Stupid Stuff

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Has anyone ever done anything then realised they were doing the wrong thing?

eg. waithing for a romance dialog then realising the games been puased for about three hours (happened to a friend)

I was just wondering as it is easy to do
any funny stories?

 

Umm...people pause the game for hours all the time to wait for romance dialogues. A great many of them work on real-time counters IIRC.

Not quite an answer to your question, not really "stupid stuff" either, more like "silly stuff," but recently I started trying to understand what all those screaming townsfolk were on about. One guy in trademeet yelled, "I've always been suspicious of clean-shaven men."

Cracked me up..

 

A friend cracked up on me when he saw a spelling mistake on SoA, when Bhodi appears first she says
"Hello, I am Bhodi" but his computer put up
"Hello, I ma Bhogi" he still can't get over it, personally I think he rigged it

 

Most of the really stupid stuff i do, apart from the wonder why no-one moves, and then realising the game's paused, is saving at the most stupid moment. IE just after a character has died and lost their belongings, then have to go to the auto save and start fresh. Thank god for autosave

 

this was a serious bug i found, and i dont know WHAT it was caused by, but in one of the irenicus/imoen dreams (the one where theres a whole lot of petrified people and he un-petrifies the lady in the dress), after he kills the lady, time went on but nothin happened. jon just stood there in his karate position and my pc just went on doing his big stretch movement. it was just wierd.

 

How about getting pissed off at your characters because they won't follow your commands...and realizing you're trying to select a NPC...
Another good one is detecting a trap and then walking straight through it...I swear it only happened once...

 

Let me see after finding out that if i alt-tab the game, it will flicker all the time, i still do it aleast everytime i play the game.

waiting for my characters to move while the game is paused

selling an item that i needed

using up all the charges on my wand of ressurcetion when playing the game without a cleric

ohh i have doen many stupid things

 

This must be my favourite stupid tactic because I do it over and over and over again.

My thief prepares for a backstab.
He hides in shadows and readies his weapon.
He sneaks toward the enemy.
At first sight of the enemy the thief leaps out of shadows and charges head-on only to get the snot beaten out of him.

I've left the bl**dy AI turned on.

 

The sillyest(spelling??) thing happened to me was when Aerie maked a comment on how Jaheira's hair was shining in the sun when we where fighting firkaag WE WHERE IN THE MIDDLE OF A DRAGONS CAVE!! :hmmm:

 

I like Imoen saying that she now remembers why she liked traveling with my main char so much. Usually that happenens when both are slaughtering a horde of enemies ...

 

The dumbest thing I've ever done is sold a MAJOR quest item...then saved over it...then realized what I had done, then on top of it all...not having enough money to buy it back!!!!

 

...or Aerie asking me to "make a woman of her" on a pile orc corpses in Firkraag's dungeon...so romantic...

 

How aboud this one: I was sent out to kill somebody and, when I came back to say i had done it, I could only say that I had not done it yet so I went back and found out I killed the wrong one! But here it comes I killed another one.. and was wrong again! (This could also have been in BG1)

 

The time I hadnt saved for ages(like 3 hrs) and then I accidently attacked Firkraag with a party of a mage, Aerie and Yoshimo. Man i was annoyed.

 

Lucky for you Firkraag's dungeon is an autosave area, then.

 

Thank God/Bioware for Auto-save...

 

How about hitting Quicksave the exact moment a trap springs? That was a loooooooooong planar sphere to redo....

Ara
(Squak! Squak! Squaaaaak!)

 

Jaheira casting her only memorized raise dead, then starting to chit-chat with Valygar, interrupting her spell. Can't they just keep their mouths shut?

 

Heh, my favorite stupid moment was in the Underdark. For a bit of fun I payed some money to blow up those slaves in the tavern. Imoen then popped up to tell me how this reminded her of the fun travels we used to have. Ah, fond memories of turning people into bloody giblets.