Unintentionally (by developers) hilerious moments in games.

[Ragnaught]

Hey,

Couldn't find a thread of this sort of thing for a long time, thought I'd spark one.

We're talking moments when playing games on whatever system where something has happened for whatever reason and you have fallen off your chair/couch/beanbag or whatever laughing.

For me, my mate was showing me Assasin's Creed, the first one a number of years ago, he was being chased and running and jumping off rooftops... he misjudged a distance and fell to the ground, rolled and ran into a bench which in one fluid motion from the roll, sat on it as though nothing had happened. We both fell off our chairs in laughter and to this day, niether of us have managed to re-do this.

What are some other stories of this sort of thing happening?

 

[Rhinzual26]

For me, it was when I was in a buddy's dormroom back in 2005/2006 and we were both playing Soul Caliber 3. He was using the custom hero he made with the kunai-type weapon, I was playing as Nightmare since he had forbade me from playing as Voldo for that night. It was Abyss' stage, and he threw some caltrops on the ground that I ran into before I could stop. We both noticed an odd sound come out of Nightmare, and I ran into the caltrops again, and then we realized that Nightmare was pretty much yelling out 'Broccoli!' in pain when stepping on caltrops. I mean come on, burning village in the background, Nightmare charging towards a custom hero, stepping on caltrops and then 'Broccoli!'.

 

[nitetrain8]

I had a great one in world of warcraft, during the burning crusade.

In skettis (the city of bird-people between terrokar forest and shadowmoon valley), I used to do my daily quests every day on my horde shadowpriest, going around killing the birds with ease and whatnot.

One day I spot a gnome mage trying to do some aoe farming. Bit of a rough spot, but gets 5 or 6 mobs down, backs up all proud of himself. Backs right into another mob, anyway. Kills that one, frost novas it and agros another one by mistake. Kills them both. Pat walks buy, pulls 3 more mobs. Uh oh. He's getting low on mana. Sheeps one, kills others. Mana gem/evocate. almost kills the last one, but the first set of monsters respawns.

Tries to run away, gets into a bit of a game of ping-pong with killing one while immediately agroing another. Finally, he's almost out of mana, trying desperately run away. He gets to a clear area, totally out of mana with 2 mobs on him. Frost novas, runs away, and just sits there. Regens a bit of mana, shatters the first mob, oom again.

about 30% hp, still oom.

20%

15%, finally gets enough mana, casts a polymorph.

10%, polymorph goes off. He's totally clear of mobs, none anywhere nearby. he lives with about 5-10% hp. backpeddles a bit to admire his work and breath a sigh of relief.

Until

I waddle over to this sheeped mob. Can't really resist the opportunity- give it a tiny little poke with my dagger. Mage has no more mana to resheep. Mob runs after him, mage desperately tries to run away, but dies.

10 minutes of epic fighting till he finally gets the situation under control with a polymorph, and I run up to a polymorph and give it a little poke to give an unfortunate end to our little mage friend.

Me and my friend with me laughed our asses off for a good 20 minutes solid, and we still laughed our asses off whenever either of us would recall it. Good times.

 

[Drakmeire]

one thing that me and my friends find hilarious about Scott Pilgrim the game is that during level 4 there is a short cut-scene that in which your group must all be at the front of a train, but the game takes you there automatically, so we discovered that if you beat all the enemies then run backward you can make it halfway across the train but then are force to go back to the front which makes all the characters look like they are walking at a crazy speed.

 

[BVBFanatic]

The plot to the MGS games.

Yes I'm trollin'.

 

[shadowform]

There's an Xbox 360 game called Legendary about werewolves and such in modern times (surprisingly bad for the concept), and near the end the lead villain character actually uses the phrase "Destroy the interlopers!"

Seriously. Seriously? Interlopers. Megalomania and world-domination through supernatural devices I can buy, ancient military orders dedicated to controlling the supernatural I can buy, heavily armed corporate paramilitary organizations sure, but "Destroy the interlopers"?

It's like he'd just realized that he was the villain and decided to just roll with it.

 

[The Code]

Watching an angry Deathclaw in New Vegas walk over a pile of 25 dynamite, 7 frag grenades, 4 frag mines, and a mini-nuke. The body never came back down, if there was even one left after that.

 

[Melian]

Watching an angry Deathclaw in New Vegas walk over a pile of 25 dynamite, 7 frag grenades, 4 frag mines, and a mini-nuke. The body never came back down, if there was even one left after that.

I've seen something similar, never laughed so hard in my life!

 

[GodofCider]

Assassins Creed:

When you assassinate a guard a cut scene initiates; as such, physics outside of the scene cease to occur.

I managed to hit a guard standing directly next to the edge of the building, overlooking a busy market. The cut scene took place and the guards upper torso landed upon an invisible 'ground' over the edge of the market.

When the cut scene ended I found myself staring at a body slowly slipping over the edge. I looked on in horror, powerless to grab it, as it began to slide faster, I turned to run moments after the left boot went over. Much screaming from the marketplace, running, and laughter took place that day.



Another Assassins Creed situation:

I had just taken down a city guard in a back ally; waiting patiently for the troops out front to move away, so that I could make my way down the street. They appeared to be standing their talking. So I hid in the shadows.

Now it wasn't a clean kill and the guard had made considerable noise in the process, continuing to make dieing noises while still on the ground.

A guard began to walk away from the group, and I saw that they were breaking up, when to my horror an unbelievable explosion of smashing noises erupted from behind me. Turning on my heel, I looked upon the previously dead guard, whom was now flailing around on the ground at high velocity. The physics engine had broken on him.

I was powerless to interact with the no-clip body which continued to emanate a vast amount of smashing noises; presumably from the limbs connecting with the surrounding surfaces. Obviously this attracted the guards, whom proceeded to rush down the ally and give chase; thereby spoiling my entry plans.

It was funny. I managed to survive by hiding out in a rooftop 'garden'; which still lack a rooftop entryway from the main house, thereby rendering the entire thing pointless other than a tool designed for your personal lounging.


Shadow of the Colossus:

When challenging the stone sword armed colossus, it's death scene takes place with it landing upon its knees and dieing in a very particular fashion. If you go about it correctly, then it is possible to kill the colossus while remaining 'stuck' to its head right up until it flicks its head back in the final moments of the scene.

This sends you flying away from the colossus at a ridiculous speed, landing well away from the 'podium' the fight takes place on. So far in fact that the black tentacles that come after you, catch you while you're still in flight, allowing you to clip through the body of water below and collapse upon the bottom of the lake.

 

[maddawg IAJI]

There have been a few situations. Most of which involve me accidentally killing my teammates with a vehicle or sniper rifle during a game of Halo or just reaaaallly bad crashes from GTA 4.

But currently, two stories take the cake.

The first was in Red Dead Redemption's Undead Nightmare DLC.I just tamed Pestilence and looked up in the top corner to read his special ability. Apparently, Pestilence doesn't die easily. So about five minutes later while I'm riding around the area looking for a Sasquatch, I accidentally fall off a cliff roughly 6-8 feet high. As soon as I hit the ground, Pestilence collapses and I was forced to spend a good 3 hours riding a stupid skeleton horse that doesn't know how to run straight before I managed to find Famine. I was more in a fit of shock, but apparently my brother found it funny.

The second one was when I watching my friend playing GTA 4. He spawned in a Helicopter and flew it to the highest building he could find. When he got out, he spawned in a Motorcycle, got on it and then drove off the building. He ends up falling for a good 5 seconds before he hits the ground, but he never died. In fact, the bike landed on its wheels and he was actually able to just ride away from it. We both just looked at the screen with a dumbstruck look.

 

[The Code]

Watching an angry Deathclaw in New Vegas walk over a pile of 25 dynamite, 7 frag grenades, 4 frag mines, and a mini-nuke. The body never came back down, if there was even one left after that.

I've seen something similar, never laughed so hard in my life!

You should have seen the time my friend took a Fat Man into Rivet City (FO3), went into VATS, and fired at a guy's head. The nuke missed the guy's head by almost an inch, but ended up nailing the guy behind him square in the back.
"This is gonna be- What the...? OOOOOHHHHH! Damn!" [insert following painful laughter of epicness here]

EDIT: That, and I always end up sticking my friends in the ass in Halo. no homo. >.>

 

[Jennacide]

The first time I saw the STALKER crab walk. I literally laughed myself out of my chair and banged my head on the desk, didn't even stop me from laughing.

Another one I've mentioned on the forums before, a specific incident I have on game save video of a Survival attempt in Driver. Group of cops hit me in such a way they put my car on it's side, slammed me into a corner, another cop car smashed into me and got stuck forming a ramp against the wall, and a third cop used this faux ramp and put himself into orbit. I also laughed myself stupid to that one. Just remembering it I crack up a little.

 

[micky]

i was playing demons souls and i was about to fight Executioner Miralda who i didn't think was going to be easy but when i see her she rolls toward me and falls down a big hole. i dont have to fight her and i laugh for 5 minutes, good times.

 

[Mr Pantomime]

I was playing Persona 3, and decided to establish a social link with the fat kid, the so called "gourmet king". So I talk to him, the scene ends and this thing pops up saying "You have established a new social link"."You have established the Moon Arcana" That cracked me up for a good minute.

Another time, I was Playing GTA San Andreas, got to a rooftop, and spawned a monster truck. I drove it off the roof, and when It hit the street, it bounced right onto the freeway.

 

[Ragnaught]

Another one of mine, happened today actually... Red Dead Redemption... cart going along the road, train coming by... quiet open scene with no mission... just heading to another town... cart cuts off the train and explodes on the engine of the train and the horses die... train keeps going... I start laughing... a lot.

 

[Chairman Miaow]

One thing that happened to me that pissed me off to no end but also made me laugh was in Black Ops on Summit, the game begins, a tomahawk flies over the building, bounces off the floor and kills me.