Coffee Talk #251: Your Greatest Gaming Comebacks

I was playing a game of WordFeud for Android against a random player. He/she had two of the three 10-letter tiles and busted out two seven-letter words. I was getting slaughtered…but I kept with it.

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I was playing a game of WordFeud for Android against a random player. He/she had two of the three 10-letter tiles and busted out two seven-letter words. I was getting slaughtered…but I kept with it. Through a combination of clever letter placement, dumb luck, and poor choices by my opponent, I ended up winning the game. It was a glorious and I almost sent my opponent a message that said, “Don’t call it a comeback!”

Do you have any stories like that? Have you had any ridiculous gaming comebacks where the odds were completely stacked against you but you managed to pull out a victory? I’d love to hear your stories. Share and be proud!

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29 thoughts on “Coffee Talk #251: Your Greatest Gaming Comebacks”

  1. i had one that i was on the losing end of

    i was playing madden, i was up by 13 with 10 seconds left..dude scores a touchdown, kicks the onside…i recover…But this is where i decide to get cute and snap the ball and run around with my qb like a jackass…fumble, recovery, touchdown..i lose by 1

    i HATE playing madden online

  2. When ever I beat Rpad in WordFeud I feel its a comeback because he usually destroys me by 100+ points a game. I remember playing a game of capture the diamond (ctf) in Far Cry 2 where both teams had immaculate defense set up and no one scored for 14 mins. During the announcement that there was one minute left one of my better teammates grabbed the diamond and some how made it across the map with one second to spare and gave us the win. We all had consecutive wins going and the tie would of killed that.

  3. Me and a buddy of mine were playing team double on Halo 3, This team had completely destroyed us by camping the entire round. Anyway The game came down to them needing 1 kill and us needing 16 kills. Came back to tie it with 30 seconds left in the round, I had the over shield and my buddy had a bubble shield. Both of the guys are camping out in one of the bases. I run in ,using my self as bait, get shot with a sniper rifle which brings me down to no shield and I melee the guy. At that same moment my buddy throws out the bubble, which stops like an inch in front of me stopping the guys second sniper shot and blocking his partners grenade. At this point in time me and the guy on the other team both have no shields. My first "OH SHIT" reaction is to jump, which happened to be lucky in my case because my buddy decided to 'nade the bubble shield with the guy inside of it. And we won. I actually did a victory lap around the apartment. That happened like 3 or 4 years ago.

  5. i read that amazon is matching certain retailers black friday deals

    i still havent gotten black ops or need for speed, cause im waiting for an amazon deal

  6. Back in Burning Crusade, the first expansion of WoW, my guild was fighting Shade of Aran in Karazhan. He is a raid boss who has no aggro meter so you can go all out. Well my guild got cute racing on the dps meters and halfway ignored the adds during the fight. So 9 ppl were dead when he was at 2% health while just my paladin, Vanzant, was left to beat that ass. I killed him by using every skill I had and it was our first Aran kill. I still get mentions of that to this day from fellow players. It actually turned into a game later on when we had the zone on farm. The rogues were the only other class who could match it.

    That comeback might be out of context for anyone who has never played an mmo or WoW but 2% health on a raid boss is staggering.

    Honorable mention: Diablo 2 me and a buddy were both in Immortal Kings sets and fighting uber Diablo for the nihlus charm. He got greedy and stopped dps'ing early and took off running when the charm dropped which left it easy for me to pick up because of his loot greed lol.

    1. I have no idea what you said in that first paragraph.

      Could you translate it in "old-school" Final Fantasy terms?

      -M

      1. The boss didn't single target the highest aggro, it randomly did damage to individual party members, thus no need for organization of threat. I had to solo the boss the last 2% which meant it had about 100k life.

  7. I was down 27-0 at halftime in a game of Madden with a friend of mine, & came back and won 28-27 on a 51 yard Hail Mary TD pass to Steve Smith (NYG) as time expired.

    The best part is that he talks a lot of smack when we play sports games and thinks he's "better than me" at them. Yet if you were to look at our head to head record over the years, it's probably somewhere around 202-198 with about 385 of them being really close games. The other 15 were blowouts that could have been split either way when one of us was just having a bad day.

    1. To give you an idea of how close our games usually are, last game we played was the C-USA Championship game in an online league of NCAA 11. We'd decided to go with Conference USA teams so we could try and build them up over a couple of seasons. I was Tulsa, he was ECU. He came into the game at 12-0, I came in at 11-1. My one loss was in the first game of the season….to him. He stuffed me on a 4th and Goal as time expired to win by 7 (in hindsight, I should have run play action to the TE rather than just trying to stuff it in).

      So in the conference championship game he gets up by 10 with less than 2 minutes left. I need to go about 80 yards and then recover an onside kickoff to have any chance to tie it up. I run a couple of plays, and then on 3rd and short, I run a play with two short crossing routes to try and get the 1st down that just happens to have my slot receiver running a go route. But I'm running no huddle and he's stuck guessing what defenses he should call; and before the snap I see that he's running a FS blitz and my slot receiver is completely uncovered. BOOM, 72 yard TD, and I'm within 3. (Of course, he calls the play "bogus"…At which point I recite in detail exactly what I saw before the snap and that I knew he was "dead in the water" before the play even began.) I recover the onside kick, and get it down to about a 52 yard try with 2 seconds left on the clock. My kick hits the crossbar and I lose by 3.

      Pretty much every time we play, it's so close it's worthy of a story.

  8. When some of my friends and I would get together to play Mario Kart 64, winner chooses next level, we always played best out of 17 (we did Wario Stadium twice, beginning and end). I lost the first 5 levels, and I normally put up a better fight than I was that day. I was mad at myself for playing so poorly, and began to make my comeback. We usually ended with DK Jungle Zone, Yoshi's Valley, and Rainbow Road- I ended up winning the first two of those to tie my score with the points leader. Then came rainbow road. The other person I was tied with is really good at hitting the jump to the left at the start/finish line and landing about halfway through the map. Well he missed that jump…on the first and second laps, meaning that all I had to do was fight off the other two opponents for the rest of the time. It ended up coming down to the last item boxes, and I got the three green shells which gave me the defense I needed to fend off a red shell and take one amazing shot to stop the leader right before the finish line to take the win.

    Needless to say that was a good night.

  9. This one time, I was playing "UNO" online with a bunch of guys and I think they were ganging up on me since N8 and Mr. Padilla kept "reversing" to keep me from playing a card. When it wasn't a Reverse card, it was a "Skip" card to skip my turn. Halfway into the match, I have like half the damn deck in my hands while my opponents are down to just a few cards. Well, lo and behold, a few "Draw Four" cards and some Reverse and Skips of my own a while later, and I actually won the game! … and a few more afterwards, too.

    I love games that are 100% luck and no skill. It's what allows dumbasses like me to be able to compete and win at games that teach kindergarteners colors and numbers.

    -M

    1. I've never tried it, but we sell it at some of our gas stations. If you want, I can procure a few cans and have them shipped (not via FedEx) to you. I'll just make sure that they are the ones that still have the caffeine in them. If they do, I'll send you a few. If not… well, I guess that's the end of that.

      -M

  12. No I have not. Doesn't seem like something I'd enjoy. If I want to get wasted fast id rather funnel or kegstand.

      1. oh ok. i like the flavor of alcohol. comes from me brewing beer for a living many years ago :)

    2. I can’t find the product key, so it won’t install on my laptop. Where did you find that at?

      1. To locate the game activation and Games for Windows — LIVE access tokens using the Games for Windows Marketplace client:

        * Click the Start button to open the Start Menu.

        * From the Start Menu, click All Programs, click Microsoft Games for Windows Marketplace, and then click Games for Windows Marketplace.

        * Sign in using your Windows Live ID and password.

        * Click Downloads in the top navigation pane.

        * Click Full Games in the left navigation pane.

        * Select the game download for which you want your game activation key or your LIVE access token.

        * Under the game information, expand View Game Keys to retrieve your activation key or token.

        via their faq

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