Those moments in games where you get overconfident...

[crimsonshrouds]

I turned on my 360 for the first time in forever and decided to play something that wasn't Minecraft which was Magic the gathering 13. I was using the goblin deck and i faced off against the garruk computer. We ended up in a stalemate until i got a board position where i could overwhelm my opponent. Well, I attacked all out thinking I was going to steam roll him having forgotten a specific green spell that would screw me over. http://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=253673

Its surprising that a common card can pretty much wreck your shit if you forget it exist.

So, ever have those moments where you get overconfident and end up losing?

 

[ShinyCharizard]

All the time in Dark Souls. I think to myself "Yeah I've beaten this game 10 times, no need to be careful with the 500k souls I currently have" and then whoops fall off a cliff, then die to a pinwheel skeleton when I try to retrieve them.

 

[Sniper Team 4]

Ha, I just went through this today. I'm playing through Borderlands right now. I just got to the DLC boss Crawmerax the Invincible. My character is max level and nothing could stand up to me. I walked into that fight thinking, "Ha, this will be easy." The special optional bosses in games always are when your character is max level. Then he came out and he was pretty big, but I still didn't worry. Then he hit me.

I was wrong. I was so, so, so very wrong.

On a side note, whoever O.K.'d the idea for the boss to have a weak point on his back and not give you the chance to run behind him...I have some choice words for you.

 

[crimsonshrouds]

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unless you have a modded shield i don't recommend ever fighting him without some really good friends that are also maxed out.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Demon's Souls. Every fucking time. No matter where you are or what level you are and who are you fighting. Never, ever, ever take a single fucking moment of that game for granted.

Ha, I just went through this today. I'm playing through Borderlands right now. I just got to the DLC boss Crawmerax the Invincible. My character is max level and nothing could stand up to me. I walked into that fight thinking, "Ha, this will be easy." The special optional bosses in games always are when your character is max level. Then he came out and he was pretty big, but I still didn't worry. Then he hit me.

I was wrong. I was so, so, so very wrong.

On a side note, whoever O.K.'d the idea for the boss to have a weak point on his back and not give you the chance to run behind him...I have some choice words for you.

Haven't tried that part yet but I would imagine it gets easier on co-op.

 

[RJ 17]

I turned on my 360 for the first time in forever and decided to play something that wasn't Minecraft which was Magic the gathering 13. I was using the goblin deck and i faced off against the garruk computer. We ended up in a stalemate until i got a board position where i could overwhelm my opponent. Well, I attacked all out thinking I was going to steam roll him having forgotten a specific green spell that would screw me over. http://gatherer.wizards.com/pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=253673

Its surprising that a common card can pretty much wreck your shit if you forget it exist.

Ahhhhh, Fog. The bane of the overconfident indeed. That's the thing about playing against Garruk. Like with pretty much every other deck in the game, there are just certain cards you should always assume that your opponent has in their hand...unless, of course, they have no cards in their hand. In Garruk's case, you should always assume that he's got Fog or Giant Growth.

As for my own case, I'll go with the various "Warriors" games (Dynasty Warriors, Samurai Warriors, Warriors Orochi). By the time you get a character at a fairly high level, you start to feel like an invincible badass. So you crank the difficulty up to max so that you can get better weapons and such. Problem is that on max difficulty, most enemy officers can kill you in 2-3 hits. There is NOTHING more humbling than blazing through an entire map, mowing down HUNDREDS of enemies and leaving a path of bloody slaughter in your wake.......only to have some generic officer poke you twice with a spear and kill you.

 

[RJ 17]

Edit: Just noticed that both of my posts started with a wise-ass "Ahhh". :3 End Edit

Ha, I just went through this today. I'm playing through Borderlands right now. I just got to the DLC boss Crawmerax the Invincible. My character is max level and nothing could stand up to me. I walked into that fight thinking, "Ha, this will be easy." The special optional bosses in games always are when your character is max level. Then he came out and he was pretty big, but I still didn't worry. Then he hit me.

I was wrong. I was so, so, so very wrong.

On a side note, whoever O.K.'d the idea for the boss to have a weak point on his back and not give you the chance to run behind him...I have some choice words for you.

Ahhhhhh, dirty Ol' Crawmerax. I remember that son of a biscuit eater. I only beat him once in a semi-legit way, every other time while trying to farm up Pearlescent weapons (best weapons in the game) was done by cheating with super modded weapons and a God Mode shield that some random jackass jumped into my game and gave to me.

The semi-legit way is that there are a couple spots in his "arena" where he can't get to you. One is incredibly tricky to get to, basically you have to be standing 3/4ths of the way off the cliff and crouched down (there's a tiny little slope you can stand on if you're in the right spot). The way I did it, though, was that there's another such spot that he can't reach, and you can only get to it by pure dumb luck. When he does his attack that sends you flying up into the air, there's a chance you'll land on the rocky cliff wall along the edge of his arena. There's a certain area where you can actually land and stay. If you get to this area, there's nothing he can do against you. Just sit back and unload on him for about an hour and you'll bring the rat bastard down.

Crawmerax the Invincible.

Haven't tried that part yet but I would imagine it gets easier on co-op.[/quote]WRONG! Bosses and enemies in Borderlands scale up in difficulty depending on how many people you have in your group. In exchange, however, you get better loot.

 

[Stavros Dimou]

It happened to me sometimes in Skyrim.
I killed dragon without much effort and I felt my character was very powerful.
Then I visited a Dwemer Ruin and found these Chaurus,little bugs and I just stormed them thinking my sword would pass right through their exoskeleton and cut them to pieces.

Well,Chauruses turned out to be much harder creatures than Dragons,who could have thought ?

 

[FPLOON]

Virtua Quest... Tried to replay it as a Let's Play and, during one of the recording sessions, I got stuck trying to find a way to get to one of the two-star boxes that I remember getting beforehand almost 2 years ago... Sure, it took me 10 whole minutes of wandering around like a Game Grumps episode without the commentary, but man did I let my overconfidence get the better of me...

 

[Kyrian007]

It happened to me sometimes in Skyrim.
I killed dragon without much effort and I felt my character was very powerful.
Then I visited a Dwemer Ruin and found these Chaurus,little bugs and I just stormed them thinking my sword would pass right through their exoskeleton and cut them to pieces. Well,Chauruses turned out to be much harder creatures than Dragons,who could have thought ?

There was easily intent for things like that to happen in Skyrim. The first Dragon you fight off to the west of Whiterun near the lookout tower... if you fight at night fires are visible to the north and east, kind of on the way back to Whiterun. If you decide to check it out on the way back... Giants and Mammoths. No big deal right, I just fought a Dragon.

That's what happened to me, got hit so hard I auto-reloaded before my corpse hit the ground (easily a home run swing, and I could have indeed seen Breezehome from there.)

 

[Gethsemani_v1legacy]

It happened to me sometimes in Skyrim.
I killed dragon without much effort and I felt my character was very powerful.
Then I visited a Dwemer Ruin and found these Chaurus,little bugs and I just stormed them thinking my sword would pass right through their exoskeleton and cut them to pieces.

Well,Chauruses turned out to be much harder creatures than Dragons,who could have thought ?

Yet another reason never to take that Ancient Shrouded Armor off once you've got it, it turns Chaurus's into mewling little children. Without their hilariously strong poison to screw you over they are quite easy to dispatch.

OT: When I play MOBAs and start going 5-0 in K/D. Suddenly I am confident that the entire enemy team has nothing on my squishy carry... Cue a few deaths that can best be described as "humbling".

 

[Zhukov]

I do it all the time in MOBAs.

I mainly play support tanks, so it's often my job to initiate fights. So I'll be all, "On me teammates! Charge! Follow the tank!", hurl myself into the fray, only to turn around and see that my whole team has buggered off, leaving me to try and survive a 1v5.

 

[SKBPinkie]

Happens way too often in racing games.

It's the genre where even a moment of complacency guarantees a fuck-up. Grid 1 and 2 especially ensured that my confidence was constantly in check.

 

[Isalan]

Happened a lot to me in the Titanfall beta. Using your Titan to kill other Titans by dropping it on them is one thing, reaching said Titan if you miss is quite another. One guy managed to punch me out of the air when I was trying to jump in the sodding thing.

 

[OneCatch]

Declaring war on Armenia in Rome II. Managed to take their middle eastern territories easily (they'd displaced Seleucia), but then ran into a few full stack armies hidden in eastern Asia Minor. They powered through the entire northern coast of Asia while I was tied up in Syria, got all the way to the bloody Bosphorus before I was able to scrape together a few Illyrian and Greek legions to beat them back and retake those settlements. Even then the Illyrian one got pasted because it was weak to heavy cav.
Set back my invasion by about 20 turns and stopped me taking Dacia.

Also, this prick in Morrowind:

Spoiler

First time playing, low level character. Not yet killed an actual person, but awesome at killing rats.
"He's threatening me! I reckon I can take him"
I get in one hit and his HP goes down by about 3 pixels, he hits me back. 40% HP gone
"Fuckfuckfuckfuckfuck!"
*Dead*

 

[Ubiquitous Duck]

At the beginning of Morrowind I assumed I could take an old lady in a fist fight...

I was wrong.

I tried to better myself after reloading by taking on a rat. Dramatic music kicks in... rat beats the adventurer.

Remind me why I love that game again?

 

[MeTalHeD]

Borderlands 2...freaking Borderlans 2, man.

*Mows down bandits with purple shotgun pulled from large loot chest*

*gains a level or two*

*shotgun starts shooting peas which disintegrate before reaching their target*

The scaling in that game is ridiculous. I also reckoned that since I was level 52 or 53 I could comfortably take on Terramorphous alone...boy, was I wrong.

When he wasn't smacking me off a cliff, his extra tentacles gave me a false sense of hope that I've got guaranteed second winds.

*Tentacles appear*

I'll just pop one of those when I go down.

*Goes down*

*Tentacles quickly sink into the ground, returning from whence they came*

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!

 

[Yuno Gasai]

I do it all the time in MOBAs.

Me too.

My overconfidence is usually triggered by the music I'm listening to. If a song I really like comes on, chances are I'll think "AW YISS LET'S DO THIS" and charge into the enemy team, not realizing that my allies are scattered across the map and too far away to come back me up... Heh.

Overconfidence isn't normally a thing for me in single player games, with the exception of Skyrim when I gave my Nord a sword and shield and decided that made her a tank.

What do tanks normally excel at? Pulling large groups of mobs and surviving!
What did I forget about Skyrim? There are no AoE melee attacks!
What happened to my Nord? She died!

She put up a pretty good fight (with the use and abuse of health potions), but I think it was a case of me forgetting which game I was playing.

 

[OneCatch]

Also, this prick in Morrowind:

Spoiler

First time playing, low level character. Not yet killed an actual person, but awesome at killing rats.
"He's threatening me! I reckon I can take him"
I get in one hit and his HP goes down by about 3 pixels, he hits me back. 40% HP gone
"Fuckfuckfuckfuckfuck!"
*Dead*

Morrowind is full of these, I was expecting Gaenor to be in that spoiler tag. He's a Bosmer you meet in Tribunal who asks you for money - it doesn't matter if you refuse or give him 100,000 gold, he'll always walk away and come back a few days later in full ebony, reflect enchantments and a luck-buffing amulet to ruin your day.

Hey, a low level character wouldn't even get one hit in against Gaenor!
I had forgotten that little sod though... I think I ended up paralysing him a few dozen times and then flailing with a shortsword as quickly as possible. And it still took about 20 mins.

But yeah, there were a few of 'those' characters weren't there? That renegade Ordinator, the ridiculously powerful plague lich, Umbra. But at least you knew that they were going to be hard. People like Gaenor, Fjol, that unscripted but stupidly high level Redguard smuggler near Seyda Neen, they would all kind of ambush you.