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Epic Fail

by Matt Waitt [ Tuesday, 18th of October 2011 - 01:12 PM ]

It was a sweltering summer afternoon, my friend Curt and I were sheltered by an air conditioner on full blast. Inside our sanctuary we spent countless days acquiring callouses and sores on our thumbs as we played endlessly the games of our childhood. One moment in particular stands out from the rest, after many hours and a few dozen restarts Curt and I managed to make it to the final stage of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project for the Nintendo Entertainment System. An eruption of joy and excitement exploded inside me. Too young to control the sudden burst of joy, I jumped off my bed and screamed "YEAH! WE'RE ALMOST DONE!" But to my surprise Curt was not feeling the same joy as I was. He looked over to me with a face of disbelief as he pointed to the screen. The game froze, the controller in my hand had been ripped out of his socket from the system. In my fit of excitement I managed to bring upon an epic fail of astronomical proportions.

As you can tell, this is all about "epic fails" I want to know what is your most embarrassing, stupid and outright disastrous fails within the world of video games. I know we all have gone through an epic fail or twenty in order to get to our current level of awesome. So I invite you all to share with the world as I have one, two of the biggest fails you have some how managed to commit within the realm of video games.

Here is an epic fail that my friend managed to do:

So my friend PV and I used to play Resident Evil 5 co-op a lot. One day as we were playing one of the boat levels, PV got a great idea to throw a grenade through the window and kill the enemies within the room. Trying to save us some ammo and potentially some health herbs I agree to what PV has to say: "Oh hey, hold up I got an idea." He equips his grenade, aims and throws it at the window. In a moment of pure physics fail the grenade bounces off the window and lands behind us, exploding and nearly killing us both.

3 comments

adam zombie [ Thursday, 20th of October 2011 - 02:53 AM ]

I think that is one of the bigger draws of playing games, having fun in failing. Epic or not. It is supposed to be fun, however an epic unbreakable window is just fail all the way around

Mr Ugly [ Tuesday, 18th of October 2011 - 01:50 PM ]

OOOO I JUST GOT A NEW ONE. So after posting the last comment i learned that i already had an account to this site since i'm a member of pwned :D. Till next fail.

Anon Commenter [ Tuesday, 18th of October 2011 - 01:44 PM ]

My greatest fail (that i can remember atm) happened release day of RAGE. I get home and read the warning telling me to save often. My xbox is alraedy borderline crap as i've had it for three years and it has taken some abuse due to my family's dogs. Not being one to save often and just trust that auto saves will do the work for me, i play through about an hour of the game before my xbox completely freezes on and requires me to unplug the power supply just to shut it off. Realizing that the last manual save I did was before I entered the first "dungeon", I prayed that the game auto-saved frequently. Upon continueing my game, I learned that it only saves during load screens which only happens when you enter or leave an area such as a town or a hideout. I also found out soon after that there are also no checkpoints for if you die, say at the last big baddie at a hold off point at the end of one of those said areas. needless to say i will train myself to manually save more often. Mr. Ugly1000

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