The 10 Most Humbling Experiences for a Gamer

Every gamer likes to believe they are the greatest at what they do. They believe they are the Michael Jordan of Halo, the Babe Ruth of Guitar Hero, and the Arnold Palmer of having drinks named after them. In reality, they suck at games just as much as anyone else. Here are 10 of the most humbling things that can happen to a gamer (and chances are they have. Consider this your serving of 'Humble Pie'.

[TheWolfSage]

Approved for the luls... though I'm happy to say none of these has ever happened to me :3

To be fair I've never played most of them, but still.

Also, when there are (still) players running around specifically knife-killing enemies for the fun of it... not sure that counts as humiliating. More like rage at the screen for one hit kills.

[Kleptic]

I remember people doing that in CoD 4...and i've seen a few already in Bf3...players doing that in CoD 4 could actually end up with considerable kills...

but seeing names in Bf3 like 'ionlyknifeu' and a 1 and 20 kdr...makes it seem like its not the best tactic...and it SUCKS when someone does it to you, but is appropriately awesome when you pull it off...

[gaden_malak]

Very funny. The Demon Souls one is the worst.

[HeavenlySnipes]

I was exploring a world, but I went to far into the place so I literally had to run from every enemy so I wouldn't die. I see a treasure below, and me being an idiot, I try and get it. Needless to say, my 10,000 souls are laying at my death site FAAAAAR into a level I can't even try accessing again because I'd probably die again on the way there.

I've never touched DS since lol

[grifter024]

I can one up that one.

I barely got to undead parish..the bonfire right next to that archer zombie if you play the game you should know which one I'm talking about the one where those guys throw the firebombs over that brdige THAT bonfire.

Well this is my first playthrough and I finally got my first humanity and changed human for the first time so it was a big deal. So I get up from the bonfire and about to explore when I roll (still getting use to the controls) and roll off the bridge 2 inches away from the bonfire.

I didn't play Dark Souls for 2 days because of that.

[04soldier]

That Devil may cry comic had me bawling..

[yourgodisdead]

Getting beaten at Street Fighter by someone who has never played it before is harrowing. Button basher or not.

[dski1080]

I looked for a Sonya Blade Sexality like you looked for Mew

[explicitd]

Pretty funny stuff

[Panthers]

The Starcraft one is funny because I did that to a protoss player. He attacked me, killed my army and was in my base. He seemed to chill out while i slowly pumpped out marines and marauders to kill what units he still had in my base. Then i just marched over to his and won. He complained that Terran were OP and quit.

[beer_baron]

Add "Getting Killed by 13 year olds in MW3 with prepubescent voices" to the list.

[explicitd]

Unless you're Jerry Sandusky

[Kleptic]

ug...i went to penn state...

[synchroscheme]

Demon's/ Dark Souls one is pretty funny. I have to laugh whenever I see those awkward deaths.

But Battlefield's dogtag mechanic truly makes you feel like someone's b*tch.

[Venjense]

Accidentally killing yourself in with a bad grenade throw.

[generalthadeape]

Only after accidentally "stunning" yourself with a concussion grenade!!!

[Hyperbomb69]

As someone that has Platinumed both Demons Souls and Dark Souls I think its safe to say that I kicked that games ass!! :P

Anyway yeah at first it was somewhat humbling but now its like pffft, that game is easy! all you need to know is where everything is its all about memorization!

[Sidewinder-]

Accidentally hitting 'Quick Load' when you meant to hit 'Quick Save'.

It can hurt deeply.

Quality article.

[MagicAccent]

Or even worse: Accidentally hitting Quick Save instead of Load.

aka "I'll just see what happens if I kill Wrex. Shit.."

And you curse yourself as you carefully retread your steps from a proper save made 2 hours ago.

[_Aarix_]

oh man this happened to me when I satarted ME1. I didnt know about charm and intimidate and I always save so when i had to talk to wrex, killing him was inevitable.

[Boon Tarkas]

LOL. Arrrrgggh! It burns!

[KwietStorm_BLM]

Oh god that is painful

[Ddouble]

Getting perfected is defintely annoying. You can have to wait like 2 secs after the match and then the announcer shouts out PERFECT which shows up on your screen in bold letters like you weren't aware of the beatdown that had just been handed to you.

[Hicken]

When I feel it coming, I do everything in my power to get ONE hit on the guy. I think it's happened about ten times in all fighting games... the most humiliating was probably fighting an Unlimited Ragna in BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger. I actually had the guy beat until he got in one good combo. He absorbed health with each hit, and at the end, he got a perfect, despite all the work I put in.

[generalthadeape]

When I first got my Xbox 360-- and was really learning about gamerscore w horing and all of that-- I was playing "NBA2K???"-- you know, the one that pretty much have achievements that unlock themselves-- hahahaha!!!

Anyways, I was trying to win a match online & couldn't figure out how to beat someone-- (anyone)-- in an online match.

I remember playing some kid from Indiana-- he asked me how old I was-- I told him 40-- after a bit of silence and immediately after him slam dunking me-- he started yelling, "WHO'S YOUR DADDY NOW? HOW DOES IT FEEL BEING BEAT BY AN EIGHT YEAR OLD?".

I told him that it was O.K.-- I guess. But somehow that really started to piss me off. I then told him, "YOU PROBABLY DON"T KNOW WHO YOUR DADDY IS! IF I WERE YOUR DADDY, I'D KICK THE LIVING HELL OUT OF YOUR SORRY ASS JUST FOR BEING BORN!" Then, I just quit the game.

I don't do that anymore. I just wasn't prepared for all of the s hit talking that goes on when playing online, I guess.

Needless to say, I'm embarrassed to have been beat by such a young fellow & I'm also embarrassed to let him get the best of me so long ago.

I am happy to report that I did eventually win a game online-- against a poor sucker from Australia that couldn't figure out the controls, either. Once my achievement "popped", I told him to stay online & play me one last game so that he could also "win".

[Sidewinder-]

"I told him to stay online & play me one last game so that he could also "win"."

So hard to find, decent folk nowadays. :)

[IWentBrokeForGaming]

how about buying a brand new video game console that wasn't cheap... just to have it break on you... hours or days later?

then even possibly dealing with it numerous of times after they tell you it has been corrected?