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[Rygar 8 Bit]

ITT: Fellow old farts.

Man, Sierra was just plain mean spirited back in the day. Even lighthearted games like Larry were low key savage.



I loved, *loved* the gibbing and simple strategy of Myth and Myth 2. Alas, those games have not aged well at all

whaaaaaat they still play fine started a new campaign for myth 2 like 3 weeks ago game still plays perfectly fine very few things feel clunky

 

[Selddon]

bloody mess

 

[FinKL]

I just remembered Fist of the North Star on NES was a thing. Atleast it was a thing on this bootleg cartridge my neighbours had. Punching dudes in half freaked me out so I only did the kick attack that sends enemies flying off screen.

lol I remember this! I couldn't tell as a kid if the NES cartridge was glitched or if enemies needed to explode like that. Guess that solves that mystery

 

[Funky Papa]

whaaaaaat they still play fine started a new campaign for myth 2 like 3 weeks ago game still plays perfectly fine very few things feel clunky

I feel like the (very) clunky animations work against it. I can go back to pixels, but controlling a army shaking like Pete Doherty after a shot of bad skag feels really detrimental. I can't deal with that coarseness, unlike with classic Command & Conquer, which remains very smooth.

 

[gfxtwin]

The Golden Shower in Primal Rage

 

[Wag]

Nothing like
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To really clue me in on what game this is

It's an old Apple II game called The Bilestoad where you had to kill your opponent by dismembering them.

 

[Rygar 8 Bit]

I feel like the (very) clunky animations work against it. I can go back to pixels, but controlling a army shaking like Pete Doherty after a shot of bad skag feels really detrimental. I can't deal with that coarseness, unlike with classic Command & Conquer, which remains very smooth.

myth feels slow and deliberate a lot of splitting and kiting enemies around to set up ambushes and traps and trying to keep as many of your men alive as possible
i will concede that the grouping and getting everyone in formation feels clunky and could use some work

as for animation quality its not that terrible could use more variation instead of just turning side to side in like 2-3 frames

 

[Sesha]

The Chzo Mythos games have some nice pixel gore to them

The first Devil May Cry has some sweet enemy fatality animations.

Between RE3 and this there had to be someone at Capcom with a vore fetish.

 

[Baron Von Beans]

As a kid, I always remember being impressed with the gib effects in Rise of the Triad: Dark War. I think there even used to be a code to turn it up to 11. The eyeballs falling in front of the screen is something I still remember.

Hard to find any good gifs on this one.

/EKG mode! (Stands for extra kill gore!). I remember my youthful eyes loved seeing like four heads explode out of a single person

 

[AaronMT86]

 

[Funky Papa]

The Chzo Mythos games have some nice pixel gore to them

The first Devil May Cry has some sweet enemy fatality animations.



Between RE3 and this there had to be someone at Capcom with a vore fetish.

I think half of the 386/486-era devs had a vore fetish before vore was even a thing.

 

[dlauv]

Darum killing Teim was fucking brutal and came out of nowhere. I'll gif when I get home.

Edit: Vid instead.

 

[jond76]

the immortal has a bunch of good ones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4a2LpbPbu4

Came to post this! I remember getting this BECAUSE of all the different deaths. Lol..... I'm old....

 

[Darkwater]

Interesting, don't think I ever saw the first two.

With that name and avatar? I'm a little surprised.

Anyway, the Lieutenant's death animation is the only one he has, I think. Maybe if you knock him down first and then kill him, you get the standard 'pool of blood forms under body' death. That'd be a letdown compared to this one, though.

The Vault Dweller shooting the Overseer is what happens when you have the Bloody Mess trait. Kind of odd that something unrelated like that decides how the very end of the story goes. Wonder what they were thinking there.

Edit:

What's this first death animation? Don't remember seeing it.

It's this fight in the Military Base.

 

[finley83]

/EKG mode! (Stands for extra kill gore!). I remember my youthful eyes loved seeing like four heads explode out of a single person

I think it stands for Engine Killing Gibs as it used to cause chronic slowdown on lower spec machines.

 

[PSqueak]

This reminds me of that brutal Eternal Darkness death (you know the one).
I think it's the smear...

Eternal Darkness spoilers, I guess:
http://i.imgur.com/PmGhjDs.gif

It's way more brutal than choosing any of the other two deities (they just explode his head), yet this boss battle is the easiest of the 3.

 

[Lagamorph]

Stolen from another thread here,
Spiderman in MegaCD bad ending has Spidey and MJ dissolved in a vat of acid.

 

[DJ Lushious]

What about Manhunt from Rockstar?

I beat this game when it came out, but I was always so disturbed by the deaths. I could do the over-the-top blood that was in video games leading up to Manhunt, but the vicious brutality of the kills always left me very uncomfortable.

 

[Morfeo]

This thread is nostalgi overload. So many good games from that era!

 

[krumble]

This one screwed me up as a kid... and still does. Phantasmagoria.

Only 1 of 15 or so gruesome deaths in the game.

Roberta Williams REALLY Showed us how twisted she was with Phantasmagoria - I'd just bought a gaming PC when this came out and I LOVED IT sooo much being a huge horror fan in the first place

 

[Currygan]

 

[petran79]

Huh, older games tend to have far more gruesome and disturbing deaths than newer games. It has been a very long time since i've had any kind of reaction to gore, and the first gif (Waxworks) in this thread made me rise an eyebrow. And some of those Fallout 1/2 deaths... somehow never seen them all.

Stuff like Manhunt, God of War and Soldier of Fortune look kinda tame compared to what was.

back then computer developers didnt have to worry about angry moms and console ports

 

[PetriP-TNT]

Harvester has good ones

 

[HyperZone<3]

those monster transformations in Parasite Eve did indeed disturb me a bit back in the day.

also this thread is kind of amazing. I want to thank so many people here for their horrifying contributions.

 

[Psychotic_Mantis]

/EKG mode! (Stands for extra kill gore!). I remember my youthful eyes loved seeing like four heads explode out of a single person

That's it! Man, that brings back some memories!

 

[ViolentP]

Can't forget Chiller!

 

[hikarutilmitt]

That is great, but it's disappointing that there's no decapitation by the end of it.

That would ruin the Monty Python and the Holy Grail reference though.

 

[Camoxide]

All the Heart of Darkness deaths

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYyZfME5XYY

 

[Firebrand]

Brain Dead 13 honestly had some very gruesome death sequences.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V3-4nik6ERY

This is what I was thinking. I only played the demo but man, those are some gruesome deaths even though there's no blood.

 

[Arkanius]

All the Heart of Darkness deaths

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYyZfME5XYY

The best deaths.
All those spine breaking

Brutal

 

[jmdajr]

I saw my friend play this on Commodore 64. Seems silly now, but it scared the fuck outta me.

 

[Ravelle]

The only game ever to prevent me sleeping. I refuse to replay it to this day, it's not only gory but psychologically traumatizing.

I watched my dad play this and a way too young age, the part in which there were hands coming out of the bed to grab her and someone force breeding animal guts with a funnel scared the hell out of me.

Like milk

Even for today standards this is hardcore.

I also believe there's no villain more twisted and evil than Zoltan. I mean, shit.

 

[The_Spaniard]

Blood was full of this...

Thank you, I was waiting for someone to post my favorite game.

 

[Alric]

ITT: Fellow old farts.

Man, Sierra was just plain mean spirited back in the day. Even lighthearted games like Larry were low key savage.



I loved, *loved* the gibbing and simple strategy of Myth and Myth 2. Alas, those games have not aged well at all

whaaaaaat they still play fine started a new campaign for myth 2 like 3 weeks ago game still plays perfectly fine very few things feel clunky

Yeah I disagree, it still plays great to me. There is a place like ProjectMagma that still updates the game and has put out HD textures for the games some patches back.

 

[hikarutilmitt]

I watched my dad play this and a way too young age, the part in which there were hands coming out of the bed to grab her and someone force breeding animal guts with a funnel scared the hell out of me.

Like milk

Even for today standards this is hardcore.

I also believe there's no villain more twisted and evil than Zoltan. I mean, shit.

Yeah, even now, so many years later, Phantasmagoria is still some nasty, gory stuff. Blood? Sure. A little cutting here and there? Sure. Most slasher flicks of the 80s and 90s aren't that bad. This, though, was and still is grotesque. The stuff of nightmares. Back when it was first out, of course, my teenage self was enjoying how gross and edgy it was, but now...

 

[JNT]

Ugh. Why is it so difficult to find the original gibbing animation of the former humans and imps from Doom?

Anyway, here's some disturbing gore from Doom 2:

 

[Bloodporne]

My friends and I used to pause PSX Doom to check out all the different animation stages for the extremely gory splatter effect when you hit the pistol/shotgun guys with rocket splash damage.

They apparently explode kind of inside-outward, can't find a gif now either.

 

[Dangerblade]

Speaking of Doom, Brutal Doom (I know, I know, not exactly old, but it's a mod for a 24 year old game so I'm counting it) has some pretty amazing kills.

 

[Justinh]

Ugh. Why is it so difficult to find the original gibbing animation of the former humans and imps from Doom?

Anyway, here's some disturbing gore from Doom 2:

You mean like this?

Because yeah, it was one of my favorite things about Doom when I was younger, lol...

 

[UltimaWeapon]

Surprised I haven't seen any GIFs from the Clock Tower games. But to be fair I can't recall if the deaths were so much brutal as they were terrifying when you got caught / stuck lol

 

[eagledare]

Phantasmagoria and The Immoral look rad. Do either of them hold up today?

 

[TheFNEffecT]

I just played through Dreamweb because of this thread, what a cool game! Any suggestions for more games like it?

 

[Rygar 8 Bit]

Came to post this! I remember getting this BECAUSE of all the different deaths. Lol..... I'm old....

yeah the old magazine ad that had a bunch of skulls with different ways you could die is what sold me on it back in the day

 

[supermarioworldE]

Decapitation

Impalement

Dismemberment

And an Exploding Head

All in a GA rated game.

 

[Rygar 8 Bit]

speaking of castlevania the vampire hunters were fun to kill in symphony of the night

 

[MiloHoffman]

this is so fucked up

 

[Stallion Dan]

Battle Chess (1988) had cool death animations if I remember correctly.

Wow, thread title made me think of that exact game.

 

[IncognitoPanda]

Heart of darkness freaked me the fuck out and I was like 12.

Me too, and I was younger.. I still hold it dear to my heart. Such a dark and beautiful masterpiece.

 

[Somnid]

As a kid, I always remember being impressed with the gib effects in Rise of the Triad: Dark War. I think there even used to be a code to turn it up to 11. The eyeballs falling in front of the screen is something I still remember.

Hard to find any good gifs on this one.

ludicrous gibs!

Also, not a lot of people noticed but the hands that fly around give the middle finger.

 

[Lumination]

Wow, thread title made me think of that exact game.

I could swear there was another chess game in the 90s in the exact same vein, but in 3d. Am I crazy?