You've bought a game and something prevented you playing it.

[NoNameMcgee]

This has happened to a lot of gamers (especially PC gamers). A time when you've bought a game and something beyond your control (usually technical) has stopped you even playing it.

I just bought Unreal Anthology (Unreal, UT, Unreal 2, and UT2004 on one DVD). So I put the disk in and try to install it, then it asks for a serial key. I look inside the box and there is a tiny little sticker with the key written in this completely incomprehensible text. I can't work out whether the q's are actually 9's, whether the v's are u's, l's are 1's, and there is one letter with a little accent over the top of it and a smudge so I can't figure out what the fuck that's supposed to be. I've tried as many different combinations as I could and I just can't get it right. Meaning, I am basically unable to play any of 4 games I just bought because of a series of digits I can't read properly.

*fume*

So escapists, has something similar happened to you?

 

[blankedboy]

Yes, I got a Sonic game and it didn't work.

 

[Distazo]

I go to college and left my xbox 360 in my dorm over a holiday break, while at my house my mother surprised me with Assassin's Creed 2, which is a game I have been anticipating for more than a year. However, it was still a full two weeks until I was able to get to my console again so it basically sat on my shelf and taunted me for the remainder of my stay at home. It completely ruined my vacation. I have since played and beaten it.

 

[deth2munkies]

I bought Battlefield 2 right when it came out. Now, I had looked at the system reqs and there was 1 card series it mentioned it didn't work. I figured "Hey, what are the odds"...well better then I thought...

 

[Gyrefalcon]

I bought a game once and the box was empty when I got it home! I went back but it was the last of that type so I never got to play it.

 

[Dark Knifer]

My 360 ring-o-deathed the day I got halo 3, which I had been looking forward to at the time... At least that answered the question to how I was going to get xbox live, because they gave me a free months xbl when I got the 360 back.

 

[Vern]

Well, when I bought the Quake 2 mission packs, I got them home and found out they were for Linux. Which was in 1999, and Linux wasn't exactly the OS of the day. Then Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, where my system exceeded all the requirements, but it just didn't like my graphics card God bless it. Still, when I got a card that was compatible, it still remains as one of the best games I've ever played. I need to reinstall it.

 

[NoNameMcgee]

^ Aye, Call of Cthulhu is a brilliant game.

I just bought Unreal Anthology (Unreal, UT, Unreal 2, and UT2004 on one DVD). So I put the disk in and try to install it, then it asks for a serial key. I look inside the box and there is a tiny little sticker with the key written in this completely incomprehensible text. I can't work out whether the q's are actually 9's, whether the v's are u's, l's are 1's, and there is one letter with a little accent over the top of it and a smudge so I can't figure out what the fuck that's supposed to be. I've tried as many different combinations as I could and I just can't get it right. Meaning, I am basically unable to play any of 4 games I just bought because of a series of digits I can't read properly.

Finally figured it out after trying hundreds of combinations. and turns out the weird letter with a smudge was actually an 'f'

Don't know what the hell happened with that, but I'm going to print out a little booklet now with the Key in a readable neat font to put inside the DVD case.

 

[Thaius]

When I first got Spyro: Year of the Dragon, I realized that I had accidentally left my memory card at my cousin's house. I didn't get it back for another week. Playing through the first half hour of the game over and over again kind of sucked. Amazing game though: last of the good Spyro's.

 

[kawaiiamethist]

Two weeks ago EB tracked down a copy of Magna Carta. I start the game and during the opening scenes it decides to freeze. I inspected the disc and it had a few serious scratches. I got my money back the next day and am still waiting for another copy. I normally wouldn't be too miffed, but this is one of those hard to get games in the PAL region.

 

[silverhawk100]

Got Neverwinter Nights for christmas several years back. It had two disc ones, no disc two. Had to send it in to them and it took four weeks.

 

[LordOmnit]

I got The Orange Box and found out that my shitty Vista laptop can't play Portal, TF2, and HL:2 E2 at all and HL:2 and E1 are both fairly chuggy (although luckily playable).

 

[Antheria]

I had pre-ordered Spore Galactic Edition, when I got home and played pass cell stage it turned out my graphics driver hates me, so we had to just keep trying different ones until we found one that worked, which was in January.
Really didn't help that my graphics card (nvidia geforce go 7400) isn't supported by anything, ever.

 

[Abedeus]

Champions Online. Can't play, because to play TF2 I must use the latest drivers. And to play CO I must use the 185 drivers.

Also, Borderlands makes me sick, because the developers suddenly included a SecuROM. While my copy doesn't have the patch yet (because D2D hasn't released it yet), I'm too pissed off at them to enjoy the game.

But hey, I downloaded the pirated version of DLC just to show them that I'm not going to get screwed over like a cheap hooker.

 

[Kypros]

Bought the Diablo Battle Chest from an EB Games and found that I couldn't run Diablo 2 or its expansion because my OS wasn't the old version that it was designed to run on

 

[Beartrucci]

My parents bought me Pokemon Gold for Christmas when I was younger. I eagerly opened up the box, to find NO GAME INSIDE! Went back to the stores a couple days later and got my game.

Couple years later, my parents buy Ratchet and Clank 3 for Christmas, from the same store. I eagerly open the case, and there was a copy of Ratchet and Clank 2 inside there!