There are ways to fail a game with dignity... and then there are these. Here are the lamest ways games choose to insta-fail you, come on games give us a break, yeah? Enjoy!
The Dragon Ball games are some of the ones which have an excellent excuse for offering ring-outs, considering how important they are to at least half of the tournament arcs.
I was shocked when I got desynched after killing a guard in Assassin's Creed 3, since they are not considered civilians. Turns out that the guard was actually George Washington.
One time in AC2, I was chasing a story target on foot, and I saw the assassinate prompt pop up. But instead of plunging a blade into my target, Ezio thought it would be best to pull off a leaping double assassination on 2 civilians over to my right, instead of my target directly in front of me. This gave me an insta-fail, and restarted the mission for a very salty me.
or you do notice that its aiming wrong and you are like no not them. then it constantly switches back and forth between your target and some unlucky civilian till your target leaves. desynchronyzed.... might as well jump those civies then.
Honestly, otherwise they're doomed to live in a warzone or be traumatized for the rest of their lives! I think we can all agree when I say that this is nothing less than saving them. One carefully aimed bullet at a time.
best I've seen is in telltales: Jurassic park. gets impaled by a triceratops then flung into a T-rex's mouth with an awkwardly long NOOOOOOooooooooooooo! that doesn't fit the daughters mouth movement remotely and takes long enough before it cuts to the 'failure' screen that you begin to think that you were meant to fail it...
"It's dangerous to go alone. Take this!" Well, an Ellen escort mission should be better than most. I can just ask her to stand behind me, so the enemies can't see her. Simple!
The worst one definitely had to be GTA: SA's train mission. "you lost the train" .... It's a fucking train, It's on rails, it can only go in 2 directions, forwards and backwards. Literally just catch back up to it.
Mortos DerSoulStealer I did not cheat myself but Big Smoke aim was so bad that you could fail even if you managed to stay right next to them pretty much the whole way. Honestly you needed to actually give him some distance so he could shoot them with at least some degree of success. But I was so annoyed with him, that what I learned to do for that mission, was to use the stairs and jump ON THE TRAIN with the bike so I could shoot them myself :-D
other way for me. The train mission took me maybe 3 tries. The RC mission took, maybe 20? and a whole lot of misery. That whole campaign was horrible, Im not sure why I played it, I could have done something productive with that time, instead of hating myself for playing haha
Building on the 'following someone too closely' fail, what really grinds my gears is games like GTA. When you have to follow someone in a car, you have to keep distance but this makes no sense when your target stops at a red light or in traffic. You have to drive erratically by not staying in traffic or driving up to the light and stop 5 car lengths away from them leaving masses of room for no reason. Surely that's more suspicious?!
Gta4's three leaf clover has to be the worst first you have to follow the crew or they will leave you to deal with that 5 star wanted level and if you manage to follow you have to deal with escaping 3 stars but with wonky driving controls
how about the arbitrary timers that run out even when you are seconds away from reaching the next checkpoint or final goal for the game to blow you a giant raspberry and boot you all the way back to the start to do it all again. there's also the ever dreaded 'Network connection failure' that always appears when your about to win...
or let's say the times when you are fighting a timed boss then the timer runs out and you instafail... because the boss decided to skip the scene right in the middle of shooting a bullet.
The "accidentally killing civilians" made me think of my first playthrough of Oblivion. I went full story-mode, only did things in line with my super-optimistic wood elf archer characters' moral standing. So one day I have to save this farm from.. I think is was goblins? The place was being overrun by goblins. Now I'm a pretty decent archer, so I took position while the goblins were busy fighting the farmers' two sons. One, two, three, four goblins down.. And as I let go of the fifth, perfectly aligned arrow - one of the brothers JUMPS INTO THE WAY, takes an arrow through the head and is flung across half the field. His brother was so caught up in the fighting he didn't notice I just shot his brother. I'm really good at stealth, so yeah.. No bounty or anything. My character kills the rest of the goblins, offers her condolences for the loss of a son and brother, and is on her way. In time, I forget completely about this having happened. My character is of good moral standing, doing swell stuff all across Cyrodiil. One night, I decide to let her sleep at an inn. I got SO SCARED when my character wakes up in the middle of the night by that guy from the Dark Brotherhood.Figuring it's play along or get assassinated, my character joins the Dark Brotherhood and one thing led to another and whoops she now runs it. I imagine she still just sort of hates that she's in it.
Frida Rendert I did something somewhat similar. My character was a tad less noble because he was a theif. Not a murderer but a theif. So i finished the theves guild ang got the Grey Fox mask. So i was using it for something... (i think it was an investigation mission) and when i took it off my noteriaty glitched never reset so everyone hated me and I had a bounty. So, I didnt have enough money to pay the fine (it was INSAIN) and I didn't feel like loosing my skill points. So i broke out of jail. Jail breaks are violent but i managed to get my mask back without being noticed so i kiiled guards with the mask on took it off when i got outside and surendered so evry one forgot. Ofcorse i was like "now hes a murderer... what should i do." Wake up and theres Freaky McWeirdo waiting for me. So that was my charcters descent into debauchery
i remember that mission it seems impossible to get both brothers out alive at lower levels your iron longsword won't cut it at later levels the goblins are all shamans and skirmishers or other high end types
What other misgivings Ellen may have, she SURELY will not refuse entering a chamber filled to the brim with deadly radiation to save all of mankind AND your life. Right, Ellen? ....Ellen?
I tell you what is an annoying auto fail. When you try to lasso a dead man's horse and the game decides that that's just not in character or something. It's what the horse would have wanted
I have a few: 1) Failed mini games/missions/objectives during a fight (DANCE WATER DANCE) 2) not having the one item you need for that particular moment (worse if you need to go out of your way to get it) 3) enrage timers (not clearing a fight fast enough causing an auto fail [heavily used in FFXIV])
U562 I used to play it differently. I remember I used to drive ahead of the train in the tunnel. Get to the end and go up a slope and shoot them myself since he was so poor a shot.
Okay but when you say "QTE" I have a violent involuntary seizure remembering any and all quick-time events, be more considerate in future please- not all of us made it out of the dark times unscathed. I don't want to be reminded, it'll trigger the flashbacks again.
I was having this discussion just the other day!: Isn't it weird that some games are so frustrating that you don't want to play, while other games are so frustrating and that's WHY you love playing then.
The most painful QTE that happened to me didn't result in an insta-fail; it was much much worse than that, in assassins creed when Da Vinci wanted to hug Ezio. BUT I WAS TOO SLOW. The look of disappointment on Leo's face haunts me to this day.
i bet the reason killing big smoke at the end was so satisfying for people was soley for that train mission and not for actual story reasons of him betraying you lmao
At least it made some sense though. The equivalent of being sent flying into and through a mountain. It's why it looks like glass breaking, up until that point your character can keep their wits about them to keep flying into the ring. Get hit to hard? You go loopy for a moment and then you hit the ground.
The real issue always was that the ring is always so damn small on that level. It didnt gel with the normal game mechanics either which just makes it all the more frustrating.
Depends on whether or not it turns into slash later on. Ellen might ship Andy with Mike, or Luke with Andy, or herself with Jane. Fan fiction is weird, you guys.
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Honestly, the most confusing thing about Ellen's OXBOX fanfic is that she had Jane take Mike along for the stealthy bank heist mission. And what, Andy just stayed at the studio? Seems preeetty OOC to me...
Well, it _was_ chapter 5... maybe something happened to Andy earlier in the story, maybe incapacitating him? Or maybe he was _in charge_ of that bank, and Mike had been secretly trying to learn stealth from him for years, figuring out how he and Jane could infiltrate it?
Homestuck Obsessor ooh, maybe Mike was actually a stealth master the entire time, and only pretending to be bad at it so that Andy would keep his guard down. Now there's a plot twist
It just occurred to me that this is a fan theory... about a fanfiction ._. fanception? Now I just _really_ want Ellen to present her fanfiction somewhere, that would make my day.
Homestuck Obsessor it's a fan theory about in universe rpf fanfic, so yeah I'd say this is just about as meta as it gets XD Also remember that this is a universe where Jane has a giant orbiting death (and/or Pokémon gym, I think) and there have been multiple clones and robots of Mike. Discounting the whole Gringotts thing (unless Harry Potter exists in this universe too??) Ellen's "fanfics" sound like they could be more like journals. WHY ARE THEY TRYING TO SILENCE HER??
What I find to be an annoying insta fail in some games is when someone you need alive comes around a corner unexpectedly, and always in the middle of a firefight, and I shoot them in an instant, thinking they're and enemy
First time I played breath of the wild (aka 'go anywhere: the video game) I walked to the edge of a cliff, climbed down until I could see the bottom was maybe 2 metres away, and then jumped off. Link insta-died and I was instantly discouraged.
Not mention that damn bar fight in Whiterun's inn. 'Look, I'm totally down for duking it out with you, but lets take it outside yea?' You hit one civilian by mistake and the whole inn goes apeshit.
The "Ring Out" has a plus side too. In some particularly tough fights in Weapon Master mode in SoulCalibur II, you can use a Ring Out to get an easy win. The ferryman mission is a good example. You have to hit them 20x before they kill you, but a Ring Out, oddly, counts too. It's also a good method for surviving missions where you're outnumbered.
I like how 6, failing to keep up, uses an example of a mission where you really have to try if you expect to fail by letting the target get away. Freddy will stop at certain points to allow you to catch up to him. He also has god mode until he reaches the park and leaves his bike behind, which still annoys me to this day.
That moment when you realize that the player killing civilians in a video game leads to more severe consequences than a police officer killing civilians in real life.
To be fail, games don't have the same reasoning. With games it's "this is your mission, succeed or fail". And as noted in the video the failure conditions might be very arbitrary. the Rainbow Six games had hostage rescue scenarios where it was possible to fail because an ENEMY accidentally shot a hostage.
I remember there being a specific part of Final Fantasy IV: The After Years where, if you didn't have the right party for a fight, you'd lose automatically.
The one in Soul Caliber too. I mean you're on the roof of a castle..... what do you expect to happen if you fall off? Also it's not as simple as accidentally back stepping one too many times.
Especially _secret_ fanfiction, which almost always involves romance in some form... although it would be a little strange to learn that Ellen ships her co-workers / bosses ._.
@@TheBlackAntagonist maybe she will see your comment and she will be so flattered she'll have to go on a date with you guys and then marry you and have kids. I mean it's not like teenagers on RUclips have never said this to her before.
If I'm doing a long game session, I'll use cutscenes to use the bathroom. I leave the controller behind, crack the door open and watch the cutscene from the comfort of my toilet. And then a QTE happens and I'm trying to decide if it's worth it to run from the bathroom with my pants around my ankles to see if I can press the button in time.
Evangelos Killer mike You are definitely right! That was actually the second reason, the REAL first reason was because there is a global copper conspiracy, which is run by shady Vatican organization called Cuprum Maleficium Dei, and it controls ALL use of copper worldwide. The problem with controllers is that the cords contain a lot of copper, in order to transmit the commands to the console very fast and that the CMD order sees gaming as a cardinal sin and consoles as gateway to Hell, so they decided to ban all copper from console manufacturers. To overcome this problem, the console manufacturers quickly developed the cordless controllers, using the technology they use in the Pioneer deep space probe program, by the way.
Extra points if a game puts one of these in once, and it brings the rest of the game down. Case in point Metro 2033. You've had allies before but they could generally take care of themselves. Then comes a section near the end of the game where you have to travel through an area with infinitely spawning self destructing creatures. And your ally dies far too quick. Even more bonus points if an ally that's supposed to be helpful would be easier if you didn't have him along.
Link was actually incredibly good at "ring out"-ing opponents in Soul Calibur 2. I thought you were about to show that, when Link himself was thrown out...
"All we had to do was follow the damn train, CJ!" was the reason I quit that game. :( Respawning 5 minutes away to just start that frustrating mission again over and over was just too much.
How about the "Keep Vinnie alive" mission in Max Payne ? That was both a pain in the ass and hilarious at the same time. I spent more time working that mess out than I did playing the whole game !
"All we had to do was follow the damn train CJ" "All we had to do was follow the damn train CJ" "All we had to do was follow the damn train CJ" "All we had to do was follow the damn train CJ" "All we had to do was follow the damn train CJ" "All we had to do was follow the damn train CJ" ...Rockstar...don't ever do that again!!!
My favourite insta-fail/hidden ending is in Fatal Frame 2, when Sae attacks Mio if you abandon her sister Mayu at the end of the game. (It's been several years, but I believe it's implied Mio ends up with the same fate as Yae originally did.)
There are ways to fail a game with dignity... and then there are these. Here are the lamest ways games choose to insta-fail you, come on games give us a break, yeah? Enjoy!
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Good video
Outside Xtra oh I've had a lot of these especially in thief
The Dragon Ball games are some of the ones which have an excellent excuse for offering ring-outs, considering how important they are to at least half of the tournament arcs.
I was shocked when I got desynched after killing a guard in Assassin's Creed 3, since they are not considered civilians. Turns out that the guard was actually George Washington.
Tamara R
LMFAO
Just another day...
Tamara R ha that's amazing
Tamara R that happened to me to
Connor, you've created a time paradox!
One time in AC2, I was chasing a story target on foot, and I saw the assassinate prompt pop up. But instead of plunging a blade into my target, Ezio thought it would be best to pull off a leaping double assassination on 2 civilians over to my right, instead of my target directly in front of me. This gave me an insta-fail, and restarted the mission for a very salty me.
I hate it when that happens
"Ezio, assassinate him."
"But these two civilians look suspicious."
"Just kill hi-"
*stabs*
JackKnifeJedi3419 This comment speaks to me on a spiritual level
JackKnifeJedi3419 was it chasing the two targets? Because that happens to be all the time.
or you do notice that its aiming wrong and you are like no not them. then it constantly switches back and forth between your target and some unlucky civilian till your target leaves. desynchronyzed.... might as well jump those civies then.
Don't forget about that iconic Assassin's Creed moment where you failed because a guy you just rammed your blade into 'detected' you.
ElChanChito yeah and the guys u killed didn't even see u coming TF is that crap.
Yeah that didn't make sense at all. The guy doesn't even sound the alarm but it's already game over for you. AC logic at work there.
Dont you know? Everybody had telepathy back then. They even brought it back in MGS through science lol X3
What's the logic in following a train? It's A TRAIN. It's not like it's going to make a sudden turn and fuck off to the Bahamas.
"All you had to do is go to the damn train station, CJ!"
“Quick! Follow that-“
“...”
“Flying... train...?”
9:17
"As a wise old man once said;"
"It's dangerous to go alone, take this!"
*Mike Gives You An Ellen*
How many takes.
I would happily take an Ellen
I'd take an ellen. Might be useful
Can I please, please, please have an Ellen? Just for a bit...
She’s in my pokeball now (UwU )
"Accidentally killing civilians." Yes, "accidentally."
Frodo Baggins you mean acceptable casualties
Honestly, otherwise they're doomed to live in a warzone or be traumatized for the rest of their lives! I think we can all agree when I say that this is nothing less than saving them. One carefully aimed bullet at a time.
It was just ONE stray missile that had to fuck it up for everyone
This is why dishonored. "Civilian kill count: yes"
You may not be able to kill the minstrels, but you can definitely punch the shit out of them.
It's worth failing in QTEs sometimes, to see the protagonist die a hilarious horrible death (Tomb Raider is case in point), right?
What about that one Spider-Man QTE where he lands face first on the floor and is exploded?
I remember that vaguely, and now I have to find it!
best I've seen is in telltales: Jurassic park. gets impaled by a triceratops then flung into a T-rex's mouth with an awkwardly long NOOOOOOooooooooooooo! that doesn't fit the daughters mouth movement remotely and takes long enough before it cuts to the 'failure' screen that you begin to think that you were meant to fail it...
ok, looking for that too!
oh, I just realized there are compilations and lists and top 10 videos of QTE fails, that's gonna keep me busy.
"It's dangerous to go alone. Take this!"
Well, an Ellen escort mission should be better than most. I can just ask her to stand behind me, so the enemies can't see her. Simple!
That's the thing with escort missions, you can't control them and it becomes RE4 for a few minutes.
Timothy McLean hehe escorts...
Until her enemies unleash the dreaded *SPIDER GRENADES*! Aaaand then she shredds your spine. Nice try, though.
Or tell her a joke. So when she starts laughing its contagiousness will overcome your enemies.
Timothy McLean nah, Ellen would just start making puns and cracking herself up, effectively giving away your position
The worst one definitely had to be GTA: SA's train mission.
"you lost the train"
.... It's a fucking train, It's on rails, it can only go in 2 directions, forwards and backwards. Literally just catch back up to it.
EpicWinNoob The Overanalyst or tell big smoke "all you had to was shoot the dame people big smoke"
Mortos DerSoulStealer I did not cheat myself but Big Smoke aim was so bad that you could fail even if you managed to stay right next to them pretty much the whole way. Honestly you needed to actually give him some distance so he could shoot them with at least some degree of success.
But I was so annoyed with him, that what I learned to do for that mission, was to use the stairs and jump ON THE TRAIN with the bike so I could shoot them myself :-D
All you had to do was follow the damn train
other way for me. The train mission took me maybe 3 tries. The RC mission took, maybe 20? and a whole lot of misery. That whole campaign was horrible, Im not sure why I played it, I could have done something productive with that time, instead of hating myself for playing haha
If it was that easy then
All you had to do was follow the damn train cj!
Building on the 'following someone too closely' fail, what really grinds my gears is games like GTA. When you have to follow someone in a car, you have to keep distance but this makes no sense when your target stops at a red light or in traffic. You have to drive erratically by not staying in traffic or driving up to the light and stop 5 car lengths away from them leaving masses of room for no reason. Surely that's more suspicious?!
Falensarano's Channel mafia is really bad at this with how narrow the streets are
Gta4's three leaf clover has to be the worst first you have to follow the crew or they will leave you to deal with that 5 star wanted level and if you manage to follow you have to deal with escaping 3 stars but with wonky driving controls
TONY LEZUTO!!!!
Instant Fails? How about me in social situations - Them: "whats your name?" Me: "Car. I mean Cat. I mean Caitlin." *wasted*
NICE COAT
or this:
me: good morning !
him: you mean good evening
me internally: god damnit! >_
or this:
me: good morning !
him: you mean good evening
me internally: god damnit! >_
I'm sorry, did you call me?
Same. x_x
how about the arbitrary timers that run out even when you are seconds away from reaching the next checkpoint or final goal for the game to blow you a giant raspberry and boot you all the way back to the start to do it all again.
there's also the ever dreaded 'Network connection failure' that always appears when your about to win...
Sir Roderick Quincy von thunderbottom, the Magnificent high king of Australia Oh God, I'm getting inFAMOUS flashbacks...
Sir Roderick Quincy von thunderbottom, the Magnificent high king of Australia damn your name is long.
Let's see Luke say that name.....
or let's say the times when you are fighting a timed boss then the timer runs out and you instafail... because the boss decided to skip the scene right in the middle of shooting a bullet.
The "accidentally killing civilians" made me think of my first playthrough of Oblivion. I went full story-mode, only did things in line with my super-optimistic wood elf archer characters' moral standing. So one day I have to save this farm from.. I think is was goblins? The place was being overrun by goblins.
Now I'm a pretty decent archer, so I took position while the goblins were busy fighting the farmers' two sons. One, two, three, four goblins down.. And as I let go of the fifth, perfectly aligned arrow - one of the brothers JUMPS INTO THE WAY, takes an arrow through the head and is flung across half the field. His brother was so caught up in the fighting he didn't notice I just shot his brother. I'm really good at stealth, so yeah.. No bounty or anything.
My character kills the rest of the goblins, offers her condolences for the loss of a son and brother, and is on her way.
In time, I forget completely about this having happened. My character is of good moral standing, doing swell stuff all across Cyrodiil. One night, I decide to let her sleep at an inn.
I got SO SCARED when my character wakes up in the middle of the night by that guy from the Dark Brotherhood.Figuring it's play along or get assassinated, my character joins the Dark Brotherhood and one thing led to another and whoops she now runs it. I imagine she still just sort of hates that she's in it.
Frida Rendert what about Shayogorath (yes I know I can't spell)? Attack him and he sends you thousands of feet in the air to fall to your death?
Not to mention the Skyrim giants..
Frida Rendert I did something somewhat similar. My character was a tad less noble because he was a theif. Not a murderer but a theif. So i finished the theves guild ang got the Grey Fox mask. So i was using it for something... (i think it was an investigation mission) and when i took it off my noteriaty glitched never reset so everyone hated me and I had a bounty. So, I didnt have enough money to pay the fine (it was INSAIN) and I didn't feel like loosing my skill points. So i broke out of jail. Jail breaks are violent but i managed to get my mask back without being noticed so i kiiled guards with the mask on took it off when i got outside and surendered so evry one forgot. Ofcorse i was like "now hes a murderer... what should i do." Wake up and theres Freaky McWeirdo waiting for me. So that was my charcters descent into debauchery
i remember that mission
it seems impossible to get both brothers out alive
at lower levels your iron longsword won't cut it
at later levels the goblins are all shamans and skirmishers or other high end types
On my next playthrough I DID manage to save both brothers. I took extra care not to shoot anywhere near those suicidal men >_>
"Remember invisible walls? They were so annoying! I ran into one this morning!"
"That was a glass door!"
Lol I know the feeling.
It looks like big smoke really hurt Ellen's feelings, someone should give her a hug
BoomToll can I?
She just needed to follow the damm train.
Same things make us laugh, make us cry
Shawn Estrada or both
Kayo Dagamer this is what something big smoke says in the game
7 animal companions that we would love to have as a pet. You could include Wolf Link, horses, Mike...
Hylian Phone Guy BULBASAUR!! i want a Bulbasaur as a pet.
ellen too
D-Dog would be the perfect pet
Rex from Fallout New Vegas would be my top choice
Nobody's mentioned Dogmeat? I am disappoint.
I'd gladly take an Ellen! She seems like an excellent adventuring partner.
jtgarrett89 I know right!
If it wasn't for the arachnophobia she would be an excellent rogue
jtgarrett89 probably and up sacrificed for some ancient power.
Just make sure you don't encounter anything arachnomorph, or you will never see her again.
What other misgivings Ellen may have, she SURELY will not refuse entering a chamber filled to the brim with deadly radiation to save all of mankind AND your life. Right, Ellen?
....Ellen?
I tell you what is an annoying auto fail. When you try to lasso a dead man's horse and the game decides that that's just not in character or something. It's what the horse would have wanted
I have a few:
1) Failed mini games/missions/objectives during a fight (DANCE WATER DANCE)
2) not having the one item you need for that particular moment (worse if you need to go out of your way to get it)
3) enrage timers (not clearing a fight fast enough causing an auto fail [heavily used in FFXIV])
Inhaled Corn Fuck Demyx
I was thinking of 2&3
Bonus points for (1) when the minigame is way too hard and repeat it at least 10 times before squeezing through it.
The third One is jak and daxter in a nutshell. The problem is a lot of missions have a time limit to be completed. Defenitely not annoying
My most rage inducing moments come when the game gives you an AI partner and they decided that the best place to be is right in my line of fire.
I wonder where the inspiration for this comes from...
*flashes back to Oxbox insta-failing Red Dead Redemption for lassoing a horse*
Thanks for making me relive my memories of GTA San Andreas. If I hear Big Smoke say one more word I swear to god.
WWHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!?!?!!!!
Anson D. Grimes ssshhhh he doesn't know that
U562 I used to play it differently. I remember I used to drive ahead of the train in the tunnel. Get to the end and go up a slope and shoot them myself since he was so poor a shot.
ILL HAVE TWO NUMBER NINES
U562 Thats so true,I feel that problem past away in these years
Where's this old man that gives me an Ellen? He should not be giving away such QTE's.
Tom oh I see what you did there
smooth
Okay but when you say "QTE" I have a violent involuntary seizure remembering any and all quick-time events, be more considerate in future please- not all of us made it out of the dark times unscathed. I don't want to be reminded, it'll trigger the flashbacks again.
QTE: Quirky Tiny Englishwoman
Quality Trained Executioner?
Friend: Why do you play this if it ticks you off so much
Gamer: BECAUSE IT'S FUN
I was having this discussion just the other day!: Isn't it weird that some games are so frustrating that you don't want to play, while other games are so frustrating and that's WHY you love playing then.
True
10:37 Ellen demonstrates how to properly catch a Pokémon. We've been doing it wrong this whole time!
I love how the timestamp is super early so you just see Lara snap her fucking neck before even getting near the clip you mean. Lmfao
9:18 That was one of the cutest things I've ever seen.
Ellen on her hands and knees, mike grabbing her by the hair... Was this video written by her OXBox fanfix book?
The most painful QTE that happened to me didn't result in an insta-fail; it was much much worse than that, in assassins creed when Da Vinci wanted to hug Ezio. BUT I WAS TOO SLOW. The look of disappointment on Leo's face haunts me to this day.
i bet the reason killing big smoke at the end was so satisfying for people was soley for that train mission and not for actual story reasons of him betraying you lmao
Yup😂
My favorite was in Assassin's creed getting a game over for accidentally killing George Washington.
Achivement unlocked: Now you fucked up!
Those DBZ Ring Outs were the most infuriating! These characters fly for Kami's sake!
I'm not mad, you're mad bleh
At least it made some sense though. The equivalent of being sent flying into and through a mountain. It's why it looks like glass breaking, up until that point your character can keep their wits about them to keep flying into the ring. Get hit to hard? You go loopy for a moment and then you hit the ground.
The real issue always was that the ring is always so damn small on that level. It didnt gel with the normal game mechanics either which just makes it all the more frustrating.
Kellen Moore can anyone tell me what dbz game was in the video? I can't remember
Pretty sure Budokai 3 HD Remaster. Could be wrong though
They would probably be sent through the crowd, not just fall to the ground lol.
I'll always remember my DRIV3R insta-fail. It occurred when I bought the game.
GhengisJohn speaking of driver games, how about failing the tutorial
"All YOU had to do, Big Smoke, was shoot a few people STANDING on top of a train, and how many clips did you go through?"
"All we had to do was follow the damn train CJ" is burned into my head from failing that mission 173 times
OMG, the instafails in darkness realms from Zelda Skyward Sword were the nerve shredding bane of my existence!
Hang on what instafails? Twilight princess? There where some annoying parts in skyward sword but no instafails in either
Yea I mean skyward sword, I had suppressed the memories that much! Op updated.
Thurkel of Warwick THOSE FLYING ONES STILL SCARE THE HELL OUT OF ME
why do they exist
Thurkel of Warwick oh my God yes.
The worst way to fail a game that I can think of is to get in trouble for stealing Nastas' horse after he dies in Red Dead Redemption.
chris kropp lol I get it
I'm a simple man, I see Big Smoke, I click on it.
Ed Dank YOU GOT CLIKCBAITED FOOOOOLLL
A NUMBER 9 LARGE
A NUMBER 6 WITH EXTRA DIP
A NUMBER 7
After I'm gone, everyone is gonna know my name, BIG SMOKE!!!
I love how Hollow knight just has really strong (visible) wind pushing you back, rather than an invisible wall or an insta-fail.
I'll have 2 #9's, a #9 large, a 6# with extra dip, a #7, 2 #45's, 1 with cheese, and a large soda.
A diet soda, because I'm trying to watch my figure... 😬
Your total will be $30.62 at the second window
"We serve food here, sir."
But the ice cream machine is broken
I'll take a triple bolty deluxe on a raft... 4 by 4 animal style... Light grease make it cry... Burn it and let it swim...
Can we buy copies of that fanfiction?
Spartan S-284 how many cahpters? Are there serveral books? We need to know
Ill buy 69 of them.
I know i would!
Depends on whether or not it turns into slash later on. Ellen might ship Andy with Mike, or Luke with Andy, or herself with Jane.
Fan fiction is weird, you guys.
ELLEN, KINGDOMS OF AMALUR: RECKONING IS ON SALE 75% ON STEAM, WITH THE COLLECTORS BEING 80% ON SALE, I NOW HAVE THE COLLECTORS EDITION ON 360 AND PC.
why you ask, becuz its an amazing game go get it its 8 euros for the collectors edition
Disclaimer: this is not paid advertisement, i just really like kingdoms of amalur x)
Curse oh is this Ellen's second account
keep forgetting to add that to the ever growing wishlist
Was waiting for it. Saw it. Bought it.
Curse did Ellen pay you well?
Curse Thanks for the heads up. I was waiting for this to go on sale
Honestly, the most confusing thing about Ellen's OXBOX fanfic is that she had Jane take Mike along for the stealthy bank heist mission. And what, Andy just stayed at the studio? Seems preeetty OOC to me...
Well, it _was_ chapter 5... maybe something happened to Andy earlier in the story, maybe incapacitating him? Or maybe he was _in charge_ of that bank, and Mike had been secretly trying to learn stealth from him for years, figuring out how he and Jane could infiltrate it?
Homestuck Obsessor ooh, maybe Mike was actually a stealth master the entire time, and only pretending to be bad at it so that Andy would keep his guard down. Now there's a plot twist
It just occurred to me that this is a fan theory... about a fanfiction ._.
fanception?
Now I just _really_ want Ellen to present her fanfiction somewhere, that would make my day.
Homestuck Obsessor it's a fan theory about in universe rpf fanfic, so yeah I'd say this is just about as meta as it gets XD Also remember that this is a universe where Jane has a giant orbiting death (and/or Pokémon gym, I think) and there have been multiple clones and robots of Mike. Discounting the whole Gringotts thing (unless Harry Potter exists in this universe too??) Ellen's "fanfics" sound like they could be more like journals. WHY ARE THEY TRYING TO SILENCE HER??
Andy was there. It's just he's so stealthy Ellen didn't know he was there in her own fan fiction that she was actually writing.
What I find to be an annoying insta fail in some games is when someone you need alive comes around a corner unexpectedly, and always in the middle of a firefight, and I shoot them in an instant, thinking they're and enemy
First time I played breath of the wild (aka 'go anywhere: the video game) I walked to the edge of a cliff, climbed down until I could see the bottom was maybe 2 metres away, and then jumped off. Link insta-died and I was instantly discouraged.
The thing that always bugged me was time limits in boss fights.
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For #5 i kept having Skyrim flashbacks
The civilians in Payday 2 that don't know they're not supposed to go through crossfire.
@@oboll6064 -*$12000 in cleanup costs*
Not mention that damn bar fight in Whiterun's inn. 'Look, I'm totally down for duking it out with you, but lets take it outside yea?' You hit one civilian by mistake and the whole inn goes apeshit.
I want an Ellen Rose plushie.
Stylphede I want 5
we all do XD
Stylphede such cuteness cannot be handled by the human heart.
It could be life-size and you wouldn't even think twice about it.
And a body pillow...
The "Ring Out" has a plus side too. In some particularly tough fights in Weapon Master mode in SoulCalibur II, you can use a Ring Out to get an easy win. The ferryman mission is a good example. You have to hit them 20x before they kill you, but a Ring Out, oddly, counts too. It's also a good method for surviving missions where you're outnumbered.
Ring Outs are also good in games like YYH's Dark Tournament where the AI cheats
@@lissas4152 - Good point. Nice way to take out a dirty fighter. 👍
I like how 6, failing to keep up, uses an example of a mission where you really have to try if you expect to fail by letting the target get away. Freddy will stop at certain points to allow you to catch up to him. He also has god mode until he reaches the park and leaves his bike behind, which still annoys me to this day.
You guys should do a video on Videogame collectible challenges that we never finished and never will (looking at literally every LEGO game)
Never played FF, but the two I had in my mind were Red Bricks in the LEGO games and the Fallout Bobbleheads. Never going to find them all. Like ever.
Collecting all the orbs in Crackdown
Angus Warrender oh come on the bobble heads arnt that hard. I was thinking Arkham riddler trophies
Really?
LEGO games are among the EASIEST games to collect everything and get 100%.
Angus Warrender I always get all the Lego collectables. How else can I get the achievement?
That moment when you realize that the player killing civilians in a video game leads to more severe consequences than a police officer killing civilians in real life.
To be fail, games don't have the same reasoning. With games it's "this is your mission, succeed or fail". And as noted in the video the failure conditions might be very arbitrary. the Rainbow Six games had hostage rescue scenarios where it was possible to fail because an ENEMY accidentally shot a hostage.
Ellen is such a cutie patootie.
Benjamin Collins "It's dangerous to go alone, take this-" Still one of the cutest moments of this channel lmao
Yep! And this "its dangerous to go alone" piece was the best proof.
Every viseo I see of her, she becomes more of a wonder.
Chris Suhoza Ellen is a she and I am pretty sure that they are guys bit idk
Something about her creeps me out and she isn't funny. I want Jane back.
I remember there being a specific part of Final Fantasy IV: The After Years where, if you didn't have the right party for a fight, you'd lose automatically.
The best thing ever.
It's dangerous to go alone take this
Gives you a person
I’ll take her (UwU )
reminds me of Skyrim: your first companion, (i forget her name) is given to you by the local leader.
"Argh, an enemy! Protect me, human shield, your sacrifice will be remembered!"
*throws Ellen at monster with considerable force and intent to kill*
Y'know, the ring out fail is justified in DBZ games because that's an actual in-series tournament rule
The one in Soul Caliber too. I mean you're on the roof of a castle..... what do you expect to happen if you fall off? Also it's not as simple as accidentally back stepping one too many times.
Especially since it usually only applies when playing on the World Tournament stage in most of them. Just a neat little nod.
If Luke was surprised by what was in a secret book of fan fiction, clearly he doesn't understand how fan fiction works.
Especially _secret_ fanfiction, which almost always involves romance in some form... although it would be a little strange to learn that Ellen ships her co-workers / bosses ._.
Homestuck Obsessor well she wasn't always working with Outside Xbox, and we don't know how old that journal is, so…
this is true
When you're diving and you don't have any air left and your extremely long health bar empties faster than Ellen empties a cup of tea...
ELLEN. WHY ARE YOU SO CUTE. WHY.
You like her you like her you really really like her!
@@CaptainWheatie As do I. She has to be an alien. there's no way a human can be so adorable.
@@TheBlackAntagonist maybe she will see your comment and she will be so flattered she'll have to go on a date with you guys and then marry you and have kids. I mean it's not like teenagers on RUclips have never said this to her before.
Tactical Doge where is dont offend dogs 2
simp city
population: this thread
all we had to do is follow the damn train CJ!
AGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
I've never played San Andreas, but after having watched this video all I can say is "jddjebfhgkdjahrhfjc."
And you can quote me.
“And all you had to do was shoot the people on top of it, but NnNoOoO.”
I swear to god that line is an anthem for a generation! I could not get past that mission to save my life!
New game:
"Oh, a drop! I wonder if there are invisible walls to prevent falling..."
You know what happens next, don't you?
If I'm doing a long game session, I'll use cutscenes to use the bathroom. I leave the controller behind, crack the door open and watch the cutscene from the comfort of my toilet. And then a QTE happens and I'm trying to decide if it's worth it to run from the bathroom with my pants around my ankles to see if I can press the button in time.
xD
This was the first reason why cordless controllers were invented.
Evangelos Killer mike You are definitely right! That was actually the second reason, the REAL first reason was because there is a global copper conspiracy, which is run by shady Vatican organization called Cuprum Maleficium Dei, and it controls ALL use of copper worldwide. The problem with controllers is that the cords contain a lot of copper, in order to transmit the commands to the console very fast and that the CMD order sees gaming as a cardinal sin and consoles as gateway to Hell, so they decided to ban all copper from console manufacturers.
To overcome this problem, the console manufacturers quickly developed the cordless controllers, using the technology they use in the Pioneer deep space probe program, by the way.
@@oscarn- I am watching this video a couple years late but reading your reply I really wish I could've seen the comment it was replying to.
@@gilbert8162 To be honest, me too. I have no recollection whatsoever of any of this. 😂
Another episode that emphasizes Ellen's cuteness.
your channel feels so down to earth with the jokes and how chill everyone is
That Big Smoke part was exactly how I felt, this has to be one of the most annoying missions ever
Extra points if a game puts one of these in once, and it brings the rest of the game down.
Case in point Metro 2033. You've had allies before but they could generally take care of themselves. Then comes a section near the end of the game where you have to travel through an area with infinitely spawning self destructing creatures. And your ally dies far too quick.
Even more bonus points if an ally that's supposed to be helpful would be easier if you didn't have him along.
Yeah, gotta love games that ask you to protect NPCs with no sense of self-preservation who will run at enemies or into oncoming bullets.
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I'd be happy to take Ellen with me.
C'mon lil' buddy, we're going on an adventure!
id take ellen on an adventure if she was given to me by a wise man😂
Link was actually incredibly good at "ring out"-ing opponents in Soul Calibur 2. I thought you were about to show that, when Link himself was thrown out...
I had so much fun knocking fools out of the ring with Link.
You entered the wrong house, fool! O O O O O H H H H H H H H ! ! !
Where did Luke get the life is strange t-shirt??? I WANT ONE
TolBoi You might've found out by now, but it's from insert coin clothing
So when do we get to read Ellen's outsidexbox/xtra fan fiction?
9:20 I’ll take the legendary weapon that is known as a woman. Lmao
There's when you accidentally destroy some piece of mission-critical equipment, like say your car. Looking at you, Half-Life 2's buggy.
9:20 "take this" 😂
I'll protect the Ellen.
can i have jane instead?
I thought it was, "a sucky joke"
I just love the insecere ways NPC's respond to Nate dying, that would be a good idea for a video. Worst NPC responces to death, nudge nudge, wink wink
I wouldn't mind going on an adventure with Ellen. Sounds like fun
She can record all your stories with her amazing writing skills
"Argh, an enemy! Protect me, human shield, your sacrifice will be remembered!"
*throws Ellen at monster with considerable force and intent to kill*
No mention of fusing hostage for the motherland? For shame
"All you had to do was follow the damn train CJ!' - Both the Most Hated and Most Loved character in GTA: San Andreas
All we had to do, was follow the damn train, CJ! Unless if you want to pick a wrong house fool!
As hot as she is, I don't think Ellen has ever made a cuter face than at 9:22
... and then 10:44 happened. Lol
Ryoku1989 shut the fuck up she is so ugly
Chris Suhoza I bet you were a failed abortion
Ryoku1989
Agreed.
Black_Hound_ 1941
Nah they just aborted the logic and sight.
Ha I never fail at quick time events, thats because I have all my friends at school throw rocks at me... Oh wait never mind. :(
They aren't really good friends then. If I was you, I would bust their asses.
All you had to do was follow the damn train, CJ!
"Its dangerous to go alone, take this!" (bloop) hilarious
You know what's worse than a game-over from a failed QTE? The look on Leonardo's face when you fail to hug him in ACII.
There should be an entire episode dedicated to Ellen's Secret Book of Outside Xtra Fan Fiction.
(Come on, guys!) :D
"Franklin my dear, I don't give a damn"
I see what you did there
No one recognized that line, it has just Gone with the Wind.
"Take one of these" I will gladly take one. Free small cute thing, why not? lol
Yes me too
"All we had to do was follow the damn train, CJ!" was the reason I quit that game. :( Respawning 5 minutes away to just start that frustrating mission again over and over was just too much.
I wonder how many times Ellen failed the QTE to catch the pikachu
idea for Ellen's fan fiction :
outside Xbox/xtra meet the power rangers
Play more Kingdom of Amalur!!
Leak Ellen's fanfiction
When Ring Out happened and I saw Link, I thought I knew where the video was going.
It didn't go that way. Kudos Outside Xtra. Kudos.
How about the "Keep Vinnie alive" mission in Max Payne ? That was both a pain in the ass and hilarious at the same time. I spent more time working that mess out than I did playing the whole game !
PSA y'all , kingdom of amulur and all it's dlc are for sale on steam for only $8
!!!!
"All we had to do was follow the damn train CJ"
"All we had to do was follow the damn train CJ"
"All we had to do was follow the damn train CJ"
"All we had to do was follow the damn train CJ"
"All we had to do was follow the damn train CJ"
"All we had to do was follow the damn train CJ"
...Rockstar...don't ever do that again!!!
all
9:20 Greatest moment in this channel's history. Disagree? Fight me!
Ellen catching that pikachu that first time(and it didn't even look like it was edited:) was pretty great too; call it a close tie?
Yes yes, very good
My favourite insta-fail/hidden ending is in Fatal Frame 2, when Sae attacks Mio if you abandon her sister Mayu at the end of the game. (It's been several years, but I believe it's implied Mio ends up with the same fate as Yae originally did.)
Bursting into the washroom while Callista is bathing in Dishonored.