One notable time I've RAEGD was during Majora's Mask in getting THAT FUCKING SUN MASK. I kept doing the entire chain over and fucking over again and would keep getting fucked over on the part with the conveyor belt, specifically the room with the block-pushing onto the switches. I RAEG-quit and almost made out like Card Crusher when I remembered that the game was being loaned to me by a friend of mine. Turns out the blue switches speed the belt up and hurries the mask along. >_>;
Another time would be thanks to that dear ol' friend o' mine, because this time he loaned me FFX-2 and the Bradygames guide that came with it. I used the book, being blissfully unaware of its suckitude. I was going as close to 100% as possible in one playthrough so I wouldn't have to repeat the steps in the second one. Then came the last chapter and I was at Kilika. Instead of Thonga and Meathead reuniting as a couple, I see a single red balloon float up. I keep resetting and thinking I did something wrong in approaching Kilika. The Bradygames guide then mentions, at that late point of the game and guide, that I needed to talk to Thonga and Meathead every chapter and I apparently missed it because the guide didn't bother mentioning it, yunno, back then at the point when it would have been useful to know, like the second or third chapter or so. And then I saw red and punched the eject button on the PS2.
Worse yet, I find out later that my friend would've been fine if I totaled FFX-2 and the Bradygames guide, because he hated the game too.