Your Stupidest Moment in Gaming
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Touché.bulldogftw said:
In Minecraft, I once built this huge pirate island with a big hill on with a giant skull made of wool. I decided "Wouldn't it look cool if there where fire behind the eyes, so I did, but I didn't expect the fire to catch onto the wool that where 3-4 blocks away, but oh boy it did, and it burned the entire thing to the ground, leaving no chance to save it.
I seem to remember one from Bioshock. I was fighting a Spider Splicer in Fort Frolic, when he lobbed a hook at me. Given that I have that tonic that makes you shoot out lightning when struck, a big nova of electricity spread around me. Only when I heard the distinctive roar of the series' iconic, suit-clad golem did the nature of what happened click, and shortly thereafter I was punched through the air, into a shop window.
Vandalism, as the game is keen to remind you, is not tolerated in Rapture, so when the Big Daddy arrived to drill my battered, stunned self, he was accompanied by a fleet of overzealous security drones.
Fuck that shit.
Vandalism, as the game is keen to remind you, is not tolerated in Rapture, so when the Big Daddy arrived to drill my battered, stunned self, he was accompanied by a fleet of overzealous security drones.
Fuck that shit.
I'm not 100% certain if it's my stupidest, but in Eve, I was salvaging and picking up my cans when someone showed up in my area and starts steling my cans (neverminding the fact that he couldn't take everything in a frigate, or that he followed me inside deadspace). he goes red, so I shoot at him. He then leaves, and I keep salvaging and picking up (I was in a Drake). He comes back with a ganking Cane and warp jammer
I lost
I lost
When I first started playing Minecraft... I built a massive fortress. Took me nearly 40 hours of finding materials and building it... I literally had 2 20x20 quarries. It was a great work. It had a huge store house for materials, an escape (or entry) railway to my shack by my spawn, 4 massive glass towers filled with lava, an inside forest redstone combination locks and everything. I eventually got the thought in my head that every super fortress needs a self-destruct mechanism. So I built one. I think I used something like 500 hidden blocks of tnt at the right intervals to completely demolish everything and attached them all via redstone to a lever near my front door. I just never made a sign for it.
Well after a few weeks I quit playing for a while. About 8 months later I was hanging out with a friend and drinking a little (and by little I mean we were halfway through a handle of cheap whiskey.) We were talking minecraft because he had just gotten into it. I decided to give him a tour of my fortress. after all was said and done, he asked me what that lever was for...in my drunken state I'd forgotten why I made that lever, so I said, "let's find out" I pushed that lever and the second I heard that "ssssss" sound that TNT makes I remembered... It was a very stupid moment for me. I almost shed some tears when I looked at my destroyed Fortress turned crater.
Well after a few weeks I quit playing for a while. About 8 months later I was hanging out with a friend and drinking a little (and by little I mean we were halfway through a handle of cheap whiskey.) We were talking minecraft because he had just gotten into it. I decided to give him a tour of my fortress. after all was said and done, he asked me what that lever was for...in my drunken state I'd forgotten why I made that lever, so I said, "let's find out" I pushed that lever and the second I heard that "ssssss" sound that TNT makes I remembered... It was a very stupid moment for me. I almost shed some tears when I looked at my destroyed Fortress turned crater.
I did that so often in my old clan, they still call it a "Preacher nade" when someone does it now.Vanbael said:
In BFBC2:V, I once got a bit confused control-wise and ended up throwing a health pack at an enemy soldier who was shooting at me from about 3 feet away.
It didn't do anything.
It didn't do anything.
When playing L4D2:
I think "Hey! Maybe if I put this puke-bomb at my feet then the zombies'll attack that Witch over there!"
So, I put the puke-bomb at my feet, and slowly tip-toed away out of the Witch's sight. When, out of fucking no-where, a zombie finds my bomb, and attacks it. I shoot him. Another comes. I shoot him, too. 4 More come along. Shoot 'em, too. Then suddenly an entire army of slavering zombie-mutants knock down the door behind me. I cried as my character was slowly engulfed by the zombie-hord.
Or, Magicka. While still getting used to how elements work, I decided to cast a giant healing-thunderbolt. Although I neglected to learn that just because it has Life in it DOESN'T MEAN IT STILL WON'T HURT ME - ALOT.
I think "Hey! Maybe if I put this puke-bomb at my feet then the zombies'll attack that Witch over there!"
So, I put the puke-bomb at my feet, and slowly tip-toed away out of the Witch's sight. When, out of fucking no-where, a zombie finds my bomb, and attacks it. I shoot him. Another comes. I shoot him, too. 4 More come along. Shoot 'em, too. Then suddenly an entire army of slavering zombie-mutants knock down the door behind me. I cried as my character was slowly engulfed by the zombie-hord.
Or, Magicka. While still getting used to how elements work, I decided to cast a giant healing-thunderbolt. Although I neglected to learn that just because it has Life in it DOESN'T MEAN IT STILL WON'T HURT ME - ALOT.
My most amusing and consistently stupid moments (note the plurality) in gaming occured- obscurely enough- while playing an emulation of Golden Axe III with my girlfriend. She was playing as the 80s era fantasy film reject warrior with the big sword and posing pouch, while I'd opted for the somewhat freakish man-panther thing. There was something oddly disturbing about him; he looked like the end product of a professional basketball player romancing a leopard.
Man-panther posessed a strangely hilarious running attack whereby he would fly through the air completely rigidly, with all four paws extended in front of him. It kind of looked like a blue myotonic goat had been shot out of a cannon (for anyone who hasn't seen what myotonia in goats looks like, there's some excellent YouTube videos of nature's most comedic genetic condition).
I enjoyed the spectacle of man-panther's awkward yet ambitious attack so much I was obliged to try and use it virtually all the time. The first group of enemies waddled onto the field. I sent man-panther heroically charging into them, sent him heroically flying straight over their heads with his weird cat-gymnastics, and heroically plummet to his death down the pit behind them. Bollocks.
Unpreturbed, and in the face of my girlfriends tears of laughter, I respawned and with the enemies now to the left of us attempted the same strategy. Perhaps inevitably, man-panther performed his adamantine attack straight into the other pit behind us.
I concluded that man-panthers and myself do not work well together.
Man-panther posessed a strangely hilarious running attack whereby he would fly through the air completely rigidly, with all four paws extended in front of him. It kind of looked like a blue myotonic goat had been shot out of a cannon (for anyone who hasn't seen what myotonia in goats looks like, there's some excellent YouTube videos of nature's most comedic genetic condition).
I enjoyed the spectacle of man-panther's awkward yet ambitious attack so much I was obliged to try and use it virtually all the time. The first group of enemies waddled onto the field. I sent man-panther heroically charging into them, sent him heroically flying straight over their heads with his weird cat-gymnastics, and heroically plummet to his death down the pit behind them. Bollocks.
Unpreturbed, and in the face of my girlfriends tears of laughter, I respawned and with the enemies now to the left of us attempted the same strategy. Perhaps inevitably, man-panther performed his adamantine attack straight into the other pit behind us.
I concluded that man-panthers and myself do not work well together.
The final mission in Portal, after escaping the fire pit and going up the stairs I come across a door and I have no idea how the open it. It was the E button which makes sense but I'd never seen a door before.
I am horribly inaccurate with grenades, so I have caused an obscene amount of collateral damage with explosives. My teammates are not happy about this.
I was building a floating glass box in Minecraft. Above cloud level. When a cloud passes just below me, I thought "Hey! Let's mine some clouds!!" I jumped on the cloud and fell to the ground, losing all my glass ): Also in COD4 online I threw a smoke grenade while healing in a corner and it bounced off a guys head in front of me and killed him. And when I threw a smoke straight up ni BattleField2 and the same thing happened. And in Just Cause 2 when I tied the car behind me to a plane. Guess what happened there...
I can show you:
I am the blue pyro geting owned by a ruddy lvl1 sentrygun. D:
I had full health, and I should've charged it with my flamethrower. but noooooo I had to use my shotgun!
I am the blue pyro geting owned by a ruddy lvl1 sentrygun. D:
I had full health, and I should've charged it with my flamethrower. but noooooo I had to use my shotgun!
The first which struck my mind when I saw this thread was that I once played the demo of Magicka, and I had no idea that if you put a shield on yourself, you would end up faceplanting from every attack...