Your most embarrasing death in Oddworld games
Tell us your most annoying death.
Mine is probably getting shot after messing around with the Sligs. |
Getting up off the floor after being zapped by the chant suppressors, finding yourself surround by nine active grenades.
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When I first played AO/AE, the one that always got me was that one extra hidden Slog in the Slog Kennels. Now I always make sure I wait a bit before I walk past them :D
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Once, I was messing around with Abe on MO, and I made it into an area literally swarming with sligs. Then, one shot me into the water.
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I put on the immortality cheat in SW, thought I didn't need to save regulary, fell into a meat grinder, and couldn't get out. It doesn't really count as death but it was annoying all the same.
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I chanted, run-jumped over an edge and got zapped, then for some reason Abe flew backwards and died from the fall!
noo |
Final part of Abe's Oddysee, I was being filmed playing for an assignment, and I fell from one screen above, onto the ground and into a mine.
They decided to use that as the footage. |
i always miss jumps in AO! E.G. is when in Paramonia when you get chased by the Bees and you have to jump over lots of gaps
but the deaths in Oddworld are always funny! |
You know which gaps I hate the most? Those Elum ones! I can never tell when to jump because Elum's feet are oddly placed on the sprite!
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Once in AE, i decided to find out what would happen if i jumped from an unsurvivable height and quicksaved in the air.
I cried... |
It is usually jumps that get me, pressing jump too early or too late, always.
There was one particular zulag (heck if I remember the name, one where you have falling crates and shrykull in one level) in AO I think that I always hated because I could never finish it without being killed at least once. Had to jump over this gap that the crates fell into. I always runjumped the thing and always misjudged it, falling in every time (If I didn't misjudge it jumping one way, I did on the way back). This was of course before I realised that I could just hop over it and end up hanging on the ledge... Falling into meat grinders in SW comes second. Though the more amusing of them is where I fell into them but didn't go into the grinder just hung on the edge of it...and the only way out was to walk into the grinder... |
i get killed by slogs so many times!
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I have so many that I can't choose one to talk about, but a friend of mine had the funniest death.
He was playing AE and was up to Tunnel 7 in Necrem Mines. He tried to sneak past the Slig and when the Slig woke up, my friend panicked. He ran back to the (closed) entrance of that stage and QuickSaved just as the Slig attacked him. So every time the QuickSave loaded, he died. We spent 10 minutes trying to pause the game at the right moment to Restart Path, because my friend hadn't saved and didn't want to have to do Tunnel 6 again. :D EDIT: As for my most embarassing death, I think it would have been in AO and was due to a glitch. It was in the first secret passage in Stockyard Escape. While running away from the Scrab, I noticed that it fell down one of the holes as it was chasing me. Sweet, I thought. This will make things really easy now. WRONG~! For some reason when I was heading back to get the other 2 Mudokons, the Scrab had re-spawned. IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO DO THAT! I died miserably, and because I had tried that secret passage so many times in that playthrough, a moving bomb appeared in the foreground without the motion detector being set off. So I was forced to do the whole thing again. As funny as that death was, it doesn't compare to the more common one; you fall down a hole while riding Elum and you can hear them yelling "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh!", but the top of Abe's head is poking through the top of the hole and not moving! Even funnier is when your spirit (that purple stuff that comes out when you die) comes up through the hole and Abe's head slowly moves down as it plays the death sound effect. (Sorry, it's really hard for me to try and describe that one). |
One of my foggiest Abe memories. I was playing at a friends house and the creatures that eat you that look like slugs or whatever (in AE I think) kept on harassing my friend try after try after try. I encouraged him to quicksave right before he died and, well, uh, you can imagine how I left his house.
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Pretty mad i guess. I think i would be if Fleeches started to harassed me.
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I had one on AO recently when I was racing backwards and forwards in attempt to save all of the Mudokons on the floor with hundreds of meat grinders. I had forgotten about the other bird portal so I took every Mudokon across five or six screens each way there and back. I finally saved them all and then charged head first into a meat grinder.
I was also kicked in the face by a Scrab. ABM |
Getting past the swinging rocks in AO and getting killed by a bat on the last ledge...
Oh wait, that's Infuriating Death too. |
Mine's in AE
At the end of door 2 (I think) in slig barracks, the one with the shrykul power at the end. I'd saved the muds and got the shrykul power, walked to the next screen and stepped a little bit too far. BOOM! The easiest screen in the game, and I died on it! |
You fail big.
ABM |
Has to be the Elum jumps ever time, his feet just don't line up with the platform at all :D
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ughhhhh MO lol i didnt have much health and i possed a slig and shot myself and i died i was laughing my head off at that one
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ughhhhh AO, I accidentally guided Abe into the saw that I was going to use to lead the Mudokons into when I was attempting to get the black ending.
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When I forgot to press triangle to jump over a gap. FML.
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Agh, another quicksave muck up. I decided to quicksave as i fell into a fleech pit in AE thinking i could roll past them. The buggers had me for breakfast, literally, and i was forced to relive it a number of times.
Little buggers. |
I usually quiksave in the right places, the only problem is if I forget and end up having to re-do 5-10 mins worth of gameplay. Going back to AO was a hassle for me (no quiksave), but I'm starting to understand how to complete the secret bits without swearing too much if Abe dies.
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Using the dd-cheat on AE and hovering just above a slog thats trying to jump up and bite me, i sometimes get too cocky a lower myself too much and get nabbed by it.
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I got stuck in Stranger's Wrath by fighting the Mine Car boss, without killing all of his henchmen. The game ended up quicksaving right at the final part of the fight, where I had about 30 people shooting at me. Needless to say, I had to restart the entire section all over again :p
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I once died by trying to jump a big gap in Necrum, only to realise i had to open the Abe bird portal.
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I can imagine it.
'Move out of my way birds!!!...........oh:fuzemb:' |