Epic, monumental, humiliating fails....

[MiracleOfSound]

Yeah, I saw that on an LP: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQbNVybCltg

Hilarious, especially when he used 2 medkits that went directly to his head and torso and not the badly needed legs.

Whelp, I've been ninja'd by the OP.

I had the exact same thing happen to me when I first played Deus Ex. I still remember painfully draggin myself along the corridor of holograms.

I think ive managed to do that a dozen times now.... almost every time i play it i screw up holding the TNT XD

Well it would seem I'm not the only one who failed spectacularly in this game... good to know

 

[diebane]

We were playing Team Doubles in Halo 3. We were playing 2 players, 1 of them killed me, the other one got into hiding already, being followed by the player who killed me. Long story short, we were crouching across the map and after 2 minutes we had found their spot, so we waited for the clock to hit the 10 second countdown, threw nades up there and won the game 2:1.



mfG diebane

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Epic fail part? This was on EASY Combat Difficulty.

What? DON'T LOOK AT ME LIKE THAT!!!

Dude, Fallout 2 kicked my ass from Shady Sands to Rivet City and back again on easy difficulty. That game is bastard hard!

 

[Sansha]

The only thing that really comes to mind is in Fallout3: shooting a Super-Mutant Overlord with the MIRV... while he was directly above me.

No survivors.

 

[Sizzle Montyjing]

I was playing Red Dead Redemption, and i had just saved some law guy outside of Armadillo, so when i headed into the town, i forgot how to stop my horse and smacked into the same guy i had saved and several others.
I went to jail for KILLING him.
He died.

 

[Zac Smith]

My friend at school actually slipped on a banana skin

 

[J0k3]

Battle field 2: Gulf of Oman, playing as a sniper with a mate of mine. we were sniping on a roof top and claymored the ladder. A guy parachuted in from the helicoper and started a knife fight with my mate, as they are fighting my mate try to jump off the roof and gets blown up by my claymore.

then the server kicked me for team kill...

 

[Sansha]

I was playing Red Dead Redemption, and i had just saved some law guy outside of Armadillo, so when i headed into the town, i forgot how to stop my horse and smacked into the same guy i had saved and several others.
I went to jail for KILLING him.
He died.

So you killed him and he died?

 

[Sizzle Montyjing]

I was playing Red Dead Redemption, and i had just saved some law guy outside of Armadillo, so when i headed into the town, i forgot how to stop my horse and smacked into the same guy i had saved and several others.
I went to jail for KILLING him.
He died.

So you killed him and he died?

Yes, that is usually the outcome of killing someone...
I know what you mean, it didn't make much sense but i couldn't be bothered to change it.
I ran over the guy with my horse by accident, he died, i got jailed for killing a police officer.

 

[Saltyk]

I'm not a big fan of FPS games, but I did get into MAG for a while. Still, I've had a few Epic Fails. The worst would be throwing a grenade down a hall, then rushing down the hall and getting killed by my own grenade. I've done that a few times...

I loved Arkham Asylum, but I remember during the Killer Croc encounter I didn't know about throwing a batarang to knock him into the water, so I'd get so far and then he'd jump out. I would run all the way back to the start. Did this a few times. When he finally caught me, the continue screen told me how to knock him into the water. All I could think was: "Where was that piece of info earlier?"

 

[Miles000]

I got so scared by a leaf today I actually jumped. Fluttershy style.

Afterwards I looked around to make sure no one saw it

 

[Hristo Tzonkov]

I was playing FEAR 2 on one of the levels with those crawly assholes.The psychic commanders that went wrong.Since I had to eat before work I went to get my meal and eat as I play along.But weirdly I put my headphones on and started playing.My bro who was next to me said that I don't need them so I took them off but I didn't notice I hadn't paused the game.One of those psycho's crawls out of the woodwork and starts slashing me.I panicked so hard I started yelling and I couldn't hold the mouse properly to even kill it.This is all considering I've played the game previously and knew the fucker would come otu there.Twas a major fail and even worse my brother lol'd his ass off right beside me .

 

[Vibhor]

Epic fail part? This was on EASY Combat Difficulty.

What? DON'T LOOK AT ME LIKE THAT!!!

Dude, Fallout 2 kicked my ass from Shady Sands to Rivet City and back again on easy difficulty. That game is bastard hard!

.....
What?
Shady sands? Rivet city?
Wow, both of the locations you mentioned weren't even in Fallout 2.
Also, it isn't THAT hard. You just need to start carrying NPCs and Automatic weapons.

Mine would be from Frozen Synapse.
I was rocking hard with my team on a multiplayer match just when I "accidentally" fired my rocket dude's rockets at my whole team's feet.
I failed so hard that I can still feel the pain.

 

[similar.squirrel]

It usually takes about eight tries to fight my way off the disabled Collector ship in Mass Effect 2. It certainly did on Veteran difficulty, anyway.
I have no problems with other encounters, oddly enough.

 

[MasterOfWorlds]

I was playing a tabletop game once, and one of the NPCs in our group carried a .357 revolver that he kept unloaded because revolvers don't have a safety switch on it, and we were playing a game where we were on a spaceship, so it would have been bad if it went off and put on hole in the ship. Anyway, my friend, myself, and this NPC were going on a mission and ended up running into some trouble. NPC drops his gun, and one of the enemies pick it up and point it at my friend (the gun hadn't been shot at this point) and my friend, thinking it was still unloaded, didn't move. Yeah...he got shot in the chest from about 5 feet away. XD

My friend also had a very hard time beating Brink...on Easy, when I was merrily strolling through the game on Hard, and he's actually a better technical shooter than I am in games. Probably why I do so much better than him in Brink, actually.

I've had a couple of fail moments in games, but not the monumental super epic fails that my friend has. XD

My friend and I played 1v1 on Bioshock 2. We played three and a half matches. The first match we didn't count because I got the Big Daddy suit, which is really unfair if you're against only one person. I beat him the other two matches by quite a bit, and he ragequit the last match halfway through and refused to talk to me for the rest of the day. This was last year, so he was 20 at the time. When I asked him the next day what was up, he simply responded, "I wanted to win..."

Oh, there are so many others it's hard to think of them all. Perhaps I'll be back and post some more later.

I do remember one of my fails now that I think about it.

I was playing Medal of Honor: Frontline, on the submarine level. I unloaded three clips from my .45 into a Nazi's head at point blank range, and he didn't die. I don't know what the deal was, but it frustrated me enough to ragequit. It was the only time I've ever ragequit, now that I think about it.

 

[Chatato]

Has there ever been a time when you've hit/encountered the fail button so hard on a game you've had to laugh at yourself and/or the game in disbelief?

I just had this playing Deus Ex.

I got owned on the training mission. Yep.

Same here except i had all of the motion sensor mines and tries to put them all on one wall... they exploded and I had to leave the testing chamber to get healed then it wouldn't let me back in with out mines which I had used all of... Yep , I was stuck there eventually I just quit the game and haven't played it since.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

.....
What?
Shady sands? Rivet city?
Wow, both of the locations you mentioned weren't even in Fallout 2.
Also, it isn't THAT hard. You just need to start carrying NPCs and Automatic weapons.

I know they weren't in F2. Did I say they were? No. I was making general Fallout references.

 

[Kahunaburger]

Yesterday I was playing bad company 2. There was a sniper from the other team camping near our base, and I decided to go after him. Long story short, I was basically this guy:
Fortunately I figured it out after a few deaths, accepted the fact that I had been pwned, and found somewhere else to be haha.

 

[MysticToast]

I dropped a crate of TNT, not knowing I had to crouch to do this as the game's inexplicably laggy tutorial messages only told me this after I blew my legs and arms off.

Then spent the next 20 minutes agonisingly slowly crawling around a large room like a crippled snail while constantly being shot at by the guard robot who couldn't finish me off because, well, it was just the training level and the game thought it was being nice to me. I've never wished for death in a game so much....

I actually did the same exact thing the first time I did the training in Deus Ex. It was quite annoying

 

[Rock 'n' Soul]

I played through Dead Space almost entirely before realizing you could break open boxes. I'd like to add, that yes, I considered that surely they MUST be breakable early in the game, but I was too busy being terrified of necromorphs that I eventually forgot about them all together.

Also, I played through my first time with one gun. DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD THAT WAS?! Not utilizing those boxes full of wonderful goodies like cash and ammo was a real fucking *****.

So. FAIL.