I had a good laugh when I read the article "The five most embarassing ways to die in an FPS" which describes five entertaining (for the others) and embarrassing (for the one being killed) ways to die in first person shooters.
I have been playing pro level Unreal Tournament for about two years and it was always a pleasure to witness an embarrassing death. Unreal Tournament however was not the only game that I was playing. I also enjoyed Quake 3 Arena, Counter Strike (Source) and many other PC shooters.
The website that published the list is currently not available, here is a short recap of the five ways:
Are there other ways that you can think of ? Rocket Boosts gone wrong for instance is surely a nice way to die although it resembles Cratering.
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its also embarrassing to be knifed from behind after the opponent has been chasing you for a while
To be honest? that is one of the most useless information you gave. Anyway I played mainly WWII fps so I know what is a good laught/kill in the middle of the night:) keeps you up and gives you memories.
Regards
its also embarrasing to be killed by that opponent who you have been chasing for a while with a knife :)
my own list:
by a defibrillator in bf2
own grenade “oops – it bounced”
parachute – “err which button was it again”
how about….and yes I’ve done this…killing yourself with a rebound from ripper disks in UT:GOTY
I hate beign killed in CS:S when someone appears in front of my screen and before signal from my brain goes to finger to shoot I get headshoot from opponent ;]
You can easily die from your own flames using the molotov cocktail in baboviolent. Seeing someone burning trying to get some help is really funny (in game offcourse). It’s like stepping in your own shit.
“The Telefrag – the beloved telefrag. This was the BEST weapon in Unreal Tournament until Epic decided to nerve it.”
The correct term is NERF. Made popular by the american toys made of foam.
# Nerf (computer gaming), a change to the rules of a computer game that weakens a certain object, ability or character
Brian you are right, was in a hurry on my holiday. Corrected it in the main article.