Your "What just happened?" Moments

[Wispy Willow]

We've all been there: just minding our own buisness in the virtual world of gaming when something comes up and all we can say is "what just happened?" Disscus those moments here.

My "what just happened" moment would have to be from when I was playing Zelda: Phantom Hourglass for the first time. I had just got to the point where... Well, I can't actually rember what point it was in the game, but you had to put a mark on your Sea Chart for some reason. To do this you have to find said mark. That, however, was not the "what just happened" moment: what is is how you actually get the mark onto the chart. After about fifteen minuutes of fiddling around with the buttons (and trying to leave the room) with no sucsess, I closed my DS to go look it up on the internet. However, when I attempted to show this to someone to see if they could figure it out before heading to the internet I realised that the mark had been imprinted on my Chart: it turns out you actually had to shut your DS to get that mark. Tricky game designers.

Anyway, I've said my bit, over to you next poster.

 

[Steel_Justice]

I remember playing GTA San Andreas one day where I came out of a pizza shop in San Fierro and just as I got into my sweet customized Ferrari a plane crashes right on top of me and blows itself and me up with it. Good thing I didn't do anything important that day. Note this is the original San Andreas not GTA 5 online where this stuff happens every minute or so thanks the endless trolls that plague our society.

 

[Instrutilus]

[video=youtube;23M4ydbv3Jw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23M4ydbv3Jw[/video]
To quote the video: wut

 

[Silverwynde]

While playing The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, I went to the shop, picked up the bow and arrow set and walked out of the store with it. Now, I had tried this several times and nothing had happened so I was stunned that I had gotten away with it. Then I went back in the store.... and the owner nuked me on the spot. After that, my name had been changed: I wasn't "Link" anymore. Now I was "THIEF". And I couldn't change it back. So I wiped my save file and started all over again.

Definitely a huge "Wut?" moment.

 

[Alexg47]

While playing The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, I went to the shop, picked up the bow and arrow set and walked out of the store with it. Now, I had tried this several times and nothing had happened so I was stunned that I had gotten away with it. Then I went back in the store.... and the owner nuked me on the spot. After that, my name had been changed: I wasn't "Link" anymore. Now I was "THIEF". And I couldn't change it back. So I wiped my save file and started all over again.

Definitely a huge "Wut?" moment.

And I thought everyone knew about that. Was this when the game first came out, or...

P.s I hope that teaches you a lesson: Shoplift And Die

 

[Tyrfing]

Lorule in a Link Between Worlds. It was a mix of being revived the game wasn't going to end this early and being like "Woah what the heck who's Hilda what am I doing". And I still don't get it; I haven't recovered a single painting. It's pathetic, I just haven't put enough time in it.

 

[Instrutilus]

Methinks someone hasn't played Link to the Past prior, then.

 

[Snarl]

GTA V, switched over to Trevor as he was getting chased and got baited off the road into some water. Soon as I get kicked out of the car I start swimming which eventually turns into floating, and couldn't stop going up. I ended up swimming through the air higher and higher for like half hour with the cops still screaming and shooting at me.

I think Trev was just trippin again.

 

[Steel_Justice]

While playing The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, I went to the shop, picked up the bow and arrow set and walked out of the store with it. Now, I had tried this several times and nothing had happened so I was stunned that I had gotten away with it. Then I went back in the store.... and the owner nuked me on the spot. After that, my name had been changed: I wasn't "Link" anymore. Now I was "THIEF". And I couldn't change it back. So I wiped my save file and started all over again.

Definitely a huge "Wut?" moment.

And I thought everyone knew about that. Was this when the game first came out, or...

P.s I hope that teaches you a lesson: Shoplift And Die

Don't pick on small and (seemingly) defenseless animals either. Link may be a hero with all kinds of magical equipment who regularly slays all powerful demon lords and sorcerers but push those chickens too much and well you know what happens.

On a similar note I remember one time in Red Dead Redemption I was riding my horse in Tall Trees when all of a sudden a bear comes after me. I shoot ol Yogi through his eye with my Krag Rifle and think why let his carcass go to waste? But the second I finish collecting his parts I hear the roar of another bear, I waste that one too and before I got to its corpse I find myself facing an almost endless swarm of bears even coming at me three at a time. Nearly ran out of ammo and I must have killed at least fifty of them, barely got out of that forest alive.

 

[BTS]

Hitting an invisible wall during Spyro 3's second lizard skating challenge in Sunny Villa. I was literally just like "...What'd I hit?"

 

[ReturnofMCH]

Two words from metal gear solid 2: fission mailed.
I was supposed to "die" in order to continue the game and it confused me at first when it turns out I wasn't dead

 

[Treble Tech]

I was playing multiplayer missions in Uncharted 3. These are missions three people play together online which are reminiscent of the main game's story missions. Anyway, me and two other people started a mission where the first objective is breaking into a temple to save Nathan Drake. We defeat the first enemies, save Drake, and defeat the reinforcements that show up. Next thing you have to do is meet with Drake at the main temple door to leave. The three of us go there, but Drake hasn't shown up after about a minute, so I go looking around.

Back at the temple altar, I find Drake sitting in a cross-legged pose that I recognized from elsewhere in the level. Thing is, he we weren't at that part yet. Of course, it was also a little strange that he was freaking headless and floating in midair!!!! I don't know what made him bug out, because I've run that mission plenty of times before and never had problems. Wort part was, he wasn't moving, and if he wouldn't go to the door, we couldn't advance the objective because there was no timer. We tried blowing ourselves up a couple times, but it just reloaded the checkpoint with Drake's head still in the clouds, so we eventually gave up. One of my biggest "wut" moments of any game, period.

 

[Herbizarre]

Fighting the "Machine" in Final Fantasy Legend on the Game Boy for the first time. First attack he did was "Nuke Bomb". 594 damage to everyone in my party. Everybody died. It took me a few minutes to realise my last save was before recovering one of the key items to access the building "Machine" was in.

 

[ReturnofMCH]

I was playing multiplayer missions in Uncharted 3. These are missions three people play together online which are reminiscent of the main game's story missions. Anyway, me and two other people started a mission where the first objective is breaking into a temple to save Nathan Drake. We defeat the first enemies, save Drake, and defeat the reinforcements that show up. Next thing you have to do is meet with Drake at the main temple door to leave. The three of us go there, but Drake hasn't shown up after about a minute, so I go looking around.

Back at the temple altar, I find Drake sitting in a cross-legged pose that I recognized from elsewhere in the level. Thing is, he we weren't at that part yet. Of course, it was also a little strange that he was freaking headless and floating in midair!!!! I don't know what made him bug out, because I've run that mission plenty of times before and never had problems. Wort part was, he wasn't moving, and if he wouldn't go to the door, we couldn't advance the objective because there was no timer. We tried blowing ourselves up a couple times, but it just reloaded the checkpoint with Drake's head still in the clouds, so we eventually gave up. One of my biggest "wut" moments of any game, period.

had a similar glitch in co-op chapter 5 happen to me.

 

[dragon_nataku]

The first time I played GuildWars: Nightfall I decided out of nowhere that I wanted my warrior to have Elonian Cartographer, so I promptly started going through every map I had access to. After each mission I'd go through all the maps I'd just gained access to, before continuing with primaries. So at some point I find myself in Gate of Desolation and it led into a new area I hadn't been to yet, so I head out into The Sulfurous Wastes. I beat up the mobs right outside town, and then proceed to start scraping the walls to uncover the map. As I'm scraping I notice yellow sand coming up
on my left. I'm like, well that's new, at least the scenery's changed a bit (my main complaint about Factions and Nightfall is that they had much less diversity in scenery than Prophecies), but there was a mob coming into aggro range so I didn't really pay much attention to the novelty of yellow sand.

So I step onto the sand to meet the mob head-on... and immediately fall over dead. I was like, WHAT!? I had a full party of AI heroes with me and most of them hadn't stood on the sand yet, so they res'd me and I immediately fell down again. By this time the mob was upon us so I was busy trying to micro-manage heroes but I kept getting res'd and falling over dead again. Suddenly during one of these falling on my face moments I notice red text on my screen: "NO MORTAL CAN SURVIVE THE SULFUROUS HAZE."

^<__<^;; so the game smited me for daring to stand on yellow sand. AND NOW YOU KNOW.

 

[pokeslob]

There was one time I was playing through Pokemon (green or blue, I can't remember) and when I got to Sabrina, my strongest pokemon was Venesaur at lv. 36 or 37, the rest of my pokemon were floating in the 25 area. Anyway, her pokemon were around lv. 50, if I remember correctly, and I absolutely destroyed her. Still baffles me, I had no type advantage either!

 

[Stratelier]

In Puzzle Dragons Z, the second major boss of the game (the Water Skydragon) didn't give me too much trouble. Sure, his attack combo did a respectable 40-60% damage, but nothing I couldn't heal from, right?

Until right at the end of the battle where he's down to like 1%, he does that same attack combo and suddenly I'm left with literally 1% of my HP remaining. From full health. WTF how'd he nearly one-shot me and completely out of the blue like that?

I still won the battle (it was my turn) but that was quite a shock.