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

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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?

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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.
 
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.
 
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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.
 
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... 🐶
 
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:

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ayy lmao
 
All the time.
Bad/good weather, fatigue, sleep deprivation, voice chat, background audio, dim lights, strong lights, external music, etc.
 
Yep. I was once playing Gunstar Heroes (on a portable console) at a family get-together, and there was this boy.... Well, let's just say he approached me and started asking questions about the game.
He clearly did not know much about retro-games, and was curious by the fact that I was into it (maybe due to the fact we were about the same age).
I remember getting a bit nervous.
 
This September 15 i beat Undertale Yellow in the middle of El Grito del Zocalo (Basically our president screaming to celebrate Independence day), i got the Pacifist Ending and the credits rolled the exact same moment the scream happened in my old man's room and the credits ended the exact moment the fireworks started
 
This September 15 i beat Undertale Yellow in the middle of El Grito del Zocalo (Basically our president screaming to celebrate Independence day), i got the Pacifist Ending and the credits rolled the exact same moment the scream happened in my old man's room and the credits ended the exact moment the fireworks started
Undertale Yellow? Is the the reissue of Undertale Red and Blue where The duck that carrys you over a small gap follows you around?
 
I have wonderful memories of coming home from school back in like 2006-2007 during winter (it gets dark super early here during winter, like 2pm) and playing WoW with a mug of hot chocolate, just running around questing in the snowy Dwarf area, which got even cozier due to the winter weather outside.
 
I was playing Monster Hunter Wilds doing the new update with the quest involving the Final Fantasy crossover where you fight this (really really annoying) thing called Omega Planetes and a huge thunderstorm starts roaring outside the house. The rain and thunder's noise became so loud, I could hardly hear the conversation that leads to the quest and that part you can experience only once...unless you want to start a new hunter and begin that long grind all over again.

So I stopped playing until the rain let up. That thunderstorm must be a warning since that new monster is really really cheap as in Behemoth, Extremoth cheap levels from Monster Hunter World which was also from Final Fantasy.

I knew I was going to hate this crossover before playing it...
 

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