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Drake the Dragonheart

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the only one I can think of was I was playing my nfl qb club on my saturn and had 45 seconds left in the game when mom turned off the system.
 

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Audemas said:
The one that first comes to mind for me was playing The Orange Box, more specifically Half-Life 2 Episode 2 as the Neighborhood Watch achievement. For this you had to protect all of the buildings from being destroyed by the striders and hunters. I would always be so close to the end until something stupid like, a log or a dead body would slow my car down and result in the building beings destroyed. After a total of, and yes this is the actual number, 33 tries I finally got the achievement.
Speaking of that achievement, is it actually possible to save the Sawmill, or does it have to go for the story? Because that's always gone in 30 seconds.
 

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orannis62 said:
Audemas said:
The one that first comes to mind for me was playing The Orange Box, more specifically Half-Life 2 Episode 2 as the Neighborhood Watch achievement. For this you had to protect all of the buildings from being destroyed by the striders and hunters. I would always be so close to the end until something stupid like, a log or a dead body would slow my car down and result in the building beings destroyed. After a total of, and yes this is the actual number, 33 tries I finally got the achievement.
Speaking of that achievement, is it actually possible to save the Sawmill, or does it have to go for the story? Because that's always gone in 30 seconds.
It was too long ago to remember but you could probably find the answer on youtube or something.
 

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Playing Unreal Tournament 2004 I had one of these. There's an Assault mission which requires you to fight your way into a factory and destroy this giant generator. I was on the attacking team, and we hadn't been doing too well--we were down to the last 30 seconds, but managed to fight our way into the final room. After blasting at the generator for a while I was taken out by an enemy, respawned, grabbed a rocket launcher, ran out in to the central room with two seconds remaining, and, seeing the generator down to about 2% of its total health, fired the rocket, only to have the time run out before the rocket hit the core. On the freeze-frame screen announcing we'd lost, you could see the rocket about a foot away from colliding with the generator. Ergh.
 

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Ruzzian Roulette said:
I was trying to get Akimbo Assassin on L4D, I'm on the finale, and I just killed the second Tank. I heal up, then a hunter jumps out me and I whip out a SMG and fire off 2 rounds on accident. And the worst part is, they BOTH MISSED. Goddamnit.
Dude, I have YET to get through an entire campaign without friendly fire. I was stepping on the freaking boat once, and Francis decides to step back off of the boat as I'm laying down some cover fire and stick his elbow in front of my 9mm. Friendly fire and then cutscene. I swear to god I wanted to choke something soft and furry at that moment.
 

Knight Templar

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I was playing fable 2 trying to get the red dragon. To get this gun I need a score of 175 at the range. I kept geting 173, 172, 170, by the end of it I had ten hero dolls as a second place prize.
 

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L4D on the second mission. I was playing with a friend splitscreen and he isn't very good. Not his fault since he doesn't have alot of experience with the controller and had never played it before. Everytime he would leave me hangin on the other side of the bridge and I would die. So I was playing with the old lady and we finally made it to the end. Boat was there we were bookin towards it and boom tank. I am trying to lay down some cover fire to get everyone in and of course I died. 1 second cost me the level.
 

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Wolf Blade said:

I had no lives left. This is the reason why I don't play G 'n G anymore. Anyone else feel the same?
xD i love ghost n goblins, but why don't you download it for mame or soemthin then you can play with as many lifes as you like ^^ yeah it's sorta cheating but it helped me finish off the game, really hard yet awesome game
 

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Tattaglia said:
Playing the end of Far Cry 2 in the Heart of Darkness - which was quite frustrating, but I had to finish the game - and had just completed a rather difficult firefight with several mercenaries. Glad I was finished with the ordeal, and nearly halfway through the Heart, I started sprinting to the objective... and then pressed "crouch".

I kneeslided off a cliff to my death. And my buddies were all dead. I haven't touched the game since. Fuck you, Far Cry 2.


Fuck you.
lol...you did not save, you have a nervous finger and blame it on the game?
 

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There are so many of this kind of thread. umm... recently i was playing armored core 4, when on the last mission on the hardest mode i stupidly equipped a gun. I had always used blades and ive beatn this level on an easier mode with blades before. needless to say, with a sword and gun i got raped by the stupid multifunctional god forsaken minigun the boss had
 

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I was playing Devil May Cry 4 on Hell and Hell mode. (Basically, you die in one hit, but you have 3 Gold Orbs that revive you when you die, so you technically have 4 "lives.") Mission 16 took me several tries before I was even able to reach the boss, Berial. I would usually make it to him with 1 orb left, nearly kill him before dying.

One time, I made it to him, still having all 3 orbs, only to get killed/hit 4 times. Needless to say, I busted out the rageahol.
 

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I was trying to get the No-Friendly-Fire achievement on Left 4 Dead on No Mercy. I had made it all the way to the end, everyone was on the Helicopter, except for Francis. I aim to shoot a Smoker that is about to snag somebody, and then, of course, Francis jumps in the way like the happy, achievement ruining bastard that he is.

It was horrible watching the credits and it saying that everyone had no friendly-fire, except for me. Once. At the end. I nearly broke my controller in frustration.
 

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I do it in art a lot. I can be all in-the-mood to start on some commissioned piece and get everything out and begin in gusto, and then realise I've made everyone look like a horse and i have to spend hours fixing it and nudging every little feature around slightly.

In games I tend to fail hugely, rather than small at the end.
 

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Ruzzian Roulette said:
I was trying to get Akimbo Assassin on L4D, I'm on the finale, and I just killed the second Tank. I heal up, then a hunter jumps out me and I whip out a SMG and fire off 2 rounds on accident. And the worst part is, they BOTH MISSED. Goddamnit.
I did that as well (only it was a pump shotgun for me). After that embarrassing debacle, I just didn't pick up a primary weapon to begin with to prevent such a fate from happening when I tried for the achievement again. When I tried to go for the "no health packs" achievement, I had made it to the end of No Mercy and some dolt used a medkit just before the last tank arrived. I wanted to punch that guy in the kids.
 

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HuCast said:
Tattaglia said:
Playing the end of Far Cry 2 in the Heart of Darkness - which was quite frustrating, but I had to finish the game - and had just completed a rather difficult firefight with several mercenaries. Glad I was finished with the ordeal, and nearly halfway through the Heart, I started sprinting to the objective... and then pressed "crouch".

I kneeslided off a cliff to my death. And my buddies were all dead. I haven't touched the game since. Fuck you, Far Cry 2.


Fuck you.
lol...you did not save, you have a nervous finger and blame it on the game?
I did save, actually. There is no way to save in the middle of a half-an-hour long shoot-out, you know. I blame Far Cry 2's save system, not the game itself.
 

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Single player, myself and 3 AI's all somehow held out to see the arrival of the boat on L4D's Death Toll campaign without taking any damage - don't ask me how. We all sprinted for the boat and raced onto the docks, when without ANY WARNING whatsoever Zoey turns and launches into the pursuing infected. Needless to say she was incapped in seconds, leading my gormless friends to follow suit. The Untouchables achievement gone for the silliest of reasons, I was stunned into hesitation, only for a second, and just as the boat stopped at the pier I was Smokered off into the night.
Cue swearing.