Ingame Darwin Awards

[Glaceis]

Well incase if you didn't know what the Darwin awards are, they are a special set of awards given to people who do something so rediculously stupid that you wonder how they crawled out of the gene pool and remembered to breathe. Well I'm sure you know a few instances in your gaming history, why not share them. May be you, most likely someone else. but hey, they are always a good laugh.

Example. I was playing world of warcraft, I rolled on an item got 97, next roll was 100. I Told the group the "roll hacker" addon I got really works. About 3 seconds later one of the group members asked me where he could get the add on... he was serious. 10 more mins of badgering later and I had to tell him it doesn't exist.

 

[ChromeAlchemist]

You should put an example yourself too to start it off.

My housemate was playing counterstrike for the first time on my other housemate's computer, and didn't know the buttons. He accidentally clicked the fire button and shot a wall, only to scare himself shitless and toss a grenade at the same wall, killing himself.

 

[Glaceis]

Edited for an example. Not the best but it's still an example

 

[Skreeee]

Playing L4D the first time I walked Bill right off the ledge of the starting building and got my whole team killed when they had to come back and save me (as they'd run far ahead and had to back track, one of them somehow attracting a horde along the way). Sue me for thinking the old fart could handle a few stories worth of drop.

 

[Drakulla]

When I started playing WOW, I read in the chat that someone had to ask how to dive under water.

 

[Wargamer]

Well incase if you didn't know what the Darwin awards are, they are a special set of awards given to people who do something so rediculously stupid that you wonder how they crawled out of the gene pool and remembered to breathe. Well I'm sure you know a few instances in your gaming history, why not share them. May be you, most likely someone else. but hey, they are always a good laugh.

Example. I was playing world of warcraft, I rolled on an item got 97, next roll was 100. I Told the group the "roll hacker" addon I got really works. About 3 seconds later one of the group members asked me where he could get the add on... he was serious. 10 more mins of badgering later and I had to tell him it doesn't exist.

That's not an example. The Darwin Awards can only be granted posthumously; you have to kill yourself to be applicable.

All time classic goes to the Dog-Handler on Level 2 of the original Medal of Honour. In the sewer, with a German Guard below me. I throw a grenade, and botch it; it goes well over the guy and out into the open. Thankfully, the German attack dog went and fetched the grenade, returning it to his owner. Both died instantly.

This award is given not to the dog (you can't blame it) but to the handler who taught it to fetch Grenades. He really should have seen it coming...

 

[Cuniculus]

I was playing one of the CODs, I think it was Pacific Assault and I was playing co-op with my buddy. He had already played through the game once, and it was my first time, so a point came where we had to duck under a log and crawl about ten to fifteen feet. I didn't know what the duck button was, so I asked him and he said R1, but he didn't remember that he had changed his control scheme. I had already figured out how to duck, but wondered what R1 did anyway, and my dude threw a grenade.

"OH SHIT! GRENADE!"

We both try to scramble away but we're in forced crouch and can't outrun the blast. We R Died.

 

[Vrex360]

I would say use the search bar but this is a better title than previous threads like this, besides the only one on this site who OWNS that phrase is Internet Kraken.
So I'll say my best was either getting killed by a cigarette in Bioshock or jumping into the man cannon on Valhalla only to land right in the path of a warthog, the second I landed.

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

A while ago, we played some Half-life DM for nostalgic reasons. I was spectating for a while and one of my friends was charging up his Tau Cannon trying to instakill another player. He fired it off, missed the guy by a hairs thread, the beam bounced off two walls and promptly splattered him across the map. The end.

 

[hagaya]

Ingame Darwin Award for God-awful voice acting; Resident Evil 1.

Jill Sandwich [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtTfptkUgj0&feature=related]

 

[Scobie]

DELETED

 

[Crimsane]

Playing one of the Worms games, throwing dynamite without accounting for the terrain. It hit the ceiling, bounced back, landed between two land mines, set them both off and destroyed the land my worm was on, sending the poor guy straight into the drink.

 

[AngloDoom]

I thought the idea of a Darwin Award was that the person had to make themselves sterile or kill themselves so they could no-longer contribute to the gene-pool, thus making a more intelligent human-race and helping evolution along the way...


Anyway, my idea would be any of the gangsters in Crackdown. Some guy decided that the best way to fend off an superhuman-cloned-soldier-of-doom was to throw his mate's corpse at me. This, obviously, was a statement about his masculinity. "Hur hur, I can throw peoples!" Me, being the competitive type, picked up a car, jumped fifteen-feet into the air, and threw it straight down at the guy's head.

Then his friends continued to shoot at me.

Seriously, if I saw someone do that, I'd be fuckin' gone.

 

[johnzaku]

Anglo's right, in order to be eligible for a darwin, you must effectively remove yourself from the gene-pool in an idiotic manner.

I suppose my example would be when I played the first Prince of Persia: Sands of Time (well, third PoP i guess) Anyway, I went to grab a ledge and missed, falling for a good while, hilariously bouncing off rocks and ledges until I splat the ground. At which point I rewind and go through it in reverse, only fort the power to run out just as my feet leave the ground. Needless to say, I spent a good ten minutes just watching him bump-thud his way down and then duht-pmub on back up again. As mad as I was that I'd have to reload, it was frikkin' hilarious

 

[Techyworm]

In TF2 also, I saw a demoman take about 5 minutes spreading stickies, the whole time saying on mic chat that he was arranging them so that anyone who came anywhere near the CP would get blown up. Just after he had placed the eighth mine a scout came and he panicked and blew himself up, we laughed, so hard.

 

[UsefulPlayer 1]

It's Gears of War 2. My team and the opposing team are having a intense fire fight. I down someone, which is to shoot them to their knees and since it was execution you have to run up close to kill them. Now if you play the game, you know that most people are dick weeds that try and steal your kill. And apparently there was alot of dick weeds on my team.

The thing was that the second I down the guy, my whole team all rush forward trying to take my kill. Now if you envision it, my whole team rushes out in a middle of a fire fight and all get annihilated within a couple of seconds, cut down from enemy fire.

I was the only one that had the sense to not run into the bullets, leaving me to contend with the the rest of the enemy team. I got to hand it to those idiots though, as one of them managed to get my kill.

 

[Birras]

In Saints Row 2, I was in a high-intesity helicopter chase wherein my attack helicopter was being followed just out of missle range by two similar attack choppers. The course we were headed lead us smack into the side of a bridge. I lowered my altitude a bit to go under the bridge. I looked back to see one of the choppers collide with the bridge because apparently he suddenly forgot the intense training of 'press X to lower altitude'. The other chopper flew upwards just over the bridge...only to be struck by a train in what can only be described as perfect timing.

 

[G1eet]

X-Men Origins.

1) While fighting the Wendigos (4 at a time), I stand in front of them... they all collapse into each other trying to get me, half killing themselves in the process.
2) One enemy lunged at me, while up high, and he misses me and lands 25 stories below.