Best "Must've been the wind" moment

[Ace of Spades]

When playing stealth games, I always encounter a few situations where after a guard notices something, he says something to convince himself that nothing is wrong and goes back to his patrol in a context that makes it hilarious. For example, while playing as a stealth-based archer in oblivion, two guards were walking down a staircase, and I sniped the one in back with a fire arrow, and after the guard in front finished inspecting the smoldering corpse, he said "Huh, it must've been the wind". What was your best moment?

 

[Johnn Johnston]

Assassin's Creed. I assassinate a guard, and within a minute there are literally 22 guards (I counted) chasing me. With them 4m behind me, I run into an alley. I sit on a bench and 1/2 a second later the guards arrive and say "He must have taken a different route!", despite having seen me take the corner only three seconds before and standing a yard away from my obviously sword-wielding character.

As another AC example, guess which one of the robed figures might possibly be carrying a weapon.

 

[J'aen]

The one on the left? He seems a bit shifty.

 

[Johnn Johnston]

As a matter of fact, yes. People normally go for the one in the middle, but he's just smuggling hot dogs.

There is a video on Youtube of someone of MGS1 crawling through the legs of a guards repeatedly with only a "!" marker, and him never being spotted.

 

[The Blue Mongoose]

MGS 3... i was playing on normal, there were a host of about 4 guards... i was using the tranquilizer pistol (only gun i used all game) i'd shoot one in the head (while the others were not looking) he'd go to sleep.

another guard comes up, kicks him awake: "what's wrong?" - shoot him in the head, then shoot original guard again...

next guard comes up, wakes up other two... you can see where i'm going with this... at no stage did any of them think to look for me...



ps. at the end i had to go stab them all in the neck... they wouldn't all stay asleep for long enough...

 

[Jamash]

In Oblivion, I'm doing the "Turning a Blind Eye" mission & I'm sneaking around the catacombs with 100% Chameleon, shooting BLIND monks with arrows (using the weakest bow & arrows to build up my marksman ability), who are saying things like "I better start cutting down on the ale, starting to see things I am" & "Damn rats, always making me jump".

They may be blind, but surely they can feel 20+ arrows impaling them.

 

[GuerrillaClock]

In Far Cry, i once sniped a guard in the head, and his colleague who was stood right next to him seemed not to notice.
Actually, this isn't technically a "Must've been the wind" moment because the guy didn't even register.

 

[ElArabDeMagnifico]

Well this is kind of a given, but the splinter cell games are full of it.

lets not forget that Sam is also covered up in green Christmas lights.

 

[J'aen]

The Timesplitters series isn't famed for its stealth, but on Scotland The Brave I shot a guard and the guy standing slightly in front of him never knew. Must have ben deaf.

 

[Jumplion]

After brutally slaughtering over 14 PMCs in ACT 3, i hide behind a trash can instead of hiding in it and a PMC comes over, thinks he saw something, and goes away.

They may be stupid, but the PMCs in MGS4 are just halarious sometimes.

 

[sathie]

In Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines, there was a lot of Nazi throat slitting taking place that left bloodstains all over. By the end of a mission most of the terrain would be covered in little round patches of blood. Apparently Nazi soldiers:

a) can't see blood
b) only have a 45 degree viewing angle upwards from an imaginary straight line in their neck
c) are really, really stupid.

They're also all completely deaf.

 

[gamshobny]

In CoD 4, the first mission, you can go totaly beserk on one guy on the platform, and the other one doesn't care whether his buddy is reduced to a bloody pulp right in front of his eyes.

 

[FujinAkari]

lets not forget that Sam is also covered up in green Christmas lights.

*sigh* No. He. Isn't.

Ubisoft has explained this at least fifteen frickin' times. Those are there so the player doesn't lose Sam in the Shadows, he isn't actually wearing them.

 

[ElArabDeMagnifico]

lets not forget that Sam is also covered up in green Christmas lights.

*sigh* No. He. Isn't.

Ubisoft has explained this at least fifteen frickin' times. Those are there so the player doesn't lose Sam in the Shadows, he isn't actually wearing them.

Then why is it in cutscenes, game box, advertisements, the manual, and pretty much everything else related to the game? -and forgive me for not reading up on Ubisoft's blog/diary/conventions/website/magazine or whatever, I just don't follow up on that stuff, and I'm sure you didn't know about that until you saw Ubisoft's explanation - seriously, how the hell were we supposed to know?

I wonder if Altair's gear is "just to make sure you don't lose track of Altair in the plethora of monks."

 

[Ace of Spades]

That is definitely the best recruitment poster I have ever seen.

 

[MJ12 Commando]

lets not forget that Sam is also covered up in green Christmas lights.

*sigh* No. He. Isn't.

Ubisoft has explained this at least fifteen frickin' times. Those are there so the player doesn't lose Sam in the Shadows, he isn't actually wearing them.

Have you played multi? They are perfectly visible to the guards but the game is still perfectly balanced. Think about that for a second.

 

[knumpify]

lets not forget that Sam is also covered up in green Christmas lights.

*sigh* No. He. Isn't.

Ubisoft has explained this at least fifteen frickin' times. Those are there so the player doesn't lose Sam in the Shadows, he isn't actually wearing them.

Have you played multi? They are perfectly visible to the guards but the game is still perfectly balanced. Think about that for a second.

How about we agree that Fisher's goggles are in a Schroedinger's Cat state of existing and not existing at the same time? Does that please everyone?

nope, schroedinger's cat wasn't really a state of existing or not, the cat was verified. the point is that the cat could be considered both alive and dead in the box, so while a good attempt at a compromise is there, when it comes to states, well... FAIL!


... and I like christmas lights

 

[Anarchemitis]

Movingonwardly, I thought it was hilarious when 6 fast-zombies were chasing me and I stood behind a barrel and all of a sudden they stopped caring. Coincidentally, the barrel [http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Explosive_Barrel] looked like this:

So, I managed to hurt them all to the point of their failure.

 

[pieeater911]

I dunno if this was a glitch or something, but in Half-life 2 on the Nova Prospekt level I took out a guard with the crossbow and there was another one standing beside him, and when his buddy flew backwards from the impact of the crossbow bolt all he did was look around at his poor friend just hanging there, impaled to the wall. And all he said was "What was that?" I laughed so hard, and then I shot the other guy in the face with an RPG just for being so dumb.
And the thing about Sam Fisher. If he's not covered in lights then umm.....why is he,...you know,....covered in lights?