Lie like a champ

BelskieTheNinjaBelskieTheNinja Registered User regular
edited August 2007 in Games and Technology
I am a compulsive liar. Whenever I am asked a question my first instinct is to come up with a plausible lie, and after I've sold the person on that answer I give them the actual answer.

This carries over to another thing I like to do with my friends which is to make up falsehoods about upcoming titles and systems.

Below is one I just came up with on the fly to a friend who I know to love the Wild Arm series.
it's confirmed that wild arms 5 will feature a "special guest character as a playable character" from wild arms 2. their appearance in wa5 will answer a lot of unanswered questions about what happened with this character after wa2, as well as introduce us to a host of newly acquired and unlocked powers.

Go ahead and add your own lies to this thread. If they're good enough, they may earn the dubious honor of me stealing them for my own use on my friends.

Thanks!
B. the Ninja

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  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    edited August 2007
    From a reputable source: Duke Nukem forever, featuring an upgraded engine codenamed "source beyond", will be slated for an early November release. Expect full game trailers and a playable two on two multiplayer demo during the Penny Arcade Expo.

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  • lazerbeardlazerbeard Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    by far the best one Ive ever helped out with was when I was going to show one of my friends a video for Army of Two. My friend was like, "What do you do in that?" and right before I was going to give her a straight answer my other friend cut me off and said:

    "oh yeah, Army of Two, you play as two crippled guys, one only has legs but no arms, and the other has arms but no legs, the guy with legs carries the guy with arms around with him in a backpack. The guy with the legs concentrates on movement and dodging, while the guy with the arms concentrates on aiming and fire. it takes a LOT of teamwork but its really fun!"

    she was like:"wow seriously? thats really awesome"

    so I had to carry it on and say "yeah, and to do acrobatics, or to pull yourself up, the legs guy has to start the maneuver, then the arms guy has to perform a specific action at the right time to finish the maneuver, its pretty sweet."

    after that neither of us could control our laughing, and we had to tell her, plus we were about to watch the trailer.

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  • irnirn Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    I defeated Sheng Long.

    No, seriously!

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  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    lazerbeard wrote: »
    by far the best one Ive ever helped out with was when I was going to show one of my friends a video for Army of Two. My friend was like, "What do you do in that?" and right before I was going to give her a straight answer my other friend cut me off and said:

    "oh yeah, Army of Two, you play as two crippled guys, one only has legs but no arms, and the other has arms but no legs, the guy with legs carries the guy with arms around with him in a backpack. The guy with the legs concentrates on movement and dodging, while the guy with the arms concentrates on aiming and fire. it takes a LOT of teamwork but its really fun!"

    she was like:"wow seriously? thats really awesome"

    so I had to carry it on and say "yeah, and to do acrobatics, or to pull yourself up, the legs guy has to start the maneuver, then the arms guy has to perform a specific action at the right time to finish the maneuver, its pretty sweet."

    after that neither of us could control our laughing, and we had to tell her, plus we were about to watch the trailer.

    I'd play that game.

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  • Tw4winTw4win Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    lazerbeard wrote: »
    by far the best one Ive ever helped out with was when I was going to show one of my friends a video for Army of Two. My friend was like, "What do you do in that?" and right before I was going to give her a straight answer my other friend cut me off and said:

    "oh yeah, Army of Two, you play as two crippled guys, one only has legs but no arms, and the other has arms but no legs, the guy with legs carries the guy with arms around with him in a backpack. The guy with the legs concentrates on movement and dodging, while the guy with the arms concentrates on aiming and fire. it takes a LOT of teamwork but its really fun!"

    she was like:"wow seriously? thats really awesome"

    so I had to carry it on and say "yeah, and to do acrobatics, or to pull yourself up, the legs guy has to start the maneuver, then the arms guy has to perform a specific action at the right time to finish the maneuver, its pretty sweet."

    after that neither of us could control our laughing, and we had to tell her, plus we were about to watch the trailer.

    Damn, that sounds like it could be a lot of fun...

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  • Dodge AspenDodge Aspen Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    You fucking filthy liars.

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  • RedMageDarionRedMageDarion Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    lazerbeard wrote: »
    by far the best one Ive ever helped out with was when I was going to show one of my friends a video for Army of Two. My friend was like, "What do you do in that?" and right before I was going to give her a straight answer my other friend cut me off and said:

    "oh yeah, Army of Two, you play as two crippled guys, one only has legs but no arms, and the other has arms but no legs, the guy with legs carries the guy with arms around with him in a backpack. The guy with the legs concentrates on movement and dodging, while the guy with the arms concentrates on aiming and fire. it takes a LOT of teamwork but its really fun!"

    she was like:"wow seriously? thats really awesome"

    so I had to carry it on and say "yeah, and to do acrobatics, or to pull yourself up, the legs guy has to start the maneuver, then the arms guy has to perform a specific action at the right time to finish the maneuver, its pretty sweet."

    after that neither of us could control our laughing, and we had to tell her, plus we were about to watch the trailer.
    So...

    It would be Crippled Masters?

    But with guns?

    Awesome.

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  • MerovingiMerovingi regular
    edited August 2007
    Sounds like the old console Mechwarrior games.. but with meatbags.

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  • lazerbeardlazerbeard Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    needs more backpack, but yes. We did all agree that our version would be pretty awesome, and were kind of dissapointed when the trailer featured no crippled people in backpacks.

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  • SageinaRageSageinaRage Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    lazerbeard wrote: »
    by far the best one Ive ever helped out with was when I was going to show one of my friends a video for Army of Two. My friend was like, "What do you do in that?" and right before I was going to give her a straight answer my other friend cut me off and said:

    "oh yeah, Army of Two, you play as two crippled guys, one only has legs but no arms, and the other has arms but no legs, the guy with legs carries the guy with arms around with him in a backpack. The guy with the legs concentrates on movement and dodging, while the guy with the arms concentrates on aiming and fire. it takes a LOT of teamwork but its really fun!"

    she was like:"wow seriously? thats really awesome"

    so I had to carry it on and say "yeah, and to do acrobatics, or to pull yourself up, the legs guy has to start the maneuver, then the arms guy has to perform a specific action at the right time to finish the maneuver, its pretty sweet."

    after that neither of us could control our laughing, and we had to tell her, plus we were about to watch the trailer.

    I came up with a design very similar to this in my game design class, except for it was 3 aliens on each others shoulders under a trenchcoat and hat, trying to pretend to be human.

    And yeah, I'd play either.

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  • cloudeaglecloudeagle Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    (Name of obscure-ass video game character from a series that hasn't even been on a Nintendo, or name of overly-popular anime character) is TOTALLY going to be in Smash Bros. Brawl.

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  • Samir Duran DuranSamir Duran Duran Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    lazerbeard wrote: »
    by far the best one Ive ever helped out with was when I was going to show one of my friends a video for Army of Two. My friend was like, "What do you do in that?" and right before I was going to give her a straight answer my other friend cut me off and said:

    "oh yeah, Army of Two, you play as two crippled guys, one only has legs but no arms, and the other has arms but no legs, the guy with legs carries the guy with arms around with him in a backpack. The guy with the legs concentrates on movement and dodging, while the guy with the arms concentrates on aiming and fire. it takes a LOT of teamwork but its really fun!"

    she was like:"wow seriously? thats really awesome"

    so I had to carry it on and say "yeah, and to do acrobatics, or to pull yourself up, the legs guy has to start the maneuver, then the arms guy has to perform a specific action at the right time to finish the maneuver, its pretty sweet."

    after that neither of us could control our laughing, and we had to tell her, plus we were about to watch the trailer.

    That is the funniest thing I've heard all week.

    maybe it's just calling the dudes "arms guy" and "legs guy".

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  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Uh. That army of two thing?

    THat's EXACTLY how multiplayer Mechwarrior 2 on the SNES worked. I think it was mechwarrior 2. I can't really remember. Definitely a mechwarrior SNES game though. This is not a lie.

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  • NickleNickle Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Last night I lied. A friend asked for another friends phone number, and I gave him the number to the local EB games instead. Given that our group has a tradition of immediatly insulting each other as soon as the phone is answered, hijinks ensued.

    It was fucking GLORIUS. Apparently, the EB games employee really sounded alot like our friend.

    I don't lie about games, though, to my knowledge. Games is serious business.

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  • MerovingiMerovingi regular
    edited August 2007
    I wrote:
    Sounds like the old console Mechwarrior games.. but with meatbags.
    SniperGuy wrote: »
    Uh. That army of two thing?

    THat's EXACTLY how multiplayer Mechwarrior 2 on the SNES worked. I think it was mechwarrior 2. I can't really remember. Definitely a mechwarrior SNES game though. This is not a lie.

    See, he knows what I'm saying!

    *HIGH-FIVE*

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  • BrueBrue Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Sounds like some people should play Lost Vikings.

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  • ImperfectImperfect Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Man, back in gradeschool, I used to lie about how if you beat Super Mario Bros. fast enough or with enough points, you'd open up a secret level. Or how if you beat negative world, you'd open up Golden Mode with different level layouts and powerups.

    None of us had access to Nintendo Power either, so no-one could disprove me.

    My best was probably about Dragon Warrior (1!), where I told my friends that if you beat the Dragon Lord with the starting club, you got a secret ending with more story about Erdrick. One of my buddies tried for a month straight to do it.

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  • chaossoldierchaossoldier Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    I don't really have any video game lies of my own, but a good friend of mine had plenty.

    In high school, this friend of mine told me that he had a prototype "Dolphin" (the code name for the Gamecube) and told me that the system itself was even shaped like a dolphin and that the disks were inserted into the mouth.

    You can wonder why I wasn't surprised when he said it had to be kept secret after I asked to see it.

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  • LewiePLewieP Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    I hate you all and your kind.

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  • emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    I've been lied to - a friend in third grade told me that if you whip the red crystal at the end of levels in Castlevania, you can warp a level ahead. He said he got the idea from watching the Captain N cartoon and figured if the characters can warp around between worlds, there must be a warp in Castlevania ... and he found it!

    I got him back when I told him years later that the tree monsters in a background in Mortal Kombat 2 could eat the loser as a fatality.

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  • chamberlainchamberlain Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    So the Phantom is coming out this year for $399.99.

    Really. It's going to be so awesome.

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  • RedMageDarionRedMageDarion Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    I don't really have any video game lies of my own, but a good friend of mine had plenty.

    In high school, this friend of mine told me that he had a prototype "Dolphin" (the code name for the Gamecube) and told me that the system itself was even shaped like a dolphin and that the disks were inserted into the mouth.
    Back in 2002, I had a guy try to convince me that he had a PS3.

    He said his brother in the military got it on the Black Market while he was in Japan.

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  • Evil_PigEvil_Pig Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    lol.

    You guys are ALL lightweights.

    May I present to you, the biggest of these types of lies ever created.

    Peter Molyneux, on Fable 1
    enough said.


    ____________________________________________

    In case that wasn't enough, who here tried to get Mew on Pokemon Red or Blue by doing that weird boat thing, or anythign else that whatever site told you might give you Mew.

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  • PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Evil_Pig wrote: »
    In case that wasn't enough, who here tried to get Mew on Pokemon Red or Blue by doing that weird boat thing, or anythign else that whatever site told you might give you Mew.

    I remember that and I was annoyed when I couldn't do anything about that stupid truck.

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  • CymoroCymoro Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Evil_Pig wrote: »
    lol.

    You guys are ALL lightweights.

    May I present to you, the biggest of these types of lies ever created.

    Peter Molyneux, on Fable 1
    enough said.


    ____________________________________________

    In case that wasn't enough, who here tried to get Mew on Pokemon Red or Blue by doing that weird boat thing, or anythign else that whatever site told you might give you Mew.

    You can, in fact, get mew! It's a matter of glitching out the game and fucking with pointers (flying from viridian to elsewhere), but it is possible.

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  • Evil_PigEvil_Pig Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    ok, stop it stop it stop it!

    No more Mew lies.

    You think I can't destroy you through the internet.

    You are SORELY mistaken...

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  • rayofashrayofash Registered User regular
    edited August 2007

    Below is one I just came up with on the fly to a friend who I know to love the Wild Arm series.
    it's confirmed that wild arms 5 will feature a "special guest character as a playable character" from wild arms 2. their appearance in wa5 will answer a lot of unanswered questions about what happened with this character after wa2, as well as introduce us to a host of newly acquired and unlocked powers.

    Thanks!
    B. the Ninja

    Your friend isn't very smart if he didn't notice the spelling mistakes or ask for a source.

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  • NickleNickle Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Evil_Pig wrote: »
    ok, stop it stop it stop it!

    No more Mew lies.

    You think I can't destroy you through the internet.

    You are SORELY mistaken...

    I hear his brother is a L337 haxxor.

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  • PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Evil_Pig wrote: »
    ok, stop it stop it stop it!

    No more Mew lies.

    You think I can't destroy you through the internet.

    You are SORELY mistaken...

    You could get Mew through a glitch, but just not in the way most people said you could.

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  • LewiePLewieP Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
  • UndefinedMonkeyUndefinedMonkey Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Yeah, you need an Abra with teleport, and then you have to fight a series of trainers in a certain sequence. Then you run around in a patch of grass outside... Celadon, I think, and you'll be able to catch a wild Mew.

    Seriously.

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  • Evil_PigEvil_Pig Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Congratulations you mew motherfuckers, I've just commited suicide.

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  • PeewiPeewi Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Evil_Pig wrote: »
    Congratulations you mew motherfuckers, I've just commited suicide.

    Then how did you write that message?

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    LewieP wrote: »

    That's so hacked.

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  • LewiePLewieP Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Peewi wrote: »
    Evil_Pig wrote: »
    Congratulations you mew motherfuckers, I've just commited suicide.

    Then how did you write that message?

    For years I have decided that if I ever want to commit suicide, I will jump of a building, and leave a note saying "I didn't mean to jump, I just slipped"
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    LewieP wrote: »

    That's so hacked.

    He has gamesharked/glitched to get the items, but I have done that on my own hardware with my own cartridge. It works. That said I am just some random internet guy, you don't need to trust me.

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  • Raiden333Raiden333 Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    I came up with about 12 different ways to raise Aeris back when I was really young and posted on the AOL boards. Only about 5 actually sounded plausible though.

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  • NickleNickle Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Raiden333 wrote: »
    I came up with about 12 different ways to raise Aeris back when I was really young and posted on the AOL boards. Only about 5 actually sounded plausible though.

    Better to use the Gameshark to get a playable Sephiroth. Damn, that was awesome.

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    You can catch Pikablue by beating the elite four 100 times in a row.

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  • SudsSuds Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Not game related, but I've convinced several of my friends that clocks in the US periodically have to be reset to match the rest of the world, since the US isn't using the metric system, so Americans measure time differently than everyone else.

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  • Raiden333Raiden333 Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Suds wrote: »
    Not game related, but I've convinced several of my friends that clocks in the US periodically have to be reset to match the rest of the world, since the US isn't using the metric system, so Americans measure time differently than everyone else.

    ...Calvin's dad, is that you?

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