Scariest way to die in a game.

[Orange Lazarus]

Falling. Even when I play a games like Spiderman 2 and Prototype where literally leaping off the Empire State Building will not kill me, I always get this queasy feeling in the pit of my stomach. And then there's Max Payne's (the first one) nightmare levels. Knowing you're going to hear that bloodcurdling backwards nightmare scream every time you fall off the little blood trail (and yes, you WILL fall off) is absolutely terrifying.

 

[Surpheal]

Although I know that it has already been mentioned, getting eaten by a giant fish.

More specifically, being eaten by a ravenous Lurker shark in Jak and Daxter: the Precursor legacy, as opposed to the same way you die in the other two games after it. By that I mean in Jak II you were just blown out of the water by the Barons mini sub, and in Jak3 you were pulled down by the kraken. But the Lurker shark was the worst.

Nothing got me out of the water faster than the Lurker sharks attack music.

Captcha: knock at the door -_-

Knock knock.
Who's there?
Lurker shark.
Lurker shark who?
OM NOM NOM!

 

[Cavan]

I wouldn't go so far as to say scariest, but one of the ones that most got to me was at the start of CoD4 when that character you are seeing through the eyes of gets lead through the streets and eventually shot. And you're going "Something is gonna stop this, I'm going to be given a way to escape. This is where the game starts and I make my daring escape" and no..you look down the barrel at a man you don't know, doing things for reasons you don't know, and oblivion greets you.

 

[TheSteeleStrap]

It doesn't exactly scare me, but I really hate drowning, the deeper it is, the creepier it gets.

I'm not sure why, but this was very true for me in Oblivion. More than anything else, that Thieves Guild mission with the wizard's tower. Swimming down that tunnel scared the hell out of me and I'm not sure why.

 

[Tsun Tzu]

Being liquidated in a Collector pod.

Think about it. Locked in a small confined space, suddenly you feel this mild burning...it begins to intensify becoming stronger and stronger to the point that you are grabbing at yourself trying to figure out why you are in such pain and then you see your hand start to melt away before your very eyes, and soon all of you is doing the same.

I was going to say "Anything from Deadspace," but this sounds worse.

Completely forgot about that scene in reference to character death...not morose in the least bit.

 

[The_Echo]

It isn't a specific means of death, but I always get scared shitless when I'm fighting for my life in any given game, and I'm so close to the end and I keep pushing on, and then finally something terrible happens or I screw up and that game over screen rears its ugly head.

 

[paislyabmj]

The scarecrow sections in arkham asylum comes to mind.I just feel so helpless when the game turned from an ass kicking simulator to a fly swatting simulator were you play as the fly.

 

[Woodsey]

Vaginally, I would suppose.

 

[Nekron_X]

while not actually done, what this person from tsukihime, ciel, says at the end of her true ending is quite....creepy, and would be a pretty horrible way to die.


"i will"

"i will kill you."

*pant *pant* *pant* *pant* *pant* *pant*

Hahaha, ahahaha,

Ahahahahahaahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha-------!!!!

"i have never felt such shame before."
"i have never been so disgraced."

------that's why it's funny.

"i can't even imagine how much pleasure i'll get when i take this anger out on you shiki."

"destroy, destroy, destroy.
Slowly, completely, gently beyond comparison , cruelly to the to the point of numbness, i'll violate your life.

That's right.

The instant i tear off your limbs, rip open your chest and pull out your intestines,
biting into your neck as you ask for mercy,chewing through your eyes and spreading your brains on the ground like butter--!!!!!"

the last couple of paragraphs....yeah.......i'm gonna run away now.

 

[Someone Depressing]

while not exactly death occurring, most of the time anyways, I'd have to say the parts that terrified me the most were in Siren New Translation and Deadly Premonition where you have to hide from the enemy and see from their perspective how close they are to actually seeing you, and what makes it worse is that these enemies are practically human, making it that much more terrifying than any monster - the fact that real people could and would do these things to you.
Enemies that didn't possess a human quality to them never really scared me.

Oh god.. DP's stealth sections. They always creeped me out. I'd just be hiding under a table, when suddenly my heart-rate hits max and York lets out a stupid, "ARGHGHSTRHGH I'M FREAKING OUT MAN!!!!", leading me to the game over screen. And.. that music. Even creepier.