The Downfalls Of Family Gaming

[AndyVale]

Lately Nintendo have been trying to plug the concept of family gaming. An honourable idea, which 9/10 I'd say it can be a good thing. As one half of a brother-sister duo I often had to keep my younger sister occupied. I used to enjoy playing Mortal Kombat 3 on the snes with her, most of the time the controller was unplugged and I was playing 1-player but she was too young and stupid to know.

However with shared consoles there are grave downfalls. Ten years ago I had Pokémon Red and caught all 151, I also naturally trained a couple of Pokémon to level 100. Both big achievements. I was so good that I could compete in competitions and possibly make some money.

My sister started a new game and got a Bulbasaur to level 6. She saved.

You only got one save file then. Months and months of epic work on my part was down the shitter along with my potential 'fame.' She did similar with Donkey Kong Country and there were 3 save files on there!

Does anyone else have any permanant scares from the seemingly noble cause of family gaming?

 

[AndyVale]

When I was round my parents the other day my Mum was asking how much a Wii with Wii Fit would be. I wasn't sure whether to be happy or sad. A bit of sick came into my mouth, God decided for me.

 

[The Rascal King]

I never liked fucking "Family Gaming"

I had Pimptown (The name of my village in Animal Crossing DS) ,well,pimped out. I didn't owe that asshole Tom Nook any more money and I had 3 Thrones in my house amongst a shit ton of Nintendo memorabilia and my bug, fish collection was nearly complete. Now my sister picks up my game and instead of making a new character, starts up a new fucking town and saves.

I died a little bit that day

 

[Distorted Stu]

Dad saving over my Medal of honour profile. Sister ruining my pokemon. Ex-girlfriend killed my sims. Friends recustomizing my cars on NFS because it wasnt up to their boyracer standards. Sister starting FFX & metal gear again and saving over my profile.

I only let people (my family mostly) play my games now only when ive set the game up for them, gave them strict instructions, im watching or if they have their own dedicated profile (which i make for them).

Also, FUCK YOU DOG FOR TURNING OFF MY PLAYSTATION WHEN I WAS ON THE LAST LEVEL OF ARMY MEN: GREEN ROUGE!!!!!

 

[Pimppeter2]

My cousin did the same thing with my Pokemon game!

 

[DazZ.]

My young siblings do not touch my computer. Ever.

My flatmates played the same games as me on my systems but they knew what would happen if they fucked up a save or something equally as serious, so never had any problems there.

 

[Stabber1010]

I always knew there was a reason I kept my games alien to everybody in the family.
I had forgotten and now I remember.

Edit: Since I am a PC gamer, I don't have to deal with this. Hurrah for passwords and very strict security measures!

 

[GamingAwesome1]

Never let anyone touch my saves. They seem to always find a way to fuck it up.

 

[Captain Pancake]

Luckily, my little brother hasn't the attention span to play most of my games and has the common sense not to overwrite on the ones he does.

 

[Kuchinawa212]

Nope, my family just keeps my gaming stuff to me.
my dog did knock over my 360 once or twice, but that's ok

 

[Torque669]

On pokemon red I was saving my master ball for mewtwo. My sister got on it and caught a diglett with it.

I never liked fucking "Family Gaming"

I had Pimptown (The name of my village in Animal Crossing DS) ,well,pimped out. I didn't owe that asshole Tom Nook any more money and I had 3 Thrones in my house amongst a shit ton of Nintendo memorabilia and my bug, fish collection was nearly complete. Now my sister picks up my game and instead of making a new character, starts up a new fucking town and saves.

I died a little bit that day

This happened to me aswell but with my little cousin. So god damn annoying.

 

[3rd rung]

I always make a profile for my younger cousins before they play so I know they wont fuck anything up on my profile

 

[Artemis923]

Man, I remember when my mom let my cousin get on my Diablo II account back in the day.

First thing he did: kill off my level 100 hardcore barb.

I almost throttled the little bastard when I got home.

 

[Stabber1010]

Furthermore, which I forgot to add in my other post, family gaming sucks because you can't play anything relatively violent. I'm not saying we need L4D violence, but even something like GTAIV violence breaks the family gaming environment.

On top of this, developers can't really make a story!
This is because of the examples above me. Someone is bound to not know what they're doing and delete all the work. So even if a brainchild developer created a safe, great, long story, you may never see the end due to your little sister or brother constantly remaking save files!

It's like communism, it only seems to work on paper.

 

[Aesir23]

Well, I was recently replaying FFVII (Oh noes! A jrpg! THE HORROR!) and got pretty far in the game, Disc 3 I think. I quit playing for a couple months, and my sister, without asking like my brother or I would have done with her, she goes and deletes my save file. I just about had an aneurysm when I found out.

 

[DetectiveSparky]

Well being the youngest of four (by a fair amount) I think my sisters were always afraid of me screwing up their saves on like Super Mario World when they fully completed it. But I knew better, and now we really don't have any issues. Most of them don't play any games anymore due to lack of time and even then only the younger two of the three really play games.

I have the one sister I do play with on a fairly consistent basis (when she's free), she'll only play co-op games that actually have team based qualities because she dislikes the feeling of getting picked on because she doesn't play that often. So she'll play games like Left 4 Dead and Borderlands with me, but won't touch Call of Duty.

The only problems I've had was with my nephew fiddling around with my Wii saves, and wound up deleting half of them because he somehow got into the system menu and being the impatient tyke he was at the time, was randomly mashing buttons. He also did it before with my Gamecube saves too. Thankfully when he does come over he knows better, and can actually read. Though the one time he started up the finale in Left 4 Dead and I was no where near him... yeah wasn't too pleased when he just started it without warning, I got mauled by a lovely horde.

 

[Latinidiot]

my little brother did the same to me on the pokemon thing, he deleted all my red alert 2 savefiles. ALL OF THEM!! I HAD 30 SAVEFILES AND HE DELETED ALL OF THEM!
that was very annoying.

 

[AndyVale]

On pokemon red I was saving my master ball for mewtwo. My sister got on it and caught a diglett with it.

I got really frustrated and used my Master Ball to catch an Onyx. It just wouldn't stay in my Ultra Ball even when I got it down to a tiny amount of life!

I caught Mewtwo with an Ultra Ball.

I never understood the logic that you can't catch a fainted Pokémon. I don't remember Ash Ketchum ever having to abide by that rule in the TV show.

I also didn't care about not catching Moltres and so I let it go, not knowing I'd not get another chance! Ahhh thank fuck for swapsies.