
Originally Posted by
Jan
One of the first times I remember experiencing this was with Planescape: Torment. I came back to it after lending it to a friend of mine and he couldn't stop raving about it.
Tried to pick it up where I left off and quickly realised why I had abandoned it: I was stuck.
One weekend while dialling up using Telkom's R7 Call More deal I hit the search engines (probably a combo of Webcrawler, Altavista, Yahoo!, or that all-in-one search engine whose name escapes me) to find out what I was missing.
Turns out I had sold a crucial item somewhere along the way and I couldn't remember to which store I had pawned it. Ended up starting the game from scratch and thoroughly enjoying it the second time through.