The dumbest way you've died in a video game.

maybe I should just let this die... I'm the only one still posting in it

Not yet I got some dumb ways to die.

In Cathrine, I sometimes had trouble with climbing and moving blocks so I would sometimes end up falling to the ground behind a block I'd be hanging on to.

• Mario Kart 8 Battle Mode;

"Oh neat, a Boost Shroom. I can use this to ram somebody and take their balloon!"

Cue my target procuring a red shell into my face the very moment I attempt.

• Zelda: Breath of the Wild;

"Whoa! I managed to get enough lift to glide above one of the wandering dragon god things! I wonder if I can land on it..."

Imagine Homer falling down Springfield Gorge, but sideways, while getting electrocuted. (Link survived, but barely.)

• Fire Emblem Fates: Conquest;

Forget that the enemy archer has the Counter ability, which reflects melee damage taken back in full unles it's a killing blow.

Glass Cannon hitting the enemy, leaving them a sliver of HP away from death... And said Glass Cannon dies before the enemy even gets to properly attack.

@Rabid Tanker: That's rough.

Yeah, Counter will screw you up real bad and never look back. It forces you to go on the defensive. Though that makes the retaliation all the more sweet when the enemy hoists themselves by their own petard...

Update from the very same game I opened the thread with: Sphynxinator is full of shit. You know those big block things that the guy makes come down from the ceiling by pulling a lever? I barely touched one of those things and the fucking game STILL registered it and made Crash go squish.

So I was playing through the Painted World of Ariamis in Dark Souls I with a buddy, and we come to a rather suspicious wide open, dimly lit room. My buddy informs me that an important switch is on the other side of the room, tells me that I absolutely have to pull it, and makes a couple of coy comments that imply I'm gonna have a bad time.

My normal strategy for this sort of thing thus far has been what amounts to "shield up, head down, inch forward slowly slowly slowly".

For whatever god-forsaken reason, I decide that the only way to get through is sprint in. If my character was capable of screaming like a maniac, he would've been.

Bonewheels happened.

My buddy was legit stunned at how stupid I'd been.

Second dumbest way I've died, of course, is when I jumped into a giant skeleton gankfest that had just killed my buddy after seeing first hand that there was no way I could've beaten them. >_>

Well, I fucked up. For those who don't know FF 5, I can't control my characters. Going from top to bottom, Barts is a berserker which always attacks and I have no control over him. Lenna is playing a continuous song which also means I can't control her. Krile is dead. Faris is also playing a continuous song. So that means I have 3 characters who I can't control and the one I could control is dead. Unsurprisingly, I died.

edited 24th Jun '17 4:36:41 PM by OrionAurora

I played Skyrim with the Skyrim redone mod which among other things overhauls the racial perks. And I ended up with a fistfight mission for the Companions where I had to beat a dark elf...while forgetting that their perk now gives them a flame cloak whike under 50% HP. I got burned to a crisp during a fistfight.

Then I reloaded, used a potion to heal myself when the cloak activated...which turned the fistfight into a real fight, and said Dark elf happened to be the Master Illusion trainer in Winterhold with several other powerful mages in the room, so they mopped the floor with me.

Finally remembered one:

At the end of the ridiculously difficult final level of Super Mario 3D Land, SW-8(Crown), there is a Thank You message made of temporary platforms that you ride by on a moving platform on the way to the final flag. Somehow, I missed the moving platform and thought I had to get to the end on the "Thank You" message. By the time I realized my mistake, it was too late, and it was back to the beginning of this very hard level I went.

To make matters worse, I had finally gotten to that point after about 45 minutes of trying only to make that mistake. It's a wonder I didn't Rage Quit right there and then.

Dungeon Siege, my donkey got spooked and ran deeper into the ice cave, he then turned back with half the cave's mob right behind him.

New Space Station 13 one. Goonstation, CogMap1, I came in late and got Traitor Janitor. Here's the map, for the record. Notice how the Janitor's Office is right outside of the garbage disposal.◊

Again, I was a traitor with three targets to kill. While trying to figure out what my murder targets were up to some guy stole my floor scrubber. After a fight to get him off of the vehicle he came up victorious, so I left to continue my sleuthing work. Eventually I went back to the custodial closet to think of my plan... to find my office window smashed and the guy who stole my ride from earlier loading the entirety of everything in my office into the garbage disposal's mass driver. Mind, the room was really really dark and I was unfamiliar with the map's layout.

I wound up fighting him again for my vehicle and wowee I got it this time. I drove it directly onto the mass driver, which caused my perpetually-moving vehicle to be trapped in a loop of driving off the mass driver onto the loader and being loaded back on to the mass driver. For some dumb reason I couldn't dismount my vehicle, couldn't drive it into space off the mass driver, nothing. At that point my only real option was to use the game's kill command to kill myself and get off of that wild ride. (I would have suffocated eventually either way, since the mass driver was likely sucking up all the air.)

Overwatch. I play Junkrat, launching a Rip-Tire at the point on Lijiang Gardens. The Rip-Tire rolls in, I manage to kill one enemy and wound two more, then just run forward to finish them off with my launcher.

Run forward. Right off a ledge.

In-character.

edited 2nd Jul '17 9:59:38 AM by hellomoto

Leaving Shadow on the Floating Continent during my first playthrough of Final Fantasy VI (PSN version)

Just fresh out of Nier automata where I died to a moose collapsing on me after I killed it.

I broke into a tomb to practice my dance moves in Dwarf Fortress

@29: I was mainly talking about the final level, although that roadblock of Lancers sure did rustled my jimmies. But nearly everyone else on that level was an pushover, except for those Merchants, an Spear Master, and Garon.

Man, playing Conquest on Hard sure is fun...

Sunless Sea:

-Picking a fight with a Thalatte, picking a fight with a lifeberg, picking a fight with a Republican Dreadnought, picking a fight with the Constant Companion....all enemies that definitely shouldn't be engaged with the starting ship.

-Encountering THE EYE underwater while at about 60 Terror to start with. And deciding to zail right into the giant ocular, which turns out to be a portal of sorts to a different corner of existence that seems to be the Liberation of Night's cosmic HQ with what I'd describe as an anti-Judgement in charge. And the only "reward" from that? I get an extra eye. Lore-wise this is massive foreshadowing for Sunless Skies, but aside from that it merely got me almost killed by my own now-insane crew.

Jumped off a cliff in BOTW with the intention of using my glider... only to remember that I had just restarted the game and didn't have the glider yet.

Thanks for the first good belly laugh of the day!

Ok, here goes.

• Super Mario World: I was 13 years old, playing as normal, when the cat jumped on the TV stand and blocked the screen. Continued playing. Cat suddenly jumped down and started pawing the ground, since I'd fallen in the hole. Used the rest of my lives trolling the cat.
• Pokémon Sun and Moon: Saved and quit in the middle of rearranging my team. Only had one Pokemon in my party at the time, and it was a low-level Oricorio. Picked up the game the next day, forgot that I'd done that, and Hau mopped the floor with me.
• Stardew Valley: My gay cowboy isn't good enough friends with Sebastian to enter his room yet. So, I wait at the carpenter's house until he gets home at night. I was doing that, and my daughter needed something in the other room. So, I didn't pause. I got up, got my daughter her thing...and then I came back and it was morning and I had passed out.

Sped through the Ever Oasis tutorial and paid for it.

When the game tells you there's no shame in running away from level 1 enemies it means it. Otherwise you will die in 2 hits and have to wade through 20 minutes of fetch quests again because you didn't save after activating the first warp point.

bump

also fuck time trials in Crash Warped tbh

Can't remember the name of the game, (something Metroidvania-like on the Sega Genesis with this purple goo/light-like Swiss-Army Weapon when I had Sega Channel in the late-'90s,) but I somehow fumbled my way into second level with just a sliver of health left and while dicking around with the controls did I...

Fall into a bottomless pit? Nooo...' Get cherry-tapped by a simple Mook? Nooo... Stumble across a boss and/or Boss in Mook's Clothing? Nooo...

I apparently took a swing at the wizard/mentor-type guy at the beginning of said level and said allies don't take such shit likely and killed my ass?!

Never played that game again, but I remembered a similar though graphically-weaker RPG where I was just starting out, somehow picked a fight with a barmaid in an apparent World of Badass because she started dishing out diving kicks like candy on Halloween and kicked my ass into never playing said game again either.

Also in one of the Crash Bandicoot games, (not 1, but whichever one introduced the belly flop,) I might've flopped right into a bottomless pit.

Breath of the Wild: -Fell of the first tower 3 times trying to climb it. - Fired a bomb arrow in close quarters - Used bomb arrow in Death Mountain - Used magnetism, dropped box on Link's head.

Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance: - Sent Soren (a mage) alone to fight a group of wyvern riders just because they're weak against wind magic.

World of Warcraft: -Made similar mistakes thinking mages or elemental shamans (basically mail-wearing mages) can solo more than one or two enemies at a time. - Tried to take a shortcut during one Mists of Pandaria quest by jumping off a cliff and using the shaman self-resurrection ability. Realized I had wasted my time because the quest actually requires the use of the rappelling rope.

Darkest Dungeon: Concentrated too much on attacking the bodies in the battle with the Viscount, and he ended up stressing my party out so bad they keeled over from heart attacks. My one last Hellion managed to retreat from the battle...then she keeled over and died from the heart attack.

I do admit I was laughing at the very end, though.