Comments on: Is RPS Gaming’s Stupidest Website?

By: RCG Tiburon

RCG Tiburon — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 10:43:00 +0000

When I was 11 or 12 I had Madden 2000 for the PC, and I ended up getting Madden 2001 and 2002 a year or two after release as well. Took me a solid year and a half to figure out you could only kick a field goal and punt from the “Special Teams” formation – that’s a year and a half of 2-pt conversions and constant 4th and long. Never surrender :)

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Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:58:03 +0000

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By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 30 May 2008 05:12:20 +0000

I knew someone who’s mother thought that a game that said “Yes my lord!” Said “Suck my balls!” It was some RTS game. She was like “Why are you playing something like that!”

While I’ve had many stupid gamer moments, I’ve narrowed it down the best two that I can remember. My memory sucks.

I once ran around in Assassin’s Creed for hours. The map said that the location I was supposed to be in was in front of me, through a “portal” type wall/loading point. When I went through it, it said it was on the other side. So there I went, walking through a loading point for a few hours. Than I realized that it was on top of the mountain right beside me (It only looked like it was in front of me). I’ve done that numerous times.

I didn’t know you could run in DOOM3. I ran into a row of steam jets that killed me, and kept thinking, ‘How do they expect me to beat this?’ I already had low health, otherwise I might have lived. Than somehow I finally figured out that pushing down on one of the sticks made you run. (I was playing on an Xbox. I’m think that’s how you run in it).

Oh, and I never knew that there was a way to move/rotate things in Oblivion. Why have I wasted all that time intricately placing books in shelves only to place the last one and send them all flying out at me?

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 14:21:30 +0000

I’m standing there like Woody Allen vs Dolph Lundgren. My hits missed most of the time and if they hit they did next to no damage anyway – it took hours and hours of run away run away combat to bring that bastard down.

That’s classic, nice.

By: vic

vic — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 12:44:13 +0000

This is my stupid. KOTOR was the first RPG I ever played and I quite enjoyed having the party to rely on in fights. So much so that I developed my character in the game by maxing out intelligence and charisma and security skills so I could loot every box and charm every NPC in the game and then give all the sweet loot to my party who I turned into hardcore killers to do the fighting for me – a scoundrels path for sure. Towards the end of the game I was still a bit of a weakling but my party was the best of the best, pimped out with strength, dexterity, the best weapons and implants. Then the final scene arrives and I get separated from my party and I have to fight the boss alone. WTF! I’m standing there like Woody Allen vs Dolph Lundgren. My hits missed most of the time and if they hit they did next to no damage anyway – it took hours and hours of run away run away combat to bring that bastard down. I later found peeps complaining that the boss was too easy cause they defeated him in 30 secs. Still a great game though.

By: danny

danny — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:58:29 +0000

I have to say, I love the AI-off in the comments. I hope KG writes one.

SHODAN for the win.

By: matte_k

matte_k — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:55:21 +0000

Deep Thought from “Hitchiker’s” anyone? Or does that not count?

Leek’s comment reminded me of using an RM Nimbus from my sister’s school during holidays when i was about 8 or so, and in a small tussle with friends hit the zoom function on a paint program. When we looked at the screen, the message said “please wait while i explode…” and we all dived for cover on the other side of the room. Three minutes later one of us thought it might be a good idea to see if it was still trying to explode…

By: Lorc

Lorc — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:31:29 +0000

>He lives until the end of the universe. I don’t think that’s a very beatable record.

Multivac begs to differ, and has seniority over most of these uppity young contenders to boot.

By: Jahkaivah

Jahkaivah — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:15:45 +0000

Worth pointing out the possiblility that Glados isn’t an AI, her name “Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System” suggest an organic origin, also the presentation found in in near the end says “arguably alive”, when we find her “form” its humanoid shaped and arguable of similar form of the creature sketch on the clipboard found the one of the offices with the word “failed” on.

Or in all, I don’t care what she is, along as she reappears in Episode 3, which, given that her name is found the the Borealis blueprints (and her popularity), is likely.

By: Obdicut

Obdicut — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:49:21 +0000

No, no. The best AI ever is Durandal. He lives until the end of the universe. I don’t think that’s a very beatable record.

Plus, he had style, panache, finesse.

By: Garth

Garth — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 02:58:37 +0000

Mine is from game testing, and fairly recent.

I was a focus tester for Radical on Scarface. There was a mission where you had to drive a Bank truck from A to B.

Well, I managed to go so far off course the lead designer of the game came over to watch me play. It took me about 20-30 minutes to do, but I did finally beat it (although barely.)

After trying to figure out why I had taken that route (I saw less cops, and figured a slightly longer, safer route was a better one) he informed me the whole part should have taken me 4 minutes. Oops.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:01:56 +0000

” Fortunately, nobody ever found out about my idiocy – apart from the entire Portal development team, quietly, patiently sitting around their office, watching my (lack of) progress on a big screen, almost pulling their hair out.”

‘Serves you right for that crate-plug-knocking-out puzzle in Metastasis.’

Right. And since I posted on the other dumb moments thread that I was stuck on that one, I’d better post here that now I done it cos I is good. Still a PITA though :)

Oh yah, Helios > SHODAN. I mean SHODAN is the ultimate computer baddie’n'all, I’ll give you that, but she wasn’t too too clever all in all. Besides, who would you rather want to go to a party with? Helios would be *much* better at chatting up the lasses (in a way that cannily suggests they should actually go to bed with the pale, fat man standing on his own in the corner going ‘gief beer tbh’ and then chuckling).