Most ridiculous way to die in a video game

[Netrigan]

Death by closing wooden door in far, far, far too many early FPS with dodgy physics engines.

 

[super_mumbles]

In Oblivion, equipping a helmet which does damage to the wielder and not realising until it's too late (with an added mix of not reading the item description).

I should never have tried enchanting.

 

[EHKOS]

I threw a grenade at someone in MW2 and it hit them in the head and they died....the worst part was it was a smoke grenade.

 

[dark-amon]

Death by cuccos in The Legend of Zelda.

 

[10zack986]

Fallout 3. Pretty much the entirety of the area I entered was chaos. First, there was a Talon Comp Merc with a sniper rifle shooting at me and all the super mutants in the area. During this time, tons of cars are exploding because of all the crossfire, so it sounds like another nuclear holocaust. I finally make it past everything and go into a side street and I hear *beep*. Hundreds of mines exploded and my limbless corpse flew everywhere.

 

[GideonB]

Hidden Trouble in Terrorist Town on gmod on a server I know. The one thing that makes me laugh is that I was the traitor and I got headshotted... By accident... from the other side of the map on dm_richland.
BY ACCIDENT. My round wasted

 

[BourneGamer]

Trying to throw a 'cooked' grenande through a window, only to have it rebound in your face and explode midair. *sigh* Good times.

 

[ReservoirAngel]

Saints Row 2. In the underground mall in a Superiore (Lamborghini basically). Going full-speed down an isle, mowing down citizens. Suddenly hit a ramp. I instinctively bailed out, leaping to safety. Hitting the ground took about half my health, then the car hit the ceiling and fell onto me.

Also, using zero-gravity + evil cars cheats. Stood on the support column of a freeway overpass watching cars smash to death in front of me. Suddenly, a truck came speeding in, smashed against some small car and barrel-roled into me. I got knocked backwards miles (thanks to Zero gravity) and landed on the roof of a multi-story car park. There, lying in wait was a car. PLUS the truck that hit me had landed upright. I got hit in the crossfire of the two and sent flying back onto the freeway. Now, when there's about 10 cars all trying to kill you, you do NOT want to land right near all of them. I ran but...yeah...

 

[Geo Da Sponge]

I'm suprised no one's said it yet, but...

Morinth

 

[Tron-tonian]

In the original AvP - getting cut in half by the Frisbee-of-Death, on a richochet. Made a great reply, though. Absolutely stunning to see.

 

[Trivun]

This didn't happen to me, but yesterday I was waiting in HMV for a turn at playing their copy of H.A.W.X.2 on the Xbox 360. The guy playing at the time, who was pretty crap anyway (and who I was really wanting to leave so I could play for a while) was on a particular story mission involving a group of pilots providing cover fire for ground troops attacking an oil rig (apparently a mission in Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, which shares it's campaign mode with that of H.A.W.X.2, apparently).

Anyway, after taking a series of missiles and stuff the guy decides he's going to try and pull off some stunt moves. He tries to go under the oil rig, and forgets to bother pulling up when he gets near the water. Straight nosedive and crash, after which he decided to ragequit...

 

[Larkin99]

Was running up some stairs in Bad Company 2 when an enemy appears above me. I had my 40mm smoke equipped, so I fired that at him. Hit him in the crotch and insta-killed him. What a way to die.

 

[BioHazardMan]

Dropping off of a 3-foot high wall.

This.

Also in the original Assassins Creed, are you telling me I can't even TOUCH water or I die? Altair can climb buildings with infinite agility, but when water comes into the equation, have mercy on your soul.

 

[TheAmazingTGIF]

I personally enjoy, what I think was, Star Wars: Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight 1 (Jedi Outcast 0: Jedi Academy -1: The Game) you just go exploring at the bottom of a stair case, see a door and go "Oooh! What is behind here? OH FUCK! KRAYYT DRAGON! OH HOLY NI-" and dead.

 

[thehermit2]

Don't remember the most ridiculous ever, but yesterday I was playing "the Saboteur", and immediately after planting lit dynamite on a Nazi radar installation I got stuck in the clip of the rotating aerial, so I got to spin round and round my own bomb for several seconds while I pounded frantically at the keyboard until it finally went off and took me out. That was my most ridiculous death of the week.

 

[ltbigjohn]

being hunted by cliff racers i have nightmares about their cries!!!!

 

[SpecklePattern]

Using your bong too much in Postal 2? I'd vote for that.

Falling off one of the lily pads or logs in Frogger. Seriously, how the hell can a character named Frogger who is, in fact, a goddamn frog, find water lethal?

AHAHAHAHAHAHA! (I have also, myself thought this one before. What's the dealio on that one. But it would not be much of a game if you could just press on with the frog.)

 

[el_negro]

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.

JAJJAJAJJ I came here to post that, he finally jumps from the balcony... xD

 

[CoL0sS]

Any death from "I wanna be the guy". Seriously that game is crazy.

 

[SpecklePattern]

In the original AvP - getting cut in half by the Frisbee-of-Death, on a richochet. Made a great reply, though. Absolutely stunning to see.

I think you could do that on the avp2 also? Or am I wrong? (actually didn't I have not played avp1, only avp2)