Most humiliating ways to die in a video game

Left 4 Dead: Crushed by the getaway vehicle in "Crash Course".

Ringing yourself out during Practice Mode (Trying to learn Natsu, used the hop-over-opponent attack and realised the arena edge wall wasn't as tall as it looked)

Thief: Deadly Shadows: accidentally running off the docks. Where the water also happens to be pretty shallow. Same if you were aiming to jump into a boat only a few feet away and missed.

Running off a roof is also possible. Especially funny if you survive it only to realize you've fallen onto a group of guards, who eagerly proceed to finish the job.

Fast-travelling to the Mage College in Skyrim while on a horse, then realizing the path is too narrow to turn around the horse and dying by either getting off the horse and falling to death or by desperately trying to turn the horse around and falling to death.

Having your team of legendaries die to a Magikarp. Who needs Magikarp Power when the opponent can't beat a Magikarp?

Crash Bandicoot could give lessons in this.

I don't have time to check the whole thread, but did anyone say "Losing to Glass Joe" yet?

Yep.

While I didn't die, here's some humiliating ways I lost Pikmin in my recent play of Pikmin 1

• For the "Of all the Pikmin to get killed" award, leading an army consisting of about 50 Pikmin, just one of which was carrying a bomb rock. Trying to fight a Wollywog, only for it to land on and crush just that exact one Pikmin with the bomb rock. My army got wiped out (as did the Wollywog).
• For the "Oops" award, attempting to nip a potential threat in the bud (Which I really could have just left alone) by destroying the odd egg in the Distant Spring... and doing too sloppy a job of it due to my small army. Thankfully I beat it and gained more Pikmin than I lost from its remains, but it took up most of the day.
• For the "Negligent Captain" award, leaving a small detachment to work on tearing down a gate in hostile territory. While doing stuff elsewhere, noticing my Pikmin count decreasing one by one, and returning to find a Sheargrub feasting itself on the distracted Pikmin.
• For the top award of sheer stupidity, however, accidentally commanding a Yellow Pikmin to blow up my army with a bomb rock. Again. But this time with no enemy involved.

edited 29th Apr '13 7:43:57 PM by Anomalocaris20

Dwarf Fortress: being slaughtered by goblins because you forgot to connect your fancy drawbridge to an actual lever.

Well, for a game on the NES involving Stanley, I kinda suffered a fairly humiliating death via getting shot to death, only to have the corpse land right on top of a man-eating plant. (In a way, the game was kicking me while I was dead.)

Also, I did invoke one such humiliating death in doom (though mileage may vary). Long story short, the foe charged me with the super shotgun, managed to hit and not kill me, and I sock it to my foe with a berserk fist punch. (conveniently grabbed a berserk pack.)

Another humiliation I suffered was trying to nab adamantine, the first tile I chip into, I release the demons. Although I did seal them up again, I wound up re-releasing them, leading me to abandon fort.

Lastly on humiliating deaths: Accidentally wall-jumping off-stage and having too little SP to save yourself in S 4 League. Nothing says "D'oh!" like flying off-stage and being maimed by death pit.

edited 29th Apr '13 7:49:43 PM by NESgamer190

Losing repeatedly to Berial, the first boss, in Devil May Cry 4.

My refusal to use up the one gold orb I had meant replaying the entire level several times.

Batman Arkham Asylum: Putting the Ultra Batclaw into Titan Joker's back, except... HONK HONK! "Urrrrrrrrrgh!" *Joker mockery*

Left 4 Dead 2: Getting killed on the getaway boat at the end of Hard Rain because of slow teammates.

Getting hit by a train in TF 2. I always facepalm when this happens.

Getting killed by the Holy Mackerel too. Of course, that's intended.

edited 29th Apr '13 8:29:11 PM by Ryuhza