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Simply put, this thread is a place for people to post their gaming stories of times when you almost won a match...but then had the victory stolen from you at the last minute. I'll start off with my two:

The most recent one that I can think of was in a game of Civilization IV against bots (I think there were 8 of them, 4 on each continent). Basically, I was aiming for a Tech victory - research up to Future Era, then get a space shuttle to Alpha Centauri. With about 90 turns left, I launched my fully built shuttle, 15 turns away from my victory. So, with nothing left to do, cue 10 turns of me skipping through turns waiting for it to get there. With 8 turns to go, something pops up: a United Nations vote for Alexander (Russia) to take a Diplomatic Victory. 5 turns later, the vote goes through, and Alexander wins.

The other one was during a game of Team Fortress 2 on ctf_2fort. Basically, both teams were even the entire game; blue scored, then red scored, then blue, then red. With about 10 minutes left on the clock before the next round started, both teams, in an unprecedented move, managed to steal the other's Intel. Both sides were frantic in trying to help their carrier while attempting to halt the opponent's. Somehow, completely unrehearsed, both sides managed to cap the intel - at the EXACT same moment. Unfortunately, this story goes into here because while both sides got the point at the same time, there was apparently a millisecond between the two, and the opposing team took the win. But damn, was it an epic finish to the game.

Armored Core, anyone who knows any of those games needs no further mention...

When me and my friend battles loyalist scum in DoW 2 Chaos Rising, and my Khornate army ripped true both Sm army. And dose not loose more units than a cultist squad and a Blood-letter squad.

That really made no sense...

I was playing God of War and failed to notice a scratch on the disk that ahd gotten considerably bigger then I first remembered.

The game suffered some choppy parts, a few slow downs, but was never really busted.

Until the final fight with Ares. Right as you(spoiler alert btw) are about to plunge a huge ass sword through his sternum..... it freezes. And does not restart.

Owned?

Oh my just realised my epic fail.

@ Golden eyed Scout : Man that had to be gruesom.

My friend and I played through Halo in a single sitting, and right before we got onto the ship at the end, I back stabbed him - thus he did not actually finish the game

When we played Halo 3, he tried to do the same thing to me by ramming my car off the side of the road so I would die and he would fly off in the ship. The sad thing was that he rebounded and got caught by an explosion, throwing him off the side of the road, and I sailed on unharmed into the ship

Although this is "So Close!" for him, rather than me

Fallout 3 at level 2.

Found a bunch of raiders and just managed to kill them then I get to looting, with 5hp left two crippled legs and a bit of ammo for the 10mm pistol. After I finish my character hobles out of the ruins and begins walking for town (I used to play Morrowind and such so I don't really use fast travel in these games unless I'm really impatient or have to go back and forth across a large amount of space a lot). I come across a train yard and begin to explore. I find a empty freight container with some cages made out of shopping carts in it, one is empty the other has a teddy bear in it. I open it and the bear glitches and waves its arms in a little happy dance. I pick it up and leave (had all but one of the parts for the Rock-it Launcher ). I'm walking for no more than 20 seconds before I start to hear the sound of a melee weapon being swung nearby, expecting a raider I turn around.

Behind me had to be the most stealthiest giant Super Mutant I've seen (first super mutant I found leading to some funnny situations later when I finally found the normal ones, so many wasted missles ). I shoot the giant with the pistol and he doesn't even flinch, so my guy with his two crippled legs starts limping as fast as he can towards some other ruins. He hits me once knocking me back a bit, but not killing me as I had managed to heal enough after the raiders. I then get to the ruins and the couple of dogs inside run towards us, I duck around behind the giant and he crushes them with his hammer, made out some pole and a fire hydrant. He then turns around and smashes my guy over the head as I attempt to get away again

Most recently would probably be in Borderlands on Mad Moxxi's Underdome. For those who don't know the expansion adds in arenas for what is essentially a survivor mode. Playing with some friends we got to the 24th of 25 waves of enemies and Live took a nose dive on us. There are no saves in the arena, so we would have had to start all over again.

Aliens v Predator on Nightmare. That level in the Colony, in the final stage you have to run to the Elvator. 1 Health Bar left, pretty much zilch ammo. I fire off my last grenade and bolt for it.

Al.

Most.

Ther-

Alien pops up.

OH SHI-

Alien-tounge-to-the-face.

Pretty fun though.

Emperors Faithful wrote:Aliens v Predator on Nightmare. That level in the Colony, in the final stage you have to run to the Elvator. 1 Health Bar left, pretty much zilch ammo. I fire off my last grenade and bolt for it.

Al.

Most.

Ther-

Alien pops up.

OH SHI-

Alien-tounge-to-the-face.

Pretty fun though.

This happened to me too, exactly the same.

Remember to grenade spam the dark corners...

Mine would have to be a free-for-all match in Modern Warfare 2. I needed one more kill along with some other guy who needed one more kill so we were tied.

I see this guy and run to riot shield him to death, only to see the guy drop and a lose screen.

Watching the game-winning kill, I saw the guy getting shot and me running right at him with my riot shield. The other guy who I was tied with killed the guy I was going after.
If that's not close, I don't know what is

Ouch! There are some really nasty ones here. I thought of two more after reading some of these.

First one on Swat 4, the second to last mission (Or was it the last?) - a research facility of sorts, with about 15 different rooms to clear and enemies that run all over the building into previously secured rooms. Basically, after half a dozen tries, I finally managed to get to the last room with all but one squadmate left standing. So what did I do? I got cocky. Ordered my men to grenade the room, then ran in ahead of them...right into the one guy who didn't get affected by the flashbang. One shotgun blast, and I hit the floor with a Mission Failed.

The other one was in classic Doom, the second set of levels (Not sure which exact one it was, but the level itself was ridiculously long). Spent half an hour blundering my way through the level, and finally neared the exit at low, low health. Walked through the door and hit the use key juuuuust as one guy came from behind and shot my back. I think that was the moment that I decided to quit playing Doom

I was playing gears of war one, fighting RAAM at the, just as I was about to launch my last torque bow at him, the screen cuts out, not freezes or anything just goes black then I hear marcus being ripped appart by a troka through the speakers- took me TWO MONTHS to finish that game from then as My Xbox had to be sent to Frankfurt to be replaced.

FM Ninja 048 wrote:I was playing gears of war one, fighting RAAM at the, just as I was about to launch my last torque bow at him, the screen cuts out, not freezes or anything just goes black then I hear marcus being ripped appart by a troka through the speakers- took me TWO MONTHS to finish that game from then as My Xbox had to be sent to Frankfurt to be replaced.

Your xbox was frankfurted? :O poor xbox...

Chaos Rising crapped out on me right after I finally killed the second boss battle of the last mission. To my shame I still need to finish the game, some day.

The hell?

It did that to me too. I call shenannigans!

A "bug" to make the game last longer?

BrookM wrote:A "bug" to make the game last longer?

I was not impressed if that's the case

SilverMK2 wrote:My friend and I played through Halo in a single sitting, and right before we got onto the ship at the end, I back stabbed him - thus he did not actually finish the game

When we played Halo 3, he tried to do the same thing to me by ramming my car off the side of the road so I would die and he would fly off in the ship. The sad thing was that he rebounded and got caught by an explosion, throwing him off the side of the road, and I sailed on unharmed into the ship

Although this is "So Close!" for him, rather than me

I have a similar one. We were playing 4 player co-op Halo 3. End race to the ship. One of the Warthogs exploded followed by the second one flipping. My friend gets in a drives off, leaving me to get killed by the Flood. He gets to the end and makes the jump.




Only to bail out of the 'Hog in mid air cause he wanted to see if it would still land in the hangar without him(it did).

Me and my brother were playing Warhammer Fantasy, Goblins vs skinks, it took us two hours to set up.

He rolls the first turn, moves (for about 30 minutes), calls down a comet of cassadora, blew up one unit...... and made my entire army flee off the table.

I would have won, too, if it wasn't for that pesky skink, and his comet.

anytime I had a close win/horrible loss while fighting Emerald and Ruby Weapon on FF7

Soladrin wrote:

Emperors Faithful wrote:Aliens v Predator on Nightmare. That level in the Colony, in the final stage you have to run to the Elvator. 1 Health Bar left, pretty much zilch ammo. I fire off my last grenade and bolt for it.

Al.

Most.

Ther-

Alien pops up.

OH SHI-

Alien-tounge-to-the-face.

Pretty fun though.

This happened to me too, exactly the same.

In my opinion, one of the best levels in the whole campaign. Had the most 'Aliens Movie' sort of feel. And that fallibility (or human feebleness) is all too obvious and prominent. You haven't quite learnt the tricks of the trade yet on how to cope with the critters just yet. Also, apart from clearing out facehuggers, I found the flamer to be incredibly useless.

halonachos wrote:Remember to grenade spam the dark corners...

Yeah. That would work, cos y'know I had loads of grenades. And the time to launch them without getting chowed.

Emperors Faithful wrote:

Soladrin wrote:

Emperors Faithful wrote:Aliens v Predator on Nightmare. That level in the Colony, in the final stage you have to run to the Elvator. 1 Health Bar left, pretty much zilch ammo. I fire off my last grenade and bolt for it.

Al.

Most.

Ther-

Alien pops up.

OH SHI-

Alien-tounge-to-the-face.

Pretty fun though.

This happened to me too, exactly the same.

In my opinion, one of the best levels in the whole campaign. Had the most 'Aliens Movie' sort of feel. And that fallibility (or human feebleness) is all too obvious and prominent. You haven't quite learnt the tricks of the trade yet on how to cope with the critters just yet. Also, apart from clearing out facehuggers, I found the flamer to be incredibly useless.

halonachos wrote:Remember to grenade spam the dark corners...

Yeah. That would work, cos y'know I had loads of grenades. And the time to launch them without getting chowed.

Did you try asking them to just... I donno... Go away?

Yeah. That was my next attempt. It seemed to be going well. They were all smiling and making laughing/hissing noises. They must have thought I was a funny guy.
Unfortunately, after a couple of servings of tea/coffee/acid samples had been handed around, the language barriers between us really stopped any effective method of communication. We made some progress though. After phone numbers and business cards had been exchanged at the end of the meeting it was somehow universally agreed that:

Light = Scurry around in the Dark
Bullets = Please Go away.
Grenades = Feth off.

From then on a lot of progress was made.