Your Funniest Video Game Moments

[ThatNickGuy]

Like the title says, I want to hear some funny gaming moments. This is either some of your favourite moments that happened in the natural progress of the game...or something that was funny that you did.

Some of mine:

-Getting the "Party Pooper" trophy in Arkham Asylum. I just saw a big line up of tightly-packed thugs and couldn't think of anything funnier than spraying explosives on the floor and blowing them all up. And then? "Ting!" Trophy!

-Conker's Bad Fur Day - The whole game is hilarioius; I know all the words to the Great Mighty Poo song and the scene with the drunken scarecrow at the start. But I was stuck in one part of the game, in the bar with all the rock creatures. I was playing the game at a friend's house and he refused to let me look up a solution on GameFAQs. So, I lost it. I had Conker get high up, overlooking all the guys in the bar...and started pissing on the whole thing (you were supposed to piss on some of them and get to roll into a rock ball).

-Duke Nukem 3-D: Played a one-on-one deathmatch with a friend and I kept playing dirty tricks with him, especially with the pipe bombs. I lobbed a whole bunch of them into a bathroom stall, then ran to the camera room that had a shot of said bathroom. Told him my guy had to use the bathroom. So, I see him run into the bathroom, open the stall door...and I hit the button. *grin* Another time, I told him we'll have a pure melee fight in the vents. Again, lobbed a bunch of pipebombs into where he'd go in. Saw him enter and...click!

-Any time I played as Doug the Troll in City of Heroes. I was the only person that played completely in-character, which was this giant, dumb as a post, loveable oaf. On the Justice server, I became something of a pseudo-celebrity. Any time I logged in, no matter where I went, someone would run up and yell "DOUG!" I tended to join a lot of pick-up groups and cracked people up. One time, after hitting a certain level, I went into the Hamidon section. I broadcasted "Doug am here!" and suddenly, there was a deluge of "Doug! DOUG! OMG DOUG!" and my personal favourite "Doug is here. Hami is screwed."

After he hit 50th level, I threw a giant "Dougapoalooza" party in Atlas Park. HUGE turn-out as everyone got down and boogied. Someone brought up the idea of the Anti-Doug, who would be proper, clean, etc. Suddenly, The Anti-Doug appears and tips his hat. I was laughing so hard, I couldn't even type.

-I don't remember the game. It was one of those side scrolling arcade beat-em-ups like Turtles in Time or The Avengers. SNES game with a barbarian or viking setting. Me and a friend were playing it and we had the following conversation:

Me: I'll get the ugly one!
Friend: Wait, which one is the ugly one?!
Me: I don't know...they're all ugly!
Friend: So are we!
Me: We're the ugly ones!
*temporary attempt to beat the crap out of each other's characters*

 

[CynicismKills]

The only one I can remember was my dad, not me. He was playing Resident Evil 4 on the Gamecube, and my brother happens to wander into the room as my dad is playing. At this point he was a little over halfway into the game.

"Dad, why are you hobbling around? Run from those guys."

"I'm going as fast as I can! Getting away from these fuckers is hard."

"Hold that button."

*character sprints*

"Oh you have GOT to be fucking kidding me."

He managed to get over halfway through the game without running. Ever. Because he didn't notice there was a run button.

 

[LordRavage]

This happened to my fiance. We had just gotten Modern Warfare 2. She wanted to go first. In the tutorial, she is moving the gun around and just presses the trigger killing one of the guys just standing there.

The look on her face was priceless and we laughed hard on that one. We spent the evening playing and me saying "Dont kill those guys! They are on your side."

 

[phil]

My dad would make us sing O Canada before we were allowed to shoot him in Goldeneye..... after a while we had to sing it backwards.


Another one, which I think I've told before, happened in WoW. I was hanging around this one area grinding XP, but it was dangerously close to an instance entrance. This group of alliance comes by, and I hide 'cause I don't want to take on all of them but their rogue spots me and goes for it. Now, I'm playing a warrior that is a level or two under him, and I don't have that great of gear so I figure I'm kind of screwed, at least until I get into the water. This was right after they changed the...i think retaliate talent or whatever to make it less PvP friendly. It's the one where basically you hit back every time you get it, it used to show up only as glowing red hands, but they changed it to floating swords surrounding your guy and a lot of people bitched about it for a while. The thing is though, my tauren was so tall, and because they only showed up mostly around the waist I was able to activate it without the rogue seeing it. I barely had to attack. Of course right after that the rest of his party kills the shit out of me but it was well worth it.

 

[GasBandit]

For the first time in a great long while (I can't remember the last time a video game did this for me), I busted out laughing this past weekend at the new Borderlands DLC, General Knoxx. The little woman and I were in Lockdown Palace, and we...

Spoiler

came across a red chest. We both walk up to it thinking, oh cool, more loot. I hit open, and a MIDGET STEVE called "Mini Steve" pops out of the chest with his signature "Heyooooo!" startling us both (because we'd NEVER had an enemy pop out of a chest before in this game),

and then we both just started cracking up.

 

[bhamv3]

L4D2, modded server. Before every match started, a whole bunch of items would spawn in the safe room, including weapons, health kits, and (most importantly) fireworks and gas cans.

I was on the Infected team, and we were positioning ourselves outside the safe room door, ready to attack the moment the doors opened. Suddenly I heard a grenade launcher being fired, and then the *whoosh* of fire and the crackling of fireworks. Apparently one guy had picked up a grenade launcher, fired it, and set off ALL the fireworks and gas cans while still inside the safe room.

Ten seconds later, all four survivors were incapped. While still in the starting safe room.

 

[Fun Size]

Playing Resident Evil 2 on ye olde Nintendo 64, I was trying to explain to my lovely wife why I liked it so much (she had already started falling away from her gaming roots - pity). As I'm explaining it, the guy I killed about ten seconds earlier busts through a wall right in front of me, causing me to...respond. My wife looks at me and says, "So you like games that make you scream like a little girl?".

Merciless, that one.

 

[HCGLNS]

Playing Doom in a computer lab with the sound off, I found the chainsaw and started making chainsaw noises. Then running around killing people with the chainsaw with the added effects. I eventually died and went back to the chainsaw room and started making chainsaw sounds again. Another player thought he would get the drop on me and ran to the same room, only to find I had the machine gun instead.

"But you were making chainsaw noises! I thought you had the chainsaw!", he cried.

"That's not my problem.", was my reply.

 

[Gusto]

In GTA Vice City I had a mission where I needed to chase a shady politician while he was in his limo, and kill him. After failing at the mission a couple times I took a few minutes to get some good weaponry, body armor, full health and a wicked fast motorcycle.

The result could've been straight out of a movie.

This limo is hauling ass down the long straightaway on the second island and I'm topping out my motorcycle in pursuit. It's currently around 2 am and raining really hard. Thunderstorm in game, pretty awesome atmosphere. Suddenly, one of the Haitian gangsters runs a red light and pulls into the straightaway IMMEDIATELY in front of me. I broadside him on my bike going like 150 mph, and I am launched off my seat and throw clear through the air.

Now this is one of the least likely things that has ever happened to me in a video game: I FLEW THROUGH THE AIR AND LANDED ON TOP OF THE LIMO I WAS PURSUING. Lightning flashes around me as I drag myself to my feet on the back of a limo going 150 mph. Since I still have all my health and most of my body armor after this miracle, and I've thoroughly been swept up in the moment, I decide to something CRAZY.

I took out my rocket launcher and calmly aimed it at my feet.

The explosion threw me clear, and I lost all my body armor and went down to like 6 health, but it was totally worth it to drag myself to my feet in time to see the smoldering wreckage of the limo barrel off the road and into the bay, and the OBJECTIVE COMPLETE notification come up.

 

[Shegokigo]

Ultima Online: My brother and I were going through a very large haul of loot we had picked up on a murder spree we had just come back from and noticed that our treasure chests were strewn about the house in a pretty disorganized manner. So we began rearranging the house into "chest sections". One section for armor, one for weapons etc. As we're going through the boxes and moving items from one side of the house to the other (sometimes passing items off between us) I find one of my booby trapped "lock boxes". (These boxes were used in the game as a way to get the last laugh on a murderer player, it would basically spring a trap when someone would loot the box off your corpse and try and open it to find any goodies you may have put in it) and decide to hand it to my brother telling him that it was a box full of spell reagents. Well he doesn't open it and instead takes the box to the other side of the house. (Back then there really wasn't ventrilo so we were on the phone talking to each other the entire time) so to get him to open it, I say "Oh hey bro, I left a couple of metal ingots in the box, do you mind handing them to me?". Two seconds later there's a huge explosion in the house and his body hits the ground with a thud.

The laughter was the kind you can't breathe and feel like you're going to pass out from lack of oxygen..... coming from me and him.

 

[Alucard]

I would have to say one of my fondest memories is playing Bounty Hunter on the good ol Gamecube.
In between missions my favorite past time was to lasso people up with the wrist rope thingy and setting them on fire.
Making them writhe around in tourment then shooting them out of their misery.


Tie Fighter easily has some of my best gaming moments as well. Flying around in one of the galaxy's flimsiest
fighters ever designed taking on rebel scum. I loved it when the Imperial March theme started playing as a fleet
of Rebels appeared. "Take that rebel scum". Being a tie bomber pilot was basically a suicide mission.

X Wing Alliance. Trying to capture that damn Tydarium shuttle for the Endor mission. Annoying as heck.
Despite being in a Corellian corvette you were fucking invulnerable to small laser fire from Tie Fighters.
Flying through the death star at dangerous speeds in the final mission was probably the coolest.

Knights of the Old Republic. Rescuing that self righteous bitch Bastilla after winning her in a pod race.
Discovering that you were actually the most badass Sith in the galaxy at that time.

 

[ElJuski]

Ehhh, hard to think off the top of my head, uh...these are all gonna be so recent.

-Resident Evil 4, the conversation, "What happens if I shoot the items dude in the face?" "Probably nothing you need him." BLAM! "Oh. He's dead."

-Any time in the Wii Super Mario Bros. when someone would yell "Playing for keeps" and toss the other person to their death.

-Super Smash Bros. photos. Yep yep.

 

[Deschain]

As tank, I escorted the survivors through the L4D airport level, punching zombies and special infected out of the away. I was named MVP.

In TF2 I play battlemedic, which is pretty hilarious considering classes with low-HP die like crazy to you. I'd get behind enemy lines and duel snipers/scouts/engineers etc. Would rack up crazy kill streaks due to the medic's self-healing and vampire abilities.

 

[bhamv3]

In TF2 I play battlemedic, which is pretty hilarious considering classes with low-HP die like crazy to you. I'd get behind enemy lines and duel snipers/scouts/engineers etc. Would rack up crazy kill streaks due to the medic's self-healing and vampire abilities.

I wonder if I ever came up against you then, because there's one battle Medic who stands out in my memory, he was astoundingly good. Every time I saw him appear on screen, I knew I might as well take my hands off the keyboard and mouse because no matter what I do, he's going to kill me.

 

[Jay]

Ultima Online: My brother and I were going through a very large haul of loot we had picked up on a murder spree we had just come back from and noticed that our treasure chests were strewn about the house in a pretty disorganized manner. So we began rearranging the house into "chest sections". One section for armor, one for weapons etc. As we're going through the boxes and moving items from one side of the house to the other (sometimes passing items off between us) I find one of my booby trapped "lock boxes". (These boxes were used in the game as a way to get the last laugh on a murderer player, it would basically spring a trap when someone would loot the box off your corpse and try and open it to find any goodies you may have put in it) and decide to hand it to my brother telling him that it was a box full of spell reagents. Well he doesn't open it and instead takes the box to the other side of the house. (Back then there really wasn't ventrilo so we were on the phone talking to each other the entire time) so to get him to open it, I say "Oh hey bro, I left a couple of metal ingots in the box, do you mind handing them to me?". Two seconds later there's a huge explosion in the house and his body hits the ground with a thud.

The laughter was the kind you can't breathe and feel like you're going to pass out from lack of oxygen..... coming from me and him.

Awesome.

My favorite was to charm a pet, feed it to get loyalty and then tell it to guard an object... such as a door... like the bank doors in Britain. They'll open the door, run in and use their emote "bank guards buy sell!" and automatically kill themselves as they got flagged opening the door. Sure, they fixed the exploit but goddamn did I laugh my ass out and became rich as hell.

 

[Cajungal]

I flung my first ever WoW character off some cliff, and she died. When I sent her spirit back to her body (because I missed that I could use a revival point) it got stuck there somehow. So after half an hour I had to start over.

Also, several years back now, I was playing Morrowind and talking on the phone with the fellow. It was completely dark except for my screen, and I'd just finished some quest that had made me really tense. I'm startled by, of all things, a damn mud crab. I scream into the phone, "AH! CRAB!" and then drop the phone and then run away from the crab instead of hitting it once with my sword to kill it. Then I picked up the phone to hear Jake laughing on the other end. It's not the first time I've freaked out like that. I don't play many games.

 

[Null]

Persona 4 is full of bizarre and occasionally hilarious moments, a lot of which are on youtube. Particularly the camping trip: the girls on the team accidentally food poison the protagonist and a friend/fellow teammate, and later on that friend asks another team member (a punk who is struggling with his sexual identity) essentially, "You're not gonna rape us, are you?"

 

[Telephius]

In L4D at a LAN we were playing versus in the forest level and it was my teams turn at infected. It was the level where the survivors start out in a bunker that houses a generator and on them leaving the safe room I got told I was going to be a tank which I rarly get chosen for. I was excited because I figured I would do some damage to them before I would die and let our team win in distance cover span over the course of the match. Well I was running to where they would exit the bunkers and I noticed a tree trunk was outlined and this was the first time I ever encountered such and object but I had heard about them so I wanted to play around with it. I bashed it to close to the entrance if the bunker because I figure I would hit one as they were coming out, and was I pleasantly surprised.

What ended up happening is I fung the trunk nicely in the entrance closelining the the lead surviovrs then when I made it to the door I shoved the tree further in grounding all the survivors and I preformed the combo of close lining them with a tree trunk then smashing the ground with my fists then treen trunk etc I may have evenpicked up a cement chunk at point blank to rub it in. One of my friends was disgusted that I apparntly did more damage then survivors apprantly had health some how and I also got two achievements out of the deal.


Another L4D moment was me and a few friends wewre just doing a campaign and one of my friends is pretty much a pyro at heart as there are many times where our team is doomed not because of a unlucky infected combo maneuver but because trying to save a member from one or two zombies he will use a molitov and end up doing more damage and sometimes killing the person he was trying to save hence we usually try to get him to pick up pipe bombs instead. However his greatest unintentional team kill moment and its usually hard to pick one because he seems so good at them is the one time we were on the level with the gas station. We had just cleared a bunch of zombies and decided to get some of the gas cans to set up for when we hit the lift button. Well 3 out of 4 of us were under the station roof getting items and my curious friend wondered what happens if you shooot a gas pump. Well suddenly the 3 of us hear a exploding sound and I am sure some of us got hit with exploding damage but then the complex came down on our heads leaving our curious friend to the zombie horde he just alerted.

 

[General Specific]

City of Heroes, I created a character named Ensign Ricky. He had a red shirt and a star emblem on his chest. His battlecry was, "Captain? Mr. Spock? Ah crap!"
Another one was The Dyslexic Zombie. His battlecry was "Briiiiiiaaaaaannss!"

Plenty of moments with friends playing Halo multiplayer. There was one game where I had been running people down with a Ghost all game long. Eventually, one of them got wise and started ducking when I came flying towards him. So, I countered by stopping and hovering over him. He crouch walked away, only to be run over by my friend and teammate in a tank.
In Halo 2, one of my friends would load up a character named Ah-nuld and would always go for the brute chopper so that he could yell, "GET TO DAH CHOPAH!" We would then let him go after the opposing team by himself.

There was the part in KoTOR when talking with Jolee and your character asks why he stayed on Kashyyyk for so long and the conversation goes:
Jolee: "I did it all for the Wookies."
You: "The Wookies?"
Jolee: "The Wookies."

Playing Duke Nukem shareware over the school lan once and my friend couldn't find any weapons, so went around kicking everyone to death AND WON.

 

[fade]

Oh yeah, CoX was great for throwaway characters since people actually interacted on that game. I also had a redshirt, oddly enough. I had a Rabbi Rabbit Robot named The Rab-bot. I actually got him up to pretty high level.

 

[figmentPez]

I used to work with the 6th-8th graders at my church. One night at a youth event we set up a Gamecube up on a projector in one of the classrooms. The screen was nearly from floor to ceiling, and it was back-projected so you could walk right up to it without casting a shadow. Awesome way to play Super Smash Bros. Melee, but I could barely keep up with most of these kids a decade younger than me. I held my own, mostly, but I never quite kept up with the best of them. They were laughing at my old man reflexes... and then I popped in Pac-Man Vs.

Those little whipper-snappers couldn't touch me. I dominated them in that game. Over and over, winning by huge margins. It wasn't even my victory I was laughing the hardest at, it was how much fun the kid were having with a game they complained about me putting in the system. They were so sure they were going to hate it, but Pac-Man Vs. is really one of the best multiplayer games on Gamecube. Nintendo really needs to remake the game for WiiWare with a wireless connection to the DS.

 

[General Specific]

Used to have game nights with my friends. I was dominant at Dead or Alive 3. We would setup tournaments on that which I would usually win. A new guy joined up one night and spent about 15-minutes exclusively playing me prior to the tourney. I sat out of it due to the odd number of people and the new guy wound up winning it. I challenged him to a Championship round and he immediately forfeited.

There was the game of Civ 4 I played the other night where I randomized the civilization choice and wound up with France. I then proceeded to not lose a single battle and wiped the rest of the players from the map before I even got to Macemen.

 

[IronBrig4]

This is both tragic and funny at the same time, but I was playing Modern Warfare 2 with my roommate. I'm 27 and he recently turned 21. We were taking turns with the multiplayer; I'd play one map, then he'd play the next. Whenever he had the controller he'd mow down all the opposition. I'm not too bad myself, but that guy seems to have Spider Sense or something. So when I played he'd keep up the running commentary, "He's down and to the right! See that sniper behind those bushes? Watch out for that harrier strike! How did you not see that grenade?"

And I've realized that it's not necessarily because he's just good. It's because my reflexes and peripheral vision aren't what they were when I was 21. HARRRUMPH!

 

[bhamv3]

I just thought of a TF2 moment.

Attacking on Goldrush 1-1, I'm a Medic and I prepare to uber a Pyro, who'll take out the sentries just outside and wreak general havoc. Gates open, I uber the Pyro, we charge out... and immediately he gets blasted straight up into the air by the carpet of stickies outside our gates.

The explosion blinds me for a moment, and I lose track of where my Pyro is. "Pyro, where'd you go?" I ask over the mike. Immediately his corpse falls out of the air and lands right at my feet. Apparently he got sniped in mid-air after the residual uber ran out.

 

[@Li3n]

Best moment was in 7th grade, Brood War had just come out and 2 guys in my class where saying that they could take on me and my 2 friend in a game of Starcraft etc...

We went to the net café (though it didn't have net back then) to play against eachother. One the guys on out side rushed to 1 Dark Templar and went to attack the Zerg player with it... the zerg player had plenty of 'lings to take on a few Darks, so we where thinking it was just gonna be some early harass.

Except that the zerg guy starts screaming how he can't see what's attacking him, what's going on, how can he counter it... apparently neither him or the other guy who where so sure of how good at Starcraft tehy where played Brood War, even if it had been out for a month at least, and we all skipped classes to go play almost every day. But even then... he was Zerg... how can you say you're good at the game when you don't know that Overlords are detectors... he even spawned more zerglings while the 1 Dark was taking out his Lair...


The reason i'm reminded of this now is because yesterday i was playing some 2v2 SC2beta on my brothers account and once my ally rushed one guy well enough so when i started sending Zealot we took him out i decided to go for Dark Templars (which are a bit harder to get now).

Obviously once i started attacking the other guy, who was Zerg he moved in his troops on me and then started dancing around waiting for his Overlord to get close enough... i kinda felt sorry to inform him that Overlords are no longer detectors in SC2... we went "Ah crap!!!" and teh GG soon after. And he did pretty well resisting all alone until i got enough DT's...