Random minor amusing/weird things in games

[metatherat]

Let's post amusing/weird things that games have in 'em!

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I am playing Mass Effect: Andromeda for the first time (really enjoying the game, by the way), and I like how all the NPC teammates are constantly vaulting and climbing over everything in the vicinity, even when it does not really make much sense for them to do so. So they are constantly doing stuff like climbing on tables or vaulting over random furniture. And while they do that, they also shout out in a way that often sounds way too dramatic

So it's like:
Peebee: climbs on an administrator's desk HYAAHH!!
Drack: vaults over a railing instead of using the perfectly serviceable stairs right next to it GAHH! HGAAH!!
Me: guys calm down.

 

[Mambi]

Oh I got one just from last week!

I was playing a "predator" mission as Batgirl in Batman Arkham Knight. It was the endless knight mission, so they keep getting more and more difficult as you take them out. Well I was far enough in where I was up against guys with chainguns and I had little health left. So as I perched, I planned to drop a smoke grenade in, disorient them, then attack...but I messed up the toss and ended up just dropping into the middle of a group of 2 chaingun guys and 2 regular ones.

This is where it gets cute, because I was trapped and screwed, so I died quickly...but HOW I died was the hilarious part. The 2 chaingun guys turned to shoot me, but the other guys got me first from BEHIND (important)...ragdolling me and I started to slowly fall as the game went into slow-motion "scenario failed" mode, but it was right THEN that the 2 chaingun guys started firing...and since it was a locked-in animation the way the game is coded when you die, they kept firing and firing and firing...totally blasting the 2 guys behind me into slow-mo revenge oblivion, and pumping hundreds of bullets into my vibrating shaking lifeless body for like a minute solid!!! It was such overkill, fuck I was laughing so hard!! Perfect code timing for their attack, just a slow-mo "budda-budda-budda-budda-budda-budda....." <teeheehee>

 

[Mambi]

Maybe this just just me being immature, but I have to laugh whenever I'm enjoying some catnip and playing "Arkham Night" and I drop a smokebomb and the guards start screaming "Look out, he's using smoke!" and I think..."Gee, how'd you know???" while exhaling a rainbow plume.. <lol>

 

[metatherat]

So I have been playing Lord of the Rings Online a lot recently, and sometimes there are rats as enemies. When you fight them, they do not really try to bite you, instead they sort of poke you with their noses, or alternately try to punch you with their little rat-hands. Which is awesomely silly and charismatic, as befits us lil rattos, haha :D

Also they are smiling all of the time.

(In real life I would never hurt the smiling rats. I would pet them and hug them and feed them dead orcs)

 

[Firuthi Dragovic]

So in what kind of game do you get the most people who roleplay in voice chat?

An MMO? No.

Social games? Nope.

A squad shooter? Yep. Specifically, Warhammer 40K Darktide.

You have all these spaces where it could easily happen and don't see it, and then you have the game that requires team coordination and suddenly half the players you meet want to act like they are the character they built. Though in that case, it's never that type - everyone wants to smite heretics and proudly proclaim service to the God-Emperor and it just so happens that's the place where the line between fiction and reality is the thinnest.

(Not so much in the other Warhammer squad FPS, the one with the side of the family I'm guessing Meta wishes didn't exist. You don't see too many RPers there.)

 

[metatherat]

So I have been playing Lord of the Rings Online a lot recently, and sometimes there are rats as enemies. When you fight them, they do not really try to bite you, instead they sort of poke you with their noses, or alternately try to punch you with their little rat-hands. Which is awesomely silly and charismatic, as befits us lil rattos, haha :D

Also they are smiling all of the time.

(In real life I would never hurt the smiling rats. I would pet them and hug them and feed them dead orcs)

Here is another funny random LotRO thing, and it is kind of related to the previous one, as it also involves vermin, haha.

After the battle of Minas Tirith, many quests in the surrounding areas involve clearing out the remnants of Sauron's army. And so, tasked by many Gondorians and Rangers, you need to clear out a X number of enemies in a certain area, and the quest givers and the quest descriptions make it very clear that you are meant to find and defeat remnants of the enemy army specifically.... but the quests count the defeat of any enemies as progress... and the areas are full of easily defeated vermin like centipedes, bats and rats, whereas the enemy remnants are kind of hard to find....

...so the easiest way to complete these quests is to just go punch a bunch of skittering animals and then go report to the quest giver, who are like "thank you very much for your dutiful service, CHARNAME". It's super funny to imagine all the heroic player characters coming back covered in centipede ichor and being like:

CHARNAME the Burglar: "Job's done"
Gondorian officer: "You found and rooted out the enemy remnants, then?"
CHARNAME the Burglar: "Uh, yeah, yeah. I certainly defeated an amount of enemies, like you told me to, definitely yeah."
Gondorian officer: "Splendid. Let's hope that's the last trouble we get from the remnants of Sauron's army."
CHARNAME the Burglar: "Yeah, uh, let's hope so. Say, what gets bat blood out of leather?"