Say goodbye to those Monday blues because it’s time to play “Question of the Week” once again!
This weeks question involves “pwnage” of the highest caliber and to balance things out for our PS3 readers a little, we have a copy of TNA iMPACT! up for grabs so that they can unleash a bit of pwnage themselves. Thanks to those kind people over at SK Gaming.
This week I am giving all our readers the opportunity to blow their own horns like never before. Although we spend a good amount of our time sucking at certain videogames, we have all had that moment that made us feel invincible. The kind of story that you would tell around a campfire if any of us actually ever went outside.
This Weeks Question is: What was your greatest moment of gaming pwnage?
I am talking about that moment when you did something so heroic, so spectacular or something that was just so damn skilled that it embedded itself in your head as the defining moment in your history of gaming pwnage. Stories like this usually stem from multiplayer gaming, but if you have something from a single player experience then share it as well.
I will never forget one of the matches that we played in the AGASA Gears of War tournament last year, where one of our teammates, known to Xbox Live as “Joburger”, tossed a grenade into the middle of the map a mere 10 odd seconds into the fourth round of a first-to-five match-up and landed up taking out the entire opposing team (as well as two of our own…) in a magnificent explosion of meat and chunky bits, winning the game.
The round was over so quickly that no one was entirely sure what had just happened, except for him. I didn’t need to see him to know that he was smiling from ear to ear as I could practically feel his grin straight through my headset and for months after that his Xbox Live motto was “KABOOM”. His greatest moment of gaming pwnage indeed.
So tell us, what happened when you had your moment? What were you playing and how did it all play out?
The winner’s of last week’s QOTW are announced after the jump.
The winner of last week’s QOTW was undoubtedly: NBT and his family of football hooligans.
Congratulations on winning the prize (which we were lucky to get at the last minute) of a copy of DMC4 for the Xbox 360. Please e-mail your details to support@lazygamer.co.za this week as I will be away when this article goes live.
[please note that we can only accept entries from our readers that live in the SADC]
Last Updated: September 22, 2008
bokka1
September 22, 2008 at 12:06
Congrats to the winner.
Is it possible that you include a link to the previous question or just the answer that the winner gave?
LazySAGamer
September 22, 2008 at 12:16
Good idea.. it’s quite the lengthy answer if I recall but we will start adding it to the weekly posting..
Let me go find that link
[Update]http://www.lazygamer.co.za/features/question-of-the-week-rage-blackout
NBT
September 22, 2008 at 12:28
Hooligans? 😕
We’re half English, so I’ll give you that. 😛
I knew my brothers had to be good for something, but I didn’t realise it would be this.
Unfortunately, my lack of ability in most gaming fields means I’m struggling to think of anything which would fit in for this week. 🙁
ewie
September 22, 2008 at 12:30
As everyone that play with me know i am just your average Gears of War player, i am normaly the cannon fodder send out as a scout to entice the other team out of cover for the snipers to finish of and on most occations i will end up
with the least points on a sheet, but this one day I was playing with some Gears NOOBS , we were playing on one of the maps that somehow i just can’t get any kills on except if i do a rush to the sniper and get a lucky shotgun kill in. So as things normally go soon i found that my whole team have been raviged by these gears noobs called gazza poddle and ognipode and if i recall correctly either team amnesan or corpse, and they were hounding me in a pack, so in one of the tunnels on masolium i decided to make a last stand totaly expecting to be mowed down, so I pulled out my trusty shotgun totaly expecting my breins to be scattered around the graves any second but with a few amazing shots i totaly pawned them to this day one of my proudest moments.
Banana hammock
September 22, 2008 at 12:32
I have 2:
The first one was while playing multiplayer Quake with work buddies (abusing the company’s network) and at one point i fired a rocket at a guy making a run, he was on the other end of the map, i just aimed about a quarter of the way from the left edge of the map and watched as the rocket and him met up at the exact perfect moment and he exploded. Then i heard this scream from the office down the hall cursing my name. That will always be remembered.
The second one was taking a looong distance shot at a WarHawk with a tank that was abusing our base, i aimed high to allow for gravity, fired and just watched at the shot curved into the guy and he exploded, giving our base defenders a much needed break.
DarthPenguin
September 22, 2008 at 12:46
I have got 3 stories to tell… and all of them happened the exact same night. Either someone spiked our drinks with Awesome (110%) or the planets had aligned just right… but we had one night of awesome gaming. If you can only accept one story… then take the third one… as I have proof there… but these all happened within 30 minutes of each other.
The first 2 events happened on the exact same game… literally seconds (about 20) of each other. We were at a LAN, and there were 8 of us playing… the teams were 3v5… and I was on the team with only 3 people. We were playing the first 50 to kills on Valhalla. I picked up the Spartan laser and aimed for the guy directly in front of me. Hitting him square in the chest, he was taken out completely… but I was pleasantly surprised when it said triple kill. Not only had I hit the guy in front of me… but a guy with invisibility was running up the hill right behind him as well. He was hit in the shot… as well as a guy right back at the enemies base in the background. I only saw the one guy… but hit 3. I felt pretty awesome.
The second event then happened 20 or so seconds later, but not by me. Squishy, one of the guys we were playing with, was standing on a hill sniping off people at the enemy base. He says he was going for two headshots with one bullet… we not sure if we believe him or not… but he got 3. 1 guy jumped on the little fourwheeler thing, and two others were racing to try get on the back of it… and he hit all 3 in the heads with one bullet. The score was 43 : 49 when I got the first triple kill… taking it to 46 : 49. We had got one more kill before Squishy got his triple kill… taking the score to a 50 : 49 win. This story has come up at every single LAN since.
The third event I actually have proof of. Feeling all manly and full of awesome from that late game win, I decided to go online for a quick game while the guys went to start the braai. I was feeling so awesome I thought I would be able to handle anything… and joined a game in SnowBound. They say a picture is worth a thousand words so here it is. That word Killtacular means
85 kills in 5 seconds. I was untouchable that day…http://allyoucanupload.webshots.com/v/2004976010815826753
DarthPenguin
September 22, 2008 at 12:51
Cant edit posts… I put numbers in with the keypad… a Killtacular is 5 kills in 5 seconds… sorry guys… still awesome though 😛
ewie
September 22, 2008 at 12:57
For those not knowing the Noobs i talked about, 3 of them are the other players nick mentioned in the post.
LazySAGamer
September 22, 2008 at 13:02
And you get an extra point for the 5th kill being another local 😉
Tracy
September 22, 2008 at 13:52
Ok I have a story….
It is related to Jimmy and Gears.
It was last week thursday… I picked up the sniper rifle for fun cause everyone knows I only play with my Shotgun.. anyways. I picked up the rifle… slowly making my way down the steps find a good spot and then I saw someone in front of me and BAM I shot this guy and got an awesome head shot. Next min I saw.. TT kills Jimmy. I was so excited I could not contain myself and I was very very proud of me.. YAY!!!
gazza
September 22, 2008 at 14:20
pwnage or mwpage as some call it is just so common to me these days i struggle to see a time that truely shines above the rest, i do however recall to night of sould calbur 4 on xbox live that shine above the rest. First being the first night i got the game and the ultimate storm of devastaion i rained down on poddle that night, he hasnt been the same since, still i remember recording 3 perfects against him that night, still to this day my best record against him.
Secondly would be my awesome Double – almost triple perfect against TT, the silence that ensued from her microphone for the nexy 10 minutes was priceless! Considering io was using lizard man, a charcater i never use and she had her precious “chick 1” – a custom of sophita(her best character) its was a great fight!
Tracy
September 22, 2008 at 14:38
Button Basher!!!!!!!!!!!! 👿
PillsburyDeeBoy
September 22, 2008 at 16:18
Gears of War Agasa 2007 had many crazy moments. We were playing on Mansion against Desperate Housewives (Poddle, ‘Pode, ‘Mower, ‘Burger) and I happened to split from my team to go scouting. Next thing I know, at one of the side entrances, a group of three of the other team come podding about and spot me. So I covered against the door, yelled to my teammates “I’m dead” but I put up a last stand. So the first arrives, shot him, swat turn to the other side of the door, shot the next guy, swat turned back to the previous side, and shot the final chap. My teammates and I were going crazy! They literally were right behind one another. It was crazy!
That was totally awesome. That’s a single instance of total pwnage, but I do think the fact that WYH remains UNDEFEATED throughout AGASA and in all Gears competition (even though back then the competion was insane) is the very best type of pwnage – the long term everyday type 🙂 .
Vamp
September 22, 2008 at 16:41
Hey, if it works…..
Vamp
September 22, 2008 at 16:43
I actually answered this last week, so just refer
back there 😛
Fox1
September 22, 2008 at 16:52
The end chase in NFS Most Wanted has to be the most exciting piece of gaming I ever experienced. It went on for over 45 minutes because I couldn’t find that bridge to jump. I must have had taken down like 100+ pursuers. I got so “caught” up knocking down objects and causing virtual carnage that I actually forgot that the end of the game is near 😈
Milesh Bhana
September 22, 2008 at 23:37
My best moment of pwnage was back in the good ‘ol QUake days. I had just learnt the art of rocket jumping. I walked into a room with two opponents. Two rockets came flying for me, so i rocket jumped, while in the air, i pegged one guy with a rocket, then landed and took out the other.
Milesh Bhanas last blog post..Budgetgamer’s Guide to Audio – Part 2
LazySAGamer
September 23, 2008 at 00:04
I don’t do the judging but I can tell you that the guys won’t be looking at previous comments to choose a winner..
They have a list of stories from this article only to judge so I would recommend just reposting your last comment
Vamp
September 23, 2008 at 08:58
Nah, it’s cool. Don’t have a PS3 anyway, so it doesn’t
really bother me. Just like to get a word in once
in a while 😉
Krypty
September 23, 2008 at 11:49
In the days that Halo 3 was still played by most locals (Question: Was there actually a time like that?)
We played a 3 on 3 game and I got my hands on a rocket launcher… this is never a good sign for me. So I zoomed in on my target and let one off on its merry way thinking to myself please stay in one spot.
http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=171&u=11205747
Almost as soon as that bad boy left the launcher, one of his team mates also came upstairs to have a lookout on what was going on.
http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=172&u=11205747
My eyes could not believe what was happening. As these two were standing around looking for us and rocket approaching the last of their teammates decided to join them.
http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=173&u=11205747
At this stage I was starting to shout like an 8 year old Mexican girl. The last thing I remember was the three of them huddled together saying a few last words to each other.
http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=174&u=11205747
The next moment the rocket exploded sending them to kingdom come. I think my teammates was deaf for the rest of the round from all my shouting.
http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=175&u=11205747
Pure Pwnage at its best.
jak
September 24, 2008 at 14:48
In COD4 when i beat the game on veteran. i felt like a god! All Ghillied up FTW!
Nick
September 24, 2008 at 16:25
im still working on it 🙁