WhateverItTakes
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Heart of darkness freaked me the fuck out and I was like 12.
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It seems tame compared to the other stuff in the thread... But Prince of Persia was my first game, i was 6 years old and i always called my mother to just pass those trap because the death animation terrified me.
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This is my new favourite thread and The Imortal was the first thing that came to mind.
WhupTroyGAF
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Was.
Moonstone
Immortal and Moonstone were the first two I thought of.
Also RE4 which is 12.5 years old already.
Orochinagis
Member
Leon getting his face liquified by a random insect in RE4, you can see his skull
Ha, I remember bringing my two disc floppy set of this to school in the 7th grade. Ironically during the whole "Mortal Kombat is the devil" period. Not only did my classmates and I have a blast, but the same teacher who proclaimed Mortal Lombard to be an evil game was wondering if I could make copies of it. 😅
Dijital_Majik
Neo Member
Scarred me for life
Came into the thread looking for this.
Did not disappoint.
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Lord Error
Insane For Sony
Lol that was a shock for me when I played it. What an awesome game, and an even better sequel. I was going to post about it, was surprised that someone was quicker - the game doesn't seem to have many fans here.Creatures for the Commodore 64 seems like just another cute platform game, until you encounter stuff like this:
Fallout-NL
Member
Fallout 1. Blew me away as a kid.
Couldn't find one of the burst fire death animations easily, nor a good one of Gizmo kicking the bucket.
Interesting, don't think I ever saw the first two.
Earthbound64
Banned
Seriously.
Earthbound64
Banned
This pic from the Commodore 64 version of Friday The 13th looks quite tame, but it always pops up unexpectedly, accompanied by this blood-curdling scream from hell. Nearly gave me a heart attack.
2blackcats
Member
haha same, was pretty young and the fear of death was REAL because of those
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
Project Firestart (C64)
It was the first game where I've seen the scribble on the wall made in blood to be used as a visual narrative device. Generally, the environment telling the story was not really a thing then, so something simple like that seemed like a breakthrough of sorts.
As the GIF cycles, you can see some more scenes of death - but as far as I remember, you don't see the deaths happening - you only see an aftermath.
It was the first game where I've seen the scribble on the wall made in blood to be used as a visual narrative device. Generally, the environment telling the story was not really a thing then, so something simple like that seemed like a breakthrough of sorts.
As the GIF cycles, you can see some more scenes of death - but as far as I remember, you don't see the deaths happening - you only see an aftermath.
DAREALGUMMY
Member
Yup. Always creeped me the fuck out.
Ghostmaster
Member
I have no know-how, so if anyone could make a gif out of this amazing beheading scene from Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain (just the beheading and the head rolling off, 0:20-0:24), I'd be very, very grateful ^_^
(spoilers obv.)
https://youtu.be/6fD8eNhv7M4?t=19
I don't care how dated the CG is: that remains my favourite video game cut scene of all time. It's completely unapologetic, no fade to black/cut to a shadow/any kind of self-censorship, yet without any stupid tacky edginess. And holy shit it's satisfying, that piece of shit really deserved it.Oh and it has my favourite track from the game too, Awakening to the World
TheJollyCorner
Member
Post #30?
The gross and bafflingly disjointed 1998 point-and-click adventure Hopkins FBI had quite a lot of gore in it. I don't dare post any of it here, but by all means use the dark powers of Google to see for yourselves the serious issues one of the artists working on the game obviously had with women.
Because it's all just dead women. Holy shit, are there ever a lot of dead women. If I had a map of the locations of Hopkins FBI, it would just say "here be dead women", because in Hopkins FBI it's always dead lady o'clock.
Because it's all just dead women. Holy shit, are there ever a lot of dead women. If I had a map of the locations of Hopkins FBI, it would just say "here be dead women", because in Hopkins FBI it's always dead lady o'clock.
schwabdizzle
Banned
That's just fucked up.
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Project Overkill had some good death animations. If someone else would like to post gifs
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
I would say that's a game that's not restricted by either the technology or the time in which it was released. While it is kind of old, by the time it came out you could put just about anything in games, so the gore like that wasn't very surprising. 2D sprites depicting realistic gore was not something common, or really even something the visual techniques of that time were tuned for.
Myth The Fallen Lords and Myth 2 Soulblighter had amazing gore/gibs. Body parts would fly through the air from explosion, hit other units and do tiny bits of damage. Body parts could be picked up by Ghols and thrown, like the Wights puss body parts to stun people and blood flowed downhill.
Mr. Poolman
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Aww man, I loved Battle Chess
Morrigan Stark
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Thanks!
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
Myth The Fallen Lords and Myth 2 Soulblighter had amazing gore/gibs. Body parts would fly through the air from explosion, hit other units and do tiny bits of damage. Body parts could be picked up by Ghols and thrown, like the Wights puss body parts to stun people and blood flowed downhill.
catch!
Yeah, I feel the Commodore 64 as a whole is kinda underrepresented here on GAF. I think the main reason is because most members either hail from the USA (where 8-bit home computers like the C64, Speccy and CPC were far less popular than in Europe) or are too young to have experienced the 8-bit home computer craze. It's up to us old people to keep the 8-bit spirit alive here!
Time for some more gory C64 screenshots!
Dracula
Jack The Ripper
Wolfman
Frankenstein
Head.spawn
Junior Member
These were simpler, immodest and much gnarlier times.
ViolentP
Member
The game that got me into Let's Plays.
That death tune popped right into my head.
This pic from the Commodore 64 version of Friday The 13th looks quite tame, but it always pops up unexpectedly, accompanied by this blood-curdling scream from hell. Nearly gave me a heart attack.
which part of this image looks tame to you?
timetokill
Banned
Surprised at no MK gifs
I guess I'm becoming desensitized to 8-bit gore
OK, now everybody marvel at this GIF from The First Funky Fighter:
Squarehard
Member
I mean, everything in this game basically gave me nightmares, but I always get creeped out when characters die during battles, and their corpse just sits there in such a disturbing pose.
Seriously, this game creeped me the hell out as a child, lol.
Bootador83
Member
Spycraft electrocution torture scene (yes you can actually kill her if you too far)
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xolavw
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xolavw
Yeah, that's the one that's always at the front of my brain when I see a topic like this one.
I was only a child...
I think I remember a burly death scene from Manhunter: San Francisco (I think? LA? I dunno). I'll see if I can find a youtube thingy of it and gif it.