Stupidest chain of events in a videogame ever

[Dani Brando]

I randomly remembered something that happened to me in a videogame time ago. I find it funny to this day and wanted to share it.

A bit of context first: the game in question was Resident Evil 4, I was doing ok until the escort missions started then a bunch of silly stuff happened…
(I know there’s a Resident Evil thread but I think this is more about what happened than the game itself)

It all began in a fork where two paths could be taken, there was a hut with a map on a table which told: “We have divided our forces between this two path; one of which with all our men and the other one there is our friend The Giant.”

I read this and though “THE Giant, so only one in the whole game and I already killed him. That path will be empty. See you suckers!”

Wrong!!! They had another one waiting for me on the other side.

Ashley whom I was trying to get out of that place was pointing at the sky like an idiot and then I saw a huge rock on top of a hill, then I shot at it to cause a landslide and hopefully defeat the monster but the rock killed me instead.
Game over nº1.

With a lot of confidence I try the same path again knowing that the monster can’t catch me by surprise again now that I know it is there. I left Ashley next to the door while I entered further into the room. The giant wasn’t there, it disappeared? How is that even possible? A thing that big is hard to miss.
Thinking it was all clear I turned back to get her to move forward and saw her on the giant’s hands already, it snuck up from behind somehow.
Game over nº2.

Still annoyed I decided to better try the other path that is full of zombies, I hid her in a trash container where they can’t see her then jump into a ditch to fight a new monster variant; the chainsaw zombie, they dealt lots of damage but what took me by surprise was how much lead they could take, I ran out of bullets for my main weapon and not even one was defeated (even if I didn’t miss a single shot), very nervously I tried to swap to another one but I press the wrong button on the controller and I call Ashley who left the container and got killed immediately. The Game over screen appears while at the same time Ashley is screaming: Leon! Leon! Come back! Save me! Game over nº3.

I was angry at the time and I replied: “Doesn’t matter how loud you scream Leon is not coming back” Then I left the room and didn’t play for a few days.

I decided to try one last time, “Isn’t there an easier way?” I ask myself. Next thing I pay a visit to the in-game arms dealer I empty half of my inventory and buy a bazooka. “This is the one, only thing I need is to get rid of the giant and that’s all” I think before entering the room.

I defeat the giant and begin to celebrate, but somehow the giant’s body falls on top of Ashley after dying and crushes her. Game over nº4
“Well that’s unlucky but I had enough” I thought and never came back to play the game to this day.

I still have that old save file on my gamecube and I might try to finish it someday but I don’t think nobody will disagree with me saying escort missions are annoying in games.

[Hunchman801]

Well, that is really unfortunate! I always found that path with El Gigante more difficult than the one with the Bella sisters, and I remember struggling to get the boulder to actually fall on the beast, and Ashley getting caught all the time. I might be wrong but I think it's less rewarding as well, as the hordes of enemies on the other path drop a lot of stuff. With the cabin section immediately afterwards, that sure comes in handy.

And yes, accidentally releasing Ashley also happened to me in the past, but maybe just once or twice.

It's interesting how they changed this part in the remake to only have the Bella sisters path, and moved El Gigante further down the game.

[Elite Piranha]

I personally prefer to not use the boulder in the path with El Gigante, it never works out for me, also I didn't know there was a Game Over screen that involved Ashley screaming: "Leon! Leon! Come back! Save me!", I wonder if there is a video of that on YouTube.

Recently, I have been playing RE4 on the GameCube to try to complete the game on professional mode for the first time, which is surprising considering how much I have played the game in the past (I even got the Hand Cannon at some point). The number of times I have stupidly died is absurd.

So far, Krauser on Professional mode has been the most difficult thing I've to deal with in all my years of playing the game. I remember starting the map where you fight him with a lot healing items, I got overconfident and wasted a lot of resources, by the time Krauser transformed his arm I only had one green herb to heal and that's it, the result was that I just couldn't beat him, it was impossible, he does way too much damage, I kept missing the action commands, and with only one green herb I keep dying over and over very quickly. I gave up, so the next day I had to load my last save file and decided to increase the Killer7's firepower (instead of tuning up the TMP), bought an extra First Aid Spray and started the map again trying to save as much resources as possible.

I managed to get to the final section again with 3 full heal items and 2 hand grenades, after a dozen attempts I finally defeated Krauser, but the problem was I didn't have enought time to escape before the bombs blew off, so I died again. I eventually found a strategy to make it easier to dodge Krauser's attacks, but I kept running out of time. Some time later, I finally defeated Krauser with 30 seconds to spare. I haven't finished the game yet, but I doubt Saddler is going to give me as mush trouble as Krauser.

[Hunchman801]

I did finish the game in professional mode back in the days, but I don't remember if I struggled or not.

I was never able to defeat Heisenberg in the hardest mode of Village however, most likely because your inventory doesn't matter there and you can't take advantage of previously collected weapons. I tried a few dozen times, and eventually gave up for good.

[DaveRattlehead]

I was racing in Monaco in the F1 game. I started on second position, so I had to risk a bit at the start if I wanted a chance to win (overtaking there is almost impossible under normal circumstances). I overtook the poleman and I defended my position. The guy was getting a bit frustrated trying to regain the lead again and he ended up spinning in Loews (which is incredibly stupid as it's probably the slowest corner of the entire circuit). The guy blocked the entire way, which caused all the entire lobby to crash into this guy. Under those circumstances a red flag would probably be shown, but the game bugged and the crashed cars were still there. I was the only person left in the race. I couldn't complete the race because I found the bottleneck the next lap. Luckily, I ended up winning the race because I was the last one who crashed