What Are You Currently Playing? 5.05: You Are (Not) A Gamer

[Foggle]

Does that mean you can't play it anymore, or what?

[Rynnec]

You can still play the game once the internal battery runs out, you just won't be able to save, and your data gets erased on top of all that.

[Foggle]

OH wow, that really sucks. Do all of the Pokemon games have that "feature"?

[gunswordfist]

If you every run into any problems with RE4HD on the XBOX360 like I did, you can just delete the game and re-download it without losing your saved data (that also usually fixes the problem). I had to do it 3 times, though, since the 1st time was when I got stuck in the middle of the game, the 2nd time was when the end credits wouldn't appear, and the 3rd time was in order for me to be able to access Ada Wong's Separate Ways missions. Its really fucking stupid, but I guess that I'm just plain unlucky.

I think it's just bad luck, I haven't really heard about anyone else having problems like that. I know it works great on my friend's Xbox and my PS3.

I was wondering about that. I hope I don't run into any problems with the game.

[Kiddington]

OH wow, that really sucks. Do all of the Pokemon games have that "feature"?

As far as I can tell, only the three main 2nd gen games (Gold, Silver, and Crystal) ever had this problem.

Yeah it sucks, but I guess at the very least, it can be fixed. I just need the motivation, the proper kind of replacement battery, and a small enough screwdriver to open the cartridge up. Easier said than done though, obviously.

[Commode]

Actually any cartridge game that uses battery to save your game has the potential to eventually have the battery die(all the way back to The Legend of Zelda on NES), but the reason that Gold and Silver are the most notorious is because of the time system in the games.  The internal clock runs constantly in the game whether it's being played or not, and gradually the battery wears down.  I don't think there are very many copies left of the games that still have their original batteries and are able to save the game.

Pokemon Crystal somewhat fixed this issue, as it's not as susceptible to the problem, but it still happens.

[Eddy]

Telltale's The Walking Dead is an amazing game. I highly recommend it to everyone with means to play it.

And this is coming from someone who hasn't read any of the comics and only saw the first season of the TV show.

[Spark Of Spirit]

My Pokemon Silver battery ran out years ago. Man was that a frustrating experience. 

[Rynnec]

Speaking of games dying; My Wii has stopped reading any of my disks properly.

If I can't find a lens cleaning kit anywhere, I may have to send it to Nintendo.

[Daxdiv]

Telltale's The Walking Dead is an amazing game. I highly recommend it to everyone with means to play it.

I've been playing this on the PC, played episode 3 as soon as it hit Steam and all I can say is.... WHY TELLTALE WHY? This episode had the most emotion in all of the other episodes combine. I don't regret any of my choices near the end of the game. Episode 4 looks like it's going to be good.

OH wow, that really sucks. Do all of the Pokemon games have that "feature"?

There's that and I do notice that my copy of Sapphire says something like how the Internal Battery has dried out. It still says I can play the game, but time based events can no longer function.  The game plays normally from what I've noticed, data doesn't get deleted, but you can't grow berries anymore or visit Shoal Cave properly.

[Avaitor]

Speaking of games dying; My Wii has stopped reading any of my disks properly.

If I can't find a lens cleaning kit anywhere, I may have to send it to Nintendo.

Aww, that sucks.

My Wii still dies on me whenever I try to hook up my Gamecube controller, so I might have to send it in too.

[Spark Of Spirit]

I just beat Mega Turrican for the first time. Great game. If you're looking into playing the series for the first time, this is the one to start with since I think it's even an enhanced port of Turrican 3 from the Amiga.

[gunswordfist]

Sweet. I played one of those games before.

[Peanutbutter]

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. I finally finished the Kafei sidequest recently, and about to do the Canyon dungeon. I just rented The Last Story though, so I'm probably going to be busy with that for a bit. On the PS3, I'm playing Uncharted 3. I've been putting a self-imposed challenge where I have to play out each level without dying once on Normal difficulty. Man, is it hard not to die in some of these levels. I recently picked up Max Payne 3 which came with a bonus copy of Grand Theft Auto IV, as well as Transformers: Fall of Cybertron. No matter what, I'm going to be busy. 

[gunswordfist]

I want that Transformers game and the other one