Can be either something that happened to you, or something you saw. And yes, we're talking BW here.
For me, it was watching a 6 human players vs 2 CPUs match at a LAN computer place. The 6 human players lost.
It was sort of perversely amazing... they all turtled, never ever expanded, and then either refused to help each other out or were way too slow to do so as the CPU players picked them off one by one.
The final couple of players should've wised up, since they were talking to their buds who were right next to them and who were dying, but... nope. They all seem amazed they died, they blamed it on the CPUs being 'too good'.
The #2 saddest moment was at that same LAN place, during the first week that SC came out.
A guy who was a huge fan of a competing RTS game (won't say which one) kept walking up and down the rows, asking literally EVERYONE there or who came in to play a game of said RTS. He got turned down each and every time, everyone was playing SC.
He didn't give up, kept walking up and down the rows for a really, really long time, eventually mumbling out loud, "It's not that good, it's not that good, Starcraft is not that good, it's not that good", over and over again.
It was going to be my first ever win on Battle.Net on USEast server on Fastest Map Possible, and I had done the classic 2 Barracks into turtle with Bunker + Missile Turret strategy. After my god-like teammates killed the opponents, I was super excited that I was going to get my first multiplayer win, but then I has my allies Mutalisks come and kill me and I was really sad and probably whined about it to my brother.
This was like, 2006 when I was 12/13, I have since grown up and managed to find a way to lose on my own rather than my allies backstabbing me in team games.
Edit: I even remembered the people's name, it was "foxhole" and "Skitzo"
Probably when I got 4th twice in a row in WCG in my country, and I practically lived for those competitions. (Couldn't get 1st since Ptak would rape me.) The worst thing is that I couldn't practice at all since WCG was always held in the middle of exams period. So I just played a couple of games the day before.
At one of them I lost to the only thing that I was worrying when I was doing mental preparation and analyzing my weaknesses. And I knew it was happening. Fucking 2 base non-expanding allining protoss. I was prepared for everything else and knew what I would do in every case, to the very details, but not vs that.
The other time I lost something I shouldn't have lost. The player I faced was weaker than me, and his strength was more in early game/cheese/allin and mine in surviving early game and playing well in mid/late game - but I lost. I guess the fatigue of getting trough the groups/brackets took its toll, since my health wasn't really ideal.
Both of these time I lost the 3rd/4th place match because I was too exhausted and pretty much gave up already.
There was one more WCG before those two, but I don't even count that one because the playing conditions were fucking terribad. Small, low, shaking table, with a fucking cloth over it. FFS.
All the WCGs were much fun though, meeting with all the friends and players. It was awesome.
On December 10 2014 10:23 SynC[gm] wrote: It was going to be my first ever win on Battle.Net on USEast server on Fastest Map Possible, and I had done the classic 2 Barracks into turtle with Bunker + Missile Turret strategy. After my god-like teammates killed the opponents, I was super excited that I was going to get my first multiplayer win, but then I has my allies Mutalisks come and kill me and I was really sad and probably whined about it to my brother.
This was like, 2006 when I was 12/13, I have since grown up and managed to find a way to lose on my own rather than my allies backstabbing me in team games.
Edit: I even remembered the people's name, it was "foxhole" and "Skitzo"
Haha a similar thing happened to me when I first played on bnet. I was complimenting all my good allies and one of them shuttled over a probe to my base, built cannons, and then unallied me. I was grief stricken.
the saddest moments are when i loose from a huge lead and i realize that i'm untalented and so i'm not having fun so ii'm just wasting my time on this game.
On December 10 2014 11:20 zimp wrote: the saddest moments are when i loose from a huge lead and i realize that i'm untalented and so i'm not having fun so ii'm just wasting my time on this game.
Just to cheer you up: It's possible to enjoy an activity without being talented at it.
It was in the early time of broodwar (around 1999?). I was playing a 3v3 as terran and lost my base to a 9 pool. I lifted, went to another base and started to build up. My allies died a bit later. I was left alone for this time So I went BC/Tank, and held off for around 40 more minutes (by then the game was well over an hour). Since my enemies took the entire hunters map, they build a full air force of carriers and BCs (it was 1 toss and 2 terran).
I managed to nuke that force (two lines of turrets bought the time I needed), and started to push out on an empty map where there were no units or minerals left. This was around 3.5 hours in.
I killed one of them, and then got disc by one of them.