Topical Tuesday: In-Game Death

[adam5396]

Anytime in L4D or L4D2's Versus when the enemy gets us all at once. Just knowing that the people on the other end are actually talking to each other and thinking about how to take us down is just, good.

However, for specific moments. It would have to be in any GMod TTT game. Basiclly, some player become traitors and have to kill the normal people without them finding out. BUt if the traitors convince you that everyone is still alive. (You need to search the bodies to add them ot the list of dead people) It can be a great moment when you get backstabbed because the 3 people you thought were ok were all actually traitors.

 

[CronoDAS]

Anyone here ever played Nethack? It's hard to top Nethack for crazy deaths.

There's even a song about it! [http://www.thefump.com/lyrics.php?id=93]

Skippy sank in lava, Corwin turned to slime,
They could both see what was coming but they couldn't pray in time.
Pinky fought a soldier ant that crawled out of his backpack
They were all in love with dyin', they were doing it in NetHack.
Bertha swung Mjollnir like a Valkyrie in the rain
Then she lost her mind in Sokoban; a flayer ate her brain.
They were all in love with dyin', usin' every keyboard function,
As they tried to find the Amulet, somewhere in the dungeon.

I don't mind the text sometimes, the images it shows.
Running from the Ds and Ls, and killing all the Os.
Faded prints and subtle hints and fortune cookie lies.
You never ID all your stuff, until your @ sign dies.

In NetHack, you play an @ symbol in a randomly-generated dungeon, fighting every vicious letter of the alphabet, upper AND lower case. And several very nasty punctuation marks.

Some will die in hot pursuit, fleeing from a shop,
Some will eat a rubber hose, wielded by a Kop.
Some will stand there paralyzed,
Some will go down punchin'
As they try to find the Amulet, somewhere in the dungeon.

I don't mind the text sometimes, the images it shows.
Running from the Ds and Ls, and killing all the Os.
Faded prints and subtle hints and fortune cookie lies.
You never ID all your stuff, until your @ sign dies.

I've played since the eighties! I've seen more dungeons than Torquemada! I've killed more explorers than malaria! I've kicked in more doors than the LAPD and I've opened more chests than a M*A*S*H unit! Crom help me, I have ascended a Tourist.

Arthur tamed a jabberwock but died when it went feral.
Zack wielded a cockatrice, he fell down in a stairwell.
Theseus was butchered when he misspelled 'Elbereth,'
Carmen ate Medusa, yet another stupid death.
Chauncey fought the Oracle, he knew that it was chancey,
Cause you ASCII stupid question and you'll get a stupid ANSI.
They were all in love with dyin', they were perilously plungin'
As they tried to find the Amulet, somewhere in the dungeon.

I don't mind the text sometimes, the images it shows.
Running from the Ds and Ls, and killing all the Os.
Faded prints and subtle hints and fortune cookie lies.
You never ID all your stuff, until your @ sign dies.

You eat the fortune cookie.
There is a scrap of paper inside.
It says, "You will choke to death on a fortune cookie."
Identify your possessions? Y/N

 

[The Journey]

Best for me in recent memory would have to be a moment in Battlefield Bad Company 2, playing rush on... some map, I am terrible with names. A jungle map.

After dying on the enemy defenses once again, me and my squad mates (a small group of four of us, conveniently) decided to hang back and fly a C4 laden UAV into the objective. Three of us had C4 and were standing around sticking it on the UAV, enough to blow up two or three objectives after a few seconds.

Then suddenly out of nowhere an RPG hits me in the face and detonates all of our C4 and the UAV and killing all of us in one fell swoop. We were all stunned for a moment before roaring with laughter at the ridiculousness of it all.

We then hunted down all the engineers on the opposing team before we lost the match.

Good times!

 

[MeTheMe]

I think my favorite death came not from an FPS, but from Super Smash Brothers Brawl. I was MetaKnight and my brother was Pit. He knocked me off the platform we were on, and made my way back. I was juuust short of the edge, so I start my horizontal drill attack right at him. He uses his shield to reflect it, and cause to drill right off into my own death!

 

[Kazasu]

My best death.. Is probably when I was playing a spy for tf2 on a map which I don't remember the name of. It was capture the intel.

Long story short, I make an impossible jump, kill a scout mid air, get called out as a hacker, then die a horrible horrible death due to fall damage.

This is why you be sure to check if you have 10 health before jumping into the faces of scouts and side stabbing them.

 

[chowderface]

Lies. All lies. Clearly I'm the only one who remembers how it all went down.

I was doing a Let's Play of The Sims 2 on a friend's forum (they've since switched to a different service, so I'm not sure you'd be able to find it, but if you can, it had some good moments); thusly, all the PCs were based on members of the thread. It was in the college expansion, right after a final exam. Completely on a whim, I decided it was time for a streaker party, so I ordered all the characters to strip down and run around like loons (no really. There's a "streak" option when they go to college). This they did, and after showing off their nethers to some of their dormmates, they found better things to do. Except for one, which I lost track of for a bit-when I found her again, nine game-hours later, she was still going. Her hunger stat was completely in the red, if she didn't get something to eat, and fast, she was done for. Her AI noticed this, and put it's clothes back on to go get some dinner. She grabbed a bowl of macaroni and cheese, sat down at the table, and then STOOD UP AGAIN so that she could fall over and die of starvation. No one came to her rescue, so in her place was a funeral urn (which the game told me I could sell for about $150. So much for the value of human life).

This isn't the end of the story. That's right. My best death is, in fact, more than one death.

Anyone who's played the Sims games knows that if you keep the urn/headstone that appears after someone dies, after a couple of days the dead Sim's ghost will start to haunt the building it's gravesite is in. This happened per usual. As I'm going about my LP business, I notice something odd going on upstairs. It's the ghost, and she's leapt out and scared one of the other players. Scared him to death, in fact. Remembering the lack of response to the ghost's death, this time someone is ordered to save him; they win the gamble, Death is disappointed, and he comes back to life. And I venture off elsewhere to see what other shenanigans are going on. When suddenly his portrait disappears from the lineup again. The ghost scared him to death again.

 

[Azure Sky]

A singleplayer moment:

Fighting the final (secret) boss of Cave Story, the enemy is initially in human(oid) form. His attack pattern isn't too complex, but a bit of a nightmare if it's the first time you've got there. I narrowly beat it, and he staggers, then flies up off the top of the screen.

SMAAAASH, down he comes again, this time as a giant, monstrous, grinning sphere. Right on top of my head. "You have died. Do you want to try again?" I think my jaw physically dropped there and then, and my hands went limp, dropping the controller to my lap. Just too ridiculous to handle at that moment - it comes after a solid 5/10 minute Platform Hell experience, INCLUDING another boss, without any save points! Essentially, I was awed by the designer's amazingly cheap shot that I should've seen coming.

Omg that boss is a nightmare.
To think he has TWO MORE FORMS after that one.

Man Cave Story is win, Hard as hell, but win.

[Edit] It seems I fail at quoting today...

 

[SecretSmoke]

This one isn't actually *mine* but one I saw. I was watching my lil' brother play COD: MW, which I enjoyed doing because he was just so damn *good* at FPS's. He was playing in a desert level (go figure) and one of the spots in the level was a large brownish brick building that had an exposed rooftop, with stairs leading up to it. He had placed C4 at a few points on the stairs, and was using the spot to snipe. As he was firing, he heard an enemy come, and looked up to see a guy do a SPINNING JUMP and knife him directly in the face. We sat there and watched the kill cam, both of us saying "what the fuck was that?" in hushed tones, as if we had just witnessed some kind of miracle, he wasn't even mad that he had died lmao

 

[monalith]

in ARMA2 (the Bohemia one) while i was playing multiplayer i fired a SMAW at an approaching black shark helicopter. i managed to hit it and the damn thing crashed on top of me, many lols were had on both teams.

 

[Sentox6]

Resident Evil 4. Getting my head chainsawed off for the first time. It was a real "whoa..." moment.

 

[diego_2112]

I'm going to have to say in the HALO: Reach BETA, I was in the level with the bridges (I cant remember the name of it), running for the grav lift, got assassinated RIGHT as I got to the grav lift, and my body just floated up and down the lift for about 90-120 seconds. It was epic!

I THINK I have the video in my fileshare... Never can remember this stuff. Ah well.

 

[Estarc]

My most memorable death occurred in Resistance: Fall of Man for PlayStation 3. My best friend and I were playing the split-screen co-op campaign, a feature I wish more games had. During one portion of the game, as we were fighting our way up through the debris laden streets, I stopped to take cover behind a solid concrete barrier while my health regenerated. The concrete faithfully protected me from our enemies plasma bullets and hedgehog grenades. So one enterprising Chimera ran up to the other side of the concrete, and hit me with the butt of his gun THROUGH the damn wall! I died instantly, and my friend and I sat there mouthing "What the fuck?" and laughing. It was hilarious and awesome.

 

[Ponch]

Mine was a "Sticky Hug" kill in HALO 2. My brothers and some friends were playing against each other, but I totally sucked(still do). Any time I'd go for a kill, I'd get gunned down. Well, one time I got hit with a sticky and just decided to run up on whoever was around the corner so I could get shot instead of blown up. Problem for my buddy was, he was reloading, so what ended up happening was, I ran straight up to him and since he was dual-wielding pistols, it looked like I had stopped by for a hug right when I exploded.

 

[_Golgoth_]

Being killed in one second by Veigar in League of Legends when I was carrying our team with my awesome mage skills.
2k HP to zero in one second
I literally sat stunned and was wtf...
That was the first time anyway
Now I just swear at the midget when I see him

Edit: Oh and one time in COD4:2
Playing it at a friends and no-one is nearby and the UAV shows they are on the next building
I die
Me and my mate are like WTF?
Killcam: My ally on the other building goes to throw a grenade but gets shot by an enemy over on ANOTHER building half the map away from me
The grenade drops out of my allies hand bounces off the edge and blows up above my head instantly killing me
Me and my mate still wtf about that today it was rather unreal

 

[Sacman]

Deus Ex smoking to death...

 

[kingmob]

It must've been the early days of competitive TF2. The rules for class limits were not yet set. I regard myself as tactically minded and our team had quite a few wins with a strong setup for every map.

We played a team on well and we had just kicked their asses on the previous map. The doors open and we rush in... noone there! Oblivious our whole team starts capping, expecting the team to have foolishly dug in with sentries or something similar. While we are halfway to the next point, suddenly the announcer shouts "our point is being captured!". The whole enemy team had been waiting in the water and proceeded to cap all points before we could even kill ourselves and respawn. I had just been introduced to the backcap...

 

[LandoCristo]

Playing TF2, as soldier. I shoot off three rockets at a pyro running up some stairs at me. He dodges the first, and jumps off the blast on the ground of the second, and reflects the third into my face while he's in the air, before pulling out his shotgun to finish me.

 

[legion431]

Red Dead Redemption multiplayer.
Me and my friends fill up a carriage, i ride shotgun. Just for kicks, I take out a stick of dynamite, hold it, and the carriage explodes, sending it, and all the corpses of a cliff...EPIC
You had to be there.

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

Mine was in CoD MW2.

Normal Team Deathmatch game in Bailout, and the enemy team was holed up in and around the gym at one end of the level. After a few lives of trying to storm their position by conventional means, I decided it was time to break out my 'Crowd Control' class (Riot shield and Spas-12). Approaching from the raised walkway coming from the rec room I advanced towards their position, and the three enemy team members guarding this approach immediately backed away from me into the gym, emptying magazine after magazine into my riot shield. When I had them backed into the top floor of the gym, I charged with my shield (knowing I couldn't take them all but secure in the knowledge that two of my teammates were behind me to finish them off while I would be waiting to respawn).

The three enemies who had retreated at my initial advance now all leaped on me, knives flashing. Somehow I managed to block all three attacks with my shield, and even floored one of my attackers, before *BOOM* - a headshot from the fourth enemy I didn't even know was there, crouched in one of the top floor corners with a shotgun. The killcam replayed my character charging into a whirling storm of blades, turning aside blade after blade, before finally being taken down by a 12-gauge to the side of the head.

The fight had looked good from my perspective, but from the perspective of my killer it looked awesome beyond belief.

 

[Larsirius]

The most insane death I've had, me and a friend, who has a way of always getting good at games really fast, was playing 1v1 on Valhalla in Halo 3 right after launch. After a while, I was no longer able to tell where he was, and knowing him like I do, I went out into the open, to cover as many angles as possible. I kept looking behind me, left, right, just spinning, trying to get a glimpse of him. And all of a sudden, he assassinated me. I am still unable to tell how he pulled it off, 3 years later.

Me most epic kill would have to be in Frontlines Fuel of War, where we were playing on ths assymetrical night-map where the attackers started at a bas covered by a mountain top, with a bunch of helicopters, while the defenders were dug into the small town-base.
One of the points of capture was a generator that had to be destroyed, either by weapons or placing a explosive charge on it.
As I was flying(alone in the chopper) towards it and shooting at the generator, I suddenly saw a big flash, and a smoke trail coming right towards me. Realizing that I've got a homing rocket to deal with, I quickly jump out of the chopper, which is blown into a fireball of debris and hull the moment I leave it, and deploy my chute, watching the momentum of my chopper carry it towards the generator, hitting it, blowing it up, and killing 3 defenders.

So awesome.