Noteworthy deaths in games

[MattyBoy]

Chowlett,
Hold down the control key and press P at same time to scroll through old messages. Your not getting any closer on the reluctant thing and I'm not helping by mentioning corridors. The corridors are only interesting because they make the pet's avoidance of an object more obvious, because they have less options about where to go.

They seem to avoid walking on things that they don't like. You will soon find out why if you try to use that item that they were avoiding.

Until you get the hang of things like this, I would play as a Valkyrie. Most other types are too hard to make a start with.

BTW,
What are all of those other guys doing in our Nethack thread?

[MattyBoy]

Another handy nethack tip:

Let your foes come to you.

If you step into them before taking a swing, they usually take a swing at you as you are arriving. If you wait for them to approach, you get a chance to swing at them as they arrive in front of you.

[Skanky Burns]

Another death: (from Sopwith)

Flying upsidedown in a plane, dropping a bomb on yourself!!
A variation of that:
Sending a bomb directly up in the air, forget about it, then as you are flying back, have it fall on top of your plane.

[Chowlett]

Originally posted by MattyBoy
Chowlett,
Hold down the control key and press P at same time to scroll through old messages. Your not getting any closer on the reluctant thing and I'm not helping by mentioning corridors. The corridors are only interesting because they make the pet's avoidance of an object more obvious, because they have less options about where to go.

They seem to avoid walking on things that they don't like. You will soon find out why if you try to use that item that they were avoiding.

Until you get the hang of things like this, I would play as a Valkyrie. Most other types are too hard to make a start with.

BTW,
What are all of those other guys doing in our Nethack thread?

I thought I'd tried Ctrl. Ah well, must be my brain playing up.

So reluctance probably indicates a cursed item? Useful indeed. I'd picked up on the "wait to be attacked" thing. Latest attempt saw a Valkyrie (called Ride Of - ahahaha) make it to DLvl 14 I think.

[MattyBoy]

Level 14!
I think you're on your own, then.

Just eat plenty of Giants on your quest (but careful if you are having a hard time getting it all down),
then don't look too closely at the Medusa if you find a level that is mostly water.

[Qilue]

There's been quite a few.

Diablo 2.
I was playing a javazon and was with two barbs during a run through the act 3 sewers in nightmare. We had separated and I encountered a fire enchanted stygian doll unique. In a stoke of divine luck, I was separated from it by a canal. Having run out out of mana (and mana potions), I was doing ordinary throws and it was almost dead. All of a sudden, up runs one of the barbs and he leap attacks it.

Hroo
Argh

(Explanation for non D2 players. Stygian dolls explode and cause damage when they die if you are next to them. Unique ones do a lot more damage. A fire enchanted version will generally kill any character in nightmare difficulty even if at full health.)

[Shadowstrike]

Once in Ultima 6, I tried to make my character as drunk as he could be. Unfortunately, I ran into a dragon shortly thereafter.....

[Zkribbler]

In the old Strike Eagle II, I was flying a mission over the Hanoi area. I had taken out both my primary and secondary targets (as well as several other targets of opportunity) and had climbed high to make my exit towards the Gulf of Tokin. (A high exit was accepted exit stategy. That way, if you're hit, you have a better chance of making it out over the Gulf before you bail out, resulting in rescue rather than capture.)

But there was a SAM site that was just being a little too pesky. I still had a Maverick left, so I did a 180, came back a ways and popped it off. But that brought me back into range of some other SAM sites, plus some MIGs that had joined in the fun. After taking a couple of hits, my air speed started dropping dramatically. It didn't take long to realize that, not only was I not going to make it home, I wasn't even going to make it out over the Gulf. I put my Strike Eagle into a shallow dive to increase air speed, but I got hit again. Other missiles were swarming in after me, and I knew one more hit would finish me.

So I bailed...knowing that meant sure capture. And I counted, as my plane fell below me, FOURTEEN more missile hits. Man, those guys sure wanted to kill me.

[RonHiler]

Most memorable death ever: Floyd from Planetfall (by Infocom, anybody remember that one?)

[MattyBoy]

For once I am not threadjacking...
Playing Nethack 3.4 as Monk and doing well early, picking up treats in shops painstakingly, then find stairs and arrive in darkness. I cannot see any monsters yet, when a potion crashes over my head, my feet are frozen to the ground, then a gnome king hits me. I hit the space bar because I can't bear to watch until I regain control, but I die first.

Why do I play this game again?

[Mr. President]

Final Fantasy 2 (NES, emulated). I get too excited to take out a party of goblins, and I accidentally order my party's best warrior to attack himself with an axe. Very intelligent.

[Kassiopeia]

FF7. Everyone who has played to CD 4 knows what the most memorable death is.

MattyBoy, this thread is old. Who is this kassiopeia who started it? What has happened to him?

[SnowFire]

That's fascinating, kassiopea, being that FF7 doesn't have a 4th CD.

I always enjoyed the Gogo fight in FF5... he says that he'll do whatever you do. My conclusion was that I had to figure out a way to make him kill himself. So I said "Hey Gogo! Look at this!" and had Faris, a Knight, chop her head off with the Excalibur (got a critical hit, thunked herself for 4000 damage!). My roommate and I just rolled on the floor after that slightly unintended consequence.

Anybody who checked Myth replays would know one epic death, though not mine- some fighting broke out early between two players, one of them sending in 2 ghols in to chop up the other guy's dwarves, and quite effectively too. One of the ghols survived and there was only 1 dwarf left of the 3... the thing is, he killed the dwarf just as he was starting his toss. So the molotov cocktail was out, but not thrown, and started simply to fall to the ground. Meanwhile, the dwarves satchel charges fell to the ground... result, BOOOOM! The ghol was turned into a fine red mist as the dwarf's last bomb gained vengeance for his death.
So far, amusing, but reasonably common. The fun thing was, the person whose dwarf got blown up continued on, marching south to harry another foe... except that, about a minute after the original explosion, the ghol's cleaver, which had been rocketed into the air at the explosion, came down- on one of his weakened thrall, killing it! It's hillarious seeing this cleaver from the heavens, still kept track of by the physics engine, come down and kill the thrall.

[MattyBoy]

Kassiopeia, the thread stuck in my mind.
And reopening it has brought out some classic stories already.

[Skanky Burns]

Well done, great thread this one.