Day 13: Wait, its Friday 13th too?
To counteract the alleged bad luck that follows this day, what's been your luckiest gaming moment? Meeting someone famous, getting a rare copy of a game, maybe something in game itself during an intense multiplayer session?
What's been your luckiest moment or memory in gaming?
Meeting famous people doesn't fall in to my mindset, I'm afraid. Famous people are just normal people that have a load of folk giving them far too much credit for undoubtedly doing very little. So I'll skip that one, although there are many.
Probably getting Fred on eBay for such a small amount thanks to the guy listing it not actually mentioning "Fallout 3" or "Brotherhood of Steel". The auction was coming to a close, he had a reserve on it along with a starting price of £550, so I took a chance and emailed him to offer him his starting price to take down the auction and just agree to sell it. Plus I managed to get one of our clients with their own haulage trucks to carry it up from Surrey to Glasgow at no cost. Bit of a steal (steel, wah wah waaaah) really.
Luckiest moment IN game would be playing through The Pitt DLC on Fallout 3. I had only ONE more ingot to get and I went back through the entire level many times over to try and find this elusive lump of metal, but to no avail. Then I remembered that there was an area on a roof where a bunch of ingots were stashed behind some sort of roofing vent, so I decided to go up there for a look... and fell through the floor to an out-of-gameplay area.
Thankfully, I'd saved it. I reloaded the save and spent the next fuck knows how many hours trying to get to that one area again but, every time, would fall through the roof. I had one option... to go back to an earlier save at the beginning of the DLC to get to this area FIRST and see how many ingots there were, and then probably start the collectathon again.
I loaded in the save, from over six hours back, and went to that point in the roof, picked up those ingots first and started going through the whole thing again. And that's when it happened... going through the crawlspace area from one area to the next (where you're in a sort of maze of cages, suspended off the ground) I noticed a mine cart half on its side in a dark corner, so I went looking for a way out of the cage and found one... went over to the mine cart and there was an ingot. "Did I get this one first time around? Do I even remember SEEING this cart at all??" so I loaded in my most recent save where I just had ONE more ingot to get, went straight back to that cage area, found the way out, got to the mine cart... and there it was... the fifth golden ticket! Picked it up, achievement unlocked, DLC maxed.
If it hadn't been for that one sideways glance, seeing the mine cart in the corner, I'd have lost those six hours and gone back through it all again. I know it's not "luck", per se, but I saw it as being a lucky break.
Oooooooh it's an invisible signature... oooooooooh!!
Life's greatest battles, often are fought alone.
Starting a MW2 match, throwing a chance grenade and wiping out the entire team in one go.
Or a game of search and destroy where they had owned us the whole game, and it was down to a single capture, and I just ran, jumped and somehow managed to do it without the 3 snipers who had trained their view on the spot killing me. In the final second of the game I could see one of them running at me shooting, and still we won the game with a second to spare. One of those moments where the rest of my team were screaming "NONONO DON'T" down the headset, but I had nothing to loose.
Mr Kipling is a lie.
Seriously, Friday the 13th and we didn't go with a horror related one? For shame Toff chops.
"Friday the 13th is a date considered to be bad luck in western superstition"Originally Posted by ZeroMark
Nuff said.
Check and mate.
Just getting the "head shot during a tremor on the roof" cheev on Max Payne 3 yesterday. Fifteen bloody times I attempted it, and on the last go, I was ready to give up, and go to bed crying.
Sounds like a hard one to get when trying for it. It happened during my normal playthrough. Is that luck. LOL.
Now we know.
My most amazing achievement is on an XBLA game called Golf: Tee It Up. The achv was to beat the hard course under par by like ten or some shit. Anyway... first 14 or so holes I was looking good. Next 3 were proper cunts. I needed to eagle the final hole which as fucked. The hole was fucking far away and on a platform. There was a platform inbetween the tee and the hole too.
The game lets you use 'focus' to guide things a bit but I used it all up getting onto the middle platform.
I had a 100+ yard shot onto a fucking platform and I fucking hit it. Some degree of skill, more luck though. When it went in the game was maxed and my pants were too.
So you wanted me to base today's 30 Days topic on some shit films that share the name with today's date.
Check and mate.
For shame Zero. For shame.
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