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Gemini-Phoenix

07-25-2005, 06:44 AM

What is the stupidest death you have had to endure in gaming?

Some are memorable (Conker's Bad Fur Day); Others you have to do on purpose to access secret areas (Crash Bandicoot II); And others are just pure idiocy (Having a block fall on you in Mr Driller)

Other times, you buy the farm at the most crucial moment, or right near the end of something (Mr Driller again, when you're right at the bottom and a block falls on you!)

Who has died the stupidest dumbass death?

robotriot

07-25-2005, 07:19 AM

Reminds me of http://www.abc64.de/awards/death/bestdeath5th4th3rd1024.html :D

Sam

07-25-2005, 07:24 AM

I'm playing Crimson Skies at the moment and have had some dumb deaths. Reaching the end of the map and the game turning you around - straight into a building! Or going into a repair shop just as you get hit, being repaired, flying out and then exploding.

Annoying glitches but a fantastic game non the less.

Gemini-Phoenix

07-25-2005, 07:34 AM

We should catalogue all the stupidest deaths from every single game! A bit like th etoilet archive, but with less toilets.

Sonic The Hedgehog ~ Running so fast that you accidently land on spikes. With no rings. Prick. Dead.

Also, drowning. Rather stupid that.

Lemmings ~ Forgetting to block off an end, so the stupid buggers all leap to their stupid green doom...

Doom / Doom II / Final Doom ~ Using the rocket launcher in close proximity to your enemy. Splat.

Quake III Arena ~ Falling from a great height. also see notes on Doom regarding rocket launcher.

[b]Cannon Fodder / Cannon Fodder II[b] ~ Using grenades on a hut, only to find yourself killed by the hut door blowing off in your general direction...

jajaja

07-25-2005, 08:05 AM

The classical Sierra adventure games had some "stupid" deaths. Like in Police Quest 1. If you walk infront of the biker playing dart in the bar you die.
I also heard that if you stay under water for more than 11 minz (or what it was) in Monkey Island 1 you die. I havnt tried it myself.

Cauterize

07-25-2005, 08:46 AM

I also heard that if you stay under water for more than 11 minz (or what it was) in Monkey Island 1 you die. I havnt tried it myself.

EDIT: Make That Green And Zombified Instead!

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/paulsuth/drown.gif

scooterb23

07-25-2005, 09:16 AM

How about jumping too early and getting killed on the very first Goomba and in Super Mario Brothers...twice in the same game. Managed to complete the game on the last man though. :D

Mr.Faxanadu

07-25-2005, 09:33 AM

What about Legendary Wings (NES) � when you get a power up you briefly become invincible. This allows you to fly through the walls and if your not careful you can get stuck and die. This is one of the few games I can recall where getting a power up can be harmful.

Quintracker

07-25-2005, 09:34 AM

How about jumping too early and getting killed on the very first Goomba and in Super Mario Brothers...twice in the same game. Managed to complete the game on the last man though. :D

When I first saw the topic, this death was the first one that came to mind LOL

Sanriostar

07-25-2005, 09:47 AM

An old freind of mine was playing PS1 Worms with another freind and I. Freind#1 was named after celebrities that had killed themselves, Freind#2 was named after major kitchen utensils, and my team was named after major meat-by-products. Anyway... Dead celebrity team member Kurt Cobain, aimed too low at my worm 'Blood Gelitain'.. with the shotgun. Yup, you guessed it, the blowback flung Mr. Cobain off the ledge, and once again, Kurt Cobain killed himself with the shotgun.

njiska

07-25-2005, 09:51 AM

Leisure Suit Larry - Walk off the screen to the left when you exit the bar, and you get mugged and killed. Get killed by a little dog. Screw the hooker and forget to wear a condom, get an STD and die. God i love that one the best of all.

Any game with a bad camera - get killed by an invisible enemy.

Nesmaster

07-25-2005, 10:10 AM

I have many stupid deaths to report for the GTAs for ps2. For example in san andreas, theres a mission where you have to fly a plane to make a dropoff, then return to the airport. Got to the point of return, was making my approach to land on the runway, when all of a sudden the plane nose dives for no reason. I try to pull up and save myself but its too late. wings are one fire and a second later BANG.... mission failed >_>

Then in an online mmorpgfps type game i play (gunz) theres this one level with huge pits. Now you can stick to ANY wall in the game with your sword. but go down too far into these pits and you'll find yourself dead as the walls are uncoded... it pissed me off because i did it again and again, until i finally got the hint :roll:

In super mario.... you leap off the top of the pipe to PERFECTLY land in front of a goomba, killing you. GOD!

shadowgate.... not watching your torches then all of a sudden your last torch goes out. WHAT?!?!?!? I JUST LIT THE DAMN THING! WTF!

Dr mario... getting to level 24, down to 4 viruses and losing... omfg :angry:

any game that gives you three lives.... you lose two fast but go far with your last man. then you get to a crucial point that either gives you another continue or life or whatever... but you blow it and have to start ALL over... :(

thats all i can come up with right now

Mianrtcv

07-25-2005, 05:47 PM

This death drives me and a fiend crazy. simply because it was so unnecessary. We were playing Aladdin on Sega Genesis just after it came out (forgot when, too lazy to look). We were alternating I play, die, he plays dies. switch. Etc., Etc.
This part with lava flows or underground caverns... you have to jump across. We died literally over fifty or more times ( :angry: ). Thought it was a glitch or something. We couldnt make the jump! Till... ran too far and fell to a small ledge below and now make the jump quite easy ( :roll: ). Yeah, that was not the hall of fame game moment for us. Thankfully we found out when we did. We were able to finish the game a few times and it was actually pretty entertaining i thought.

Lemmy Kilmister

07-25-2005, 05:58 PM

How about those stupid disappearing blocks in the first couple of Megaman games. I freakin' hated jumping to my death in Heat Man's stage because my timing was off by 1/10 of a second. I also hated those damn birds and jumping enemies in the Ninja Gaiden games that would knock you off ledges.

CrimsonNugget

07-25-2005, 06:04 PM

Any death in Sonic Heroes.

evildead2099

07-26-2005, 12:05 AM

Try to die at Mario Is Missing

Gemini-Phoenix

07-26-2005, 02:14 AM

I think some of the Broken Sword I & II deaths are pretty pointless, and annoying too.

Especially that very last part in the first game where you have literally a millionth of a second to figure out the answer to the puzzle!!!

Fooking must've died a couple of million times clicking here, there, and everywhere until I finally clicked the right thing

Yago

07-26-2005, 02:43 AM

This one I fainlty remember because it has been so long, but one that aggrivated me more than any game I have ever played. The game is Sword of Sudan for the Amiga 500. When you get near the end part, you have to jump over a hole in the ground. Now, with this game the screen is constantly moving from right to left. So, if you stand still, the screen pushes you along. It does not do this all the time, but frequent enough to keep the game moving. So, you get near the end, you have to jump over this hole, if you don't, the screen pushes you into it and you die. If you die at this part regardless, you spawn by falling from above, at this part of the game however, the screen is not moving, it gets stuck, and everytime you spawn, you fall into this hole. So, the game is pretty much over.

evil_genius

07-26-2005, 03:09 AM

SOCOM 2 online. We were playing the map Death Trap and someone said, everybody rush right. So 3 of us walked straight off that cliff and fell to our death.

Haoie

07-26-2005, 03:22 AM

This just came to mind. In Clock Tower [2], when playing as Helen, if you check the fireplace in the castle more than once when you don't have the flashlight, you die.

No good reason, either. Something just kills you.

ubikuberalles

07-26-2005, 03:41 AM

Zork II: I'm standing next to this large bucket. I know it's supposedto transport me somewhere but I can't figure out what to do to get it to go. In frustration I type "Kick the bucket"

The computers response?

"Alright, if you insist..."

You have died!

What? :angry:

I was laughing and felt stupid at the same time. LOL

Sothy

07-26-2005, 04:00 AM

Telefrag.

In Natural Selection if you stand on the teleporter device when another marine transports through it kills you.

Even worse being a souped up Alien Onos laying an ass wuppin on the rines and a grunt teleports through right as you were running over the teleporter and splat 75 res down the drain.

And ya that dying in the first 2 seconds on SMB 1 would qualify.

Gemini-Phoenix

07-26-2005, 04:23 AM

Prize for most spasticated death has to go to the Prince Of Persia (Original, not the new ones)

How many times do you have to be precise with your jumps? How annoying is it when you miss, and fall down a chasm onto a pit full of sharp spiky looking blade things.

Dumb game really does my head in with it's delayed reactions. Even when fighting guards he is still slow to react, and you find you take three times as many stabs from your enemy than is good for you...

And the all time stupidest death is the level where you are faced with a mirror image of yourself. Your natural instinct is to draw your sword and fight, but that is a rather silly thing to do... (Won't mention why as that spoils the surprise for anyone who hasn't figured it out, but those of you who know will know exactly what I am on about!)

Avatard

07-26-2005, 12:57 PM

I can't tell you how many times I've been owned by mummies or shade creatures in FF1. Just sit there stunned or asleep while I die 1 point at a time.

Many many times I've tried to run out of the marsh cave with low hp and some characters dead in a full sprint back to town and then I come across a coule of shadows. They stun me and finish me off.

Leo_A

07-26-2005, 09:50 PM

Flying across the US in a B-29 bomber in MS Flight Simulator 2004 and forgetting to lower the landing gear when I came in for my landing after many hours up in the air.

And it doesn't really fit in with this thread, but discovering you can ban yourself from your own server in a certain NASCAR game online right before a big race sure feels stupid (I was bored).

DragonMaster Sam

07-26-2005, 10:31 PM

In the final room on Snatcher.. First time I played through the game, I ended up shooting Jamie and had to redo the final two fight scenes.

UnInformer

07-27-2005, 02:27 PM

I think the most insulting thing to get killed by may just have to be the enemy in Kirby's Adventure with the "sleep" ability. Not only are they cute little things that don't look remotely dangerous, but their freaking "attack" is to GO TO SLEEP!

Dahne

07-27-2005, 05:57 PM

Dobie

07-27-2005, 08:09 PM

I've killed myself so many times in so many stupid ways, I can't even remember them all. The most recent one was in Halo 2 online. After dominating most of the game with the ghost, I was shooting a lightly armed dude running towards me. I backed up to avoid having him get too close, and just as I killed him... I fell of the edge of the map into the water. Worse, my friends saw me do it, and still give me crap about it.

youruglyclone

07-27-2005, 08:22 PM