Your curse when playing a game

[Ironman126]

My curse is on League of Legends. Whenever I decide that I'll go middle and work on that, whoever I am always gets countered hard. Every single damn time. There will be the odd very rare occasion where I'm not countered, but 90% of the time I am

This. A million times this. I hate you Kassadin, Katarina, Veigar, Ryze, Lux, Morgana, and LeBlanc. Despite owning most of those champions, I can't use any of them half as well as everyone else.

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

There is a particular 'tactic' I use in online FPS matches whenever I want to find members of the enemy team - I reload.

Unfortunately it works nearly every frikkin' time.

 

[EeveeElectro]

Fiddling and running my fingers over the buttons. It does my head in but I can't help it. So damn smooth!

I can't be the bad guy. I've tried playing games purposely being a twat and I couldn't do it, most I can do is be good but make a few bad decisions.

Not saving and the console conking out. Many screams are had.

 

[Hiroshi Mishima]

Aha, I just realized I totally misread the title and misunderstood the context of this thread. My bad, didn't realize it was about actual curses, or what feels like it.

 

[M K Ultra]

"Holy jumpin' ****!"

Oh. You mean the other kind of curse.

I usually go with "nine hells!!" "gods dammit" or "MUGGAFUGGA!!1!"


Oh. You mean the other kind of curse.

The curse of completion. If there's some kind of percentage that not 100% I must get to the sacred digits.

 

[Extra-Ordinary]

I never roll above a five in ANY Mario Party game.

NEVER EVER.

 

[Reaper195]

Whenever I'm online, I can always see myself winning...if only I'd been alive for just one second more. The amount of time I've died on Halo with the flag less than a metre from the score point.

 

[Domogo]

Hey, see all that ammo I just found for that one really powerful gun?

Yeah, I'm going to save that for later.

*roll credits*

My problem is going ape shit to find the ammo that I will never use like in serious sam when they put to just high enough that you cant get it with out first person platforming and then missing the ledge 500000000 times before getting a set of cannon balls. at which point I go AWWWW YEAAAA these are gonna be saved for the perfect moment.

okay this boss is hard but i bet theres another one later

*roll credits* (or last boss is either a wimp or you beat him with some stupid special half quick time event and your ammo is useless)

 

[gigastar]

I call mine Story-Driven Momentum and Inertia.

When a good story gets going, i must see it through to the end. Everything else can wait, for however long it takes.

And as any honest player of Monster Hunter will tell you, the RNG is the real enemy.

 

[Remus]

Hey, see all that ammo I just found for that one really powerful gun?

Yeah, I'm going to save that for later.

*roll credits*

Yup, this. I can never bring myself to use anything good because "what if I NEEEEED it later?"
Strong potions, good ammo, grenades... hell, even currency ends up falling under this most of the time.
Even goes to the point where in WoW I never used long cooldown skills in case I needed them later.

This habit was born out of playing every Silent Hill game to date, a game where it's a basic necessity to conserve everything. So that makes me much less inclined to use that ammo-guzzling new gun I just got and happily stick to pistol/shotgun.

 

[Signa]

"Hey guy, this game has lots of fun hidden secrets to find! Better get them all while you're in the map or you will forget about them later"

*quits game because its pacing sucks*

 

[Product Placement]

I can never be the bad guy.

I have this too, but the sole exception is when I redid the ending for my original character in Kotor. I played the ultra-squeaky-clean-white-knight-goody-two-shoes character which made my sudden turn to the dark side even more jarring. When I rejoined the rest of the crew, I did this (if you haven't played the game, consider this a big spoiler):


My friend, who was watching my actions, looked at me like I had just strangled a kitten in front of him. He also has that same curse, btw.

Edit:

Spoiler: I'm gonna spoiler tag this.

Just to further explain how ruthless this is, Mission (the female Twi'lek) and Zaalbar (the Wookiee) are close friends. Mission, who's still in her early teens, has been practically raised by Zaalbar. You first meet Mission near the beginning of the game, where she asks you to free her only friend (Zaalbar) who will swear a life dept to you, upon being rescued. These two loyally follow you throughout the entire game.

 

[shrekfan246]

A few things come to mind:

If the game is an RPG or open-world of some sort, basically any type of game that contains side-quests and missions, the only way I'll be interested in actually doing them is if they actually feel connected to the story or the general tone of the rest of the game. If they just feel like they're there for the hell of it, then I won't be interested in it.

If a game has a long story and suffers from repetitive gameplay, I'll generally get bored of it about 25%-50% of the way through, unless the characters and aesthetics are really astounding. Hell, sometimes even if the game is short, repetitive gameplay will just turn me right off before I finish it.

Also, games always seem to know when it's been a few hours since I last saved, because they always crash or give me an enemy that I can't possibly defeat, so that I lose all of the progress that I made.

 

[FrozenCones]

My curse is on League of Legends. Whenever I decide that I'll go middle and work on that, whoever I am always gets countered hard. Every single damn time. There will be the odd very rare occasion where I'm not countered, but 90% of the time I am

100% This.

Top lane.....EVERY GAME I'M FACING OLAF

Go Olaf because i'm raging so hard from being countered - end up against Vlad.

Keyboard out the window.

 

[Xman490]

"Hey, it looks like you haven't saved your game for a while".....

"*insert game here* has stopped working".

"Hey, it looks like you haven't saved your game for a while and have played for half an hour".....
"You died in *insert game here*". I throw the cartridge.

 

[BeerTent]

Cat hair...

It seems to do this interesting thing with the laser on the underside of the mouse. It only happened after visiting people with cats, and it's happened once a month living here. I could have that minigun spinning, ready to do and Whoop! I just flung 30 or so bullets in completely random directions while I spin wildly around at 80 random degrees a second.

And then I gotta find tweezers to get the damn hairs out.

 

[Drakmorg]

In games like The Elder Scrolls, Dragon Age, Fallout, etc. (games where you customize your main character's abilities) my first run-through is almost always scrapped at some point because I somehow always manage to pick the worst possible skills/build.

Case in point:
Dragon Age: Origins - Warrior, specced as Reaver (The absolute worst specialty class)
Fallout New Vegas - Energy Weapons. I ended up using my Melee skill much more, because apparently hitting something with a stick hurts it more than shooting it with motherfucking lasers and bolts of plasma.
Fallout 3 - Okay, I was at least smart enough to go with Small Guns, but my other two Tagged skills were Barter and Medicine...

 

[Jfswift]

Hey, see all that ammo I just found for that one really powerful gun?

Yeah, I'm going to save that for later.

*roll credits*

Yea, that seems to happen to me alot too. I'm a mega packrat in games and wont sell or use most of the equipment I find and then suddenly I find that the game is over.

 

[crimson sickle2]

I usually stop playing games on that very last dungeon, something just always comes up or I can't bring myself to finish it. The Final Fantasy 5 game I have has yet to be given a completion data, although that one might be because of the final area's massive level spike.

 

[CpT_x_Killsteal]

When I used to play CoD games, I would always, ALWAYS get targeted by AI controlled air units. Swear to god it goes via the fucking alphabet or something.