The Last Stand Effect - Have you experianced it?

[Sassafrass]

Most of the time I find.
Mainly in FPS where I'm the last guy standing and have to hold off a massive hoard of enemies while reviving team-mates.
And also when playing Dodgeball and you're the last guy standing against the entire other team. Shit gets real then.

 

[Hallow'sEve]

I'll never forget one of my first times playing Warcraft III, the enemy invaded and I didn't have half the defenses I should have. I loaded only a handful of soldiers/builders onto a blimp. Then I flew to a nearby island, slayed a dragon, re-started my civilization, and came back to win the war. IT. WAS. AWESOME.

 

[NeutralMunchHotel]

Any last stand situation is automatically made 5035% more awesome when someone starts yelling for no real reason.

WE WILL HOLD THE LINE!

Made even more awesome when

Spoiler

Kirrahe dies around 15 minutes later...

 

[seizon]

Starcraft. Can't remember which numbered stage it is. It's the one where you have to hold
off the Zerg for 30 minutes so the evacuation ships can show up. Without cheats, I have only
been able to hold out the entire time four times. But each of those times was awesome.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

Uhh... it is just a game. I've never really felt "awesome" or anything because I beat a bunch of people when my character/team was pretty much dead.

 

[roryyeung]

Ok, I was running the zombie simulator with some friends, (http://www.class3outbreak.com/zombie-outbreak-simulator/) and we noticed that there's usually at least one or two cases where one guy fends off an entire horde of zombies, before surcumbing to the horde. This usually seems to happen in car parks, and the awesome pile of bodies is great.

Oh yeah, and in age of empires 2, a couple of times I ended up with my base completly taken over by my opponent, but managed to get out some villagers, who allowed me to build a new base inside my ally's. We even won. Exept that time where i made one guy run and hide, where my opponent never found him, even in several hours. He had to give up- victory by annoyance!

 

[Jaranja]

It's the best part of a game.

DoW II tried to do this on the last mission, but then you're bailed out, which ruined it- would have worked better if they'd just slaughtered you.

hmm i don't know they just needed an excuse to get gabriel from the original DoW in and look awesome..
i don't know if it would work better if you got slaughtered

I was so disappointed with the ending, I wanted everyone to get butchered because then we could leave this army alone! Seriously, it's almost every game.

 

[Nakovalen]

Yep the Last Stand effect is always awsome. Fighting at the brink of defeat not only for your life but the lives of many more. The idea of death around the corner, the rush of adrenaline, when you are the only one able to stop the enemies, and then survivng all the odds.

I remember this article, The Glory of the Last Stand [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_207/6198-The-Glory-of-the-Last-Stand]by Lee Petrie. I suggest you read it or re-read it, it gives alot of insight into the effect.

 

[ravensshade]

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I was so disappointed with the ending, I wanted everyone to get butchered because then we could leave this army alone! Seriously, it's almost every game.

not a big chance the blood ravens came into being for DoW so i think the focus is on them (even though there were ultra marines in first DoW)

 

[Xpwn3ntial]

I like that feeling. It means I actually got my money's worth out of a game. I particularly like when all that's left is a commissar attached to an imperial guardsman. I lost that fight, but it took longer than I thought.

 

[Jaranja]

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I was so disappointed with the ending, I wanted everyone to get butchered because then we could leave this army alone! Seriously, it's almost every game.

not a big chance the blood ravens came into being for DoW so i think the focus is on them (even though there were ultra marines in first DoW)

That doesn't stop me from getting annoyed by it. Space Marines in general are irritating, though.

 

[ravensshade]

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I was so disappointed with the ending, I wanted everyone to get butchered because then we could leave this army alone! Seriously, it's almost every game.

not a big chance the blood ravens came into being for DoW so i think the focus is on them (even though there were ultra marines in first DoW)

heh i'd like to see a good/non shooter game with the tau or eldar as main focus

That doesn't stop me from getting annoyed by it. Space Marines in general are irritating, though.

 

[Captain Schpack]

I personally felt that feeling when it was me alone versus about 50 other troops in Star Wars Battlefront II. Damn, that was the best. Unfortunately. I had the basic soldier class (which was incidentally my favorite) and i had to kill 50 troops on the opposite team of varying expertise and ability. About halfway through what can only be described as a slaughter, i got the option to play as a Jedi. By my own idiocy, I declined. Also, I'd be a cooler story if i did it with the most basic class. SO, all in all, I beat the horde and gained that planet which was my last for completion of the game. Ammunition and health droids are your friends!

 

[Schlorgan]

Left 4 Dead, definitely. All your teammates dead, fighting through a zombie horde to the skin of your teeth and just barely making it to the safe house as your last few health points trickle away. It feels great.

 

[Wicky_42]

Playing Generals: Zero Hour 3v3 at a lan once, 2nd time playing it but what can I say - I was a bit of a natural. Pissed off the other team so much that all three of them declared war on me exclusively, whilst the rest of my team built up quietly.

I didn't know what each unit did really, I just when with what worked, with batteries of avengers swatting down an airforce generals' planes and missiles whilst my own planes guarded my base perimeter. After 20 mins or so of near continuous airstrikes against my cheap to replace airfields (each one loosing them almost all of their planes) they were nigh on bankrupt but I had bucket-loads of generals points and was financially stable (despite their best efforts ). They then switched to bombing my command centre, so my ally cleared come space in his base for a backup com centre and a supply drop and I was able to weather the storm without being even slightly inconvenienced ^_^

Then we went on the offensive - one of allies told me how to use generals abilities (lol)whilst the other (who'd never played before) rampaged into the enemies bases with hoards on infantry as my A-10s, FAB, an spectre gunship generals abilities rolled in. Needless to say, the airforce gen who had been spamming me all game was not most impressed, especially as he thought I was down and out, with no dozers or command centre ^_^ fun times...

 

[Valanthe]

I know of two memorable "Last Stand" experiences, both in WoW. The first during a heroic Slave Pens group, we had pulled the giant crab (whose name escapes me at 6am) when all of a sudden our tank goes down. Right after the healer gets squished and both our melee dps, then it's my turn, I snap off a fireball (I was playing a mage)as the beast starts bearing down me, I start casting a second one, if I can get it off he'll die as he only has 1,000hp left. It came down to a race between him getting to me, and my cast bar. My fireball shot out just as he reared up to do his attack emote, smacking him for a 2k crit and laying him down. I think I actually may have yelled "That's how it's done, B***H!" into my mic.

The other instance of this, I wasn't the hero, in fact it was my dwarf pally tank who saved us. In the new instance, Halls of Reflection, we were on heroic, and the last 'boss fight' is actually just running as fast as you can before Arthas catches you in his little "I kill you now" aura. We has got slowed down at teh halfway mark, and we were cutting it right down to the wire, sometimes only making it through the barriers with inches to spare. At the last barrier, Arthas was bearing down, I remember looking down, my back was plastered to the barrier wall, and Arthas' aura was mere feet from giving me a bad case of frostbite, our tank types in chat "I got this" and leaps through the AoE at Arthas, who promptly stops, one-shots the dwarf so fast you can almost hear Arthas say "WTF?" But that one second delay was all we needed, we killed the last undead, broke down the barrier and made it out onto the balcony to be rescued by the Skybreaker, In party chat we then had a long discussion about how the tank knew that would work, to which he replied, "I didn't, we just didn't have any other options."