5 worst ways to die...in a video game

[FeatsofClay]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20752572/

Surely we can all disagree with somehting on this list. Like number 1?

[Dark Jezter]

I'd like to pick the method of death in Starcraft where a Zerg queen hits an enemy unit with spores, causing it to explode and two vicious alien creatures pop out.

[The Winslow]

Yeah, they're a bit weak.

In Strife (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strife_%28computer_game%29), a little-known action RPG made long ago on the Doom engine, you could get killed by flamethrowers, and the death animation was kinda funny, you saw your hands, on fire, waving helplessly. But the kicker was in the game's code the name of the functions used in this firedeath: "A_PlayerExtraCrispy" and "A_PlayerItBurnsItBurns".

In the Alone in the Dark series, there were plenty of fun ways to die. In Alone 1, if you read a book entitled "De Vermiis Mysteriis", you'd be grabbed by an invisible hand and folded backward with a loud crack as your spine breaks.
In Alone 2 you can be captured by a bunch of zombie pirates who'd then hang you by one feet from their mast.

In the Half-Life games, getting killed by a barnacle or a headcrab doesn't look like a pleasant experience.

In Warcraft 2, Heretic, and Hexen, there's the possibility of getting killed killed while polymorphed into a chicken (Heretic), a pig (Hexen), or a sheep, seal or warthog (Warcraft 2). Quite vexing.

[Dacke]

Death by nosepicking.

In Quest for Glory, if you're playing a thief, you can give him the command "Pick Nose". If your lockpicking skill is decently high, you can use this as a method for practicing your skill to reach even higher levels. If the skill is too low, you die in a rather gruesome manner.

[Ergeheilalt]

Death by nosepicking.

In Quest for Glory, if you're playing a thief, you can give him the command "Pick Nose". If your lockpicking skill is decently high, you can use this as a method for practicing your skill to reach even higher levels. If the skill is too low, you die in a rather gruesome manner.

Quest for Glory had some of the best instant death actions. :lol:

[bunny]

Quest for Glory had some of the best instant death actions. :lol:

I was quite fond of some from the forth game, such as death by nekkid chick, death by crushed by tomb stone, and death by hands clawing up out of the swamp.

[Janos]

Death by Grue remains pretty bad in my book.

[Schizm]

clearly, no one here has ever played Wild 9.


Various things you have to do in order to beat the game:

To get over a pit of spikes, pick up the enemy, slam it down on the spikes, and use him as a makeshift bridge. not long enough? find more bad guys. they moan squeek and splurt blood when you walk across!

Meatgrinder in your path? no problem - just head back to that enemy teleportal and start grabbingthem. chuck enough into the grinder and it'll jam up and break.

what? there's a flamethrower blocking your path? clog it with some bad guys...




yeah, you get the idea. Wild 9. Good shit.

[Hatter]

Syndicate and Syndicate Wars had some lovely gruesome deaths in it. The flame thrower death animation in the first game was very fun, the victim runs around screaming engulfed in flames until their little charred black skeleton collapses into a pile of ash. Syndicate Wars had a rifle whose exhaust discharge was fatal to the citizens around you (vaporized them).

[Pigs in Space]

The Shark Gun is pretty cool, you gotta give it that.

[Utrecht]

The Fallout series had a series of pretty brutal ways to die.

I forget the perk you take that makes people die in spectacular fashion around you.

[Hatter]

The Fallout series had a series of pretty brutal ways to die.
I forget the perk you take that makes people die in spectacular fashion around you.

I always, always take that perk, it was awsome!

[Hatter]

Oh I have to give an honorable mention to Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast when playing with the full dismemberment code (g_saberRealisticCombat 1). Nothing beat throwing a lightsaber into a room full of stormtroopers and watching it puree them.

[Kwalish Kid]

clearly, no one here has ever played Wild 9.
It appears that it has much to recommend it:

[Freedom Canadian]

clearly, no one here has ever played Wild 9.


Various things you have to do in order to beat the game:

There's a bunch of things like that in Bloodrayne 2. It mostly happens to other people, though. :D

[The Winslow]

clearly, no one here has ever played Wild 9.


Various things you have to do in order to beat the game:

To get over a pit of spikes, pick up the enemy, slam it down on the spikes, and use him as a makeshift bridge. not long enough? find more bad guys. they moan squeek and splurt blood when you walk across!

Meatgrinder in your path? no problem - just head back to that enemy teleportal and start grabbingthem. chuck enough into the grinder and it'll jam up and break.

what? there's a flamethrower blocking your path? clog it with some bad guys...

Xykon would approve.