Topical Tuesday: In-Game Death

[MasterOfHisOwnDomain]

GTA IV. My car is on fire, my tires are shot and I'm being chased by the police. I drive full speed, spin, roll out of the car and the thing explodes. My body goes flying into the air, smacks against a wall and is flung off. Then the cops decide to shoot me for good measure...

 

[Eumersian]

I have a screencap of me winning a game of Age of Empires 3 against somebody with me as the ottomans. After I conquered the living daylights out of my opponent, I scanned the paused map to look for interesting stuff. What I found was a settler who had been launched into the air by a cannonball. They were hanging there perfectly above the ground, presenting me with an interesting memory.

 

[ThatLankyBastard]

On Halo 3 I was playing wit my friends on... umm... Narrows?? I think... The one with the Grav lift you use to jump the huge chasm...yeah... anyways!

I was playing on... that map... using the grav lift to jump that huge chasm. I had a sniper rifle equipped and saw my friend on the bridge to my right, so I took aim and fired. After reviewing the footage after the map it turned out that the single bullet I fired in mid air not only narrowly missed my friends head twice, but bounced 4 times in total, the last bounce taking the bullet through MY head...

I still get made fun of for that...

 

[The Afrodactyl]

Bad Company 2 - Port Valdez - Rush Defending.

The opposing team is down to their last 4 guys. The Vodnik, loaded with guys (4 I believe), comes haring down the road toward me. I stand my ground.

I draw my RPG and fire. The charge hits the driver square in the face, killing him instantly. The vodnik explodes, cartwheeling into the air. It front flips twice, then crushes me.

Turns out the gunner leapt free at the last second and I didn't get my epic 4-man game ender

 

[YepGeddon]

I could go into depth but I dont think its necessary really. Dead Space, and being killed by a brute. Jesus.. Talk about overkill..

 

[GenericAmerican]

Expert, L4D, No Mercy. Teammates dead, finale. With health in the red, I kill the tank by myself, no fire; dodge 2 smokers and a hunter. The helicopter shows up...I get killed, literally inside of the chopper by some common. Got it on the next try though.

 

[LycanBlade]

*points at Man Hunt* THAT!!!

multiplayer wise tho i would have to say in MW2 when I tried to use the jesus missle (the javelin....cause it ascends into the heavens then smites you) and it hit the overpass on whatever map that is and killed me and three people while on free for all

 

[Doinstuffman38]

Mine was in CoD:MW2.

I was dual wielding MP5Ks. I spotted an enemy heading down a ramp about 10 meters ahead going down to my left. I made after him. About 10 meters from the ramp he exploded out of it with what I thought was a shotgun.I went from a full run dropping into a crouch hoping to avoid the first Shotgun blast. At the same time I opened up with both guns. Going into a crouch had the side effect of taking my aim lower. My opponent Jumped straight at me at the same time. He cleared the 10 meters in between us practically flying over the stream of bullets as i tried to compensate and bring my cross hairs up. Just as he was about a meter away from me he activated his knife midair and planted it firmly between my eyes insta killing me.

That was the one death that still stands out to me this day.

You know, it's funny, 'casue there was this one time I faced off against this guy dual weilding MP5s, and so I was going down this ramp, opening up with a shotgun. He crouched, and started firing. So I jumped in the air, and cleared the 10 meters with the knife, planting it right between his... wait a sec...

Just kidding... getting back on topic...

So, I was playing Halo 3, and I was chasing this dude through a door shield, and as he ran through it, he bounced a frag off the barrier, dropping my shields. I continued through the shield, and then he was right there with a magnum, and he capped me without even trying. I was a tad bit stunned.

EDIT: One memorable kill I made was on Valhalla (still H3), I saw a fully loaded Warthog driving around the left side of the map. I had a Spartan Laser. I charged and fired. I hit the driver. Not the Hog. The driver. The Warthog was fine. That was one of my favorite kills ever.

 

[deadmandante]

Fallout 3. Dicking around after having beaten the game the first time, I found the MIRV. So I sell everything, buy and pillage every mini nuke I can find. I then proceed to walk around the wasteland shooting randomly and blowing every thing up. I got an enclave eyebot on shot. What I didn't know was I did it right next to an enclave outpost. I turn to go another way and get shot from behind. Upon turning around I see four enclave soldiers coming down on me. I shoot the MIRV and run like hell and get all three of them. Going back to what I was doing I fail to hear the vertibird set down and let five tesla armored grunts down. I get hit with plasma rifle from all five and end up flipping as two rounds hit me in the head at the same time.

 

[No_Remainders]

I try not to die mostly.

I've got a best death and best kill to share though.

Both took place in Halo: Reach.

The death was me using a gravity hammer simply to annoy the other team (it was 4v3 in favour of them, so I n00b'd it up for the game to make it more even). So I ran over to someone, thinking he was afk; hit him with the hammer, BOOM!
He went into Armour Lock. REJECTED!

It was kinda fun.


Best kill was me spawning with an enemy ghost looking straight at me, I didn't move, because I had Armour Lock on. So he took aim, and kindly made a big reverse slightly before boosting towards me. Last second I heard "Oh fuck" on my headset because I used AL and he couldn't do anything about it.

The next line out of him was "Well played Sir!"

 

[Underground Man]

Mine was in World of Warcraft. I know that sounds silly, and I haven't played that game in years, but I can still remember it. When I was still a young n00bling (about lvl 30), a glitch caused me to fall through a boat that was docked in Booty Bay. My corpse landed somewhere in Mulgore, and my ghost on the border of the Barrens. Being too cheap to rez at the spirit healer, I did a corpsewalk with my nelfy wisp the entire way. I then spent a few minutes picking off low-level Taurens.

Then I figured out how to get into all kinds of "secret areas" and falling through the world became a common experience for me. Back then though, I was really intrigued by my strange experience.

 

[Megacobb]

Just recently in Halo:Reach My friends and I were in forge and I somehow got hit with a giant block doing 5 backflips and then falling off the edge of the map.

 

[Jimson]

In MWF2 I was getting my magnum skill up, Running from room to room killing all the snipers, and picking off all the people trying to get inside the door from under the stairs (This was on Estate inside the house) when all of a sudden I ran at a sniper, and shot a few bullets (he was facing out towards the balcony in the bedroom upstairs) and I turned around, sitting there in the corner getting ready to kill the sniper was a shotgunner, my first instinct was to try and knife, (I had commando pro) right when I drew back my knife, he shot, and put me down for good. In the animation you could see my guy bring out the knife, go to stab the opponent, and then all hell breaks loose as my body goes down. The timing was as perfect as I could imagine.