For situations where there's an achievement awarded for this, see Achievement Mockery. For non-standard Game Overs triggered early in the game, see Press Start to Game Over. If a non-standard Game Over cuts the game's ending, then it's aptly No Ending. For the game ending early due to a non-standard victory condition, see Instant-Win Condition. For games where all bad endings contain extended narrations or demonstrations about the consequences of your actions, see It's a Wonderful Failure.įor standard Game Overs that result from an instant-kill attack, see One-Hit Kill. For games where every death has a special animation, see The Many Deaths of You. It doesn't include the times when the game tries to trick you into thinking that the game has ended.įor games where every death is accompanied by a special message, see Have a Nice Death. This page is about the unusual, context-sensitive methods by which players trigger a Game Over screen. These are all clues that your game is permanently over until you purchase a legal copy. The vignette is likely to involve an admonishment about how Quotes/Digital Piracy Is Evil, all while still in character. Genre Savvy players will likely figure out what is going on if the tone suddenly seem to breach the Fourth Wall, pirates are not a logical element in the game story, and it immediately follows a copy protection check. Not surprisingly, some of these sequences actually involve a pirate NPC or two.
Many more recent games have been creating in universe cutscenes that specifically responds to players running pirated copies of the game. Even if they don't fire back and kill you, you will still likely be arrested, court martialed, or some other appropriate punishment indicating that your mission is over and so is your career. This is often the case where you do things such as fire on friendlies just to see if they are Friendly Fireproof. This often gets you chewed out by an NPC followed by an unceremonious game over. Performing any obviously stupid or unsavory act just to see what would happen.Performing any stupid thing which causes death of the Player Character, especially when not in battle.You lose in a way that renders the Player Character Deader Than Dead, such as erasing yourself from existence completely.Odd or bizarre noncanon bad endings that the player can choose to acquire, usually involving failing a mission objective in a way that causes the death of the main characters, often in a way that no stat bonus on Earth could get the player out of.
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