Memorable Gaming Deaths

[Admiral Valdemar]

A fun selection of deaths. 'Nuff said.

The RE4 ones are just so varied (and I missed most of them; just too damn good) and the The Shadow of the Beast II death is a classic.

[Qwerty 42]

Ah, I thought this was going to be a topic about emotional deaths of characters.

At the risk of hijacking the thread, I'll have to nominate the end of Robotech Battlecry, when Jack Archer is alone in unknown depths of space to die.

ToS SPOILERS

Additionally, although it became a little contrived after a while, the first couple of near-deaths to advance Lloyd to Mithos at the end of Tales of Symphonia were fairly moving.

Also, Corrine's death was good in that game too.

To be on topic, I haven't ever laughed as hard as when a friend was playing Resident Evil 4 and starting spraying the Chicago Typewriter into the lake.

[ThatGuyFromThatPlace]

meh, pretty much any death in Fallout 2 with the bloody mess perk

[Vendetta]

Andrew Ryan.


Also, My mate's death in Halo 3, managing to deploy a bubble shield in front of him, bounce a grenade off it, blow himself into a man-cannon and shoot his corpse halfway across the map.

[Ford Prefect]

The God of War games, and more recently Heavenly Sword are all filled with creative ways to dispatch your enemies. For Kratos, one really can't go past the Hydra slaying, or murdering Theseus.

As for Heavenly Sword, Nariko has a rather interesting move where she grabs someone, jumps into the air, sticks her foot on their balls and drives their head straight into the ground.

[Shroom Man 777]

The Fear! The Fear! I can see it! The Fear! The Fear! The FEEEAAAARRRRRR! *explodes*

[The Yosemite Bear]

No mention of Aerith?

now for game over, you really can't beat the whole reserection sequewnce from liesure suit larry?

[Karza]

Nothing quite compares to "You die... Do you want your possessions identified? (y/n)" from NetHack, mainly because that can happen in so damn annoying ways, and the save gets deleted (okay, there are ways around that but that's despicable cheating, and un-manly). Sipping hot water and burning your mouth while you had 1 hp? Done. Blindly feeling what's on the floor, only find out it's a corpse of something that turns you to stone? Done. Running to a landmine? Done. Attacking Medusa without wearing a blindfold? Done. Choking on your food? Done. And the list goes on. Seems like every game ends in a different death.

[Adrian Laguna]

Trent's death in Perfect Dark was cool.

"Just try it you Scandinavian freak!"

Mr. Blonde states him down, cooly breaking his resolve, then he changes into a Skedar and eviscerates Trent. The red suited bastard goes down screaming like a girl.

I liked the way I killed Sergei in Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction. I ran him over with the Street Racer going at full speed as he made a dash for his helicopter. I picture him thinking in his mind that he almost made it, then hears the car coming, turns, and gets to experience a moment of pure horror as he realized who just came to wave him goodbye.

The Fear! The Fear! I can see it! The Fear! The Fear! The FEEEAAAARRRRRR! *explodes*

Colonel Volgin was better, at least if you know what "kuwabara" means.

[Laughing Mechanicus]

Andrew Ryan.

Tangential to the thread but something occurred to me last night. Minor Bioshock spoilers for rest of this paragraph: Did they every explain why Andrew Ryan didn't just pop out of the nearest Vita-chamber alive and well after you killed him? After all, the audio diaries specifically state that the chambers were keyed to work on Andrew Ryan's DNA, hence why they also work for the player but nobody else in Rapture.

Colonel Volgin was better, at least if you know what "kuwabara" means.

So what does it mean? I always assumed it was some arcane piece of Soviet military lingo Kojima dug up on Wikipedia.

Any good game death thread requires by law mention of Turok 2's Cerebal Bore (video). Unfortunately it was probably the only good thing about the game, indeed it was a pretty piss poor weapon aside from the method of killing. The chainsaw bayonets in Gears of War are very visceral experience that never get old. Umm... I'm sure there are better ones, I'm just not feeling very imaginative.

[Admiral Valdemar]

So what does it mean? I always assumed it was some arcane piece of Soviet military lingo Kojima dug up on Wikipedia.

How the heck did you derive that from an obviously Japanese sounding term?

It's a reference to a story about a Mr. Kuwabara who was always frightened of being struck by lightning. That Volgin, given his own unique ability, was electrocuted by a lightning bolt is just plain poetic justice (but not from God, from The Sorrow).

Either way, given the content of the link in the OP, I was referring to in-game player's character deaths rather than cut scene plot based ones like with a movie. For one thing, none of these deaths should be a part of the game, since it means "game over", literally.

[Shroom Man 777]

The Fear! The Fear! I can see it! The Fear! The Fear! The FEEEAAAARRRRRR! *explodes*

Colonel Volgin was better, at least if you know what "kuwabara" means.

Who's afraid of a little thunder?

But man. The Fear, it was partially because of that tongue of his, the sounds he was making, and the fact that he exploded into one thousand arrows.

And killing him with a shotgun. I don't know why, but it cracks me up. The guy deserves it.

[Admiral Valdemar]

The Fear was just too awesome for the game. That is all.

[Vendetta]

Andrew Ryan.

Tangential to the thread but something occurred to me last night. Minor Bioshock spoilers for rest of this paragraph: Did they every explain why Andrew Ryan didn't just pop out of the nearest Vita-chamber alive and well after you killed him? After all, the audio diaries specifically state that the chambers were keyed to work on Andrew Ryan's DNA, hence why they also work for the player but nobody else in Rapture.

The only Vita-Chamber near his office is turned off and busted. You see it to the right as you enter.

[Vehrec]

Remember how you got into your own tomb in Planescape: Torment? Yeah, I thought you did. Remember how you won the game? Yep, that was a fun one, wasn't it?

[Schuyler Colfax]

Friend of mine had this cheat on Saints Row where all the cars are trying to run you over and when you try to attack your body goes numb. So he goes to this grass area and stands on the back side of the hill and behind him was this cliff and on the bottom of that cliff was this rocky area with water. So when the cars came after him they when towards the hill he did whole body goes numb thing. So the cars go right over him barely missing him. So one time he gets hit and survives and when he climbs back up the cliff the second he gets back up there he gets boned in the ass by and ambulance and dies. It was so fucking funny.

[Adrian Laguna]

Another in Mercenaries that I like is car bombs. Get a vehicle with a door (as opposed to a hatch) that belongs to your target's faction, put some C4 on top of it, drive at full speed toward target and jump out before you enter blast range, use detonator when vehicle meets target, >BOOM<

The funniest part is that this usually causes the burning vehicle's chassis to fly high up into the air, easily a dozen stories at times.

Alternatively, since the PC can survive tank rounds to the face and other such insults, you can placidly drive up next to the target, calmly get out, and then detonate. Everyone but you dies. Just watch the burning chassis of the car you just blew up, if it comes down on top of you, it will kill you.

Colonel Volgin was better, at least if you know what "kuwabara" means.

So what does it mean? I always assumed it was some arcane piece of Soviet military lingo Kojima dug up on Wikipedia.

It's Japanese, and literally means "mulberry field". According to Japanese (and Chinese) superstition, mulberry trees cannot be hit by lightning. "Kuwabara, kuwabara", is a prayer to safeguard you from lightning bolts.

Colonel Volgin, whose powers are lightning related, likes to say the prayer when the weather turns foul, probably because he thinks its amusingly ironic. Too bad for him that, thanks to the Sorrow, irony struck back with a vengeance. While battling Snake, instead of his usual prayer he arrogantly asks "Who's afraid of a little thunder?", probably to imply that Snake should be afraid, and is subsequently fried by a lightning bolt.

[Civil War Man]

I was doing a one-on-one rocket battle in Halo 2. Most of the time one of us would get in a vehicle, ride towards the other, and then jump out and run away right before the vehicle gets blown up by a rocket.

So, I start strafing at my opponent with a Banshee. He fires a rocket. I jump out before the rocket hits, fall to the ground, and start to run. After only a few feet, the burning hulk of the Banshee comes crashing down on my head and sent me skidding about halfway across the map (it was H2's Blood Gulch equivalent, so it wasn't an insane distance).

Technically, I survived that, but realistically that should have been a hilariously awesome death.

[Lord Pounder]

Back in the day playing WoW I was killed by a fellow Hordie. I guess it was a bug or something, his pet and multishot hit me at the same time and Wykd Rose died, possibly the first team kill in the game.

[andrewgpaul]

I was doing a one-on-one rocket battle in Halo 2. Most of the time one of us would get in a vehicle, ride towards the other, and then jump out and run away right before the vehicle gets blown up by a rocket.

So, I start strafing at my opponent with a Banshee. He fires a rocket. I jump out before the rocket hits, fall to the ground, and start to run. After only a few feet, the burning hulk of the Banshee comes crashing down on my head and sent me skidding about halfway across the map (it was H2's Blood Gulch equivalent, so it wasn't an insane distance).

Technically, I survived that, but realistically that should have been a hilariously awesome death.

Did pretty much the same thing on Halo co-op multiplayer. Very first level, being strafed by a Banshee. My friend shoots it down, and it lands on my head, killing me. Hilarity ensued.

[Molyneux]

I was doing a one-on-one rocket battle in Halo 2. Most of the time one of us would get in a vehicle, ride towards the other, and then jump out and run away right before the vehicle gets blown up by a rocket.

So, I start strafing at my opponent with a Banshee. He fires a rocket. I jump out before the rocket hits, fall to the ground, and start to run. After only a few feet, the burning hulk of the Banshee comes crashing down on my head and sent me skidding about halfway across the map (it was H2's Blood Gulch equivalent, so it wasn't an insane distance).

Technically, I survived that, but realistically that should have been a hilariously awesome death.

Did pretty much the same thing on Halo co-op multiplayer. Very first level, being strafed by a Banshee. My friend shoots it down, and it lands on my head, killing me. Hilarity ensued.

It was a lot of fun sometimes in the original Halo multiplayer to just fly at the perfect angle...so that when someone shot you down, your flyer would just roll right over him.

[Lord Revan]

Back in the day playing WoW I was killed by a fellow Hordie. I guess it was a bug or something, his pet and multishot hit me at the same time and Wykd Rose died, possibly the first team kill in the game.

was it during a duel?

as I've been killed by too hard nukes during duels, especially when playing my more frail chars.

[Lisa]

prince of persia when you had to pass the guilotine blades. always made a squick feeling in me.

[[R_H]]

I was playing Halo 3 this afternoon. We killed the second Scarab (on the unfinished Halo) and there was some sort of a bug that resulted in part of a leg getting stuck in a wall and was moving. The guy I was playing with walked up to it and got kicked to death by it.

[Qwerty 42]

In Phantasy Star Online, my brothers and I had just started playing when we ran into a rare enemy, which is substantially tougher than a normal one.

We each got killed in about two hits. Not cool.