Those 'Sad Days' in your Computer Owning/Gaming Life.

[Lunatic Dreyfus]

This thread is inspired by the entertaining Old Timers video thread. Thanks Neil79!

X number of years ago, I bought Midwinter for the PC. I rushed home, stuck the floppy in to the drive and began the install process. This was gonna be good, I thought excitedly. Lots of characters, vehicles, a big island and a war to be fought! This was the early 90's, this was the bleeding edge!

So you can imagine my distress when all I ended up doing was erasing the floppy disk instead!! I know there was data on the disk originally as I typed DIR at the dos prompt to see if there was an install.exe or setup.exe. What went wrong I'll never know...

That was the first truly 'sad day' in my game playing history.

Another rather more bitter tale, is the sad case of Rome: Total War. But that's another story.

So what was your all time gaming low point? Was it completing your favorite ever game, and then never playing it again? Trashing a hard drive with irreplaceable saves? Or perhaps going back to a fondly remembered game, only to realise it was in fact unplayable cobblers? Skool Daze, I'm looking at you!

 

[Darkwave]

The day that the "combat upgrade" was pushed to the Star Wars Galaxies live servers.

 

[eekfek]

tribes:Vengeance /spits

 

[KNiVES]

Finding out my Celeron was in fact, a bad choice for gaming.

Hey, we all have to start out somewhere.

 

[n1kunj]

BF2 1.3. *shudders*

Need I say more?

 

[masslac]

Spending good money on COD2 after the original being so darned good.

 

[deko]

after having played UO online for absolutely yonks, finding out that CoD2 was about as good as finding a big steaming turd lying on your bed.

 

[MoratJG]

The day they released Deus Ex: IW.

More specifically: the day they decided to make it an X Box game first, then port it to PC.

 

[touch]

Playing CoD2 online, doing really well. Had beaten the top 5 UK teams on clanbase in unofficial wars and had a score of 8 wins 0 draw 0 loss (albeit against lower ranked teams). Planning going to LANs etc.
Then finding out my team had all quit CoD2 because they were addicted to WoW

 

[rare]

My brother deleting my banjo kazooie almost complete 50+ hours save game. I cried.

 

[Mp4]

Playing my good old Nintedo 64 , after a few months my brother lent the nintedo to his mates (with , Zelda, Perfect Dark , Glolden eye,etc) few years later i get it back only to find that i only recieved Perfect Dark n Golden eye back, all my saves on my memory cards are gone and the nintendo fails to work sometimes. till this day.

 

[FreeStream]

BF2 1.3. *shudders*

Need I say more?

Aye, since that patch I haven't played a full game of BF2

 

[ins0mn1ac]

The day that the "combat upgrade" was pushed to the Star Wars Galaxies live servers.

what he said.

 

[Vengance]

Formatting my hdd, only to remember that i'd forgotten to backup my Diablo characters about 5 secs after pressing enter on the format command

 

[masslac]

Formatting my hdd, only to remember that i'd forgotten to backup my Diablo characters about 5 secs after pressing enter on the format command

OUCH!

 

[Tom|Nbk]

In the past : Formatting my HDD loosing a shed load of save games

More recently : Buying Armed Assault.

 

[Chaos]

Losing my Half Life 2 sav games, still havnt got round to completing it

 

[Toryglen-boy]

Doom






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[afraser2k]

So what was your all time gaming low point? Was it completing your favorite ever game, and then never playing it again? Trashing a hard drive with irreplaceable saves? Or perhaps going back to a fondly remembered game, only to realise it was in fact unplayable cobblers? Skool Daze, I'm looking at you!

Almost dropping out of college after getting addicted to Championship Manager 2. I wasn't even into football that much at that point in my life.

 

[Klo]

Black and White 1 not working when I bought it when it first came out. And I was so looking forward to that game...