Epic, monumental, humiliating fails....

[Crazy Zaul]

This happened a lot in the old Prince of Persia games, at first I got annoyed at dieing then just laugh at myself for failing so badly.

 

[Shockolate]

Playing Starcraft 2 with a buddy. I decided to cheese him with a 6 pool.

I built an Evolution Chamber instead, and it finished before I realized.

Another Starcraft game, a different friend bunker rushed me.

It worked, mainly because I didn't look at my minimap the entire game I watched the replay, and it was right in plain sight.

I have a lot of Starcraft 2 fails, despite my reputation as a clutch player when me and my friend team up online.

 

[baddude1337]

Usually in Call of Duty online, I walk into a room where there are 3 or more enemies, and I think "Great! Lots of kills!", But somehow I always screw up and don't kill anyone.

I also recall New Vegas. They say at the start "Don't go the North Road!". I was like, fuck that! 5 minutes later my head was on the opposite side of the road to my body thanks to a Deathclaw.

 

[Slash Dementia]

I was playing Halo: Reach, and I'm usually pretty good at driving in it, but yesterday I kept flipping the warthog over. I did it so many times that the other team saw me and blew up the warthog. Then, in another game, I was going in reverse and fell off of a cliff and killed my partner, but, luckily, I was able to get out before falling. The other guy wasn't so happy and started shooting at me throughout the game.

 

[Nedoras]

My friend shut his PS2 off while playing MGS2, during the naked Raiden sequence when Campbell says to shut off the console.

I hate to admit it, but I actually did that too. In my defense, I was pretty damn spaced out when he said that. I thought "huh? oh okay" and simply turned it off. I was saddened that I was outsmarted by the game, and vowed my revenge to beat it....which was postponed by a few hours when I realized I didn't save in awhile. I felt so stupid that I simply laughed.

 

[Katana314]

This video sums it up.

 

[Zenkem]

In Dwarf Fortress, I decided to create a closed, self-sustaining community with nothing but my seven starting settlers digging beneath a haunted tundra. Before I got my dwarves underground, we were attacked by a skeletal polar bear, so I ordered the two least useful males to grab axes and fight it. They managed to kill the bear before dying from their wounds, but at least I still had enough dwarves to keep the population going, right?

One of the miners went crazy from the loss of his friends, and killed all three women. I abandoned the fortress without ever striking the earth, imagining the survivors akward travel back home.

Back in TF1, I was protecting the VIP when we got attacked on a street. While shooting and walking backwards, I accidentally fell through an open manhole. Not wanting to leave the VIP unprotected, I headed up... while the VIP tried to escape down into the sewer, which I was now blocking while his upper body got riddled with bullets.

 

[Ren3004]

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?"

Well, Batman does exactly that in the previous cutscene. He throws a Batarang at Croc when he's holding Scarecrow.

 

[deserteagleeye]

This happened to me just yesterday. I'm playing Hitman: Contracts at the manor and I'm about to kill Alastair who is sitting by the fireplace talking to a guest with their backs to me. I get my silenced pistol and shoot him dead in the head in front of his bud and before I shoot the other one I find out, HE'S STILL NODDING!?!? He just nods away like he's still talking to the guy I just shot! I laughed so hard that I, (childish I know) teabagged Alastair's corpse in front of him while he keeps nodding. My sides. They hurt.

 

[DJ_DEnM]

Dead Rising: Infinity Mode
Going for 7 Day Survivor
My torture for the 7 days ends in 10 RL minutes, and Im packed with wine (Which for those who dont know can pretty much fill my health) and Im in a completely secure and closed off place.
I see that a sniper boss has spawned two areas away, I say "What the hell" and go. As I get there I lose a bit of damage (like 3/12 squares of health) and I get there.
He killed me.
Then I get the time of how long I survived
6 Days, 18 Hours, 24 minutes.

I laughed for a while and went to sleep.

 

[Twilight.falls]

In TF2 I was playing Soldier, using the Mantreads. Mantreads are boots that replace your secondary slot. When you land on an enemy's head from a certain height, the boots deal damage based on your fall damage.

So, I rocket jumped over a Medic, and positioned myself to land on him. I landed on him, but I died from falling damage. I didn't even kill him.

Fail.

 

[JustJuust]

In Gears of War 1, in the prison tutorial level, the part where you had to shoot the button across the room to open the door....
I had no idea that pressing the left trigger let me zoom in... I swear I pressed all the buttons on the controller, but apparently I didn't :/

 

[Cheesus333]

I got chased all the way to Mexico by bounty hunters in Red Dead Redemption because I shot a domesticated dog in Armadillo. I just wanted the Unnatural Selection achievement, I didn't think they'd get that upset with me.

And in my defense, the dog attacked me.

Because I missed the first shot and hit its leg...

EDIT: Oh, lest I forget my discovery that mines I've deployed still detonate when shot by me, in Fallout 3. Especially when I was stood on a pile of 30+ of the fuckers.

I literally hit the roof of the skybox. It was freaky shit.

 

[Richardplex]

After nearly dying after defending my care package drop from 3 enemies, I was killed by said care package.

 

[hazabaza1]

I was playing GTA4 with a friend of mine when he was sleeping round my house. Now, it was about 3:40 AM, so we were both fairly spaced out. I got in a helicopter, flew up as high as I could, and my friend told me that pressing Y shot missiles. Cue Niko getting a face-lift from a bridge.
The worst bit of it all, however, was that not 5 minutes ago, I got him with the very same trick. I felt very stupid for falling for it.

 

[Comando96]

I died six times on the first boss in Link's Awakening DX.

Well don't worry, I have failed harder. For 2 years I didn't know how to open that fucking door in the first Dungeon

 

[Dectomax]

Dead Space, on Impossible. Oh that was fun...The severe lack of ammo early game and the overwhelming amount of Necromorphs trying to do bad things to me led to an almost fail filled playthrough.

Though the most stand out moment was with Mr.LimbLimb ( Y'know who he is...) Chapter 10, I panicked and closed of the Cryo-Beds to lock him out and laughing at my own genius I didn't realise there was a vent in the roof. A thunderous "CRASH" came from behind me and I turned and came face to face with it. Enough to say I screamed stasised everything in sight and swiftly died.

Also, on Chapters 4 and 9 there are points where you will use the store. EVERYTIME I forget about the Sneaky Necromorphs...I open up the store and then: "SMASH-Roar!", que me spamming the B button to get out of the shop and not die a painful death...

I was quite proud of finishing that on Impossible, without suffering several heart attacks.

 

[kyogen]

Every single time I play a racing game. Definitely not my genre.

 

[Auninteligentname]

In TLoZ: A linkt to the Past, there is a temple. In that temple, you have to push a rock to get past. Now, when I came there, I had actually never pushed a rock, so I went to the rock, pressed a and tried to drag and push the rock, all of them actually. Then I tried every different item in the inventory. IIRC, I went out of the temple to look for some kind of solution. This continued for at least an hour. Then I checked a walktrough, saw the solution, facepalmed and closed the walktrough. It were as simple as walking forward, into the rock.

 

[StormShaun]

Used a grav lift in Halo 3, lifted a crate, I then went up in the lift, then I got crushed by the crate...damn, that was annoying.