Game over screens suck these days

[Woe Is You]

We need more game overs [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6aRwky0W5Y] like these [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6iT-lMgfAI].

Seriously.

I'm not going to type a longer post, since all you need to do is check those links to agree with me.

 

[chuckman1]

Sad but true.
"You are dead dead dead."

 

[Mr. Fister]

Better yet, we shouldn't have game over screens at all. I never liked them. To me, they always seemed like they were taunting me, saying "lol, u suk." I can get over a "mission/song failed" screen, but game overs...they're just evil.

 

[Woem]

"Suddenly the Dungeon collapses!! - You die..."

To all unix administrators out there: I feel your pain.

 

[Get Jiggy]

Better yet, we shouldn't have game over screens at all. I never liked them. To me, they always seemed like they were taunting me, saying "lol, u suk." I can get over a "mission/song failed" screen, but game overs...they're just evil.

I think it would be better if there was a game over screen that did say 'lol, u suk' it would make me laugh

 

[Curtmiester]

Have game over screens ever been good though? Isn't that like an oxymoron?

 

[Woe Is You]

Have game over screens ever been good though? Isn't that like an oxymoron?

Of course [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDY2NyrCGcs] they have. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6VZ0igwRlo&feature=related]

 

[Fightgarr]

Yeah. I remember back in the days of SNES beat 'em ups game over would result in some sweet licks (probably played by Green Jelly [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6hx-FTijQY&feature=related]) or you'd have the end boss punch the screen in the face and laugh at you a la Stone Protectors [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1xYN99bVKE].

Nowadays the best I get is "You have died" on the screen and then I go back to my last checkpoint or whatever.
Man I miss playin' Stone Protectors with my brother.

 

[Mad Maniac with axe-firing chainsaw]

I'd probably be the person who designed one going NANANANAANAA!... I'd also possibly be the player who strangled the person who did that... does that mean I'd have to kill myself if I went into game design?

It can't be too hard to come up with a good game over screen. Depending on the game it could be the last thing that killed you eating you or standing over your corpse or it could just be a picture of the world getting destroyed as the result of your failure, or even just a gravestone/fallen hero on it.

Oh, and the music is important. In some games it's practically a reason to get killed!

 

[ChocoFace]

We need more game overs [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6aRwky0W5Y] like these [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6iT-lMgfAI].

Seriously.

I'm not going to type a longer post, since all you need to do is check those links to agree with me.

The song in the second link made me lol so hard during the first 40 or so seconds."Thought you were hot, guess what? you're not! You are Dead, dead, dead"

I totally agree with what you're saying solely thanks to this video. Although it would be annoying having to listen to it every time you died.

 

[LaughingTarget]

I like the way it's done in Fahrenheit and what's being done with Heavy Rain. The game doesn't end, your character dies and you actually get a story end, not some jarring "Game Over" screen.

 

[whaleswiththumbs]

ok that last one is just weird and it will haunt me forever now, just like the number 41, and i am goddamn serious about it.

At least it's not the blood screen in RE4 "You Are Dead", really i thought the chainsaw taking my head for the 5th time meant I won!

 

[No one knows]

this one is a parody of something, but I thought if it was actually in a game I wouldn't mind the game over screen too much, mainly because I'd just laugh at it.

Also, this one made me laugh too.

 

[Da_Schwartz]

I'm pretty fond of the resident evil game over scenes. Those are pretty recent for the most part.

 

[War Penguin]

Man, if I designed a Game Over Screen I would have a monkey with an AK-47 shoot a banana.
Don't ask me why. I think it would be awesome is all.

 

[tenlong]

We need more game overs [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6aRwky0W5Y] like these [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6iT-lMgfAI].

Seriously.

I'm not going to type a longer post, since all you need to do is check those links to agree with me.

wow to the 2nd one!

 

[Internet Kraken]

A ton of games back then just said "game over" and that was it.

Game over screens have always sucked. Mostly due to the fact that you see them after failing horribly. Only a few game over screens are actually awesome to see and relieve the pain of death.

Others just rub salt in the wound.

 

[oliveira8]

Snake? What happened? SNAKE? SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKEEE!

I know...its old and obvious....