all time favorite DOS death scene?

You know, the final sprite you see of an enemy after its taken too much damage?

From Hitler's decomposing in WOLF3D, to a caco's guts oozing out from its under belly.

I have one, but I'm still scanning through the list.

Honorable mentions, though
-mancubus skin literally falling off over its spine. (DOOM2)
-alien probes cracking like an egg (C7)
-one of them big alien guys's skin melting off (C7)
-arch viles falling to pieces (doom 2)
- Chaos serpents exploding (heretic-hexen)
- Ettins gibbing (hexen) where its upper torso is torn tho shreds as its lower body thumps to the floor.


So of all the DOS games, please list the name of game and creature, which of their deaths appeals to you more?

rogue.exe

If arcade games count, I think nothing beats the death sequence of the Hard Head 2 "heroes" (to the extent you'd want to identify with two butt-ugly macrocephalic bald kids who die naked like worms in a position that even gay pornstars would be ashamed of. RECEPTIVE gay pornstars.

Maes said:

rogue.exe

I dont...I dont understand at all what you mean by this.

There's a reason why Waxworks remains so disturbing.

Hitler's Death from Wolfenstein 3D

WildWeasel said:

There's a reason why Waxworks remains so disturbing.

oh...no thats not what I mean by death scene.

I probably should have said death sprites.

But good find though. I haven't heard about that game in a long while.

EDIT: at jannack, yeah thats easily one of my favorites of all time.

A lot of 90s arcade games had cool death sprites, because 2D games were hitting their climax in that era. Pretty much any fighter game by capcom, and even some arcade games like Midnight Wanderers had huge sprites (especially bosses) that got progressively damaged and died in spectacular ways.

For more recent games, and as long as we're talking strictly 2D sprites and not models, then I think nothing beats the Metal Slug games. EVERYTHING is awesomely animated in those games, including death/destruction animations.

Ludicrous Gibs!

This is what happens if you don't beat Darkseed within three days of game time...

crusader: no remorse scarred me for life as a kid, particularly that horrible crying when someone burns to death. it's actually not my favourite death scene. :(

WildWeasel said:

There's a reason why Waxworks remains so disturbing.

Whenever someone tells me that games are getting more and more violent in recent times, I show them Waxworks. Shuts 'em right up.

Holy gore, batman!

Oh, and then there's the finishers from Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side. Some of them are insane; I especially love the dude getting impaled on a log.

Lemmings.

Also, Mortal Kombat 1 & 2, before they introduced those fake-looking severed mannequin legs and arms in MK3. WTF was up with that anyway...

Jannak said:
Hitler's Death from Wolfenstein 3D

What was that DOS text adventure game with the brutal death screens?

huh....
as interesting as this all is, it isnt quite what I meant.

Man, I never knew there were fighting games that much more violent than mortal kombat.

And what kind of idiot says games are getting more violent today? If anything, they are a whole lot less, haha.

If a game today like CoD was at all this violent it would just be sick.

90's games were much more violent then games today. I love gibbing scientists, finding their exposed skull caps (With the one eye eft in them) and bashing them around. Primal Rage fatalities and Mortal Kombat fatalities were always pleasant.

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Vaporizer said:

Also, stop throwing shit on new games, yellowmadness54.

He has my permission to, though it carries no weight.

Maes said:

Also, Mortal Kombat 1 & 2, before they introduced those fake-looking severed mannequin legs and arms in MK3. WTF was up with that anyway...

I think it was a response to that particular wave of "Violent video games are evil" hysteria in the mid-90's that the MK games found themselves at the forefront of. The thinking at the time was the less realistic the gore/gorn, the more of it we can get away with. Or something.

DoomUK said:

The thinking at the time was the less realistic the gore/gorn, the more of it we can get away with. Or something.

It was also that awkward period of transition between 2D and 3D, where they believed that shoddily made CGI and grainy FMV and digitized images could replace high-quality 2D artwork and make up for otherwise mediocre games, at least in run-of-the-mill titles, so actual realism often took a dive. It was not uncommon to see e.g. digitized rail shooters with "crushed tomatoes" cartoony blood effects (or better: 3D RENDERED SGI PHOTOREALISTIC RENDERED BLOOD... in 256 COLORZ!!!! )

Maes said:

It was also that awkward period of transition between 2D and 3D, where they believed that shoddily made CGI and grainy FMV and digitized images could replace high-quality 2D artwork and make up for otherwise mediocre games, at least in run-of-the-mill titles, so actual realism often took a dive. It was not uncommon to see e.g. digitized rail shooters with "crushed tomatoes" cartoony blood effects (or better: 3D RENDERED SGI PHOTOREALISTIC RENDERED BLOOD... in 256 COLORZ!!!! )

True. Though I'd say that would apply more to Mortal Kombat 4, which was one of those early 3D games which hasn't aged particularly well in comparison to 2D games of the good ol' days.

And the FMV sequences were really, really terrible, for a variety of reasons.

Who remembers dying in the desert in Dune? I used to have nightmares about that when I was little. Just watching poor Paul Atredies graphically be etched to bone then to dust by the coriolis storms. D:

DoomUK said:

And the FMV sequences were really, really terrible, for a variety of reasons.

Heh was that even FMV? Looks rendered through the game's 3D engine, not that this would make it less of a miserable pile of fuck.

Maes said:

Heh was that even FMV? Looks rendered through the game's 3D engine, not that this would make it less of a miserable pile of fuck.

Well ok, if we're splitting hairs it's a pre-rendered cutscene. Not an FMV sequence :p

Moonstone decapitation.

Maes said:

Heh was that even FMV? Looks rendered through the game's 3D engine, not that this would make it less of a miserable pile of fuck.

That was actually FMV from the PSX version. The N64 version actually rendered cutscenes with the game's 3D engine, making it look even more ridiculous.

Vaporizer said:

I like the death cutscene in System Shock. Also, stop throwing shit on new games, yellowmadness54.

I'm not, I just said they arent nearly as violent.

And plus, they deserve to have shit thrown at them. They are unoriginal clones of them selves with a few exceptions like resistance or borderlands.



Huh, is there anything that was ne wthat wasnt evil?
Rock was evil
electricity was evil
violent games were evil
metal was evil

Mattfrie1 said:

That was actually FMV from the PSX version.

Holy shit, that was fucking horrible, considering the platform and the year of production (we're talking late 1997 here, although I've see worse FMVs on MS-DOS titles, but better ones too) :-S

Did the quality of it really justify the FMV pre-rendering? Because it certainly didn't look like pre-rendered quality, even for 1997, but like something the PSX could be displaying using just the PSX 3D engine (unless I'm overestimating the PSX's capabilities, or the video's creators just didn't put much effort into it).

Especially considering that e.g. Mortal Kombat Mythologies (also on the PSX) had actual live action FMV video interspersed between gameplay.

Not dos, but what the hell. It still kicks ass.