He is that weak? Well, then i'll just (Dead)

[Dedtoo]

So some time ago i remembered this one time in a Heroes game. I was in my castle, with an enemy not far away. I check my thieves guild to see what his strongest unit is. Skeleton archers. One of his most basic units. So i think he is really weak and go out of my castle to attack him.
Big mistake.
The archers might have been the strongest, but he had a whole army with him.
So if i had not left my castle i might have survived.

So whats your biggest "He's weak, i'll take him easy" moments where you were wrong?

 

[Penguinness]

Hmm, damn can't really remember. Maybe whenI first started up a skirmish on Warcraft 3, misjudging the difficulty of the bots. I must be terrible at that game because no matter what difficulty they're at, they kick some arse.. campaign is alright though.

Hmm it happens in Texas Hold'em, when I used to play at school. I'd think "He must have some weak cards, I'll make small bids to stop him folding then at the end go for the kill." then realise they've got the luckiest hand.

 

[FallenJellyDoughnut]

"I'm up against the Imperial Guard? *scoff* I'll have this done in a few minutes. *begin* Okay, I'll just build a Chapel-Barra-OH GOD THERES MILLIONS OF THEM!"

First time versed Imperial Guard online in Dawn of War. Damn they can produce a shit-load of units fast.

 

[Lawnmooer]

Warhammer online, Pretty much everytime I see a Disciple of Khaine with <50% health... *Sigh* I will learn some day...

 

[Flour]

First time I tried to defeat Baal in Disgaea 3.

Everything up to that point was easy, but Baal did 4 million damage to all my level 9999 characters in a single hit(they all died). Still haven't gone back to try and defeat him.

EDIT: I should add that he was only level 4000, and had 18 million health so he looked like what I'd expect from a boss type character

 

[DigitalSushi]

first time I came across a Stryder in Half Life 2, this is what actually went through my head.

"haha, excellent I actually get to fight one of these bitches, ok lets see, I've got 3 rockets so three good shots should take it done"

Big mistake, unlike most FPS's the Stryders can't be taken down with your entire arsenal, you need to scavenge for more rockets in that game, run for cover, scavenge more.

And the fact you need to take on 4 of them at once shocked me, that noise they make when charging up their laser cannon chills me since its "instakill".

 

[Tharwen]

Barbarian peasants in Rome - Total War. They fight like heavy infantry, and hardly ever rout. I only managed to beat them by repeating a cycle of Reload - Arrange units in a triangle in the corner - Wait for enemies to break on me.

 

[Jackalb]

Who was that bosmer guy in Tribunal who you could give a million gold too?

Edit: Gaynor, I think? Or something like that anyway.
Basically once you give me loads of teh monies he comes backed armed too the teeth and with a ridiculous Luck stat, So it's silly-hard to get a hit.

 

[WaysideMaze]

Who was that bosmer guy in Tribunal who you could give a million gold too?

Edit: Gaynor, I think? Or something like that anyway.
Basically once you give me loads of teh monies he comes backed armed too the teeth and with a ridiculous Luck stat, So it's silly-hard to get a hit.

Haha, I remember that guy. Starts out wearing rags and looking pathetics. Next thing you know he comes back in full ebony armour and impossible to hit. I hated him, meant I had to avoid that entire area of the tribunal city. Just couldnt kill him.

As for my own, it's happening all the time so hard to say. I recently started playin WOW and I seem to be doing this an awful lot. Like at least once or twice a day.

 

[Enemy Of The State]

The later battles in most Pokemon games - Elite Four etc

"I'm on low health, but so's his Pokemon. My speed is higher so I'll attack first, and he'll go down..."

*Opponent uses Full Restore*

"OH COME ON!! YOU'VE USED LIKE 5 OF THOSE ALL READY!"

 

[xvbones]

I used to be on the opposite end of this phenomenon a lot in The Burning Crusade xpac of WoW.

I am a very old-school PVP warlock, I did my time in the old-school rank grind and as a result, I have something of a reputation on my server.

I am not good at very much; I am ugly, socially awkward and I cannot dance to save my mother's life.
However, I am very good at warlock.

So, TBC. Right at the beginning, there was this Tailoring set called Frozen Shadowweave, which quickly became notorious for it's at-the-time unheard of level of pure damage stats.

Also quickly notorious was that the chest piece of the set was a tunic instead of a robe. The set was universally reviled as looking fucking hideous, with Undead - like me - coming off looking especially stupid.

undead toons look awkward and ridiculous even in a robe, but out of the robe, in a pair of pants, we look like fucking hobos.

Now, my lock has always been a tailor, so naturally I made myself a set of FSW as soon as I possibly could.

In that set, with my sword and offhand, I looked exactly like a pathetically undergeared rogue.

I looked exactly like a pathetically undergeared rogue.
And absolutely nothing at all like an extremely experienced, arguably OP caster class wearing obscenely powerful gear.

People would approach me, regularly, in battlegrounds, as though I were a pathetically undergeared Rogue who did not know how to Stealth.

Essentially, they - and this was an extremely common occurrence in every BG I set foot in - would approach me as though they had absolutely no chance of losing and it was crazy obvious that they thought they had absolutely no chance of losing.

Seriously, I would have felt bad about the deception if not for how fucking incredibly cocky some of these assholes got.
I recall one warrior in particular, he ran around me in a circle, spammed /dance, /lol and /spit and then /chickened at me, apparently daring me to take the first shot.

Absolutely positive I could never possibly beat him.

Sadly for this man, it turned out that I was not a rogue, the word before my name was 'General', the pathetic-looking gear was some of the strongest in the game and I had over a hundred and sixty thousand lifetime kills' worth of experience in dealing with warriors.

As often occurs, this overconfidence ended very poorly for the warrior.
He left the game seconds after he hit the ground, leaving me barely enough time to /lol heartily at his corpse.

Good times.

And then, sadly, the FSW chestpiece was turned into a robe, I stopped looking like a pathetically undergeared rogue and people in BGs stopped offering their balls to me on a platter.

 

[Vrex360]

The Androids in Portal. The first time I played I didn't really consider them much of a problem because I saw these stationary little robots talking like little children and so, Portal gun in hand, Chell barged right up to meet them head on.

The Aftermath:
Walls riddled with bullet holes, shattered glass on the floor, smoke from the guns flowing towards the ceiling and Chell cowering in a corner sobbing in her blood stained shredded clothes muttering to herself:
"Holy shit... holy shit..."

I learned a lesson that day, never EVER take androids lightly even if they are cute.

EDIT:
Also the FLood in Halo 2. I cut one or two to bits with my energy sword and think it's not going to be a big deal... and then the horde show up.

 

[HotPinkCrayola]

That green glowing guy in Street Fighter IV (wow brain death on the name...)
"Everyone else died quickly - this will be no problem!"
*Dead*
*Dead x 1,000,000*
"Screw this..."

And the final battle with Wesker in Res Evil 5. Not him personally, but that bloody Sheva quick time 'mash button to not fall into the lave' event. Not quite the same thing but still...

 

[RubyT]

Unreal, 1998:

I peek around a corner and see and enemy standing there. A new one, hadn't encountered one like him before. I chuckle because he hasn't notice me. So I switch to the grenade launcher, thinking I'll greet him with a nice expliosion, step out and fire it on him, laughing madly in the process.
But something's wrong, the grenade doesn't reach him. Turns out he's not your average 6' opponent standing 20' away from me, he's a fucking 60' titan standing 200' away in the distance. My pathetic little grenade doesn't even get halfway there, but the explosion triggers the titan aware of me and now he's onto me...

One of these defining moments in my gaming history.

Also, of course, varying RPG experiences where I thought I'd levelled beyond match only to be proven wrong. You now, when some little forrest creature attacks and you're not even paying attention but casually fire off a mighty fireball while taking in the scenery and then gulp, because you can hardly see the impact this fireball had on its health bar.
Oblivion was actually full of these, because some "genius" had the idea of levelling your enemies along with you. Because apparently there is no fun in gradually becoming a superman, like in all the other RPGs.

 

[xvbones]

Oblivion was actually full of these, because some "genius" had the idea of levelling your enemies along with you. Because apparently there is no fun in gradually becoming a superman, like in all the other RPGs.

I will never forget the first time a man wearing twenty thousand gold worth of armor demanded I fork over a hundred gold - a fraction as much as that gear costs to repair - in order to pass.


Oooooor the first time I assumed a Goblin Warlord was an easy kill.

 

[FallenJellyDoughnut]

first time I came across a Stryder in Half Life 2, this is what actually went through my head.

"haha, excellent I actually get to fight one of these bitches, ok lets see, I've got 3 rockets so three good shots should take it done"

Big mistake, unlike most FPS's the Stryders can't be taken down with your entire arsenal, you need to scavenge for more rockets in that game, run for cover, scavenge more.

And the fact you need to take on 4 of them at once shocked me, that noise they make when charging up their laser cannon chills me since its "instakill".

I still love thier death sound "Whoooh-Whoo-Whooh!"

 

[LooK iTz Jinjo]

Going up against a level 1 in online multiplayer. Just because the game has been out 2 years and they have only played 1 match does not mean they are shit. It just means they created a new account. Had this done to me a few times in a few different games, though I've dished it out myself also.

 

[Blackdoom]

The first time I experienced Fire Ants in Fallout 3. Oh it is just a giant ant I should be able to kill this easil... OH SHIT FIRE! IT IS BURNING ME ALIVE!