7 Times You Screwed Yourself Over with Irrevocable Consequences

If there's one thing we hate, it's consequences - yet we love games, even though they’re full of them. Like when we manage to do a thing that causes us to be unexpectedly and irreversibly screwed over. Take these seven occasions, for example, and subscribe to Outside Xbox for a video like this every Thursday.
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[@wnbetv]

"With this character's death, the thread of prophecy is severed. Restore a saved game to restore the weave of fate, *or persist in the doomed world you have created."* Morrowind didn't mess around when it came to killing essential npc's.

[@deusexvesania1702]

Anyone else started murdering everyone just to find out who's important before doing any quests?

[@marhawkman303]

@@floridaman4473 From what I've heard form friends who played that a lot it was possible to accidentally cause this and not notice.

[@RagnarokiaNG]

My favourite Morrowind thing, is stealing from the Mage's Guild enchanter in Balmora when she leaves her desk during the Guild missions, since there are really expensive soul gems to steal. However if you ever try and enchant with her in the future she will claim whatever soul you used belongs to her and you get kicked out the guild.

[@dragonusa]

I made the mistake of selling a main-quest essential item without realizing what it was, and had no idea whom it was sold to.

[@nicholasfarrell5981]

ericb31 that happened to me WHILE I was a member of the Guild. For some reason, they all put the smackdown on you. And the one I did was killing the essential NPC that has no actual relevance to the story, and then spent some 25-odd hours trying to figure out how he fit into the game.

[@bethanybreward4517]

when will you learn?.. when will you learn THaT YOuR ActIoNs HAvE CONSEQUENCES

[@snikerz5886]

Dark Knight you frickin fricks.

[@deusexvesania1702]

Never.

[@Zoogore6777]

🦋

[@Thatbookishguy69]

I can hear this comment

[@unokitsune]

People who aren't taught consequences in the real World don't understand it in a game

[@lordnul1708]

To be fair, I don't think Leon ever actually gave the merchant his name unlike the other NPCs. That or the merchant has a "no names" policy.

[@theresarayner5726]

Names can get people attached, in his line of work, someone always ends up dead so it’s kinda smart not asking for Leon’s name just in case he dies a second later

[@revolver265]

Presumably he learned his mistake from Ashley going "Leonnnnn!" every thirty seconds.

[@number8productiondepartmen517]

@@revolver265 I mean, who would think his name is “HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP?”

[@KaladinVegapunk]

I remember being totally boned in Jr high when Code Veronica came out I was on the plane which i figured was safe and saved the game..only to be attacked by the Tyrant, with 6 pistol rounds and one grenade I remember having to reload 30 times to take him on with the knife so I didn't have to reload back to an ancient save file hahah I learned at a young age always save in new slots but I was being cocky

[@azzlackguhnter5635]

When i first met the Merchant and he was opening his Coat i thought: Is this really happening? Is Leon seriosly getting flashed by some weird Guy? And then i saw the Weapons...

[@Jamifa007]

You saw his "weapons" you say? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@Laromlab]

Jamifa007 Stop it. Get some help.

[@user-jn1wm3tb8v]

We don't need the Merchant's weapons. We need Ashley's ballistics.

[@raventamisen5781]

@@user-jn1wm3tb8v true

[@sparkplug8763]

@specimen 11 hmmmm

[@bloody4558]

I cleared the game on knife only. I didn't care about the Merchant. Still, never killed the guy because: 1-Best RE character ever made 2-He's a Bro 3-You'd have to deal with Princess Peach being your only living "ally"

[@KaladinVegapunk]

Goddamn dude, fuck yeah I got stuck in code Veronica on the plane with 4 rounds, a grenade and my knife, my only save And had to fight the tyrant Had no backup saves since I was like 11 and a noob It made it so satisfying to win though

[@yoman8027]

I like Ashley....

[@Mong00ze-Muzik]

Is it actually possible to beat RE4 with only your knife? I've never tried that, I've done a few different types of runs but the concept of knife only seems to scare me XD

[@bloody4558]

@@Mong00ze-Muzik Not only is it possible, it's actually easier than beating RE 1 to 3 on a Knife. The Knife is actually useful in RE4. Even if you don't want to do the challenge it already helps when you're on a Pistol, you can shoot twice and knife the hell out of an enemy to make them stagger and get some breathing room, or simply to make them vulnerable to your roundhouse kicks.

[@Mong00ze-Muzik]

@Bloody, yeah I get that I just thought it would take way too long and have too many deaths involved for anyone to even try it. Is it easier on some platforms compared to others? Or is it all the same?

[@sukhsrboss5693]

I remember this one- Final Fantasy 7 When at Gaea's Cliff, you encounter Schizo, a two headed boss who each use either elemental fire and ice attacks. In my team I had Vincent, set on limit one limit break- Galian Beast. Now this limit break is self controlled, with fire based attack called beast flare. My other 2 party members have died in this battle, Vincent remains, uses limit break, and is in battle with the 2 headed boss. He eventually kills the ice based head, however is stuck with the fire head as he absorbs Vincent's fire based attacks and heals, as vincent also heals with fire attacks from the boss. You are therefore stuck in a never ending battle! You cannot escape and are forced to hit the reset button!

[@dracoerrarus4834]

Using physical attacks on Omniscient with a in FFV made me do a hard reset. I think I had a berserker in the party or something, so I was clearly asking for it. I’ve also had a Geodude versus Geodude in Poke’mon. We were at max Harden and recoiling against each other, doing more damage to ourselves than to the enemy. But I persevered and somehow won.

[@dansmith1661]

Same with that crab boss and Vincent. You can also set up an endless reflect game of catch.

[@ooommm4024]

Yikes, and here, I thought Emerald Weapon randomly being stuck on the sunken submarine and instantly wiping out my party was awful.

[@yobogoya4367]

@@ooommm4024 a friend leveled so many materia to max, the duplicates that spawned pushed other materia off the list permanently. The casualty? His underwater materia. Fighting the Emerald Weapon was no longer possible. I'm sure a way to beat emerald without it has been discovered since, but it wasn't known at the time.

[@crystalsilence2559]

ALL of Vincent's Limit Breaks are self controlled. Once he transforms you can't tell him what to do... Which makes sense as he is no longer 'himself'.

[@patrickd8654]

00:01-00:08 "Why should I have to suffer the consequences for things that past me did? She's an idiot." Thank you, Jane. This is brilliant. When I get into a long stretch of procrastination, I eventually break out of it when I realize that if I don't, future me will hate present me even more than present me already hates past me.

[@PsychoDiesel48]

"I can't be hel responsible for stoned Kirito, that guy's an idiot!"

[@nmarting]

This comment is kind of inspirational actually

[@wastedtalent666]

Damn that's deep

[@LadyOnikara]

I do the same thing when I have to bring some firewood on the porch. "If I don't, I'll get cold. I don't like cold." Yeah, we have a couple little heaters, but those are worthless if the power goes out and you don't know how to start a generator.

[@talos111]

With the Undertale one, if I’m not mistaken in order to get an actual genocide route requires not just killing every enemy you face, but farming physically every enemy in every area. You have to go way out of your way to get genocide, basically. However on a smaller scale, if you kill Toriel and then restart, she’ll mention you “look like you saw a ghost”. So that’s similar.

[@userunknown5322]

also flowey's dialog changes depending on what you do.

[@NoBop2000]

Technically there are ways around the Undertale consequence if you do some elaborate file manipulation. Chara you fool. I was always the one in control.

[@TheManofthecross]

o and how would you be able to pull that off?

[@QuestionableLogic_]

@@TheManofthecross Elaborate file manipulation

[@TheManofthecross]

@@QuestionableLogic_ ah ok then good luck on that.

[@ashardalondragnipurake]

if you delete the save file in the files while in the game steam saves the lack of save file to the cloud its not that elaborate

[@TKBold]

"I am ABOVE the consequences!!"

[@calebshade4991]

Should’ve included Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening where your name is permanently changed to “Thief” after you steal something from the town store.

[@jardex2275]

And you can never enter the store again, lest the shopkeeper kill you on the spot.

[@insaincaldo]

@@jardex2275 And where did he get that sappy thing he uses, seems much better then this damn Ultimate Sword.

[@petersilie304]

On GBC, you can re-enter his shop after you have "learned" your lesson.

[@dansmith1661]

@@insaincaldo Rod of Disintegrate.

[@johnbuck4395]

The guy tracks you WAY faster in the switch version

[@jarrod752]

I don't remember which game 25 years ago that got me into the habit of having 3 rotating saves, but I haven't had a death loop since.

[@AkumaDayo]

I've always had that habit, in the very rare chance that one file gets corrupted lmao

[@FreedomOrNothin]

Ah yes. The rule of three. What gamer doesn't do this?

[@MultiTelan]

Far cry 2.

[@BigDaddyZakk420]

King’s Quest III, bro. Anyone who was into adventure games from the late 80’s/ early 90’s knows what I’m saying. Save early, save often.

[@mikoto7693]

I don't remember what game taught me to have 3 save files. Usually one back at the village, one at the start of the dungeon and one several times as I progress through the dungeon. Or at least some variation of that. I know that it was FFXI that ingrained the habit of ensuring that I always log off at an Inn or at least a safe civilised spot. Using Skyrim as an example (outside of emergencies) I always arrange to end my gaming session with my Dragonborn in her rented room/home after sleeping overnight. Fully rested and ready to go next time I log on.

[@lull9006]

"When you got stuck in a death loop" THIS MUST BE THE WORK OF *GOLD EXPERIENCE REQUIEM*

[@GamerConnoisseurRei]

Kore ga...... Requiem da

[@KaladinVegapunk]

Hahaha honestly, just when you think The World or King Crimson will ruin your day Gold experience just shreds your entire existence in spacetime

[@sillypuppygirl621]

Wha-

[@sorignhasword3651]

iS tHaT a JoJo ReFeRe- is tHaT a JoJo ReFeRe- iS tHaT a JoJo ReFeRe-

[@deathbykonami5487]

I saw that fight, but Giorno's stand called himself Gold Wind Requiem

[@Myomer104]

I absolutely *CANNOT* believe that taking the wrong squad setup into the suicide mission in Mass Effect 2, resulting in ME3 plot-crucial squadmates dying, didn't make this list.

[@asherandai1000]

That's because ME3 had a totally balls ending.

[@theamazingmaymay123]

Tbh I don’t even know how to fuck up ME2 suicide mission without looking up a guide, my first try I got it.

[@user-wj6eq1cx7x]

@@theamazingmaymay123 Aye, I did the same. Fucked it up the second playthrough though lol. I think it depends who you pick for each task (and you need maximum loyalty as far as I know).

[@alalalala57]

@@asherandai1000 I like the ending.

[@LAZERAK47V2]

@@user-wj6eq1cx7x Even with max loyalty, if you don't give your unpicked squadmates enough "Defense" value, they might bite it anyway. Thing is, defense is assigned based on a character's weapon proficiency, which is great for harder difficulties, since you don't use them anyway, as instant-effect powers were much more useful than weapons, due to how ME2's enemies ALL had defensive layers and your squadmates got insta-deleted if they stayed out of cover for more than 1 second.

[@waffleking6871]

Every time the resident evil 0 death screen showed up all I could hear in my mind was 🎵"you are dead, dead, deaaaad."🎵 I blame Andy.

[@mar_speedman]

It's only natural, really lol

[@nulllex0099]

Fucking hell, I was singing that to myself! Nice to see it happening to someone else XD

[@Rodrigo-ei4ht]

Same. Tho I regret nothing.

[@slavthesage5661]

I sing that ALL THE TIME now. IT'S SO CATCHY!

[@mnArqal93]

I hear that song on any game over screens that contains the word "dead" or words related to dying lol but yeah, definately for RE0.

[@freakyskull516]

the skyrim death loop happened to me ONCE in oblivion when i was fairly young from that day onward ive always had gamesave anxiety and it never happened again.

[@kodyschmitz4438]

The SKYRIM death loop happened in oblivion

[@chrisward3161]

Happened in fallout ten health no heals being chased by a radscorpion and was relatively weak during that point in the game so all i could do was hope i was faster but the radscorpion was well...faster

[@torifort717]

@@kodyschmitz4438 Their save was so far back that when they died in Skyrim it loaded the Oblivion save.

[@niinxzero2025]

That Skyrim death loop happened to me, but in Fallout 4. I was in a Super Mart and a bandit was shooting at me with his revolver. I was one shot from death, so I panicked and saved just as he shot, leaving the bullet mid air only to kill me a split second later. Luckily, after a few thousand times, I finally managed to time everything perfectly, dodge the bullet and panick run to the door 😅😅😅 no way in hell was i gonna lose nearly 8 hours of progress Lol

[@tylerraven8574]

In Space Quest 4, If you pick up an item in the beginning of the game, it blows up later and kills you. Given that Space Quest 2 punished for NOT taking an item, it's a bit of a Richard Relocation for them to punish you for taking one. Plus, it's an adventure game, you're supposed to snatch everything you can grab!

[@mustafam3285]

Tyler Raven ‘Richard Relocation’. Context has never been so important haha.

[@Stratelier]

What was it again, the 'unstable ordnance' ? I forget what actually sets it off, though. There was also the Xenomorph cameo near the end of Space Quest 2: If you didn't recognize the alien, getting "kissed" meant you would die about 30 minutes later (typically just before solving one of the final puzzles).

[@ArcanaMaxima]

Oh, it's even meaner than that if you want 100% completion. You _do_ need to pick it up for one point...and then put it down again for another point.

[@catsarefluffy9047]

Your greatest power in Skyrim is chugging every potion and then tactically running like hell

[@insaincaldo]

*chuck chuck* Fus Ro imoutohere

[@Sceptillio133]

@@insaincaldo The true escape combo: Health pots x Y (Y being however much you deem safe) => WULDon't follow me!

[@B00Mkinz]

I always keep a level up saved for a sticky situation. Full HP/MP/STA .. YES PLEASE!

[@insaincaldo]

@@B00Mkinz It's a good panic button early on, but when levels are more infrequent that is when things are actually tough enough for it.

[@draconisthewyvern3664]

I only ran from the giants and falmor in elder scrolls.

[@noneyobiz337]

I once crashed my warthog sending it my friend and myself off a cliff, unfortunately halo decided to autosave while falling to our death.....

[@bobthebuilder1360]

Halo always does this 😂

[@beowolfgaming2548]

That is hilariously cruel, sorry about that playthrough.

[@michellewilt4479]

I had a playthrough of new vegas where I was pretty far into side quests and had good weapons and such, sort of friendly with the NCR but not supporting them. I let a friend play while I was entertaining a girl (small house party, they were the only ones still awake)... He decided to start a war with the NCR. It autosaved as he was attacking their base. Still mad at him.

[@ossiehalvorson7702]

Ugh, I remember exactly that happening. We managed to get out of it after a good 40 tries. We just repeatedly tried to get out the second it loaded. 39 times we just went over with the warthog anyway. The final time, I finally got out early enough that only he went over with it, and thankfully that saved our game and he was able to respawn afterwards since I was still alive.

[@jaykerzp3643]

Halo death loops typically fix themselves after a few deaths

[@seakelp3508]

lol "Death loop". "Dormammu, I've come to bargain!" - Dr. Stephen Strange

[@RokuHanmar]

Kore ga Requiem da

[@gwilym1991]

Elder Scrolls Oblivion, when Martin Septim asks for a Daedric artifact the game will direct you to Azura's star, if you're a low level scrub and don't realise what it does. You end up handing it over and permanently destroying one of the most useful items in the game, a reusable soul gem.

[@codypatton2859]

Oh fuck thatd be horrible. I just give over the Savior's Hide or Ebony Blade.

[@kcollier2192]

Reusable GRAND Soul Gem IIRC...

[@Myomer104]

*Nods* I did that my first time around. Then again, I didn't level up much and didn't really use any Daedric Artifacts.

[@jakewood8608]

yer but wasn't asuras star only a white soul gem so just gave martin the star as i had by that point hundreds of black souls by then so imo the only useful thing about the star is that it's reusable but if like me you have lots of grand soul gems you just find an necromancer alter and bam hundreds of black soul gems that are better than one reusable white soul.

[@jakewood8608]

and what in my comment makes you think i'm "acting" like a prepubescent girl because from were i was standing i was just stating why i felt in oblivion the asuras star is probably one of the worst artifacts. but then again these day no ones allowed any real thoughts of there own are they and will get jumped on by asshats like you that think all people should think the exact same as you. but if you truly think i'm wrong how about telling why i'm wrong than just calling me a prepubescent girl.

[@JoelJames2]

outsidexbox: "Charges you an eye-watering 500 souls..." Me: Oh, that ain't bad, what are they on about? outsidexbox: "per level"

[@scottkamps1270]

Dark Souls isn't f***in' around...sin's costly. lol

[@kingjunior7819]

Hahahaha exactly

[@insaincaldo]

After loosing characters to sin fuckery, I think I like the way DS2 does it better. Killed an NPC? here is a grave, it will cost you, but they do not remember. Never been much of a fan of "oh you fucked up, well never mind go on." But *GOD DAMN* I didn't hit Quelana.

[@toangreenlow2229]

When DS1 first came out it was 2,000 per level. Imagine that

[@kirielvids]

the death loop happened to me in fallout 3 when i was swimming around the outside of rivet city. I stayed under too long but hit s checkpoint down near the door to the other half. I had enough air to get ALMOST to the surface, and not enough to figure out where the door was then get to air somewhere after that. I had to drown for 10 seconds at a time, repeatedly. Hopelessly clawing for air at the distant irradiated sun above a surface just inches away. Dead, reload save.

[@IkeFanBoy64]

Same thing happened to me.

[@mnoelis]

I've screwed myself over in Oblivion by doing the Thieves Guild quest "Ahdarji's Heirloom" before Sanguine's Daedric quest. The Countess of Leyawiin, Alessia Caro, is extremely important to both quests and, before the "Ahdarji's Heirloom" quest, she is marked as essential, but after you complete it her essential status is removed. She travels Chorrol on the 15-17 of every in game month, so she could very easily die on the road, rendering Sanguine's quest incompleteable

[@ossiehalvorson7702]

You'd have to be in her vicinity when it happens. The game doesn't track things to that level unless it's something actually being rendered and simulated, which only happens when you're near the incident.

[@CaitlinRC]

Literally every Telltale game. *does harmless thing* *gets murdered for it later*

[@IamaPERSON]

*Person will remember that*

[@PatrickLongblkwhtrbbt]

@@keenanjohnson1296 don't @ my sandwich

[@keenanjohnson1296]

@@PatrickLongblkwhtrbbt misclicked. Thank you for pointing out the error. Im type on my phone right now.

[@gloosey_]

Character: Remember that time you took the last digestive at lunch in 1st grade? You gonna die now mate.

[@ClownDollThatHasContemptForYou]

This is one of the reasons Telltale games give me anxiety You do something wrong and suddenly you've created the apocalypse

[@lemonexe8430]

I actually solved my Skyrim death loop problems. I figured out I can move just a few seconds before my screen loads in so I'll just start sprinting and jumping in random directions until I can see my screen long enough to bring up my menu and neck as many health potions as possible then I absolutely cheese it outta there

[@GG-dt5hh]

lemon exe Or, better yet, neck as many cheese wheels as you can, then cheese out of there.

[@jasperzanovich2504]

@@theuzi8516 And while you are at it just delete your would be killer.

[@lemonexe8430]

@@theuzi8516 that too but I was going off the assumption they play on Xbox mostly lol. I mostly play PC so I'd just use the tgm command really fast before dying

[@lemonexe8430]

@@GG-dt5hh ahhhh that woulda been so much better xD

[@Reishadowen]

Yeah, for any game where you have an inventory screen which pauses the game, and the ability to carry half-a-supermarket's worth of items, you have to work extra hard to screw yourself over. Heck, in the Pokemon games, getting your game into an unwinnable state is literally an art-form.

[@ChroDynasty]

There’s a uh... there’s a game named Rise of the Argonauts. In the first level (the only level you can’t return to if I remember correctly) a side-quest pops up with no indication. This side quest is completely optional... or so it seems. You see this side quest, once completed, allows you to throw your spear as Athena blesses your spear with boomerang powers... just with more teleportation... Anyway, last mission comes around and you’ve to defeat the main boss, you’ve got through thick and thin, recruited Hercules and Achilles and other Greek heroes, you can do anything! Except throw your spear... and the main boss knows this... so he decides to fly... and the only way to hurt him? Throw your damn spear!

[@flameyboy4184]

ChroDynasty throw your friends at him!

[@TheTaria05]

I always wondered how I was supposed to beat that game!

[@sjakierulez]

So he doesn't fly when you do the side quest?

[@ChroDynasty]

FlameyBoy I’m not sure even throwing Hercules would help...

[@ChroDynasty]

beunhaas no no no, he still flies, it’s just that you can actually throw your weapon at him rather than just stand beneath him and chop at his feet...

[@sillypuppygirl621]

4:29 When you’re the boss of a mafia and you sell drugs to kids

[@theonlyvampirateable]

" Watch some more outsidexbox videos" JANE I'VE WATCHED THEM ALL MULTIPLE TIMES. I NEED MORE

[@DanteRavioli]

I came here for the merchant. What a guy

[@lemonexe8430]

Sans wasn't lying. Doing a genocide run is a _BAD TIME_

[@insaincaldo]

Yah, it's actually kinda hard to push through, meticulously hunting down every last survivor, in the evermore silent caverns only accompanied by a dying organist aaaaaaaand then you get dunked on.

[@raenia3655]

There are always consequences in Skyrim, even when you accidentally walk into a *damning chicken and hit it! Literally when you do that, all of Tamriel will come after you.*

[@NinjaKIngAce]

I got stuck in an infinite death loop in Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones. Near the end of a particularly frustrating chapter, I moved main character Ephraim over towards the boss, in hopes of finishing him off. Before my turn ended, however, I did a cheeky little quicksave, just in case. This turned out to be a mistake, however, as as soon as my turn ended, the boss killed Ephraim, and I got a game over. I reloaded that quicksave over and over, hoping that the RNG would make the boss randomly miss, but he never did. The only way out of the situation was to restart the chapter from the beginning

[@sakurabriefs20]

That sounds really painful and time consuming.

[@intergalactic92]

Similar thing happened to me in Awakening. Accidentally left Chrom’s in a vulnerable position. Did a quick save, confident that even if he died the first time they would miss eventually (it was only 80% hit rate). Went round dozens of times before I gave up and restarted the chapter. It felt like they had specifically programmed the enemies to never miss straight after a quick save to prevent you from exploiting the RNG like that.

[@GenocideHeart]

Fire Emblem's RNG works differently from others. It rolls the next several *hundred* numbers at start of battle, so unless you take a different action entirely, you repeating the same action with the same character will always have the same outcome because the number you're using was rolled way back when you started the battle.

[@warandpoetry9542]

1: Got conceived 2: Was born 3 - 7: Various ill-informed choices and unpredictable events thereout

[@Nono-hk3is]

I'm concerned that your list only goes to seven.

[@warandpoetry9542]

@@Nono-hk3is don't worry, a part two is on the way

[@eldarhighelfhealermiriella7653]

@@warandpoetry9542 8: Reach teenhood and "hormones" rampage inside your body ?

[@insaincaldo]

@@Nono-hk3is Well if the choices and random encounters are bad enough.

[@TrickyTalon23]

This is why I only played Undertale one time and did the pacifist run. Part of me just had a feeling something permanently regrettable would happen

[@TotallyOriginality]

Well, you should already regret playing undertale

[@abrakadabra4966]

@@TotallyOriginality why

[@NEETKitten]

@@abrakadabra4966 Because it's a terrible game.

[@TotallyOriginality]

@@abrakadabra4966 it's like listening to bubble gum pop music, it's only Ood a few times but it also has some preachy bullshit, you get chastised for killing them after a flower tries to kill you, which after that first impression why should you trust them? Sans' fight is cheating bullshit, if you mod it on PC(which is the point of gaming on PC) you get a dirty cheater ending

[@deusexvesania1702]

@@TotallyOriginality Sounds like "Undertale is bullshit" cuz you played the genocide run and got your ass kicked by Sans who was way beyond your skill.

[@ForumArcade]

Undertale. Damn. The game is STILL messing with me.

[@douggydragon7526]

Here’s one, Exit The Gungeon. Killing the time reverse blue dude. You then can’t win because of that. Also that’s firsthand experience:(

[@skyretiredtimetraveler2061]

Let's not forget the merchant in that game either

[@geofff.3343]

Did Jane have a party to go to? She really dressed up nice. Obviously, a party about conquering the world, but a party nonetheless.

[@Anastas1786]

She just got home from a holding cell somewhere far, far beneath the MGM Grand.

[@geofff.3343]

@@Anastas1786 I see, that makes sense. Not that they could hold Jane of course.

[@nashvontookus7451]

@@geofff.3343 She tunneled through the concrete walls with her teeth.

[@jonathandavies1716]

Jane's wardrobe has been on point last few videos I think. Just something a little different than usual.

[@andrewhernandez9674]

Maybe she's simply a fashionable woman

[@gloosey_]

No one: A game with choices: ..oh and you didn’t pick up that letter from the tax return earlier, so that’s you going bankrupt, getting shot in the leg and also dying in some horrible way involving several vampires, a giant fly and a blunt pencil.

[@asherandai1000]

I'd take that over the pain of doing tax returns.

[@The-Real-Red-Bard]

*a fucken pencil*

[@lucas5530]

*blunt pencil*

[@insaincaldo]

Why a blu..."because it's dull you twit it'll hurt more"

[@redundantchannels8154]

"7 Times You Screwed Yourself Over with Irrevocable Consequences" how did you get documents of my life

[@lukaslam9802]

where did they find those

[@mpbMKE]

I was definitely expecting "Accidentally shooting somebody/scaring off friendly NPCs/punching your horse in RDR2."

[@YourPoint1981]

Lol @ punching your horse

[@JustinY.]

WHEN WILL YOU LEARN? WHEN WILL YOU LEARN THAT YOUR ACTIONS WILL HAVE CONSEQUENCES?

[@Trasho_pando2011]

WHY ARE YOU EVERYWHERE?!

[@IamaPERSON]

@@Trasho_pando2011 if you see him everywhere, you're everywhere too.

[@Trasho_pando2011]

@@IamaPERSON no I heard that he's everywhere

[@IamaPERSON]

@@Trasho_pando2011 ok, but that doesn't deny my point m

[@robtorres8961]

Homeless, hungry, starving and need help. Havent eaten since Saturday and have no family or options left. If anyone could help out with a dollar or anything it mean more than you know. $Robertoc1992

[@NGMonocrom]

Right, make sure Billy has both a pistol and a shotgun with plenty of ammo.... The inexperienced 18 year-old girl gets everything else. Including the grenade launcher, machine gun, and the bazooka. What could possibly go wrong?

[@sandymangamin7159]

I see nothing wrong with that plan

[@Someone_Else]

All you need is a bit of faith, you guys!

[@Ms666slayer]

That weird I only gave Rebecca the Shotguna and that was everything she need it, Billy had every other weapon

[@A-Rather-Dubious-Character]

Did I hear *FAITH?!*

[@eldarhighelfhealermiriella7653]

LOL This could be a perfect Monthy Python plot!

[@xdragonofpernx]

2. I got stuck in a death loop between two mages while discovering a place, the auto save kicked in and I was going to load, but the manual save was five hours ago lol. So I hit the menu button as soon as the loop started, changed my buttons around so my “whirlwind” shout was easier to use. I then resumed the game, died, then when it loaded again, I hit my “shout” button and sped away from the mages blast. That’s how I got out of my Skyrim death loop. It took awhile, but I survived🤣

[@bi-bibabyblue9649]

1:51 “Best friend” *cuts straight to a spinel gem* *_SU flashbacks_*

[@eonsinfinity534]

I dont think very many people noticed this.

[@DiggyDougSauce94]

"2. When you got stuck in a Death Loop" Wha- Wha- Wha- Wha- Wha-

[@mgsvkiller5685]

Is that a jojo refrence

[@patrickripleyiii134]

GOLD EXPERIENCE REQUIEM

[@BlastingBigLoads2]

@@mgsvkiller5685 THIS IS....REQUIEM

[@idksomethingaboutbaguette7320]

shoulda been sex pistols requiem that would have been way more satisfying tbh

[@patrickripleyiii134]

Mista probably would've accidentally trapped himself in a death loop

[@Jaliyl773]

16:07 " Not gearing up for a boss fight " That's literally every Classic Resident Evil

[@trashaimgamer7822]

Right, but in the first one you could just bail out of the fight and come back later.

[@annana6098]

I think I gave Billy the shotgun and Rebecca the magnum, and things sorted out pretty well. There was a scenario under the church I think were they had to split up, and the room where someone had to be left behind had some suspicious corpses in it. I left Rebecca backed as far away from the bodies as possible and Billy and I went to get whatever key or thingy we needed to proceed. In the middle of a fight, the game tells me Rebecca is in trouble, but it stops while I'm still fighting. When Billy is safe, I switch to Rebecca and find she has shot the freshly risen zombies. Good job, team, we thought ahead. That's not to say I didn't make any mistakes, I think a giant cockroach ate Rebecca once.

[@awesome20456]

I just left Rebecca in safe rooms and gave Billy everything. When the Centurian came around, Billy was fully equipped because Rebecca was only good for solving puzzles and making healing items

[@tayamanan]

I gave Billy the grenade launcher/Pistol and Rebecca the Magnum/Shotgun. Worked out great. The greatest enemy in the game is the inventory mechanics then anything else.

[@kefkaconnoisseur]

So what y’all are saying is ditch Rebecca and continue on with Billy right?

[@Nina-kx9jm]

The laughter and manic grin in the Undertale ending are some serious nightmare material. Not like I wanted to sleep today anyway, thanks.

[@Fanimati0n]

"Irrevocable Consequences" might as well have been Undertale's alternate title

[@MouldMadeMind]

File manipulation go bruh

[@GhengisJohn]

Not listed: Anyone who bought the Fallout 76 collector's edition.

[@Zoogore6777]

So true 😓🤣

[@mattd3224]

Like me! Ahhh I love the smell of cheaply made plastic bags in the morning.

[@garuelx8627]

I do however like the idea of a mod implementing mutagens like Marsupial in Fallout 4

[@philiphunn194]

I got the Tricentennial edition. At least they didn't make the bobblehead out of feathers or something :P

[@SandF3DPrinting]

Or just the game in general

[@Clairevalintine]

Silent Hill 4: putting that doll in your inventory box

[@randomness72838]

Redfield Run what doll explain

[@Clairevalintine]

randomness72838 spoilers to anyone who hasn’t played Silent Hill 4 yet: In the Apartment World, Henry will be offered a Doll by Walter Sullivan, the doll is harmless if you hold onto it, but putting it in the inventory box in your apartment will cause a lot of hauntings, which will really be a pain in the ass later in the game. So just don’t take it. I took it and found out about the curses after the fact and ended up with one less inventory space. Moral of this story: Don’t accept dolls from strange serial killers you meet in another dimension.

[@egontokessy1610]

That was my absolute favourite thing to do haha :).

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

Redfield Run Is that the silent hill game called THE ROOM? If so, that is the only silent hill game I have played. Scared the shit outta me, and made it so I don't think I could play another. I don't recall knowing about the doll item though, so I bet I did out it in my inventory! Do you recall any specifics of hw it would have been any different from the normal weird stuff/hauntings that your room would normally have?

[@LassBisharp]

What about Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon? If you don't grind hard enough, you get railroaded into a near impossible boss fight where you die over and over. You can't go back to a shop to buy any more items, and you can't grind much without losing most of your health. The worst part is, every time you get to the boss floor, you have to watch an unskippable cutscene that's practically 5 minutes long.

[@TotallyNotJustCynical]

The PTSD with those games is real... every legendary pokemon is just a ball ache if you're not properly prepared.

[@thomaslamson299]

I know thay feel, bro 😢

[@scarlettg.5772]

I could think of so many games that could fit this list. Fable 2 when your actions as a child affects if your home city turns into a dump with crime everywhere or if it turns into a pleasant city. Mass Effect 2 when not doing loyalty missions means the death of your crew at the end. Another I can think of would be Dragon Age Origins were you can miss out on important comrades by simply not going into the right places. My dad missed out on Sten and Leliana.

[@otterblau5253]

You ever forget to bring torches in any level in Darkest Dungeon? No one comes back sane. Or at all.

[@murasakinokami9882]

I just go straight back, I don't even try to risk it. Not ever again after the first time *shudders*

[@ladylunaginaofgames40]

Even worst if your heroes die because they got a heart attack which you could of prevented

[@insaincaldo]

I mean I would not recommend it, but apparently people willingly does this and just throw away the remains of the party afterwords.

[@commanderbeepo8066]

I'm not afraid of the dark. Im afraid of what lurks within the darkness. Needless to say I prefer having too many torches then not enough.

[@creepycannibal4717]

Two reasons to go torchless: 1.) You get more loot. If you aren't running mods which expand the inventory in some way then you probably need an antiquarian or four to make it worthwhile. I use the term "worthwhile" loosely because it's probably not going to be cost-effective to keep that team afterwards; if you're good/lucky enough where it is cost-effective, you probably didn't really need the scratch anyway. 2.) You really want to meet the Shambler but don't want to wait until you stumble across the altar. You're a madman, please stop.

[@juddcarreon9236]

After flowey in undertale, mom goat did teach you how to play the game as a pacifist. Though to be fair, it was a major confusion for me when mom goat told me to talk to an inanimate manikin when the game conveniently armed me with a stick.

[@jaxryz_380]

Mannequin*

[@juddcarreon9236]

@@jaxryz_380 Isn't a manikin and a mannequin the same thing?

[@koliman1588]

Judd Carreon I don’t know where you’re from, but in the US nobody spells it “manikin.”

[@mnArqal93]

@@juddcarreon9236 Mannequin is usually the ones you might find in clothes store. The small wooden figures you use for art can be called manikins. I'm in the UK so don't know if it is different elsewhere.

[@insaincaldo]

@@jaxryz_380 You are all wrong anyway cause it's a Dummy

[@bobybimberbod8500]

4:50 well if you're a 36th lvl mage who only uses novice spells you deserve it

[@squidwardthedankest6642]

Roasted

[@tychogoedhart286]

Either way, the ideal way to deal with stuff like this is equippig enough items with reduced shouting time to be able to shout continuously without cooldown and shouting Ethereal Form and Wuld Nah Kesting out of there as fast as your Voice can carry you. Does not work if the death loop is because you saved while falling into an abyss of the kind that has a killscript that activates when you fall a certain distance into it

[@The_Rob_D]

This video is a perfect example of why you should save at least every 30 seconds, then backup that save on the cloud, then restore and resave your cloud save file. Or more often, but never less.

[@Pencliff]

"Times You Screwed Yourself Over with Irrevocable Consequences" sees RE4 merchant and immediately knows this applies to me

[@tkwc2]

First time I played the game I managed to snipe a merchant from far away, thinking he's one of the monsters, and my joy of crisis averted quickly turned to desperation because I actually needed some supplies, lol

[@rossanderson4156]

Beware the spoilers for these games: *I look away as not to spoil the video*

[@ShauriCheshire]

Same! And lets me focus on the lovely little jazzy tune as well! :)

[@LAZERAK47V2]

Spoiler warnings for spoiler warnings? Has science gone too far?

[@rossanderson4156]

I'm glad I'm not the only human that does this

[@DarkHarlequin]

I also always do this. You are not alone here friend ;-)

[@Dark_Mishra]

In some of these videos, I do the opposite: If it’s games I have no interest in, I just stop watching the video. If it’s games I DO like, then I try to guess which parts they mean. Lol.

[@J.B.90]

My first elder scrolls death loop was on morrowind. Yay console commands :)

[@theyoutubeguy1]

Same. I got really mad as i could not kill the golden robot things.

[@TheDecemberEclipse]

New favorite insult: "a corndog with arms and legs"

[@danielsanchez9791]

Demon Souls has the worst situation. You save a guy from a cage and hides somewhere in your works hub and if you have neutral or good character alignment he starts killing npcs. By the time I figured it out on my furst play through he killed the npcs for miracles and storage. It was horrible I couldn't store anything anymore and skipped a lot of dropped items.

[@Sykroid]

Oh yea Yurt. He killed at least 1 of my npc's, and then i accidentally attacked Yuria so my nexus was tragic all around. And then I realized Lautrec was the same too late and he killed the firekeeper and i damn near cried

[@insaincaldo]

Understandable how they kept toning the traitor down in later souls games, Yurt was a playthrough ruiner.

[@eren34558]

reminds me of Bloodborne.

[@insaincaldo]

@@eren34558 Sure, but the NPC's you can doom in BB are mostly just consumable dispensers. Except for that 1/3 cord, but there are 4 of those in game.

[@korstmahler]

Yurt The Silent Chief, Lautrec The Embraced...Who else? That one fellow from BB I can't recall the name of? At this point seeing a Shotel or two in an NPC's hands is an immediate red flag for your other NPC's lives.

[@Not-Great-at-Gaming]

How about doing a side mission for the wrong person in Dragon's Dogma, thus making them "your beloved"?

[@yobressik]

I wanted the witch ended up with the damn princes

[@nemesismm1006]

I ended up with the friggin Armorer from Gran Soren. That was... disappointing.

[@Mage-7734]

@@nemesismm1006 I always get that guy... Or the rich prick, who tax's everyone, just so his wenchy daughter can give me the golden idol :/

[@nemesismm1006]

@@Mage-7734 Right? I mean, u wanna be in his good graces but MF needs to chill on the soulmate thing.

[@eviltimscurse]

The way that mechanic works is that the last person you talk to that has max affection before you go to the "final boss" will become your love interest. You can do as many side quests as you want, just make sure you talk to whom you want to marry, and no one else, before fighting said boss. This also means that if they are one of the NPCs that disappear after completing their side quest chain (which is most of the story characters), you have to finish that sidequest right before taking on the "final boss." *spoilers* This then happens again in the post game, when you fight the real final boss. Last person with max affection you talk to before doing that will appear in the final cutscene of the game.

[@krysiamcgiveron5511]

"there are 2 ways to go about playing undertale" Neutral: am i a joke to you?

[@darkwarriorprogram6546]

In Skyrim I always took the ‘tactical retreat’ approach when I managed to escape a death loop. XD

[@BisectedBrioche]

Undertale really validated my "taking the evil route makes me feel bad" approach to games.

[@XlM._]

BisectedBrioche nah killing Zeke In Infamous 2 Did It for me, I wasn’t having fun anymore

[@emergen9002]

@@XlM._ same Infamous game are good for that, when you take the bad route it makes you feel bad after

[@MrDudeshutup123]

Choosing Morinth over Samara in Mass Effect 2, ends up a romance opportunity gone, a powerful ally gone and Morinth dies/converts to Reaper spawn in Mass Effect 3!

[@kingjb554]

Thank goodness games these days have prompts, I can't imagine trying to guess and type out a command in a game like Space quest

[@knate44]

I had an even more upsetting experience in demon's souls, when the filthy woman in the Valley of Defilement permanently aggroed because rats started attacking her instead of me. It was especially bad considering she is the only seller of valuable poison arrows, and a good source of faintstones if you are doing a faith build.

[@EldritchHeart]

>Chugs potions >Doesn't immediately leave the area where they got stuck in a deathloop Come on, guys. This is the solution if you have even an instant to heal enough to escape! (Or if you're in a really tight spot and play on PC, time to get the ol console commands out so you can fix your mistake!)

[@Madhattersinjeans]

Yeah skyrim is pretty low on the failstate side of things, you really have to go out of your way to mess up your save in that game.

[@MrSanghelios]

@@Madhattersinjeans I guess noobish gaming journalists always find a way to screw up.

[@guardiantko3220]

Not to mention at that point in the game, they should've had the become ethereal shout. That thing has saved my saves so many times

[@vengefuldeth]

or you know they could also lower the difficulty because their either obviously playing on a high one to die quickly or have a character with literally no upgraded Health

[@spaceblockb5284]

The worst is one you enter a new area while you dying. happened to me once, you would actually be dead before it loaded in the area.

[@KatieTP]

"Like a bloodthirsty elephant" is a phrase I never thought I'd hear in my lifetime. Thank you for setting the standard of culture Mike.

[@AtomicToucan]

Do you remember that spot in half-life blue shift when it autosaves with a headcrab right in front of your face? The distinct lack of med kits in the area made that a particularly fun moment. I love death loop :)

[@samanthaburger6426]

Oh my god! I remember playing banjo Kazooie!! I LOVED this game 😂😂

[@noodlepudding3464]

The moment I saw the title I thought “Undertale”. Now I owe myself a dollar

[@baza8929]

I thought for undertale it would just be genocide route as a whole, sans 'buff said

[@bond674]

Although one can do a file edit to reset to neutral start again.

[@ethansomething9428]

Me too!!!!

[@thepolishdinosaur9015]

I think they forgot to mention that that talking skeleton who pranks you with a whoopee cushion comes back to absolutly destroy you until you quit the game.

[@Ceece20]

When you forgot to recruit really good characters in Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, by either forgetting to check the talk page at camp, or not trying to talk to the npc Haar when he is just flying around, OR not stepping on the special space in the sand level act 4 (with Micaiaha only) and not recruiting the blade master with the SS rank sword.

[@damiwayne8289]

dogsrulenw08 same things could be said about character recruitment in the Suikoden games.

[@zcubeDbz]

Let me say, in Dark Souls remastered on the switch I once hit the main black Smith because my controllers disconnected and to reconnect you have to hit both L and R which causes you to swing in most cases.

[@Nynzy]

Final Fantasy Tactics. Riovanes Castle. You can easily get stuck here if you are underleveled, underprepared, and thus blindsided by the Wiegraf versus Ramza 1v1 fight, or the next stage of the battle against Velius/Belias and are unable to win. If you are saving in only 1 slot, that is it for you, keep trying or restart the entire game, which you are in the last stages of Chapter 3 (of 4) at this point. Twelve year old me was devastated by this on PSX, and now I have the maximum amount of saves every game will allow~

[@theblaze5530]

4:29 Dormammu I've come to bargain

[@JezdamayelCaster]

mine was at a final boss... Saving before realizing I had I only weapons the boss was immune to.

[@sablonanime650]

What game?

[@dariusraymond7522]

No one mentioned choosing a fire type starter in Pokémon fire red or leaf green. Yea you get others but it makes going through the first 2 gyms hard asf since there both rock and water

[@JervisGermane]

I've heard this so many times! You can catch a Mankey just to the west of Viridian City. That takes care of Brock. You can catch a Pikachu in Viridian Forest, or Oddish/Bellsprout northwest of Cerulean City. That takes care of Misty. There is a good reason to pick the fire starter. It makes Gary choose the water starter. And if he picks the water starter, he doesn't end up with Gyarados.

[@neotono5536]

Charmander can learn Metal Claw early JUST so you can beat Brock easily, or just catch a Mankey or Nidoran to the west of Viridian. As for Misty you have a lot of options at that point of the game as well as multiple level up spots.

[@trollomane]

@@neotono5536 actually ember deals more dmg than metal claw because rock types have higher def than spDef. i've tried it out

[@CenlaSelfDefenseConcepts]

4:20 same problem in fallout between that problem and the glitches that could corrupt your save I always ran 2 manual saves and an auto

[@hectorvazquez7125]

I remember finding out you could kill the merchant in resi 4 by complete accident. I first played it on Wii and you would melee by shaking the nunchuck. So me and my brother were fighting over the remotes when suddenly Leon decides to FUCKIN MURDER the merchant. Me and my bro just stood there dumbfounded xD

[@Anijah2001]

Lol

[@mrgoatman6202]

That be a bruh moment

[@Necrosman89]

TES III: Morrowind. Killing any NPC needed for any quest. You even get your own warning for the doomed world you create.

[@blainy-o93]

Isn't that just Bethesda games in a nutshell?

[@Kyo_Sasaki]

Nah, most Bethesda games don't allow you to kill NPCS that are needed for quests.

[@maverick9275]

blainy-o93 literally every other Bethesda game after it is impossible to kill a main quest npc. As in the game just won’t let you.

[@Corthmic]

@@maverick9275 I think you can kill some side quest characters in Fallout 3, I seem to recall blowing some NPC's head off and seeing "QUEST FAILED" appear when I didn't even have their quest.

[@maverick9275]

Corthmic yeah those are side quest characters and every single one of them can be killed aside from Children.

[@umayyah3475]

Why do I remember some clips of mitten squad videos when she mentions the death loop? never mind

[@lenoirtnb4077]

4:52 NO YOU ARE WILLINGLY FIGHTING A LOSING BATTLE AT THAT POINT!!! RUN!!!

[@StudlyFudd13]

That's what I was wanting to scream at my screen O.O You aren't in an inescapable loop, just pop heals and run.

[@hudsonball4702]

What about when you put all your skills points into the wrong skill?

[@diamondsmasher]

Hello, old school World of Warcraft

[@lukaslam9802]

for example: maxing out strength instead of hp and defense

[@ericz.4191]

When you “accidentally” hit the shopkeeper or “borrow” from him in spelunky

[@KesorodaBlk]

When you "accidentally" steal from the shop keeper in Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening.

[@soldancer]

I had the Skyrim save issue with Dragon's Dogma. It autosaves when you enter or leave a location through a door, but a ton of the game is outside. This means you can go for huge stretches without the game saving, and rubbing into a big monster can make you lose a lot of progress.

[@frozenfusion6072]

7:27 couldn’t have been more perfect finding irl. I look outside my window from my bed while this is playing. It’s snowing.

[@PeachWantsRevenge]

Spoilers for Detroit Become Human, but..... if you don't look at the photograph on Hank's kitchen table during a deviant Connor run, that's strike one. And if you don't ask him the right questions at the bridge to get the name of his son, you're screwed by the time you get to the confrontation at CyberLife tower even if you do everything else right.

[@d_rock1535]

Well not totally... As seen in Jacksepticeye's playthrough I think, if you guess the right namTe you get the full dialouge explaining his sons death as if he fully knew despite knowing absolutely nothing. It's still a 1 in 4 chance though

[@ZeroZmm]

Brings up attacking Blacksmith Andre, which can be fixed with Oswald..but what if you hit Oswald?~ You are truly effd..

[@LAZERAK47V2]

Sounds like he'd be into it though.

[@HighFiveTheHorizon]

Although I never hit Andre, I almost hit Oswald. After an exhausting fight against the bell gargoyles he basically just appears standing in the shadow. My first reaction was "HOLY F@%$, DIE...wait nonononono, back back".

[@SageRuffin]

I hit Andre by accident. I was checking something in the menu and forgot that RB was attack (I wanted to change pages... goddamn, I hate DS' controls). After getting dropkicked in the dick a good 7 times, I finally said "Fuck this." and killed him. ...then I did some research and found out I lost out on a powerful upgrade path in doing so. So that was fun.

[@roobaby40]

4:32 in a nutshell. QUICK! OPEN INVENTORY AND SPAM HEALTH POTIONS AND FOOD Literally seconds later when they suggest that option but it still does not work >_>

[@squirelio1126]

Final Fantasy Tactics saving before the Gafgarion fight. I've had to restart that game no less than four times because of that one fight.

[@greenytheacolyte4035]

That fight ruined my first run though cause I didnt grind the right skills for it. Felt bad man.

[@Zezlemetkun]

Throw in any castle siege missions if you don't have a back up save

[@seand7042]

I assume you mean the one where he finally dies right? The key which I'm sure you know by now is to grind like hell

[@dantevivas6646]

Saving right before dying is the closest we will ever get to using Golden Experience Requiem

[@ratchetexperience8379]

Hahahahahahaha.

[@epicfail9271]

How bout in dishonored, if you go with the kill everyone tactic the Endgame is extremely more difficult. And it's all your fault

[@proudpapaprick]

Only reason I'd disagree is because that aspect of the game is spelled out, whereas these mistakes seem like they're easy to make with no foreknowledge.

[@kevgmei]

I just hate how you're an assassin who's not even allowed to kill. Even have to deliver a chick unconscious to the creepiest rapist ever.

[@JS-mu9qd]

In dishonored 2 its the same But i havent got the easier fight-was to busy to kill my enemies

[@shadow200343]

@@kevgmei You know you can kill and still get the good ending right?

[@ladylunaginaofgames40]

Here's a better example: neglecting the chaos system in every Dishonored game. Even if you decide to kill only the targets for a neutral good ending, everytime you get spotted, make too much noise, or perform like Andy in hitman, your in for a world of trouble

[@MishaExAye]

I just realized that none of the dragons in Skyrim are dragons. They're wyverns O_O

[@acgAdventures]

Yes and no, in the lore of skyrim they are dragons whereas in other lores they might be regarded as wyverns

[@hillkids02]

Chara is mad that you killed everyone she ever loved and assumed you would get a reward for the super hard boss fights

[@MMDNetwork]

In the small milliseconds Mike says "Andre… the..." my mind: "Giant?" Mike: "blacksmith!" Mike: "Using wrestling inspired moves" my mind: "It is him!" Mike: "is Andre the Blacksmith short for Andre the Giant the Blacksmith?" my mind: "YES!"

[@xPL4YS]

When you steal from the shopkeeper in Spelunky and then have to spend the rest of the run hiding from him.

[@RasIEase]

When you open up the wrong chest of Final Fantasy 12 and can’t get the best weapon in the game unless you hit a chest that has a .012 percent of it being in

[@CobaltContrast]

Aren't you glad they changed that in the new version?

[@lionocyborg6030]

Here's a couple more: 1. Tomb Raider 3 Aldwych drill bug In the Aldwych metro station level of Tomb Raider 3, you pass through an unfinished elevator shaft whose drill mysteriously activates and chases you down it. The idea is to climb back up and walk over the lowered drill string to reach a key. This is done with "flip maps" where they swap rooms around for flooding and stuff: the drill string you walk on is alternate room geometry and the actual drill object below is much smaller and can be walked through. However, if you got secret 1 in the unfinished shaft, it's possible to bypass the trigger for the flipmap at the top, leaving the shaft as it was when you first found it. Since you can't go back the way you came to reach the trigger nor climb down the shaft again due to fallen tiles, you're screwed and have to reload a save game. 2. Pathways into Darkness There's lots of screw overs here, such as the game time limit running too low so as to not leave you enough time to plant the bomb as a part of your mission _and_ survive, but stand out examples are the red cloak and Easter egg. The cloak does the exact opposite of bullet time and speeds up time for everything except you and your clock. It's completely useless...except you need to keep it for a puzzle where you are sealed in a small room and can only wait a few in-game hours for the doors to open again. If you try to sleep through it without wearing the red cloak, you suffocate, and there may not be time to go back upstairs and get it. Eating the secret Easter egg (a literal one of gold and chocolate) warps you to the final boss. Assuming you are able to beat it with the currently very limited arsenal you have when you first find the Easter egg, you don't have the bomb required to complete your mission, nor the lead box to store the radioactive crystal you use as a key to escape, and on top of that, you'd be trapped anyway as the door on a higher level you come out on only opens on the other side, which you'd be on when playing normally before reaching the boss. 3. Not doing the loyalty missions and grinding to upgrade everything in Mass Effect 2 This causes party members to die in the final level, can lead to the Normandy 2 getting destroyed and either way you get a shit ending. This is why I've never beaten the game and just looked up a let's play: I couldn't be arsed to suffer through all the boring resource gathering. 4. Bioshock 2's ending. This fucks you over on both counts: if you spare the good natured of the 3 optional "boss" characters, or any of them for that matter, the main antagonist gets to live. The only way to kill her for good is to kill all three of the "bosses", even though one of them doesn't actually deserve it, which is a bad thing either way.