What is the stupidest thing you've done [In a game]?
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-Modding Fallout 3, so that I could nuke Megaton from close up and then forgetting to put invincibility on. I hadn't saved the game for like an hour D:<
-Thinking I could take on about 6 Heart-Cutters on my own, without help from my troops on Brutal Legend against a Really Brutal level AI.
-Killing the Rachni, despite the fact I know they could have come to my aid in Mass Effect 3, when it comes out.
-Playing Gears of War 3 on Insane with just the lancer and not using any bullets.
-Getting crushed by one of my own traps in Trapt.
-And Finally, the stupidest thing I have ever done in a video game was to take on Red Eye alone in Lost Planet 2, with just a machine gun, some grenades and the flying VS.
-Thinking I could take on about 6 Heart-Cutters on my own, without help from my troops on Brutal Legend against a Really Brutal level AI.
-Killing the Rachni, despite the fact I know they could have come to my aid in Mass Effect 3, when it comes out.
-Playing Gears of War 3 on Insane with just the lancer and not using any bullets.
-Getting crushed by one of my own traps in Trapt.
-And Finally, the stupidest thing I have ever done in a video game was to take on Red Eye alone in Lost Planet 2, with just a machine gun, some grenades and the flying VS.
That made my day.CulixCupric said:
Hmm, the stupidest thing I've ever done in a video game...
Fallout New Vegas: trying to rocket jump with a Fat Man.
Amnesia: applying logic. I remembered where the good hiding spots were and I quickly learned the best ways to not be seen. I won without getting hit by the monsters at all, and it wasn't nearly as fun or as scary as it was cracked up to be. My loss.
Dead Space: See Amnesia, but replace "good hiding spots" with "ammo," "to not be seen" with "kill stuff," and "won without" with "didn't care about." And "My loss" with "".
Super Meat Boy: telling my friend how I managed a two second shortcut on a thirty second level, and having him beat me by 0.01 of a second.
Killing Floor: "Oh hey, there's Bubblz, over there." *attempts to heal giant hulking enemy*
Magicka: getting ticked off at my friend trolling me and attempting to troll him back by shooting the boss "Death" with the "Life" magick. Hindsight is 20/20.
Halo 3: setting up a local game at a friends place with the following settings:
{
300% speed
Minimum shields and life
Full Invisibility
Spawn with Rocket Launcher and Gravity Hammers
No weapons or vehicles on the map
Infinite ammo + grenades
Map: that snowy one
}
and forgetting to make it a Juggernaut game, where the Juggernaut is visible. Couldn't see any other player, much less hit them? Going too fast to see more than a slight shimmer against a completely white background when you passed someone else? Listening to the howling manic laughter of the one guy who could adapt to the constraints as he blasted around beating everyone else upside the head?
Poor bastards never stood a chance. And I was never invited over ever again.
Oblivion - Level 2, found some ogres in a cave. I can take these guys! Okay, try again... and again... Okay, go invisible, loot a chest and run away. Through the door, now I'm safe! OH GOD THEY CAN GO THROUGH DOORS!! Alright, let's try looting a chest and running the other way. OH GOD HE HAS FRIENDS!!
Also, not saving too often is pretty dim.
Mass Effect 2 - I have a barrier up, I'm invincible! CHARGE EVERYTHING!!
Every 2D platforming game ever (Mega Man games in particular) - Is that a bottomless pit over there? *dies* Ee-yup.
Also, not saving too often is pretty dim.
Mass Effect 2 - I have a barrier up, I'm invincible! CHARGE EVERYTHING!!
Every 2D platforming game ever (Mega Man games in particular) - Is that a bottomless pit over there? *dies* Ee-yup.
why do they still use the ever-polluting spikes-and-pits cliche? lack of creative thought?Mafoobula said:
So in Halo Reach, i was on top of the spire, and the enemies had thier falcon up and trying to gun us down. So i run out junp off the spire, hoping to land on the falcon and prevent it from spawn killing us. I succeded. After hijacking it a teammate hit it with a charged pp. Then i lost the falcon....... but it was one of my more epic moments.
TF2 had 3 health, saw a health pack below me. tried to jump on it, missed, hit ground,
*Rayen has fallen to a clumsy, painful death.
also the one time in super smash bros melee i did a tournament with the maximum number of AI oppents (128?) and sat watched like fifteen of the matches before realizing i oculd just skip them.
*Rayen has fallen to a clumsy, painful death.
also the one time in super smash bros melee i did a tournament with the maximum number of AI oppents (128?) and sat watched like fifteen of the matches before realizing i oculd just skip them.
Half-Life 1, in the room that's rigged to explode. I saved *several* times after shooting one of the mines. Fortunately, the game kept about 10 saves back.
BUT THEN, I did the same thing after the Xen portal exploded without me jumping in. And there was no recovering my progress there. There go 4/5 of the game!
The other day, I was playing Dark Corners of the Earth for a let's play and... well... I jumped outside a window like an idiot. I could only imagine my head transforming into a "sucker" sign before I hit ground. SEVERAL TIMES.
BUT THEN, I did the same thing after the Xen portal exploded without me jumping in. And there was no recovering my progress there. There go 4/5 of the game!
The other day, I was playing Dark Corners of the Earth for a let's play and... well... I jumped outside a window like an idiot. I could only imagine my head transforming into a "sucker" sign before I hit ground. SEVERAL TIMES.
Attacking a deathclaw in New Vegas with a switchblade (stupid Gun Runner's Arsenal challenges); I used A LOT of stims.
Attacking a deathclaw in Lonesome Road with a shoulder-mounted machine gun, when it was scaled against me (suffice to say it could take 80% of my health off with one swing).
Attacking the first pseudogiant in Call of Pripyat with a shotgun... man that took a very long time.
I could go on, but that's really the worst, yet funny ones.
Attacking a deathclaw in Lonesome Road with a shoulder-mounted machine gun, when it was scaled against me (suffice to say it could take 80% of my health off with one swing).
Attacking the first pseudogiant in Call of Pripyat with a shotgun... man that took a very long time.
I could go on, but that's really the worst, yet funny ones.
I took Mass Effect's Virmire mission way too serious the first time I ever played it, so I
wow did I feel silly later!
took Kaidan with me to arm the bomb and sent Ashley with the Salarians. When you get the call to go back and help I went to Kaidan cause I thought the bomb wouldn't go off if I didn't!
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Once when I played the minecraft 1.9 pre release 5 on hardcore mode this basicly mean that when you die, you delete the world.
so one day really late in the game, I had potions, enchantment table and a giant abandon mineshaft. I was going to get some potion ingredients in the nether and I realised I was low on arrows, so I needed flint. I took a stack of gravel and made like a 30 block tall one block wide tower then I thought to myself "wow, this will drain my spade like fuck, perhaps I should find another way to do this" "hey, I could just jump down and put a torch under the tower to destroy it, then harvest the remains" "why don't I just jump down in the little pond below me?" "that looks far away, but I will probably make it" I didn't -.- STUPID! STUPID! STUPID!
so one day really late in the game, I had potions, enchantment table and a giant abandon mineshaft. I was going to get some potion ingredients in the nether and I realised I was low on arrows, so I needed flint. I took a stack of gravel and made like a 30 block tall one block wide tower then I thought to myself "wow, this will drain my spade like fuck, perhaps I should find another way to do this" "hey, I could just jump down and put a torch under the tower to destroy it, then harvest the remains" "why don't I just jump down in the little pond below me?" "that looks far away, but I will probably make it" I didn't -.- STUPID! STUPID! STUPID!
Arkham City: Starting the game on Easy, meaning I'll have to finish the game on this difficulty AND Normal difficulty before I unlock New Game +. /facepalm
LIMBO: "Oh, hey, water! Maybe I can swim across!" ... "...or not."
LIMBO: "Oh, hey, water! Maybe I can swim across!" ... "...or not."
Umm....I'm not quite sure. Maybe deleting my 100% clear save Data from Sonic Advance 3. I don't know WHY the hell I did that. All those STUPID lost chao..... >_<
I do know what one of my friend's stupidest moments was, though.
Picture this: One friend introduced him to Doom 3. He was wandering around the starting area, and then just started to punch the air for no particular reason. Continuously. And then a red barrel came into view. He punched it. He panicked, realizing that it was explosive, and reflexively punched it again. BOOM.
Dead. Before the first monster had even raised its head. We all laughed our asses of at him.
I do know what one of my friend's stupidest moments was, though.
Picture this: One friend introduced him to Doom 3. He was wandering around the starting area, and then just started to punch the air for no particular reason. Continuously. And then a red barrel came into view. He punched it. He panicked, realizing that it was explosive, and reflexively punched it again. BOOM.
Dead. Before the first monster had even raised its head. We all laughed our asses of at him.
I've done a lot of stupid things in games. I don't think it's possible to narrow it down to one crowning achievement of stupid. That's going through years of me doing really stupid things.
Most recent was me jumping into the inside of the pantheon for a mission in AC:B, thinking I could make it.
Why did I do that?
Most recent was me jumping into the inside of the pantheon for a mission in AC:B, thinking I could make it.
Why did I do that?
man, i don't like halo wars, or any halo, but that game gets slaughtered on the escapist. probably deserves it. I won't even touch it. who's idea was it to but an rts on a console?pejhmon said: