Author Topic: Worst ways to die in a video game. (Read 50688 times)

WarpRattler · « **Reply #195 on:** May 11, 2007, 09:58:34 AM »

Quote from: Lizard Dude on May 09, 2007, 08:40:01 PM

Worst Way To Kill Something In A Video Game

Not noticing that a wild Pokémon is "shiny" and simply 1-hitting it like normal.

LD, I already said something along those lines.

Quote from: WarpRattler on March 21, 2007, 07:38:12 AM

Still technically not a death, but KOing a randomly encountered shiny Pokémon is painful, to say the least. Also irritating is the fact that there are so many shiny Pokémon in the Trainer Tower.

Lizard Dude · « **Reply #196 on:** May 11, 2007, 05:52:40 PM »

I hate how they're called shiny. Who started that?

WarpRattler · « **Reply #197 on:** May 12, 2007, 02:54:00 PM »

They've been referred to as "shiny" since they were first introduced (other than the red Gyarados), if memory serves correctly.

Toad · « **Reply #198 on:** May 12, 2007, 03:12:57 PM »

Pardon muy slight offtopicness, but how can you tell if a Pokemon is shiny or red? I've never heard of any of these things before. Do shiny Pokemon have a special signfigance?

WarpRattler · « **Reply #199 on:** May 12, 2007, 03:24:42 PM »

Okay, there is a red Gyarados in a lake in Pokémon Gold/Silver. Red is the alternate coloration, or "shiny," of Gyarados. All Pokémon have a shiny version; a shiny Charizard, for example, is black. The chance of finding a shiny Pokémon in the wild is 1 in 8192. Shiny Pokémon also have great stats, which makes the Trainer Tower in FR/LG that much harder.

Toad · « **Reply #200 on:** May 12, 2007, 07:57:02 PM »

Oh, that explains it. I haven't played anything past the originals (Red/Blue/Yellow).

Does anything like that happen in R/B/Y, or is it just G/S and up?

Lizard Dude · « **Reply #201 on:** May 12, 2007, 11:47:57 PM »

They're just Pokémon with an alternate color. That's why I hate the term "shiny". It really makes no sense. And it only happens in Pokémon games with color, so not in the originals.

bobman37 · « **Reply #202 on:** May 13, 2007, 09:42:52 AM »

I would think "foil" would be a better word than "shiny". If I pick up Diamond or Pearl that is what I shall call them.

Lizard Dude · « **Reply #203 on:** May 13, 2007, 10:16:38 PM »

I think "alternate color" is a better term.

Kojinka · « **Reply #204 on:** May 15, 2007, 02:57:25 PM »

Shiny pokemon make a 'shiny' sound effect before their normal cry.

BP · « **Reply #205 on:** May 15, 2007, 04:56:42 PM »

It's the icon by the name in G/S/C (sparkles), the ring of stars that appears when it enters the battle, and I believe I heard a gleam sound effect when I encountered one in Sapphire (a Winggull with green stripes instead of blue, but I was looking away and I guess I never used it after I caught it). That cartridge is long gone.
Also, a big flash of light comes from the Pokeball in Stadium 2. Alt. Color seems to be the official term, and it makes more sense... I would call them either, or get specific. Example, I once had a black Hitmonlee with the move Dizzy Punch.

MEGAß¥TE · « **Reply #206 on:** May 17, 2007, 11:29:44 PM »

Dying on the last spinner on the last level of the hardest mode in Ouendan/Ouendan 2/Elite Beat Agents.

Glorb · « **Reply #207 on:** May 19, 2007, 09:17:47 AM »

Having your car explode because it got shot in the back bumper twenty times.

Raccoon Sam · « **Reply #208 on:** May 19, 2007, 09:26:38 AM »

Falling to a pit after doing an incredible stunt that requires huge amounts of skill, precision, effort and luck.

N64 Chick · « **Reply #209 on:** May 19, 2007, 09:31:25 PM »

Being a level 87 Charizard in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon and having a Dewgong use Sheer Cold on you...and it works. Man, was I ticked. But I had a friend rescue me.

Also, what's with the deaths in Super Mario Sunshine? I mean, does Mario have a heart attack or something from losing a race to Il Piantissimo? Someone explain the logic behind this. Please.