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Post by chad sexington on Jul 31, 2011 1:52:33 GMT -5
Hey AI, here's a great idea! Park your troops next to one of my missile turrets; don't bother to have them actually attack the turret or anything, I'm sure it's tactical brilliance to sit and watch half your army being slowly killed off! My hat is off to you, sir! ===== As the title suggests, this is a thread for memorable gaming moments (duh!), whether good, bad, or seriously awesome. Like the time in New Vegas I was taking out a Powder Ganger encampment, scored a fluke shot at low health, then realised I was standing on a mine... just in time to see my character blown to pieces DX Or the time in Crusader Kings when two first-cousins started up a secret relationship  Anyway, share, boast, or rant here! |
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Post by Napoleon the Clown on Jul 31, 2011 3:51:41 GMT -5
Single-handedly storming the Treia Academy in KOTOR II was quite a memorable experience, especially if you played the asshole darkside tactic of spamming Insanity and Force Crush. Sure, spamming Force Storm and then popping off the occasional Death Field was faster and more effective, but you know what? It was so much more satisfying to slowly kill them all, each victim being left completely helpless.
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Post by HarleyThomas1002 on Jul 31, 2011 4:08:28 GMT -5
Taking out three colonies with twenty-seven Guard Dopplesonder in Age of Empires III while only suffering less than ten casualties.
The Ottoman's promptly ruined my fun.
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Post by RavynousHunter on Jul 31, 2011 4:10:05 GMT -5
Soloing Misery's Peak in DDO as nothing more than a squishy little Level 2 Wizard girl. Patience, planning...and LOTS of fire.
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Post by Haseen on Jul 31, 2011 4:46:09 GMT -5
In Oblivion, I created a custom spell, LULZFEST:
1) Increase character aggression in a large radius.
2) Decrease their disposition towards others (I think that's what it was called -- forgot the actual name of it)
3) Made my own character invisible.
In short, it turned any town into a huge battle royale, where my character would watch invisibly, while everyone killed each other. All the random townspeople have their own battle cries, and some even use magic.
All of their aggression would disappear instantly when the spell wore off, along with my seemingly innocent character popping back into sight, everyone being none the wiser that I was the source of it all.
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Post by Vypernight on Jul 31, 2011 4:49:47 GMT -5
Awesome:
Left 4 Dead 2. We were playing Dark Carnival (Versus Mode) and were preparing to leave the tents when the other team attacked. Although we took down half the other team, all 3 of my teammates got incapacitated. Then the Tank (zombie version of The Incredible Hulk) I figured I was dead anyway so I circled the room while shooting the tank with the sniper rifle. I ended up killing it, the remainding other opponent, reviving all 3 of my teammates, and continuing with the level.
I ended up dying near the ned, but dropping the Tank, pretty much on my own (incapped players can shoot, but only with pistols) was enough for me.
Not so awesome:
L4D2 again, but different game. Playing as survivors, we're doing pretty well thus far . Then, a suicide boomer dropped from above, and three of us fired at the same time. BOOM! (We're now covered in Boomer bile that both blurs the screen and attracts LOTS of infected) Blinded, I tossed a pipe bomb and backed into, what I thought was, a wall. I then heard a weird beeping, and just as the blur cleared, I realized the beeping was coming from the pipe bomb that had dropped next to me . . . and the fuel tanks. An explosion later, three of us caught on fire and fell to the ground (We were already mobbed by CI). Trying to glance over the fire, I noticed, what I thought was, an SI standing just out of the fire's reach, so I fired at it with my magnum. Make that four of us now lying on the ground. As my screen started to go black, I looked up and saw three of the SI looking down at us from the roof. I'm more than sure the players were falling out of their chairs laughing at that point.
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Post by RavynousHunter on Jul 31, 2011 18:09:15 GMT -5
Yet more awesome: My little Elven Wizard girl in DDO? Well, she's well into her fourth level, and so she decided to take on the Shan-to-Kor questline with a friend and a healbot. Friend, healbot, and I do well, beating all but the last quest, when friend has to go do something IRL and logs out, which makes him and healbot disappear because healbot was bound to him. Being stranded in the final quest on Normal (I think the last quest is a level 5 or 6 quest), Insanely Squishy Elf Wizard Girl works toward the end of the quest, burning everything in her path that isn't her, using about 15 Cure Light Wounds potions in the process, until she reaches the end. Guess what's at the end? A motherfucking gigantic rock thing and two medium Earth Elementals. So, I bet you're thinking "not a fucking chance," right? Wrong. Little, squishy elf chick bobs and weaves around big rock boss-thing and its cronies, and takes all of em out with Melf's Acid Arrow, Burning Hands, Magic Missile, Scorching Ray, and Lesser Death Aura. I killed all 3 of em and didn't go below 50% health. In short: SUCK IT, SHAN-TO-KOR! [ETA] For reference, this is Little Elf Girl, aka: Nolea Lakshmi.  |
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Post by alexiel on Jul 31, 2011 18:58:45 GMT -5
While playing a 1v1 match in Starcraft, I had an overly cocky Protoss player send dozens of carriers my way in an effort to overwhelm me. Unfortunately for him, as a Terran player, I appreciate the power of having a couple of science vessels with EMP researched. Despite the fact that my counter-force of battlecruisers was significantly smaller that his fleet of carriers, thanks to the EMPs, his units began dropping like flies. Out of over two dozen carriers, only two survived the initial fray while I still had almost a dozen BCs left to bear. Because he had sunk all of his resources in the carrier option, he had nothing left to prevent me from systematically exterminating the cocky SOB from the map. What really made the whole experience gold though was the fact that as I was doing this, he was making desperate pleas on the chat to accept a draw game rather than face up to the fact that he lost.
A draw? Motherf**ker, you just got schooled. Deal with it. Good times. 8)
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Post by Rat Of Steel on Aug 1, 2011 5:46:04 GMT -5
Yet more awesome: My little Elven Wizard girl in DDO? Well, she's well into her fourth level, and so she decided to take on the Shan-to-Kor questline with a friend and a healbot. Friend, healbot, and I do well, beating all but the last quest, when friend has to go do something IRL and logs out, which makes him and healbot disappear because healbot was bound to him. Being stranded in the final quest on Normal (I think the last quest is a level 5 or 6 quest), Insanely Squishy Elf Wizard Girl works toward the end of the quest, burning everything in her path that isn't her, using about 15 Cure Light Wounds potions in the process, until she reaches the end. Guess what's at the end? A motherfucking gigantic rock thing and two medium Earth Elementals. So, I bet you're thinking "not a fucking chance," right? Wrong. Little, squishy elf chick bobs and weaves around big rock boss-thing and its cronies, and takes all of em out with Melf's Acid Arrow, Burning Hands, Magic Missile, Scorching Ray, and Lesser Death Aura. I killed all 3 of em and didn't go below 50% health. In short: SUCK IT, SHAN-TO-KOR! [ETA] For reference, this is Little Elf Girl, aka: Nolea Lakshmi. The Guardian of Shan-to-Kor (your aforementioned motherfucking giant rock-thing) is no slouch for PCs of that level. Nice job, taking it down solo with a wizard.  |
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Post by chad sexington on Aug 14, 2011 23:55:20 GMT -5
Ran into an amusing bug in Fallout: New Vegas the other day - my character was over by the Lone Wolf Radio (?) caravan, and a fire gecko spawned about ten metres above the ground. Only, instead of falling to earth, it got stuck in midair, and was running furiously trying to escape, but going nowhere. Like something out of a Tex Avery cartoon ;D
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Aug 15, 2011 0:34:09 GMT -5
Birth By Sleep: I just killed the final boss with a FLAMING CARWHEEL. Completely by accident.
Dissidia 012: I got hit by one attack & bounced into another, leaving me with only a couple hundred HP. I proceeded to win the fight by wittling the enemy down with counterattacks.
FF2: Pandaemonium kicked my dumb ass. By the time I got to the bottom, I'd used every Hi-Potion, Ether, & Phoenix Down in my inventory. The Emperor hit for about half of my party members' HP & restored his own health by the damage he did. So I killed him by spamming Ultima, even as he took the rest of my party out one-by-one.
FF12: Deciding that a 30-hit Quickening Chain was the apropriate way of telling Adramelech to "fuck off," I killed him in one blow. Unfortunately, I was still being attacked by infinitely spawning skeletons, in a room with a sand storm and no map. In my haste to get away, I end up in an area with monsters 10 levels higher than me, which kills most of my party outright by the time I'm close enough to find this out and turn back. In the next room, my last party member is chased down and gangstabbed to death by skeletons. I lost the summon since I didn't find a save point, which proved to be the Straw that Broke the Camel's Back.
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Post by Haseen on Aug 15, 2011 4:59:17 GMT -5
Odin Sphere: In the first main boss (Dragon + annoying respawning archer), I killed the dragon a split second before getting killed by an arrow. Right as I said FUUUUCK over that cheap ass arrow hit, the game credited me with the boss kill and moved on with the story as if I hadn't died.
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Post by Vypernight on Aug 15, 2011 14:08:19 GMT -5
ME2: Was at the end of Miranda's loyalty mission with all the Asari mercenaries shooting at us. Somehow, Miranda gets herself and Jacob killed, leaving me pinned down behind a crate while the remaining mercs close in.
Deciding not to waste time and med-gel (and not liking Miranda much in the first place), I proceeded to launch Singularities and Warps all over the place. A few explosions later, only two mercs remained; one shielded, the other not, and a fuel tank right in front of them. I tossed a Singularity, followed not long after by a Warp. The Sing sent both the unprotected merc and the fuel tank airborne while freezing the other. Then the warp hit, the explosion taking out the first merc and leaving the other dazed and down to a sliver of health.
Then the fuel tank fell.
That's the first time I've seen a tank fly straight up and fall down. Usually it gets knocked in our direction.
Later, I went through (more than once) Liara's mission. I got to the end of the battle with the asari assassin (after 3 tries and deaths), stripped her (of her shields, sickos!), and traped her in a Singularity. I then walked right up and threw a Warp right into her face.
Too bad she had a lame death scene right after. I'd rather see her blown to bits.
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Post by Vene on Aug 15, 2011 16:12:00 GMT -5
Screw your video games, here's a tabletop one.
This is Pathfinder and I'm playing a witch with the skeleton champion template fighting a multiclass fighter/cleric with a big damn sword (the guy who killed me preadventure and the reason why I am a skeleton, but he doesn't know it). I have the flight hex so I'm in the air (over 200 ft) and he's riding a clockwork griffin. I try to get him with a hold monster, he passes easily. He flies next to me and slashes, hurting me a lot. I fly back a little bit and try the spell again, but he rolls high. Cue more beating. I back off and try hold monster one more time, thinking that if this fails I am dead. It failed. He tries to fly in for what will likely be a finishing blow, but his mount failed its fly check. They both plummet to the ground and die instantly.
A very anti-climatic ending to a mini-campaign. Naturally, I follow up by burning the town he was defending to the ground.
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Post by Vypernight on Aug 15, 2011 17:35:31 GMT -5
Screw your video games, here's a tabletop one. This is Pathfinder and I'm playing a witch with the skeleton champion template fighting a multiclass fighter/cleric with a big damn sword (the guy who killed me preadventure and the reason why I am a skeleton, but he doesn't know it). I have the flight hex so I'm in the air (over 200 ft) and he's riding a clockwork griffin. I try to get him with a hold monster, he passes easily. He flies next to me and slashes, hurting me a lot. I fly back a little bit and try the spell again, but he rolls high. Cue more beating. I back off and try hold monster one more time, thinking that if this fails I am dead. It failed. He tries to fly in for what will likely be a finishing blow, but his mount failed its fly check. They both plummet to the ground and die instantly. A very anti-climatic ending to a mini-campaign. Naturally, I follow up by burning the town he was defending to the ground. Works for me. The only RPG gaming moment I can remember off the top of my head is when my elf mage-thief jumped out a window of a tower and launched a fireball into a wizard's laboratory. |
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