Weird Moments in Gaming
At one point, we sometimes consider games to be a simulation of life.
It's not perfect too you know. There will be times that one will find situations at which we either a.) fail to satisfy because of inexperience
b.) solve what-if's by intentionally doing stupid things (Hey, at least if we die in the game, we can just restart again. Right?), or
c.) maybe what just occurred in the game wasn't really supposed to happen to you.
Be it obscure, unfortunate, or just plain stupid. Weird things also happen while in the middle of playing.
Enough talk. Here are some of my weird moments in gaming.
(Warning: It's a long post.)
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Sometimes, you're better off with a 1 damage rather than 9999. (Final Fantasy VIII, PC and PlayStation)
Killing a boss can be a pain in the ass, especially when it has your leading lady as it's hostage. At this point of the game, your main party must have been already dealing large chunks of HP to enemies. The goal is to defeat Adel (the boss) while at the same time preventing Rinoa (the cutesy hostage) from getting hurt at all cost.
One would just simply avoid doing any AoE (area of effect) attacks and just focus the damage on Adel. It's that simple.
Until that bastard Gilgamesh comes along.
Gilgamesh is a bonus GF (Guardian Force) that randomly appears in a fight (kinda like Odin, another GF in the game). It deals damage to enemies by:
1. a medium damage attack (forgot what it's called; around 3000+ damage, I think)
2. Excalibur (up to 9999 damage)
3. Zantetsuken (Odin's attack, causes instant death).
Yes, believe it or not, it appeared in the beginning of the boss fight. Of all the random chances of appearing in a fight, WHY NOW? That asshole caused me to panic a bit, considering that it deals damage to ALL those who are in the enemy field (that included Rinoa). Obviously, if Rinoa died, it's game over.
Good thing though, what he did was his other attack:
4. Excalipoor (deals 1 damage)
So in the end, both Adel and Rinoa just received 1 damage, while still inflicting shock to me. Thankfully, I was able to refocus, defeat Adel, and move on with the rest of the game.
But still, that was kinda nervewracking -___-
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Hole-in-Gone. (PangYa, PC)
Another recent blunder. A few days back I made my first Hole-in-One in PangYa off a tournament game. Of course, I was in jubilations (I even made a "HOLE IN FUCKING ONE" messenger status). I checked my record, and it says:
Number of Hole-in-Ones: 1
Soon after the tournament game ended, I left the room to join another server to play another game. Still in happiness, I checked my record again, only to see this:
Number of Hole-in-Ones: No Record.
I don't know what happened. I seemed to have left the tournament room the wrong way, causing it to nullify the game's record.
Oh well, I guess I'll have to do it again next time. *sigh*
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The driver must have fallen asleep. (Gran Turismo 2, PlayStation)
The weather was fair, and it was a good day to race at the Trial Mountain racing circuit. Everyone in the line-up (including me) was very hyped up on who's going to end up as the series champion.
Well, almost everyone.
The first few laps seemed to be a challenge for the other players, as my Suzuki Escudo Pikes Peak car just blazing along easily.
Failing miserably, one of them, a green, racing modified Acura NSX decided to screw not only me, but everyone else as well.
So what does he do? When I found that car, it was already standing sideways in the middle of the road. Seems like he had given up on racing and decided to become some sort of a barricade, again, in the middle of the road.
Of course, I'm not affected. In fact, I decided to help him in screwing the other racers. Thanks to my large lead over the other cars, I decided to push the NSX a bit to a point in the road where the other racers have their racing line (A racing line is an invisible line in the road, especially in turns, where one can achieve a high speed and acceleration).
It was strange to see one of the AI's fail in the middle of the game, considering that it was a race that involved a high difficulty rate. It was also funny to play with the other AI, since they seemed to be so "fixed". The stuck NSX caused the other cars to lose their racing lines and switch to another part just to go on racing.
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Gender Issues. (Ragnarok Online, PC)
What better place to find chixilogs (chicks with itlogs, if you get what it means) than the place they call Philippine Ragnarok Online (pRO)?
The players were just doing fine. Until one day, the servers started acting like stupid again.
Cross-dressers never saw it coming.
It happened one time when I was leveling haplessly at Byalan Dungeon. I got disconnected a bit (the connection in the computer shop one time was still dumb), and when I relogged back to the game, my macho knight became a chick. Geez.
Although my character was temporarily trapped in the feminine world, I still acted as a natural man. No "chick-tricks" to other players, no calling "sis" among other female avatars, which is the obvious characteristic of chixilogs.
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SUPER HANG-DOU-KEN! (Street Fighter, Arcade)
Compared to the other games in this post, this one happened when I was still a small kid, probably around 1st or 2nd grade.
While strolling in the mall, my parents agreed to let me play in the arcade. Unfortunately, the first thing in which I unleased my youthful gaming wrath was on a Street Fighter game. All I was thinking was "Hey, I've played this before in my Family Computer, so I know what to do".
That was kind of a lie, actually. My game plan was simple: rotate the joystick and mindlessly smash the buttons.
Not mash. Smash.
Bam. Smash like a madman. Smash like it's the last round. Smash like the arcade machine's going to blow.
Almost.
Next round: Ryu (My character. A no-brainer.) versus Vega (the masked idiot with claws)! I was still smashing the buttons while always trying to do a Hadou-Ken, which I somewhat failed to do sometimes.
A few punches and kicks, and I finally nailed another Hadou-Ken. This time though, it was one of those called a "super". The screen was glowing with red, yellow, and orange, large amount of energy has oblitirated Vega....
...and the arcade machine.
I was still smashing the machine, and it took me a while to realize that the arcade machine stopped. In short, nag-hang siya.
Scared, I left the area of the Street Fighter arcade machine. Fortunately, nobody noticed me doing the massacre.
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The most useless party. (Final Fantasy IX, PlayStation)
I forgot why, but Kuja (the villain) ordered Zidane (the main character) to go to a place called Oielvert in a faraway continent. But before that, Zidane has to bring someone along with him.
At that time, I was amazed at how Squaresoft (or now, Square-Enix) creates such magnificent graphics. And what better way to maximize the graphical treasure of Final Fantasy IX than to use colorful magics and cool summoning effects
Therefore I rushed through the long chit chat (I wasn't reading, that was critical. I'll explain later) and finally made up my choice. I chose Princess Garnet (healing summoning purposes), Vivi (black magic), and Eiko (more healing and summoning purposes).
Finally, after a long trip on the Hilda Garde Airship, we've finally arrived at Oielvert. But unfortunately, I had to leave the computer shop. So I saved first inside the castle, then left.
The next day, I saw one of the guys in the shop playing FFIX, also in the same part as mine. He was patient, he read all the lines between each of the characters, and there I saw what I didn't know: Kuja said that magics don't work at Oielvert.
Meaning, I have to do all the things in MELEE.
Great.
Despite the large handicap, I still went on with my save file and continued the castle. I fought everything with melee force, including my nerfed partymates. XD
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More to come. I hope.
It's not perfect too you know. There will be times that one will find situations at which we either a.) fail to satisfy because of inexperience
b.) solve what-if's by intentionally doing stupid things (Hey, at least if we die in the game, we can just restart again. Right?), or
c.) maybe what just occurred in the game wasn't really supposed to happen to you.
Be it obscure, unfortunate, or just plain stupid. Weird things also happen while in the middle of playing.
Enough talk. Here are some of my weird moments in gaming.
(Warning: It's a long post.)
----------
Sometimes, you're better off with a 1 damage rather than 9999. (Final Fantasy VIII, PC and PlayStation)
Killing a boss can be a pain in the ass, especially when it has your leading lady as it's hostage. At this point of the game, your main party must have been already dealing large chunks of HP to enemies. The goal is to defeat Adel (the boss) while at the same time preventing Rinoa (the cutesy hostage) from getting hurt at all cost.
One would just simply avoid doing any AoE (area of effect) attacks and just focus the damage on Adel. It's that simple.
Until that bastard Gilgamesh comes along.
Gilgamesh is a bonus GF (Guardian Force) that randomly appears in a fight (kinda like Odin, another GF in the game). It deals damage to enemies by:
1. a medium damage attack (forgot what it's called; around 3000+ damage, I think)
2. Excalibur (up to 9999 damage)
3. Zantetsuken (Odin's attack, causes instant death).
Yes, believe it or not, it appeared in the beginning of the boss fight. Of all the random chances of appearing in a fight, WHY NOW? That asshole caused me to panic a bit, considering that it deals damage to ALL those who are in the enemy field (that included Rinoa). Obviously, if Rinoa died, it's game over.
Good thing though, what he did was his other attack:
4. Excalipoor (deals 1 damage)
So in the end, both Adel and Rinoa just received 1 damage, while still inflicting shock to me. Thankfully, I was able to refocus, defeat Adel, and move on with the rest of the game.
But still, that was kinda nervewracking -___-
----------
Hole-in-Gone. (PangYa, PC)
Another recent blunder. A few days back I made my first Hole-in-One in PangYa off a tournament game. Of course, I was in jubilations (I even made a "HOLE IN FUCKING ONE" messenger status). I checked my record, and it says:
Number of Hole-in-Ones: 1
Soon after the tournament game ended, I left the room to join another server to play another game. Still in happiness, I checked my record again, only to see this:
Number of Hole-in-Ones: No Record.
I don't know what happened. I seemed to have left the tournament room the wrong way, causing it to nullify the game's record.
Oh well, I guess I'll have to do it again next time. *sigh*
----------
The driver must have fallen asleep. (Gran Turismo 2, PlayStation)
The weather was fair, and it was a good day to race at the Trial Mountain racing circuit. Everyone in the line-up (including me) was very hyped up on who's going to end up as the series champion.
Well, almost everyone.
The first few laps seemed to be a challenge for the other players, as my Suzuki Escudo Pikes Peak car just blazing along easily.
Failing miserably, one of them, a green, racing modified Acura NSX decided to screw not only me, but everyone else as well.
So what does he do? When I found that car, it was already standing sideways in the middle of the road. Seems like he had given up on racing and decided to become some sort of a barricade, again, in the middle of the road.
Of course, I'm not affected. In fact, I decided to help him in screwing the other racers. Thanks to my large lead over the other cars, I decided to push the NSX a bit to a point in the road where the other racers have their racing line (A racing line is an invisible line in the road, especially in turns, where one can achieve a high speed and acceleration).
It was strange to see one of the AI's fail in the middle of the game, considering that it was a race that involved a high difficulty rate. It was also funny to play with the other AI, since they seemed to be so "fixed". The stuck NSX caused the other cars to lose their racing lines and switch to another part just to go on racing.
----------
Gender Issues. (Ragnarok Online, PC)
What better place to find chixilogs (chicks with itlogs, if you get what it means) than the place they call Philippine Ragnarok Online (pRO)?
The players were just doing fine. Until one day, the servers started acting like stupid again.
Cross-dressers never saw it coming.
It happened one time when I was leveling haplessly at Byalan Dungeon. I got disconnected a bit (the connection in the computer shop one time was still dumb), and when I relogged back to the game, my macho knight became a chick. Geez.
Although my character was temporarily trapped in the feminine world, I still acted as a natural man. No "chick-tricks" to other players, no calling "sis" among other female avatars, which is the obvious characteristic of chixilogs.
----------
SUPER HANG-DOU-KEN! (Street Fighter, Arcade)
Compared to the other games in this post, this one happened when I was still a small kid, probably around 1st or 2nd grade.
While strolling in the mall, my parents agreed to let me play in the arcade. Unfortunately, the first thing in which I unleased my youthful gaming wrath was on a Street Fighter game. All I was thinking was "Hey, I've played this before in my Family Computer, so I know what to do".
That was kind of a lie, actually. My game plan was simple: rotate the joystick and mindlessly smash the buttons.
Not mash. Smash.
Bam. Smash like a madman. Smash like it's the last round. Smash like the arcade machine's going to blow.
Almost.
Next round: Ryu (My character. A no-brainer.) versus Vega (the masked idiot with claws)! I was still smashing the buttons while always trying to do a Hadou-Ken, which I somewhat failed to do sometimes.
A few punches and kicks, and I finally nailed another Hadou-Ken. This time though, it was one of those called a "super". The screen was glowing with red, yellow, and orange, large amount of energy has oblitirated Vega....
...and the arcade machine.
I was still smashing the machine, and it took me a while to realize that the arcade machine stopped. In short, nag-hang siya.
Scared, I left the area of the Street Fighter arcade machine. Fortunately, nobody noticed me doing the massacre.
----------
The most useless party. (Final Fantasy IX, PlayStation)
I forgot why, but Kuja (the villain) ordered Zidane (the main character) to go to a place called Oielvert in a faraway continent. But before that, Zidane has to bring someone along with him.
At that time, I was amazed at how Squaresoft (or now, Square-Enix) creates such magnificent graphics. And what better way to maximize the graphical treasure of Final Fantasy IX than to use colorful magics and cool summoning effects
Therefore I rushed through the long chit chat (I wasn't reading, that was critical. I'll explain later) and finally made up my choice. I chose Princess Garnet (healing summoning purposes), Vivi (black magic), and Eiko (more healing and summoning purposes).
Finally, after a long trip on the Hilda Garde Airship, we've finally arrived at Oielvert. But unfortunately, I had to leave the computer shop. So I saved first inside the castle, then left.
The next day, I saw one of the guys in the shop playing FFIX, also in the same part as mine. He was patient, he read all the lines between each of the characters, and there I saw what I didn't know: Kuja said that magics don't work at Oielvert.
Meaning, I have to do all the things in MELEE.
Great.
Despite the large handicap, I still went on with my save file and continued the castle. I fought everything with melee force, including my nerfed partymates. XD
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More to come. I hope.
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