Best unscripted gaming moment you've had . . .

[ThriKreen]

Didn't happen to me, but during development on Mass Effect 1, a coworker was testing a combat encounter on the Citadel. He told his companions to move to a location and fire back, but for some reason Wrex ended up moving away from the enemies and out of the area, as if he was running away (A krogan running away, nonsense!)

Ok, whatever, he thinks, bug in the pathfinding system, game is still being worked on, maybe missed a path node somewhere. Combat continues.

Then all of a sudden, the doorway the enemy opponents were hiding behind explodes from the shotgun Carnage ability - the bodies go flying everywhere, every one was dead from the attack.

And Wrex strolls in all nonchalantly from the doorway, just another day in the life of a krogan warrior. Apparently Wrex path found his way around the whole level and ended up circling around behind the enemies.

Of course once path finding was tweaked it never happened again, but I swear, I wish we had kept it in and gotten Wrex to say a line after it, like "Next." or "We're done here." as he rests his shotgun on his shoulder.

 

[Grunt_Man11]

Quite a few with Just Cause 2.

Racing down the road in a military jeep with the heat on. Saw another jeep heading right towards me. So, I hit the A button and parachute out. The jeeps collide and BOOM!

Causing havoc in a tank. A soldier on a ATV stops, gets off, and shoots at me. I point my turret at him. As if realizing how stupid it is to take on a tank with a shotgun, he tries to hop back on his ATV. I fire the main cannon and he, and his ATV, vanish. A few moments later, what remains of his ATV falls from the sky followed shortly after by him.

Causing more havoc in a tank. Blowing up a few soldiers causing a civilian to get out of his car and run away down the road. He gets hit by another car and knocked right in my path. Squish! Rico says, "Got damn, crazy pedestrians!"

Here's a couple from Oblivion.

I was doing the quick quest of getting the stolen potatoes from the Orge. I catch up to the ugly thing. I summon a skeleton, and I swear without stopping, he obliterates the skeleton with a backhand. It was like, "Get out the way, b!+ch."

Then there was the time I came across the bodies of a Legion soldier, his horse, and two bandits. I was wonder what the hell happen? I turn around and see this yellow glow start to surround me. It was a Will-of-the-Wisp. One of those things had killed a Legion soldier, a horse, and two bandits. Damn, those things are deadly. Until they meet me with my fire-imbued sword that is.

And here's one from the past, the original Gran Turismo.

I was messing around and entered the 4WD cup in a car called a Pulsar. It's basically a compact car with 4WD. I was fairly out matched the last two races. Just couldn't keep up with the guys ahead of me. I got 4th place in the first race, and 3rd in the second. However, it was possible to me to still win the cup if I got 1st in the last race because the placing of the AI cars was different each race.

I start the last race not really expecting to win. It's the Clubman track. I find myself able to stay with the other cars. It was a close race with position changes constantly. One the last turn on the last lap, I was able to pass the guy in first (on the outside no less) and stay ahead long enough to cross the finish line. First place, and I won the cup with the slowest 4WD car in the game.

 

[silver wolf009]

AVP. Infestation on Gateway with eighteen people.

All hell has broken loose. The position is overrun. The marines lie dead on the ground. The xenos rejoice victory. And then...

"LAST MAN STANDING!"

Far away, in a pit in a cave, a terrified Kaneko sits, pulse rifle in hand. He hears the awful silence, the horrible waiting for the horde.

Ten seconds: Ping!
Eight seconds: PING!
Five seconds: PING! PING! PING PING!
Two seconds: BWEEP! BWEEP! BWEEP! BWEEP! A xeno sticks his head around the corner.
In the last second of the match, ten xenos rush the curve, trying for all they are worth to kill me. I don't even fire, I just say into party chat: "I win..."

That was the best last man standing I've ever had.

 

[putowtin]

third or fourth time I played AC brotherhood multiplayer I was put in a match with all these really annoying "I'm a level 40, I'm gonna kill you a million times" wankers, who all had their headsets on and sounded about 8 years old.

End of game, 23 assassinations 0 deaths to me!

Ha!

 

[theultimateend]

360 version, so no mods here

Bethesda games without mods are many factors of 10 less enjoyable for me :/. I feel for you.

 

[voetballeeuw]

Red Dead Redemption. Freeplay. Tall Trees Excursion. 4 Men. Tomahawks and Knives. Forest full of bears and cougars. Game on.

 

[SillyNilly]

I have a fun moment to share.

Playing Fallout 3, I decided to explore the west end of the map. First time playing and I discovered the eerie and notorious Dunwich Building, known for 'bad mojo', after first traveling south through the crevice due only a few meters east of the F. Scott Key Trail & Campground, the Campground being located north-west of the Dunwich Building and the crevice located north of the Building.

After completing my scavenging of the ruins, I emerged onto the night-fallen Wasteland and proceeded to hook west of the building and enter the campsite to the north. Calm so far, and everything seemed to be going swell. Until the weird sequence of events occurred.

I noticed a mole rat charging at me as soon as I arrived at the campgrounds, so I whipped out my trusty hunting rifle, a well maintained one at that. Mole rats were simple pests at this level threshold I had reached, and this one was no exception. Of all creatures of the Wastes, Mole Rats were now easy kill at this point.

Before I could fire off a shot, a Yao Guai spontaneously appeared from my peripheral vision, and I focused my attention on the larger, more threatening target on instinct. The Yao Guai had targeted the Mole Rat and had killed it in a single swoop. I knew the hunting rifle was no match against the brute, so I switched to the reliable SMG, but not without being penalized by a fresh hit from the powerful creature. I was at half health, and I took caution by using the environment to my advantage by jumping over some chest-high rocks nearby in the hope it would slow it down.

Then the amazing happened.

A Deathclaw appeared out of my peripherals, like the last creature had, and targeted and killed the Yao Guai in two swipes of its powerful claws, then began to charge at me at full speed. I knew my only option at this point was to run and no weapon I had with me at that moment would be able to effectively take it down before it would tear me to shreds. I was involved in a crazy hijinks of an incomprehensible caliber where I knew I was going to die, but I ran anyway. All that was going through my head was "I am royally screwed" while laughing heartily at the events that had unfolded before me, and I was too shocked to even shoot.

Of course, the frosting on the cake came when I was smacked by the Deathclaw in the face while moving backwards in an attempt to gain ground, and of course, I died.

A short rag-doll tumble down a hill, a disengaged arm rolling alongside my body, the death of a good, yet deadly (Not anymore XD) samaritan, and me laughing very hard while looking back to what just happened are the end result of 30 seconds of silliness.

I love this game.

EDIT: After a little digging around, I now realized the Mole Rat, Yao Guai, and Deathclaw do indeed spawn there in a scripted event.

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/F._Scott_Key_Trail_%26_Campground

Still, I am proud to say this is one my favorite 'spontaneous' videogame moments.

 

[Jayse]

Starship Troopers Multiplayer.

There was absolutely nothing like facing an oncoming horde of bugs that would eventually overwhelm you and slaughter you and your buddies down to the last man.

I guess I really love the "Last Stand" moments of games where you fight, fight, fall back, fight, fall back, fight. Until you eventually run out of defences and are forced to hang on til you die/get rescued. Its why the reach ending is probably the best way a game has ever ended for me at least.

 

[Sir Boss]

Sometime in the 1200s my valiant Welsh surrounded the English fortress of Nottingham, we were outnumbered, out gunned and out of our element, and enemy reinforcements were en route. I new if i were to take victory i had to act fast, luckily the spy managed to get the gates open, I charged in many fell in the charge but still we went on. The town center was in sight.We went in, in to a real meat grinder battle, in the end it came town to 12 out of ammo archers against 18 armored swordsmen, the archers charged, the swordsmen fell, Wales took Nottingham.
Medieval II: Total War

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

My evul LW Electra was walking down a desert road in Fallout 3 with the companion Jericho when he spots a bloatfly and starts shooting madly at it. Wouldn't be a problem only his bullet hits a ruined car which explodes in a mushroom cloud setting off a whole row of ruined cars and then a bus.

I turn around and look at him he holsters his weapon and says 'I forgot how fucked up everything was out here'

completely random sequence of events but to this day sticks in my mind as purely awesome.

 

[holographicman]

in red faction gorilla i was being attacked by a gunship while planting charges in an edf base
so i pulled out the nano-dissolvo rifle and shot 1 of the wings off the gunship, which then spiraled into the bases' main building and exploded,
setting off several charges, fuel tanks/silos and vehicles in the process and destroying most of the base
i got out of cover to pick up the salvage and saw the only survivor of the explosion trying to get up and capped him with single assault rifle round
then 3 apc's showed up and shot me to pieces

 

[Eacaraxe_v1legacy]

Also, the first time I successfully pulled off the Archon toilet. It was an unranked 3v3, and wiped out one and a half armies (hey, their fault for decided to run wholesale through a choke point).

I swear that was the stupidest freaking nerf in Blizzard history. That strategy was the epitome of awesome but impractical, and people who let Protoss live long enough and macro hard enough to access it deserved to lose in the most humiliating and ignominious way possible.

 

[sluggyfreelancer]

I got quite a few.

On SSBB online, it was me and someone else in a sudden death (I think you both have a lot damage straight away) on a retro donkey kong stage. We were both keeping our distances, I made the first move, accidentally hit something on the stage that hurt me and set my body at the other guy which sent him straight off the map. Felt good.

So many GTA IV moments...

Ah, now to the best part; my friend's damn funny deaths on Bad Company 2. On Harvest Day, a explosion went off which sent a bench flying at him, killing him. On Arica Harbour, I parked a HUM V on a hill and mounted the machine gun. I spotted an RPG coming at me so I got out, barely surviving the explosion. My friend was stood next to me so the car flipped in the air and crushed him. On Port Valdez a mortar strike knocked over a tree which squished him. On Valparaiso we got in a chopper to drop ourselves off on top the lighthouse. When I jumped out, I watched him jump out and get hit by the empty chopper and his body do a funny rag doll spasm which put me in hysterics. All the same friend. We laugh whenever we talk about it.

Another Bad Company 2 moment with the same friend was when we were playing Oasis and decided to move up and arm the objectives while creating a thick screen of smoke with our smoke launchers (very effective btw ).

Last one (I could probably remember waaaaaaaay more) I will mention is on Gears 2 was when me and a friend were playing on the Guardian mode, he was the leader and I was protecting him. He had planted some grenades on nearby walls. Can't remember it so well but I think what happened was a enemy charged us, I threw a grenade at him causing my friend's grenades to blow up, killing my friend (I killed myself too) who couldn't respawn because he was the leader. I had died literally right before him so I still respawned Lots of lols afterwards

 

[Eacaraxe_v1legacy]

Another Bad Company 2 moment with the same friend was when we were playing Oasis and decided to move up and arm the objectives while creating a thick screen of smoke with our smoke launchers (very effective btw ).

I can think of one in Bad Company 2, on Laguna Alta. I was playing scout, hanging out on the south side of the farm spotting enemies as they came out of the lumber yard and calling down artillery strikes. The US had the path out of the Russian deployment zone locked down, so the only viable spawn for RU was the lumber yard and I was doing a good amount of damage just doing my thing. They finally started to get bold, running out into the open so I thought I'd take a potshot at the guy on point figuring there was no way in hell I'd get him, but at least I'd make him think twice about what he was doing. Nope, headshot from across the map, and everybody following him either ran back into the lumber yard or dove for cover killing the counteroffensive on the spot. I got like 600 points for it in total if I remember right.

 

[Shane Guerin]

COD4.
Search and destroy on bloc, score: 3-3
My team was defending and i was the only one left, while the attacking team still had 4 players.Luckily they planted the bomb right around the corner from me, so i run around see 2 of them, throw a flashbang which bounces off one of them then blinds them both, i blast them with my trusty M16, then their 3rd player runs right by me, so i shove my knife where the sun dont shine. Theres about 20 secs left and one guy on their team, i go around the last corner and there is a tense 5 secs while im edging towards the bomb, then out of the corner of my eye i see his shadow cast across the wall by one of the burning barrels he was crouched behind a small inlet right beside me, so i edge around and pump 3 bullets into his head before he could react, then i make a mad dash for the bomb, start defusing, it was so close that i didnt know if i would make it, but i got the defuse with a fraction of a second remaining, everyone in the game saw the whole situation unfold and we won the match, all my mates in party chat were going mental, i had a massive adrenalin rush and i was like, this is why i love gaming so much!

 

[Kenbo Slice]

This isn't mine but I witnessed it: My friends and I are all doing free roam in GTA IV and my friends are shooting at each other in helicopters, my friend crashes into the ground and gets out of the helicopter wreckage without a scratch, starts walking across the street and gets hit by a car the first step he takes he gets back up to walk back to the sidewalk and gets hit by another car, which killed him

 

[repeating integers]

Another Oblivion Story:

There is a dark brotherhood quest in which you are ordered to "purge" the building in which you first receive quests, killing your fellow assassins in order to prevent an influx of spies. The quest can actually be quite difficult, as many of the assassins are fairly strong.

Thankfully, I did not have to kill anyone because, after removing all the food from the entire hideout and filling the cupboard with a single poison apple, the assassins actually began killing each other for the only food left in the building. It was probably the most impressive thing I have ever seen a game's AI do on its own accord.

The funniest thing? The lone survivor, a khajiit mage, ate the poisoned apple and died a quick death delayed only by frantic health restoration spells.

Holy shit, Oblivion sounds hilarious.

One of my friends has it. He installed a mod so that damage and knockback physics are amplified many, many times. As a result, every time he kills someone, they go flying into the distance, Team Rocket-style. He killed the Adoring Fan by punching him off the top of a mountain, and eventually found his body in a city 3 miles away. At one point, he had to kill a giant gatekeeper monster, and managed it in several hits. He then had to search his body - which was extremely difficult, because first, he had to search for his body. All that combined with these stories is actually making me want to get Oblivion, heh. Maybe I'll get round to it someday.

 

[sinny777]

GTA4, the first mission. At the end you have to drop off Roman at the taxi place. My friend took an odd route so the mission ended with the passenger side of the car facing the street. As the cutscene ends you can hear police sirens coming. Roman finishes his dialogue and exits the car, uttering "Later cousin...OH MY GOD!" Splat. The car the police were chasing slams into Roman and runs him over. The game is still stuck in cutscene mode. As Roman gets up and dusts himself off he is immediately run over again by an ambulance. This kills him and leaves the game stuck in cutscene mode. Apparently the first car that hit him crashed a few feet ahead and the driver gt into a shootout with the police, after which the ambulance was called. When this all happened me and my friend laughed about it for like an hour. To this day, as one of us is leaving or exiting the others car, we utter "Later cousin...OH MY GOD!" Fond memories...

 

[Irriduccibilli]

My best unscripted moment was in Battlefield 1943. I was flying a plane which was one of my favourite things in the game. So after flying a couple of bombing runs on one of their flags I notice that theres an enemy plane in front of me, so I start chasing the plane down, but then I notice that another enemy plane is after me as well. So after a hectic chase with several barrel rolls and sharp turns I finally manage to land the final hit on the plane I was chasing. I barely managed to dodge his wreckage by flying bottom up right under it, but the guy chasing me wasnt so lucky because he couldnt dodge the wreck and both of them got killed and I survived.
My god the feeling afterwards where orgasmic

 

[Darth_Dude]

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.282678-Whats-your-favorite-Bug#11092895

was easier to link to my old thread on this than retype the info.

Copy and Paste is your friend.