Your Funniest Gaming Stories

What were your funniest moments when playing video games?

Mine was when my friends and I were playing Mario Party. For whatever reason, the game hates my friend Mike. In the three years we've been playing it together, he only won once, and the one time he did win the game crashed right as the Superstar was about to be announced.

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My friends and I were taking turns playing Dynasty Warriors 3, and they were trying to unlock weapons. The mission was to keep one enemy General alive until the weapon appeared. He had left the battle field, and I couldn't follow him, but I could still see him. I had an arrow aimed at him and said "I won't him him." when I let the arrow go. It killed him.

I think anytime one of my soldiers got panicked in XCOM: Enemy Unknown and proceeded to brutally gun down the Alien who panicked him to begin with.

A corpse should be left well enough alone...

I thought it was really funny when I got an undead enemy to kill itself with a Cure spell in Final Fantasy V when it tried to manipulate one of my characters into healing it. Apparently, the AI doesn't check for whether or not the enemy it's controlling is weak to Cure spells or not.

I liked it better when Questionable Casting was called WTH Casting Agency

I loaded up a completed Resident Evil 4 save file and went into the village at the start. Instead of running away like you're supposed to, I stood in front of the church and started sniping all the enemies. However, one guy had managed to sneak past and after shooting several enemies in the distance, I started scanning the area through the sniper rifle's scope, when suddenly the sight was filled with the open, screaming mouth of a hungry villager in the process of lunging towards Leon. This gave me the fright of a lifetime and I dropped the controller in horror as the villager killed Leon. Once I'd gotten over the shock however, I started to laugh and didn't stop for about ten minutes.

Cortex should take a 12-step plan off a 10-step pier

I was playing Naruto Clash of Ninja Revolution 3 with my cousin, and I managed to kill him with a thrown shuriken at the last second, with both of up having nearly no health.

Another time playing Super Smash Bros Brawl, my friend managed to shish-kabob the other three players with Zelda's final Smash. We paused to see it up close, and it had hit Lucario right in the crotch before it KO'd him. His face even looked like it hurt.

I was playing Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate with some buddies for farming Nargacuga, and we wittled down his health to a small silver, right? We were capturing him, aand just when we hit him with transquilizers, we instead killed him. I was laughing so hard, I almost choked on my own spit.

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I've got a few;

There was this one time during Far Cry 2, were these two dudes in a jeep are coming right at me. I take a pot shot with my shotgun, not expecting much, when the spread makes it just so that is catches them both, at the same time, in the head. Double Headshot!

The first time I discovered that critical kills against Burner Bikers in Borderlands 2 made them explode had me laughing pretty hard.

Whenever my friend and I play co-op, there's always an instance where he try to form a human ladder. Even in games that normally don't like you doing that.

MIND BULLETS

The final boss of Generation One of Agarest Senki II has appeared, and I note it resembles a Hindu Deity.

I was anticipating massive damage numbers and pushing my team to their limits.

It hits for all of ten damage throughout the fight. When my characters have more than 2000 at that point. Well, Weiss had a gamebreaker Sword that I had amped 3 times to make him a defensive tank, but that particular enemy did all of nothing.

Its ally did more damage. And that was because it was a magic user.

I was just left chortling as this thing hyped up as "mega-tough ultra-demon Chaos Fragment"...went down so utterly easily.

It seemed everyone was talking about how bad it was, how strong it was, and how nasty it supposedly is.

edited 10th May '13 9:51:41 PM by NickTheSwing

In multiplayer Half-Life, especially on mods like Bubble Mod where the shotgun is more useful, it's fairly common to see two people die to a single shotgun blast. However, on a couple of occasions I have seen three people die to the same shotgun blast.

Another amusing Half-Life shotgun story: One time on Crossfire, I was running away from some guy in the area of buildings between the main 'arena' and the helipad out the back. I ran up to the elevator platform and hit the button before he could catch up with me. However, instead of continuing on down the hallway at the top of the elevator, I just stood on it and rode it right back down. The other guy was still standing there, expecting it to come down for him empty, and immediately died to a shotgun blast in the face.

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My one experience with a Game Shark was to give Wario infinite coins in Wario Land II...forgetting that the coins are tallied up at the end of the level.

i let it run til the batteries died.

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Not sure if anyone else will find this amusing, but it sure was a laugh for me and my friends.

Anyway, I was playing a game of Worms: Forts Under Siege with a friend or two back when I had a PS 2. For those you don't know, this game of Worms was one of the 3D titles, with the gimmick being that you had to construct buildings to access your most powerful weapons. Partway through the match I built a Citadel, the highest tier of building, and placed my worm on top of it. Since I was running out of time for my turn, I quickly selected a weapon (the pipe organ that functions as a rocket launcher). Taking aim at my friend's base (which was right next to me), I gloated a little. "Point blank range!" I yelled as I fired.

Unfortunately, it wasn't his base that I was firing at. In my haste to fire the weapon before my turn ended, I had accidentally targeted my own base. So basically I had to watch as my most powerful weapon ripped apart my own base, destroying one of my other high tier buildings, damaging several others, and killing one of my worms. Needless to say, I lost the match.

"Point blank range!" Became a little in-joke for us that lasted for years.

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One time, during a brawl, me and a bunch of friends were doing a tourney with all characters set to random. I ended up with Kirby, my sub. I was notably happy about this. I ended up going against a friend who also owned Brawl and he managed to luck out with Falco, his sub. Now I'm not sure what the actual match-up for this is, but it rarely went well for me.

So we duke it out on Battlefield and I'm managing to stay in the game and we're doing about even. The body odourhype was overpowering at this point with everyone yelling at the two of us to pummel the other.

My friend caught me in a Side Smash. "Shit!" said I and all those who were backing the black-and-white puffball. Struggling to get back on the stage, Falco comes flying at me to smack me away. Freaking out, I go for Cutter and reach the edge of the stage. Right above Falco. Who gets spiked down to his death and to the conclusion of the match.

There were was a brief moment of silence before the room erupted into screams. I'm pretty sure one smartass proclaimed "THAT AIN'T FALCO!" when the victor screen came up.

"Evii is right though" -Saturn "I didn't know you were a bitch Evii." -Lior Val

Once I was playing Star Wars Battlefront 2 on my old PS 2 with a friend of mine in a vacation house. So we stayed up till about 4 in the morning playing, when suddenly the lights start flickering and the ground starts shaking. I remember my first thought being, "Aw, man, the game's gonna go out!", and then it did. Then a 8.9 Richter earthquake hit. Let me tell you, wooden houses really shake in earthquakes.

Good times.

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• Was once watching my brother and cousin play the original Left 4 Dead. Bill (my brother) managed to jump out a window and land in a tree. My bro told my cousin (Francis) to follow him. Francis jumped out the window, fell through the tree, and died upon hitting the ground.
• Same guys were playing Mario Kart 64 once. Bro was Bowser, cousin was Donkey Kong. Cousin managed to get a Golden Mushroom. Next thing you know, Bowser's driving along, when a brown and yellow blur rushes past him, screaming "OH GOD!"
• Playing Donkey Kong Country with my other brother. We were playing on an HDTV, so there was some controller lag. It got so bad during Loopy Lights that my brother started screaming in Angrish, the best being "MUMMAJAMMA!"

edited 16th May '13 2:16:16 PM by DrFurball

Weird in a Can (updated M-F)

I was playing Dont Starve, and I nipped a Tallbird egg long before I could kill it. I jumped into a Wormhole, hoping it would not follow me across the map. It didn't. It waited. Waited until I came back through the wormhole, and instantly killed me.

Me and my friend's collaborative webcomic: Forged Men

Was playing Super Smash Bros. Melee. I was playing Captain Falcon, my foe was playing Mario. I was feeling like a jerk so I kept trying to use the Falcon Punch. Every time I'd try, instead of just getting out of the way, Mario would use his Cape to instead flip me around and hit me while I'm punching the wrong way.

So I jumped at him as if I were about to start a Falcon Punch, but turned around at the last second to punch away from Mario. He used the cape anyway, not realizing he just flipped me to face him, and got FALCON PAWWWWNCHed off the stage, ending the match.

My favorite Falcon Punch to this date.

edited 16th May '13 10:43:26 PM by Anomalocaris20

You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!

I was playing Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 multiplayer with my brother (I was playing the Guest profile). We were playing One In The Chamber (the party game where you have 1 bullet and 3 lives and only get another bullet if you die or kill someone else).

My brother died and I managed to survive (usually it's the other way around). It was down to me and another player. We'd both used up our one shot and both had 1 life left. So I figured it was time for a knife fight. He, however, figured running like a little bitch was the best course of action.

So began a chase that should've been set to "Yakkity Sax". I'd get close and slash at him, he'd move and sprint off, and I'd give chase while yelling "get back here and take your face-knifing like a man!".

Finally he seemed to realize this wasn't going to end until one of us died and came at me to knife me. As anyone who's played the game knows, knifing is pretty inaccurate. So the last few seconds of the match were me and my opponent running around in circles swinging at each other like idiots. Finally I managed to land a hit and end this overly long game.

edited 23rd May '13 9:19:40 PM by Malph

Online Brawl(Anyone):I was playing as Pit and one other guy played as Toon Link I spend the entire battle dodging and flying around then Sudden Death came he dropped down from starting position and I one-shoted him with a charged up arrow and I didn't even have to move from my starting position.

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I just finished Timeline 2.

Towards the end, during the fight with the blue Gonarch, I figured out that the portals spawning vortigaunts would close once the Gonarch was hit with enough damage to retreat from the center of the room over to the door. To minimize the amount of health I lost, I started the fight by just touching the floor (to open the door and release the Gonarch), then climbed back up to the control room before the soldiers could come in, and hit the Gonarch with some crossbow bolts to make it retreat (in order to even out the battle between the soldiers and the vortigaunts, because I wanted as few monsters left as possible for me to deal with afterwards). As it turned out, the battle was almost even, and when the last vortigaunt died, there was only a single soldier left.

Because I was still up in the control room, the soldier couldn't see me. However, he did consider the Gonarch an enemy, and remembered seeing it leave, so he chased off across the room after it before disappearing into the hallway. Once he was gone, I came down from the control room, and waited at the entrance to the hallway for the soldier to do as much damage to the Gonarch as possible before dying. Except that instead, the soldier finished off the Gonarch all by himself before coming back to take a crossbow bolt in the face.

He was a very mighty soldier. His fuhrer would be proud.

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While playing Skyrim;

I fought a dragon near a town with help from a few guards. After killing it, I did the usual thing of absorbing its soul in a big dazzling display of Dragonbornness while the guards looked on in awe. So what's the first thing the guard says when I speak to him after? "I got to thinking, maybe I'm the Dragonborn and I just don't know it yet?" Face, meet palm.

Similar situation while playing Dragon's Dogma. On the road to Gran Soren, I chanced upon a mighty gryphon. After a difficult battle, I felled the creature, only for one of my pawns to remark that "the roads are relatively safe from monsters."

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 had a mode whose name escapes me, but it was basically co-op with a combination of all the multiplayer objectives and respawning AI enemies. My friend and I found an attack helicopter spawn in the first part of a level. Being a terrible shot, I was volunteered to pilot him around. Problem is, this was my first time ever flying a helicopter for anything other than a beeline C4 kamikaze attack in Rush. It's been a long while since this happened, but I remember lifting off, flying backwards, losing control, and crashing the helicopter upside-down an unreasonable distance out of bounds.

Another recent one was in Saint('?)s Row 3. My friend had just gotten it, but I had played about halfway through the story, so I joined him. In the first post-opening mission where you go to your first clothing store, he decided to get himself a new wardrobe. I had my clothes from my own game, so I just screwed around in the area. Eventually I got bored and tazed him, kicking him out of the menu half-dressed. I guess the enemies that spawn in at that time are tied to when you leave the menu, because that's when they decided to do so. I was forced to help my pantsless friend fight off a wave of gangsters and flee back to our hideout while he stubbornly tried to buy some shorts or something.

Flyer than an ostrich, moshin' in a tar pit...

I just found out that beating a Koopaling while wearing a Frog or Tanooki Suit in Mario3 gets you a funny message from the king.

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I remember having a pretty funny run-in with the Spiny Shell in Mario Kart 7. It happened during a race in Dino Dino Jungle, and one was heading right for me. I accidentally veered off into a nearby pit, and while the Lakitu was dropping me back in, the shell just passes by and travels all the way around the course so it can get whoever's currently in first. The warning buzzer was playing the entire time and everything.

Eh.

There are moments in your life when you have to reflect on the choices you've made, and where they've brought you.

Spending a good 45 minutes punch-jousting a zombie-ghost-necromancer to death after running out of ammo? One of those.

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