What's your worst screw-up in a game involving a controller malfunction?

[GartarkMusik]

One time I was playing Assassin's Creed II, I was on the mission at the beginning of the game where you have to beat up that guy who cheated on your sister. It was fairly straightforward, with me beating the ever loving crap out of him, until my controller shut off (I have wireless)and it didn't turn back on. The battery died. And ACII doesn't pause the game when the controller shuts off. So Ezio just stood there as Mr. Jackass McCheaterpants proceeded to light up our poor Italian friend. -_- It wasn't a monumental screw-up, but I haven't forgotten it. So, fellow Escapists, what's your favorite gaming story of a controller crapping out on you?

 

[madwarper]

When I'm playing WiiMake of RE4, I tend to get a little spooked when I the gun merchant guy pops out of nowhere... Which tends to make me jump a little... Which waggles the WiiMote ever so slightly... Which causes Leon to slice the merchant to death. Why can't I just take all the toys from his corpse?

 

[saucecode]

I was playing Halo 2 with a mate (which was a very, VERY long time ago), and since we were eating chips and pizza etc, the controllers were very greasy, and so while scoping in with the sinper (lockout, snipers, FFA, ftw) i snapped the right thumb stick. I think i lost that game.

 

[Smeggs]

Multiple times I've hit RB instead of LB after waiting in Skyrim for a merchant to restock on Gold.

FUS RO DAH+Merchant flying into wall+Angry gaurds=FFFFUUUUUUUUU!

Or worse, I forget to switch from a Shout back to Night Eye, and I end up setting someone on fire or giving away my position instead of being able to see in the dark.

 

[JaceArveduin]

I was playing League and I was trying to cast and move in a teamfight, all of a sudden some of it's not casting right. I preceded to "wtf?"

Like you, I'm using wireless and the battery died, lulz were to be had.

 

[geekRAGE]

i was playing some gran turismo and i was on one of those good ol 10 lap races. in first place the entire race until the very last corner coming up and my controller dies, i slam into the wall and watch as everyone passes me and i lose...i shut the game off.

 

[teqrevisited]

My old mouse had a dodgy right button in its later life, to the point where I actually had to pad the underside with sticky tape so that it would register presses. In WoW, before I realised, it caused me to stand there like a lemon when I was supposed to be moving. Instead I would be mangling my left hand trying to rotate spells 1-7 and move whilst trying to avoid backpedaling at the same time. The tape was only life support, so I had to buy a new mouse before long.

A related mishap that could have been disastrous was when my cousin managed to shoot the backspace, insert and delete keys out from my keyboard, detach the right cup of my headset and narrowly miss my monitor with an airsoft gun (Whoever'd used it last forgot to clear the chamber). Luckily it happened before we'd started so I could reattach the headset and plug in the spare keyboard in time. It took me two days to find those keys...

 

[The Wykydtron]

I'm pretty sure my batteries died once or twice when going through ME2 on Insanity (i was a looooong playthrough). It got me killed by all the big nasty Scions once and got me mobbed to fuck by all the Husks on the that one level where there's a robot zombie apocolypse-worthy amount of them.

As for actual defects, my controller's left thumbstick is always pointing ever so slightly forward, it's never got me killed though. Some games have more lenient stick controls probably, i mean you're never gonna be just slightly moving in CoD for e.g. are you?

 

[Suicida1 Midget]

I dont think i have a place in this thread, I used cabled contollers since day one. Had a gamecube controller that would kill the system in five minutes or less. I guess that counts.

 

[museofdoom]

I was playing COD at 3 in the morning with a bunch of friends, I was tired and I had the controls mixed up in my head. So once instead of crouching, I threw a grenade at the ground and killed 3 of my teammates. It was a shining moment for me..

 

[DustyDrB]

I screw up all the time in games because my right stick (360 controller) is loose and likes to go slightly to the right. It was most annoying during the hacking sections in Human Revolution. The right stick still controls where Adam looks while you're hacking, so it's a major annoyance when he starts drifting off to the right while I'm trying to figure out which node to capture next.

I really need a new controller. Also, my car pulls to the right badly. My life is losing direction! Soon I too won't be able to turn left.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

Playing Halo 3 in split screen online with some friends. During the initial power weapon rush on Valhalla I grab the Banshee while one of my teammates goes to rush the laser. Unfortunately all my friends were sharing our controllers and it just so happened that one of my friends changed my control scheme from bumper jumper back to default, so when I go to hit the bomb button it instead ejects me from the Banshee. The banshee falls, hits my laser rushing friend taking down his shields and catapulting him 100 feet into the enemy team. Yeah, he was pissed, and the rest of us almost pissed ourselves laughing.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

I screw up all the time in games because my right stick (360 controller) is loose and likes to go slightly to the right. It was most annoying during the hacking sections in Human Revolution. The right stick still controls where Adam looks while you're hacking, so it's a major annoyance when he starts drifting off to the right while I'm trying to figure out which node to capture next.

I really need a new controller. Also, my car pulls to the right badly. My life is losing direction! Soon I too won't be able to turn left.