UFO Enemy Unknown (AKA X-Com): Getting a terror site mission in the first week. Don't do it and your economy is down the drain. Do it and watch your team of badly armed rookies get mercilessly slaughtered.

...oh yeah, and if by some miracle one of your rookies should survive the ordeal you will still get terrible ratings for all your dead comrades and all the civilians you were unable to save.

I mean, what the hell do you do when three cyberdisks have decided to camp right at the entry ramp.

[ 10-14-2003, 05:31 PM: Message edited by: Indemaijinj ]

Most painful way to die during a game?!? Er... lightning strikes the telephone pole outside, earths itself through your computer's modem cable, the monitor explodes sending shards of monitor screen glass into your face and chest, piercing vital organs, etc...

2 words... Vietkong, Spiketraps... OUCH!!!

Illithid brain-munch always got on my nerves. It's just too... personal, y'know?

There is one weapon in Fallout 2 that is especially cruel; some kind of electric shock weapon that incinerates your enemies. All that's left afterwards is a pile of ash.

[ 10-15-2003, 04:24 PM: Message edited by: Stratos ]

Things I hate dying from:
Finger of Death
Power Word: Kill
Rocket Launcher, splatter mode, point blank in SoF 1
Plasma in the chest while trying to go through a vent shaft in Deus Ex
Sniper rifle in the back of the head, any game
Babality in Mortal Kombat 3
THE LIST GOES ON...
...AND ON...
...AND ON...

Hmm...the original question was 'Most painful way to die in a game'. Some of the things posted here means instant death and as such are, probably, not very painful.

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Tombraider -> falling down and breaking your legs -> you don't die right there, you just can't move -> you die of starvation -> THATS painful .....
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gettinf shot in both knee caps wit avery powefull swniper rifle that would hurt just a tad

A shotgun in close range, and you have yourself a deal. :D