A screenshot is worth a thousand words

[Barbas]

I would have thought this had been done before, but for the life of me I couldn't find a thread on it anywhere - Have you ever been playing a game and witnessed something so eye-wateringly beautiful (or so mind-bogglingly stupid) that it made you do a double-take?

Here's one from Skyrim - yet another quality NPC moment:

Spoiler: Wrong place, wrong time (Proventus is wearing purple).

It was taken during a mission in which you must infiltrate the enemy's embassy party to steal intelligence. Proventus Avenicci, the man in purple, is employing his special embassy party dialogue that plays anywhere in the room. In this case, he happened to be standing directly adjacent to the man he was talking about. This being a Bethesda game, both men then went to opposite sides of the party to prevent a possible faux pas from occurring.

Post your favourite screenshot of anything that is safe for work, whether it be a jaw-dropping panorama, hysterical glitch or snapshot of glorious victory, then tell us the story behind its conception.

[HEADING=3]How to post:[/HEADING]

You can take a screenshot of anything on your computer screen and crop it with LightShot, which is located here: [link]http://app.prntscr.com/[/link]

Press the

Print Screen

button and drag a box over what you want as a screenshot. Press

Ctrl+D

to upload it and then press

Copy

in the little window. Paste the URL into a browser tab, then click and drag the screenshot shown on the new page into its own tab again, so that it is the only thing you can see on that page.

For new users: you can post your images with the following forum code:

[*img][*/img] - [color=light blue](Remove asterisks)[/color]

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Dusting up an old classic. Never mind graphics, I always found this one hilarious. It's from the good old days when the game would freeze whenever you scrolled through text.

 

[Knife]

I've got a couple print screens over the years.

Spoiler: Neverwinter Nights 2

A pretty funny moment for me. NWN2 is 3rd edition D&D, it has its fair share of magical items, among them the amulet of vitality +2. It increases a character's health while worn. After a battle, with most of my party being injured I examined the loot and found a better amulet and decided to put it on. Which of course takes the old amulet off and with it the health bonus. And that health bonus was the only thing keeping that character alive.

Spoiler: Mount & Blade

This is one of my proudest moments in Mount and Blade. A perfect score in the arena fight. In an arena fight you go in with a random weapon and no armour. Over time more fighters enter the arena, they fight you as well as themselves. Your goal is to be the last one standing. The are prizes at the end depending on how many fighters you took down. There are 40 fighters in total and the maximum prize is for taking down 20 of them. Taking down all 40 requires some skill, a good character, some luck and being fast enough that they don't take down each other.

Spoiler: Mount & Blade: Warband

Here's how you look in Mount & Blade: Warband after an "average" siege. That is like a porcupine dipped in a pool of blood. Believe it or not that armour used to be green and the helmet used to be metallic gray. Dry cleaning is going to get us bankrupt. Notice the shields of our enemies in the background to the left. That's what happens when you try to take a castle from hundreds of armed men (if you're lucky).

 

[The Madman]

From an old Mount & Blade playthrough. Graphics might not be much but there's still just nothing else quite like it.

Spoiler

A screenshot from one of my favourite playthrough in Galactic Civlizations 2. Hell, could be one of my favourite games played in a grand strategy game to date, everything just played out so amazing with grand highs and lows, grand climactic battles, backstabbing, betrayals, and as shown in the screenshot desperate last stands.

Spoiler

It's a bit dark but otherwise one of my favourite Witcher 2 screenshots. Has a nice sense of action and urgency to it plus I like the silhouettes in the distance which give it a bit of added danger and mystery.

Spoiler

And the second oldest screenshot I have of my character in World of Warcraft. I haven't played that game in years now but I'll be damned if I still don't get a bit nostalgic looking at this old picture. Well, old by gaming standards anyway. It was taken back in ye olden days of 2007 during the opening of the Dark Portal event for WOW's first upcoming expansion.

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