Lemmings almost got me fired. I installed it at work and my boss caught me and I thought I was f'd. Turned out, he was stuck on a level lower than I was on so I showed him how to beat it. He made me uninstall it with a stern warning.
Getting fired for gaming to much is great... it means you have more time to keep gaming! (just at your parent's house instead because you can't pay rent)
My 360 got the red ring 3 times but it was just from overheating. Let it sit for a day and it went back to normal. That feeling of terror when it happened is not something I'll ever forget though
Omg the fucking red ring! I remember I just bought Assassin’s Creed 2 and Arkham Asylum and couldn’t wait to go home to play them. I played AC2 for maybe an hour and I got the red ring 🙄!
Another one from back in the day that leads on from not having a backup save was, You get to a point in the game where you can save, only to notice that an enemy has already triggered an attack at you that will one shot you. every time to start the save file you're killed rendering the game save useless and having to start over. I had this happen as recently as Ninja Gaiden on the Xbox.
Code Veronica... I misread the situation, gave Chris all my weapons and material hit the no going back save got stranded on the last boss with Claire and no materials
Something similar to number 6 happened to me. I lost access to the email account I had been using for well over a decade. The restoration procedure asked me to not just answer my secret question but list the titles of sent emails and other specific bs that I couldn't do. That email was bound to my Steam, Origin, Uplay, Xbox Live, PSN, etc. I managed to restore almost everything and the only casualty was my Epic Games account (where I only had the free games). Lesson learned, always secure your accounts with a phone number.
I had something like that ALMOST happen to me as well.. I say ALMOST.. Because I was able to recover most of my accounts linked to that email.. Most.. Not all.. My GOG account being one of them... I know I lost other things but honestly did not care as much. Like I did lose my Xbox Live account but really to me that was not a big deal since the most I lost there was a few things that where free in the first place.. and I still have the physical data that I knew how to access without the account. I was able to get my steam account, and and everything else back fine.. So I have made safeguards even with those ones regardless to make sure even if I did somehow lose the new email I will still be safe with accounts from there on out.
Yeah hearing the corrupt save file killed me. I was 30+ hrs into final fantasy 7 remake when the game randomly crashed and said that it had become corrupt. Deleted the game only not my saves and reinstalled only to find out all the progress I had made was gone and I was back to Clouds meeting with Aerith in the church. Safe to say I deleted the game and haven’t looked back since
A nightmare from my childhood: the phone is ringing... Before we received fiber optics (which we got quite late) our internet was provided through the telephone line. That meant every time the phone was answered or hung up the internet connection was lost. Playing high rounds of Black Ops Zombies with friends and hearing the phone ring was truly a nightmare
Lags and FPS drop are definitely any gamer's biggest nightmares. Specially when I update my PC with new graphic card, my heart literally skips a beat when I see some lag afterwards. I always pray that it's related to the game and not my device.
The worst thing is when you find out your CPU is bottlenecking your GPU or that your current power supply ends up being underpowered to run your new GPU. Had to fix my sister's gaming rig that she got pre-built because the 550w power supply wasn't enough for all her components. Had to get her a 850w instead because her rig kept shutting off during higher intensity gameplay.
@@pacicidal aw god sounds like a nightmare. i have a friend i always take my pc to when i have problems or need new parts putting in. i annoy the life out of him haha
@@hisammy3969 Somehow I ended up being the tech person for my sister, even though our older brother is much better with computer hardware than I am. I'm more on the software side of things than hardware, and yet I still get stuck dealing with her computer problems. All I can say is that I never want to have to wire a power supply unit to a motherboard or its peripherals ever again in a case specifically designed for cable management through the side panel. Absolute nightmare, especially when some of the cables barely ran the length right.
When I got my PC, I invested much more money than I needed because I would gladly pay for NOT having those FPS drops in any games... then eventually I got Elden Ring. Every time that FPS dropped randomly, I got pretty annoyed. I thought that FPS drop issue it had was related to it sending data to the server and waiting for the response (I/O), but it still happens if you disable online and completely disconnect from the internet.
#8 I'm pretty laid back when it comes to bugs, but what really irritates me is the apologists who continue to buy buggy games from bad developers, particularly when they do things like pre-order or buy them at launch. Some franchises need to fail for a while until someone comes along that can do it justice.
The division 2, had a season event that had a one time gear item, then it gets released full time into the game and now the devs are deleting the item completely. The division 2, released a new part of the game for all to play but turns out the exp earned was incorrect so they rolled back everyone's stats in a patch to fix it but ended up deleting all of the stats completely. For instance, you were level 20, they rolled you back to level 10 in a patch but the patch deleted all your stats a now you're level zero.
Linked to nr. 10, a story I still have nightmares about: in 2015 or 16, I racked up 68 hours of game time on Witcher 3 in a little over 2 weeks, playing it religiously every chance I got. I was still living at home with my parents and one night, lightning struck our house. No visible damages to the house and nothing to the electrical grid at first sight. I found out minutes later that we had a second electrical grid, to which our house phone (unused for years), the lights on the porch outside and my PlayStation were linked. Result: the second electrical grid was the only thing affected by the lighting strike and was completely fried. I haven’t touched the Witcher since, and I think about it often
This is close to #10. Over 20 years ago and I still feel it. I was playing Baldur's Gate 2 and (i think) i was most of the way through the game. I came to a point in a dungeon where I needed a certain item to progress and I didn't have that item. I'd been saving between 2 files, but I used both files after entering the dungeon. The next save I had was near the start of the game. I couldn't progress and I didn't want to start over. I never finished the game.
I feel you. Vampire the Masquerade for me...1 save file and it bugged out and I was stuck and couldn't progress. I still havent gone back to that game after that. That's stuck in my memory 30 years later like trauma.
Dungeon Master on the SNES. Got all the way down to where the Big Bad is, only to find I’d missed some of the keys to open the gates to go fight him. Tried to find them, but no luck. Still haven’t beaten it xx years later…
Wow you highlighted one of the major problems I had playing fallout 3. A bug caused liberty prime to not do his attack run and then my save file was corrupt then after hours of more play on a backup save file I got to colonel autumn and he bugged out and wouldn't leave his speech then guess what? Corrupt save again. Second time I had made more backup saves though.
I have something to add to this. I got Fallout 3 (PS3), from a gaming friend of mine. I've been playing it, and I thought:' I might get the DLC's for it.' I told my friend this, and frickin' good thing I didn't! He told me if I had done so, because of the version I have, if I had got them, they will BRICK your PS3! Some massive glitch/bug, even he didn't know why, so I don't know what version you have, but if you have the vanilla Fallout 3, for the PS3, DO NOT get the DLC's, your system will be screwed!
Round 2009-2010 when I was in University and I wasn't at all into MMO's, a dorm roommate introduced me to a game called Cabal. I totally lost myself in it and failed quite a few exams. I was able to retake and pass them but I completely abandoned that game and never let a game, ditching MMO's almost completely, impact my personal life that much ever again. The corrupt save file check, the game breaking bug check, broken controller check. Fun video...in the sense that its a fun format and the way its delivered because most of us know of the issues mentioned in it and if it were just some dry speech about glitches than it wouldn't have been fun at all. So thank you!
As much as I love physical version of games, I agree that the fear of they not working anymore due to time is very real... But I guess nothing lasts forever, not the consoles, not even the digital versions
Well spoken. Yes, disks degrade. I have worked at a printing firm that had a room full of physical and digital archives, in case clients wanted to reprint old material. The digital stuff was stored on zip disks, magneto disks and a huge amount of 500MB CDRs. And especially with those CDRs I had a ~20% chance of having degraded to the point of being unreadable. Also the reason I have two copies of Morrowind. One didn't work at the time. To be fair, I doubt the other does anymore either.
only upside to an unreadable disc is now you've got something you can frame and hang up on display. can't do that with digital. I did that with my very first copy of the original rayman that I played as a kid until it was unplayable xD Had to get myself a new one a few years back so I can finish the game.
I'm old. I'm also dumbuh. I grew up with an abacus, 8 bit, 16 bits, 4 bits (but it's portable HA take that, wackbards ressprog), skipped most of 32. Mostly because I tripped and fell, but also there were like, five different KINDS of 32 bits, I tried to show my math teacher that I wasn't insane, using this logic, but I failed. So, moving on, I fantastically finally found final fantasy 32, on the playstation. I used my fingers, and my toes, but I still couldn't find 4 5 and 6 becauze weaboo was, alas, still not a thing. So I rented a playstation from my local video game and VHS store (they were a thing, back in my day), because I had dirt on him, so he gave me the console and their copy of Finasty Fanals the 7th. He had dirt on IT. Me, having never seen a round game before, let alone a round game PLAYER (where the F(_)CK is my DAMN TOASTER CONSOLE) wasn't put off. I was but, maybe put on. So anyway, these cup coasters had numberz on dem, which never made much sense to me obviously. So when I tried to load the | shaped coaster number, it would get to the starting screen and then break, like my hopes. My dreams. So I opened the coaster counsel, left it on, blew on the coaster a few times and put it back in. Same problem. So I opened it AGAIN, and put in the coaster with the wiggly Z symbol. It worked! Finnial Fantasm Eleventy Hundred WORKED. I took Claud right up to the Shark Reactor, Black Big Bayonetta and I blue that shiz UP. And a giant blue monster creature came out of a crater, roaring. Point is, the gameplay is on all the discs, even the entire script.......... but when you hit a cinematic, it loads directly from the disc's hard-baked video files. LOL So when I blew up the Mako Reactor, we jumped all the way to Northern Crater with the WEAPONS, instead of the short reactor cinematic lol Me, playing this game at the time as a teenage girl.... "WOW they weren't kidding, these Japanese RPGs are odd. I don't know what I just saw. Anyway going to keep playing this is fun." (spends five hours, makes it all the way to meeting Aeris, fights a house, gets into Wall Market,) ............................................................................................................................... THE F(_)CK YOU MEAN I NEED A "MEMORY CARD"!!!??!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yup it broke my heart when my multiplayer terraria save file gets corrupted we spent hours building and farming items and then boom the power went off, It still crushed me to this day.
Honestly I hate corrupt save files Back when I was a kid, I had almost 600/721 pokemon recorded in the x and Y dex. Then my save got corrupted a total of 2 times after that instance.. Pain
remember my first play through of assassins creed 2, leaving the Animus by mistake and spending 3 hours running round the factory trying to get back. not easy starting an assassins creed again
OMG **exactly** !!! I stopped playing that game for MONTHS cause of going in circles in that damn fade 😩😩😩 started back recently and finished it in like 20 minutes 😂😂😂😂
I find it very frustrating that games get delisted. In that way you can some times still get the disc, but not the dlc's. With Driveclub for example. You can't get it digitally, only physically. That is not a huge problem, but you can't get the dlc's anymore!
To add on to number 7. Depending on the type of CD they are actually *The Best* thing to store data with if you're goal is the long-term storage of a small amount of data especially if there is no power present using archival grade cd/dvds.
some additional nightmares for every gamer (in my opinion) - playing a game with an auto/manual save function, and in the middle of a bad situation, the auto save only did a save at the beginning of the chapter/mission, and your last manual save was literally moments before the bad situation happens forcing you to go all the way back to the beginning of the mission - missing a sale, this is more of my opinion but man missing a game sale really sucks for me, or worst, buying a game with the price of my liver, only for it to be on sale the next day
To add to your second point: Missing a sale tens of times, then when ylu decide to purxhase the game, it is magically delisted. Fuck I've had it happen multiple times and it makes me sad. The one that hurta the most is Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 1 and 2 for Xbox One. I have thwm for 360, and even if I didn't I could get it physical. Xbox lne though? Was digital only :(
Encountered number 1 just recently. Be careful building a 1700, DDR5 system. You may need additional mounting brackets if you're using a custom cooler. I bought the motherboard and ram from different places. When my new build stopped turning on, I brought it to the shop for the ram and they told me the issue must be I messed up the motherboard using the wrong brackets. So I brought the motherboard to the other shop, they tested it and told me the motherboard is fine, it's one of the RAM sticks that is faulty. So because they were a kit, I had to RMA both of them. The whole thing took about a month to resolve.
DDR5 has been a shit show for me. Built my first PC in 2020, helped my dad in 2021. Literally no problems. Was one of the most fulfilling things I’ve done as an adult because I used to be afraid of handling components. Then in early 2022 built one with my GF using DDR5, the thing kept crashing. Find out certain memory controllers on early DDR5 just weren’t stable at all… Sent this motherboard in for RMA in January. Asus is now just handing it back to me in June… I feel bad because I told my GF this would be easy lol.
I remember pootling around in the submarine in FF7 having not saved my game for at least 6 hours. I remember seeing something swimming around and so I went in closer to see what it could be. Reader, it was Emerald Weapon. I didn't play again for 2 weeks.
I am in my 30's now and can remeber SO many RPG's were a got a corrupt save files with over 100 hour in. The Worst. Thank for fantastick daily videos FALCON you make my day !
The worse thing with the controller one is if only one minor thing stops working or starts intermittently working - like the headphones port. Hard to justify a new controller if you don't use it, but you know it's there. Like cracking the glass on the back of your phone while the front is pristine.
That broken controller thing hits hard as my elite series 2 controller decides to not acknowledge my RB presses anymore and that's one of the most frustrating things especially when playing Elden Ring
God so many of these ones resonated so fucking hard, like the red ring of death, I remember when it happened to me talking about it on forums people would actually try and blame me for the freaking problem, asking me if I had "treated my console right"... Then the online only games... Vermintide, Diablo, soon Darktide, I freaking hate online only games with solo modes, they went through all the problem of making bots for single player, yet they still add a finite life to the game in the form of this freaking arbitrary requirement.
I remember back in the X360 days, I had a glitch in Skyrim during the Civil War mission. Since I had already put lots of hours into the game, the practical solution was to employ yet another glitch so I could clip through a wall and enter a dungeon to continue the mission as it would normally would go. But hey, it just works!
I remember when my Bloodborne save file got deleted or corrupted on my PS4... definitely one of the worst feelings especially how challenging Bloodborne can be on your very 1st blind playthrough.. kinda cruel 🔥
Oh man i feel your pain. I didnt have a save file corrupt but I lost power during my fight against ludwig right before i was two hits from killing him.
Sounds like you regretted playing that game, you don’t have the interest to play the game again from the beginning because you didn’t enjoy playing it.
The red ring gave me literal nightmares 😂😅like that was the most nightmare fuel gaming experience for me period. I had friends who got it more than once so every time I went to boot up my system it was a true fear as I was barely able to afford the damn thing in the first place.
#10 is such a common fear between gamers that arkham asylum was able to play on those fears with a scarecrow hallucination fake crash where it booted you back to "the beginning of the game" which was really just a twisted version of the intro scene.
i learned from PSX era of gaming to backup your saves, not only once but twice. two backups in case original and first backup both fail, which surprisingly, or unsurprisingly, did happen to me with FFVII. my chest literally lost air when first backup save got also corrupted alongside main one. painful moments.
8) This is old, and I don't hear people ever mention this. Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn had a nifty little thing where you could import save data from Path of Radiance for just a few little bonus items, some weapons, some extra starting gold, nothing game breaking. Problem was, certain editions of Radiant Dawn would lock up if you imported an Easy difficulty Path of Radiant save when you attempted to engage Pegasus rider. You weren't going to encounter these until several chapters into the game (I think was nearly the end of Act 1) and when they flew in and inevitably attacked you, your game locks up. It wasn't all copies of the game, and as far as I know it was only Easy difficulty files, but was annoying since at the time, tracking down information for it was extremely difficult.
I did a search on your channel and I was shocked to find that you don't have a video for Top 10 Games Where Your Choices Actually Mattered. I'd love to see that one, gameranx! Way too many games give either an illusion that your choices matter, or only give a slight variation on the next segment with no impact on how things play out in the long run. I'd love to see a video dedicated to the games that take your actions into account over the long run and actually completely alter or open up new endings and avenues of gameplay.
The red ring was caused by overheating. My first 360 had no issues until one hot summer day I was playing oblivion and it shut down. Went through 2 more before my folks gifted me a 2nd party fan for it and it never overheated again
I remember the old days when on the PS2 sometimes the blue discs never worked after a while of use. That really frustrated me since I could only play games what didn't have that blue cover on the disc itself
While I didn't get a corrupted save, I do still clearly remember the time the power went out while I was playing a game on the Wii, the game was one that used save points rather than let you save anytime from a menu screen, and I'd gone through about two hours of play time without coming across one, there were a few difficult bosses battled in that time, I'd finished several chapters, and all of that progress was lost in a single second, my mother came home to me inconsolably crying in front of the powerless t.v
I once accidentally deleted my save file for Fallout 4, I was at level 85 and for some reason the last auto save only saved back when I was at level 15, mind you I did all main and side quests with only a few remaining of Nuka World, and I don't rush I explore everything, over 100 hours gone.
11:50 happened to me when Darkness Reborn was taken down from the App Store. The game was doing so good so I never understood why they pulled the plug on it
My biggest infuriating moment was the Xbox Elite 2.0. Almost all of those controllers had issues from the factory despite it being a premium product. Then they wanted me to send it in and wait for them to send it back instead of doing an exchange.
I mean that makes sense when you think about it. If they sent you one and waited on yours, there would be a ton of ppl abusing that system and getting free controllers
Fallout New Vegas taught me to make at least 3-4 back up saves in every game with save slots, especially in RPGs. The game had an issue after I played the game for 2 weeks. It took over a month to get patched and oddly, it allowed me to access my last save again. It could’ve been much worse, but it’s better to lose a couple hours of game play than it is to lose a couple of days.
Addendum to losing your save file frustrations: When your sibling/roommate/etc plays a game you are also playing and saves over your file. Even worse was back in the day when game saves used to be on the cartridge, and you let a friend borrow it with the one caveat that they DO NOT SAVE OVER YOUR GAME, but did anyway “on accident”. I had to resort to fisticuffs a few times because of this in my years.
Honestly the red ring of death on my xbox popped up several times and if my brothers or I just turned it off as fast as possible by unplugging the system it would still work
My biggest nightmare: getting most of the way through the suicide mission in ME2 and picking one wrong character for a situation and having them die so you have to restart the whole thing.
@@rustyshackleford2022 I figure anybody who knows and enjoys the series knows what I’m talking about as I have seen the same game, name dropped the same way under almost every video I’ve seen it mentioned in since it is quite a large series with a large following, But if you need me to spell it out for you I absolutely can! I’m talking about Mass Effect 2 suicide mission.
I had to comment about the first issue, the save file. Me and my brother both were playing FF7 when it came out. I was way further ahead than him, but one time he asked me for some help. So I help him and then save the game. But I saved over my save slot! I lose a good 30 hours. It hurt bad. Ever since then, I just keep making new saves every single time.
12:06 City is Heroes was revived back in 2019 if you didn't know Falcon! Check out City of Heroes Homecoming forums and come play. I'm on the Excelsior server. :)
I've suffered ''disc rot'' on two more modern games. MGSV and Red Dead Redemption 2. I ended up having to rebuy both games. I've also noticed some newly-bought Blu-Ray discs wouldn't play in the PS4. I think they already had disc rot.
MGS4 - Going for my Big Boss run, and at the end of the Shadow Moses mission...power goes out...wait for power to come back on to see my PS3 giving me the "You did a bad and failed to shut down properly - I am going to take the next 2 hours to check everything out" only to see my save was corrupted. Needless to say, I never bothered going back.
Actually, Third Party Controllers break more easily. I never experienced this JoyCon drift I've been hearing about. The problem is the Left JoyCon rail on my Switch that it randomly doesn't detect a Left JoyCon even though it's connected. And I'm aware about Disc Rot.
I learned the whole “talk to every villager” thing because I was a kid playing FF2/4j, and I didn’t talk to anyone and got to the part with the desert town and it wasn’t there. I walked all over, up and down, left to right, and nothing. It just didn’t spawn. Not sure if it was a bug or a glitch because it was a rental copy but I always talk to everyone now. Sometimes twice lol. Also, Legend of Mana’s glitch where if you’re with certain characters but trigger another character’s cutscene, the two child characters are now gone forever. You’ll never finish the game completely and this was a known issue they never addressed. I stopped right there lol.
I’m honestly surprised a bugged trophy or achievement didn’t make this list That is probably my top 3. To 99% a game and then something just doesn’t work.
Right away, 10 made me think of my recent attempts to play through Assassin's Creed II on 360... It's happened like 5 times in a row, without even reaching Venice once
I remember fairly recently, I had just put in 50 hours into horizon forbidden west. I booted up my PS5 and I got a message along the lines of, your PS5 didn’t boot up correctly and your save info may be gone. I couldn’t even load the game. I had to completely delete it and reinstall it. I told myself, if I boot up the game and it is all gone, I am calling it the quits and not putting another 50 hours into the game again to get back to where I was. Thankfully, it was saved. I just remember the feeling of “well this game is dead to me…”
You don't have to go back that far to find a game that will delete your entire C: drive. Realm of the Mad God had a launcher release a few years back where it would delete your drive if you went to uninstall the game.
Hoo boy I feel that last one. So I had an old PC, and didn’t really plan on building a whole new one, but for various reasons I ended up having to get a new graphics card (GTX 970), motherboard and CPU, and because of the motherboard I needed a bigger case. Once it was all transferred over/put together, I had an issue was it would always turn itself off a few minutes after starting up any graphically demanding game. Took weeks to figure out the cause was that the PSU was too weak, but man what a nightmare those weeks were! That was 7/8 years ago. I actually have the same build today and it’s still going strong! I love my GTX 970.
For the save file one I had a time where me and my friend were trying to platinum Lego marvel superheroes 1 and I lost my save data when we were so close
A year and a half ago my Epic Games account was hacked by someone. I panicked at first but thankfully they only changed my username, password and unlinked a few accounts. I was able to recover it thanks to a nice staff member from Epic Games who also allowed me to change back to my original username. That experience helped me realize I gotta smash my keyboard whenever making a password so no one can guess it
Yeah it happend to me with Tony Hawks American Wastland.. i loved that game played it ALL the time. Then i was getting close to finishing the story and LOST EVERYTHING and it pissed me off so bad I NEVER picked up that game and played it again. I was devastated, and now reflecting on it… i still am 😪
#10 back in the day made me so paranoid about the power going out that I'd save every minute because I've lost countless hours of playtime because of the inconsistent power flow and constant flickering of power.
10. Pokemon Sapphire and Crash Bandicoot Tag Team Racing. 9. My first PS4 controller had the L2 button getting stuck (after letting go, it acts as if I am still pressing it down), first PS5 controller had its charging port cave in on itself. The replacement PS5 controller has a very unresponsive up button. 8. Mass Effect 1 near the end, the game freezes during or after the final battle causing me to have to replay the final battle. In Lost Dimension, if you use a specific character on a specific level, then the game freezes at the end of the level causing you to have to replay the level. 7. Some of my old pc and PS2 games stopped working.
It broke my heart when the tomorrow children servers got closed down, it wasnt even really a good game but there was just something different about it and had a small lotal community
I remember when GTA V had that whole issue when you download the game and then when it’s done you have to wait another 3 hours . Omg I don’t miss those days .
Lemmings almost got me fired. I installed it at work and my boss caught me and I thought I was f'd.
Turned out, he was stuck on a level lower than I was on so I showed him how to beat it. He made me uninstall it with a stern warning.
WoW use to have that kind of reputation.
Getting fired for gaming to much is great... it means you have more time to keep gaming! (just at your parent's house instead because you can't pay rent)
dang that is a chad boss
As all-time classics go, Lemmings does not get enough love
@@grayaj23 yes
My 360 got the red ring 3 times but it was just from overheating. Let it sit for a day and it went back to normal. That feeling of terror when it happened is not something I'll ever forget though
The same happened to me. But only twice.
Omg the fucking red ring! I remember I just bought Assassin’s Creed 2 and Arkham Asylum and couldn’t wait to go home to play them. I played AC2 for maybe an hour and I got the red ring 🙄!
Red ring goes away if you wrap your 360 in a towel and let it overheat and reset.
@@moresomoze it didn't always fix it fully. the correct fix was to reapply the thermal paste on the heatsink for the system.
dont charge it in the microwave, whatever you do.
Another one from back in the day that leads on from not having a backup save was, You get to a point in the game where you can save, only to notice that an enemy has already triggered an attack at you that will one shot you. every time to start the save file you're killed rendering the game save useless and having to start over. I had this happen as recently as Ninja Gaiden on the Xbox.
I was playing Max Payne and accidentally saved as I was falling, every time I loaded the game it loaded me mid air 😂
poorly placed checkpoint could cause that. But also giving the player freedom to save anytime could cause it too.
Ninja Gaiden games are brutal 😆
I still remember this with sorcerers stone on ps1 to this day
Code Veronica... I misread the situation, gave Chris all my weapons and material hit the no going back save got stranded on the last boss with Claire and no materials
Something similar to number 6 happened to me. I lost access to the email account I had been using for well over a decade. The restoration procedure asked me to not just answer my secret question but list the titles of sent emails and other specific bs that I couldn't do. That email was bound to my Steam, Origin, Uplay, Xbox Live, PSN, etc. I managed to restore almost everything and the only casualty was my Epic Games account (where I only had the free games). Lesson learned, always secure your accounts with a phone number.
I had something like that ALMOST happen to me as well.. I say ALMOST.. Because I was able to recover most of my accounts linked to that email.. Most.. Not all.. My GOG account being one of them... I know I lost other things but honestly did not care as much. Like I did lose my Xbox Live account but really to me that was not a big deal since the most I lost there was a few things that where free in the first place.. and I still have the physical data that I knew how to access without the account. I was able to get my steam account, and and everything else back fine.. So I have made safeguards even with those ones regardless to make sure even if I did somehow lose the new email I will still be safe with accounts from there on out.
I did get locked out of my Steam account but I was able to get it back.
Yeah hearing the corrupt save file killed me. I was 30+ hrs into final fantasy 7 remake when the game randomly crashed and said that it had become corrupt. Deleted the game only not my saves and reinstalled only to find out all the progress I had made was gone and I was back to Clouds meeting with Aerith in the church. Safe to say I deleted the game and haven’t looked back since
I feel with you. But you should give it a second Chance someday. It's a good game after all! And dont forget to Backup your saves ;)
@@Fotzfrosch This feels like an AI wrote this.
@@ryanabarca8616 Ok, cool! And i didn't even use Google Translate, hehe ;)
That happened to me with the new wwe 2k22 game all my save data gone and I haven't played it since that happen
This use to happen quite a bit with 7 days to die.
A nightmare from my childhood: the phone is ringing...
Before we received fiber optics (which we got quite late) our internet was provided through the telephone line. That meant every time the phone was answered or hung up the internet connection was lost. Playing high rounds of Black Ops Zombies with friends and hearing the phone ring was truly a nightmare
I liked when you said about older games being lost forever. I love seeing you guys getting older and not forgetting the past.
It makes me feel simultaneously super old, but very seen
Lags and FPS drop are definitely any gamer's biggest nightmares. Specially when I update my PC with new graphic card, my heart literally skips a beat when I see some lag afterwards. I always pray that it's related to the game and not my device.
seriously though! i'm super chill when it comes to games 99% of the time but lag just awakens something in me lmao.
The worst thing is when you find out your CPU is bottlenecking your GPU or that your current power supply ends up being underpowered to run your new GPU. Had to fix my sister's gaming rig that she got pre-built because the 550w power supply wasn't enough for all her components. Had to get her a 850w instead because her rig kept shutting off during higher intensity gameplay.
@@pacicidal aw god sounds like a nightmare. i have a friend i always take my pc to when i have problems or need new parts putting in. i annoy the life out of him haha
@@hisammy3969 Somehow I ended up being the tech person for my sister, even though our older brother is much better with computer hardware than I am. I'm more on the software side of things than hardware, and yet I still get stuck dealing with her computer problems. All I can say is that I never want to have to wire a power supply unit to a motherboard or its peripherals ever again in a case specifically designed for cable management through the side panel. Absolute nightmare, especially when some of the cables barely ran the length right.
When I got my PC, I invested much more money than I needed because I would gladly pay for NOT having those FPS drops in any games... then eventually I got Elden Ring. Every time that FPS dropped randomly, I got pretty annoyed.
I thought that FPS drop issue it had was related to it sending data to the server and waiting for the response (I/O), but it still happens if you disable online and completely disconnect from the internet.
#8 I'm pretty laid back when it comes to bugs, but what really irritates me is the apologists who continue to buy buggy games from bad developers, particularly when they do things like pre-order or buy them at launch. Some franchises need to fail for a while until someone comes along that can do it justice.
Cod, all ea games, all the new ubisoft games, and sadly Bethesda games
@@youstolemyhandleyoutwat doesn't apply to all Bethesda games, but yeah those are the major ones
@@slambat2905 I think the only Bethesda game that I've played that didn't glitch the hell out, was Doom.
ikr?! they keep complaining, but then they pre-order as soon as they can
SIMS DLCs
My brother deleted my 2 year long redstone word to make space for call of duty then sold our console a week later. I cried for hours.
The division 2, had a season event that had a one time gear item, then it gets released full time into the game and now the devs are deleting the item completely.
The division 2, released a new part of the game for all to play but turns out the exp earned was incorrect so they rolled back everyone's stats in a patch to fix it but ended up deleting all of the stats completely. For instance, you were level 20, they rolled you back to level 10 in a patch but the patch deleted all your stats a now you're level zero.
😳
Yeah, those blunders led to an uninstall and never buying a Ubisoft game again. The Division 2 was the nail in the coffin.
@m_train1 you should be able to play a game for as long as you want regardless of moneys worth without constant bugs and fuck ups
@m_train1 what dumb logic
Bjesus christ
Linked to nr. 10, a story I still have nightmares about: in 2015 or 16, I racked up 68 hours of game time on Witcher 3 in a little over 2 weeks, playing it religiously every chance I got. I was still living at home with my parents and one night, lightning struck our house. No visible damages to the house and nothing to the electrical grid at first sight. I found out minutes later that we had a second electrical grid, to which our house phone (unused for years), the lights on the porch outside and my PlayStation were linked. Result: the second electrical grid was the only thing affected by the lighting strike and was completely fried.
I haven’t touched the Witcher since, and I think about it often
Defcon 5 actually means everything’s fine and peaceful. Defcon 1 is the “oh shit we’re screwed!”
Came to the comments section to say this lol
Same
What a nerd🤓😉
Thank you! Was looking for this xD
Thinking the same thing haha
@2:15 "doesn't sound that serious *does it* ?" 🤣🤣🤣
This is close to #10. Over 20 years ago and I still feel it. I was playing Baldur's Gate 2 and (i think) i was most of the way through the game. I came to a point in a dungeon where I needed a certain item to progress and I didn't have that item. I'd been saving between 2 files, but I used both files after entering the dungeon. The next save I had was near the start of the game. I couldn't progress and I didn't want to start over. I never finished the game.
I feel you. Vampire the Masquerade for me...1 save file and it bugged out and I was stuck and couldn't progress. I still havent gone back to that game after that. That's stuck in my memory 30 years later like trauma.
LOTR RPG for me. I feel your pain.
This happened to me in Baldurs gate 2 also!!!! The point you need it is literally near the end of the game
Sucks when that happens... 😢😭
Dungeon Master on the SNES. Got all the way down to where the Big Bad is, only to find I’d missed some of the keys to open the gates to go fight him. Tried to find them, but no luck. Still haven’t beaten it xx years later…
1 more fear I have is falling in love with a game with an incomplete story, and the developer studio goes under
Wow you highlighted one of the major problems I had playing fallout 3. A bug caused liberty prime to not do his attack run and then my save file was corrupt then after hours of more play on a backup save file I got to colonel autumn and he bugged out and wouldn't leave his speech then guess what? Corrupt save again. Second time I had made more backup saves though.
I have something to add to this. I got Fallout 3 (PS3), from a gaming friend of mine. I've been playing it, and I thought:' I might get the DLC's for it.' I told my friend this, and frickin' good thing I didn't! He told me if I had done so, because of the version I have, if I had got them, they will BRICK your PS3! Some massive glitch/bug, even he didn't know why, so I don't know what version you have, but if you have the vanilla Fallout 3, for the PS3, DO NOT get the DLC's, your system will be screwed!
@@marystone860 Sounds like your friend bullshitted you and you bought it 😂
Round 2009-2010 when I was in University and I wasn't at all into MMO's, a dorm roommate introduced me to a game called Cabal. I totally lost myself in it and failed quite a few exams. I was able to retake and pass them but I completely abandoned that game and never let a game, ditching MMO's almost completely, impact my personal life that much ever again. The corrupt save file check, the game breaking bug check, broken controller check. Fun video...in the sense that its a fun format and the way its delivered because most of us know of the issues mentioned in it and if it were just some dry speech about glitches than it wouldn't have been fun at all. So thank you!
As much as I love physical version of games, I agree that the fear of they not working anymore due to time is very real... But I guess nothing lasts forever, not the consoles, not even the digital versions
My fear with digital downloads is, forgetting my log in details and not being able to redownload from where I got them.
Well spoken. Yes, disks degrade. I have worked at a printing firm that had a room full of physical and digital archives, in case clients wanted to reprint old material. The digital stuff was stored on zip disks, magneto disks and a huge amount of 500MB CDRs. And especially with those CDRs I had a ~20% chance of having degraded to the point of being unreadable.
Also the reason I have two copies of Morrowind. One didn't work at the time. To be fair, I doubt the other does anymore either.
only upside to an unreadable disc is now you've got something you can frame and hang up on display. can't do that with digital.
I did that with my very first copy of the original rayman that I played as a kid until it was unplayable xD Had to get myself a new one a few years back so I can finish the game.
@@crookedbuns yeah I like that idea a lot, probably I'll do something similar
I'm old. I'm also dumbuh.
I grew up with an abacus, 8 bit, 16 bits, 4 bits (but it's portable HA take that, wackbards ressprog), skipped most of 32. Mostly because I tripped and fell, but also there were like, five different KINDS of 32 bits, I tried to show my math teacher that I wasn't insane, using this logic, but I failed.
So, moving on, I fantastically finally found final fantasy 32, on the playstation. I used my fingers, and my toes, but I still couldn't find 4 5 and 6 becauze weaboo was, alas, still not a thing. So I rented a playstation from my local video game and VHS store (they were a thing, back in my day), because I had dirt on him, so he gave me the console and their copy of Finasty Fanals the 7th.
He had dirt on IT.
Me, having never seen a round game before, let alone a round game PLAYER (where the F(_)CK is my DAMN TOASTER CONSOLE) wasn't put off. I was but, maybe put on. So anyway, these cup coasters had numberz on dem, which never made much sense to me obviously. So when I tried to load the | shaped coaster number, it would get to the starting screen and then break, like my hopes. My dreams.
So I opened the coaster counsel, left it on, blew on the coaster a few times and put it back in.
Same problem.
So I opened it AGAIN, and put in the coaster with the wiggly Z symbol.
It worked! Finnial Fantasm Eleventy Hundred WORKED.
I took Claud right up to the Shark Reactor, Black Big Bayonetta and I blue that shiz UP.
And a giant blue monster creature came out of a crater, roaring.
Point is, the gameplay is on all the discs, even the entire script.......... but when you hit a cinematic, it loads directly from the disc's hard-baked video files. LOL So when I blew up the Mako Reactor, we jumped all the way to Northern Crater with the WEAPONS, instead of the short reactor cinematic lol
Me, playing this game at the time as a teenage girl....
"WOW they weren't kidding, these Japanese RPGs are odd. I don't know what I just saw. Anyway going to keep playing this is fun."
(spends five hours, makes it all the way to meeting Aeris, fights a house, gets into Wall Market,)
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THE F(_)CK YOU MEAN I NEED A "MEMORY CARD"!!!??!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yup it broke my heart when my multiplayer terraria save file gets corrupted we spent hours building and farming items and then boom the power went off, It still crushed me to this day.
Honestly I hate corrupt save files
Back when I was a kid, I had almost 600/721 pokemon recorded in the x and Y dex.
Then my save got corrupted a total of 2 times after that instance..
Pain
remember my first play through of assassins creed 2, leaving the Animus by mistake and spending 3 hours running round the factory trying to get back. not easy starting an assassins creed again
Number 8 hit me hard when Cyberpunk 2077 came out. I had two game breaking bugs at the beginning of the game and had no idea for about 10 minutes.
I got autosaved after my car clipped through the ground and was free falling. So I was in a loop of fall die respawn fall die…
YOU GUYS DONT KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKINT ABOUT THE GAME IS GREAT AND IT WORKS LIKE INTENDED !
I was playing the original COD online well past COD MW2 days. Each clans just bought/ rented a server. Man I miss them days
My nightmare is being forced to play the Fade section of Dragon Age: Origins!
OMG **exactly** !!! I stopped playing that game for MONTHS cause of going in circles in that damn fade 😩😩😩 started back recently and finished it in like 20 minutes 😂😂😂😂
Idk Why but I hated it on my 1st playthrough but after that I never had a Problem with it
Oh wow, I hated that level. So boring. What were they thinking ?
nowadays losing a console account can be detrimental because of MMO's like Black Desert Online, etc. i know people who've whaled thousands into it.
when your younger sibling saves over your save slot in a game
I find it very frustrating that games get delisted. In that way you can some times still get the disc, but not the dlc's.
With Driveclub for example. You can't get it digitally, only physically. That is not a huge problem, but you can't get the dlc's anymore!
To add on to number 7. Depending on the type of CD they are actually *The Best* thing to store data with if you're goal is the long-term storage of a small amount of data especially if there is no power present using archival grade cd/dvds.
some additional nightmares for every gamer (in my opinion)
- playing a game with an auto/manual save function, and in the middle of a bad situation, the auto save only did a save at the beginning of the chapter/mission, and your last manual save was literally moments before the bad situation happens forcing you to go all the way back to the beginning of the mission
- missing a sale, this is more of my opinion but man missing a game sale really sucks for me, or worst, buying a game with the price of my liver, only for it to be on sale the next day
That's why I only buy games on sale now...so that very thing does not happen!
To add to your second point: Missing a sale tens of times, then when ylu decide to purxhase the game, it is magically delisted.
Fuck I've had it happen multiple times and it makes me sad. The one that hurta the most is Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 1 and 2 for Xbox One. I have thwm for 360, and even if I didn't I could get it physical. Xbox lne though? Was digital only :(
When you get a corrupt HD due to a power outage was my biggest nightmare on this-gen and early ps1 time.
Seems UPS for consoles would be a thing. They are computers after all.
Those weird children in elden ring protecting rennala
*10 NIGHTMARES Every Gamer Has*
Playing a horrorgame and then dream of being in that horrorgame, as a powerless victim of course. ;)
😅
Omg yes, that's a real thing for me!
Encountered number 1 just recently. Be careful building a 1700, DDR5 system. You may need additional mounting brackets if you're using a custom cooler. I bought the motherboard and ram from different places. When my new build stopped turning on, I brought it to the shop for the ram and they told me the issue must be I messed up the motherboard using the wrong brackets. So I brought the motherboard to the other shop, they tested it and told me the motherboard is fine, it's one of the RAM sticks that is faulty. So because they were a kit, I had to RMA both of them. The whole thing took about a month to resolve.
DDR5 has been a shit show for me. Built my first PC in 2020, helped my dad in 2021. Literally no problems. Was one of the most fulfilling things I’ve done as an adult because I used to be afraid of handling components.
Then in early 2022 built one with my GF using DDR5, the thing kept crashing. Find out certain memory controllers on early DDR5 just weren’t stable at all…
Sent this motherboard in for RMA in January. Asus is now just handing it back to me in June… I feel bad because I told my GF this would be easy lol.
I remember pootling around in the submarine in FF7 having not saved my game for at least 6 hours. I remember seeing something swimming around and so I went in closer to see what it could be. Reader, it was Emerald Weapon. I didn't play again for 2 weeks.
Back in the days Moving your console with a disk still in it. Just to find its destroyed the disk. RIP.
That save file fear is very valid 😂
I am in my 30's now and can remeber SO many RPG's were a got a corrupt save files with over 100 hour in. The Worst.
Thank for fantastick daily videos FALCON you make my day !
The worse thing with the controller one is if only one minor thing stops working or starts intermittently working - like the headphones port. Hard to justify a new controller if you don't use it, but you know it's there. Like cracking the glass on the back of your phone while the front is pristine.
Great video! Also, I really love the editing in recent videos. New editor? In any case, keep up the good work.❤👍
That broken controller thing hits hard as my elite series 2 controller decides to not acknowledge my RB presses anymore and that's one of the most frustrating things especially when playing Elden Ring
God so many of these ones resonated so fucking hard, like the red ring of death, I remember when it happened to me talking about it on forums people would actually try and blame me for the freaking problem, asking me if I had "treated my console right"...
Then the online only games... Vermintide, Diablo, soon Darktide, I freaking hate online only games with solo modes, they went through all the problem of making bots for single player, yet they still add a finite life to the game in the form of this freaking arbitrary requirement.
I remember back in the X360 days, I had a glitch in Skyrim during the Civil War mission. Since I had already put lots of hours into the game, the practical solution was to employ yet another glitch so I could clip through a wall and enter a dungeon to continue the mission as it would normally would go. But hey, it just works!
I remember when my Bloodborne save file got deleted or corrupted on my PS4... definitely one of the worst feelings especially how challenging Bloodborne can be on your very 1st blind playthrough.. kinda cruel 🔥
Oh man i feel your pain. I didnt have a save file corrupt but I lost power during my fight against ludwig right before i was two hits from killing him.
@@cthulhurage5598 HAHAHAHA damn dude... just beat him the first time . shit is tough. sorry man
@@copycatlyn you gonna laugh at dude in caps then say sorry😂😂
@@jordancave3089 LMAOOO
Sounds like you regretted playing that game, you don’t have the interest to play the game again from the beginning because you didn’t enjoy playing it.
The red ring gave me literal nightmares 😂😅like that was the most nightmare fuel gaming experience for me period. I had friends who got it more than once so every time I went to boot up my system it was a true fear as I was barely able to afford the damn thing in the first place.
#10 is such a common fear between gamers that arkham asylum was able to play on those fears with a scarecrow hallucination fake crash where it booted you back to "the beginning of the game" which was really just a twisted version of the intro scene.
I'm in my mid-40's and my biggest gaming fear is developing Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Not being able to use my hands to play games would be horrible.
Hope you recover soon. 💪🏼
i learned from PSX era of gaming to backup your saves, not only once but twice. two backups in case original and first backup both fail, which surprisingly, or unsurprisingly, did happen to me with FFVII. my chest literally lost air when first backup save got also corrupted alongside main one. painful moments.
8) This is old, and I don't hear people ever mention this. Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn had a nifty little thing where you could import save data from Path of Radiance for just a few little bonus items, some weapons, some extra starting gold, nothing game breaking. Problem was, certain editions of Radiant Dawn would lock up if you imported an Easy difficulty Path of Radiant save when you attempted to engage Pegasus rider. You weren't going to encounter these until several chapters into the game (I think was nearly the end of Act 1) and when they flew in and inevitably attacked you, your game locks up. It wasn't all copies of the game, and as far as I know it was only Easy difficulty files, but was annoying since at the time, tracking down information for it was extremely difficult.
Man I miss my Sega Saturn. Memories right there. I can relate to all these topics 😆
I did a search on your channel and I was shocked to find that you don't have a video for Top 10 Games Where Your Choices Actually Mattered. I'd love to see that one, gameranx!
Way too many games give either an illusion that your choices matter, or only give a slight variation on the next segment with no impact on how things play out in the long run. I'd love to see a video dedicated to the games that take your actions into account over the long run and actually completely alter or open up new endings and avenues of gameplay.
The red ring was caused by overheating. My first 360 had no issues until one hot summer day I was playing oblivion and it shut down. Went through 2 more before my folks gifted me a 2nd party fan for it and it never overheated again
Lol Falcon forgetting how to use words at 2:15 got me rolling.
🦅😅
@@gameranxTV while I have your attention - maybe hit us with a “Top 10 indie games that people sleep on” ?
I remember the old days when on the PS2 sometimes the blue discs never worked after a while of use. That really frustrated me since I could only play games what didn't have that blue cover on the disc itself
the blue discs were absolutely terrible. I thought it was just me dealing with that xD
The slimline ps2 itself was janky as well
Corrupt file, then it cuts to Skyrim, I love this channel.
While I didn't get a corrupted save, I do still clearly remember the time the power went out while I was playing a game on the Wii, the game was one that used save points rather than let you save anytime from a menu screen, and I'd gone through about two hours of play time without coming across one, there were a few difficult bosses battled in that time, I'd finished several chapters, and all of that progress was lost in a single second, my mother came home to me inconsolably crying in front of the powerless t.v
Skyrim be like : “oh you have 100+ hours on this save, yea fuck that save, corrupted*”
I once accidentally deleted my save file for Fallout 4, I was at level 85 and for some reason the last auto save only saved back when I was at level 15, mind you I did all main and side quests with only a few remaining of Nuka World, and I don't rush I explore everything, over 100 hours gone.
11:50 happened to me when Darkness Reborn was taken down from the App Store. The game was doing so good so I never understood why they pulled the plug on it
My biggest infuriating moment was the Xbox Elite 2.0. Almost all of those controllers had issues from the factory despite it being a premium product. Then they wanted me to send it in and wait for them to send it back instead of doing an exchange.
I mean that makes sense when you think about it. If they sent you one and waited on yours, there would be a ton of ppl abusing that system and getting free controllers
Fallout New Vegas taught me to make at least 3-4 back up saves in every game with save slots, especially in RPGs. The game had an issue after I played the game for 2 weeks. It took over a month to get patched and oddly, it allowed me to access my last save again. It could’ve been much worse, but it’s better to lose a couple hours of game play than it is to lose a couple of days.
Addendum to losing your save file frustrations: When your sibling/roommate/etc plays a game you are also playing and saves over your file. Even worse was back in the day when game saves used to be on the cartridge, and you let a friend borrow it with the one caveat that they DO NOT SAVE OVER YOUR GAME, but did anyway “on accident”. I had to resort to fisticuffs a few times because of this in my years.
Honestly the red ring of death on my xbox popped up several times and if my brothers or I just turned it off as fast as possible by unplugging the system it would still work
My biggest nightmare: getting most of the way through the suicide mission in ME2 and picking one wrong character for a situation and having them die so you have to restart the whole thing.
You shouldnt just drop acronyms, nobody who matters knows what your saying
@@rustyshackleford2022 I figure anybody who knows and enjoys the series knows what I’m talking about as I have seen the same game, name dropped the same way under almost every video I’ve seen it mentioned in since it is quite a large series with a large following, But if you need me to spell it out for you I absolutely can! I’m talking about Mass Effect 2 suicide mission.
Only OG's remember wrapping their red ringed 360 up with towels
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I had to comment about the first issue, the save file. Me and my brother both were playing FF7 when it came out. I was way further ahead than him, but one time he asked me for some help. So I help him and then save the game. But I saved over my save slot! I lose a good 30 hours. It hurt bad. Ever since then, I just keep making new saves every single time.
12:06 City is Heroes was revived back in 2019 if you didn't know Falcon! Check out City of Heroes Homecoming forums and come play. I'm on the Excelsior server. :)
I've suffered ''disc rot'' on two more modern games. MGSV and Red Dead Redemption 2. I ended up having to rebuy both games. I've also noticed some newly-bought Blu-Ray discs wouldn't play in the PS4. I think they already had disc rot.
Stored in the original cases or somehere else? Do you live in a high humid area?
@@geordiejones5618 yeah, I live in a tropical zone, most of the time very humid. even when kept in their cases they can start to deteriorate.
MGS4 - Going for my Big Boss run, and at the end of the Shadow Moses mission...power goes out...wait for power to come back on to see my PS3 giving me the "You did a bad and failed to shut down properly - I am going to take the next 2 hours to check everything out" only to see my save was corrupted. Needless to say, I never bothered going back.
Actually, Third Party Controllers break more easily.
I never experienced this JoyCon drift I've been hearing about. The problem is the Left JoyCon rail on my Switch that it randomly doesn't detect a Left JoyCon even though it's connected.
And I'm aware about Disc Rot.
Lol
AcKcHyUaLlY...
I learned the whole “talk to every villager” thing because I was a kid playing FF2/4j, and I didn’t talk to anyone and got to the part with the desert town and it wasn’t there. I walked all over, up and down, left to right, and nothing. It just didn’t spawn. Not sure if it was a bug or a glitch because it was a rental copy but I always talk to everyone now. Sometimes twice lol.
Also, Legend of Mana’s glitch where if you’re with certain characters but trigger another character’s cutscene, the two child characters are now gone forever. You’ll never finish the game completely and this was a known issue they never addressed. I stopped right there lol.
I had actual nightmares of the Yanme’e bugs from Halo 2… which is now sort of reoccurs lol essentially just get crushed by millions of them
Tabula Rasa was an MMORPG that shut down, tried to get revived by a fanbase and had their teeth kicked in by the maker.
I’m honestly surprised a bugged trophy or achievement didn’t make this list
That is probably my top 3. To 99% a game and then something just doesn’t work.
not even have to be bugged, i hate multiplay achievements :'(
Right away, 10 made me think of my recent attempts to play through Assassin's Creed II on 360... It's happened like 5 times in a row, without even reaching Venice once
I remember fairly recently, I had just put in 50 hours into horizon forbidden west. I booted up my PS5 and I got a message along the lines of, your PS5 didn’t boot up correctly and your save info may be gone. I couldn’t even load the game. I had to completely delete it and reinstall it. I told myself, if I boot up the game and it is all gone, I am calling it the quits and not putting another 50 hours into the game again to get back to where I was. Thankfully, it was saved. I just remember the feeling of “well this game is dead to me…”
You don't have to go back that far to find a game that will delete your entire C: drive.
Realm of the Mad God had a launcher release a few years back where it would delete your drive if you went to uninstall the game.
The ammount of anxiety I get from pressing the power button on a newly built computer is part of the fun.
Coming home to find you’ve been robbed and they’ve taken everything. Game disks, consoles, hard drives - everything.
Even to this day, I still make two saves for near every game.
What kills me is you need to spend so much time just to get fallout nv working without it crashing every minute
Yeah you could spend more time installing mods than playing.
Hoo boy I feel that last one. So I had an old PC, and didn’t really plan on building a whole new one, but for various reasons I ended up having to get a new graphics card (GTX 970), motherboard and CPU, and because of the motherboard I needed a bigger case. Once it was all transferred over/put together, I had an issue was it would always turn itself off a few minutes after starting up any graphically demanding game. Took weeks to figure out the cause was that the PSU was too weak, but man what a nightmare those weeks were!
That was 7/8 years ago. I actually have the same build today and it’s still going strong! I love my GTX 970.
laser eye bill gates at 9:49. thought I was losing it 😂😅
Love the Sky’s of Arcadia clip!!
3:56
there is wear, yes.
There is tear, yup.
And there are RAGE THROWS, too 😂
For the save file one I had a time where me and my friend were trying to platinum Lego marvel superheroes 1 and I lost my save data when we were so close
Myth 2 was one of my favorite games growing up. I would love for series to be rereleased on steam as a bundle
"Defcon 5 scenarios that unite us all" lmao 💯🔥
A year and a half ago my Epic Games account was hacked by someone. I panicked at first but thankfully they only changed my username, password and unlinked a few accounts. I was able to recover it thanks to a nice staff member from Epic Games who also allowed me to change back to my original username. That experience helped me realize I gotta smash my keyboard whenever making a password so no one can guess it
You can always resurface a disk, but the moment the label gets scratched there is no way to recover that data. Its gone forever
Yeah it happend to me with Tony Hawks American Wastland.. i loved that game played it ALL the time. Then i was getting close to finishing the story and LOST EVERYTHING and it pissed me off so bad I NEVER picked up that game and played it again. I was devastated, and now reflecting on it… i still am 😪
Yepp.. #10 was most painful 😭😭
#10 back in the day made me so paranoid about the power going out that I'd save every minute because I've lost countless hours of playtime because of the inconsistent power flow and constant flickering of power.
10. Pokemon Sapphire and Crash Bandicoot Tag Team Racing. 9. My first PS4 controller had the L2 button getting stuck (after letting go, it acts as if I am still pressing it down), first PS5 controller had its charging port cave in on itself. The replacement PS5 controller has a very unresponsive up button. 8. Mass Effect 1 near the end, the game freezes during or after the final battle causing me to have to replay the final battle. In Lost Dimension, if you use a specific character on a specific level, then the game freezes at the end of the level causing you to have to replay the level. 7. Some of my old pc and PS2 games stopped working.
I used to play PS2 without a memory card. So. You know. I'd leave that thing running all day, all night.
My nightmares usually start with me pre-ordering cyberpunk.
Literally the reason having two memory cards for ps2 was a must and a third was nice to have to go to a friends!
speaking of broken controllers
a few months ago i bought my first controller with my saved up money and guess what it arrived broken
It broke my heart when the tomorrow children servers got closed down, it wasnt even really a good game but there was just something different about it and had a small lotal community
I remember when GTA V had that whole issue when you download the game and then when it’s done you have to wait another 3 hours . Omg I don’t miss those days .