Best unscripted gaming moment you've had . . .

[brick]

Right this may sound like an odd subject but i'm sure there must have been moments where you've experienced something quite extraordinary and surprising in a computer game. By this I mean something that did not seem to be deliberately made to happen by the developers.

My example of this would be in Halo: ODST I was working my way to some stranded marines, fighting large packs of covenant infantry, which included a pair of Hunters. Thinking I could flank the Hunters I disappeared into a doorway and up a flight of stairs only to come to a dead-end. At this point I turned to see one of the Hunters sprinting up the stairs at me. What followed was an intense and desperate dash over/past the alien and back out into the street only to be faced with the other one!

For all of Halo's amazing set-pieces, this was not one but part of the games AI yet i'd never experienced such pressure and intensity in that game.

My question to you escapists, is what has happened to you similar to this?

 

[Dr Jones]

Pretty much any underdog battle in Shogun 2.. My god i had an orgasm when i won...

Oh, and GTA IV carnage.. Just.. Just so fun..

 

[Zac Smith]

Playing Resident Evil: Outbreak, the I think this was after the servers were down because I was playing by myself, I also can't remember whether it was file 1 or 2. But anyway, I was on the level where a giant plant has taken over a set of buildings in the woods and you have to try to kill it, all while avoiding the "Axe-man" who literally follows you around everywhere. While doing the mission, the AI controlling the characters was being fairly good at mimicking actual people online, slowly one by one we were picked off by the axe-man, until me and a mortally wounded AI were left, I was carrying the AI on my shoulder, when from a doorway appears the axe-man, one fell swoop takes me down nearly all my health, dropping my AI leaving us both crawling down the hallway trying to avoid the last few zombies and axe-man. One of the only times playing a game I actually felt scarred.

Similar scenarios would happen in the Hospital level with the guy covered in cockroaches who would appear out of vents until you fought he off.

It was just awesome how the whole event played out so realistically even while being unscripted

 

[Dr Jones]

Playing Resident Evil: Outbreak, the I think this was after the servers were down because I was playing by myself, I also can't remember whether it was file 1 or 2. But anyway, I was on the level where a giant plant has taken over a set of buildings in the woods and you have to try to kill it, all while avoiding the "Axe-man" who literally follows you around everywhere. While doing the mission, the AI controlling the characters was being fairly good at mimicking actual people online, slowly one by one we were picked off by the axe-man, until me and a mortally wounded AI were left, I was carrying the AI on my shoulder, when from a doorway appears the axe-man, one fell swoop takes me down nearly all my health, dropping my AI leaving us both crawling down the hallway trying to avoid the last few zombies and axe-man. One of the only times playing a game I actually felt scarred.

Similar scenarios would happen in the Hospital level with the guy covered in cockroaches who would appear out of vents until you fought he off.

It was just awesome how the whole event played out so realistically even while being unscripted

Sounds F****** AWESOME!

 

[Et3rnalLegend64]

I'm sure I have much better ones, but I seriously can't remember what they were. I'll just go with something I have recorded.

I've been playing BlazBlue online and was fighting a Mu player with my Lambda (this was Version 1.02). I won the first round, so Mu had 2 bursts and I had one. The next round was neck and neck. We were both at critical health. I ate a short combo that left me with almost no health left so I retreated into the corner. I took advantage of Gravity Seed's invincibility to counter Mu and try to end it, but she used a Burst. I used a Gold Burst to launch her and go back on the attack, but she used another Burst to send me to the ground again. As she was coming down to finish me, I launched Calamity Sword and won the match. Most intense 4 seconds of my whole time online.

 

[yookiwooki]

pretty much everything that happens in left 4 dead...

 

[Hungry Donner]

Doom 2 DM with a friend. I'm running up to a teleporter and right before jumping on my friend unloads a point blank super shotgun blast in my back and then jumps through me gibs into the teleporter. Funny thing though, the momentum of the blast sent my corpse through the teleporter a split second after him . . .

Telefragged

To this day it remains the most awesome kill I've ever gotten in a game, and I didn't have to do anything to get it!

 

[daftalchemist]

In Oblivion. I didn't realize you could turn into a vampire. So a vampire gives me...vampire disease (?), and I didn't know I have it. Then I start getting popups of nightmares when I sleep, until finally I become a vampire. Next thing I know, I'm hiding from the sun, feeding off of homeless people in the alleys behind houses during the night so that I can look human enough to buy some equipment, and just generally kicking a LOT of ass in fights. But using shops was becoming obnoxious. I usually ended up dying in the sun while attempting to use the Wait option because I just could not figure out what time the sun was supposed to be coming up or going down (I thought 6pm seemed reasonable, guess not?). So I decide I should become human again. That starts this epic quest to hunt down the head vampire guy, and kill him.

It played out as this totally amazing adventure in my head, and it was honestly the only time I ever felt submerged in the "story" of the game, except that it wasn't the game's story. So I don't know if that's classified as "awesome" or "fail" on their part.

 

[Rylot]

Not really a good one, but a funny one none the less, While playing one of the Tomb Raider games on the ps2 I had a cut scene after a puzzle involving mining carts. I left one of the carts in the middle of a room right before the scene triggered and through out the cut scene confrontation with the bad guys there was a cart that everyone was clipping through. It kinda killed the whole tense mood and left me in stitches.

 

[Mr. Omega]

I can think of so many involving Super Smash Bros Brawl. A recent one:
Me (Gannondorf), my brother (Toon Link) and my sister (Mr. Game and Watch) were all playing with an AI (Lucas). Everyone was on their final life, I was the only one at less than 100% damage. My sister got the Smash Ball and turned into the octopus that G&W turns into. My bro and I were running. I did that big kick to him, and jumped up in the air to do that stomp on the AI over a pit. My kick knocked my bro into my sister, and she knocked him right under me when I did the stomp, sending him and the AI to their deaths. My sister turned back to normal and fell right into the Falcon Punch knockoff move for me to win the match.

 

[Mr Companion]

First multiplay game in Terraria my only ally is building our house carefully and peacefully away from the rabid chaos in the feild. After breaking a few orbs Eater of Worlds appears and im like "Meh im a badass don't worry ally ill take him". A minute leter im dead and my peace loving ally is being torn apart by giant worms sarcastically sayng 'Oh yeah don't worry you got it under control man *COUGH COUGH*'.It is definitely not the most epic moment i have ever hand but my allies sarcastic commentary over us desperately holding off a giant worm was fantastically funny.

 

[Zac Smith]

In Oblivion. I didn't realize you could turn into a vampire. So a vampire gives me...vampire disease (?), and I didn't know I have it. Then I start getting popups of nightmares when I sleep, until finally I become a vampire. Next thing I know, I'm hiding from the sun, feeding off of homeless people in the alleys behind houses during the night so that I can look human enough to buy some equipment, and just generally kicking a LOT of ass in fights. But using shops was becoming obnoxious. I usually ended up dying in the sun while attempting to use the Wait option because I just could not figure out what time the sun was supposed to be coming up or going down (I thought 6pm seemed reasonable, guess not?). So I decide I should become human again. That starts this epic quest to hunt down the head vampire guy, and kill him.

It played out as this totally amazing adventure in my head, and it was honestly the only time I ever felt submerged in the "story" of the game, except that it wasn't the game's story. So I don't know if that's classified as "awesome" or "fail" on their part.

Similar thing happened to me, thought it wouldn't be a problem, but after a few hours of trying to do the main quest online at night so I didn't get hurt, it became to much

 

[BanthaFodder]

alrighty, here we go...

TF2: I'm running around with the Fists of Steel (before the nerf). I charge a Brass Beast Heavy head-on, screaming "SILLY *****, YOUR SIMPLE WEAPONS CANNOT HARM ME. I'M THE JUGGERNAUT *****.". I proceeded to bludgeon the Heavy to death while taking point-blank Brass Beast fire and walk away with some health to spare.

Red Dead Redemption: I find a guy in Tall Trees getting chased by wolves. I shoot the wolves, then hogtie the guy. I take him to a cliff and set him down in such a way so that he'll slide down the cliff. after a few tries, I finally dump him in the right spot and he takes off like a fucking shot. he then proceeds to keep going and I see a guy going up rock formations like half-pipes in the distance. I had made a human toboggan.

L.A. Noire: I come across a cliff. so I turn on my sirens and gun it, doing the DUkes Of Hazard yell as I go. I land right in the parking lot of the Morgue, which starts the cutscene. I jumped off a cliff and landed squarely on my objective.

Left 4 Dead 2: alright, I got two here. first, I spawn in the last stage of Dead Center as a Charger. the survivors go into the elevator, I go to the bottom and spawn. I then proceed to charge the fuck out of them the second the doors open. another time, I spawn as a Jockey in Dark Carnival. they shoot a Boomer, which summons the horde. in the chaos, I jump one of the survivors and ride them into a Spitter puddle. his teammates are too preoccupied to save him, so the puddle disappears, and I ride him a quarter of the way back through the stage.

 

[daftalchemist]

In Oblivion. I didn't realize you could turn into a vampire. So a vampire gives me...vampire disease (?), and I didn't know I have it. Then I start getting popups of nightmares when I sleep, until finally I become a vampire. Next thing I know, I'm hiding from the sun, feeding off of homeless people in the alleys behind houses during the night so that I can look human enough to buy some equipment, and just generally kicking a LOT of ass in fights. But using shops was becoming obnoxious. I usually ended up dying in the sun while attempting to use the Wait option because I just could not figure out what time the sun was supposed to be coming up or going down (I thought 6pm seemed reasonable, guess not?). So I decide I should become human again. That starts this epic quest to hunt down the head vampire guy, and kill him.

It played out as this totally amazing adventure in my head, and it was honestly the only time I ever felt submerged in the "story" of the game, except that it wasn't the game's story. So I don't know if that's classified as "awesome" or "fail" on their part.

Similar thing happened to me, thought it wouldn't be a problem, but after a few hours of trying to do the main quest online at night so I didn't get hurt, it became to much

Yeah, it was way too frustrating. I would come out of Waiting or Sleeping to find that I was dead. Then reload, reset the timer, try again, die again, reload, etc. I finally decided being kickass (albeit butt-ugly like a really old albino) was not a good enough trade off for having to run around at night and die instantly in the sun.

 

[Je Suis Ubermonkey]

I've had some great ones in Total War games.

For example, in Medieval II the Mongol invasion is somewhat scripted. My meeting them on the Steppes with a 40,000 strong professional army wasn't. I don't like the Mongols.

Oh yes, and in Shogun 2 when I held a fort in the closing stages of a siege against 200+ bow ashigaru. My forces? Yari ashigaru. Sixteen of them. Most survived.

 

[The Apothecarry]

A friend challenged me to a duel on Halo 3. 1v1 Slayer on Narrows. I sat in one of the upper corners of the bridge with a sniper rifle, and because my Spartan was steel-colored versus his green-and-brown selection, he had a hard time trying to find me.

Then he found the rocket launcher and I missed a kill shot. He spin and shoots, I fire again. All we see is an explosion. While he's so confused as to where his rocket went, I shoot again and win the match.

We went into the theater and checked that again, and I managed to snipe the rocket. I'll never be able to do it again.

 

[repeating integers]

Does multiplayer count? If so, all of it. Special mention must go to the epic point defense in a BFBC2:V Rush game, where all 4 squad members were medics and we'd all placed health kits on the ground in the point. The result was that every one of us was nigh-unkillable, seeing as we were insta-healed if we were hit, and if we did die, another one of the squad would revive us. And the best part was that the canopy overhead prevented them grenading or artillerying us into extinction. We held them off for fucking ages, and I'm pretty sure it won us the game.

Also, one of my first playthroughs on Homeworld had me on the rather difficult mission... 11, I think (Galactic Core). There was a big enemy fleet fleeing into the dust belts, which I was fighting an epic running battle with, using a fleet of pretty much all my capital ships. At one point, though, they all turned and stood their ground - well, space - while another enemy fleet attacked my barely-defended Mothership from underneath. Now, all this WAS scripted, but my reaction to it wasn't. I panicked, and set all my strike craft on all of the fleet approaching the Mothership from underneath using the "group attack" function, including the Salvage Corvettes (which capture enemy ships - usually restricted to capital ships, because they're SLOW), before switching back to my epic battle with the main enemy fleet. A few minutes later, when I'd finally won that, I looked back at the Mothership battle. Most of it was over, I'd won (just needed to deal with that fucking Heavy Cruiser before it killed my MS), but I looked closer and saw one of my Salvage Corvettes heading off to dock with the Mothership. It was carrying an enemy Interceptor - the second-fastest strike craft in the game, one that usually requires a great deal of patience and planning to capture. I'd captured one by accident, and I hadn't even been looking, so I still have no clue wtf happened.

And then there's pretty much all of the Halo campaigns, which due to their design do this a hell of a lot.

 

[Sad Face]

Fallout 3 was full of those moments. Yao Guai coming out of nowhere and destroying me...the sun rising over some burnt out tower...it was awesome.