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When I posted a story about showing mercy in Day Z, many of you responded by sharing your own tales of glory and shame in Chernarus. Others brought up experiences from Red Dead Redemption and Soul Sacrifice.
It seems that no matter the game, when something unique and unscripted happens, it's common to feel a sense of ownership over the moment.
I'll never forget the time I accidentally dragon-sneezed on a chicken in Skyrim and instigated a riot. Or that match in Halo 3 where I tossed a random grenade, only to ignite some fusion cores and launch a deadly traffic cone into an enemy's noggin.
Most memorable to me is the time that an unknown player fought with me through Dark Souls' Chasm of the Abyss. When he saw that I needed to heal at a bonfire - an action that's blocked when your partner is still alive - he "praised the sun" before stepping off a cliff.
What are some of your own favorite accidental moments in gaming? Share your thoughts in the comments below!
Playing BlazBlue. Getting into a lobby with some really good opponents and we got down to the wire of the last match. With about 20% health left for the both of us, I was completely unaware that my heat gauge was completely filled. The guy was playing as Ragna and I, Litchi. He proceeded to pull of his special finisher and I accidentally pulled off Litchi's "Heat finish" which is a 100 hit attack.
Lobby goes wild and my face hit the floor.. Needless to say we've been best psn pals ever since.. And i'm still scratching my head to figure out how I pulled it off!
Was attacked by 3 dragons in Skyrim. Two were random one was at a word wall that was close enough to the fight for it to join in. I managed to take down two but boy was I pissed when I didn't heal in time and the third dragon picked me up in its jaws and tossed me about like a ragdoll, ending my epic fight.
So this one time I was at my friend's house and we were playing Oblivion when it first came out. Well, we went into the mages guild and a Khajit was glitching out with its tail sticking out frontwards instead of backwards and it looked like he had a big one. We were cracking up (I was about 11 or 12 at the time) and my dad walks in, looks at the Khajit, and was like WTF are you playing?!?
Me and my friend were playing co-op on Fable 3 for the first time, and we wanted to get some money so I started to play the lute at Brightwall, and while I was doing this my friend was messing around and started dancing with the crowd gathered around me and he was messing with the buttons on his controller. One thing led to another and he accidentally bludgeoned a woman he was dancing with, and he started getting chased by the guards, all while I was still playing the lute and I could see him in the background trying to avoid them while I was just standing there playing. I was laughing for about 5 minutes straight!
I will never forget this one League of Legends game my friends and I had. It was late at night, we'd been playing for hours and when we started a new game two people on our team (one of my friends and a random person we got matched with) both wanted to be the magic-user in mid lane. So we just said "Screw it. Let's all go mid!" which is just about the worst strategy ever* since all the other team has to do is build up magic resistance and push the other two undefended lanes. Somehow, the other team didn't get the memo and we won. I had a lot of fun that game.
*I should note there is a type of game, ARAM, where everyone is mid, but we weren't playing that.
My cousin and I were playing GTA: Vice City, the mission where you first meet Diaz in the alley.
The mission is successful and the cut scene where Diaz drives off ensues...then the game goes dark for about 2 minutes while we hear clunking and banging sound effects.
Finally the game has restarted and we find that Diaz tried to drive his bullet proof Admiral up the nearby staircase. Somehow the game was able to reconcile that he was never going to make it up that hill and just gave up.
We stole the now empty bulletproof admiral and tore off down the street. Not 10 seconds later I try to run down a guy on a faggio and flip the car.
Hilarious.
I would have to say the cuccos in Link to the Past. I was but a lad who was lost without any idea where to go so, naturally, I started repeatedly hitting a chicken with my sword. Boy, was I in awe when the game was hit with slow down and the screen filled with chickens. I was blown away. I had absolutely no idea my mischievous nature would lead to a terrifying onslaught of furious poultry.
Figuring out I had to Switch the controller to port 2 in Metal Gear Solid to get past Psycho Mantis. Did it on my own, don't ask me how I thought to do it, but I did and I did it after a couple of times
Yay me!
Every time when I walk away from Skyrim a dragon kills me but when I return the dragon is nowhere around to get slaughtered by my thirst for revenge.
I was trying to kill a rabbit from across a river just north of Riverwood in Skyrim... I kept missing my arrows. I aimed on it what should have been perfectly, EVERY time, making adjustments in my confusion. It just sat there, looking off to the sunset in blissful ignorance of its impending doom. Then, as I let loose my final arrow in frustration, a giant chicken FELL FROM THE SKY, AND LANDED IN THE RIVER -DEAD-.
In disbelief, I took screenshots and ran up to the chicken, to examine it. To this day, I don't know how or why it happened. Every new save file since then, I have encountered a giant chicken roughly near that area.
The first thing I did when I got GTA: San Andreas was break into the airport and steal a plane. I flew it directly to Las Venturas. Of course, by this point I had a six star wanted level and it didn't take long before my plane was smoking from all the gunfire it was taking. I flew low enough to the ground to bail out and land directly onto the strip alive, only for the plane I was just flying to crash right on top of me.
I'd like to think I was the first San Andreas player to visit Las Venturas.
I used the healh cheat on gta 4 and drove off a building on a cycle and landed with no damage
Shot the pilot out of the helicopter with my sniper in BF Bad Company 2. I was so psyched until it came down at full speed at me. SMUSH! xD
Well one would be when I accidentally placed Nephenee way to far ahead of the rest of my squad in Fire Emblem Path of Radiance. I was dying of fear that she would just get decimated from the enemies. But she ended up single handedly killing off 90% of the enemy forces all by herself without barely taking any damage herself. Instantly became my favorite character in that game.
Second would be something that happened yesterday while I was playing ME3. I was on Palaven's moon and realized that a combination of slam and shockwave caused a biotic detonation so powerful that it send everything it hit soaring off across the horizon. Only seemed to work on that level though.