Worst gaffes you've made in games
What is the worst gaffe or gaffes you've made in a game? Can be a stupid own goal at football, walked straight off a cliff in some game or other, shot your own troops etc
I tried shooting a bush (believe it or not) in Rebelstar 2, hit my own troop and killed him!
Not having any blast torch ammo left is a classic when you haven't broken into the inner control room through the security doors.
And Rygel's Revenge (?) is a classy text adventure, swear and it kicks you out!
I tried shooting a bush (believe it or not) in Rebelstar 2, hit my own troop and killed him!
Not having any blast torch ammo left is a classic when you haven't broken into the inner control room through the security doors.
And Rygel's Revenge (?) is a classy text adventure, swear and it kicks you out!
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Rocketing the doors in Laser Squad from point blank range.
Priming the grenade and not having enough action points to throw it in Laser Squad.
Dropping the snorkel under the sea in Treasure Island Dizzy.
You think the tape's bad but days later your friend tells you that it's a joke by the author.
But It Never Happened To Me!
Brian Bloodaxe and yes I did fall for it!
That's right, I always forget it's that one (and yet it's one of my top ten fave games)
Didn't That's The Spirit do something similar quirky?
However one of my most recent was on MW3, I tried out the perk that makes enemy explosive devises flash up red so you don't trigger them by mistake
I'd never seen an IMS before, so wanted to see what the big red flashy thing was....but I got blown up, some twat must have left a claymore there I thought....so I went back....same thing happened
That's when it dawned on me I was in fact a mupper :lol:
potting the white during a big break or/and pressure shot in Steve Davis Snooker. "well annoying"
... god I love that game! :-)
Yes, it did. But it's only a f*ck*ng bad joke too! :-)
Yep ! lol ...
Accidentally going into the cave systems countless times in Avalon and losing the last bit of energy because of the odd, physics-defying room layout :mad:
"Transporting" to almost certain death in a lava vat in Strangeloop after losing a life, thereby losing another life etc. Twitchy fingers!
On the last screen on Tank Command being too quick and getting shot by the huge cannon after weeks of steady progression!
I can't even dock at all these days. Last time I tried I kept clipping the edge of the letterbox...
strangely I don't remember that scenario happening, I'm sure it must've a few times though :-)
I'm pretty sure it has, in fact I think there's even a poke that starts you off with it.
I found it tough to get nicely aligned to the correct side of the station to begin with, especially if the entrance was on the other side somewhere - it takes a bit of practice. I found that if I could see any part of the other faces I wasn't dead on and could crash.
Not being able to play Wizball properly for years due to not knowing I had to wiggle the joystick for power ups, until I posted about it on here and discovered there were loads of people in the same boat...
Hundreds of different mishaps in platform games where I make it to the boss/end of level/end of game on my last life, only to then limply fall/walk/jump off the edge of a platform by pressing the wrong key....this is a particular skill that I seem to have transferred to modern gaming!
The 'Wizball' one is a belter, and surely has to be the winna!?
Tbh I can understand why you would miss that (especially if you were playing a -ahem- 'backup'). But just thinking of some people wondering how the heck this got a Crash! Smash whilst bouncing uncontrollably around the screen, I guess is a bit like those who 'got' games like OMAHD and Zoids, whilst the rest of us mere mortals dumbly scratched our heads.
Hehe..yeah! When I worked it out, I was like "WhhaaaaaTTT!" :lol:
Here's a link to the thread where I enlighten a few other lost souls....
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=18799
Still makes me wonder what other games would be better if I knew how to play them properly! :D
Y'kidding, right? Ah, I'd best go back to this one and have another go! :oops:
Worst nightmare on that game though is not carrying a missile/rocket, getting caught by the tanks that are impervious to normal fire and not being able to shake them off. The only way to destroy them is to shoot a missile/rocket and blow everything in the room up - including any teleports, scientists or experiments.
Really frustrating trying to steer the scientists back to the ship
Worst gaffe is accidentally knocking into the control panel and launching the ship without any experiments, scientists or indeed fuel! I may well have done this before I'd left the first room.
Omega One is a game I never really got, looked fantastic. I shot some reactor and it always blew before I got back to the ship, sometimes budget games were good but the instructions were not. I found a skim read of those on here a lot more helpful than the inlay card instructions so may have to give the game another go. Back then there was no internet available to me, one thing my childhood might have been better with.
Holy cow - just tried it, and your absolutely right - bloody frustrating way of doing things...!!!
Maybe of use to the Wizball crowd! :D