Worst Surprise Instant Death!

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Mr_spamamam

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Trip wires in Metro 2033. Was walking along trying to be stealthy by crouching and not having the light on and then BAM, pointy log death. A sad day for Dean
 

Ldude893

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YouBecame said:
Running into stars in Robot Unicorn Attack.

My dreams just won't come true!
Or crashing onto cliffsides. The jumping dolphins don't really help either.
 

VulakAerr

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Motherfucking Guardians!

Also, being outside, but too close to, a Destruction 2.0 in BC2. Grr... I WAS OUTSIDE!
 

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dragon_of_red said:
Fallout 3, caususly strolling around the wasteland, I had my music turned down, it was late at night, when my screen goes red and half of my health is down, i turn around to find a deathclaw standing over me, and another attack and I die.

I was pretty pissed off.
Good sir, I know exactly how you feel. It's strange, though. I found a mod on fallout3nexus that made the deathclaws harder to kill. The exact wording in the description was "this mod will actually make the deathclaw deadly." Really? As if that is needed? 2-hits. DEAD. He's even worse than the super mutant behemoth, and you usually can't tell when one is running at full speed at you until you've already been hit.

Anyway... Worst surprise instant death was the quicktime event boss battle with Krauser in Resident Evil 4. I'm amazed at how many ways (7) Krauser can kill you in one battle, but if you miss a quicktime event in the 2nd battle (besides the first one) you get most health taken away, but not ALL. I mean hell, I went into the QTE battle with full health and each time I died I thought "I'M AT FULL HEALTH. HOW CAN YOU DO THIS?"
 

Antigaprime

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Gothic 3 pre-patch.
Boars, AKA Stunlocking Boars of Death... Pretty much says it all.
Boars were among the first enemies you could meet, though meant to tough, before a certain patch these animals would stunlock you by repeatedly attacking without a pause, giving you absolutely no chance and forcing you to watch as you get pummeled to death.
I thought it was normal and finished the game in this state, just to find out later I wasn't the only one having trouble with those boars.
 

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Don't know how I missed the little bastard, but I was playing Total Annihilation and was completely stomping the ever loving shit out of the Core.

All of a sudden a nuke goes off on my Commander, making me WTF.

Turns out they somehow managed to sneak a Tick into my base, up to my commander, and nuke me (GO when Commander Dies). I still haven't figured out how they made it through my Vulcan packs (Which at 2-300 kills each could drop spy planes as long as they were on radar).


Mirror's Edge, I was in the underground tunnels (the drainage ones, not the subways), Up near the top. I didn't time my landing well, so I hit and it hurt, I figured it was no big deal, but as I was getting up, I saw a little red dot flash across the wall in front of me and then I died.

Just as Merc starts telling me they MIGHT have anticipated I'd have gone down there so they sent snipers in. Great timing Merc! Really!
 

crudus

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The only one I can think of is during The Sorrow in MGS3.

mrhappyface said:
Marmooset said:
mrhappyface said:
Worst surprise insta death?
I gotta go with Hiroshima. It was a sunny day and everything.
Yeah, hard to beat that.
Easy to beat that actually if you are anyone like Tsutomu Yamaguchi. This is the man that survived every metropolitan nuclear attack. Logic would follow that he wasn't the only one to go to Nagasaki after the Hiroshima bombing and others died there as well.
 

Angus565

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Once while playing MW1 I was in the middle of a firefight, I sprinted and went prone behind a low wall when suddenly the gun fire stops and a grenade rolls in front of my head. It was far enough away that no amount of crawling would get me close enough to throw it back, but it was close enough that I could see it mocking me for about 1/2 a second before turning my face into hamburger.
 

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Call of Duty: those instances where you walk into a grenade's kill radius *just* after it explodes, but before you get the grenade indicator. And then, just to rub in how much of an idiot you are, the game gives you that "Avoid grenades when you see the grenade indicator!" game over screen.

I have never in the entire history of ever wanted more to hop a flight to wherever Infinity Ward is and give them all swift kicks to the rear.
 

Kryzantine

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Most deaths in IWBTG.

I mean, being crushed by the moon, crushed by a Tetris block, that first time you died by apple, that last time you could have died by apple, and perhaps most surprising of all...

The error message death.

I have never seen such trickery in a video game. For those who don't know, you will go through a room and experience a random error message saying something like, "Macromedia Flash has experienced an error...", and as you try to click it, it will crash down on and kill you.

Oh, there was that hilarious tidbit with the disappearing blocks that progressed faster and faster until they were faster than the PC could move. That wasn't surprise, but that was equally bad (and hilarious).
 

Ertol

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I'd have to say anytime you are riding around in a Mako (I think that's the name of the vehicle) and a Thresher Maw pops up under you and kills you instantly...that sucks.
 

Snork Maiden

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@Kryzantine: EDIT: Awww man ninja'd! You should totally appreciate this though. And yeah, the Tetris part is *ever* annoying, especially since I always forget the sequence so I lose at least two or three deaths.

Should start playing at 3:05 ^^

 

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Dr. wonderful said:
Red dead redemption.

Cougars.

That is all.
you say that, but cougars (apart from when their in a group, then god help you) kill you in two hits. so if, persay, one hits you, why don't you, oh I dunno, one shot the cougar with a pistol

on the subject of insta deaths... hmm i'm gonna have to go with my valient lvl 22 attempt of the takeover of the undercity. was going swimmingly until I got insta-critted-ambush-to death by a 80 rogue... taught me an important lesson... don't fuck with zombies
 

Ophi

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Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, on the hardest difficulty on the dragon part of the endgame.

Forgot to equip Ike with Nihil (Negates special attacks), attacked the boss with him.

"LOLOLOL I USE IRE NOW KTHNX KABOOOM!"

And an hour and a half of my life was gone, just like that.