Aww Crap

[smallharmlesskitten]

Supreme commander when I saw 4 nukes flying across the screen...

Wouldn't have been too bad if i had more than one rocket in my Anti Nuke platform

 

[jamesc]

Condemned. You are in a subway car and you look out. There are about 5 of those little mutants. All right, II say, trying to find a way out of the car. Suddenly, a crash, and I look out. There is an 8 foot man with a sledgehammer who just killed them all in about 5 seconds. He was disappointingly easy, though. Oh, and the first three times you ever see a big daddy in gameplay. Then you realize the use of the vita chamber, and he suddenly becomes nothing but a teddy bear with money and ammo... Sigh...

 

[Sgt. Giggles]

Dead Space. In one of the earlier chapters a giant tentacle caught me by surprise and dragged me half way down the hallway before I could regain my composure.

Also, Condemned 2. You and a zombie bear all alone in a house and he has his eyes set on you.

 

[TsunamiWombat]

The Butcher, Diablo.

That is all.

 

[black lincon]

The Butcher, Diablo.

That is all.

I remember that bastard. whenever I would make a new game I would keep remaking it until I didn't get that quest.

 

[weirdaljedifan2]

Sonic Rush: I was playing as Blaze the Cat and I was fighting the Pterodactyl Robot. I died so many times I was cussing the DS into insanity.

 

[Beowulf DW]

In Halo: CE, on the first level that the Flood is revealed.

Now that I think about it, that entire level was basically an "Oh, Shit!" moment.

From the minute the level starts, you get a feeling that something is very, very wrong. Then, while you're watching the last moments of Private Jenkins, the "Oh, Shit" alarm goes off non-stop.

The dialogue between my cousin and I during the rest of that level consisted of:

"Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, shit."
"Die! Die! Die!"
"Oh, hell. Oh, crap. We're gonna die. No way we'll beat this!"

And then when a really big mob of Flood came after us:

"Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!" *said whilst spraying two clips of assault rifle bullets*

 

[the protaginist]

That bit in Condemned 2 when the tar creatures first come out of the walls and throw themselves at you, and you're armed with a stomach full of whiskey and a piece of pipe you've just wrenched from the wall. I was just like, "this is just full of boring normal peop... OH SHIT!"

i actually had a 12 guage for that part,but Ethan got the jitters becuase i DIDN'T have a stomach full of whiskey.

the most recent one i can think of was Assassin's Creed.at the end,when your at the guys funeral to kill robert,and they start saying things like"the killer is among us."i sucked at countering,so i freaked me out. i'm like:"oh s**t...oh s**t...OH S**T!!!"

 

[Unholykrumpet]

When I first played through Gears of War, when the guy gets up like a dumbass to say that his gun was jammed. I kind of realized something was up when he did that, but still. That sniper shot scared the hell out of me.

Another example is in Ninja Gaiden 2 when you fight the lycanthrope boss. Surprisingly, my first attempt on him I whipped him pretty badly...but damn! That guy was intimidating in cut scenes...just too slow of a boss for a ninja.

 

[SP MeaslyBinkie]

The first time I encountered a puppet in Thief: Deadly Shadows.

 

[dukethepcdr]

This applies universally to RTSs on principle but this is an example from the past couple of days on Battle for Middle Earth.
I was playing as Gondor on the Osgiliath map with Mordor as my enemy (and Rohan my ally with Isenguard as the enemys ally but those two were busy so are irrelevant). Anyway, on the Osgiliath map there are only two bridges to the other side of the map. I had just built a base on my side next to the bridge when over the bridge comes a mass of Orcs and Haradrim. This was a bit of "Aww crap" but with reinforcements from my base I managed to just pull through.
I sat there with a slight feeling of pride until I noticed another horde of orcs backed up by a troll and catapult rolling over the bridge. I simply thought "aww hell no."

I like playing Battle for Middle Earth II and have had lots of moments like that where I think I'm doing well only to have the enemy come into my range of vision with some new horde of monsters I'm not ready for. I try to level up my "god powers" enough to zap them with those until I can have enough units of the right type to go against them, but it doesn't always work. My biggest problem on that game is hitting the command point limit and not being able to make more units until a bunch of my current units are killed. A couple of times, I've managed to get enough command points to be able to summon Gandalf, Frodo and Aragorn on the same game. That was really cool.

 

[Splitter]

This applies universally to RTSs on principle but this is an example from the past couple of days on Battle for Middle Earth.
I was playing as Gondor on the Osgiliath map with Mordor as my enemy (and Rohan my ally with Isenguard as the enemys ally but those two were busy so are irrelevant). Anyway, on the Osgiliath map there are only two bridges to the other side of the map. I had just built a base on my side next to the bridge when over the bridge comes a mass of Orcs and Haradrim. This was a bit of "Aww crap" but with reinforcements from my base I managed to just pull through.
I sat there with a slight feeling of pride until I noticed another horde of orcs backed up by a troll and catapult rolling over the bridge. I simply thought "aww hell no."

I like playing Battle for Middle Earth II and have had lots of moments like that where I think I'm doing well only to have the enemy come into my range of vision with some new horde of monsters I'm not ready for. I try to level up my "god powers" enough to zap them with those until I can have enough units of the right type to go against them, but it doesn't always work. My biggest problem on that game is hitting the command point limit and not being able to make more units until a bunch of my current units are killed. A couple of times, I've managed to get enough command points to be able to summon Gandalf, Frodo and Aragorn on the same game. That was really cool.

Idk about BFME2 as I've never played it but in BFME the heroes are ridiculously expensive but cost no command points.
Meaning whenever I play as Mordor I take full advantage of this using at least one mumakil, 1 or 2 trolls and a load of orcs and evil men as a siege force whereas I can use the two nazgul and the witch king to pretty much destroy any army.
Of course this strategy requires you to have had a lot of time to build up resources.

 

[mack2404]

Got two for you:

1. Star Wars Battlefront - there's nothing worse than backing out of a Stormtrooper-ridden base to find that someone has kindly left you an AT-AT outside, full of death and more Stormtroopers. It's a "Aww nuts" moment, for me anyways.....

2. Portal - this game is full of entertaining WTF's, but when GlaDOS unleashes her neurotoxin, the first time I played this, it was a "dammit" moment. Big shiny red buttons are too tempting to push, yet always lead to bad things (so WHY do we push them!?)....

 

[HeySeansOnline]

Titan Quest- The cyclops .... all those spartans died whilst I was left to fight him with just my spear and earth elemental.

Portal- That ***** tried to drop me in both fire and toxic liquid ...

Mass Effect- i thought that 4 legged geth on Liara's asteroid was tough, then i had to fight a collosus ... Oh and when that krogan bouncer at CHora's den charged at me, thank god i still had my throw i thought, but that was already used on a damn thug ...

Earth Defense Force 2017- So many moments, especially the final mothership

Spyro The Dragon Ripto's Rage- Crush, Gulp, and Ripto's various forms, my 5 year old brain exploded a little

Halo Wars Multiplayer- Every, Damn, Time a horde of flying vehicles attack me .................. I die alittle inside

 

[Dark Knifer]

In a halo 3 matchmaking game I had the flag on sandtrap and was running for a warthog, when it exploded. A tank rounded the corner and I just said "damn..."

 

[Jekken6]

Dead Space. In one of the earlier chapters a giant tentacle caught me by surprise and dragged me half way down the hallway before I could regain my composure.

I remember that in Dead Space. I thought it was a fucking cutscene at first.

 

[Catchy Slogan]

Fallout 3. Raven rock. Boom. Had to start all over again... I like to have full collections.

 

[Zeromaeus]

the first three times you ever see a big daddy in gameplay. Then you realize the use of the vita chamber, and he suddenly becomes nothing but a teddy bear with money and ammo... Sigh...

This.
Actually, really late in the game, I had a Big Daddy walking just outside the vita-chamber. I wrenched him to death. The fear instilled in the first ten minutes of gameplay was completely gone at this point.

(The battle went mostly I hit him four times, he kills me, repeat. It took forever, but I didn't want to waste my ammo and I didn't have any armor piercing rounds...)

 

[Revolutionary]

When i woke up the next morning to find I bought Ninja Gaiden
and when two worlds turned out to be really bad.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

in gears of war when the first berserker you fight comes crashing through the wall i was like "HOLY SHIT" and nearly droped the controller

I played Doom when it came out, liked it a lot. Was a bit creeped out.

Then for some reason missed out on shooters for over ten years. Didn't think I'd enjoy them.

PLayed Gears of War when the 360 launched.

When the Berzerker came through the wall I almost fell of my chair.

The whole sequence was so well done, the preceding cutscene and quiet tension...then BAM.

I was fuckin terrified. And converted to shooters.