What was your most humiliating experience in a game?

[AmishSamurai]

Not making the jump over the first pit on Metal Man's stage in Mega Man 2 comes to mind. One I had less control over was in the same game finally getting through the infamous Quick Beams, and then getting crushed by one of those stomper bot things.

Also, Touhou- Embodiment of Scarlet Devil. My friend told me that the boss of Stage 2's spellcard had a glaring weakness where you could dodge it by standing directly in front of her. He didn't tell me this only worked on easy, and I ran directly into a wall of bullets, and have the dubious honor of being game overed by Cirno.

[LBJeff]

I played Street Fighter II since I was in junior high school. My friends and I ruled at it for a long time. About 5 years ago I started training a buddy of mine who is about 6 years my junior and was too young to be in to SFII when it was big. Basically, he never played it...pretty much ever besides a few random games here and there. He came over one day and said he wanted to start playing some SFII, wanted to learn what it was all about. I told him that it would be pretty brutal, but if he could endure the training he would come out the other side a new man.

I didn't think he would stay the course. He decided he wanted to learn Street Fighter Alpha 2, so I bought it on PS2 and we got crackin. We saved the records on memory card for quite a while. It took him about 6 months before he won a round. Took about 18 months before he finally won a match. 2 years before he could win back to back matches.

Kid can whoop my ass now. Not quite every time, but there have been quite a few sessions where I was on the losing end of a best of 15 series. So, while humiliating that he can hand it to me now, I guess it's also pretty cool. We still play to this day.

[J T]

[gradualmeltdown]

Not winning a single round against my first opponent in pools at Evolution last year. Game was Street Fighter 4. He requested blind select and picked Zangief my worst matchup at the time. He also just happened to be one of the top Zangiefs in the USA. Oh and there are no good offline Zangief players locally so all I had was online play to judge the matchup.

He just sat there and either counter-hit or reversal 360'd everything I did as boxer. It taught me that raw skill, execution, and knowledge of your character mean nothing alone. I could hit every BnB combo and was completely ready for Shoto/Sagat garbage. Too bad that wasn't what I would need at the tourney. Matchup knowledge means everything at a tourney. So I dedicated the last year to not only Zangief but the rest of the cast. Now 90% of Gief players are free for me, the other 2% would beat me no matter what character!

Now if I didn't have so many hobbies I could play 6 hours a day like the top players. Well....no I like having variety in my life

[CFFJR]

That damn dog.

I spent more time shooting at him than the ducks.

Bastard.

[J T]

Now if I didn't have so many hobbies I could play 6 hours a day like the top players. Well....no I like having variety in my life

This is how I have felt with SFIV. It's amazing how good people can get at this game. I do find it incredible. I just don't have the time, and if I did, that's not how I would use it. I was a local arcade legend on Street Fighter II back in the day. I don't need to excel at the latest incarnation. It is kind of embarassing just how often I get pounded online though, given how notorious I was in the arcades in the early 90s. When you open yourself to worldwide online competition, the top tier players are just so much more elite. Even the lower level players kick ass.

[J T]

Another humiliating/infuriating experience for me is whenever I play Devil May Cry. If you lose a few times on the normal mode, it starts to ask you if you want to switch to easy mode every time you lose a life. It just feels so condescending to me. Like, "awww, this is really hard for you, isn't it? Poor little guy. Maybe you shouldn't be playing with the big boys in normal mode. Do you want us to make it easy for you to save your poor self esteem?" I really hate it. It makes me furious the way it taunts me like that.

[bluntedone]

My most humiliating moment of gaming came at my sons 9th birthday party. We had the party at our house and I had to have my mame machine on for the kids to play. The machine was set to random game select, so this little 8 year old kid asked me if I would play him!
So in my mind I was like ok this will be fun!!!! The next random game was ssf2 and then I started talking smack (yeah thats right I will talk smack to a 8 year old lol).
So the match starts and this kid goes random button pressing like I have never seen before and needless to say he whooped my but!!! He got a perfect and also beat me on the next round sending my butt walking!!! I have never returned to my arcade room again! lol

[VincentX]

Getting about three hours through part of Disc 2 in Final Fantasy VII...then accidentally running into Ruby Weapon...dying...and realizing I hadn't saved at all for those three hours.

[BoringSupreez]

Getting about three hours through part of Disc 2 in Final Fantasy VII...then accidentally running into Ruby Weapon...dying...and realizing I hadn't saved at all for those three hours.

Non autosaving games are rather frustrating sometimes. You have to remember to stop playing every once in a while to go through menus and save. Kinda takes away from the experience.