Santa Josh

Dec 3 2012, 03:15 PM

I sapped a sentry in front of an Engineer and Heavy

Master of Darkness™

Dec 3 2012, 04:52 PM

I've got a TF2 success story; MvM mode, pick Sniper and get called out for being a troll(apparently, snipers are crap). I tell the team to stfu, give me a couple of waves to power up and I'll own. Also I can headshot. I then proceeded to headshot just about everything that moved, got the gun powered up so I could kill giants in 2 shots and had my ass kissed by my team who now believed me to not be a troll. Biggest compliment was the engi who moved his dispenser next to me so I didn't have to stop shooting to find an ammo crate.

But this isn't about success stories, is it? It's about FPS failures! I guess you could pick any of Portal 2... let's say when Wheatley's letting you go free and suddenly changes his mind. That was a massive NOOOO moment.

But this isn't about cut scenes that make you facepalm, is it? It's about shooting people and it going wrong! In which case I shall pick Half Life 2 and any of the jumping scenes that need precision and lead to death if you get it wrong - the Citadel is a good example.

But that wasn't shooting!
Alrighty, my biggest failure was from the first Killzone. I was hooked up to a 44" TV and a sweet 5.1 surround system more or less perfectly set up, connected to the PS2 with an optic cable. With the lights off, this was my first truly immersive experience within a game - I swear the 5.1 made the difference.
Anyways, we're early-ish in the game, just past the trenches into the city itself. There's stuff flying overhead, and I'm spinning about wildly watching it all, reacting to the sounds like a noob does. I shoot some Helghast, they shoot back. A new noise enters play - a low rumbling. This doesn't sound like a normal wargame sound, I figure - so duck down underneath a big pipe suspended in the air.

The rumbling gets louder. It starts to get darker. I look up at the sky. The pipe is falling onto me. The sodding thing hits me and I die. The pipe's subsequent impact with the ground deafens me and leaves me with a mild amount of trauma.
BEST. FAIL. EVER. <3

snow toilet

Dec 4 2012, 12:31 AM

While I am a fan of Duke Forever and have played various other modern FPS I'm mostly an "OG" gamer so some that remember the old days of early FPS may know where I'm coming from with this.
In Doom II there's an enemy that I'm sure many who've played the game a dozen and a half times would know that you don't fudge around with and that's an Arch-vile. While playing one of the Hell stages in Doom II I came across a few Arachnotron's along with a Spiderdemon not too far off. While I took so much damage from the Spiderdemon I finally destroyed it only to see two of, what I soon discovered, three Arch-vile's walking around and slowly creeping towards me. I had little rockets and my plasma gun was less than 150 ammo, a waste to use a BFG at this point. I used the BFG but as it figured I started to see a flame covering my screen so I had to hide. While I was trying to hide I wasted 1/3 of BFG shots left so I knew that by the time I let off a shot I would've received too much blast damage from the Arch-vile attack. I used up all the rest of my double barrel running and gunning and luckily took out one. I somehow managed to survive splash damage from my own rocket shooting down and killing another (they're fast enemies and he got right up on my dick at the last second).
By this time I had somewhere around 10-15% armor and less than 20 health. For some god awful reason I took out my pistol instead of a chaingun and started spamming shots running and gunning then hiding when all of a sudden I heard a gurgling muffle. To my relief I killed the third with a pistol. That's the last time I play Doom II on Ultra-violence.

Craptasket

Dec 5 2012, 05:39 AM

Trouble in Terrorist Town, a gamemode for Garry's Mod. Not really an FPS but close enough.

I was an innocent, and this guy was following me and he came towards me with a knife. I didn't know at the time that Traitors were the only ones that could use them, so I was murdered and they won the round. After that I realized there were only two people left alive at the time and I should have known that he was an obvious traitor.