FOS Gaming Stories

[WrestleClown]

Forum of Solitude Gaming Stories.

Most of us on the board are avid gamers, I don't think that's in dispute.  So I'm sure that those of you that are gamers have a couple (or more) of stories to share.   The moments you share could range from being funny, weird, awesome, full of failure and so forth.  I was planning on sharing this Farcry 3 story that happened to me about 10 minutes ago, and thought that instances of our noteworthy moments with video games deserved its own thread.








So I'm playing Farcry 3, and I've recently reset the outposts.  I come up on this outpost that is next to a body of water, and I start carefully eliminating the enemies, trying to make sure that they don't catch wind of my presence.  I drag some bodies away and snipe the guys out by themselves, all while not aware of any guard dogs.  I get a little too close while using the bow and the guard dogs spot me, I back away, frantically killing them by spray and pray (with an assault rifle).  All of this snowballs and eventually they call reinforcements, and I end up shooting and hiding while picking them off (I like to shoot from the shadows).

After a while, I've lowered the number to about 4 guards or so.  Suddenly an enemy helicopter comes from seemingly out of nowhere as it rises from behind distant hills seconds after I hear it.  I'm diving into the water, trying to not be spotted, and surfacing when I think I can get a shot.  This goes on for a couple of minutes before all 4 guards have grouped pretty close together and are coming my way (I shot at the pilot of the helicopter with a sniper rifle once or twice and they noticed me).  Just as they do, the helicopter rises directly above them, facing right at me so that I can get the shot.  In a last second attempt, I aim the sniper rifle at where I suspect the pilot is sitting (couldn't make him out very well in the spur of the moment) and pull the trigger.

Just as I do, I hear a crash, and see debris land in the water just feet away from where I was swimming.  The outpost had been cleared.  Confused, I surface and find that no one is alive.  What had happened was that I sniped the pilot and the helicopter wrecked, exploding and killing not only the people on board, but the grounded guards as well.

*Honk*

[Deleted]

I was TTT2 online (this happened the day i got it), i was witha beginner Lee Chaolan and a beginner Lili. My opponent was 3rd dan. I beat him with Lili. He rage quit. Probably the funniest thing that happened to me in Tekken.

[pinksparklepuff]

Once upon a time while playing Star Wars Battlefront II, I had one respawn left.

It was on Kashyyyk or whatever, so I hid in the little fortress and spent about ten minutes weeding down the enemy until I eliminated every last droid. Or clone. Not entirely sure what era it was, but I felt so accomplished, like my victory actually meant something other than self gratifying.

I was amazing darnit! The Republic should have awarded me a medal of honor and superiority for my mad defensive skillz!

[WSS?]

I was playing Red Dead Redemption multiplayer.

Just for fun, I joined a posse and we tried to take over Armadillo, the generic western town. The "Capture point" of sorts was in a two level saloon, where the people on the second level could easily shoot whoever comes in through the front door.

Everyone on the server ended up fighting over this one saloon, eventually ending up with one exceptionally skilled asshat sitting on the second floor, literally sniping everyone, and I mean everyone. And, of course, everyone just kept blindly charging into the meat grinder, like a bunch of lemmings. I finally realized the stupidity of it, so I shot out a second floor window and threw a stick of dynamite in.


Let me assure you, that is the worst possible time to discover that the posse leader was the one to finally kill the asshat. Needless to say, the rest of the session became a manhunt.

[Deleted]

Actually "fos" means "diarrhea" in Hungarian... whoops...

[SoonDragon67]

Just yesterday I was playing Playstation All-Stars. It was a 2v2 match. It was me and Parappa against a Heihachi and a Sly. I was playing Sly. Anyhow eventually my partner and the Heihachi were both eliminated. It was a stock match. I hadn't lost a single stock, so I still had 3 lives left. The other Sly however had only 1 stock remaining.

Now Sly vs Sly matches are very, very long matches. They're also very strategic, at least if the two competitors are closely matched. This one however I was better than the other Sly. Sure, we used a lot of the same tactics but I was better just by a small margin. When it comes to Sly vs Sly matches that small margin is equivalent to a surefire win, however due to the small margin it would be a very long match.

We then played for a good 10 minutes, neither one of us getting a kill. We both missed several supers. At this point I could tell the other guy was getting desperate, and he finally started slipping up and making big mistakes. A minute later I finally got a kill on him with my level 2 super.

[pinksparklepuff]

So, I went to Charlotte NC for a comic book convention, one day only unfortunately. Before we went home, though, we decided we'd take a quick stroll through the mall across the street.

Unbeknownst to us, Nintendo has some sort of Play Nintendo tour going on and we happened to stumble into it.

It was all fun and games until I was heckled into joining a Mario Kart tournament. Ah, who am I kidding, I would have entered anyway.

So, there were three stages of the tournament, qualifiers, semi-finals, and finals. The qualifier was a time trial in Mario Kart 7 for the Nintendo 2DS, which I passed with flying colors at 1:42:598, the best of all my fellow karters! Nah, I don't know who had the best time trial time.

So I moved onto the semi-finals with two of my sister's, which was a traditional grand prix against three other players, the best two moving on to the finals.

I obliterated the competition with my trusty Mr. Scooty, and my older sister advanced with moi.

The finals were next. I was more than ready. I was ready for the gold, I selected my trademark combination of Mr. Scooty, roller wheels, and parasol- wait. These suckers haven't unlocked the parasol yet?!? Bah, no matter, the rainbow parachute would suffice, but I was pretty disappointed with the lack of the parasol which hindered my dorky look.
The finals were fast, sweat inducing, and heart poundingly ferocious.
Or at least it should have been. It was really quite a cake walk.

It was kind of odd because I had been using random commentary and screams through my races, but my older sister who might appreciate it was seated to the far right of me, and some random stranger was sitting right next to me, so I toned myself down to keep from breaking his concentration.

It was a moot point. I completely dominated, and the two non-familial competitors came in tenth and eleventh for at least the first two races, maybe more.

I won the tournament, got a plush Mario and a Mario Kart certificate type thing that I'm going to get framed, and a boost in pride. Yayzercakes.


So if you're ever beaten to a pulp on Mario Kart 8 online by a Shy Guy riding Mr. Scotty with roller wheels and a parasol, know that it may well be you're friendly neighborhood Sparkle Punk from the internetz. Who also won a tournament in a mall of all things.

[WSS?]

Bought Deus Ex for a buck. My first experience was accidentally blowing my own legs off with explosives, then picking a fight with a giant robot, who promptly ripped off both of my arms. Tired of my lack of limbs, I attempted to commit suicide by getting the robot to shoot an explosive barrel next to me. To my utter amazement, the barrel's explosion spared me but annihilated the robot.


I promptly celebrated my ability to kill without limbs.

[BaneTheDestroyer]

Well, I could talk about how I used to hump people in Halo, but everybody started doing that, so it's unoriginal.




However, there is this thing that happened to me in MK (2011) that I'm not sure I've ever talked about, and it is an angry story.


Those of you whom are familiar with the game, know there's a Challenge Tower of 300 missions. When you beat the 300th mission, you get a Mileena costume that's only unlockable by beating the tower. If you've beat it or got to it, you know that it's a fucking hard until you get used to it. So, I played it a bunch of times. I think you have to go through 4 buffed up bosses while you're your being nerfed and only have 1 health bar if I remember correctly, so imagine how hard it is if you dont' know what I'm talking about. I played it about 90 times. I beat the game completely in 5 days. That includes story and challenge tower. However, when I beat the 300th mission, my game froze and it did not count apparently because it didn't save yet. So, after about of week more of frustration (because honestly I was lucky the first time), I beat it again and it happened again. I decided to go at it a third time and it froze again, so I just said "screw it." Now, there is another option to pay kredits in order to skip the challenge tower, and although it was a last resort, my game kept freezing and I had no other choice so I attempted it. It fucking froze.

So, to this day I still don't have the costume on Xbox 360. It pisses me off, lol.

[Deleted]

Yeah so... in SR3 once i had to fight two Genkis at once.... wasn't pretty... and i had to buy ammo for everything...

[WrestleClown]

Quick story.  It's not really amazing or even noteworthy, but it stuck out to me, because it happened out of no where.

I'm playing Sims 3 Pets for the first time.  I create a dog, and eventually I have it running around the neighborhood fucking shit up.  He's knocking over trashcans, puking on sidewalks, shitting in the neighbor's yard, etc.  Well that's all fine, except he has to cross the street a lot to piss off my neighbors.  I have him prance back home proudly, and fast-forward the game so I can move on to the next thing.  Right when he enters the street, a car whirls a curving street and darts forward right at the dog.  All you hear from me is "OH SHIT!!!" before I pause it (too late).

Already planning to bury the mut, I'm surprised to see that the dog is just fine after unpausing it.  In a game featuring pets and death, I was pretty bummed to see that cars won't kill your pets...  If you have no idea what any of this means, neither do I.  It was just a weird experience that stuck with me through playing that game.

*Honk*

[BaneTheDestroyer]

Jul 4, 2014 18:03:00 GMT -5 WrestleClown said:

Quick story.  It's not really amazing or even noteworthy, but it stuck out to me, because it happened out of no where.

I'm playing Sims 3 Pets for the first time.  I create a dog, and eventually I have it running around the neighborhood fucking shit up.  He's knocking over trashcans, puking on sidewalks, shitting in the neighbor's yard, etc.  Well that's all fine, except he has to cross the street a lot to piss off my neighbors.  I have him prance back home proudly, and fast-forward the game so I can move on to the next thing.  Right when he enters the street, a car whirls a curving street and darts forward right at the dog.  All you hear from me is "OH SHIT!!!" before I pause it (too late).

Already planning to bury the mut, I'm surprised to see that the dog is just fine after unpausing it.  In a game featuring pets and death, I was pretty bummed to see that cars won't kill your pets...  If you have no idea what any of this means, neither do I.  It was just a weird experience that stuck with me through playing that game.

*Honk*

I love Sims games. For the ones on PC, do you know if they'd work on shitty computers?

[WSS?]

Speaking of Sims:


Dated a chick, got her to move in with me. Checked her relationships. Turns out she had three or four other boyfriends.

[Deleted]

Jul 4, 2014 18:03:00 GMT -5 WrestleClown said:

Quick story.  It's not really amazing or even noteworthy, but it stuck out to me, because it happened out of no where.

I'm playing Sims 3 Pets for the first time.  I create a dog, and eventually I have it running around the neighborhood fucking shit up.  He's knocking over trashcans, puking on sidewalks, shitting in the neighbor's yard, etc.  Well that's all fine, except he has to cross the street a lot to piss off my neighbors.  I have him prance back home proudly, and fast-forward the game so I can move on to the next thing.  Right when he enters the street, a car whirls a curving street and darts forward right at the dog.  All you hear from me is "OH SHIT!!!" before I pause it (too late).

Already planning to bury the mut, I'm surprised to see that the dog is just fine after unpausing it.  In a game featuring pets and death, I was pretty bummed to see that cars won't kill your pets...  If you have no idea what any of this means, neither do I.  It was just a weird experience that stuck with me through playing that game.

*Honk*

Cars can go through cars without anything happening...

[WSS?]

Jul 4, 2014 18:06:44 GMT -5 BaneTheDestroyer said:

Jul 4, 2014 18:03:00 GMT -5 WrestleClown said:

Quick story.  It's not really amazing or even noteworthy, but it stuck out to me, because it happened out of no where.

I'm playing Sims 3 Pets for the first time.  I create a dog, and eventually I have it running around the neighborhood fucking shit up.  He's knocking over trashcans, puking on sidewalks, shitting in the neighbor's yard, etc.  Well that's all fine, except he has to cross the street a lot to piss off my neighbors.  I have him prance back home proudly, and fast-forward the game so I can move on to the next thing.  Right when he enters the street, a car whirls a curving street and darts forward right at the dog.  All you hear from me is "OH SHIT!!!" before I pause it (too late).

Already planning to bury the mut, I'm surprised to see that the dog is just fine after unpausing it.  In a game featuring pets and death, I was pretty bummed to see that cars won't kill your pets...  If you have no idea what any of this means, neither do I.  It was just a weird experience that stuck with me through playing that game.

*Honk*

I love Sims games. For the ones on PC, do you know if they'd work on shitty computers?

I think Sims 1 was in 2D, so there's that.

[Brian_Underscore_]

My PC is pretty shitty and it ran Sims 3, but with a ton of lag.

[BaneTheDestroyer]

Jul 4, 2014 18:08:11 GMT -5 WSS? said:

Speaking of Sims:


Dated a chick, got her to move in with me. Checked her relationships. Turns out she had three or four other boyfriends.

Now that's real simulation!

[Deleted]

Jul 4, 2014 18:06:44 GMT -5 BaneTheDestroyer said:

Jul 4, 2014 18:03:00 GMT -5 WrestleClown said:

Quick story.  It's not really amazing or even noteworthy, but it stuck out to me, because it happened out of no where.

I'm playing Sims 3 Pets for the first time.  I create a dog, and eventually I have it running around the neighborhood fucking shit up.  He's knocking over trashcans, puking on sidewalks, shitting in the neighbor's yard, etc.  Well that's all fine, except he has to cross the street a lot to piss off my neighbors.  I have him prance back home proudly, and fast-forward the game so I can move on to the next thing.  Right when he enters the street, a car whirls a curving street and darts forward right at the dog.  All you hear from me is "OH SHIT!!!" before I pause it (too late).

Already planning to bury the mut, I'm surprised to see that the dog is just fine after unpausing it.  In a game featuring pets and death, I was pretty bummed to see that cars won't kill your pets...  If you have no idea what any of this means, neither do I.  It was just a weird experience that stuck with me through playing that game.

*Honk*

I love Sims games. For the ones on PC, do you know if they'd work on shitty computers?

Do your PC play PS1 games? If yes then Sims 2 will go with only one problem, every time some one visits your plot, it'll freeze a little.

[BaneTheDestroyer]

Jul 4, 2014 18:09:34 GMT -5 @atithehero said:

Jul 4, 2014 18:06:44 GMT -5 BaneTheDestroyer said:

I love Sims games. For the ones on PC, do you know if they'd work on shitty computers?

Do your PC play PS1 games? If yes then Sims 2 will go with only one problem, every time some one visits your plot, it'll freeze a little.

I'm not talking roms, ati.

[Deleted]

Jul 4, 2014 18:10:19 GMT -5 BaneTheDestroyer said:

Jul 4, 2014 18:09:34 GMT -5 @atithehero said:

Do your PC play PS1 games? If yes then Sims 2 will go with only one problem, every time some one visits your plot, it'll freeze a little.

I'm not talking roms, ati.

Me neither. Well, not fully.  My PC runs PS1 games (roms), and it can run Sims 2 (PC version) quite well, with said problem being the only one.