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It's time for another videogame related thread by me!
This topic is: what is your fave death/s in a videogame?

Some of mine:

Daniella in Haunting Ground

Vlad in Max Payne 2

The neck snap in Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory

Add your own, comment, etc.

Hmm, mine would be any of the asshole pirates that camp gates in EVE that I waste with my Apoc.

Aeris: FF7

Richard the Lionheart: Ogre Battle 64

Mario: SMB (NES) :p

Jigglypuff: SSB (Love the sound)

Aeris: FF7

Saw that one coming.

Jigglypuff: SSB (Love the sound)

I like Pikachu's "fly off and become a star" death more [in the same game], "pika, pika, pikkkkkkkkkkkkkkkaaa....(becomes star)"

Lord British, Ultima Online :D

Pacman: Pacman
what can i say i like the oldschool deaths. :sniper: :sniper: :sniper: :sniper: :sniper: :sniper: :sniper: :sniper:

The chainsaw Beheading death in RE 4. Coollest RE death ever!!!

General Diego from Red Dead Revolver. It wasn't a good death as much as it was a "Owned, Punk!" death.

Jr. Wilkes in the Original Splinter Cell.

Alfred Ashford: RECV :p.

Alfred Ashford: RECV :p.

Why? :confused:

Why? :confused:

I just couldan't think of anything else that hadn't been said, but him falling off a ledge, still alive, and finnally dieing in front of his sister is pretty cool and all.

I just couldan't think of anything else that hadn't been said, but him falling off a ledge, still alive, and finnally dieing in front of his sister is pretty cool and all.

The "Steve kills the Bandersatch with dual Gold Lugers" death was better.

The Boss - MGS3 (Mostly because of Snake's dealings with the revelation of her death.)

Teta - Final Fantasy Tactics - Again because of Delita's reaction towards her death. Its just so... dramatic.

Solidus Snake - Best death scene since Ceasar.

Sidney Lassarot, Melrose - Vagrant Story

Aeris - Yes. I saw it coming to. Again because of Cloud's reaction. I love it when shit is about to hit the fan due to tragety.

There is more, but goddamnit it's been a while.

The girl who gets sprouted in Grim Fandango, I don't recall her name. But she turns into flowers and floats away after a little speech, I thought it was good. Oh and Maxamino in the same game, his bones get grinded (they're all skeletons in Grim Fandango, the land of the dead) between a ship's big spinny thing.

Silent Wolf - MGS. Thought it was quite a touching final scene bringing to light some of the atrocities the Kurds have suffered as a people.

E.E. - MS2. Also quite a sad scene from the series, very heart-felt.

Therese/Jeanette Voerman - Just for being original and bizarre.

The player in Wing Commander.

in age of empires when the little people died they made this funny little sound, fell over and then over a few moments turned in to skeletons

The player in Wing Commander.

Hahaha.

*makes spastic arm movements*

*bright flash*

*explodes*

The skaarj warriors in Unreal right after you got a head shot on them with a sniper rifle. I just loved how they would feel around for their missing head before they fell over dead. :D

The cyborg Liquid Snake from Metal Gear Solid 2. The scene where he gets crushed by Metal Gear was both strangley amusing and touching.

His last words:

"We're not tools of the government or anyone else. Fighting was the only thing I was good at, but at least I always fought for what I believed in."

Therese/Jeanette Voerman - Just for being original and bizarre.
I dunno. I think LaCroix had more... style... getting blown to pieces by a coffin and everything.

Also,


Valter - Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stone does a very good job at making you truly hate this guy, so when you finally get to run him through it's very satisfying indeed.


Limstella - "I am not human. This body and this heart are but constructs. Yes, as is this sorrow."

Guybrush Threepwood - The man who manages to die twice in a single game.


The cyborg Liquid Snake from Metal Gear Solid 2. The scene where he gets crushed by Metal Gear was both strangley amusing and touching.
His last words:
"We're not tools of the government or anyone else. Fighting was the only thing I was good at, but at least I always fought for what I believed in."
That was actually Grey Fox in the first Metal Gear Solid.

Unless Liquid does come back in the second game as a cyborg and dies in the exact same way Grey Fox did, while uttering the exact same line.

Lord British, Ultima Online :D

Wasn't that a bug exploit? Heh, but it was inspired I'll give it that. Blowing the bridge he was giving a speech on and let him drown.

The deaths of Maria in Silent Hill 2.

Also possibly the death of Harry in Silent Hill 3

oooooh ooooooh soldier of fortune deaths are all good (just for the gore) nothing like a shotty to the stomach.

Ummmmmm......... i'll be happy to add more if i had a decent computer and some games to run.

BUt once i saw this really big rabbit.......

Maria in GTA 3

"A broke a nail and my hair is ruined, this one cost me fifty dollars..."

Marcie the robot in Mystic Quest/Final Fantasy Adventure (on the Gameboy) - later remade as "Sword of Mana" on the GBA. You're at the top of this collapsing tower and Marcie tells the hero that he'll throw him to safety then jump across after him. He throws the hero then proclaims "Marcie cannot jump", and falls down with the collapsing tower.

Anyone on SSBM.

Some of the match-ups in Dawn of War were kool (Bloodthirster v Avatar...)

Guybrush Threepwood in the Secret of Monkey Island.

For most of the game he cannot die, but there's one point when he's tied to an idol and thrown into the harbor water. He remarkably can hold his breath for 10 minutes (he makes a point of emphasizing this earlier in the game), so you have a long time to just pick up that idol, walk to the nearby ladder, and climb back up to the docks. Otherwise, he floats and your options change from things like "Walk To", "Pick Up", and "Open" to "Bob", "Rot", and "Order Hint Book".

There is a point in Monkey Island 2 where Guybrush can die if you wait long enough in an elaborate death trap, but, since that sequence is presented in the form of a flashback story, the person he's telling the story to calls him a liar and you start again at the beginning of the trap.

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Oh, and Carth Onasi in Knights of the Old Republic, if you play as a Dark Side Female character!

Poor Carth, you see, forgot to bring a wingman. Be wary of hostile women in large numbers.

Mega Man all the way.

The best video game death is the very end of Final Fantasy Tactics. Very shocking even though afterwards I was surprised I didn't see it coming, and it was certainly one you don't easily forget.

Well... that and the "death" in Curse of Monkey Island XD

Aeris in FFVII (as expected).

Shadow in Sonic Adventures 2 for the dreamcast.

Any Mech in Mechwarrior 4. I love the pretty lights.

Setting people on fire in Black and White.

And the worst death has to be... Kerghan from Arcanum. Just shoddy.

Sepheroith (FF7): Omnislash pwn3d

Anyone from Valkyrie Profile.

The mutant Lieutenant in Fallout 1. Or the Overseer.

Lemming head explosion.

Most railing deaths.

Salazar's right hand man in Resident Evil 4.

Silent Hill

the UFO ending...

Hi, I'm looking for my... (sound of energy blast)
(alien language and your body is taken into the UFO and it disappears into the darkness of space.)

Ragdoll masters - your opponent just falls apart.
awesome shareware game.

I liked Timmy's death in Giants, but I liked most of the beginning of that game.

Killing a awper with a de in css.

Silent Hill

the UFO ending...

Hi, I'm looking for my... (sound of energy blast)
(alien language and your body is taken into the UFO and it disappears into the darkness of space.)

Um, no1 died in that ending....

Diablo's death in Diablo.
Baal's death in Diablo II: LoD.
Shenk the Overseer's death in Diablo II: LoD.

Um, no1 died in that ending....well, it can be said that you didn't die, but you didn't complete the game either.

then again, the way it ended leaves so much to the imagination. ;)

Killing a soldier with a sniper rifle in Operation Flashpoint. He does a back flip as the blood comes out his head. :p If you have custom blood in, it looks really cool. :sniper:

worms armagedon + holy handgernade = best death scenes ever.

I don't know if anyone remembers the old PC game "Out of This World". There were literally hundreds of ways to die and each one had its own 10-second animation showing you getting devoured/poisoned/impaled/blown to bits. The programmer must have spent half their time on those animations.

Tenchu 3 wrath of heaven: almost all the stelth kills are cool

unreal ternamint: relic of vengince

FFX: if you do a summan when everyone els is dead, then the dead people stand up and run away :D ... after that they run back and fall over dead!

In terms of sheer coolness, any death of an "enemy" in Gunstar Heroes.

Best. Explosions. EVER. :D

But in terms of a death being a plot device, I would say the deaths of Fenix and General Duke in Starcraft

worms armagedon + holy handgernade = best death scenes ever.

I like the exploding sheep!

All your BUMP are belong to us!!

Millenia in Grandia 2, reminded me of the Aeris-death

The death of Nemesis in Resident Evil 3 was great, too.

I don't know if anyone remembers the old PC game "Out of This World". There were literally hundreds of ways to die and each one had its own 10-second animation showing you getting devoured/poisoned/impaled/blown to bits. The programmer must have spent half their time on those animations.Ooh, good call.

I don't know if anyone remembers the old PC game "Out of This World". There were literally hundreds of ways to die and each one had its own 10-second animation showing you getting devoured/poisoned/impaled/blown to bits. The programmer must have spent half their time on those animations.

That was the sequel to "Flashback: Another World", right? I never played "Out of this world", but the prequel definitely qualifies.

That was the sequel to "Flashback: Another World", right? I never played "Out of this world", but the prequel definitely qualifies.

No, it's the other way around. :)

I don't know if anyone remembers the old PC game "Out of This World". There were literally hundreds of ways to die and each one had its own 10-second animation showing you getting devoured/poisoned/impaled/blown to bits. The programmer must have spent half their time on those animations.

Fantastic game and you are right, I totally forgot about it. Played it on my Amiga500 though, so I guess, that my graphics was better than yours :p

No, it's the other way around. :)

Well, either way. Another World was awesome. :p

Bumpity-doo!

But in terms of a death being a plot device, I would say the deaths of Fenix and General Duke in Starcraft

For funniest death ever, I'd say Fenix. He's standing there with all the confidence in the world with his wrist blades staring down a Hydralisk. Then his blades shut off and his facial expression looks like he just crapped himself. I love it. :p

Ive always liked how the flood die in Halo & Halo 2, its just amusing and fun to see a big puffy carrier form fall over, expand, explode, and spit out little infection forms, while blowing a leg off of a combat form who gets back up and shambles towards you...

the deaths of Fenix
:(

Fantastic game and you are right, I totally forgot about it. Played it on my Amiga500 though, so I guess, that my graphics was better than yours :p

I had Out of World for my Atari MegaST. I still remember the many different ways you can be instantly killed... Man, that game was hard.

Theres a nintendo game with jackie chan in it and when he would die he'd fall on the ground and have a fit like nothing you've seen before his arms and one leg would shoot up in the air and just go crazy, it is the funniest thing in video game history

The last death of Monsterized William Birkin in Resident Evil 2 (one of 12, collect them all!) was great, too.

the deaths of Fenix

:(


Hey, he lived on in a dragoon! :)

any death involving rag doll physics. :D I mean come on can you say "BEST DEATHS EVER!!!"

Every time you died in Crash Bandicoot 3

Captain Alvin H. "Chopper" Davenport from AC5.

-finally, i don't have to hear his annoying chatter!

In Jak III when Damius (not sure if that's his name, he's the King of the Wastelanders or whatever) dies.

First time I got to that part i nearly pissed my pants cause I though Jak died (I nearly pissed my pants again at the end of the game)

It's so heroic in my opinion, and one of hte best deaths in a videogame I have ever seen.


Another good one is the death of Doomhammer, in WarCraft III Reign of Chaos.

Very heroic again.

And from the StarCraft series (Yeah I'm a fan of the Blizzard games, StarCraft series, Diable II series, and WarCraft III)

When on the intro to Brood War that Marine is in the trenchline looking up as the battlecruiser leaves, then the camera zooms out and you see all these Zerglings coming to kill him.

Also, when the General in charge of the UED forces commits suicide. He sits there and reads his suicide note, then you hear the gunblast. Always liked that death.

Forgot the death of Tassadar, when he sacrifices himself to kill the Overmind.

Every time you died in Crash Bandicoot 3

Yeah, I hate that stupid Bandicoot as well.

A HL2 zombie, So many ways to die, bisection, being impaled on the wall, flaming, blowing the headcrab off, Or blowing the head off of a bisected Flaming Zombie.

Wolfenstien 3D, Hitler (SUPER GORE)

Most of the Metal Gear Solid 1 and 2. Bosses. (Damn that series is so deep)

Ganon, Zelda games.


Mega Man all the way.
*Do do do do do do*

Getting hit by a plasma grenade in Halo 1 or 2.

In Deus Ex, the cut-scene you get when you say either Anna or Herman's "killphrases".

For those who don't know. Anna and Herman were mechanically-augmented cyborgs and when their killphrase is spoken you get a neat cutscene where they explode in slow motion in full gory detail.

Fenix, StarCraft. Poor bastard. Got killed TWICE.

Phantom Ganon and the real Ganon - Occarina of Time (you just can't beat Zelda)

Omega Pirate, Metroid Prime (he was by far the hardest damn boss in the game - I cheered at his death, plus it gave me the uber-cool Phazon suit)

Any stealthy takedown in Splinter Cell

Darth Revan, KOTOR (if it was a bit cliche, for him realizing the error of his ways)

Mario drowning in Mario 64.

Mario drowning in Mario 64.
I love it when he gets set on fire, runs around like a maniac, then falls dead.

Headhunters: The death with the paino wire.

Abes Odessy:
When you kill a mudokon he shurgs and says sorry.
At the end of the game if you did not save enough the mudokons say "Kill em" and he falls into the grinder.

Abes Exodus:
For the same reasons as above.

Xenogears:
The movie where his friends die. And then he goes nuts unleashing the power of the gear when that cross cracks and then shatters.

Chrono Trigger:
The destruction of Zeal, and the destruction of the future.

Chrono Cross:
In the destroyed city of the future. Fighting Miguel near Lene's Bell. When you do Forever Zero it was very sad.
The entire game was sad.

Jon Irenicus', Khalid's, and Yoshimo's death in BG2. Irenicus ranks as one of the best baddies ever in gaming history, so to see him at the end in Hades, without his magical mojo, was just priceless. By the same token, you never would have wanted to kill Irenicus so badly had he not done what he did to Khalid and Yoshimo.

Fenix, StarCraft. Poor bastard. Got killed TWICE.

Beat that, Jesus!

Noe one has said Pac-man? Come on. His lower lip goes backwards eating is body or something until it reaches his upper lip then he blinks out of existence with some of the most classic death music ever. Don't tell me that whenever you hear that music you don't think "Ah, crap some one got Pac-man."

Hey, he lived on in a dragoon! :)

And then died again. I hope they bring out a sequel soon. I really want to kill Kerrigan for that.

Noe one has said Pac-man? Come on. His lower lip goes backwards eating is body or something until it reaches his upper lip then he blinks out of existence with some of the most classic death music ever. Don't tell me that whenever you hear that music you don't think "Ah, crap some one got Pac-man."

*Play death music from Pac-Man.*

*Play game over music from Metal Gear Solid.*

Pac-man?! PAC-MAN? PAAAAAAAAAAAAAAC-MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!