Worst thing to happen to you when playing a game.

[otacon]

While either in a mega important bit or doing really well in a multiplayer game, I'll always get called out of the room to do something that in most cases is beyond trivial. Another (mainly with the previous generation) is when someone would snag one of the cables, knocking the console (PS2 or Gamecube) flying. In every case they survived, but any progress I had or decent game in the tray was pretty much gone.

 

[Spoon-Man]

Probably getting a trial for Age of Conan Hyborian Adventures and my trial running out before it finished updating. damn 11 gig updates and the updater not remembering what percentage it got up to...

 

[epikAXE]

Mother walking in during the sex scene in God of War II :/

 

[Arcane Azmadi]

Well once when I was playing Supreme Commander online my mother phoned to tell me my grandmother had passed away that morning. I finished the battle, but only because I was kind of numb. I guess the game helped soften the impact.

 

[disturbed117]

i think that would top all of the above.

 

[Klarinette]

NES or Sega froze. You weren't able to save on those games. Except on Sonic 3... but still! Every other game, you got a kick in the ass if it froze. "Holy fuck, final boss!!! *excited jolt*" *system freezes* .... "FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU-" *spontaneous hernia appears*

That and Spore crashing on me, 7 hours into the space stage, which I had been too stupid to save at any point before that. Stupid Klarinette learned a simple gaming lesson: save often, after everything you do.

 

[spinFX]

Was playing Shadowrun on a Genesis emulator, accidentally hit save state instead of load state on the title screen. Lost many hours of gamingness.

 

[Optimus Hagrid]

NES or Sega froze. You weren't able to save on those games. Except on Sonic 3... but still! Every other game, you got a kick in the ass if it froze. "Holy fuck, final boss!!! *excited jolt*" *system freezes* .... "FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU-" *spontaneous hernia appears*

Even nudging my SNES while it is playing a game causes it to freeze and often delete every save.

I now have a habit of yelling whenever I accidentally move my SNES.

 

[Revolutionary]

Yesterday : I was all
then my xbox was all <img src=http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2007/11/red-ring-of-death-490px.jpg>

 

[eriieekk]

i was playing ff8 with a glitchy scratched disc. it was only screwed up at this one part so i was able to work around it(by inserting another disc when traveling the world map). however this meant i couldnt actually enter the town i was supposed to going to with out changing the disc back. the first time i forgot to change it and the second time i forgot to save and the third time the boss killed me at the end. i had to watch the same long unskippable cutscene 4 times.

 

[Eternalsun]

Having your mother come into the room trip of the xbox controller cable making xbox falling over and scratching completely modern warfare 2 which i just got that day. and wouldnt pay for it

 

[Audio]

MW2, Roach misses a jump across two buildings and wakes up to find that he is surrounded. The camera pans left..people coming, pans right...more coming, pans center and just before the game gives me control....
JAVA update..minimizes my window. While looking at my desktop, all i can hear is gunfire xD

FFS~ !!!! lol

 

[joshuaayt]

In the middle of playing a game having my dog jump up on the couch straight onto my testicles... Yeah....that hurt quite badly.

same but replace "dog" with "girlfriend"

Same, but replace "girlfriend" with "ferret" and "jump" with "bite"

 

[feldie]

Accidently hitting quicksave when you meant to quickload, especially if pretty much all of your progress so far has been saved by using quicksaves, goody!