Your greatest gaming comebacks

[Demolition_Human]

What are some of your greatest comebacks in gaming when you thought the chips were down?

I was the last player in Killing Floor on a wave. The other players were killed and the rest of the horde was converging on me. There were a few clots, bloats, gorefasts and some scrakes. I was a level 4 sharpshooter with a lever action rifle and a revolver and I managed to take down the rest of the horde with a my lever action and my revolver. The other team members thought I was not going to be able to do it but I showed them!!

 

[Blitsie]

My best was in a CStrike match, I was the last surviving CT and the terrorists already planted the bomb and their whole team was still alive. What happened next was practically a reenactment of that action scene near the end of Wanted, I just made a mad dash for the bomb relying entirely on my reflexes and an ungodly amount of luck to pull me through, next thing I know I was at the bomb with the whole opposing team dead and felt like an absolute badass...

Until the bomb went off on the last second because I was too smart to buy a freaking defusal kit, doh!

 

[The Wykydtron]

Well I was playing Yu against a guy playing Elisabeth in P4A online, I was getting destroyed because as Trash Tier as she is I find her really annoying to deal with when people can play her.

The last game I was on almost no health he knocked me fullscreen away and started to use the flame special to bring me in for the easiest high/low mixup ever.

The MOMENT I popped up I had a flash of inspiration and used my instakill. Elisabeth has literally the most unsafe moves I have ever seen... Yu's instakill has around 2/3 seconds of wind up and any of her projectiles are around 5 or 6 seconds. Just the hype of landing an instakill online is great. It's even better when you actually use it in a legitimate read/counter way.

We then had a discussion about favourite characters and exactly how shit Elisabeth is from an Elisabeth player's point of view. Because people are civil in P4A and don't rage whenever they make a mistake or get outplayed.

I'm not *good* at fighting games in general, my occasional flashes of brilliance make up for it though as my one regular sparring partner can tell you :3

 

[InfinityCubed]

In FTL i was locked in stalemate with an enemy for a good half hour, never hurting them, them hitting me twice. I genuinely thought i was gonna sit there for ten hours until i died. Then i found their weakness, exploited it and killed them in three volleys.

And in my excitement, i, through a careless accident, upgraded half a shield rather than the weapon power i needed to reach my full destructive potential and got my ass handed to me by the final boss.

 

[Dominic Crossman]

Call of duty search and destroy, my entire team had been taken out and defeated the entire opposing team single handed
Then as if karma was taking the piss, next round my entire team survived apart from me because I got hit with a throwing by accident from an fucked up shot
Did make me laugh.

 

[suntt123]

Back when I used to play World of Warcraft I once entered a random Warsong Gulch match (capture the flag game, first to 3 points wins) and my team was down 2-0. I personally delivered all three of the winning flags. TAKE THAT ALLIANCE.

 

[Stinovitch]

There was this one platinum difficulty match in mass effect 3. I was playing with a couple of friends and we'd got through 9 waves without any problem. In wave 10 however we get disable the 4 devices. All my friends get grabbed by either a banshee or a phantom and get sync killed, leaving me alone to disable the devices with all those enemies chasing me. Luckily I was an infiltrator and could cloack for a few seconds to give me just enough time to disable a device if there weren't a lot of enemies shooting at me. The wave took me over 20 minutes which was more than half our game, but I did finished the wave and we got our cash. It did feel good though!

 

[ShinyCharizard]

Just recently in Gears of War 3.

I was playing Team Deathmatch with a few mates on Escalation. My whole team was wiped out leaving just me remaining while their team had 3 extra spawns as well as all their team members still in the match. I somehow managed to pull off 8 spectacular kills in a row to win the match. Best adrenaline rush ever

 

[Hero of Lime]

I was playing Super Smash Bros. with my brother. He was Meta Knight while I was Diddy Kong who I was pretty unfamiliar with at the time. We played a six stock match, and at one point he had five stock lives and I had one. I must have entered some weird zen mode, because I ended up winning. I had help from one smash ball, but even so, I still do not know how I pulled it off, but I won't let my brother forget about it anytime soon. >

 

[generals3]

It would be in Company Of Heroes. It was 2vs2 and our enemies had 2/3 of the territory and were pushing us back. Than I called in my beloved King Tiger and with some good micro'ing, tactics and back up managed to beat the enemy in a matter of 10 minutes. I guess they were too self confident and didn't expect a comeback.

Now while the next one wasn't really a come back it was still great. It was during a 3 hour lasting Empires Dawn Of The Modern World game. It was 3vs3 however one of our allies dropped (which wasn't so bad because it meant more resources for me and my mate) and both we and the enemy had entrenched us on our islands. Both teams tried several times to breach however none succeeded. After three hours we thought "this won't ever end lets just try a last time and just leave if it fails". We pulled all our assets together, sent a diversion aerial assault towards their eastern wall. Than sent the full navy (including transport ships filled with troops and civilians to build an outpost on their island) with air cover at their western wall. Breached through, quickly deployed our troops and destroyed their Anti Air defences, sent drop planes (to paradrop tanks, arty and infantry) built our outpost and before we realized we actually managed to penetrate their "fortress" we crushed them. And this all thanks to our diversion which made them mobilize assets on the wrong side. (otherwise they would have neutralized our first wave before we could have paradropped a brickton of extra troops)

 

[RJ 17]

A lot of mine come from CoD's Search and Destroy gametype. For anyone who might not know: Search and Destroy is 2 teams of 6, one offense and one defense. Offense has 2.5 minutes to plant a bomb, at which point defense then has like, a minute to defuse the bomb (I forget what the countdown clock is, it's been a long time since I've played CoD). Anyways, if offense fails to plant the bomb in time or if the defense defuses a planted bomb, offense loses. There are no respawns, so either team can win by simply killing off all the players on the opposing team. "Clutching" a match is being the last person on your team and having to take down at least 4 enemies to win the match, I've managed to do that a couple times (might not seem like much to some people but I'm not the best CoD player around so it's an accomplishment to me, damnit!)

In non-CoD terms, I was playing a 2v2 match of Magic the Gathering on Xbox live with a buddy of mine. We were down to one lifepoint against our opponents who, thanks to using the life-gain deck, were up to 336. We got one hell of a topdeck when my partner drew a Day of Judgment (destroys all creatures on the board) and I got a Mortivore (power and toughness is equal to the number of creatures in all graveyards). Still took about 5 minutes to tear them down, but we ended up winning. Needless to say, our opponents were pretty fucking pissed.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

In one of my recent Civ V games I made a pretty swift comeback against those pesky Aztecs. They'd invaded and taken two of my cities, and had a considerable shitload of units lined up to beat the crap out of me- luckily thanks to well-timed Great Scientists and research agreements I discovered a whole load of technologies (basically leapfrogging the Industrial Age), quickly turning my wealthy-but-weak nation into the strongest military civilisation in the world.

It's always funny being the first person to get gunpowder weapons, you can ruin civilisations entirely.

 

[Kged]

In my first playthrough of Rome: Total War I was moving 2 equites (light cavalry) units between cities somewhere up in the barbarian wastes of Germania. Routine stuff, just a turn or two to trot between cities. But then (with me not even knowing ambushes existed in the game) a bunch of hairy-arsed axe-wielding Germanic nutters jumped out on my horsies, and I was in a battle I couldn't decline. So off we go to the battle screen: me 2 light cav as stated, them 4 BIG units of axemen (or about 100 v well over 300, to put it another way). I thought I had no chance, but I knew I had an edge in mobility so I gambled on that. I took my guys as far back to the edge of the battlefield as possible, in the corner, to make his units have to walk all that way; and then I waited until he was just about in charging range before bolting my horses at full speed 90 degrees to the next corner of the battlefield. There I waited, resting my guys while he just kept on trudging along behind. I did the same trick again, and again and again and again. Eventually even my horses where getting tired, so on the next encounter I fled to the middle of the battlefield instead of a corner. When he came after and got in range, I sped my two units off in opposite directions. After a little indecision he sent all his guys after one of my units, so I sprinted that one as far as possible while the other waited, now behind the enemy. The Germans were all exhausted by now, so I decided it was time for action - I slammed my resting equites into the back of the nearest baddies, and they broke in a second. I normally run down and destroy all enemies, but this was not that sort of day - I accepted that win and let them run off the field. Now 3 v 2, about 250 of them left. When I'd attacked, they'd turned all their forces back towards the battle but his unit broke so quickly (mostly from exhaustion I guess) they had no chance to pile into me - I walked my horses back away from them, keeping their interest. All this time my first unit had been resting, positioning himself, and now they had turned their backs to him it was his turn. Again, hard charge=instant break - another unit flees in terror. Now 2 v 2, probably 100 v 150+ - I had lost a very few, but I was still in the fight. In the end it was a simple flanking move that finished it - I sent cav out wide, one to each flank, and whichever axemen turned the wrong way got run down. That last engagement was brutal and I lost quite a few more, because I was still inexperienced and didn't realise the value of charging in and out repeatedly; I should not have stood and fought like I did. But they were exhausted and demoralised, and when I finally killed their leader they panicked and ran. I couldn't believe I'd survived that one. My commander that day was promptly adopted into the family and became a leading general; I was fanatically devoted to him from that day on, and gave him all the best commands and units. In fact by the time I completed the game he was faction heir.

Best of all - and again, as a new player I didn't know this and wasn't expecting it - when I got back to the campaign screen there was an icon marking the site of the battle, forever recording his outstanding heroic victory. I was delighted by that.

 

[Muspelheim]

There is a World of Warcraft PvP battleground that includes a narrow bridge up to one of the two bases suspended over a deep gorge, which quickly becomes a bottleneck. Well, used to, back when Alterac Valley was played properly.

At some point, we'd been chucked out of the base and were staring down a counter attack. The enemy starts pushing us down the bridge, and we'll be boned if we lose more momentum. So I go "Za rodinuuu!!" rush into the frey, and place myself right in the middle of them. With a tiny sliver of HP left, I use my much loathed AoE knockback spell and send most of 'em off the bridge before dying. I was not terribly popular, I can imagine, but we did regain the rush momentum and won the battleground.

 

[Fox12]

In my first playthrough of Rome: Total War I was moving 2 equites (light cavalry) units between cities somewhere up in the barbarian wastes of Germania. Routine stuff, just a turn or two to trot between cities. But then (with me not even knowing ambushes existed in the game) a bunch of hairy-arsed axe-wielding Germanic nutters jumped out on my horsies, and I was in a battle I couldn't decline. So off we go to the battle screen: me 2 light cav as stated, them 4 BIG units of axemen (or about 100 v well over 300, to put it another way). I thought I had no chance, but I knew I had an edge in mobility so I gambled on that. I took my guys as far back to the edge of the battlefield as possible, in the corner, to make his units have to walk all that way; and then I waited until he was just about in charging range before bolting my horses at full speed 90 degrees to the next corner of the battlefield. There I waited, resting my guys while he just kept on trudging along behind. I did the same trick again, and again and again and again. Eventually even my horses where getting tired, so on the next encounter I fled to the middle of the battlefield instead of a corner. When he came after and got in range, I sped my two units off in opposite directions. After a little indecision he sent all his guys after one of my units, so I sprinted that one as far as possible while the other waited, now behind the enemy. The Germans were all exhausted by now, so I decided it was time for action - I slammed my resting equites into the back of the nearest baddies, and they broke in a second. I normally run down and destroy all enemies, but this was not that sort of day - I accepted that win and let them run off the field. Now 3 v 2, about 250 of them left. When I'd attacked, they'd turned all their forces back towards the battle but his unit broke so quickly (mostly from exhaustion I guess) they had no chance to pile into me - I walked my horses back away from them, keeping their interest. All this time my first unit had been resting, positioning himself, and now they had turned their backs to him it was his turn. Again, hard charge=instant break - another unit flees in terror. Now 2 v 2, probably 100 v 150+ - I had lost a very few, but I was still in the fight. In the end it was a simple flanking move that finished it - I sent cav out wide, one to each flank, and whichever axemen turned the wrong way got run down. That last engagement was brutal and I lost quite a few more, because I was still inexperienced and didn't realise the value of charging in and out repeatedly; I should not have stood and fought like I did. But they were exhausted and demoralised, and when I finally killed their leader they panicked and ran. I couldn't believe I'd survived that one. My commander that day was promptly adopted into the family and became a leading general; I was fanatically devoted to him from that day on, and gave him all the best commands and units. In fact by the time I completed the game he was faction heir.

Best of all - and again, as a new player I didn't know this and wasn't expecting it - when I got back to the campaign screen there was an icon marking the site of the battle, forever recording his outstanding heroic victory. I was delighted by that.

I had so many from this game. My favorite was during an enemy invasion of one of my major cities, and the battle wasn't going well. All I had left was my general, with a handful of guardsmen, and maybe a twenty infantry. Their numbers were in the hundreds. Putting everything on the line, I feinted with my infantry, and then sent my cavalry on one last glorious charge against their general. I figured I could atleast take their general down with me. Against all odds I broke their ranks, and my men somehow managed to kill their general after a brutal last stand. Before I know it their entire army is fleeing in terror while my remaining cavalry chase them down.

 

[Beffudled Sheep_v1legacy]

I was playing Civ V one time and it was late game. I had the entirety of North America to myself and had some token cities in parts of Africa and Europe.
I was in a centuries long conflict with that rat bastard, war monger Gandhi. Most of the time we were at a stalemate and would lose or gain the same few cities every few turns or so. But he was also at war with my ally Nobunaga who was suffering from the brunt of Gandhi's war machine. Nobunaga was wiped out in the 90's, then he turned his massive war machine entirely against me. My cities in Africa quickly fell as did my ones in Europe.

A decade or so later and he has set up shop in South America, conquering the Russian Empire and driving towards my North American greatness. I sent wave after wave of infantry and tanks at him but all that did was slow him down and deplete my army. I lost 5 cities and he was at the gates of my second and most productive city. I sent the last of my forces to defend it but after 12 turns it too fell. My empire was down to 3 cities and Gandhi was at my capital. I had no army except the few units I garrisoned in my remaining cities to delay the inevitable.

Then it happened, I had researched Advanced Ballistics. I was mostly a science and mercantile Civ and had close to 100K gold. My policies and wonders also helped reduce the cost of directly buying things instead of building them.
So I did what any self respecting, insane and desperate leader would do.
I bought nuclear missiles, I bought a lot of nuclear missiles.

Then I bought some Nuclear subs and a lot of ground units and bombers. I retook my once second city at great cost to my newly bought army and then I nuked everything.

I nuked the cities he took from me, the entirety of his Russian cities in SA. Then I used my subs to transport nukes to his Empire. I nuked his Japanese cities, his British cities and his own original cities. Everything before me was irradiated, cratered wasteland. I bought a few more units and transported them outside his only remaining city, his capital. Then I nuked it once more for good measure and then conquered it.
I then bought a few more and sent them to conquer the nuked capital cities of the other civs that he had control over and won a Domination victory.

I went from being on my last legs against an enemy that almost completely owned the entire world to a victor and it was all thanks to nukes.
Beautiful, wonderful, destructive nukes.

And for scale it was a huge type Earth map with no city states. Gandhi had conquered all the other civs by himself.

 

[krazykidd]

Well I was playing Yu against a guy playing Elisabeth in P4A online, I was getting destroyed because as Trash Tier as she is I find her really annoying to deal with when people can play her.

The last game I was on almost no health he knocked me fullscreen away and started to use the flame special to bring me in for the easiest high/low mixup ever.

The MOMENT I popped up I had a flash of inspiration and used my instakill. Elisabeth has literally the most unsafe moves I have ever seen... Yu's instakill has around 2/3 seconds of wind up and any of her projectiles are around 5 or 6 seconds. Just the hype of landing an instakill online is great. It's even better when you actually use it in a legitimate read/counter way.

We then had a discussion about favourite characters and exactly how shit Elisabeth is from an Elisabeth player's point of view. Because people are civil in P4A and don't rage whenever they make a mistake or get outplayed.

I'm not *good* at fighting games in general, my occasional flashes of brilliance make up for it though as my one regular sparring partner can tell you :3

Random flashes of brilliant + ungodly amount of luck make of most of your wins xD . Now if you would apply yourself and buy a damn arcade stick you'd be a pro.

 

[Evil Smurf]

While playing Sid Meier's Alpha Centuri I was being attacked by the Spartans and the believers at the same time. They'd taken a few cities but I took them all back when I learnt mindworms. I love my mindworms. Now I always play Gaia and rush with mindworms while planting Forrest.