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[ElkinFencer10]

Well if we're going to pick on dick brother vs a game moves here's one.

I saved up and got Final Fantasy for the NES back in 1990. I had to play that as a 13 year old around school, friends, homework. It took me months as we all know how slow it is to earn any cash or XP in that game given the prices on gear (especially for warrior.) Months later, I finished the game one night before bed and I was loving it, used that NP guide quite a bit for the maps, just not the tips, as I never much liked being lost in places and FF1 had that nasty last dungeon with so many stairs and no saving.

I come back to it I think a day or two later. My brother, 3 years younger, was kind of game picky liking certain stuff, hated/disliked RPGs, and never warmed up to adventures either like Zelda 1 or 2. For some bs reason he decided to try it out. Fires up a NEW game, goes to the town, not sure he did anything, but one thing, went to the Inn and saved. I happy go to turn my game on to drop Chaos again to see random names and a LV1 set of characters. I thin he tried to move off as I didn't think a game would glitch like that and my parents wouldn't play it. So I went into a blind rage and started whipping his ass for it howling about the lost work and time on it, I didn't even get in trouble that time for doing it either (which is surprising.)

Ever since that day I've never once been able in the 26 years since been able to actually sit down and finish that game on the NES, EVER. I've tried, and my motivation dies either in Elfland/Dark Elf area, or at most the Vampire/Lich bit with Melmond. I just can't do it, too damn painfully slow and I don't have a game genie to lv99 and full cash it. Only once the Dawn of Souls on GBA came out with the non-stupid MP system and fair cash/xp allowances I finished the game once more.

Fratricide would have been committed if that had been I....

[Fragems]

: Probably the worst thing that happened to me involved the first gaming clan I got into. I was with them probably from around 2003 or 2004 till around 2010.

Anyways I really got into the PC release of Halo CE and ended up joining up with a clan that ran one of the servers I frequented. The group had a variety of stuff aside from Halo most notably Battlefield2, BF2142 then BFBC2 when it came out. Over time people started shifting more towards the BF side of things but we still had a pretty strong Halo community which I was one of the core members.

As the years passed I was given limited administrative rights over the server so I could police over it and kick the occasional jack ass as well as reset if it got glitched. Eventually I was one of the main leaders of the halo section and I was running a lot of activities but I kept running into speed bumps since I wasn't permitted to update map rotations and instead had to rely on the higher ups who weren't really interested with Halo anymore or just weren't around to help.

Anyways a few months before I left I finally became a "elder" of the community which basically gave me a majority of the responsibilities retaining to the Halo portion of the community as well as administrative rights over a section of the forum and voice chat server. However shit went bad pretty fast for me. Over the years there had been a steady stream of people leaving the site including one of the Co-founders and a few administrators some of which went on to create clans of their own. Everything was kept pretty hush hush so I never really knew why the left. Needless to say the guys at the top were somewhat paranoid and going in I had hardly met any of them since most weren't really active within the community and you'd maybe see them in voice chat or in game once every two-three months. Well anyways it became obvious pretty fast why so many people left after acquiring leadership positions. The remaining co-founder didn't want to share any power and most of our meetings were solely devoted to stroking his ego.

So after a while I got frustrated and one day when I was having a private conversation with one of my close friends one of the newer elders came into my channel and hopped all over me. Turns out he had been tapping my voice chat account and keeping tabs on me . To make matters worse he made a death threat against me which was a real wtf moment. So anyways I went on to talk with the rest of the leadership and their response was I shouldn't communicate with anyone outside of the leadership period . So shortly after i wrote a goodbye letter to the community mentioning how I felt my hands were tied and really all the fun had been sucked out of the community after seeing how things were really being handled in the background. My post was removed quite promptly by the moderators and I was perma banned for treason.

Just checked in on them for the first time in 3 years and surprisingly their site is still up. Looks like things are pretty dead though just an empty BF4 server sitting there, and hardly any forum activity that I can see. Looks like all of the leadership aside from the co-founder and one other guy is gone. After I left things kept circling the shitter so no surprise there . Anyways at least I got some good times from it and met some good people many of which I'm still friends and continued to play while I attended college.

[MrEco]

I suppose I'll follow the trend of this thread, and complain about something my younger sister once did.

Back when I was about ten years old I got my first PS2. My sister was just a toddler then, not even, technically. She managed to ruin the box of almost every PS2 game I owned at the time. Her teeth were developing over that time and for some reason my games looked like a fine way to test their strength, so she would chew on the boxes whenever I wasn't around. To make matters even worse, my family knew what she was doing but never stopped her. They figured that as long as she didn't break the games themselves then she wasn't doing any harm, which frankly wasn't their call to make.

Then the cherry on top is that at some point (I don't remember when but I think it was just a couple years later) my sister on about three separate occasions would take my PS2 console itself, along with some books, and stack them on top of each-other. She then stood on top of the stack in order to reach things that she otherwise couldn't. Again, my family knew she did it, but never made any effort to stop her. They told her not to do it, but never actually put in the physical effort to make sure she didn't just do it anyways. After she did it the third time, my PS2 was broken. She crushed something inside it, and it would no longer open the disc tray. My family didn't have the money to buy a new one, so I ended up going about a year without being able to play any video games until my Aunt got me a replacement for Christmas.

[ElkinFencer10]

I suppose I'll follow the trend of this thread, and complain about something my younger sister once did.

Back when I was about ten years old I got my first PS2. My sister was just a toddler then, not even, technically. She managed to ruin the box of almost every PS2 game I owned at the time. Her teeth were developing over that time and for some reason my games looked like a fine way to test their strength, so she would chew on the boxes whenever I wasn't around. To make matters even worse, my family knew what she was doing but never stopped her. They figured that as long as she didn't break the games themselves then she wasn't doing any harm, which frankly wasn't their call to make.

Then the cherry on top is that at some point (I don't remember when but I think it was just a couple years later) my sister on about three separate occasions would take my PS2 console itself, along with some books, and stack them on top of each-other. She then stood on top of the stack in order to reach things that she otherwise couldn't. Again, my family knew she did it, but never made any effort to stop her. They told her not to do it, but never actually put in the physical effort to make sure she didn't just do it anyways. After she did it the third time, my PS2 was broken. She crushed something inside it, and it would no longer open the disc tray. My family didn't have the money to buy a new one, so I ended up going about a year without being able to play any video games until my Aunt got me a replacement for Christmas.

Damn, man. Sounds like she got the spoiled princess treatment hardcore.

[Exhuminator]

I say your sister still owes you a PS2.

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Trying to remember if my brother and I ever had video game quibbles, but I can't recall. I am 8.5 years older than my brother, so he was scared of me when we were growing up, he never did anything to risk my ire. It's quite the opposite in that I have a lot of great multiplayer gaming memories concerning he and I, but those don't belong in this thread.

I think the worst gaming memory I have as a kid, is a real rage inducing one. As in, it still makes me mad today, twenty some odd years later. When I was between the ages of 13-15 I mowed lots of lawns for money, and used the money to buy SNES games. I eventually had quite the collection of SNES games. Including having bought Final Fantasy VI on release day, which cost me $74 in 1994 ($118 in today's money).

Anyway sometime in 1995 my uncle came to visit us, he lived about 5 hours away. When he arrived he brought a friend with him. The friend of his seemed like a cool dude, and he was into video games. He talked to me about a lot of SNES stuff and I became convinced he was a nice guy. He then asks if he can borrow about seven or eight of my SNES games, promising to mail them back after he beats them. Myself being a gullible young naive teenager, impressed by having met such a knowledgeable adult gamer, decided it would be fine.

It wasn't fine. Of course I never saw those games again. And yes one of them was Final Fantasy VI. The realllly shitty thing is I hadn't beat Final Fantasy VI yet. I was at the very end of the game. I still haven't gone back and beat Final Fantasy VI since, because just playing the game pisses me off in remembrance of how I got scammed. And no my uncle wasn't able to help me, because he and the friend lost contact before I realized I was never getting those games back. I lost something like $500 in SNES games, which was a big deal considering I was a teenager who made all that money busting my ass mowing lawns.

[ElkinFencer10]

My soul aches for you...

[Xeogred]

Can't forgot how my younger sister would somehow accidentally erase my 100% cleared game files haha. I know it happened with SMW and DKC2.

[ElkinFencer10]

Can't forgot how my younger sister would somehow accidentally erase my 100% cleared game files haha. I know it happened with SMW and DKC2.

One of my buddies in high school accidentally did that to my Soul Calibur 2 data, my Gauntlet Dark Legacy data, and my Super Smash Bros Melee data trying to copy it to his memory card. I almost beat him to death with the Gamecube.

[Sano]

I am disappointed with both ARK and Rust. Neither of them are as fun as you would think, at least in my humble opinion. Other than that, I have no gripes.

[Sarge]

Man, Ex, that sucks. My stories aren't nearly so bad as that.

I did have several things that I lent out not come back, or abused to the point of destruction. I think the one that bugged me the most was me lending my Link to the Past Player's Guide to my aunt. Seems okay, right? I mean, she's just a half-mile down the road.

Well, she lent the guide to her sister. Yeah, not cool. And her sister is pretty well known for being pretty junky, so she lost the guide and I never got it back. That thing's worth some pretty decent money now, too. And of course, my aunt or her sister never offered to replace it or pay me back. If there's one thing that infuriates me, it's people that lend other people's stuff out. (Not that I wasn't awful one time and borrowed Dragon Warrior III from a friend who had it from his cousin. That ugly obsession rearing its head again. When Mom found out, I had to take it back immediately, and apologize for borrowing it.)

I don't have the box and manual to Zelda II anymore because I lent it to a buddy at school, who promptly lost them. At least I got the game back, though.

I also lent my copy of Sonic CD on PC to a friend of mine, and it came back looking like it had been used as a frisbee or a dog chew toy. Audio tracks skipping all over the place. After all that, it pretty much put in place my "no lending" policy. I've relaxed it a slight bit lately, but even then, I've been burned by not getting things back. Since I actually have a bit of money now, it's not as big a deal as it once was, but it still irks me. I've always been taught to promptly return someone else's stuff, and always return it in as good or better condition as you got it in. I've replaced things if I messed it up. But very few people I know seem to have a similar policy.