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The 25 Dumbest Moments in Gaming
Gudlyf writes "GameSpy has a multi-part series this week titled The 25 Dumbest Moments in Gaming, highlighting some of the biggest debacles ever to plague our beloved pastime. While only the first part of the series is present, I can already think of a few that the list wouldn't be complete without. Anyone care to offer their own picks?" Predictions for the Top 5 also welcome, we'll run another story at the end of the week to see how people did.
Daikatana?
"They told me it was impossible. I replied with maniacal laughter." http://www.mydailyrant.com/
If those are 25-21, I'm afraid to think about what might be coming up...
Taral
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on-line, in public, after taunting a crowd "you can't kill me". The online character of lord british was actively being played by Richard Gariott.
Classic moment in online history. I remeber the kid who used the fire-scroll on him to that day "Rainz". Lord British (Richard Garriott), Blackthorn (Starr Long), and a few others were on a balcony as LB gave a 'speech' for the end of beta. Next thing you know, the balcony is incased in a fire 'field'. Then LB taunts that fire doesn't hurt him (""nice try..."). 2s later his corpse is on the ground.
Someone responds to LB's death by summoning 4 powerfull deamons, who slaughter the innocent crowd.
A developer had made a mistake and not flipped his invlunerability flag (Developer name: "Grimli" what ever happened to that kid).
Ahh the good old days.
Rainz was banned for it, but it was the end of Beta.
google for "Rainz" "Lord British" for pictures.
-malakai
-Malakai
A Dragon Lives in my Garage
WOW! I can't believe the XBOX is #16. But then again, I guess they've got to make room for the rest of M$s blunders. =) You asked for predictions: Enter the matrix has to be in the top ten due to the popularity of the film and that fact its recent.
With nethack one stumbles onto some really surprising situations, but this one remains unforgettable.
Several years back, when I hadn't ascended any of my characters, I had a really really good game going on, the kind of game you though might take you all the way. Multiple Amulets of Life saving paving the way. Accidental step into a polymorph trap had caused that I wasn't waring my helmet. Met a mind flayer that started eating my brain.
I didn't realize I didn't have my helmet on and my intelligence startted dropping rapidly. Didn't know exactly what that was about, I figured some "restore ability" and that's it and thought "fsck it, here, take some". Intelligence dropped to 2 or 3 and then...
"You die of brainlessness. But wait. --more--"
(I knew I had several amulets of life savings, so no worries)
"Your medallion begins to glow. Your life has been saved. --more--"
(but little did I know...)
"You still have do brain. You die."
"Do you want your possessions identified y/n ?"
I can't begin to describe my astonishment there...
1 Earth is warming, 2 It's us, 3 it's royally bad, 4 we need to take action NOW
Is it just me or did this guy get modded up for COPYING A FEW LINES FROM THE ARTICLE??
Hacker Media
Now that would be a joke...
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