Well, two things come to mind.
The first being Psi-ops, i was standing on a wooden crate, and walked off. Since i did it slowly, the crate started to tip, and stood on edge for a little while when i was standing next to it, and then fell somewhere near my pinky toe. And down i went. You'd think that a person who as survived being shot several times would've survived a busted toe, but apparently Midway thought differently.

The second being way back playing the original Halo with a friend. We where in one of those long lifts in the middle of the game and i threw a plasma grenade up in the air. My friend follows the plasma grenade, and the his side of the screen turns bright blue. Yes, my worthless attemp at calculating the angle lead to both of us dying horribly in a supposed safe area.

In Crysis Power Struggle, there's two bloody annoying and frustrating ways to die, both concerning jeeps.

1. You're next to a jeep which explodes automatically after no one has used it for sometime. Sure, there's supposed to be a warning sound before the explosion but that thing is bugged! Why can't the jeep just fade away?

2. Crushed by a spawning jeep. Dammit, why can't it just come from the ground slowly?

I think this counts as pointless: I was playing CS:S, the map was de_dust and I were playing as a terrorist. Well, in the beginning of the round, I rush as quickly as I can with a P90 (bloody hell, that's the only proper tactic terrorists have in the map) and I manage to surprise and kill two CTs and then manage to slip to the bombsite. There I surprise three snipers and two others. So, I've heroically butchered almost half of the enemy team, cleared the way for my team to plant the bomb and win the round?

Hell no! They were basecamping! I tried to tell them in the chat that the way is clear. Then I even went back to the base without seeing any enemies on the way. There they were, merrily pointing their guns at the corridor, waiting for enemies to come. Then I gave up and tried to go solo against rest of the CTs and then I died. Then the timer expired and my team lost.

So friggin' pointless!

Oh god...

GTA IV.

So I was chasing this guy that I was supposed to whack, me being on a motorbike.
I think there where this turn at some point at witch point, I tried to pass inn between this two yellow cabs while shooting at the guys car when I suddenly hit one of them on the side with the back end of the bike at full speed, cousing me to lose control over the vehicle and enter a state of frustrating pirouette.

About around now, this other car managed to hit me with enough force to lunch me of the bike, making me hit a street light from below before falling down on another car and having the last millimeter (or so) of health robed from me by a tire to my face from the NEXT car.

Worst traffic accident evar.

It's funny...this reminds me of a time my Dad was playing the original House of the Dead...he was low on health...shot a red hammer wielding zombie's head, arms and shoulders off...and was was pwned when it's lower torso charged at him.

ABS OF STEEL MUCH?

Im on the roof of a building in GTA 4, blasting away at the police under me when suddenly two helicopters come from nowhere and shoot me. I like any right minded person whipped out my rpg and took aim at one of the helicopters, my aim was just off and sent the helicopter on a high speed collision course with me..

In 2142 our titan was being camped by 3 gunships so our team couldn't leave. So I get A SAAW and shoot one of them down, then get un a gunship and shoot down the two others.
They're all so pissed they leave (2 people per gunship= 6 people leaving) and the game ends due to lack of people.

Although I suppose that could have succeeded in the objective of inflating my ego.

KyleTheAngry:

ABS OF STEEL MUCH?

Pretty much.

Oh, how I can remember playing that game at the arcade.

Anytime Crysis thinks it can do physics too. Refidginator doors are famous even outside the Crysis community but you can murder yourself as well by opening a regular door from the wrong side, vehicles sploding after contacting twigs on the road or throwing an object at the ground at the correct angle, watching it vibrate for a few seconds and then launch itself into orbit at hypersonic speed in a random direction(4000mph according to sandbox2) taking out everything in it's path. I carved a path of destruction across an entire map with a plastic bottle, felling over 30 trees and completely wrecking multiple buildings.

Super Mario Galaxy... I swear, I jumped straight at it!

Yah Crysis + Physics is fun, but can be stupid deadly. Same with Half Life 2 at times.

This thread brings up the thought of the video of Halo 3 of some guy throwing a grenade and getting killed when it launches a road cone right at his head, connects, and kills him. SUICIDE!

Dying to the Armadillo in NG2. Because it's so obvious that you block a thermonuclear explosion. I was so stupid.

Any Sierra adventure game that came out after Lucasarts first adventure. They didn't seem to get that curiosity may have killed the cat, but it shouldn't kill the player.

Sierra - "Eat grenade" You are now dead, please reload from your last save point.
Lucasart - "Eat grenade" Boom, your head leaves your body and your body travels back a couple of screens to find and reattach the very heavily charred head, and then deliver a short monologue about how he'll never do that again and luckily he has a spare grenade in his other pants.

once wile i was playing f.e.a.r i was running towards the enemies flag so i threw a granade at a rilly high angle so after i threw it i kept running and just as i was about to grab the flag my granade fell back on me killing me.

o and another one a wile ago i was playing resident evil 4 and i dident have much helth left and i shot some guys head off and he stagged tword me with no head and i dident think he could do anything but to my suprise he suplexed me killing me

Crackdown, when a squad of 6 Shai-Gen dudes, 4 of which wielding heat-seeking rocketlaunchers, found it necessary to juggle my body for 20 seconds.

jumping off dive rock in oblivion
very amusing though

Asehujiko:
Anytime Crysis thinks it can do physics too. Refidginator doors are famous even outside the Crysis community but you can murder yourself as well by opening a regular door from the wrong side, vehicles sploding after contacting twigs on the road or throwing an object at the ground at the correct angle, watching it vibrate for a few seconds and then launch itself into orbit at hypersonic speed in a random direction(4000mph according to sandbox2) taking out everything in it's path. I carved a path of destruction across an entire map with a plastic bottle, felling over 30 trees and completely wrecking multiple buildings.

hahaha, I had no idea that was possible. Are there videos of this?

Ohohoh!

I wasing playing Crysis and just killed pretty much everyone in the area withh 2 ammo of the missile launcher to spare. 10 sec later, I see another launcher, so I shot the 2 missiles in the air as kinda a "celebratory" salute and to pick up the ammo(u can't "refill" missile launchers in crysis). Then i looked down to pick up the new launcher.

The missiles were laser guided and i died save.

INSTA-GIBBED, bitch

gta4, i was sniping from a crane in a mission and i decided to move to the other side to get a better angle, unfortunatly i forgot about the ladder and fell to my doom :P

Grand Theft Auto San Andreas: I enabled "Cars Can Fly" and took off. At one point I exited my vehical and started plummeting...I soon realized I forgot to also enable the parachute cheat...

Halo: I jumped off a bridge to keep someone from getting credited for killing me

Assassins Creed: Anytime I touched water...

Saints Row: Driving on the freeway, I shot an oil tanker for shits n giggles which caused him to get scared and drive like a maniac to get away...He did enough damage which caused him to blow up with me driving right next to him, which not only blew up my car, but ejected me at a 45 degree angle into the sky on fire...off a bridge...I was dead before I hit water though...

in cod4 i threw a grenade and it bounced off one of my team mates backs and came straight back to me you probably know what happened next.

The second to last level in halo on legendary, I had a rocket launcher and a pistol went the wrong way and looked through a crack in the wall to see a hunter waiting for me if i had gone the "right" way. I pulled out my launcher to fire it when a tiny little flood decides to maul me jumping right into my rocket
killing me instantly
I spawned and did it agian 3 more times.

I had just gotten past a difficult part of Resistance and was almost done but I saw an exploding barrel outside on a balcony. For some stupid reason I fired at it while standing on the balcony and blew myself to kingdom come.Actually it blew me back to the beginning of the difficult level.

In Haunting Ground (Dementium) I'd reached the roof of a building, when Fatty McDumbnuts (Debilitas) came up the ladder and started chasing me. I forgot where the ladder was to go back down, so I ran in circles around the roof till Deb beat me in the face enough to kill me. =P I passed the ladder around 6 times, but couldn't see it since it blended with the wall. -.-'

Ok, no joke this happened. I was playing a hardcore team deathmatch in Call of Duty 4 in Crossfire, I was about to knife one of the sniper, and right after I knife him a get killed by one of my sniper teammates, he was aiming at the same person and I knifed the person right as he shot his bullet.

Hotel Dusk. There was the time I told the kid that her dad was laughing at her because he's stupid. That depressed my character very much, he went back to his room and moped until I got game over.

Then when I suffocated in the room during the last level.

I enjoyed that game a lot.

I was playing Halo 3 co-op campaign, in the part of The Covenant where you get a Hornet, and two Scarabs drop in. Since I was playing with a friend, we decided to do things a little differently. I got on the Hornet jump seat, and told him to go over to the Scarab, and let me jump of. Of course to do things with style, I had to have at least 50 feet of free fall. Unfortunately, the Hornet was a little bit too high, and so I hit the death barrier about 3 feet before landing on top of the scarab.

I remember this one time I was playing the quake wars demo, defending something the enemy had to hack or blow up or whatever, and one of my teammates shoots a heli out of the air, the burned out helicopter carcass lands directly on me as im prone. Hilarious.

Alone in the dark i walked into a wall and died 100% health yeah im not bullshitting but sence alot of people have had related issues with that game um... i guess once ALONG time ago i was playing halo 2 on live when it first came out i through a plasma grenade thinking it would go over this wall or bridge thing so i threw the grenade and i wasn't looking it BOUNCED back at me and stuck me in the fucking face i thought DAMNIT! but when i heard that suicide i almost died laughing

Falling off of the actual game world in the original Thief. A lot of older 3D games had this problem, but that was the first time I actually experianced it. It happened again in Carmageddon 2.

I was playing Oblivion the other day and as I'm walking through the forest I suddenly walk a little too fast and disconnect from the slope, and since all hills in oblivion are 70% slopes the momentum from walking too fast made it so I couldn't stop myself from falling. So even though I was about an inch and a half from the slope the whole way down it counted as though I had fallen the entire height of the mountain and I died. Such bullshit.

Cool death (aka not mine) a Wolf tried to use a rush attack from above me and just flew off the mountain and died. It was hilarious.

Another cool death, also not mine. A bandit hedge wizard who was being a nuisance wandered into a tripline I hadn't noticed yet and got PWNT by a trap and flew off the edge into a gorge and landed on a chest I found later.

Low Hp, a door...Yeah, embarrassing times right there ¬_¬

The 'Ivan the not so terrible' mission in GTAIV

I decide to let him live, and then my controller decides that it would be a good idea for Niko to step off the ledge. I swear I didn't even touch the controller.

Hey Joe:
The 'Ivan the not so terrible' mission in GTAIV

I decide to let him live, and then my controller decides that it would be a good idea for Niko to step off the ledge. I swear I didn't even touch the controller.

step off the ledge, niko.... jump.... leap into the breeze.... JUMP BITCH!

Call of Duty 4 online. While kinda strafing with a cooked granade, as I let go of it a lampost appeard in the right of my screen. The granade flu out of my hand *ping* bounced straight back off the lampost and blew up right in front of my face. As embarising as it was, it was still hilerous. Similar things of happend to me on CoD4 sevral times now.

Also - on Call of Duty 4 agian - on old school mode on Strike. Climb to the top of building in the middle, back away from the place where the ladder comes up, start cooking a granade, count to about 3 (I think) sprint forwards and jump on the edge. If you time it right you can launch corpse onto the orning, blacony or mabye even over the building in front of you.

Vic Sage:
its not really pointed to this, but, it was actually quite good, i was playing killzone on the ps2 with a mate of mine a while back and forgot to throw my damn grenade, so i ran into him, blowing me and him into the stratosphere, which was rather comic to say the least

same except in killzone the grenades were poorly programmed so i cooked a grenade to the max and managed to kill about 5 people and my friend when it went off in my hand. Miraculously I survived.

WoW- Lvl 70's ganking STV and HFP
Halo3- Being splattered by a friend with a crate
HL2 DM- Being splattered by a toilet thrown by a friend
Vegas 2- Various times gernades catch on the finest edge of a door, pillar or fence have annoyed me alot