Raging Demon (Street Fighter). It's so satisfying landing that move.

Wesker's Thrust Punch (Resident Evil 4). So fun, especially when used on top of that tower in that one stage with the water.

Mine Thrower (Resident Evil 4). It's fun nailing a ganado's head, then knocking him into his buddies with a nice roundhouse. Then sitting back and watching the fireworks.

Create A Fatality (Mortal Kombat: Armageddon) What I like to do is slap them around, knock them to their knees, then slap them around some more. It's fun seeing the slap animation repeated so many times.

My favorite Kill was in World of Warcraft when I killed a hunter (ranged damage) with a dagger thrown by my rogue (usually melee damage). Since I am undead, I eat my foes once I slay them.

Or perhaps for Tenchu: Return from darkness (which I love for its flawed AI) Both Rikimaru and Ayame's aerial stealth kills. Rikimaru jumps on the shoulders of his victim and thrusts down with his Katana leaping off before they collapse. Ayame would leap and land with one shin on each shoulder of her enemy, then she would twist her legs and snap the enemy's neck. The body would crumple forward and have a face staring at the sky that should be looking down,

My favorite death is any in the original Prince of Persia when he has a memory lapse after you're a tard and forget to rewind time.

After that I'd say drowning in Sonic the Hedgehog 2. The music, the suspense, the countdown, the chance for redemption, followed by a plummet through the ground. I know this happened in all the old sonic games, but Sonic 2 was by far the best and deserves to be credited so (though perhaps a topic for another post).

To kill:
-Freezing a Space Pirate and then shattering it with a missile in Metroid Prime
-Running down pedestrians in any Grand Theft Auto
-Death by exploding penguin (Disgaea)
-A lot of the gruesome level kills in Manhunt

Be killed (odd thing to think about):
-Seeing your character explode mid-spell in one of Eternal Darkness's hallucinations
-Torturing your Sims to death (it's at least as boring death for you... there's nothing to do once they're gone!)
-Any death in Destroy All Humans! thanks to the humorous newspaper headlines that explain away your extraterrestrial appearance. (Rampaging shaved monkey gunned down by zookeeper!)
-Being done in by a self-launched Koopa shell in any 2-D Mario game

Oh, forgot a couple kills: I gotta semi-ditto Duck sandwich above me. While Thrust punch is awesome, his axe-kick was even more amazing.

Let us not forget Mortal Kombat, knocking someone into the pit.

To Kill:
Using the nail gun in FEAR to nail a soldier's head to the wall while in mid-flight.

Be Killed:
Crouched into a corner, and watching a grenade fall 1 feet next to you - knowing your going to die and knowing you cant do anything about it. (applies to various games)

Assassin's creed throwing knives give me an odd feeling of accomplishment.

*thock* Oh, you've got a knife in your face. Oh, you just fell off a 3 story building. Oh, all of the townspeople are screaming because of your dead corpse :P

as for favorite way to be killed: Cucco's in Zelda.

"OH NO!" *POP*

- Doom 1: when you're enemies are next to a fuel tank; blow the tank up and you'll see a mass of red body parts all over the floor. SWEET!!

- Blood Rayne 2: when you're sucking you're foe's blood and then decide to split him in half.

Be killed: well being decapitaded by a psyco with a chainsaw on RE4.

MacCarth:
Assassin's creed throwing knives give me an odd feeling of accomplishment.

*thock* Oh, you've got a knife in your face. Oh, you just fell off a 3 story building. Oh, all of the townspeople are screaming because of your dead corpse :

We were playing with a group of friends and there was this point where after a huge fight one guy started running off, so we'd all go "throw a knife, throw a knife!"

Somehow throwing a dagger in someone who flees from combat is more satisfying than most things one can imagine.

Fav death was on unreal tournament 2003 on the Death Ball? (cant remember the mode name) you jump through the hoop with the ball but fall into the put of horizontal bars below. Falling down there was the first ragdoll death i'd experienced landing on the bars between the characters legs like 5 times was funny.

Fav method of killing is on a HL2 mod called Hidden:Source as the hidden using an xbox 1 to throw at people and kill them is funny, never managed to use the teddy bear to kill someone on that mod though :S

The messaging on the Fallout games for each part of the body, classic.

I once finished a game where every human I killed was nothing but crotch shots. <chuckles>

My favorite way to kill was probably in GOW2---ripping off someone's arm and beating them with the bloody stump. *sniff* My dad used to threaten me with that.

Favorite way to die? Lara getting eaten by the T-rex. Always gives me a fit of giggles. (Closely followed by seeing her hoisted up on a spear in TR2.)

Since I am currently Free-Running my way through Assassin's Creed, I can't really objectively think back on all the games I've played to decide in which way I liked killing my enemies the most. The Counter-Attack with the sword, in which he breaks his attackers arm first, makes me squeal (literally) with delight. Whatever he does afterwards to actually dispatch the foe completely eludes me due to my perception that after that crunch the act of killing him is more mercy then anything else so why would it matter to my religious blood lust?

The most entertaining way to be killed that I, myself, have come across would have to be getting trapped in a corner and murdered because my Foaming-at-the-mouth Compatriot, who also happens to be my little brother, has decided to run off ahead of me in an attempt to get all the keys/food/potions that may be there waiting for him in a rousing and sweaty-palmed game of Gauntlet Legends. Why would I enjoy this? Because now I am an only child and no judge in the world would convict me.

Favourite way to kill:
Clearing a full room in Doom with the legendary BFG 9000.

Favourite way to be killed:
Falling from a high building in any game (yep thats about it).

Knife kill Counter Strike.

Killing or killed by doesn't matter it always makes me laugh. Extra fun in a clan match.

Is there not anyone here that have played "Heart Of Darkness"?

Well, basically, that game is a around ten years old 2-d platform-ish game about this boy that enters this somewhat strange alternate dimension in an attempt to save his dog that got kidnapped by some strange forces during a solar eclipse. Despite this perhaps sounding like a pretty childish game, it really got quite a few rather horrible deaths, despite there not being any blood in the game.

for example, there are times when I failed to jump out of a dead dinosaurs mouth in an attempt to reach a ledge, and got crushed in its jaws. you could see some pieces of cloth sticking out between it's teeth here and there along whit a broken leg hanging loosely down from the mouth pit.

Ive also seen him getting pulled into a hole in a wall by some sort of wall worm thing so that you just see his legs sticking out. You can then both hear and see him struggling for his life only to suddenly stop as you hear a scissor sort of sound.

While still talking about deaths in games, then do of course got the chainsaw death in resident evil 4.

among ways to kill, id say using that chainsaw blade in gears of war, anything that involves the gravity gun in half life 2, using the soul cube in doom 3 and of course:
ripping someone in half in God Of War. Nothing beats that.

Thats what I can think of right now.

OH... and that freeze and shatter thing from metroid prime.

and kicking people out over edges and down into chasms in dark messiah, not to forget that.

My favorite kill or all time in a video game, whould have to be from The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. After fleeing from the Lake Arrius Caverns (the Mythic Dawn Shrine that you visit in the Dagon Shrine quest)I began to hear footsteps behind me, and turned around to find that on of the members of the Mythic Dawn had followed me out. Using my magick upon him, I cast a flamball which not only killed him, but sent him over the side of the mountain. I stood there and watched as he slid down, in an errily surreal kind of way. But my satisfaction soon gave way to horror when I realized that I was actually taking delight in the death of another person.

Still, it's my favorite kill.

I can honestly say, my favorite in recent memory was Gears of War. Berserker. I knew it was gonna come through the wall, I guess I just figured I could time it differently, or I didn't really care. Either, I just tucked and ran. The timing was perfect, sucker came bowling through the concrete wall and just went through me like I was nothing. Sometimes death is annoying - other times death is just so spectacular that you just have to laugh at it.

I have to go with the hara-kiris in Mortal Kombat Deception. Killing a foe by stabbing him in the head with a sword is all well and good, but when you do it to yourself just to rob your opponent from a satisfying victory, well, thats just f'in nuts.

Assassin's creed. The counter move where you drop a guy to his knees, then just absolutely BURY your sword into his neck, and have to jerk the blade a few times to get it to come out.

Also, anytime you're in a high place sword fighting and you can just throw someone off the edge of the building/ cliff/ tower, whatever, that is awesome. Nothing beats using the grab counter where Altair grabs the opponent by the wrist, turns him around, and kicks him in the ass... right off the building.

As far as favorite death... I hate dying. Lol.

But if I had to pick a way to go out it, would be in Day of Defeat. Every so often you bust into a room to find one guy sniping or providing covering fire or whatever. He'll see you come in, and you'll both unload on each other. Usually, one of you will die, but every so often, you both go through a whole clip and get nothing. Then the pistols come out... still nothing. Then it's down to who can switch to a melee weapon first. If I had a Garand or K98, I would usually quick switch back and try to get the guy with the secondary melee attack. Sometimes he's just faster, and you go down. It sucks to die, but at least you went down in a fair fight with another skilled player. :)

A few years ago I was playing BF1942 at a LAN party, and it was at that stage of late night/early morning when everyone gets a little wired, or slap happy so we weren't playing very seriously anymore. A friend of mine who usually plays on the opposite team anytime we chose to fill a server with bots because he likes killing people who get upset when they die was actually on my team for once, but he thought it would be funny to keep team killing me. He did this maybe half a dozen times.

Finally I got pissed, and told him to cut it out. So he said we should meet by the large bomber on the runway, and bomb the hell out of everyone else. The idea of team killing my buddies at this point seemed amusing so I said okay, and went to wait by the rear of the bomber.

My buddy was flying a Spitifre at that point, and instead of landing it he obviously just bailed out once he was near the bomber because that's how you use fighter planes in BF1942. His Spitfire crashed right on top of me.

He swears to this day it was unintentional.

So that was my best video game death.

way too many to list, but the first that comes to mind at the moment would be chasing after grunts in halo and smashing their heads in! no ammo needed!

Shadow of Rome is the most gory, most over-the-top game I've ever played. It was good. You could kill the enemy in hundreds of different and inventive ways, from garroting him to dowsing him in oil and hitting him with a torch to cutting him clean in twain with one heavy swing of the halberd.

I hold a special place in my heart for the Havok physics engine and the way it's implemented in the Half-Life series. Particularly that delightful combination of Gravity Gun and Buzz Saw.

The deaths in American McGee's Alice weren't so much creative or gruesome as were her screams she emitted while dying. Those were pretty curdling if I do recall. -- Killing things with the deck of cards was incredibly fun though.

A sort-of silly one; getting eaten by the yeti in Ski Free. It used to terrify me when I was younger...

Sort-of a wicked one, it was always fun to set Sims in a doorless room with a fireplace and lots of furniture P:

Mmm all this Unreal talk... I remember playing the very first Unreal and always liking, as it was stated, the ASMD rifle. The 8-ball launcher was fun ((in a creepy as shit temple though)) but my favourite kill was beheading the Skarrj with the Razorjack. Good times.

Best death was as a medic in TF2 after healing a pyro for some time. He turned and gave me a big thumbs up and a "Thanks!" before walking over, dropping his disguise, and killing me.

Another vote for Dead Rising. I have had that game for about a while now, but every time I play it, I end up just killing things. My favorite is the auger or tree trimmer.

Kohlrabi:
Being sucked in by a barnacle in "Half-Life".

Ho boy. I played that game's single player all the way through for the first time this year - loved it, by the way - and I hated those things. They scared me shitless the first time I saw them, in that room with the scientists "climbing" up the "rope". The crazy thing is, I thought it really was a rope and went over to it. I started getting jerked up automatically and thought "Hey, what's going o-" and then looked up. I panicked and went nuts with the crowbar. It's that jerking that still creeps me out. In short, it kicks arse.

On a lighter note, though, I loved using the rocket launcher in GTA 2. This was back when the series had a birdseye perspective, so when you managed to land a shot with the weapon on one guy, you felt pretty special. Especially when they get blasted into the air at top speed, and their flailing bodies fly right up to the birdseye camera and back down again to squish on the pavement. Absolutely hilarious the first time I saw it. Also, in the same game, getting "Raspberry Ripple!" bonus from that announcer when you run guys over in an ice-cream truck was great.

Best death ever, huh? Jeez, that's a tough one.

Oh, I know! In mass effect, when you use the chemical rounds on people. They melt into green. I remember the first time I saw this, I was like "awesome...".

The Zelda chicken death is classic.

My favorite way to kill, though, is definitely swording some sucker in 'Lo 3. It just never gets old.

RE4 had some awesome deaths, you ever get chainsawed? Seeing it makes you wanna see it just one more time. You'll never lose track of a chainsaw Ganados again.

anyone remember the old bungie games, Myth and Myth 2? that game was full of satisfactory deaths. those sadistic dwarven sappers, with grenades taking out masses of undead in hilariously over the top fashion.

All of my favorite deaths have already been listed, but I do have one particular favorite when it comes to, while not neccessarily deaths, but Game Overs in general.

I am a large fan of the Shin Megami Tensei series of RPGs--which, unfortunately, most of the world has never heard of. Never the less, these are these odd sort of dark, gruesome and most of all SOPHISTICATED JRPGs that feature some of the nicest Game Overs...ever.

Effectively, in the flagship title of the series, you will die many times. Often very cheaply, as the game is EXTRODINARILLY HARD to people bred on FFVII (which, for the most part, I was.). But, when you die, instead of getting just a sad little red-letter game over sign, you get a little cineamatic of your character's corpse lying in a white field, with a spiral of angels wearing bondage gear circling over your head like vultures, and a little poem that scrolls across the screen that basically tells you "It's ok. Everybody dies. God makes it so." which is not only surprisingly relaxing, but is also, for a bonus, blasphemous, as death is blamed solely upon God (who, in the SMT series, is in fact the Judeo-Christian angry talking head God, as opposed to any particularly other one.).

All of the SMT games have little cinematics for every game over, which makes it almost a treat to die in one, just to see what happens.

I'd also have to agree with some of the CS kills. You can die so easily, so a No0b to the game (like me) would have to be real cautious. But killing someone gives a great deal of satisfaction. I'm used to the shottie, but I love getting an enemy from behind. If they don't die in about a second their either *turn, BLAM I'm dead*, or *WTF? BLAM they're dead*.

I do particularly like the latter >:3

Lemmings. Squishing stone, chain pully thingey. Lemmings 2: Sanding flower, Airlock, Mech thingy with autocannon. Axelay: Identifyable bits and peices of your ship fly everywhere when you explode, damageing enemies aorund you.

Norm the intern at PC Magazine (now the FPS guy I think) played the guy who goes by Fatal1ty (Jonathan Wendel?) and lost ten straight deathmatches, but the last round Fatal1ty actually beat him to death with the flashlight. Nothing says owned like being beaten to death with a flashlight when you're armed with a shotgun or assault rifle.