We all make mistakes. It's a fact of life. Video games are no exception. I nearly every game we'll come across some small little detail that makes absolutely no sense. It's no deal breaker but it will absolutely infuriate us. But I'm not here to talk about those. No, I want to talk about all the little mistakes that I (and probably most of you) make while playing games. They can be huge mistakes or even small ones, but either one will get my blood boiling. So here's to all the frustrating, maddening, hair-raising, and dead-baby causing mistakes that I've made while gaming.



-To pretty much every death experienced in a Mega Man game, especially the times I get careless and walk into a pit.

-To nailing a difficult note sequence in GH/RB only to fuck it up on something easy

-To sneezing while playing GH/RB

-To not washing my hands after eating greasy food before handling a controller

-To attempting to melee someone holding a shotgun in Halo

-To completely whiffing while trying to backstab someone in TF2

-To all the times I've died in an RPG only to realize I hadn't saved in the past two hours

-To the time I sold my NES.....le sigh

-To the times I zigged when I should've zagged only to get nailed by a falcon punch

-To all the times I killed a hard-to-capture pokemon with a critical hit. (more bad luck than a mistake but damnit it's frustrating as hell)

-To the times I sold items I didn't want to

-To using all caps in a character's name when the rest of the game uses lower case typing (it may be a bit anal but it annoys me)

-To the times I shot a full court shot in a basketball game because I couldn't remember what button does what

-To the time my dad walked in on FFX's laughing scene and most likely questioned my sexuality

-To walking into the path of a flying wayward wiimote

-To not making separate save points in games that practically require it (Damn you FF Tactics!)

-To all the games I started and never finished

-To never owning a ps2 and missing out on many great games

-To letting Ocarina's forest temple theme scare the crap out of me

-To waisting too much of my life on Guild Wars

-To making a stupid move in fire emblem that would eventually lead to the difficult decision of restarting a chapter and losing an hour's worth of work or permanently losing a member of my team

-To all the meals I've missed just to keep playing

-To interrupting a dual-summon knights of the round miming chain by using a limit and thus destroying said chain (I always look back to that and wonder if I would've finally beaten emerald weapon)

-To the times I've been beaten by a button masher

-To trying to play Super Mario World with a gamecube controller

-To not buying enough phoenix downs

-To being in first place in Mario Kart and expecting to win



-To letting my curiosity get the best of me (What's this giant green thing floating lazily around in FF7? OMGWTF??)

-To trying to kill someone with the Klobb in Goldeneye

-To being Jaws in Goldeneye

-To getting to engrossed in an RPG that I can't get it off my mind and have trouble sleeping

-To fucking up too much in Devil May Cry

-To not leveling up someone enough before I have to use them

-To buying the gimped Game Gear version of Shaq Fu

-To killing Magus in Chrono Trigger before learning that he could join me

-To forgetting to put a toilet in my Sims' homes (ok that wasn't a mistake, it was just funny)

-Not waiting for shadow in FF6

-Shooting ashley in RE4

-Renting Aquaman

-Staying up late to beat Aquaman (It was awesome for the first couple levels. Summoning a dolphin to beat up an enemy was AMAZING, if you will. But when that animation's the same throughout the game and every level is practically the same except for the broken vehicle ones. It's amazing I made it through without alcohol)

-And of course, to all the times I made a mistake and instead blamed the controller or the game for just being a "stupid piece of shit"


So these were some of the irritating, hate-inducing mistakes I've made in games. I'm sure the list is much longer and it will only keep growing. Feel free to add your own in the comments.