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

So I'm pretty sure there wasn't already a thread like this - if there was, apologies - but I just wanted to hear everyone's experiences with, well, stupid deaths in video games.

I'll start things off with a very recent example: fighting Cortex in Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped and the moment I was able to spin him into the hole, I went straight down after him.

There's a 'dumb things you did in video games as a kid' thread that might be close enough. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=091t2710kt2otjw0ovdlri41&page=1

That seems to be more about, well, dumb things you did in video games as a kid. This is about the dumbest way you've died in a video game at any point in your life so it's a bit more specific and a bit more general at the same time if you get what I mean... which you probably don't... no one else is going to respond to this thread anyway why did I even create it

GTA 3 - car got stuck against a wall by a truck. And caught fire - couldn't get out, car wouldn't move Then the fire engine that turns up to put out car fires ploughs round the corner, hits the back of the truck, which rams my car again and triggers and explosion.

And I was doing one of chase missions, had just killed the target after several tries AND that death meant I had to restart from a bloody checkpoint.

Had helicopters, bikes and SU Vs dropped right on top of my head by rebel supply people in Ghost Recon: Wildlands.

At first I didn't know that you had to fill up that one ginormous room in Tomb Raider II with water, so I... just jumped down and hoped I wouldn't die. >.< ^_^;;

I was playing Grand Theft Auto: Advance, and I accidentally ran myself over with my own car - long story - and it stopped on top of me, and I couldn't move. The police wouldn't hit me and kill me - they were too busy jumping over the car trying to get me. So, I basically broke the game.

The smoke chamber in Tales of Zestiria. I'd forgotten about the pressure switches that opened up that dungeon in the first place, and I didn't think to look for more of them in that room. I just kept running around the room and frantically checking the walls to see if anything would change.

I figured it out the second time, but man, I felt like an idiot.

EDIT: Never mind. Should have been obvious.

edited 1st Jun '17 11:01:11 PM by ReikoKazama

I lowered a crane platform on myself in Watch_Dogs 2.

Unlike hostiles, doing this on yourself instantly kills you regardless of how quickly the platform was moving.

First death in Breath of the Wild◊

And it's the first time I realized they keep track of your last death, with a R.I.P. description to mock you.

In Dungeon of the Endless one of my heroes die while guarding a room . . . that is a three way intersection to six non-lit rooms . . . with no defenses . . . and the hero is underleveles . . . and is more of an explorer than defender . . . and this is level 7 of the game . . . what was I thinking placing Nurse Ratchet there?

Guild Wars 2

World vs World (server vs server mass pvp), got the jump on another player and decided to get cocky and instead of finishing him I had planned to channel THIS IS SPARTA and knock him off the edge of a cliff. Right when I fired the fateful shot a teammate of his places themselves between us and activates a skill to reflect projectiles, meaning I knocked myself off the cliff and fell to my death while they laughed their asses off above.

There are loads of idiotic ways to die in video games.

Dumbest way: There are loads...

By far, the dumbest way I've died is from Persona 5. So, the game's element chart- two elements (Curse and Bless) have some insta-kill skills, that, when used by one on the other, instantly kills them, about 100% of the time.

I was on the first dungeon of the game. The enemies on the higher floors are commonly weak to Ice attacks (the Bufu line of skills). I had a strong Succubus with Bufu on her. I used her often. So, I was fighting Archangel, who was weak to electricity skills. However, I didn't realize, and used a curse attack.

The Archangel ended up knocking my character down, and due to the stupid mechanic of "If your main character dies, it's game over", you can guess where I ended up.

The extra salt on the wound was that the Archangel was level 14, compared to my party's 8-10. Even worse? I was on Easy. Atlus: Even on Easy, you DIE.

Where does accepting the Dragonlord's We Can Rule Together offer in Dragon Quest fall under? My defense was that I hadn't found Erdrick's Sword (this was back in the NES days; guess it's called Loto's Sword now) yet, and I thought that would buy time so I could search for it more. OOPS.

I usually try to make my stupid deaths instructive, though. Like, if I accidentally wander into an area where I've got little to no hope, particularly bosses, I try every stupid thing in my arsenal, if for no other reason to learn what does what. I've accidentally found more than my fair share of unusual tricks or AI exploits that way. My favorite is when I accidentally trip into a Violation of Common Sense that way, then share it with others. Sometimes, the best way to play a video game is to be stupid like a fox.

edited 2nd Jun '17 7:02:38 AM by 32_Footsteps

It's been a while since I've played Space Station 13 but the amount of ways to get yourself killed will never cease to amaze me. Most of those deaths, I'd reckon, were "experimental" ones I learned from.

Using a jetpack to fly from space back onto the station's escape wing right when the Escape Shuttle arrives, though... that went about as well as you'd expect and I'm not sure what I thought would happen.

Funny, my first death in Breath of the Wild was similar to that. I was climbing down the first tower, and assumed that if you can jump left, right, and up when climbing, you can also jump down to make things quicker. And to be fair, Link DID jump down and he DID reach the bottom a lot faster.

edited 3rd Jun '17 7:32:56 AM by NesClassic

World of Warcraft: A goblin in Fuselight tells me to use a device to push some goats off a cliff. I push one, and I lean over the cliff to see what had happened to the corpse. Somehow, I took a misstep and fell off the cliff myself. I tried to use the paladin's bubble, but I had just changed it by another skill to test it. You can guess how that ended up. The first thing I did once I retrieved my corpse was to put back my bubble, and it's been among my main skills ever since.

edited 2nd Jun '17 7:49:45 AM by morenohijazo

So in the original Star Wars Battlefront for the Play Station; I was playing as the Scout/Sniper, pulled out the probe droid, stood next to an NPC that refills my ammo, and kept calling down orbital bombardments for shits & giggles. Until one day, I called one an litter to close to me and wound up dying behind it, alongside a few dozen people on both sides.

I also killed myself with my own grenades a few times, but outside of GTA, I can't remember which one.

And there's Lo L, where in Communist Runeterra, teammate's idiocy kills you! Case in point, I took Graves into the top lane unannounced, tried sharing it with an teammate. They started freaking out because I was spamming an powerful Ao E attack. Cue more salt as I run away to leave him' to die. He gets pissed that I used him as an living shield. I move to mid after dying a few times. The comedy routine repeats itself and now half my teammates have lost their shit. I figured that we're going to lose, so there's no reason to go insane over it. They kept saying "FUCK YOU, GRAVES!" (and other things) for the rest of the match. I just silently recorded the fiasco and posted it on my corpse of an You Tube channel.

I would share more, but there isn't an lot room for stupidity in Mario and Sonic games, in my opinion.

edited 2nd Jun '17 11:41:43 PM by RabidTanker

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Pretty sure sticking myself with a plasma grenade from Halo due to it bouncing off a wall must be one of my all-time dumbest deaths.

Definitely during my first time playing Grand Theft Auto V. Hadn't played a GTA since San Andreas and was still getting re-used to the controls. In fact, I died during the prologue mission, but that's only the second dumbest way I died.

Shortly after the start of the game proper, I was driving down the road in a tow truck as part of one of Franklin's side missions. I forgot how to turn off the radio, so I started pressing all the buttons to see which one worked. Unfortunately I pressed the 'Y' button (I think), and could only watch in bewilderment as Franklin bailed out of the speeding truck, smacked face-first into a lamppost and died instantly.

Oh, and this happened while he was in the middle of a scripted conversation with an NPC passenger, which was what pushed it over the line into absurdly hilarious. :V

edited 6th Jun '17 3:28:35 AM by PresidentStalkeyes

I have foolishly sent countless soldiers to their doom in Fire Emblem: Awakening and especially in Fire Emblem Fates: Conquest. I don't even want to think about how many soft resets I've made.

Probably the "best" example is when I almost made it to the end of a chapter, only to fail and have to reset the game.

Oh, this isn't quite "death," but it was an extremely dumb way to screw myself up.

For those that really got to know the ins and outs of it, Mario Kart 64 had a few nice bonuses if you knew where to look. One of them was that there were a handful of item boxes, scattered in various courses, that would give you a guaranteed Blue Shell if you could get them (generally, they were quite out of the way and required a Mushroom boost to get). One time, I managed to get the one on Koopa Troopa Beach while in first place. "Huh," I say to myself, "I never expected to get the Blue Shell in this position... what happens if I fire it?" Exactly what I should have expected to happen - the thing shot forward about five car lengths, then boomeranged back and blew me up. I did this on lap 2, so I managed to recover and still win the race, but man, that was exceptionally dumb.

Speaking of Fire Emblem, while it's not directly related to death, I played through Conquest on Hard Mode and made the fatal mistake of skipping the extra chapters and an level and an half worth of enemies and my blundering made the final level unwinnable.

Sure, Garon and his minions were pushovers; but that plot twister's army isn't.

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