Awesome / Outside Xbox

For awesome moments from the Oxventures, see Awesome.Oxventure

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• Dishonored:
  • Mike assassinates Barrister Timsh with one shot, from across a large city square, using a flintlock pistol.
• Hitman (2016):
  • Mike lobbing a remote explosive rubber duck into a small crowd that follows "The Chef" Elusive Target around, which somehow manages to kill The Chef and only the chef. Mike, with the others flabbergasted as to what just happened, then slowly walks to the front entrance to make his getaway, all in under two minutes. It needs to be seen to be believed
  • Andy killing both targets in the Paris level at the same time by dropping one of the targets on top of the other
  • Andy ending the Patient Zero Final mission with only one innocent infected he had to kill, zero non-target kills, and a Silent Assassin rating.
  • And what could be more awesome than getting into Hitman 2?!?
  • In the Dartmoor level of Hitman 3, all three team members get five stars and Silent Assassin ratings, even Mike. (Who, for the record, achieved this outcome by blasting a chandelier with a shotgun and dropping it on the target.)
• Grand Theft Auto V:
  • The group gets trolled by multiple people. They get their revenge with an orbital strike.
  • The team completes the notoriously difficult Humane Labs heist on the first try despite losing both their spare team lives in silly ways.
• During a Friday the 13th: The Game, Andy manages to restore a car completely by himself and escape with Jason on his heels, dodging him twice.
• During a social deduction game called Werewolf, in which two players are werewolves, Andy skillfully manages to win the game by: Using a double-bluff to kill off Mike and fake like an innocent victim; successfully trick both Luke and guest Alex Lolies to kill the innocent Jane, who had deduced he was the werewolf, and finally kill Luke to win the game. Given that Luke was able to kill off the other werewolf Ellen, Andy also had to do it entirely by himself.
  • Alex Lolies gets one herself when she manipulates the werewolf into revealing their identity: When a new day starts, she levels a formal accusation against Johnny. When the accusation is put to a vote, only Jane agrees with her that Johnny is the werewolf. Alex then reveals that she just wanted to see who would vote to kill Johnny and proceeds to accuse Jane, who turns out to indeed be the werewolf and is promptly executed.
• During Luke's adventures in Bloodborne, he takes down Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower first try. For clarity, Lady Maria is considered one the toughest "tough but fair" humanoid bosses in the game, viciously punishing the slightest mistake, and Luke took her out on his first attempt. He's left not only physically drained but actually physically injured by the attempt.
  Aoife Wilson:^note who took a fair few goes to beat Lady Maria when Eurogamer did a Bloodborne Let's Play One go?! That is - that's - you get out of here, that's not fair! That's amazing.
• The team will often play Among Us with channels Eurogamer and Dicebreaker with large parties, and there have been some pretty impressive victories.
  • During a 9 player game, Andy and Eurogamer's Ian Higton managed to clean sweep the rest of the crew^note First, Ian slew Johnny while Mike distracted the group by suspecting Luke. Then Andy slew Wheels while Ian deflected criticism from Lolies. Ian then slew Lolies and successfully pinned the murder on Ellen. Finally, Ian slew Jane to win the match.
  • During another match, underdogs Mike and Eurogamer's Aoife Wilson, who were playing poorly before, managed to gain the quickest clean sweep Imposter victory in about half the time of the other victories:^note Mike slew Lolies and Aoife slew Ellen. Johnny nearly caught Mike but Johnny tried to make a joke by voting Andy, however Luke was suspicious of Andy and this got him ejected. Mike was then able to slaughter Wheels and Aoife killed Zoe to win the match. Final players Luke and Johnny didn't even see it coming.
  • During a Halloween stream, imposters Andy and Ellen went on an absolute spree, finishing in near-record time:^note Ellen slew Aoife and Andy slew Ian. Ellen was suspected by Johnny, but Luke used an incredibly baffling strategy in which he declared he was the Impostor, causing Andy, Mike, and Lolies to all vote for him and eject him. This allowed Ellen to slay Lolies and Andy to slay Johnny and win the match.
  • On the second play of the airship map, Lolies and Aoife pulled off an incredibly swift clean sweep, especially given the airship is a large map.^note Aoife wasted no time in killing Andy while Lolies sabotaged the lights. Wheels found the body and Ellen commented that she had seen Ian in the area, which got him voted out. Lolies then slew Wheels and Aoife killed Luke.. In addition, the two had a bit of a scrap in the previous round, accusing each other of being an impostor when the real one (Luke) just sat back and watched the carnage.
  • Realizing the Impostor had it pretty easy, the group decided to only have one Impostor. Andy was selected, and he completely cleaned house:^note He immediately slew Lolies, then went after Wheels and then Jane. He remained quiet and allowed Ellen and Luke to suspect Ian, which got him kicked out. This left Andy free to kill Aoife, then Luke to win the game. All the while, he made himself look completely innocent to Ellen, gaining her support.
  • Once the group was comfortable enough with the map, they went back to two impostors, when Jane and Ian pulled another impressive clean sweep^note Ian slew Andy and the body was hidden long enough away so he could be with someone else. Jane then slew Lolies while Ian slew Ellen. Finally, Aoife caught on and began running from Ian, only to run straight into Jane, who killed her. Luke and Wheels didn't even see it coming. All the while, Ian is singing a ridiculous song.
  • One round, Mike saw Wheels venting right in front of him. Cue a race to the button, which Mike lost, and Wheels kills him before he can press it. Vindication for Mike then comes when his body is reported, and Ian recounts that he saw Mike running to cafeteria with Wheels on his tail.
• "Ellen's Souls Academy":
  • Ellen beats the Gaping Dragon on her first try. Luke even stops advising her partway through the fight because she's clearly got it under control.
  • Ellen takes only one try to beat Chaos Witch Quelaag despite her fear of spiders and Quelaag being That One Boss.
  • Ellen defeats the Iron Golem on her first try without summoning Black Iron Tarkus for help.
  • Ellen nearly beats the Sanctuary Guardian on her first attempt. On her second go, she thoroughly trounces it without getting hit even once.
  • In the first Dark Souls III stream, Ellen's first attempt against Iudex Gundyr goes... poorly (par for the course, for that boss). On the second try, she runs out of Estus just as he goes One-Winged Angel, then proceeds to utterly fuck him up.
  • She manages to defeat both Sister Friede AND Darkeater Midir within a 2-hour timespan! While this was far from her first run at Friede (having entered The Ringed City by starting the endgame instead), she'd only encountered Midir about an hour before beating him.
  • And finally, she manages to defeat the Soul of Cinder, the final boss of the main game and the Dark Souls trilogy as a whole, on the first try - effectively turning the intended Final-Exam Boss into an Anticlimax Boss. We can definitely say she graduated the academy magna cum laude.
• During a Midnight Ghost Hunt stream, Team OxBox played against Eurogamer. While Mike and Jane were completely decimated in seconds, Andy was able to evade all three members for four minutes straight while having no way to defend himself until the match timed out.
  Jane: Good thing Eurogamer's muted, because they're definitely swearing now.
• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom: Ellen having Link get shot up into the air, and managing to make him dive straight into a nearby well on the first try—first using a wingsuit, and then wearing just his shorts. (The well itself only spawns when Link is within a few seconds of the ground, so this requires a very good understanding of where it should be, and very quick responses to adjust at the last moment. On Luke's final attempt, he did make it into the well, but gave Link a fatal case of road rash by scraping him against the sides.)
  Luke: Damn! Jon actually got up and walked away!
  Jon: First. Try?!

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