Funniest thing that's happened to you or you've done In a game

This is a simple enough thing: What is the funniest, wackiest, weirdest, zaniest, whatever thing that's happened to you while playing a game. Not scripted, the results of Wreaking Havok or just goofing around in the game, glitches, bugs, whatever goes.

I was playing OOT 3D and riding Epona, when I tried to jump over a fence and... I managed to land on the fence and get stuck there. Had to quit the game and start over.

In Syndicate I was on a protect mission, which involved getting a ambellence and picking up a scientist, while dealing with rival syndicate agents. We got the scientist in the car and prepared to go to the way point... then a Game-Breaking Bug occured which had our car end up in a wall. I unload the car... and everyone in it died. Epic Fail indead!

I’m a lumberjack and I’m ok. I sleep all night and work all day.

In the original Ocarina Of Time, in the Deku Tree, that part right before the boss where you have to light the torches...I forgot that you can push boxes, so I pulled it as close to the torch as possible, and had to jump to light it. I kept missing and had to run through the last part of the dungeon over and over again. Took me about an hour to solve the simplest puzzle in the game.

A friend and me were talking about this the other day:

There's a DOS and Windows RPG called Dracula in London, in which up to four players take turns playing characters from the novel and trying to find out which house Dracula has set up residence at. You break in to places, look for evidence or clues pointing you to the right place, all while trying to avoid being arrested or anything (though its for a good cause, you are breaking and entering and the cops don't believe in vampires). The end goal is to kill Dracula, which is done using a battle system similar to the Gold Box games (Pool of Radiance etc).

Anyway, what happened is, it was my turn, I had Quincy Morris, Dr. Helsing and Mina Harker, and I just broke into a random house. It turned out to be Dracula's, and he was awake. He quickly massacred Morris and Helsing, so it came down to just him vs. Mina, and I was already about to concede victory to my friend. I mean, Mina versus Dracula, and you can't run away. She was dead, right? I just kept fighting and waiting for the inevitable.

All the sudden the game says "Congratulations, you killed Dracula!"

... I've never underestimated Victorian women again.

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Not sure. Getting killed by the Dragon in PSO after I killed it the first time is among them however. As is the wonder of PSYCHIC KICKBOXING. Due to lag the game wouldn't register me as having changed weapons officially even though I was doing damage with said changed weapon. This resulted in my character punching things to death from half way across the room as opposed to my shooting at them with my sissy handgun.

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When I played Oblivion a year ago or so, one of the main quests was to follow a guy into the sewers and ambush some cultists. Unfortunately, on the way to the ambush site, we were attacked by rats and the guy fell in a barrel and got stuck. It was a glitch, I think, he just couldn't get out and so I had no way to continue the main quest. Reloading fixed it.

edited 2nd Feb '12 12:21:21 PM by whataboutme

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Oblivion can get so wacky it almost deserves its own thread. Just a couple of highlights from me:

• Walked into a castle barracks, bunch of identical castle guards without their armors, all with the same clothes, same face, slightly different shades of brown skin. They all yelled out, in perfect unison, "Can't we sort this peacefully" (or something to that effect).

• Anything using arrows with Area of Effect properties. This can send a Ragdoll corpse flying upwards if hit, or just get Blown Across the Room if they get caught in the shockwave.

• By far the funniest thing that's happened to me was that I shot an arrow which had a damage over time effect. This normally ends with the character getting Killed Mid-Sentence. "I'LL HAVE YOUR HEAD, YOU- ugh...". Hilarious.

edited 2nd Feb '12 12:18:14 PM by ThatOneGuyNamedX

That story of people being killed mid-sentence reminded me of many years ago when I liked to make levels for my friend on whichever Tenchu game it was. A guard ended up standing on a trapdoor, which in this game open after a delay of a few seconds. The guard stood there, looking up at the player character on the wall, yelled "You'll never get away!", and was promptly dropped into oblivion.

Another one occurred playing Wipeout Fusion. I forget the name of the track, but it was the snowy one, and me and another friend were racing the reverse version of it, so the first thing on the track was a loop. My friend took the lead straight away, and got a Quake weapon, which he fired backwards to slow me down. It in fact flung me off the track completely, straight down and backwards (I was on the loop when I was hit), and I landed back on the start grid. I was resigned to simply having to play catch-up for the rest of the race, but when I crossed the line again, it counted it as a completed lap, even though I hadn't so much as gone around a corner. Less than twenty seconds into the race and I was a lap ahead. I laughed heartily.

edited 3rd Feb '12 5:14:29 AM by artfulscruff

Ah, that once caused a pretty hilarious line for me. Instead of "I've fought mud crabs more fierce than you"*

or whatever the line is :P

(a pretty decent taunt), the enemy yelled "I've fought mud crabs!" Pardon me if I'm not impressed by that.

Infinite Tree: an experimental story

Mods on Mount and Blade tend to have quirks when they're still Betas. One of the common quirks is for a scene to have a copy of the player character standing without its helmet, usually at doorways. If you talk to it, it says something odd, I forget what, but if you talk to a King afterward, you can tell him, "In my travels I have heard of one named (Enter Player Character Name here)." It's funny to watch the character calmly talk to the King about himself as if he was trying to claim the throne from the King. That conversation is usually about Claimants to the throne.

You should've quipped "Me too".

I would have, but I was laughing too hard.

Infinite Tree: an experimental story

This never gets old:

"Hipsters: the most dangerous gang in the US." - Pacific Mackerel

That's always hilarious, airblasting someone into a buzzsaw.

I was playing Super Mario Sunshine recently, and was going for 100 coins in Delfino Plaza. Simple enough, right? Well, I had Yoshi with me, and I was up to 97 coins. I figured I'd go eat some birds with Yoshi for the last three coins, right? And there's a roof next to where you get Yoshi that's full of birds. As Mario solo, you'd normally walk a tightrope to get there, but with Yoshi, I figured I'd just flutter-jump over. No big, right?

I make the jump. Realize I'm not quite going to make it. Start thinking, "Oh, Crap!." I don't want to climb up all over again! Do a control-stick spin to try and make Yoshi do his tornado jump. That'll get me some height, right? I hit the place where the tightrope connects with the building...

And fall through the house. Straight through it. Into nothingness. Into the abyss.

And die.

I was torn between laughing and raging. Mostly raging, but thinking about it now, mostly laughing, because what a ridiculous time for a glitch like that!

"Proto-Indo-European makes the damnedest words related. It's great. It's the Kevin Bacon of etymology." ~Madrugada

Playing inFAMOUS 2. Use Ionic Freeze. Game freezes.

"badass" doesn't anything in after used end fail be fine.

What map's that?

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I always give those useless pick-ups to fellow villagers who I assume to be dicks for quick disposal. Whichever Harvest Moon it may be.

...Wait. Am I being the real dick in town?

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: Wop wop wop waaaaah.

Speaking of horrible ironic freezes, I once had a game freeze in the middle of the ending credits on me. Sucked, but hey, at least I beat the final boss!

"Proto-Indo-European makes the damnedest words related. It's great. It's the Kevin Bacon of etymology." ~Madrugada

My friend and I were playing Timesplitters 3. We were playing Capture The Bag on the large, snowy map, on the same team, with lots of bots on both teams. Our team was 1 bag away from winning, but for some reason that I can't remember now, we wanted to drag the game out. We would keep killing the opposing team, but if any of our bot teammates got the bag, we would run them over with a jeep. (Friendly fire wasn't on, so that was the only way we could kill teammates) At one point, a Cortez bot got the enemy bag, and was running back. We were on the other edge of the battlefield, though, so we had to drive as fast as possible towards him. He got near our base, only about a dozen meters away from the entrance, but we managed to run him over.

The Cortez bot almost instantly respawned a few feet away (the respawn point is outside the base), grabbed the bag, and ran inside the base, and the entrance way was too small for the jeep. As he won the game for us, I yelled (and maybe my friend, too) "COOOOOOORRRRRTEEEEZZZ!"

And to say I was nervous... it wouldn't be quite enough.

The first time a Giant punted me into Orbit in Skyrim.

A corpse should be left well enough alone...

Ah, the Ironic game freeze. Back in the day when the rental shops around here also had consoles you could pay to play on, me and my friend were finishing God Of War for the... 17th time, IIRC. The game disc was already quite scratched, and took ages in each loading screen, but it was still playable. Right at the end of the final fight with Ares, when it becomes a power struggle between kratos and him while the player mashes his O button through the controller (when we were doing a Self-Imposed Challenge of a no-memory card-run, at that), the game freezes completely, locking kratos and ares in an eternal power struggle. Cue my friend raging so, so hard while I laughed my ass off.

The best defense is a good offense. Plus my fists. That should do it.

Dark Souls provided a surprinsigly big amount of funny:

• One of the mob can make a wacky dance to boost their ally's stats, but we can also use their weapon to dance ourself, cue me farming the weapon and going in pvp to dance to no end. In Dark Souls' notorious pvp, you always have an idea of what the enemy is doing, except when he dance a shadowy and vastly unknown dance. Reactions varied, but the funniest was a guy who stood at the other end of the map, and tried to shoot me with a bow, then boosted his shield and proceeded to do nothing. He and his friend didn't want to go anywhere near me.
• My brother forced open a beefgate, which was already an exploit by itself, but in addition, he trapped himself past the gate, in a place where his only option was to force the mobs to suicide, otherwise, he couldn't face them. It was part tears and part laugh but he made it out.
• There's a "spell" (miracle) which throws an explosive ball to our enemies' face, but somewhy, the shockwave sometime send the ragdoll sideways, so you just killed that guy in front of you, but he jump down that ravine to his side.

Dragon Age 2 high dragon fight ending. Mofo glitched just as I killed her, so my Hawke is riding around in thin air beating on an invisible dragon with his giant 2-handed axe. Looked funny as but I was pissed I missed my awesome kill cutscene. Not so much that I re-did that fight though.

"You want to see how a human dies? At ramming speed." - Emily Wong.