In my first run of Final Fantasy XII back on the Playstation 2, I didn't use the manual.

I was trying to max everything on all the characters. And because the license board was the same for every character, it meant every character could do everything (I forget if there was a limit on unlocking weapons, because it's been so long).

Anyways, to get the strongest weapon in the game, there was an treasure chest that had nothing special about it that wasn't supposed to be opened. Of course, being the min-maxer I am, I go to every corner of every map and open everything. Bad idea. Just opening that treasure chest which seemed to have no significance killed my dream of having the best weapon. Sometimes the game will ask if you are sure you want to do something and you second guess it because not doing the action may lead to something better later, but this didn't happen here.

So when I got to the main end area to beat the game, I read the strategy to find why I hadn't unlocked that weapon. Had to go all the way back to the beginning and re-level/replay everything up to that point to unlock the weapon.

Those random chests you can't open if you want the best weapon in FFXII has to be one of the stupidest game design decisions of all-time. I never look at walkthroughs for RPGs until I'm at the end game and when I read that part I was like "fuck you Square!". I didn't restart my game for the weapon though.

Ouch, the pain.

I did the same but I never did guides back then anyway, only after I completed it. I mean in that game I spent most the time leveling up all my characters, it wasn't until the Boss before the Veira village, the wood wurm that I realised I couldn't do that, I needed to level just 3 people to actually win the game. Else I'd be doing nothing but farming XP.

Today I learned that people struggled with Final Fantasy Tactics.  I loved the game so much that I was probably way overleveled for the story missions so the only struggles I had were things like trying to steal all the Genji armor or getting the Zodiac Summon.  God, that game was amazing.

I don't know if I'd call it stupid, because I absolutely loved the game, but in Suikoden II there comes a moment about 3/4ths of the way in--and if you're trying to get all 108 characters that's a lot of hours--when one of the characters dies.  I was crushed because I really loved that character and always used them in my party.  You can save them IF you take all the correct steps but I'd been trying to play without spoilers, at least until that moment.  Turned out the actions to save them were WAY back and I had no saved game for that point.  I actually did restart the game just for that, though it was an agonizing decision.  It's probably supposed to be a powerful moment and an incentive for replaying the game in the future but I just couldn't leave it like that.

Easy because it effected another player.

I used to play Minecraft on occasion. I eventually get bored, so I go exploring and raiding.

I was playing in a server that hadn't reset/respawned in ages. Cows were non-existant outside of personal farms. I am new to the server and it was my first playthrough so I didn't realize my leather problem until 20 hrs in. Well, I move on.

Later I explore. I come across a base camp. I go in, not griefing yet. I am impressed by the house, but after trying to open chests I find out it is protected. So, I venture down to where he kept his cows. I can't open the gate or jump the fence. Then, a lightbulb goes off. I can use a creeper to bomb the gates.

Well, I lure a Creeper in and have it destroy the gates. Well, then I kill all the cows and collect all the leather.

A few days later someone is raging and depressed in the chat. Apparently their cows were gone and explosion caused damage to their base. They literally rage quit the file saying they will never play Minecraft again because after spending months collecting they lost it all. I felt like crap, but kept my mouth shut because there were no specific rules prohibiting this in the server.

Well, a few weeks later I screw up and can't figure out how to reclaim my land. I ask in the chat and someone says they will help. Well, that person helped themself to all my bookshelves, diamonds, etc. I rage quit too. Set fire to my house and leave the server forever. (Fire spread and destroyed everything)

Never did that again.

LMAO yeah it was a big middle finger to the players. Way too random for something that mattered to people. Still love the game.

Last one. Baldur's Gate 2 SoA. If you know anything about that series you know that if you get to the Underdark really quickly with a bad mage and 5 warriors you are going to have a problem. This happened to me, I could not beat the Beholder or Mindflayer stronghold. Had to quit and restart.

Selling out the Phantom Thieves in Persona 5 and getting the bad ending as a result.
Thank God it was the bad ending and I was able to learn and fix what I did wrong to move on in the game, because if that was the Real Ending, I would have been SUPER pissed!!!

I wanted my brother to play Zelda A Link to the Past on the SNES when I was really little (back then I enjoyed watching others play more than playing myself). He didn't oblige me, so I deleted his save file. I still to this day feel bad about that. I'm 27, about to be 28 and he is 30 now lol.