7 Stupid Decisions That Killed You Instantly

[@sirflimflam]

I still remember being a teenager playing Tomb Raider and thinking "no way they thought of this" before jumping onto the midas hand. Got a good laugh.

[@WilczycaCzarownica]

I was curious too. And I was nice surprised.

[@skitzocalypso5840]

For people wondering about the name, there was previously an official channel called Inside Xbox. (Videos are still on KZbin) When Xbox stopped backing it, these 3 formed Outside Xbox. In their early days, they still focused on Xbox. Outside Xtra was formed to cover other platforms, but now there is more overlap. If you really want to see their young selves, look it up. 😊 Jane hasnt aged though... proper vampire... 😮

[@jacksonskinner7879]

I have often wondered if they were officially associated with Xbox! Thank you

[@LeviathanRX]

I actually used to watch the videos from my xbox360 dashboard

[@Mr_Phox]

Inside Xbox is also the channel Andy hosted before this.

[@lnt305]

Ah, I finally understand why Outside Xtra is a side channel instead of Ellen and Luke just joining this one! Always confused me…

[@SailorMya]

You are right she has never aged! LOL

[@Vanished_Mostly]

In my defense, when Elminster told us we could now activate the orb "at will", I honestly just thought he was saying we now had a lesser version of the full blast as an AOE spell and that the full one could be used later.

[@ARUCARDFTEPES]

I assume, like removing the chip in Nier, it might have some special, one-time use.

[@Subangelis]

Funny thing is that it's just a cantrip, but the real cantrip is just producing the dagger.

[@Maleketh42]

Until Dawn has quite a few of these, but the most obvious is probably when, late in the game, you pass by a door and hear crying on the other side. The character you're controlling thinks it might be another character who went missing earlier. You, the player, know that that other character is nowhere nearby, and also that the game's resident monsters, the wendigos, can mimic human vocalizations. Opening the door has exactly the result you'd expect.

[@oneiirics]

ashley’s dumbest death

[@karlwittenburg5868]

That or just shooting Emily. But I know a few people did that just because they found her annoying

[@hikariyagaza]

​@@oneiiricsaaah the source of one of Markipliers best freak outs

[@sugarplum3338]

who hasn't fell for it though.

[@eldritchcupcakes3195]

@@karlwittenburg5868 honestly, I get killing an annoying character but the goal of the game is explicitly to save everyone regardless

[@JevinJohnson-CloudShift]

This is a fun category! I immediately think of the time in Portal 2 in the chapter "The Part Where He Kills You" where Wheatly offers Chell a chance to see her parents and a pony and stuff if she jumped into a bottomless pit. Needless to say, you shouldn't jump into a bottomless pit just because of what Wheatly says, but you still can do so anyway, and you get a fun achievement for it too. Also, the time earlier when you're escaping and GLaDOS says _hey, here's a way out ;)_ and immediately gasses you if you decide to fall for it

[@rrraya81studios]

I commented about the Glados using neurotoxin just now and scrolled down to see this. Also don’t forget that you can jump into the incinerators of portal 1 and die.

[@jackbob83]

I went for that. I wanted more puzzles that were in the basic test chambers. I got killed because Glados thought she saw a deer

[@philippegauvin-vallee9371]

I honestly prefer mistakes that kill my character instantly over the ones that start making my gaming experience permanently unpleasant five hours later.

[@goofyfurball7311]

Facts

[@ericb3157]

reminds me of a weird old RPG called "the dark heart of Uukrul". near the end, the only way to get around on area is to roll a Die. but EVERY time you "use" the die, it asks if you want to "cast it on the ground" or SWALLOW it! there's even a note in the instruction manual that says "whatever you do, don't swallow the Die, or you will never reach the end."

[@forceofnature26]

There's a bit in the Evil Within haunted mannikin factory where you see like 5 enemies around a corpse and I almost instinctively thought "oh, I'll burn that and get them all in one go!" the match didn't even hit the ground

[@tomasdelcampo2]

Evil within is goated. Nice pfp also

[@vidmuncher]

"GOT 'EM" -The Enemies, probably...

[@yuyutubee8435]

'Mannikin' looks like it's probably a Finnish curse word.

[@electroshockgamer2733]

I mean, I guess technically you did get them all in one go

[@eldritchcupcakes3195]

@@yuyutubee8435manikin vs mannequin is the worst crime of the English language

[@kirstybookwyrm]

Another stupid decision is in Mass Effect 2 when you sleep with Morinth knowing it will kill you

[@thestraydog]

I mean, I made some bad decisions like that while online dating...

[@noratrevalyn5582]

Ahhh yes, mind blowing sex.

[@eburel506]

Good one. I forgot that part.

[@frankwest5388]

I was about to comment that one.

[@Kjf365]

The funniest part is if you do it after you bring her on board and she goes "you're very strong, I'm sure you'll survive." And then you promptly get a game over screen lmao.

[@levimunyon7114]

Video idea for you guys. In one of your long form videos, what are some of the worst game captures you've had to do for a 7 things list?

[@VonBlade]

I'd wager Mike getting the Hollow Knight footage was all sorts of terrible.

[@thetwoidiotshow]

Yes do

[@Tanrdsgener]

I’d absolutely love to see this

[@Ash0fTheAbyss]

Want to see this 😊

[@cowboyjazz]

ooh i want this too

[@dill-ee-on]

In the Fallout: NV “Dead Money” DLC, when you finally get to the vault there’s a computer with a message to Dean Domino. The game explicitly states that opening it will lock the vault for forever. But if you open it regardless then the vault locks and you get a neat ending explaining how The Courier basically starved to death.

[@macaronitony93]

thats a fun one, but i think one death that fits the video more (i.e. kills you instantly) would be at the very beginning of the DLC where you refuse to help father elijah so he just detonates your collar lol

[@Eye_Of_Odin978]

@@macaronitony93 Yeah, that one would probably fit better. He just detonates your collar if you refuse him multiple times. I didn't think he'd actually do it tbh.

[@darklord884]

You really have to give props to the actor playing Marguerite Baker. She doesn't just flawlessly sell you the ranting, raving crazy lady, but on the flipside believably portrays the gentle, homely mother version too during the Bedroom level.

[@GoldenGrenadier]

I was too distracted by Quagmire possessing the guy across the table.

[@darklord884]

@@GoldenGrenadier Where did you see Lucas during the Bedroom DLC? Also what table?

[@GoldenGrenadier]

@@darklord884 it was during the beginning part where they were eating dinner. I was just dumbfounded to hear Seth McFarlane doing a quagmire voice here of all places. It was like the first time I heard joker in Mass effect. I couldn't shake the Robot Chicken Vibes.

[@darklord884]

@@GoldenGrenadier What the actual hell are you talking about? Because you're not talking about any scene from RE: VII that's for sure...

[@GoldenGrenadier]

@@darklord884 at 12:15 Glen Quagmire throws a bowl of crap across the table at the player, Gigity

[@crimsonchaos7224]

There's a good one in Super Paper Mario where you accidentally teleport yourself into space without a helmet and you can choose to just... not go back.

[@Piratethealex]

In the same game there's also a game over if you keep telling the wizard at the start you don't want to help save the world

[@noob1n8or]

You're forced to go back the first time. The second time you can choose not to wear the space helmet which is what kills you.

[@tebel7770]

ttyd when you read the that's diary

[@dragonwriterluc]

Super Paper Mario has 4 text game overs. 1. Choose not to save the multiverse. 2. Don't put on the helmet while in space. 3. Refuse to find Luvbi in the Underwhere. 4. Accept Dimensio's offer to team up.

[@Aaaa-g6u8e]

​@@dragonwriterlucTo be fair, Dimentio's self branded cologne seems like a pretty sweet deal...

[@Chris_Sizemore]

7 Days to Die has a great one actually. In a zombie infested world you run into broken glass quite often. Usually you pick it up because it makes noise if you step on it. So what can you do with broken glass? Well, you can melt it at a forge to make glass. Or... there is a prompt to eat. Predictably, if you eat the glass you die. Immediately. Another zombie survival game, Project Zomboid has a different one. In that game you can find Bleach. Bleach bottles are great containers that can hold a lot of water, or gas. Bleach itself is very useful for cleaning blood from rooms and clothing, which is actually important. You can also drink bleach. Which is absolutely deadly.

[@ChilliDogDave]

to further add onto zomboid there was a post on the forums waaay back when about a guy who complained that bleach ended his characters run because he decided to drink it insisting it must be safe because it restored thirst... me, a bunch of other posters and one of the DEVS had to explain that it was B L E A C H and that its not fit for human consumption, he was still adamant it should not have killed him. this is why bleach has a skull icon now :)

[@torgranael]

Is it true that drinking bleach prevents the zombie virus from resurrecting you?

[@MasterZebulin]

@@ChilliDogDave Man, even back then people were stupid. 😆

[@Tengokuchi]

I accidentally ate glass in 7 Days because i wanted to see if there were any recipes with it and accidentally hit the use key.

[@BAMFshee]

Similar to the Baldur's Gate 3 example, Quest for Glory V has the Thermonuclear Blast spell. As the name suggests, it creates a giant nuclear explosion... with you at point blank range. As you might expect, you die as a result of using it, and it even has a unique death screen if you use it to try to kill the final boss!

[@NotAHandle22]

This is what I instantly thought of as well. I was already primed to think about it from the title of the video. There were a lot of stupid ways to die in the Quest for Glory games. 😁

[@MarkDeSade100]

In Quest for Glory 1, you can kill yourself by picking your nose. With a metal lockpick.

[@BAMFshee]

@@NotAHandle22 Sierra's games on the whole were a goldmine when it came to finding creative (and often stupid) ways to die. One of the reasons I love them so much.

[@JeedyJay]

You can also generate a similar, but smaller scale, result by summoning a magic staff in Quest For Glory 3 and casting the trigger spell on it. It's ultimately needed to beat the game when playing as a magic user, just... don't cast it while YOU'RE holding it.

[@randomthunk]

No joke, I was thinking about how you guys are named "outside xbox" yesterday, and was like "I wonder if they ruminate on that decision from time to time".

[@bellarmire]

There’s a fun one in Haunting Ground where you can choose to hide from the murderous maid stalking and trying to kill you… inside an iron maiden. No prizes for guessing what happens. Another Clock Tower spiritual successor, Nightcry, lets you hide inside a giant clothes dryer, which is a similarly terrible idea.

[@briancorvello3620]

4:40 It's possible to read the book without it killing you - your character has to be standing on that pentagram (the one in the video was about a foot outside it).

[@KrazyKuno]

Which is why the book stated "In the name of the summoner, if you are not sanctified, beware. Of the mysteries of worms I do not absolve the fool to read fate and his verse:" But a lot of people just don't read Latin these days... lol

[@artlessauthorite]

There's also the suicide king card in binding of Isaac. If you pick it up the description is 'a true ending' and it's right. Because it kills you dead. It does also spawn items and pickups but you can't use them without at least an extra life handy

[@valhunter97]

And then there is Plan C. Suspicious red pill and enough clues to guess it's cyanide. Obviously also kills Isaac instantly.

[@joelhoon1707]

There's also also bombing the mirror in Downpour/Dross, which destroys it, making it useless and locking you out of the true ending. There's also also also doing this while in the mirror dimension. Common sense would already probably tell you that doing this is stupid since you'll be stuck in the mirror dimension with no way to get out. If you ignore your common sense and do this anyway, you die to dead death.

[@tgc93]

“I wonder what would happen if I…” *Quicksaves* A tale as old as time

[@TheBlackSeraph]

A tale as old as quicksaving :D

[@stevef5888]

I remember playing Tears of the Kingdom, getting the fuse ability, then noticing you could stick a bomb onto the end of a spear…and that there was an enemy nearby…and well, yeah you can tell where I’m going with this.

[@ethanrobyn2399]

If I remember correctly in Hitman:Absolution there is a level where you can shoot a nuke.Turns out it still works

[@Loctorak]

Hitman has never had a more productive day.

[@ericb3157]

reminds me of a level in the original "Half- Life" game called "the package". it's a small nuke. if you shoot it, or throw a grenade too close to it, it WILL go off...

[@JadeFalcon07]

The Gale explosion can actually be used at a particular point in the cultists' lair to destroy the game's villains at once, technically winning the game.

[@Cgreen123]

LOVE that you can go back for more in RE7, like he has the memory of a goldfish.

[@ASpooneyBard]

Blagh! Ugh, that was vile. I think I just threw up blood. My stomach feels like it's rotting from the inside. ... [grabs spoon] Maybe it's an acquired taste...

[@sotnosen95]

"Must... be... a polite... house guest..."

[@AmeenaWordweaver]

There's an example in "The Neverhood", the claymation puzzle game by Dreamworks Interactive. At one point you come across a giant plughole, with three signs planted in the ground around it... "DANGER!" "DON'T JUMP IN THE DRAIN!" "YOU WILL DIE!" You have the option to jump in the drain if you want to. Guess what? The signs aren't lying. This is the only point in the game at which you can die, outside of taking the option right at the end of the game to get the bad ending.

[@TheMasterVlad]

I remember playing that game as a kid, and it was too hard for me to solve, so I was kind of happy to see full credits after that cutscene, because I couldn't finish the game 😁

[@andrastereborn855]

A similar favourite of mine from another nineties point and click is the sign that says PLEASE DON'T THROCK THE GRASS in Zork: Grand Inquisitor. If you choose to cast Throck (i.e. the super growth spell) on aforementioned grass to spite the sign, you find out that it's there for a good reason ...

[@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley]

I don't know if my siblings and I ever beat the Neverhood, as I was about 7 when we owned it. I do remember that you got to eat apples from thos tree, making Willy Trombone burp. Eat too many of them and they actually just played this super long burp 😂

[@green_dragon_knight]

The Neverhood had such great Claymation and was so weird and hilarious

[@Loctorak]

Neverhood! Classic... game? Interactive claymation? Whatever you call it, great memories

[@Ceece20]

Woot Nier Automata! How many endings can we say you killed yourself? By Fish? By removing the OS chip? By exploding yourself inside of a space station?

[@azuredragoon2054]

I did the last one on semi accident. I had gone the wrong way in the station and it bugged, not looping nor letting me return to the screen. So I figured I would detonate myself and move back to my last save. Needless to say, I did manage that. But that's not how Self Destruct usually works.

[@AshleyRosemarry]

I was going to mention that they should've use the Self Destruct on the space station, as that would be more "accidental", or a bad "consequence" for wanting to Self Destruct to get rid of "something" lol

[@Mark73]

0:52 Baldur's Gate 3 3:19 Alone in the Dark 4:43 The Binding of Isaac 6:25 The Evil Within 7:55 Nier Automata 9:42 Tomb Raider Anniversary 11:12 Resident Evil 7

[@katrinascarlet5637]

Thank you, I specifically wanted to skip baulder

[@katier9725]

I think the funniest of the many "you just killed yourself" endings in NieR:Automata isn't even the fish one, but the one where you activate your self-destruct while on a space station. As in yes, if you're on earth, your self-destruct actually only heavily damages you (and blows off your character's clothes), but if you're onboard the space station, you actually do die because *you just destroyed a space station*.

[@novaseer]

> (and blows off your character's clothes) i was about to ask why this was necessary then I remembered NieR was made in Japan

[@emryscaster7332]

@@novaseeryou actually get an achievement for walking around a larger amount of time with 9S with his clothes blown off. It’s called “Not that I mind….”

[@LunaBeth97]

A fun counter to this video could be "times when a stupid decision surprisingly worked". (spoilers for disco Elysium) Disco Elysium is one of my all time favourite games because throughout I thought I was just being a hyperactive idiot when I was insistent on following the cryptid storyline despite what other characters in the game were telling me (and to also piss off Kim a lil bit) and then it turned into a major part of my ending. That hyperactive idiocy did bite me a bit though after deciding to hug a random woman for several minutes and following that questline, only to reach the conclusion that emotionally devastated me so much I had to stop playing for several days (it's probably fine for other people but I get really invested in stories, vivdly imagine myself in the characters shoes, and that's something I never want to have to do irl).

[@Nighthawk9101]

There's another in the bonus levels of No One Lives Forever. There's a note on the floor attached to a rope, and if you read it it says something like "look up", and a boulder falls on you killing you instantly.

[@coffeekat5066]

I immediately had to laugh at the Baldur's Gate mention. I literally saw someone ranting about the consequences of activating Gale's magic orb the other day. I don't want to say they were stupid as such...But they were forewarned. haha

[@Mrpizzahere]

Same, though I just came here after seeing the Vlaakith scene, so I had in mind another silly way to die.

[@hjalfi]

The great thing is that being BG3, there may actually be a specific use for it, somewhere... or there may not. You never know.

[@thundercookie3214]

I figured it might be the scene where you can talk to a mind flayer and it wants something else entirely...

[@aerthreepwood8021]

​@@hjalfiLike that shitty vial.

[@MBSteinNL]

I wonder if they rushed the story bits and with that missed important trivia like ‘This spell will kill you, your family, all your friends and everyone in a few tens km’. Either that or their memory got replaced with one of a goldfish

[@azuredragoon2054]

There is one in Elden Ring where, if you betray Ranni by following Seluvis' plot, she will be angry with you and tell you to leave. However, you are able to talk to her several times before you leave. On the third attempt, she will kill you instantly. Barely a hand wave and your HP will drop to 0.

[@KeithFraser82]

Maidenless behaviour...

[@azuredragoon2054]

@@KeithFraser82 Ranni agrees

[@SquintyGears]

Idk... Dying is part of the lore on elden ring. It's not a game over, you don't redo the conversation after loading the save. It feels different to me. But yeah it would depend who you ask.

[@azuredragoon2054]

@@SquintyGears Still "death by stupidity" for the purposes of the list.

[@Loctorak]

​@@azuredragoon2054though i do feel like "death by stupidity" is a good summary of my Elden Ring play in its entirety, to begin with

[@joshingle5934]

I got two: Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma has a section where there is a big button in a room marked "DO NOT PRESS" your team go back and forth about whether or not it's a trick or something. Turns out if you press it you blow everyone up. Secondly while it's not an insta death, Fear & Hunger you can find a latrine/toilet and it gives you the option to jump down. If you jump down into the toilet you enter a room called the "S*** pit" and that is literally it there's no way out.

[@flashfoxful]

Wasteland 2 should definitely be on here. In the Ranger Base where you start and return to a lot, you can just activate the dormant nuclear bomb inside, with expected results.

[@tiresias7231]

You could probably fill the list with Baldur's Gate III examples: pissing Vlaakith while in the Gith Creche, going overboard while doing the naughty with Harleep...

[@markwarner5554]

In The Lord of the Rings Online, you can find an ancient wheel of Brie cheese in The Great Barrow instance. It's from the fall of Fornost about 2100 years prior. The description says "Eating this cheese would be unwise." So, naturally, you gotta eat it. And then you die, assuming you are not over-leveled for that dungeon. But you get a title "The Unwise".

[@BranBal]

In ESO there's something similar, when we invade a Daedric Prince realm. I don't remember what the food is, but I clearly remember my character vomiting and fainting.

[@Deinareia]

@@BranBal Dungeon City of Ash II. "Easy as Pie achievment is awarded for finding and eating a "Deadly Pie". When you eat the pie, you will immediately vomit and black out, but will otherwise be unaffected."

[@ourkeving]

Lol, you always hope your character will be titled "the Champion", ".Her Radiance", etc. The Unwise subverts expectations.

[@BranBal]

@@Deinareia thanks I was unsure what the name was

[@Ravenite456]

Another one from the Resident evil series, near the end of the RE1 remake you need to pick up fuel for a generator. You are warned that the fuel is extremely volatile and the game explicitly tells you not to run while holding it. You can probably guess what happens next.

[@ericb3157]

reminds me of "Castlevania 64", where you are required to carry some "magical nitro" halfway across the castle. you can run while carrying it, but if you JUMP, or take ANY damage, "the story's over."

[@Jessie_Helms]

I think this is the perfect time for Henry Stickman to shine. 90% of the decisions you make lead to an immediate, comical death. My personal favorite being in the Airship mission where you ask your helicopter pilot to assist you in crossing over a pit in the airship. If you select him you see a silhouette of a helicopter rapidly approaching and him yelling, “This is the greatest PLANNNNNN” before smashing into you.

[@electroshockgamer2733]

And then Fleeing the Complex where you can have him deal with a guard. Which has the exact same effect.

[@novaseer]

@@electroshockgamer2733 And then you can subvert it in Completing the Mission where it's actually the correct option to complete the VH path.

[@MalzraAirwynn]

Nier Automata has a ton. From gameovers for leaving mission critical areas to setting off your self destruct inside the Bunker. (Probably my favorite there.) I think there's like 21 or so different joke endings.

[@GamerChillz]

Good to see y’all still doing these

[@musketeer5023]

In Wasteland 2 when you get access to the Rangers base you can visit a museum there which has FUNCTIONAL nuclear bomb on display with nice big red button on it that you can push and blow up the whole base with you and your companions inside. There is no timer, no warning, just the bomb wishing you to have a nice day and then death in bright light. Aside from quick game over you get an achievement for it called "What does this button do?". Well now you know.

[@incompetentotter]

Thanks for sending me down a Lovecraftian horror rabbit hole at close to midnight 😊 On a related note, the short story „Shambler from the Stars“ describes what reading De Vermis Mysteriis does to you, the player, in much more descriptive detail than the 3D graphics portray

[@RappingNinja]

Remember how in Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia, Shanoa learns an ultimate Dracula-wrecking spell that she then finds out will kill her instantly? Ah, but if you use that spell after pummeling Drac for two phases and seeing no other recourse, you get magically spared! Unfortunately, using that ultimate attack spell at any OTHER time in the game just…. yeah, it just does what it promised it’d do :P

[@Jonathon_Hennessey]

In the game Mass Effect 2, the main character Commander Shepard can at the end of Samara's loyalty mission recruit her daughter Morinth who is what's known as an Ardat-Yakshi instead. Commander Shepard has the option of sleeping with her which causes him or her to die.

[@SAmaryllis]

I love how specific each of these video's themes are :D Re: the Midas hand though, doesn't it make the mind curious? If an object needs direct contact to turn to gold (e.g., you touching a brick that turned to gold to move it off the hand, but you do not turn into gold), why wouldn't the gold-turning just stop at Lara's boots if you jumped onto the hand?

[@erickpoorbaugh6728]

That's what I was wondering. Though the animation makes it look like her hands may have touched it as she was climbing up, but that still wouldn't explain why her clothes and gear turned to gold.

[@randomindividual948]

It's because the clothes are part of Lara's model, DUH!

[@SAmaryllis]

@@randomindividual948 birthed from the womb fully clothed 😂

[@MegabyteUnleashed]

I never thought about that before. I guess maybe because you don't touch the blocks until the goldening has finished, so it's safe to take off, but Lara's boots are in contact with her skin during the goldening so it just keeps going. Maybe if she didn't let go of the blocks while they turned, it would also go up her arm and turn her to gold?

[@efnfen]

The banter over the scrolling list of games you are warning us you'll contain spoilers of is much more pleasant than the ultra loud tinking of the piano keys. I like the change and hope it stays.

[@secondmemelord8859]

For another stupid thing you can do in Isaac ( or more like 3 stupid Things) is using any of the following items on Delirium ( the Boss of the Void and the most unfair boss in Isaac ): - using the Chaos Card ( normally instakills anything including normally unkillable enemies like Stone Grimaces ) results in him taking 0 Damage and instantly entering his rage mode. -using Plan C ( instakills everything in the room but kills you 3 seconds later ) kills Delirium but his Death Animation takes a lot longer than any other boss, resulting in you dying before being able to finish the run. - using the Meat Cleaver splits all enemies and bosses in half with both halves having 40% of the originals health. The thing is Delirium is rather fond of teleport spamming and unlike other bosses that teleport has no problems with teleporting right in front of you or inside you. Now imagine having to deal with 2 of these Hellspawns

[@zJoriz]

I hope I recall this correctly... in Fallout 3, you could set Megaton's bomb to blow with you standing right next to it, if you had a high enough skill. The resulting explosion (again, to my limited memories of it) was underwhelming but it did kill you. And rightfully so, I guess.

[@JonathanGordy1]

Yeah. Did that one.

[@liamfarranree4433]

Tombraider was my first 3D gaming experience and the hand of midas took me totally by surprise and blew my mind. I guess that's why I consider this game to be the Golden age of gaming. (ok I'll show myself out)

[@torgranael]

Ellen would be proud.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Here's to hoping the 2024 rerelease comes out great, even only for its expansion packs.

[@Shawtypie]

@@michaelandreipalon359it’s a remaster of the original 3 games and their expansions. The Midas hand turning you to gold was remade in Anniversary so I see no reason why we won’t get to see the TR1 version beautifully remastered. I know what I’m doing as soon as I get to that level :D

[@kaniamia]

This is weirdly timely, considering how just last night I was readying the final blow against a certain character in Baldur’s Gate, and then the game told me, “No, seriously, if you do this, you’ll die.”

[@tinatope1485]

I really love it when they do the little conversation while the games scroll by.

[@Epelpaj]

There is one in Witcher 3: Blood and Wine, where if you meet the "Unseen Elder" vampire, he urges not to waste his time. So if you ask him too many questions or say the wrong things he just kills you instantly. 😁

[@Tera_B_Twilight]

It's an obscure reference, I know, but the best death I ever had came in the Neverhood: a claymation puzzle adventure game which presented you with the opportunity to jump down a hole with clear signage warning you of "DANGER!" "DON'T JUMP IN THE DRAIN!" "YOU WILL DIE!" So, guess what happens if you jump down the drain.

[@Gigawood]

Funny thing about the gas explosion in The Evil Within: there was a similar situation in Fallout 2, where you had to place a time bomb in a sewer full of gas and get out before it explodes. Light any kind of spark, and the gas would explode hitting you for between like 2,000 and 5,000 damage.

[@jameslars7391]

and the same thing happens in Fallout New Vegas as part of one of the Vaults

[@Urthdigger]

In Runescape during one of the later quests, you can encounter one of the elder gods, beings so powerful the regular gods of the setting have fought countlessly over items they simply discarded. You have the option of insulting them when you meet, and naturally this kills you immediately.

[@goofyfurball7311]

I'm pretty sure there is no acceptable sane middle ground when meeting an immensely powerful eldricht being between falling to your knees in horror hoping they take it for worship and mouthing off like an idiot.

[@Cnvvj]

My personal favorite example of this is in Cyan's spiritual successor to Myst, Obduction. Throughout most of the game you can see posters warning you about something called a Mofang Device, telling you not to approach it. Late in the game, you do come across a primed Mofang Device. If you go near it... it promptly detonates. Does get you an achievement though, so, worth it.

[@arrankharchkrall2916]

Regarding the 'don't shoot any firearms while in this flammable area' segment, there was a game in the Duke Nukem franchise, I believe it was Zero Hour on the Gamecube, that warned you right at the beginning to NOT shoot the enemy at all during the level. You begin the level on a Zeppelin, and as soon as you move forward Duke very crypically states, "There was something about Hydrogen and explosives...." If you fired any weapon that caused even a tiny spark the entire level would start exploding around you. Throughout the level the enemy is perfectly able to shoot you with their lasers...and there are even exploding barrels in the level fr even MORE fun times. Most of the level had you just kicking everything to death.

[@djursic9695]

My favourite is in Borderlands 2, the main antagonist, Handsome Jack, gives you a side quest by offering to pay you to kill yourself by jumping off a cliff. You can either jump and get paid, or not jump and get deemed a coward

[@noob1n8or]

But if you do jump he essentially calls you a tool.

[@skilletborne]

@@noob1n8or Yeah, but I also got paid Cash money, baby

[@joeshabado1431]

My reoccurring bad decision in Baldurs Gate is using oil/smoke powder barrels on a platform/walkway over a chasm when a party member is just a bit too close. Multiple times. Laugh every time.

[@Jessie_Helms]

How about in Fallout New Vegas? If you’re working with Caesar he’ll periodically daze out, or get horrible migraines. If you ask him one too many times about it while he’s actively having an episode he’ll sick the Praetorian guards on you- and if you’re in the camp to chat with Caesar in the first place you probably haven’t gone in with the armor and firepower needed to escape. Almost guaranteed instant death.

[@Tony-The-Motherfucking-Tiger]

Caesar: Bother me again and I'll get my pretorians to kill you You: Nah, he must be bluffing, I'll talk to him again Caesar: I warned you to not disturb me again! Pretorians, kill this asshole!

[@KimbalKimson]

Lets not forget reading Ghost T's diary in Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door. Well deserved death for privacy invation since you get many many warnings.

[@DontcallmeLink]

If I hadn't found this comment, I would've made it.

[@CodaBlairLucarioEmperor]

related is how in Super Paper Mario, you can game over by refusing to save the worlds, dooming them in the process

[@BouncingTribbles]

This could also be called 7 times you used quick save, just to see what happens if you press the button

[@patchworkhero]

In Fallout 4 the reactor room in Mass Fusion is where you get the beryllium agitator. If you can’t resist the forbidden baja blast, you can decide to drink the water that floods the bottom of the chamber. However, you then get hit for at LEAST 9999 radiation (that’s as high as the counter goes so it’s undoubtedly much higher) and killed instantly. It’s so much radiation so fast that even the Robes of Atom’s Devoted that usually keep you from dying from radiation damage can’t prevent the player’s death, unless they were already irradiated to the point of having 1 max hp from drinking other weird glowing liquids

[@davidioanhedges]

De Vermis Mysteriis by Ludvig Prinn is not only lovecraftian sounding ... but is a book from the 1935 Cthulhu Mythos Story The Secret in the Tomb by Robert Bloch

[@RickSummon]

You can read the book safely if you stand within the pentagram, though.

[@DarkGidora]

I think it was also in "The Shambler from the Stars" where some sort of invisible monstrosity does mangle the person dumb enough to read it.

[@Vinemaple]

I like to think that somewhere in the US or Canada, there's a Capcom developer who can tell people, "I brought Koshi Nakanishi out to meet my parents on their farm in the country, I thought he'd like to meet some down-home ordinary folks, but he started acting really weird, and then when he got back to Japan he completely changed Resident Evil 7 to... _that._ " I gotta say that choosing to read _De Vermiis Mysterius_ out loud isn't really stupid unless you know it's one of the canonical books of eldritch secrets from the Cthulhu Mythos. Point taken, though, about reading Latin you don't understand, out loud, in a horror video game, but there are a lot of narrative possibilities even if you DO know where the title's from. On the other hand, I admit that it doesn't take knowing any version of the King Midas's Wish tale to realize jumping on a magical statue hand is bad when it's been turning things into gold for you, for a good part of the game!

[@katria2412]

Yeah, I remember the turning Lara into Gold thing from when I played Tomb Raider Anniversary. It was my first "grown-up" Videogame. I was probably 12 or 13 years old at that point and was slightly horrified at the sight when I tried it.

[@OrangeDog20]

Sierra games have a ton of these. In Space Quest 6 for example, you can open an airlock with no space suit on, jump into a pool of stomach acid, stick your hand in an electrical socket, or give a "churlish" neural mod to an alien thug.

[@Suraht]

In Octopath Traveler 2, there's a point in Throne's chapter 2 where you have to pick either the left or right cup to drink from because one of them is poisoned. This is fine, but when you move the cursor over the choice to drink from the left cup, the game puts blood splatter over the text. If you still choose that, Throne drinks it and dies, giving you a game over.

[@BuildinWings]

Fallout New Vegas - Dead Money DLC... I sh*t-talked Father Elijah.

[@Tony-The-Motherfucking-Tiger]

Courier: Pfff, you can't kill me, you need me! Elijah:

[@genlando327plays2]

But hey, think of all the Oxventures we've had along the way! Worth it!

[@powerfulshammy]

Where's Borderlands 2 when Jack makes you jump to your death literally and you still jump.

[@MarkDeSade100]

In Kingdoms of Amalur's Teeth of Naros DLC, there's a whole city which is magically floating in the sky that has a hole in the center. You can actually get an achievement by jumping to your death through it.

[@Sarahscopic]

Anyone else play Nancy Drew games? They have an actual in-game function for certain screw-ups where you just get a "Second Chance" and are put right back before making your silly decision. (This was to prevent frustrating save issues) Some favorites include: walking in pitch black after being told you need a flashlight, touching a very large carnivorous plant, and feeding someone a sandwich that will for sure get them sick.

[@nicholasfarrell5981]

I keep suggesting this on these types of videos, let's try again. In Morrowind, you can find a wizard who falls out of the sky to his death. On his body are 3 Scrolls of Icarian Flight (that name should be a bright red flag) which boosts your Acrobatics skill by a whopping 1000 points for 7 seconds. While the item is invaluable for speedrunning the game, it's basically tradition at this point for your first character to copy the thing that most players did in the early 2000s and jump straight up after using one of them; the jump and subsequent fall lasts longer than 7 seconds, meaning that your ability to land is no longer enhanced by magic and your character hits the ground harder than Hans Grüber at the end of Die Hard.

[@kassandra7313]

I'm so glad other people were so tempted by the Orb Blast.. whenever a fight wasn't going my way I had to resist the temptation to detonate it every time it got to his turn. Honestly it was very comforting to have the option to take all the guys hitting me down with me

[@markkuijpers3818]

In The Shivering Isles, you may be tempted to see what happens if you attack Sheogorath, the Daedric Prince in charge of that entire realm. The Madgod instantly teleports you to a point way up in the sky to let you fall to your death. Who could have seen that coming?

[@sinteleon]

There's also returning to the shop in Link's Awakening after you've stolen from it. Turns out shopkeepers aren't very nice after you've stolen from them.

[@SebasTian58323]

Shooting the lake in RE4, when you know there's a giant mutated plaga infected salamander that can easily eat a human whole living in it

[@Spiltcocoamix]

Around 6 years ago in a game of DnD, I was playing a Dragonborn sorceress, and my go-to when i was conserving spell slots was to cast create bonfire just. at the feet of villains. This worked great, up until I did so. On a wooden boat. Filled with explosives. It did damage the enemies we were fighting, but I vowed to always be conscious of surrounding hazards when casting fire spells from then on. Yesterday, while playing Baldurs Gate 3, I had Shadowheart try out her new Pillar of Fire spell during combat. In an explosives store. Next to a massive bomb.

[@ShadowJCreed]

Hmm how about asking too many questions for the Unseen Elder in the Witcher 3 Blood and Wine DLC. You’re already warned by Regis that he’s a very temperamental immortal being who hates being disturbed, and while you can ask the Elder to answer a few questions he snaps pretty quickly and threatens to kill you if you ask him another question, and so he does kill you if you do

[@Umbra451]

Portal 2 has a few of these! Going back to The Part Where He Kills You, for instance, or accepting GLaDOS’ request to go back and finish the last test chambers.

[@WesWells6]

Standing in water in borderlands and shooting an electric gun to "see what happens"

[@tyller3934]

One of my favorites, taking Handsome Jack's quest to murder yourself for money... Just to lose it when you respawn moments later.

[@jamesdrummond7684]

No King's Quest/Space Quest/Police Quest entry? Some of the OG stupid decision deaths!

[@Icam_here]

i don't know if it possible in the anniversary edition but in the original version of tomb raider i took it as a challenge to get on Midas's hand then quickly jump off before the hand had the chance to turn you into gold, you would see the start of the change happen but it would never spread past an initial spark.

[@MySerpentine]

De Vermis Mysteriis was one of Lovecraft's dark tomes, so no surprise there.

[@modelmajorpita]

Baldur's Gate 3 in the Githyanki creche, Vlaakith will ask you to kill the dream visitor. One of the dialogue options is to question if she's actually a goddess when she can't even kill someone without help, and in reply she kills you instantly.

[@chrisball3778]

The Bible not affecting Satan in The Binding of Isaac might be a reference to the fact that Satan really doesn't actually appear much in the Bible- there are genuinely only a few direct references to him in the text. Much of what contemporary Christians tend to believe about Satan has its origins in legends and folklore, rather than scripture.

[@jharris3267]

Fun Fact Satan means adversary. It’s not a name.😂

[@Herowebcomics]

Meh! He appears in it enough!😎

[@aura_sanchez]

In Fallout 4 when you do the Yangtze submarine quest, Captain Zao warns you about putting the warhead before the dampening coil, because of obvious reasons. But I mean... the option is right there, so... 💣😅

[@gregmercer7736]

I think it was the first Rainbow Six game where you are going into a place with a deadly virus. Your team is given special hazmat bullet proof outfits. If you choose a different one to play the level with as soon as you get to the building you're dead.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Funnily enough, I don't remember this in the novel version of Rainbow Six.

[@hfbdbsijenbd]

Reading De Vermis Mysteriis isn't stupid. You need to read it to beat the game. Reading it outside of the protective pentagram that is a meter to Edward's left, however, is stupid. Thanks for including a classic from my childhood!

[@gruggerduggerhoose]

So funny story, the way i solved the midas hand puzzle was by gathering all the lead bars, being completely stumped as to what to do next, doing some contemplation somersaults, landing on the hand and then facepalming at my stupidity/genius lol

[@TheZoenGaming]

I want that "They Live" t-shirt. Honestly, the best over-the-top fight scene ever to be put in a movie. You've got to love it. I never understood that part of TR:A. It's not Midas' preserved corpse, it's a statue in his likeness. The curse was on the man, not a statue so this feels like it was a really bad design choice by the devs. The statue should not turn anything to gold since the Greek gods weren't known for giving statues abilities like that, they brought them to life to hunt you down. Just ask Kratos.

[@Imfleurious]

Nier Automata: Jackass: If you eat this fish, it will kill you.... but it will be funny 2B: Eats Fish 2B: *Dies*

[@glennmattsonjr.5251]

I remember messing up in the original Tomb Raider only to remember the abridged version of the story of King Midas afterward.

[@EverythingIsLit]

In each of my Fallout 4 playthroughs, after defeating the Forged raiders, I immediately jumped into the vat of molten metal/lava, for science. I refuse to believe I'm the only one

[@Loctorak]

I spent about 20min painstakingly dragging all of the raiders into the lava for ragdoll funsies

[@somer4213]

Surprised the BG3 one wasn’t getting obliterated by a god when you doubt her power

[@KaitouKaiju]

She's not a god, just a lich A god wouldn't even need wish to flick off some mortals

[@medusathedecepticon]

Considering how Clancy actually died, I think he may have been better off dying from the food

[@rabbidguarddog]

Silent hill 3, in the sewers, walk in a room and read a note that talks about a monster in the water that killed at least 3 workers. Goes into the next room. Walks over the bridge without a care in the world... Gets pulled under by said monster.

[@theyinyang1103]

My thought was getting so sassy with Vlaakith in Baldur’s Gate 3 to the point she casts Wish to inta-kill you.

[@arduousJester]

Wasteland 2. There's an undetonated mini nuclear warhead on display in the citadel museum with a big red button. The nuke goes off if you press it and it's game over. Weird that they didn't put a rope barrier around it 🤔