I was talking with my friend a few days ago and he mentioned how one of my ex-friends was playing pokemon and he didn't know how to leave a building so i was reminded how one time when i was playing Legend of Zelda OoT i didn't know you had to slash at King Dodongo after you throw a bomb in his mouth so i ended up running out of bombs and using bomb flowers for a good half hour before I realized what i had to do and killed him with one slash .
Well that's my story, now its your turn

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I have a habit of getting bored while playing a game and messing around in it, sometimes during a mission. This often results in me being focused on the mission until I'm on the way back from it or whatever, then I'll do something incredibly stupid and get killed so I have to start over.

I was playing Mercenaries years ago, and I'd got stuck on this mission where you have to extract three UN weapons inspectors from danger zones before enemy forces close in and kill them. I must have tried the mission a dozen times - I kept getting blown up or I'd lose an inspector - it was stupidly difficult. I finally managed to extract the inspectors with barely a scratch on my APC and was on my way back to the UN base, feeling somewhat elated.

I then had a stupid idea which seemed like a way to have some fun on the way back. I parked my APC up on the side of the road and got out. I planted some C4 on the road, hid and waited for a car to come along. Soon enough, an unsuspecting citizen drives over the C4 in his crappy little car, and I detonate it. The flaming wreckage leaves a beautiful trail of debris as it shoots up into the sky. However, as the wreck reaches the apex of its curve, I notice that its trajectory is going to take it close to my parked APC. Shit. I sprint back towards it but it's too late - the burning car lands perfectly on top of my vehicle and the weapons inspectors die a fiery death. Realising that the chance of the car landing where it did was tiny, I conclude that the game is working against me and I let out a roar of frustration as the controller flies across the room.

I'm not the best at Halo, but I'm definitely not the worse. I'm right on par with one of my friends...because well we'd play together all the time in high school. About a year ago he learned my weakness I kid you not is a faux canadian accent. I can't explain it. That game he won 2 - 50. WTF?

And...I can't tell you how many times I'm playing an open world RPG and I'm jumping like an idiot, then jump off of an edge, cliff, roof, and kill myself.

I was on the Top 10 series. I kid you not.

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I was the closest guy to the camera at 2:15.

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Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Jul 5 2018, 4:12 am by DavidJCobb. Reason: crass

I accidentally erased all my data from a game I had spent a combined total of approximately 531 hours on. For you math geniuses, that's about 22 days. A fucking wasted MONTH. That one game is the only one that I will never touch again.

I got IP to try LoL with me. I thought we'd have a good time seeing just how bad LoL is. Sadly, IP got hooked on it like it was crack.

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Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Jul 5 2018, 4:12 am by DavidJCobb. Reason: crass

I deleted my FF6 saved game RIGHT BEFORE KEFKA.
SERIOUSLY.

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I'm not sure which COD game this was but i was doing a VERY hard mission for a few hours and was like screw it I'm tired of taking it slow and started sprinting past the enemies. I reached the checkpoint and died a few seconds later, and when i respawned i realized the checkpoint was a split second before that death so i died again, and again, and again....

Games like Red Faction: Guerilla are the worst for causing me to die stupid and unnecessary deaths because I start goofing off in the middle of a mission. I think things like: "I know that it's not a good idea to be inside this building when I detonate the demo charges, in the middle of a firefight in an important mission, but I wonder if I can survive?"

Had some good times in that game though. It's extremely awesome to get involved in a massive battle with the EDF in apartment or office blocks in the Eden area. A thing I liked to do was hole up in one of those buildings and see how long a battle it took until I could no longer use it as cover. It was great to snipe from the rooftop while your guerilla buddies scrapped with the EDF on the lower levels, then jetpack to safety as the building started to collapse. Or drive one of those garbage trucks into a building - they caused complete carnage.

I deleted my brother's Need For Speed Road Challenge save files everytime he was about to beat it. I did it like 4 times, but I swear it was a mistake.

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I'm not sure which COD game this was but i was doing a VERY hard mission for a few hours and was like screw it I'm tired of taking it slow and started sprinting past the enemies. I reached the checkpoint and died a few seconds later, and when i respawned i realized the checkpoint was a split second before that death so i died again, and again, and again....

EPIC FAIL. Where were you when we had the QQ thread?

When I first got a game over in Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles (back when I was a total Nintendo fanboy), I didn't get the (unintuitive) menu options, and ended up failing to save my file and losing all of my progress. Luckily, I hadn't gotten very far.

I was new at the time so I didn't really talk much

Sounds familiar. During my own run of Jak II (First run was played switching off with a friend) my brother wanted a file, but he started a new file over mine causing the original to erase. I was half way through the game when it happened. When I got back to where I was, my nephew decided to play and start a new file over my file. There were two vacant spots to start new files! No one reads when playing video games, I swear!

A month ago when I was about to finish my first run of Bioshock 2, I spent a half an hour playing the four to five minute finale. I did not know I was suppose to flip a switch and shoot the pipes to continue.

Finally, I have a load of fail captured from an expert run in Left 4 Dead 2 with some friends.

I killed a shiny pokemon

.. Pressing the S button while all your SCVs are selected.

Try to click a weaving drone only to double click, giving all your drones the same order.