Uncle Frank posted:

i lost a 1 on 1 race in need for speed most wanted by .10 of a second, which i had been trying to beat for hours. on a sure win the opposing car just rubber-banded at 1000mph. i took the disc out and took it to gamestop to trade it in for another game

GameCube posted:

which most wanted, the good one or the bad one

Major Isoor posted:

Heh well, I'm pretty sure that no matter which one it actually is, they're gonna say "the bad one"
But yeah, rubberbanding in NFS could be pretty annoying. I remember it happening in Underground a bit. I reckon the best NFS would probably be Hot Pursuit - that is, the original one, with the grainy .FMV videos of some random guy getting arrested, if/when the cops caught you.

As far as gaming fails go, I entered a work knock-out Mario Kart competition a few years ago. (Playing as Dry Bones, naturally) I'd never played MK on the Wii before, so I slipped up in the first race and just got knocked out, embarrassingly enough!
I raced in the next nine races though and won every single one by an absolute mile, but it didn't count for anything of course. (Since the knocked-out players still competed, but they don't count as far as rankings/wins go. It was just to keep numbers up, alongside having some AI racers in the mix)
So I dunno, it was a pretty big fail on my part, but at least I kinda made up for it by smashing everyone else in the rest of the competition. It was fun seeing the fear on the top players' faces, as ol' Bones comes up behind them with a shell, ready to knock them back into last place

Major Isoor posted:

Heh well, I'm pretty sure that no matter which one it actually is, they're gonna say "the bad one"
But yeah, rubberbanding in NFS could be pretty annoying. I remember it happening in Underground a bit. I reckon the best NFS would probably be Hot Pursuit - that is, the original one, with the grainy .FMV videos of some random guy getting arrested, if/when the cops caught you.

As far as gaming fails go, I entered a work knock-out Mario Kart competition a few years ago. (Playing as Dry Bones, naturally) I'd never played MK on the Wii before, so I slipped up in the first race and just got knocked out, embarrassingly enough!
I raced in the next nine races though and won every single one by an absolute mile, but it didn't count for anything of course. (Since the knocked-out players still competed, but they don't count as far as rankings/wins go. It was just to keep numbers up, alongside having some AI racers in the mix)
So I dunno, it was a pretty big fail on my part, but at least I kinda made up for it by smashing everyone else in the rest of the competition. It was fun seeing the fear on the top players' faces, as ol' Bones comes up behind them with a shell, ready to knock them back into last place

symbolic posted:

my parents wouldnt let me get a 360 in middle school but i tried to be cool and butt into a convo about Halo during a Boy Scout camping trip, except i knew the bare minimum about the game so my lie of doing a 360 in a Warthog and landing on three dudes at once wasn't very convincing

Hizke posted:

I got defeated in a sex battle in porn mmo bonetown and was forced to become my opponents sexual slave

Dr. Cool Aids posted:

oh no. how awful.

Odddzy posted:

Getting griefed during a hardcore Diablo 2 game. I was gifted a bunch of cool equipment by a family member that spent the evening rushing me through the acts in the game only to get killed two hours later by someone that base killed me.

The other one was spending an hour in the giant eel level of Super Mario 64 constantly missing the canon shot where you have to aim Mario and grab the thin top of part of a far away rock. My dad asked to take the controller and got it on his first try. The adults all laughed until I was red in the face and gave me the controller back. I took it and immediately missed the next jump and fell in the water. I spent another humiliating twenty minutes dunking Mario in the water trying to get back on the platform.

trying to jack off posted:

sounds like the biggest fail was how that competition was organised

trying to jack off posted:

sounds like the biggest fail was how that competition was organised

Hizke posted:

I got mating pressed by my chess opponent. Cream pied my rear end and left me on the ground shaking and poo poo like I was having a seizure throwing up a double peace sign lol

Hizke posted:

I got mating pressed by my chess opponent. Cream pied my rear end and left me on the ground shaking and poo poo like I was having a seizure throwing up a double peace sign lol

Hizke posted:

I got mating pressed by my chess opponent. Cream pied my rear end and left me on the ground shaking and poo poo like I was having a seizure throwing up a double peace sign lol

Hizke posted:

I got mating pressed by my chess opponent. Cream pied my rear end and left me on the ground shaking and poo poo like I was having a seizure throwing up a double peace sign lol

Hizke posted:

I got mating pressed by my chess opponent. Cream pied my rear end and left me on the ground shaking and poo poo like I was having a seizure throwing up a double peace sign lol

Hizke posted:

I got mating pressed by my chess opponent. Cream pied my rear end and left me on the ground shaking and poo poo like I was having a seizure throwing up a double peace sign lol

Hizke posted:

I got mating pressed by my chess opponent. Cream pied my rear end and left me on the ground shaking and poo poo like I was having a seizure throwing up a double peace sign lol

Hizke posted:

I got mating pressed by my chess opponent. Cream pied my rear end and left me on the ground shaking and poo poo like I was having a seizure throwing up a double peace sign lol

Hizke posted:

I got mating pressed by my chess opponent. Cream pied my rear end and left me on the ground shaking and poo poo like I was having a seizure throwing up a double peace sign lol

Hizke posted:

I got mating pressed by my chess opponent. Cream pied my rear end and left me on the ground shaking and poo poo like I was having a seizure throwing up a double peace sign lol

Hizke posted:

I got mating pressed by my chess opponent. Cream pied my rear end and left me on the ground shaking and poo poo like I was having a seizure throwing up a double peace sign lol

Fungah! posted:

seriously. reminds me of whoever it was that lost a three-way rock paper scissors to win an alienware when th other two guys threw paper and he threw scissors because he was the "odd man out"

Fungah! posted:

seriously. reminds me of whoever it was that lost a three-way rock paper scissors to win an alienware when th other two guys threw paper and he threw scissors because he was the "odd man out"

Tokyo Sexwale posted:

shouldn't he have won? What kind of fail-rear end contest was that

Leadthumb posted:

Also they did rock paper scissors to give a away a new alien ware pc and I threw rock and the other two people threw scissors, and I was eliminated as the odd man out. It was bullshit and I'm still bitter about it thanks me for bringing it up fuckl!

Leadthumb posted:

lol

yeah it was 1v1 single elimination out in the parking lot(?), and after 2 or 3 rounds we had 6 people left, then 3, and the people running it were like "oh poo poo what do we do now", and odd man out was what they came up with on the spot. They didn't explain whether the odd man out was good or bad, so I thought I had won clearly and was like throwing my arms up in the air and they were like no kid, go sit down.

Leadthumb posted:

that was me...

Leadthumb posted:

that was me...

Leadthumb posted:

Nostradingus posted:

I'm certain I've posted this somewhere before, long ago, but I very narrowly lost the final mission in story mode of F-Zero GX, hid the disc under some sweaters in my dresser, and forgot about it for about 15 years

Nostradingus posted:

I'm certain I've posted this somewhere before, long ago, but I very narrowly lost the final mission in story mode of F-Zero GX, hid the disc under some sweaters in my dresser, and forgot about it for about 15 years

Nostradingus posted:

I'm certain I've posted this somewhere before, long ago, but I very narrowly lost the final mission in story mode of F-Zero GX, hid the disc under some sweaters in my dresser, and forgot about it for about 15 years

Nostradingus posted:

I'm certain I've posted this somewhere before, long ago, but I very narrowly lost the final mission in story mode of F-Zero GX, hid the disc under some sweaters in my dresser, and forgot about it for about 15 years

Nostradingus posted:

I'm certain I've posted this somewhere before, long ago, but I very narrowly lost the final mission in story mode of F-Zero GX, hid the disc under some sweaters in my dresser, and forgot about it for about 15 years

Nostradingus posted:

I'm certain I've posted this somewhere before, long ago, but I very narrowly lost the final mission in story mode of F-Zero GX, hid the disc under some sweaters in my dresser, and forgot about it for about 15 years

Nostradingus posted:

I'm certain I've posted this somewhere before, long ago, but I very narrowly lost the final mission in story mode of F-Zero GX, hid the disc under some sweaters in my dresser, and forgot about it for about 15 years

Nostradingus posted:

I'm certain I've posted this somewhere before, long ago, but I very narrowly lost the final mission in story mode of F-Zero GX, hid the disc under some sweaters in my dresser, and forgot about it for about 15 years

Leadthumb posted: