Great moments in gaming "Oh my effin' god!" histor

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2005-10-31 04:32pm

For D&D? Oh, I could go on all day. Let's start with that boulette. My elven arcane archer character had been captured by drow and tossed into a gladiatorial pit with a land shark. It won initiative and charged. It rolled a one. Then another one. My brother (the DM) ruled that it slipped and stumbled past me, provoking an attack of opportunity. I rolled a 20. Then another 20. Then a 19. Insta-kill! Hail to the king, baby!

Vanas · Post by **Vanas** » 2005-11-01 02:18pm

FreeSpace 2, The Sathanas.

There's something out there!

UT2k4: Last night, I was on a bot-match, palying with some of my insane combinations of weapons and vehicles.
So, I was driving an APC, found a node, blasted the guard with the handy cannon and opened the hatches to leave the APC. I'm just about to step out with my RPG launcher, when a green web sticks to the side of the hull next to me and the entire APC lurches forwards.
I turn around and a bot has driven a Scorpion into the APC and is about to crush me. Naturally, I fire the RPG straight a the driver. The explosion kills both me and the driver, utterly destroys the Scorpion and criticically damages the APC. Just as I'm watching my body neatly arc outwards, the web explodes, blasting the APC apart and bringing this lovely cacophony of destruction to a close.
Welll, I thought it had nice timing

Post by **Edi** » 2005-11-01 02:56pm

Not mine, this one, but a friend when playing Adom goes to the Dwarf City in the Caverns of Chaos to get the monster kills quest from the elder dwarf (this is relatively early on in the game).

"Blah, blah, blah... And to prove your valor, you must kill a Greater Moloch. Off you go."

His reaction:

"Oh, you were looking for a Hero! Why didn't you say so immediately?"

For reference to those who've never played ADOM, the greater moloch in that game is a monster that in a stand-up fight will absolutely, positively wipe the floor with practically any character, no matter what the level. I guess that some fighter type classes of certain races with certain skill combos and skill levels and carrying some serious healing magic can take it on, but when you go from 150 hp to -150 in one blow, it isn't something even high level troll fighters will shrug off in a hurry.

I've also had some great Age of Wonders moments, especially playing Dix's HoB II map. When some of the AI heroes start appearing, a lot of those are of the "Take them down? Excuse me, but who, and with what army?!" variety. They look harsh enough to scare the piss out of almost anything, never mind when they go into action. I'm rather proud of a few of them, as I helped the mapmaker design some of the bad-asses myself.

Edi

Vanas · Post by **Vanas** » 2005-11-01 03:05pm

Oh, and one from Homeworld 2. The pictures might well explain it. (If you're on 56k ,get a friend to describe them, I guess.)

Movement One: Ready the Hydra Cannon!
Movement Two: Gonna need a bigger navy
Movement Three: The Beast's Maw
Movement Four: Meanwhile, a little further down the beam...
Movement Five: There's More?!

Post by **Edi** » 2005-11-01 03:16pm

Freespace 2: I'm merrily chasing some rebel fighter in between two capships, blasting away, when suddenly "BOOM! You die!" I'm going WTF and then the animation plays, the cap ship on my own side frying me with a massive anticapship beam as it fires at the enemy one. Nailed the one I was chasing too.

Edi

White Haven · Post by **White Haven** » 2005-11-01 03:53pm

The final mission of the original Independence War. I know it's designed as the only way you can win the mission, but ramming your corvette's throttle up past the firewall, boosting towards a full-up cruiser, then detatching the command section and frantically clawing for enough lateral thrust to get off your suicide course...then swinging back around to watch a hundred-sixty-meter long warship that's served you in countless battles throughout the entire game, command section gone, smash clean into the hull of the President's own cruiser at twelve kilometers per second. THAT is an incredible moment.

CNV-301, I salute you.

The Silence and I · Post by **The Silence and I** » 2005-11-01 06:03pm

Dark Age of Camelot, I play a Thane usually--a warrior priest of Thor--and this particular toon was level 31. When fighting monsters it is important to know the "Con," the color of its name, which approximates it's level compared to yours. Grey is pathetic, green is a given kill, blue is an easy kill, yellow is about your level, orange is rather difficult, possible death, red is a quick death in nearly all cases, and purple is suicide in all cases.

So I'm doing part of my epic quest solo, when I should have been grouped, and I had to clear a dungeon. Most of the minions in there were yellows and oranges, so it was slow going, with much resting and healing. I finally get to the boss, a red on the other side of the room. So I'm thinking to myself, crap it's red! I can't kill a red! So I'm in a bind, but this crazy thought enters my head. I think to myself, I'm a dwarven follower of Thor from the land of Midgard--we don't back down from a fight!! So I told myself, in character, that Thor would guide my lightning and my hammer, held my breath and engaged the boss.

Only a few of my lightning spells hurt it, and it had nearly full health when I engaged melee, a bad thing to see even when fighting a yellow, because Thane's are not so tough as Warriors. We did battle and somehow I parried and blocked enough to survive, I watched it's health bar dropping, and mine dropping almost as fast, and finally finshed it up with a last burst of lightning + hammer smack. When I saw it fall to the floor, dead, I screamed at the top of my lungs "YES!! YES!! THOR IS ON MY SIDE TODAY!!!!"

I've never done anything like that before

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2005-11-01 07:42pm

Natural Selection. I'm doing my usual, routine, which pretty much consists of running into the enemy base with a shotgun and shooting anything that comes my way, and all of a sudden, the entire alien team respawns, and I'm right in the middle of their base. So like 6, 7 skulks rush me as I frantically try to gain some distance. It was a hectic20 seconds or so and it's hard to describe the details, but it basically involved me shooting 3, 4 of them dead before they could even get into biting range, then dancing around with the remainder as I was reloading. Somehow, through my own skill and their inability, I survived after defeating all of them alone. As you can imagine, a couple of them screamed "BS!" and quit out of rage.

Not quite as bad-ass as the time above, but I managed to take out 4 skulks with one lmg and pistol clip, plus a little slicing with the knife. One time I had incredible accuracy and nailed a skulk with a pistol 7 times as it leapt through the air with a groundspeed above 700 (About 3, 4 times faster than your average target in an FPS can move)

Another time I was a skulk... And basically, I took down 4 marines head-on (One of them a heavy armor) armed with heavy machine guns with lots of leaping and biting. In a narrow hallway. I was subsequently killed when I stopped to taunt them.

Yesterday while playing CS (Because too much NS gets boring), I rushed 5 Ts with nothing but an AK. I crouched, sprayed, and got 5 headshots. If that isn't proof that CS sucks, I don't know what is.

Faqa · Post by **Faqa** » 2005-11-02 01:32pm

Neverwinter Nights with the Enhanced A.I mod:

I'm advancing on a camp of Ogres in chapter two as a level 10 sorc, if I recall the number right. I'd just gotten a shiny Maximize Spell ability.

Ogres bunch up, charge my party. I throw ONE maximized fireball into that throng....

And the 20 or so Ogres keel over and hit the ground simeltaneously. Poor leader didn't even have time to get through his scripted dialogue before kissing forest floor.

Similarly, slaughtering Fire Giants in Chapter 3. At one point, when a final, tough group goes down, I go all Achilles on the screen, yelling "Is there no one else?! IS THERE NO ONE ELSE?!".

I fucking love playing a walking nuke......

SAMAS · Post by **SAMAS** » 2005-11-03 10:02pm

I'm still tripping over this video someone had of a tournament for Street Fighter III: Third Strike.

It's the final round of a match between a dude named Daigo(Using Ken), and another guy playing Chun Li. Ken is down to a few slivers of health, and Chun Li has almost half of hers.

The Chun Li player tries to end it, and pulls off the Thousand Burst Kick, a multi-hit Super that from the block damage alone would've probably killed him in maybe four hits out of a move with almost twenty.

Daigo proceeds to parry every single kick. You can hear the crowd watching the big screen just erupt halfway through the move. He then uses the recovery time from the Super to launch an attack that eats up Chun Li's life meter and ends the match.

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2005-11-03 10:36pm

My favorite Halo 2 moment of all time. Multiplayer, the successor map to Blood Gulch. I'm out in the open with a sword, and some guy is roaring at me on a Ghost. I'd managed to dodge the Ghost a couple times already, but whether I run or not I'm pretty much fucked. So I turn around and wait for him to try to splat me, and at the last moment I lock on with the sword and lunge. There's a bright flash and an explosion, and I somehow made off with +1 to my score. Apparently when I lunged I hit the Ghost instead of the guy, and it exploded, killing the guy and leaving me unscratched. The sweet thing was that the Ghost wasn't sparking or anything when I lunged at it.

Noble Ire · Post by **Noble Ire** » 2005-11-03 10:53pm

Another, brief Halo 2 moment:

When the first set of new maps was released, a bunch of my friends had a Lan party to try them out. Anyways, the first time we played Containment, I pile into the gunner of a warthog, along with the driver and a passenger, and we take off, driving up the closed gate. Apparently, we were a bit too far right, because we landed a few inches from one of the huge plasma mines and slammed straight into it. There's a bright flash, and we all look up to see the screen completely empty; where nowhere to be seen. Just as everyone starts going "WTF", a single tire rolls into view, and everyone watching bursts out laughing.

Akhlut · Post by **Akhlut** » 2005-11-03 11:26pm

Back in the days of 2nd Edition D&D, I was playing a campaign with my eldest cousin DMing and his younger brother as a player. My DM cousin enjoyed having intelligent, crafty kobolds. They were nasty summbitches.

Anyway, my younger cousin had become a real badass. He was a minotaur with a magical sword and had become known as the "Walking Ginsu." He toer everything new assholes whenever he fought. He was like Khaela Mensha Khaine, he was that dangerous.

So, one day, we were tromping through the catacombs, trying to find out what the hell was going on down there. We run into a tribe of kobolds and, I forget how, precisely, we began to fight them. They were clearly outmatched, as everyone in the group was capable of killing the entire tribe single-handedly. So, the kobolds locked themselves into a room and start shooting darts through it. I tried to just break the handle and get in, but got a poison dart in my hand for my troubles. So, "Walking Ginsu" decides to hell with it, and just busts down the door. And, in the process, got at least 40 poisoned darts shot into his flesh from the door. Ouchu, as they say. The kobolds, not having the protection of their precious door, haul ass into tunnels too small for the group to get through.

In that same campaign, another funny incident happened. Except with me and my brother. There was an NPC rogue tagging along with us. We were tromping through those very same catacombs and came across a fork in the tunnels. We started arguing over which way to go. I decided to go one way, my brother and the rogue decided to go the other. Mind you, we were below 10th level here and didn't have any goodies on hand. So, what happened? Well I walked into a room that had an invisible stalker in it. I was a fighter without magical weapons fighting an invisible pseudo-elemental creature. I was killed. My brother and the rogue ran into a group of githyanki. About 5 or 6 of them, I think. All of them higher level than he was. He and the rogue also died. Baaaad day, there.

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2005-11-03 11:39pm

SAMAS wrote:I'm still tripping over this video someone had of a tournament for Street Fighter III: Third Strike.

It's the final round of a match between a dude named Daigo(Using Ken), and another guy playing Chun Li. Ken is down to a few slivers of health, and Chun Li has almost half of hers.

The Chun Li player tries to end it, and pulls off the Thousand Burst Kick, a multi-hit Super that from the block damage alone would've probably killed him in maybe four hits out of a move with almost twenty.

Daigo proceeds to parry every single kick. You can hear the crowd watching the big screen just erupt halfway through the move. He then uses the recovery time from the Super to launch an attack that eats up Chun Li's life meter and ends the match.

Oh, I saw that movie... It was indeed awesome.

The Dark · Post by **The Dark** » 2005-11-04 01:16am

Jovian Chronicles. I'm playing an ExoArmor pilot (somewhat similar to a 'Mech, but space-oriented) engaged in an attack on a capital ship, clearing a path for the bombers. Just for the hell of it, I fire my main gun at the ship. I need a 6 just to damage it. If I damage it, I get to roll three dice to see what sort of damage I inflict, and any rolls of 6 mean I throw out that die and roll two more dice (potentially ad infinitum, a circumstance known as a "damage cascade"). By the time the smoke settles, I've rolled fourteen damage dice, and the enemy battleship no longer has any weapons or engines functional. The bomber pilots loved me after that one.

Fin D'ah Gub · Post by **Fin D'ah Gub** » 2005-11-04 02:12am

SAMAS wrote:I'm still tripping over this video someone had of a tournament for Street Fighter III: Third Strike.

It's the final round of a match between a dude named Daigo(Using Ken), and another guy playing Chun Li. Ken is down to a few slivers of health, and Chun Li has almost half of hers.

The Chun Li player tries to end it, and pulls off the Thousand Burst Kick, a multi-hit Super that from the block damage alone would've probably killed him in maybe four hits out of a move with almost twenty.

Daigo proceeds to parry every single kick. You can hear the crowd watching the big screen just erupt halfway through the move. He then uses the recovery time from the Super to launch an attack that eats up Chun Li's life meter and ends the match.

Here's a link to the video, incase anybody wants to see it. It does look amazing.

Link

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2005-11-04 03:37am

Totally RL but still game-related...

Dave surprised the absolute FUCK out of me a coupla days ago by getting me an Athlon64 3700+, a GeForce6600, and Quake 4 out of the blue, under the guise of doing just a little 'computer shopping'. That's a fucking hell of a lot of battleship for just a little bit of "shopping"!

Christmas came early this year...

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2005-11-04 03:40am

Fin D'ah Gub wrote:
SAMAS wrote:I'm still tripping over this video someone had of a tournament for Street Fighter III: Third Strike.

It's the final round of a match between a dude named Daigo(Using Ken), and another guy playing Chun Li. Ken is down to a few slivers of health, and Chun Li has almost half of hers.

The Chun Li player tries to end it, and pulls off the Thousand Burst Kick, a multi-hit Super that from the block damage alone would've probably killed him in maybe four hits out of a move with almost twenty.

Daigo proceeds to parry every single kick. You can hear the crowd watching the big screen just erupt halfway through the move. He then uses the recovery time from the Super to launch an attack that eats up Chun Li's life meter and ends the match.
Here's a link to the video, incase anybody wants to see it. It does look amazing.

Link

Got a non-Google-Video link? I'm still having gigantic issues with Flash refusing to play...

Post by **haas mark** » 2005-11-04 04:31am

Last week, in the middle of a D&D Campaign.

Our Fighter/Priest decided to do something that basically evaporated all water in this wooden tavern. Including my character and two others'. So after taking three rounds to rehydrate, we're up against werewolf town guards that are pretty beefed up. I get rehydrated at the last guard left in the room. So, being a fucking idiot, I cast Pyrotechnics instead of Phantasmal Killer. NPC dude from future has six heat-activated incendiary bombs strapped to his back, and several of the characters (there are 7 of them, and four are stuck in the doorway). Incendiary bombs go off and kill five of the characters. Funny thing was, though, that the one dude left, apparently using Phantasmal Killer would've killed him anyway, thanks to his extreme fear of fire. LMAO.

Or, before then, my character had a staff of lightning. We were chasing, literally, 200 grimlocks in a valley. I, like a dumbass, forgot, 'Hey, we're on a hill covered in snow.' So I use the staff, fail all my rolls (my dice weren't with me that day), end up on the ground twitching, and cause an avalanche. Even though it did cause 185 of the suckers to die in said avalanche, so yay for lots of experience points. Even if said staff was later destroyed by a lava beast (along with every single other possession I had on my character at the time).

Also, before I forget, and cos I don't want to make a new post, Tekken 5's boss. Period.

Typhonis 1 · Post by **Typhonis 1** » 2005-11-04 05:11am

OH one of my oldest is from Goldeneye.....not the new one but the N64 one. I was playing with mines on one level and had managed to get one onto a door some baddies were going to come through. it had yet to activate when a russian soldier burst into the room...he was at the top of a set of stairs...the mine goes off while he is still up their and I basically laughed my butt off watching him fly through the air.

Fin D'ah Gub · Post by **Fin D'ah Gub** » 2005-11-05 01:25am

Einhander Sn0m4n wrote: Got a non-Google-Video link? I'm still having gigantic issues with Flash refusing to play...

Just found one.

MuchoSucko

felineki · Post by **felineki** » 2005-11-05 01:36am

While we're on the subject of Third Stirke videos, I saw a great one where a Makoto is losing against a Gouki (or Akuma, if you prefer) for the majority of the round, and is down to a tiny fraction of health. Gouki still has almost all of his (at least 3/4 or so, I think). Makoto finally manages to land a choke grab, and the crowd knows it's all over. What follows is one of the most "stunning" (heh) combos I've ever seen.

I'll try to upload it.

EDIT: Makotowned

I never tire of watching that.

LordShaithis · Post by **LordShaithis** » 2005-11-05 02:26am

Ultima Online, four or five years ago:

I'm a plain vanilla warrior, decked out in exceptional-quality but entirely non-magical equipment. Myself and seven or eight guildmates have decided to go to the dungeon Hythloth and hunt daemons. A daemon would be a challenging fight if I were on my own, but the bunch of us should be able to slaughter them.

The problem is, while we know there are daemons somewhere in Hythloth, none of us really know our way around. We blunder around squashing whatever gets in our way, until we sight a large demonic-looking figure. My guildmates all charge at it, before I can exclaim that what they're looking at isn't a daemon. It's a balron, which is to daemon what an Abrams tank is to a Sherman.

Bodies are hitting the floor before anyone knows what the fuck is going on. I figure I may as well join the fun, so I run up behind it and swat it with my war mace for the sheer hell of it. I'd have had better luck trying to club the Abrams to death. This thing turns around and blows me out of my socks instantly.

We regroup on the stairs leading down to the Balron's lair, where another guildmate called in via ICQ resurrects us. What followed was an attempt to retrieve eight or nine corpses from under the nose of a creature that seemed entirely intent upon camping the adventurer spawn in his dungeon. I only died one additional time, and got all my stuff back. One unlucky fellow died thirteen times that night.

I distinctly recall a girl named Olga, who always carried a little chair in her inventory, which she would set down and sit in whenever we paused on the road somewhere. As I'm running circles around the balron, keeping it distracted, she's yelling in chat "Save my chair, save my chair!!" To which I replied "I have more important things on my mind!" between bouts of frantic running.

Good times.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2005-11-05 05:25am

Earlier last night, flying through the air on an InstaUnlagged Super Fast Rails server; Q3DM19. I 'spam' (unaimed suppressive fire) a coupla rail shots in the general direction of the main buncha plats as I arc throgh the air to the camping spot way off to the side. First trigger-pull I spear two unlucky motherfuckers with one shot; I didn't even see the bloody bastards when I did it! I was surprised that i actually made it to the campsite without getting shot down, it was double when my random suppressive-fire spam shishkebabbed two nerfherders with only one rail!

Last morning; Q3CTF1, upper corridor. I had a plasmagun and was camping in the hallway right before the dogleg. Then three asshats with flag-thieving on their minds come around the corner, two with RLs and one with a PG. I then cut loose with my PG and mow 'em down FLAT, netting myself three frags in two seconnds, two free RLs, and a new PG. The Enemy didn't try that trick ever again...

Arrow · Post by **Arrow** » 2005-11-05 09:25am

Yesterday, at work, I was able to fire up Battlefield 2 (I was waiting for some FPGA images to build, and didn't have anything else to do). I'm playing on Karkand as an USMC Sniper (with the unlocked M95). The battle is fluid as hell, with flags changing sides every minute. We just captured the flag in the courtyard off of the main Square, and the MEC just retook the Hotel Flag, so I know they're coming for the Square's flag. I set up behind a bench in the Square, looking down an alley heading to the hotel. And here comes the MEC.

I get five headshots in a row, in twenty seconds. I reload, just in time to see one of their medics come to revive the two guys that haven't respawned. Just as he's about to revive his buddies, I put a round through his head. That was my best moment of sniping ever.

And what made even better was two of my coworkers watching, laughing their asses off as mow these guys down with a bolt action rifle!