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What is your gaming embarassment
What is something you have done, or not done, or whatever which you find embarassing?
For example, I consider myself a huge rpg enthusiast who has been playing for a very long time. (Gold Box games anyone?) I don't have enough time, or money, to keep up with them as much nowadays, but at one time that was very important to me.
I've never completed FF7. I have started it several times. I have owned a couple incarnations of it. (currently in my Steam library . . . taunting me). I even tried emulating it once so I could play it sped up a bit. However, I have never made it too much past aeris' death. I have no logical explanation about this. it's just not that good of a game imo, and I lose interest so fast.
I find that slightly embarassing since it is supposed to be a seminal game in RPG history.
What is your tale?




I love Legend of Zelda games. I've beaten Ocarina of Time once when I was a kid. I've played every other game since then, but never beat one :/
I've played every single Final Fantasy, but never finished one.
I STILL, to this day, want to see an adaptation of Curse of the Azure Bonds to modern hardware/storytelling techniques. The conceit - a cast of six that are literally cursed to work together - was fantastic in its day. But with the budgets we have now, it could be absolutely amazing.
Yes, that would be awesome!
Final Fantasy 9.
So, I had gotten as far as Memoria and got up to Deathguise, but I couldn't beat it whatsoever. Tried and tried and tried and eventually gave up. I was stuck there! Nowhere to go level, nowhere to go stock up or get better equipment. Just a waste of weeks of effort.
About 10 years later, I'm telling this to a friend and they tell me that you can leave Memoria via the save points.
I sold my copy of Dark Souls a day after I bought it. Can't handle the difficulty...
I even got a special edition with an artbook included ... OhGodWhy
This also sits in my steam library. Tried to play it once but I think you really need a controller. The keyboard mouse controls were not fun. I don't think I even got out of the prison place.
Yes, I agree on the controller. But overall the game was too hard to handle for me and I was too scared from the horror-ish setting x)
I've also never finished FF7. I made it to the end of disk one once a couple years back, decided it was boring, and just never picked it back up again. I'm considering getting the PC version if I can catch it on a 80+% off sale on Steam, just to see if it's better without the disk switching, but if I can't catch it massively discounted, I have no actual interest. I don't consider it embarrassing though, I just consider me not being blinded by nostalgia goggles like most everyone else who played it while they were young is.
Yeah, I think I bought it on a steam sale for 4.99 or something. Really low.
I remember the original PC version... never worked on my computer, one of those MMX games if I remember correctly, a graphics fad of the... late 90s/early 00s?
I think MMX is late 90's. Sounds familiar. Yeah: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMX_%28instruction_set)
Whenever I start up an old school CRPG I'm embarrassed by the level of "pampering" I've become used to from more recent RPGs and games in general. It generalizes to other genres. The worst case for me is being a long time PC gamer and yet being complete garbage at System Shock 2 and Deus Ex.
All those old games and their damnable teleportation traps! Why, in my day we had to map our CRPGS! Kids these days!
That I have never finished any of the Assassin's Creed games except for Brotherhood...I just get stuck everytime!!
For me it's the same. I blame the number of "sidequests". They are so many and so similar, i don't want to do them. I think just following the main quest would be key but there areso many symbols!! >.<'
Agreed I also don't enjoy replaying them as much as say Fable or Dragon Age.
I used to play this TPS called S4League competitively. The competitive mode played was TouchDown which is pretty similar to the actual game but with guns and swords, and you can't pass the ball unless you die and someone else picks it up.
My team was playing one of the matches of a tournament, I was playing too. Thing is, I was carrying the ball and my whole team was there with me and the enemy team was defending their goal post. I literally, LITERALLY, got stuck on the side of the goal post because I kept spamming my click. My mind went blank and I got so desperate that I didn't react. I could've just stop clicking and walk a few steps. My team was trying to defend me but at the end I died, and we lost the match.
The worst part is that the match was streamed and some players made fun of me (the fact that my ex did it too made it worst for me).
I've had worst experiences irl and I've learned to laugh at them after a while (years). I haven't gotten over that yet.
Oh, sorry but that sounds hilarious. It is one of those times where your brain gets hooked on only one course of action. It certainly has happened to me before!