes and then take them out and shove them in your party as your animal abusive heart desired

so I'm strolling through the game and I get to the desert, grab me a lileep, resurrect it and SHIT I HAVE SIX POKéMON NOW I CAN'T BECOME THE POKéMON MASTER

But that's ok, that's what I thought the PC was for. Because I magically overlooked any and all options about moving your pokémon but definitely knew you could release them. So I released my lileep to make more room

The worst part is like all my friends had armaldo so now I couldn't even force my lileep to have hot rough lileep sex and abuse this to get unfair trades from people.

It was a sad day when I discovered my errors (pretty sure it was the same day this happened anyway)

[DaBatGuy]

Me and my cousin(back when we were 8) managed to miraculously beat Flying Battery and survive act one of Sandopolis. We then proceed to waste all our lives and continues hitting the Golem in the head, never realizing there was quicksand pit to knock him in.

It also took me a year to acquire the Light Speed Shoes in SA1, let me explain. I first played SA1 on a relative's Dreamcast back in 1999. I found and beat the first to stages easily however when I came across the LSS stupid me assumed that the green aura around them was some kind of force field that I had to deactivate first. I then spent the next hour searching Station Square and the Mystic Ruins for a switch or something until I had to leave. It wasn't until I got my own Dreamcast a year later that I figured out that all I had to do was walk through it.

[-Robin-]

The game: Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door

The character:

"Shine Get! Shine Get!"

I honestly thought this was Doopliss's name. I literally spent 48 hours trying to figure why the parrot's words would not work. Did not cross my mind that I would need to pull the same trick I did with the crows in Twilight Town to find out his real name.

48 hours. hidbkjfwbkfbwefbewkbfkbfebfjer

[Starman Swift]

I'm a bit late to the party, but...

Whenever there is a game with ledges and barrels/crates/stackable objects... This happens.

Where did that ladder come from.

It happened at the beginning of Half Life 2, and I think it happened once in Deus Ex: Human Revolution. I blindly ignore the ladder/hole/other way around and just start stacking everything around me. It's even worse when the objects around me are small and hard to stack.

[Gavvie]

Stupid moments in video games? Well, there was the one time where I thought I was missing some music spheres in Final Fantasy X, so I started a new game, played for around 6 hours until I got to the bit with the spheres, noticed that nothing had changed, and then decided to save over the original save file. Bye bye, 80 hour gamesave.

Tomb Raider 3 was another example of shit gamesaving - accidentally overwrote a savefile when on the last boss, just as it was killing Lara. Die, load save, die, load save, die.

Nothing else seems to spring into mind at the moment, but it's quite obvious that I have brain freezes when it comes to saving games XD

[KazunaRei]

Ooh~~ I have two.

I was playing Final Fantasy X, I was doing something for a friend so his memory card was in the second slot. I finished what he needed and went to save. I've played the game so much when I save I go on autopilot so I picked my memory card, my save file, and overwrote it.

About two seconds later I realized what I did and screamed. ;A;

And then there was the Time Eater fight. After you damaged him enough he did his fire ball thing to take you out and the friends chimed in to tell you to push the top trigger buttons to counter the attack. I thought I had to mash the buttons so I did.

For over 40 minutes I sat growling and snarling at the TV mashing the buttons hoping that the attack would work. Then I said fuck it and rage quit. About 5 minutes after I learn you just had to hold the buttons.

mfw when learning that: ಠ_ಠ >.> <.< >_< ;w;

God I felt dumb~. ;A;

Edited February 5, 2012 by KazunaRei

[FractaLad]

I played the first 15hours of fallout 3 not knowing you could aim without VATS.

[Gavvie]

I played the first 15hours of fallout 3 not knowing you could aim without VATS.