In Death and Taxes, you’re a reaper who decided who lives and who dies. One of the profiles you might come across is your own. Curiosity got ahold of me, so of course I marked my profile for death. You’ll never guess what happened.
My favorite own stupidity deaths are in outer wilds. You have the classic "forgot to put on your spacesuit before getting out of your ship death", and you can set your ship to autopilot, but if you are trying to get to a planet on the otherside of the solar system, your ship will just steer you into the sun.
Those things really are a rite of passage in the game. And then there's geysers, not watching your approach speed, standing under elevators ... the game really doesn't guard the players against their own stupidity ::)
Can’t even necessarily call those “game overs” as your story doesn’t necessarily “end”. Funnily enough tho, my absolute favorite game over does come from outer wilds. In the high energy lab, when you mess around with time and get the broken spacetime ending. The way my heart sank to my ass when that happened….
I can't believe they had disco elysium on the list and didn't even mention how one of the first things you can interract with can kill you. If you built your character with only one Psyche point, and turn on the light as soon as you wake up, it gives you a heart attack and an immediate game over. Guess who just so happened to do that on their first play through...
and if you put only one point in phisical, it's getting the tie from the fan that can kill you. i think they already talk about that one, but it's not really something that you could have saw comming!
They've talked about it on other lists, but I don't think anyone who experienced that death thought to themselves, "Oh, yeah, of course my weak-willed character will die when turning on lights."
@@firdawesome3203 I'm still fond of the time I ran across two old guys playing petanque and wanted to join in but I threw the ball badly, which was enough to completely deplete my morale and get a game over from that.
Disco Elysium has greatly stupid game overs; like turning on a lightbulb when you're hungover, deciding to shoot an annoying child dead, or failing to show your authority and instead shooting yourself in the head. Also sitting in an uncomfortable chair. 10/10 game
@@billyalarie929 there's implications that Cunoese is like some kind of supernatural force that attached itself to the Cuno so really it could be anything
The Outer Worlds has a memorable one; if your character's got low enough intelligence, they can insist on personally plotting an extremely difficult and dangerous FTL jump for a spaceship, despite literally everybody telling them it's a bad idea. The results are... shall we say, somewhat predictable.
I was curious what excuse the game would give to turn me down so I don't completely bugger the story. No safeguard was an unexpected, yet welcome outcome.
when I learned about that I laughed so hard, because in rpgs I usually play a high int character archetype if available because it usually turns my character into a skill monkey, so that bit went off without a hitch for me. I just assumed that option wouldn't be there with low int lol.
Just want to say thank you for including Nancy Drew on your list. I grew up with the series and think its a relatively unknown gem of a series, minus the most recent games in the series.
Thoroughly agree. Never played MID after seeing the character "animations." Played through KEY and it was better, but still well below their old standards.
My favorite is in Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door. The ghost toad in Chapter 6 wants you to grab his diary for him. He wanna you multiple times not to read it or there would be dire consequences. If you go ahead and do it anyway, you instantly get a game over courtesy of said toad.
Paper Mario Colour Splash has one with a large group of mink goombas. You’re supposed to find a star behind a tree you can hammer but you can actually engage them directly with the hammer starting a fight you always lose
@@hrodga Listen, if you want to explode, do that on your own planet. It's just unsightly, you're making a bunch of space garbage for others to clean up or crash into when you do that.
@@129das you get put on trial after polluting the ocean and killing a giant fish by the Selkath. You also kind of get in trouble for invading a Sith base and killing dark Jedi.
I still laugh thinking about Super Paper Mario's game overs like repeatedly refusing to wear a helmet to enter the space section, despite the fact you had literally just spent a good deal of time acquiring them, to get an instant game over screen for your lack of common sense.
I worked for a certain British company that have red bins with white writing on them. One day we had a presentation to make sure we checked the bins before emptying them in to the trucks. It turned out, the day before, a homeless man had fallen asleep in the bin the night before it was due to be emptied. Poor guy got thrown in a compactor. This is a word of warning to anyone else who wishes to embrace hobocop in the modern age
In Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion you can hit a nuke repeatedly. Imagine my surprise when it exploded and killed me. I was just trying to pet you bomb!
Pillars of Eternity 2 has one right at the very start of the game where you are pretty explicitly told "If you say no to this request, you don't get to play the game." and lo and behold if you click it you get sent back into the cycle of reincarnation and become a cat. (A good ending if you really like cats, I suppose.)
Former gas station manager here. The amount of people I caught smoking at the pumps was shocking, clearly nobody really pays attention to that any more.
@@RicynWolf 🤔 hot weather and petrol evaporates quickly, enough of it in the air and that's what combusts, which is why i laughed hard at the clip since its at night in finland 🤣 should of been fine! he said...
Going back and re-playing Horizon: Zero Dawn just after finishing Forbidden West. Forgot that Zero Dawn doesn't have the glider... at some point i just jumped off a cliff and died like an idiot 🫡
that reminds me of when i played Halo 1 and then Halo 2, and forgot that some of the default keybinding are different... i meant to switch weapons, but i tossed a grenade against the rock i was hiding behind...
There's a similar thing in Assassin's Creed. In Odyssey you never get killed falling. At most you drop to a minimal sliver of health. At higher levels you don't take any falling damage at all. So you get used to jumping off high places without a care. Then you go back to playing Origins, which doesn't have this feature...
Near the start of WoW Dragonflight, you learn Dragonriding. The quest objectives listed getting on your newly acquired proto-drake mount to be optional. I didn't know at this point that only certain mounts can be used that way, and thought that meant any of my proto-drake mounts would do. Smash cut to me jumping off a cliff, frantically pulling back on the reigns of my Violet Proto-Drake as I plunge to my inevitable splattery doom.
@@ericb3157that's me in Fallout 4, trying to lay a mine but instead chucking a molotov cocktail at my own feet.... Note to self: always check what kind of mine/granade I have equipped before using one
In God of war (PS4), I clicked on a vantage point on the Yggdrasil branches, despite Brokk telling in great detail to never jump off the side unless I want death. Kratos *immediately* jumped off and got disintegrated. The game only told me I was warned. I thought he might just look out over the view, haha
In the licensed Legend adventure game Companions of Xanth, you acquire a bucket partway through the game. Xanth, as you have been told, is a very literal place with a heavy emphasis on puns. You can kick the bucket. Guess what happens if you do.
Just replaying Star wars Kotor right now. In it, you can walk up to 2 different house-sized creatures everyone says are too strong to fight, or plead guilty at 2 separate trials after the judge explained the sentence was death. What makes it funny is after a very short cutscene of your demise, the game comedy-smash-cuts you to the menu screen where a disapproving Malak glares at you.
My favourite stupid death was dying to one of the scrolls of the falling npc in morrowind in seyda neen just to see if it would kill me as well if using them.
Once you learn the game those become very useful though. Just make a spell or a ring with a slowfall effect of 1 point and it will negate all fall damage. I personally dupe the scrolls, and use them for fast travel. Just point in the general direction of where you want to go and jump there.
My all time favorite stupid death has to be from Outer Wilds. You learn very specific law about traveling through black holes, and then are given a lab where you can basically experiment with miniature versions of them. So what would any of us do other than immediately try to break this rule? And the result? Well, it seems obvious after it happens…
I legit got number 6 by accident. I had gone the wrong way around the space station. The camera wouldn't follow after I went too far and I got stuck on a box (or something). I tried to use Self Destruct to load a checkpoint. It did, but not in the way I expected.
Super Paper Mario has a few good ones, most of them from repeatedly saying "No" to a "But Thou Must!"-type scenario, where the only way to advance the plot is say "yes". The first one is right at the start of the game, where you can refuse to go on the quest to save the world and get a game over. The second is where, after going to space, you refuse to put on your helmet and suffocate and die, while your companion fairy judges you for your life choices. Or, life ending choices, I suppose.
The cult-classic point and click adventure game "Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist", like most of Sierra's games of the time, was loaded with hilarious ways to die. Few, however, were so richly deserved like the one you get if you decide to eat horse poop. Yes, at one point in the game, you have to pick up some "horse apples" from the road as an inventory item to solve a puzzle. But, one of the things you can do in this game is attempt to eat items that are in your inventory. So, naturally, it's possible to pop the "plop" in your mouth... but if you do, that dung won't be the only thing that's "dropping", if you catch my drift. As you might expect, "ingesting horsey products that was never meant to be ingested" is not good for one's health, and in fact ends up being quite fatal (especially since, you know, it's the Wild West and modern medicine isn't a thing yet). The death message that you get for doing this dirty deed says it all: "Caution: the Surgeon General has determined that you've gotten EXACTLY what you deserved."
"And worst of all... Pittsburgh!" HEY! I've lived in Pittsburgh all my adult life and I'm only slightly irradiated. I was also chased by what may have been a mutant turkey when I was in my early 30's. Although it could have been just a normal turkey. Those things are still pretty intimidating.
In the neutral route of Undertale Yellow, there is a room where you have to mix together an acid in order to melt a locked door. Said locked door is right next to the mixing machine, but for a moment the acid is an item in your inventory that you can 'Use'. It's one of only two deaths where Flowey doesn't make fun of you, presumably because he feels like it would be pointless.
I love how in Super Paper Mario after about 15 minutes into the prologue, you can choose not to save the world over and over, resulting in a Game Over and forcing you to restart the game from the beginning.
Growing up, I was playing through Gears of War with a friend of mine. You can't damage your teammates with most weapons in the game, but there's at least one exception: the Hammer of Dawn, a beacon that calls down a laser from above. If you call it down near you, it'll kill you instantly. Guess how we found out?
Zero Escape: Zero Time Dillemma there's a whole scene where your team comes across a big button with "Warning! Do not press this button" in red flashing letters next to it. The team argues over whether or not they should press it for what feels like 20 minutes, pressing the button causes a huge explosion and kills everyone.
I love the foreshadowing of how the place is rigged to blow, by mid-way through, giving you a "quick"-time event button. You either sit and stare at this *extremely* enticing button for a literal minute, or press it and instantly expldoe.
2:16 Myhtbusters proved its basically impossible to cause a gasoline explosion with a cigarette. The embers on a cig just dont burn hot enough to ignite the vapors. They literally dropped a freshly lit cigarette onto an open puddle of gasoline, and they coulsnt get it to ignite, even when they were TRYING to make it go boom.
and that's the point i laughed hard at... at night in finland being blow up... no chance. Hot weather and enough vapours in the air while your leaning right over the fuel cap "could" get your that darwin award
@@Thiefnuker which with a high enough amount of fuel vapours coming into contact with the darwinian chuff? 💥 Now don't get me wrong, i've been there with a rollup lit and pour petrol into a tank... On a cold day only and with my head not directly over the filing area, need to check level? Rollup in hand while I peer over 🙂👍🏼 My rule of thumb is if the temperature is over 15°C and hardly any breeze? No lit rollup or cig near. I'd say the one that I am always dubious of doing? Welding metal tanks that has held anything which could ignite with enough heat.
It would have been funny if they'd got him in to do the: "No wait, I'm not Luke, he's dead" bit, From off screen: "Stop telling people I'm dead!" Mike: "It's like I can still hear his voice"
The 90's claymation adventure game The Neverhood. Getting the game's *only* Game Over by jumping into the drain the with giant signs that say "DANGER!", "DON'T JUMP IN THE DRAIN!", and "YOU WILL DIE!"
I just finished it myself! The thing I wish I'd known right from the start is that it's okay to fail checks. A lot of the time in the first two days I was refusing to do skill checks if the chances of success were too low. Turns out that failing them often isn't really a fail, and even if it is, it can lead to new opportunities you wouldn't have seen otherwise!
Adding this suggestion as it happened to me when I wasn't paying enough attention to item names in my inventory: Eating the Jarrin Root you are given in the Dark Brotherhood Questline for Skyrim. Killed instantly. (tbh, was trying multiple alchemy ingredients at the time and forgot which one I had been given for that quest.)
How about in Baldurs gate 3 where you can decide to piss of Vlakith the God like queen of the Githyanki because pissing off a being with the power to kill you with a word is a great plan
Certainly we could name a few classic Sierra games for this? Like in Space Quest 2 when you get zapped by a shrink ray and captured. To return to normal size you need to initiate the shrinkray again but in reverse. Or you can just initiate it as-is and get reduced so small that you don't even exist anymore. (Space Quest 1 also shares the "not putting on a spacesuit before entering an open (to the vacuum of space) docking bay.")
I haven't done it myself (I literally just bought the game), but, in the RPG Maker game Ib, giving your rose (which is your life force in the game) to the flower eating painting, unsurprisingly, results in an instant game over.
@@coffinwood-blackheim Or treating the game like an FPS and thinking you can constantly avoid the murderous guards after killing a chicken. Just pay the fine and get on with it.
I got a good laugh from the game overs in Super Paper Mario. My personal favorite is when you refuse to put on your helmet in space...so you asphyxiate in space.
Like the time I used an electric aoe spell while standing on a watery ground and while raining to kill an enemy two feet from my character....yyyyyeeeeaah let's just say the enemy wasn't the only thing killed in that encounter
that reminds me of something i read somewhere: someone playing World of Warcraft (i think) cast some sort of "holy" spell that had an AOE effect... and accidentally killed a rabbit! "after that, i couldn't resist casting Holy Strike on every rabbit i saw."
The two I can think of: 1. Drinking Thiollier's Concoction in Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree (a potion given to you by a man obsessed with "eternal rest" after you tell him you are "tired of life") 2. Eating one of the poisoned apples you're given in a Dark Brotherhood quest in TES IV Oblivion.
Infernax, a Castlevania 2 inspired side scroller, has the same wall chicken and random teleporting tornado. But the wall chicken has been there for who knows how long and you die of violent food poisoning. And the tornado is just a normal tornado and kills you by violent tornado-ing.
The Nancy Drew games are notorious for some gruesome deaths considering it's a series for children. Nancy can be blown up, electrocuted, drowned, asphyxiated, buried alive and literally killed (strangled, shot, stabbed) by the villain she's usually running from in the final act. However, it's most often her own self-doing because she (the player) insists on doing something stupid like using a lighter in a dimly lit room filled with leaking gas vapor, for example.
Hitma and the flipping proximity explosive... you know the one you forgot you put down and then go back to later... doh!!! Oh and since watching this, I've woken up with the 'Stupid Deaths' song from Horrible Histories running through my head.
In Wasteland 2 there's a nuke in the museum bit of the Ranger Citadel. The game tells you it's a live nuke. The game also tells you that it has a pressable button.
Fear Effect answered the question of what happens if you're in a room with somebody who has a bomb strapped to them and a gunfight breaks out where you fire indiscriminately in a simple and effective way - that simple and effective way being the bomb is set off by your errant bullet hitting it, and you get a special Game Over screen all because of it
That Soulcalibur 3 entry has single-handedly made me avoid standing under big bosses and enemies in games for nearly two decades, even though 99% of them will at worse push you back a little bit when such an enemy falls on you.
Drinking the elixir of life in Zork: Nemesis is pretty damn hilarious. “Is the idiot dead yet?” “Not yet.” Cue POV shot of your character getting brained.
My favorite game over was from one of the Zork games. (I think 2) There was a giant bucket that you need figure out how to make it go up the well and, eventually, we tried kicking it.
@@roguishpaladin just like how in NetHack or ADOM (I don't remember which now), if you have a lockpick you can try to (lock)pick your nose. If you succeed, that increases your lockpicking skill tremendously! If you fail, you poke your brain and die on the spot.
My favorite stupid game over was The Outer Wilds. If you are in the Hourglass Twins experiment lab, and you get rid of the original black hole before the probe goes in, it literally destroys the universe. Not only that, the titular theme song is played for you...on kazoo.
I'm just astonished Nancy got the cobra into the trash can. I was very much hoping to make either Dylan or Abdullah deal with it while Nancy stood FAR away.
In one of the quests for RuneScape 3, Sliske's Endgame, you will eventually come face to face with an elder god. One of the dialogue options you can take with it is to insult it, and while the game warns you that it's probably not a good idea, you can go through with it. Which, unsurprisingly, ends with it killing you.
Would jumping into the drain in "the Neverhood" count? At the bottom of a drained lake you find a hole with three signs nest to it: "Danger!", "Don't jump in the drain!" and "You will die!". That's the only way to die in the whole game:) Not gonna lie, Warhorse Studios came up with a clever gimmick- bleak, but clever!
Technically there is one other way to die, if you make the wrong choice at the very end of the game. Otherwise, yeah, jumping down the plughole will do it (and of course I didn't try it myself, no of course not, what do you mean, what kind of weirdo do think I am :D)...
@@AmeenaWordweaver I thought the "bad choice" at the end just turned Klaymen evil- but I might be misremembering it. To be fair, I last played it _ohnoI'moldnow_ years ago:D
I like how Fallout 3 makes sure you also know that your head exploding in space causes you to lose karma. As if that's the most pressing issue on your mind (or whatever's left of it anyway)
Harvest moon ds allows you let your dog kill the mayor. Your dog attacks the mayor in the opening cinematic and you get multiple chances to call him off, if you don't the screen turns bright red and it implies you let your pup go to town on the mayor. it's hilarious and completely non-cozy.
Think for me, an discovered quite accidentally first time... Mass Effect 3 ending... When accidentally shot the Catalyst with my pistol... An IMMEDIATELY terminated negotiations on a hostile terms ..
Possibly the most "I should have seen that coming" game over is in the Neverhood, where after draining a lake the hole you pulled the plug from has several big signs near it warning "Danger!" and telling you explicitly not to jump in the drain. However, if you insist on doing it anyway, the game doesn't actually SHOW you dying, and there's some precedent in the game for people doing similar things and surviving, but at the very least you have removed yourself from the game area, and you get a "The End" screen.
In Death and Taxes, you’re a reaper who decided who lives and who dies. One of the profiles you might come across is your own. Curiosity got ahold of me, so of course I marked my profile for death.
You’ll never guess what happened.
But aren't you already dead?
@@Laira348 you found the quick ending to the game?
@@AbsolXGuardian
That would make them super-dead? Or Twice Dead?
"ALREADY DEAD"
And here I thought Reapers could only get killed by super Reapers
My favorite own stupidity deaths are in outer wilds. You have the classic "forgot to put on your spacesuit before getting out of your ship death", and you can set your ship to autopilot, but if you are trying to get to a planet on the otherside of the solar system, your ship will just steer you into the sun.
Those things really are a rite of passage in the game. And then there's geysers, not watching your approach speed, standing under elevators ... the game really doesn't guard the players against their own stupidity ::)
If you haven't been to excited to investigate the latest thing that you forgot to put your spacesuit on are you even playing Outer Wilds?
My favorite is in TWD:S&S when I pointed my own gun at my head and fired just to see if it was possible to shoot myself. It was. And I died instantly.
Can’t even necessarily call those “game overs” as your story doesn’t necessarily “end”. Funnily enough tho, my absolute favorite game over does come from outer wilds. In the high energy lab, when you mess around with time and get the broken spacetime ending. The way my heart sank to my ass when that happened….
You have NO idea how often I forget to put on my suit!
🤣🤣
I can't believe they had disco elysium on the list and didn't even mention how one of the first things you can interract with can kill you. If you built your character with only one Psyche point, and turn on the light as soon as you wake up, it gives you a heart attack and an immediate game over. Guess who just so happened to do that on their first play through...
and if you put only one point in phisical, it's getting the tie from the fan that can kill you. i think they already talk about that one, but it's not really something that you could have saw comming!
They've talked about it on other lists, but I don't think anyone who experienced that death thought to themselves, "Oh, yeah, of course my weak-willed character will die when turning on lights."
I love that sitting in an uncomfortable chair can also kill you in Disco Elysium.
@@firdawesome3203 I'm still fond of the time I ran across two old guys playing petanque and wanted to join in but I threw the ball badly, which was enough to completely deplete my morale and get a game over from that.
@@Irisverse That's hilarious, I've never experienced that in my runs!
Disco Elysium has greatly stupid game overs; like turning on a lightbulb when you're hungover, deciding to shoot an annoying child dead, or failing to show your authority and instead shooting yourself in the head. Also sitting in an uncomfortable chair. 10/10 game
Honestly, I was happy to eat the game over from shooting Cunoese, she had it coming and probably wants it to happen too, she's hardcore
@@CheezVTor completely consumed with depression due to the utter trauma of having a horrendous home life and also *gestures broadly*
@@billyalarie929 there's implications that Cunoese is like some kind of supernatural force that attached itself to the Cuno so really it could be anything
I legit died in that uncomfortable chair, still a 10/10 game
While stupid and really funny they are also game overs you wouldn't see coming.
Morinth killing you in Mass Effect 2 is certainly a good one.
This is exactly what I thought, when I saw the video title :D
Was starting to type this out and saw it was right there in the first spot! 😆 It is a perfect example, though.
@@wavion2 You could also add "Wait two days for the Reapers to arrive" for the "The Arrival" DLC in ME2
This topic has been done by these guys before and Morinth's death by snu-snu is totally in there.
At least Shepard goes out with a bang.
The Outer Worlds has a memorable one; if your character's got low enough intelligence, they can insist on personally plotting an extremely difficult and dangerous FTL jump for a spaceship, despite literally everybody telling them it's a bad idea. The results are... shall we say, somewhat predictable.
ah yes, the speedrun ending where you give the finger to phineas and the board so you can side with...uh...the sun
Like it's just a bad case of sunburn it will heal up probably
I was curious what excuse the game would give to turn me down so I don't completely bugger the story. No safeguard was an unexpected, yet welcome outcome.
They mentioned this scenario in another video.
when I learned about that I laughed so hard, because in rpgs I usually play a high int character archetype if available because it usually turns my character into a skill monkey, so that bit went off without a hitch for me. I just assumed that option wouldn't be there with low int lol.
Talking shit at Vlaakith in BG3 should definitely be here. I literally facepalmed.
Absolutely.
I fucked around and I found out.
Vlaakith is the opp
Or accidentally triggering Gale's self destruct. Why is that in the bar?
You could make this entire video again just with BG3
I think they just wanted to make a list that didn't have bg3 on it
Just want to say thank you for including Nancy Drew on your list. I grew up with the series and think its a relatively unknown gem of a series, minus the most recent games in the series.
... emoji was on accident
I agree ; [
Thoroughly agree. Never played MID after seeing the character "animations." Played through KEY and it was better, but still well below their old standards.
Yes, I got so excited to see ND in an Oxbox listicle! 😁
I thought they were gonna mention the bike helmet and PFD in the San Juan Islands one
My favorite is in Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door. The ghost toad in Chapter 6 wants you to grab his diary for him. He wanna you multiple times not to read it or there would be dire consequences. If you go ahead and do it anyway, you instantly get a game over courtesy of said toad.
Super Paper Mario has plenty of similar game overs, like refusing to put on a breathing helmet in space, or even just outright refusing the call.
Hmm , you know what I think I will become the Shadow Queen’s slave/servant, sounds like a good time I’m sure nothing could possibly go wrong.
Yeah I tried it, figured a ghost's diary probably has something cool in it.
Paper Mario Colour Splash has one with a large group of mink goombas. You’re supposed to find a star behind a tree you can hammer but you can actually engage them directly with the hammer starting a fight you always lose
Interesting that you lose karma for your head exploding in the vacuum of space.
Well, it's rude to violently explode on other planets. That's just basic manners.
God forbid a man take his spacesuit off in space. 🙄
@@RailfoxStudios But you're not on a planet at that point. You're in space, on a ship orbiting Earth.
@@hrodga Listen, if you want to explode, do that on your own planet. It's just unsightly, you're making a bunch of space garbage for others to clean up or crash into when you do that.
Someone has insensitive opinions about suicide?
Star Wars Knights of the old republic pleading guilty on planet manaan and getting sentenced to death should have seen that coming
If I remember correctly it's the JUDGE who asks "are you sure", it's hilarious
Commented the same thing, it was kinda hilarious :D
Just trusting your "lawyer" in general. He spends one minute asking for your info then he's good for your case..
Yeah... not so much lol
what trial?
@@129das you get put on trial after polluting the ocean and killing a giant fish by the Selkath. You also kind of get in trouble for invading a Sith base and killing dark Jedi.
I still laugh thinking about Super Paper Mario's game overs like repeatedly refusing to wear a helmet to enter the space section, despite the fact you had literally just spent a good deal of time acquiring them, to get an instant game over screen for your lack of common sense.
I worked for a certain British company that have red bins with white writing on them. One day we had a presentation to make sure we checked the bins before emptying them in to the trucks.
It turned out, the day before, a homeless man had fallen asleep in the bin the night before it was due to be emptied. Poor guy got thrown in a compactor.
This is a word of warning to anyone else who wishes to embrace hobocop in the modern age
Poor guy. Sorry to hear that.
Yeah i remember hearing about that 😖
In Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion you can hit a nuke repeatedly. Imagine my surprise when it exploded and killed me. I was just trying to pet you bomb!
That's not how you play Lucky Bolt
Pillars of Eternity 2 has one right at the very start of the game where you are pretty explicitly told "If you say no to this request, you don't get to play the game." and lo and behold if you click it you get sent back into the cycle of reincarnation and become a cat. (A good ending if you really like cats, I suppose.)
Former gas station manager here. The amount of people I caught smoking at the pumps was shocking, clearly nobody really pays attention to that any more.
Probably because the danger is extremely over-exaggerated.
@@RicynWolf 🤔 hot weather and petrol evaporates quickly, enough of it in the air and that's what combusts, which is why i laughed hard at the clip since its at night in finland 🤣 should of been fine! he said...
Going back and re-playing Horizon: Zero Dawn just after finishing Forbidden West. Forgot that Zero Dawn doesn't have the glider... at some point i just jumped off a cliff and died like an idiot 🫡
that reminds me of when i played Halo 1 and then Halo 2, and forgot that some of the default keybinding are different...
i meant to switch weapons, but i tossed a grenade against the rock i was hiding behind...
There's a similar thing in Assassin's Creed. In Odyssey you never get killed falling. At most you drop to a minimal sliver of health. At higher levels you don't take any falling damage at all. So you get used to jumping off high places without a care.
Then you go back to playing Origins, which doesn't have this feature...
Near the start of WoW Dragonflight, you learn Dragonriding. The quest objectives listed getting on your newly acquired proto-drake mount to be optional. I didn't know at this point that only certain mounts can be used that way, and thought that meant any of my proto-drake mounts would do. Smash cut to me jumping off a cliff, frantically pulling back on the reigns of my Violet Proto-Drake as I plunge to my inevitable splattery doom.
@@ericb3157that's me in Fallout 4, trying to lay a mine but instead chucking a molotov cocktail at my own feet....
Note to self: always check what kind of mine/granade I have equipped before using one
There are so many options, this needs a Part 2.
There was going to be more but they picked the wrong dialogue option during the meeting and got a game over
Are you sure you want to argue with Jane and probably end up in her lab?
>Yes
> Hell no!
I was sure that dying after accepting to sleep with Morinth in Mass Effect 2 would be here. Turns out I was wrong
In God of war (PS4), I clicked on a vantage point on the Yggdrasil branches, despite Brokk telling in great detail to never jump off the side unless I want death.
Kratos *immediately* jumped off and got disintegrated. The game only told me I was warned.
I thought he might just look out over the view, haha
In the licensed Legend adventure game Companions of Xanth, you acquire a bucket partway through the game. Xanth, as you have been told, is a very literal place with a heavy emphasis on puns.
You can kick the bucket. Guess what happens if you do.
considering how those books go, you could probably die from trying to eat a pineapple...
they explode like hand grenades in the books!
Holy shit. Someone who knows Companions of Xanth! 💜
Just replaying Star wars Kotor right now. In it, you can walk up to 2 different house-sized creatures everyone says are too strong to fight, or plead guilty at 2 separate trials after the judge explained the sentence was death.
What makes it funny is after a very short cutscene of your demise, the game comedy-smash-cuts you to the menu screen where a disapproving Malak glares at you.
My favourite stupid death was dying to one of the scrolls of the falling npc in morrowind in seyda neen just to see if it would kill me as well if using them.
Especially as it’s called ‘Icarian Flight’ 😂
Good ol' Tarhiel, teaching a valuable lesson in . . .
. . . .
Screw him, his crap sells for a fair amount of coin.
Once you learn the game those become very useful though. Just make a spell or a ring with a slowfall effect of 1 point and it will negate all fall damage. I personally dupe the scrolls, and use them for fast travel. Just point in the general direction of where you want to go and jump there.
Two spring to mind.
The helicoptor rotor blades in Prey.
Taking pills and alcohol together despite being told not to in Farenheit.
That was the last we saw of Andy... Or was that, Jane? I need to sleep.
Witcher 3:Blood and Wine has an instant game over if you ask the Elder vampire too many questions.
My all time favorite stupid death has to be from Outer Wilds. You learn very specific law about traveling through black holes, and then are given a lab where you can basically experiment with miniature versions of them. So what would any of us do other than immediately try to break this rule? And the result? Well, it seems obvious after it happens…
I legit got number 6 by accident.
I had gone the wrong way around the space station. The camera wouldn't follow after I went too far and I got stuck on a box (or something). I tried to use Self Destruct to load a checkpoint.
It did, but not in the way I expected.
Super Paper Mario has a few good ones, most of them from repeatedly saying "No" to a "But Thou Must!"-type scenario, where the only way to advance the plot is say "yes". The first one is right at the start of the game, where you can refuse to go on the quest to save the world and get a game over. The second is where, after going to space, you refuse to put on your helmet and suffocate and die, while your companion fairy judges you for your life choices. Or, life ending choices, I suppose.
Ah, the Nancy Drew games. So smart, so wholesome, and I've gotten our iconic girl detective killed in so many horrible ways-
I love those games so much to this day!
My brothers used to watch me play, just to see me get Nancy killed. They especially loved the era of 'good news, bad news' screens. 🤣
@@grandiloquentgeekgenre They are pretty great. I'm planning to pick up the new one this summer and give it a whirl.
@@Aileil Lol those were some of my favorite moments as well
I’m surprised you being able to jump into helicopter blades at the start of Prey isn’t in the list. You even get an achievement
The cult-classic point and click adventure game "Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist", like most of Sierra's games of the time, was loaded with hilarious ways to die. Few, however, were so richly deserved like the one you get if you decide to eat horse poop.
Yes, at one point in the game, you have to pick up some "horse apples" from the road as an inventory item to solve a puzzle. But, one of the things you can do in this game is attempt to eat items that are in your inventory. So, naturally, it's possible to pop the "plop" in your mouth... but if you do, that dung won't be the only thing that's "dropping", if you catch my drift.
As you might expect, "ingesting horsey products that was never meant to be ingested" is not good for one's health, and in fact ends up being quite fatal (especially since, you know, it's the Wild West and modern medicine isn't a thing yet). The death message that you get for doing this dirty deed says it all: "Caution: the Surgeon General has determined that you've gotten EXACTLY what you deserved."
I think half of Sierra's games were mostly just ways to kill yourself in a manner for the narrator to make a pun.
@@carlsiouxfalls Precisely why I love them so much.
My favorites came from the remake of Space Quest 1.
So many funny deaths. The only reason to progress the story was to find new ways to die.
"And worst of all... Pittsburgh!"
HEY! I've lived in Pittsburgh all my adult life and I'm only slightly irradiated.
I was also chased by what may have been a mutant turkey when I was in my early 30's. Although it could have been just a normal turkey. Those things are still pretty intimidating.
There's a reason Benjamin Franklin wanted it as the national bird instead of
the bald eagle.
@@hrodga To be fair eagles are also a popular symbol for evil empires. Which, you know . . .
@@MySerpentine It's just a popular symbol in general. Usually a nod to ancient Rome.
@@hrodga Which, you know, empire :)
Actually I really liked that DLC! I found it a lot of fun and a good storyline. But lots of people complain about it...
In the neutral route of Undertale Yellow, there is a room where you have to mix together an acid in order to melt a locked door. Said locked door is right next to the mixing machine, but for a moment the acid is an item in your inventory that you can 'Use'. It's one of only two deaths where Flowey doesn't make fun of you, presumably because he feels like it would be pointless.
It's a good day when OXBox references a Nancy Drew game
I was so surprised!
I love how in Super Paper Mario after about 15 minutes into the prologue, you can choose not to save the world over and over, resulting in a Game Over and forcing you to restart the game from the beginning.
GlaDOS asking you to look at the deer.
everyone makes fun of Pittsburgh until you come here. Then, after you live here for a couple years, you start making fun of it again, but lovingly
"if I have to cross more than two bridges, count me out"
Same as Memphis tbh
Growing up, I was playing through Gears of War with a friend of mine. You can't damage your teammates with most weapons in the game, but there's at least one exception: the Hammer of Dawn, a beacon that calls down a laser from above. If you call it down near you, it'll kill you instantly. Guess how we found out?
Zero Escape: Zero Time Dillemma there's a whole scene where your team comes across a big button with "Warning! Do not press this button" in red flashing letters next to it. The team argues over whether or not they should press it for what feels like 20 minutes, pressing the button causes a huge explosion and kills everyone.
I love the foreshadowing of how the place is rigged to blow, by mid-way through, giving you a "quick"-time event button. You either sit and stare at this *extremely* enticing button for a literal minute, or press it and instantly expldoe.
2:16 Myhtbusters proved its basically impossible to cause a gasoline explosion with a cigarette. The embers on a cig just dont burn hot enough to ignite the vapors. They literally dropped a freshly lit cigarette onto an open puddle of gasoline, and they coulsnt get it to ignite, even when they were TRYING to make it go boom.
and that's the point i laughed hard at... at night in finland being blow up... no chance.
Hot weather and enough vapours in the air while your leaning right over the fuel cap "could" get your that darwin award
A cigratte's tip is significantly hotter when youre actually drawing air through it.
@@Thiefnuker which with a high enough amount of fuel vapours coming into contact with the darwinian chuff?
💥
Now don't get me wrong, i've been there with a rollup lit and pour petrol into a tank... On a cold day only and with my head not directly over the filing area, need to check level? Rollup in hand while I peer over 🙂👍🏼
My rule of thumb is if the temperature is over 15°C and hardly any breeze?
No lit rollup or cig near.
I'd say the one that I am always dubious of doing? Welding metal tanks that has held anything which could ignite with enough heat.
Yup, when Mike was doing the ( remembering own name joke ) I was wondering if he was going to use Luke.
It would have been funny if they'd got him in to do the: "No wait, I'm not Luke, he's dead" bit,
From off screen: "Stop telling people I'm dead!"
Mike: "It's like I can still hear his voice"
The hardest part of 'My Summer Car':
Getting to the Finnish!
Also: "Suomi mainittu, torilla tavataan!"
If you take off the spacesuit you lose karma, I never noticed that. lol
The 90's claymation adventure game The Neverhood. Getting the game's *only* Game Over by jumping into the drain the with giant signs that say "DANGER!", "DON'T JUMP IN THE DRAIN!", and "YOU WILL DIE!"
I was hoping someone would mention this.
What about fallout 4 where you can just wait in sanctuary for the bombs to drop?
I actually just bought Disco Elysium on the steam summer sale.
I should really actually play it sometime.
Yes, you should.
In Autumn. It will go great with Autumn.
Good luck making it out of the Whirling-in-Rags alive. Precious few manage it the first time around.
I just finished it myself! The thing I wish I'd known right from the start is that it's okay to fail checks. A lot of the time in the first two days I was refusing to do skill checks if the chances of success were too low. Turns out that failing them often isn't really a fail, and even if it is, it can lead to new opportunities you wouldn't have seen otherwise!
Ah yes, the game overs in which we really cant blame anyone but ourselves.
Adding this suggestion as it happened to me when I wasn't paying enough attention to item names in my inventory: Eating the Jarrin Root you are given in the Dark Brotherhood Questline for Skyrim. Killed instantly. (tbh, was trying multiple alchemy ingredients at the time and forgot which one I had been given for that quest.)
5:59 - speaking of Fallout, how about the start of FO4 and if you decide not to run to the Vault and instead stick around to watch the nukes drop?
How about in Baldurs gate 3 where you can decide to piss of Vlakith the God like queen of the Githyanki because pissing off a being with the power to kill you with a word is a great plan
Please do note that if you punch a barrel in real life yes, the barrel will not explode, but your hand very well might
That's y I kick them like Borderlands 3, just make sure you hav on a good pair of boots preferably steel toed.
Nice to see Kingdom Come deliverance get some love.
Yeah not like the game is mainstream or anything /s
Certainly we could name a few classic Sierra games for this? Like in Space Quest 2 when you get zapped by a shrink ray and captured. To return to normal size you need to initiate the shrinkray again but in reverse. Or you can just initiate it as-is and get reduced so small that you don't even exist anymore.
(Space Quest 1 also shares the "not putting on a spacesuit before entering an open (to the vacuum of space) docking bay.")
The Space Quest games had so many hilarious ways to end yourself when you got ahold of a space craft.
Picking your nose with low level picklocks skill in Quest for Glory
Okay, the delivery of the Pittsburg line was excellent. I legit laughed out loud.
Yeinz are rude as hell, also it's spelled Pittsburgh
@@TheBeardedHydra ya misspelled "yinz", ya jag.
"Keel... you" had me rolling 😂😂😂
I haven't done it myself (I literally just bought the game), but, in the RPG Maker game Ib, giving your rose (which is your life force in the game) to the flower eating painting, unsurprisingly, results in an instant game over.
My favorite game over is when my guy dies in Skyrim because I wanted to see it he took fall damage
For me was when I decided to see if I could defeat a giant as a level 1 character. Turned out I couldn't.
For me it's stepping outside of Whiterun, seeing a giant for the first time and thinking: "I want to hit him with my sword".
@@coffinwood-blackheim Or treating the game like an FPS and thinking you can constantly avoid the murderous guards after killing a chicken. Just pay the fine and get on with it.
@@DavidWeinehallBut the view was worth it
I got a good laugh from the game overs in Super Paper Mario. My personal favorite is when you refuse to put on your helmet in space...so you asphyxiate in space.
makes me very happy to see the nancy drew games on here, they're full of so much weird and wacky charm.
Epic Tales From the Crypt shirt Andy. Man I miss that show
Like the time I used an electric aoe spell while standing on a watery ground and while raining to kill an enemy two feet from my character....yyyyyeeeeaah let's just say the enemy wasn't the only thing killed in that encounter
The lightning gun from Quake also springs to mind. ☺
that reminds me of something i read somewhere:
someone playing World of Warcraft (i think) cast some sort of "holy" spell that had an AOE effect...
and accidentally killed a rabbit!
"after that, i couldn't resist casting Holy Strike on every rabbit i saw."
I assumed that the boots that electrify water surfaces in BG3 would protect me from their own effect.....they do not.
Sounds like a situation that can happen in Triangle Strategy
That Colossus death hits hard, I beat him on the hardest difficulty and in my stupidity I got crushed, sad times 😅
The two I can think of:
1. Drinking Thiollier's Concoction in Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree (a potion given to you by a man obsessed with "eternal rest" after you tell him you are "tired of life")
2. Eating one of the poisoned apples you're given in a Dark Brotherhood quest in TES IV Oblivion.
There are so many hilarious dumb deaths, this series could use a part 2, 3, maybe even 4!
Infernax, a Castlevania 2 inspired side scroller, has the same wall chicken and random teleporting tornado. But the wall chicken has been there for who knows how long and you die of violent food poisoning. And the tornado is just a normal tornado and kills you by violent tornado-ing.
The Nancy Drew games are notorious for some gruesome deaths considering it's a series for children. Nancy can be blown up, electrocuted, drowned, asphyxiated, buried alive and literally killed (strangled, shot, stabbed) by the villain she's usually running from in the final act. However, it's most often her own self-doing because she (the player) insists on doing something stupid like using a lighter in a dimly lit room filled with leaking gas vapor, for example.
The elevator squashing her in "Royal Tower" has a dreadfully squelchy sound effect too. *shudder*
You could make a whole list of Nancy Drew’s. It was interesting to see some of the funnier/dumb game overs.
I dropped the portcullis on Nancy when playing "Captive Curse". My brothers thought that was hilarious.
Hitma and the flipping proximity explosive... you know the one you forgot you put down and then go back to later... doh!!!
Oh and since watching this, I've woken up with the 'Stupid Deaths' song from Horrible Histories running through my head.
Flashbacks to getting Nancy kicked out of Blackmoor Manor for feeding LouLou the parrot some good ol' chocolate. 😅
Waking Mrs. Drake up in the middle of the night is also really funny. Poor woman, stuck with "us Americans". 😅
In Wasteland 2 there's a nuke in the museum bit of the Ranger Citadel. The game tells you it's a live nuke. The game also tells you that it has a pressable button.
Wasteland should definitely be on here, setting off the decorative nuke in the museum was a game over you could see anywhere in a 10 mile radius.
Jumping down the hole in the spider cave without feather fall on in BG3 is a good one.
I mean, stepping on the Hand of Midas in the first "Tomb Raider" game (and "Anniversary") is definitely a case of "what did I expect to happen?".
Also that piano above Andy finally explains the outro music!
Fear Effect answered the question of what happens if you're in a room with somebody who has a bomb strapped to them and a gunfight breaks out where you fire indiscriminately in a simple and effective way - that simple and effective way being the bomb is set off by your errant bullet hitting it, and you get a special Game Over screen all because of it
That Soulcalibur 3 entry has single-handedly made me avoid standing under big bosses and enemies in games for nearly two decades, even though 99% of them will at worse push you back a little bit when such an enemy falls on you.
Drinking the elixir of life in Zork: Nemesis is pretty damn hilarious. “Is the idiot dead yet?” “Not yet.” Cue POV shot of your character getting brained.
My favorite game over was from one of the Zork games. (I think 2)
There was a giant bucket that you need figure out how to make it go up the well and, eventually, we tried kicking it.
Well, that is definitely one way to kick the bucket....
Text parser games have this all over the place. It feels like nearly all of them had a "kill self" or "use sword on self" death.
@@roguishpaladin just like how in NetHack or ADOM (I don't remember which now), if you have a lockpick you can try to (lock)pick your nose. If you succeed, that increases your lockpicking skill tremendously! If you fail, you poke your brain and die on the spot.
My favorite stupid game over was The Outer Wilds. If you are in the Hourglass Twins experiment lab, and you get rid of the original black hole before the probe goes in, it literally destroys the universe. Not only that, the titular theme song is played for you...on kazoo.
wasteland 2 fiddle with the nuke at the start of the game
9:22 Nice day for fishing, ain't it? Huh-huh!
In Nancy Drew, you can aslo overhydrate in a Desert
I'm just astonished Nancy got the cobra into the trash can. I was very much hoping to make either Dylan or Abdullah deal with it while Nancy stood FAR away.
2:10 Finnish Zoolander reboot is everything I hoped it would be 🤍💙
Olen melko varma, että elämässä on paljon muutakin kuin se, että on todella, todella, naurettavan hyvännäköinen. Ja aion selvittää, mikä se on.
What about Planescape Torment where you can die right at the beginning by constantly choosing to plummet to the ground
That's actually Tides of Numenera.
In Planescape Torment, you _can_ get into a staring contest with a medusa with predictable results.
To get all the achievements in KCD you need to choose all of the negative perks in hardcore. That's a fun playthrough.
In one of the quests for RuneScape 3, Sliske's Endgame, you will eventually come face to face with an elder god. One of the dialogue options you can take with it is to insult it, and while the game warns you that it's probably not a good idea, you can go through with it. Which, unsurprisingly, ends with it killing you.
lol good old rs... 🤔mmm might go have a run around (haven't played in a few years lol)
Would jumping into the drain in "the Neverhood" count? At the bottom of a drained lake you find a hole with three signs nest to it: "Danger!", "Don't jump in the drain!" and "You will die!". That's the only way to die in the whole game:)
Not gonna lie, Warhorse Studios came up with a clever gimmick- bleak, but clever!
Technically there is one other way to die, if you make the wrong choice at the very end of the game. Otherwise, yeah, jumping down the plughole will do it (and of course I didn't try it myself, no of course not, what do you mean, what kind of weirdo do think I am :D)...
@@AmeenaWordweaver I thought the "bad choice" at the end just turned Klaymen evil- but I might be misremembering it. To be fair, I last played it _ohnoI'moldnow_ years ago:D
I like how Fallout 3 makes sure you also know that your head exploding in space causes you to lose karma. As if that's the most pressing issue on your mind (or whatever's left of it anyway)
I'm so happy someone finally mentioned the Nancy Drew games! I played them all growing up and absolutely loved them.
mike said "alien weaponry" and i immediately said "i love that band!"
Christ. That death rattle in the first clip!
Opening and clicking on the linking book after trapping Genn in Rivin.
Ringing the wrong doorbell in Turnip Hill in INFRA.
Best jumpscare 10/10
*HOLY SHIT* an old school Nancy Drew game, my heart lit up when I saw that 💖
I both love and am scared of that forest around Moon Lake. I was so grateful that Red Knott was usually around at night to make it feel less lonely.
Harvest moon ds allows you let your dog kill the mayor.
Your dog attacks the mayor in the opening cinematic and you get multiple chances to call him off, if you don't the screen turns bright red and it implies you let your pup go to town on the mayor. it's hilarious and completely non-cozy.
0:02: Calling me out there. Anyways, what about secret bookcase hideaways?
Curious, the My Summer Car septic tank is empty.
Think for me, an discovered quite accidentally first time... Mass Effect 3 ending... When accidentally shot the Catalyst with my pistol... An IMMEDIATELY terminated negotiations on a hostile terms ..
Possibly the most "I should have seen that coming" game over is in the Neverhood, where after draining a lake the hole you pulled the plug from has several big signs near it warning "Danger!" and telling you explicitly not to jump in the drain. However, if you insist on doing it anyway, the game doesn't actually SHOW you dying, and there's some precedent in the game for people doing similar things and surviving, but at the very least you have removed yourself from the game area, and you get a "The End" screen.
7 Days to Die has the option to Eat Broken Glass you can take a guess on what would happen. Lol
Gonna suggest flying to the sun in The Outer Wilds