Do you associate any games with bad real life memories that happened at the time of playing them?
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Do you associate any games with bad real life memories that happened at the time of playing them?
hmm, no not really
i played super mario galaxy 2 on the day when i couldnt go to six flags on my middle school senior trip
I played firefight with someone on master chief collection and a year or so later i find out they died in a car accident cause their mom messaged me and sent me an article to prove it
So now i just think about that anytime i see firefight
Pikmin 2 is my favorite game, but I'll always remember that my parent had a single landline in the same room as the TV and one day when I was playing my mom got a call that her grandfather had passed away. I paused and turned off the TV and just sat with her while she cried.
I had an existential crisis/panic attack playing witcher 3 and never played it again. For a while seeing the title of the game in my steam library made me feel anxious. I got over it and I'll eventually play it for realsies.
That happened to me with Tekken 7.
Fighting games usually make my heart beat fast but it was beating so fast one time that I felt like I was going to die of a heart attack. Later learned that it was a panic attack but still can't touch that game.
Both times ive played 3D World (Wii U and Switch) i was constantly fighting with family over money and at some point during Wii U i didnt even have internet or stuff i needed to buy. Just a cursed game.
I had a cousin who I had a colossal crush on. We were technically cousins, but separated through two layers of marriage. In short, my stepmom's sister married a guy who had her through a prior married. So it was like step-step cousins. I spent basically every waking moment from puberty on thinking about her.
At one point, for some holiday, she brought her boyfriend over for some family gathering at my house. I was playing the last level of Parappa the Rapper in my bedroom, and she brought him in to introduce him to me. It was clear immediately that we weren't going to jive, and he just said some one-word greeting and left. I was talking to her later on, and she told me that he called me a nerd afterward.
I now associate the last level of Parappa the Rapper with being unsulted in front of a girl who I had a vaguely incestual but nonetheless intense sexual attraction to, but had to keep quiet about, because we were technically related.
americans are insane
He was right.
Sounds like you didn't believe.
Lift weights. You can get hot while he's probably already turned into a bud light guy. Dudes like that peak in high school and look middle aged by their late 20s.
I'm kinda scared to play games right now cause my dog might die soon
let your dog listen to some ost from good games before he croaks
he's got an ear infection (not dying of it) at the moment so I don't think he would like that
>New Horizons coming out at the height of covid
You are so fricking gay.
The lockdowns were great wdym
Not every single person even if youre a neet had a great time with covid. It was fricking impossible to find basic necessities even with money and people were acting like maniacs outside if you did run into anybody.
Other than one time early we were genuinely afraid we would run out of toilet paper, I had a great lockdown. Sorry it was bad for you.
Manual labour workers had to go to work like nothing happened, no extra money either, now everything is thrice as expensive, frick COVID nostalgia
Sometimes being paranoid has its benefits. When the early reports of the virus started coming out of China in Nov 2019, the first thing I did was go out and buy a year's worth of toilet paper and other needful hygiene things.
no
Yeah, I was playing Phantasy Star Online when I fell into a deep depression over feeling like I had no control over my life and school burnout. Despite this I still play the game though.
My dog got run over when I wasn't there to stop him because I was playing Ratchet and Clank 3. Not that I ever really wanted to replay it anyway.
I was playing Arkham Origins when I found out my grandfather died.
I played a lot of Smash Brothers Brawl when my parents got divorced and I started going to therapy. That was a turning point in my life when I realized life was kinda shit and I had to grow up. I still haven't on a lot of ways but whatever.
Sometimes when I listen to the Halo 3 OST because it reminds me of when life was a bit less awful.
>life was kinda shit
Living though a broken home and a messy divorce can leave you feeling like that. Hope you aren't holding onto too many negative feelings from back then. Those feelings can come back when you least expect them.
I was going through a really really really hard time with addiction to drugs when I preordered and purchased the midnight release of GTA IV
hellgate london release day was the day i got my first gf who was super hot
let down of a game, let down of a girl tbh.
yea. dont wanna remember.
Played smash bros with a girl. We played where if you die you take a drink of whiskey. She made me drink to much, I think it was part of her plan to seduce me. Dumb b***hes.
I inadvertently ruined the relationship our household had with our neighbors cause as a kid we would all play smash 64 and bet pennies or whatever on who would win matches but one of the kids actually took them home. Thats basically how i learned about gambling being bad.
No, but I associate some games with music, food, or smells.
I associate De La Soul with Street V3
Pikmin 2 reminds of the first time I drank a vanilla Jones soda.
Metroid Prime reminds me of pic related.
I have a HEAVY association between the Floating Continent in FF6 and my grandmother's toffee cookies.
I was playing the game for the first time at their house in San Diego, in the bottom floor of a 3-floor split level. It had this awful green carpet, the kind you'd find in the 80's. All the adults were upstairs at a party, so it was just me and my sister down there playing the game. Neither of us had gotten to that part of the game yet so our minds were fricking blown at what was happening. We were watching the cutscene in awe when my grandma comes down with these toffee cookies, the kind that really glued your teeth together. I think we barely thanked her for them we were so caught up in the game.
Every time I replay FF6, I think about that memory.
Grandma made that good shit that could rip your fillings out.
She forgets that I moved recently and it makes me sad when my mother mentions it.
i was on a 16 hour osrs grind when the incident occured
super meat boy. I took a bar of xanax and had a beer in the morning and next thing you know, i black out completely, wake up in at a 5150 facility, then find out I got myself and my bestfriend/roommates evicted because I pulled a knife out and was on our balcony screaming at cops. Man frick xanax dude.
Hopefully you made some changes and have quit drugs or at least figured out how to party without getting in trouble.
i no longer take xanax, it is the absolute devil, but i lost alot of close friends because of my drug habits. I've learned to be very independent and never rely on other people as a result, however, I've become a very distant, cold, and antisocial person as a result of this experience. I'm good at small talk and shooting the shit, but if I feel there is a relationship with someone growing, i will shoot it down and ghost them because of my defense mechanism of trusting people.
I do want to trust people again and make close friends. but after seeing how easily your closest friends will abandon you, I have no trust in the human race. Its very unfortunate but life is not all roses and peach fuzz. maybe one day my psych will turn around, but I am pretty hateful, judgemental, and ambivalent when it comes to social relationships these days.
Your friends were probably just drug buddies. It's rare that you find someone who will stick by your side in a difficult situation. A night of shrooms made me realize none of my friends were actually my friends and no matter how close you are to someone, most people will exploit any weakness that you show. I don't think all people are like that, just most.
I'm not an addict at all but I've never had a friend that could be trusted either. Acquaintance > friend every time. People are shit, never rely on them.
>How easily your closest friends leave
You stupid Black person you were a pill head and acted like a total lunatic.
It was YOUR fault, not theirs, you stupid fricking scumbag.
Spent some time in county jail for a DUI and had been playing Sonic CD a lot. I could hear this song in my head as I just sat there contemplating my poor life decisions.
Yeah when Metal Gear Rising came out on PC, my sister told us she was a lesbian.
Btw she’s getting married to a man this winter.
I was really sick with the flu when I got the first assassins creed and that's kept me from playing it since
Whenever I play Metroid Prime, I think about how my (now dead) alcoholic dad's hands shaked like a leaf as he tried to navigate the starting area of the game. He also never got beyond the Kokiri Forest in OoT.
That's all I needed to know to never get carried away with alcohol.
Alcohol is really awful.
How long did he drink? I'm starting to feel like I may have done some damage after about 15 years of heavy drinking.
Do we have to go through this exercise? You know where to get help or answers from. You have this entire time. Don't put this on strangers on the internet.
When I was playing skyrim at launch i whilst my dad was being hauled away by the police downstairs jfl
2011ish i was 13. living in my mother's finished basement that was converted into my bedroom. play black ops 1 full volume to drown out the ever revolving door of my mother and her many boyfriends. they'd fight scream at each other / throw things around the house / stomp directly over head. I would get so nervous i'd get heart palpitations. I'd play FFA for 12hrs a day. i think seeing my mother's many failed relationships may be partly responsible for denying all advances from women. women text me buy me gifts. we should hang out . do you have a girlfriend. sent me nudes. i tell them to frick off. i regret it deeply. but im scared of a realationship.
thank you for reading my blog. god bless all anons
ak47u rapid fire, grip thomahawk trickshots was my shit
My parents were so desperate for me to make new friends they literally asked some strangers from a shelter/half house to come over and play Brawl with me
I had nothing in common with them, did not want them back in my house and i even said if i want someone to be my friend i have to actually fricking know them decently
All of the kids in my neighborhood knew I had the latest consoles so they would be my "friend" so they could play it.
Never had a real friend in my life.
Nah. Never really understood that notion either
Mom and dad had one of many huge fights the first day I played Wind Waker. That was the first time I learned to tune it out. Could not have given any less of a frick about hearing the same stupid shouting match, I had a great sea to explore.
Dota 2.
All I can remember of it now are the arguments with my friends we had over losses in it.
if you know you know
I watched the second tower get hit.
I think you mean this game
I don’t get it.
I got into a relationship with a chick i met in L4D2 and because she was 20 somethin and i was 16 at the time her family took their own daughter to court for being a pedophile
I cant even make this shit up
No way possible this is true unless it was civil court and even then you'd still be the victim so there's 0 reason a judge would even entertain looking at the case, civil or criminal, unless you gave statements to prosecutors stating she raped you.
So I guess you're right, you can't make this shit up.
They hated me texting her or us even doing anything remotely at all so yeah i think it never actually went through because obviously i can speak up for myself
>Here's this story of things that happened
>Actually none of that stuff happened it was just a minor inconvenience and I lied about silly shit on Ganker to impress ????????
Neat.
That's just what bubba told you because he got worried you were a fed.
The first time i ate chicken Alfredo i was in the desert sewers in xenogears
I was making apple lassi every day after school while playing soul reaver 2
I stayed home sick on Valentine’s Day in 2nd grade and threw up peanut butter toast while playing Mario rpg
I bounced my newborn to sleep at 4am while playing baba is you
In sixth grade we had a snow day and i came inside after shoveling to have hot cocoa and play secret of mana, it was the season changing forest section
I could go on all day, i don’t know why I’m like this
You're sentimental and a good person, don't let this place corrupt you.
>threw up peanut butter toast
Hidden memory unlocked.
Mom used to make me take Flintstone vitamin pills and they always made me feel feverish. I wasn't ill to the point of vomiting but I stored up a large amount of saliva in my mouth and demanded she pull over them spewed it out to make it look like I vomited so I could go home and spend the day playing Sonic 3.
These are nice memories anon, thank you for sharing.
I realized recently that I don't make good memories when playing video games anymore, and it makes me sad. I think Outer Wilds was the last actual game that I made any positive associations with.
My, I guess you could call it obsession, with a particular game predicated a massive row with my wife that really made me worry about our future for a while.
What game?
I should clarify it was with a character, not the game itself.
It was Fang from Snoot Game.
Used to play TF2 with someone who died of kidney cancer
I played Black Ops 2 a lot as a kid, but when my mom went into a drug-withdrawal-induced psychosis, she ripped my electronics out of my room because I wouldn't behave at school and the moronic counselor b***h told her to "limit his screen time"
I love my mother dearly and she's doing good, but I still hate that I was never able to do everything in that game cuz of her. NuCoD doesn't even feel like the same genre
I played through Hypnospace Outlaw entirely with my ex-fiance, and for years after we beat it she'd regularly play the soundtrack. We also owned matching Coolfest '99 and Gumshoe Gooper T-Shirts.
Then I started on SSRIs and she had an affair with one of my best friends. Now I'm not sure I'll be able to play Dreamsettler when it releases because it'll remind me of the two people in this world I want to murder-suicide.
sounds rough sorry dude
Sounds like you removed 2 people from your life that you didn't need.
Be glad it happened before you got married and had children.
Wanted to try and play metal gear solid 4 for the first time in our main living room but some fricking japanese business asiatics came into our house and tried to sell us this stupid fricking vacuum thing I think called a kirby. My parents made us vacuum twice a week so there was never any dirt on the rug that we had in our living room so these fricking moron nips went outside and picked up a hand full of dirt from our garden and poured it on the rug. Low and behold, the vacuum did what it was supposed to do and sucked up the dirt go figure. They keep showing the feature of this overpriced shit for over an hour and I couldn't see shit or hear shit.
Those frickers made it so I will never touch mgs4
>Naming a JRPG party member after someone you know in real life
>Naming a pokemon after a pet
My parents were having a really bad argument while I was installing DMC4.
It ruined the song Out of Darkness for me.
I was so quiet when my parents fought because I didn't want the argument to turn on me and felt guilty.
I wish I could go back in time and just absolutely lose my fricking mind when they fought, like overturn furniture throw rocks through the window, shout demonic things at them. But ONLY do it when they started to fight.
>a-anon what's gotten into you, we're going to send you to military school if you do that again
Good, it'll get me away from you two.
Lots but I'm not going to blogpost
Getting to actually see this happen then clubhouse games came out a few days later
Not really. But I have small panic attacks whenever I hear some random word and my brain replays awkward memories related to that word, for some reason.
>having a hard time
>boot up assassins creed on ps3
>have a panic attack mid play session
>never play it again
>Fat frick i know in real life asks to borrow my PSP
>Let them have it cause im moronic
>When i ask for it back they say their brother has it
>Their brother moved away
>Never speak to this person ever again
>Years later they heckle me on another game website by replying to one of my posts and talking shit about my family
>Tell my parents AND his parents and they force him to apologize
So that is why i never got to finish the capcom remakes on PSP and i never will. Also never let anybody borrow shit unless you can accept it might never return.
Not a bad memory but I played Catherine with my girlfriend right after we had sex for the first time.
I bought deep rock galactic and came down with strong COVID the next day, felt like a radioactive brick wall fell on me for a week, so much so that I haven't played since.
I had a panic attack during a LoL game, a Hunt Showdown game, a Tarkov raid, and while soloing a Destiny 2 dungeon
I played Metal Slug for the first time in an arcade at one of those waterpark hotel in the Wisconsin Dells, then later I got some horrible stomach bug for the rest of the trip and sat in bed drinking ginger ale and feeling sorry for myself.
I played Sonic Advance on a lengthy childhood car ride to Florida and my sister and I were constantly fighting over ownership of the Tiny Chao Garden.
Played a lot of Henry Hatsworth the first time my mom had cancer, and was playing Animal Crossing New Leaf in the waiting room every time I drove her to her radiation appointments the second time (she is doing fine now, these are actually happy memories).
Played Sly 2 in my girlfriend's dorm room while visiting her at college, since it's one of her favorite games. That's a really good memory.
Yep. Final fantasy 9, monster hunter rise, resident evil 8, Disco Elysium
Played those right after buying my house, didn't realize my last was just using me to buy the house and was cheating on me. Took the kids and the house and the dog.
Can't even think about those games without getting depressed
My lady*
Not sure how I did that typo
I bought Persona 5 on PS3 the day it was released. Next day I found out my father was dead. I can't bring myself to play it.
Nothing specific, but I was playing gta v while I was texting a girl I really liked. I think I mentioned it to her even kek. I probably wouldn't do that nowadays. Never got with her unfortunately. Now I can't play gta v without thinking of that specific moment or her. I can't believe how fricking old gta v is and how we still haven't even got a real preview of vi
Trials HD: I was playing it when we got the call that my grandpa had a heart attack and was in the hospital. He survied and lasted 10 years after that.
Nier Replicant remake- I still haven't gotten around to playing it either. my mom had to go to the hospital shortly after its release and I was more concerned for her health
Resident Evil Village: My mom ended up dying in the hospital the day before it released and I didn't end up playing it till months later. Even after all these years I still associate it with my mom's death.
Got the call that my mom died while I was playing fallout 4. Haven’t touched a Bethesda game since. Probably for the best
Rainy days after playing sport would always remind me of playing Megadrive games, specifically Sonic 1, Decapattack and that shitty Fantasia game.
played deep rock with a friend I grew up with on friday, got a text about 2 weeks later that he killed himself 2 days after that friday. Can't play that game anymore
I found out my grandfather died immediately after finishing Beyond Oasis. When I was working on Zelda 2, I found out a childhood friend committed suicide.
I played jet set radio future after a girl stood me up. Was waiting there for an hour
>group therapy session on Ganker
I somehow developed a life ruining hearing disorder while playing The Evil Within 2. Not as a result of the game audio or anything, that's just what I was playing when I took my headset off and everything was painfully loud to the point the fridge running sent me into a panic attack. It's more under control now but the thought of playing it again and recreating any part of the events of that night leaves me with a sour taste in my mouth. I legit thought I had schizophrenia or something until I went to a hearing specialist and got tested for hyperacusis. On the flipside, unlike most depressing posts in this thread all my friends and family stuck by me and helped me thus proving their loyalty and making me appreciate them more and be humbled.
Wow, so your ears just started working TOO well, out of nowhere?
What the frick man how does that even work/ happen?
I've been borderline immaterial to real life, so.. no not really
I was playing splitscreen UT2k4 on the Xbox with a friend when his sister came down in the basement crying and told us his cousin killed herself.
Neither of us really knew what to do and kind of just kept playing for like 2 minutes, mostly just jumping around the map.
Now whenever I hear the "HURGH" jump sound from those games that's always the first thing I think of
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My mom died overnight when I was 20. It absolutely broke me. I didn't play and video games or do anything for a long while due to grief. At one point, I wanted to take my mind off things and play something. I picked up this nice, cute looking game at a store. It was called Ni No Kuni. The intro to that game fricking ruined me. I never went back to it.
Damn you rolled the dice wrong on that one lmao sorry anon I love you
I played Cyberpunk 2077 and finished it while contracting the worst bout of COVID in my life in 2020. My memories are finding it increasingly difficult to breathe as I went on playing because of the self isolation thing. All I remember are severe night sweats. I don't even know what the frick the story was about except Keanu Reeves in the mission before the ending. I never want to touch the game again.
I mean, maybe a bad memory for him but me and my brother beat the living shit out of this kid we knew for tossing our controller when he lost at Mario Kart 64. We were like "what the frick" then came at us both and we just beat the shit out of him. Came back with his dad crying and my mom told them if he came over again she was calling the cops on both of them.
Never saw him after that, they ended moving, but you know don't try and break peoples shit because you sperged over a video game.
The time my Boomer dad wanted to bond with me so he came into my room literally doing the "are you winning son?" meme and I was playing Tales of Vesperia, and it was at an especially gay anime part and he just backed out again without saying anything.
Like Tales of games aren't even that deeply animu but by my dad's level of exposure he probably thought I was a collossal homosexual there and then.
Yes, FFXI. It doesn't bear talking about. Ultimately didn't sour the game for me though.
My appendix burst while I was playing Minecraft lan with two of my best friends in my first year of university. Went into a coma, missed finals, couldn't save my already weak grades, and at 19 years old I had 5 figure debt with nothing to show for it on top of being a khhv. I've played it a couple times since then but it doesn't stick. It's still one of the last good games that's come out though.
No. The closest I had to associating video games to a bad experience was when I got a call to tell me that one of my friends had died in a car crash while I was playing the Amane route in Grisaia no Kajitsu. It made my stomach turn and stopped playing that day and resumed the next day.
I don't think I've played Sonic 2 since I was told my mother died.