Most humiliating ways to die in a video game

Haven't played a single one of those games, so... context?

Which games? The Zelda ones?

There are chickens running around in the towns. If you keep hitting one for long enough, the screen will be swarmed by chickens and they'll all attack you until you either enter a building, leave that screen, or die.

In Link's Awakening you can steal items from the shop. Once you do . . . the next time you enter the shop the shopkeeper will give an angry speech and kill you with magic bolts, then your gamesave will rename itself and your character THIEF. You'll have to go the entire rest of the game branded a thief for that.

edited 7th Mar '12 10:33:41 AM by Journeyman

The chickens also really really hurt.

And the shopkeeper gets very Nightmare Fueleriffic (or at least, he does to an impressionable 10-year-old). (Accidental) Aesop about shoplifting?

edited 7th Mar '12 11:03:22 AM by Reflextion

I don't think it was an accident at all. You've gotta have consequences to your actions, and didn't Nintendo include people reacting to you breaking things in their homes in Skyward Sword? I'd say it was intentional. I haven't heard of a Zelda game since then that allowed you to even shoplift in the first place. It just took til now for Nintendo to make a good run-around for breaking everything in sight so that they could do an Aesop about breaking peoples' things.

Speaking of Zelda, dying because of a frigging octorok.

edited 7th Mar '12 12:36:02 PM by MrW

The Oracle games had the shopkeeper drag you back to the cash register if you tried to take something without paying.

SS has nothing to break in people's houses, at least not in Skyloft.

edited 7th Mar '12 1:05:36 PM by Swampertrox

So, I died in Minecraft. I know where it was and it's not too far away, so it's easy to get the stuff, I dropped when I died, back. Well, that wasn't that much of a problem, but... well, it didn't go unnoticed by the mobs, so I got attacked by zombies, skeletons and creepers. And so, I died again. Only after that second death, I thought of crafting a sword before going back.

The most frustrating thing is that I didn't get everything back. While I could retrieve most of it, some things fell into the lava after my second death.

What killed you the first time?

The same things that killed me the second time. Skeletons, zombies and creepers. I'm not even sure what gave me the final blow.

When I tried to get my stuff back the first time, I thought I could just quickly run in, get the items and run out again, always trying to evade the mobs. The latter turned out to be harder than I expected, though. A bit too hard for me.

I was actually worried about my stuff vanishing before I get there, which is why I planned to rushing, instead of fighting my way in. But that was pretty unnecessary after all, since it didn't take long until I arrived. Enough time to get rid of the mobs and retrieve the items afterwards.

You usually don't need to rush to get items unless they're trapped in a cave or in a populated area on SMP, because they only despawn after the chunk they are in has been loaded for five minutes. I wouldn't consider dying to a combination of zombies, skeletons, and creepers a humiliating way to die, because it's very hard to fight multiple mobs at once, especially when running away from creepers.

edited 7th Mar '12 2:01:43 PM by Swampertrox

In Spelunky a couple days ago, I let a Shopkeeper get eaten by a Man Eating Plant. Figuring I would be able to take both out in one blow, I shot the plant with my shotgun that I totally didn't steal. What happened was the plant died and the Shopkeeper got even more pissed off and shot me in the face.

The first death wasn't humilating, that's true. But the second one was that (at least, it was very pointless). I just went back to the mob-infested area, thinking I can just evade them. At least, I should have made a sword, just in case I couldn't do it after all.

That happens all the time too. If you can't deal with mobs when you have all your equipment, it'll be harder to deal with them without your stuff, even if you have another sword.

I once found an utterly massive cavern in Minecraft. I don't mean massive as in a network of tunnels. I mean one single large cavern, spherical, stretching from almost the surface down to the lava layer. With three ravines connecting to it, and quite a few side tunnels. I ended up finding an abundance of minerals, including ten diamonds. Then I'm harvesting redstone in an innocuous corridor. It's a fairly empty corridor between the main cavern and a smaller lava cavern. I mine most of the ore, then, feeling comfortable, end up breaking rule #1 of Minecraft by standing on top of the last ore block to harvest it. Guess what happened. >.<

I died 20 seconds into a multiplayer match on Mass Effect 3 because I was too stupid to roll away from the grenade at my feet. The rest of my team spent the rest of the game laughing at my failure. Couldn't really blame them either.

in Goldeneye Wii, firing all 12 rounds in a masterton shotgun, missing, then getting melee killed.

alas, my Achilles' Heel is melee combat.

• For the award for "Judging a Book by its Cover and Paying the Price": Getting polished off by a Radroach in Fallout 3.
• For the award for "Unlikely but Hilariously Avoidable Catastrophes": Losing your last family member to a unit of peasants in Medieval II Total War.
• In the "Just Plain Careless" category: Death by drowning in Sonic Adventure.
• The award for "Complacency Kills": Getting killed by the balloons in the Metropolis Sonic 2 boss after clearing the stage. (By all accounts entirely possible.)
• Runner-up for "Complacency Kills": Driving off a cliff in Halo while trying to roadkill a handful of grunts (the elites by this point all being dead.)
• (Personal favourite for the categories of "Quickest Reversal Ever" and "Most Deserved Commuppance") Attempting the easy assassination of some small child in Crusader Kings II, only to have the child survive, yourself discovered, and your kingdom promptly torn apart by hundreds of angry vassals as you're labelled a horrible child murderer.

Skyrim: Discovering far too late that whirlwind sprint moves only horizontally, then falling to your death.

Dying to Odin in Final Fantasy XIII-2 because you can't into healing very well. [[spoiler:He's the first fight in the game.}}

Borderlands: Fast moving melee enemy + aim assist disabled = me missing 7 shots with my Masher revolver AT MELEE RANGE and getting downed.

I could've pinched his nipples at the distance I was.

Spin Dashing into a pit. Even if I see the pit coming.

Failing to swing over the very last pit in NES Bionic Commando.

At the beginning of a match in Wargame: European Escalation, I decided to send a group of AH-64 Apaches and a Kiowa Warrior scout chopper ahead of everyone else in order to get the jump of the enemy, who would still likely be busy trying to position all of his units. Figured flying over the heavily forested areas would be worth the risk since they would likely be empty so early on. Well, I was wrong - upon getting only halfway there I get the alert that one of my units are under attack. I attempted to locate the enemy with the Kiowa, but somehow or another they lucked out and scored a critical hit on it's engine, causing it to lose control and crash. My Apaches, which were then blind, still had the chance to back off and regroup or try a different angle of attack, but instead I persisted... a bad miscalculation, on my part.

After continuing on the the attack and trying to find them, the enemy continued to pelt my choppers with bullets, causing malfunctions and making them combat ineffective or worse. Finally, one of the Apaches found the bastard responsible - a BMP-1 and a single Motostrelki unit, and managed to fire back and kill the BMP... only for the Motostrelki unit to get off ANOTHER lucky shot with their RPG-7, taking down the last Apache. (Which in this game, is like a one-in-a-million shot).

The units I lost in that skirmish cost me over 500 points. And the units the Soviets lost? probably no more than 45. :(