Annoying interruptions while gaming

[TheNumber1Zero]

when i have to go to the bathroom

You could always buy adult daipers.

 

[djpsykotiko]

I think I got you all beat on this one:

SUDDEN POWER OUTAGE

Nothing is more horrible than playing through hours of gametime and having everything suddenly go dark. You are left fumbling through the darkness trying to get a flashlight. and then you're forced to sit in the dim light and find something else to do instead of getting back on and seeing just how much you have to re-do.

it's a total "OH Fuck no..." moment.

 

[Beartrucci]

People always seem to interrupt me during Metal Gear Solid 3's cutscenes. And during Codec calls in Metal Gear Solid 4. They never seem to ask me stupid shit when I can actually pause the game though.

 

[Aanorith]

Well.. the one that comes to mind I suppose wasnt so bad but..
I had just gotten Final fantasy 12 and I was really excited about getting started. (Bummer I didn't like the game in the end) Anyway, there I am in the middle of the opening cutscean and my gf(ex) enters telling me we need to go right now and buy cigarettes. Her timing could not have bin worse and why I had to come way beond me. None the less, it annoyed the crap out of me

 

[Jenova65]

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.

Wait til you've got kids! 3 kids can really poop on your gaming, even when 2 of those kids are teenagers and gamers and should know better! ;-)
My husband is the worst, he would just walk in front of the TV whilst I was playing Shadow Hearts (judgement ring, anyone?) He still does it all the time, makes me feel all 'kill-y'

 

[Ultress]

My parents seem to like to come in when it looks like I'm really frustrated and act surprised when I snap at them.

One of the more recent I've been interrupted was when I was play Lost odyssey during the fight with Kaim and Sarah on top of the Train. The next save point was a little ways away then my mom comes done and wants to use the Treadmill and watch TV.So I ask her to wait, she comes back and asks me again I tell her wait a little longer. So she starts walking on the Treadmill and her obvious annoyance really killed my enjoyment of the scenes till I said ok I'll leave it running but I want it back right after. So I wait for about an hour till she's done she gives it back to me. Then I watch the end of the scene and there's the save point all in two minutes

 

[Carnagath]

Well, I live alone, but some girl that lives in the apartment directly below mine likes to knock on my door at 2 in the morning to ask me to lower the volume a bit (although it is really not loud), I agree, I apologize, and then she just won't leave and starts to get chatty about the most BORING things ever. I'm, like, "Uh-huh. Mmm. Yeah. Haha! (Oh my God, can I please get back to my game? Please?). Every...single...time. I mean, what kind of girl knocks on your door at 2 in the morning and starts talking to you about her mom coming over the following morning and how she needs to get a good night's sleep and, oh by the way, mom's a real *****, do you know what she told me the other day, she told me that....OH COME ON, I DON'T EVEN KNOW YOU!

 

[Hellz_Barz]

i remember my mum started cleaning when i was playin my xbox. wiped the thing down with a wet rag am im playin it and hits the f-ing power cord, jiggling it or somethinf and making the thing freeze.and this shit happened numerous times.

 

[ThePocketWeasel]

When I'm finally succeding at a part of a game I've been failing at for ages or I finally start doing well on MW2 I always get a phonecall, and it's always that friend everyone has who will keep you on the phone for hours talking to you about nothing remotely important then the whole time you're on the phone you're really not paying attention to a word they say just trying to think of an excuse to get off the phone.

 

[Archer147]

everytime i'm in a game of l4d, and i mean every single FUCKING time, my gf calls me. without fail. it's like fucking clockwork.

christ

 

[rompsku]

My girlfriend. I play with headphones on so it's an extreme pain in the ass to take them off every 5 seconds to hear what she has to say about her life.

 

[Bat Vader]

everytime i'm in a game of l4d, and i mean every single FUCKING time, my gf calls me. without fail. it's like fucking clockwork.

christ

Yep, and this is the main reason I stay single. Besides the trust issues and the fact I am misanthropic.

 

[Jubbsy]

My kidneys work over time whenever I game. Makes for many, many interuptions.

 

[Ben Jamin]

People standing in front of the TV. Or waving their hand in front of my face when I'm playing WoW.

 

[AlphaOmega]

For some reason we get a lot of phonecalls that if we take them they hang up immediately , nothing pisses me off like those when im in the middle of my game.

 

[reg42]

My mother telling me to "pause battle.net" because someone is on the phone. I've tried to explain the whole "online gaming" thing, but I never seem to get the message across.

 

[Thaius]

Always happens at my house.

One time, soon after I had gotten my Gamecube, I started it up. Before the opening screen for the system (note, not the game, the system) was even finished, my dad comes downstairs and tells me I have five more minutes before I had to help him on something outside. I think I got as far as the main menu.

The other major annoyance I remember was when I reached the love scene in Final Fantasy X. Kind of overdramatic, but that's just Japan; I watch enough anime and play enough JRPGs to be used to their style. Beautiful imagery in that scene, though. Anyway, it's going, and my sister comes in and starts making fun of it for said overdramatization. Somehow, an important story cutscene has much less impact with your annoying little sister insulting it the entire time.