What Causes You to Die in Games?

[Poseidon00]

Losing all my HP

 

[mondblut]

Going to throw off another bone : Avellone, when he created Torment, did it around one idea - ... creating a game where player death wouldn't just mean a reload.

Because running through the maze for 78th time is sooooo exciting and fun.

Even the second time is one too many. Fucking self-indulgent hipsters, to the F9 your le 2deep4u postmortem gameplay goes.

 

[DalekFlay]

ladders

I wonder how many times I've died because of shitty ladder mounting mechanics in first-person games. Quite a lot of times.

 

[thesecret1]

Interesting poll results. I too usually die in games because of Kingcomrade.

 

[octavius]

Acts of God.

One of the most novel ways of dying is getting a heart attack while casting spells in Aleshar: World of Ice.

 

[Metronome]

With fps games, it's getting sick of cautiously traveling each time I die, resulting in me carelessly rushing the enemy just to actually play the game. In roguelikes, it's getting tired of the repetative early-game and just trying to rush through it to get the interesting part.

I die because I don't want to waste time doing the same thing over and over, ironically resulting in me doing the same thing over and over. Patience is a virtue, but it makes for some really dull gameplay.

 

[Daemongar]

Not waiting the 3 seconds of standing still required to go back to full health.

 

[Latro]

Carelessness, I'm the type that usually plays their best when things are about to go to shit rather than playing well from the start.

 

[Bigg Boss]

Playing on too hard a difficulty too early. Some games are not meant to be played on hardcore iron man extreme mode without a decent knowledge of the games structure.

 

[Norfleet]

Lag.

 

[Jack Of Owls]

What Causes You to Die in Games?

Getting lost & delirious in huge, convoluted areas with more obscure puzzles & hidden switches (that need solving in order to progress) than God has angels. It's... soul crushing. I die from boredom.

 

[Average Manatee]

Health going too low is a biggie.

 

[Commissar Draco]

Mainly it is my kidos and waifu distracting me from play or just checking this new vidya of Mongolian throat singing on Jew-tube while in middle of fight so I guess its familiarity/boredom and Multi-tasking Comrades.

 

[AdolfSatan]

Lack of hand-eye coordination, I can't play anything that isn't turn-based or slow. Don't know why, I'm fairly dexterous IRL but will die 50 times on the first screen of super mario.

 

[taxalot]

I usually die in video games because I do something but instead I should have done something else.

 

[Jvegi]

Quicksaving right as the killing bullet reaches my head. I love desperately trying to avoid it.

Another thing regenerating health has ruined.

 

[Dramart]

Lack of skill and bad decisions.

 

[taxalot]

Bad dice rolls.