Epic, monumental, humiliating fails....

[similar.squirrel]

It usually takes about eight tries to fight my way off the disabled Collector ship in Mass Effect 2. It certainly did on Veteran difficulty, anyway.
I have no problems with other encounters, oddly enough.

 

[MasterOfWorlds]

I was playing a tabletop game once, and one of the NPCs in our group carried a .357 revolver that he kept unloaded because revolvers don't have a safety switch on it, and we were playing a game where we were on a spaceship, so it would have been bad if it went off and put on hole in the ship. Anyway, my friend, myself, and this NPC were going on a mission and ended up running into some trouble. NPC drops his gun, and one of the enemies pick it up and point it at my friend (the gun hadn't been shot at this point) and my friend, thinking it was still unloaded, didn't move. Yeah...he got shot in the chest from about 5 feet away. XD

My friend also had a very hard time beating Brink...on Easy, when I was merrily strolling through the game on Hard, and he's actually a better technical shooter than I am in games. Probably why I do so much better than him in Brink, actually.

I've had a couple of fail moments in games, but not the monumental super epic fails that my friend has. XD

My friend and I played 1v1 on Bioshock 2. We played three and a half matches. The first match we didn't count because I got the Big Daddy suit, which is really unfair if you're against only one person. I beat him the other two matches by quite a bit, and he ragequit the last match halfway through and refused to talk to me for the rest of the day. This was last year, so he was 20 at the time. When I asked him the next day what was up, he simply responded, "I wanted to win..."

Oh, there are so many others it's hard to think of them all. Perhaps I'll be back and post some more later.

I do remember one of my fails now that I think about it.

I was playing Medal of Honor: Frontline, on the submarine level. I unloaded three clips from my .45 into a Nazi's head at point blank range, and he didn't die. I don't know what the deal was, but it frustrated me enough to ragequit. It was the only time I've ever ragequit, now that I think about it.

 

[Chatato]

Has there ever been a time when you've hit/encountered the fail button so hard on a game you've had to laugh at yourself and/or the game in disbelief?

I just had this playing Deus Ex.

I got owned on the training mission. Yep.

Same here except i had all of the motion sensor mines and tries to put them all on one wall... they exploded and I had to leave the testing chamber to get healed then it wouldn't let me back in with out mines which I had used all of... Yep , I was stuck there eventually I just quit the game and haven't played it since.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

.....
What?
Shady sands? Rivet city?
Wow, both of the locations you mentioned weren't even in Fallout 2.
Also, it isn't THAT hard. You just need to start carrying NPCs and Automatic weapons.

I know they weren't in F2. Did I say they were? No. I was making general Fallout references.

 

[Kahunaburger]

Yesterday I was playing bad company 2. There was a sniper from the other team camping near our base, and I decided to go after him. Long story short, I was basically this guy:
Fortunately I figured it out after a few deaths, accepted the fact that I had been pwned, and found somewhere else to be haha.

 

[MysticToast]

I dropped a crate of TNT, not knowing I had to crouch to do this as the game's inexplicably laggy tutorial messages only told me this after I blew my legs and arms off.

Then spent the next 20 minutes agonisingly slowly crawling around a large room like a crippled snail while constantly being shot at by the guard robot who couldn't finish me off because, well, it was just the training level and the game thought it was being nice to me. I've never wished for death in a game so much....

I actually did the same exact thing the first time I did the training in Deus Ex. It was quite annoying

 

[Rock 'n' Soul]

I played through Dead Space almost entirely before realizing you could break open boxes. I'd like to add, that yes, I considered that surely they MUST be breakable early in the game, but I was too busy being terrified of necromorphs that I eventually forgot about them all together.

Also, I played through my first time with one gun. DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD THAT WAS?! Not utilizing those boxes full of wonderful goodies like cash and ammo was a real fucking *****.

So. FAIL.

 

[Crazy Zaul]

This happened a lot in the old Prince of Persia games, at first I got annoyed at dieing then just laugh at myself for failing so badly.

 

[Shockolate]

Playing Starcraft 2 with a buddy. I decided to cheese him with a 6 pool.

I built an Evolution Chamber instead, and it finished before I realized.

Another Starcraft game, a different friend bunker rushed me.

It worked, mainly because I didn't look at my minimap the entire game I watched the replay, and it was right in plain sight.

I have a lot of Starcraft 2 fails, despite my reputation as a clutch player when me and my friend team up online.

 

[baddude1337]

Usually in Call of Duty online, I walk into a room where there are 3 or more enemies, and I think "Great! Lots of kills!", But somehow I always screw up and don't kill anyone.

I also recall New Vegas. They say at the start "Don't go the North Road!". I was like, fuck that! 5 minutes later my head was on the opposite side of the road to my body thanks to a Deathclaw.

 

[Slash Dementia]

I was playing Halo: Reach, and I'm usually pretty good at driving in it, but yesterday I kept flipping the warthog over. I did it so many times that the other team saw me and blew up the warthog. Then, in another game, I was going in reverse and fell off of a cliff and killed my partner, but, luckily, I was able to get out before falling. The other guy wasn't so happy and started shooting at me throughout the game.

 

[Nedoras]

My friend shut his PS2 off while playing MGS2, during the naked Raiden sequence when Campbell says to shut off the console.

I hate to admit it, but I actually did that too. In my defense, I was pretty damn spaced out when he said that. I thought "huh? oh okay" and simply turned it off. I was saddened that I was outsmarted by the game, and vowed my revenge to beat it....which was postponed by a few hours when I realized I didn't save in awhile. I felt so stupid that I simply laughed.

 

[Katana314]

This video sums it up.

 

[Zenkem]

In Dwarf Fortress, I decided to create a closed, self-sustaining community with nothing but my seven starting settlers digging beneath a haunted tundra. Before I got my dwarves underground, we were attacked by a skeletal polar bear, so I ordered the two least useful males to grab axes and fight it. They managed to kill the bear before dying from their wounds, but at least I still had enough dwarves to keep the population going, right?

One of the miners went crazy from the loss of his friends, and killed all three women. I abandoned the fortress without ever striking the earth, imagining the survivors akward travel back home.

Back in TF1, I was protecting the VIP when we got attacked on a street. While shooting and walking backwards, I accidentally fell through an open manhole. Not wanting to leave the VIP unprotected, I headed up... while the VIP tried to escape down into the sewer, which I was now blocking while his upper body got riddled with bullets.

 

[Ren3004]

I loved Arkham Asylum, but I remember during the Killer Croc encounter I didn't know about throwing a batarang to knock him into the water, so I'd get so far and then he'd jump out. I would run all the way back to the start. Did this a few times. When he finally caught me, the continue screen told me how to knock him into the water. All I could think was: "Where was that piece of info earlier?"

Well, Batman does exactly that in the previous cutscene. He throws a Batarang at Croc when he's holding Scarecrow.

 

[deserteagleeye]

This happened to me just yesterday. I'm playing Hitman: Contracts at the manor and I'm about to kill Alastair who is sitting by the fireplace talking to a guest with their backs to me. I get my silenced pistol and shoot him dead in the head in front of his bud and before I shoot the other one I find out, HE'S STILL NODDING!?!? He just nods away like he's still talking to the guy I just shot! I laughed so hard that I, (childish I know) teabagged Alastair's corpse in front of him while he keeps nodding. My sides. They hurt.

 

[DJ_DEnM]

Dead Rising: Infinity Mode
Going for 7 Day Survivor
My torture for the 7 days ends in 10 RL minutes, and Im packed with wine (Which for those who dont know can pretty much fill my health) and Im in a completely secure and closed off place.
I see that a sniper boss has spawned two areas away, I say "What the hell" and go. As I get there I lose a bit of damage (like 3/12 squares of health) and I get there.
He killed me.
Then I get the time of how long I survived
6 Days, 18 Hours, 24 minutes.

I laughed for a while and went to sleep.

 

[Twilight.falls]

In TF2 I was playing Soldier, using the Mantreads. Mantreads are boots that replace your secondary slot. When you land on an enemy's head from a certain height, the boots deal damage based on your fall damage.

So, I rocket jumped over a Medic, and positioned myself to land on him. I landed on him, but I died from falling damage. I didn't even kill him.

Fail.

 

[JustJuust]

In Gears of War 1, in the prison tutorial level, the part where you had to shoot the button across the room to open the door....
I had no idea that pressing the left trigger let me zoom in... I swear I pressed all the buttons on the controller, but apparently I didn't :/