Top 5 Most Hated Game Deaths

There are a few types of deaths in games which really make me rage. Whether it's simply an unfair death, some jackass getting a 'cheap' kill somehow or me just messing up and failing, the result is the same: shouting, swearing, sometimes a bit of flailing about and me generally becoming an extremely unpleasant person for a few seconds. Thankfully, situations like these are fairly uncommon and that gives me time to write things down, like my top 5 most hated deaths in games!

I should point out that I play all these games on PC, but I’m certain you console gamers have had similar experiences!

5. Fall damage in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

Anyone who has played Bethesda’s latest masterpiece knows what I’m talking about here. You’re running around trying to get to that quest marker and you just can’t be bothered to take the long road around that mountain. You climb up, heading in as straight a line as you can, admire the view for a few seconds then begin to make your way back down the other side. That’s when it happens. You slip, fall and tumble to an untimely death. As you watch the corpse of the Dovahkiin sliding down that snowy slope, you’re kicking yourself all the way to the bottom because lets face it, it was your own damn fault for being lazy. Of course that doesn’t make it any less annoying!

 

4. Barbarians in Civilization V.

Everything is going perfectly. I’ve got my first city up and running, the Pyramids are half way built and I’ve just found a natural wonder and some gems not too far away. Nothing can stop me on the road to world domination as my settlers are on their way to the gems, eager to set up a second city and bring in some serious cash. BOOM! Out of nowhere, like the sneaky underhanded thieves that they are, a barbarian unit grabs my settlers and takes them back to their encampment. I’ve now got to spend valuable resources and time trying to get them back, sending unit after unit to their doom in a vain attempt at rescuing my poor little settlers.

 

3. Stickybombs in Team Fortress 2.

I don’t care what anyone says, lining a corridor with stickybombs and waiting for someone to run into your trap is a cheap and easy way to get kills. I’m the kind of player who prides myself on being able to get to the top of the leaderboard on my skills alone, so those encounters with a stickybomb-using demoman who manages to get the better of me time and time again really wind me up. I know people will disagree with me here, but in my opinion, the stickybomb launcher in TF2 is the lamest weapon in the game and also the cause of many a verbal tantrum.

 

2. Squashed by my own helicopter in Battlefield 4.

I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve made that dangerous journey across the map in a transport chopper, successfully navigating in and around buildings and cranes, popping my flares at exactly the right time to stop an AA missile and skillfully landing on a rooftop only to exit the vehicle and be greeted by the ‘Killed in Action’ screen. It wasn’t an enemy shooting me and it wasn’t a mistake I made, it was my stupid helicopter moving slightly after I got out and squashing my head. This seems to happen to me way too often and as much as I love Battlefield, this really, really makes me mad as hell! Even to the point of rage-quitting and going off in a huff.

 

 1. Super Meat Boy end of a level.

No game has ever made me feel so ambivalent toward it as Super Meat Boy. I absolutely adore this game and will sing its praises whenever I get the chance but equally, no other game has ever made me as infuriated as I have been while playing it. As enormously satisfying as it is to finally complete any of the stupidly difficult levels in the game, it’s the 400 previous attempts where I almost made it, but failed at the last jump, which have caused me to shout the most vile obscenities at my screen and want to punch my monitor right in its stupid face (monitors have faces?).

So it’s Super Meat Boy which takes the top spot in my list of most hated deaths in games. That little red s**t who has caused me such intense anguish and madness, but has still has me coming back for just one more go (after I calm down of course).