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Off-Topic => All of all! => Topic started by: arcaine91 on February 28, 2009, 04:33:03 AM
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What exactly is a game-over? Pure and simple, it's a special animation, scene, theme etc. that informs the player they've failed the game's goals and must retry. But that is just the very base definition of a game-over. A good game over shows the player the effects or outcome of their failure. A GREAT game-over does this in such a way that the player is so haunted/furious/guilty over the game's outcome that he/she/it is driven to retry, again and again until they succeed.
Game over's aren't restricted to just "Game Over" or "You Lose" screens; take for example the Metal Gear Solid series, where player death results in the player's comrades desperately trying to get a response from the dying Snake, or the Resident Evil series, where a game over usually shows the player-characters often-gruesome final moments.
This can even be extended to so-called "bad endings;" in certain games, if the player is defeated whilst facing the game's final challenge, a pseudoending is shown that showns the (typically unhappy) outcome of the player's failure. An example is the Day of Lavos ending in Chrono Trigger where, if the player party is slain during the final battle, then [spoiler]the final boss, Lavos, is shown causing Armagheddon and reducing the world to a ruin.[/spoiler]
Anyone else think of any truly haunting Game-Overs or "bad endings?"
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Clive Barker's Undying. Hell, the game over crap are the main reason I quit playing >.> Zombie-wolf-things grabbed you by the shoulders, propped you upright as you were about to fall to the ground dead, grab your head with both hands, pull it off, and eat it. The weird demonic naga things would burrow underground and drag you down as you lumber around, dying. Best part of it was as they dragged you down your leg gets caught and makes this horrible, wet CRACK sound. WORST part, on the other hand, you have to wait for as long as twenty seconds while the snake that happened to kill you excruciatingly slowly hauls itself toward you so it can do it's death animation. That's about as far as I got before I quit. I'm pathetic, I know.
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MY own in Sprite for life.
"You screwed up!
Your soul is mine now biatch!"
Playing jingle bells in the background.
Epic game over:
All the cool animations in RE4. Like getting your head sawed off, acid-death, del lago, failing action-cutscenes.
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Banjo-Kazooie. Even if you quit from the pause menu, you still got to see that game over cutscene where Tootie got uglified. I hated it so much. I beat the game in less than 10 sittings because of that.
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Banjo-Kazooie. Even if you quit from the pause menu, you still got to see that game over cutscene where Tootie got uglified. I hated it so much. I beat the game in less than 10 sittings because of that.
What are you friggen talking about man? Hawt Gruntilda! I saved and quit just to SEE that witchin' hottie.
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It helps to remember that you lost. And that she's green and polygonal.
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Any death sequence in Haunting Ground
They're terrifying
Especially when the Big Dude whose name I forget kills you
Basically, when that happens, you hear this humongous dude grunting, then a large ripping sound after he screams
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At some point someone's going to post Sega Rally and Total Distortion, so I'm going to seize the honour by doing it now.
Greatest Game Over in history. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6aRwky0W5Y)
Second greatest. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6iT-lMgfAI)
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Clearly, you've put those two in the wrong order.
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Well, like, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
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The miracle never happen.
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Haunting Ground, when the first enemy kills you. The camera changes to around the corner and you hear a noise like you're being eaten or raped (you're an 18 year old woman and the first enemy is a big fat retard who acts nasty to his dolls)
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I've always liked the Viewtiful Joe Game Over, where you hear the director shouting "Cut! Cut! Cut!" (The game taks place inside a movie)
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RE4 always made me laugh. "YOU ARE DEAD". Yeah thanks for that, I hadn't noticed. Just imagine what happened before they added that in. What, my head got cut off? Nah it's just a scratch. I'm ready for round two. Have at you ya big bastard.
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In fairness, that's been around since the first game.
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I didn't really like Re4 that much. They barley gave Leon any health, Ashley or whatever her name is is completley usless, and the game over thing? YOU ARE DEAD thanks for saying that I didn't know that especially since my head is over there and my body is over there, and there, and there. What are ya buying? Hehe that merchant made me laugh for some reason. :D
Fatal Frame 3 during the final battle against whats her face when you have to run away from her (basiclly when the screen turns black and white). And if ya didn't do that then she kills ya in one hit, but afterwards I saw for some reason she hugs Rei just after she just killed you.
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In fairness, that's been around since the first game.
Indeed, but I found it much more frivolous in re4 due to the pure clarity of the deaths available.
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They barley gave Leon any health
Um, are you in any way not retarded? Don't respond until you can prove it.
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Its been a long time since I have / seen anyone play it so I don't remember everything about it. Maybe I should play it again so I can actually remeber stuff about it, then maybe number 2 since I got nothin to do right now.
Now if you will excuse me I'm gonna jump off my roof, cause I can fly you know.
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Second greatest. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6iT-lMgfAI)
Good lord, this song is going to be stuck in my head for the next few days.
Yeah, this slightly beats out 'GAME OVER YEEEEAH'.
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Now if you will excuse me I'm gonna jump off my roof, cause I can fly you know.
Wow, that's cool. I honestly wish I could do that.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAe216dj6X8&feature=related
Now, you have to watch it all the way through to understand.
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I agree with OP. When I fought against Lavos for the first time, and lost...eesh...[spoiler]all you see is rampant destruction, ending with a shot of the reddened Earth. Lavos' ever-terrifying scream fills the air as the screen declares: BUT THE WORLD REFUSED TO CHANGE![/spoiler]
I was 14 when I saw that...and I wanted to sleep with the light on. Honestly.
Also: I think that the game-over for "I Wanna Be The Guy: The Movie: The Game" needs consideration, considering the conditions in which it happens.
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I agree with OP. When I fought against Lavos for the first time, and lost...eesh...[spoiler]all you see is rampant destruction, ending with a shot of the reddened Earth. Lavos' ever-terrifying scream fills the air as the screen declares: BUT THE WORLD REFUSED TO CHANGE![/spoiler]
I was 14 when I saw that...and I wanted to sleep with the light on. Honestly.
Also: I think that the game-over for "I Wanna Be The Guy: The Movie: The Game" needs consideration, considering the conditions in which it happens.
Actually it was [spoiler]BUT THE FUTURE REFUSED TO CHANGE![/spoiler]
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Get used to seeing this a lot... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cZX00grie0)
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Breath of Fire 5 has a pretty neat game over when your D-counter reaches 100%. The D-counter is basically a representation of how much your dragon powers are taking over your body or something like that, it increases a lot when you use your dragon abilities, or very slowly by just walking around.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGNF3EjkS44