Your Dumbest Gaming Moment

[thatstheguy]

I remember about 2 years ago when I bought a Wii off of one of my friends. I brought home, hooked it up, only to realize that the games weren't working. I try them all, yet none off them worked. Then, I tried putting the disc in the other way, and lo and behold it worked. I was putting them in the whole time.

You can imagine how much of a dumb ass I had felt like. So, have you ever had something similar to you.

 

[WaderiAAA]

Well, I did feel rather stupid after having used hours trying to figure out the puzzle with the two maps in Phantom's Hourglass. That is the only one I can think of right now.

 

[T-Bone24]

I was playing Fallout 3, relatively low level. I had just gone into Rivet City. I decided my pockets were a bit light so decided to dabble in some theivery, Flak and Shrapnel's room was my target as Shrapnel had left his door open. So I rush in before the door closes and steal everything not nailed down. I hadn't thought that the door may have been locked, so when I went to leave, I found that my lockpick skill was not high enough to leave. I had to wait for 3 days to be let out! That was pretty dumb.

 

[The Rockerfly]

[sub]I bought a ps3 hur hur hur[/sub]

I actually can't think of any real ones, I will edit later in the morning

 

[MiracleOfSound]

I was putting them in the whole time.

I think you just topped your Wii moment...

 

[Kuchinawa212]

When I downloaded the Mythic maps for Halo
why? they got corrupted and I couldn't play with my friends again

 

[SomethingUnrelated]

I had paused my Gears 2 game, while in horde mode, to go do something else, got back, picked up the controller, and was pressing start to unpause the games. Lo and behold, the controller wasn't even plugged in, which was made even more humiliating as the great big "Please Reconnect Your Controller" was flashing up at me. Felt like such a numpty.

 

[Cuniculus]

Not so much a "God I'm dumb." as a "Holy crap are they smart."

I was playing FEAR 2 and was trying to get into an elevator before this huge wave of soldiers overtook me. I get inside, press the button to go down, and just as the doors are half way closed a grenade zooms in. Too late to get out of course. Ka-boom.

 

[Bilbo536]

Majoras Mask. I didn't listen to the guy in the beginning, so I didn't know to go back and talk to him after I got my Ocarina back. So I played the first 3 days over and over and over again trying to puzzle out what had to be done differently to get out of that inconvenient Deku body. Eventually my cousin told me what I had to do to progress.

Reading important dialogue Fail.

 

[Mysterious Stranger]

Any time I've ever been unable to figure out an obvious puzzle. The worst was when I didn't know the Project Purity code, and as anyone who's played Fallout 3 will tell you, the solution was staring you in the face with an enormous neon sign.

 

[Gariom]

My dumbest gaming moment was ten years ago, when I had my Gameboy Colour. I had Pokemon Yellow which was my first Pokemon game. When I tried to save it, it said "Saving, do not turn off console." So I put it on a shelf for six hours and came back to find the batteries were dead. My uncle then had to explain me that I was only required to wait about ten seconds. But please cut me a break, I was five-years-old.

I was playing Fallout 3, relatively low level. I had just gone into Rivet City. I decided my pockets were a bit light so decided to dabble in some theivery, Flak and Shrapnel's room was my target as Shrapnel had left his door open. So I rush in before the door closes and steal everything not nailed down. I hadn't thought that the door may have been locked, so when I went to leave, I found that my lockpick skill was not high enough to leave. I had to wait for 3 days to be let out! That was pretty dumb.

The EXACT same thing happened to me. Except after two weeks they never came back so I had to start from the last save, luckily I had auto-save turned on.

 

[Ibanez887]

Majoras Mask. I didn't listen to the guy in the beginning, so I didn't know to go back and talk to him after I got my Ocarina back. So I played the first 3 days over and over and over again trying to puzzle out what had to be done differently to get out of that inconvenient Deku body. Eventually my cousin told me what I had to do to progress.

Reading important dialogue Fail.

This happened to me too, except I had no one to tell me what to do next so I got frustrated and just quit the game

 

[Space Spoons]

I was playing Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas with my friend a few years ago. He had one of those gaming magazines with the cheat section in the back, so he had all the fun codes that make the game totally insane. At some point, he'd spawned a stunt plane and was letting me have a go at flying it. This was my first experience with flying in GTA, so I did what any Mario 64 era gamer would.

"What happens when I jump out?"

Even as my friend was telling me that I would die and that jumping was a bad idea, I was hitting triangle. Naturally, CJ muttered his infamous "Oh shit!" line and fell to his death. I was kind of shocked, but looking back, I realize it was pretty stupid to think I'd get a result other than that.

 

[asdasdasdasda]

Back in vanilla WoW, I sold my Perdition Blade without noticing it. I wanted to hit myself with a brick.

 

[Grand_Pamplemousse]

I once spent four hours grinding previous missions to get my team to a higher level to face the ending boss before I realised I had previously killed the final boss and the final level was a cut scene.

Gosh I felt stupid.

 

[T-Bone24]

I was playing Fallout 3, relatively low level. I had just gone into Rivet City. I decided my pockets were a bit light so decided to dabble in some theivery, Flak and Shrapnel's room was my target as Shrapnel had left his door open. So I rush in before the door closes and steal everything not nailed down. I hadn't thought that the door may have been locked, so when I went to leave, I found that my lockpick skill was not high enough to leave. I had to wait for 3 days to be let out! That was pretty dumb.

The EXACT same thing happened to me. Except after two weeks they never came back so I had to start from the last save, luckily I had auto-save turned on.

Autosave was on for me, but I waited in one-hour increments, so reverting to that was a no-go. My last save was 2 hours and 2 levels ago. Luckily, I had my friends' mockery companionship to stop me going insane.

 

[ohgodalex]

In Fallout 3, I explored this huge section of DC trying to find the access to the Presidential Metro. Eventually found out that the guide arrow I had declared "useless" actually pointed to a manhole that I had walked over countless times.

 

[Starkey The Pirate]

Just in any game where you waste countless amounts of ammo or time on an enemy that can't die because you're not supposed to be fighting them and you're just supposed to run. Or, an even more IRRITATING case, its one of those enemies that are SUPPOSED to kill you for the sake of the plot. I then proceed to bang my head against the keyboard feeling like an idiot.

 

[Murlin]

Aimlessly wandering around the water temple in twilight princess without getting further for a week until i found out what to do...

 

[A Weary Exile]

Getting trapped in the house of a demon-summoning witch and the sun as a vampire in Oblivion, I had to make a whole new file. >:O