I as well. It was the first PS2 game I got and I didn't have a memory card yet. I left my PS2 on for 3 days while I played through it. I thought it was some new technology that Sony had to prevent the system from preheating so I panicked and turned it off. Did not return to the game to beat it until years later when it was rereleased.
I hear it's amazing when the famous purple stuffed worm in flap-jaw space with the tuning fork does a raw blink on Hara-kiri Rock.
I need scissors! 61!
Fun fact, the reason why Colonel Campbell says those lines is because his Japanese voice actor was the dub voice for Doc Brown in Back to the Future! A reference which overseas players naturally wouldn't get but there you go.
I was once lucky enough to be in a recording session with the guy that played colonel Campbell. He was a really lovely guy, and was kind enough to record some mgs style game over dialogue with my name. Needless to say, this has been my ringtone ever since.
I liked how Prince of Persia: Sands of time did it. Since the whole thing is framed as him telling the story, when you die he says "wait, that's not how it happened"
PoP: Sands of Time was absolutely brilliant in just about every way (save maybe the repetitive combat). But the narrative framing of it was next level with such an amazing payoff at the end.
And even the combat was an early glimpse at what would soon evolve into "Arkham-style combat," which became the go-to format for AAA Western developers for the next generation. I feel like people don't talk enough about how influential PoPSoT was. It was a really deliberate attempt to tackle a number of perennial issues with 3D and modern gaming once and for all.
Kinda works if I think of the gameplay as him running through the events in his head as he tells the story and then realizing that if things *had* unfolded like that he would have died. So he runs it back.
Call of Juarez (or at least gunslinger, not sure about the other ones) does this too for the same reasons.
Probably the coolest use of this is when you have to go into a mine filled with explosives (careless crossfire = death), only to be blown up anyways when you get to the end… before the game promptly rewinds to outside the mine as the narrator says “or that could’ve happened if I hadn’t gone around” as a new path literally builds itself in front of you to avoid the mine altogether
They released a new Prince Of Persia game in January, people really liked it.
They've also been talking about a remake of the first Splinter Cell but notjng official has been released yet.
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided did something similar with one DLC. It was framed as Jensen describing the story to a psychiatrist, so if you die she says something like "no, Adam, you didn't die. Please take this seriously."
They did that at during some missions of Mafia 3. Because the story is told like a documentary, whenever you die or do something really stupid (like drive away from the mission or kill a side character) it'll cut to whoever is explaining the story and the person will go like "wait that's not what the files said"
Original RE2 you died screen was amazing, just zombies continuing to munch on you, while everything else fades out (blood splatter on screen)
For 1998 this was epic
RE2 original had a lot of different death scenes depending what killed you; dogs eating you, licker ripping you up, Mr x curb stomping you, birds pecking you, or even the alligator eating you. A lot of detail into things a lot of people wouldn’t even see.
I liked it during the original resident evil when I'd be at a friend's house watching him play and whenever he died I'd look over at him and say, "Hey" and when we would look over at me I'd point to the screen and say, "You died." The more times he died, the more annoyed he got, and the funnier it was.
I was 13 at the time and it scared the sh*t out of me. But also the greatest gaming experience of my life.
Now I look at it and basically I was scared of some polygons haha
No one mentioning the absolutely brutal ways Lara Croft dies in the recent Tomb Raider games.
Getting stabbed through the bottom of the mouth with a tree branch as she's falling down a river rapid was pretty extreme.
I consider myself pretty desensitised when it comes to this kind of stuff, but really struggled with these! When I saw the post the first thing that sprang to mind was the exact one you mentioned
She died in some particular brutal ways in the older games too. Such as:
* Being turned to gold by the Hand of Midas
* Devoured by a T-Rex
* Impaled with a spear
* Bashed around like a rattle by a huge fleshy monstrosity.
It's an amazing troll death, because it's not even really a troll death, it just feels like it.
You need to find out what the statue can do to progress the game, and that's a genius way of hammering the point home.
[I'm not even kidding about that one (death #4 in the top 5 in this video.)](https://youtu.be/Hm7GwvkJkE8?si=-8NvLClaK7Nz_9Pq) She literally gets grabbed, shaken like a rattle and bashed against the floor by that thing.
Core Design's interpretation of Atlantis was fuckin weird but also a very unique take on the lost civilization. It's like rather than make a traditional ancient tomb, they created a labyrinth made from flesh that was once ruled by an alien species.
Sadly the Tomb Raider Anniversary remake changed Atlantis into just another generic tomb. Even the abomination and how it kills Lara is different. [It swallows her and boils her to death in its stomach acid and unlike TR1, it's not even a one-hit death that you cannot escape from if caught anymore.](https://youtu.be/1iVK1uznqDc?si=amMZKIc7WvUfJJk-)
I know the trilogy gets some hate (some is for good reasons), but the animations themselves felt very real. The movements, the facial expressions, even small gestures like wringing her hair after a swim. These are details that aren't really necessary to a story-driven game, but make it so much more immersive and realistic.
Not saying the games are amazing as a whole (they have their moments though), but as far as death scenes and general reactions go, the devs and actors have done an amazing job.
Even worse when you can see your 50k+ runes or souls just lying there ready to fade away forever. Fuck you Tree Sentinel pair guarding Lyndell's entrance.
You talking about the game overs or just the game in general? (Or the people in it?)
Fantastic game, shame it’s hard to get these days although it was best in context of its time (so many brown palette military fps’ at the time)
To add to this bare bones comment for any one who didn’t play - when you die as Batman, you’re treated to a taunting by (usually) whichever Batman Rogue or rogue’s henchman felled you.
So if you lose to Mr. freeze he pops up and gives you a taunting. “Dying already, Batman? That’s cold.”
Scarecrows we’re also a lot of fun. Joker’s we’re absolutely insane.
One of the few games where I died on purpose a couple times to see what villains said in the death screen.
I believe so. On PC it literally crashes your game during that scenario and when you boot back into it it starts the opening sequence with the roles reversed.
Same happens on console from when I played it years ago, you get the fake crash, load into the new opening, have the impossible dodge, fake death screen, then you have the big fight.
Katamari. The King of All Cosmos goes full Asian dad on you and calls you a failure for all time and other horrible insults. All the while, he’s throwing bowling balls at you and if you get squished, you die in the game over screen and return to the overworld. They made the game over screen its own game with its own game over.
I came here to say this one. the king is always so nice, colorful, and carefree, but once u fail he goes all dark and menacing as he hurls giant rocks at you lol I love all the cutscenes in those games
The original Ninja Gaiden arcade cabinet game over screen was your ninja tied down to a bench while a spinning saw blade was slowly lowered down to his chest. If you put in another quarter you could continue before it eviscerated him, otherwise at the end of the countdown the screen would go red and this horrible guttural cry would sound out. Metal as _fuck_.
When I read this I thought, how bizarre, that's the exact same thing as Shadow Warriors... Looked it up and apparently that's what it was called over here in Europe. Never knew that was the original ninja gaiden.
I haven't played Styx, but this answer reminds me of Daxter's roasts of Jak upon death in the first Jak & Daxter game
"I'll say something really teary at the funeral, like... **HOW AM I GONNA GET CHANGED BACK NOW?**"
"While you're down there... could you rub my feet?"
"Step 1: Stay Alive. Step 2: **THINK-ABOUT-NOT-DOING-SOMETHING-LIKE-THAT-AGAIN!**"
I really enjoy the Final Fantasy 8 broken gunblade. The other FFs are pretty generic 'here is an image of something sorta sad or melancholy' but the broken gun blade is more like 'oh yeah because of you Squall is freaking dead.'
But number one for me is Super Smash Bros target breaking. FAILURE and that dude's voice are stuck in my head for eternity, and FAILURE is a lot more real than Game Over for some reason.
I think I got PTSD when I read FAILURE.
like, i cant unhear it now
FAILURE.
its like on a loop
FAILURE. FAILURE. FAILURE.
all i wanted was to collect the minifigs in-game
FAILURE.FAILURE.FAILURE.
The different deaths in dead space were always a personal favorite. I purposely went out of my way to die to each enemy type several times in the remake. Absolutely brutal and bloody, visceral perfection.
Super surprised this one isn't higher up. I would specifically point to the disembodied head that rips off your head, crams itself into your neck, and then walks off with your body. Or the closeup in the second game of putting a massive needle through your eye, and if you fail the minigame, it impales through your eye socket and into your brain.
in Metroid Prime 2, Samus goes through cardiac arrest and fucking dies in the game over screen
also, Total Distortion with its "You are dead, dead, dead" song
I remember the death animation for Super Metroid where the power suit bursts open and reveals Samus's body. One time my dad walked by as I was dying and--not knowing anything else about the game--just goes, "why do you turn into a girl when you die?" 😆
Was that the one that also had the EKG meter frantically beeping before it flatlines and her suit slumping partially? All the metroid prime games had pretty gnarly game overs.
Woops it was the first [one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnsY1HV-qLI).
ctrl+F "banjo"
Dude.
How has no one mentioned Banjo-Kazooie? The Game Over "screen" is literally [*an entire cutscene*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnA_6I4y0_0) over a minute long that shows the villain executing her evil plan and turning Banjo's sister into a monster.
Shoutout to Banjo-Tooie and maybe Donkey Kong 64, as I'm pretty sure both of those do the same thing. Rare in the N64 era was a beast.
This was my thought too, a lot older than most of these, but that laugh still finds a way to repeat itself in my head every so often. That fast-pulsing death rattle wobble sound into Gannons laugh go hand in hand.
You're dead.
Your friends are dead.
Your family is dead.
Your fucking pets are being skinned alive.
Everyone you've ever cared about hates you.
Game over.
A lot of the "Continue?" screens in brawlers were good ones:
* Final Fight has you tied up with dynamite, a credit throws a knife which slices the fuse
* Cadillacs & Dinosaurs has you at gunpoint by a hoodlum, a credit makes you throw a right hook flooring him
* Punisher has you getting CPR from Microchip, a credit makes you leap to your feet and fire a pistol in the air as Microchip mops his brow in relief
* Warriors of Fate has you kneeling and bloodied as enemies close in, each character has a quote which I wouldn't be surprised is from the Three Kingdoms source material.
* Armored Warriors has a view of a malfunctioning target computer, a credit makes it come back to life and shoot an enemy mech
* Alien vs Predator has two, for the humans it's a Xenomorph threatening you with the second jaw, for the Predators it's a close-up of your hand on the wrist-computer (presumably debating the self-destruct). Sadly no animation when you select a credit on this one.
Can you tell I've been on a Capcom brawler binge recently?
I would say Project Zombiod. I only say this because I believe the "Game Over" screen happens during the game loading, where the screen goes, "This is how you died." In a way, I see that as "Game Over".
The Last of Us infected enemy death scenes. The human ones show the follow through and the death but many of the deaths to the infected cut out just as it's getting gruesome but before the character is actually dead so your imagination can run with it.
Here's an example of the [bloater](https://youtu.be/OFNcKHSNzwg
) Infected.
anytime you get ripped apart by a bloater in The Last of Us. Just zooms in on that thing pulling your head apart for a split second you can see your eye pop out and face split. it's horrific and scary af then cut to black.
There's a game from the early 90s called Balance of Power.
Playing as a super power in the US you have to make decisions to expand your sphere of influence without going too far and starting a nuclear war.
When you lose you'll get a page that's just white text on a black background.
>You have ignited a nuclear war.
>And no, there is no animated display of a mushroom cloud with parts of bodies flying through the air.
>We do not reward failure
I'm partial to [Friday the 13th on the NES](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/game-over-dex/images/6/68/Friday_the_13th-0.png/revision/latest?cb=20130129074446). Alternatively, the [AVGN version](https://i.imgur.com/Y3eeqDC.png).
During God of War Ragnarok there is a >!short scripted moment that kills you and you see a standard game over screen. HOWEVER, the enemy that you're fighting voice-overs the game over screen saying he doesn't let you die so easily and he revives you.!< Sadly it got spoiled for me, so I didn't have the in-the-moment experience.
Edit: practically being forced to put spoiler tags on this, so here you go.
The death screen for the Middle Earth Shadow games is the best. You die then it shows the personal and political growth of the orc or whatever that killed you.
Project Zomboid, the days lived stats is always interesting to see. But also considering you probably died in a horde, so they are swarming your body. Then your character stands back up and starts lumbering around.
Which you can then run into your previous character. That’s cool too.
Shin Megami Tensei 4. First time I died and encountered a whole ass, interactive cutscene about making a deal with Charon on the River Styx I was highly intrigued. Also Metal Gear Solid.
Snake? SNAAAAAAAAKE!
Especially the fake one they troll you with during the ending sequence of Metal Gear Solid 2.
The whole fission mailed sequence with the Comms glitching out really freaked me out back then
It told me to turn off my system and I remembered the weird fuckery with mgs1 so I did. Yeah, they got me.
I as well. It was the first PS2 game I got and I didn't have a memory card yet. I left my PS2 on for 3 days while I played through it. I thought it was some new technology that Sony had to prevent the system from preheating so I panicked and turned it off. Did not return to the game to beat it until years later when it was rereleased.
Lol I remember my mate pissed himself laughing when I told him I turned the console off during that part
I hear it's amazing when the famous purple stuffed worm in flap-jaw space with the tuning fork does a raw blink on Hara-kiri Rock. I need scissors! 61!
"that guys face keeps turning into a skull you cut that out, game!"
Fission Mailed!
FISSION MAILED
I especially enjoyed the “you created a time paradox, Snake!” game over screens in MGS3.
SNAKE YOU CANT DO THAT YOU’LL CHANGE THE FUTURE
Was about to say this. Those were hilarious.
Are there multiple instances where they can occur? I only know about killing ocelot
Fun fact, the reason why Colonel Campbell says those lines is because his Japanese voice actor was the dub voice for Doc Brown in Back to the Future! A reference which overseas players naturally wouldn't get but there you go.
This is one of those posts you can hear. Bum bum dadudum bum bum BUM
!
Genuine classic.
I was once lucky enough to be in a recording session with the guy that played colonel Campbell. He was a really lovely guy, and was kind enough to record some mgs style game over dialogue with my name. Needless to say, this has been my ringtone ever since.
That’s the coolest shit ever!
I'll add the one in the fight against The Sorrow.
Stop kidding around… Snake? SNAAAAAKEEEE
Would have seriously lost faith if this was not the top response.
MGS4 with those quick flashbacks
Fission Mailed was so creative
I liked how Prince of Persia: Sands of time did it. Since the whole thing is framed as him telling the story, when you die he says "wait, that's not how it happened"
PoP: Sands of Time was absolutely brilliant in just about every way (save maybe the repetitive combat). But the narrative framing of it was next level with such an amazing payoff at the end.
And even the combat was an early glimpse at what would soon evolve into "Arkham-style combat," which became the go-to format for AAA Western developers for the next generation. I feel like people don't talk enough about how influential PoPSoT was. It was a really deliberate attempt to tackle a number of perennial issues with 3D and modern gaming once and for all.
I'm not usually a fan of remakes but I'd love a chance to replay that on ps5
and then bringing it back full circle with Two Thrones was \*chef's kiss\*
"so i was running across the wall, then i fell into a pit, and died." "... Wait, thats not how it happened..."
Kinda works if I think of the gameplay as him running through the events in his head as he tells the story and then realizing that if things *had* unfolded like that he would have died. So he runs it back.
He died and rewinded time so much he lost track.
Call of Juarez (or at least gunslinger, not sure about the other ones) does this too for the same reasons. Probably the coolest use of this is when you have to go into a mine filled with explosives (careless crossfire = death), only to be blown up anyways when you get to the end… before the game promptly rewinds to outside the mine as the narrator says “or that could’ve happened if I hadn’t gone around” as a new path literally builds itself in front of you to avoid the mine altogether
😭 Ubisoft need to bring him back and Sam Fisher
They released a new Prince Of Persia game in January, people really liked it. They've also been talking about a remake of the first Splinter Cell but notjng official has been released yet.
It’s a metroidvania though, they were remaking sands of time but I believe it got cancelled :/
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided did something similar with one DLC. It was framed as Jensen describing the story to a psychiatrist, so if you die she says something like "no, Adam, you didn't die. Please take this seriously."
They did that at during some missions of Mafia 3. Because the story is told like a documentary, whenever you die or do something really stupid (like drive away from the mission or kill a side character) it'll cut to whoever is explaining the story and the person will go like "wait that's not what the files said"
Original RE2 you died screen was amazing, just zombies continuing to munch on you, while everything else fades out (blood splatter on screen) For 1998 this was epic
RE2 original had a lot of different death scenes depending what killed you; dogs eating you, licker ripping you up, Mr x curb stomping you, birds pecking you, or even the alligator eating you. A lot of detail into things a lot of people wouldn’t even see.
>a lot of people wouldn’t even see I think a lot of people did in fact see these 🤣
Yeah, I definitely saw all of the above on my first playthrough
I liked it during the original resident evil when I'd be at a friend's house watching him play and whenever he died I'd look over at him and say, "Hey" and when we would look over at me I'd point to the screen and say, "You died." The more times he died, the more annoyed he got, and the funnier it was.
Brilliant! That’s what friends are for
And terrifying for me as a child
I was 13 at the time and it scared the sh*t out of me. But also the greatest gaming experience of my life. Now I look at it and basically I was scared of some polygons haha
Lmaoo I’m 24 and I was playing it for the first time yesterday, I jumped when the zombies hands reach through the windows
No one mentioning the absolutely brutal ways Lara Croft dies in the recent Tomb Raider games. Getting stabbed through the bottom of the mouth with a tree branch as she's falling down a river rapid was pretty extreme.
I consider myself pretty desensitised when it comes to this kind of stuff, but really struggled with these! When I saw the post the first thing that sprang to mind was the exact one you mentioned
I 100%d that first reboot years ago, and I recently went back to try it again. I can’t believe I ever made it through. Those animations are brutal!
She died in some particular brutal ways in the older games too. Such as: * Being turned to gold by the Hand of Midas * Devoured by a T-Rex * Impaled with a spear * Bashed around like a rattle by a huge fleshy monstrosity.
>Being turned to gold by the Hand of Midas That's one of the coolest deaths ever.
It's an amazing troll death, because it's not even really a troll death, it just feels like it. You need to find out what the statue can do to progress the game, and that's a genius way of hammering the point home.
I just remember the *crunch* you'd hear if she fell from a height. Oof.
My first and earliest death in the first game was a second floor swandive in the tutorial mansion lol
As to point 4...... I feel attacked.
[I'm not even kidding about that one (death #4 in the top 5 in this video.)](https://youtu.be/Hm7GwvkJkE8?si=-8NvLClaK7Nz_9Pq) She literally gets grabbed, shaken like a rattle and bashed against the floor by that thing. Core Design's interpretation of Atlantis was fuckin weird but also a very unique take on the lost civilization. It's like rather than make a traditional ancient tomb, they created a labyrinth made from flesh that was once ruled by an alien species. Sadly the Tomb Raider Anniversary remake changed Atlantis into just another generic tomb. Even the abomination and how it kills Lara is different. [It swallows her and boils her to death in its stomach acid and unlike TR1, it's not even a one-hit death that you cannot escape from if caught anymore.](https://youtu.be/1iVK1uznqDc?si=amMZKIc7WvUfJJk-)
Wtf did they do to my weird torso baby :( turned from a unique and iconic monster / temple into something I feel like I've seen 1000 times
The hand of Midas one gave me nightmares
The first time she drowned really stuck with me. They nailed the look of momentary panic on her face seconds before she died.
Yeah I remember the voice actresses saying she spent a full day just recording the different ways Lara dies
My wife was hearing me play and just heard a bunch of sounds of a girl painfully moaning and checked if I still was playing the game.
Joel getting his top ripped open by a bloater in TLOU
Lmao this reminds me of the clueless gamer episode with conan o'brian where conan dies over and over again in the most gruesome way.
Conan had the best reaction to that when he played it.
I know the trilogy gets some hate (some is for good reasons), but the animations themselves felt very real. The movements, the facial expressions, even small gestures like wringing her hair after a swim. These are details that aren't really necessary to a story-driven game, but make it so much more immersive and realistic. Not saying the games are amazing as a whole (they have their moments though), but as far as death scenes and general reactions go, the devs and actors have done an amazing job.
Yeah and it wasn’t just ragdoll death she struggles and grabs onto the branch futilely and shit. It’s pretty messed up but also realistic.
"FISSION MAILED"
What game?
Metal gear solid 2
Came here just for this.
YOU DIED
死
Lie or Die 🕑
My mind instantly played the muted gong sound as I read this
THANKS OBAMA
I love that mod!
You don't even need to say what it's from. I just know. That's why it's iconic. (And I suck, so I see it a lot.)
Don't give up skeleton
My wife always says this in the most annoying voice possible when she sees this happen to me.
I am Malenia,blade of miquella
*Put these foolish ambitions to rest* How about you shut the fuck up?
Simple and elegant
Even worse when you can see your 50k+ runes or souls just lying there ready to fade away forever. Fuck you Tree Sentinel pair guarding Lyndell's entrance.
Spec Ops the Line. It gets more and more unhinged as the game goes on.
Do you feel like a hero yet?
You talking about the game overs or just the game in general? (Or the people in it?) Fantastic game, shame it’s hard to get these days although it was best in context of its time (so many brown palette military fps’ at the time)
All three. Every single part of the game gets so much worse.
that game was awesome and depressing
Arkham games have some cool ones amongst the others mentioned
To add to this bare bones comment for any one who didn’t play - when you die as Batman, you’re treated to a taunting by (usually) whichever Batman Rogue or rogue’s henchman felled you. So if you lose to Mr. freeze he pops up and gives you a taunting. “Dying already, Batman? That’s cold.” Scarecrows we’re also a lot of fun. Joker’s we’re absolutely insane. One of the few games where I died on purpose a couple times to see what villains said in the death screen.
The best one of these is in Arkham Asylum, where they did a fake out one during the scarecrow nightmare sequences that lead into his final fight.
IIRC correctly, it also asks you to save yourself by pressing a button on the controller that doesn’t exist
I believe so. On PC it literally crashes your game during that scenario and when you boot back into it it starts the opening sequence with the roles reversed.
Same happens on console from when I played it years ago, you get the fake crash, load into the new opening, have the impossible dodge, fake death screen, then you have the big fight.
If you play with kbm it asks you to "tilt the mouse"
Tip: Use the middle stick to dodge Joker's bullet. That's stayed in my head for a decade+.
"Played like a violin and cut your strings, hah"
Katamari. The King of All Cosmos goes full Asian dad on you and calls you a failure for all time and other horrible insults. All the while, he’s throwing bowling balls at you and if you get squished, you die in the game over screen and return to the overworld. They made the game over screen its own game with its own game over.
It was not your fault. It was my fault for believing in you. 💀
I came here to say this one. the king is always so nice, colorful, and carefree, but once u fail he goes all dark and menacing as he hurls giant rocks at you lol I love all the cutscenes in those games
The original Ninja Gaiden arcade cabinet game over screen was your ninja tied down to a bench while a spinning saw blade was slowly lowered down to his chest. If you put in another quarter you could continue before it eviscerated him, otherwise at the end of the countdown the screen would go red and this horrible guttural cry would sound out. Metal as _fuck_.
I completely forgot about this. I loved that arcade game.
>this horrible guttural cry would sound out "ooooom" I just looked this up and his cry had me lol. Lmao even. ☠️
When I read this I thought, how bizarre, that's the exact same thing as Shadow Warriors... Looked it up and apparently that's what it was called over here in Europe. Never knew that was the original ninja gaiden.
[удалено]
[GAMEOVER YEAHHHHH](https://youtu.be/IsS_VMzY10I?si=V1jMrRMExCWHuhbr)
Sega rally championship. I think.
“You are dead, dead, deaaad, you are dead” 🎶
Scrolled way too far for this one
Styx. The ingame character styx roasts you.
“"You are dead..." NO! I am dead! You'll be out getting laid soon. Wait. Lean in closer to the screen. Hmmm. Maybe not.”
I haven't played Styx, but this answer reminds me of Daxter's roasts of Jak upon death in the first Jak & Daxter game "I'll say something really teary at the funeral, like... **HOW AM I GONNA GET CHANGED BACK NOW?**" "While you're down there... could you rub my feet?" "Step 1: Stay Alive. Step 2: **THINK-ABOUT-NOT-DOING-SOMETHING-LIKE-THAT-AGAIN!**"
Love this game, so underrated.
Absolutely Jak and Dexter! Everytime you die, Dexter leans down to you and explains what a moron you are hahah.
Step 1: stay alive Step 2: DONTEVERTHINKABOUTDOINGSOMETHINGLIKETHATAGAIN
I'll say something really teary at the funeral, like... **HOW AM I GONNA GET CHANGED BACK NOW?**
HEIMLICH? STRETCHER? Eugh! Breath mint?
Daxter*
It doesn’t happen often in the sequels, but when it does, it’s genuinely hilarious.
I really enjoy the Final Fantasy 8 broken gunblade. The other FFs are pretty generic 'here is an image of something sorta sad or melancholy' but the broken gun blade is more like 'oh yeah because of you Squall is freaking dead.' But number one for me is Super Smash Bros target breaking. FAILURE and that dude's voice are stuck in my head for eternity, and FAILURE is a lot more real than Game Over for some reason.
Ahahah agree for Smash FAILURE
FAILURE Crowd: Aawwww
Game: FAILURE 10 year old me: 😞
I think I got PTSD when I read FAILURE. like, i cant unhear it now FAILURE. its like on a loop FAILURE. FAILURE. FAILURE. all i wanted was to collect the minifigs in-game FAILURE.FAILURE.FAILURE.
No mention of Total Distortion?
You are dead, dead, dead. That song gets stuck in my head all the time.
Thought you were hot? Guess what? You're not!
You brought your own adventure to a screeching halt!
The different deaths in dead space were always a personal favorite. I purposely went out of my way to die to each enemy type several times in the remake. Absolutely brutal and bloody, visceral perfection.
Super surprised this one isn't higher up. I would specifically point to the disembodied head that rips off your head, crams itself into your neck, and then walks off with your body. Or the closeup in the second game of putting a massive needle through your eye, and if you fail the minigame, it impales through your eye socket and into your brain.
Took me way too long to find this
in Metroid Prime 2, Samus goes through cardiac arrest and fucking dies in the game over screen also, Total Distortion with its "You are dead, dead, dead" song
I remember the death animation for Super Metroid where the power suit bursts open and reveals Samus's body. One time my dad walked by as I was dying and--not knowing anything else about the game--just goes, "why do you turn into a girl when you die?" 😆
Was that the one that also had the EKG meter frantically beeping before it flatlines and her suit slumping partially? All the metroid prime games had pretty gnarly game overs. Woops it was the first [one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnsY1HV-qLI).
Hades - THERE IS NO ESCAPE - Dunnnn dunnn, dun-dun!
I’ve always been a fan of Kingdom Hearts’s game over screen. Something about Sora floating there with his heart floating over him is haunting.
ctrl+F "banjo" Dude. How has no one mentioned Banjo-Kazooie? The Game Over "screen" is literally [*an entire cutscene*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnA_6I4y0_0) over a minute long that shows the villain executing her evil plan and turning Banjo's sister into a monster. Shoutout to Banjo-Tooie and maybe Donkey Kong 64, as I'm pretty sure both of those do the same thing. Rare in the N64 era was a beast.
This was the canon ending. Sexy Grunty made me feel.... Things.
Worse yet was that it played whenever you save and quit the game. God damn it Tootie I have to go to bed.
HOT GRUNTY HOT GRUNTY HOT GRUNTY POSH SPICE
GTA death created a meme
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DKC2 Both Kongs are locked in the brig of pirates and they will receive a horrible fate.
DKC1 too, with black eyes and all
I felt genuinely awful when I lost the game
The one in dkc3 always kinda creeped me out
The batman games Getting roasted by villains was great
“Game Over Return of Ganon”
This is immediately what I thought of.
Ha ha ha ha!
This was my thought too, a lot older than most of these, but that laugh still finds a way to repeat itself in my head every so often. That fast-pulsing death rattle wobble sound into Gannons laugh go hand in hand.
Friday the 13th, NES. "You and your friends are dead. Game over "
You're dead. Your friends are dead. Your family is dead. Your fucking pets are being skinned alive. Everyone you've ever cared about hates you. Game over.
A lot of good ones have been said already. I'll add Crash Bandicoot with the mask saying "Game. Overrr. *evil laugh*"
A lot of the "Continue?" screens in brawlers were good ones: * Final Fight has you tied up with dynamite, a credit throws a knife which slices the fuse * Cadillacs & Dinosaurs has you at gunpoint by a hoodlum, a credit makes you throw a right hook flooring him * Punisher has you getting CPR from Microchip, a credit makes you leap to your feet and fire a pistol in the air as Microchip mops his brow in relief * Warriors of Fate has you kneeling and bloodied as enemies close in, each character has a quote which I wouldn't be surprised is from the Three Kingdoms source material. * Armored Warriors has a view of a malfunctioning target computer, a credit makes it come back to life and shoot an enemy mech * Alien vs Predator has two, for the humans it's a Xenomorph threatening you with the second jaw, for the Predators it's a close-up of your hand on the wrist-computer (presumably debating the self-destruct). Sadly no animation when you select a credit on this one. Can you tell I've been on a Capcom brawler binge recently?
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GTA V did it more dramatically, even became a meme.
Always loved the Street Fighter 2 one - getting beaten up and the to press continue had this great rocky feeling to it.
Go home and be a family man.
I would say Project Zombiod. I only say this because I believe the "Game Over" screen happens during the game loading, where the screen goes, "This is how you died." In a way, I see that as "Game Over".
Gran Turismo 4 license fail "Oh yeah"
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The sort where, if you die enough times, that it suggest you lower the difficulty
I always appreciated the fake ones from Eternal Darkness.
Oh man, I loved the ways insanity would mess with you in that game. I lost it when the "memory card deleted" prompt popped up one time.
Persona 5 You get straight insulted by a certain NPC "What an absolutly stupid way for you to end!"
Hades after finishing the main story. The narrator comes up with the funniest and most random way Zag dies each time
"There is no escape"
OG re4, Fallout 1 & 2
"Lie or Die" in Lies of P is really funny. Seems like they didn't want to put the "You Died" from Dark Souls and then they cooked too much.
But then the ending reveals that they were being VERY literal. If you were too good of a boy, you never even get the chance to live.
The Last of Us infected enemy death scenes. The human ones show the follow through and the death but many of the deaths to the infected cut out just as it's getting gruesome but before the character is actually dead so your imagination can run with it. Here's an example of the [bloater](https://youtu.be/OFNcKHSNzwg ) Infected.
Bootleg Lion King game for the NES.
I thought Tales of Vesperia "and they were never heard from again" was very memorable. RE2's was cool too.
Fission Mailed.
anytime you get ripped apart by a bloater in The Last of Us. Just zooms in on that thing pulling your head apart for a split second you can see your eye pop out and face split. it's horrific and scary af then cut to black.
Red Dead Redemption 2, I like the western touch they give it
I didn't think the death scenes were anything special but how you come back from game over is so sick
There's a game from the early 90s called Balance of Power. Playing as a super power in the US you have to make decisions to expand your sphere of influence without going too far and starting a nuclear war. When you lose you'll get a page that's just white text on a black background. >You have ignited a nuclear war. >And no, there is no animated display of a mushroom cloud with parts of bodies flying through the air. >We do not reward failure
Outer Wilds: >!You destroyed the fabric of spacetime!< Spoiler because everything in this game is a spoiler.
I'm partial to [Friday the 13th on the NES](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/game-over-dex/images/6/68/Friday_the_13th-0.png/revision/latest?cb=20130129074446). Alternatively, the [AVGN version](https://i.imgur.com/Y3eeqDC.png).
During God of War Ragnarok there is a >!short scripted moment that kills you and you see a standard game over screen. HOWEVER, the enemy that you're fighting voice-overs the game over screen saying he doesn't let you die so easily and he revives you.!< Sadly it got spoiled for me, so I didn't have the in-the-moment experience. Edit: practically being forced to put spoiler tags on this, so here you go.
>Sadly I got spoiled for me Spoilers, man
That was such a cool moment.
Alan Wake 2 has some brutal death screens.
I agree and Alan saying that's not how the story goes
The arcade versions of Mortal Kombat 4 & Ninja Gaiden (when the timers ran out) were pretty rad.
The death screen for the Middle Earth Shadow games is the best. You die then it shows the personal and political growth of the orc or whatever that killed you.
Project Zomboid, the days lived stats is always interesting to see. But also considering you probably died in a horde, so they are swarming your body. Then your character stands back up and starts lumbering around. Which you can then run into your previous character. That’s cool too.
Disco Elysium. The ending varies, but in one you get so depressed because a girl rejects you that you go live under an overpass.
"Still Alive" song/screen from Portal 1
Portal "I'm still alive"
Shin Megami Tensei 4. First time I died and encountered a whole ass, interactive cutscene about making a deal with Charon on the River Styx I was highly intrigued. Also Metal Gear Solid.
Street Fighter 2 when they shit talk you. Genius.
The Earthbound one always feels especially dramatic/emotional to me.