[nightfan]

When you were playing a game, have you ever done something that made you laugh when you realized what you did?

The first example that pops into my mind is

(spoilers?)

in the longest journey, when the mapmaker is telling you directions... I started copying down his instructions, thinking it was like a maze or something that we had to navigate through the woods... I panicked then i realized Westinghouse's place just popped onto the map!

haha i laugh at myself

[lumi]

In Grim Fandango I spent way too much time composing poetry and analyzing Olivia's own poetry to try improving my own. I thought that would make me cool to the beatniks.

[mysfit]

you know... i did the exact same thing in TLJ - i was frantic.

something else stupid? i rarely use walk-throughs but once in a while when it comes down to the point that i am so frustrated with a game that i will stop playing and never come back, or i just don't care any more, i will seek one out and i almost always feel stupid and laugh at myself once i know the answer. (that's why hints are better than answers).

[Panthera]

Yeah I did that mistake in TLJ myself (making the map), and I also went as far as I got in the game without finding that timetable. I searched her whole home and studio and couldn't find it, and then I read a hint about looking at the objects you picked up.. duh! I was bashing myself for quite a while over that one.

My only excuse is that it was the first adventuregame I played..

[QFG]

I did both those things in TLJ and Grim Fandango!!!

How about NOT making a map in a game?

[MadTricks]

I have made lots of funny things, can't remember much of them right now, but the latest one was in Secret Files:Tunguska.

Numeric password was required in Nina's father home computer.
So I went out from house and counted all sigarettes which were around sewer exit. I even don't know where i did get hint/idea for this.
Sigh.

Yeah, there are couple great moments when you are so close to giving up, but then the answer is so simple and you can just laugh...on your stupidity.

Cool

[Jelena]

I have a hard time leaving my protagonist out in the rain or other uncomfortable weather when I save and quit my game. I discoverd this while playing The Black Mirror where the rain was pouring all the time. I had to leave Samuel Gordon in the pub or at the mansion before I stopped playing. During SyberiaII I had to leave Kate outside in that horrible cold weather a couple of times. Didn't feel good at all

[pixie_pussycat]

Originally Posted by nightfan

in the longest journey, when the mapmaker is telling you directions... I started copying down his instructions, thinking it was like a maze or something that we had to navigate through the woods... I panicked then i realized Westinghouse's place just popped onto the map!

haha i laugh at myself

LOL I know what you mean. I was frantic too. I love it when they do that in games. It's so random, catches you off guard and then you discover that you didn't have to trouble yourself. That kind of thing really absorbs me into the game.

[Lucien21]

I once played Myst.

[nightfan]

Originally Posted by Lucien21

I once played Myst.

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[MdaG]

Originally Posted by Lucien21

I once played Myst.

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[Boneho Chane]

Originally Posted by Spider Crusoe

In Grim Fandango I spent way too much time composing poetry and analyzing Olivia's own poetry to try improving my own. I thought that would make me cool to the beatniks.

I did that too.

[Keregioz]

Originally Posted by Lucien21

I once played Myst.

Now, that was stupid. What the hell where you thinking?

[stepurhan]

The Journeyman Project. The Mars colony mission. 3 levels of stupid.

Early on you catch a train from one part of the base to another. Having foiled the dastardly plot I decide, rather than following the villain of the piece through a no atmosphere maze (which I'm pretty sure is what you're supposed to do) I'll take the train back. Since both maze and train end up at the same place, not terribly stupid.

So I go back to the train station and step intio the train. This is slightly more stupid as the train doesn't appear to be there at the time (meaning I'm stepping on to the tracks instead) Fortunately the tracks aren't electrified meaning I survive this error.

Then comes the biggy. Having realised that I'm looking at tunnel wall instead of interior of carriage I hit the turn right button instead of the step back button. This gives me a marvellous (if brief) front end view of the train arriving to pick me up.

Guess I'll go back to my last save then.

[jacog]

Originally Posted by Jelena

I have a hard time leaving my protagonist out in the rain or other uncomfortable weather when I save and quit my game.

haha, me too... it's worse when playing morrowind and oblivion though... i always check my character into an inn for the night before i can go to sleep.

and how many of you played steel sky and spent hours trying to get foster's wd-40 and other confiscated goods back?

[Invader Zim]

This did not (NOT! ) happen to me, but it's worth telling anyway.

A guy I know actually started looking for disk 23, while playing Monkey Island, all the while saying: "where is it? I don't have it! Oh man !!

[cplbradwell]

Hi, I'm new to this so if my signature etc. changes that is why.

I remember playing DOTT for the first and I thought I needed to complete the computer game upstairs (Manic Mansion) in order to progress because at the time I was stuck and was not sure what I needed to do.

[MoriartyL]

In the original Myst:

Spoiler:

In the underground maze, I took more than an hour mapping out the entire maze by trying out every path! It was only when I reached the end that I realized not only the trick, but that I had already written down the compass sounds phonetically on a paper right next to the computer, and it never even crossed my mind that it could still be useful!

[colpet]

When I first played Riven, I painstakingly copied all the D'ni alphabet that was on the walls in the schoolhouse. I was sure it would come into play somehow.

[Jelena]

He, he, he. I also did both what Mory and colpet just posted.