"Hero Mode" Engaged!

[Elamdri]

So we've all had moments like this (unless you're terrible, in which case...I'm sorry...I'm so sorry): Your team has had a sudden upset and now victory rests squarely on YOUR shoulders. Lesser men (or women) would buckle under the pressure. But no, not you. See, you're made of tougher stuff. A heart of steel, a titanium skin and an adamantine skeleton. You thrive under pressure; it's time to go out there and be a big damn hero. So what are your "Hero Mode" moments?

I've had a few that I'm kinda proud of. I've been really into the ME3 multiplayer since it came out and I can't tell you the number of times I've pulled a Silver or Gold win out of my ass at the last moment. I think my favorite one sofar comes down to winning a Silver match on my vanguard after the whole team went down on round 10. I medi-gelled up and managed to take down 2 Brutes, 2 Banshees, 4 Ravagers, and I have no clue how many Maurauders and Cannibals while capturing a control point.

 

[krazykidd]

This happens Ever so often when i play UMVC3 . My team is x-23 , doom and storm . X-23 strives on point , with assists she is amazing . On the other hand , when shes the last one standing she has a BIG disadvantage . Now , in a recent game i was going up against team awsome ( read:dante, virgil , wesker ). I managed to lose both my doom and storm , leaving me with x-23 at half life , which means as soon as i get hit , i will die. I had nothing to lose and auite frankly didn't expect to last 5 seconds . I don't know what happened , my opponent must have ( rightfully) thought the game was his , or i just started playing x-23 exceptionally well , but i managed to make one of my best comebacks ever . I was doing shit with x-23 i never done before , taking risks and having them hit their mark. Cross ups i never managed to do i did them . It was such an invigorating feeling. It was not a time for thinking but for going into action. My back against the wall , and nothing to lose , i gave it my all and came out victorious .

Now if only i could always play like that , i wouldn't be half bad .

 

[mrF00bar]

Most of mine took place 5-6 years ago in Counter Strike Source, but those times are long gone. I remember in particular I was alone with 8 CTs converging on T spawn on cs_office, armed with an MP5 and Deagle I took out all 8 people in the space of 5 seconds. Not one bullet him me. Funny thing was everyone on the server bet there money on CTs winning lol.

 

[butternut]

Left 4 Dead survival mode in the Mall area with the car. About 7 minutes in everyone except me is dead. We figure thats it for this attempt but I (somehow) manage to hit adrenaline, heal up and proceed to last another 4 mins alone getting Gold for myself and two friends.

It was completely insane there must have been at least 3 tanks in the map as well as god knows how many specials. But because I had a grenade launcher (then managed to grab an auto shotty when it ran out) I was able to keep the specials off me.

 

[0z0wen]

Where my last character died at LARPing, the monster's shield wall was holding fast and our guys were beginning to drop. So I lead the charge through the enemy lines, smashed the undead down, we charged for the necromancer... Who bought them all back up again, everyone pulled out, I was stuck behind enemy lines without any help, got my legs hacked at. So there I was, lying on the ground without any legs I noticed the ones that jobbed me thought I was dead so they joined the shield wall, I started crawling towards my weapons which I had dropped when I went down, looked over my shoulder and saw three of them marching menacing towards me, I crawled faster, picked up my sword, downed one until of course they overwhelmed me. It was epic.

 

[Scarim Coral]

This happen twice in Guild Wars-

Both took places in different final bosses, one at the end of Prophices and the other in Nightfall. To sum it up all of my party members were killed while I was the last one alive. If I died than we had to restart the final mission again which the mission itself is a pain in the arse to begin with.
No I did not single handily fought the boss by myself but lucky for me my characters (Ranger in Prophices and Ritualist in Nightfall) both had revive skills on them. The problem is the final bosses were alive and my party corpses were near them.
On my Ranger I had a revive skill called Rebirth is a long range skill so I was safe enough to revive my teammates while not luring the boss itself. I however didn't had that skill on my Ritualist. Instead I got him near to the boss to lure him as I quickly summon my spirit to be bait. The boss went to attack my spirit as I quickly run pass him and revive the rest of my party.
Both resulted in everyone were revive and we somehow manage to defeat both bosses in the end (I mean they both have death penality so their health and energy were lower down abit).

These two evemt make me feel like a hero as they were dependant on me to not die and to revive them all.

 

[Techno Squidgy]

I went full on Duke mode in Battlefield 3. The enemy had all the points and air superiority. After downing both enemy jets and their chopper I turned onto their tank emptied my rockets and guns into it before bailing. I then killed the engineer attempting to repair it and took out two snipers before retaking the point. Riding on the back of this my team then proceeded to sweep across the map retaking just over half the points after which both sides battled it out over the mid-ground.

 

[Reaper69lol]

Couple of weeks ago I was playing Resident Evil operation raccoon city, played that "Hero" mode. I of course chose HUNK, I just love stealth. Long story short, my entire team was pretty dead (heroes atleast). I was running away from Leon, Claire, Jill and Carlos using cloak when I could to escape them and regain my health, while my teammates were being slaughtered as your standard USS spawns. As luck would have it, I found a case which contained a grenade launcher. I picked that badboy up and started hunting down enemy heroes one by one before the time ran out. Cloak, sneak up to them shoot them with a grenade launcher, knock them down finish them off with Samurais edge.
Huge fluke on my behalf but damn that was fun. I dont think I will be able to repeat that anytime soon.

 

[gigastar]

Ok... Where to begin...

Team Fortress 2, on the server i frequent most im considered a high priority target by all the regulars there due to my ability to lead by example and organise an awe inspiring defence or offence.

In the Resistane 2 co-op multiplayer... thing, i discovered and perfected a technique that would make the ever-feared Titans effectively harmless to anyone but me, giving my up to seven team-mates a free firing line.

Theres probably more, but theese are all i can think about right now.

 

[tippy2k2]

"Hero Mode" is the exact reason I play Modern Warfare 3 Search and Destroy.

There's no bigger rush than watching your team get killed, have it six on one and think to yourself, "Wait, there's only six of them? That doesn't seem very fair for them..."

Sure, 75% of the time I get myself killed because they're actually working together but that 25% when they're not working together or I'm so very on (four bad guys in front; four bullets and no more bad guys) is gaming Nirvana for me. Maybe next time I'll go pistols only to give them a fighting chance.

 

[ChupathingyX]

It happened the first time I did the Battle of Xu Chang in Dynasty Warriors 4 as Shu forces.

Every single allied officer, soldier, stronghold and all of my bodyguards were dead and I was left all alone to fight off half the Wei army on hard mode without a fully levelled Liu Bei.

It took a long time but by the end, after many true musous and destroying every urn on the battlefield, I finally finished the battle with about 2 minutes left on the clock.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

i did have this happen on ME3 the other day, was quarian infiltrator on wave 10 vs the geth on silver, had the stupid geth prime+rocket troopers take them out because they stupidly ran in trying to revive the teammates instead of letting me do my sabotage+cloak combo to save them

(side note: DON'T SHOOT ORANGE AURA'D GETH. PISSES ME OFF TO NO END WHEN TEAMMATES SPECIFICALLY SHOOT THOSE ONES, THEY ARE ON OUR TEAM RIGHT NOW DAMMIT.)

and so in the first probably 20 seconds those 3 were all dead, and I ended up getting all 4 devices shut down, taking out all the geth without using a single medi gel, all with a un-upgraded widow I. i felt pretty badass about it, as we won with full extraction the next wave.

(admittedly, the "roll mechanic" is really starting to annoy me that it's all on the same key..next to impossible to roll right in that split second you need to avoid a ravager/geth prime shot.

 

[Pat8u]

battlefield bad company when it first came out
everyone else were away somewhere I only had the first lvl assault rifle I then proceded to take out the entire squad that was assaulting the gold

 

[King of Asgaard]

I was playing Dark Souls and had been summoned to help out with Gwyn (final boss).
The fight was going fine until Gwyn got pissed and charged the host, knocking him down to about 15% health.
Gwyn backs off and the host uses humanity to heal.
However while he starts healing, Gwyn charges in again to strike the host.
So I run into the way and parry Gwyn's attack and riposte, killing him.
That was a great moment in my Dark Souls history.

Captcha: believe me.
What he said.

 

[Elamdri]

I went full on Duke mode in Battlefield 3. The enemy had all the points and air superiority. After downing both enemy jets and their chopper I turned onto their tank emptied my rockets and guns into it before bailing. I then killed the engineer attempting to repair it and took out two snipers before retaking the point. Riding on the back of this my team then proceeded to sweep across the map retaking just over half the points after which both sides battled it out over the mid-ground.

I remember back in the day we were playing Bad Company two doing a game of rush and we were down to 3 tickets and we had been damaging the control points because they were too entrenched, so I Rambo'd in on my recon blew away three dudes with my shotgun, dove behind the Com station, tossed a bunch of C4 on it and detonated it, destroying it. That opened up the last two points which we swiftly destroyed.

 

[Richardplex]

I'm *generally* very good when I'm last man standing against a team in a search and destroy type game. I've had my entire team massacred in 5 seconds on Estate in MW2, and have taken out the 6 enemy players with nout but a M9. I'm normally bad at S&D, but I can reliably take out at least 4 enemies if I'm the last man. Times like that are the only good memories I have of MW2. Everything else is red, just pure, incomprehensible rage.

 

[Thaliur]

In one game of HW:Cataclysm, I was playing with two human allies against three AI opponents, and one team member dropped out due to collection problems, which upset our whole strategy. Luckily, I was quite careful with my fleet, and had a lot of resources. I managed to make a hyperspace jump with my whole fleet right next to one enemy's mothership, attack it, and jump away again about half a second before the Planet Blaster missile of another AI opponent exploded amidst my fleet, then launched a Planet Blaster of my own, obliterating everything that one AI owned. While the other opponent's Blaster recharged, my remaining ally was able to weaken its forces, allowing me to send in my carriers with interceptors to protect my allies capital ships, and disable the AI's mothership's defences.

It was glorious. Had team member 3 not been dropped, the hyperspace assault jump would not have been necessary, and we might have continued our drawn-out series of skirmishes until every last asteriod had been consumed.

 

[Prof. Monkeypox]

Team Fortress 2 as medic.

Now, being a heroic medic at the worst of times is mostly the same as being one at the best (sacrificing your safety for the good of the team to keep important allies alive long enough to push). The difference in Hero Mode is that if my team really is too incompetent to push even with my healing, I can still pull out my syringe gun and keep the enemy team at bay until they all respawn.