7 Times a Game Over was More Fun than Winning (Does This Make Us Bad People?)

a game over is usually very frustrating it means you failed the game that you were attempting to play and now you must crush your controller into tiny particles of toxic plastic dust but not all game overs are created equal sometimes a games a way of telling you that you lost the whole thing up actually turns out to be extremely entertaining in itself sometimes this game over is even more fun than the games proper ending what kind of message is this sending games so here are the game overs that are more fun than winning along the way beware spoilers from following [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] okay so we all know that the hero's job is to go and save the good from the wicked right well in the case of Banjo and Kazooie this couldn't be more true when they wake up to find that banjo sister to tea has been whisked away by the evil green gruntilda it's up to them to go and save her I mean someone's got to play the flute in their sweet sweet band oh and did you know that the guy who wrote that also did the music for a little-known and much underrated game called kingdoms of a mother look I guess we know he wrote this section Ellen board exactly did Banjo and Kazooie have to save Tootie from you ask well what we have here is a classic snow-white jealousy story but instead of just putting her to sleep gruntilda wants to steal all of tooties beauty and youth so to save banjos kidnapped sibling you must help the pair embark on a great adventure collecting jiggies beating up bad guys and making precise jumps upon defeating gruntilda you're rewarded with a relaxing drink on an island yeah alright alright and they all lived happily ever after boring instead our favorite ending is the one you get should you fail your mission where gruntilda uses her machine to turn herself into posh spice and Tootie is turned into a horrific Green Monster [Music] I'm sorry to see but who do you think you are listen if you want to be saved you're gonna have to stop right now thank you very much sorry I've just had the call from upstairs that's too many Spice Girls jokes we have to cut at least all right what if these two become one yeah that would work and then we hang on a second in fact gruntilda already has the rhymes to be a star move over to tea because the lady is a vamp [Music] now as we've discussed in many a video there are lots of horrible gruesome ways for Lara Croft to die yeah like that one however not every game over is as mine scarring Lee dark as these and some are even cooler than the end of the actual game for instance the actual proper end of Tomb Raider 1 remake Tomb Raider anniversary has you fight natla the evil former queen of Atlantis in an active volcano before you jump to safety and motor off in your boat to your next adventure that's pretty cool admittedly but you know what's even cooler metal specifically a shiny yellow metal with the chemical symbol a you see in anniversary Lara travels all over the world and finds herself in Midas's palace which is a pretty swish pad if you ignore the fact that it's full of gorillas trying to eat your face off it has some lovely architecture a pool and even a massive statue of Midas himself what's even better is that should Lara decide to step onto the statue form of the legendary Midas she'll quickly discover that his golden touch is very real now you might be thinking but how is Lara being terrifyingly turned into solid gold a good thing well whilst it might impede on her future tomb raiding adventures it's certainly not the worst way to go and it wasn't good enough death to have been included twice Plus every adventurer wants to be remembered and the best way to be remembered is with a statue and why not have one made out of gold and yourself okay it might take another expedition to get into the jungle to get Lara and the moving guys must also make sure that they don't touch the hand of Midas themselves but think how cool Lara's terrified face will looking Croft Manor in fact you can see what a golden Lara would look like in her humble abode as you can unlock it as an outfit to wander around in well Lara as the great Spandau Ballet said gold always believed in your soul you've got the power to know you're indestructible always believe in because you are alright to be fair I didn't think that Laura was really into 80s pop she's more of a Tomb raver ladies and gentlemen mr. Fisk kingpin what do you suppose he's up to now whatever it is it's bound to be bad news for New York and for spider-man part of the fun of superhero movies comics TV shows and games is seeing how your favorite costume character figures their way out of an almost impossible scrape like how will my personal hero Andy deal with the mousetrap I placed in his lunchbox for instance never meet your heroes web slinging goblin bother a Spider Man finds himself in an even tighter scrape during 90's platformer spider-man vs the kingpin in this 2d adventure Spidey has to fight his way through a medley of his most iconic nemesis in a bid to clear his name having been framed by the villainous kingpin although to be fair to the cops there's clearly something suspicious going on with Spidey's voice you're the best friend this city ever had I'm just glad you're on house I was just doing my job officer happy to be of help the states get really high in the final showdown which takes place is a kidnapped Mary Jane dangles perilously / Wiggles ineffectively over a pit of boiling acid now the sensible thing to do would be to defeat the final boss as per your years of subconscious video game programming and if you do your reward is the following boring cut scene in which kingpin is led away in cuffs and deep voice spider-man Oh Pines on the nature of justice justice is never a waste of time kingpin hi tiger I knew you'd show up in time well I didn't want to be late for dinner boring but should you happen to accidentally let kingpin win that final punch up you get a scene that you will probably never see anywhere again in the spider-man fictional universe [Music] a shoe just like this goodbye spine to miss out smarting yikes well that's obviously a game over there's even a third incredibly bleak outcome to this fight whereby you defeat kingpin but not in time to save Mary Jane much to the apparent confusion of Spidey himself Mary Jane you'll pay for this kingpin I swear you'll pay about the kingpin spider-man what about Mary Jane how's she gonna get acting gigs now that she's a puddle of goo I mean maybe if they made a sequel to flubber total distortion is a 1995 motion adventure game in which you travel to other dimensions in search of profitable concepts for music videos sure to be fair - total distortion it was the 90s a time when edgy Gen X music videos fueled most of the global economy anyway in this bizarre adventure title you had to remix videos play freaky mini-games about falling asleep and injurer punishing guitar battles that it failed would rapidly crush your health bar the game may have been totally baffling and not that easy to play but that's alright because this is one game that definitely rewarded failure and that reward was a little ditty called you are dead you thought you were hot guess what you're not you picture to the screeching halt your heart will stop your brain is cold and they have authorized me to offer you a job they agree with me that you have limitless potential even the most qualified amongst us can experience the odd bump in our careers for example I trained for four years as au Cuba that is someone who cuts up new trees into exact use until a spelling error on an application form landed me here you know but that's nothing compared to Gordon Freeman who after presumably years and years spent working towards his PhD in theoretical physics finally lands herself a sweet gig at the Black Mesa research facility only to see the whole place explode when an experiment goes wrong flooding the gap with bloodthirsty introductional chaos yes would this be a bad time to talk about that race how such old Goldilocks would understandably be keeping an eye out during his adventures for any future employment opportunities so when right at the end of the game the mysterious and enigmatic Chi Minh offers Gordon a job with whatever transdimensional agency he represents he'd have to be crazy to say no right if you're interested just step into the portal and I will take that as a yes except while taking the job is the right choice and the canonical ending of the game the alternate game over ending where you don't take the job is substantially cooler accepting the role of g-man's employee in this most surreal of job interviews triggers just a few lines on screen before the credits roll wisely done mr. Freeman I will see you up ahead but if you hang around without walking through this green game-ending portal a much more exciting if grisly fate awaits you it looks like we won't be working together no regrets mr. Freeman yes is this because I didn't fit my resume onto one side of a fall [Music] for the most part we like our game over screens to be short and sweet and they don't come much shorter or sweeter than in the Legend of Zelda series which usually opts for a tasteful fade to black and the words game over to gloss over your humiliating death by kuku before catapulting you back into the action to show those cuckoos who's the real hero of time around here unspectacular exception however is the Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask a game in which link has three days to stop the moon from smashing into termina which is a parallel world to Hyrule a fact we mentioned because it might give you enough emotional distance to enjoy what happens if you fail to stop doomsday just keep telling yourself it's not the real Hyrule thanks to some nifty time travel there's no need to let things get too close to the moment of impact but come on who could resist running down the clock as the moon looms over clock town just to see what happens when the timer hits zero as a sidenote whoever's ringing that bell you can probably stop now maybe try for 30 seconds of quality time with the family when times up you're treated to what is perhaps the most spectacular game over in videogame history as the moon's creepy face forces its way catastrophic ly into the town you're supposed to be working to save engulfing it in a giant fireball finally you see link swallowed up in the wave of destruction created by your curiosity [Music] let's just tell ourselves he got blown back to Hyrule where if anyone asks the quest went great [Music] I've lived my life by a simple code if possible always assume remote control of tiny battle mechs happily 2004 GameCube title custom Robo is all about doing precisely that in the game you assume the role of hero a child whose father recently died but before his passing left a note telling his young son to become a Robo commander ie someone who pilots 12 inch tall battle robots for a living okay dad if it's your final wish I guess I will devote my life to battling tiny robots and we by cross to bear as the game progresses you'll befriend a gang of allies customize your gear and uncover the secret behind rahu a dark force that's threatening the very fate of the world despite also being a 12 inch high robot I mean maybe if he pretended to be a Christmas present for the child of a world leader look it doesn't matter the point is so far so standard video game plot right up until the end of the game that is the story's final scenes see your motley troop gathered to face Rahu in a final battle everyone else is naturally keen to take on the task you've been building to all this time but unusually the game offers you the chance to duck out at the last second by saying you're not going pursuing this path gives you increasingly brilliant dialog options as your teammates despair of your sudden cowardice and continue to despair in the scripted sequence that's undoubtedly more entertaining than the final battle could possibly have been say you're not going twenty times and the rest of the gang will genuinely say their goodbyes and go off without you ending your adventure with the following message and some passive-aggressive ellipses the only ellipses I'm afraid of are the ones at the end of a text message that just says okay now something you don't know about you Cuba's it's like everyone thinks it's this amazing job but like you have to do everything yourself like you have to do all six sides on your own you don't have anyone helping you don't have a big team of writers or whatever you you know that telling you instructions of how to do it you just have to do it and just have to know if to get measurements alright and it's great yeah yeah I suppose there's these are just years it's not my best way but just cut cut round there you go that's not the best cubing that I've done that's more of a two rectangles I really so yeah yeah should subscribe here I can't cut that cut circle and I can only do cubes so enjoy

Channel: Outside Xtra

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Rating: 4.752862 out of 5

Keywords: game over, game overs, funny game overs, best game overs, banjo kazooie, gruntilda, tomb raider, tomb raider midas' palace, spiderman v kingpin, total distortion, total distortion you are dead, half life, half life g-man, half life refuse g-man, majora's mask, majora's mask termina explode, majora's mask game over, custom robo, custom robo refuse

Id: lxU5zSteIjE

Length: 17min 51sec (1071 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 26 2017