Topical Tuesday: In-Game Death

[ReprobateGamer]

Resident Evil 3 gave you the option of dodging if you got the button timing right, rather than firing. Got caught between two Hunters who took turns to do their decapitation strike which I managed to dodge a good dozen times - though I was wanting to shoot them. It didn't end well.

Resident Evil 5: Reapers and Duvalia. Their insta-kills were a surprise.

Dead Space: one of the tentacles grabs me and starts dragging me through the corridor. Ah, that big orange thing looks suspicious, I'll shoot that. Oh wait, I've got the Line Gun and it won't let me fire it, hang on I'll change to the Plasma Cutter ... ohh it's dragged me quite far, never mind a clean shot here ... oops missed ... still we'll try again ... blast it and ... missed again ... fuck it full auto and ... oh I'm in a tunnel ... yes I've escaped from the tenta ... wait it it's grabbed me again and ... are those bones it's just spat out???

The Unreal Tournaments mentions are stirring some memories - I do remember some opposing players being scarily good with a redeemer (pilotable nuke) but turning around to see the spiral smoke pattern of six homing rockets ...
There was also one of the user created Assault maps on UT2k4 - one of the 'storm the castle' where a combination of rocket hits left my battered corpse resting on the final objective - which was the nearest the team got that game to that objective.
Another tank related death - on the map Robot Factory there was an Ion Cannon (big plasma explosions with lots of splash damage and lots of push. Somehow, it managed to fling a tank into the air and guess who caught the tank in the side of the head ... to make it worse, the tank was on the same team as I was ...

Left 4 Dead 2 - (having never played L4D)first ever game (offline) step out onto the ledge around the hotel, step back into the room for a Charger to appear in the doorway. Me, he and Nick ended up on a roof a surprising distance away from the hotel.

 

[rddj623]

Super Smash Brothers Melee, my two roommates and myself all chose random and all got Jiggly Puff. I am by far the inferior player of the three. I managed to kill them both and win the death match with Jiggly Puff whom I'd never played before!

 

[Theninja'skatana]

Tf2 as a scout i was making a mad rush during the beginng few minutes in the game in 2fort across the top of the bridge when suddenly a single (thankfully) sticky denotes behind me propelling me through the air like some kind of brooklyn acrobat, I ran like the ninny that I am straght into the room outside the spawn (the four way one) Only to discover my enemies WERE ALL ENGIES (TURRETS INCLUDED!!!)

 

[KaosuHamoni]

Probably my first ever online match on Super Street Fighter IV. I was playing as Cammy, as i normally do, and i was fighting a Gen. I have never been pwned faster. literally 5 seconds to perfect me. Again and then again. Never recovered from that. Some people REALLY have mastered that game.

 

[sycoesis]

i was playing cod waw with a couple of friends and well they camp and snipe constantly so i randomly fired my gun uot of boredom and go a head shot across the map the kill cam was the greatest thing i have ever seen

to clear up something about the post it was split screen so i got to see the kill cam

 

[hazabaza1]

Having about 10 health left on Killing Floor, with the last creature being a Fleshpound. About 18 rounds left in my AA12. I shoot him with my pistol to aggravate him, then charge in with my shotty. Nobody survived.

 

[Rasputin1]

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.

Sticky hug... Ew. You could've picked a better name for it.

 

[CharlesBronson]

Very early in my first playthrough of fallout 3 (when your character is still weak and therefore you are still very cautious) I was slinking my way through a partially collapsed subway tunnel. I came up to a partially destroyed section that served as a ramp to an upper level and started making my way up. I took three steps and then heard *snap*, I looked down to my right and saw I stepped through a trip wire. I froze, but... nothing happened. I said to myself "Huh, that was anti climactic..." and turned back to face the ramp I was scaling. As I turned I saw three grenades casually rolling down the ramp towards me. Boom!

That is when I realized this game was awesome.

 

[Grahav]

When I was a little kid and played pacman for the first time. I had no idea how to play it and started to spin like a spaz in a three dots area. A big one appeared randomly near me and I ate it just before two ghosts getting to squish me.

Me and my friends had a good laughter

 

[Bravo 21]

I was playing halo 3 on the valhalla map, and the was a banshee flying right outside the grav lifts, so i decided that I would try to sky jack the banshee, but splattered myself on it , despite it being nearly stationary

 

[Haunted Herring]

My best kill would be from WoW, I was a mage in Arathi Basin and I was up on the Lumber Mill on a cliff. I was fighting a hunter, another mage and a priest healing them. When I was almost dead I blinked up to them and used Blast Wave. It sent all three of them flying to their deaths.

My most epic death isn't actually mine but... me and my mate were playing Invasion on the Halo:reach beta. We were the Elites, I was sneaking across a patch of open ground and my mate suddenly told me to look to my right. I saw his corpse flying into the sky, watching the replay he had ran into a tank, got shot by it and the explosion combined with the tank suddenly moving sent him into the skybox.

 

[Vzzdak]

I find the comic book violence of Unreal Tournament games tends to produce memorable moments.

Playing CTF Lava Giant map in orig. UT: It was often the case that a winning team would cluster around their flag just prior to the timer running out. We were clearly going to win, so we lined up for the end-game screenshot. However, one time an enemy with a sniper rifle took advantage of this, such that only headless bodies of our team remained for the "winning" shot.

Playing VCTF in UT2004: The other team had a fellow that tended to grab their vehicles, race to the enemy flag, abandon the vehicle, and then get killed trying to escape with the flag. Not quite that hilarious when the other team would typically find themselves hurting for vehicles. Anyhoo, so in one case the fellow abandoned their Raptor. I spotted it sliding along the ground and ran up to capture it. However, I didn't time my "Enter Vehicle" key well, and I ended up getting flatted by the Raptor instead of a capture. After the game, the fellow remarked that he saw the command prompt notification that he'd killed me, though it had been quite unexpected.

Playing CTF Facing Worlds in orig. UT: It was one of those 12vs12 full team mayhem situations, where we were all fighting tooth-and-nail, tied for flag captures, and the timer had run down (i.e., whoever scores next wins the game). Somehow I had managed to escape across the bridge, and by all rights should have been able to at least pass the flag to a teammate. However, I was doing jumps and flips to evade sniper fire, and one jump took me over the edge into the void. I was embarrassed for that, and expressed as such to my team.

 

[SalamanderJoe]

Possibly in Bad Company 2. If you thought it was impossible to get road killed, in the air, by a helicopter, the one you just jumped out of, you are wrong sir.

 

[PureFuzz]

Can't think of an epic death but my best kill was in red dead redemption. I got set upon by a pack of wolves whilst i was hunting a deer on foot. One of them clamped onto my arm and as I shook it off it knocked into another wolf and they both slid straight infront of a train

 

[thatcanadianguy]

an epic death? i cant beleive no ones brought this one up yet, ahh but alas, this game maaaay be a bit too old for you all..

let me set the story.

the setting: school's reasource room, computer at the back corner with headphones.
the game :scorched earth
the death: im playing against 8 guys, all useing heavy shields or mag deflectors. i grin smugly and looks at the random set border. its gone yellow with wrap powers. i look to my inventory. 1 deaths head left. i grin to myself, don my rising sun bandana, and with a BONZAI! i fire the muthafugginnuke!!

9 heavy nukes fly along the screen at ma speed. finally planting themselves in a neat row along the screen. takeing everyone out. the funny thing is, theyh all blow up with a funkybomb. and they all seem to hit me, or near me. kind of them giving me a "DAAMMNN YOOOOOU!!!!"

 

[Luke Tideswell]

GTA IV jumped off empire estate building whacked into a lampost whacked the bonnet of a car got up strangly ran into a old lady and died!

 

[Knave283]

I can't remember my best death, although I am sure that there have been some horrid ones, so instead I bring forth a tale of my epic win.

In COD 4:MW, I killed 8 enemy players with a single frag grenade.

In that game, it was the entire other team, who had congregated together for some reason.

I laughed like a boss.

 

[emeraldrafael]

Probably stars wars battle front 2, when i first played but was more into killing the opponent then taking bases (in game) I thought my AI could handle taking CPUs, but i was wrong, and i wound up at the last CPU (it was on endor, and i was in the bunker) and the enemy was just rushing me. I keep gunning down their men and healing when they walked in, so they just lobbed detonators in while five guys ran in shooting.

To my credit, I took three of those bastards with me before the detonators got me and the other two.

 

[Red_Fog]

Mine would have to be Left 4 Dead. Was playing with some college buddies when it first came out and got to the last part of the Death Toll campaign and we're running for the boat when a final tank comes out of the woods and smacks me a good 25 ft closer to the docks, but also downs me. With the sheer number of zombies and special infected about I knew I was boned, so I just shouted, "GO ON WITHOUT ME! GO ON WITHOUT ME!" blastin away with with my pistols. My buds make it across and set the docks on fire with a moltov, and we were all just blastin away at the horde of infected until my last few hitpoints vanished and my virtual self sacrifice was completed.

That game had SO many awesome moments the first time through... and I learned to never trust my life with a certain one of my friends in a zombie Apocalypse... Lookin at you Peter...

 

[Hijax]

in mw2, derail. i was under the house in the middle, firing my javelin, when, suddenly, an enemy jumps from the window above me, taking the rocket directly.

Or, one time where an enemy stuck a Semtex to me, i ran towards him and took out 3 enemies with the blast.