Top 5 FAKE Game Overs in Games

[@wariodude128]

Craziest thing about Thor killing Kratos at the start of Ragnarok is that if he didn't do that Kratos would likely have ended up in Valhalla. Which likely would have resulted in Kratos destroying everything there and ending the game hours early.

[@13TriplesSs]

it's more likely he would've gone to sessrumnir, freya's hall. freya has dips on the first half of all warriors that died in battle

[@wariodude128]

@@13TriplesSs Doesn't really matter, if it's in the same realm as Valhalla. At that point in the game Freya was still banned from leaving Midgard by Odin, and I highly doubt anyone there would get in the way of an angry Greek god about to bring the pain to his doorstep.

[@schizzo8959]

Stop the wanking!

[@insanityworks4ussu4skrowyt34]

My favorite fake game over is from one of the Hitman games(I forget which) where you're at Agent 47's funeral but he isn't actually dead just under the effects of a drug that puts him in a near-death like state.

[@christianbuffum-robbins8904]

One of my favorite "alternative loss" scenarios comes from the Guardians of the Galaxy game, where you can have Peter actually accept the Promise. You get a fake credits sequence and everything.

[@claytonrios1]

The fake game over scene from Arkham Asylum was iconic and a perfect use of Scarecrows Fear Toxin to freak out Batman and the player. Kill The Justice League tried to do something similar and failed miserably!

[@bluestreaker9242]

Crazy how I never noticed the highlighting of "Sharp" in Quincy Sharp's name during that "crash". There are...so many subtle implications from that and I love it. :O

[@claytonrios1]

@@bluestreaker9242 Also the intercom message saying "Did anyone see the game last night?"

[@bluestreaker9242]

@@claytonrios1 Oh yeah, forgot what they said over the intercom. It's so quick and random. Like just when you're about to ask what that was about that's when the "crash" hits. Such a cool, yet freaky and bizarre moment in the game. O.O

[@Emmartic]

The one at the very end of Kingdom Hearts 3 was kinda obvious but so well executed with your teammates calling for you through your controller that I gotta admire it.

[@rpgfan1187]

Baldur's Gate II's Throne of Bhaal expansion has a subversion of this trope that's hilarious. At one point, you come across a party of Level 1 adventurers (very much like your party at the start of the first game) who you can send on a quest to kill some low-level monsters for a small fee. When they return to you for payment, the party will decide to take you on and instantly get slaughtered by you. Suddenly, the low-level adventurers reload their save from before they attacked you and simply accept their fee before continuing on their way. Brilliant stroke on Bioware's part.

[@DebTheDevastator]

That's really funny.

[@rpgfan1187]

@@DebTheDevastator Yeah, Bioware were masters at slipping self-aware jokes into their games, and this was one of the best examples in my opinion.

[@princesspixel3151]

My favorite goes to The Secret of Monkey Island, where you have to walk near the edge of a cliff at a certain direction. You end up falling, and the game basically says, “Hope you saved your progress, because you dun goofed!” But then Guybrush literally bounces OVER the “game over” screen and just says, “Rubber tree.” iirc, this was one of the ways the devs were poking fun of how frustratingly hard the King’s Quests games were, and I love it!!!

[@JosieBnuy]

If i recall, the PC Port of Arkham Asylum asks you to twist your mouse to avoid getting shot

[@ThisIsCSDX]

Yeah, I discovered that on accident years ago cause I was using a crappy Logitech controller to play it. I think I had to use a program to make the laptop read it as a 360 controller, but I guess it wasn't 100% successful.

[@themetagamer7862]

A "recent" favorite of mine actually comes from the Doom 2 mod "My House." When you die at any point in the game, if you wait around 2 minutes, you'll wake up in a hospital. Exploring this place will eventually lead you to a medkit on the wall, and interacting with it will place you back where you were when you died with full health. While this can only be done once, this effectively makes all deaths in this mod fake game overs.

[@Crocogator]

Not just a medkit, but a berserk kit as well. It can definitely give you a leg up if you aren't speedrunning it

[@DRCEQ]

The best part of the Futurama example is that Leela asks Fry what death feels like. he says "Everything goes black and then the words "GAME OVER" appear in front of you", which results in Leela frowning in frustration of such a bizarre response.

[@joemonkeyman4675]

I'm really glad you mentioned the Futurama The Game one, I've had that game since it came out and it's always been one of my absolute favorite fakeouts ever in games and I love that they actually give a lore behind how your characters respawn.

[@MrJimithee]

I saw a GLIMPSE of Eternal Darkness... That game doesn't give you a "fake game over"... It gives you a fake "Your Save File Has Been DELETED!" (But, I know, you've covered it before...) Great vid dude, keep em coming x

[@bluestreaker9242]

Bravely Second kinda did something like that where in the second half of the fight against Providence, he kicks you back to the file selection screen partway through and forces you to delete your save file, and you can't do anything to stop it no matter which direction you move the cursor. Thankfully, no, much like Eternal Darkness, your save file isn't deleted, the game's just messing with you, but still... :O

[@NSegaStuff]

reminds me of in Banjo-Kazooie, when Bottles threatens to delete your save if you keep bugging him after refusing tutorial

[@bluestreaker9242]

@@NSegaStuff Heheh...at least that doesn't happen that far in and he's not being serious. Just means when Grunty threatens you with doing the same when you try to use 3 "illegal" cheat codes in Treasure Trove Cove, the shock from you realizing she wasn't bluffing hits all the harder. O.O

[@NSegaStuff]

@@bluestreaker9242 true, true.

[@tristanbowles7258]

Fission Mailed, we’ll get them next time!

[@Demonwalkerproductio]

Best part of Thor's fakeout is that it's mythologically canon. He can just Do That whenever he wants, and there is no god, giant, mortal, or draugr that could possibly fuckin' stop him.

[@bluestreaker9242]

You know...just in case you needed MORE convincing that Thor's...kind of a badass beast of a man. O.O

[@Romalac]

Mildly surprised not to see the Omega Flowey false Game Over in here- it's quick, and the game's already pulled the fake crash gag by that point so it's less surprising, but still, would be one of my instinctive picks for this category.

[@newbiegamelover4767]

I'm not sure that one really counts. I think it would be more accurate to call it a custom Game Over than a fake one.

[@daelix20]

bravely second final boss fight, it literally takes control from the player and kicks you back to the title screen, before attempting to delete your save data, only saved by your characters and every character whos fate was messed with saving you

[@nanotheawsome3277]

Signalis has one of the best fake endings. because it literally makes you go back to the start menu, but with the protaganists corpse on screen instead of their living eye. When you click "begin" to throws you right back into a cutscene similar to the first, but you slowly realize that it's a whole new cutscene and then it snaps back to your not so lifeless corpse getting up. Amazing

[@Shantae1188]

I love Dream Team’s fake game over. It was pretty funny

[@jameslawrenson1208]

Brothership has a lot to live up to.

[@shawnheatherly]

It's mentioned elsewhere, but I really love the many game over's that Flowey tosses at you during his boss fight.

[@f0xxyb0xxes88]

I just mentioned this!!

[@TheQuarterGuy]

I can't hear the words "To the surprise of nobody" anymore without thinking of the Mr. Krabs face. THANKS, PARTY CRASHERS.

[@piemaster1288]

Loved that fight with Thor, especially when you learn more about another frozen lightning bolt later in the story.

[@WayWardWonderer]

Not sure if it counts as a Game Over or just a comical alternate ending, but in "The Talos Principle II" you can choose to NOT go on the expedition, which causes the credits to roll super fast and ends with the other characters saying that they wished you, the player character, joined them because we would've loved what we could've found on the expedition.

[@kamikazelemming1552]

While I'm not particularly fond of Kingdom Hearts, the Game Over in Kingdom Hearts III, during the final battle against Xehanort, was really good. Loved hearing Donald and Goofy speak through the controller.

[@jairartis]

Stanley parable is a game entirely focused on messing with the player, and the confusion ending does indeed do so by presenting a fake game over made to fool you.

[@ekimmak]

"There Is No Game" would have the Game get upset at the player for not leaving in the fake reset, and so hit you with a permadeath pop quiz. First two questions are easy, third is impossible. And the game will actually load up looking like it's indeed actually reset.

[@BiancaBabyCasual]

You're using the right stick to move around?? 😰

[@spoo5122]

I thought nobody else was going to mention that. The UK is a weird place I guess

[@rustkarl]

I kind of liked the hilariously shoddy “good ending” game overs in Slay the Princess when you just straight slay the princess without questioning it, especially the one with the Skeptic who calls bull and just overrides it.

[@wolfclaw719]

I think Kid Icarus Uprising deserves an honorable mention since its a fake out end rather then game over but Hades showing up and grabbing the credits and destroying them while declaring his malicious intent always gets me

[@StormwalkerNesasio]

The Thor fake out reminds of Dead Cells, which does the same thing in the Queen and the Sea DLC. Unlike GoW, this one is unscripted, and happens if you die to the titular queen without doing enough damage to her. The regular death cutscene will start to play, until she interrupts it, pulls you over to her, tells you to give her a real fight and revives you. What makes this stand out though is not just the fact that she revives you, but that she even sacrifices a chunk of her own HP to do it!

[@eprlide2142]

Although not a fake "game over", the fake victory in the Cuphead DLC definitely got some people salty and got a good laugh out of me.

[@Slimeonian]

Idk if it counts as a “game over” or not, but I’m gonna say it anyway. Nier Automata has 21 fake endings at different points in the game. Whether you die during the tutorial, run away from a story moment, or eat a fish. The game will scroll the credits by SUPER fast and you can just jump back in from your last save point

[@KingdomTerrahearts]

It's not as good as the ones in this video, but I love kh3's fake game over, not because of the game over itself, but because of the ps version that has Donald and Goofy call out to you through the controller. Truly the power of friendship can cross any barrier

[@shadowlinkbds]

I remember the first time I saw the fake game over in Arkham Asylum. If only more PS controllers had middle sticks like the N64. 😁

[@Kylora2112]

Eternal Darkness had all kinds of awesome fake game overs. Game crashed, your character randomly dying...

[@horrorkesh2]

That joker section from Batman Arkham asylum freaked me out keep in mind when I played that game It was right in the middle of the red ring of death so I was very anxious even on PlayStation 2 that my system was breaking in some way

[@toniindjov2485]

One fake Game Over which I absolutely love is the "ending" of the Hero Story in WWE 12. At WrestleMania, you team up with Triple H to take on Kevin Nash, who is leading a WCW invasion, and Rey Mysterio, who is your former mentor who turned his back on you, in a WWE vs WCW loser leaves town match. You lose the match due to shenanigans and WWE is no more, you failed. Then the credits start playing with Kevin Nash's music and you think you just caused the WWE to end but then Nash cuts out the credits with a promo in the WCW Nitro arena, which has replaced WWE Monday Night RAW, and you continue until the end of the game like that. Masterpiece.

[@crognias]

my favorite fake game over (That technically counts, if you squint) comes from Control. Right after what is arguably the best section of the game, you come across the Hedron, the object that is the source of the equipment that is protecting people from the thing that is turning people into the monsters you are fighting. The Hedron is also the entity that has been helping the protagonist, Jesse Faden, for the last several years. After a sequence where you work to protect The Hedron from enemies, it breaks and Jesse succumbs to the effects. The game goes so far as to roll credits before they begin to get distorted until you are back in control of Jesse and she gets some character growth and go through the finale.

[@grombygrimb]

I started watching your videos when I was 14 years old, now here I am at 24 watching the same channel 😅 Time flies by so quickly. Keep up the great work man, insanely consistent videos since day one Arkham Asylum fake game over is goated btw.

[@McBehrer]

5:48 are you... sure about that? I don't think I've ever seen a controller with movement on the right stick and camera controls on the left stick

[@KoalaXS]

Just Shapes and Beats. Its never over.

[@jtalkalot19]

Till this day I haven’t found the middle stick to dodge the bullet…

[@stvsteve]

The secret of monkey island! It's got one of the most iconic fake game overs, maybe even the first of them all! You played the game for quite a while and then you get to that cliffside. You walk around a little only to suddenly have the floor collapse under you. You get a 'game over' message which is quite the shocker, since there was no failure state up to this point. Then guybrush suddenly flies back up, because a 'rubber tree' was conveniently placed under him, and catapulted him back up. You later use that rubber tree to catapult some rock. And you're telling me this is not even top 5 material??

[@McBehrer]

6:45 that's first person. The game is normally in third person.

[@greatsageclok-roo9013]

I don’t know many of these. Probably the only one I really encountered was the one from Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space - Episode 3: Night of the Raving Dead. The episode starts with Sam and Max in an inescapable situation, before having us go through a flashback sequence that leads up to that point. Once you get there… the characters are killed - and depending on which version you’re playing, you get a Game Over screen that’s a reference to a different series. Afterwards, the game continues but with Sam and Max as zombies who must recover their souls.

[@yoshi_auditore431]

Hotel Dusk is an absolute hidden gem of a VN on the DS and one of my favourite parts of this game is the amount of specific game overs you can get for doing stupid shit. Show someone something you stole from there room? You get kicked out of the hotel Game Over! Ask someone a private question about something you could only know about by trespassing in their room? Kicked out Game Over! Harass other Guests and Employees? Game over! All of these with unique dialogue for each one, I like to save often and see how many ways I can ruin everything. My favourite one is where by lying to a guest at one point he’ll get upset and Leave the hotel. The owner comes along and it starts playing the game over music as if he’s about to kick you out, BUT THEN he goes “Ah fuck that guy let’s get a drink” and the two of you get so shitfaced and hungover your unable to solve the mystery in time lmao. Great game Hidden Gem STRONGLY recommend~

[@TheProblemChannel]

That one at the End Of KH3 Was Gonna piss me off 😅 that was wayyyy to much work on the hard difficulty.

[@enistoja]

In Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem you have a variety of fake game overs. From a room with an absurd amount of enemies where the game suddenly claims your controller is unplugged so you can only see your character dying, to full screen that reads "To be continued in Sanity's Redemption", to your character's head exploding when casting a spell! All followed by a flash of light and your character screaming "This can't be happening!" Some absolutely brilliant messing with the player in that game

[@f0xxyb0xxes88]

I gotta say, the fake game over in Undertale is pretty good. Definitely got me.

[@brandishwar]

Curse of Monkey Island's fake game over is classic. And, even better, you could make it happen over and over, at least until you're laid to rest in the Goodsoup family crypt.

[@XenosInfinity]

I personally think the absolute peak of fake game overs came from Bravely Default 2. The Bravely series has done all kinds of tricks with the title screen, save data, game mechanics and so on, and Bravely Second did a pretty impressive one with putting the game in a fail state that unlocks New Game + and allows you to break continuity by activating a mechanic in the hopeless boss fight during the intro, which you didn't have on the first go, and change the entire course of the game for the second go around. Bravely Default 2, however, has you hit two separate bad endings as game overs and then continue with the reveal that that's a premonition from the book you save your game data in and you can't do things the way you were planning because it'll kill one of your party and emotionally devastate the rest - only to proceed by *allowing you to delete the villain's previously hidden save file and erase the soul jar they've been using to instantly recover from your defeating them*. And then you go on to kick their ass properly without their backup.

[@KyulietheIceDemonGirl]

Honestly I was expecting Photoshop/Omega Flowey.

[@KittyKatty999]

I actually had the Scarecrow's fear gas fuck with my dreams. I would notice it appearing, register what it would be, and be powerless to stop it fucking up my dreams...Twice maybe. One time it even caused everything in my dream to glitch out and unload, like in a video game. Other times I died, but was still conscious, able to still do so. For a lucid dreamer, that's as close to a real life "Fission Mailed" as you can get

[@stevenruyf4044]

5:53 are controllers backwards in the UK??

[@rabbidluigi]

No but my brain was when I wrote that clearly

[@RandomChristianGamer]

I liked the one in Borderlands 3. It waited just long enough to make me think for a couple of seconds that it might actually be a 2-parter, continued in the next game. Then it counted down and let me breathe a sigh of relief knowing I didn't buy an incredibly short game for $60.

[@bluestreaker9242]

Pffft! Okay, that Futurama game over is actually pretty funny. Such an obvious death trap and it's what you're SUPPOSED to do!? Priceless! XD Side note, I was just mentioning earlier today in a convo I had with someone about Death Stranding and how "They should just make a Futurama game, at least then I'd be fine being a delivery boy for 40+ hours" and I am just now learning that there is, indeed, a Futurama game...from the PS2/Xbox era...because ofc that was a thing, that was the generation where anything and everything with a license could become a game... I...don't even know why I was surprised with this knowledge, to be perfectly honest with you... O.o

[@LadyLeomon]

Hi Early Squad! The only one that I can remember clearly is the Fake Game Over from Drakengard 3: the words appear on-screen then Zero knocks the title card away saying *”I* decide when it’s over!” while Dito looks at the screen with a shrug 🤣🤣🤣 Thanks for the new list RabbidLuigi and go hug your furbabies all 💙🐱💙

[@ritzexists2201]

Persona 5. if you know you know. What's fun is that if you mess up a choice beforehand it's an ACTUAL game over, and in the game's original release they offered you a save between the choice and the consequences. Quite a few people screwed themselves over because of it lol.

[@AidanWR]

I can't really think of fake game overs right now, but joke endings are great. Like the Mackerel ending in NieR: Automata

[@SBandy]

Not sure if it says Game Over but when Conker first dies in CBFD and he meets Death is brilliant!

[@niagargoyle]

TECHNICALLY “you win” is a game over condition. So how about the second quest in Legend of Zelda? Or maybe the “Ghosts n’ Goblins” franchise where a good number of titles force the player to complete the game twice (and pick up the right items on the second run)?

[@zigazav1]

Not exactly a fake game over, but Rune Factory 4 has a fake ending credits sequence that implies the player character is going to sacrifice themself for the greater good, only for your dragon god friend to come to your rescue and gets upset you tried to sacrifice yourself. The mobile game Honkai Impact 3rd has a fake game over though. In main story part 1.5, when Fu Hua is fighting the almighty being "Sa", there's an instant kill attack that the game tries to trick you into thinking you had some way to stop, as it gives you a fake mission failed screen (as the mission failed screen how that mobile game HI3rd handles it's "gameovers"), that appears real if you aren't fully paying attention, but soon after that the fake gameover is overwritten (I do not remember how or who does it) and Fu Hua (as she's substituting for the main protag Kiana Kaslana since Kiana is occupied being a literal goddess who cannot go back to Earth for lore reasons) is able to bounce back from death.

[@MCDexpo]

5:47 You got it backwards Left stick moves character, right stick moves camera

[@takanuinuva]

Rayman 2 has a fake game over during the treasure part.

[@artemis2227]

Also Signalis. Remember our promise, Elster.

[@coyoteartist]

Yeah, they better be mailing that fission by something other than USPS cos I don't think that's legal.

[@Shmeve0]

Anyone who's played Lost Sphear knows it deserves number 1

[@VarrenXarcrath]

5:45 Ok either that is a script error or i've been watching a lunatic that uses the right stick to move his character for years

[@houndoom73]

I'm Surprised conquer's bad fur day didn't make the list. The first time you die in that game You go and meet the grim reaper and then he tells you you get extra chances cause you're a special case.

[@jonathanrussell6525]

Oh my god yes, the one I wanted to see on here was number 1.

[@Servantproto]

I love the joke endings in Nier Automata

[@anactualanimal]

Where is this fountain you drank from? It might make good medicine since the anxiety is causing sleep deprivation.

[@AAAAAA-xv5ke]

A bit of a different vibe but my favourite fake game over is definitely the one in the final boss fight in omori

[@mr_manhunter]

Kid Icarus Uprising is my favorite

[@futurewario9591]

DO TOP 5 SUPER SMASH BROS GLITCHES

[@Moon525]

I love dream team! …god not the spring water….

[@SJrad]

The fake game over easter egg in deltarune chapter 2 is funny

[@OfNoImport]

"Rubber tree." Did it make it in the list? No? Aw, bummer 😞

[@GavGamePad]

Rabbidluigi uses Southpaw confirmed.

[@FlashTrickstar]

I am disappointed at the lack of the final boss "GAME OVER" from OMORI.

[@zachtwilightwindwaker596]

0:47 I'm pretty sure that's a real Game Over screen. I don't think Zelda 2 has a fake one. When I saw the Game Over in Dream Team I was like "WHAT!?". I didn't know it was fake. 6:19 Is there an N64 PC controller or does that not work? SNAKE IS DEAD! Oh, no... I say when we're done!

[@Altoryu]

Could you consider all the 'joke' endings of Nier Automata fake game overs? Know there is a lot of false stop endings where you just restart from last save after they play out but dunno if it would be twisting the rules too much to consider them fake game overs

[@BlueCrimson10]

If they count, then the Radiant Historia endings count too

[@riftwalker9296]

I knew Ragnarok would be number 1.

[@ddjsoyenby]

these are awesome.

[@PhoenixNorthstar]

I'm sorry, I expected any one of the Bravely to make this list, both Bravely Default and Bravely Second pull fake game over's on you, and Bravely Default 2 has like half a dozen different ones. And don't forget Eternal Darkness, that game messed with your head way too much to forget.

[@ecentral7512]

Bring back let's plays

[@masteroflight7296]

Kh3 final boss

[@MCDexpo]

6:45 First person, not Third

[@crashlight54]

Does Takemi saying "game over, I guess" in Persona 5 count?

[@ritzexists2201]

it might, lol I completely forgot about that one. The first thing I thought of was the funny gun scene.

[@crashlight54]

@@ritzexists2201 Yours is definitely better because of the total mindfuck

[@Badlex727]

First, always good to see a RL vid

[@Badlex727]

Jk I’m leaving, vid is still in production

[@MagusDouken]

I feel your "brought to you by" plug at the start actually kind of ruined your start up joke..

[@GlerpidyGlarson]

Nier automata all day long

[@eddie3928]

Haven't had a video recommended by you for a while pay your KZbin tax

[@usvidragonslayer3091]

Nice

[@michaelmunns]

I’m the 9th comment (laughs in lonelyness)

[@bradfork6853]

Technically not fake, but the game over you get in the first Dishonored if you intrude upon Callista bathing and get in the tub with her resulting in the loyalists dissolving due to "irreconcilable hostilities" is pretty darn funny.

[@eaglewarrior7979]

Don’t care you still upset about projared better than you.