That's it man. Game over man, game over!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_j8W-SDefU

What game ending glitches have you encountered?

Here are 2 1/2 for Dark Wizard:

1) - If you get adventurous (and don't watch carefully) as you conquer territories you can cut your lines of communication to your starting castle. If that happens you can't restore those lines of communication and get to watch as your previously conquered territories fall one by one until the home castle falls. Game over.

2) For some odd reason if you take the Seal of the Demons to the blacksmith he can temper it for you. You will get back a very low level weapon (it varies which one you get). You can't use the weapon to get the fog chime nor can you retemper the former Seal of the Demons to get it back. So you can't summon Tagon to get to Viosdia so you can take on Velonese. No way to finish the game.

2.5) There is a way to accidentally take away your two (or three if you are playing as Krystal) flying warriors' ability to fly. Which means you can't get the sword Slayer which you need to slay (as it were) the Dark God Arliman. Not a game killer since that is the last battle and if you don't do certain things in the game you won't encounter him anyway. There is also a fix if you catch it early enough - but it is not intuitive at all.

If you don't grind enough in Shining Force EXA before the first big battle, you basically wasted days of your life. You can't go back.

I cannot remember the specifics now, but in the original Lands of Lore for the PC BITD, there was an item or quest..etc that you needed to complete before you got to the last castle in the ending act of the game. Unless you knew ahead of time about this item you could NOT progress any further in the game. And as I recall, it was something that was done in the beginning portions of the game where you acquired this item. So again, unless you knew ahead of time it was needed, you could progress through 70 - 80% of the entire game before realizing that something in the first couple of hours was required and now you were just stuck. Because you couldn't go back once you got to the last area or castle of the game. I was so pissed about it when I found out (because of course I had forgotten it), that I had ZERO desire to play through the game again. I still haven't attempted to start and play it again to this day because of that. Oddly enough, I did pick up the sequels, but never finished them either.

Had I run across any of these instances of BS in a many-hours long game, I would have pulled out a quill pen and a bottle of ink, a roll of parchment, and written a hateful missive. I would then have sealed it with wax and a signet ring, and had the message delivered via horseback, and it would read:

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𝓣𝓸 𝔀𝓱𝓸𝓶 𝓲𝓽 𝓶𝓪𝔂 𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓬𝓮𝓻𝓷:
𝓓𝓮𝓪𝓻𝓮𝓼𝓽 𝓼𝓲𝓻 𝓸𝓻 𝓶𝓪𝓭𝓪𝓶,
𝓕𝓤𝓒𝓚 𝓨𝓞𝓤.
𝓨𝓸𝓾𝓻𝓼, 𝓱𝓪𝓽𝓮𝓯𝓾𝓵𝓵𝔂
𝓝𝓾𝓷𝔂𝓪 𝓓𝓪𝓶𝓷 𝓑𝓾𝓼𝓲𝓷𝓮𝓼𝓼, 𝓔𝓼𝓺.

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Originally Posted by Raijin Z

Had I run across any of these instances of BS in a many-hours long game, I would have pulled out a quill pen and a bottle of ink, a roll of parchment, and written a hateful missive. I would then have sealed it with wax and a signet ring, and had the message delivered via horseback, and it would read:

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I lol'd :D

I never figured out how to get past the part in Castlevania 64 with the Nitro. I dunno if it glitched or not but I would not drop it to get the other. This is back in 1999 and not played it since and never owned it, played at a friends house. I knew it wasn't that great then but still had fun with it as I liked the idea of exploring a Castlevania castle in 3D! What I wanted looking at 2D backrgounds before 32 bit era.

What is a Castlevania N64? a miserable pile of shit!

Not game ending but quest ending and prevented me from getting a Platinum was a bugged quest in Kingdoms of Amalur. I don't remember specifics. Just something to do with losing an item in your inventory you can't get back or getting something out of order.

I would have gotten a Platinum in Skyrim, but I couldn’t complete the old relic mission with the dog, because a random dragon killed his master in the village.

I got all you fuckers beat.

3D World Runner for the NES. Back when I was a kid I made it a mission to finish that game. I literally was channeling the power of god in my hands and went thru all the worlds without missing one fucking jump period. I made it to the end, finished it up, the screen flashes and I get....

"Please Insert Disk 2."

Words cannot describe the amount of rage I felt from that.

They ported it from the famicom disk system?

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Originally Posted by gamevet

They ported it from the famicom disk system?

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That would be my only excuse for that. I later watched a YT video many years later when I remembered it. I was so god damn pissed about it even now. I felt so cheated. lol,

Comix Zone reset bug:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZRi2tk0MNw

Literally a piece of art, Comix Zone was as a child impossibly hard; but once you realize where items are and how to use them, the game is on rails easy.

Until the very last level. Not because of it's difficulty, but because I've had a 50/50 chance of the game just deciding to crash on me...