Most ridiculous way to die in a video game

[i7omahawki]

Once, playing True Crime: LA, I hunted some perp down, busted him, returned to my nice, shiny red car. As soon as I climbed in, it crumpled up, shat sparks everywhere and then exploded into a mess. This propelled me across the street, I smashed through picket fence after picket fence, and then BAM! I hit a hedge head on and died.

I would've been mad, but that was too funny/surreal to keep a straight face.

Death by hedge.

 

[Harlemura]

Does it have to be our own death? Actually, I don't care, I'm going to tell this story regardless.
Me and a friend were playing Borderlands, going about some general side missions. Due to me handling the car like a pig on roller blades, said friend was the designated driver.
I hopped out of the car just to go burn a book or something. As I did, a bunch of Spiderants popped out the ground. Being the lazy sod that I am and the fact I was being Lilith lead to me deciding to just phasewalk away.

Long story short, pushed the wrong shoulder button, forgot I had rubberized grenades, threw it at the one patch of ground the enemies weren't standing on, grenade rebounded off a hill, got a direct hit on the car in which my friend was still sitting in.
Bet I couldn't make that shot again if I tried.

 

[Weaver]

IMO It's in an old Sierra game called Quest for Glory

If you're a Thief, you can type "pick nose" or use a lock pick - if you're Lock Picking skill is high enough, you'll actually gain some skill (and unlock your nose), but if it's too low, you'll end up getting a brain hemorrhage and killing yourself.

 

[TerribleAssassin]

Accidently LAN-mined a Med Bot on Deus Ex, cause the game's script to die on me as well.

 

[Drauden]

The title says it all; in my opinion, a headshot from an airblasted flaming arrow in TF2. What are your suggestions?

Ridiculous? Dude, if I could choose how I would die, a flaming arrow through the head would be THE way to go.

I once died in GTA4 after crashing into a traffic light while driving a motorcycle, and the actual light-thing fell on and hit me on my head.

 

[Extraintrovert]

getting run over by your own car while driving it in gta 4

TIME PARADOX!

On topic: My contender was in Half-Life 2. I was busy scaling a cliff, when a fast zombie decided to leap out of nowhere and claw at my face. Suddenly I was at the bottom of that cliff, very much dead.

 

[laggyteabag]

On BF:BC2 i was on a quad bike, i dodged about 30 tank shells then i drove straight into a petrol tank

Also i was shooting a helicopter then a metal plate fell of the bottom and hit me in the face

 

[Tattaglia]

Getting crushed by the charred shell of a quad bike a full minute after destroying it in Battlefield: Bad Company 2.

Using the heat-seeking dynamite glitch in Red Dead Redemption. The best example I have is throwing a stick through a smashed window of the Armadillo saloon and hitting the piano man in the back of the head.

 

[ACM_Shadow]

for the DMC players, the very end of this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azLT90VUTJY&feature=related, TF2; did you know you can reflect sentry rockets, and they can be reflected back. i have died many a time when i have instantly reflected a rocket or grenade back to someone whos right in from of me... also it was set up but i dont care, sentry shoots pyro, pyro rocket-jumps via sentry rockets, flare-guns engy, axetinguishers just before landing tried to find the vid of it but it has gone missing.

 

[ReaperzXIII]

In GTA4, I killed some police officers and jacked their ride to pass some time got either 3/4 stars and I started driving my getaway vehicle, I saw that I was almost out of their circle of influence, sped up and WHACK! I fly into a fuel station and explode

 

[The Hero Killer]

Being scared to death by Kabal's fatality on Mortal Kombat III.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6zm05elnGw

 

[ICanBreakTheseCuffs]

37 is the stupidest

 

[alrekr]

punching a guy in Red Dead Redemption and then suddenly getting teleported into the sky and falling to my death... dam karma, I shouldn't I have hog tied that nun

 

[TPiddy]

In Left 4 Dead 2, the bridge finale of the parish level, a charger carried me clean off the bridge.

 

[EightGaugeHippo]

Cougar man attack, as seen on Red Dead Redemption.

 

[Blue Musician]

In Indigo Prophecy, taking some pills and then drinking alcohol is always funny because the man character does a voiceover when you die and it was stupididly dramatic.

Basically this.
EDIT: Because I have just got a warning by a moderator three months after I have posted, I must say that also in Pathologic is to just die by illness. It isn't really ridiculous, but still I thought that it's the only game that makes you die of cancer.

 

[DeathChairOfHell]

well in left 4 dead 2, in the swamp fever campaign, there's in the first chapter a place where you need to cross a river with a ferry. if you TOUCH that water even a little bit, you die instantly. i haven't done it, but i've been playing with people that does that by accident.

 

[Archindar]

Walking into a trap consisting of fifty frag mines that have been laid out on the ground on the other side of the door you just entered.
The only thing you hear is BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BIP KABOOOOM! before you are sent flying through the air, rag-doll style.

The game is of course Fallout 3