It's not rare to be playing a game and get called away to answer the phone, get the door, or because someone called you away for something, but sometimes it happens at the most inconvenient times possible. There's nothing you can do about it, they're forces outside your control. It's especially annoying when this happens during an un-pausable cutscene, but what about those times that you're really on the top of your game, an unstoppable juggernaut that gets toppled by one of these instances? I'll start off with a couple.
This one just happened a second ago and is what compelled me to make this topic. I was playing the DLC fighting level on Arkham Asylum; the one where you just keep fighting enemies until you die. I was kicking total assage. I had a 64x combo streak going, I felt completely unstoppable...and then my mom called me to ask me a question, completely capturing me off guard and forcing me to move my fingers off the keyboard so I could pause the game. Of course, this resulted in Batman getting punched in the face and ruining my combo. Poo.
There was another instance that probably ranks as my all-time most inconvenient. I was playing the first Guitar Hero on the PS2. I had gotten to Bark at the Moon, which was absolutely pounding me into submission. Failure after failure, I kept persisting until I finally started doing good. And not just good, really, really good. It looked like I was finally going to beat it, but of course that had to be the exact instant my dad comes in my room wanting to ask me something. I tried to tell him to ask me in a few minutes, since this was horrible timing. (Those of you who know Guitar Hero know how much of a pain it can be to try to pause in the middle of a solo) But my dad, being the impatient arse that he is, got mad, started yelling, and slammed the door. This left me very agitated and completely threw me off, resulting in yet another failure just seconds before I finished the song.
So yeah, parents. Not much you can do. What about you guys? I know this has happened to every gamer at least once.
This one just happened a second ago and is what compelled me to make this topic. I was playing the DLC fighting level on Arkham Asylum; the one where you just keep fighting enemies until you die. I was kicking total assage. I had a 64x combo streak going, I felt completely unstoppable...and then my mom called me to ask me a question, completely capturing me off guard and forcing me to move my fingers off the keyboard so I could pause the game. Of course, this resulted in Batman getting punched in the face and ruining my combo. Poo.
There was another instance that probably ranks as my all-time most inconvenient. I was playing the first Guitar Hero on the PS2. I had gotten to Bark at the Moon, which was absolutely pounding me into submission. Failure after failure, I kept persisting until I finally started doing good. And not just good, really, really good. It looked like I was finally going to beat it, but of course that had to be the exact instant my dad comes in my room wanting to ask me something. I tried to tell him to ask me in a few minutes, since this was horrible timing. (Those of you who know Guitar Hero know how much of a pain it can be to try to pause in the middle of a solo) But my dad, being the impatient arse that he is, got mad, started yelling, and slammed the door. This left me very agitated and completely threw me off, resulting in yet another failure just seconds before I finished the song.
So yeah, parents. Not much you can do. What about you guys? I know this has happened to every gamer at least once.
