Failing is fun?

[stormcaller]

First some backstory: I'm in group 2 for my guild in Naxxaramas, unoffically the "slow group". This morning I got up early to finish off Construct quarter(A for the unintiated version will come soon be patient!) we downed Patchwerk easy after having had trouble with him yesterday, then we got to Grobbulus...that's it over a space of two and a half hours we wiped every time on Grobbulus eventually calling it quits till after the restart, but you know what?

It was fun

Everytyime we wiped we changed the statergy ever so slightly and it made each fight new and exciting, not the typical "robotic" raid group, we started taking bets on who would die first and such.

Now you'd think this would piss us off but after 3-manning another boss and wasting almost 3 hours on the Four Horsemen we were used to it.

Non-WoW players version: My group sucks, had to get my lazy-"it's the holidays"-ass out of bed early this morning, succesfully killed one boss, got to the next and failed horribly for two and a half hours before giving up.

Later I was on Ventrilo chatting to a senior raider and he agreed with what I thought and even offered a few fail-stories of his own.

Have we become so caught up in winning we forget to have fun? Is in a nutshell the question behind my semi-coherent ramble.

So, have an opinion in regards to the theory that "Losing = fun"? or have some interesting "fail-stories"(from any game) of your own?, then I'd love to hear them.

(I'm sorry if my writing is a mess, I can hear nothing in the background but a constant flapping sound and it's really pissing me off)

 

[Musicfreak]

Some of my favorite moments in video games have been through hillarious or awesome deaths. Honestly though raids are the whole reason I stopped playing WOW, just don't find them very interesting and damn they take forever.

 

[stormcaller]

Some of my favorite moments in video games have been through hillarious or awesome deaths. Honestly though raids are the whole reason I stopped playing WOW, just don't find them very interesting and damn they take forever.

Recently (TBC and Wrath) their not too bad, depending on how much you plan on doing in one day.

 

[Pumpkin_Eater]

I once wiped a MC raid with an inadvertent pull of two enemy groups. Someone else got blamed for it and kicked out of the raid to boot. I was laughing my ass off. Blade of Eternal darkness proc on a mind vision. Later in BC I dropped a pony keg right before the backstage trash and the raid of now drunken characters wiped with the exception of me and another hunter who also feigned death. A few more people died running back to an usher that we'd skipped so the other guy suicided on the backstage trash to regroup. I just stood there until a warlock summoned me =D

Failing is also fun when you're playing drunk. Every time I do L4D with some alcohol in my system my friendly fire rate doubles, often due to shooting random propane tanks and the like for the hell of it. The tanks seem to be able to sense the alcohol and go straight for me, but maybe that's just karma for shooting my friends then laughing at them when they get incapped.

 

[Nova Tendril]

Failing can be fun. During the L4D beta my team kept losing horribly on the Subway level in Expert difficulty. Despite this constant failure it was damn hilarious because the game found new and interesting ways to make us fail (oh joy a Tank right outside of spawn).

 

[Kiutu]

It really depends on how much you want to win. When not so much and losing doesnt really piss you off you can find fun in it.

 

[Corven]

Failing is also fun when you're playing drunk. Every time I do L4D with some alcohol in my system my friendly fire rate doubles, often due to shooting random propane tanks and the like for the hell of it. The tanks seem to be able to sense the alcohol and go straight for me, but maybe that's just karma for shooting my friends then laughing at them when they get incapped.

My very first time playing L4D, one member of the group was drunk, it was quite possibly the best round I ever played.

On topic: Yes failing can be fun, I've played TF2 where both teams were in a stalemate, neither team could get the others Intelligence, but it was fun to try and come up with different strategies to sneak into the enemy base.

 

[Amarok]

Grobullus also gave my group some trouble, on 25 man. I know what you mean about the strategy change keeping things fresh. But i can also assure you, it's also very very fun when you finally win

One of my earliest funny WoW fail stories is when I, an overexcited nubcake, lit all four candles at once in Blackfathom Deeps.

A more accessable fail story has to be the time on Left 4 Dead when I, as the smoker, prepared to line up the perfect survivor-screwing tongue shot, only to walk backwards off the hospital roof and fall to my grisly end.

 

[KamachoMcSagget]

Loosing at things is fun depending on what you're doing, and what the penalty is.

 

[Darkintent]

The funnist fuck up ive seen was when the raid helper was showing people where they should stand during the fight with the curator and shouting thro vent because to be honest who takes Karazhan seriuosly? so he rants at us all for being noobs for ages so we didnt tell him that curator was right behind him... so we kicked him from the raid and watched the scene unfold...

"FUCKING RE INV ME HELP ME NOW YOU FUCKERS!!!"
"errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr no"
our group beat him without him and i got my first tier 4 lol its all good

 

[stormcaller]

One of my earliest funny WoW fail stories is when I, an overexcited nubcake, lit all four candles at once in Blackfathom Deeps.

You too? I think it's a WoW right of passage, along with falling off Thunder Bluff at some point.

 

[Amarok]

One of my earliest funny WoW fail stories is when I, an overexcited nubcake, lit all four candles at once in Blackfathom Deeps.

You too? I think it's a WoW right of passage, along with falling off Thunder Bluff at some point.

Aaaah falling off Thunderbluff many a time, many a time... I don't even know how I managed to do such a thing by accident!

 

[Urock]

We were playing Goldrush in TF2 and losing so we tried a new strategy: All heavies, all Sandvichs. It was hilarious to see six Heavies at the enemies spawn before the round started, all munching in unison. I don't know why.

Then there are those times when its your first time in a raid/dungeon (Carn Dum in LOTRO for me) where you are carefully instructed by leader NOT to do something (fall in acid pool), and you immediately proceed to do exactly what you where told not to.

 

[ThaBenMan]

Two words:

LEROOOOOOOOOOY JENKIIIIIIIIIIIINNNSSS

(... sorry, I don't play WoW)

 

[Urock]

Zen Daijun is Factions mate.

 

[Erana]

You know how I mention spending over an hour-on the easiest song- being completely unable to play guitar hero?
That was fun.

 

[internutt]

My favorite fail story from WoW was when we switched jobs during an instance.

Our healer was the tank, tanks were healers and dps had to use fists.

Fun times.

 

[The_Rev]

The funnist fuck up ive seen was when the raid helper was showing people where they should stand during the fight with the curator and shouting thro vent because to be honest who takes Karazhan seriuosly? so he rants at us all for being noobs for ages so we didnt tell him that curator was right behind him... so we kicked him from the raid and watched the scene unfold...

"FUCKING RE INV ME HELP ME NOW YOU FUCKERS!!!"
"errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr no"
our group beat him without him and i got my first tier 4 lol its all good

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That's some funny stuff right there.....

 

[Mr. Purple]

Sometimes, yes, we get so caught up in winning that we forget to just have fun, but it is usually in the games we want to win the most where we eventually hav that epiphany and start laughing at ourselves.(COD4 and Halo hav proven good examples in the past)