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Spoilers that have ruined games on you
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Andrefpvs
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I played The Walking Dead Season 1 this summer, and although it didn't exactly ruin the game for me, the ending didn't have as much impact.
What's interesting is that no one in particular spoiled the ending for me; it was just my brain connecting the pieces due to
I kept expecting the game to have some other reason for that, but nope -- what I assumed is what happened.
What's interesting is that no one in particular spoiled the ending for me; it was just my brain connecting the pieces due to
how the second season was marketed. Even though I didn't look for any season 2 info, it was pretty much everywhere who you played as and that she had to survive on her own. Now WHY would she need to do that?
JSoup
Banned
I really can't think of any game that was ruined for me by spoilers. Some spoiler took the piss out of the game (like inFAMOUS 2 and Second Son), but I still wanted to play them.
Admittedly, if you got to the start of the last episode and didn't see what was coming........
I mean
Admittedly, if you got to the start of the last episode and didn't see what was coming........
I mean
the previous episode ends with Lee getting bitten. How did you think that was going to resolve itself, tea and cookies made from anti-zombie serum?
Markitron
Is currently staging a hunger strike outside Gearbox HQ while trying to hate them to death
you should say what game your spoiling there
Bioshock Infinite.
terrisus
Member
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Yeah though, some people don't use spoilers very well.
I got Heavy Rain spoiled a week before release by a mysterious text message that told me who the killer was. No idea who's number it was.
Northeastmonk
Gold Member
What sucks about Streaming is that they comment on the entire structure of the game from their own point of view. You literally have to build some self confidence to adjust to the game and the cut scenes. No offence, but I think some things are best enjoyed without commentary or at least until you've played it through once or twice. Next to a critic or a person who hates the game period, it kills the gamer's ego.
Iva Demilcol
Member
You should see the video review for Brothers a Tale of Two Sons by gamespot.
Andrefpvs
Member
Wrong tab?
Markitron
Is currently staging a hunger strike outside Gearbox HQ while trying to hate them to death
When Gamespot posted their video review of Uncharted 2 they posted they posted gameplay of
. Really fucking stupid thing to do.
I knew it was coming and it ruined the ice caves section on me.
I knew I had heard of them doing that again. Idiots
Drake fighting the Yeti
I knew it was coming and it ruined the ice caves section on me.
I knew I had heard of them doing that again. Idiots
Northeastmonk
Gold Member
You think after years of thinking this way.. i could of said it differently. I'm just saying that a game is spoiled if you spent $60 or more dollars on it just to watch someone else play it and totally destroy the schematics with their comments. It's that raw criticism with exploitation. Think about "Mystery Science Theater 3000" but with video games.
If anyone wants to go into the first Danganronpa without being spoiled, make sure you don't look at ANY cosplay from the game, as people love to cosplay a very specific spoiler from that game, which is funny, because there is totally a non-spoiler version they could cosplay, but everyone chooses the spoiler one!
I also got spoiled by voice actor announcements for that game. Aaaagh.
Edit: However, the spoilers didn't RUIN the game for me. The best thing about being spoiled by small glimpses of stuff like this is that there is no context as to what the spoiler actually means, so stuff like the reveal and how its executed were still surprising.
I've been very careful not to read or even look at anything about Danganronpa 2, to get as pure of an experience as possible.
I also got spoiled by voice actor announcements for that game. Aaaagh.
Edit: However, the spoilers didn't RUIN the game for me. The best thing about being spoiled by small glimpses of stuff like this is that there is no context as to what the spoiler actually means, so stuff like the reveal and how its executed were still surprising.
I've been very careful not to read or even look at anything about Danganronpa 2, to get as pure of an experience as possible.
The Silver
Member
Persona 3 was another one where I already knew the ending, don't remember if I got spoiled or I looked it up myself.
Again it didn't ruin the game at all, I'm very good at not letting that stuff get to me.
Again it didn't ruin the game at all, I'm very good at not letting that stuff get to me.
Andrefpvs
Member
Oooh, my bad, I actually thought there was a thread about experiencing games through streams and you had posted here by mistake. Sorry about that!
Markitron
Is currently staging a hunger strike outside Gearbox HQ while trying to hate them to death
I know it's been a while, but maybe you should tag that just incase
The guy didn't use spoiler tags in his original post. Then he edited it, so I had to remove it from mine to make sense.
I actually had a single avatar spoil the first game for meand funny since you have the same character as yoursHaving Junko alone, the character thought to be dead at the beginning, I wondered why anyone would want this character with little air time as their avatar? Well, made for an easy guess of who the mastermind at the end was! ...except for the Mukuro thing. That was a surprise!
Yeah, when I noticed a corpse was missing from the morgue I remembered some avatars to confirm my suspicion. But a few minutes later the game confirms it anyway.
That's the joke.
Captainbojanglesiii
Banned
Yep. The ending was ruined, but it is still my favorite game of all time.
Markitron
Is currently staging a hunger strike outside Gearbox HQ while trying to hate them to death
I get the joke (I think) but it's still a massive spoiler for a popular series of books and films
Sorry about that, all fixed now.
terrisus
Member
Romeo and Juliet die at the end.
bobawesome
Member
I had the ending ruined for me several years ago and only recently got around to finishing the game. I thought it was very well done and it didn't hamper my enjoyment in the slightest. It only
filled me with dread as I got closer to the end.
You're right. I tagged it.
Markitron
Is currently staging a hunger strike outside Gearbox HQ while trying to hate them to death
I didn't get around to playing FF7 until 2000, by then it was common knowledge. Scene still packed a punch though.
Iva Demilcol
Member
The "funny" thing is that the reviewer drops a big spoiler in the first phrase he uses in the review. No warnings, no nothing to prevents you from listening...
cloudzack117
Banned
Johnny Young Bosch spoiled a huge plot twist in persona 4 for me during a QnA panel at a convention..
Someone asked him if hes ever had to voice multiple people and talk to himself. loaded question i guess. he started talking about how he voices the MC who doesnt talk much, and then voices Adachi, and he started talking about all the stuff adachi does lol. loaded question i guess
terrisus
Member
I didn't finally force myself to play through it until 2011.
The entire game was mediocre, so nothing about that particularly stood out.
RDR
It´s been more than two years since I bought the game (the GOTY version ,actually) and I still haven't finished the game. I don't plan to finish it anytime soon.
Back in 2012 I used to read a lot of articles in IGN and one day they posted one about the most shocking deaths of videogame characters.Well,I enter the article and one of the videogames was RDR , but before I could read the title I saw an image of a bloody John Marston.
It´s been more than two years since I bought the game (the GOTY version ,actually) and I still haven't finished the game. I don't plan to finish it anytime soon.
LaunchpadMcQ
Banned
Looking up anything related to DR without having beaten the games is just asking for it. The only resource one can reasonably rely on is the OT here.
I had Persona 4's killer, as well as
the true mastermind behind the whole incident
I put together that Izanami (didn't know the name back then) looked a good deal like that gas station attendent.
tiggerkiddo
Member
I've either had most games spoiled for me or I've spoiled myself willingly. None of them ruined the game for me though since it was all about the journey and I long stopped caring about spoilers.
Markitron
Is currently staging a hunger strike outside Gearbox HQ while trying to hate them to death
I wish I could have this attitude, I really do. To refer back to the OP, when I played Heavy Rain it constantly bothered me that I knew who the killer was, every so often I would start thinking that I am not enjoying the game as much as I should be. Towards the end I just started trying to guess how they would reveal it. 'Ruining' might be too strong a word for the majority of game spoilers, but in a game set around the identity of the killer it's certainly appropriate.
Darryl M R
Member
Every single Pokemon game when the mother and professor basically tells me that I will become the greatest Pokemon master ever.
Catalix
And on the sixth day the LORD David Bowie created man and woman in His image. And he saw that it was good. On the seventh day the LORD created videogames so that He might take the bloody day off for once.
Yup, same exact pic I stumbled across. The game was so close to coming out too.
Still salty about it till this day. Wouldn't been the ultimate blindside megaton for me.
I spoiled Persona 3's ending for myself when P4 first came out, because I was new to the Persona series and wanted to know if the stories were continuous, as in whether you should play 3 to understand 4. I didn't finish 4 due to life circumstances, but I came back to the series a year later starting with 3, and honestly, knowing the ending didn't affect my experience at all.
I've actually had my fair share of games spoiled, but if the game itself is good, it never completely ruins the experience for me. Sure, there's the obvious lack of surprise when I reach the spoiled point, but the game's still enjoyable and I can still look forward to seeing how the game reaches that point.
Ugh, but I really, really hate spoilers. Anyone who knows me, knows how I am about spoiling things. I don't even like to read people's opinions on something I'm going to experience for the story. I want to know nothing. I want to go in knowing nothing more than the premise. It's harder these days with everything on the internet though. If I ever stumble across a spoiler (which happens fairly often), I usually try to overload my brain by clicking to an article or something and immediately occupying my mind until whatever I spoiled isn't on my mind anymore. If I can go a week or so without reminding myself of the spoiler, 50% of the time I might end up forgetting all or some details about what I spoiled.
Still, as much as I despise spoilers, they're not enough to deter me from trying out a game I'm interested in, and would certainly never ruin an otherwise enjoyable experience for me.
I've actually had my fair share of games spoiled, but if the game itself is good, it never completely ruins the experience for me. Sure, there's the obvious lack of surprise when I reach the spoiled point, but the game's still enjoyable and I can still look forward to seeing how the game reaches that point.
Ugh, but I really, really hate spoilers. Anyone who knows me, knows how I am about spoiling things. I don't even like to read people's opinions on something I'm going to experience for the story. I want to know nothing. I want to go in knowing nothing more than the premise. It's harder these days with everything on the internet though. If I ever stumble across a spoiler (which happens fairly often), I usually try to overload my brain by clicking to an article or something and immediately occupying my mind until whatever I spoiled isn't on my mind anymore. If I can go a week or so without reminding myself of the spoiler, 50% of the time I might end up forgetting all or some details about what I spoiled.
Still, as much as I despise spoilers, they're not enough to deter me from trying out a game I'm interested in, and would certainly never ruin an otherwise enjoyable experience for me.
Love Deterrence
Member
Yup... This.
I actually spoiled the ending of Persona 3 on myself. You see, years before I even knew what Persona even was, I had heard of its ending. Or at least *HUGE SPOILER*
*HUGE SPOILER* it's just that, maybe 30 or 40 hours into my playthrough, out of nowhere my mind connected the dots and recognized that this was the game. Considering I have really bad memory, I was really pissed at that. Loved every part of the game regardless.
MC dies at the end
ShinMaruku
Member
I never let spoilers ruin a game but I have trolled many a time with spoilers.
Huh... I thought TWD ending was the most obvious thing in the world. Can't see why that would stop you playing
plasmawave
Banned
Something similar but the dude had the spoiler as his name on GT forums.
Fuck that guy.
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