I've noticed that given a chance people will often recount stories of things that have happened while playing a game, therefore I'll open up that opportunity and start:

I was playing Half Life 2 during the Ravenholm level, wandering through the darkness with my flashlight off because I had just had it on until the battery died

suddenly I heard the sound of a Poison Headcrab who has just locked onto a target (I have it going through my speakers as I feel a headset is distracting), normally upon hearing that sound I throw a grenade into the area I suspect it of being while running full speed as far away as possible, sometimes even jumping out of the building I'm in if given the opportunity, I find it strange that a creature in a game could freak me out so much.

Now I've heard this Poison headcrab has noticed me but I have no clue where it is, to add to the game I've also turned off the lights in my own house, when suddenly out of the corner of my screen I see the damn thing flying through the air at me

Just as that happens I feel something suddenly touching my arm in real life, I fall out of my chair while making what I assume to be a pitiful yelp, look up and see my Lhasa Apso puppy looking down at me with her head tilted wondering what the hell is going on

needless to say I let her out and found something else to do for a couple hours

In-game stories? :ack:

Well, I have quite a bit of those (World of Warcraft).

Like the time a guildie and I went ganking in Stanglethorn Vale, killing every little hordeling we came across.

Or when a guildie and I were left in an original party of 4 and we downed the last stages as well as the last boss of Blackfathom Deeps (we were both only in late level 20s).

And all the Alterac Valley stories when we zerged the one or two hordelings who somehow just happened in wander into the middle of an Alliance rush.

Fun times. :D

I've had some good times in Call of Duty: UO and CoD4 that involve a lucky kill streak or sneaking around and doing a bunch of damage or my favourite which is to get around behind a tank and blow it up with a satchel and nades, but I don't really rmemeber them.

I'll try to come up with something in the morning.

When I first played the Ravenholm level in the HL2 demo it creeped me out and put me off the game for a few months, and then I played it again, loved it, bought it.

In-game stories? :ack:


certainly, I suppose mine may have been misleading but I found it funnier than some of my others :D

I've had a few memorable moments. One of the best (or worst) happen while I was playing X-com.

Early in the game (no armor yet) the aliens launched a terror attack on Vancouver. My guys arrived but due to building placement, the only way out of my landing zone was through a gas station. My squad was half-way through when the point man got mind controlled, fired at one of his team mates, missed, hit a gas pump and blew everything up.

I was left with two guys including the point man and, needless to say, hurried back to the ship and left the city to the Aliens. That mission was one of the biggest disasters I've ever had in any game and I was quite vocally upset.

Almost every round of hardcore S&D in COD4 is amazing and a bit movie like if your among the few surviving near the end of the round.

Doing One-on-Ones on Call of Duty 2 are pretty freaky to be honest. You can't hear the other person, and for all you know he/she is watching you >_>

The other story I remember is of SH3. My sub was hit by a depth charge and quite rapidly descended till it hit the sea bottom. Engines dead. Water leaking in the engine room. Radio destroyed. Destroyers above pinging my location. I had no choice, repair crews are noisy but leaking in the engine room would have killed me unless I repaired the pumps ASAP. It was one of the more thrilling game experiences I had. Really felt like a U-boot captain.

How about the time when my game of Civ4 (playing Warlords, as Mao Zedong of China) got very boring until Germany left our Buddhist alliance by converting to Taoism. I told Ragnar (Vikings) and Peter (Russia) to go attack, and then Ragnar brought ME into the war before I was ready. A Panzer rested on my only source of copper, which was disastrous because I was building my spaceship. But as soon as I got Computer technology, I built mechanized infantry and tanks and a few gunships and crushed the Germans. Then I was building my navy, but before that the Germans sailed into my backlines, and my only ship was uncovering tiles in the fog-of-war. I killed the small surprise invasion force with tanks and mechs. My Chinese devoured Western Germany (including the Taoist holy city, which caused to Frederick to covert back to Buddhism a few turns after the incident when it was waaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy too late), while the Vikings took Munich (and the Kremlin, gah!) and the Russians captured most of Southern Russia and later captured Berlin with a solitary gunship. But before we could advance any further, I launched my spaceship.

But I imagined that Sonic the Hedgehog was there defending Berlin getting killed by a helicopter (while Tails and Knuckles went to Beijing and got killed by guards when Mao figured out they were Germans). I also imagined that a disease was sweeping across Russia, and that Mao and Ragnar went there, with Jim Raynor being a victim and Samus Aran trying to cure him.

Next time I play Civ4, I'm going to name units Mario, Link, Samus, Fox, etc.

Did you survive Cleric? :scared:

One of the funniest moments I've had in Team Fortress 2 was on Dustbowl, last stage, playing as a Pyro. I was firing off afew shotgun rounds into the general mayhem around the first cap point, at longish range, when all of a sudden a Blue Spy appears out of thin air in right front of me and collapses at my feet, dead. Sneaky bugger found out the hard way that buckshot doesn't much care if your cloaked or not. :D

Heh heh, one of my favourite moments as pyro is when I get ot set at least 4 people on fire in a short time, preferably more AND survive (which happened last week, 8 people on fire and 4 died before I ran into a heavy's fist).

Also using the "I am a spy" spray while disguised and being healed and stabbing the medic in the back when he looks at it, copying the vid on YouTube.

My favorite TF2 moment was when we were all on 2fort, i was a heavy up on the palaside, gun revved to go and all of them were lining up getting ready to raid our base with there whole team and I just dropped off and massacred them all. Contributed to my biggest kill streak ever, 28.

My third fav TF2 moment, when for over 30 miutes the enemy spies were almost always disguised as the engineer "Frenchy the Sniper", even after we got two more engies.

It made it much easier to burniate them :)

my most memorbale gaming moment was when I was like 8 years old playing the original mega man. I sat down one morning and went right through it winning the game. Since there are no passwords or saving, you have to beat it in one sitting. Man that game was hard, after I won I never played it again. I think I traded it to my friend for maniac mansion. Thats still my best video game accomplishment, those early mega man games were super hard.

On that note, beating Maniac MAnsion in 15 minutes when my friend had been trying for years.

On that note, beating Maniac MAnsion in 15 minutes when my friend had been trying for years.

Please tell us more. :lol:

I looked on the internet. :P He felt stupid after not doing that for so many years.

But, at first I didn't tell him I looked online and he just stared at the tv then walked and left to stare out the window in deep thought