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SilentX
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Posted: 25th Jun 2012 23:43
As the title explains what was your most epic fail in a videogame ever?
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Posted: 26th Jun 2012 00:35
The first time I played BF3 I lay in the grass and open fired at a tank with an MG. It was hilarious to see the tank slowwwly rotate towards me, and then I was blown to pieces a few moments later.

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Posted: 26th Jun 2012 00:52 Edited at: 26th Jun 2012 00:55
Quote: "The first time I played BF3 I lay in the grass and open fired at a tank with an MG. It was hilarious to see the tank slowwwly rotate towards me, and then I was blown to pieces a few moments later. "

[Off-Topic] Comet, you still only played twice? I remember looking at your battlelog account you linked
Can't remember it now though... it had a 94 right?

[On-Topic] I was playing some FPS on my buddy's xbox - which means I was no good at it. It was some match play game mode and I was ruining my team's chance. Still, we managed to bring it down to a tie, 1 point to score. Meanwhile, I had accidentally gotten a little mixed up with the controls and jumped off the map. While I was mid-air a stray bullet clipped me, and whom ever had skimmed me got the credit for the environment kill It all happened so fast, it was hilarious to watch! Under less than a second from the point when we had tied up the round I lost it for us No one could figure out what happened...

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Posted: 26th Jun 2012 00:57
a good recent one was at skyrim's first release.

wandering around for the first time as brand new level 1.

see a mammoth

figure, "yeah, i'm gonna bag me that" then draw bow and fire.

ruuuunnnnnnnnn!!!!! ahhhhh!!!!

would have looked really funny from the top of the hill

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Posted: 26th Jun 2012 02:49
See Skyrim giant, attack.

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Posted: 26th Jun 2012 02:49
Quote: "a good recent one was at skyrim's first release.

wandering around for the first time as brand new level 1.

see a mammoth

figure, "yeah, i'm gonna bag me that" then draw bow and fire."

Wow.. I was going to post something extremely similar. I saw a giant walking and decided I go slap him with a sword; needless to say, I ended up flying a mile in the air dead lol. About an hour after, my friend texted me saying he tried attacking a giant and ended up flying through the air lmao. Was really funny because I had literally just done it.

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Posted: 26th Jun 2012 03:31
Played a game I already knew I would not like... then said I do not like this game... [face palm]

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Posted: 26th Jun 2012 08:45
Probably thinking that I might actually get a good team on BF3 for once

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Fallout 3's glitches

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Posted: 26th Jun 2012 09:33 Edited at: 26th Jun 2012 09:34
What was your most EPIC fail in a videogame ever?

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Posted: 26th Jun 2012 09:48 Edited at: 26th Jun 2012 09:49
Playing Final Fantasy XI, I had grouped up for some endgame stuff, I went as a Monk meaning I'd be tanking, but because of how the game mechanics work, I was useless for the part where we needed to farm items to spawn the boss we wanted to fight. So I was just killing random stuff and that's where I saw it, a boss called 'Jala', who is basically a version of the summon, Leviathan, he's not amazingly tough, so I thought, "I bet I can solo that!"

And I was right! However, what I failed to calculate was that he does a super-deadly area of effect attack, which means nothing to a Monk, a class that has good damage reduction gear and has the biggest health in the game. Non tanking classes? It can be a problem, particularly when they're already killing stuff.

That's right, I wiped out my entire party. I should have pulled him away from AoE distance. Still, we had a good laugh about it.

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Posted: 26th Jun 2012 10:43
Eve Online

Took an entire mining operation into wormhole space (W-space), including a ship that cost a billion ISK fully fit.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with EO, the only way in or out or W-space is through a wormhole. Wormholes have maximum tonnage and size limits and also close after a period of time.

All was well until weeks later when we decided we had to move out fast. The ship I was in, in addition to costing a billion, was too fat to get out through the wormhole and into safe space (hisec). My other option was to take another wormhole into unsafe space (nullsec) and possibly get blown up. I took a third option...unloading all the cargo and ships I had and telling my crew to get everything back into hisec. I cloaked the ship and kept it and the character there for almost a year looking for a way out. Eventually I decided to scuttle the ship and suicide to get back into hisec.

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Posted: 26th Jun 2012 14:20
When Driver first came out I had an horrendous crash in my car. The car flew way up into the air, and landed on top of a block of flats, but survived on its back like a beetle turned over.

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Posted: 26th Jun 2012 14:44
@Redneck Rambo

Creepy...
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Posted: 26th Jun 2012 17:10 Edited at: 26th Jun 2012 17:12
wow:

i booggied about 50 naxxramas-runs with my cat at the endboss or dragon with stupid pull-actions (well, not 50 but an enormous number ). there was an official court case of my guild on the server, even hordes-people where invited. i was judged to convert to bear (tank) for a minimum of 3 months. well, what should i say, i laid the naxx-bosses in my first tank-run.

thats why i like playing singleplayers alone: savepoints and no one else in the room laughing at your stupidity.

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Posted: 26th Jun 2012 17:58
Quote: "i booggied about 50 naxxramas-runs with my cat at the endboss or dragon with stupid pull-actions"


I don't understand a word of this.



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Posted: 26th Jun 2012 18:31
Quote: "I don't understand a word of this."


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Posted: 26th Jun 2012 19:52
I used to play WoW and I can try to translate.

Quote: "i booggied about 50 naxxramas-runs"


Naxxramas is probably a dungeon or raid (like a big dungeon that can have teams of more people), probably something I never did on WoW. I quit soon after I started doing raids.

Quote: "runs with my cat at the endboss or dragon with stupid pull-actions (well, not 50 but an enormous number )"


He played the game with his cat, fluffles, I hear fluffles is your type Benjamin, you never know what'll happen if you play your cards right.

I am going to assume he's referring to a class in the game called 'Druid', who have the ability to transform into different animal forms - your cat form is great for dealing damage, whilst your bear form is good for taking it. Endboss - the boss at the end of the raid/dungeon and I'm guessing he's a dragon.

Quote: "there was an official court case of my guild on the server, even hordes-people where invited. i was judged to convert to bear (tank) for a minimum of 3 months. well, what should i say, i laid the naxx-bosses in my first tank-run. "


And this one seems bizarre even for my experience of the game. I didn't know any people had in-game court cases on players. I'm going to guess this was an 'RP' server (or roleplaying, where people tend to play the game in character). Basically, this poor druid was humiliated in front of lots of people and was pushed to only play as a druid in bear form.

Yes, I do feel ashamed that I know those things.


Though talking of druids, when I used to do dungeons, on quite a few occassions I found people came in as a tank, but used their cat form, whenever I was a healer (on my low level Shaman), that was really annoying as it becomes impossible to keep people alive and generally, the enemy would come for me sooner or later when it's the job of the tank to make sure the enemies are attacking them and nobody else. Heck, I used to be a Death Knight Blood Tank and it wasn't exactly rocket surgery, sure people have to learn as you can't automatically be aweosme (and it helps to listen to what people are saying), but I think some people just want to watch the world (of warcraft) burn.

On the note of tanking, this is a fail on behalf of my dungeon group (and a win on my behalf). I was playing a hunter, got disconnected, when I reconnected every except me and the healer had rushed ahead (to a point where they couldn't get back to us), so the tank had basically rushed off without a healer. Then the healer aggro'd, so I decided to intervene and tanked the enemies on my hunter (which aren't supposed to tank of course), with the guy healing me, neither of us died and we successfully killed all the aggro. Then everybody starts calling me a 'noob' because I was trying to Hunter tank. Right, the fact I tanked successfully on my hunter, saved the healer and the actual tank was miles away makes me a noob. Good old WoW.

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Posted: 26th Jun 2012 20:00
Hard to say, it's between these two so I'll let you guys decide:

Cave Story (Original PC version) - aka Doukutsu Monogatari:
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I taught my friend how to play Takken 3. He still sucked. So I used to humiliated him by doing power moves (like Paul's power punch, Yoshimitsu's sword, etc) to kill him. Anyways, we're having a few beers (yeah I could still drink back then!) and playing Tekken 3 and I'm keeping him at five to one battle(s) behind me (I always liked to let him catch up to around one point before kicking his ass. I love to give people despair). Anyway we're both playing as Yoshimitsu and I won round 1 and then let him win round 2 (preparing to give despair). Current score is 1-all. Round two comes along and by now my reflexes are dulled and so is my judgement. Halfway through the fight I'm winning, I think "Hmm, how to humiliate? Ah yes, the sword" and proceed with the move. It is only then I realise that the little bugger decided to do the same to me, only earlier. Now time slows down and I watch helplessly as my sure victory turns sour.
Well, that victory didn't even our score (he was still some points behind) but it mattered more than any of the victories I'd had against him up until then. It was the first day I got seriously owned in a game on 2 player mode. It was also the day I quit being a nasty gamer.

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Posted: 26th Jun 2012 21:51
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Creepy..."

What are the odds of that happening hahaha. We posted at the exact same time about the exact same thing lol.

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Posted: 26th Jun 2012 22:17
Quote: "Naxxramas is probably a dungeon or raid"


It's a Wrath of the Lich King raid. Get your facts straight
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Posted: 27th Jun 2012 00:14
What ever happened to the good old days when you only had two buttons and a d-pad to worry about and your quest's were short and simple because of memory constraints? *sigh* Back then it was just "kill the monster, save the village, win cool prizes".

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Posted: 27th Jun 2012 00:28
Quote: "Back then it was just "kill the monster, save the village, win cool prizes"."

Haha! Now it's "kill 1000 deer, bring ten eyeballs to questgiver, win crappy junk"

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Posted: 27th Jun 2012 00:38
Quote: "It's a Wrath of the Lich King raid. Get your facts straight"


I never ended up doing any of the Lich King raids, instead I went on to grind to level 85 after I finished the main Lich King stuff, did some PvP with a friend (enough to get the basic Death Knight PvP set), a couple of level 85 raids, then quit.

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Mine was probably playing Zelda Twighlight Princess. When I first went to the desert area, I killed all the goblins fairly quickly and then spent four or five hours trying to figure how to get in the main goblin camp. I then realised that you could ride the goblin's war boar and charge it through the gates. Simple when you know how.

Or, in a simillar vein to Mr Valantine's post, playing The Conduit all the way through hoping it would get better. It didn't.
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I was playing Saints Row Three. Killed a bunch of police and military, i lost my wanted level then turned around and got run over by a taxi



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Posted: 27th Jun 2012 06:59
Quote: "and your quest's were short and simple because of memory constraints?"


Actually they were probably shorter back then because developers hadn't realised they could artificially increase the length of the game by adding many long and repetitive (although addictive, which is the key point) tasks for the player to complete.



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Quote: "developers hadn't realised they could artificially increase the length of the game by adding many long and repetitive (although addictive, which is the key point) tasks"

Lol, now that I think about it, I guess I did get duped by the hunting down of monsters in FFXII (Did anyone else do that Gilgamesh hunt? Anybody recognise the music when you fought him? FFV remix! Awesome!).
The problem is, I get tied up in "completing" a game fully so I start getting annoyed when a game is too big because I eventually have to cut my losses, let go of the sidequests and get on with the story (usually ruined by too many sidequests and half forgotten after 10 hours of monster/treasure hunting and leveling up). This is one of the reasons I actually don't like open-ended games. I prefer a linear plot in RPGs though in action/horror/etc I quite like the possibility of multiple endings through mild deviations (eg Silent Hill). I think sidequests are good in smaller doses for single-player games. Multiplayer games on the other hand are a different kettle of fish (Anyone actually know why they say a "kettle of fish"? I make fish in a pan and tea in a kettle) and need loads of random sidequests to ensure players' experiences are relatively unique, I guess.
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Posted: 28th Jun 2012 00:31
nonZero pretty much well said!

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Well, according to the internet, this was:
(Last clip in the video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LVLXb4mW9g
(Original upload)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uld3YiD0p_A
However, I remember having better fails in Halo.


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For some reason i cant remember any except the one from GTA IV maybe because i just go done watching the video above me but i was playing online with a friend and i jumped of a big building just for fun when was getting close to the ground i landed on a civilian, i did a landing roll on the guy and got ran over by another online player.

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I was playing some older shooter from the 2000 - 2002 aera for like 2 hours on a sunday and realised one day later that this game was released before autosave became a thing

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I bought Dan Dare on the ZX Spectrum for my sister's birthday. Obviously she hated games (we are talking 80's so even worse for girls and games) and I was a git to get her something I wanted. Instead she insisted on playing it. For days on end. In the end, even though I was quite good at the game, she beat the game a good 2 days or so before I did. Cow.

Another was when I bought my first house back in 1999. By the summer of 2000 I still hadn't done some of the basic stuff like decorate, put up pictures, get a second bed, basically all the stuff you should do to make a house a home (I was single). I then had a week off and decided to just stay at home. I got the Sims and played it for like 2 days solid. By the end of it I realised I had taken the time and patience to do up their virtual house better than my own. I then chucked the game into the cupboard (never ever to be played again) and proceeded to pimp my own house up.

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Quote: "Another was when I bought my first house back in 1999. By the summer of 2000 I still hadn't done some of the basic stuff like decorate, put up pictures, get a second bed, basically all the stuff you should do to make a house a home (I was single). I then had a week off and decided to just stay at home. I got the Sims and played it for like 2 days solid. By the end of it I realised I had taken the time and patience to do up their virtual house better than my own. I then chucked the game into the cupboard (never ever to be played again) and proceeded to pimp my own house up. "


Know that feeling lol

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I was playing gta IV I had all stars for like 2 hours after swiming and running I findly made it but after I look at my left I got ran over and the guy was like gtf out my way lol it was a npc xD

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I played dayz today, I was doing realy well, and was walking to a town to find some loot. I saw something that looked like a zombie running in the forest, and zombies don't run unless they are chasing someone. And I had some good equipment so I decided to attack the player I thought was being chased. So I walked towards where I thought the person would have ran to. But once I ran over a top of a hill. I saw a guy in a ghillie suit, he shot me before I realised that he was there... And the distance between us was about 5m. Then while laying there dead, I saw that he had a friend, another guy in a ghillie suit. Turns out that the green running zombie I had seen was a player in a ghillie suit.

When I respawned, I got smome major graphical glitches, but managed to get to a nearby airfield. I found a hatchet and some other good stuff. Then lost connection. When I went back today, I was at the same place, but the items I found where lost. I walked away from the airfield, but got shot shortly after.

When I spawned again, I found a dead guy, he had some awesome equipment, I managed to sneak away from the shore, and walked to a town to get food. Once in the store where I knew there where food, I found an awesome backpack and some other good stuff. But suddenly another guy in a ghillie suit ran into the store, probably chased by zombies. As a reflex, I shot at him, and he killed me. This happned over 24 hours and is the most frustrating yet one of the most entertaining moments I have experienced in gaming...
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Quote: "I shot at him, and he killed me."


That happens all the time in that game. I once was in one of those apartment buildings and I heard a campfire. So I walk up the stairs and shoot him. He alt+f4's and joins back in. I kill him later but he manages to bring me to about 3k blood. Took his gear, went to the store. Shot a guy, didn't kill him, I ran to the back of the store and shot at him, killed him, but he shot me first and killed me by making me bleed. One of the most tense moments ever.

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Posted: 4th Aug 2012 21:10 Edited at: 4th Aug 2012 21:13
My first Dwarf fortress try in adventure mode. I just wanted to see how the fight system worked. There was that horse in a prairie so I started a melee but after some hits , six horses appeared for help and trampled on me. Was so fun I looove that game!

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