WTF moments in gaming

[ThePostalGamer]

However, if you headshot them and their head explodes they still tend to groan. How the hell does something without a head groan?

That's not as bad as Doom 3. If you run into a headless zombie, and blast them in the upper chest area with a shotgun, a brain will pop out of thin air just above the neck stump. And sometimes they still groan as well. ;

Anyway, when I downloaded the Rush Arena Map Pack for Lost Planet 2, I tried on the Post Modern preset costume it comes with. I know what it could do, I just didn't know how to do it. So, I progress with the first level as normal until we got to the end.

Now, almost every time I finish a mission and the game is counting down to enter the next area, I make my character go into an infinite loop of the Bust a Move emote, usually combined with me playing the <url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmjD7B_HYhg>Techno Chicken Dance by DJ Birdy (some may recognise it from Madness Combat). This time, I was playing co-op (only with one other player, though) and we both had the DLC. What I didn't know at the time was that trying to do any emote while playing as the Post Modern character turns you into a stationary Data Post. So, what happened pretty much ended up like this:

*end of level*
Me: "Yay." *tries to do Bust a Move emote, but turns into a Data Post instead*
Me: "What the FUCK? What the--? WHAT?! Wha-- what the fuckin' fuck WHAT?!"
*is now unable to form a coherent sentence due to laughing too hard at my friend trying to "Activate" me like you would a normal Data Post*

 

[mParadox]

OP: Assassin's Creed, the leap of faith...I mean sure from a height of ten feet maybe you don't break your neck, but most of those buildings were a good fifty seventy feet up, you'd totally die jumping into a cart of hay...I still loved that freaking game though.

AC2has bigger buildings. Seriously i nearly get motion sickness just watching him jump.

 

[Wutaiflea]

On the theme of strange body location-related things, my personal favourite was trying to do headshots on Oblivion with a bow.

Apparently, heads in Cyrodil are in a state of quantum flux, and your arrow just goes sailing through them.

Like Shroedinger's Swede.

My favourite recent schwat the fuck though, was playing Dragon Age.

Having just spent the last 80 hours of gameplay romancing Zevran, I get to the final assault on Fort Drakon, we have our tearful goodbyes etc etc, and then he says something along the lines of "Ah, my friend, I would attack the Black City itself by your side"

FRIEND?

I just saved your life repeatedly, I gave you purpose, I gave you some spiffing boots and gloves, I humped you in between every mission and taught you how to love.

And now we're friends?

Considering the high standard of the dialogue in Dragon Age, I spent the rest of the final mission yelling "FRIENDS?!?!".

 

[shadyh8er]

Every time I play Resistance 2, I somehow manage to kill myself via glitched grenade. I'll be crouched behind a chest-high wall and I'll try to throw the grenade over the wall while still crouching. Apparently the grenade has Velcro on it because the grenade sticks to the top of the wall, and I die because I take for granted that it went over the wall.

Then there was that time when I got one of the Naruto games for PS2. I went into versus mode with my bro just to confirm something that had been bothering me for a while. We both opened up our command lists, and sure enough, they were exactly the same. That's not an exaggeration; they are all the same!

 

[DeepComet5581]

Wait...did comander shepard just..HEAD BUTT A KROGAN???

Yes... because he is just that badass.

 

[minarri]

Fallout 3, near deathclaw sanctuary, a deathclaw flies up over 8000 feet in the air, and never came back

Yeah that glitch always simultaneously struck me dumb and disappointed me because I was usually lining up the bastard in my sights when it shot outta there.

 

[Vault101]

Wait...did comander shepard just..HEAD BUTT A KROGAN???

Yes... because he is just that badass.

even funneir if its a she and she's not wearing a helmet...Shepard must have a skull of steel

 

[antidonkey]

So today I was replaying Borderlands after letting it sit for a few months and noticed something pretty ridiculous. When you kill any enemy they tend to groan as they fall to the ground. Totally legit. However, if you headshot them and their head explodes they still tend to groan. How the hell does something without a head groan?

What things in games have you noticed that makes absolutely no sense?

The larynx is located in the neck not the head. So as long as there's air in the lungs and the throat is intact, a groan would be possible. At the very least, a noise of some sort.

 

[Jester00]

bad company 2: what the fuck, that was the last mission?!

 

[flaming_squirrel]

Anyway's MW2 how you can shoot a guy in the HEAD with a m21 ebr silenced with no stopping power and they LIVE.

Sniper rifles do 50 damage silenced, x1.5 for headshot, 75 damage.

That's why you dont use silencers on sniper rifles.

 

[Thyunda]

So, those kamikaze guys are screaming HOW with no heads? - Serious Sam games

Serious is a great game and that is a great joke.
Anyway's MW2 how you can shoot a guy in the HEAD with a m21 ebr silenced with no stopping power and they LIVE.

Well now, buddy. Since MW2 is one of those "realism" games, not every shot to the head will kill someone, as a lot of attempted suicide patients found out. Your body is quite resilient, and if you're lucky enough, a headshot will more likely shatter teeth, or break your cheeks, etc etc etc. Like... anyone remember the final scenes of Fight Club? just like that.

Hey. You don't talk about Fight Club.

 

[Scars Unseen]

That scene from Metal Gear Solid 2. I think I was literally saying WTF(both the acronym and the words at various points) in the... umm... that.

 

[Divine Phoenix]

Resident Evil 2, you get attacked by a licker, it cuts of your head and you go flying around for a while. Three seconds after your head is cut off, you get a full scream, making you jump because it was so unexpected.

 

[TankTop]

Pretty much any time in GTA IV, when the aiming and cover system decided to work against me.

Oh wait, that was all the time. I do recall screaming out "WTF!" a few times.

Not strictly gaming, but the first time I saw the Bioshock Trailer (this is when I was around 13, mind you, and I'd been raised on a diet of "family friendly" games like Star Wars Battlefront (which was/is an awesome game) and Halo 3). I'd never been exposed to any kind of gore up until that point, but the drill going through the hand and body kind of messed up my mind for a bit. Then again, I was 13.

It probably didn't help my dad was watching a horror film in the next room.

 

[Pingieking]

That's why you dont use silencers on sniper rifles.

Silencers in games usually makes me say WTF. Because the guns are actually silent with the silencer, which makes no sense. Just because there's a silencer attached to the end of a barrel doesn't mean that the gun is somehow 100% efficient at converting potential to kinetic energy for the bullet.

 

[Robo-Penguin]

Just about every other moment the first two Banjo Kazooie games. The Brits probably laughed their arses off when it got a E rating since the double-entendres in the game were pretty raunchy if you knew what they meant.

 

[repeating integers]

What the fuck? Why the hell did that Clone Trooper NPC just throw his glowing red thermal detonator into the wall right next to him, blowing himself up? Ah, Star Wars Battlefront II and your AI...

What the fuck? Did a whole collection of frigates I captured just phase through an enemy ship? Ah, Homeworld and your harmless but funny glitches...

 

[Mista Miggins]

All Resident Evil games. You can blow up several zombies in one shot with a grenade launcher. But you can't break down a wooden door.

 

[Tanner The Monotone]

The chick in "Jak and Daxter 2-3" that fell in love with Daxter. Bestiality is not a thing I want in my video games.