"I can't believe that just happened..."

[AT God]

There are two parts to this question, some games have moments like this but as scripted, the best one I know of would being the "Accident" in Spec Ops: The Line.

However, as for unscripted events, I have witnessed a lot of awesome things in sandbox games. I set up Carmaggeddon mode for GTAIV and has several instances of dodging flying cars by accident, one time I hit crouch and two cars flew into eachother right above my head, in a matter that had I been standing up, I would have been caught in between the two cars, so that was a good one.

 

[jdogtwodolla]

I have a left 4 dead moment. I was playing 1 online during the last part of the airport mission. I was the first to make it on the plane followed by two of my teammates. The fourth person was downed by a tank boulder so my teammates decided to go back for him while I stayed on the plane. As soon as they walked out I heard a boulder smash and all of a sudden the game is ending and i'm the only survivor. I had a good laugh.

 

[MiskWisk]

On the Sims (I have absolutely no idea which one) I made a small house with two people living in it. Maybe I should have kicked one guy out because, well let's say he was the most accident prone guy ever. I had a potion stand type thing that when someone with sufficient skill used it, they could make something to completely restore a stat. One day, the idiot tried to use it, turning himself into Mr Hyde. Dear god he went berserk, destroying everything he could, clogging the toilet before running off into the woods. When he turned back to normal I made him fix everything which in hindsight was a horrible idea. The next day he tried to be nice and cook breakfast on his recently repaired stove. Cue the fire that he spent the entire time shouting at refusing to help put out before the work car appeared at which point he forgot about the fire and ran off. He came back to a burnt down house and my other man's ashes.

I haven't left a room mate Sim alone ever since.

 

[repeating integers]

Is it me or has this thread become R-rated?

Anyway, I once killed 4 people with 1 bullet on Halo Reach

What?

Dude. You can't just leave us like that. Tell us more.

 

[Coppernerves]

I can't believe that just happened...

Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory

I'd just robbed a bank vault, but when I stepped out, it turned out I had stepped in an invisible laser.

All the lasers up 'till then had been completely visible, and if they could be invisible, Sam would know that security systems sometimes include freaking invisible lasers.

The rest of the game was awesome, but that ass pull was cheap and stupid as hell.

I might of put up with it if I'd been playing a sloppy, devil-may-care Sam who only passed training by blackmailing the assessors, but I was fantasizing about being bad-ass dammit!

 

[SweetShark]

I agree with you OP, rogue-likes have the largest number of those moments. One that sticks in my mind is a game of ADOM I had a couple of years ago. I'd taken the 'Cute Puppy' quest, which involves a timed dungeon delve into a relatively high-end dungeon for your character to rescue, you guessed it, a Cute Puppy The quest must be completed within an ingame week of the beginning of the game otherwise the puppy starves which means the player must reach the bottom of a ~level 10 dungeon when they'll in all probability only be around level 4 or 5. Add into this scenario that dungeon monsters will attack the Cute Puppy on sight as soon as you reach it's level of the dungeon and this quest can be a bit of a ballache to pass. Well on this particular attempt I'd made it to the Puppy in time, fought my way back up through the dungeon whilst keeping the Puppy safe from attacking gribblies and was two rooms from the exit to the world map with the Puppy dancing around me in an adjacent square when the game generated this message:

Spoiler: You have to be bloody kidding me

There is a *click* from beneath the feet of the Cute Puppy. Suddenly a stream of acid pours from the ceiling! The Cute Puppy is hit by the stream of acid. The Cute Puppy is killed! You feel the death of an innocent being.

-_-

I think at last found a game I can play with a big amount of randomness!!!
The name of the game is ADOM, right?

Indeed, it can be be downloaded from here . The game is almost free to download, Mr Biskup (the creator) collects postcards for a hobby and asks only that everyone who downloads ADOM send him a postcard from their hometown as 'payment'.

Ha, that was weird I must say.
Anyway thank you for your suggestion ^^

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

I agree with you OP, rogue-likes have the largest number of those moments. One that sticks in my mind is a game of ADOM I had a couple of years ago. I'd taken the 'Cute Puppy' quest, which involves a timed dungeon delve into a relatively high-end dungeon for your character to rescue, you guessed it, a Cute Puppy The quest must be completed within an ingame week of the beginning of the game otherwise the puppy starves which means the player must reach the bottom of a ~level 10 dungeon when they'll in all probability only be around level 4 or 5. Add into this scenario that dungeon monsters will attack the Cute Puppy on sight as soon as you reach it's level of the dungeon and this quest can be a bit of a ballache to pass. Well on this particular attempt I'd made it to the Puppy in time, fought my way back up through the dungeon whilst keeping the Puppy safe from attacking gribblies and was two rooms from the exit to the world map with the Puppy dancing around me in an adjacent square when the game generated this message:

Spoiler: You have to be bloody kidding me

There is a *click* from beneath the feet of the Cute Puppy. Suddenly a stream of acid pours from the ceiling! The Cute Puppy is hit by the stream of acid. The Cute Puppy is killed! You feel the death of an innocent being.

-_-

I think at last found a game I can play with a big amount of randomness!!!
The name of the game is ADOM, right?

Indeed, it can be be downloaded from here . The game is almost free to download, Mr Biskup (the creator) collects postcards for a hobby and asks only that everyone who downloads ADOM send him a postcard from their hometown as 'payment'.

Ha, that was weird I must say.
Anyway thank you for your suggestion ^^

No problem. It has some quite indepth mechanics, feel free to PM me if you want some basic pointers.

 

[aguspal]

Unsubtle plug for my own crap but this L4D2 finale really just was the most clutch thing in existence.

The finale is well underway at this point [http://youtu.be/ECU_9NlsiA0?t=16m57s]

For those unwilling to watch, me and a friend attempt the finale of the custom campaign "I Hate Mountains" on Expert difficulty. This finale has some kind of weird glitch in it that causes two tanks to spawn whenever one would normally spawn, so one has to fight four by the end of it.

The finale begins and the two bots die almost immediately. Me and my friend over the course of the next few minutes scramble all over the map and somehow take down the first pair of tanks.

However, during the fight against the second pair, my friend goes down and I find myself unable to really get him up in time due to being besieged by the times whom against one hit is instant incapacitation. He eventually dies, leaving me on my own against two tanks.

Through constant sniping and ridiculous rock kiting and many close calls getting thrown rocks to bash into the level geometry, they somehow both die and I find myself with one last sprint to the rescue vehicle.

I approach the area where the vehicle lands and detonate some barrels to hopefully burn incoming infected, at which point a Smoker grabs me and starts pulling me. In the small fraction of time given before I lose control, I somehow manage to score a kill on the smoker who was hiding behind an entire wall. Twitch reflexes never looked so good.

I successfully bat off and kill the incoming infected, but taking a couple of hits before scampering into the rescue vehicle, clearing the stage with less than 20 health remaining, at which point one more Infected punch would've just spelled game over.

Shit was the most ridiculous fucking thing I've ever done in a game of L4D2.

NITPICK TIME.

Zombies on Expert difficulty do 20 points of damage per hit, if they hit you frontal. They only do 10 points of damage if they hit you from behind... so you could have (potentially) resist a punch with 20 health


Anyways, those kind of moments are what make Left 4 dead the great game it is... even if it is a little random. lol

Hell... thinking about it, something somewhat similar happended to me just today. Also was last man standing and running to the rescue vehicle... I heard specials approaching to me as I run to it... And then, *RIGHT* as I enter in the recue vehicle, A Hunter grabs me... IN FREAKING MIDAIR (I jump a lot), and, as you probably know, when this happens, the momentum means you (And your buddy the hunter) still land to where you were going... the result is me begin beaten to dead with a hunter while the final sequence where the vehicle gets away from the zombies plays... I could even heard the music of when a hunter grabs you during the entire thing. It was just so LOL and unexpected.

It *counted* as a win strangely enough... but thecnically, everyone died. LOL

 

[The Funslinger]

Occasionally, there are games that allow the players to perform or be witness to completely awesome things.

This is a thread commemorating those moments.

A few minutes ago, I was playing the old Rogue-Like, NetHack, and had something ridiculous and awesome happen to me:

I had my character drink a random potion which made him start tripping balls, in his wild hallucinations, he mistook his pet kitten, Moosey, for a monster and proceeded to kill said kitten.

RIP, Moosey, you will be missed.

So, who's got some good ones to share?

I tried playing NetHack, but the control scheme was ungodly inaccessible.

OT: First dragon you fight in Skyrim. It was attacking the tower. Me and the guards chipped away at its life. I was going back and forth between arrows and magic. Had run out of mana, and arrows (max difficulty, little forethought for supplies)

the dragon didn't have very much health, but hadn't landed. Then it dived at me, ready to start doing one of those sweeps of fire. I grab a quiver off a dead guard at the mouth of the tower. Aim, and shoot. Arrow hits it in the face. Carcass falls from mid-dive, and grinds to a halt inches from my character.

Other than that, I've played Corruption of Champions for shits and giggles. Forum rules prevent me from recounting some hilarious stuff that's happened to me in that game. I will say I had about ten encounters with a certain inescapable tree monster in a row once.

 

[The Funslinger]

Unsubtle plug for my own crap but this L4D2 finale really just was the most clutch thing in existence.

The finale is well underway at this point [http://youtu.be/ECU_9NlsiA0?t=16m57s]

For those unwilling to watch, me and a friend attempt the finale of the custom campaign "I Hate Mountains" on Expert difficulty. This finale has some kind of weird glitch in it that causes two tanks to spawn whenever one would normally spawn, so one has to fight four by the end of it.

The finale begins and the two bots die almost immediately. Me and my friend over the course of the next few minutes scramble all over the map and somehow take down the first pair of tanks.

However, during the fight against the second pair, my friend goes down and I find myself unable to really get him up in time due to being besieged by the times whom against one hit is instant incapacitation. He eventually dies, leaving me on my own against two tanks.

Through constant sniping and ridiculous rock kiting and many close calls getting thrown rocks to bash into the level geometry, they somehow both die and I find myself with one last sprint to the rescue vehicle.

I approach the area where the vehicle lands and detonate some barrels to hopefully burn incoming infected, at which point a Smoker grabs me and starts pulling me. In the small fraction of time given before I lose control, I somehow manage to score a kill on the smoker who was hiding behind an entire wall. Twitch reflexes never looked so good.

I successfully bat off and kill the incoming infected, but taking a couple of hits before scampering into the rescue vehicle, clearing the stage with less than 20 health remaining, at which point one more Infected punch would've just spelled game over.

Shit was the most ridiculous fucking thing I've ever done in a game of L4D2.

NITPICK TIME.

Zombies on Expert difficulty do 20 points of damage per hit, if they hit you frontal. They only do 10 points of damage if they hit you from behind... so you could have (potentially) resist a punch with 20 health


Anyways, those kind of moments are what make Left 4 dead the great game it is... even if it is a little random. lol

Hell... thinking about it, something somewhat similar happended to me just today. Also was last an standing and running to the rescue vehicle... I heard specials approaching to me as I run to it... And then, *RIGHT* as I enter in the recue vehicle, A Hunter grabs me... IN FREAKING MIDAIR (I jump a lot), and, as you probably know, when this happens, the momentum means you (And your buddy the hunter) still land to where you were going... the result is me begin beaten to dead with a hunter while the final sequence where the vehicle gets away from the zombies plays... I could even heard the music of when a hunter grabs you during the entire thing. It was just so LOL and unexpected.

It *counted* as a win strangely enough... but thecnically, everyone died. LOL

That reminds me. Have you ever successfully completed a campaign on L4D on single player, but died? One would think that impossible, because when you die on single player, you restart from your last save room automatically.

I was going for the L4D achievement for completing a campaign with each character, and was doing the second one with Louis. Final stand, waiting for the boat to get there, and the horde, and tank are coming at us. For some reason, I was determined to save everyone. Boat arrives, I'm the first one on it, followed by Bill and Francis. But I see Zoey go down. Like a BAMF, I wade back in to get her. Successfully get her back up and we're dashing to the boat. She goes up, with me pretty much on the same spot/behind her.

Tank comes out of nowhere, and punts me. Only me off as the boat was starting to leave. I am pitched into the water, and with fairly low health, downed.

'In Memory of Binnsyboy'. They all made it. I didn't. It counted the campaign as done, so I couldn't reload. I didn't get the achievement due to having died.

 

[aguspal]

Unsubtle plug for my own crap but this L4D2 finale really just was the most clutch thing in existence.

The finale is well underway at this point [http://youtu.be/ECU_9NlsiA0?t=16m57s]

For those unwilling to watch, me and a friend attempt the finale of the custom campaign "I Hate Mountains" on Expert difficulty. This finale has some kind of weird glitch in it that causes two tanks to spawn whenever one would normally spawn, so one has to fight four by the end of it.

The finale begins and the two bots die almost immediately. Me and my friend over the course of the next few minutes scramble all over the map and somehow take down the first pair of tanks.

However, during the fight against the second pair, my friend goes down and I find myself unable to really get him up in time due to being besieged by the times whom against one hit is instant incapacitation. He eventually dies, leaving me on my own against two tanks.

Through constant sniping and ridiculous rock kiting and many close calls getting thrown rocks to bash into the level geometry, they somehow both die and I find myself with one last sprint to the rescue vehicle.

I approach the area where the vehicle lands and detonate some barrels to hopefully burn incoming infected, at which point a Smoker grabs me and starts pulling me. In the small fraction of time given before I lose control, I somehow manage to score a kill on the smoker who was hiding behind an entire wall. Twitch reflexes never looked so good.

I successfully bat off and kill the incoming infected, but taking a couple of hits before scampering into the rescue vehicle, clearing the stage with less than 20 health remaining, at which point one more Infected punch would've just spelled game over.

Shit was the most ridiculous fucking thing I've ever done in a game of L4D2.

NITPICK TIME.

Zombies on Expert difficulty do 20 points of damage per hit, if they hit you frontal. They only do 10 points of damage if they hit you from behind... so you could have (potentially) resist a punch with 20 health


Anyways, those kind of moments are what make Left 4 dead the great game it is... even if it is a little random. lol

Hell... thinking about it, something somewhat similar happended to me just today. Also was last an standing and running to the rescue vehicle... I heard specials approaching to me as I run to it... And then, *RIGHT* as I enter in the recue vehicle, A Hunter grabs me... IN FREAKING MIDAIR (I jump a lot), and, as you probably know, when this happens, the momentum means you (And your buddy the hunter) still land to where you were going... the result is me begin beaten to dead with a hunter while the final sequence where the vehicle gets away from the zombies plays... I could even heard the music of when a hunter grabs you during the entire thing. It was just so LOL and unexpected.

It *counted* as a win strangely enough... but thecnically, everyone died. LOL

That reminds me. Have you ever successfully completed a campaign on L4D on single player, but died? One would think that impossible, because when you die on single player, you restart from your last save room automatically.

I was going for the L4D achievement for completing a campaign with each character, and was doing the second one with Louis. Final stand, waiting for the boat to get there, and the horde, and tank are coming at us. For some reason, I was determined to save everyone. Boat arrives, I'm the first one on it, followed by Bill and Francis. But I see Zoey go down. Like a BAMF, I wade back in to get her. Successfully get her back up and we're dashing to the boat. She goes up, with me pretty much on the same spot/behind her.

Tank comes out of nowhere, and punts me. Only me off as the boat was starting to leave. I am pitched into the water, and with fairly low health, downed.

'In Memory of Binnsyboy'. They all made it. I didn't. It counted the campaign as done, so I couldn't reload. I didn't get the achievement due to having died.

Lol. I have also heard stories like that. Must be interesting to experience that (And in your case, probably a little frustrating as well XD)


Single player is a good way to train as well... I actually enjoined trying to get the archivement that requieres to do all the campaings in expert difficulty and the one were all 4 survivors get to the vehicle with just bots. Its actually easier (or at least, faster) than playing with other people if you know what you are doing... weird

 

[Legion]

Please.....if you read this spoiler.......as I said many times in others threads......play the game.

I would if I could find a working download link. The only site I saw that claimed to have one it was broken. It seems like it's supposed to be a free game, but nobody seems to have it anywhere.

 

[charge52]

Please.....if you read this spoiler.......as I said many times in others threads......play the game.

I would if I could find a working download link. The only site I saw that claimed to have one it was broken. It seems like it's supposed to be a free game, but nobody seems to have it anywhere.

Yeah, the best(and from what I've seen, only) place that has it is the PirateBay, assuming of course you have a torrent program to download it with.

 

[mechalynx]

Not plot, but the first time I used a Cain in Mass Effect 2. I had no idea how to get that damn gun working, it just wouldn't fire! Then I got to final fight on Haelstrom with that Geth Armature powering up. Thought, what the hell, one last try and finally figured out I had to hold down fire.

And the world went supernova.

Best part - Kal yelling at the top of his lungs that the boss was regenerating its shields as it charred remains fell to the ground.

 

[Jubbert]

I say we take off, and nuke the thread from orbit.




It's the only way to be sure.

 

[TheBestPieEver]

Skyrim... though not a fan, during my time with it I had the weirdest shit happen to me. I was assaulting this fort and I found an enemy way above my level that wouldn't stop wailing on me. So I ran like the little girl I am and tried to hide inside one of the keeps of the fort. He followed me to the door, all the while still hitting me with his sword. When I went through the door he landed one final blow that would have depleted my health but I got through before the bar completely disappeared. When I went through the door my character was on the ground but I could still control him, moving the stick would make him... ragdoll his way to way to where I was pointing and he could even attack, a sword would come off the ground and hit right in front of me, also, when I killed an enemy they went through the floor into the nether-world. It took 3 doors for my character to stand up again. I couldn't stop laughing while it lasted.

 

[Innegativeion]

Umm... the last time Alvis talks to you before the end of Xenoblade: Chronicles.

I think a bit of my brain leaked onto the floor.

 

[snowpuppy]

Dwarf Fortress has a lot of those, like a dwarf mother who uses her own baby to construct a dwarf-bone bracelet or something. I've also read stories of a duck who killed two powerful creatures on its own and gained a title!

They were demons, in hell. So the fort made a duck launcher giving how effective they were.

 

[Zanderinfal]

Ok, ok, because I want to forget this game before suck literally my soul again, I will Copy/Paste from and old Thread an answer that is suitable for this Thread:

*Copy/Paste*

Cause I see many games I already know, I will put a game many of you don't know:

Saya No Uta.

Fuck yeah, loved Saya no Uta. Not really into the genre (whatever that may be) but this really was something unique. And, if I ever have to say what makes me disturbed then I just have to point to Fuminori. God damn it, so many disturbing things about it. The mind... thing... Saya, the food he likes, the Doctor, and all of the endings were mostly disturbing as well... damn.

Seriously, anyone who hasn't played this, do so NOW. Don't worry, I'll wait.

OT: After choosing the "Fourth Option" ending in DE: Human Revolution is a good example. Or the first time you use that lightning strike attack in Infamous.