Topical Tuesday: In-Game Death

[Dennis Lauer]

Unreal Tournament (99)
a teammate gave me an impact hammer boost (basically he launched me to fly through half the map)when i got hit midair by a pack of rocketlauncher nades. Those of you who know UT1 will know how *wow* that is.

On the other end of the spectrum..
I played Global Agenda as a sniper with basically paper for armor. I had a medic behind me and it was us against 7 people. However they completely ignored the medic and tought they could bring me down with brute force.. By the time the medic had used up all his healing skills and he just used the normal healing ray I had killed enough of them for him to keep me alive with just that and let me finish off the others^^
o yea, i forgot, i was sniping in melee range..

 

[shadyh8er]

All of these happened when bro and I were playing RE5.

We were at the part right before the 1st fight w/ Wesker. Next thing I know my bro eats a rotten egg which sends him into the "dying" state. It was so stupid I refused to heal him.

Same part. My bro is up on the balcony fighting a Licker. I look through my scope and say out loud "Aren't there supposed to be two up there?" As soon as I finish the sentence, said missing Licker owns me from behind.

Same part again. My bro and I were trapped in the building with the bridge controls trying to eliminate the horde of Lickers. My bro gets pinned for an insta-kill and I can't help him because I've got a Licker's tongue through my shoulder.

Different part. My bro was walking on a conveyor belt with people throwing dynamite at him from above. I tell him "It's ok, I sniped them out." A few moments later he gets blown up. My bro rages and says "I thought you said you killed all the dynamite guys!" I grin nervously and say "I did. That was me that blew you up!" (I had accidentally shot a red gas tank).

 

[dvd_72]

Halo: Combat evolved. Getting run over by your own warthog isn't fun

It was single player campaign, that one island mission early on (I think it's the 4th). I had brought a warthog into the building. I quickly drove it down a all, down an ramp, and around a corner, jumping out after launching it towards the door in the hope of jamming it open so I could skip some backtracking. I stupidly throw a grenade, causing the warthog to launch back at me and crush me.

I still have a screenshot of the Master Chief lying under that hog somewhere on my hard drive

 

[Begleiter]

My most memorable death was on COD:MW2 on crash. I had just been killed by an enemy after killing one of his teammates, as often happens to me in most matches I'm in. When suddenly instead of re spawning, I get launched through a wall as a corpse, and three members of my team light up the chat. Turns out I spawned just as my teammates care package hit the ground killing me before I could spawn.

Ironically enough, during this same match I killed an enemy with a care package of my own on top of the bike shop. Drop my smoke flare as the enemy comes running up the stairs killing me and a teammate just as the package falls ricochets off of the air vent running him over. Too bad it wasn't the killing blow, score was at 7300 before the package killed him, followed by a sniper shot from the three story rooftop to end the game with a Victory.

 

[rossable]

each and every death i've experienced is lame.
it would take an elaborate James Bond death machine (an inescapable one) to impress me.

 

[SteinFaust]

in kane and lynch 2, we were playing fragile alliance.
when you die, you come back as a cop to try to stop the heist from being successful.
i got killed by some nonsensical bullshit, so i came back as a cop.
i snuck around, turned more than half the remaining players into cops, and then got caught in an absurd CQB firefight in which i made a last ditch effort to kill the last man by throwing a propane tank at him. he shot it in the air, and we both died.

You do realize there is some kind of auto lock on thing when you throw one of those right? the number of times i`ve killed someone because they threw a propane tank in the middle of a firefight is ridiculous.As for mine it`d have to be Kane and lynch 2 as well another PC killed me by hitting me in the face with a gas tank ,he didn`t shoot it , just threw it , oddest insta kill i`ve seen in a while

yeah i know about the auto-aim; developers couldnt possibly assume the average gamer had the skill to shoot a tank in mid air, could they?
i just had to throw it because both my guns were dry, there was no time to reload, and we were both on the SAME corner. i mean, it was a damn L-bend, and we were both right there! he popped out and i whipped it at him! it couldnt have even had time to auto aim because i'm sure it was close enough to him that he could have just hit it with the first round to come out of the barrel.

 

[SteinFaust]

each and every death i've experienced is lame.
it would take an elaborate James Bond death machine (an inescapable one) to impress me.

go to the supermarket in Jury Street in Fallout 3. someone has a nice rube goldberg machine you'd like.

 

[cartographer54]

I was playing Sandtrap on Halo 3. I was bunny hopping straight through the middle corridor thingy in one of the pyrimad tower buildings, when my friend fired a rocket straight ahead.Still jumping, I thought I was invincible, until I was about to go out over the edge, and the rocket blew me up. Complete luck, yet my jaw had just dropped.

 

[trooperpaul]

My best death: I was messing around in Fallout 3, so I went to the top of Tenpenny Tower. Holding the MIRV, I jumped over the ledge, and just before I hit the ground, I fired. My gibs flew across the map, and triggered the Firelance event.

 

[Kimarous]

I was playing Just Cause 2 a few weeks ago. A simple bombing of a propaganda tank went strangely awry and I ended up getting pursued by three military helicopters, at minimal health and on foot. This merry little chase lasted for about ten to fifteen minutes, as I was in unfamiliar territory and, since I was running in that general direction, I decided that exploration took priority over retaliation. To my display, every since location I ran across was a military base. By the third base, I realized: "Oh yeah, military bases have med kits inside them. This may be brazen, but if I can heal up in there, I can launch a more effective counterattack." I manage to avoid enemy fire and snatched up the med kit...

And as soon as I did, I got blasted by a helicopter missile, flinging me into the base's courtyard and exposing me not only to all three helicopters, but all the base's grunts and a few automated turrets. I was dead before I could even stand up again. I quote my reaction: "Oh goodness. Oooooooh goodness. Yes. Yes, I have been thoroughly, thoroughly pwned."

 

[Isaac The Grape]

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.

You haz played Cave Story?

Finally, someone else who has experianced that amazing and heartouching five year work of art.

Getting back to topic.

I was playing Nexuiz (Free Arena-Based FPS with graphics and gameplay to rival anything from Epic or Id). It was a very small map with two stories (Downer) with three other players. I was on a roll with a 5 kill streak and was spamming using the mortar. This new guy joined and went straight for the RL. Next second he sends me flying into a corner and proceades to just miss me I run in the oppersite direction and send some 'nades his way when lo and behold I am telefraged by the same player. He'd got me fixated on him and then had herded me into the other end of the teleport before killing me instantly. To this day I marvel at his stunning use of level knowledge and quick thinking.

 

[CRoone]

Modern Warfare 2...
I had been playing a match in Invasion, and had just got done with an AC-130 spree fueled by a particularly lucky Emergency Airdrop I had called in. I had managed to rack up about 17 kills by the time it was over, and the other team was obviously ticked off, to say the least. So I see a signal for a Predator Missile coming in, and raise my Riot Shield to block it. Somehow - I'm not quite sure *how* exactly - it hit my shield, and I survived. I was hurt, sure, but I felt great.
And then somebody threw a Stun Grenade at me, hit me with it, and killed me. As the last kill of the match.
Let me put it in clear, unambiguous terms:
I blocked a missile...with my Riot Shield...and I was the victim of the Game Winning KillCam...via Stun Grenade.

That...was humbling, though in retrospect, I should have seen that coming.

 

[Jark212]

Easy:

I was hauling ass running away from a Deathclaw in Fallout 3 (on the hardest difficulty) when it suddenly flew up into the air. I was pretty happy, then out of nowhere an Albino Radscorpion appeared and proceeded raped me...

That shut me up as I stared at the screen with my mouth open for two minutes, as I wondered what the hell just happened...

 

[TheVaultHunter]

So I'm in a bar in Armadillo, Red Dead Redemption. I'm trying to get my character shitfaced on mystery booze, and all is well. Then out of nowhere (bear in mind I cannot use weapons while buying drinks at the bar) a fucking COYOTE runs into the bar and takes me down! Wild west my ass.

 

[Horus Lupercal]

Not my death but an enemy.
In Planetside me and a buddy was doing some recon and I were doing some sniping from a hilltop, with my buddy standing watch, when suddenly a mosquito (scout plane) comes flying towards us, I slide down the hill pulling up my assault rifle (we were with the Terran Republic) as the mosquito hits my buddy in the chest flying with him stuck to the front right into a tree pinning him there.
As the plane hit him he was firing on full auto into the cocpit and so was I as I slid down the slope, destroying the plane seconds after my friend was pinned to the tree, it was indeed an awesome moment.

My most epic, or maybe most humuliating death was (still on planetside) when we again were doing recon for our forces, we were spotted out in the open and as we came under attack we split up.
i hid under some rocks to ambush our pursuers as a assault plane came hovering down and looked into the small hole where I was covering, needles to say he opened fire and I was thorn to shreds.

Man! I miss playing Planetside, I do wish someone makes a remake or maybe a sequel.

 

[AdmiralMemo]

My most memorable death was due to it being so funny. Original Half Life deathmatch. Level: Jail Cell Rats (or possibly one of the other similar variants).

I was low on armor and ammo, so I run into the one hallway that's next to the big grate on the side of the map that you get the rocket launcher in. I wanted to see if any had recently spawned in the hallway. At the other end of the hallway, for those unfamiliar with the map, is a little cubby-hole on the right side with a ladder going up to the next level. This is kind of the bottom corner of the whole map. I'm running in the open end of the hallway just as someone jumps down where the ladder is. Both of us were looking for the ammo and armor, and it hadn't re-spawned yet from whoever last got it. So, I had my pistol out and so did this guy. I'm firing; he's firing; we're both strafing and hitting nothing. We both run out of bullets pretty much simultaneously, so we both pull out crowbars and go to wail on each other. He's a little quicker on the draw, so he gets the first hit in, as we're dancing around in the tight hallway, hitting each other and trying not to get hit ourselves. I think because he got the first hit in, he won, because we were about evenly matched, blow for blow. So he finally kills me, and through our dancing, he's ended up in the cubby-hole next to the ladder. My kill-cam has me looking up at him. He looks down at me for a split-second, as if to make sure I was actually dead. At that exact instant, a grenade lands right on his head from above. I don't know if someone deliberately threw it on him or if it simply missed and fell from a throw that missed someone else. Plus, it's pretty unlikely for the grenade to actually land on your head, rather than bouncing off it and landing on the ground. But anyway, the grenade *plinks* on his head. Hearing the sound, he looks upward, right at the grenade, and I swear that if I had seen the guy behind the computer, he would have been like "What?" right before he exploded. It's like for a moment, he forgot it was a multiplayer game, and that I wasn't his only opponent. All I know is I burst out laughing at the whole thing.

It was so fast, too. Within a few seconds, it was *Run!* *see each other* Oh crap! *Bang! Bang! Bang!* *click* *whip* *WHACK! WHACK! WHACK! WHACK!* *DEAD* Whew! *plink* What? *BOOM!*

 

[Talshere]

No death is ever quite so funny as when Im playing World of warcraft on my priest and manage to kill myself with shadow word death. It always makes me smile, generally gets a laugh from everyone else, and is especially rewarding since supposedly its very hard to do these days, despite that fact that I can usually manage it once a week without intending too

 

[Lullabye]

Well, I have a habit of dying in the most epic and unconventional of ways, so I'll just go with most recent.
In Demon's Souls when I was fighting to the death with the two ManEaters. they both leaped at me as I swung my Northern Regalia. We all killed eachother. Needless to say, it was awesome. And luckily it counted as a kill for me so I didn't have to redo it.

 

[MrShowerHead]

ArmA II RPG server, when a leader of this mafia found out that I'm a traitor(Long story) He did a Hollywood like execution on me. First shot me in the leg and then my head. All with epic one-liners. It was epic.

Even more epic was when I got my revenge

 

[FollowUp]

Playing Left 4 Dead 2, at the finale waiting for Vergil and his boat. I was at 20 health, running for it, when there's a tank that suddenly appears backhands me, 35 feet onto the boat. HOWEVER. This incaps me, so I'm considered as dead, despite being on the boat with the others, very much alive.