Because we already have a thread to lament, b!tch, and otherwise detail our biggest screw-ups, why not have one where we can either brag, laugh, or otherwise rave about our luckiest moments in video games.
By this, I mean . . .
A) You gambled, took a risk that really either shouldn't have worked or at least shouldn't have worked nearly as spectacularly as it did.
B) You really should not have survived, period. How the hell you made it out, you're barely even sure of. You passed between a rock and a hard place with more success than you had anticipated (if any at all).
C) You were having a really suck-ass 'this sh!t is ridiculous' horrible moment in gaming, when out of the blue things turn around and contort it into a weird-ass 'this sh!t is ridiculous' wonderful moment (in America gaming).
Write about those times, all, and to start us off I'll mention a little bit of what happened to me.
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In Disgaea 2, there is a mission where you've got a square area with a big mook in each corner, and in the middle there are nine isolated spaces with Warp and Invincibility Geos that are occupied by four different Mages (one of each spell; Red [Fire], Blue [Ice], Green [Wind], and Star [she's orange]).
It promised to be a long and annoying fight.
However . . . prior to starting my game up that day, I'd had the title on long enough to see one of those little demo videos -- in this case, the one where Rozalin uses a Cell Phone and calls a Prism Ranger. This match, I figured I might as well try it.
Now, those aforementioned 9 spaces were isolated by a ring of No Entry geos, so while we could not get in, the Mages could not get out . . . but then it ended up being the case that when I used the Cell Phone, it spawned a Prism Ranger all right . . . onto one of the 9 isolated panels.
The Mages were wholly preoccupied with the act of (failing to) blasting the living hell out of the Ranger, hitting it with spell after spell until they were out of MP, while my team just skirted around the edge and pulverized each of the big mooks before lifting one of the Geos that was outside the No Entry zone, and beating the stuffing out of the Mages that were unlucky enough to warp onto it (throw into middle of combo zone, use combo, wash, rinse, repeat).
I cannot believe to this day my luck of where the guy spawned -- Prism Indigo, you have my thanks, and that is probably NEVER going to happen AGAIN.