Ingame Darwin Awards

[llewgriff]

I was playing medal of honor frontlines, and I was crawling through a vent, I came to the end of the vent and there was a group of germans in the room so I toss a grenade at them, however the grenade bounces back, lands in the vent and blasts me into oblivion.

 

[Legion]

In TF2 also, I saw a demoman take about 5 minutes spreading stickies, the whole time saying on mic chat that he was arranging them so that anyone who came anywhere near the CP would get blown up. Just after he had placed the eighth mine a scout came and he panicked and blew himself up, we laughed, so hard.

I think this is the winner so far.

 

[Eneljie]

While playing halo, I have tried to use the rocket launcher to give me an extra boost while jumping over a ledge. unfortunately, at the time I was running from an enemy, and had taken damage... I killed myself and he got the kill.

 

[johnzaku]

Anglo's right, in order to be eligible for a darwin, you must effectively remove yourself from the gene-pool.

I suppose my example would be when I played the first Prince of Persia: Sands of Time (well, third PoP i guess) Anyway, I went to grab a ledge and missed, falling for a good while, hilariously bouncing off rocks and ledges until I splat the ground. At which point I rewind and go through it in reverse, only fort the power to run out just as my feet leave the ground. Needless to say, I spent a good ten minutes just watching him bump-thud his way down and then duht-pmub on back up again. As mad as I was that I'd have to reload, it was frikkin' hilarious

Sounds a bit like Prince of Awesome. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ycf7zwxo6mc]

Holy Crap, I followed your link and it was exactly like that. So I'm not the only one to do that

 

[GuerrillaClock]

Surely this award goes to The Campaigner from Turok, who saw fit to take on a man armed with a nuclear arsenal of village-flattening weapons (one of which the Campaigner helpfully left around the levels in bits for you to find) armed with only a pickaxe, some furry pants and what can best be described as a Dale Winton tan.

http://turok.wikia.com/wiki/Campaigner for reference.

 

[Steve the Pocket]

Perhaps "Leeroy Jenkins Award" would be appropriate, given that dying in a video game has no effect on your ability to reproduce (thankfully).

Anyway, I remember this one time I was playing TF2 in Steel; we were attacking point A, and you know how there's a tall wall right by the point, with a hill going up to the top of it on the attackers' side... anyway, I was a Demoman standing about halfway up that hill (because I'm not suicidal) blindly popping grenades over it hoping it might cause some chaos and clear a path for the others or something. Anyway, I've been doing this long enough for the RED team to notice that I'm doing it at least, and then this Scout pops up out of nowhere just in time to get a grenade right in the face, killing him instantly.

I wish that game had instant reply or something. Like, keeps the last ten seconds or so stored in memory so you can press a key to save it. Wouldn't have to be screen caps; just model position data.

 

[SecretTacoNinja]

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It's really too easy to stick a plasma grenade on yourself in Halo... -_-

Okay here's the story:

I was playing through Halo 2 on Heroic mode, I had made it to the big arena room in High Charity and there were a lot of Hunters and Silver Elites about. I had a couple of really bad weapons with me so I stayed outside of the room and shot at enemies when the door opened. After about half an hour of this I threw a plasma grenade, it bounced on the wall and stuck to me...

Play me out Keyboard Cat!

 

[BolognaBaloney]

Well incase if you didn't know what the Darwin awards are, they are a special set of awards given to people who do something so rediculously stupid that you wonder how they crawled out of the gene pool and remembered to breathe. Well I'm sure you know a few instances in your gaming history, why not share them. May be you, most likely someone else. but hey, they are always a good laugh.

Example. I was playing world of warcraft, I rolled on an item got 97, next roll was 100. I Told the group the "roll hacker" addon I got really works. About 3 seconds later one of the group members asked me where he could get the add on... he was serious. 10 more mins of badgering later and I had to tell him it doesn't exist.

That's not an example. The Darwin Awards can only be granted posthumously; you have to kill yourself to be applicable.

All time classic goes to the Dog-Handler on Level 2 of the original Medal of Honour. In the sewer, with a German Guard below me. I throw a grenade, and botch it; it goes well over the guy and out into the open. Thankfully, the German attack dog went and fetched the grenade, returning it to his owner. Both died instantly.

This award is given not to the dog (you can't blame it) but to the handler who taught it to fetch Grenades. He really should have seen it coming...

I'm gonna go put my dog down now....

 

[esperandote]

Picking a wallet out from a very dirty toilet with HIS BARE HAND! - James Sunderland - Silent Hill 2

 

[ExistentialCrisis]

Example. I was playing world of warcraft, I rolled on an item got 97, next roll was 100. I Told the group the "roll hacker" addon I got really works. About 3 seconds later one of the group members asked me where he could get the add on... he was serious. 10 more mins of badgering later and I had to tell him it doesn't exist.

MMOs are WAY too easy to find stupid people in; Left 4 Dead too as I've had more than a fair share of people who start "horde" events before we're ready, jump on cars with alarms, get puked on by every single Boomer, startle every Witch, and die every thirty seconds or so - basically the "Leeroy" mentality. On a personal note, I went to rifle-butt a zombie off a teammate in L4D near the edge of the top portion of the hospital level so we could watch the poor bastard fall to his death - I hit the teammate instead, sending HIM to his death. Luckily we both laughed it off in voice chat.

I'd also personally like to nominate Edge from Star Ocean 4 for essentially single-handedly blowing up the planet Earth for his failure and every single person in WoW who bought my own bullshit suggestions in the same vein as Glaceis (that guy I sent into the World Tree area of Winterspring looking for Archimonde's corpse probably still isn't happy with me).

 

[DM.]

Left 4 dead.

A Guy ran ahead from the group and then tried to crown a witch with the Assualt Rifle. I recorded it too.

It's still uploading to youtube.

 

[Randomeaninglessword]

I was playing BattleField Vietnam, and there was a bridge between two islands, somebody left a tank sprawled across the bridge, with no way to move it without taking a dive into the river. Two of my team mates rolled up in another tank, but instead of something smart, they tried to drive over it. They flipped over and landed upside down in the river, exploding after a few seconds, with them failing to get out when it hit the water. Then as I watched their tank explode, two more of my team mates rolled up in ANOTHER tank, and tried the same thing, killing themselves in the same way.