Top 10 Most Bizarre Ways to Die in a Video Game
There are a lot of ways to die in video games, that's a fact. There are even a lot of strange ways to die in video games.
We would be willing to bet though, that based upon some of the bizarre ways we have noted in our long term gaming history, that a lot of game studios must have people whose job it is to think up really strange ways to kill the player.
Do you suppose they offer a bonus to the code wizard who can come up with a really messed up killing method? I wouldn't bet against that.
The SuperCheats Bullpen is an exciting place (well, no, not really) that smells like Doritos (true that), and is filled with gamers who pride themselves on their memory and game skills (also true that).Which is why, when we are batting around ideas for articles, sometimes we group think - and by group think we mean sit around eating Doritos and drinking Vanilla Coke and shouting ideas at each other.
Last Friday the theme of our group think session was “Most bizarre ways to die in a video game” and it is a pity that we can only use ten of them, because as it turns out, there are a LOT of bizarre ways to die in video games!
Once we had our list, we began the process of refining it, eliminating methods that - while bizarre - were not quite as bizarre as the remaining ones. We did this until we got the list down to ten in total, and now we present them to you, with background and in some cases our comments.
Top 10 Most Bizarre Ways to Die in a Video Game
10. Death by Pete (The Walking Dead)
The protagonist in the Walking Dead video game is named Lee, and he is a complex character to be sure.
In Episode Four Lee’s group is in the process of exploring an abandoned school, looking for food and supplies. In the process - naturally - you encounter some Walkers and need to escape by jumping across a rooftop and grabbing the hand of one of your companions. Simple enough, right?
If I might digress for a moment - remember that scene in the first Matrix Movie when Neo has finally been recruited, his connection to the Matrix has been severed, and he has been collected by the crew of the Nebuchadnezzar?
Morpheus takes him into a training program and the two are doing martial arts, when he suddenly decides that Neo is ready for his first test, and calls for the Jump Program? You know, another training program in which you are supposed to jump from one rooftop to the next?
Morpheus runs, jumps, and lands on the other roof. Neo follows but, halfway across, he falls, then bounces off of the concrete below. The crew, observing from the computer monitors, speculate and then, when Neo fails the jump, Cypher says “Everybody fails the first time...”
So back to The Walking Dead - in Part 4 the player is standing on the roof, the woman on the other roof calls him a chicken, and the player runs really fast and jumps - only to fall to their death in bone-cracking stereo!
Why? Because everybody fails that jump the first time. It is so common an experience it is almost a meme - in fact YouTube is full of videos that players have made of their Jump Fails! Because, yeah, nobody has reflexes fast enough to notice the hand being held out, and actually hitting the button.
The reason it makes our list is really simple: it is bizarre. Clearly it was intended to be like that - you were meant to die. Otherwise there would be dialogue like - “Jump and grab my hand!” or something like that. But there isn't.
The theory has been proposed that this sequence is one of the many intended-to-fail “Petes” - in gamer-speak a “Pete” (as in “Repeat”) is a part of a video game in which the game actually sets the player up to fail the first few tries, as a means of stretching the game play time.
The logic - or perhaps justification - for that is actually pretty simple. Game studios commonly mistake game length with game value. That is to say, they assume that the longer a game takes to beat, the more a player will feel they got value for their money.
The problem with that is that most Petes are tedious and annoying. And very few gamers like them. Just saying...
republican might match cucco for intelligence but at least liberals are below an eggplant
Drink a thousand bottles of skooma and run to sovengarde and back only to die suddenly once the effects ware off
Dead Space. Being killed by necro dismembered head where it cuts your head off and takes over your body
What's bizarre for me is that this particular death from TWD made it into this list. I finished this game multiple times, and never once have I died making this jump. Never knew I could until I read this list...
Gta4 helicopter glitch when u spawn or buy a helicopter while u r inside it the helicopter bounces around for a few seconds or minute then blows up also it doesn't let u out of the garage and if u enter it
Oh one of them burned you
I didn't fail the jump on number 10.
I was in the room with my sister who is watching frozen. Let it go played right dring the first video on #9. it was beautiful.
Angry cuccos have been a Zelda staple since A Link to the Past on SNES. If we're going back as far as Ocarina of Time, we may as well go all the way back :P
"... about as smart as your typical Republican" As Obama golfs and watches the world burn. Keep your politics to yourself and stick to games.
Im sorry but I made that jump in the walking dead first time. I do get what you mean with the hand but it's not impossible
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Lol. In the car full heath. Get out of the car R.I.P.
Q. The jump in The Walking Dead? Really? Gaming improves your coordination "hand-eye", your reflexes are quicker. You're not meant to die in that segment, if you die you're simply not good enough.
A. Wow. Don't hold back man, tell us what you REALLY think!
The jump in The Walking Dead? Really? Gaming improves your coordination "hand-eye", your reflexes are quicker. You're not meant to die in that segment, if you die you're simply not good enough.
Come on, no one mentioned your first encounter with a giant in Skyrim? To the MOON!
To da moon Bru!
In the Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, if you tried equipping Boots of Water-Walking while ankle deep or more in water, you'd instantly be killed.
That game also had the scrolls of Icarian flight, which let you jump ridiculously high and far but wore off before you would land. The result is that if you don't know to use another, you will die if you land on land. I am not sure about landing in water.
Clock Tower series had a few bizarre ways to die. like in the SNES version if you walked up to any mirror and looked into it... some hand would shoot out and randomly choke you. being killed by your own reflection...
Why u kill him
I did the jump in TWD on first try... See? It's Possible! Buuuuut on second thought i'm sad that i didn't see the fail by myself :P
Not in a pool, in one of the rooms btw.
Theres this game (well, its actually a visual novel) called Tsukihime, where if you pick the wrong choice you can get eaten by a shark.
...inside an hotel.
Yeah.
It makes sense in context, but still.
Earthworm Jim - death by falling cow. At the beginning of the game, you launch a cow into the air for no particular reason. Much later, that cow falls from the sky and kills you.
8 Different Sim and 16 Different Sim Deaths in the Sims 2 and the Sims 3.
Golden Freddy is a glitch
You do know you can PAUSE in Sonic CD, right?
OH NO! LEON! I DIDN'T ATTEMPT TO SAVE YOU AT ALL! OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Oh come on, the jump wasn't so hard. I didn't died.
You didn't speaked the Engly very good either.
Dark Souls, any of them had crazy stupid ways to die.
In the first, there's that ring beneath the bridge, which you have to jump to, for instance.
Dust 514. As a rookie, call for a vehicle drop, and you see a new marker, you get closer to check it out. BAM! Vehicle drops right on top of the marker, on top of you.
what about the one in silent hill one or two you beat the game badly and end up dead in your car not a mark on you