Howdy, Stranger!
It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
This forum is in permanent archive mode. Our new active community can be found here.
Hilarious Moments in Gaming
What were some of the most absurd, funny, or face-palm inducing gaming experiences you ever had?
I'll begin: One time, I was playing Titan and I rolled a total of 48 dice against my brother's weaker unit and I scored only two hits, despite hitting on 6s (I should have at least killed that footslogger which had only 4 hit-points!). Eventually, my brother killed my stronger unit even though it had engaged his unit at full health.
Another time, I was playing a demo game of Warhammer Fantasy against a GW employee and all I had to roll was anything but a 1 to slay his troll and win the game. Unfortunately, I rolled a 1 and I lost the next turn. That happened when I was 10, but I still remember it clear as day.
I'll begin: One time, I was playing Titan and I rolled a total of 48 dice against my brother's weaker unit and I scored only two hits, despite hitting on 6s (I should have at least killed that footslogger which had only 4 hit-points!). Eventually, my brother killed my stronger unit even though it had engaged his unit at full health.
Another time, I was playing a demo game of Warhammer Fantasy against a GW employee and all I had to roll was anything but a 1 to slay his troll and win the game. Unfortunately, I rolled a 1 and I lost the next turn. That happened when I was 10, but I still remember it clear as day.
Comments
And then the other players built roads and settlements around me! I was blocked off with no chance of another settlement and no chance of longest road.
I was buying cards every turn looking for one more victory point. Other players bought a few cards but I put everything in every turn to buy as many cards as I could. I made 4 for 1 trades to maximise my card buying ability for the "right now"!
Between us we went through the entire deck and I still didn't get another point!
At this point I realised I couldn't win because there were no more opportunities to get my tenth VP.
So I started trading favourably with my little brother to give him the win.
1) Trantor, the kitty-loving Nurgle Space Marine that got us banned from the main spaceport in an area by trying to pet a doggy, killing the doggy with his massive Speece Mahreen strength, accidentally killing the owner who saw him, then dragging both corpses through the entirety of the space station, bringing the Inquisition (Space NepoliHitler SS) near our horribly desecrated heretical ship, after which our Techpriest attempted to get us out of trouble by suggesting we "bend the rules a bit", which went over as well as expected.
2) Said tech priest fucking up a 99% chance to successfully make a booby trap twice, causing a ship's warp core to explode, blowing up half a planet and most of a Rogue Trader's fleet.
3) Me switching the off switch on every gun and techpriest within a few hundred meters due to Psychic Phenomena.
http://frontrowcrew.com/videos/geeknights-lectures/139/the-difference-between-trolling-and-griefing/
I quit the server immediately without a word.
But yeah; cool story.
Don't get me started on the guard they are literally a clown costume away from Zappo's.
While not a combat game per se, a lot of the game mechanics revolve around screwing the other players over. Not just in a passive-aggressive way either.
For example, one time a player ended up using the invention of the Bicycle to achieve victory. It's like writing the history of the world with magnetic poetry.