Your most embarrassing gaming blunders
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I would say when I was killed on GoW at a Lan party. I know this makes me sound like I'm full of myself but playing with the people I play with I think you would understand.
Me and three others usually play Company of Heroes 2v2 every sunday or so at a local netcafé. It's usually me and a guy named Olav vs. the two others, which works quite well since were pretty equal and the outcome of a game is more or less allways open. A fact that was further cemented by last weeks match.
We played on a match with three bridges (I thnik it's Lyon or something) over a central river that devides the map. Me and Olav had control of the victorypoint on the main bridge, which couldn't be destroyed, and the one on our side of the river. The other two bridges were either mined or destroyed, and since I played british, and he played american, we held the other point on their side of the river thanks to a combo of paratroopers and artillery. All we needed to do was to sit back and wait for a victory on points. This is where i made what i think has to be classified as the dumbest thing i've ever done in a game. I thought: "hey. I'm gonna build some tanks, rebuild the bridge and make a surprise attack on their base". I don't know how i came up with the idea. The other two guys played Whermacht, and had been doing their usual tactic of building insane amounts of tanks (wich didn't help them since they couldn't cross the river. I had three Cromwells..
I start rebuilding the bridge, and after it's more than half done Olav starts shouting at me to stop doing that. I did, but we somehow managed to stop paying attention to the northeren bridge, untill we see about 18 or so tanks driving in a neat line all the way to Olavs base and onward to mine after tearing everything apart on the way, including my three Cromwells. We lost the match Despite them only having 100 or so VP's left.
I don't think Olav's ever gonna forgive me for that one
We played on a match with three bridges (I thnik it's Lyon or something) over a central river that devides the map. Me and Olav had control of the victorypoint on the main bridge, which couldn't be destroyed, and the one on our side of the river. The other two bridges were either mined or destroyed, and since I played british, and he played american, we held the other point on their side of the river thanks to a combo of paratroopers and artillery. All we needed to do was to sit back and wait for a victory on points. This is where i made what i think has to be classified as the dumbest thing i've ever done in a game. I thought: "hey. I'm gonna build some tanks, rebuild the bridge and make a surprise attack on their base". I don't know how i came up with the idea. The other two guys played Whermacht, and had been doing their usual tactic of building insane amounts of tanks (wich didn't help them since they couldn't cross the river. I had three Cromwells..
I start rebuilding the bridge, and after it's more than half done Olav starts shouting at me to stop doing that. I did, but we somehow managed to stop paying attention to the northeren bridge, untill we see about 18 or so tanks driving in a neat line all the way to Olavs base and onward to mine after tearing everything apart on the way, including my three Cromwells. We lost the match Despite them only having 100 or so VP's left.
I don't think Olav's ever gonna forgive me for that one
Every time I get knifed in (insert name of MP FPS here).
I don't think anybody can top VRaptorX's entry though... Joe Glass... LOL...
I don't think anybody can top VRaptorX's entry though... Joe Glass... LOL...
Many.
On Company of Heroes when I thought Panthers where invincable, until they got destroyed by Shermans.
On Battlefield 1942 when I just realize that I shot down a Spitfire and not an ME109.
And on a game called Tropico when I forgot I was holding elections and massacred half my population...I don't need to tell you that I lost the election.
Oh yeah and loosing to the Italians on Hearts of Iron 2.
On Company of Heroes when I thought Panthers where invincable, until they got destroyed by Shermans.
On Battlefield 1942 when I just realize that I shot down a Spitfire and not an ME109.
And on a game called Tropico when I forgot I was holding elections and massacred half my population...I don't need to tell you that I lost the election.
Oh yeah and loosing to the Italians on Hearts of Iron 2.
Remember that single Goomba at the start of the first level in most Super Mario games?
No, I didn't die by that little monster's.... Feet.
But whenever I play anything splitscreen, I spend the first half an hour or so looking at the wrong screen and believing my controller is messed up.
No, I didn't die by that little monster's.... Feet.
But whenever I play anything splitscreen, I spend the first half an hour or so looking at the wrong screen and believing my controller is messed up.
Quake 4. I beat the final boss and skilfully fell into the gap in floor that opens up after the fight. I didn't save after I killed the boss because I didn't expect it to happen.
In the Far Cry games for the consoles you had the ability to throw rocks in multiplayer. The rocks did no damage and were completely useless. Unfortunately the rocks count as a secondary grenade and I always seemed to have them equipped at the wrong time.
I was playing City of Heroes as a scrapper, went after a 'buff/debuff tree' planted by a Devouring Earth opponent, ended up pulling another mob or two down on the team resulting is a team wipe out.
In retrospect, the tree was far enough away from the mobs we were fighting that it wasn't buffing them at all, wasn't debuffing us at all, and these buffs were no big deal anyway.
Procedure would have been to eliminate the group we were fighting before engaging a new group, and I screwed that up.
In retrospect, the tree was far enough away from the mobs we were fighting that it wasn't buffing them at all, wasn't debuffing us at all, and these buffs were no big deal anyway.
Procedure would have been to eliminate the group we were fighting before engaging a new group, and I screwed that up.