Come to think of it, I've never made a topic ever since the new forum layout.

Well... the title says it all. Post about your worst game overs and best accomplishments, doesn't matter if it's pure luck all the way down to just plain retarded.

Here's a couple of mine... in chronological order.

Grand Theft Auto III - So much for bulletproof'ness.
I was nearly done with Ray's last mission (Where the character had to drive him to the airport) and I got to Ray's garage. I opened the garage and holy moly, that's a lot of bazooka ammo... and my first bulletproof car "Patriot". I took everything in the garage and finally got into the Patriot. But when I was backing out, I forgot that I parked my last car directly on the ramp.
The backing Patriot bumped into the car and guess what happens; it flips over. Boom. There goes my bulletproof Patriot I just earned 5 seconds ago.

Ace Combat 5 - Too much sunlight
I was going through Final Option (Where you had to escape 8492nd Squadron with training jet) and when I tried to enter the 2nd tunnel, the goddamn sunlight made a glare on my TV and I didn't notice the crane until I crashed right into it.

Ace Combat 5 - Lazy eye
I was going through Reprisal (Where you had to neutralize the gas in Bana City and intercept AH-64s). I was trying to destroy the stuff the Terrorists' truck dumped (Rocket Launcher, Couch, TV, ect.) and when I tried to turn around to get some distance, I didn't notice the building and I crashed into it.
And I crashed into the same side of the building 2 more times.

Klonoa: Door to Phantomile - Magnetized pitfall
I fell down in the same pitfall 14 times in one of the stages.

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Here's one I've had few minutes ago.

Ace Combat 5: Operation "Desert Arrow" - Wide Turn

I was flying F-22A Raptor on the desert mission where you had to escort a group of tanks and B-52s and managed to destroy both 2 bases and racked up a score reaching 28,000+. Then the enemy AWACS appears and I go after the escort fighters, target after target in close-range.

I never knew that the plane was targeting the AWACS and it was too late by the time I realized it.

All that kills... down the drain... my big ace ego... shattered.
...I don't think I'll be playing that game for a while.

I dunno, I don't really have any stories about me just playing a game. I find soemthing inherently boring with saying, "I was tottally losing, but then I cast haste on everyone and hit him twice as much as I did before I cast haste". I think multiplayer stories tend to be more interesting.

I could probably talk for hours on "super neato" stuff I've done/seen/been killed by in Super Smash Bros., but the one I really enjoyed was the tournament-winning fight I had against someone using Samus. He was the kind of guy who stood at the edge of the arena charging his weapon, and if you got near him made a sort of "wall" of mines that was very annoying to try and get through. Anyway, it ended up with the standard "only two left, massive damage to both of us" scenario, he's fully charged, and I'm Dr. Mario (not realy sure why I prefer the good doctor, but I do). Anyway, leapt at eachother, I feigned an attack, he shot the blast, I reflected it and killed him. Tournament won, no prize to speak of, and I had to give up my controller and move on. Sooo, yeah, that's my 'stunning upset' of the gaming world.

I remember years ago at the arcade I was playing Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo. I was on Bison and on my last quarter and one hit away from death. We both jumped into the air at each other, but it was my kick that connected... and it was just enough to take Bison down and win my first arcade game ever.

Come to think of it, I can't imagine anyone being entertained by a story of me winning Street Fighter.

But I will say that one of the accomplisments I'm most proud of is unlocking the Invincibility cheat in Goldeneye by beating a level in a little over two minutes. I had to run like a crazy man dodging bullets and setting bombs in odd places. It took a lot of practice.

A couple weeks after it had came out, I had been playing Dragon Quest VIII like a crazed monkey on crack. I was on the last boss, Rapthorne. I had been duking it out with this fatass for nearly an hour, and just when I thought I had him, he uses some friggin' magic spell to heal, like, 500 of his hit points. Then he pulled off some kind of meteor magic shit that just ripped my party apart. It sucked pretty badly.

In terms of greatest achievement, I unlocked everything in Lego Stars. But then again, it wasn't that hard.

I was playing Maverick Hunter X, and was on Sigma's final form. I had one bar of health left and no subtanks, but he had one bar left too. As I was jumping to make my final attack, I accidentially hit circle and dash-jumped, hitting the bottom of his hand and dying.

Worst:
Icewind dale: I had an awesome, utterly awesome monk, and was soloing my way through, facing down mages and stuff, about to kill the very last guy when they cast a spell that holds me in place, and I can't move. So then he starts beating me with what I assume is an acorn of some type because it took him half an hour to kill me, and I couldn't do anything. Then I realized I hadn't saved. At all.

Mortal Kombat: was SO close to beating the dragon king with Nightwolf...I think that's his name...both attack at the same time, I'm at half health he's almost dead, and he knocks me off, onto a spike, and then takes a leak on me (I assume this last part because I kneed him in the crotch so much.)

Thief: Deadly Shadows: Low health, snuck up on someone, missed with the blackjack, sent for guard, tried to hit him with an arrow, missed, hit someone else, both go for guards, I run for outside to hide, and run straight into a guard, use flash bomb, and ran to where I thought I could hide, but instead fall off a ledge...onto a guard.

Best moments:
Theif: being able to hide in a corner of a dirty elevator shaft and they still couldn't see me standing four feet away, even with my GLOWING EYEBALL.

SC3. Best moments.

Beating Abyss with Setsuka by literally judo throwing him off.

Using Yoshimitsu to hop over a ninja's flames with his sword and landing on his head, getting a perfect.

Worst moments.

Getting served a perfect by my 5 year old cousin.

F.E.A.R. Extraction Point - This isn't a deployable gun turret... This isn't a deployable gun turret at all!

I was getting peppered by the Minigun man and I chucked a grenade, which bounced from the column and flew right into my face. I thought I was throwing a deployable gun turret... but I forgot that they don't bounce.

I'm not sure if this is a good game over story but here goes. I was playing Dragon Quest VIII and me and my team were all at like above level 25 and below 30. I was fighting the bad guy who is assumed to be the main villain Doumangus. I got to him and I was pumped cause I've got a perfect stategy for me to win easily or close to it. Of course this was before I knew anything about the battle. I started it by psyching my main charecter but that was my big mistake. Out of no where he splits into three. I didn't think it was a big deal. Till he killed my female charecter with one shot. And to make the story short he owned/pwned me. So after battle I recovered and turned the game off and decided to do some training tomorrow. That is untill my brother lend the PS2 to one of his frineds. But lucky for me I still got the game. And here I am still waiting for the PS2 to come back. End of story. And no I can't do anything about it cause my brother's 18 and the PS2 is his. Which really sucks to be me.

...Um Good Moment: Playing Battlefield 2 online on the Wake Island 2007 map, we were fighting for every last point, it was extremely close and my little squad were meshed together perfectly, talking over the mikes to coordinate and stuff... Just as the time was running out I was driving a tank towards the airfield, when this chopper comes out of nowhere and starts blasting us, I just managed to dodge the TV missile! My machine-gunner was doing his best but it would be only moments before it got into position for another shot with the TV missile.
Well I spun the tank around, mounted a hill on the side of the track to get the right elevation, waited until I got my sights 100% perfect... Then blasted with the main gun. The chopper exploded, my team shouted "fantastic shot" and the game ended with us winning. Just.
That was good.

Too many bad moments to mention. Most of them involve GTA VC... Stupid game... -_-

Tater Salad
It's time for another Good Idea, Bad Idea.


Good idea:

Whistling while you work.



Bad idea:

Whistling while you eat.


This has been another Good Idea, Bad Idea.

Where did that come from?

Anyway, SC3 Best moments, Unlocking the True Boss of SC3, NIGHT TERROR! http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/8286/nightterror5cg.jpg [img20.imageshack.us]

Worst moment: getting my ass handed to me several times while trying to beat him. :(

Good idea bad idea from animaniacs. That seems like millenia ago. Damn, now I feel old.

As far as recent accomplishments, I was once in a match of Halo 2 online on Gemini. Random weapons and it was 4 on 4 in slayer mode. Suddenly, my whole team quit out at the start and it was 1 on 4. I could have quit, but I kept playing, attacking like a madman and mowing down at leat 1-2 before they could get me. I was really enjoying it, even explaining to them how it was possible I was kicking their asses. Needless to say Iwon and got a huge ego boost.

Also, I was in a Halo 2tournament once in gamecrazy. 4 person match on lockout, top 2 went to next round, total tourney of 8. I was in 3rd for most of the round when a guy with the sword charged me. I killd him and proceeded to go ape**** with the sword, slicing down half a dozen people within 2 minutes and going up to 2nd so I survived the match. I ended up 4th in the entire tourney, which earned me a shirt which didn't fit. It was still swet though.

Best Accomplishment: When i beat Guitar hero on normal
Worst Defeat: the pasting it gave me on hard, a few minutes later.

Ace Combat 5: Battleship Uprising

I was playing a desert level in Ace Difficulty and racked up a score of more than 20,000 points (Again) and after the Mission update, I had to take on a group of Long-Range artillery protected by SAMs and a Battleship. I turned on my Afterburners and charged right at it. I destroyed the SAM that stood in front of me and I couldn't change my target to "Bridge" in time.
Then I had like 8 AA guns firing at me. Each AA gun has 5% accuracy. Multiply that by 8 and you get 40%. It doesn't look much, but it can pepper hundreds of rounds a minute and I tried to turn away from the ship. 1, 2-3, ...and 4 hits. BOOM. Mission Failed.

Why do I always get shot down at near end of the mission?

Dan
Why do I always get shot down at near end of the mission?

Because you expect to.

I've thought of some new "Bests". In Chess!
One time I was really into playing chess with one my friends. He'd come over and we'd just set up the board and play. We'd go down to the beach and play... Go to a cafe and play... Whatever.
Anyway, one day he mentioned "Fool's mate" to me, an apparent 2 move checkmate or something... He'd just heard about it and didn't know what it was. That night I worked it out and the next day I showed him how you do it. So then we set up a game and started playing... Checkmate straight away with "fool's mate"! Even after explaining it to him! What a noob!
Second game: "Fool's mate" again! Second time in a row, hahahahaha! Moron!

He was so pissed off. The thing was, he didn't think I'd have the gall to use that dumb strategy after explaining it to him the first time. The second time he was SURE I wasn't going to use it. Of course it didn't work a third time...

Ok another:
One day he phoned me up and said they had giant chess pieces set up near the Freemantle town hall and that I should come down and have a game before anyone else started. SO I hopped on the train and came down. Too late, when I got there some dedicated group of chess fanatics had bagsed it... They were already taking turns playing each other.

But that didn't daunt me, I challenged their leader, this arrogant 40 year old Irish guy in a beret. He accepted and we had the next game. The chess was slow and methodical, Mr know-it-all Irishman was slowly but surely devastating me. But then I saw an opportunity; a real long shot, a skin of my teeth, one in a million chance long-shot... I pretended to be just waiting for the inevitable and distracted him by deliberately setting up an easy checkmate on the other side of the board. I knew exactly how many moves it would take.
Meanwhile I put my plan into action, this involved nothing more than the slow pace of my porn from one side of the board to the other... -it can be pretty hard to distract someone from something that fricken obvious. but I managed it.
In due course my porn made it, was made a queen and simultaneously check mated the smartarse bugger to hell and back! Just has he was about to get me on the other side of the board...

Hahaha, scruffy young me beat smart-arse him with such an obvious move. Humiliation!

I got remember another one.

It was when I was playing an arcade game called marvel vs capcom. And for my team I chose venom and... Well I don't quite remember the other person but still. It was the first round and my oppeonet was spider-man and gambit. I beat spider man with little health left but then came gambit and he... Whooped my ass. Brutily and it was the first match and I didn't have any more quarters. I lost and my pride was cracked. And that's one of my worst game overs.

I hate playing against the CPU Gambit. He keeps on blocking. Rargh.

Metal Slug 1

I was playing through Mission 3 and got to the point where there's a huge erm, door with a big yellow button in it. I did the "usual." I jump, toss grenades at the button, and rush it down. The only problem is that I timed it wrong and got hit by a bazooka man as soon as I landed.
Then I lost my last life at Allen. He caught me off-guard while I was jumping across.

Ace Combat 5

Last mission. I was flying through a tunnel. I rushed to the other end (The doors were closing) and I was just 3 FEET away from the exit when my thumb bloody slipped through the analogue stick, plunging my plane to hard, mean surface.

I always get owned at First Person Shooters in like, 5 seconds of starting a new game! it's why i don't own any!

Well, this isn't my best performance, but it's the narrowest victory I ever had in a video game. Basically, it was Lunar 2 for PlayStation. I was battling Zophar, and if you've ever played this game, then you know that Zophar pretty much wails on you unless you can knock out two of his arms early in the fight. And even then, he still kicks the shit out of you team for much of the battle.

Well, I had done pretty well for most of the battle, until it finally got to that point that all cheap boss battles generally devolve into, where he started killing one team member per round. I kept trying desparately to attack, but I spent the majority of the time just keeping my guys alive and full of HP. I had saved up every angel ring in the game for this battle, and I needed every single one of them to stay alive.

At the end, I was down to just one character: Lemina. No items. Desperately low on HP. Just enough MP for one spell. I could revive someone or take my chance on an attack. I attacked. To my utter astonishment, Zophar then fell before me and renounces his wicked grip from the world of Lunar. I couldn't believe I won with the healer character, and I doubt I could do it again. It's sort of on par with beating Chaos from Final Fantasy with a White Mage, if you could imagine doing that.



Another great (and questionable) victory I had was this one time I was getting my ass kicked in Street Fighter. I had picked Chun Li, and my friend had Sagat. I was reduced to dizzies, but for whatever reason, my buddy couldn't hit me. I guess he forgot that Sagat is tall and that you have to crouch if you're going to hit Chun Li with a punch.

So anyway, I'm pounding on the kick buttons to get out of the dizzy, and suddenly I explode into the lightning kicks! CRACK! CRACK! CRACK! CRACK! CRACK! Sagat goes down and has dizzies of his own when he stands up. My buddy starts pounding on the buttons in horror, trying to get Sagat to move, but I hit him with a simple three-hit combo for the win! YA TA!



My most humiliating game over? Hmm... Probably Final Fantasy 1. I had already played for sophisticated RPGs like Super Mario RPG and Final Fantasy VII, so I decided to go back to the original. Oh boy, I was in for a surprise! Not only is Final Fantasy 1 much harder than its successors; you also don't get the luxury of taking the game's bounteousness for granted. So I walked out into the plane, completely unaware that I was not equipped with ANYTHING. In my first battle in Final Fantasy 1 for NES, I got my ass kicked by a pack of friggin' imps!

Neilsama
My most humiliating game over? Hmm... Probably Final Fantasy 1. I had already played for sophisticated RPGs like Super Mario RPG and Final Fantasy VII, so I decided to go back to the original. Oh boy, I was in for a surprise! Not only is Final Fantasy 1 much harder than its successors; you also don't get the luxury of taking the game's bounteousness for granted. So I walked out into the plane, completely unaware that I was not equipped with ANYTHING. In my first battle in Final Fantasy 1 for NES, I got my ass kicked by a pack of friggin' imps!

Wow that sucks. And buy that I mean you loosing like that.

I can beat a bunch of imps with a team of 4 unarmed, unarmored white mages

One of my most glorious moments of gaming was when I was play8ng Star Wars: Battlefront II. I was a lowly storm trooper on Naboo I think. You know, the castle place. Anyways, my side had taken a horrible beating, and I was just wandering around trying to not die.
I did the clsest thing to sniping I could do, which I stayed at the only check point my side had, healed myself, and grenaded a bunch of the other guys when I went to take a check point. Took the check point, stole their tank, blasted the shit out of them in the courtyard.
... well, long story short, I won. I didn't realize until I beat them that that was my last man.
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Coolest gaming moment - a group of us were playing Halo 2. We were in the factory level with all the boxes and conveyer belts. Well, I guess me and my friend Rob were both just looking at the little red dots on our screens, and we both turned a corner, shot the shotgun (the only weapon we had in the level) and we both shot eachother and died at the same time.

It was pretty awesome.

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When I finally beat Deus in Xenogears - it took me 3 years to beat that game. I got up to Deus and couldn't beat him, until one day I took up the hero mantle once more, and finally everything just clicked. It was a rough battle.

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All of my embarassing deaths are Legend of Zelda - like I've jumped into lava accidently, fell on spikes. I actually walekd up to shit and went "Hey, what's this? Oh. Now I'm dead. Wonderful."

Well, one of the most embarrassing game overs of mine happened in a game I actually made!

In RPG maker 3, I decided to make a boss battle with a sandworm. It was like the third boss in the game, and was pretty easy. Or at least, it was SUPPOSED to be easy. Long story short, the sandworm was level 15, my party was level 3, we all died.

I got another one!

This takes place yesterday... I was playing the first Ratchet and Clank game and I was fighting the final boss. He was on his last peice of life and I belive I've had one bits of health left. He goes and pressed the button that would destroy my planet and I press it and went off to kill him. He only had like a teeny bit of health left but then as I was chasing him an in coming missile comes at me and I didn't see and before I knew I died. And that truly sucked for me. But I got him back next time as I kill him. And that's it.