Noteworthy deaths in games - Page 4

Victor Galis · July 30, 2002, 09:55

Hehe

Reminds me of the time I had a vesuvan doppleganger in my hand. My opponent cast underworld dreams, then he cast wheel of fortune of the added pain.

Victor Galis · July 30, 2002, 09:56

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All the Destruction-deaths in a game called "One Must Fall - 2097"

Pieces of huge robots flying everywhere. KA-POW!

-Ooh, I vaguely remember that game.

Mr. President · July 30, 2002, 18:56

I remember the first time I got hit with the Pit fatality in Mortal Kombat. The spikes were very sharp and rusty-looking. The later Pit fatalities weren't as good, unfortunately.

The Squirrel Beast is good against discard decks. "I'll teach you to make me throw out my hand!" Fortunately, a remedy is still widely available in the form of another of my little friends, who goes by the name of Annihilate.

MattyBoy · July 30, 2002, 20:24

Mortal Kombat was a bit too shocking and graphic for a public arcade game, IMO. Not something to feed the kids that were playing it relentlessly at the time.

Mr. President · July 30, 2002, 22:19

I agree that the arcade version probably wasn't appropriate for its targeted age group. They toned down most of the violence and removed all of the blood for the Super NES version.

Victor Galis · July 31, 2002, 07:28

Hmm... other notable death:

Dark Age of Camelot. Level 1 character wandering about in Darkness Falls (big dungeon, monsters level 15+).

I walk around, trying to get ever deeper, looking around. Then I end up in a room with Naburite Drinkers (My level 45 friend doesn't fight one of those alone), I made a run for it, but I got hit for something like 369(-463) damage. I had oh about 20 hit points. (The -463 represents armor being strong against a certain damage type. Usually if you are same level as the monster it's something like 10% at most, but it increases like the damage as the difference in levels goes up.)

Space05us · July 31, 2002, 09:38

Dark Age of Camelot

Good Game?

Bad Game?

edit: never mind I dont like online rpgs

Victor Galis · July 31, 2002, 09:55

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edit: never mind I dont like online rpgs

-You suck

Where else am I supposed to get a steady stream of newbies from if not Apolyton.

MattyBoy · September 11, 2002, 00:37

What kind of crap is this?
Looks like new version of Nethack means new way of dying!

2 31124 Jack-Val-Hum-Fem-Neu turned to stone in The Dungeons
of Doom on level 7 [max 10]. Petrified by a
cockatrice egg. 81 [101]

MattyBoy · September 11, 2002, 20:30

I don't eat eggs anymore.

Space05us · September 13, 2002, 01:37

Space05us · September 16, 2002, 01:18

early today I was playing WW2OL, and was helping an assault on Juniville. I was driving an R-35 ((otherwise known as angry hamster of doom, death trap, furnis, and pretty much any other name you can think of that implies weakness)) into town when an 88 hat spotted me ((88s are also known as REALLY FRICKIN' HUGE ASS GUN that can kill ANY tank out there.)) I decided that I would just give up already and kamikazi so I changed directions and started heading right for it. It must have hit me head on about 12 times before I got close enough to open up on it with my main gun ((much to my surprise, as the R-35 usually dies with 1 shot)). So I opened fire and before I could get a good shot off I died, low and behold the deathcam revealed 4 ei sappers!

note to none WW2OL players, you dont understand why this is noteworthy so

MattyBoy · September 16, 2002, 19:52

Actually I do eat unidentified eggs, but only when I'm about to die of hunger anyway.

Fortunately none of these rules apply in my RL.

History Guy · September 17, 2002, 17:08

Red Baron II...I accidentally dropped a bomb while still on the ground...Ouch...

loinburger · September 17, 2002, 17:55

Morrowind, I tried to fight a god. Bad idea. I had a spell that did about 200 to 300 points of damage, so I'm thinking "Hey hey, hit that pesky god with this spell and I'm good to go!" So I cast my uber spell at the god, and his hit point meter hardly drops. He then starts casting some wicked powerful spells at me--my spell points are pretty depleted from casting my uber death spell, but after absorbing one of the god's spells my spell point meter is back at full. Before I can cast another spell (and make room to absorb more of the god's spells), I'm hit by another spell and find that I'm silenced (can't cast spells) and paralyzed (can't move either). Well, the battle didn't last much longer after that...

MattyBoy · October 3, 2002, 23:52

Cop this!
I face any easy monster, so I try out my unidentified wand to see what it does. Apparently a blessed wand of digging. ...and it seems to have opened a path into a distant shop.

...then "you hear a distant zap, you hear a distant zap".
Oops, I think that might be the shop-keeper

gotta go.

Attached is what happened next. I'll let you guess the rest.

tinyp3nis · October 4, 2002, 03:38

This thing is kind of related, i want to know if it is possible to die in progress quest? That would be really funny... Anyone know?

If you dont have this already, its a must download!
http://www.progressquest.com/

MattyBoy · October 9, 2002, 23:57

How about this one, from Nethack as always?
My Hit points fall to 1 so I "hear the wailing of the bansee", then I think that is a great quote for the game quotes thread, so I try to mark the text to copy and paste it into this forum. A slight fumble with the mouse, sends some unintended movement commands into the game and my character walks into further trouble and is killed.

Mr. President · April 1, 2003, 04:37

This is a Magic: the Gathering death that was just experienced by my good friend Marc.

He's a nice guy, but he has this predilection for massive combination decks. Fortunately, he was recently convinced to put away his copy of Stasis and use combos involving creatures.

Anyway, I'm red / black / blue (a deck I like to call "You Die Now"), and he's going all five colors, drawing heavily on the Invasion saga. He casts an artifact creature called Tek. Now this guy is nasty because he gets more powerful if you control more types of basic land. Of course, Marc has managed to draw and play several dual lands (lands that count as two separate land types, for non-Magic aficionados), and as a result Tek is 4/4, flying, first strike, and possibly some other stuff that I can't remember.

Predictably, this isn't enough for Marc. He enchants Tek with Quicksilver Dagger and uses the damage-dealing ability to kill all my creatures. He enchants Tek with Serra's Embrace, Giant Strength, Blue Scarab, (there are three Howling Mines (cards that let you draw extra cards, for non-Magic aficionados) in play, which is why he got so many things so fast) just about anything you can imagine. Tek is now something like 22/22, and I have no creatures left, only a swamp, a mountain, and an island for land, and no cards in hand. I need a miracle to make it out of this fight in one piece.

I get it.

Beginning of my turn. I draw four cards - and begin to laugh, because I can win the game with only two of them.

I tap the island and cast Creature Bond (basically, if the creature dies it deals damage equal to its toughness (the second number in the "fractions" above, for non-Magic aficionados) to its controller) on Tek.

I tap the mountain and the swamp and cast Terminate on Tek (it does what it sounds like it does, non-Magic aficionados).

Game over.

Marc saw the funny side of it . . . a few days later.

Skanky Burns · April 1, 2003, 05:21

Your lucky that was a good post - what with all the other thread revivals happening currently.
I bet he couldn't believe his bad luck at losing from that position of complete dominance.

Mr. President · April 1, 2003, 06:56

He went absolutely nuts.

He flung some of his cards at me, and then fell off his chair. I just couldn't stop laughing.

It was complete blind luck on my part - a situation like that comes about once in a million years. I guess it was just Marc's fate that it came to him.

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Your lucky that was a good post - what with all the other thread revivals happening currently.

I posted in one of those!

Alex · April 1, 2003, 09:53

Another one from Deus Ex:

I saw these two terrorists and they couldn't see me. So I had a brilliant idea: throw a gas grenade at them and when they start to choke I just have to pot-shot them at will. Apparently I was so excited when I threw the grenade that I went toward the guys and started to choke too, until another terrorist came and shot me down.

Ben Kenobi · April 7, 2003, 20:15

I had another Magic death that I could not stop laughing over in a tournament.

I played with a Blue white Counterpost deck against a cycling engine.

The key to the cycling engine was to play an artifact allowing each player to cycle cards for free. What cycling does is allow the player to discard that card, and draw another. Since every card, including the lands in his deck have cycling, he would draw a card, and run through his entire deck in one or two turns. It's a pretty cool combination.

The only problem was that I had a massive number of counterspells in my deck. Every time he played the cycling engine, I would counter the engine, and prevent him from running through his deck. Finally, in our third, and last game, I tapped out to cast Arcane Laboratory, preventing players from casting more than one spell per turn. My opponent tried to take advantage of this opening by casting the cycling engine. He quickly proceeded to draw his entire deck, discarding every card he did not need from his hand, searching for Haunting Miseries.

Haunting Miseries deals damage equivalent to the number of creatures in your graveyard to target player. After running through his deck, he had easily twenty creatures in his deck.

Just to make sure he had enough, he ran down to the last card, emptying his entire deck.

After cycling, he tries to cast Haunting Miseries to kill me outright. I point out that he has already cast a spell this turn, the cycling engine. He will have to wait until next turn to cast Haunting Miseries.

On my next turn, I draw a card, laughing, because my opponent has to draw a card before he can cast Haunting Miseries. Since he had discarded his entire deck, he has no more cards left to draw.

I didn't win the tournament, but I still play with arcane laboratory.