Cheapest. Death. EVER! I want to cry.

[NoeL]

So, I was just playing Minecraft. I'd never finished the game before, nor even made it to The End, so I set myself the goal of finally slaying the Ender Dragon.

After hours of preparation I'd found the stronghold, equipped all my enchanted diamond armour, had my stacks of arrows, my health potions - I was all ready to finish this game!

I took a step onto the End Portal and was transported to The End... only to spawn on a tiny square of obsidian floating above the void, some 20 or so blocks away from land. Within seconds the Ender Dragon swooped down and knocked me off the platform, welcoming me to die. All that diamond, all those enchantments... completely wasted. ;__;

Anybody else want to share their similar experiences? I can't deal with the grief alone.

EDIT: I went back to the portal to see if I'd spawn in the same place. Sure enough...:

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[Aeshi]

One from Armored Core: Last Raven here.

I had just completed a REALLY hard mission with 5 health left after about 15 minutes worth of attempts, the last enemy was going down in flames, cue "Mission Complete" scene! And then during said scene that last enemy walked up to me and his death explosion took off that last sliver of health/hope and killed me.

 

[MysticSlayer]

One of the times I faced the Minotaur boss from Shin Megami Tensei IV, the game gave him the first round of attacks, which wasn't surprising since who got the first turn seemed to picked randomly. However, he opened up with an attack that damaged the whole party and managed to get a critical on three members. He then knocked out my healer with a basic attack, and then knocked out my best defenseman with another basic attack that itself was a critical. By this point I was down to two members and he still had two attacks to go. Guess what? The next attack was another party attack which turned into another critical that killed my guy, leaving only the final party member with only a few pieces of health left, which was promptly taken away on the final attack. That's right, I got killed before I even had a chance to fight, and it wasn't because I wasn't at an adequate level: My entire party was a higher level than the Minotaur. And to make matters worse, this wasn't even the first or last time it happened in the game, just the one that frustrated me the most. So if I ever criticize SMTIV for being unfairly challenging, now you know why.

There was also one time in The Witcher where I entered a house and got involved in a fight it's impossible to know was coming. The problem was that before I could drink any potions or pull out my sword, I got stunned. Directly after the effect wore off, I was stunned again, which proved to be the death of me. Thankfully, unlike SMTIV, this was the only time something like that happened, but I will admit that it could have happened a few more times.

 

[Bad Jim]

Flushing the toilet in the first Leisure Suit Larry game. It causes it to flood the room and Larry drowns. It's basically impossible for a real toilet to supply that much water before a halfway intelligent person can leave. There is a big hole in the wall in the VGA version. And there is no hint that this might happen, you even score points for using the toilet.

 

[Elijin]

Once when playing EDF: Insect Armageddon, after finishing a particularly long and difficult mission on the hardest difficulty, I went to the designated extraction point. As I waited for extraction with my two squad mates in tow, the final carrier I had killed finally made its spectacular landfall. On our heads, wiping out the squad and failing the mission. Ever since, I am incredibly paranoid of where the damn things go.

 

[RJ 17]

So, I was just playing Minecraft. I'd never finished the game before, nor even made it to The End, so I set myself the goal of finally slaying the Ender Dragon.

After hours of preparation I'd found the stronghold, equipped all my enchanted diamond armour, had my stacks of arrows, my health potions - I was all ready to finish this game!

I took a step onto the End Portal and was transported to The End... only to spawn on a tiny square of obsidian floating above the void, some 20 or so blocks away from land. Within seconds the Ender Dragon swooped down and knocked me off the platform, welcoming me to die. All that diamond, all those enchantments... completely wasted. ;__;

Anybody else want to share their similar experiences? I can't deal with the grief alone.

I'd say a good 70%-80% of the deaths in Minecraft could be considered "cheap" in that regard. My favorite ones are when creepers decide to spawn literally right behind you. Or - as you described - the precarious positioning of portal exits for The Nether and The End. I had a Nether Portal open up on the tiniest sliver of netherrack over the great lava lake. As soon as I step out I'm getting blasted by arty shells for FOUR different ghasts. Yeah, that's fair.

 

[username sucks]

I was playing Mass Effect 3 multiplayer with some friends, on platinum. By some miracle we made it wave to, and the objective was one of those stationary hacks. We were about 90% done when a single phantom shows up.

We'd already dealt with worse so we tried shooting it only to find that it was glitched and invincible... it killed all of us.

And speaking of the end portal in Minecraft, one time I did the same thing. Got all my supplies and jumped into the portal, only to not be teleported and instead fall into the lava below.

 

[Fappy]

One of the times I faced the Minotaur boss from Shin Megami Tensei IV, the game gave him the first round of attacks, which wasn't surprising since who got the first turn seemed to picked randomly. However, he opened up with an attack that damaged the whole party and managed to get a critical on three members. He then knocked out my healer with a basic attack, and then knocked out my best defenseman with another basic attack that itself was a critical. By this point I was down to two members and he still had two attacks to go. Guess what? The next attack was another party attack which turned into another critical that killed my guy, leaving only the final party member with only a few pieces of health left, which was promptly taken away on the final attack. That's right, I got killed before I even had a chance to fight, and it wasn't because I wasn't at an adequate level: My entire party was a higher level than the Minotaur. And to make matters worse, this wasn't even the first or last time it happened in the game, just the one that frustrated me the most. So if I ever criticize SMTIV for being unfairly challenging, now you know why.

There was also one time in The Witcher where I entered a house and got involved in a fight it's impossible to know was coming. The problem was that before I could drink any potions or pull out my sword, I got stunned. Directly after the effect wore off, I was stunned again, which proved to be the death of me. Thankfully, unlike SMTIV, this was the only time something like that happened, but I will admit that it could have happened a few more times.

SMTIV is weird like that. Started hard as shit and then got easier as time went on. The only truly difficult encounters after Medusa are the fiends, DLC bosses and some of the end game side quests bosses if you haven't grinded.

 

[Roxas1359]

It actually happened in my Sonic Heroes LP actually. I was going against the Egg Albatross with Team Sonic, and had finished up the first phase so I couldn't move until the cutscene finished. Well, when it did finished I got spawned on top of an Egg Pawn while I still couldn't move, got hit, and the knock-back sent me into a pit while I couldn't move causing me to die. Yeah, that was pure bullshit right there, and it was caught on capture card.

 

[CyberSinner]

More like the weirdest set of death events ever told. All told within in truth. Fallout New Vegas. Hardcore mode, walking down the wasteland. When I heard gunshots. Some Raiders must be near by. I go to check it out, all my equipment had been recently repaired. I come in site of them. Snipe rifle a few men down. They become alerted to me. Some dude chucks dynamite at me and hits me. He has a good swinging arm since I was pretty far. Well shit now I am crippled, he chucks another before I even have time to move. I die. I was pissed at that point. So I reload my game and I walk back towards where I had found the Raiders. Except in this case they were not there, mysteriously they had gone, all but vanished. Had I hallucinated them. Suddenly a herd of Bighorn come out of nowhere, trample me to death. And again I reload my game and find the scene of death. To see nothing. Not a bighorn, not a raider. I died unfairly and never got my revenge. On either groups.

 

[tstorm823]

I was playing merceneries on ps2. One of the earliest missions you have to escort a reporter around the battlefield with basically nobody trying to stop you. It's a "get a feel for the map" level, but you can lose if you or the reporter die. I dropped him off at a hospital and just sat there and watched him take his pictures when suddenly a flaming helicopter fell from the sky and landed exactly on the reporter. Turns out the game is set to have that helicopter fly away while he does his reporting, but that particular time, it flew into a wall and exploded in exactly the right way.

 

[Exius Xavarus]

Seymour Flux.

Atrophy > Full-Life = dead Yuna. Yuna was meant to go next but since she died, Seymour goes again.

Atrophy > Full-Life = dead Lulu. Lulu was meant to go next but since she died, Seymour goes again.

Atrophy > Full-Life = dead Tidus. Game Over.

I was upset.

 

[kasperbbs]

Can't really think of anything except skyrim, a giant came, kicked me high into the sky, i fell and died or maybe i was already dead.

 

[Maximum Bert]

Just had a cheap one in Dark Souls in Blight town my character glitched into the parasite thingy it then vanished I glitched through the floor and died thanks game although I still feel the cheaper deaths in the game were to suddenly hugely delayed controls and sudden horrendous frame rate drops.

 

[SmallHatLogan]

There were a couple of bosses near the end of Persona 3 The Answer where if Aigs got hit with a critical it was pretty much game over. That happened a few times. I had to fuse and grind a couple of Personas that were immune to those specific attacks to be able to survive. I actually enjoyed The Answer for the most part but that was total bullshit.

 

[LegendaryVKickr]

Just played through the Mass Effect trilogy for the first time, so my freshest memories of death wounds is Tali passing away on the suicide mission right after I romanced her, and the loss of Mordin in ME3. At least Garrus, Ashley, and Liara made it to the end. Don't think I've ever been so emotionally invested in a game before. Not cheap deaths, or a death of my character, but it did make me want to cry. I probably did shed a tear with Mordin.

I do recall a minecraft death of my own where I spent 3 days wandering around, mapping out the area around my camp, decked out with diamond armor and pimp exploration gear, only to walk right off a cliff like a moron and die from the fall. Lost all my gear, because I didn't have the map, had no idea how to find it again.

I settled by just starting over. But then again I wasn't at the Ender Dragon battle, sooo...


Oh, but the all time cheapest death was when I was playing Dishonored. Got stuck between a couple crates (like glitched stuck), a guard walked past while I was trying to unstick myself, proceeded to call his buddies over, and they just started cutting me into ribbons.

 

[scorptatious]

I'm currently playing the Shin Megami Tensei games right now. And while I am really enjoying them, they can be pretty cruel at times.

I'm currently in the middle of Strange Journey and the last boss I fought killed me via getting my MC stoned. When that happened I thought, "Well that was cheap". But then I thought, I could have prevented that if I wore that one ring that prevented the stone status. And then I thought, "Well how would I know to wear that ring for that specific boss?"

I'm not too bothered by it, but considering that demons can't use items, there wouldn't be much I could do if I was caught without that ring.

That's sorta a thing I've noticed with the SMT games I've played so far. You have the tools to prevent stuff like this from happening, but you won't know what tools you need for a specific boss until you already died to it. You CAN beat these bosses without knowing what resistances you need, but it's also just as likely you're wearing equipment that happens to make you weak against a certain element the boss uses.

I'm not sure what I'm trying to say, all I know is that if you get caught unprepared in these games, they're going to punish you.

 

[Zakarath]

Dark Souls, went to chat with Kingseeker Frampt before heading to retrieve my souls, and fell in his stupid hole.

 

[Headsprouter]

Minecraft is a frustrating game. Nothing else pisses me off like it. I died several times on my friend's minecraft server, which we started recently and surprisingly have kept going, and have lost some pretty valuable things, like an almost perfect sword and the ultimate bow. I was dropped into lava by a ghast destroying the netherrack under my feet. But I kept going after that, and it did happen again due to being shot upwards by a ghast explosion, although I had a fire resistance potion that time. >

But then I got gangbanged by blazes, wither skeletons and a ghast, causing me to panic and wither to death. All of my important stuff jumped into the lava over the side of the nether fortress. Annoying. The nether is a horrible place.

But I'm still going. I have an awesome set of enchanted diamond armour and some weapons close to the ones I had previously. I'm surprised I didn't just give up, but having friends playing, also can motivate you I guess.