Stupid things you've done while gaming
Today's episode of Game Junkie blog is bought to you by the letter S. S for stupid things that you've done while gaming, that is.
Take today for instance: here is my "S for stupid moment".
Fridays are my designated day at home to review product for The Box and Game Junkie. At the moment I'm playing through Mafia 2, and after a rather pedestrian start things are starting to get a little more exciting.
I'd just completed a mission and gone back to my safe house to save my progress. After leaving my house, and helping a pretty young woman out of a spot of trouble, I jumped in a car and drove to my next mission start point, Freddy's bar. I enter the bar and a mission cut scene starts.
Now, I'm sitting on the floor in front of the TV at this stage and all of a sudden I get this urge to wipe the dust off the devices in my entertainment unit. I don't know why, but every now and then I get this anal urge about dust on things. All the while the cut scene in Mafia 2 is still playing.
I start wiping the dust off the top of the DVD recorder, which is on the bottom of my entertainment unit, with my hand, then move to the DVD/receiver unit on the second shelf, brushing my hand across the top, dislodging any dust. Then for some reason, I decide I'll give my Xbox 360 a brush with my hand as well. Remember, the game is still playing.
I've got one of the new Xbox 360 models, with the DVD eject button on the top left-hand corner of the console that is super-sensitive. I think you know where this is going. Busy watching the cut scene, I brush my hand lightly across the top of the Xbox 360, starting from the left. Suddenly, I hear the "ding" from the console telling me that the drive is about to open - which it does, stopping my game and kicking me back to the 360's dashboard. I cursed a little.
Luckily I don't have to replay much of the mission - I was only a few minutes into it - but Mafia 2 doesn't have a very good check pointing system, so if I'd knocked the button mid-mission I could have been facing having to replay a considerable chunk again.
It's also taught me to leave the dusting till after I've finished gaming!
So, now it's your turn: tell us about any "S for stupid things you've done while gaming" situation.
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hmm lol, been there dne that, hlfway through a san andreas mission. umm as for a S moment. well more blonde moment, on my pc! im playin a few games atm and i seem to like alt (tabbing) in the middle of a mission, but on this particular day while starting the latter half of FEAR i pushed alt (F4)and my desktopkeyboard really irratates me. playing NFS Carbon or any game in which i use the arrows to move in game. its one of those keyboards with the (app) and (close) buttons right beneath the arrows. and yes i used ta hit them alot lol! Causing yes a fair few profanities hahaha
Awesome story bro.
My stupidest gaming moment is not really a "moment" more of a 5 year period, which involved getting married and having children! (tongue in cheek). As my Xbox 360 is now one of the best paper weights I have ever seen! Oh well, by the time the kids are old enough to play themselves or move out of home, there will be full on 3D hologram gaming to look forward to I guess??
Playing COD4 online on the PS3 one evening and have got a beer to enjoy while I play. I play in front of my 50" Plasma sitting on an ottoman so I am central and close to the screen. Of course during a match you can't pause for a drink so I stupidly (realised this later) put the beer on the floor to my side. I now realise that when I play I am a leaner, kicker, mover when in a tight spot..... Flung my feet during some close quarter action, kicked the beer across the floor onto the open game case of COD. So now there is a nice patch on the carpet and my COD handbook etc has a nice golden tinge with the obligatory unopenable booklet. I now leave my drinks on the table.....
My stupidest was doing a mission for a flat-mate in GTA Vice City. I saved the game for him. But I didn't think, so I reverted to muscle memory, quickly flicked through the menus. I didn't realise until a few days later that I had in fact saved over my own game. I lost everything.
Got too involved in a GT4 session once, and forgot I needed to be somewhere else. Cue 3+ hour lap of the Nurburgring after rushing out of the house without pausing the game first (on remembering said engagement 20 minutes after I should have been on my way).
Reminds me of the time I lent my PS1 to a 'friend' when I was 12 or so. I lent him the console with some games and a memory card. I should have held on to the memory card!
When I got it back I had lost literally half of my good saves (saved over with literally 5 x 1% complete Crash Bandicoot saves. This guy had passed the first level, saved, then next time he played had started a new game, and repeated). My maxed out Wipeout and Wipeout 2097 saves - gone. I had some legendary lap times. Tekken 3 save with everything unlocked - gone. He didn't save over my 90 hour FFVII save, which was lucky. But yeah I was friggn pissed.
I have a fantastic talent of wiping over other peoples (and my own) saved games. Not so fun.
These moments are constantly happening to me. Mainly with things like grenades bouncing back at me in COD or similar. Epic Fail.
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Hahaha epic. I havent really done anything like this but I have played a game for hours and completely forgotten to save before heading off to work with the pause menu on only to have my Fiance unplug it because she wanted to plug her phone charger on. I had a friend who while we were at another mates house get angry and throw his controller which bounced off the wall smashed a glass then smashed the window and fell out the second story window to land on the road perfectly fine, just as we got down to get it a truck ran over it and smashed it to bits.