In Dragon Age Origins (or maybe 2?) I decided to kill a werewolf to put her out of her misery, and then found out later that I could have cured her lycanthropy. It didn't prevent me from progressing, but the emotional impact made the character feel like a failure.
I made a mistake as well. I was confident that making alistair marry anora would allow me to recruit loghain... But I did not know I needed to harden alistair, I wasn't even aware of this mechanic, so I recruited loghain, alistair refused to marry and became a drunk
When I saw Infamous in the thumbnail, I thought one of you made the mistake I made and set off the bomb after a hero playthrough. Now I can't walk down the street without getting hit in the face with a bottle 😂
Rosie, it's alright. It gives you some renegade points and money if you scan them all. If you get the two quest givers to cooperate, then you'll have a cameo from them in 2 and iirc maybe 3. If you don't scan them all then you might see one of the npcs in 2, but it literally has very little impact on the games either way.
Final Fantasy 9!! There's that bit on disc 3 where you have to split your party to get something for Kuja and I sent all the magic users to a place where you shouldn't be sending your magic users as there's an anti magic field... If only I were paying attention. That was the day I learned to have many saves for the same playthrough.
The worst thing is that the island itself allows you to use magic, so you don’t fully realize your mistake until you are in the actual dungeon. There was a bit of panic and confusion when i tried to heal, and then it dawned on me. Glad I’m not the only one who put magic users on my team immediately after the game tells you not to
The cheats have sort of ruined the modern version. Speed up, fill gauge etc… I can’t help just pressing the cheat buttons. It’s not as fun. It should of been locked off until you completed it once.
Looks Infectious for the fill gages, 9999 damage, and no encounters I agree with you, but speed up really doesn’t do anything to cheat imo. It just makes everything take less time. The only things I feel that could be cheated with those are the chocobo hot/cold, the festival of the hunt, and if you are trying for Excalibur II, but if you want the challenge you don’t have to use it for those
Until dawn , I didn't understand if Sam ran she would burn everyone Alive. Ended up killing basically everyone I saved right at end cause I didn't understand
@@itendsinmegadeth I was like ' oh yeah everyone will run with me as I go ' next thing I now Sam just burned Chris Ashley Emily and Mike alive and I just :O
@@looksinfectious9642 oh my god they're the worst , most I was okay with but the one I struggle with is Sam as the end where Hannah is right by you and I'm here holding my breath for dear life to not move
Scanning the Keepers give you some exp and credits.. Nothing more nothing less.. It has absolutely no ramifications for either Mass Effect 2 or 3.. Not even for ME1 for that matter. After you scanned the final Keeper you immediately get your exp and credits and the quest is marked as finished.
@@recht_voor_zijn_raap5506 You are correct it has no ramifications, but there is a reference to it in ME2: you'll get a letter from Chorbin (assuming you didn't kill him) about his research and how he thinks it's important but can't get funding for further research. That's it afaik, though there might (read: probably isn't, but I am not 100% sure as I write this) be a supremely tiny galactic readiness effect in 3.
@@looksinfectious9642 And 8 paragon points, iirc. I just played ME1 and I don't remember the exact number, but I know I got a decent amount of Paragon points from that sidequest and the related one.
Powerleveling in Oblivion. I leveled up to level 50 in a way that I maxed out my stats, but then I didn't have good scores in my fighting abilities, so the enemies were very difficult to kill. So then I enchanted my armor to become completely invisible. But I still had difficulty fighting anything that could heal itself.
Fun fact; there are actually 21 keepers to scan but in the legendary edition you only need to scan 20. It's funny because in the original I would always spend ages looking for the last one 😂
I had something similar with FF 15. My first mistake was that I didn’t activate the chocobos. So, I had to walk everywhere when I lost the car. Then, I couldn’t defeat a single enemy after the timeskip before the final boss.
I ruined Bioshock by running out of ammo during the part where you have to shoot the teleporting flamey guys. I just remember sprinting after them with my wrench, only to watch them teleport away. T_T
In Final Fantasy X. Up until Bevelle I had fully completed all of the Cloister of Trials. They were fun puzzles to solve. At the end of the Bevelle cloister I knew what I had to do but for some reason the game wasn't giving me the prompt to push the pedestal. I moved around for many many minutes trying to get it, but it wouldn't give me the option to push it. I don't know if the game bugged out on me, if I needed to reload and try again, or what. I figured, I'm sure all it will give me is something like a megalixer or another item that my over leveling will make obsolete; so I continued on. Then I reach the end game, and I find out in order to get the final Aeon you need to fully complete all of the cloisters. It's okay, you can go back to them... except one.. the only one I skipped completing because the game wouldn't let me.. And that immediately halted my playthrough of FFX.
Probably didn't have 2 spheres. You place 1 in the pedestal, and hold another. Then place the one your holding to activate path to secret treasure. You probably already know this. But just in case someone else doesn't.
Yeah, the destruction sphere treasures is such a mean thing to new players. Learning about that really soured my experience of the game, knowing I now have to go to end game stats and items to get something I could have got 50 hours ago for no extra effort.
I got FFX as a package deal with the ps2, you got a cheat disk in the package. Xploder I think it was called. There was a fight that scaled with level, Kumari vs another Ronso warrior. It took me about 5 hours because each attack took of 1 hp. Took a lot of patience.
OK, Rob, Nate, Ash, please don't tell this to Rosie but I personally have completed the Mass Effect trilogy more than I'd like to admit and I have done almost all the possible stipulations of the decisions you can make ... I don't want to spoil anything ... but I will only say this. I just can't believe Rosie would play so fast and loose with _the fate of the universe._
The first time I played Dragon Age 2 I completely missed recruiting Fenris because the quest in which you do recruit him is set up to be something completely different that I didn't want to do. So I beat the game and only found out afterwards that , turns out said quest doesn't have you smuggling lyrium, and in fact was about fighting slavers who want to recapture Fenris. I was pretty embarrassed to find out I had accidently abandoned a party member to be hunted by slavers because I didn't even know he existed at the time.
I didn't scan the keepers in one of my playthroughs. Now I'm not saying it's connected, but that was also the playthrough where I lost all my team in the suicide mission in mass effect 2...
Scanning the Keepers give you some exp and credits.. Nothing more nothing less.. It has absolutely no ramifications for either Mass Effect 2 or 3.. Not even for ME1 for that matter. After you scanned the final Keeper you immediately get your exp and credits and the quest is marked as finished.
Junction is important in FF8, but there's another trick that makes the final boss easy: don't gain levels. FF8 keys enemy power to your level, even the final boss, so the lower your level the weaker the boss. Use junction to boost your stats and you can wipe the floor with the boss.
My wife beat Kingdom Hearts 1 on the PS2 using only the Kingdom Key on accident. She had never played an RPG so she didn't know you could change equipment...
Most I’ve ruined a game in recent memory was Vampyr. I got the second worst ending due to two wrong choices late game. I let one district fall into chaos and made one choice that caused my waifu to kill herself in the ending. Really ruined my enjoyment right at the end.
Lol I deleted that last week after I spared a scal priest and he murdered an entire district, the game even said live with your choices, no I don't think I will thank you.
Like Rob, playing FF8 as a kid, I didn't understand the junction mechanics and just played relying on GFs and didn't get them all. So I really struggled with Adele and especially Ultimecia's castle. Somehow beat all the bosses and got to Ultimecia with 2 GFs alive and one character with their best weapon. Current remaster save file, do understand the system. Obsessively drew magic to 100 and never use it and need to get rid of the lower tier magic to make space.
Trying to be a father figure and support Ciri in Witcher 3. I didn't know doing that means you get a bad ending so I didn't know I'd ruined it until the end cut scene.
Horizon Zero Dawn - Not in the main game, but during the Frozen Wilds DLC, I accidentally sold my permanent fast travel item, without realising, and I never found the vendor I sold it to! 😫
Final Fantasy 13 trophy to have one of every weapon/item. I became too confident in my checklist. The items are really expensive and after 20+ hours farming difficult adamantoises, I decided to sell some of the expensive items to make the grind easier. To my horror the trophy didn't unlock when I "completed" getting all items and I had no idea which one I missed. I felt sick for while after that.
@@CB-lw7ty Totally get that! The upgrades get expensive, especially Grandmaster Gear; you basically have to have a build in mind from jump or you're gonna end up grinding like crazy to make money. Of course, there's always Gwent 🤣
Early on playing Darkest Dungeon, I came across some sort of alter. I wasn’t paying attention to the text, but it said something about lighting a torch. So I lit a torch and accidentally summoned a Shambler, which is incredibly powerful. Had a complete party wipe, and lost all of my best characters. At that stage it was quicker to start the whole game over.
Joining the Company of Champions in Darks Souls 2, which basically makes the whole game harder. I didn't realise that or I would have left it right away.
Saw title. Immediately thought, I remember my friend made it to the last boss in FF8 and could never beat it due to bad leveling decisions. and then poor poor Rob started talking.
I had to add another playthrough of infamous because on my first time through I took one evil power up half way through and ruined my only good powers trophy.
In Fallout 4, I decided to side with the Brotherhood. When given the instructions on how to build the machine that would take me to The Institute, I gave it to the Brotherhood, thinking it would be the best option if the Institute decided to attack wherever the machine was made. They didn’t, thus setting me up for attacking the Railroad, ultimately having to kill everyone in the North Boston Church. I felt no pride that day, and learned the important lesson to have multiple saves on The Molecular Level mission.
I really love these features but sometimes I don't dare watch them for fear of spoilers. there used to be a list at the beginning of the video so one knew which games were going to be discussed. It would be great if that came back or maybe put in the chapters at the bottom of the timeline, so one can jump to the safe parts.
Running through to the final boss in Ni No Kuni without levelling! I got wiped out. Luckily I was able to retreat to previous rooms and boost my levels but it was a poor decision that nearly cost me my game....and sanity 🙃
For FFVIII I also didn't understand the junction system until I couldn't beat Disc 3. Then I went to the manual and relearned junctioning. I ended up loving it. It was so brilliant
Nathan!!!! I had 399 shard too, and it was painful to find the last one. It was exactly the same one and was so hard because the shard would not show on the map unless you were a bit closer (height, not just horizontally).
That Mass Effect decision is pretty minor - if you continue scanning the keepers you get an email from that Salarian in Mass Effect 2 thanking you for the data. That's it.
Yooo! Rob I did the exact same thing as a young boy. Got all the way to Ultimecia and could not beat her. Ended up having to start the game ALL OVER! lol.
Rob and Nath talking about the Junction system, blood gems and the mutagen system... Just @ me next time guys, I'm definitely that person. I had to brute force my way through all 3 games thanks to that 😅
In Oblivion ended up on a boat and was infected with Vampirism. Couldn't find the cure n heard you have to find this random woman in a cabin.....somewhere on the map unmarked. 🤷♂️. Wasn't on the internet then so ended up giving up.
Rosie just handed the Reapers the win in ME3 ... For me, Dark Souls Blight Town. Twice engaged in convo's with NPC selling stuff and twice got attacked, nicked the NPC's while defending myself. Assume my options to buy from them are gone forever given he chased me to the Campfire and resumed attacking me after I had rested. Had to drop him... So sad, too far in to redo.
In FF8 I used the leveling glitch to power level three charaters. I then loaded them out with all of the guardian spirits to boost all of their stats. I then went to wash the final boss, not knowing it would randomly select your team for you. The last battle took hours as I had to wait for the right party members to be selected before I could out cheese the final boss.
I've never played Mass Effect 1. I really need to get the Legendary Edition. I stopped at the tower in Infamous because I couldn't climb beyond a certain point.
I think they film these checklists quite far in advance, so that might be why. Also, a lot of UK workplaces are still doing a gradual transition back to the office or a hybrid approach (1-2 days in office, 3-4 days WFH)
It happened to me too last year, Rosie. I was determined to finish Final Fantasy VIII over Christmas, and I did follow the Junction system very well, but still my HP was not high enough to face Ultimecia. Next time, I'm going to follow a guide. I think my biggest mistake was in Star Ocean Till the End of Time. I had this key item early in the game, that I don't really remember that well, and it was only useful at the beginning of the game. So once I decided that the game wasn't using it anymore, I tossed it. Then, low and behold, near the end of the game, I needed it again, and I couldn't go back to get it.
FFVIII is a rare example of a Final Fantasy that can get easier to beat at lower levels. Once you understand the Junction system and know how to obtain powerful spells, it's possible to have huge HP at a very low level. Since enemies level up along with your party, it's far easier to win with a party that's low-levelled but well-junctioned.
Only a complete MORON uses ONE SINGLE SAVE for their ENTIRE playtime on a Final Fantasy game. You save OFTEN and save in EVERY slot available so you don't lose more than an hour or so of time if you have to go back for something... This is RPG 101, the most basic part of any RPG
Mass Effect 2. Not game-ruining per se, but it pushed me to replay solid 10h of game. I recruited Legion as soon as possible. Which led to... losses. To put it one way.
Definitely "Detroit become human". This "Mark Zuckerberg" type of guy dares you to shoot this android model, if you shoot he will spill the beans on what's going on with all these murders and what not. Easy peasy! >Blam!< I remember everyone in the game looking at me..."dude!" My partner turned into a suicidal alcoholic, Mark didn't tell me anything....4% of players shot the android. I stand by my decision! Stand proud 4%!
Omg Nath, I was a huge infamous fan. I played 1 & 2 on both good & bad karma & sadly when I swapped to a bigger HDD on my ps3, the cloud saves were all mangled when I reacquired them along with other games u can play 2 different ways. Far Cry 4, Red Dead Redemption goty/Undead Nightmare. Pretty much the only games I had played to the end & again the other way & suddenly my progress was no longer there or saved correctly. I was crushed. Pcs were missing & yeah I never trusted clouds after that. Hence why when I got my PS4, I swapped to 2 tb b4 I even started using it.
Yes I ruined Elder Scrolls Morrowwind when I was 14. I can't remember exactly what it but I couldn't fight the main boss at the very end because I snuck into his castle and wasn't aloud back in to fight him or something very close to that. I had 100s of hours invested and it was my first RPG Open world game and I botched it. I'm glad I didn't suffer PTSD and never be able to play Open worlds again
I don't remember which weapon it was, but in FFIX I was permanently missing one of Zidane's skills (and thus the corresponding Dyne skill) on my first playthrough because I sold off the only(?) weapon that taught it before getting enough AP to learn the skill.
So for anyone curious about the Keepers from Mass Effect (Spoilers below) Completing the quest does nothing, just a small email in ME 2; I'm actually far more concerned with, is why her friends thought the Keepers were important and made her worried...
I STILL have 399 shards on Infamous 1. And I don't have an excuse as good as Nate's LOL. IIRC there was like a general radius that the shard could be found in and you don't actually see that radius until you're within its range. The map will tell you how many you find in different areas of the city but it won't tell you directly where they are, or where to find the radius. I never found that goddamn shard! I was THIS close to looking through a guide and systematically checking every shard's location. Then I realised I'd have to do that for 400 different places and...nah. Great game, Infamous. But that shard can eat it.
Scanning the Keepers - Mass Effect 2 Consequences If you didn't kill Chorban, you offered to scan for him, and completed his assignment, Chorban will send you a brief summary of his findings. Unfortunately, he has been unable to convince anyone into taking his discoveries seriously. The e-mail will be received once you've advanced enough through Mass Effect 2.
My Mass Effect 2 run was ruined by 2 things. 1. I picked Zaeed for the other team during the Suicide Mission (consequently, Kasumi got shot in the face). I had to restart the entire thing because I didn't save until after passing through the Omega 4 Relay. 2. I didn't take Kelly Chambers to dinner, which locked out a bonus in Mass Effect 3, as well as her cameo - which I only learned in ME3 after using the save where I had to restart the entire game because of Zaeed.
Breath of Fire 3: The only game I've played since I was 10(when I acquired my PS3) that I have played more than 2 hours of, but never finished. I went back to it around 2010 after not playing it since I was a kid, and I re-learned the game pretty quickly. I played the entire rest of the game having not reach the adult portion of the game before, and I got to a boss fight at the end of the several hour long final dungeon called the "Dragon Lord". And I got soft locked. Prior to this fight is a small illusion dungeon that you play as just the protagonist, and can't leave without fighting a mini boss before this, and then beating the Dragon Lord himself. And I saved right when I entered, with no other save file. I beat the mini-boss, didn't know there was a fight after, and was too low on magic to finish him. Ok. Go again, don't use magic on the mini-boss. So I try, and after several runs I get it down to using maybe 1 tenth of my magic. But I still, every time, get wiped. I can't use different party members, because the others are 30+ levels behind, so I try grinding my main character. But I don't have enough items to sustain it because I don't have any "tents" left to get my health and MP back without using combat items, and there are no shops. So I got completely soft locked. Fast forward to 3 years ago, I download it on my phone for an emulator. I play through the game until right before the massive final dungeon begins, and I decide to go in safe this time: I grind myself several levels higher, I buy a substantial number of health and magic replenishing items, and I finish finding every "gene" in the game for my main character to transform with. And just as I'm getting back into this enormous final dungeon to beat it once and for all!.. ...I realized I wasn't interested enough in the game anymore to slough through the massive dungeon, and instead download all the disks of Legend of Dragoon and play through all of that, then shortly after delete my emulator and all its games because I needed to free up space on my phone.
I still don't have a single platinum trophy. Even though I love to 100% most games by getting all the collectibles and side content. Yet their is always some trophies that either are way to hard for me to ever get or would require me replaying the game all over again. Like take Judgement for example I'm like 3 trophies away from a platinum yet know I will never get it. As two of them would require me playing the entire game over again so I can beat it on the highest difficulty setting which I will never do. I liked the game but not enough to replay it all over. And even if I did their would still be one trophy I will never get which requires you to 100% all of the KamuroGo missions which just never doing that. For starters I don't think I could. I have done all the restaurant missions and batting cage ones. But don't think I could every do all the arcade ones as some of those games it would take me days just to master enough to beat those missions. Then you have the UFO game which I have played for about 2hrs in the game and have yet to grab a single prize. And finally you have Shogi and Mahjong two games I know nothing about. Shogi at least seems like if I wanted to I could learn it enough to be able to get those missions. but Mahjong no way in hell. As that game seems like it would take me like week to just grasp the basics. On the plus side I might soon get two platinum trophies. One is for Undertale as all I have to do is beat the game now and then for The Wolf Among Us which seems like it would be very easy to platinum. Yet with PS Now I got side tracked from finishing Undertale or starting TWAU. As just started playing Ni No Kuni for the first time and trying to beat Record of Agarest War for the first time.
I didn't quite ruin the game, but when I played Dragon Age: Origins I thought the characters could be any sub-class I wanted, so rather than follow their obvious paths, I made Alister a two sword-wielding warrior (he's supposed to be a tank with a shield, Lilliana a melee, dagger rogue, (she's an archer) and so on. It worked out ok until I got to the Archdemon and I just go spanked over and over again. I was finally able to beat the game by abusing my main character's tanky abilities and having Lilliana spam ballista bolts at it, but it was a close call. When I played through the game again I followed the set builds for each character and ripped through everything so easily it was almost sad.
Well, I was playing skyrim on ps3 when it first came out and I became a vampire by fighting one, and after that, I couldn't really do anything because everyone would attack me on sight. Haven't played the game since😑😂
JRPGs are a foreign language to me, never played any of the FF games, apart from FF XII very briefly. Did finally get through the Witcher 3 a couple of years ago without really grasping a lot of the systems though. Although the Botching boss put me off the game for several years
Don't feel bad Rob. Exact same game, Exact same problem, nearly the same age. Only difference is I only used the guardian forces throughout. Then that same guy in the final boss starts instakilling them. I'd only figured out the junction system in the final area, way too late
Star wars episode 1, on Tatooine there's a market trader who says "you better stand back, I'm about to slash.." so I slashed first. Turns out Anakin doesn't want to help a murderer, who'd have thought it, and apparently he was only slashing his prices
Short answer, not doing the Keeper quest, and or any choice you make involving the Keeper quest has 0 significant impact on the trilogy. It changes some fluff in the ME3. The point of that question is to have you, the player, an incentive to explore the Citadel on foot, which allows you to then use the quick travel points in the future.
Might be an unpopular opinion but I enjoyed Marcus violent ending more than the pacifist one, don't get me wrong, I understand that being peaceful is probably the right thing, but I just felt like the ending was too "Disney-ish", kinda went away from the darker tone the game was setting, so I quite don't regret of doing it in my first run
I think Rosie should watch a video here on youtube where they truly tried to break the game (By bringing the least amount of squadmates along through the trilogy as possible). You can truly make the game confused lol.
I ruined Final Fantasy 8 in a totally different way. I left my ship to explore on a chocobo, which promptly ran away, forever stranding me on an island I couldn’t escape. So that was neat.
