Hardware Smashing Moments - Page 2

Seer · 2004-02-23, 03:26 AM

I will never forget the time in starcraft when, on the cusp of snatching victory from the jaws of defeat with a massive and decisive nuke, the program CTD'd. I never win RTS games online. I haven't played Starcraft, or any rts game, online since then.

Happy lil Elf · 2004-02-23, 12:27 PM

Back not too long after FF3 came out I was at a friends house with my copy. I literally had one thing left to do, go finish off Kefka. Everything else was done. Hell, I even took the time to get Strago all of his spells and Gau all of his rages.

My friend's mother ran a daycare there that I went to in gradeschool (how we met actually) and she had a rule about the gaming systems, at least while the kids were still there. Basically that rule was share. So since FF3, like most RPGs, isn't really a game you can stop immediately after 15 or 30 min we hid the game on the highest shelf in the living room and headed outside to play catch until the kids were picked up.

After the kids left we went back in to mess around, maybe do some leveling or just finish off Kefka. The game wasn't there. So we start looking. We head into the TV room and sure enough, there's my copy sitting in the SNES. Fear crept into my heart and unfortunately that fear was justified. I turn the game on and in place of my save slot, is a brand new game.

It took years before I finally worked up the urge to play the whole game through again (if I remember right I just finally got around to completing it for the first time a year or so ago) and I doubt I'll ever get the same level of completion done >_<

Subterfuge · 2004-02-23, 12:36 PM

Got mad at planetside, just spawned off an AMS, trying to get my equipment. Some ass blocking the term, trying to move him. Next thing? OS sound starts up, im like oh shit, I lag to hell then end up getting spawn tube camped. Im pissed. Hit my keyboard, and fuck my computer up somehow, unmountable_boot_volume. Oh well, It's over now :P

ViperGTS · 2004-02-23, 10:45 PM

Back when GTA:VC first came out, all I did was play that. So.....I got to the next to last malibu club mssin, the one were you have to race hilary. I played it about 100 times,but couldnt win. So after like the 101st try I slamed my controler. No more PS2 fror for live.......2 weeks.

Biohazzard56 · 2004-02-23, 11:18 PM

I stopped playing VC after that mission

Happy lil Elf · 2004-02-24, 12:46 AM

I hated that mission, hated that mission so god damned much. Then a friend asked me why the hell I was trying to do it in the rain, because that's a really goddamned stupid thing to do. I guess I just figured the rain was part of the mission. After failing more in the rain more times than I care to think about, I finally waitied till it was sunny out and tried it. Beat it on the first try >_<

Dharkbayne · 2004-02-24, 12:50 AM

What does teh rain do?

Happy lil Elf · 2004-02-24, 01:09 AM

Makes the roads a really big pain in the ass to drive on at high speeds, or rather it makes taking tight corners almost impossible at high speeds. It's doubly bitchy because your compter opponent seems to be totally unaffected by it.

Dharkbayne · 2004-02-24, 01:25 AM

In the PC version, atleast on my friends, every time, the guy would fall through the world, andy ou could beat the race every time, but right after I beat it , it would CTD, :/

Mango · 2004-02-24, 09:20 AM

heh, you just place a fast car a few blocks ahead of where the race starts. Or you can park shit in the middle of the street to block the guy.

FlakMan · 2004-02-24, 04:14 PM

When I first got my Nintendo 64, Super Mario 64 pissed me off so much that I broke the only controller we had into tiny little pieces. I wasn't allowed to touch the next controller for fear of it breaking. I don't play any console games anymore because my little brother is on. He's insane. He gets mad and yells at the games constantly, and squeezes the hell out of the controllers until there's cracks decorating the whole damn thing.