Games That Screwed You Over
Looking back to my PS2 games I had when I was a kid, one game that I've never gotten over is a certain Power Rangers game (not sure which one) that would always freeze at the same point so I could never progress. Worst part was, this was really close to the end and it really messed with the completionist in me. So, little 6 year old me beat the same button mashing game three times, hoping it would work. Each time I reset the game I would be able to go maybe 5 feet further, and once I did get to the point it should cut to something else it just went black. So I'm interested, have you ever been screwed over by your game?
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Lord of the Rings Volume 1 - glitches ruined my game and I couldn't beat the Balrog
Battletoads - Rat Race glitch. It also glitched out on The Revolution in the middle of my best low-score run. That was fun too.
Mechwarrior - this one happened recently. I don't know what exactly happened, but my theory is doing side missions gradually increases the toughness of your opponents. Well after doing too many of them, I'm stuck on mission 12 of 50 with virtually unkillable enemies, and impossible missions. I don't say those things lightly. Literally impossible.
Perfect Dark HD - achievement never popped for beating the game on Perfect Agent so I never got 200/200
Red Alert 3 - achievements for progress broke somewhere in the third campaign
And then there is the infamous Battletoads "Rat Race" glitch that forces the player to reset. Very annoying when you're first trying to complete the game.
F'in Game Gear.
Overstrumming on the strum bar is the most common thing... but also, the "tilt for starpower" activation can be a huge pain.
I've gone through several guitars and have never once found one that works flawlessly.
Castlevania would freeze in the hallway outside of the Grim Reaper if you spammed holy water. Lost a fair number of games that way.
I have the revision that fixes that. But the game can also crash if you grab an invincibility potion before going through a door.
Castlevania would freeze in the hallway outside of the Grim Reaper if you spammed holy water. Lost a fair number of games that way.
I have the revision that fixes that. But the game can also crash if you grab an invincibility potion before going through a door.
Yeah, I'd get another copy, but mine's the 5 screw with the oversized top label, and I'd rather keep it.
I bought two copies of NES G.I. Joe and for whatever fucking reason, both freeze after the first boss. Only defective games I own and it blows because I loved that game as a child. The real cruelty is that X Box 360 G.I. Joe plays flawlessly.
It might be the console if it happens with two different carts.
One of the worst things actually happened to me using a PS2 demo disc. It included demos for Mr. Mosquito, Grind Session 2 and a few others. However I had left my memory card inserted and somehow that demo disc managed to wipe out everything I had on the card.
could that have been the holiday 2004 demo disc
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/news221104ps2demodiscusa
One of the worst things actually happened to me using a PS2 demo disc. It included demos for Mr. Mosquito, Grind Session 2 and a few others. However I had left my memory card inserted and somehow that demo disc managed to wipe out everything I had on the card.
could that have been the holiday 2004 demo disc
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles...
Yep, that's the culprit. Would've been nice to have had that warning back in 2004 lol.
I bought two copies of NES G.I. Joe and for whatever fucking reason, both freeze after the first boss. Only defective games I own and it blows because I loved that game as a child. The real cruelty is that X Box 360 G.I. Joe plays flawlessly.
It might be the console if it happens with two different carts.
I thought that might be the case, but it does the same thing on my top loader and my toasters. Speaking of consoles, I managed to get two screwy playstation 1's back in the day, it sucked because all my 12 year old brain could focus on was playing Doom and Die Hard Trilogy. Anybody remember having troubles with the PS1 when it first came out?
On a funnier note, one of my friends did the bottle glitch on his sister's almost completed OoT quest and then saved it. Apparently she was pissed when she found out, but sadly I wasn't there to see the reaction.
One of the worst things actually happened to me using a PS2 demo disc. It included demos for Mr. Mosquito, Grind Session 2 and a few others. However I had left my memory card inserted and somehow that demo disc managed to wipe out everything I had on the card.
Is that the disc with Viewtiful Joe 2? If so, that's a known (and infamous) case -- many people got bit by that.
Guitar Hero, any edition.
Overstrumming on the strum bar is the most common thing... but also, the "tilt for starpower" activation can be a huge pain.
I've gone through several guitars and have never once found one that works flawlessly.
I had that problem too, until I found out you can just press the Back/Select button to manually activate star power.
I know this sounds jaded, but as a kid I did like buying strategy guides because it was like bonus content. But now that I look back, I also realize that in some games, there was some content that was so buried in games that if you hadn't owned a strategy guide, there was absolutely no way you would have known it either existed or how to get it. This was often powerful weapons and such in RPGs or even deeply-buried items in platforms. That just feels like a rip-off to me.
But, regarding games that screwed people over, I think the worst of all time was the glitch at the end of SMB3. I can't exactly recall how it worked but I recall that if you did something incorrectly at the final Bowser battle, somehow it would freeze the game right before completing the game... and then Nintendo tried to justify it by calling it something like "Bowser's Time Trap" or some garbage like that.
I mention this one because on my first full play through the freeze did, in fact, happen to me. SMB3 is one of my most favorite NES titles from my childhood. Still, I can't express how angry I was when that happened. Of course, being about 9 years old, I thought I did something wrong or that the NES was broken. Now I realize it was a big QA oversight and I've never forgotten it 25ish years later.
I triggered multi-ball on the top screen and both balls when down the right-hand lane at the same time. Normally there's a launcher that puts the ball back into play, however when both balls went down together the top ball pushed the bottom ball down a bit through the bottom of the lane and it was too low for the game to shoot it back up. The ball just kind of helplessly jiggled in the bottom right corner. I desperately tried to get the other ball back in there to try and dislodge it but I lost it and the game would not continue to the screen below as long as there was an active ball on the current screen.
That all normally wouldn't be a big deal, but this happened during my final (and best) attempt during the 2014 NA weekly contest winter tournament. That was easily my high score to that point and I could have added on so much more if the game didn't lock like that. I ended up in 4th place where the top 4 moved on to the final round, so I got really lucky there. I ended up winning that tournament on the next game, so at least Rollerball didn't screw me over twice!
Ghosts 'n Goblins/Ghouls 'n Ghosts: every weapon except the dagger was a downgrade to the default lance. If you accidentally got one you may as well reset the game.
The torch is actually really powerful. I always grabbed it when I saw it drop.
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Code Veronica - I thought for sure the final boss was coming up so I loaded up Chris (I think) for the fight... and then you switch to Claire or Jill or whoever who actually fights the big bad. I made the mistake of saving with her, and was stuck with no real weapons
I always get screwed at the first boss on the plane. If you don't have certain items stockpiled, you can't win.
Guitar Hero, any edition.
Overstrumming on the strum bar is the most common thing... but also, the "tilt for starpower" activation can be a huge pain.
I've gone through several guitars and have never once found one that works flawlessly.
I had that problem too, until I found out you can just press the Back/Select button to manually activate star power.
Right, that's what I normally do. In the newer games you can turn off the tilt activation, but unfortunately you can't in GH3 without modding your guitar