7 Stupidest Game Overs We Should Have Seen Coming
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Published 2024-07-11
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All Comments (21)
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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.
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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...
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Morinth killing you in Mass Effect 2 is certainly a good one.
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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
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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.
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Talking shit at Vlaakith in BG3 should definitely be here. I literally facepalmed.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Interesting that you lose karma for your head exploding in the vacuum of space.
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Star Wars Knights of the old republic pleading guilty on planet manaan and getting sentenced to death should have seen that coming
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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.
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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!
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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.)
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There are so many options, this needs a Part 2.
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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
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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 🫡
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Two spring to mind. The helicoptor rotor blades in Prey. Taking pills and alcohol together despite being told not to in Farenheit.
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That was the last we saw of Andy... Or was that, Jane? I need to sleep.
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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
