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Gaming encounters of the left field kind

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    RizziRizzi Sydney, Australia.Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    I require video of this Monsty.

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    Fatal3RR0RFatal3RR0R Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Zerokku wrote: »
    Houn wrote: »
    Zerokku wrote: »

    Huh. Maybe I should play Earthbound some day.

    You really should. The entire Mother trilogy is pretty awesome.

    God I really want to play Earthbound now.

    My poor backlog.

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    EvilBadmanEvilBadman DO NOT TRUST THIS MAN Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
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    FyreWulff wrote: »
    I should note that Badman is fucking awesome
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    RizziRizzi Sydney, Australia.Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    o_O

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    SorensonSorenson Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Hearin' all these tales of wierdness and what-the-fuckery's jogged a little favorite of mine from a ways back, from Elona:
    I was doing seriously awesome - had a blessed machine gun with glass bullets, doing stupid damage (like 10d3 + 6d2 with a +25 to hit), and was lucky enough to have that mysterious douche in the first town die (the one with no name). So there I was, with my 2d18 sword, my +20 armor, and my machine gun, chewing up everything in the puppy dungeon like there's no tomorrow. Suddenly, I make a learning check and realize the sword I'm carrying is Ragnarok, and the words "Let's RAGNAROK!" show up on the screen, followed by every available square being filled with angry dragons.

    What the fuck, game. What the fuck.

    Although Elona in general is one gigantic left field in itself inbetween the orphen/monster crossbreeding and the suicide-bombing Hard Gays and the epic weapons made out of meat. Good times.
    deowolf wrote: »
    RE: Dunmer necrophelia: good god.
    And then there's Uncle Leo (Hello!) in Shivering Isles. Elves are fucking wierd in the Elder Scrolls.

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    Lord YodLord Yod Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Did someone mention Indigo Prophecy yet? The LP thread convinced me to buy it and I just finished it. I'm not sure I've ever been this confused by a game before.
    Seriously. Internet memes take physical form and fight a war against ancient Mayan priests? And the sides are named after colors? And on top of all that you turn into Neo halfway through the game? O_o

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    SkexisSkexis Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_8WTdn0doA

    7:52 onward

    Up until that point, you find yourself running across the top of a helicopter.
    That's right. On the blades.

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    Fatal3RR0RFatal3RR0R Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    The true final boss in kirby 64.

    Here you are playing this game with cutesy characters and bright colors, and then you go up against this.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqq3hyvDeT0&fmt=18

    Skip to 0:42

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    UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
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    The Rocking MThe Rocking M Brisbane, AustraliaRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
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    OpiumOpium regular
    edited July 2009
    The hand coming out of the toilet in Oracle of Ages and Majora's Mask (that you give a Deku letter as toilet paper in exchange for a heart piece).

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    mxmarksmxmarks Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Im gonna post some of my faves later, but before I forget.

    Seaman. Is. Awesome.

    I beat it once, and actually re-purchased it (still had the mic, the disc cracked) a couple months ago to try and get my roomate to play. He quit after a bit (after playing EndWar you realize how far voice recognition has come), but I think I may boot it up again tonight and start over.

    I loved saying "sony" to it. I also loved it's daily advice. I wonder if anything is programmed in to make reference to how long it's been since release.

    Oh - and end...(game?) spoilers.

    When he grows into a frogman at the end, he gives you a big speech about being awesome, and then the back of the tank drops out and it's a jungle, and he can walk around in it. Its got some depth so you can see him off in the distance sometimes when you turn it on. The best part though? Since there's no more glass to tap on to get his attention, the triggers on the controller are bongo drums, and you drum and he comes hopping up. Drum enough and he'll dance!

    The best part of the game by far though is Lenoard Nemoy. Even though he's Spock and all, everytime I see or hear him I always think "Welcome to the laboratory of Dr. Jean Paul Gasse..."

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    DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Any of the boss encounters in God Hand.

    It really is a testament to the game that the entire thing is pretty much out of the ball park in terms of how left-field it is, and yet despite the constant wackiness it still manages to surprise you every single time a new boss is introduced.

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    MegaMekMegaMek Girls like girls. Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Fatal3RR0R wrote: »
    The true final boss in kirby 64.

    Here you are playing this game with cutesy characters and bright colors, and then you go up against this.
    Yeah, Zero is the most bizarre Kirby villain. Here's a good example:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYVlu7Lxs34
    Skip to like 4 minutes in. And turn off the annotations.

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    MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Chihuaha races in God Hand.

    It was unexpectedly awesome.

    I wasn't surprised by the casino though.

    Oh and the final unlockable arena fight. I didn't know who it was until I started it the first time. O_O

    Golfing in Hulk: UD.

    Most of these are positive examples. Is this doing it wrong?

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    PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 My amazement is at maximum capacity. Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    The Miror B fight in Pokemon Colosseum (man I loved that game).

    "Ok, I am currently fighting a guy with a giant, multi-coloured afro who uses dancing mexican ducks, all to a salsa beat. What."

    And Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga has crazy moments before my copy went 'Fuck it, rocks fall, everyone dies' and the game wiped my save file. The last boss I fought was a barrel of cola that became sentient and had a sword and shield. Insane.

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    SkutSkutSkutSkut Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    MGS 2

    Fission Mailed.

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    SollahSollah Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    MegaMek wrote: »
    Fatal3RR0R wrote: »
    The true final boss in kirby 64.

    Here you are playing this game with cutesy characters and bright colors, and then you go up against this.
    Yeah, Zero is the most bizarre Kirby villain. Here's a good example:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYVlu7Lxs34
    Skip to like 4 minutes in. And turn off the annotations.

    I find it kind of interesting how all three games I've fought/seen him in (Dream Land 2, Kirby 64 and now Dream Land 3) the gameplay is similiar every time in that it forgoes the usual style of gameplay for a more shoot-em-up style. Even with Zero or whatever his name is (I thought it was something else?) fighting different each time Kirby still fights the same. That is, you have to fly around in the air and shoot at him while avoiding his attacks.

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    MegaMekMegaMek Girls like girls. Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Sollah wrote: »
    I find it kind of interesting how all three games I've fought/seen him in (Dream Land 2, Kirby 64 and now Dream Land 3) the gameplay is similiar every time in that it forgoes the usual style of gameplay for a more shoot-em-up style. Even with Zero or whatever his name is (I thought it was something else?) fighting different each time Kirby still fights the same. That is, you have to fly around in the air and shoot at him while avoiding his attacks.
    That's because all Kirby games are exactly the same thing.

    And I'm pretty sure that he's called Zero. In 64 he has the wings and is called 0².

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    OpiumOpium regular
    edited July 2009
    Sollah wrote: »
    MegaMek wrote: »
    Fatal3RR0R wrote: »
    The true final boss in kirby 64.

    Here you are playing this game with cutesy characters and bright colors, and then you go up against this.
    Yeah, Zero is the most bizarre Kirby villain. Here's a good example:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYVlu7Lxs34
    Skip to like 4 minutes in. And turn off the annotations.

    I find it kind of interesting how all three games I've fought/seen him in (Dream Land 2, Kirby 64 and now Dream Land 3) the gameplay is similiar every time in that it forgoes the usual style of gameplay for a more shoot-em-up style. Even with Zero or whatever his name is (I thought it was something else?) fighting different each time Kirby still fights the same. That is, you have to fly around in the air and shoot at him while avoiding his attacks.
    Have you never played Kirby Superstar? One of the games in it contains a real shoot-em-up.

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    RobmanRobman Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Fallout 2, pretty much most of the random encounters in the wasteland.

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    MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Oh, when you get jumped coming out of the underdark in BG2.

    I remember this only because my game decided to bug the fuck out spectacularly and permanently make me hostile to every body and if I left the area they followed me.

    And my save just before leaving the underdark didn't help, they stayed permanently hostile.

    So I got jumped and then a game breaking b ug. My previous archive was way back just before going into the underdark.

    I was pissed.

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    CoJoeTheLawyerCoJoeTheLawyer Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    I'm shocked....shocked...that this thread went 6 pages without mentioning the ending of Chrono Trigger
    or should I say endings
    Especially the one where everyone is a reptile person

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    HounHoun Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    I'm shocked....shocked...that this thread went 6 pages without mentioning the ending of Chrono Trigger
    or should I say endings
    Especially the one where everyone is a reptile person

    None of those really surprised me, though. I'm usually pretty good at predicting twists and such.

    However, the revelation about the Precursors near the end of Jak 3 caught me completely. Probably because it completely flew in the face of everything they'd set up in the first two games.

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    Post BluePost Blue Redmond, WARegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    deowolf wrote: »
    Post Blue wrote: »
    I remember talking all colors of shit to some Dremora Lord in a bar in Morrowind, trying to provike an attack so that I could retaliate and steal the armor from his body. He was a polite, soft-spoken guy who seemed impervious to insult, quietly dismissing my cuts at him, until... out of nowhere and with no perceptible transition he said, "after I murder you, I am going to rape your corpse. But don't worry, I'll be gentle".

    I imagine someone at Bethesda was pretty confident that no play-tester/screener would drill down that deeply. 0_0

    I - I don't ever recall seeing this. Was this in a mod, or - what bar? I need to go experience this.
    Okay, I played Morrowind for a month straight immediately after its release in 2002, and I haven’t touched it since. As such I played the original game, as released, and, to the best of my knowledge, un-patched. Certainly unmodded. That was more than seven years ago, and the only detail from that surprising encounter that I can truly swear by is the dialogue. Honestly, I don’t even remember if a Dremora Lord is really what you call those types of guys -- it’s just the first thing that came to mind. He had two dainty little horns on his forehead; I seem to remember him being clad in black and red. As I recall, in the building where I found him, after walking down one flight of stairs I saw him leaning against a wall to my right. The room was populated with several other lively NPCs, but he struck me as someone worth talking to.

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    3cl1ps33cl1ps3 I will build a labyrinth to house the cheese Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    The ending of the original Halo on Legendary is worth mentioning.

    "This is it, baby. Hold me."

    What the hell?

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    Big ClassyBig Classy Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    No one mentioned the most fucked up game of them all? True Crime: Streets of L.A?
    Everything starts off normal, you're in LA, doing cop things busting perps. Then, three hours later you're fighting half-nekkid ninja ladies, an old chinese bearded man and a couple dragons. I don't think I slept that night. I returned the game the next day.

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    MundaneSoulMundaneSoul fight fighter Daehan MingukRegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    One that pops into my head is Mirror's Edge.

    Hey, it's a game about running and parkour and finding the best routes to the finish line and evading the bad guys! Awesome!

    Then at some point the game magically transforms into a third-rate FPS where huge mobs of armed soldiers are fully equipped to kick your weaponless ass. That really turned me off to finishing the game.

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    Big ClassyBig Classy Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    I just picked up eternal darkness today, good to know there's lots of mind-wrangling heading my way.

    Tomb Raider 2, the fucking t-rex. Actually, the t-rex and all the undead random stuff. I never did play the first one.

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    WrenWren ninja_bird Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Houn wrote: »
    I'm shocked....shocked...that this thread went 6 pages without mentioning the ending of Chrono Trigger
    or should I say endings
    Especially the one where everyone is a reptile person

    None of those really surprised me, though. I'm usually pretty good at predicting twists and such.

    you predicted everyone were reptile people?

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    3cl1ps33cl1ps3 I will build a labyrinth to house the cheese Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Wren wrote: »
    Houn wrote: »
    I'm shocked....shocked...that this thread went 6 pages without mentioning the ending of Chrono Trigger
    or should I say endings
    Especially the one where everyone is a reptile person

    None of those really surprised me, though. I'm usually pretty good at predicting twists and such.
    you predicted everyone were reptile people?

    SPOILERS, dude. SPOILERS.

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    SkutSkutSkutSkut Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    One that pops into my head is Mirror's Edge.

    Hey, it's a game about running and parkour and finding the best routes to the finish line and evading the bad guys! Awesome!

    Then at some point the game magically transforms into a third-rate FPS where huge mobs of armed soldiers are fully equipped to kick your weaponless ass. That really turned me off to finishing the game.

    Slide kick their balls man, best weapon in the game.:lol:

    Test of Faith may have been a pun on her name but it was definitely a test of fucking patience.

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    OpiumOpium regular
    edited July 2009
    3clipse wrote: »
    Wren wrote: »
    Houn wrote: »
    I'm shocked....shocked...that this thread went 6 pages without mentioning the ending of Chrono Trigger
    or should I say endings
    Especially the one where everyone is a reptile person

    None of those really surprised me, though. I'm usually pretty good at predicting twists and such.
    you predicted everyone were reptile people?

    SPOILERS, dude. SPOILERS.
    Spoilers for a game that is older than Miley Cyrus?

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    3cl1ps33cl1ps3 I will build a labyrinth to house the cheese Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Opium wrote: »
    3clipse wrote: »
    Wren wrote: »
    Houn wrote: »
    I'm shocked....shocked...that this thread went 6 pages without mentioning the ending of Chrono Trigger
    or should I say endings
    Especially the one where everyone is a reptile person

    None of those really surprised me, though. I'm usually pretty good at predicting twists and such.
    you predicted everyone were reptile people?

    SPOILERS, dude. SPOILERS.
    Spoilers for a game that is older than Miley Cyrus?

    Well, they remade it for the DS less than a year ago, and I still haven't played it. My roommate played it for the first time when it came out for the DS.

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    LunkerLunker Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    That's not really that big of a spoiler, honestly. The alternate endings are only accessible after you've beaten the game once through normally, and they're kind of jokes anyway.

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    HounHoun Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Wren wrote: »
    Houn wrote: »
    I'm shocked....shocked...that this thread went 6 pages without mentioning the ending of Chrono Trigger
    or should I say endings
    Especially the one where everyone is a reptile person

    None of those really surprised me, though. I'm usually pretty good at predicting twists and such.
    you predicted everyone were reptile people?

    Yeah, actually. The only one that really caught me off-guard was the Frog one, now that I think about it.

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    SuckafishSuckafish Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    SkutSkut wrote: »
    One that pops into my head is Mirror's Edge.

    Hey, it's a game about running and parkour and finding the best routes to the finish line and evading the bad guys! Awesome!

    Then at some point the game magically transforms into a third-rate FPS where huge mobs of armed soldiers are fully equipped to kick your weaponless ass. That really turned me off to finishing the game.

    Slide kick their balls man, best weapon in the game.:lol:

    Test of Faith may have been a pun on her name but it was definitely a test of fucking patience.

    I went through the entire game on my first play through without firing a gun... that is, until the computer server room where I spazzed out trying to take out the machine gunner right after disarming another guy. Accidentally pulled the trigger to kick before I pressed Y to drop the gun and hit him with two bullets. :x

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    mwoodymwoody Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    System Shock 2. Finally, uh, meeting Polito. I hadn't played the first one, either - I had no idea what the fuck was going on.

    Middle of a sunny day, other people in the room, lights on, and STILL chilled me to the core. I caught myself physically backing away from the computer, arms up in a defensive stance.

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    SwashbucklerXXSwashbucklerXX Swashbucklin' Canuck Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Somehow I managed to start playing Kingdom Hearts II without first hearing about it on the Internet.

    Yeah.

    "Who the hell is this guy, oh gawd MINIGAMES, why is it so BOOOOORING?"

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    TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu PIGEON Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Somehow I managed to start playing Kingdom Hearts II without first hearing about it on the Internet.

    Yeah.

    "Who the hell is this guy, oh gawd MINIGAMES, why is it so BOOOOORING?"

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZsDUSxK5Fs

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