Tell us and Win - Long Weekend Gaming Rig Giveaway!
By Andi –
With the long weekend approaching fast it's the perfect time to have a Gaming Rig Giveaway!
Those fine people at SilverStone have been nice enough to give us one of their bright RED limited edition SilverStone Redline Gaming Towers!
You may recognise this as a gorgeous red version of our incredibly popular SilverStone Redline ATX Gaming Tower and you'd be right.
This case has seen some incredible reviews from all of you, and it's no wonder why. At incredible value, this Mid Tower offers you plenty of space, airflow, storage capacity and more!
We couldn't think of anything better to do with an empty chassis than to fill it up with all the components you'd need to get your game on, so we've done just that!
Thanks to even more help from Sapphire and Cooler Master, this special edition chassis is now packing an awesome Sapphire Vapor X R9 270X Graphics Card, Water Cooled Unlocked AMD Quad Core, 8GB 1600Mhz RAM with Gold Heat Spreaders and HDD + SSD (phew! what a mouth full!)
Our Giveaway Gaming Rig is packed to the rim and just wants to play games with YOU!
Of course winning it won't be easy – we've got a challenge for gamers new and old this time. It's great to be a gamer and we'd like to read the wonderful tales of your experiences – in particular those regarding multiplayer moments, madness and messups!
This could be anything from fending off all challengers on the classic Mortal Kombat arcade machine, or when you made it through that all-nighter to beat the original Halo in co-op… a League of Legends match in which the perfect arrow from Ashe brought you a last minute win, or that car you all hopped into while played some GTA V – which then drove of the cliff… most importantly a cool moment you've had with your friends :)
Ben writes…
It had been a particularlly punishing round of Left for Dead but we were now on the roof top awaiting the helicopters arrival to get us away from the horde and to safely. Setup in different positions around the landing site, we were facing increasing numbers and ammo was getting low – things weren't looking good at all. Then those wonderful words came on screen: Rescue has arrived! Get Aboard! I ran for it and jumped on straight away – “safe at last!” I thought.
However, from my seat I saw my friend become overwhelmed by a pack of runners – so I got out the heli, cut through the zombies with my trusty shotgun and by some miracle got him back up!
As we ran back to the rest of our team (now waiting in the heli for the triumphant escape) I got clipped and was taken down by a single zombie! Instead of jumping out and rescuing me I watched the helicopter fly away as everyone laughed down the mic.
Thanks guys… Still a great game with friends… even if they left me for dead.
Do you have a great story to tell? We'll be annoucing the winner on the 30th April so get writing – share your favourite moments in the comments below and be in to win!
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It would have to be a playing a round of TTT on Garry's mod. I had been a part of an american server for a couple of weeks, made a few friends, and had a few laughs. We were playing on the minecraft map where one of the terrorist, unknown to us at the time, he was standing at the bottom of the mountain. I jumped off and landed on his head, he hadn't been moving, but was very much active in the chat log. I managed to stay standing on his head when another player decided to jump on mine.
In the end we managed to build a tower of players on top of one guy. Everyone was giggling and laughing down their mic's. It wasn't until he decided to move that the tower of players fell. He turned around and then realised that everyone was on his head the whole time.
I have a screenshot of the event. If only there was a way to upload a photo...
My best story would probably have to be when me and my mates were done with school for the year so we decided to celebrate with a few drinks. The two of them came around to my place and after we had had a few drinks we decided to play some games, more specifically "game" we played Smite, in which we won some and lost some. I mainly played thor because I'm rubbish with all the other characters. We played into the very late hours of the morning. As always though they did better than me because they have actual gaming rigs whilst all I have is a measly laptop, still it was an amazing night and alot of fun was had by all. (Probably not what you were asking for but hey it was a great night and I thought hey why not enter this competition and try to win a much needed gaming computer)
Should probably clarify that I was 18 at the time.
It was a punishing and intense round 60 of cod exo zombies me and my friends were getting swarmed by zombies from every angle after a minute of holding put we see a swarm of 50 zombies running at us through the door beside us, all my friends went down and it was up to me to rescue them before they lost there perks. I had to lure them away so I even had a chance of getting them back up but sadly I was only able to rescue one of them in the end because it came down it that split second before we got swarm by zombies again. Me and my friend survive the round but when it got to round 61 all of us lost connection to the host and all you could hear from the Skype call was intense raging.
Twas a dark and stormy night, the deployment statistics were not in my favour and did not give me the dry conditions I wanted. I was to take a last stand, 900 vs 3000. Elite Spartan Hoplite vs mere Celtic Warriors a whitewash for some but not for a seasoned commander. My cavalry was weak but experienced, it had to be a hammer and anvil with the trees concealing my movements. My Elite Spartans were to take the brunt of the attack, distracting them while my horsemen galloped. "HOPLITE PHALANX" I shouted as my troops entered their impenetrable wall. This was to be a battle for the ages. As the enemy thundered in, my wall held well and whist engaged my cavalry emerged from the trees taking the enemy by surprise. Charge after charge my cavalry battered the backs of the Celtic Warriors. Finally.... their general had fallen. Unit by unit the enemy were breaking, running for their lives, shattered by the loss of their general. No one was to survive, cavalry rounding them up like animals to the slaughter. It was done. Sparta was victorious - Sparta vs Rome 215BC (Rome II - Total War).
Would have to be the time when me and my friends were playing League of Legends, we were losing and had all our turrets destroyed all we could do was defend and hope, luckily the enemy adc made a huge mistake and split from the rest of his team and tried to end it by himself. We killed him and then finished off his team and won the game. :D
@ Courtney - That sounds like a great moment :) If you share the screenshot via facebook or google+ please send through a link to gorillarigs@mightyape.co.nz we would love to see it!
My son has aspergers and learning difficulties and couldnt talk for a long time. He used to love watching me play Zombies ate my neighbors on snes as a kid and loved to write down the level codes for me. He started to read the letters out aloud and thats how we first heard him speak :D Hes doing great now but has trouble making friends due to them not understanding his ways.We still play zombies to this day with the same cart even tho im now rusty and useless at it and now he shows me up! Hes now 12 and loves retro and modern gaming. Good luck to everyone who enters!
My first night Heroic Raiding in Blackrock Foundary had been an interesting one. Here I was, Level 100 Death Knight, haply called 'Freiza', hardly able to pull high numbers in DPS. I was brought along to help farm bosses all the way up to the final one. The tank was talking to me, asking if I was nervous, if I was ready, if I had the mechanics down-packed. (Yes, no and yes.) Still, I couldn't help but see myself in Freiza's shoes.
Standing in barely-there armour, wielding a massive fiery Greatsword, her tiny Blood Elf body was about to clash with this gigantic Orc who had tamed four different beasts, and little did we know, would wipe the entire raid.
The pull timer was set, and people were pre-casting their cooldowns. As the number neared closer to 1, at about 3, a Hunter's itchy trigger finger had gotten the best of him. He fired an arrow and we all watched in horror as he pulled before any of us were ready. All of us heard a groan over out headsets from our Raid Leader before we rushed into battle.
Orcs, Blood Elves, Trolls, Undead, Tauren, Pandaren.. Twenty of us all running head on into our potential deaths.
"Stay behind the boss, use Defile (AoE ground move), keep self healing because your gear is utter crap and if you don't you'll die.."
Four minutes into the fight, we started dropping like flies. He still had a lot of health left. Healers and DPS lay on the group helpless, blaming lag, blaming people who weren't doing mechanics right. This was a heroic progression raiding guild, these things are not meant to happen on the first boss! (The tanks thought it was hilarious.)
10% health left, both tanks, a few healers, myself and a couple of DPS were left up. I knew I was about to die so I threw some DoT's on him, and an AoE before getting struck down. After me, it was one tank, then the healers, the other tank, and one DPS was still up.
1% health left, but he still had DoTs on him! Were we REALLY going to down this boss with DoTs and everyone dead?! We were watching the numbers tick as the last DPS ran around self healing and staying out of the way, all of us yelling at each other on Mumble and Skype.
Tick, tick, tick...
Boss goes down, DPS goes down at the same time. The cheers and "Oh my gods" flowed heavily through the headsets that night, because not only did this happen once, it happened on two more bosses afterwards..
I even managed to get a new Heroic 670 Ring.
That was the closest and most intense boss fight I have ever done on WoW to date.
'No Russian' the most destructive mission on any series of games i have played.... modern warfare 2 was the most addicting game i have possibly played and this mission was no exception. Acting as an undercover agent alongside the terrorist Makarov, the ‘No Russian’ mission gives you two options: either you help Makarov and his comrades gun down innocent civilians in an airport, or you stand by and watch them do so. Now at fist this was obviously a big decision for a young man like me. but like most people i chose the evilest option possible. I completed that game many times so i was able to choose both of the given options and i not for one second regret choosing the ruthless option. blood blood and more blood was my preference when i was younger. and that is why this game will always hold a special place in my heart. thank you for reading my story (:
My favourite day of gaming in my life was on my 18th birthday. My elder brother and I played Borderlands 2 co-op all day while consuming the usual pleasures of a birthday. Pandora hadn't seen a day of destruction like this since Handsome Jack tried to sing his favourite Iron Maiden song (our shoot 'n loot runs didn't quiet inflict as much pain and sorrow among the population of Pandora as that episode).
My fondest online gaming moment takes us back almost 20 years. To a time when Quake 1 had only just come out. The game itself for the time was of course incredible. From the fast paced shooting action to the *amazing 3d graphics*.
But back then the internet didnt really exist as it does today, being able to create a game server in just about any game today and have your friends join you is commonplace, not back then however. So my favourite memory was managing to connect to my friend's Quake 1 game for the very first time, it was achieved by having my modem directly *call* his modem until a connection was established, which involved his telephone ringing about 10 times before it would connect. BUT IT WORKED! It was more or less a first for both of us and it was mindblowing. Sure there was about a 5-6 second lag delay on everything BUT THAT DIDN'T MATTER. I was a quake zombie rampaging around the levels with him. =D
Then he fired grenades at me and I "ate his pineapple", as the game so eloquently put it. =\
One of my favourite memories goes a way back now to when we used to play Golden Eye on N64. One night four of us were playing this in split screen on a small 14 inch TV basically all night, played golden gun so that those of us who sucked (usually just me) could still have a chance, the best fun those old console games. I remember waking up the next day and none of us could see properly, everything was fuzzy for a few hours, we were scared we were going blind from playing video games haha
I was always someone who was top-of-the-game, one of those rare girl gamers who fought with the big boys, so it was little surprize that I'd fought my way to the top of Vanilla World of Warcraft, server 1st 40 man guild. My best friend was one of the 5 tanks inguild at that time and I was his healer. We spent many hours working on new bosses to make sure our guild remained at the top - but there are always those that hate you when you are where you are and will try to make your gaming life a little harder with "SHARE THE WEALTH" stretching even into a video gaming. Back in original WoW there were world bosses. You had to compete with your server to kill them and our guild policy was - kill it, even if it meant selling the items, to stop those fighting us for our top rank getting upgrades! Not the nicest policy but it created a lot of fun tension between us and the server 2nd guild. There was a Green World Dragon, I forget his name, but if someone died they left behind a mushroom which if too many people died made it near impossible to kill the boss. One of my guildies had alts camping each world boss and it was normal on our non-raid times to check them. The Green Dragon was up but there were already people at him. Now, we weren't so mean as to purposely wipe any other guild. There was, at the point we arrived, a guild on him and one in 'waiting'. We said we would wait for both guilds to attempt him and then take our turn. Both guilds wiped. We had our turn. One of the guilds ran back and rezzed and noticed we were killing him easily and said we should leave because we didn't need the loot. We mentioned we waited and it was now our turn. So both guilds we had been kind enough to wait on... decided to team up, they got naked and purposely run naked infront of the dragon to die and place poisoness mushrooms in an effort to kill us. I'm usually pretty peaceful ingame and don't want to hurt anyone but when they got mean.... we decided that it was time to get BUSY. Now it was hard, and I mean damn hard with people purposely blowing themselves up all over you and leaving poisoness AOE all over the place - it also meant a lot of movement on the tanks, dps and our part but we managed to KILL the dragon with NO deaths on our side (and I cant' stress enough how hard it was - we had healing rotations going in tells and all sorts of things being said on ventrilo) - I then took the items that we didn't need and proceeded to destroy them infront of the two guilds that we had so patiently waited on before us. We were all called a few choice words, and I'm sure there are some people that would call us mean, but it felt goooooooooood to be bad that day.
I hate to do this but I need to explain a bit of the back story first. My best multiplayer gaming moment happened back in early 2008 and Halo 3 had just come out. I had played some Halo 1 and 2 at a friends place but I was never allowed to have my own Xbox so I never really got into the lore and multiplayer of Halo until I got my own 360 at Christmas in 2008. I remember watching the news that Halo 3 was being released and I had a little bit of money saved up which was just enough to get the legendary edition of H3 (the helmet is still my most prized gaming possession). You may have noticed I said I didn’t get a 360 until Christmas 2008 and it was possibly the worst time of my life having this amazing game and not being able to play it. Luckily I had a friend at school that had a 360 but not a copy of H3. We organised a marathon at his place and invited a third friend over to play as well. We started out playing campaign but moved on to the multiplayer shortly into the night. This was back when split screen was still a feature in games and I just remember being overwhelmed at how amazing this online multiplayer was. We stayed up all night playing online multiplayer but unfortunately I had work the next day so had to leave at 7am. I also remember that day at works as the worst I’ve ever had (was a dish boy at a café at the time, where the heat didn’t held with the tiredness). But that was probably my most fond multiplayer memory!
Apologies for the block of text!
One of the best stories I remember was a late night horror game run with guys from my dorm, I had bought Outlast and decided if i was playing it I was not playing alone, with my team of burly men set and my current rig connected to the big screen we fired up the game and got cracking, twenty minutes in and the entire room was screaming in horror, large bearded men screaming like children, hiding under blankets and holding each other in fear, it got to the point where noise control complaints had meant the Dorms management staff had to come check out what was going on, the man sent to shut us down was soon screaming and crying with us. The reason i remember this story so well is because at one point i had got such a fright i had yanked the keyboard so hard it bent the USB connection and took with it the USB hub it was connected too. I must say HP make a good keyboard as it still works perfectly fine after ripping apart a section of my computer.
Back at school in year 13 we had a classics research assignment so our teacher allowed us to go to the computers during most class time. As we were in year 13 we had no teachers in the class while we were researching so it didn't take long for study to go out the window. A group downloaded Halo and each lesson we'd have a large Halo LAN match. It started off small with only about 4 people, then grew to majority of the class. Nearing the hand in our teacher got suspicious of us still needing the computers for research so one period came to check up on us, obviously unaware we were caught mid 16 player slayer battle. One of us was tapped on the shoulder as we hadn't realised our teacher had entered and was asked to get up. Our teacher then joined in.
Not necessarily the greatest gaming experience I have had with friends but definitely one of the funniest.
My wife and I love the Resident Evil series and this happened when we introduced a good friend of ours to RE1 on the Playstation.
We had already played many hours and thought it would be fun to watch him play.
First encounter, a zombie, was no problem. He killed it and was moving on in no time. All was going well, even the jump-scare from the zombie dogs didn't seem to bother him.
He ventured into an underground tunnel and at that point we found out, first hand, just how scared he really is of spiders.
A massive tarantula dropped from the roof and at that point the controller went flying. He yelped and was cursing like a truck driver.
Luckily the controller reached the length of it's cable and dropped safely into a bean bag. One plus of wired controllers!
When he finally calmed down he declared that he would never play that bloody game again (With many more swear words sprinkled in).
In the following years we have had the odd chuckle about that incident but the most funny is that he now has to deal with actual real life huntsman spiders after he moved to Australia.
I asked him how he deals with the spiders. He said, "Easy. I just call the wife!"
It was a rainy night. I was speeding down the motorway, getting chased by the police, Swat and FBI. They were coming from every angle, so I had no choice, but to bulldoze my way through. I lasted for awhile, shooting their tyres, until my ammo was low. With my ammo low, and my vehicle being damaged, I decided to grenade myself, taking the police with me.
One funny online multiplayer gaming memory of mine would be when I played Halo 3 with people who were much better, but because I was fun and cool I was allowed to play. In one particular match on The Pit, We were playing capture the flag. We had the flag and capping it would result in a win. The player on my team carrying it was one shot and about to die and I said "don't worry I have a health regenerator for you". However, I never had a regen, I had a power drain. I dropped it down and all 4 of us were killed by gun fire and a grenade. They got the flag back and ended up winning the game. I was embarrassed but eventually got really good at the game.
It's hard to pinpoint just one singular time to choose and my favourite over the years, between 12 hour runs at nazi zombies to questing on Skyrim or Prestiging in all the Call of Dutys, not one moment stands out but a bunch of great moments.
But if I had to choose, my greatest gaming story would definitely be the times of playing Halo 2 and 3 split screen non stop with my brother and childhood friend Shane. We'd go over to my friends house and play countless games of split screen free for all on the classic maps like Ascension and Coagulation.
This planted the seed for me and my brothers eventual love for all things gaming and ever since its been our greatest passions.
However, the one thing Me and my brother have always wanted was a gaming PC, however never had the time or money to acquire one. This would be a dream come true winning this!
I was in an arcade playing Tekken Tag 2. So I was on a bit of a winning streak and was probably getting cocky and having fun thrash talking with friends. Then along came a random stranger. It was first to 2 wins. I was feeling good. Then the game started and he utterly destroyed me and got a perfect round. I was shocked. In the middle of the next round I got off to a better start. But then he got me in a crazy combo. I was like below half health when I turned towards him and said "please". He just smiled and let me win the round. Then in the final round he beat me up pretty good. I just stood up after and thanked him for the game and walked away humbled. Of course with my friends poking fun at me. All in all, a pretty fun time!
My husband and I often play co-op together and our current game is Borderlands 2. The last time we played we were coming into an area with lots of bad guys together and I pulled out Moxxi's Heart Breaker and a very nice singularity grenade with a fire effect. I took out 20 bandits, he got 1! So the next fight he raced on ahead, I think he was feeling a little left out, lol!
@ Susan - That certainly is an EPIC tale and with a happy ending :) DoTs for the win!
My friend and I planned to do a 24 hour iracing race on his gaming setup. We swapped at the pits every 4 hours. but at the 16 to 18 hour mark we were getting really tired but managed to stay in the top half of opposing racers. Funny thing is that he got knocked out and fell asleep and i had my last stint to go. we pushed up the ranks and got into fourth position by that time but i was getting mini shut eyes, hahaha. I fell asleep at the wheel :( ended up losing the race with only 45 mins left.
Another WoW story, this one from quite some years back.
We were fighting Ossirian, the final boss in AQ20. We had been wiping hard without really getting that close. We were standing around near Ossirian waiting for our shaman, Kennyhealer, to ride back from the Graveyard after our latest humiliation.
As we watch, Kenny rides in, lags out, goes straight past us (as our raid leader shouts "Noooooooo Kenny!!!") and into Ossirian who activates and one-shots Kenny because he starts in supreme mode. Just like that the battle is on, no buffs up, no prep, no nothing. Following the saying that adversity breeds success everyone managed to execute perfectly even though we were a healer down and after a lengthy battle Ossirian went down.
Kenny got gkicked eventually because, well, frankly he was pretty rubbish but he will live long in our memories for that one pull. :)
Ahahah I have a novel worth to share about a tale in Minecraft.
My friends and I were friendly folk on a server run by more friendly folk but owned by a mean bloke. We hid ourselves away under the ground where we lived our peaceful lives and only went to the surface wearing gold hats. Protecting our precious noggins from the sun.
One day mr mean bloke came into our humble abode and alass took our diamond stash hidden in the chambers of Venyx.
We saught revenge and bought destruction upon the land. With the aid of our old pal TNT we bought our own caves down and much of the land above it. There was a simple man who lived upon the surface called pops. We covered what remained of his land in red flowers in rememberance.
We left the world knowing we would never return. But alas, ye mean bloke invited us back and apologised. And we accepted whole heartedly. We all left the crater that was and found a nice mountain. Building a fortress in and around it. Even a nice sacrificial pit to our god who protected us from the sun (Lord Kuriboh) we continued to be simple folk.
Again the mean fella decided to meddle with our kingdom. We were no threat, we even recruited new players whom would have had no hope if our fortress wasn't the shining beacon of hope.
We planned ahead, we were going to summon the great Lord Kuriboh ((We quite literally went and bought the account)). We made gokd hats in preperation and we made a scene about it.
We invited everyone in the land to see the great arrival of our god. But a blood sacrifice must be made. Our priestess Hannahki stoid bravely on the trap door that would be her doom but it was necessary to summon Lord Kuriboh.
The young self proclaimed prince of our newly founded kingdom pulled the lever and Hannahki plunged to her doom.
"Lord Kuriboh has signed in"
There was silence. That mean bloke blew his top. It was peprosterious on every level, he logged out and soon after we could hear laughter come all around. A member of the friendly folk said the mean bloke rage quit. He had lost a player, Hannahki would never return; we don't think he ever found out rhat Hannahki abd Lord Kuriboh were one and the same.
It's quite a shame we didn't record this. It happenednover the span of five days. I'll see if I can conjurer up some screenshots but that was on my all but gone laptop. I think we have somethings online.
Thank you mighty ape for giving the opportunity to share such a tale. I apologise for it's length ahahah but it had to be told that way.
My best gaming moment would've been back in the wrath days of wow. We had a pretty amazing group of players for raiding even though we were the alts raiding group. We still managed to get the bosses down with a few attempts or were able to come back the next week and succeed. I remember one time we were doing one of the bosses we had it down to 10% before he did a huge aoe move and wiped most of our group. With only one healer up and 2 dps they got him down to 1% before they were killed. Luckily our group was good with keeping their dots up and a few seconds after everyone was killed the boss went down! It was such an awesome moment!
I'd like to add no feelings were hurt. And mean bloke is alright. He laughed with us when we told him it was all apart of our master plan. ^^ Hannahki went back to the rightful owner and I got to keep Lord Kuriboh.
back in the day me and a friend had just enough to hire out Grand Theft auto San Andrea's when it first came out we got it at 3 pm and finished it at 2 pm the next day with no sleep we done the impossible we also did the side quest to unlock wang cars plus mucked around wreaking havoc on Los Santos 2 Player Mode
Allow me to tell you a story of overwhelming amazement at the utter ridiculousness of what unfolded within 1 minute...
It was back in my old Tribes:Ascend days (roughly 2 years ago) and i joined a game which little to my knowledge would be my most memorable CTF match EVER. After a couple deaths and failed attempts, i spawned in and continued on my way to our base, jet packing and "skiing" as usual. But suddenly an enemy zoomed across my screen right in front of me. He wasn't on my screen for even a second, which given is frankly really fast. I turned in the general direction he was travelling and shot my spinfuser, all of which took merely 1 second to do. I continued on my way not thinking much of it when 30 seconds later i got a "Blue Plate Special" (aka mid air hit with a spinfuser). Given the speed at which a spinfuser shot travels, and the time it took to hit him, he must have been further than half way across the map...
Now allow me to elaborate on this already crazy achievement.
Firstly, the map was extremely hilly which means the chances of my shot hitting the ground were very high, and also his chances to avoid the shot in 3D space by either gaining or losing speed as he was zipping around the map were enormous.
Secondly, and apologies if this sounds like a sob story, my hands were extremely shaky because i have cerebral palsey.
So in conclusion, the entire event, which took place in a mere minute, was filled with events so perfectly timed, that it took me nearly 10 seconds to comprehend what happened when i saw the blue plate special. When i finally came to, i leaped off my seat and LITERALLY ROLLED ON THE FLOOR LAUGHING, all the while every person on the server was spamming voice commands such as "WOOHOO", "Great Shot!", and "Awwwwe, thats too bad".
It was many moons ago my friend and I had decided that today was the day that we were going to finish original Halo on Xbox. We battled our way through all the Covenant sent against us, trudged through innumerable horde that was the Flood all while losing a lot of good NPC's along the way. Cortana constantly chirping our ears you must get away, you must make it through....Then we arrived the final Warhog dash with sweet promise of a pick-up by Foe Hammer and Her Pelican, call sign Echo 419, we were within reach when Covenant scum swooped in and their Banshees' took away our only escape....With all hope dashed and moral low we were suddenly directed to a secondary pick up. Back into the Warthog there was no time for niceties I was driving, my friend was gunning, It was a timed mission.....200m my friend suddenly lost his hold on the Warthog but there was no time to turn back..there..was..nothing.I..could...do... I pressed on teary eyed I played. Forwards only forwards never stopping running and gunning, 30 seconds left 50 meters to go. DON'T STOP! KEEP GOING! The concentration level was above 9000. 7 Meters remaining 5 Seconds...Then Fade to Black my stomach turned and questions raced through my head, Did we win?, Do I have to do this again? Seconds later I was given my answer with a much deserved cutscene. We were leaving Halo. I never played another Halo gave ever again.
THE END
It is 2007. A short, acne faced boy by the name of Michael places a single disc titled "Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare" into his Xbox 360. Little did he know of the events that would soon unfold and how that night would later be recalled by many as "Bloody Wednesday".
It was the usual situation on Xbox Live, Michael's friends were all online preparing for their fast approaching clan match. He pleaded and begged to join in, why should he be left out? He believed he was a good Call of Duty player, non could stand against his superb trigger reflex and god-like manipulation of the thumb stick.
After much discussion, it seemed a consensus was made. Michael would be allowed to take part, on the condition that the match would only be considered a trial.
Strategies were planned. Load-outs were sorted. There was a slight sense of nervousness over Xbox Live.
It was time, the match was ready to begin. Michael darted left and right, making his way to the top floor of a building. Motion. Was that an enemy? The small CRT screen was making life difficult for Michael.
A crack rings out from Michael's gun. Silence.
Seven words changed everything.
"WHAT THE HELL WHO TEAM KILLED ME" rang out across the voice chat. Guilt. Shame. Many emotions came flooding in for Michael.
Round two and Michael was given a second chance. Could he redeem himself? He moved quickly. Taking out the enemy in their own territory would bring back some confidence in his abilities. Was that two enemies on the other side of the fence? He threw a grenade, hoping to finally win his salvation and respect among peers.
Silence. The explosion had caught them all by surprise. The grenade had left Michael's hand in a long arc, easily capable of clearing the fence. What he had not counted on was a rouge tree situated along the fence-line. A small branch, a mere fuzzy pixel width, had contacted the grenade sending it back on its way to the unsuspecting Michael.
If only it had cost him a single suicide, a mistake soon forgotten. But this was an unlucky day, "Bloody Wednesday" as it would be known. The grenade had not only taken Michael's in-game life, but that of two other teammates also, and the match with it.
Bloody Wednesday shall never be forgotten, as much as Michael, who is of course myself, would like. Even escaping to PC and Steam, the stain can never be erased.
Probably one of my favourite moments would have had to be when I played Zoo Tycoon as a kid. If you're not familiar with the series, you basically just build zoos. And the expansion packs included dinosaurs and marine life.
So, as a kid and the evil kid I was when I played this game, I'd build up a zoo and make an exhibit for an Allosaurus. Nasty dinosaurs they can be. So, I'd raise it and wait for it when it would reach adulthood. When it finally reached adulthood and was big enough, I'd unleash it upon the zoo as I'd sit there and laugh evilly, watching this ferocious beast destroy my zoo and eat up the guests. Also, to make matters much worse, I would then block the zoo entrance with water.
I was an evil child.
I had finally set my feet in Chernarus for the first time, however I was not alone for this adventure, I was accompanied by two good friends who had also set their first steps into this harsh universe. So we all spawn into the game and notice that we are separated and have all been dropped into hostile domains, my friends got off easy and had spawned in some farm towns in the far south of the island, the town was zombie infested but there was no human threat in their area ,I had spawned on a beach near a city players call “Elektro” I’m greeted with the sounds of gun shots wailing and snapping through the air, along with inaudible chat of players taunting and trash talking any new survivor who had entered the area. All I had was a flashlight and a can of baked beans and wasn’t looking for any confrontation at such early stages of the game, so I made my way to an area covered in forestry and preceded to head south to meet up with my friends.
After an hour of running across the island I finally meet up with my friends in a small town called Kamenka, we already got off to a bad start as my friends were chasing me into a house and about to axe me to death until I was able to switch to the correct chat and tell them that this noob they were about to kill was me, my friends were able to loot the area and had gathered us some essentials and we then geared up and started to head north, as they had heard from passing players in the area that north is where all the action and goodies are found
On our way up to the north region, we had come across a small gas station, it was beat up and run down but it had a map inside which was crucial for us at this point, one of my friends decides to check the perimeter and to his amazement he finds a fully operable bus nestled behind some bushes in the back of the gas station, we cheer in excitement as we offload our gear into the bus….. and then, a few miles down the street we had just trekked up, we see this truck decked out in army camo come rocketing toward us, they started to beep their horn, I yell to my friends “Holy S(%@ get in the Bus!”
They start gaining on us and we lead them on a wild goose chase through various towns, the entire time the pursuers are in chat demanding us to stop or they will ram us off the road. in an attempt to lose them, I tried to do some GTA-esque driving maneuvers down a hill, which ended badly for us as I had landed us into a steep ditch, My friends start yell “You’re a S%(@# driver, Cmon get us out of here” just as I manage to get us out of the ditch, our pursuers come to a screeching halt a few meters behind us, 4 men in dark clothing and balakcalvas step out of the truck, surround us and start demanding “Get the F(@#@ out of the bus now!” at this point we knew the situation looked bleak so we obliged to what they wanted, they commanded us to stand in a line, the leader stood in front while the other 3 aimed their M16s at our head, the leader asked us “So, where do you boys think you’re going eh? Did bambee get separated from mum eh?” I reply, who knows, who cares, who the hell are you? One of the bandits walks closer to me, his aim goes from my head to my nether region, he snarls and says to me “Nowhere huh? Would you like to rephrase that statement” I start to laugh uncontrollably, they yell and me and tell me to shut up, whilst this was happening my friends were plotting a last ditch effort to try kill one of these guys before we get the inevitable, so they equip their axes and charge forward swinging for the fences, I pace backwards and the bandits fire warning shots at my friends, they again command them to stop but they continue, they eventually unloaded a barrage of bullets into my friends, and I make a mad dash for our bus, one of the bandits see’s me escaping and shoots me in the leg, breaking it and crippling me. The bandit yells “Got ya F$$@#”
The bandit must of thought that he killed me or KO’d me, but I was able to crawl behind some rocks and managed to get into my bus via the back doors, the bandits were still looting my friends bodies which gave me the opportunity to speed off in the bus and break away from them, I continue to head north then about a minute later, I hear that horn tooting again, these guys are hot on my butt again, we were in view of each other but I had a bit of ground covered on them, until my bus came to a stumbling slow then just hit a dead stop… I had ran out of gas, with no weapons and a broken leg, I got out and crawled toward the forest and found a cluster of trees to hide under, thankfully for me the night cycle was about to kick in and it became dark to the point where you would need night vision to see anything, I see the bandits searching for me as I see their torches flicker back and forth, but after a few minutes they give up, investigate my bus and then leave. Before they drive off they stop and the chat starts to static, I then hear one of them “You got lucky this time nooby, we got your number,we’ll find you and your friends again, and we’ll slaughter you again” they then finish off their taunt with a few toots of their horn and drive off into the distance, once I knew they had cleared out, I crawled back to my bus, to find that they had stripped all the parts off it and just left the body. So I was left in the middle of nowhere, with no friends, no equipment and no transport, my player then got sick and during the night a rouge zombie found me under the trees and finished me off.
This was my first and one of my most memorable moments of when I first entered the world of Day Z. Also apologies if this story is a bit too long, I wanted you guys to feel what I felt when this situation unfolded.
@ Tobias - Such an amazing tale, certainly not to long :) Great work!
It was the longest gaming session i'd ever had, 14hrs of being alive in DayZ. We would sit at small airfield waiting for our prey to arrive and pop a cap into them, But on this fine night something happened. Just after we killed two fully looted guys we just had to go down to loot them so after making sure it was clear we ran down and started looting. There were 3 of us, 1 on the hill keeping watch me and the other guy were down looting when the lookout shouted "You better hide shitheads" telling us there was a possy of about 15 bad guys all fully looted heading out way. After 2 mins of hiding under the stairs about 7 of them came into the building we were in, They didn't know we were here so we just had to stay quiet but its never that easy when my friend unexpectadly screamed out "YOLO" we killed two and just ran as fast as we could running along the airstrip like there was no tomorrow with bullets flying past and hitting out feet it was like a movie, we kept running and saw the rest of their group following, unfortunately me friend wasnt so lucky and got shot in the leg and couldn't run so i left him, kept running and found a push to hide in. Once again its not that easy the group found me in the bush and got me to remove all my gear, it was then that they handed me a weapon with one bullet and forced me to kill myself. :( It was totally worth it.
One of my favorite moments in gamung was when I moved back home after a spending my high school years away. My oldest friend and I ended up both getting the Rise of Nations re-release. After a 6 hour game with a modded population of 1500, we cornered the last enemy on an island. As my mate was capturing there last city, I distributed all my troops at his cities. Declared war on him anannihilation ensued as I completly wiped him off the map. He still calls me a treasonous Basterdo to this day. Hope thats somewhat cogent.
Playing CounterStrike: Global Offensive with a couple of friends, when I had to be afk for a minute or two. When I got back it was 5v1 and I was the last one alive. I picked up a weapon from one of my dead allies and they were screaming at me to clutch. I got a 5v1 ace in the end, and killed the last enemy with only 3 bullets and 3 seconds left. Went on to win the match and we all ranked up.
Had a long, almost career like stint in World of Warcraft. Top 100 in the world guild and new raid content had dropped, we'd be working on this boss for weeks. almost 200 attempts, close to almost 40 hours at just staring this baddy down. This attempt we get down to the last phase and a few people are just unable to be healed back up for whatever reason and there's 3 of us left (out of 10) and somehow we manage to just push that little bit and down it, you hear every one screaming WOOHOO!!! I think it took us almost 2 months as a team to get this achievement nailed, but online MMO's are so good for that reason. The people you meet and the friendships you build, and it's all done better on a PC.
It would have to be a league of legends game. 50 minutes into the game and the death timers are over a minute long. A team fight erupts around baron (the boss) and our team losses horribly with only Me (as Vayne) alive. Its a 4v1 situation and i run for the hills. Just as it seems like they will catch up i decide screw it theres only one way, turn around invisible and 3 shot the enemys carry, tumble over an allied teemo shroom and condemn garen into a wall. Flash the viegar stun and finish him off. Garen finally runs at me and "DEMAACIA", i die and we lose the game after the most epic 4v1 where i killed 3 enemies.
Mine would have to be getting Lego marvel for the pc and spending a whole day with my four year son (who is also a pretty hearty pc gamer) and watching his eyes light up every time we completed a mission or unlocked another character. we spend alot of time playing lego batman and lego marvel but it was the first time we played it together will always stick with me
@ Simon - A legendary effort indeed! We've been having heaps of fun running around with the new banana handgun skin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j9n7jU0LFo
I wouldn't say it was great but when halo 3 ODST came out our crew took on the pest vidmaster challenge where you have to do heaps of rounds in firefight. A good 3 hours into it everything going well, apart from lag and terrible delay as we all didn't have the best internet connection but we made did with what we had we were 3 waves off completing it. All our co-operation and military like unison was all in vein as we heard once were warriors come through one of the bros Mic. And when I saybknce were warriors I mean a huge argument broke out between him and his Mrs . As our team lives were slowly getting sapped from us due to miscommunication we all started getting frustrated but excited at the time same time. Eventually we all lost because of this argument and the last thing we heard was the swearing and the Mic hitting the floor followed by a disconnect. We all just sat there sighing as our chance that was rightfully ours was taken. We also found out the next day the bro threw his Xbox outside and broke it. Still no achievement
It was a fresh morning that faithful day. Halo 3 was our baby, nurtured and loved by friends and family. Our set up was legendary...by school boy efforts. We had two xbox 360's system linked with six controllers, one running on Jono's HD TV, the other running on a 20" CRT similar to a toaster. Nevertheless, the game was at hand. Struggling for a win on each team, the meeting point was Valhalla. The objective? To take the bomb back to your base without..well..dying obviously. Wait, no actually you had to take the bomb to their base. I think. ANYWAY.
This was no easy task. And Vehicles were on. I hate vehicles, but Halo vehicles were so comedic in value that they stayed. It was a tie, two points to both teams and with less than a minute to spare. The majority of us had bragging rights, we were (thought we were) the best, or so our mums told us. Each of us had clocked in numberous hours of online gameplay. All, but one. Enter Barnaby.
Barnaby was the wildcard in that he sucked. A lot. He had a twitchy finger with terrible aim and shot the sky more often than not, but he was great and he was our mate.
Picture this, we're battling away, the tie is vivid in the scoreline as the timer ticks nearer to zero. I have the bomb in hand and I'm at their base, I could smell the anticipation in the room (It stank, we has major B.O. man, it wasn't nice). Just as I walk in the side entrance,gaurded by the walls of the enemy base, I let out a smile, my team mates are screaming at me to finish it! This is it, we're gonna win!
But no.
Suddently, I fall straight down like a sack of potatos. I had a shield!? I got shot in the head!? HOW?!
Barnaby. Barnaby had done the impossible, with seconds to spare, the boy who didn't even own an Xbox and had the aim of a blind headless chicken had killed me in a single shot. How? We watched the replay once the game commenced and couldn't believe it. Barnaby had taken a pot shot at the wall by the base entrance with a sniper and the bullet had deflected twice(SERIOUSLY!?) off two walls and into my head. The luckiest, most impossible shot at the best/worst time by the worse player we knew. God bless you Barnaby, you're a champ.
Cheers for listening MightyApe and Friends!
Mine would be Halo 3, the first Online multiplayer game i had ever played. I admit i was terrible and the broadband speeds that i paid for with my allowance wasn't all that great either.
It was one of my first games i had ever played with my four other mates split screening on a measly 24" TV, the map was Construct and i had spawned at sword spawn and had rushed towards my team who where spamming grenades and such as you do into the lift rooms.
as everybody had run out of grenades a lull occurred where we all stood around really doing nothing, only to be shattered by BLUE team storming out AR's blazing, my team mates falling one by one beside me a gracefully leapt behind them and smacked one in the head "assassination" popped up in the corner of my screen, ignoring it all i moved onto the next guy where we had a melee fight to the death, clearly pummelling i got a beat down medal followed by a double kill medal.
I screamed out in triumph "DOUBLE KILL, BEAT DOWN ASSASSINATION" expecting the boys to be looking at me in awe, sadly it was miff, laughter , and a bit of revolution. What had actually happen is that i had ran in, betrayed one of mates with a grenade , proceeded to bash rb until there was no one left standing, including my other mate, and had bit down on my tongue in concentration spraying the tv with blood. I am still teased today about this double kill beat down assassination
It was a couple of days before New Years and my mates and I were up at the bach without any internet and armed only with a copy of forza 5 on the Xbone. I think it was me who suggested we do a marathon race around the Nurburgring Full in an old mini cooper. This sounded like a great idea at the time and we split off into teams of two (there were six of us) each team had someone who knew how to play and someone who didn't. I started the race off.
7:30pm Lap 1 of 99, 2000ish km remaining. It all started well, I was one of the best racers we had but i decided to take the first few laps real cruisy. All goes well and i finish my designated 3 lap rotation and pass the controller on to my buddy as i cross the line, he almost crashes on the first corner.
At lap 18 everyone has had ago, we start to realise this could get tiresome. So we swap the xbones hdmi to a monitor and run movies on the big screen, everything is going smoothly as there has only been a few minor scrapes to the car.
By about 3am everyone is either dead from lack of sleep or too drunk to drive the car, but we still push on (about lap 50) My buddy is driving again and he is going a bit too fast around the track, comes off on a hairpin turn and totals the car. Full engine damage and everything. Everyone is now completely awake and yelling at my mate, the car lurches super slowly back on the track. No one can bear to drive it the next 8 km back to the pits. We all pass out.
This is probably one of my favourite gaming memories.
I was playing a widely hated game called war z now known as infestation survivor stories. I was running through a small city trying to find loot and food then I noticed the city had been picked clean and started getting shot at I lost the pursuer and hid in the outer tree line I could see a group of 5 people still looking for me I started typing in all chat that I could see them and would start to take them down if they didn't drop their guns and of course they didn't drop their guns so I started sniping away and took out 3 of them before they surrendered they were so amazed and still had no idea where I was so I went up to them they shared their food and ammo and shared contact details and now I have been friends with a random group of canadians for almost 2 years and now we play heaps of games together. It goes to show how games can bring people together and form friendships across platforms games and countries.
The greatest and scarest multiplayer moment I have ever had is I was play some team fortress 2 I was on 2fort running across the middle bridge when I was met with 2 heavies and 3 sentry guns (I was a solider) So I see this setup and I attack I take out the sentries and the heavies with a hale of rock fire and after I finish the chat fills with my name I had earned 17 achievements from that one battle.
Back in the days (2010) of battlefield bad company 2 all my friends were lvl 40+ and a 6 months ahead me. My goal was to be lvl by chrismas less then 4 months to go off and on playing the game. I made it with a week to go. My best moment I had on ps3
Playing Pay Day The Heist 2 with 3 friends, doing one of the stealth heists on very hard difficulty. We have tried this multiple times now without success.
For one of our tries we managed to get all the bags we need to complete the mission but one, and the timer was running out. So whilst carry the final bag of weapons, I ran to the escape vehicle with only seconds to spare. As I was running to the vehicle, my friend told me not to miss the bag toss. I told him, "I won't miss", famous last words. 3 seconds from failing and I toss the bag... flying through the air.. like time was going slow. The bag narrowly missed the truck and it fell on the floor. I quickly picked it up and tossed it again, everyone in chat screaming and laughing. The bag landing in the truck but at the same time we failed the missing, I was screaming "YEAHHH" but the rest were not. We failed the mission by a mere few split seconds. So sad but so funny. My fried has it recorded on his twitch I can put a link to it if you want.
Once upon a time, when I was still getting used to playing shooters, I was playing Mass Effect online with a friend and two random people. My friend had set up a gold lobby so I could try level up fast and he thought I would be okay, I was much less sure. Anyway we reached wave 10 against Ceberus and we have like 2 Atlas or something on the map and all three of my team mates fell pretty much as soon as it started so I was the only one left, with no rocket launchers I might add, only a sniper rifle and a submachine gun. Being the lowest level among us all and still learning how to use guns properly I had pretty much given up on myself but figured I may as well get some kills before I go down. My team mates, on the other hand, were not even humoring the idea of me failing; they were cheering and clapping and yelling in their headsets so I tried my best and to my surprise, I ended up beating the entire wave single handedly without even having to use a single medi-gel. I was so freaking proud of myself and my team were so excited when I managed it. I still play with all three nowadays.
@ Simon - "Our set up was legendary...by school boy efforts." :) Priceless
So there we were, my brother and I playing GTA Online via Xbox Live. A douche in a Jet was parading around the city killing everyone. So, we took it upon ourselves to take him out. What happened after that was quite the spectacle. We were going to take him out with a RPG from a rooftop but then he focused his attention on us which led us becoming the hunted. We hopped in to my bros car and drove away while the Jet was attacking us like a hungry hawk. We found ourselves headed towards the airport and we saw those ramps with the mini cars on them. Going full speed, i couldn't resist, so i drove up the ramps and launched us into the air. Now, we didn't expect the Jet to be flying so low when it was chasing us. Our car collided right into the Jet and blew it up into pieces. We nearly died laughing. Good times!
Uncharted 2's coop mode has a trophy associated with it, that requires you to complete the objective maps on the hardest difficulty know as crushing. Previously before the DLC was release I had done this with 2 friends. Sadly when this DLC was released they had moved on to another game.
Fortunately for me I had another friend who was willing to give it ago with me. 2 friends against the post patched Coop mode designed for 3 players.
The first map we played was the Nepal warzone, it gave us very few problems since we'd done it a few times before.
The next map was The village and it was challenging with deaths coming and going. But we preserved and eventually saw the tank at the end explode in a nice fireball.
The final map know as the Sanctuary had us stuck. The opening section of that map we had down. Stealthy killing the few guards before armored guards showed up only to be pulled over the edge of the cliff. Then moving past the machine gun nest into what we called area 2.
Area 2 is a death trap, there is only one safe area to take cover, the other cover points allowing you to get shot from another angle. So me and my friend took turns taking cover and killing the over watching snipers. Before the armored and Gatling gun wielding soldiers made their way towards us. Unfortunately for us getting off the tiny island you start on in area two meant swinging between bars that left you incredibly exposed, however that's where the RPG's were, so that was where I was going, with my friend sniping providing some cover fire I managed to get across and RPG the guards to death.
Thankfully Area 4 went smoothly taking out the guards on our descent through the tower across the first and second bridges, to area 5.
Area 5 is the finale of The sanctuary mission. Ending with you planting explosives, on a satellite tower. However there are many elevated area's where snipers spawn, several waves of armored units and Gatling wielders and strangling units that incapacitate you unless they're killed. Long story short, this area is hell and there's only one safe spot. We tooled up with snipers, RPG's, Grenades. After a short conversation we decided my friend stay in the one safe spot on the map, and I would make do with whatever cover and movement i could find to keep myself safe provided it was close enough that he could help if a strangling unit managed to get me. So the explosive were set and then the enemies spawned in.
We took down all the waves with out terribly much trouble, me going down a few times, and few close shaves. The final wave then spawned in, two Gatling units, 5 armored guys, 4 snipers and 4 strangling units. The two gating units went down under our heavy fire, along with 3 of the strangling units. The snipers opened up on us, but were quickly picked off by my friend and a shot from my desert eagle.
It got down to 1 armored guard and one strangling unit, unknown to us. The armored guard was bearing down on my cover and i had one bullet left in the desert eagle and 1 grenade. The bullet would knock the armored unit's helmet off but it wouldn't kill him. I asked my friend if he could kill the armored unit as my health was low, but just before he could take the shot, the strangling unit grabbed him. So there was me, in cover with low health, with and armored unit on the other side of my cover firing his spas at me.
I made the only choice I could make, as if i didn't save my friend we'd fail. Waiting for a pause in the armored unit's firing, I rolled out of cover, threw the grenade at the armored unit, came up and fired the last bullet at the strangling unit taking him out. Unfortunately for me the grenade only knocked the armored unit down. Then came a crack of sniper and the screen faded to a cutscene. Silence followed, but we'd done it. Completed the mission !!
Then came the Ding sound from the trophy popping. It was then that i decided if there were coop trophies in uncharted 3 that i wouldn't be getting them if they were for the harder difficulties.
It was a dark and stormy night, the wind and rain were blowing against the windows and there I was on my Laptop, playing Game Dev Tycoon, my company now becoming one of the best and most famous I was earning money like there was no tomorrow then the Blue screen of death came along with its evil hard to Understand writing and shut down my laptop "NOOOOOOOO" I shouted when my laptop came back on it didn't save and I was right back at the beginning so now I need a new computer because the Laptop always crashes and I never want to go through that again It ruined my life for a week
I think my favorite gaming moment would be when I was in a squad in BattleField 4 with my cousins and we all jumped in and C4'd up a quad bike. One of us would have a Rocket Launcher and we'd fire off the C4 to launch us across the map and the person with the Rocket launcher would attempt to take out airborne targets! Needless to say we got a few good looking and funny kills! Along with some hilarious moments and good laughs :) We will carry out our legacy on Hardline when I get we all get it!
Playing the original Crash Bandicoot game while living in a rural area with frequent power cuts. The story began by running away from those scary boulders and being extremely frustrated due to falling down the holes popping out of nowhere. After spending a great few hours on a particular level with my blood pressure being high and a face full of anger and redness, I pass the level. Moments later I progress onto the next level and the power cuts out.... Having no time to save my game I threw my controller at my TV in rage. Following this event I later found out you could unlock all the levels with the traditional "Triangle, Triangle, Triangle, Triangle, X, Square, Triangle, Triangle, Triangle, Triangle, Square, X, Triangle, Circle, Triangle, Triangle, Triangle, Circle, Square, Triangle, X, X, X, X" R.I.P TV
This new years just been my boyfriend and I decided we didn't really want to go out to socialize. Instead we set up and epic game of Civ 5. Large map, std pace, continental. At 4 am new years day we called it a night after many a "one more turn" moment. We played for large chucks of the next few day until we finally had a winner on the 4th. I just Beat him to a science victory before he could rofl stomp my civ to the ground. One of the best new years I remember
My best memory would be from Halo combat evolved :) me and my best mate set out to complete it on legendary and had a blast doing so but what happened on the finally mission will stay with me forever :) okay so it starts of in the warthog bay of the Pillar of autumn slamming the acceleration down on my beast of a vehicle while my mate covers me on the 50.cal it was a long destructive drive to the end but as we reached there we realized there wasnt enough time left on the clock to fight through the armada of flood and reach the longsword so my mate screams out "COVERING FIRE!!!!!" as I eject from the warthog and start running/wldly firing with my magnum. As I ran through the horde I could see 50.cal rounds flting best my head and tearing the flood apart with the clasic Halo theme song blasting in the background...I got the my location literally as the timer hit zero and I escaped thanks to my mates herioc sacrifice :) it was amazing haha
Ive got a lot to pick from but ill go with a memory from my teenage years. My best friend would be over a lot and usually we would just watch movies and blob but for a while i was borrowing an Xbox from one of my other friends. This was post Xbox 360 release mind you but this was a classic one, chunky controllers and all. I didn't have a gaming set up, no console, and my PC was just not up to the task. We were playing halo a lot and we got quite good at it so one night we made the disastrous mistake of committing to an entire play through of Halo in one night on legendary using only melee. We didn't sleep that night but we were about 15 so we chugged soft drinks and kept at it. Admittedly there were a few times i "accidentally" fired my gun and at some point we reasoned that "a grenade wasn't really a gun" so we cheated a little (hunters are tough to kill with melee!) but we emerged in the small hours of the morning, victorious and exhausted. Of course we then made waffles to celebrate our victory. Good times.
Excuse my lack of punctuation and spelling im on a phone becuz my p.c is broke :( haha
Mine is one of my first ever memories of gaming. My friend had a shiny NES (look it up kids) and we hooked it up to a 14" CRT in my bedroom.
We then literally played Super Mario Bros from 6pm until about 10 the next morning. By the time we hit 2am we were on the level with the fire. This for some reason to our young brains was the SCARIEST thing we'd ever seen (lack of sleep, too much coca cola may have played a part).
For a more modern example (cue the wavey TV screen 'time skip') we cut to early last year. My wife and I sitting on the couch together playing Outlast on my PS4 (well me playing and her watching). She's not much for modern games but this was an experience we shared together.
There was always a lot of talk between my friends and I about who really was the best Super Smash Bros player, and a lot of us were in on it. One Summer we decided that with our spare time we would finally settle the matter. A full on Smash Bros tournament starting from the original up until Brawl. As our numbers fitted we had 4 1v1v1 matches with points awarded based on where you placed in each version. There were no items, simply the best fighter would win and you could c stick all you want. One of our friends (Simon) had been closely following The Smash Brothers documentary and claimed he had been practicing heaps and was talking big game (he was one of those friends that loved to run his mouth). He wasn't lying, he cleaned up on N64 and was runner up on Gamecube. He clearly was the best but we would never admit or else his head would get even bigger. Then as he got in to the semi-final he came up against myself and my other friend Alex. We each had our character's; Simon with his yellow Kirby, Alex with Falco in red, and myself with Killer Bee costumed Ness. I battled my best and unfortunately came out worst losing both my stock before either had lost either of their 2 stock. Simon suddenly clicked though and started punishing Alex, he was down to his last life and in his 90% before he got Simon on to his last life. Then what happened next sent us all in to hysterics. Alex pulled off a chain grab combo followed by Falco's across and B meteor without taking another hit. Simon, enraged by his dismissal and beating stormed off home. We all sat there in hysterics for the next 15 minutes or so at his descent. He finally returned after an 30 minutes and could only laugh at himself and Alex was eventually crowned our King of Super Smash Bros. It was a great weekend had by all thanks to the companionship of mates and so bad it was good banter everyone brought with them. We often refer to it and the fun we all had
I haven't done much in the way of PC gaming but I picked up GTA V on PC on release, my god I love it!!!
Last night to be exact, the most fun and satisfaction I have gotten out of any game in awhile. So a few buddies and I are on the final heist on GTA online. The bank section goes without a hitch, we get the money, kill no hostages and are making our way to the getaway bikes with countless police on us.. and we die... over and over and over again, to the point where we decide to restart the mission with a huge supply of armour, ammo, snacks and body armour. So we finally manage to get through the first part. We get to the bikes, and the process starts again, we die.. over and over again. THEN we finally make it to the jump where we have to ditch the bikes and parachute, no lives left, and someone smashes into a tree.. nevertheless to keep a long story from getting even longer after about five more attempts we make it. the feeling once we were all in the boat and heading to the end of the mission as great. This is why I play video games, moments like this when you can overcome the seemingly most impossible challenge with a group of people you have never even met before. It shows a lot about what you can do when you are dedicated and don't give up.
I have a screenshot of us on the boat. I emailed it to gorillarigs@mightyape.co.nz
It twas the holidays in the year 2013.
My friend and I decided to crack out the old Black Ops game and play some zombie maps. We absolutely loved this game and it's the best game we have ever played together for hours on end, true friendship moments were found in those holidays ^-^. We were playing Kino Der Toten and we were doing very very well! We managed to get up to round 39 and still going strong, I had 4 perks (no mule kick) and he was the same. He had the RPK pack-a-punched and a regular thunder gun he recently acquired. My friend being very excited about getting this new found gun, and knowing that this gun will bring us many more rounds, decided to go pack-a-punch it! We both made a crawler and jumped in the teleporter. I watch him make his thunder gun pack-a-punched with glee and he was silently squealing in delight. We both started diving around like idiots as some sort of celebration, and he dived on top of me whilst I was laying down. This somehow made the game glitch and killed us both at exactly the same time. The silence that brought to us was so awkward, after about 15 seconds of stunned silence we both cracked up laughing, to this day we still talk to eachother and say "Ah, remember that time on round 39? In the pack-a-punch room?" And we would commence the laughter and talk about old times XD. I went over to his house last holidays and played the same map :-P
Probably one of my most vivid memories was back in 96. The first Playstation console opened my eyes to what gaming had become, and it was amazing.
On a sunny Sunday afternoon, picture three grown men sitting in my a well lit living room, hanging off each other in fear while taking turns playing the original Resident Evil. No game up to that point had provoked such strong emotions in us.
The crescendo of our session came when all three of us jumped and screamed in unison as a six foot spider dropped from the ceiling in front of poor Chris Redfield.
Happy days!
I think my best and most favorite moment was staying up all night with my friends. Playing halo on the original xbox. 4 player split screen on a crapy old box. Your screen was so small you could hardly see anything. But it didn't matter. You had your friends and snacks and you were away. Trying to pass halo on legendary. Yelling and screaming so loud would wake my friends mom up constantly. It will always be my most fondest gaming moment.i miss those days
Another fun memory: Coming back from the pub with a mate after closing time and sticking Mortal Kombat 2 on his SNES.
He had a little more to drink than me at that point, and as a consequence was getting his arse well and truly handed to him.
Well at some point, I guess he got tired of the beating, as he leapt off the sofa, kicked the console across the room and went to bed without saying a word to me.
I was left, looking slightly perplexed, holding my controller with nothing plugged into it.
That's proper 'rage quitting'.
I have very many happy memories of staying up all night, writing the code on my ZX81. I built the "Tank" game, and although it took a wee while (hrs) to load, it was totally worth it!!!!
From there I moved to an apple 2E clone, called a Dick Smith "Cat" The game of choice there (and face it, there wasn't much of a choice) was LoadRunner.
Ahhh, the memories....always trying to beat my best mates high score.
The ZX81 was my first comp - a whole 1K with a 16 K RAM pac!! - I desperately need to update my gaming computer!
Last one! Crowding around a tiny colour TV on Boxing Day, playing 4 player Goldeneye. Those proximity mines were a #@$ing pain in the backside!
I have thousands of awesome gaming moments I've the last 15 years but the one I remember the most was 2 years ago when halo 4 was released me and my bro pre-ordered it from you guys and of course we played it for ages offline until we finally got online in our new house in which I played by myself after that and decided one day to clock it by myself on legendary and within a couple of days I did but I was offline for that so when I went online I played halo 4 with other people, and people would ask how I did it alone and I would tell them persistence and they wouldn't believe me cause there was no record of me ever doing it so I became the man to help people with there co-op campaigns I think I've clocked halo 4 on legendary difficulty lots of fun.
I have always been known in my family of four brothers as the Super Smash Bros player who can defy the odds like when I am able to down and opponent with 0% and my character is sitting sweetly on about 120% damage both with only 1 stock left from Smash 64 through to Brawl and SSB4 I have done what should be impossible but this moment I had was insane. I was using Olimar in SSB4 (Like my Third Main below Lucina and Yoshi) and i was fighting in a 10 stock match with two of my brothers 1st being Mario (His Main) and 2nd Being Zero suit Samus (His Main) and my 1st Brother who plays a very defensive and cowardly strategy managed to stay at about 5 stocks left when my 2nd brother and me fought until he was gone and i only had 1 stock left so i was against a defensive cowardly player using Mario with 5 stocks when I was and aggressive Olimar player on 1 stock but amazingly i managed to defeat him and won the match by quickly changing my own strategy to counter his he was so angry he wouldnt let me pick Olimar for quite a few matches afterward (P.S battles were no items on Final Destination)
Was playing this game when bzzzzzpt! The computer died.
Oh the humanity.
This didn't happen to me but this happened to my sister. You see, she found her husband while gaming online and playing Team Fortress 2 so I personally witnessed the true love that blossomed between them. There were many memorial moments as they faced countless enemies in TF2 watching each other's backs sometimes and other times times shooting each other like the feuding families in Romeo and Juliet. After 4 years of gaming and dating. My sister married him last year. They even had Team Fortress 2 icons on their dinner tables! Nothing says epic like the semi-forbidden love between an Asian Kiwi city girl and a Causian Australian farmboy from the Outback. Queue soap opera music. She may not have been the best player in TF2 but she certainly won in real life!
Let me bring you back to a time in GTA where the heists were first announced and excitement was thick in the air (you won’t have to strain too hard, it was only last month after all!). We were staging an epic escape with a stolen prison bus; trying to get away from cops that JUST. WOULDN'T. GIVE. UP. Finally they lost my scent, and I headed over to the drop off point in my own car. I waited for the bus to arrive, and got out of my car as I saw it approaching to give a well-deserved thumbs up.
Only to be slammed into the ground by a stolen police car, as it overtook the bus and sped into my poor helpless character with sirens a-blazing. Yep, that’s right. I died. Game over, start again.
That wouldn’t be funny in itself (more frustrating), except with what happened later in the night in a different heist. There was one member of our group who was much higher levelled than the rest of us, and I was trying to play well so I might impress them (or rather wouldn’t make a fool of myself). He took the lead driving to our destination, and I followed behind in my (much worse) car. When we arrived, he got out of his car to pull out his gun; but I continued to drive forwards. Until, at least, I realised in a sudden state of panic - I was being shot at by the enemy. And I completely lost ALL COMPOSURE and SLAMMED on the reverse.
…completely flattening the high level guy.
Long story short, I’m not trusted around cars in GTA anymore….
When you last alive in CS:GO and you win a 1v5. The feeling is just too good, Happened to me the other day and just after that game I unboxed a case and got a AWPIAsiimov Battle Scarred(Worth $38 NZD and is VERY VERY RARE). If I win this I won't have to play on my Laptop which is not that great for gaming and won't experience lag on games I want to play.
My greatest moment in gaming.....
Its got to be the day I was on my PS3 in a public session of GTA: Online:
I was walking around and say a group of 5 or 6 guys on Faggios riding around Vinewood. They were tightly packed, following the road rules and being fine, upstanding Los Santos citizens.
I decided to shoot one of them. Oh boy was that a mistake, the rest gunned me down instantly.
Once I respawned they chased me down, and surrounded me brandishing their Combat MGs.
"Oh no" I thought "This is the end of me"
Their leader came to me and asked "have you accepted Jesus as your Lord and saviour?"
"God no" I said (quite arrogantly).
This simple phrase unleashed a torrent of machine gun fire upon me, unseen since Gallipoli in 1915.
Once I had respawned they surrounded me once more.
"Do you accept Jesus as your Lord and Saviour"
"Nope"
Dead
Anyway this happened about 2 more times until I relented.
"Do you accept Jesus as your Lord and Saviour?"
"Yes" I said. "I accept Jesus as my lord and saviour".
"Follow me" the leader said.
So we went to Ponsonbys where he made me buy a white outfit. I also 'acquired' a faggio (by force, which ended up with me getting nailed with a headshot)
We then drove around converting people
This happened recently in GTA IV. I was just driving fast and I crashed into this one car and that car caught on fire. I decided to stop and look back at the car to watch the explosion, the guy came out of the car and he was on fire. He ran in a little circle and fell on the ground. I thought that he died but he just got up and ran away, but as he ran away his car exploded. For some reason I had the urge to chase him and kill him. I drove beside him as he ran down the street and parked my sideways on the sidewalk in front of him. He stopped and starting running the other way. I chased after him, I pistol whipped him and he fell down and his money appeared so I assumed he was dead. He got up again and I had to shoot him 5 times in the head with my combat pistol. He finally died, and that was my encounter with one of the toughest pedestrians I’ve ever seen in a GTA game
my watercooling sprung a leak and ruined my board, psu , ram and cpu. i could really do with a new computer please.
My favorite online moment must have been a Battlefield Vietnam round where I spent an entire round in one dogfight with an enemy player, me in the US plane and him/her in the Russian one. I was quite efficient at flying in that game, but so was he/she, so neither of us managed to kill each other the whole round.
When I was chasing him/her he/she would make a sudden unexpected turn and go under a bridge or behind a hill so as to escape my attacks, then suddenly I became the hunted rather than the hunted, having to narrowly dodge my pursuers firepower. This went back and forth for a whole round! All the while I was listen to Boards of Canada on the custom soundtrack which set the mood perfectly.
It was just madness and I’ve never been so deeply concentrated during a playing session. Nothing, and no one else on the map mattered at all.
After the match we congratulated each other with a terrific battle and that was it. I’ll never know who he/she was but it was a gaming moment I’ll always remember.
Not long after I started dating my (now) wife Final Fantasy 10 came out. I hadn't at this point told her I was a gamer and she had come over on the Saturday morning to hang out. When she inquired as to what I was planning for the weekend I said "umm I'm going to play this game that just came out" and so I did, after about 4 hours she said "Oh, you were for real? You're actually just going to play this all weekend". I told her indeed I was but thought at the same time she might like to give it a crack, so I rebooted and gave her the controller .... SHE played it for the rest of the weekend, came over every night following to play it and ended up clocking it before me! Wifed her ;)
There I was in the field of battle. A simulation war zone inside the UNSC Infinity. I spawned in on the map known as Exile. With my Mjolnir armour on and my DMR packed with ammo I was ready to fight. The game played the classic Halo beeping sound as our hearts raced for the match to start. 5....4....3....2....1.... I boosted to the centre of the map dodging warthogs as rockets swizz past my face and throwing grenades to return the favour. I ran up the ramp into the room where the Banshee is found and met a few other enemy players on my way in. However they were not good enough for my DMR skills and I simply popped them away. As they all fell dead I threw myself into the Banshee and I was off. Double Kill. Triple Kill. Overkill. Player after player dropped to the floor as I blasted my plasma rounds into their Spartan armour. Moments later I only just realised I had hit the highest kill streak reward known as Unfrigginbelievable. But wait.... I was flying under the rock arch, and there it was. The 3 metre tall Mech also known as the Mantis. The moment I caught in contact with the Mantis it felt like slow motion, all of my game knowledge depended on this moment. Will I die and keep my killstreak? Or carry on destroying Spartans? I was soon to meet my demise.
My best online moment would've been where i was playing a match of counter-strike global offensive.
Like two days before this moment i was watching a youtube video where the youtuber was looking down mid to doors from terrorist spawn on Dust II. he counted down. 3. 2. 1. he shouted BAM and got a wallbang headshot through the doors and went insane.
I was playing a competitive match of CS:GO on Dust II. It was round 9 and we losing 3 - 5 I bought an AWP and figured i would watch down mid to count how many people cross over to B site. I remembered the youtube video. i started to count down. 3. 2. 1. I shot. BAM wallbang headshot through the doors. People were calling me a hacker and saying i walls and what not but i told them i got lucky. Later that game I was the only one alive and i was saving the AWP i bought. I was sitting on top of a car looking towards bedroom to see if anyone would push through. I counted down. 3. 2. 1. BAM! ANOTHER WALLBANG HEADSHOT. i was kicked for hacking.
My favourite moment in gaming was when I was playing starcraft 2.
Our team was out numbered 2 to 4 from the start of the game, because 2 people dropped out.
Me and the other person was forced to control 2 bases at once, while defending barrage of opponent units streaming in.
I asked my teammate to hold off for as long as he can, while I build up my protoss army. He agreed, and basically blocked off all the entrances and covered the base with defence structure.
I gathered as much sky units as I could while he did this.
When the opponent units failed to get past the barricade, I seized the chance to counter attack and just demolished all the enemy units and structure, winning me the game.
It was one of the best feelings of my life! :D
Could really use a spare gaming rig to encourage visitors to the local gaming LAN I host and garner more support for the group so players can compete against other players there, in the hopes creating a more social environment for PC gamers than just gaming online.
Warcraft 3 Frozen Throne, Battle.net with my best friend. Both of us are quite anime fans. Bleach and One Piece to be exact.
We played a round of BvO, Bleach vs One Piece, opposing teams-- the usual.
OF COURSE most players leave either immediately because they didnt random into the character they wanted to play or in the first 10 minutes because they get destroyed by all the experienced players. It was down to just my mate in the opposing team and on our team it was just me and this other dude. I killed one of the map bosses and got a Divine Rapier that drops on death. I held onto it until I had enough gold to build it into a better item, but carelessly I dropped the rapier to make room for some of the other recipe items.
The random on my team ends up taking and wouldn't give it back! You KNOW... those players that don't even speak English right? Started swearing at me in horrible sentences that I could barely grammatically make out. IMPOSSIBLE to deal with. Now- there IS team killing in this map. I hunted him down, got my revenge and my Rapier, went to base and killed him there too. But what ended up happening was something I never imagined. Here's a link to the screenshot. http://puu.sh/hnMyB/2466e1615b.jpg
His hero got stuck between me and the 3 other afk heroes! You can read the chat to see how I felt when that happened. He couldn't get out for close to 15 whole minutes!
Eventually he had to sell an item to buy a blink dagger out of my ingenious trap. But once he got out in the field, my mate would hunt him down and he'd end up in the same position all over again LOL. We are horrible people, but it was definitely one of the greatest moments I've ever had in gaming.
(Also sent the img to ur email. Thanks guys)
I went on a awp clutch in csgo and one the game and then racked up to nova gold 1. Noting else needs to be said.
**Warning** Contains spoilers for Guild Wars
My friend (Lets call him Jed) and I decided we would make it our mission to beat Guild Wars together. For each this was our first time playing the game.
We had made our way through the Shiverpeaks with Prince Rurik. The last thing between us and Kryta was the Frost Gate. Jed and I had recruited two other Hero's to help us in our task. But the Stone Summit Dwarves were unrelenting.
My friends were falling before my eyes, and I had used my last reserves of energy. I had to retreat. I hid behind a cliff while my friends lay there in agony. Rurik was nowhere to be found, and my resurrection spell only had a small radius.
I was trying to aid my friends but I kept getting attacked, but then the Dwarves got sloppy. I saw my chance and I took it, I led the Dwarves away from my friends, managed to double back and res Jed in the confusion.Then we both managed managed to res the others.
We struggled on and managed to open the gates to Kryta. But paid a horrible price, Brave Prince Rurik was slain by Dagnar, leader of the Stone Summit.
Never have I felt so important in a game. The feeling of being the only thing between finishing the mission, or having to repeat an hour or so of game play is amazing. And never have I felt so sad to lose an NPC.
I would like to get my G.F to experience that. But she'd need a pc and I can't afford one :(
Well me and one of my mates were playing gt5 on PS3 but we were bored of doing races over and over just for money, so we decide to do a 24 hour race for fun, so we pick Nurburgring 24 hour race, wake up the next morning have breakfast then we started at 12pm, we had a 5 hour drive time each, so we do it like we were in the car so we used my steering wheel logitech g23 plus as we had to switch when we had to do a pit stop, so we get to the 15 Hour mark and I'm so tired at this time I crash out ended up at the back of the pack but I had to make it up, but instead of me spending 5 hours I take 6 hours putting us at 3rd place, so I left it to my friend for that last 3 hours, he did his 3 hours and finished the race but we only got second place thanks to my screw up. Spend all that time to get second.
Buying Mortal Kombat Trilogy on PS1 off Trade Me, getting it and playing my first Mortal Kombat Game and getting to the Shao Kahn fight the first Time After a load of practice
Finally it had taken weeks to get my group of friends organised to play a resounding match of TF2 together. Ben is the member of the group that everyone makes fun of, for good reason because he is bad at TF2. We made sure that we all got on the same team, and were a great team. Me as the pocket medic Ben screwing around as spee, Andre charging in as sollyman and Matthew pushing the cart as scout. All was fine all was great, there were ups where we ubered and destroyed the other team, there were downs when a particularity good spy ruined us, their were obscenities shouted down the mike at shite team mates and insults traded between friends, mostly at Ben's expense. That all changed when the vote to shuffle teams was passed, we were too good for our own good. Now it was Andre and myself against Matthew and Ben, and so we mopped the floor with them as I'ma decent medic and Andre is better than all of us because he has had too mush practice. Too many times did Ben ineffectively try and butterknife us or Matthew chance classes only to have Andre and Myself adapt our weapons and tactics, we were a good team. All was great, for hours, going from server to server kicking ass and changing names to just be awesome, but it was not fated to end well, in the middle of a resounding comeback after our team took a beating, the moment was intense, Ben had sniped their medic and Matthew had been hampering their progress so that Andre and myself had time to rally the rest of our team into a charge against their impending win. With uber poped and Andre sauntering around the corner mini-gun spinning, ready to spew fire and death. Everything stopped, the room had gone black, my friends had gone silent. Power-cut, the disappointment washed over me as that resounding comeback was frozen in glory on my laptop screen forever immortalized in my memory as the great gaming night that never finished.
My favorite gaming moment was playing all the Buzz games on the PS2, screaming and eating pizza is the best way to play
Finally it had taken weeks to get my group of friends organised to play a resounding match of TF2 together. Ben is the member of the group that everyone makes fun of, for good reason because he is bad at TF2. We made sure that we all got on the same team, and were a great team. Me as the pocket medic Ben screwing around as spee, Andre charging in as sollyman and Matthew pushing the cart as scout. All was fine all was great, there were ups where we ubered and destroyed the other team, there were downs when a particularity good spy ruined us, their were obscenities shouted down the mike at shite team mates and insults traded between friends, mostly at Ben's expense. That all changed when the vote to shuffle teams was passed, we were too good for our own good. Now it was Andre and myself against Matthew and Ben, and so we mopped the floor with them as I'ma decent medic and Andre is better than all of us because he has had too mush practice. Too many times did Ben ineffectively try and butterknife us or Matthew chance classes only to have Andre and Myself adapt our weapons and tactics, we were a good team. All was great, for hours, going from server to server kicking ass and changing names to just be awesome, but it was not fated to end well, in the middle of a resounding comeback after our team took a beating, the moment was intense, Ben had sniped their medic and Matthew had been hampering their progress so that Andre and myself had time to rally the rest of our team into a charge against their impending win. With uber poped and Andre sauntering around the corner mini-gun spinning, ready to spew fire and death. Everything stopped, the room had gone black, my friends had gone silent. Power-cut, the disappointment washed over me as that resounding comeback was frozen in glory on my laptop screen forever immortalized in my memory as the great gaming night that never finished.
It was the day The legend of Spyro: Dawn of the dragon came out. Me and my friend were pumped for the first multiplayer Spyro game we'd ever played. The whole concept of having 2 dragons at once was amazing to us. Our goal was the complete the whole story mode for it as quick as possible. So we sat down and played for a good 4 hours, completely disregarding the people around us and forgetting completely about eating. We were that determined to finish it. Time flew so quickly that we played all through the night. We didn't know though we were just going at it. About 8 hours in we looked at the time and it was 2AM but we just kept going. We got to the very last fight and failed the first time around. The second time however was completely unpredictable. We aced the dragon and got him down to a pinch of health. I thought i'd let my friend finish him off but just as he attacked the final boss, the PS2 overheated and crashed. The PS2 bricked itself and would simply do nothing. Not turn on or anything. I blamed it on him for attacking last but it was a joint effort to break the PS2 as we had been playing it for so long... Although we were gutted, we were impressed that we were able to stay up that long. To this day, I am yet to see the ending for Spyro: Dawn of the dragon.
When I was in year 12, many years ago, our local school had purchased 12 computers for the school (back when computers didn't do much and cost significantly more).
We were pretty hard out into our Age of Empires 2 at that stage. We wanted to have a LAN but because only a couple of use owned our computers (and internet was dial-up, therefore coming a premium) we couldn't really achieve this. The school's recent acquisition was perfect.
Over the course of a couple of weeks we managed to install Age of Empires on most of the machines, and our tech guru, Kev, had managed to sort out the LAN side of things.
All of this was significantly contrary to the school's recent computer usage standards, but security was pretty minimal on them at the time (none of this Windows Vista onwards business).
After another week or so we had planned to hide in the room until after 5 when everyone else would have left, then we seized our opportunity to binge on some solid LAN time. All went well for around 40 minutes until the math teacher noticed we were in the room late and stormed in.
Little did we know that Mr X (we shall call him) was in fact an AOE2 machine, joined in for several hours, didn't tell anyone and we flew under the radar.
The best gaming experiences involve math teachers, you would be surprised!
No a great story XD But quite sad actually. So I was really really wanting to play games with my friends at school and youtubers however they had an Xbox One and a Xbox 360 and I had only a PS3. So I headed on to mightyape and brought a Xbox One to play with my mates. The next day they decide to sell their Xbox One to buy a new PC which to me felt very sad as I spent the money I got for my Birthday for nothing but gaming by my self. I really only manged to get at the most only 1 game of BF4 with one of my mates. The next day I turned on my PC (All-in-one) that my dad got and I signed into origin and of coruse I see my friends are playing BF4, so I install the game and I join them. Then I only got 15 fps at low settings at the reslution scale of only 60% which sucks very much. I then quit the game since it was so laggy and I then said to my friends "Wanna play BF4 on the Xbox One?" And what do they say, they say "Nahhh we sold ours!" I was devastated I could not at all play games with my best friends!!! Thats what we do!!! So unfair! My dad said "You are not aloud to sell your Xbox! We all use it" I felt sad I don't really use it as my friends are never online! I cannot get a PC anytime soon as I only get birthday money once a year and they are like $1500. But this PC would be amazing :D I would be able to wreck my friends in the new gun master game mode or even troll them in the new release GTA V when Livestreaming! But the saddest/jellois moment ever in my gaming history was when my friend brought a $3000 PC unlike him I cannot afford a PC :'( Next day is the first day of school every boy in my class is talking about the amazing graphics on GTA V PC on the ultra graphics but me I fell so left out as I have no idea what it is like infront of me at at least 1080p. And then it's today me typing this comp :), when everyone else is litrelly on GTA V PC talking about it in a group at 4 messages each 5 seconds :O. Good luck everyone :)
1992 and me & my best friend Mike decided we would do a complete 16 race season of Micropose's Formula One Grand Prix with qualifying and full length races. We took it in shifts, with one sleeping (somewhat) while the other drove the 50-60 laps around Monaco, Monza or Silverstone etc. I can't tell you whether we won the season. Or even if we finished it but it is one of my fondest memories of my gaming career; me & Mike challenging the best in the world via 512KB's of raw Amiga power.
Its the little things that count, like staying up all night with your friends to finally finish that last heist mission on GTA. All Heists done in order, with the same people and on hard mode without dying. After the few deaths we had we managed to complete them all without dying, earning us a cool 10 mil. Its a bit hard to do on my current machine but as long as I'm with my friends and having fun I don't mind. Thanks for reading!
This goes back a few years, approx 2001. Game was Counter-Strike, map was CS_italy. Playing in a clan match at the time, we were down by a round, and needed to win one more round to take the game to a tie-breaker.
The opposing team managed to pick off the other members of my team, leaving me in a 5-vs-1 situation. Needless to say, I holed up in a nearby house, and waited for a chance to pick them off. That chance finally came.
After surviving a barrage of flash and smoke grenades, I took my chance and popped out the right window. There were 2 storming the stairs, and quickly spammed them and got 2 headshots. Upon seeing their teammates demise, their remaining team mates came storming from the other side. Another smoke grenade comes in.
Blinded from the smoke, I took my chance and sprayed my weapon, taking out 2 more opposing members. Now, low on ammo and needing a reload, there was no time. With the last remaining enemy rushing me, there was nothing left to do but switch to the knife and swing.
The sound of metal on felsh was glorious, and we all roared once he was felled by my blade, taking the game to overtime!
One of my mates (not a pc gamer) was build his pc knowing nothing about he had to ask us what the graphics card was sending us a photo of a DVI to HDMI cable the sad thing was he was serious he also tried to install windows because he thought it wasn't installed because there was no password for his user when he first turned it on Lol.
One of my experiences that I love/hate in gaming was when I first got Skyrim. I was playing through the game and got to Bleak Falls Barrow, ridiculously early in the game still, and went exploring. I dispatched the first enemies and went down the staircase when suddenly out of nowhere I took a tiny bit of damage. Of course I panicked and almost jumped out of my seat, ran back through the dungeon and sat there watching the red dot on the minimap. When it finally reached me I realised it was just a Skeever and was very disappointed in myself...
Spent a whole day playing ape escape on the ps1 when i was younger was to poor to buy a memory card lol day well spent that was a good game.
@ Rigardt - Definitely post a link to that :)
Old school - would be playing traveller RPG in 1980 in the school boilerroom, flying our spaceship round the regina star system and chasing pirates... the 4 of us were just about to rescue the beautiful princess when.. the school teacher came in and busted us (btw, this was pre computer days :) )
For the computer age, carrying PCs round to a friends house for a 48 hr mutliplayer 4 person session of the original diablo.. that ramped the difficulty level up so much that it was really hard to cope when Tim fell asleep at the keyboard and 30 hrs.. but we still managed to beat the game and kill diablo.. just...
My story comes from the wonderful world of smite. I was playing arena trying to get mastery on ne zha. This god has a 2 hit combo with a sash that roots the enemy in place with you pulling yourself towards them then using the ult where you dash towards an enemy and take them up into the air hitting them 3 times then divebombing them to the ground. My team mate playing as artemis used my sash with his high damage to steal my kills. Throughout the entire match he/she was doing this. At the end of the match I was at 0 kills where as artemis was at 27. Woohoo!
I was playing a game of CS:GO my team had 4 wins and the other team had 13. Somehow my team drew the score up to 14. We started the last round to win the game 3 of my teammates died in the first 2 mins because they were to hasty then it was down to me and my buddy. My buddy miss the callout and tried to move to a different spot but got sniped. So I pulled out my new banana skin handgun and got picked off the sniper and another guy that peeked out to tried and get me. So now it was down to a 1v1 but sadly I screwed up and walked out into a open space and got shot from behind but my teammates in the end really didn't care that we lost because we had a great comeback.
So back in the day when i lived with my parents and we sadly had no internet due to living out in the country side. I know this is a sad story already, having no internet is like losing your pet dog.(but don't worry it gets good)So me and my brothers searched around to find old school lan games. which ended up being a lot of fun. You couldn't beat our 12 hour struggles trying to beat each other on dawn of war winter assault . As a reminder to anyone that has forgotten winter assault this was before they put a limit on turrets. Do you know how hard it is to try and push past a 100 turrets to make into the enemy base while they build more turrets. Ill tell you how hard. its 12 hours long hard. I cant tell you how many hours we spend on freelancer. Exploring that universe was insane. It got to the point where we would enter pirate system and end up being stuck out there for days just trying to run away. They should hurry up and make a freelancer 2 already.
But i think my fav moment was playing a 3 day galactic conquest game on Star wars battlefront 2 on xbox pushing backwards and forwards between planets was epic. Cant wait for battlefront 3 its been a long wait as it is!
There have been a lot of good times in my “Gaming Career” shall we say, across multiply platforms, with all of my friends and at all different hours. The amount of good times I’ve had, the amount of crazy times, even the frustrating times I would not take any of them back honestly just thinking about it lifts me up. Anyway one of the most memorable would have to be during a gaming night where my two friends and I had the house to ourselves and the lounge set up with three TV’s and three laptops. It was three or four in the morning and we were going strong living off the buzz of caramel lattes and we decided to play Dark Souls. Knowing how hard it was did not deter us and we started the task of loading previous saves only to find that my save was ruined as I had attacked the first NPC I had met. This was hilarious as he followed me constantly leading to hysterical laughter and a game of who could run the furthest through the game without dying with him following behind well dodging the various skeletons. Eventually we got into a new part of the game to discover ghost tentacle ladies who appeared out of the water which lead to more girlish screaming and the throwing of pretzels at the TV. That terror of ghost tentacle ladies who whispered and grabbed you broke us in those early morning hours and I can safely say after five minutes we changed the game. By the words of Franklin D. Roosevelt it was “a gaming moment which will live in infamy” but I can assure you the night did not end there. (By the way when I wrote the first part to this story I was listening to Florence & The Machine-Shake it Out so yeah, many man tears were shed)
First introduction to multiplayer games was over TCP/IP playing MUD (multi-user dungeons) which were text based. Amazing the amount of detail you could imagine into a world with a text description and a little flashing cursor( no picture, no avatar nothing). We regularly used to role play and had a fantastic way of avoiding wasting our precious gold "renting" our gear when we logged out (non-subscribers you know) and used to drop it on the floor in a "safe" room where high level players and mobs (aggro monsters) couldn't go. Worked fine until the day we chose the adventurer's guild hall and discovered that the doorkeeper was a scavenger (some npcs were coded to pick up any gear in the same area as them). There we were, naked and unarmed. And the doorkeeper was waaay overpowered for us to do anything about it. One group of very sheepish, very poor and very dead players later.....
One of the many highlights from playing Battlefield 3 with my two friends was when we learnt of the effects of C-4 on teammates in vehicles and that you couldn't blow up your friends even if they were in a jeep/tank/etc.. so we decided to run some experiments against the enemy team by filling up an explosive covered jeep and bull rushing them before the at the last second whoever was in the passenger seat (who would have the detonator) would bail out and the other two would slam straight into our target before the explosion that would kill everything other than the jeep and it's two heroic occupants!
Using this newly discovered knowledge we all changed our classes to Support, all wielding C-4 and changed teams to USA and began barreling over the grassy hills of Caspian Border in a three-man jeep as I played the Team America: World Police theme song through my headset as we charged down the enemy Russian armour!
We spread LIBERTY and FREEDOM throughout those lands as we imagined the star spangled banner flying over us as we sang "AMERICA! F#$K YEAH!!"
I was only 9 years old I loved pokemon so much, I had all the merchandise and movies.
I pray to Pikachu every night before bed thanking him for the life I've been given.
Pokemon is love I say, Pokemon is life
My dad overhears me and calls me a noob
I knew he was just jealous of my devotion for Pokemon
I called him a Scrub
He beats me in a battle and sends me to go to sleep
Im crying now, and my pokemon are hurt.
I lay in bed and its really cold
A warmth is moving towards me.
I feel something touch me
Its Pikachu
I am so happy
He whispers in to ear "Pikachu"
He shocks me with his powerful thunderbolt and it sends me on my hands and knees
I'm ready
I open my pokedex for Pikachu
When several of these pokemon gather, their electricity could build and cause lightning storms it tells me.
his thunderbolts hurt so much but i my hp is high so i take them for Pikachu
I can feel my hp starting to drop now and my eyes start to water
I push against his thunderbolts.
I want to please Pikachu
He roars a mighty Growl which decreases my attack.
My dad walks in
Pikachu looks him straight in the eye and says "Pika pika chu"
Pikachu leaves through my window
Pokemon is love, Pokemon is life
One of my favourite fond memories of multi player gaming was back when Battlefield Vietnam first released. Me, my brother and a friend didn't all have computers strong enough to run it at the time so we could only ever play it one at a time on my computer. The game itself was always fun, also being one of the first games in the battlefield series I myself first played and loved. I always had fond memories of charging through the air in a helicopter with Ride of the Valkyries blaring out around me.
But as I said earlier all three of us didn't have a computer that could run it, So we use to travel into town to a computer repair store that was also a small internet cafe / gaming centre every time we had spare cash. Though a few months after we started doing it the store closed down and we had to wait sometime to get our own computers to play again.
And to date it has always been the best memory of gaming with family and friends I ever had
My first memories of multiplayer was playing split screen Timesplitters 2 (Those gingerbread men!) but after such amazing stories of incredible feats, I must now bring you all down with a tale of woe.
This takes place on a new minecraft server not long after i'd first started playing online. Me and a friend had set up a small house in the country, just outside of the town surrounding spawn. We also owned a place in town. We got fed up with walking between the two so we built a minecart track between the two which involved digging a tunnel through a massive mountain between us and spawn.
One day we stumbled across a couple of horses and I tamed one. I was so excited, this was my first ever minecraft horse! I named him Simba. Over the next 10-15 minutes we had many adventures together before tragedy struck. While galloping around our country home I accidently jumped him into a minecart which sped off towards the tunnel. I jumped off to try and break the cart but it was too quick for me.
Simba disappeared into the tunnel and passed away as he suffocated in the roof. A ceremony was held at the local church in his memory and both my playing partner and many of the others on the server shared in my grief. As the others went off to bed I decided to begin work on a more fitting memorial to my great horse and over the next few hours began construction of a massive horse statue overlooking the town.
I'd never built anything on that scale before and I had no access to creative mode or any commands. I set up 8 furnaces and burnt them for many minecraft days and nights churning out nothing but smooth stone to match the colour of Simbas skin; and used ladders and dirt scaffolding to reach the necessary height.
Finally the monument was complete. In total I used over 23 stacks of smooth stone in its construction. There is a glass panel in the top and bottom as well as in the base of the podium which leads all the way down to Simba's tomb. It is currently in the process of being surrounded by lush flowing parks for the enjoyment of all players and stands proudly as a major landmark overlooking the town.
Shortly after completion Simba's horse wife Marcko (a girl) passed away in a similar fashion and they both now rest together. Forever in our hearts
When i was about 6 and got the first playstation and tekken 3 , as a kid i thought it was quiet good button mashing as hwoarang and beating the game and true ogre who i thought was impossible to beat. Play the game now and do the story mode in no time.
My story is i was jamming a all nighter with my friends to many vs and alot of pizza eyes glued to the screen we where trying to get really far on blackops zombies i was a noob they kept yelling at me i was allways having to get revived and all that i ended up geting the hang of it found my fav wepon until i had used up all my amo i was defenceless running round like a headless chicken trying to survive i had wasted all my money my friends started to strugle i will never forget this it was just me left managed to run away from the hord for just a few short seconds i brought a mystery box we where all hopeing it would be a ray gun or something to kill the hord but i got a bundy hand gun and died on round 6 ;( amature for life ;( i didnt have enough sugar ;)
It was almost a decade ago, right at the start of WoW. My guild had just started raiding Molten Core, but had been wiping for a couple of weeks at the second boss, magmadar, who feared all 40 members of the raid and promptly killed them. I then just dinged 60 on my dwarf priest, and was taken in in green gear, completely underpowered and underhealthed. My one job (in my first experience of a raid) was stay out of the fire and cast fear ward every 30 seconds. I was then given every buff under the sun from my entire raid. I did my job, we killed the mutt and the other bosses followed in quick succession. That was the bit in game, but with friendships formed within game I went to Denmark, Poland, Norway and Croatia to meet up with guildmates in real life. Even now I'm no longer playing on Europe servers and live 10,000 miles away I'm still friends with and talk to people who were there the first night we killed magmadar. I have the video stored somewhere
I remember playing counterstrike for the first time years ago, had never played and before then the only FPS I had played was the original Doom. My whole team had been fragged bar me and being a noob I had hidden in a corner waiting for my impending doom. Woe and Behold I'm sittin there with a sub machine gun and the last 3 people on their team run up a ramp, jump, at a tangent to me, in a row, and I gun all three of them down winning the match.
It was a dark, showery and long day in the cubic world of minecraft. I was making my way back to my large cabin, which I had spent 3-5 hours constructing. But none the less I trudged my way through the snowy ground, weighed down by my treasures from my mining trip. I was abundant in iron, Gold, and precious diamonds. Eventually I made it to the warmth of my home and I was so tired so I went to bed to prepare for the next day. In the morning I rose from my bed ready to craft, I spent a while gathering the resources and made the short journey to the cellar I had previously dug out and I began to make a storage room, complete with Redstone lighting systems and all I then went started sorting my items in to chests and after not long I had to go back to the top floor to retrieve more resources. When I reached my new storage room one single creeper stood blankly in the middle of the room looking rather unsure what to do, he walked towards me, I was standing next to my valuable mining produce chest and my armory chest and boom. He blew up. Needless to say I didn't get all my resources before they despawned
At the end of each year our school would have activity days and the Year 10 students would have organised trips away. One year we did bowling in the morning, then we went to a local internet cafe for a Counterstrike competition. There were forty students from two different classes that I taught, one an upper stream class and the other was the bottom stream in year10. There was a significant amount of trash talking in the build up to the competition and considerable rivalry between the two classes. We divided into teams of ten for the competition. I was with the team that were comparative "noobs" from the bottom stream class and there first rounds did not go well for the team. But we came back strongly and started to edge the other teams. I'm proud to say that I was playing out of my skin that day and racked up some impressive K/D ratios before the kids figured out it was there teacher ripping them a new one. In the end the opponents were targeting me because I was their teacher and celebrated when they could take me down. I think they really found a whole new level of respect for their teachers and since then I have stayed in contact with some of those, now, ex-students and we still play online on consoles with each other.
Knew I had video somewhere look out for the small dwarf in the front wearing a dress
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wROsUf-lUmU&feature=youtu.be
It's odd story but I think one of my favourites was when me and one of my friends were playing Murder in Garry's Mod and we joined a server where everyone (including the detective and the serial killer) was worshipping this one microwave on the map. So naturally we were curious as to what would happen if we took away their god and threw it over a fence where they couldn't get it (naturally this had to be repeated over and over for scientific reasons). Well as it turns out they didn't like their god to be taken away from them so they all tried to team up and stop us every time. We succeeded more than we failed but it's the only time I've seen random serial killers and detectives team up with the bystanders to kill two people.
So, I'd just been getting into the game Crusader Kings II and decided that it was a great opportunity to start playing with a few mates at a LAN party, as you do. If you haven't played the game before, its basically Game of Thrones in video game form (there's actually a mod that turns the map into Westeros if you want!), where the aim is to build up your dynasty and rule over large swathes of Europe in the middle ages. Most of my friends were new to the game at the time and so we all picked our respective kingdoms, with places like France, England, Denmark, Castille and Leon being played... within the first 30 minutes of playing the game, the King of Leon had assassinated his brother, the king of Castille and taken him out of the game and took over his kingdom... England and France began a war that ended gloriously when the Holy Roman Empire stomped Frances army and the English rolled in and took over everything, only to get stomped by the HRE too. They were all so annoyed at the Denmark player for actually winning at life that the remaining players poured all our remaining money and time into... 'ending' his dynasty. Meanwhile, I was wondering what all the fuss was about, my game as the Holy Roman Empire was going great! Needless to say, it got us more riled up than a family game of monopoly.
Raiding has never been my strong suit and of course in World of Warcraft you have to be the best of the best to even think about raiding (according to the hot shots) All I ever had done was LFR and fun runs with my guildies, I knew what to do however when my guildies and I started a premade just to do some of the bosses as we were bored what we didn't realise was that one of the healers we invited was one of the big shot of the server, being of the first on the server to knock out heroic raids, so of course this fun run (on which we stated it was) became his raid and whenever we failed on a mechanic he started to yell at us over vent.
Needless to say I won't raid with anyone unless they are my guildies any more.
playing some dungeons and dragons and maybe get some flames of war games in over the weekend with good friends
My best moment is a League of Legends throwback to 2012 aka season 2/3. I made a huge play playing Twisted Fate in ranked solo queue by backdooring the enemy base while they took baron. My friend sacrified himself as Ezreal to stop the other teams recalls while I worked on killing the nexus. Eventually they got back but I flashed to dodge the Alistar Headbutt, got kicked away by lee sin, and managed to get one last hit on the nexus with my Lich Bane proc and destroyed. I only had about >50 hp and was surrounded by the enemy team.
The reason why I loved this moment is because it was the first time I made a big play (was silver, now diamond :D ), and me and my friend were both screaming that we had pulled it off. The other team were really far ahead so we would definitely have lost if we hadn't pulled off the backdoor.
I actually managed to get on one of the Protato Monster top 5 plays a few months later- I was #4 on Week 121, which managed to get over 1million views on youtube :)
Here's the link if you wanna check it out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEOt7y2R3AU
I'm Columbus, and my friend is Psychohooker.
I guess it was also pretty awesome since it was around the time when xPeke kept pulling off backdoors with Kassadin!
My best multiplayer moment/ learning experience /ass whooping("my ass") has to be A Halo round robin i played earlier this year during O'week with my flat mates. we had just moved into our first flat and decided to celebrate/decide who got the pull out couch till there bed arrives ("as only one of four of the guys in my flat organised a bed before coming down to dunedin."). We decided the best way to decide was to play a halo drinking game as it served both our goals for the night. the rules were simple you die you eat 3 vodka gummy bears or take a shot. my first match is against the only flat mate im not confident in a victory against. we begin i manage to score the first death with a scatter shot i start to feel confident and begin to gloat little only to hinder my success, As my flat mate begins to play more seriously and slaughter me. I start to feel woozy thinking the gummy bears had less booze than the shot my skills fade and that one kill becomes my only kill over three games of slayer and a heap of gummy bears later. At the end i wa a little sad i lost the couch but i swear a carpet floor, pillows and blanket have never looked so comfy.
I have a really awesome time playing HON and DOTA2 with my friends all those latenights happy moments also those bad days when we lose games
we even go to internet cafes for Lan Games but I guess everything has an END now since everything has to do something for their own and one of my friends computer is broken and he cant play online games anymore I think he is now hanging out with the wrong people I tried hard to tell him not to but yeah well winning this might help us out if I win this I will give it to him.
Im quite a beginner at League of Legends, my friends are all pros, I got home one late night from work, and I felt like playing, everyone just finished playing that time and everyone was going off, except for one mate who said we can have one game.
We had such a good time, that we had another game, he used champions he wouldnt normally play just to have a casual game, we were upto our third winning streak, which was rare, it was also very late or should i say early in the morning, that i said if we lose this game we should stop. Well, we had another 2game winning streak after that, we just had to call it off because it was just getting too late but it was a great 5game winning streak out of the blue.
I also really need a good computer, I have the lowest performance computer out of everyone, I always lag, and connect to the game last.
Thanks :D
I remember playing halo my first time on legendary, I thought I was good at the game but oohhhh was I wrong, wow with it taking over an hour to get past the first lvl alone, with multiple deaths and countless bullets fired and grenades thrown and 2 days later and with a mates help I finally got past it and wow it was a mission it was and the last mission was such a pain to finish but it made me hone my warthog skills witch it helped for multiplayer, as the group I played with always said I was the best driver around I would drive the hog all over he place and remember splattering many foes ha ha ha ha such good times also took a few rockets and survived
I could also go on about playing my first rpg and was awestruck about how big the game was and that you could walk anywhere and so many side quests oh man my mind was buzzing
I was playing Team Fortress 2 with a friend who is really good at the game recently. I was having trouble and had died probably 40+ times with only a few kills. It was on 2 Fort, so in other words, it was basically team deathmatch.
I got auto swapped to the opposite team of my friend, and he kept killing me over and over again.
Eventually I decided to try the sniper class. This didn't seem like a smart idea as my friend is American, so I was playing on an American server with 200+ ping.
But at one stage he jumped off the opposite building and I sniped him mid rocket jump (he was playing soldier). It was such an insane shot that my friend just said "What the #*$@" and then left the teamspeak for a good 10 minutes.
Then I got another good kill on him and he started asking me if I had just gone and installed an aim bot (which he soon realized I didn't do and resumed his serial killer ways to put me back another 20 deaths).
The Dark Below DLC had just come out for Destiny a few weeks prior to my story and naturally myself and fellow Destiny friends who I met back in the good ol' COD 4 days on PS3 decided to pick it up because Destiny had reformed us as a group for the first time in years and we loved the game.
Guys from everywhere like USA, England, Ireland, Australia and of course NZL finally rejoined together and we all went head first into the new Crota raid.
Everything up until Crota was a breeze for us because of years of teamwork, but to make it fun and challenging, I gave the Sword duty to a friend named Gazza who had never tried it, needless to say, it was a few wipes/redos trying to teach him how to run the sword. Eventually he gave up and handed it to an experienced player, few moments later Crota was 2 hits from dying and the unbelievable happened, our sword bearer got killed. Guess who saved the day?
Gazza, who gave up because of lack of confidence, flew like a bat outta hell towards the dropped sword, we all shot Crota until he kneeled down and Gazza killed Crota to all of our excitement!
Best experience he'd had in the game and now he's our regular sword bearer, even teaching some of our older pals the tactics.
So yeah, intense, awesome Destiny moments with friends I've known for years purely from online definitely comes top of my list on my multiplayer gaming moments.
My brother and I got into gaming later in our childhood than all of my friends, but it all started when we begged our parents for a Nintendo Wii. On the Wii we worked together to clock up hundreds (if not thousands) of hours on the amazing titles released over the years like Metroid Prime Trilogy, Monster Hunter Tri or LOZ Skyward Sword.
One game stood above them all though: Super Smash Bros. Brawl. We spent a huge amount of time on that game, getting every character, trophy, achievement, even every sticker in the game! But the most fun in it was learning how to play every character just by fighting each other 1 on 1 every day for as long as we could.
The, then, new destroyers had just been released onto the EVE market so I decided to take one out and hunt someone I had my eyes on for a while. I was taking a break from nul sec and had entered into faction warfare in the relative security of low sec space and found that this is where many of the good solo pvpers had gone from nul in an attempt to avoid the massive fleets.
It must be said my time in the faction warfare corp was the most fun I could remember having in eve since I first started.
There was a well known - very good - player who lived a couple of systems over from us who was in a corp aligned to one of the opposing factions and he would constantly harass our newer members and make a mess of their ships (blow them to bits). I decided to hunt him down and heard he was roaming in a Corax (one of the new destroyers) so I took out my Dragoon (also brand new) and went for him.
When I first found him it was in a local faction warfare site that he was capturing but even as I warped to him he must have aligned away and as I landed on the gate to the site he warped...
Typically my corporation and it's members would not roam alone so close to his home system so he bugged out perhaps thinking I was a scout for a waiting fleet.
I quickly scanned down his ship and warp direction to the nearby star. I thought to myself: "He is probably in a safe spot deep in space and no where near the star but whatever I will go for it."
I warped to 100km from the star and crossed my fingers constantly refreshing my system scan as I warped across the system after him - sure enough he was there aligning out... I started to approach him and he changed direction instead turning to run... but he didn't warp. Suddenly local went up as I saw a corp mate of his enter the system and started quickly scanning to see if I was about to be stuck in a 1 V 2 or worse... how could I be so stupid. I didn't even check the next system over. But there was nothing on scan... I kept moving towards him and realised I was slowly catching him.
Keeping an eye on the local channel I saw his corp mate leave the system... I looked in our information channel for any kind of warning and while I was typing a request for info on sightings of his corp mates he turned on me.
The corp mate that just left the system was his scout! - I made a mental note to put it in that characters description as I launched my drones and started trying to lock onto him.. knowing he was probably fitted with a passive shield tank I knew if I could out last him I would win with my active armour tank and energy vampire modules in my high slots that should feed me enough power to keep my systems alive. My heart was pounding in my chest - it does not seem to matter how much your ship is worth nor how much money you have in your wallet. As soon as you start a fight in eve you know that odds good that some one is going to lose their ship... forever.
As we closed to engage his shields began to drop... fast. Too fast to be passive tanking I thought - his shields hit 20% HP and as if on que there it was. That insidious pulse of blue across his ship and as his shields repaired from his shield booster I knew the fight was already decided.
Having not wanted to waste my capacitor on my energy neutralisers in case I was in for a prolonged fight I cycled them on watching as the energy burnt from my capacitor arced across space between us overloading his capacitor and emptying it. His speed dropped to nearly 0 as his micro warp drive died. Without the vital capacitor energy to keep it running and with my webifier slowing him down and a warp scrambler now on him he was dead in space. His warp disruptor point that was keeping me from running dropped and his own webifier that was slowing my ship down died almost immediately after...
He had no power to turn on anything but his weapons.
There was a brief flicker of his shields as the the shield booster fired up as he injected a capacitor battery restoring some power to his systems but fortunately for me my energy neutralisers cycled almost immediately after making the injection redundant but for a single weak boost to his shield health. I had not even noticed that his missiles had not even begun to wear down my armour hp.
A flurry of missiles from his launchers went for one of my drones! He has switched from me to my drones as he realised my only damage source had to die if he was going to win. I smiled as I recalled the targeted drone to the safety of my drone bay saving it from a second salvo of missiles. Rather than risk the low hp drone I launched a full HP replacement and sent it after him.
It was over - his shields died as my energy draining systems emptied his capacitor of power and my swarm of drones strafed the hull of his ship sending billowing fire and smoke out into space.
"GF" he said in local. - Good Fight.
"GF" I said as his ship exploded in a small imitation of the star we fought over.
I am Aun'sji. A bad pilot looking for some fun.
He was S5family - currently in the top 2,000 players in EVE.
http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/killmail.php?eid=28652126#involved
It was late. It was dark. My mouse trembled in my hand as I progressed with my mate Matt to the next level of Resident Evil 5. We walked through a large metal sliding door into what looked like a round down fortress. The door slid shut behind us. Things were quiet. Too quiet.
I had my Chris Redfield take a tentative step forward. Then another. That's when I heard it. The sound of a chainsaw. I ran - removing myself from the sights of the masked mutant. But Sheva (Matt) was not so lucky. I watched as he sprinted off - the sound of the chainsaw following him. I had to do something.
I needed to get a better view. I found a ladder and climbed, all the while hearing Matt scream into the microphone. Equipping the sniper rifle I took aim - found my target and proceeded to head shot. Again. And again. But the target wouldn't go down.
I directed Matt to a flying fox and just as he navigated Sheva onto the flying fox avoiding the blade of the swinging chainsaw I took down my target - with one final head shot to the back of the head.
Peace was restored. For now.
Recently i was playing League of Legends with my friends and we went a full adc top combo, our enemy team was being rather joyful and good about the situation, considering its league of legends thats a shock, but at one point my teammate flashed and the enemy who was chasing him said "where did you go" and then me and an opponent typed at the same time Narnia, everyone found it the funniest thing and now me and that guy now play LoL together regularly as we feel that moment has made us true friends.
Also my laptop is falling apart and i have always wanted an amazing pc xD
This is actually a bit embarrassing...
I am a mum of two teenage boys, and yes I am a weird one, I love playing games, and love challenging my boys, I play all different types and because we have so many consoles at home of different types, we have a bit to choose from, these were collected over the years, starting off with us buying a Nitendo64 before my boys were born, and it still works.
Well back to the story, my boys challenged me to play Skyrim I choose the elf character, my sons asked me how far I got in the story, um, I said quietly the first prison..they said where??!!!
I said the first prison.
Well they said what did you do to get into there, I said um after a guy in the first village tried to help me, I stole some stuff from him, they said well thats not to bad.
I said well thats not all, I accidentally ummm killed him as well cause he caught me stealing.
Oh they said, is that it?
Noooo....I sort of killed his son as well. (here is the first facepalm of the conversation)
Who did you kill? Oh that guy that did some black smith stuff for me. (Second facepalm) apparently he is a big help and I should have kept him as a friend whoops.
Next question...So where did you go after you got out of jail?
Um, Im still in there (here is the shocked looks and more facepalming)
Why was the next question. Well I broke all my lock picks trying to pick the lock to get out, that didnt work, so I tried to burn the jailer, that didnt work, so I tried to burn everything in the cell and tried to burn the bars as well, nothing worked, so now Im in a burnt jail cell with no picks to get out.
By this stage my boys were laughing so loud, and they said to me, did you not go to sleep?
Um no didnt know you could.
Well thats how you get out, you sleep for a night and they let you out the next day.
Well, I may try that, but I sort of burnt my bed as well. (another facepalm).
Sooo I guess Im going to have to go back to playing it, and get myself out of jail. This is one thing I will never live down from my boys.
I still love playing lots of games esp online, to be honest one of my fav weapons is a bow I play avabel at the moment and love earning guild points for my guild.
Welcome to Pandora!
Gateway to the Borderlands, loot & fun times for a troll like me.
Myself & 3 friends were pushing forward cooperatively through the first Borderlands title. I was playing on a lower level alt. as my main character was further through the campaign than my friends & they wanted to grind through without a high level escort.
We had taken the elevator up to the top level of Thor to face Baron Flynt. It was an epic battle with party members dropping & getting last stand kills/heals all over the show. We had two Mordecai’s throwing out Bloodwings & sniping; a single Roland and his turret taking the main brunt of incoming damage while shooting heals (a la Roland’s “Cauterize”) at our Brick who was going berserker style in the centre of the fracas.
In the end we stood triumphant over a pile of corpses & loot. We picked up what we wanted got the next mission directive and started heading towards the elevator down.
It was at this point I announced: “Don’t bother with the elevator, it’s too slow. We can jump off here down to the huts below at this point.”
I ran over to a point on Thor’s railing and stood there looking down. One of the party stood next to me.
“Just jump at that point there.” I proclaimed firing an incendiary tracer at the top of a tall hut directly below us.
“OK” came my team-mate’s reply.
“On 3” I ordered, “1, 2, 3!”
I pressed the jump button, but launched myself vertically up & back down onto the rail, as I watched my friend plummet towards the ground.
Through the headset I heard the unmistakable sound of the respawn screen, before it was drowned out by the cuss words coming from the recently deceased.
I headed over to the elevator.
“Shall we go down now?” I asked the surviving members of the party, as I pressed the elevator button; just as our team mate respawned at the opposite end of the platform from us.
This is why I can’t be trusted to play multiplayer.
I play world of warcraft in a really awesome guild with the guild leader being husband and wife they are a great bunch of people and we do lots of guild stuff with giveaways etc but i havent won anything
:( hopefully i can win this
As a 16 year old and having my first PC and all the time in the world to have LAN parties.
Hours of Quake 1&2 / Duke Nukem / Warcaft / C&C, even creating our own Clans.
16 years later, no PC and convincing my wife we need a Blue Ray player via PS4 and I’m back in the gaming market.
Life has been hard adapting to console controls but the perks haven’t.
Every Thursday, 4 of us play Battlefield 4 Conquest online in the same squad.
Last night we played for 5 hours and only cleaned up on one map but that’s the one I remember.
Our squad held points A & B on Golmud Railway for the duration with us running to support C when required.
The best bit was when one of squad members was trying to take C, 3 of us had died and were able to spawn into 3 separate tanks.
Rolling up the hill we cleared 1 tank on the way and then processed to bring pain the C.
We won the map holding C with 25 tickets to spare and were talking about in the morning on FB messenger haha.
me and my friends used to lay gta v on xbox 360 and we used to have alot of fun thats all we used to play most of the time it qould be us just killing each other or driving round but sometimes we would do missions, then we started playing with another kid from our school and me and him didnt get along very well so we kept playing for a while and me and the guy became good friends and it made playing gta v sooooooo much better, and we had anough people to start doing the really hard missions like this one where we had to go to a place to find where to hack a computer the first part wasnt hard for us at all just shoot acouple of guys and we were all decent levels and we wernt bad at the game so we blew through that easily then the next bit got a bit harder we all drove to the computer place then had to hack so one guy (not normaly me) would hack the computer while the others would protect them this is normally where we failed but a couple of times we got past that and had and continued after that we would hop back into who ever had the fastest car then went to the airport and stood at a distance shooting the guys with a sniper rifle then after we shoot everyone we see one of us would go and steal the titan while the rest of us shoot the reinforcement this was also another point where we'd normally die but sometimes the flyer would make it to sandy shores and complete the mission then after we finished we would all talk then wed end up killing each other and lose half the money wed just earned. after a while our other friends stopped playing because they got computers so it was just me and my friend playing by ourselves over the christmas holidays and we became even greater friends, then christmas last year he got a good computer and i got an average laptop that we play games on. and gta v has come out recently on pc and all my other friends have it but i'm the only one who can't run it so i want to win so i can play with my friends again so we can have fun again playing gta and also so i can face my friend at battlefield 4 and see who the better player is
Back in the days of Halo: CE a large group of us would link up a few TVs and have teams of 2 battle it out. This 'competition' grew over the months to where there were serious bets and some heated smack talk. After one long weekend, like the one coming up, myself and a friend were in the finals against a pair we knew we were on par with - we'd won and lost pretty equally over the months. The remaining spectators took sides, and we hit capture the flag on Blood Gulch. Competition was fierce - full map sniper shots to save a flag, unbelievable grenades. Truly one of the most epic matches of my life. We were locked at 2 flags a piece, nobody could take an edge - everyone was at the top of their game but taking risks could prove fatal - this could go on for hours.
Then my partner came up with an on the spot epic plan.. "wait here, defend" he breathed and he took off... I protested but to no avail, after a stressful couple of minutes he had returned, seemingly empty handed, and laid out his plan in full.
Moments later we burst out of our base, enemy no where to be seen. We jumped in the warthog and took off down field - sniper shots rained down from their base, they had anticipated a frontal assault. With god like precision my partner whipped the warthog to a stop with me in the doorway. "Get the flag, wait 8 seconds and hit the teleporter" he stressed.
I did my job, took the flag and held. As I made my way to the top of the enemy fort I sore him pulling donuts in the warthog, both enemies frantically trying to kill him - the desperation to win the match blinding them to the non-existant flag. VVWAMP I was through the telelporter, and sitting there - as laid out by my partner, was the second warthog. The group watching us cheered as they realised the plan, the opposition groaned. I have never driven a warthog as carefully in my life. The victory was sweet, but the look on my partners face was sweeter - clutch plan working totally perfectly.
We still talk about it to this day.
I was playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. I was pretty decent at the game and if I wanted to I could get at least one nuke per day. One day I had my killstreaks set up for maximum nukage. I got a nuke and won the game, in the post game lobby there was a guy who was shouting and being a jerk and trying to rile me up he kept shouting, "nuke me again, come on nuke me!" So the next game I ended up getting up to the 24th kill but I was running out of ammo in my UMP45, so my friend ran over and told me to take his gun, he suck a semtex on the wall and blew himself up. I picked up his P90 and reloaded it just in time as two enemies, one of which was the guy who was shouting at me, ran around the corner. I laid them both out, and started cheering with my friends that I got the nuke, I set it off and everyone on the enemy team quit. It was intense.
So so so excited to finally be playing GTA V on PC after such a long anticipated wait it was finally here. Teaming up with a few friends from Aussie and NZ on teamspeak together having a blast all new to the game having not played on console we were invited to complete the 'prison break' heist mission playing on extra hard setting to try and gain the extra XP. After numerous failed attempts to complete the mission without dying. Each try getting a bit further, communicating and some dodgy strategic plays, hussling our way through we finally came to the end of the mission. We had stolen the prison bus, broken the assailant out of prison, made it to the plane, myself flying the support helicopter, protecting the plane as we desperately escaped the police. Finally all the stars had disappeared the finish line was in sight.
All that was left to do was the three players on the plane parachuted out to land in the sea, swim up to the beach where i had so gracefully landed the heli for pickup to head back to the city. One of us the 'joker' of the group had no quite managed to land his parachute in the ample amount of offshore sea and had somehow landed on the cliff above the beach. "Now just wait there dude! we will fly up and pick you up" "Run down and around the cliff" "Just dont die for the love of god" "dont jump" "Nooooooooooooo" He had jumped off the cliff not listening to us as we all sat in the heli watching his ragdoll body fall to the sand "MISSION FAILED" = x4 players rage quit
After a 3 day bender of Civ 5, Domination only, me and 3 other of my friends had all advanced to the Information Era, With 3 other Civilizations alive other than us, teaming up, with the rule of razing all cities that we capture that could be razed, and making a puppet of others we quickly took out two civilizations with Gandhi peacefully on his own little Continent, which we had ignored due to him barely attacking for the last 800 turns, and since we were now classed as warmongers, he wouldn't open his boarders to us. So we primed to destroy Gandhi, Taking 30 turns to restore resources. Little did we know Gandhi had some sinister plans afoot. We started to move, our three armies united to destroy, the next thing we know, there's a Nuclear Submarine and an army at my gates. My god, it happened so fast, oh the horror. First the bombs dropped on my capital, with an army sweeping in to finish it off, then our forces were decimated by a second nuclear bomb that was dropped onto our forces. Tides soon turned against me, my so called allies, attacking me with brute force as they took advantage, of my fall. With the fall of my flag ship cities, Hamster Dam and Moss Cow, my Civilization soon crumbled, BUT I didn't got out sitting, two lone Nuclear subs moved towards my friends capital cities, soon raining fire and brimstone upon them, and that is the story of the fall of L.T Waffles III.
Playing original CS with a whining 12 year old, the moment he leaves both team come together and had a dance (read crouch) party...lol
Mine would have to be back when MW2 was out and me and some mates were playing SnD and it was me agianst 4 others on the final round. Tension was building as my teammates were yelling at me into their mics as I worked my way through the map attempting to carefully take each one out. And then it was down to me and the last guy, he planted the bomb, I rushed to it and took him out before he could get to a good overwatch position. I was overjoyed and suddenly full of myself, I began to trash talk my team and mess around the map as the counter for the bomb slowly went down so I went to the bomb and pranced around it guns blazing with a solid 20 seconds left on the counter and then all of a sudden. BOOOOM! turned out one of the enemies left a c4 at the bomb site and I just happened to shoot it in my celebration. Everyone laughing and the game over our party continued to play into the night. The true lesson was not that you shouldn't be an idiot but that the true way to play games is with your mates.
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I was playing a bit of GTA Online, me and some of my mates went to climb the highest mountain in the game, what they didnt know is that I setup a sticky bomb on their car XD and as we climbed up there, their car just exploded randomly and assumed it was lag because it said "(player) committed suicide" It was crack up XD
So one of my most memorable moments playing a game was when I was helping my friend go through dark souls 2, we where going through the iron keep and so he died a lot but at one point a turtle knight hit him off the edge and all I heard was his controller hit the table and then he was gone within 10 seconds, I found out later that he threw his controller and turned off his computer and then went and made some toast.
me and my m9 were playing no more room in hell and we got the perfect start drop- a sledgehammer and pistol for him and a sniper and fireaxe for me-after about 45 minutes on broadway, in our opinion the hardest map,I had diede and he was clutching like a boss and as he was walking up the stairs to what we knew was the end of the map-the game stops and says 'time limit expired-game over' me and him raged so hard and for about 2 years since, we still cannot complete that map :(
ps. no more room in hell is actually a really great game!
but that is still my favourite and most memorable gaming experience to this day.
That intense game of Pokemon when you fight an opponent pvp very intense. No time for dinner, no time for socialism (ppptsss who needs that), no time for looking at hot girls online (pptttsss I don't do that). When you know ur gonna win and ur gonna deliver the killing blow to that lvl 50 Salamence (It's over 9000!!!!!!) and then ur gameboy shuts down on you and question to yourself. What is life before losing your shit on how u could've been the Pokemon master!!!! hahahaha ):( and then you say "Yeah I definitely should've saved before the game". Gulp. Then your best walks by the next day and whispers "rookie, rookie u little ametur". Taunting you like the a twelvie who actually says there thirteen!!! hahahaha. All because the batteries ran out in the damned gameboy!!!! :P
Me and my friends were playing a match of Team fortress 2, We had only just started so we weren't the best, but one moment that got to me was when my friend called my name to come look at something. I turned my head and saw him, not a second later he gets shot in the head, and just drops. I laughed so hard, but afterwards got emotional as it was a traumatic experience for all of us.
This is going to be a tough comp to win with all these awesome entries.
Two days ago I was in a rather enjoyable mission in GTA V (pc) with a few low level players, myself included in that, and one level 70 something player.
the mission was locked to Hard and 3rd person mode. We had to steal a large military aircraft form a hanger at the airport, then deliver it to the airfield.
we entered the airport, instant five stars, we managed to take out all the military personal and secure the plane ( I died and took our only spare life ), we all agreed the level 70+ player would be pilot, given skill and experience and what not, the flight to the airfield was surprisingly pleasant, no military interaction at all.
Good this should be an easy success... Wrong, the pilot on approach to the landing strip, came in so hot and so steep he had no runway left to pull the rather large plane to a standstill, we plowed into the radio tower at basically full noise, killing every single person on the mission.
he left the session after that. probably to reassess flying ability.
One cold, chaotic night in space was all we needed to teach us that nature, is not to be trifled with. As space engineers, me and my friend were stuck on an asteroid, with nothing but some power tools on our backs. At first, we sat there and watched the more successful engineers fly their high tech spacecraft, some of which looked deceivingly easy to break into. Intrigued, we went to ask for help, I mean, how are we supposed to know what to do with power tools in space? Do we just start grinding the asteroid? We tried. Nope. So we flew out into space, attempting to stay as close as possible while being able to garner the attention of one of our fellow space engineers. Within mere seconds we spotted what could be our saviour. A black and orange ship flying towards us at a tremendous speed! We attempted to wave him down, moving away from what we thought was his destination. To no avail. Within seconds we were battered against his windshield, our rigid bodies bouncing off of his ship as if we were mere flies against a window. One would think that such an impact could break glass, but we had proven the opposite. Upon spawning, we were greeted by a friendly trader who told us that in order to mine, we were to use the jackhammer-like tool we start out with, we'd thought it was a gun! The next time we saw the black and orange ship we were prepared. 12 rocket launchers in total, he was doomed, while I manned the rockets my friend warned the owner of the ship to slow down, but he did not listen. When he was in range, I fired, but, no rockets! Why aren't the rockets firing?! (NO AMMO -_-) The orange ship stopped, but only to laugh at us, and then proceed to blow our entire construct to pieces. What we learned: Watch youtube videos before playing :P
For me, it would have to be playing Halo CE and Halo 2 with one of my best friends on the original Xbox. I can't even begin to think about how many times we've completed the Halo series together, on legendary, co-op.
Pulling all nighters and just wading through rivers of grunt and elite blood to finish the campaigns and it remains one of my fondest memories of console gaming.
One of the adventures we had in CE was on the very last level where you spawn in at the escape pod tubes, we were trying to get out of the map but had no luck. However, we managed to jump onto a flying sentinel and make it to the ground and out of the maps bounds.
There was also the time when we had fun with Captain Key's when he was captured (and alive). We started tossing sticky grenades on the Marines to make them panic. One ran, with a sticky grenade dead on his crotch, up to Captain Key's and blew him to half way across the room.
And soon, when he gets the Master Chief collection, we'll be doing it all again.
So I was playing uncharted 3 and I was at the airport Level I was on fire kill people left and right then I threw a grenade wasn't even aiming about 10 seconds later I say this guy flying though the air holding his balls must have blown them off it was too funny
got to be when I was playing league of legends my jungle r went into a 1v5 at dragon pit to try and steal dragon and I was playing Ashe (this is when i was level 12). I send my ult down to Draggon pit. My jungler steals dragon proceeds to get a pentakill and I get 3 assists from my one arrow... he screamed at me in chat in all caps GOD ASHE GOD haha. Sometimes its not the plays you make its the plays you set up so your team mates can be happy.
Went round to a mates place for a halo 2 team training playing the old beaver creak we were winning by 10 kills so we decided to trail a new form of pain all the team members collected 2 needles and claimed the rock faced the enemy base and when some poor innocent player would come out of hiding he would get a visor full of pink goodness then be blasted sky high by the following explosion, best fun with halo 2 needlers ever
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Me and a couple of friends were in a high round of bo2 zombies and everyone was down except me and I had no ammo at all except one monkey. I threw that monkey and slipped through a massive herd of zombies and revived a friend and he covered me while I revived everyone else. I was there hero xD
My best friend and I found a decent projector for sale and my friend has quite a large back yard, so we have found a way to hook the Xbox One up on the projector and plan to play through the whole Halo:MTC campaigns this weekend, we're also off to an ANZAC memorial tomorrow morning and my friend and my family have never really done an Anzax celebration before so we plan to make this a tradition between ours families, we also plan to build a rig for my friend as he has the parts to do so, so it'd be really awesome if I had a rig to go with his as well it means I can play the same games as him! Have a good ANZAC weekend friends and apes at MightyApe! - Ape loving friend Zak.
I forgot my story! it would have to be playing Destroy all Humans 2 on the old xbox with my friend!! we would use the anit gravity weapon and shoot cars and randomly we would get hit about 5 minutes later! it was the most hilarious thing, I wish I could get a screenshot of it, we played that game for hours and couldn't stop laughing it has to be one of my most favorite gaming moments ever!
I came here expecting a more fitting challenge for gamers then I see it. Unfortunately writing stories is no where near one of my strengths. I guess my best moment was when my Xbox 360 arrived from mightyape after years of wanting one so I can play some Halo 3/Reach. Sorry if I made it too long Kappa
So a few years ago on World of Warcraft. Back in the cata expansion i used to run my own pvp guild. This was when rated battlegrounds were brand new. Anyway my pvp toon was of course a rogue back then and a gnome rogue at that. We were playing this one game of Arathi Basin which is your standard conquest control kinda map. Anyway i was heading down to mines to do the things rogues do (steal bases) when i saw this rather large tauren warrior standing by the flag. I was thinking to myself how would i ever ninja off a warrior u cant sap then dude to that annoying move. So what i did is i stealthed right up to him and i stood inside his large toon completely covering my little gnome and managed to steal the base off him doing that. I ended up that game doing that to him at least 3 times. I feel sorry for him i dont think his team would of kept him on after that.
It was a game of league of legends, I was playing ranked 5s with my friends and we were facing a tough match up.
The opponents were strong, they worked well as a team and they were killing us and taking objectives. By 15 mins we were down 10-2 on kills. Our team morale was down but I told them we can do it. I was the ADC (the ranged damage dealer), I had those 2 kills and was keeping up in farm. We slowly edged closer to catch up on the enemy on kills and so we became hopeful.
By 30mins we were only down 5 kills (18-13). We were catching up. But then we lost a vital fight and lost our base towers and 2 inhibitors. We held them off by staying near our base, careful of any ambush which would end the game. Then finally an opportunity opened up and they had 2 champions alone who we took down before their allies came to help. Then we took them down as well and I ended up getting a pentakill!
We then was able to push all the way to the base, destroy their towers and finally destroy their nexus winning the game!
We were so ecstatic because we pulled through to the end! :D
So, a quick introduction into the back-story before I talk about the story itself.
Me and my friends over in America have a stream team, and I am part of that stream team, the All Night Caramel Crew, we stream nearly every weekend and are just starting out, we love to play games together, and maybe, just maybe, those big apes in the sky will give me the chance I need so I can stream with them more… Anyway, let’s get going with the story!
One night, when I had just finished eating myself a delicious piece of meat lovers pizza, my friends who are apart of the stream team, were streaming a bit of Neko Para, and wanted me to do some voice acting. This was not going to go good, me being a male gamer and all, it would be better if my sister would voice act for me! But aside from that, we did it anyway, I voiced Chocola, (The main brown cat) and my other friends voice acted Vanilla and the main character. Now what happened was unexpected, while me and my good friends were voice acting the little cute Nekos, my friend who was the main character was going to head to bed soon, then something in my brain clicked. “I wonder what their reactions would be if I enabled my voice changer?”
And guess what, I changed my voice to be a more deeper sounding voice of mine, and I continued to read my lines that appeared on screen, my two friends were laughing their asses off! And what made it even more hilarious was when I had to say the “Nya” Lines with that voice changer. Me and my two friends couldn't stop laughing, it was like this laughter was never going to end, and it never did, for a while. My friend who was voicing Vanilla also had the voice changer that I had and wanted to be part of the act. And so he did it, he changed his voice to be deep too, and with that, my friend voice acting the main character broke into a fit of laughter, we could even hear him rolling around on the floor, it was that hilarious for him!
We were all in hysterics by the end of the stream and my friend told me that it was time to end it off, I reluctantly wanted to keep going, and what made me also wanna keep going was the deep laughter that I could hear from my friend voicing Vanilla, It kept me laughing for more than 5 minutes! But, alas, it was nearly midnight for them over in America, and everything has to come to an end eventually, we said our last words on stream and ended it, we all stayed for a few more minutes before they both had to go, and in that moment of complete silence, I felt that, games don’t make you happy by killing people and making them rage at you in voice chat, it’s about the silly little moments you have together, bickering and making yourself happy because of the moments WITH friends, not AGAINST them.
My favourite gaming adventure would have to be finishing the original fable on PC.The story was amazing and I loved playing it the whole time,surviving the arena,disguising as a bandit and most of all killing jack of blades.10/10
It was a day in minecraft...
On this day me and two of my friends got together. One was a hardcore minecrafter, the second was a noob.
Started off normally like any would when you first start playing. Mining. Exploring. Eating.
Everything was going well until it got to the first night. My noob friend got lost somewhere on the other side of the map. And it our job to find him and get him back before the night settled in. So we set of our journey to complete a "Saving private Ryan" type of quest.
The only clues we had was what our friend described to us over chat, as we all threw away our maps at the start. So from there we went off north. We ventured forth into the forests, through the desert and then through the snow. Unfortunately by the time we came near to our "Ryan" night had already settled in and the dangers came out, this is also when the fun started. As we battled our way through the zombies and skeleton, we stumbled upon our lost friend hiding in a cave which he made. We were thinking of just making camp where we were and wait until night ended... but real men aren't scared of the dark!
So along with our found friend we made our journey back home. Unfortunately we ran into more monsters halfway back, and as we tried to protect our friend my sword broke. So I was weaponless. And more monsters were coming towards us. We weren't going to make it back.
Then I did the honourable thing and told to them to go, as I had the least to lose I told the other two to go off while I lead the monsters away. The were a little hesitant but I started attacking with my fists telling them to go, after slaying one more skeleton they agreed and ran off towards our home base. I then proceeded to lead the monsters away from them in the opposite direction.
The mission was successful with one death. But was a great way to introduce our noob friend to the random adventures of minecraft, which he is now one of us hahaha.
Hi Guys, seriously it is too difficult to name one particular moment of my 35 years of gaming life that stands out, it could be the many hours I spent playing Snoopy Tennis on the first and original Nintendo device that is still a prized possession, or was it when I introduced my 5 year old son to his first PS One game that starred a cute little purple dragon named Spyro and I quite often heard those words that every mother loves to hear "muuum I can't get past the boss level can you help me pleeeease" which translated into stop everything right now and help and as every good gaming mum should do, I did just that, I mean how can you resist those cute little pleas of desperation to make it to the next level? So now moving on a few years, we were introduced to the wonderful world of Lara Croft and my now wife and I spent many a late night in my sons room playing Tomb Raider on the PS2 while he slept away and how we never woke him up with our hysterical laughter after failing some of those incessant crevice jumps, therefore plummeting Lara to her death over and over and over again I will never know, but they were some very good times. One most memorable moment wasn't so much in the playing of a game but it involved the purchase of a game. It was the year GTA IV came out and an electronics store an hour away from home was having a midnight launch. So on this particular night there just happened to be a torrential downpour of mega proportions, at around 10pm I said to my son when he didn't expect it, so how bad do you want this game are we doing a midnight run or what?
He was like seriously? So I called the gaming store to check what they had in stock, they said limited numbers that weren't pre-sold so we took the plunge literally, I couldn't see more than 2 or 3 metres in front of the car the whole way and got to the store at a hair after midnight and after a very nervous wait in a rather long cue we literally got the last available game that night and my son was so very stoked because he had an epic tale of how he got his copy of GTA IV. We all had laptops, but we also managed to fry our laptops a few times over, quite possibly since being introduced to the world on online gaming and our almost fanatical urge to level and cap, level and cap, as many characters as we possibly can. So whether it was up skilling ourselves with that infernal fishing, woodcutting or mining in Runescape or when my son introduced us to his new favourite online game? That quirky little quest based game Fiesta, which was really up our alley because we did love questing together and spent many a weekend off hitting the junk food and finding out that Friday night can turn into Monday morning in what seems like a nano second at times. So we were uber close to capping our characters one Sunday night and we found ourselves in the perfect 5 person team grinding mobs of these giant snakes (there was always a huge as list of people waiting to get into that team of 5 at any given time) so the next thing we knew it was 5am Monday morning and time for my wife to go milk the cows and no way were we going to give up our places we were too close now, so as any good gamer would do, I took one for the team and had one laptop on the arm of the lounge chair and the other on my lap and away I went mobbing it up and spelling it up with the best of them using two characters, I pulled both of our characters out when we had only a few points to go so that my wife would get to see the fireworks when she capped. We now spend our time playing WOW but I don't think that we have ever had as much fun as those full on grinding weekends we used to have in Fiesta. My son introduced us to a lot of fun times through gaming, I think he has always appreciated that he can talk gaming to us and we know what he is talking about, unlike many other parents who probably stare blankly wondering what planet their kids have come from, I would really love to win this uber gaming computer by Silverstone for Kris because my motto has always been, happiness is "a family that plays together stays together" and because of him we have definitely had many many hours of happiness and I now want to give that to him in return because he is the best son ever and he really deserves this uber cool computer. Thank you for reading my short gaming novel, I hope you are still awake Mighty Ape guys :-) peace out.
My story is quite like many of yours. Being fairly new to gaming I don't have alot of friends and not to many exciting moments but I do have a tail of utter frustration. I was playing GTA online and doing the very last heist (the bank job) I was playing with 2 other competent people and one man who idnt quite right in the old noggin. Anyway for various reasons we had been trying to complete the heist for about 2 hours. Near the end of the heist you have to ramp off a cliff on a motorcycle jump off and parachute to the boat below. After many failed attempts at this (parachuting into the side of the mountain and dying etc.) we finally all made it to the boat. All we had to do now was drive through the cannels and drive out to sea. Now the person who was driving the boat was this person none of us were sure about (he was a little high, all legal of course) now we were all happy. I said to the driver "now for the love of god, don't beach the boat." He did well throughout the cannels and all was clear, all he needed to do was go in a straight line and we were done. What does he do? Banks left and beaches the boat. We were pissed. Eventually the boat exploded and we failed. We had had enough and left after that with nothing to show for our 2 hours of work. Not a great story and I have many better but I felt I needed to share this moment of frustration. Thanks for reading and good luck to everyone in the competition. I appologise if Grammer is incorrect as I wrote on a phone :)
I was playing DOTA2 with a team of 5 friends, after the patch changing Ursa's fury swipes to be none unique. Meaning you could rush morbid mask and kill Rosh at level 4 (supposedly about a 90-95% success rate). Anyway after dying to Rosh 4 games in a row, and much teasing by friends and everyone in the game I decided RNGesus was not on my side. Now I wait till level 5, more like 99% success rate.
(Ursa one of my favorite characters and I usually dominate with him.)
When we first set up a 5 player LAN with counterstrike 1.6. We had one server setup with 5 LAN cards because we didn't have network switches back then. Having all the family around to play was fun
playing blackops2 i snipe using ballista rifle. i needed 1 bloodthisty{5 kills without dieing } to achieve gold camo on my ballista! game is counting down to start 5,4,3,2,1! go! i race to camp in my spot ..damn som 1 beat me ! great he gets killed..i take my spot..enemy up ahead running i fire got ya! 4 kills to go.. next person just pokes his head up behind a wall..he knows im scoping him..i fire sure enuff drill him in the head!hell yea i scream! pressure is on! My camp spot is now under unwarrated attention..time to move! grenades ..missiles.. are bombarding my previous camp spot hehehe too late! i now encounter somone comin towards me..smg vs sniper gawd this is not going to end well i thought! i do a jump and quik scope him he dies yes!OH NO! 30 SEC countdown is on b4 the game is finished need 2kills i find a spot sit paitiently..finally 10 secs then halleulya 2 enemies are running side on to me about 100 ft away i fire 2 hitmarkers ..did i get them ! then a message appears gold camo achieved! that moment was just magic!
I can vividly remember some of the most entertaining moments of my life, playing the very 1st Halo on Xbox. It was many years ago and I had finally spread my wings and moved out of my parents house (woohoo!).
I moved into a flat with some guys who I didn't know too well with only a bed, my clothes, a 29-inch TV, and my Xbox. I only had one game and it was Halo, which was fine because it was the best game ever! Oh and a 29-inch TV might seem small these days but back then it was HUGE.
Well anyway, it just so happened that these guys I moved in with also had an Xbox. "What games?" I asked, "Oh we only got Halo" he replied.
WELL! MY eyes lit up and the next thing you know we had 3 of his friends, 3 of my friends, 8 controllers and a 20 meter ethernet cable linking up our 2 Xbox's. It was awesome! Even as I write this I'm grinning as I remember all the laughter and good times, as well as all the new friends I had just made.
We had one Xbox in my room and the other in the living room, with four of us playing on each TV. It was hilarious! Everything from team death match, to capture the flag and even the long and drawn out sniper only matches on some of Halo's massive maps. It was a laugh a minute.
We didn't have headsets back then so the only way to mock and ridicule the other team was to poke your head out the door and yell it down the hallway.
So to sum it all up, that situation. That whole scene of me sitting there next to my new found friends laughing and enjoying each others company is my single greatest multiplayer moment. Yeah I've Killed 5 people with one grenade in Call of Duty, I've had epic 1 hour battles in League of Legends. Hey I've even had my name on the top 5 fastest rounds in Quake 2 Instagib. But none of that even comes close to squinting at that 4 way split screen on that old 29-inch TV with my new friends. It is unforgettable.
Eight people, once strangers. Brought together by their love for gaming.
My gaming history goes back a few years. And there’s more stories than I can remember or have time to tell.
It all started with playing Boulderdash on the old tape loading machines, Atari games and Sega playing Sonic the Hedgehog and NBA with my mates, pulling several all nighters. After class in high school me and a few friends used to crowd around one PC and shouldersurf one another playing the original Space Hulk (which was terrifying), Doom and Wolfenstein 3D (which was awesome – who doesn’t enjoy shooting Nazi soldiers!). We also used to go to the Arcade and play NBA Jam until our coins ran out. Shaq was THE man!
Then I finally got my first PC – it was a monster of a rig with a 14inch brick screen, 220MB HDD, and 1MB of RAM (expanded from 1x to 4x 250kb!). Fiddling around with the autoexec.bat and config.sys, just to make SimCity work, was just a preamble to the fun ahead. Who can remember the “zzzz” sound everytime you placed some powerlines?! Then I got NHL 94 and me and my mates played “co-op” and wasted whole weekends finishing a season of 84 games + playoffs and at 5min periods, that’s a lot of time spent cooped up with nothing but coffee, soda, chips and biscuits. Skate up the side of the rink, angle in at the circle, shoot, score. Repeat. Win. It was epic.
I also remember playing Grim Fandango or Myst, trying to solve the puzzles with me or my mates constantly discussing how to get to the next stage and together we worked it out eventually. F1 racing and doing the actual races in real-time, which takes a lot of energy and is a lot of fun, especially playing on a split screen and sometimes forgetting which car is yours, so you crashed in the pits! Then there were Homeworld, Deus Ex, Syndicate, X-Wing/ Tie Fighter, Alpha Centauri, Civilisation, Age of Empires, Diablo, Command and Conquer, StarCraft, Warcraft, X-Com, and the list goes on. And all of it was played in good company - some in person, some online and all in spirit. We’ve now progressed to Total War games (Shogun, Rome, Shogun II, Rome II) and Warhammer 40k (Dawn of War, Dawn of War 2, etc) and we hope to play GTA V in the near future.
Gaming has always been a social thing for me and, even if nowadays it’s no longer in one room, I can still connect with my friends from overseas (the very same from back in the day) where we spend a few hours of our time and relive the old days by playing online games. That genuine camaraderie has never really left us. Even with the lag, PC crashes and equipment malfunctions, it is plain old fun.
And with games becoming bigger, better and brighter, there’s no end in sight just yet. Nor would I want it to be.
@ Kyle - "so my friend ran over and told me to take his gun, he suck a semtex on the wall and blew himself up. I picked up his P90 and reloaded it just in time as two enemies" EPIC!
Back when your console machine was a SEGA Megadrive and I was still in Primary school. I would take my machine over to my friends house for a sleepover, we would rent a game or two from Video Ezy and spend most of the night playing. One time we tried to set up his tv on some shelves in his bedroom, it wasn't well balanced, and the cords from the megadrve were just long enough to reach his bunk beds. We were on a bed each, me on the the top bunk. As you know younger kids tend to steer their controllers when they want to move their character on screen. Well we both did that as we played streets of fury, the punch up motorcyle racing game. Which yanked on the Mega drive, which yanked on the TV, which caused the shelves to over balance and start to fall like a tree cut down. Somehow in watching this in slow motion, I was able to jump off the top bunk and slide myself under the TV and shelves, arresting the fall and saving the TV from being destroyed. I have no idea how I reacted so fast. That was the topic of conversation for the rest of the night.
Back when I was thirteen, me and my friends were obsessed with the original Monster Hunter on PS2. Me and my two best mates managed to scavenge copies, and I talked my mother into getting the internet just so I could play with them online. We played for about a year, then kinda faded away from it just before they released Fatalis, the most powerful Dragon in the game.
A few years later, I heard that the Monster Hunter servers were being closed in a week. I called up my two best mates, and we set aside the weekend to kick back into it and finally destroy the fabled black dragon. The weekend came, and my friends dusted off our PS2s, and dragged a couple TVs to my place so we would be close enough to shout abuse or encouragement, depending on how well we were going. We cranked them all up, then disaster struck. Somewhere in the past couple years, my copy got scratched, and just wouldn't load. I started freaking out. I had taken the weekend off work, and one of my my friends had come 200 ks to play this game this weekend. It wasn't like I could pop to the store and buy another copy, Monster Hunter had a limited NZ release, and the only place we had ever found copies was from our local video store that had imported them from Australia. Hoping against hope, I called the video store, and they still had one copy left. We shot down, picked it up and finally got ready to play.
The game loaded without any more issues, and we proceeded to grind the last few tasks we had never completed to unlock that final battle. This ended up taking up the vast majority of time that the server had left. After almost 24 hours of grinding we had an hour and ten minutes to complete the four 15 minute Fatalis quests.
Exhaustion was close to overtaking us, and we were fueled only by caffeine, camaraderie, and a desire for black dragon blood. We started the first quest, and were promptly annihilated. We had underestimated the beast. We now only had one hour to complete our goal. We started again, this time a bit more cautiously, dealing enough damage to get us through to the next stage while trying desperately not to die. Finally, we had cleared the first three stages of the beast, and ten minutes to complete the fourth one. This was possible, we could do it, but it would be close. We began the battle, our hands trembling with anxiety, fatigue, and excitement. This was it. The final battle. We began, cautious at first, but as the clock ticked closer to the end we went all out. This was it.We had one death left, and the beast was limping, a sure sign he was about to fall. I ran to the beast and prepared to land a mighty blow, hopefully the final of the match, to his head. Suddenly, he spun, his tail lashing me, killing me, and our chances of defeating him.
The battle was over. The game kicked us first into the lobby, then back into the main menu as the Servers shut for the final time. My friends and I stared at each other in disbelief. All that time and effort, for nothing. I couldn't believed it. We all burst out laughing.
We weren't successful, but that was the single greatest gaming moment I've ever had. It brought me and my friends back together for one last hurrah, and it's one I'll never forget.
My story is a tale of fun, romance, adventure and good old fashioned competition. I met knives1995 at a local Street Fighter tournament where we ended up facing eachother as Dhalsim (me) and Cammy (her) in the finals. I came away with a hard fought second place and the promise of a first date. We kept seeing eachother and playing together and we've now been married for two years this May the 4th (Star Wars day!!!).
the best memories for me have been playing BF2, way back when it was undoubtedly the gold standard for FPS. I spent more time that I like to admit on that game rather than studying (sorry mom). There are too many memories with this game to choose one in particular, all the times I ran over someone, blew up someone, stabbed someone, accidentally killed someone. But, my finest hour was when I went all Rambo on some punks and took no names (and actually succeeded). It had been a long battle on the streets of Karkand ( it was like Stalingrad with a firefight on every street). In my infinite wisdom, I thought to myself "I don't need this, I am a one man army. God help anyone in my way". So I decided to steal a humvee make a break for the last flag, running over one enemy and one ally in the process (sorry bro). I quickly overran the two man defence at the control point, literally. Needless to say a huge firefight was about to breakout. Fortunately, the turret and small arms were enough to suppress and destroy most of their initial assault. "Man I rock, I am Rambo on steroids, well more than the usual at any rate", I said to myself, but once again I spoke too soon as it wasn't long before an enemy tank retreated to defend the point. One failed C4 shotput later, I was in my Humvee speeding off like oj simpson, but then I made a large u turn drove my Humvee close to the tank and detonated my Humvee using C4 which I attached to it after my shotput. After that, a friendly tank came and the game was won. And ever since then, I have been the self-proclaimed Maradona of BF2, to the head shakes and face palm of others.
Best moment would probably have to be in a round of Insurgency that me and my friends were playing.
Always eager to play the objective, I equipped myself for demolition duty while my friends and the rest of the team took on assaulting roles. In order to avoid fire and keep our precious C4 from rolling around on the floor, I skulked around the back alleys of the map while my friends pushed forwards and kept one as a bodyguard. It was late into the match.
A few hectic firefights and ninja demolitions had left the scoreboard tied for match point. We had decided that, for the sake of it, a full out push would be in our best interest for the final round. Within the first minute of leaving spawn, our squad had been reduced to a few stragglers including an LMG as my bodyguard. The enemy team was still in near perfect condition and were closing in on our position, picking the last of us off as they came.
In a moment of brilliance born from absolute desperation, my remaining friend offered himself up as bait and set up in a building which overlooked a small, low room with a large open space beyond it. Engaging with his sidearm, my friend was able to bring the enemy team to his position. Sure of their victory, the enemy team began to cross the open area. When they got close enough, my friend unleashed fury with his LMG, forcing the enemy team to make a mad dash for cover. The only cover in this instance was the small room, in which I had left a little surprise for whomever set foot in it. While we had hoped to catch maybe one or two unlucky enemies inside our little trap, you could imagine our surprise when all five remaining enemies perished in the C4 blast.
We were ecstatic, pumped off the nerves that the match point situation had given us. The screams and cheers of voice chat were matched only by the cries of "CHEEEEEEEEP!" from the other team. To this day we still enjoy our sessions in Insurgency, but we have still not managed to make a play which rivals this.
@ Everyone - So many great stories to read :) We'll be announcing the winner shortly - thanks and good luck!
Winner annoucement blog = https://www.mightyape.co.nz/blog/5714/Tell-us-WIN-Prizeback-Winner-Announced