Top 10 Most Bizarre Ways to Die in a Video Game
09. Death by Glitch (Too Many Games to Say)
If you have played video games for any length of time at all you will have encountered what gamers refer to as glitches - unintentional errors inside the game world that can have a range of effects from the funny to disastrous...
We are not talking about Kill Screens mind you - though those are also glitch-based deaths that are very very frustrating. What we are talking about are Random Glitches that either kill you or may as well have without actually breaking the game. Here are just two examples of glitch deaths:
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King 'Death Grip' Spell.
Wrath of the Lich King was the second expansion to WoW, and in it the players got to experience the then all new Death Knight class - which was sort of a dark warrior-mage type character class. Among the powers that DKs had was the spell Death Grip.The spell was supposed to allow the DK to “pull” an opponent towards them - like Scorpion did in Mortal Kombat, you know?
The thing is when the code wizards that made the game created - and we can safely presume play-tested - that spell in that expansion, it seems that it just never occurred to them to play-test it while riding in a boat...
Yeah, that's a problem because unlike pretty much everywhere else in the game, boats are not actually part of the main lands, they are instances. And it turned out that if you cast Death Grip on another player while you were in a boat, what happened was the spell caused the targeted player to quite literally rocket through the world - through mind you the world - until they eventually ended up in this empty space beneath the mountain at the center of the map.
That's a problem because the only way out of that null zone is basically death. It's also a problem because once the players discovered the glitch, they felt compelled to use it. A lot. So much so that any time a DK invited you to go on a boat ride you could only blame yourself if you ended up under a mountain. Just saying...
Grand Theft Auto IV: Swing Set of Death
Note that this is not always automatically fatal - though when you do it in a car and you get good air, it usually is... But anyway, in GTA IV when you approach a swing set at the right angle instead of walking into the swings, it literally turns into a catapult and launches you hundreds of feet into the air and thousands of feet away.
If your character is walking, this usually results in a spectacular and bone smashing flying fall. But when you do it in a car - depending on the car - you can end up first launched into the air inside your car and, when the car hits an object (like a building) you get ejected through the wind screen, to a bloody bone crushing glass slicing death. Sweet right?
That's almost as bizarre as the Sudden Heart Attack Glitch apresent in GTA V in which you can just suddenly drop dead in the street by exiting your car on the edge of the curb. Once second, full health, the next second? Wasted!
There are lots of other examples of this bizarre death glitch thingy - YouTube is full of them - because if a game presents a death glitch, gamers are going to do it. That's just the way it is.
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