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Anothe rin my long line of videogame threads!!
This time: what is your favorite death or failure screen or message ina videogame?

Some of mine:

-"Dead End" in Clock Tower games
-"You Died" in Resident Evil 2
-"You are Dead" in Resident Evil 4
-"SNAKE IS DEAD" in Metal Gear Solid 3
-"Your mission is a failure" in Command & Conquer

Add your own, comment, etc.

In BG2, one of the loadscreen messages was:
"While your character doesn't need to eat, please remember that you do. We don't want to lose any dedicated players out there."

Remember back when the PS1 launched? One of the launch titles was Ridge Racer, and the big thing with that is it would load up on the machine and then you could put in your own CD to be the soundtrack?

Well, if you put in Public Enemy's Music in our Mess Age and you failed to complete the race on time Flava Flav would come on and say "You best wake up and check what time it is." And then "Time Out" would appear on the screen.

I've always liked that.

if your any good at video games you wont hear or see them :-p

-"Your mission is a failure" in Command & Conquer

ive heard that a few times, any mission when you have to defend a scienst type :(

how about goldeneye on the N64, that was had a pretty good death scene.

the blood came down the screen and then it showed replays of your death

Balance of Power:

You have ignited a nuclear war.

No, there is no animated picture of a mushroom cloud and mutilated body parts flying about.

We do not reward failure.

Balance of Power:

You have ignited a nuclear war.

No, there is no animated picture of a mushroom cloud and mutilated body parts flying about.

We do not reward failure.Isn't that SuperPower?

In BG2, one of the loadscreen messages was:
"While your character doesn't need to eat, please remember that you do. We don't want to lose any dedicated players out there."

Hilarious!! :D :D :D

[Thinks: which game is "BG2"?]

Though technically not a Death message, MGS2's Fission Mailed screen was pretty damn hilarious the first time you get it. Had me in stitches, so I ended up dying and getting a Mission Failed screen within the Fission Mailed screen. 0_o

Venturing back fifteen years or so, the main character in Space Harrier had a particularly poofy 'arrgh' whenever he got hit, upon which he'd have a slow float to the floor, start flashing, then get back up as if nothing happened.

Hilarious!! :D :D :D

[Thinks: which game is "BG2"?]Baldur's Gate 2

And I loved the tips you got in Warcraft II in the beginning of the game. While some were helpful (You can use these keys to do this) some were just plain funny:
Never pet a burning dog.
Change your underwear daily.
Tell your friends to buy Warcraft II.
:D

Oh, I quite liked the Comix Zone death scenes. Sketch sorta slumped over saying "Game over, man, Game over", and the comic book's author became coloured in. ^^;

And the Crash Bandicoot series was always great on death sequences. If you got blown up, you got blown sky-high and Crash's shoes landed smoking on the ground. If you ran into a wizard, you got turned into a frog; if you ran into a frog, it kissed you and turned into a prince. If you ran into a goat, it butted you into the camera. If you got flattened by a dinosaur, you were left as a little splat on the ground as the dinosaur put a few extra squashes down. If you got sliced by the arabian swordsmen, your trousers would fall down; if you got sliced by the knights, your legs would walk on away from the rest of your body. The list goes on!

Isn't that SuperPower?

Nah. There are two versions of BoP, one from 1989, and one from 1990, it's an oldie. SuperPower is new. (and also crap. Though I never played the first one enough to know if that message was in there)

Baldur's Gate 2

And I loved the tips you got in Warcraft II in the beginning of the game. While some were helpful (You can use these keys to do this) some were just plain funny:
Never pet a burning dog.
Change your underwear daily.
Tell your friends to buy Warcraft II.
:D

And also "Never Piss in the Wind" :D

And also "Never Piss in the Wind" :DAh, the memories... :D

On second thought, I remember playing Colonization, which was Civilization in the Wew World. When you got done, you got ranked according to your score. Depending on your score, something got named after you, like a disease if you weren't so good... :p

Ah, the memories... :D

On second thought, I remember playing Colonization, which was Civilization in the Wew World. When you got done, you got ranked according to your score. Depending on your score, something got named after you, like a disease if you weren't so good... :p

Oooh, yeah, that was cool. :D

It was the same in most of Microprose's early games. You could end up as a chimney sweep or hobo if you lucked out in Railroad Tycoon.

On the Star Wars Galaxies Trials of Obi-Wan Beta test when you walk on lava:

Lava Damage
Lava Damage
Lava Damage

You were slain. Requesting clone activation...

The Sierra Games Like

Space Quest

And

King's Quest

And

Police Quest

Hi Lar Ious Death Msgs

In BG2, one of the loadscreen messages was:
"While your character doesn't need to eat, please remember that you do. We don't want to lose any dedicated players out there."

The original thief readme had "remember not to blackjack people in real life"

Horror Zombies From The Crypt has the main character fall to his knees, howl, pull on his hair and then his head explodes.

I had this stupid POS of a game called Shadow President years ago. A geoplitical sim game where *you* are in control of the US. Never wrorked worth a shit which was a shame but... if you f'ed up really bad like nuking Canada or otherwise causing a mess, the screen would suddenly turn dark and a bunch of bullet holes and blood spatters would appear along witht the sound of gunshots. :)

"Finish Him"

"Fatality"

Mortal Kombat

"All we have succedded at today is giving our worst enemy more confidence"

Nuclear Strike, last of the Strike series

i seem to remember Rise Of The Triad (ancient PC FPS) saying "YOU SUCK" when you lost all your lives...

and when you set the resolution to the lowest setting it said "Get a 486 you skinflint!" :p



ah what a great game that was - it had 'shroom mode' for starters :P

I had this stupid POS of a game called Shadow President years ago. A geoplitical sim game where *you* are in control of the US. Never wrorked worth a shit which was a shame but... if you f'ed up really bad like nuking Canada or otherwise causing a mess, the screen would suddenly turn dark and a bunch of bullet holes and blood spatters would appear along witht the sound of gunshots. :)

Hey, Shadow President was pretty good. Flawed, but fun.

Balance of Power was a better sim though.

Goldeneye showing you Bond getting shot to bits from three different angles just to rub it in was kind of cool (unless it was JUST BEFORE you were about to enter the elevator to finish Control on 00Agent for the first time) that sort of thing causes control pads to mysteriously break...

Not really death/failure messages, but still funny:

"Keeper beware, Micro Piglets stalk your dungeon."

"Keeper, your dungeon floor is lumpy. Order your minions to jump up and down."

"Keeper, your dungeon is drafty. Install central heating."

"Keeper, never attempt to eat anything bigger than your own head."

"One of your imps does a great impression of you, he can even do the ears."

Not really death/failure messages, but still funny:

"Keeper beware, Micro Piglets stalk your dungeon."

"Keeper, your dungeon floor is lumpy. Order your minions to jump up and down."

"Keeper, your dungeon is drafty. Install central heating."

"Keeper, never attempt to eat anything bigger than your own head."

"One of your imps does a great impression of you, he can even do the ears."

Ah, Dungeon Keeper. Undoubtably one of the most underated games ever.

When playing Sacrifice the missions are actually your character retelling what happened.
When you die:
"No wait, that's not what happened! Let me start again."

When playing Sacrifice the missions are actually your character retelling what happened.
When you die:
"No wait, that's not what happened! Let me start again."

Similar stuff in Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.

Rose made MGS2 suck hardcore, but I can't forget the immortal "Fisson Mailed" screen.

"Finish Him"

"Fatality"

Mortal Kombat

Yeah I always liked the " Finish Him "

"Get over here"
:sniper:

Operation Wolf, obviously.

'You have sustained a LETHAL INJURY. Sorry, but you are finished.........HERE.'

And all the quit game messages in the Max Payne Games.

And all the quit game messages in the Max Payne Games.

Yeah, they kicked a$$:

"Vengance was a pain behind my eyes."

"Death had an unfair advantage, unlimited ammo."

"The city was a necropolis, hungry for more corpses."

Pure gold. :)

bump!!!

Metal Gear Solid 3: "SNAKE IS DEAD."

Without a doubt, for me personally, it's the death in the old Amiga platform games Rick Dangerous and Rick Dangerous 2. In these games you were this suave Indiana Jones-type guy, but when you died, he jumped off the screen wailing like a baby :D

oh silly me i forgot ive never seen one (cept on my POS dell *fear the blue screen of death*)

Farrenheit (or Indigo Prophecy if you live in the US) allows you to kill yourself in all sorts of different ways. As it is an "interactive movie" with all the narratives done by the main character, you can get some pretty good death messages. My favourite two are:

And that was the end of me. I mixed drink and drugs.

or

I couldn't face it any more. I drank myself into a depression and leapt from my balcony.

Snake?

SNAAAAAAAAAAKE!!!

"I am not human. This body and this heart are but constructs. Yes, as is this sorrow." ~ Limstella, becoming my favourite villain in a mere three lines.

Operation Flashpoint has some pretty cool death quotes, too...

"SNAKE IS DEAD" in Metal Gear Solid 3

Bah, that's no good. Lob a grenade at the knocked-out Ocelot near the start and our hero, Roy Campbell [yay!] will give you the game over with 'Snake, you've created a TIME PARADOX! You can't go changing the future like that!'

MGS2: FISSION MAILED!

And yet your still fighting with that tiny screen. Man I did not like that part of the game.