When Have You Gotten Mad At A Video Game For Wasting Your Time?

When Have You Gotten Mad At A Video Game For Wasting Your Time?

Have you ever been so pissed off at a video game for wasting your time that you turned off the TV? Threw your controller? Snapped all your disks in half?

Here’s a quick anecdote: Last night, after a gruelling final week of writing and editing, I finished the first draft of my first book. (More news on that to come soon.) Relieved and exhausted, I got in bed and started playing the Dragon Quest 8 remake on 3DS — the first video game I’ve really had time to play in months.

I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with Dragon Quest games. I enjoy almost everything about them — the atmosphere, the humour, the combat — but I’m always frustrated by the sluggish pace and the series’ insistence upon sticking with obsolete features like level-grinding. From what I remembered, though, Dragon Quest 8 was always the best of the bunch. So I expected it to be a nice, relaxing experience. Which is why I nearly broke my 3DS when my main character died to an unlucky critical hit as I was on the third floor of the first dungeon, forcing me to trek all the way back to town because, inexplicably, Dragon Quest 8 doesn’t give you any way to revive dead party members until later in the game. Instead I just turned it off and played Threes.

That’s a relatively tame story, though, and it pales in comparison to all the times when my PS1 memory cards would fail and gobble up all my save files. So I want to hear your stories. Has a game ever really wasted your time? Pissed you off to the point where you couldn’t bring yourself to play it again? Share your stories below.


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