7 Dumb Stresses We Get Playing Games

[@outsidextra]

There's no need to worry about these things in games -- AND YET WE DO ANYWAY AAaaAaAHH. Here are the unnecessary stresses that plague our gaming. What stresses you out playing games? Let us know in the comments, and enjoy!

[@andreangeles6814]

Eyyyyy boi

[@demonheart13]

Worse then autosave failure. When the game auto-saves right in front of a one way street into death and your woefully underprepared.

[@Threll_Ignis]

I'm always terrified in open world games, that if I don't complete all available side-missions, collectibles, and exploration, before I do the next story mission, that a story twist will lock me out of part of the world.

[@deadboi7629]

I have advise for Mike just be a jack of all trades or play a mix of charmer and a blade and or sword wielding badass or just go half and half by getting skills you want and getting skills the game wants you to get problem solved

[@keeperofthefigs8146]

Ive been muscling through dark souls with an ugly character and it hurts me.

[@Paperiahma]

"Will I trigger the story before I'm done mucking about?" Basically, whenever there is an area with multiple paths I get really stressed trying to figure out where I need to go for the story to progress so that I can take that path the last. Because I want to explore and loot every inch of the game and I'm constantly afraid I will take the wrong (or I guess the right) way, trigger a cutscene that progresses the situation and I either miss a cool item/side quest/a bit of lore/pretty hidden scenery or I have to backtrack for 20 minutes to see that other tunnel that I missed.

[@apushman]

Had that happen a couple of times. the worst is when its in an area that you cant come back to

[@-_marvin_-]

Oh, I have serious empathy with that - "oh, no, shi*, I wanted to check out that other path and hers comes the #@**#%^&! cutscene!"

[@ACAB.forcutie]

Oh my dog YES! I've legit not finished games because of this worry

[@weneedaladder8384]

Dead space invented the best navigation system to avoid this. Give you a button that points the right way so you can explore.

[@LordangeloxD]

I clearly agree with that, especially in RPG's my best examples are Dragon quest, sometimes I only could got back to previous areas because I finally got a new transport that can bring me back, so I can finally check that suspicious cave.

[@NinjaKingAce]

"Use a health potion!" "But we might need it later!" "WE'RE FIGHTING THE FINAL BOSS!!!"

[@itsaredvine]

Gotta save that elixir for emergencies

[@chillszero]

What about the final, final boss?

[@mememan2404]

As prozd once made a skit about. You know what I'm going to quote the entire thing through. "I'm out of mana." "Then use an ether!" "But you can't buy these in the store." "ITS THE FINAL BOSS"

[@GayBearDaddy2]

There's literally a VG Cats comic about this.

[@Bucky91702]

@@chillszero what if this isn't it's final form

[@hannaholson4999]

"Just let me catastrophize in peace!" - Jane Douglas, 2019

[@Mistertbones]

Another great quote from Jane.

[@Outlawbyname]

Are you going to add this to the Diary of Jane?

[@Storyman09]

Outlawgamer1991 was that Breaking Benjamin reference intentional? XD

[@FEARSWTOR]

Quote also attributed to Jane Douglas 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, etc, etc, 1984.

[@Outlawbyname]

@@Storyman09 It was, yes lol

[@hiagain1463]

**saves game** **goes afk for five seconds, affecting nothing** **saves again**

[@Crisjola]

Ooof I feel so called out right now. (Not when it comes to RDR2 though, because that game's auto saves make it so I absolutely don't regret saving more than once.)

[@finnyboi8098]

@@Crisjola I do the same thing lol the game can quick save as many times as it possibly can but I’ll still manually save if I can in RDR2 lmao I’m so guilty of that

[@bastionsea2829]

*decides to save three more times, just in case*

[@metleon]

I also always save twice in a row when I'm done for the day. Never know when your save might corrupt and load the previous one, which is now in the exact same spot 5 seconds earlier.

[@searchingforgryphons]

My cousin watched me play a game once and I drove him nuts saving after every step I average 10 Skyrim save an hour, so I always get confused when someone isn't in the hundreds, maybe even if they aren't in the thousands, of saves made

[@FEARSWTOR]

That feeling when you're about to transition to a new area and think to yourself: "But did I click on **EVERYTHING**?" Bonus points if you get this feeling when leaving an area you know you can go back to later.

[@biggamanedabeast5247]

You may can go back later but you won't. You go back immediately and click everything

[@necromancer6405]

@@biggamanedabeast5247 Me in MMOs.

[@calebdurrant5075]

i do this, and sometimes for like dialogue options i will worry i picked the wrong one and just reload a save to see the other dialogue

[@Sirfinchyyy]

That was basically my entire KOTOR playthrough, every time.

[@beastmode-ht8ou]

Mass Effect opening sequence: Udina: Is this the kind of person we want protecting the galaxy? Me: Not with that nose

[@themachinery93]

beastmode1425 that was all I Would ever notice every time I made a character and it would never be right LOL

[@codeshinja]

My siblings constantly joke that the Genesis DLC i got for ME2 was basically a $10 nose job to fix my ME1 characters apprarance XD

[@liamrichardson6830]

I have given every one of my Shepard's Tom Cruise's nose. But it's an improvment over the first Shepard I made that I have dubbed "fish face Shepard".... Had to wear the death mask so he wouldn't scare small children.

[@aanorith]

Most relatable comment I've ever seen.

[@Xazyv]

So the first time I played ME2 I was super excited to remake my character cuz he just seemed boring in me1. And I went all out and checked every face angle and all that, made sure he looked good in all the Cardinal directions. But what I didn't know was that within the first like 10 minutes, he's ducked behind cover and talking to Jacob, and you see his face at an angle you can't get in the character creator. And from that angle the character I took an hour making perfectly had cheeks like a fucking black hole. They just sunk right in. And it's all I could ever see so I actually reset the game and like analyzed the guys face AS IT TURNED so that I didn't miss any angle.

[@steelberry7046]

Not upgrading your weapon/armor set because you worry you'll find better stuff later anyway and you don't wanna waste your precious upgrade materials. And then proceed to play throughout the whole game with an unupgraded wet tissue, wearing your level 0 gear and dying a lot because you could not stand the fear of regret.

[@asherandai1000]

How else you gonna Git Gud?

[@simplyq4311]

Steelberry I’m like this in all games where you can upgrade things I eventually just end up playing like a bandit and murdering every living or undead thing I see and stealing their shit

[@donovandrobina4398]

This happens to me all the time! “Hurray! I finally have a great weapon that looks awesome. I’m going to spend the hard earned gold/credits to upgrade it.” Only to find an infinitely better weapon as a reward for the very next mission...

[@YingofDarkness]

I don't have this problem, but I want to add on to it anyway. I have seen a let's player who refused to buy any new equipment he came across because he was sure he would find them in chests/as drops later in the dungeons.

[@insaincaldo]

@@YingofDarkness This is how I played Dark Souls blind. Spend souls on stuff?

[@archer8492]

'Just let me catastrophize in peace!' Thank you Jane for finally giving me a motto I can apply to every area of my life.

[@KatieTP]

"I put all of my skill points into being sexy" - The Mike Channell Story

[@infernaldemonkain5369]

Yes! So good!

[@donkeymanusa6364]

Sounds like my New Vegas character.

[@PlayfulOtter]

Wait. He played a Toreador and couldn't tear through every enemy? Auspex and celerity were one of the op combos in that game, right?

[@thetalantonx]

Gotta love Massive Attack - Angel playing in the background for that section.

[@deathbykonami5487]

More like the "Magic" Mike Channell Story.....oh god that was terrible

[@JanAside]

If i go this way will i miss some worthless but interesting easter eggs.

[@Cheesus-Almighty]

Oh yeah. When you come to a fork in the road, so you go left, and leads to a big room that looks like it's somewhere you're supposed to go so you backtrack and go right but that leads to a bossroom so you go left again and clear that room out because you don't want to miss stuff out.

[@outsidextra]

Highly relatable -OX

[@Anergyne]

There might be good loot there! There won't be. But there MIGHT!

[@ShaenMOGaming]

I love achievement hunting but I can’t get completely done with games that have a lot of multiplayer achievements.

[@ser_ryon_vine6392]

uncharted did that for me. not so much easter eggs but just all collectibles in gen

[@ajm5007]

"How long can I keep flirting with this character before it precludes me from flirting with other characters, possibly ones I haven't met yet? What's the in-character-romance point-of-no-return?"

[@Fulen1]

Oh god yes oh I like this character their cool I'll flirt with them oh now we're a thing yea then shlalalala this character shows up and is perfect but but I'm with this one

[@RIPjkripper]

This is a real life worry for me, actually.

[@sassykat2587]

Definitely, same with Witcher 3 first time I played. I was thinking 'okay this HAS to come back and bite me in the ass at some point'... (Or that totally not blink-and-you'll-miss-it Viper armor diagram. But I digress.)

[@haven4304]

Playing Persona without knowing any of the character before hand. "Oh this very first girl party member looks cute, i'ma date her" *last female party member joins, months after you dated her "Ah shite, this girl is cuter"

[@Fulen1]

@@GeneralNickles I messed up with Ashley in the first one I was so mad they wouldnt let me flirt with tali

[@jeremiahplaysWOW]

Where's my "I have to check every corner of the map for special items" gang at? I know I turned myself off to Doom 2016 because I spent so much time looking for the upgrade things, never got past the first actual mission

[@ruby.the.weirdo]

Skyrim gets me the worst with that fear.

[@ramsoofkyo9047]

Doom 2016 is actually worst example for this issue, as it literatelly allow to highlight secrets and replay maps ._. Plus it's a damn good game

[@jeremiahplaysWOW]

@@ramsoofkyo9047 it makes it so much worse, because I know... And I spend hours on one level just to get one item from a jumping puzzle I missed at the beginning of the level

[@diegorangelargote6406]

Uncharted saga made me like that, and it's funny because I checked every corner and i only got 1/4 of the collectibles

[@reloadpsi]

You only need a few of the upgrades in DOOM 4 to be competitive in combat, and enough of those are handed out. You find all the secrets if you're trying to be a god.

[@nickdejager8873]

Reverse of the first one: Being afraid that autosave will save at a bad point and lock you into something you don't want.

[@JohnTravis1965]

Like... dying, immediately afterward.

[@RedK5]

Nick deJager YES!!! I don’t like autosave. I like saving myself. I think it should ALWAYS be an option to turn off autosave for people who don’t like it

[@annana6098]

I combine this with the ammo/health potions anxiety. What if I get locked into a boss fight with insufficient ammo? I'll just keep running down this canyon I'm trapped in, face scorpion of doom with half a clip of ammo and 62% health, and die over and over. So instead I die three times fighting the scorpion because I'm trying to use an axe for half the fight to conserve ammo, and also refuse to use health items.

[@dharps3014]

Happened to me in Halo 2 once. Had to restart a level and was big mad lol

[@lestatescobedo8203]

Skyrim auto save before you die and end up in a loop

[@johnwrath333]

I have a friend with 'inventory anxiety' . He spends tens of minutes agonizing about tossing some of the 100+ loaves of bread in his bag while also carrying 100+ health potions. All this because he just cant leave that cheese wheel in the chest. I joke that his favorite game is Menu, not Skyrim :D

[@sonicboom5012]

“So what’s on the *Menu* today? 😆

[@mrsawsteven]

I have found my species.

[@brianm.595]

I think i have that too. Its agonizing trying to deny the hoarder inside.

[@MorriganReads]

I would make fun of this, but have you ever done inventory management in RE4? It’s incredibly satisfying when you get it all right.

[@jupitercoyote348]

I carry around 800 lb of stuff in Skyrim at any time. “I may need this set of 50 lb armor, might as well bring it. I’ve never used a potion, but I might need one now”

[@kruzthewolf]

Me: *saves game* Me, one second later: Wait did I save Me: *saves again to be sure* Me: *saves a third time just in case*

[@nansmeunier3250]

That's sooooooo me. Saving, then 10 sec after, wait let's save again just in case.

[@bruhmoment3378]

me

[@bruhmoment3378]

@Andrew Cash same

[@jackalexander3886]

this is literally me

[@vladdracul5072]

@@nansmeunier3250 And then comes a longer stretch where nothing happens, you feel safe and forget to save, and WHAM! Not making that mistake again. For a while at least.

[@Liggliluff]

(8:20) Worse in games where skills have different costs, and you're saving up for something, but the game keeps nagging about using your skill points.

[@artemisthesniper5281]

Assassins creed origins like ik I have three skill points game but I need 5 so shut up and let me get the other two

[@DaemonPrimarch]

Total War Shogun 2 comes to mind immediately.

[@lawsonporter6113]

"It was almost a relief when my father died because he looked so weird" -Ellen Rose, 2019

[@SpongebobSquarepants-ez7ic]

This deserves WAY more likes.

[@lawsonporter6113]

@@SpongebobSquarepants-ez7ic why thank you kind internet entity.

[@HexenkoeniginVonAngmar]

123 likes :D

[@lilmissqueenohearts]

Beware of spoilers for the following games... lol

[@spacejesus6581]

DarthMaul Killer nobody cares about Andromeda so it’s fine

[@alwaysp3ng848]

Fear of missing an item...hence my Skyrim dungeon exploration system of walking around like a manic roomba to ensure I've covered every square inch of floor

[@lukejoyce1107]

This bothered me in morrowind, because I had a wiki pulled up for some dungeon cause I was curious about some detail or something, and it turned out one of the best gauntlets in the game were stuck really akwardly behind this little piece of scenery I never would have looked behind. The rest of my game I was constantly worried something like that would happen again and I would never know...

[@coltonwilliams4153]

@Luke Joyce Oh my gods. Seriously?!😨

[@lukejoyce1107]

@@coltonwilliams4153 yep, the Fists of Randagulf. Ended up using them the rest of the game, actually

[@liquidchameleon5993]

Especially at the final room of a dungeon. Did I check the boss? Yes. What about his minions? Yes. Ok under this table? Behind this rock? At least 3 times

[@strictly1becca]

oh man, manic roomba is the perfect description of what i look like hunting for loot

[@freezeburn9875]

Double tapping the dialogue box and missing a sentence of dialogue. Hey, that could have been the most important piece of dialogue in the game

[@secondrateseth8360]

Freezeburn 98 oh man, I hadn’t even thought of this but I 100% agree. I read pretty fast, game! I don’t want to watch the text appear character by character, but I *do* want to read it!

[@ForgetfulBel]

I did this in the original Suikoden when you first talk to Leknaat and she's telling you your destiny. I got impatient waiting for the words to appear and would hit the button again to make the whole paragraph of dialogue appear. Well, I accidentally hit the button too much and I missed things! The next thing she told me was something like "Remember that, it's important." Aaaargh.

[@DeathnoteBB]

Bel And then you have to debate if you should try to look for the cutscene online or avoid risking spoilers

[@ForgetfulBel]

@@DeathnoteBB Eh, I wound up deciding it wasn't that important because I hadn't saved in awhile and had already put a bunch of time into it. I found out later what it was when I replayed the game.

[@BKBMaster12]

THIS! This is the absolute biggest source of stress for me in a game, especially if it's dialogue-heavy or has good writing. One of the worst examples in general is when you walk just a bit too fast and your character's dialogue gets cut off, leaving you wondering what they were going to say next.

[@limbobilbo8743]

“I need to do all the side quests because what if the side quest nit being completed gives me a bad ending?” -me, anytime i play an open world rpg

[@artemisthesniper5281]

Bro in assassins creed odyssey you have this choice go after this one cultist or save the baby I always end up saving the baby then having to Google the name of the side quest just cause I can never remember it and I think "I should've let that random baby burn and killed her right then and there instead of going to kill animals then having two mini-bosses and the boss"

[@amyschildgamerlive4519]

Sometimes those side quests are even better than the main one. Hell thats like 90% of skyrim.

[@Crisjola]

Legitimately why I stopped playing the story mode of RDR2: because I wanted to see everything even though I knew good/bad endings were tied to honor and not collecting everything/all side quests.

[@jenniferdouillard8683]

@@amyschildgamerlive4519 I agree, I spent so much time on Skyrim and I can't even remember fully the main story line, I was so psyched anticipating going to Sovengard and everything, it was so underwhelming!

[@amyschildgamerlive4519]

@@jenniferdouillard8683 yeah but the side quests were definitely amazing though. The dark brotherhood, thieves guild, mage's college were my favorites.

[@FelixHelixihare]

Useless item in the inventory. Need to pick up something. Inventory is full. "What if this item is needed later on?!?!"

[@vladdracul5072]

I often look for chests to stash everything I can't take and come back later to pick it up.

[@FelixHelixihare]

@@vladdracul5072 In games like Minecraft and Terraria, that too becomes an issue.

[@zerobolt9506]

Same

[@deathbykonami5487]

OMG, that's what I do in Skyrim and Fallout I'm always over encumbered because I don't know what I'll need for crafting weapons and armor

[@megami7373]

Felix360 YESSS!

[@trod146]

You make the perfect custom character and are about to confirm and finalize... then you slip up and hit randomize.......

[@insaincaldo]

In DS1, well why did I even.. the creator is, not good, I wake up as charred bacon and probably cover my face anyway. Next new game, spends way too long creating a character anyway. Other games "Nnnnnnnoooooooooooooooooooooo!" Half an hour later..

[@chloe.imogen]

First time playing Fallout 76, I spent ages making my character, as is my habit, only for the game to crash before I could finalize it. I restarted the game, tried to recreate the same character, had just about finished and: the game crashed. Repeat at least 3 more times before I finally managed to enter the game with a character much less unique and detailed than I would have liked.

[@SwordSaint892]

Those bastard game designers really love to put the randomize button next to the finalize button too. It's pretty sadistic.

[@KizuRai]

oh SHIT I've done that SO many times

[@IssunEmbersong]

You make the perfect character, everything looks great, you're happy so you click confirm and start game. You make one attack and the default, unchanged, normally high pitched "YAHH!" graces your ears and you realise you forgot to edit the voice. RUINED

[@KompactKitty]

I always worry about if I've taken a wrong turn in a dungeon etc, and accidentally gone the right way, and missed some hidden loot or special item.

[@stevenn1940]

When you have the choice of two directions, explore one a bit in, go "I think this is the right path, let me go back and get that bonus item," and that second path is actually the right one

[@SlimeySlurmp]

Oh god and then you look at the map and the other route is so far away and you already met another split in the path

[@p4vlichenk0]

OMG YES!!! But if the game allows me, I always save before choosing a direction and if that's the correct one, I reload and explore the other path haha...

[@boonehamilton6720]

YES! Every time I see “encourages exploration” in a game description I know I’m going to spend 90% of the game not going to the main quest waypoint or hoping I’m going the wrong way.

[@Artweyrhf]

That feeling of regret over picking the "right path" and possibly missing something valuable is a constant problem

[@theyawningari]

“Such as the wonderful kingdoms of AMA-“

[@corbiecrow9738]

Hey I heard you liked kingdoms of amalur so I thought you could have some kingdoms of amalur with your kingdoms of amalur

[@jamesherb4384]

the look on mikes face when Ellen starts talking is just hysterical. I really have to wonder how many times the ox crew has had to endure Ellen talking about kindoms of amalere

[@hawkshadow22]

@@corbiecrow9738 hey i heard you needed to learn how to spell Amalur

[@corbiecrow9738]

@@hawkshadow22 I did thanks

[@ryuslalonde5390]

Played for the first time sick game !

[@jdprettynails]

My anxiety with boss fights is "Wait....is this one of those fights I'm SUPPOSED to lose??" I've wasted so many healing items on scripted boss fights!!

[@cookeymonster83]

Those are bullshit and bad game design imo

[@thaias9654]

You shouldn’t be able to use consumables if you’re supposed to lose unless you can win.

[@AbsolXGuardian]

Those games need to offer you a reward if you win a scripted boss fight. Like in the PMD explorers if you win againist Grovyle you don't loose your items like when you get a game over in those games. If you loose, the story progresses, but you loose your items.

[@damianwolfe613]

Man I hate the second to last boss in Assassin's Creed Valhalla because he is one of those bosses.

[@MisterJackTheAttack]

My brain: What if you missed a collectible or something you needed? Me: we checked literally every place My brain: yeah, but, what if you missed it anyway??

[@cody-adricharper5848]

Is your brain related to my sister? Her: Are you sure you checked behind that vase? Me: Yes, I'm sure. Just checked. Her: I think you missed something. Check again! Me: Oh, for the love of... fine. I'm checking. Again. Her: Good because I'm sure you missed something. Me: *sigh* The worst part is that half the time there is something I missed. It's weird, feeling exasperated and stupid at the same time. :)

[@nerobiblios4086]

Happened to me in Xenoblade Chronicles

[@heidistokes9273]

Walking Dead Final Season. Still missed at least one collectible in EVERY chapter

[@RageUnchained]

Late to this party but started my first ever dark souls play through on switch last week and missed the broad sword and had to grind to get a broken straight sword

[@nathaniellevesque2782]

Even if I inspect every corner of an area, I still have to reference a guide just to make sure I didn't miss anything

[@jamescottam9622]

*Moves coffee cup* *Life Is Strange butterfly pops up* "OH GOD WHO HAVE I KILLED"

[@wizzem7890]

They will remember that... What did I do?

[@orangecat862002]

Is there anyone who didn't kill Lisa in their first playthrough btw? #JusticeForLisa

[@georgexanthopoulos3003]

@@orangecat862002 I didn't!!!

[@morgantaylor84]

@@orangecat862002 I saved her.

[@insaincaldo]

@@wizzem7890 They..? Who, who have I wronged, what part of the thing I did are people reacting to?!

[@runemist4011]

I know this is an old video but... my biggest unnecessary stress is having a party in an RPG with different levels. I want them all to level up exactly the same, to the same level! I go so far as to look up character guides, and read nothing else but the level they start at, and then get myself as close to exactly that as possible, right before they join. If one character that I use a lot goes away for a while... I'm screwed XD

[@RageUnchained]

God this gives me anxiety every time I play chrono trigger and final fantasy 7, and to a lesser extent star ocean

[@Gatorade69]

Or you spend time leveling up a character that then goes away and you don't get the rest of the game.

[@dreamingpichu2334]

YES! It's especially bad in Miitopia because whenever you change a mii's job they return to level 1, so later in the game when you've unlocked the vampire and elf jobs you have to spend SO LONG training them back up to match the rest of the party. And since you have ten party members but can only go out with four at a time, there's the problem where the four you use all the time are higher levels than the rest of your party, which is only made WORSE when miis start getting sick and you suddenly can't use one of your four most powerful party members and have to swap for one who's lagging five or ten levels behind

[@alexander_markovski]

I remember playing FFXII and using an item that specifically HALTS experience gain whilst worn, so I could make all the characters in the same 100 EXP range and level up simultaneously. The pedantic-ness was (and still is) one of my greatest gripes in video gaming

[@DavidStowers-o7k]

It's the same for me when I play FF III on the DS. What I find worse though, is when it's late in the game and one of your party is stricken with the petrify status and the battle ends before you can heal them, so instead of all four members of your party getting (For example.) 60 EXP points each, three of them get 80 EXP points and the petrified member gets NOTHING.

[@maybeitsmapleleaf]

"It never fails." "But what if it DOES!" Literally the plot of Passengers.

[@scoticvsgossage9378]

"you're cheaper than therapy" -Jane Douglas, 2019 XD

[@sparty1744]

This needs to be on a shirt

[@williamw2529]

I mean....she's not wrong.

[@StayNPlayGames]

Anytime, Miss Douglas. You’re cheaper than Netflix ❤️👍

[@iiyama988]

Fear of selling outdated gear. In The Witcher 3, I did several side quests and got legendary weapons and armour. Some of the swords even had names, and a history behind them. They were relics, to be stored in a museum or on a proud warrior's wall. Then a few levels higher and common soldiers have better swords. I don't want to sell the epic sword of legend, even if it's not actually any good any more. Can I let it clog up my inventory though? That's also bad.

[@insaincaldo]

When you have an awesome collection and haven't been given a way to store it. But.. my cool stuff

[@BattyButtercup]

ME IN DRAGON AGE, GETTING ITEMS FROM QUESTS THAT ARE NAMED FOR DEAD FAMILY MEMBERS: oh god i outlevel this equipment BUT I CAN'T SELL IT BECAUSE DAD! D: /thank goodness for that storage chest in later games

[@nephicus339]

Which is why I love it when they give you a home or base with display cases.

[@The56thEmpire]

I get that all the time in Skyrim as well

[@Rays_K]

Well the game got a storage box with unlimited space, specially made for all our hording needs~ hahaha

[@the-kris5554]

Speaking of character creation - that fear when your character LOOKS good in the character creator, and it looks different when actually in-game :O

[@adriannelson4214]

I've gotta say I'm with Ellen on the achievement anxiety. Realizing I'd just failed my full pacifist run of Metal Gear Solid 4 when a random enemy soldier climbed on top of my vehicle and practically stuck his head in the muzzle of my turret while I was shooting down a roadblock, was just heartbreaking. I tried so hard and got so far, but in the end, it didn't even matter.

[@scorchik11]

I always feel like I’ll be jump-scared in dark areas even if it’s not in a horror game

[@Go_D_Josopp]

Me too I wanted to comment that god dammit!

[@pro_noob6124]

Same

[@badcontent522]

Same man

[@josepha4200]

Thats why I always turn the brightness up lol

[@sonicboom5012]

Same

[@zarnox3071]

Wait, before I finish this level, did I make sure I checked *everything?*

[@eddyfizio5349]

it happens to me a lot in doom

[@thaias9654]

Happens to me so much in Skyrim. “Did I get _all_ the one-time items in this area?” And “Can I come back here after I leave to get them?”

[@FORTYSIXTWENTYSEVEN]

Thaias man elder scrolls and fallout in full are like this

[@rinochblazefall8829]

FIRST RULE OF RPG: CHECK *E V E R Y T H I N G*

[@ramsoofkyo9047]

deep rock galactic

[@XhanAnimations]

I think I only partially get Jane's fear about the autosave. Living in an area with lots of thunderstorms, power outages can happen a lot and one time my game was autosaving on a PS2 and EVERYTHING in that save card was corrupted. I don't think it would happen with newer games though, but I still think about it lol

[@jackcoughbendover434]

Me: *saves* Brain 2 second later: DiD yOu SaVe YeT

[@chromacorvus9651]

Relatable xD

[@nerobiblios4086]

100% relatable

[@DrgnDrake]

I always end up double tapping my save, just in case I didn't actually save the first time and only think that I did.

[@DjDolHaus86]

Now I know the saving icon has disappeared but it still says "game saved" on the screen, if I turn off the console before that text disappears will I risk losing everything? Oh god I moved while waiting for the text to disappear! What if it's trying to autosave as I select shut down? Oh god Oh god Oh god.....

[@frankflorez5168]

And then my face looks like your profile pic

[@senhowler]

Luke, listen up. This is my theory of multi-dimensional Boss Fights. Every time you fight a Boss you are fighting a player from another dimension. If the Boss wins that player moves on in his game and you have to try again against a different player from another dimension. If you win then you move on and they have to try again against another player from this dimension. Eventually everybody gets to continue their game.

[@Enkelados35]

That was beautiful :')

[@nathanbaker1727]

What happens to the last player ever though? 😮 Eternally trapped not being able to progress 😭

[@anselmoffrisia2930]

Nathan Baker it’s ok: “New Game Plus”.

[@alec4493]

DAMN PARADOXES

[@jackmeriustacktheritrix]

Nathan Baker F to pay respects to the last future DS player, frantically searching for Gwyn Lord of Cinder

[@dandydolphin64]

I wasn't worried about auto saves *but now I am*

[@TheHutchy01]

How? Had you actually found Zen?

[@Rayne_bloodshed]

I've had a corrupted autosave in Fallout New Vegas, my most recent manual save was about 2 hours before, so manually save often.

[@lnsflare1]

Autosaves will kill everyone you love, if given half a chance.

[@rorybmcconnachie6701]

SAME!!!

[@bryangibbs7191]

I definitely fall into the achievements one, I have some games where I'll never get the achievement now because I missed the chance when it was first out (I'm looking at you online multiplayer achievements for otherwise single player games)

[@KoffinKat]

Ugh, multiplayer-related achievs in games that aren't entirely multiplayer are the worst. I play singleplayer games because I want to play solo, GTFO with your "start a co-op session" achievement, game!

[@KickyFut]

I still never 100%'d Assassin's Creed 2, because of that one part where you only get *one chance* to kick a guy while you were sailing on that gider!!

[@DanteSuper95]

@@KickyFut can't you repeat the missions, though? I'm pretty sure i did some objectives that way

[@KickyFut]

@@DanteSuper95 not that one, because that glider mission was story only, meaning you had to do another playthru, and I never went back to it.

[@DanteSuper95]

@@KickyFut oooh...oh. that's a pain.

[@kittysmileyface1]

"i'll need this potion in an emergency" *gets into an emergency* "what if there is a more emergency emergency!" Edit: just wanted to say thank you for all the likes and wonderfully hilarious comments about our gamer neuroses

[@noahwhetstone3525]

kittysmileyface1 that is the exact thought process in every gamers mind

[@heidistokes9273]

Me

[@korikabu]

I'd just love to hear this one out of Luke's mouth!

[@allenl5960]

I know this is the final boss, and I know I've almost beaten it, but what if I use this full restore, and somehow die before I can land that one hit? Then I'll have to fight this boss again with 14 full restores instead of 15!

[@WildfireMagni]

I just came here to have a good time and I feel *SO ATTACKED* right now.

[@usbiv223]

"Luke: that's not hoarding. That's sound inventory management." Quoth every hoarder buried in so many health items that he can't pick up the mission critical item.

[@technomage6736]

Or the stress of having to discard something you weren't ever going to use in order to pick up that mission item... 😔

[@SpydersByte]

as an MMO player hoarding is a lifestyle :D

[@PhilBoswell]

…or the worry that if you dump those crafting mats you won't have enough for when you create a new character to give the appropriate crafting profession to… Don't look at me like that, I *know* I'm not the only one, I've seen those Inventory Bags in people's lets-plays, I'm not the only one who suffers from perpetual Inventory Overflow :-P

[@harrisonblock]

here's one of mine: When a game has an in-game currency, as most do, I always have a certain amount in reserve that i don't spend under, just in case. but this threshold gets higher and higher as the game goes on, to the point where I have like 10 000 or 20 000 of whatever stored, just in case

[@moon_wolfk7456]

Same with items... Like in Fallout 4.. I have to have AT LEAST 3 “clean lamps”, or something stupid like that. “No way I’m scrapping that, what if I never see anything like that again?! I might need it to decorate sometime!”

[@seiyuokamihimura5082]

Keeping literally everything. Lol

[@bluewilliams4911]

By the final missions I had about 350,000 gold pieces saved up in DOS2, because I worry so much that I won’t have money for later

[@ramsoofkyo9047]

because in some games, you buy stuff from NPC and minute later you find 3 of those items or Better items on the ground. RIP currency

[@brimstorm5948]

Ellen and her missing achievement fear hits me so hard. I do this every game. The same with rare items that you can only get once at a certain time. So much anxiety now lol

[@Damoneus]

Me: Would my character romance approve of this dialogue choice or decision? Probably. *Saves game just in case* *Makes decision* *Character Romance dissaproves* Me: AGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH NOOOOOOOOOOO *Reloads and tries again*

[@katieleffel7095]

bro i feel i will literally wiki every conversation as i'm having it to make sure i'm making every character like me as much as possible. i can't escape my people pleasing tendencies...

[@XescoPicas]

That’s me every time I play The Old Republic

[@deathbykonami5487]

That's Bioware games for me in a nutshell

[@katieleffel7095]

@@deathbykonami5487 yes!!

[@Warbandit100]

Which is why you play the game multiple times until you memorize every single dialogue, item location and boss fight, to make the game your little bich in the end ;)

[@Gillichan]

My biggest worries/stresses: - will I miss this special item (only exists once in the game and you're only able to get it during one special quest/dungeon) - will I miss one-time NPC dialogue

[@Soroboruo]

Mood Checking every room in the Monastery in FE 3H even when I'm reasonably sure there's nothing there right before the Endgame... yet I must....

[@lisztresurrected9438]

Nier Automata. So many weapons that are in one off places that fucking self destruct afterwards.

[@AZIONG651]

Same, it's one of the reasons why I usually will spend like 20 minutes or so in a single level or area. Gotta make sure I find EVERYTHING.

[@zachchastain1683]

I find it so funny how hard Luke was judging Ellen on her achievement thing, when he's the one that cares how a virtual bad guy feels about losing a fight.

[@RosheenQuynh]

Caring about characters is far more valuable than achievements.

[@spacejesus6581]

RoseOfTheNight4444 yeah that’s totally what I was thinking when I was killing literally everybody for achievements Totally...

[@RosheenQuynh]

@@spacejesus6581 What?

[@spacejesus6581]

RoseOfTheNight4444 you said caring about characters was more valuable than achievements I made a joke about killing literally everybody for a achievement or two

[@RosheenQuynh]

@@spacejesus6581 Oh. Well those achievements are kinda dumb...

[@LordBloodraven]

Ellen was relieved her character's dad died.... "Oh, what a relief it is!"

[@amyschildgamerlive4519]

That is a really old reference and I love it!

[@Ace2014Ace]

My character's dad ended up looking like Shang Tsung from MK11, so ya I get it. Also I don't get how that happened, both the brother and sister were white how was the Dad asian if his looks were determined by their's.

[@jetpackcthulhu]

I stress over the alternate endings of side quests,

[@Tinyvalkyrie410]

Oh god this. So much this.

[@IamaPERSON]

Dude, same! Especially if it's not repeatable!

[@spongebobsquarehead8121]

**Witcher 3 would like to know your location**

[@GG-dt5hh]

This is why manual saving is important. Before every objective change in Witcher 3 I saved, just to make sure I could go back if I didn’t like my choices.

[@spongebobsquarehead8121]

@Bad Request Nah, if I didn’t like my choices afterwards I’d live with it on purpose to see what consequences I would have to suffer. It was my choice, I have to deal with it.

[@chrisparker6325]

"Because you're cheaper than therapy" Thta's what you think. Invoice is in the post

[@christopherjuman5286]

Number 7 *gets item* What if theres an emergency? *gets into emergency* What if there's a bigger emergency?!

[@scottrauch1261]

That was my experience in most fire emblem games.

[@shotgunshells2]

*end credits roll* What if there's a secret boss!?

[@rabeandre2]

and then you end up with an inventory full of healing potions and reviving thingies

[@Sean-ne3gx]

Ok, I have 12 potions for the boss, what if I need 13 for the next one...... _never uses any of them_

[@kainpound1762]

OMFG, exactly.

[@happyduck4644]

I can totally relate with the last one, but it is even more annoying if items give you a percentage of something and you are just like: "i could use the healing potion now or after i get a level-up" and after every level-up the healing you could get more if you wait a level gets more

[@Xeyal1001]

I just love those little unscripted bits like when Ellen was fangirling about her favorite game and those moments when they say something and then the ppl in the background laugh Thats why I love this channel, it feels real

[@StayNPlayGames]

It’s like it’s always a live stream :) the uncut footage makes it all better. Especially the random, ‘BOOOO!!’s in the background for corny jokes.

[@Xeyal1001]

@@StayNPlayGames That's so true, it always makes me laugh

[@wearefoREVerfiction]

One thing that’s super stressful is when you’re playing an FPS (like rainbow six siege) and you’re the last person standing and you can feel everyone judging your every move

[@Shadow4wolf]

When I actually played games like that, I remember winning a 1v5 scenerio in search and destroy in call of duty. I was so proud of myself. Especially since I'm that player that has a just below 1 kill to death ratio... That was definitely stressful, but it's reasonable to be stressed at that...I can still feel the pressure I was under years later...

[@DodderingOldMan]

One of my first times playing Counterstrike, I somehow managed to be the last person alive and went to defuse the bomb. Only problem, I had no idea what the defuse button was. At least I made a lot of people laugh, even if they sure as hell weren't laughing with me...

[@TMAC_burninator]

"Just let me catastrophize in peace!" XD I can relate, Jane.

[@Gruntman1234]

Fallout 4 actually taught me to not hoard items. It was the times I was trying to collect scrap and kept getting encumbered and wonder how it happened so quickly. Only then to look in the "Aid" section of my inventory and notice the 10 Deathclaw Steaks, 26 Mirelurk Queen Steaks, 60 Purified Waters, 75 Nuka-Colas, and other loads of 1+ pound consumables that it hits me. That's when I kicked the habit of hoarding in Fallout 4... until I discovered a mod called "The Fridge" that adds working refrigerators and vending machines to settlement building. Now I hoard food and drinks to store into my fridges and vending machines at my settlements. Progress!

[@Gatorade69]

I haven't really played Fallout 4 but in 3 and New Vegas I would basically make some empty shacks my house. In NV There's a shack just outside of Goodsprings near some radscorpions and I would just leave all my shit there, it even had a reloading bench. So I'd just have my own scattered shacks throughout the wasteland where I hoard everything I don't want to carry. Made a lot of back and forth trips though saving everything I could.

[@asherandai2633]

My default state in games with encumbrance that slows you to a crawl but doesn't stop you completely, is being over encumbered. All of the Fallout games for example, I was never able to move faster than a slow walk.

[@Alsebra]

I'm always surprised when I leave a building/area unencumbered, even though I managed to clear it of everything not nailed down (and, if possible, some things that don't go into one's inventory but have some sort of other use...I once dragged *every* item from around the Vault entrance into Sanctuary in a Fallout 4 playthrough just so I could scrap them...at some point). My main in Skyrim once had the "house" near Riverwood (the one with *the* basement) wherein I stored every item I'd picked up in my entire playthrough (since it was free storage, I hadn't the funds for Breezehome, and I was without the homesteads at that time). Once I purchased the DLC, though, I had the complete joy of building my house...followed by the painful realization I'd have to carry *everything* from one house to the other. The move did allow me to separate the items into an organized state in the new home...after I'd used the entryway chest as a storage unit for most things (so I didn't spend hours organizing the stuff before I could spend the time doing so).

[@PanzerMan332]

Trying to find hidden items without a walthrough. I will search every nook and cranny when progressing through a level to make sure I didn't miss anything, and then inevitably I will have missed one or two anyway by the end. Then there's the frustration when you don't know if the items are hidden evenly throughout the level or bunched together sometimes, so there's the anxiety when you're halfway done going like "Oh God, I'm halfway done but I only have 3/10 items, did I miss one? Is there more item saturation towards the end of the level?" Added onto that the anxiety of not being able to come back once you finish the main story (looking at you, games with the old "Once you go past this point, you will never be able to return" messages before the final mission). Thank God for games like Tomb Raider where you can go back after you finish the story and don't have to worry about enemies while you're searching.

[@JotaC]

Exactly! The worst part is when you don't know which way has an item and which way is the story progressing, so you hate yourself when you go the way the story progresses and now you're locked out of the other area FOREVER.

[@Urasa02]

If a game ever gives me a pet or companion of sorts, that's when the anxiety starts kicking in. I'm the type of player who NEVER EVER makes use of whatever helpful entity the game throws at him just for the fact that they might die. Not even in Minecraft, Jesus Christ! I never have my cats or wolves following me because I'm too scared and I often think "You know what? Blowing up 'cause of a Creeper is not as bad as losing my cute little cat. Oh well, I guess that's my fate." and simply ignore the fact that I could scare them away with said cat. BUT WHO KNOWS? Skeletons might come and kill it, even by mistake considering their terrible aim. Remember, you never know.

[@Zerethos]

I get a similar feeling with companions and npcs especially in Skyrim where a dragon or hostile entity could show up in a town/village/city/settlement and kill some innocent civilians. Guardsmen I can deal with, but npcs? If even a minor one dies I load up a recent save and hope that I can keep everyone alive or at least avoid the confrontation. As for companions I prefer not to take them with me, a stray shot or misplaced attack and my guilty conscience kicks in. I also prefer not to lead them to their deaths if it can be avoided unless the companion is important and therefore cannot die.

[@Urasa02]

@@Zerethos Ah, Skyrim... It sure was a bad idea to use a greatsword with Lydia following me around...

[@Zerethos]

Urasa02 Yeah, at least until the Dragonborn DLC where you could get the active effect "Companion's insight" which makes you incapable of accidentally hitting your friend, but only during combat. Even then I prefer to travel solo to avoid complications and my guilty conscience should they die.

[@Urasa02]

@@Zerethos That way non-stop stealing plates becomes a little bit harder though, but I guess it would be worse to accidentally kill someone.

[@chukyuniqul]

I gave one of my players (dnd 5e) a thing called companionbot which is literally immune to nonmagical, non-adamantine physical attacks and poison (even if it's squishy) and they STILL don't want to make it join combat. Against bandits and wolves. The one it identifies as its master literally went "BUT HE'S CUTE I DON'T WANT HIM TO DIE!" as a reason for why he won't send it in.

[@WanderingQuill]

To give Jane credit, I’ve had auto saves corrupt many times. Once on a 30+ hour Witcher 3 play through! Thankfully I had manual saved obsessively and only lost like half an hour. But without that manual save...

[@nephicus339]

I had this issue recently with Fallout 4; granted I had installed MANY MANY MANY MANY mods, and it was making my computer choke down to a crawl. But 2-3, sometimes 5 hours in a settlement build (because mods means more things to do!), and then the whole computer freezes, or the game crashes, and it didn't auto-save.. Or it was in the midst of auto-saving. Or I was just about to manually save... edit: oh yeah, I ended up uninstalling Fallout 4 three days later out of frustration.

[@jonathanschloemer6846]

I've just learned to keep a lot of redundancy in my saves playing anything made by Bethesda. Throw in a manual save before entering dungeons, manually save before doing quests, manually save at least every half hour, don't overwrite saves until you're sure you'll never have to go back to them. Bethesda products have all the stability of a house of cards around a cat.

[@masterfulmoonlighter5402]

I felt that in my soul

[@firefox9595]

I played dragon Ball xenoverse 2 and it doesn't have a manual save option so it only autosaves and one day it became corrupt and I lost tons of progress and I had to play the game from the very beginning

[@vsaga]

I had a pre patched elder scrolls 4 where I had one save and finished clavicus vile (using a manual save) and my only save was set up to freeze after 5 seconds so I had to restart the whole game.

[@alurimel]

Whenever I watch those videos I think to myself: how can they ALL be so cute and adorable?!? It makes me wanna give them a big hug

[@jullcepts8780]

SKYRIM. I spend hours stressing on the character creation everytime and end playing in first person the entire game.

[@LadyOnikara]

That's why I only do first person sneaking through a cave or ruin with my bow.

[@XescoPicas]

I downloaded Black Desert Online two weeks ago, I have played for more then 10 hours AND I HAVEN’T EVEN STARTED YET! I’m stuck in the character editor making minor changes to my characters for all eternity! PLEASE, SOMEBODY PUT ME OUT OF MY MISERY!!

[@SporeTres]

@@XescoPicas Your character will be amidst of the most anime fighting explosions, so you won't see any details anyhow.

[@LadyCoyKoi]

The problem is that the camera side angle of Skyrim is very awkward for me, especially when I am accustom to playing in a view that is behind overview like in Zelda games.

[@Loki_Firegod]

I do the same thing in Skyrim, however, ever so often I will look at my character in third person just to enjoy a) how well I did in CC and b) because then I get to look at all my awesome gear with the addition of a scenic background. Happens in other RPG as well, at least those that have a good first person option. You know how some games do have a first person view but it's really weird and awkward? Maybe that's why I didn't like to play any first person games for years and always stuck to 3rd person RPG? :D

[@marxbruder]

Therapist: "It is normal to have nightmares after Commander Shepard wiped out your squad." Blue Suns merc: "You don't understand, it was that horrible face! I close my eyes, and all I can see are those pointy cheekbones. Put your eye out they will!"

[@Soroboruo]

"Eyeballs aren't supposed to be visible when your mouth opens!"

[@spacejesus6581]

ElkianLionblood “YOUR NOSE SHOULD NOT BE ABOVE YOUR EYES!”

[@IAmAliwood]

Are these dialog choices actually going to convey what I'm trying to say, or am I reading that wrong? Looking at you Mass Effect & Telltale series!

[@Imagigirl]

[GLASS HIM]

[@CarbonRollerCaco]

Ace Attorney is horrible with this sometimes, too. "a complete contradiction" somehow ="exactly right EXCEPT upside-down". To say nothing of HOW you have to demonstrate it. GOD DAMN IT, JAPAN; CAN YOU REALLY NOT IMAGINE SHIT BEING UPSIDE-DOWN ON YOUR OWN, LIKE, EVER?!!!

[@snorpenbass4196]

@@CarbonRollerCaco The Japanese are horrendously vague and double-speaky at all times, though. Not like "lying" but like, they use the same word for totally different things, spell and pronounce it the exact same way. Like "bitter" and "sour/tart". Which is why you get bad anime translations where the subs or dub say things like "The bitter taste of strawberries". Which is where I go: "...what? Bitter...no? No. No! If - if your strawberries taste bitter there is *something very wrong with your strawberries!*"

[@leafruns7672]

I thought that was a joke! I swear!

[@mar_speedman]

Hmm... Let's nicely tell him that we still need to be careful *proceeds to insult him and tells him he's an oaf for not being careful* SHEPARD!!

[@deathbykonami5487]

I'm with Mike, skill tree regret is a serious issue I always tried to use my skill points evenly amongst all areas to create a well balanced character, and in games like Nioh or Dark Souls you can't do that cause it'll make the game even harder than it has to be

[@DarkNova50]

*listens to Luke talk about bosses winning* (tearfully) "I thought I was the only one."

[@PrototypeNinja16]

Yeah but think about all the variables: The bosses have way more health then you do each time, some spawn other enemies, the aforementioned unblock-able attacks that you don't have, in dark souls they just sit there while you claw your way back to them through the hordes of enemies and paths often already lower on health then you should be when you finally get there, often only parts of them are vulnerable when ALL of you is vulnerable AND realistically the only win they have is on you many times, whereas you have killed hundreds of difficult and challenging enemies (sometimes) and other bosses too. Tally that up and lets see who wins now.

[@DarkNova50]

@@PrototypeNinja16 This stew of self-pity doesn't taste as bitter when you start introducing your "logic" into the recipe. Stop that.

[@Tengila]

Have you ever played Monster Hunter? Because you sure win by points in that game. I mean, there are a lot of games where you grind some bosses for loot and thereby end up winning against those bosses more than you lose, but in Monster Hunter, you do that for _every_ boss. And it's actually fun.

[@CamTheHero]

DarkNova50 I always thought time kinda reset and each boss battle was a new slate at least in the eyes of the game world.

[@monicaclark8453]

I think the bosses feel like the prey from humanitys pursute prediation period

[@MrHamboneBro]

“Just let me catastrophize in peace!” Thank you, Jane. I’m saving this

[@TestSubjectNerd]

"this way seems like the way the game WANTS me to go so I'll just go this- OH NO I'VE ENTERED THE NEXT AREA AND IT WON'T LET ME GO BACK TO SEE WHAT LOOT MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE BEEN HIDING"

[@AuroraLalune]

Save often. Re load and go explore and come back to it.

[@d2factotum]

I always get into a guessing game with myself: "This looks like the way the game designers wanted me to go, so I should obviously go down this other corridor and see what hidden loot is down there".

[@juggalo1277]

I always explore every nook and cranny because of that reason

[@AuroraLalune]

@@juggalo1277 I just like exploring and hate to miss anything. Did you know there are many unmarked locations in skyrim and fallout4 for just this reason? Turns out I'm not the only one not doing it for a set amount of gear but more for the fun of discovery.

[@thomasrevill7723]

11:51 Ellen's outrage at being the close friend is so wholesome

[@LuxTheori]

Gamer's logic: "Okay it's the final boss and I have this rocket launcher full of ammo that I haven't used all game.........naw I better save it, there might be an even bigger, scarier boss right after this one." I blame final fantasy for this phobia.

[@coltonwilliams4153]

JRPGs do have that habit of dropping another boss in our laps out of nowhere.

[@tyrus1235]

@@coltonwilliams4153 I remember when I got to Cloud of Darkness in Final Fantasy III (the DS remake). You see, a bit before you reach the final boss, the game gives you 4 ribbons. The ribbon is an accessory that you equip and it negates all debuffs - you become completely immune to all debuffs/status effects. I had better accessories at the time (stats-wise), so I just put them away. Well, turns out the Cloud of Darkness is **very fond** of applying literally all of the game's status effects on your whole party, meaning you'll Game Over in about 2-3 turns... Which I did. Now, consider the fact that the entire final two dungeons take about 2-3 hours to complete and feature absolutely no save points (you can suspend save on the DS, but not actually save). Yeah, I gave up on the game - at least for the time being.

[@megadeathx]

Gamer logic: "This can't be his final form. I'll save these rockets for the alien mother form, because I really don't want to not have rockets when it changes into *that*!"

[@themightycongueror8383]

Connor Shady This reminds me of Markiplier's Gunpowder/Bullet speech in his Resident Evil 2 playthrough, where he saved dozens of gunpowder, but never used it (even times when he was extremely low on ammo) until the very end. He literally had over 200 bullets.

[@zelg.5551]

@@megadeathx It's a good train of thought though. It's been years now and I'm still pissed at that one RE6 's boss that returned about five times in succession because protagonists were too dumb to check if he died for good this time. You'd think that's a given when the guy got blown to bits and still revived two times already.

[@magisterdeinanis3217]

Choosing the wrong base character or build, literal tears after I realize that the character or build type I've chosen is utter trash and I've cursed myself to a play through that is 10 times harder than it should be.

[@sshep86]

Mate. I suffer the same anxiety over builds. I like some arpgs, but find that builds can be intimidating and I worry about gimping my stats or making bad choices. At the same time I hate the idea of following online build guides, because I feel like I am cheating. Last game I tried like this was Grim Dawn and there is so much build customisation and stat selections. I just find the process confusing and complicated, I gave up on it.

[@zeroburn315]

I played Diablo 2 as a summonmancer, not because I knew it was a build, but it was the thing I liked, I wanted to be a necromancer, and I wanted to do what necromancers do, which is resurrect the dead to do your bidding, only to find out that Diablo is nearly impossible as a summonmancer. I got to the end of the game fairly well coasting on my legion of undead, only for the end of the main game to be a wall that my build simply couldn't do because Diablo didn't have mobs or underlings for me to feed on and use and thus I've never beaten Diablo 2.

[@NeedSomething2845]

Me playing as an Adept in Mass Effect 1... luckily, it's a lot better in Andromeda (it took me ages to finally settle on trusting biotics again)

[@kaiawilley3264]

I love exploring, so I always worry that I will accidentally explore in the right direction, triggering a cutscene that leaves me incapble of exporing the previous area. Newer games usually let you replay levels or move to previously discovered locations, but I still have that fear that this time I won't get to see everything

[@wallofnyc]

OH MY GOSH! Yes, this! I hadn't even thought about this but I absoLUTEly have this fear all the time.

[@domlocke3845]

Yup. I found out accidentally on my second play through of Fallout 3 that you can skip pretty much half the game by going straight to the gas station your Dad is in. It's cool, but now every time I play an open world game I get the slight fear that I'll do something that will lock me out of seeing other parts of the game.

[@midzik48]

Whenever I find a rocket launcher or sniper in Halo, I hold onto it expecting tough enemies and then finish the mission thinking "man I wish I spent those rockets that group of grunts". The classic experience of missing out on what could be fun :)

[@Bloodanna]

When a game has choices that change the endings or just whether people like you. I literally play Dragon Age 3 with the wiki pulled up because I need to know the results of my choices before I make them. What if I choose wrong and Blackwell hates me??!

[@melonymutou]

This is why I pretty much can't play Bathesda games even though I love them so much because they're amazing. It's SO hard to get myself to boot up Fallout because I'm worried I'm going to miss content. Which of COURSE I am the game is F***ING HUGE, but it's still an uncontrollable compulsion;; Even having a hard time with the first Witcher game, which BARELY has any variety to it! Friggin'...

[@Pan-ir9hh]

i do that with alot of games

[@emtims1670]

This is my life in Persona games, tbh. What if I could have said something better, better reload save...

[@melanieszelong4664]

ESO gives me so much stress for that. I choose something and then I can't go back to earlier save to change it. I remember having to make a choice about a certain awesome Khajit and I literally put the game down and struggled with my decision!!

[@yayforkittens]

This is me. I got to the end of Dragon Age Origins, found my character couldn't marry Alistair because she was a mage and had to play the entire thing again.

[@Jadez1207]

I'm really loving the improv approach they've been incorporating recently

[@WhitcherJames]

You didn't even get to the best part of skill tree regret, post skill tree regret! this is when you see and/or read a skill you can unlock, and it looks AWESOME, but then you actually get it and it sucks! Then all you're left with is a completely useless skill that just silently mocks you for the rest of the game. This can actually go one step further. If the aforementioned useless skill is a late game skill that takes a lot of time/dedication/skill points to unlock, then it's like a hot knife to the heart every time you open up your skill menu.

[@Murlak]

you mean like this stupid 9 points skill in sekiro?

[@WhitcherJames]

@@Murlak Most RPG's have at least one useless late game skill. It's like a trap that game dev.'s put in their games to trick players.

[@gblakney1]

@@Murlak care to elaborate on how Spiral Passage Slash, or whatever its called I cant remember atm, how is it useless exactly? is it like poor range or poor damage or something of that nature? I havent unlocked it yet and its actually one of the few I HAVENT gotten yet. I'm on my 3rd playthrough and I've unlocked almost everything. most of it the first time around too. XD getting XP was so hard in the second playthrough when I ditched Kuro's charm cuz I thought the difficulty spike wouldnt as bad as it was. the fact that only deflections avoid damage when u dont have Kuro's Charm made it nigh on insufferable that I had to deflect EVERYTHING or I would take damage and ultimately die. XD they also were faster which made it even more difficult so I actually gave up on finishing that way and just took Kuro's Charm back from Sekijo (aka the Sculptor.) in complete and utter disgust and just finished my second playthrough with never ditching Kuro's Charm again. XD

[@dixievfd55]

It sounds awesome but is only useful once or twice per playthrough.

[@Murlak]

@@gblakney1 i do, indeed. it takes a comparable long time to bring out, it costs a shitload of skillpoints, since you have to unlock two other skill tree ultimates to even get it. and after that, it takes 9 other skillpoints. it consumes over half of your spirit emblems to get the full combo out, it's pretty easy to get knocked out of and does pretty low damage. it's really not worth it.. at all. currently on ng+5, got platin and now i ditched it, for a good time. it's a great game, but i am just overfed.

[@katfromthekong414]

I share Ellen's fear! I restarted Dragon Age Inquisition about 4 times cause my characters mouth was moving weird 😆 I also share Mike's fear, which is why my characters always end up as a jack of all trades 😅

[@awilk418]

I know this is an old video and a year old comment but I thought of DA: Inquisition immediately too 😂. Restarted 4 times because my character looked fine in the creator, and then during the opening cut scene I realized that her cheekbones kept looking super weird.

[@katfromthekong414]

@@awilk418 for me it was the mouth lol! 😂 Ended up just adjusting the upper part of the face very carefully

[@maxlittlewood]

AKA "7 things you hadn't thought about before but now will stress you out"

[@sapphicstarfire]

i have to do every👏single👏sidequest👏 before even thinking about doing the main story,,,, i mean what if it locks me out of it later?? dont want to miss Any content

[@lunamayes291]

I do that too! 😂😂

[@Abatinich]

I do that too because I don't usually replay the game (unless it's REALLY good) and I don't want to miss any fun side quests or the items they might give me.

[@razenoid1554]

Well in some games its nessacary to do side quests to get different endings. For example the neptunia games, the rewards for quests also include changes for the power the different countrys get and of the 7-8 endings, 5-6 are very dependant on each countrys strength and the true ending has four of the countrys being at 15% or higher with the bad groups power being at 0% with there only being a total 100% between all the countrys so it is rather important. And the true ending you have to by a certain point you have to boost the strength of each country one by one to 55% to recruit a character who is needed for the endings

[@cordeliaseil]

but what if a sidequest pops up in the middle of the main story and it doesnt tell you and it becomes inaccessible at the end of the game? I had that one mayor stranger mission in RDR2 and I missed it and I still regret it..

[@michaelryan1767]

The only games I don't do that in are MMO's.

[@madelinegolding4969]

How can you miss when the fighting music starts playing but you can't see any enemies! That gives me so much anxiety!

[@glowstick_eater]

Madeline Golding omg I feel that ALL THE TIME. It’s like “wait there are enemies here?! Where are they?!”

[@filmandfirearms]

That has never made me anxious. Just irritated, because it's usually something tiny and insignificant that you can kill with a sneeze

[@madelinegolding4969]

@@filmandfirearms True 😂😂 Except that one time!!!

[@dynamiteskye9007]

Used to listen to Oblivion soundtrack at work... a lot of the music is calming... forgot to remove the random attack music from the playlist on day one... wow many the customer service phone line that day.... it was bad...

[@BogeyTheBear]

Stacy Cote, speaking of the Oblivion soundtrack-- for some reason the music kept crashing Oblivion on my XBox 360. Didn't matter which version of the game or which one of the three machines upon which I played the game-- the only way for me to prevent the game locking up within minutes was to turn the music completely off. It suited me just fine, but this meant I _never_ heard any combat music to tip me off to impending danger. Yes, I got ambushed from behind many a time in Oblivion.

[@Shadow10201]

I relate to the first one so much. Every few minutes I'll just save, because what if something happens? What if I suddenly die? This probably comes from my first time playing through a game and losing my spot when I died.

[@notoriousbmc1]

''Well, that's clearly the way the game wants me to go so I'll go this way to find som...OH-NO-IT'S-A-CUTSCENE! I just know I've missed the best treasure ever!

[@CaitlinRC]

Me: I play video games to relax! Developers: NOT ANYMORE

[@AthenisKS81]

It's okay, Luke. One of my Skyrim houses is entirely set up for nothing else but storing potions. Just potions. And it is a very full house.

[@showstealer1829]

That is why I have 27 house mods installed on Skyrim, plus the Heathfire homes and all the town homes, because I might "Need" an item sometime

[@PhilBoswell]

One of my LOTRO characters is a member of a Kinship that owns every single House in a Homestead (that's 30 Houses) and the Storage Crates in each one hold a specific type of item. There's a House for Crafting Mats, another for Recipes, another for Scrolls…

[@supergamertale]

"Did I miss a item for a side-quest in the main quest or vice versa?" Basically, I was playing Skyrim, and I beat Aldulin (Sorry if I butchered that). I had a bunch of time on my hands, so I do each of the side quest, which included the daedric artifacts. I don't remember which one it was, but one of the quests lead me to a story mission I completed. Now, you can't get back into this place after you completed its quest, so I tried to look for a way to get in. I tried to glitch, get Lydia to do it, and multiple other things, but nothing worked. I eventually gave up and got this habit and fear of carrying everything that looked important because it might be for a side quest or the main quest.

[@kattaylor2919]

“Just let me catastrophize in peace!” Me.

[@laura121684]

My entire life in a quote.

[@thegoshdarnedbatman5257]

Luke’s fear of bosses remembering is exactly what undertale preys upon

[@coltonwilliams4153]

Still can’t believe Undertale does that. Do the developers have any idea how creepy that is? I can only imagine how the first people to play it reacted to some of those 4th wall breaks.

[@gblakney1]

@@coltonwilliams4153 that was the point bruh. XD

[@insaincaldo]

@@gblakney1 Also a really good sales trick, get extra hype from let's players being freaked out.

[@tyrus1235]

Same thing happen in the Shadow of Mordor/Shadow of War games, right? The big orcs taunt you on repeated attempts at their lives.

[@gblakney1]

@@tyrus1235 yes indeed they do... for me tho few Captains/Warchiefs/Overlords ever survived the first encounter and the ones that did either had help from an ambushing Captain, became enraged and backed me into a corner I couldnt get out of, or just plain had combat immunities that made it where I couldnt kill them without getting intel on their weaknesses and I eventually lost. (a lot of times I fought a captain not knowing anything about his strengths and weaknesses. and just simply found out the hard way before being forced to adapt. XD) in summary, they usually killed me when something gave them a serious advantage over me that I couldnt overcome. in a straight one-on-one duel I almost never lose to a Captain.. or even a Warchief... the Overlords are toss-ups tho cuz of their infinite underlings and the environmental hazards in the throne room. Tank class Overlords take forever to kill considering I cant just constantly attack with their army of underlings ready to rip me apart from behind if I try. along with a Tank's ability to self-heal and then their second wind after having their health depleted unless they die from status ailment, being thrown off a cliff (even tho Overlord fights dont rly leave that option usually), or being shot with a bow/hit with a thrown hammer. XD (fyi Shadow Strike is considering a melee attack in this situation so it triggers the second wind also.) I mean u RLY need assistance in those fights in SOME form. solo-ing an Overlord fight is NOT easy, especially if the Overlord has an immunity to one of ur main means of inflicting damage such as ranged or Executions. Ologs with Frost immunity are nigh on insufferable.. then add Enraged by Frost and being a Tank class to that and I just plain go fucking ballistic irl and then proceed to evicerate the Olog while bellowing at the game for the Olog to "drop fucking dead" or I scream "fucking die animal" out of pure rage and hate. XD Ologs in general are insufferable actually now that I think about it. XD not many games can infuriate me to that degree like Shadow of War does. I mean I LIKE how the captains are realistically difficult where its not just u being OP af and being able to bulldoze everything with relative ease like in Shadow of Mordor.. I mean even the Black Captains were kinda cannon fodder to Talion once u got decent at the game. XD I mean thats part of what made Shadow of Mordor fun but it also is what made it dull after a while with being essentially a God among Mortals. XD slaughtering armies with impunity kinda isnt fun after a while. so Shadow of War did good with improving on the strengths and weakness system... even if the combinations for those strengths are rage-inducing at times. XD

[@PhoenixRising1310]

Me, any shooter game ever: "Don't use the automatic weapons yet, save the ammo, use your handguns first" (completes entire game using handguns)

[@mariesummers.]

Andrew Hornby - Yeah... I know those days...

[@stevenn1940]

Especially RPG FPS games where ammo is valuable. Fallout, for instance. Oh, 10mm is pretty cheap? Let's just use that gun until is ceases to exist.

[@mariesummers.]

@@stevenn1940 - Yeah. But I can safely say my tendency to avoid using ammo has gotten me out of some rough spots (and stopped me from having to drop a weapon I really liked in a bind). Besides, if you're really cautious about ammo, you'll probably forget you have it (for better or worse).

[@eekabott]

Me too. "it will be a big fight ahead must save ammo, Credit rolled"

[@DeathnoteBB]

And then you see “Can you defeat game with just handguns?” videos on KZbin XD

[@thaias9654]

I have a problem of: “did I get everything?” Before I move forward. To me this is most problematic with games that have a “new game +” system because I want to go into the new game with absolutely everything that I could get. All the ammo all the healing all the spells, abilities et cetera. So I can get the things I couldn’t before without having to worry about the trade off. Or for rpgs like Skyrim, so I can have _all_ the pretty weapons and artifacts with minimal losses.

[@saunderss25]

I go to save the game... Game saved. Me 2 seconds later...Did I save it? I'll save again just to be sure.

[@PanaoriosGaming]

Hard save, quick save, auto save in a constant loop. Trusting no save.

[@BustedReijii]

that poor quicksave button...did i just pick up 1 arrow? gotta save...opened a chest? save! killed a rat? DOUBLE SAVE!!

[@domagojdramac2885]

I always worry about my ammo. If i'm using a good gun that's low on ammo,i'll always switch to another gun(which is usually worse) just because it has more ammo. I NEVER want to run out of ammo.

[@Gebunator]

I wouldn't call that dumb, it's gaming survival instinct at best. You never know when that bigger baddy approaches and you need that few good shots from your! Even it means, you'll always be holding on handful of good gun bullets no matter what

[@liamrichardson6830]

I have to constantly reload. There might be some enemy around the corner that requires a full magazine to kill them.

[@alexmacdonald5087]

Especially because in some games/game difficulty levels, ammo is limited, if you chuck everything at the first enemy you see, you actually will have to face the last boss with nothing, fatal frame only gives so much camera film that does damage in harder difficulty for example, and you can get to the final boss and not be able to win because you have no ammo left...

[@jamdodger6775]

Totally get the auto save fear. Game: auto saves Me: well I guess I’d better manually save right now...

[@chrisbuttonshaw2088]

assuming you CAN

[@leonc4657]

Yup

[@DivinityFallen]

Jam Dodger sameeee

[@katielangford2057]

In Skyrim it’s like: *Game auto saves* Let me just save. Can’t be too careful. I picked up a potion, let me quicksave. I killed those bandits. Quicksave. It’s been twenty seconds. Quicksave.

[@zahndahn6369]

Same here. Its like I dont trust the auto save to be a permanent file or something hahah

[@apenguinthatlikestodraw2721]

20:26 an additional point to this, there's the intrusive thought of "being carried" by items.

[@nerobiblios4086]

Me: *Never uses items* Also Me: I'll hoard all my items and fully stock my inventory just in case I need them later.

[@bipstymcbipste5641]

I am very guilty. Just finished Dishonoured for the first time and *gets hit* "I'm not gonna use my healing bits. I'm gonna keep reloading until I finish this bit without taking damage"

[@DbladeMedic]

100% relatable

[@Slightlycamouflaged]

I feel attacked

[@OverlordMMM]

*Dr. Strange after 1000th death:* Dormammu, I've come to bargain. *Dormammu after listening to Luke:* I have won because I have more points.

[@Gold3nEagle200]

when playing the amazing spiderman on the 360, i had just got to the point of fighting lizard man, i knew i was close to finishing it... it tried to load a cutscene... and crashed.... while the autosave was starting to run. i waited about realistically about 10 minutes just waiting for it to unfreeze, or go.generally hoping all would be well. but no, i turned it off and back on to find the autosave had corrupted everything, and with no manual save function. all my data, was lost. so i redid it all to find that i was just that cutscene away from finishing it. #NeverTrustTheAutosave

[@DeathnoteBB]

TrueGoldenEagle Games really should either require a manual save option or autosave to two or more separate slots. So inevitably when it corrupts for somebody, they game starts them on the second to last autosave instead of just forcing then to start over due to corruption.

[@alexatkin]

​@@DeathnoteBB Many games work exactly like that. Sadly every developer seems to have a different idea of HOW they are going to handle saves. Like the bizarre situation where Assassins Creed Origins is autosave and Assassins Creed Odyssey has manual saves, because they are technically different developers.

[@TheDapperDog402]

I had a similar thing on ME2 on PS3, but while my entire save was corrupted, I had PS plus so there was a backup. (Though I still lost an entire day’s progress because of course it happened after several hours, not when I just started playing). I also lost a lvl 42 character on Skyrim because my brother was trying to clear some space and deleted all but the most recent save on that character, which was an autosave, which meant when I loaded up another character, it got overwritten, because that’s how it works in Skyrim.

[@robertoazuaje9279]

Not really an autosave situation, but reminds me of one time when I was playing Metroid Zero Mission on an emulator, and my laptop's battery went bust just before the final boss. Had to get another laptop, download the emulator and rom again, and beat the game a second time.

For character creation, I'm with Ellen (woah, didn't expect that ;-)): I worry most about the difference in lighting between the character creation screen and the actual game. So what looks fine in creation (with moving the head to check angles, natch) looks horrible in *some* scenes with very different lighting. I *did* experience that in ME1. (And pet peeve here: some char creators only let you move head/character in overview, and not when you have the sliders accessible)

[@Gatorade69]

It's why I the standard Shepard face. It looks the best and I don't have to worry about him looking weird.

[@TheShadowMasked]

"You're cheaper than therapy." Too real. No. Get out. Too real.

[@CarbonRollerCaco]

And actually EFFECTIVE… occasionally.

[@ghostgirl3630]

Hahahahaha true

[@NerdyZanoth]

For Luke's problem, i recommend Shadow of War. When you die it counts for something permanently, AND occasionally your enemies pull the same BS you do.

[@hisenadedo]

Zanoth Verin yeah you have to explode their heads or they’ll come back, super annoying

[@megashutdown1019]

@@hisenadedo YET THE STILL COME BACK! Sorry, my dreams are haunted by enraged orcs with big bloody shields and every CONCEIVABLE resistance...

[@seanmichaelmilligan2525]

I was thinking the same thing!

[@lindseyherbst9444]

Saying the wrong thing in a dialogue tree. I was playing Fallout 4, and said the wrong thing to Nick Valentine. So I quit the game and reloaded my last save.

[@aoifem4296]

What did you say?