Have they already talked about how you can die moments into Disco Elysium? The game doesn't exactly put in a concerted effort to kill you in the start per se, but thanks to the RNG of the dice rolls and how it's possible to begin with really low health, thanks to stats, you can attempt to retrieve your necktie, botch the roll, take damage and then have a heart attack and die
@@mat99134 They may have, since the game has been significantly updated. I remember hearing of an instance of that particular check killing people, tho, because their build only gave them like 1 or 2 health or psychic hp (I can't remember which one depleted and killed them)
Quake 1 replaced the traditional difficulty selection menu with a set of three corridors. The easy and normal difficulty corridors are safe, but the hard difficulty corridor has you leap over lava first, allowing you to die before reaching the first actual level of the game. Especially dangerous if you were just figuring out the controls and didn't really understand how to move properly. Also helpful in making sure you don't play this difficulty by accident.
@@johnmackellar7489 that one wasn't quite as dangerous, but it was more hidden. You had to go into the door to select the fourth episode, and then drop from the floating water at the right point to land on some wooden supports. That would then lead you to another corridor that gave you the hardest difficulty.
I'm utterly delighted by the "lycan subscribe" subtitle for Bloodborne. I didn't do too badly against it but I still died. I figured I'd make it work for its meal rather than standing and letting it happen. I didn't try to cheese it past him, but I'm also not sure that's possible since there's a door you have to open and I believe you can get got while opening the door.
also, if you hold down the attack button you can do a charged attack (yes, even while unarmed) if you hit the back of the beast you'll stagger it and be able to get a visceral attack... it does i believe 240ish damage. Takes about two of those to kill him. Fun times
With Bloodborne - if you can run past the werewolf, out the gate, avoid the guy with the axe long enough to pull the lever and for the ladder to drop, then scramble fast up the ladder and then get to the lamp and okay the prompts before the guy with the axe also gets to the top of the ladder - you can get to the Hunter's Dream without dying. Easy.
Ah, I wasn't sure if you could cheese it past the werewolf since I think you have to open the door and can maybe get got doing that. It's been a while since I've played the beginning, so I could be wrong. I haven't realized that enemies could follow me up a ladder. I was in the Cathedral Ward and I ran past two of the larger jerks with the spears and lanterns, climbed up a ladder to get one bit of loot at the top of it, and then turned around only to get jumpscared and then killed because they'd followed up after me. I'm in the Hunter's Nightmare now and I want to go get the nearly 17,000 blood echoes I dropped when I got killed by one of the boom hammer hunters up on a roof, but I'm not sure how many of the hunters I can cheese it past because I'm not sure of their aggro range and I don't want to end up trapped with more than the one annoying hunter who has my stuff.
Ryse: Son Of Rome. Within the first ten minutes of the game, a bunch of barbarians are attacking Rome, and player character Marius has to fight his way past them
In the award-winning amazing RPG "Disco Elysium", a game that has virutally no combat, you can die at the beginning trying to get your tie from the ceiling fan =)
Everybody here is probably way too young to remember how easy it was to get killed in less than a minute in the Text Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy game, if you don't realize you need to turn on the light immediately .
Until Dawn/Any Dark Pictures game doesn't try to kill you at the start of the game,it just immediately kills the character you are playing as before you get introduced to the main group of people to save/kill. Also Flowey from Undertale.
Sometimes they kill you at the end of the game too. If you successfully use the radio in Man of Medan to communicate your location and then destroy the distributor cap, see what happens.
While the 1st deaths are unavoidable the rest of the main characters potentially deaths can have very quickly & very painful deaths: In Until Dawn Ur first possible death is Jessica in Chapter 4 if ur not fast enough In Man of Medan Conrad can die before u even reaching the boat if u fail the QTEs while trying to escape In Little Hope Angela can suffocate to death in the Crossing chapter And in House of Ashes (minor spoilers) Eric can die if u fail the QTEs while trying to save Rachel
The first goomba from Super Mario bros on NES tried to kill me immediately as I walked to the right. Does that count? Lol I’m just being dumb don’t mind me.
If I remember correctly, Uncharthed 2 starts with you hanging form an upside-down train wagon wich is about to fall off a high cliff and you have to climb to safety while avoiding falling rocks and being very careful to where you put your hands. Also, bonus points for Nathan being severely injured by a gunshot he received not long ago(?)
It's not as immediate as RE3, since RE4 has the good grace to give you an easy ganado or two to shoot at first. But when you reach the village and have to deal with a mob and a chainsaw man? Pretty intense.
@@tomasdelcampo2 Which is kinda concerning if they do a RE3 type of upadate to RE4, because honestly how can the open be made more difficult? TWO CHAINSAWS?
Another World (1991). _EDIT: as mentioned by @Esther Maron Star they already covered that one in 2019. Furthermore, they did so in almost 1:1 vein as I did below. Colour me embarrassed, but also pleasantly surprised that we share a common grounds when it comes to recognition of one brilliant game_ Back then there was a rather glaring discrepancy between the quality of graphics in the intro and in the game itself. So when I got my hands on Another World for the first time, I was pretty much blown away by its stylized, fluid, movie-like, vector graphics intro and... was caught completely unaware, when the game actually started after teleportation scene. Suffice to say, those 2 or 3 seconds of me waiting for the protagonist to do something, were just enough to get myself killed by a tentacles from the depth.
A good call, that game taught you several times over while 'lingering on an alien world' isn't a good idea. Even if you get out of the pool, if you take too long to decide left or right... they get you.
You start underwater with a tentacle creature, if you work out the controls and swim to the surface, the tentacle still gets you if you don't move for a second
Space Quest IV is actually one of the best games ever. I spent years getting nowhere in it as a kid. 10/10 to the narration. Screaming man is actually nightmare fuel.
There's also that one Lord of the Rings game for the Ps2 which literally starts you in the middle of Helms Deep. Have fun figuring out the underdeveloped controls while getting stormed by Uruk Hai..
@@patrickholzer6415 You're right, that wasn't the first mission. And I seem to think there was a game over if you let the number of orcs get too high on that wall too.
@@NotAVeryGoodNickname yeah, the walls were a particularly evil level, since the map was confusing, and the game didn't tell you clear enough that you need to use the catapults on the towers - twice each. I had sooo many game overs just by getting overrun
Almost everyone I know has died right at the start the first time they played the ps1 version of Resident Evil 2. You start surrounded by zombies, and if it's your first Resident Evil game, chances are you don't know the controls well enough to avoid immediately dying.
I certainly did. Back against the wall (which hurts you if you get close, because it's a blazing inferno), sharply limited ammo, no snap-to-aim, and three bullet-sponge zombies just seconds from getting into grab range - it's a lot to take in if you've never handled Resi's controls before.
The original RE3 should also count. You start hopping out of a building, zombies in front of you and a few coming from the burning building. Although to be fair, at least that game comes with 2 instruction manuals to read at the inventory once you figure out how to open it. EDIT: Nevermind, only now noticed they do in fact mention that bit...
RE2, in fact, _was_ my first RE game ever and, yep, I died a few times there. Even now, after beating it dozens of times over the years, I still find myself getting nommed on quite a bit in that opening screen, especially if I haven't played it in a while and have lost my muscle memory for the controls.
How about The Elder Scrolls 2 Daggerfall which starts you in the bottom of a dungeon that contains enemies who might be immune to your weapons if you didn’t make the right choices during the quiz that determines your starting equipment. Add in the staggering difficulty of that game at low level and you will definitely die several times
@@joeschmo3844 Yep, that crappy steel sword will do 0 damage; should've got the ebony dagger. But, your bare hands are a surprisingly good material: even though they do very little, they do something. The imp is still going to kill you if you fight it, though. ;)
I was spared from that but what put a stop to my first escapes were the diseases. It was an unexpected surprise to have my character expire while fast traveling to the nearest settlement.
Dead Space 2 was the first game I thought of. And let me tell you. After making it through the entirety of Deadspace one without ever dying, I really didn't appreciate taking the wrong corridor and dying at the very start of Dead Space 2.
Idk if you want games that try to kill you right off the bat by means of a heart attack, Dead Space 1 is great. Cue me freaking out being chased with the alarms shouting at me.
@@tomasdelcampo2 Dead Space 2's hardest difficultly has you beat the game in 3 saves or less. Mind you, with how EVERYTHING wants you dead (even yourself) that is a tall ass order.
Probably doesn't count as "immediately", but it IS pretty early on. In Resident Evil 8, after you crawl out of an overturned van, you start making your way to the Village where you'll be staying for the next 24 hours of Ethan's in-game life. Once dawn fully breaks, your welcoming party is an infinitely respawning pack of werewolves, who know exactly where you are and will continue to try attacking you. Your job is to survive for a few minutes, but there's no doubt the intent of these bloodthirsty grey punks is "Kill the interloper!"
I'm sure that someone else may have already mentioned this, but what about Another World? As soon as the opening cutscene finishes, you are dumped into the abyss with only a few seconds to react before it's game over. Great stuff though guys 👍
Game needs a rerelease these days. Also, there's X-Men Origins: Wolverine, The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay/Assault on Dark Athena, The Warriors, The Mummy Demastered...
...or that time you played the colorful, inviting game, No Man's Sky, only to have your idyllic space-jauntey fantasies shattered when you awaken in a strange place with no explanation as to why you are being rapidly consumed by the local air. Especially so if, like me, you chose the hardest difficulty to begin what seemed an innocuous game, then discovered you had literal seconds to make a series of barely-explained yet life-saving decisions. Lots of death, is what I'm getting at.
Yeah that was brutal. Luckily I started on JUST a freezing planet my first time, but it did take a few panic filled moments to figure out how to recharge my suit.
Technically, that IS the tutorial. It just has an above average amount of ordinance being thrown at you. Okay, a VERY above average amount of ordinance. Imagine the first mission of most Ace Combat games but on the ground and on steroids.
A video idea I think could be fun Is "top 7 worst escape rooms you'd never want to be in" like the escape room part of re7 with the clown carving into your hand and stuff
The Dark Forces/Jedi Knight series had a habit of having quick openers. Dark Forces 1, a venerable FPS that came out around the time of Doom and Marathon, starts you at the bottom of a down-only elevator shaft, with the door opening to a central corridor that you'll pass through/over a couple of times during the level. On Easy and Medium, you can get to the end of the corridor before you have a group of enemies on your right and another through the open doorway on your left, meaning any player not careful enough to shoot the guys on the right quickly winds up with enemies in both directions. In Hard, things are more aggressive, with an enemy below and to one side of the door that opened up, waiting to shoot you in the back as you charge down the corridor.
Fallout 4 if you go straight north of the vault you can run into a sentry bot, molerats with landmines tied to them and a raider with a minigun all at level 1
If you want to include "What if you go the wrong way in Fallout," New Vegas is the better option. A straight line from Goodsprings to New Vegas takes you past approximately a hundred billion deathclaws.
fallout 4 sucks a little bit now lets talk about fallout 3 and nuevo mexico ( fallout nuevo mexico is a mod for fallout new vegas just look up fallout nuevo mexico)
I would recommend Warframe. Game starts with you waking up from cryo and then being approached by grineer thugs. It does give you a tutorial on how to use your first special ability to combat them, but it's entirely possible (or *was* entirely possible, I heard they remade the opening recently and not sure if this is still the case) to run out of energy without killing them, meaning they have guns and you have nothing.
Flo...ve the video! As for suggestions, I would say Fallout New Vegas. The attempted murder of you in the opening cutscene may be off the table, but the Cazadores just outside the opening area certainly count.
Definitely missed my favorite! Disco Elysium, if you play as a low physical stated character you can die to a light bulb in the very first scene. That was the moment I knew it would be my absolute favorite game. If you haven't played Disco Elysium I highly recommend.
I'd also add The Evil Within, which trolls you into thinking you can stealth kill the butcher in the beginning with a cleaver only for him to turn around and kill you if you try.
The opening to Dead Space 2 I was just laughing through the first time I played it. It was so absurdly over the top in terms of throwing you into a life or death scenario right off the bat that I assumed it had to be a dream sequence Isaac was experiencing PTSD style and that the game would go back to a his sitting in the chair and being interviewed any second now.
Not immidiately but potentially very close, the Stone Talos in Breath of the Wild, you could potentially walk up to it in nothing but your underwear armed with only a stick.
you know, i never really thought of it that way, but given that the game IS play as you want, there are probably people who completely ignore the starter quest directing them straight to the first tower in favor of exploring the plateau so it is possible.
@@QueenOfTheSea101 I was very tempted to see if I could go straight for Gannon from the plateau, but decided to try and actually play the game instead.
How about the first few seconds of the first Super Mario brothers for NES. That first gumba has scored more kills than just about every other enemy in the game combined
Ooooh, oh you brought back some PTSD just flashing the Space Quest logo: For those who are so young they missed this phenomenon - Space Quest was a Snuff Game before Snuff Games. Try to prove me wrong - you are trapped, often rubbing everything on everything to solve a puzzle, that will usually kill you....
Subnautica: Below Zero, you just got out of your ship as it blows up and you have to quickly gather flares, food and water then dive in the water in the starting area before you freeze to death.
The last King's Field, as soon as you start you're in like a valley, but if you walk towards a certain bit of wall, you suddenly find what you thought to be terra firma was actually covering up a stonking great pit which you are inexplicably finding yourself intimately acquainted with the sensation of plummeting, complete with rather terminal finalé! Like such pits do, historically, have a tendency to!
What are the odds. I just finished my first ever playthrough of Need for Speed: The Run two days ago and now I see it referenced first time ever in an OxBox list. And it is a 10 year old game.
Would Fallout 4 count? Because, while you do have to ignore every single instance of the game telling you to hurry up before the nuke falls and renders you unto ash, it will eventually fall and render you unto ash.
Basically every far cry after 3(unsure about before 3) starts out with you being hunted by a large group of enemies or some near death experience happening.
This calls to mind Steel Battalion, the 2002 Xbox game with the 40-button controller that lets you pilot a giant walking tank. The game strongly encourages you to read the 34-page technical operations manual before starting, and that's good advice since the campaign starts with a hangar door opening in front of you and an enemy mech opening fire. If you haven't already internalized the half-dozen steps that must be performed in order to even _start_ your "VT", you'll get blasted to scrap in the first moments of the game. To add insult to injury, Steel Battalion would essentially delete your save game if you failed to eject from your exploding VT, or "relegate" your pilot if you survived but ran out of credits to buy new tanks. At least if this happened in the first moments, you wouldn't really be losing any progress, but the game makes it clear from the very beginning that it is NOT messing around.
I really enjoyed those Sierra games. Seeing how many stupid ways I could fail/get killed was fun! Like in Space Quest 3: just picking up a (turns out sharp) piece of metal would kill you. I liked seeing what the designers would let me do and what the narrators’ response would be.
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee. The first screen has a difficult secret area before teaching the controls, the second spawns a Slig if you are not fast enough.
@@austinstone478 Yeah, I remember. Maybe that's supposed to be an early tutorial? The game itself doesn't teach Possesion until Monsaic Lines, after all.
Not sure. However, if you actually read the little book that came with the game it explains how to do possession. Me, being however young I was when I first played it, didn't bother to do this.
Doom 2016 is one of those games I really suck at but still enjoy playing. I refuse to lower the difficulty! Ghostrunner also has the feel of doom only you have a sword, and all characters die in one hit, including you! Still fun though
In Torment: Tides or Numinera you start the game falling through the sky. If you decide not to do anything you will crash straight into the ground and die. It's great!
How about that one time in Hitman where Mike was in combat in the first few seconds of a mission because he casually walked past a security guard without letting the guard frisk him... does that count?
Fastest Game Over I got was in Torment: Tides of Numinera. You start out in the air with no idea what's going on or who you even are, falling towards the ground. Depending on your first few choices, you may reach terminal velocity and die on impact. You may die before reaching character creation.
Demon's Quest surprised me with a difficult boss battle right at the start. Maybe it's just me not being good at action games, but starting off with a big zombie dragon trying to eat me before I even knew which button did what didn't seem fair. Don't know why I expected anything different from a spinoff of Ghosts and Goblins.
No one's mentioning the original Legend of Zelda? You know, where if you don't go into the cave and get a sword from an old man, you die to the monsters?
DMC3 was brutal. Literally the first second of the game has an enemy start to wind up his attack. You either sword him or dodge the attack. Keep in mind, the game doesn't tell you how to do anything yet, so unless you know that triangle is sword, your best bet is to just move back or jumping out of the way. And the game only gets tougher from there.
Not sure if it was in part 1 or not, but how about the opening level of Battlefield 1? The game literally throws you into a battle in the First World War. No tutorial, no anything.
In the Sega Megadrive/Genesis game The Immortal you can potentially be eaten by a giant, worm monster within the first 30 seconds if you don’t move from a certain spot when prompted
Let Bea die in Space Quest V and one of the death messages explicitly states the paradox that by letting her die in the present your son wasn’t born in the future thus you died back in Space Quest IV. Space Quest V technically makes this list inaccurate because time paradoxes.
Yes, but, assuming you don't get her killed, that doesn't happen, because he does save you. And the worst SQ5 does at the beginning is tries to get you expelled. You can't actually die until you get command of the Eureka.
In the Rachet and Clank remake, the first time you play as Clank (can't remember if it's when you start up the game or not) you're immediately being chased by a killer robot easily 3 times your size. I think that counts
Mario! You start up the game, and no backstory, no cutscene, no tutorial, there's a one-hit kill 5 seconds in.
Have they already talked about how you can die moments into Disco Elysium? The game doesn't exactly put in a concerted effort to kill you in the start per se, but thanks to the RNG of the dice rolls and how it's possible to begin with really low health, thanks to stats, you can attempt to retrieve your necktie, botch the roll, take damage and then have a heart attack and die
I think they changed it. I failed the roll, took damage, only to immediately regain it. Had more health points tho
@@mat99134 They may have, since the game has been significantly updated. I remember hearing of an instance of that particular check killing people, tho, because their build only gave them like 1 or 2 health or psychic hp (I can't remember which one depleted and killed them)
In that vein, though it's not a video game, there's always the way that you could die during character creation in Traveller if you had bad rolls...
@@truthislife9 I miss those days 😆😂🤣
I did that! It was hilarious lol
Andy narration over the spoiler crawl is probably the peak of humor at this point.
It’s true, I floved that part!
@@gamingemail769 FLoVe points
I mean, he's right
Bro so funny.
@@SandCastor that's hilarious
"...his foot was made an honorary citizen of demon butts" XD. Gold. I'm using that from now on lol
Quake 1 replaced the traditional difficulty selection menu with a set of three corridors. The easy and normal difficulty corridors are safe, but the hard difficulty corridor has you leap over lava first, allowing you to die before reaching the first actual level of the game. Especially dangerous if you were just figuring out the controls and didn't really understand how to move properly. Also helpful in making sure you don't play this difficulty by accident.
Genius
And the ultra difficultly at the bottom of the lava
I called that, ‘not getting the hint’
Oh...so that's why I could never beat Quake as a kid. Put Lava in front of a kid in a game and they'll try to jump over it.
@@johnmackellar7489 that one wasn't quite as dangerous, but it was more hidden. You had to go into the door to select the fourth episode, and then drop from the floating water at the right point to land on some wooden supports. That would then lead you to another corridor that gave you the hardest difficulty.
I'm utterly delighted by the "lycan subscribe" subtitle for Bloodborne. I didn't do too badly against it but I still died. I figured I'd make it work for its meal rather than standing and letting it happen. I didn't try to cheese it past him, but I'm also not sure that's possible since there's a door you have to open and I believe you can get got while opening the door.
I think you have to kite the beast away from the door to have a long enough time window to open it?
You 100% can run past it, as you get a certain amount of invincibility frames during the door opening animation. It's how the speedrun does it
also, if you hold down the attack button you can do a charged attack (yes, even while unarmed) if you hit the back of the beast you'll stagger it and be able to get a visceral attack... it does i believe 240ish damage. Takes about two of those to kill him. Fun times
@@yungruuku Yeah, I know about unarmed charged attacks.
I'm surprised Super Mario Bros. isn't on the list. That first Goomba may have one of the highest kill counts in gaming history.
Funny you should mention that, Oxbox, when you left P.T. at a point where it immediately murdered Ellen 4 minutes after starting the game.
Really. I can't wait to see that
But that wasn't really the start, but yeah, very fitting
Was that in today's episode?
To be fair, P.T isn't technically a game.
@@demonstone0 You're right, it's an experience.
With Bloodborne - if you can run past the werewolf, out the gate, avoid the guy with the axe long enough to pull the lever and for the ladder to drop, then scramble fast up the ladder and then get to the lamp and okay the prompts before the guy with the axe also gets to the top of the ladder - you can get to the Hunter's Dream without dying. Easy.
Ah, I wasn't sure if you could cheese it past the werewolf since I think you have to open the door and can maybe get got doing that. It's been a while since I've played the beginning, so I could be wrong.
I haven't realized that enemies could follow me up a ladder. I was in the Cathedral Ward and I ran past two of the larger jerks with the spears and lanterns, climbed up a ladder to get one bit of loot at the top of it, and then turned around only to get jumpscared and then killed because they'd followed up after me. I'm in the Hunter's Nightmare now and I want to go get the nearly 17,000 blood echoes I dropped when I got killed by one of the boom hammer hunters up on a roof, but I'm not sure how many of the hunters I can cheese it past because I'm not sure of their aggro range and I don't want to end up trapped with more than the one annoying hunter who has my stuff.
It is easy I can kill the lycan with just my fists pretty much every time now
If you're feeling extra ballsy, you can run to the sewers and get a weapon and a full set of armor before going to the hunter's dream
You can also beat it to death
Coward. Fist the werewolf.
"You play as the Doomslayer, a monumental beef castle" [pause] "of a man."
Excellent timing.
Ryse: Son Of Rome. Within the first ten minutes of the game, a bunch of barbarians are attacking Rome, and player character Marius has to fight his way past them
"Lycan Subscribe" is the best pun of 2021. Hands down. This wins. This is my favorite pun.
In the award-winning amazing RPG "Disco Elysium", a game that has virutally no combat, you can die at the beginning trying to get your tie from the ceiling fan =)
Played that game. Did not realise the fan could kill me. Either I forgot or I rolled lucky immediately
Is it easy to die from it, or a rare occurrence?
@@IamaPERSON must be rare cause my friends and I all went for the tie first and never died
@@zooparty1257 I never played the game, but it already sounds quirky
Yep. That's what happened to me first time I played it.
Everybody here is probably way too young to remember how easy it was to get killed in less than a minute in the Text Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy game, if you don't realize you need to turn on the light immediately .
I remember being in middle school computer lab and playing that with my friends. Fun times.
But can you find a decent cup of tea to go with your no tea? And Lord help you if you try to _escape_ anything!
Planetfall was also pretty nasty like that. Infocom games in general often had that sort of start.
It’s a Douglas Adams game. They’re not trying to kill you. It’s just hazing to see how smart you are
Or if you don’t leave the house fast enough.
Or if you basically don’t do anything in the right order. 😂
Love the subtitles you come up with!
"Lycan subscribe" being one of my favorites
Until Dawn/Any Dark Pictures game doesn't try to kill you at the start of the game,it just immediately kills the character you are playing as before you get introduced to the main group of people to save/kill.
Also Flowey from Undertale.
Sometimes they kill you at the end of the game too. If you successfully use the radio in Man of Medan to communicate your location and then destroy the distributor cap, see what happens.
They just said Flowey doesn't count
While the 1st deaths are unavoidable the rest of the main characters potentially deaths can have very quickly & very painful deaths:
In Until Dawn Ur first possible death is Jessica in Chapter 4 if ur not fast enough
In Man of Medan Conrad can die before u even reaching the boat if u fail the QTEs while trying to escape
In Little Hope Angela can suffocate to death in the Crossing chapter
And in House of Ashes (minor spoilers) Eric can die if u fail the QTEs while trying to save Rachel
@@Gloss613 That's the joke. Andy said to not put it in the comments, so Ethan put it in his comment.
*Watches Ellen get killed immediately in PT.*
Gets alert: "Seven games that tried to kill you immediately."
*Tips cap* well done, Oxbox. Well. Done.
I swear, the algorithm is becoming self aware.
The first goomba from Super Mario bros on NES tried to kill me immediately as I walked to the right. Does that count? Lol I’m just being dumb don’t mind me.
If I remember correctly, Uncharthed 2 starts with you hanging form an upside-down train wagon wich is about to fall off a high cliff and you have to climb to safety while avoiding falling rocks and being very careful to where you put your hands.
Also, bonus points for Nathan being severely injured by a gunshot he received not long ago(?)
Im pretty sure you cant die then
Correct on all counts. And much like the Need For Speed example, it's possible to screw up the climbing path and fall to your death.
It's not as immediate as RE3, since RE4 has the good grace to give you an easy ganado or two to shoot at first. But when you reach the village and have to deal with a mob and a chainsaw man? Pretty intense.
Pretty sure chapter 3 of the evil within was inspired from that shit. Also same creator so
@@tomasdelcampo2 Which is kinda concerning if they do a RE3 type of upadate to RE4, because honestly how can the open be made more difficult? TWO CHAINSAWS?
@@thomasallen9974 Make you assemble the shotgun
Another World (1991).
_EDIT: as mentioned by @Esther Maron Star they already covered that one in 2019. Furthermore, they did so in almost 1:1 vein as I did below. Colour me embarrassed, but also pleasantly surprised that we share a common grounds when it comes to recognition of one brilliant game_
Back then there was a rather glaring discrepancy between the quality of graphics in the intro and in the game itself. So when I got my hands on Another World for the first time, I was pretty much blown away by its stylized, fluid, movie-like, vector graphics intro and... was caught completely unaware, when the game actually started after teleportation scene. Suffice to say, those 2 or 3 seconds of me waiting for the protagonist to do something, were just enough to get myself killed by a tentacles from the depth.
A good call, that game taught you several times over while 'lingering on an alien world' isn't a good idea.
Even if you get out of the pool, if you take too long to decide left or right... they get you.
1) Drowning. 2) Tentacles. 3) Death leeches. 4) Shadow lion. That's a mighty dangerous first 60 seconds.
This is where my mind went! It's a brutal introduction to a game!
Prince of Persia 2 did something similar.
Ah, more love for Another World. Would also recommend Flashback.
I'm sure someone else has mentioned Another World/Out of This World, but that game starts off trying to kill you and never stops.
You start underwater with a tentacle creature, if you work out the controls and swim to the surface, the tentacle still gets you if you don't move for a second
@@jaugustussmith5816 I found that out the 2nd time I played the game. After they got me in the water the first time. 😂
Mentioned in part 1.
@@washmonument Oh yeah, I remember that one now. 😂😂
Space Quest IV is actually one of the best games ever. I spent years getting nowhere in it as a kid. 10/10 to the narration. Screaming man is actually nightmare fuel.
I could never get past the part in the mall where you have to go through the zero g area while dodging the Sequel Police.
There's also that one Lord of the Rings game for the Ps2 which literally starts you in the middle of Helms Deep. Have fun figuring out the underdeveloped controls while getting stormed by Uruk Hai..
And they'll just keep coming, unless you figure out you need to kick the ladders, if I'm talking about the same game.
@@NotAVeryGoodNickname I think you're talking about the Minas thirit level though. That one was really nightmare inducing...
@@patrickholzer6415 You're right, that wasn't the first mission. And I seem to think there was a game over if you let the number of orcs get too high on that wall too.
@@NotAVeryGoodNickname yeah, the walls were a particularly evil level, since the map was confusing, and the game didn't tell you clear enough that you need to use the catapults on the towers - twice each. I had sooo many game overs just by getting overrun
I have a weird entry
but MGSV TPP always kills me in the intro , when I have to hide among the dead bodies in the hospital , it always kills me once
Almost everyone I know has died right at the start the first time they played the ps1 version of Resident Evil 2. You start surrounded by zombies, and if it's your first Resident Evil game, chances are you don't know the controls well enough to avoid immediately dying.
I certainly did. Back against the wall (which hurts you if you get close, because it's a blazing inferno), sharply limited ammo, no snap-to-aim, and three bullet-sponge zombies just seconds from getting into grab range - it's a lot to take in if you've never handled Resi's controls before.
The original RE3 should also count. You start hopping out of a building, zombies in front of you and a few coming from the burning building.
Although to be fair, at least that game comes with 2 instruction manuals to read at the inventory once you figure out how to open it.
EDIT: Nevermind, only now noticed they do in fact mention that bit...
RE2, in fact, _was_ my first RE game ever and, yep, I died a few times there. Even now, after beating it dozens of times over the years, I still find myself getting nommed on quite a bit in that opening screen, especially if I haven't played it in a while and have lost my muscle memory for the controls.
How about The Elder Scrolls 2 Daggerfall which starts you in the bottom of a dungeon that contains enemies who might be immune to your weapons if you didn’t make the right choices during the quiz that determines your starting equipment. Add in the staggering difficulty of that game at low level and you will definitely die several times
They aren't immune to your fists, they're just _almost_ immune to your fists.
@@thomaslane1547 Imps in Daggerfall are immune to everything that isn’t silver or better
@@joeschmo3844 Yep, that crappy steel sword will do 0 damage; should've got the ebony dagger. But, your bare hands are a surprisingly good material: even though they do very little, they do something. The imp is still going to kill you if you fight it, though. ;)
Not to mention the starting dungeon is... huge
I was spared from that but what put a stop to my first escapes were the diseases.
It was an unexpected surprise to have my character expire while fast traveling to the nearest settlement.
Dead Space 2 was the first game I thought of. And let me tell you. After making it through the entirety of Deadspace one without ever dying, I really didn't appreciate taking the wrong corridor and dying at the very start of Dead Space 2.
Idk if you want games that try to kill you right off the bat by means of a heart attack, Dead Space 1 is great. Cue me freaking out being chased with the alarms shouting at me.
I don’t even know how you can possibly go through a whole dead space game without dying
@@tomasdelcampo2 With difficulty 🙃
@@tomasdelcampo2 Dead Space 2's hardest difficultly has you beat the game in 3 saves or less. Mind you, with how EVERYTHING wants you dead (even yourself) that is a tall ass order.
@@thomasallen9974 yes I know I watched someone do it like 10 years ago
0:37 This sort of banter is why I love OX lol
Probably doesn't count as "immediately", but it IS pretty early on.
In Resident Evil 8, after you crawl out of an overturned van, you start making your way to the Village where you'll be staying for the next 24 hours of Ethan's in-game life. Once dawn fully breaks, your welcoming party is an infinitely respawning pack of werewolves, who know exactly where you are and will continue to try attacking you. Your job is to survive for a few minutes, but there's no doubt the intent of these bloodthirsty grey punks is "Kill the interloper!"
It reminds me of Resident Evil 4’s Ganados attacking you once you enter the village. That chainsaw Ganado still scares people to this day.😬😆
Hell, the original version of RE2 begins gameplay with your back to a wall of fire, and a pack of zombies between you and the exit.
Such a great opening, I love RE8
Yep, RE4, RE5, and RE8 have that starting up ambush that is tough on the first run.
Plot twist. You are dead before the game starts.
nemesis entering the house like that one time my brother ran into the sliding door screen as a toddler. both epic and unforgettably painful to watch.
Things I never thought I'd hear:
Jane: "[...] an honorary citizen of demon butts."
🤣🤣🤣
"...a monumental beef castle of a man..." I have a new goal in life.
Wow I just started the video while reading this.... I can't imagine the context
uh time to use rule 34 >:]
I'm sure that someone else may have already mentioned this, but what about Another World? As soon as the opening cutscene finishes, you are dumped into the abyss with only a few seconds to react before it's game over. Great stuff though guys 👍
I knew it as Out of This World, but you're absolutely right: it tries to kill you right off the bat and doesn't stop trying until the credits roll.
Yep, pretty much every screen in that game has something that will try to kill you....
was mentioned already in part 1, the episode is in the description.
@@QueenOfTheSea101 The thumbnail for that video is _from_ Another World/Out of this World too...
I loved that Scarface game. A lot of fun to play AND it had a swear button, which made you feel just as bad ass, as VO actor Al Pachinko.
yeah.
A game that had no business being so goddamn good but it is, just like The Godfather and Matrix: Path of Neo(two fantastic movie games)
Game needs a rerelease these days. Also, there's X-Men Origins: Wolverine, The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay/Assault on Dark Athena, The Warriors, The Mummy Demastered...
...or that time you played the colorful, inviting game, No Man's Sky, only to have your idyllic space-jauntey fantasies shattered when you awaken in a strange place with no explanation as to why you are being rapidly consumed by the local air. Especially so if, like me, you chose the hardest difficulty to begin what seemed an innocuous game, then discovered you had literal seconds to make a series of barely-explained yet life-saving decisions. Lots of death, is what I'm getting at.
Yeah that was brutal. Luckily I started on JUST a freezing planet my first time, but it did take a few panic filled moments to figure out how to recharge my suit.
anyone else when resident evil 2 when nemesis came through the wall fell like they should had added an "OH YEAH!!!" like the the kool-aid man?
Kingdom Come: Deliverance has you do a few menial tasks then, escape from an invading army on horseback. (way harder than you think)
Flove this video!
That's a weird thing to type
I thought it was fluff this video
Good save.
Lmao my Google translate wants to translate this comment to English.
Lol
Has flash back to CoD World at War. No tutorial, no tips, just immediately thrown into a burning village with a bonsai guy charging at you
Technically, that IS the tutorial. It just has an above average amount of ordinance being thrown at you. Okay, a VERY above average amount of ordinance. Imagine the first mission of most Ace Combat games but on the ground and on steroids.
That game was so hard on rails though.
Walk the wrong way on a map, or fail to take the right position in your squad, and you just... die.
Should've asked @Eurogamer, they should still have video of Ian killing the first werewolf barehanded
It definitely still exists
A video idea I think could be fun Is "top 7 worst escape rooms you'd never want to be in" like the escape room part of re7 with the clown carving into your hand and stuff
If there is not one entry of the zero escape series i will be ubset
The Dark Forces/Jedi Knight series had a habit of having quick openers.
Dark Forces 1, a venerable FPS that came out around the time of Doom and Marathon, starts you at the bottom of a down-only elevator shaft, with the door opening to a central corridor that you'll pass through/over a couple of times during the level. On Easy and Medium, you can get to the end of the corridor before you have a group of enemies on your right and another through the open doorway on your left, meaning any player not careful enough to shoot the guys on the right quickly winds up with enemies in both directions. In Hard, things are more aggressive, with an enemy below and to one side of the door that opened up, waiting to shoot you in the back as you charge down the corridor.
"Lycan Subscribe" That's top shelf humor right there.
Fallout 4 if you go straight north of the vault you can run into a sentry bot, molerats with landmines tied to them and a raider with a minigun all at level 1
If you want to include "What if you go the wrong way in Fallout," New Vegas is the better option.
A straight line from Goodsprings to New Vegas takes you past approximately a hundred billion deathclaws.
fallout 4 sucks a little bit now lets talk about fallout 3 and nuevo mexico ( fallout nuevo mexico is a mod for fallout new vegas just look up fallout nuevo mexico)
And the legend of Ian Higton slapping the werewolf to death with a strong backhand grows more formidable.
I would recommend Warframe. Game starts with you waking up from cryo and then being approached by grineer thugs. It does give you a tutorial on how to use your first special ability to combat them, but it's entirely possible (or *was* entirely possible, I heard they remade the opening recently and not sure if this is still the case) to run out of energy without killing them, meaning they have guns and you have nothing.
In a way, I almost wish the ceiling fan in Disco Elysium had made the list haha. Great video, as always!
Flo...ve the video!
As for suggestions, I would say Fallout New Vegas. The attempted murder of you in the opening cutscene may be off the table, but the Cazadores just outside the opening area certainly count.
Or if honest hearts counts.
Definitely missed my favorite! Disco Elysium, if you play as a low physical stated character you can die to a light bulb in the very first scene. That was the moment I knew it would be my absolute favorite game. If you haven't played Disco Elysium I highly recommend.
I'd also add The Evil Within, which trolls you into thinking you can stealth kill the butcher in the beginning with a cleaver only for him to turn around and kill you if you try.
The opening to Dead Space 2 I was just laughing through the first time I played it. It was so absurdly over the top in terms of throwing you into a life or death scenario right off the bat that I assumed it had to be a dream sequence Isaac was experiencing PTSD style and that the game would go back to a his sitting in the chair and being interviewed any second now.
Not immidiately but potentially very close, the Stone Talos in Breath of the Wild, you could potentially walk up to it in nothing but your underwear armed with only a stick.
you know, i never really thought of it that way, but given that the game IS play as you want, there are probably people who completely ignore the starter quest directing them straight to the first tower in favor of exploring the plateau so it is possible.
@@QueenOfTheSea101 I was very tempted to see if I could go straight for Gannon from the plateau, but decided to try and actually play the game instead.
How about the first few seconds of the first Super Mario brothers for NES. That first gumba has scored more kills than just about every other enemy in the game combined
Ooooh, oh you brought back some PTSD just flashing the Space Quest logo:
For those who are so young they missed this phenomenon - Space Quest was a Snuff Game before Snuff Games.
Try to prove me wrong - you are trapped, often rubbing everything on everything to solve a puzzle, that will usually kill you....
Subnautica: Below Zero, you just got out of your ship as it blows up and you have to quickly gather flares, food and water then dive in the water in the starting area before you freeze to death.
The last King's Field, as soon as you start you're in like a valley, but if you walk towards a certain bit of wall, you suddenly find what you thought to be terra firma was actually covering up a stonking great pit which you are inexplicably finding yourself intimately acquainted with the sensation of plummeting, complete with rather terminal finalé! Like such pits do, historically, have a tendency to!
I forgot that Gary Owens (of Laugh-In/Space Ghost fame) narrated Space Quest IV!
Correction for 5:04 you ARE armed... with precisely 2, count em, 2 arms!
What are the odds. I just finished my first ever playthrough of Need for Speed: The Run two days ago and now I see it referenced first time ever in an OxBox list. And it is a 10 year old game.
Super Mario.
That first gumba teaches you how to jump real fast.
And just because Flowey is a cutscene, he does try to kill you immediately
Right, but you can't actually die to Flowey, so it's not the game itself trying to kill the player
Would Fallout 4 count? Because, while you do have to ignore every single instance of the game telling you to hurry up before the nuke falls and renders you unto ash, it will eventually fall and render you unto ash.
Basically every far cry after 3(unsure about before 3) starts out with you being hunted by a large group of enemies or some near death experience happening.
Metal gear solid 5 phantom pain. The prologue is literally 100 ways to die
This calls to mind Steel Battalion, the 2002 Xbox game with the 40-button controller that lets you pilot a giant walking tank. The game strongly encourages you to read the 34-page technical operations manual before starting, and that's good advice since the campaign starts with a hangar door opening in front of you and an enemy mech opening fire. If you haven't already internalized the half-dozen steps that must be performed in order to even _start_ your "VT", you'll get blasted to scrap in the first moments of the game. To add insult to injury, Steel Battalion would essentially delete your save game if you failed to eject from your exploding VT, or "relegate" your pilot if you survived but ran out of credits to buy new tanks. At least if this happened in the first moments, you wouldn't really be losing any progress, but the game makes it clear from the very beginning that it is NOT messing around.
Ah Space Quest, and pretty much any Sierra game, was so great at creatively killing you.
I really enjoyed those Sierra games. Seeing how many stupid ways I could fail/get killed was fun! Like in Space Quest 3: just picking up a (turns out sharp) piece of metal would kill you. I liked seeing what the designers would let me do and what the narrators’ response would be.
".. kicks so much ass that his foot was made an honorary citizen of demon butts"... Makes me cry sometimes how good you all are 🥲
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee. The first screen has a difficult secret area before teaching the controls, the second spawns a Slig if you are not fast enough.
If you are fast enough, you can actually take control of that Slig. Run, pull yourself up, and immediately start chanting.
@@austinstone478 Yeah, I remember. Maybe that's supposed to be an early tutorial? The game itself doesn't teach Possesion until Monsaic Lines, after all.
Not sure. However, if you actually read the little book that came with the game it explains how to do possession. Me, being however young I was when I first played it, didn't bother to do this.
@@austinstone478 I learned the controls via the demo (wow, I'm old) so when I finally got the full game, it was a no-brainer. :)
Doom 2016 is one of those games I really suck at but still enjoy playing. I refuse to lower the difficulty! Ghostrunner also has the feel of doom only you have a sword, and all characters die in one hit, including you! Still fun though
In Torment: Tides or Numinera you start the game falling through the sky. If you decide not to do anything you will crash straight into the ground and die. It's great!
A fantastic game.
I’m going to like this video just for the slick “lycan subscribe” joke 🤣🤣🤣🤣
How about that one time in Hitman where Mike was in combat in the first few seconds of a mission because he casually walked past a security guard without letting the guard frisk him... does that count?
Fastest Game Over I got was in Torment: Tides of Numinera. You start out in the air with no idea what's going on or who you even are, falling towards the ground. Depending on your first few choices, you may reach terminal velocity and die on impact. You may die before reaching character creation.
Divinity Original Sin 2: There are so many ways you can die early based on your choices in an around the Fort Joy area, right at the start.
Demon's Quest surprised me with a difficult boss battle right at the start. Maybe it's just me not being good at action games, but starting off with a big zombie dragon trying to eat me before I even knew which button did what didn't seem fair. Don't know why I expected anything different from a spinoff of Ghosts and Goblins.
Amazing video!
The humour was really on point (even more than usual, I mean), loved it!
Especially the Flowey and Space Quest parts.
6:26 "SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEND!" so that's where that iconic line came from
New workout goal: Monumental Beef Castle of a Man.
Resi 3s opening is basically wondering where's Barry while you run for your life
Maybe Jane could've asked Eurogamer for footage of Ian beating said werewolf with no weapons...
Hahahahahaaa lol 😂 that was hilarious especially the end with Andy holding back his killer instinct 🤣
I think I had pretty much the same reaction as Andy for the guy that kills himself, after the initial horror phase, "Right... Dead Space."
No one's mentioning the original Legend of Zelda? You know, where if you don't go into the cave and get a sword from an old man, you die to the monsters?
That hair style and jacket Jane's sporting is pretty Killer if id say
Wouldn't be a Sierra adventure game without tons of deaths that border on unfair.
They may as well have been "1000 ways to die" since there seems to be far more of those then endings or collectibles.
Oh yes, Sierra adventure games. They make souls games feel warm and welcoming.
DMC3 was brutal. Literally the first second of the game has an enemy start to wind up his attack. You either sword him or dodge the attack. Keep in mind, the game doesn't tell you how to do anything yet, so unless you know that triangle is sword, your best bet is to just move back or jumping out of the way. And the game only gets tougher from there.
Thought Andy was gonna say Gamestop at the beginning 😂
Dunno if Eternal Darkness counts, but Alex is having a dream in which she is fighting zombies with a shotgun as part of the opening to the game.
Having watched you all play Kerbal Space Program I'd argue that could be included in this list 😆 loved the outro Andy!
The beginning of DS2 and Res3 were batshit crazy right out the gate. Loved it ❤
Not sure if it was in part 1 or not, but how about the opening level of Battlefield 1? The game literally throws you into a battle in the First World War. No tutorial, no anything.
“Lycan subscribe”. The little title cards never get the attention they deserve. Well done.
Doesn't Space Quest give you super sarcastic "you died" messages? It's worth dying just for those, honestly.
Sierra games in general did that, yes.
They're all nice, but there's a good reason why LucasArts won the puzzle adventure game race these days.
As well as Mike, I also fllove this video. Especially the end where Andy specifically guaranteed he will not kill me
Jane’s really rocking that ponytail.
Jane rocks everything
In the Sega Megadrive/Genesis game The Immortal you can potentially be eaten by a giant, worm monster within the first 30 seconds if you don’t move from a certain spot when prompted
You have to be really good at Bloodbourne to win this fight? "Ian Higton liked that"
Found out on my current run of bloodborne you can actually one hit the werewolf if you land a backstab and a crit
Let Bea die in Space Quest V and one of the death messages explicitly states the paradox that by letting her die in the present your son wasn’t born in the future thus you died back in Space Quest IV.
Space Quest V technically makes this list inaccurate because time paradoxes.
Yes, but, assuming you don't get her killed, that doesn't happen, because he does save you. And the worst SQ5 does at the beginning is tries to get you expelled. You can't actually die until you get command of the Eureka.
In the Rachet and Clank remake, the first time you play as Clank (can't remember if it's when you start up the game or not) you're immediately being chased by a killer robot easily 3 times your size. I think that counts