Have you ever been playing a game and something outside affected the gameplay in some way?

[Badseed Badseed]

I was playing Okami HD last night, and I noticed the sky outside was red just like the sky in the game. Pretty cool. Has anyone had a similar experience where something going on outside affected/influenced your gaming?

 

[Cardboardtubeknight Cardboardtubeknight]

While I don't have any pictures more than once when it was snowing/raining out it turned out to also be snowing/raining in my animal crossing town.

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

Mostly thunderstorms coinciding with random weather effects in games.

 

[Ad Infinitum]

Mostly thunderstorms coinciding with random weather effects in games.

thunderstorms and video games are bad bedfellows. my thunderstorms usually "coincide" with a sudden black screen :(

 

[RustySK]

Spooky evening light, that. I grew up in a low pressure area surrounded by forested mountains with very high humidity - dawn and dusk used to be a regular lightshow around there honestly. From orange to pink to purple to deep blue usually.

Also, a couple years ago (fuck, I just realized it's been 8 years since... I feel ancient) I was travelling through Southeast Asia, ended up at a beach with just the most goddamn gorgeous dusk I've ever seen in my life - no clouds anywhere, deep violet with an orange tint... I gotta see if I can't dig up my old fotos at some point... Anways, I'm rambling, sorry.

Back on topic. Just a couple weeks ago a huge storm hit the city I'm living in exactly at the same time I just reached that bit in TLoU2 where you almost drown in a storm off the coast - perfect timing.

 

[evercaptor]

I stopped playing L.A. Noire in the 3rd act becasue my parents were splitting up due to cheating being discovered and it hit a little too close to home at the time. Not a funny one but weird that it happened. Can look back on ti and laugh now though. Never did finish it.

 

[zacharinolongpants]

One time I was playing Earthworm Jim and a cow fell through my roof.

 

[jon2]

Tenchu for the PSX (not sure if it was 1 or 2, I think it was 2)

Playing around midnight, it was a mission in a town with dogs. Killed a dog, climbed up a roof, heard a dog raise the alert, jumped to another roof to watch the scene

I was baffled that the dogs were still raising a ruckus even after the alert calmed down, then the barking went louder. Went around the roof to spot where the dogs are but saw nothing; did it again for a minute and it was still the same

Paused the game to catch a breather, but the dogs were still loud. Found out that a stray dog "invaded" our neighborhood and all the dogs in our block were raising a ruckus...

 

[qw90700]

Once I was playing Battlefield 2 and the war was so intense, I was raining bombards near me and then was having tank vs tank fights while engineers were firing rockets all around and while all these shits were happenning the volume was so blasting the explosion sounds coming from my heavy-bass speakers but then I noticed the explosions getting too loud and WTF some light was coming around me to notice my PSU fucking exploding so I literally flied towards the plug that was like 3 meters away from me to unplug my PC while it was having a firework moment!!!

The last moments of me poor PC:

ayy lmao

 

[Yousef Yousef]

All the time.
Bad/good weather, fatigue, sleep deprivation, voice chat, background audio, dim lights, strong lights, external music, etc.