Funniest Video Game Moment Ever

[The Chupster]

;D

Okay... over my excessively long video game life, I've seen a lot of pure luck, funny-as-hell things.

My first night with Red Dead Revolver took the cake.

During the course of the evening, I was riding my horse through the prairie, looking for specific herbs. I come across this guy at a campsite. I hop off the horse and he starts talking about how good a shot he is, and challenges me to a shooting contest, seeing who can shoot 3 birds first. Naturally, I say sure, why not!

Now, for those that haven't played it, the aiming system in RDR is a little different. It has auto aim to a point, but you really have to have your target pretty close to the center of the screen for it to activate- otherwise, you just get purely manual aim. There's also "Dead Eye" mode, where you can take your time to get in your shots in manual aim or mark a lot of targets and drill them when you pull the trigger.

I figure autoaim will be good enough. The contest starts. I hit the left trigger to pull out my gun and auto-aim.

At that exact moment, for reasons that completely defy reason, my horse- who had been with me through the first, I dunno, 5 hours of the game- my horse, who had been completely docile and reliable the whole time- decides to go completely apeshit and rears up on its hind legs.

Which puts her head directly in the middle of the screen. Before I can even think, I'm already pulling the trigger, and my horse falls over, deader than shit.

Now, not to be callous- yeah, I hit Dead Eye mode and won the contest, but I couldn't believe what had happened. I laughed for a full five minutes. (I also went off on a laughing fit today when I started thinking about it.) But hey, what can you do?

As a tribute to my fallen comrade, I skinned and butchered her and sold the meat and hide for a cool $6. The lesson? Behind each cloud, there's a silver lining. (And a whole lot of laughter.)

[MattyAC]

Oh god, I have WAY too many moments in games where I just burst out laughing. Maybe surprisingly I dont know, but most of them have come from playing online, and the majority of them from Halo 2 of all games. Just all the custom games that could be made on their, you always had fun as long as you had at least 15 others that played them with you lol.

I don't have a specific moment, but I can tell you that some of them came from when we played a game type called "Warthogs". Not the best name for it, but its simple. Basically, we played on that underground cave map, you know that had the centre bridge between 2 bases? Anyways, what you did was everyone got into a seperate warthog (only 4 ) and drive down through that bridge. This usually ended up in 2 warthogs meeting on either side's bridge and sent either one, or sometimes both, flying in the air and usually down to your death while those not in the warthogs roamed around, usually getting hit by one of these flying warthogs. Simple, but loads of fun

[whitedragon]

i just had a laughing fit at work.. im picturing it in my head and just crack up. thats too hilarious .

[The Chupster]

Damn, I thought I posted a post earlier today right after Zero's... damn goofy internet... yeah, the Halo series is good for a ton of hilariousness. And that level was my favorite; I loved getting up on the machinery where no one could see me and sniping (or attempting to), and shooting down stalactites. That was all KINDS of fun!

Still can't believe I killed my horse. Luckily enough there aren't many different horse models in the game and I found one that looks just like her. RDR is really one hell of a good game. I also giggled my ass off once I found out that the rattlesnake sound effect in the game isn't just ambiance- I was walking along and suddenly I see a snake fucking JUMP at my guy, and it bites him and he starts cursing and yelling for the damn thing to get off of him. Also had a similar thing where I was running after a deer on foot and a fox jumped out of a bush and attacked. (Heh, I got am-bushed!)

Yeah, most of my best hilarious shit has been like Halo, Burnout series, or Saint's Row stuff, but RDR is gettin' up there pretty quick. If anyone hasn't tried it, I recommend it- it reminds me a lot of the old 360 game Gun, but it's just better in like every way. Even the side games are fun, like Texas Hold 'Em.

[MattyAC]

Well lets hope RD:Redemption can live up to its spiritual predecessor for just complete randomness. I'm getting my copy today, pre-ordered it

[The Chupster]

Lotta random stuff happens, it's pretty good- just pisses me off that every time someone needs help because someone else is being hung, I botch it; either I can't shoot the rope in time to stop the hanging, or I get gunned down before or after I save them. It's always a complete mess.

[KAVEEKS]

Yeah I picked up rdr too and I can't save a hanging dude's life for shit. The last time I tried I ended up shooting him in the head while frantically trying to shoot at the rope. And just like that, poof, a hundred points of hard earned honor goes bye bye.

How are you playing the game chups? Are going honorable or dishonorable? I'm trying to go honorable but all the time I'm just jonesing to shoot everybody up, put on a bandana and rob me a damn train LOL.

I did one dishonorable thing (on purpose) that was pretty funny. I met this old grumpy geezer that was looking to sell his land but pulled a shot gun on me in the process. I didn't take too kindly to that so when the game gave me a choice to buy his property or kill him, I quick drew and blasted him. Then I took the took the deed sand sold it to this guy who wanted to buy it because he thought he could spring water from under the property or something. But after he paid for it and turned his back, I gunned him down and took the deed right back! Not very nice I know but I couldn't help myself. Other then that I've been a stand up Guy lol

[The Chupster]

LOL- I'm trying to do the honorable stuff, but I keep getting boned in the ass. Like I walked into the bank in Armadillo and was like, okay, is there any point to this building? And there was this guy behind the teller stuff and I was hey, maybe I can talk to him. So I followed him over to the door- I thought he was gonna talk to me or something- and when I pushed into the door, it opened. I went over to him and all of a sudden all hell breaks loose and I have a bounty of $5 for trespassing! So he's shooting at me and all of these deputies are after me, and I ran for the train station to get my name cleared, and the bastard you have to pay wasn't even there! So I ran into his little area and took cover next to his bed, hoping he would pop up, and then it was just a rain of gunfire. I shot a deputy guy in the face, and boom, -100 honor and my bounty shot up. So I put the gun away and let them cart me off to jail at Bonnie's ranch.

Dumb shit like that keeps happening, but I'm going straight with the first playthrough. The second one I'm gonna kill everything that moves just to be a bitch.

But right now I'm trying my best to do the ambient challenges because I want the Legend of the Old West suit (extra Dead Eye power)- you have to get level 10 on all ambient challenges, and right now the real bitch is killing 2 cougars with the knife and skinning them. Two hits from them is instant death, so I'm dying a fuckload. On the other hand, I am killing a buttload of animals and making some good scratch.

[The Chupster]

Just found out that there's some execution kills too... I was in Mexico taking out a gang hideout and one snuck just past me; I turned around and fired, only to get an animation of Marston shoving the business end of the rifle under his chin and shooting through the top of his head. NICE.

[MattyAC]

How do you get those execution kills? Do you have to be like really close to them and do some random shit?

[The Chupster]

Far as I can tell, you just have to be up against a guy and pull the trigger- I figure it probably works with the knife too, but that's all I did. I aimed at the guy and shot.

I would imagine you can't be using Dead Eye though- I could be wrong, but I use it a lot and I wasn't when I nailed this guy. Cool as hell though. lol

[The Chupster]

Yeah, you just have to get within touching distance and shoot.

I use the shit out of the repeaters/rifles, so all I've seen is the shot from underneath, but I've done it three times now, once from behind (which just looked cool as all hell!), but yeah- it's not hard to do unless you get shot up running in. Much awesomeness- I think my next game (in which I'll be playing the role of the bad guy) I'll definitely be executing the shit out of people.

[KAVEEKS]

Oh MAN! I just did a couple of freakin bone-headed things!

Once I bought the bandit mask from the store I've been wearing it all the time because I thought it looked bad-ass with the different outfits but I didn't realize until now that while wearing the mask your fame doesn't change because you're annonymous! Holy crap I did so much stuff with that stupid mask on, and I've been wondering why I didn't get any fame for a lot of the big events that I did! Shit, I think my fame should be almost maxed out by now, but all I am is damn "Buckaroo" runnin around with a stupid cloth around my face.

And then to make things worse I did the whole opium mission in mexico where you do a delivery for this pompus english prick where you get paid a thousand bucks but are required to bring the money back to him. And when you do, he calls you an ignorant moralist or something, but you need to give him his money in order to get a scrap of clothing for one of the bandit outfits so I do. But I wanted that damn thousand dollars so I blow his ass away and take it back off his dead body. So then there's a measly 40 dollar bounty on my head now, and I didn't think it would be a problem, but outa nowhere 5 mexican police dudes pop out of nowhere and gun me down in seconds! The game saved after I gave the dude his money and gained the outfit scrap, but when I respawned I was short my thousand bucks with no way of finding that dirty bastard again because the mission is completed!!! I hunted through the whole town looking for that prick with my thousand bucks. I even started just shooting everyone in town and robbing them looking for the money but no dice. And those mexican cops are brutal!

[Angel]

Largest bounty I had on my head was for 675 dollars, and it was completely unintentional. I did a mission where I had to blow up a wagon coming down a pass, and when I did and some stupid npc decided it was a good time to come down the road so they got killed too. Well there were witnesses, and I took notice that if you kill the witnesses before they can report the crime tada no bounty. So I killed the witnesses only to have more people witness that crime, so I killed those to only have some marshall's see me commit the crime so finally I kill them and I'm sitting there with a whole nice sized bounty all because some stupid npc got in the way of my story mission.

[The Chupster]

lol, shit- and I thought my luck was bad!

I haven't had any serious mishaps in a while, switched the targeting to expert mode and no more autolock, so no worries there, and I'm just about out of Mexico- pisses me off that to get the suit I want you have to complete all of the ambient challenges, but I can't until I can get into that upper right hand corner of the map because all of the stuff I need is there, and that's just pissing me off right proper.

Oh well, I'm almost there.