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[Ichabod]

At one point or another, we've all done it or had it done to us. Sometimes its just good natured trolling to get a few laughs out of our friends, while other times its completely personal. Let's share the ways we've griefed and been griefed back by our friends, family, and random people while gaming. I'll start.

Mario Kart 64:
During this game's prime, anytime my cousins and I got together (which was like every weekend) we were playing MK64 til the wee hours of the morning. A common way we'd grief each other was whenever one of us got three red shells, we'd use the first shell to knock an opponent into the air, stop behind them, and wait for them to recover. As soon as their cart would land we'd hit them with the second and third shells each time they recovered from the previous hit. Of course this did nothing to help our chances at winning the race, but damn the rage that would ensue was delicious.

 

[Franklinator]

Just a few weeks ago I played the Pokemon Rap through my mic during an entire game of Halo because I hated my team

 

[Recarpo]

Whenever I play smash bros 64 with a group of friends, one will always be donkey kong and stays somewhat near the edge of the map. Any opportunity and he will grab somebody and suicide off the map with that person in tow.

 

[mingus]

Every kill steal I've done on my friends in dota, whether it be teleporting them back to base with chen or swapping them with vengeful. Maximum rage guaranteed.

 

[Forkball]

When TF2 went free to play, I often went Saharan Spy on Valve servers. For those who don't know, the Valve servers were heavily populated with a lot of newer players. The Saharan Spy set is a special Spy loadout where you can fake your death when you get hit, your backstabs and decloaks are silent, and you instantly become whoever you stabbed. Experienced players know one when they see it, but this is like voodoo magic to newer players. What would typically happen is that someone would trigger my fake death, taunt, and then I would decloak and backstab them midtaunt. I would also backstab whoever Medics were healing and since I automatically disguised as them, they often never noticed. I would get 20ish backstabs per life.

Also this thread wouldn't be complete without great TF2 griefing videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPoKaoJu0m4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUPzN7tp7bQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOR3snVKW0E

 

[zsswimmer]

I used to get into the Warthogs in Halo 3 MP and honk to get all the seats filled up. Then I would drive off a ledge and kill everyone.

 

[Recarpo]

I used to get into the Warthogs in Halo 3 MP and honk to get all the seats filled up. Then I would drive off a ledge and kill everyone.

More fun to bail out as the rest of your victims are hurtling over a cliff while you live, imo.

 

[SUPARSTARX]

I've grieved a lot of players in World of Warcraft as a rogue in original release. Good times.

I'm sure everyone that has played it knows what I'm talking about.

Tauren Mill ganking
Blackrock Mountain ganking

Many times they are just people that play casually and don't raid far enough to get the good items. I was fortunate enough to be in some good guilds, pick up some good equipment, and just drop people in a few seconds when I attack.

Rogues do it from behind, baby!

 

[Gouty]

I used to get into the Warthogs in Halo 3 MP and honk to get all the seats filled up. Then I would drive off a ledge and kill everyone.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

[railGUN]

WoW - Playing mage in Gadgetzan, I could time the guard patrol and 1 shot low level players all day long. We also discovered that you could mount into a bike sidecar while engaged in combat, leading to some hilarious nights of griefing.

 

[John]

League of Legends, playing in a 4-man premade smurf party. Once we win we surrender.

Halo 3, as soon as the game started we'd shoot people on our team but not enough to kill them, but they'd retaliate by killing us. Then we'd report them.

edit: i am a terrible person

 

[Franklinator]

I used to get into the Warthogs in Halo 3 MP and honk to get all the seats filled up. Then I would drive off a ledge and kill everyone.

lol I do that too sometimes

And that reminds me of another one where, in Battlefield 3, I get a team member to board a helicopter with me. I then fly near a building, parachute out, and leave the teammate to crash into the building. Good fun

 

[victreeb3l]

Whenever I play smash bros 64 with a group of friends, one will always be donkey kong and stays somewhat near the edge of the map. Any opportunity and he will grab somebody and suicide off the map with that person in tow.

i always did this with kirby

love the rage after

 

[FaidSint]

Me and my buddy used to do arranged Team vs Team (2v2) on Wc3 and pull all kinds of crap to annoy the other team (though usually they ended up with wins).

Alteranatively we'd enter random 4v4 team games and try to get on the same team and play NE and just run around with our trees or build like 1000 farms with humans. You know, mature, hilarious, high brow stuff.

One specific AT 2v2 stood out when we team based, towered, and made about 100 flying machines each. Game lasted just over 2 and a half hours if I remember correctly.

 

[Darryl]

Hopping into dynamis groups on FFXI uninvited. They were forced to deal with me being there for 2~ hours and I could do whatever I want, including steal all of the loot. Never stole anything, but the rage from me just standing there was insane.

if you wanna see how crazy people got about it, just read through this thread. all of the theft accusations are complete lies. i've always been curious how those even started.

 

[Onion_Relish]

Old school dethecus WOW player here. Widely regarded as the worst server to play on with the amount of trolling and gankign that happened therein. Probably my favorite memory was one of the alliance players actually running an extortion racket with one of the chinese gold farmers. He would gank him mercilessly in Silithus and kept sending him messages saying "if you dont pay me, i will hunt you down, and i will kill you". Eventually he opened up his mailbox and found a bunch of gold from the farmer. Absolutely abysmal but tremendous.

edit: pretty sure it was outbakjack

double edit: here is the Urban Dictionary for Dethecus

1:A World of Warcraft server that serves as a cesspool for the illegitimate, neglected, and abused children of the world.

A server where talking crap is far more important than playing ability, as is obvious in the realm's forums. Players can observe other players here, such as Svarthorne, Wumpus, Marchosias, Outbakjack, Gaultier, Aggromagnet etc. spew loads of sewage. That being all they're able of doing, because their playing ability is the equivalent of a brain dead monkey.

A good measure of a player's talent is how much shit they talk, the more they do, the more terrible they are.

Dethecus is also a place where mildly retarded and unfunny kids try their hardest to be clever, and creative. A good way to tell if someone is one of these people that try too hard is to see if they use terms such as "GSO" and think they're actually witty or funny.

Come, join the Dethecus community, and be a part of a fantastic place where having an internet reputation is more important than not only how good of a player you actually are, but also a social life, job, school, eating, etc.
I 1v1'd a Dethecus player and corpse camped him for hours, because he is bad.

2"A World of Warcraft server known for a large number of griefers, scammers, and forum trolls. Ninja looters will typically be congratulated for their new gear, trolls are treated like celebrities, their most famous player ever was a lowbie ganker, and outting real life embarassing details of your enemies on the servers forums is seen as a 'win'.


I rolled an character on Dethecus and was ganked in Goldshire by a level 70. What is with that server?

 

[victreeb3l]

in starcraft 2, whenever im protoss and im about to lose, i always build pylons in little nooks and crevices and inside the enemy base where he cant find them. even after they destroy all my shit, they spend like 45 minutes looking for it

i actually made a friend doing this lol. dude spent a long time looking for my last pylon while we discussed music and anime and stuff. was awesome

 

[kittens]

My buddy and I were forced to play Headhunter on The Cage shortly after Halo Reach came out. If you know anything about Reach, you know how miserable this map + gametype is. And not only that, but our two team mates quit out. Sooooo, each time we were about to die, we would jump off the walkways and commit suicide, denying our enemy their point. We were laughing our ass off the whole time. Truly the only way to enjoy Headhunter.

 

[Drazgul]

Probably my favorite memory was one of the alliance players actually running an extortion racket with one of the chinese gold farmers. He would gank him mercilessly in Silithus and kept sending him messages saying "if you dont pay me, i will hunt you down, and i will kill you". Eventually he opened up his mailbox and found a bunch of gold from the farmer. Absolutely abysmal but tremendous.

Brilliant. He should've demanded monthly payments for protection.

 

[Hot Coldman]

Just a few weeks ago I played the Pokemon Rap through my mic during an entire game of Halo because I hated my team

This one?

 

[the chris]

I always enjoyed watching videos of Shawn Elliot doing his 'Ralphie' schtick and just making a nuisance of himself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYUbUvzlvFw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UZ1jSXaF-Y

 

[Gouty]

If anyone has some vids other than the famous TF2 door blocking I'd love to see them.

 

[Ichabod]

in starcraft 2, whenever im protoss and im about to lose, i always build pylons in little nooks and crevices and inside the enemy base where he cant find them. even after they destroy all my shit, they spend like 45 minutes looking for it

i actually made a friend doing this lol. dude spent a long time looking for my last pylon while we discussed music and anime and stuff. was awesome

Very cool, man. I love friendships forged from the fires of trollin'.

 

[Franklinator]

This one?

I'm not that cruel...but next time my team won't be so lucky

 

[Forsaken82]

When TF2 went free to play, I often went Saharan Spy on Valve servers. For those who don't know, the Valve servers were heavily populated with a lot of newer players. The Saharan Spy set is a special Spy loadout where you can fake your death when you get hit, your backstabs and decloaks are silent, and you instantly become whoever you stabbed. Experienced players know one when they see it, but this is like voodoo magic to newer players. What would typically happen is that someone would trigger my fake death, taunt, and then I would decloak and backstab them midtaunt. I would also backstab whoever Medics were healing and since I automatically disguised as them, they often never noticed. I would get 20ish backstabs per life.

Also this thread wouldn't be complete without great TF2 griefing videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPoKaoJu0m4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUPzN7tp7bQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOR3snVKW0E

That third video is awesome. The other stuff is just stupid.

 

[Anony]

At one point or another, we've all done it or had it done to us. Sometimes its just good natured trolling to get a few laughs out of our friends, while other times its completely personal. Let's share the ways we've griefed and been griefed back by our friends, family, and random people while gaming. I'll start.

Mario Kart 64:
During this game's prime, anytime my cousins and I got together (which was like every weekend) we were playing MK64 til the wee hours of the morning. A common way we'd grief each other was whenever one of us got three red shells, we'd use the first shell to knock an opponent into the air, stop behind them, and wait for them to recover. As soon as their cart would land we'd hit them with the second and third shells each time they recovered from the previous hit. Of course this did nothing to help our chances at winning the race, but damn the rage that would ensue was delicious.

Whenever I play smash bros 64 with a group of friends, one will always be donkey kong and stays somewhat near the edge of the map. Any opportunity and he will grab somebody and suicide off the map with that person in tow.

are you guys me?

 

[Dug]

I was never really a fan of griefing random people on internet, always seemed kind of douchey. But griefing your own friends is always fun.

 

[Broder Salsa]

A friend of mine broke my dualshock controller by smashing it into the ground when we were playing fifa. Asshole got to pay for it.

 

[AlimNassor]

In battlefield games I plant C4 on vehicles when people enter.

In Maplestory there was a low area town connected to a mid-level area. This mid-level area had a small pit where mid-level golems spawned. I would lure newbies into the pit by dropping lots of money. They'd jump down and get killed. This was many years ago but I would get newbies trapped in high level areas with no hope of ever getting out. I would go into newbie areas and open summoning bags...it's fun for awhile until high levels ruined the fun by killing the monsters. ):

heres a video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5qfPHt0Pg0

This was many years ago...said monster back then was considered to be end game. now it's just fodder taken out in 1 hit by virtually every high level.

In order to combat the hacker explosion nexon released an anti-hack item. It was a cheap item located in a few stores. The item was the ultimate troll because all you needed to do was enter a name and they the user had to type a captcha or else they'd be sent back to town. the captcha boxes were notoriously buggy and in high level areas where monsters did a lot of damage not being able to heal for a few seconds was instant death.

 

[Kalnos]

Kiting WoW world bosses to major cities was always amazing. Kazzak to Stormwind was a classic, especially since he was invincible at that point.

 

[kittens]

A friend of mine broke my dualshock controller by smashing it into the ground when we were playing fifa. Asshole got to pay for it.

I think that's being an agro douche bag, not griefing.

 

[friskykillface]

I used to get into the Warthogs in Halo 3 MP and honk to get all the seats filled up. Then I would drive off a ledge and kill everyone.

haha i loved doing that in halo 2 and 3 , good times haha, RIP

 

[MechDX]

MW2.....smoke grenades + scavenger pro.

"Who the fuck is throwing all the damn smoke!?!?!?!"

 

[inf3cti0n]

I was never really a fan of griefing random people on internet, always seemed kind of douchey. But griefing your own friends is always fun.

Exactly, griefs should be for private servers/events. PSN/XBL Griefs/Screaming prepubescent Halo.COD.MLGpros / is this for XBL Gold Only a-hats/ need to be thrown into their own playlists/subforums/etc. We need the community to grow and not be hampered by this kind of nonsense.

 

[Ichabod]

MW2.....smoke grenades + scavenger pro.

"Who the fuck is throwing all the damn smoke!?!?!?!"

Lmao, why did I never try this?

 

[Xyphie]

Killing people doing the Benediction/Anathema and Rhok'delar quests as well as wiping guilds on Kazzak and the green dragons used to be my favorite pass time in classic WoW.

 

[Previous]

Also this thread wouldn't be complete without great TF2 griefing videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPoKaoJu0m4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUPzN7tp7bQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOR3snVKW0E

When I read the thread title the team roomba videos were the first thing I thought of. Those are the greatest.

 

[Fox318]

I hate griefing. It ruined Sourceforts.

 

[notsol337]

While playing Age of Conan, I kicked a level 80 character off a cliff and killed him. I was level 12.

Also, I used to drown level 60 toons in WoW in Ratchet as a level 12 Forsaken mage. Glubsheep

 

[aeolist]

A true classic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqB1uoDTdKM

 

[Orayn]

Kiting WoW world bosses to major cities was always amazing. Kazzak to Stormwind was a classic, especially since he was invincible at that point.

Joke's on you, I used that opportunity to increase my weapon skills. Or I did it with some invincible boss at least...

 

[mkenyon]

In Tribes: Ascend, my team grabs the enemy flag and holds it in the enemy generator room. Did it for the whole 25 min match once.

 

[Roto13]

I will occasionally grab a healing barrel in a DC Universe Online event and fly away with it.

 

[Karsticles]

At one point or another, we've all done it or had it done to us. Sometimes its just good natured trolling to get a few laughs out of our friends, while other times its completely personal. Let's share the ways we've griefed and been griefed back by our friends, family, and random people while gaming. I'll start.

Mario Kart 64:
During this game's prime, anytime my cousins and I got together (which was like every weekend) we were playing MK64 til the wee hours of the morning. A common way we'd grief each other was whenever one of us got three red shells, we'd use the first shell to knock an opponent into the air, stop behind them, and wait for them to recover. As soon as their cart would land we'd hit them with the second and third shells each time they recovered from the previous hit. Of course this did nothing to help our chances at winning the race, but damn the rage that would ensue was delicious.

I would just create roads filled with bananas...

 

[Tenck]

A true classic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqB1uoDTdKM

I need more videos, best thing to look forward in griefing threads :O

 

[Riposte]

When I invade in Dark Souls, especially in an area like Tomb of the Giants, I feel like I'm griefing. Odds really stacked against them and you become this scary figure. Have to admit I love it.

 

[Cohsae]

People should check out VentertainMe's youtube videos. Unfortunately he stopped doing them some time ago. They aren't really gaming specific, he basically pisses people off on Vent, waits for them to say something stupid and starts playing it back to them, confusing people, remixing it into music, he's pretty amazing.

But in general this thread just reminds me of this blast from the past.
This post in particular (taken from that thread):

Awesome concept!
I literally died laughing when the one guy shared the griefing story about how someone told him he was a masturbating cow!

I have some griefing suggestions to share with the cast:
Heal a Team Fortress teammate to 99% and then stop!
Drop a banana peel on another racer in Mario Kart
Make a list of fake, funny Achievements
Find a way to use foul language in a game with a foul language filter
Drive over a PS3 or 360 and tape it
Enter the initials SEX, ASS, FUK, etc. on an arcade scoreboard
Do a dragon punch on someone in Street Fighter
Perform a fatality on your opponent in Mortal Kombat and DC
Get drunk and get on Xbox Live

Edit: OMG, those fake Achievements are brilliant. Here’s my favorite:

 

[Gentleman Jack]

I love it when griefing is a simultaneous display of unorthodox, infuritating gameplay and skill.

Meet the TEAM FORTRESS 2 WORLD-WIDE HEAVY BOXING CHAMPION
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izxGrUi8a24

 

[Freezie KO]

One of my fondest memories of my now-deceased grandmother is throwing her off the cliff in Chip 'n' Dale's Rescue Rangers.

 

[Log4Girlz]

For a time, there was a glitch in wow, and you could duel a mage, do some crazy shit trying to mount a flying mount and suddenly you could swim through the air. Me and my buddy swam to the burning crusades starter area and were killing lowbies left and right from the skies. Got banned for a bit but was worth it