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[Akura]

Repeated attempts to kill a special captain(the ones with a red mission icon). I couldn't get his details because he wouldn't show up in the army list, but he was immune to ranged, attacks from above, attacks from the front, and possibly finishers. And he had a constant stream of reinforcements coming in, which included other captains.

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Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor. Eventually beat him by bringing his health down a lot with a stealth attack, then draining him. He also took a lot of damage when I used him as an orc shield.

[Rolan7]

I've reached the Boneyard, a fairly large settlement and home of the Gun Runners.  Somehow, the Gun Runners do business out of a "fortress" surrounded by a radioactive moat and also deathclaws.  I listened to the NPCs, so I did know this!

Still, I think it's just a little silly that I wandered from a heavily populated sector of burned out buildings to identical burnt out buildings, within striking range of a deathclaw.  Who crit me twice in two turns, because of course, 9 luck.
I did get one turn, though!  And the full-auto burst from my fancy combat shotgun (which was very dear), rolled what I think was max damage, AKA ~30 after DR.  30 out of 225.

Ian's SMG autofire hit for 0 damage, because of course.  Freakin DR.  New Vegas really did return to Fallout's roots in that annoying sense.

Fallout 1
I just want ANY ENERGY WEAPON WHATSOEVER, FRICK

[Greiger]

Not quite a death, but my soul died a little.  Gathering in FF14 Heavensward, I've been waiting for a long time for a single rare gathering point to become available. It shows up and I run over there in a hurry.

Lots of monsters around the gathering point.  I basically have 2 minutes to get in, harvest it and get out.  So I call my chocobo and sic him on the first monster that attacks me as I rush the node.  I get there and begin collectable gathering.  I have the item almost obtained when I get attacked, that forces me out of the gathering screen and the gathering node vanishes.

While my chocobo is actually quite strong, it matches to my level.  Not only was I a lower level gathering class, I had the chocobo set to attacker stance, which basically amounts to telling it not to choco cure itself.  It dropped fast to the monster, and the monster attacked me next, cancelling the gathering, and destroying the old world fig I worked so hard to perfectly collect.

The worst bit is, that I have an ability as a gatherer that makes me completely invisible to monsters I had completely forgotten I had.

[AzyWng]

The war had changed.

The Boss wasn't ready for it...

Soon after his death, everything crumbled. The Diamond Dogs broke apart, Miller and Ocelot went missing...

All the efforts, all the blood shed...

And it turned out to be for nothing.

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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.

Spoiler: The Actual Reason (click to show/hide)

I was playing Infinite Heaven and got killed. When I tried to restart, the game took forever, so I Alt-F4'ed (probably not the smartest thing I could have done, but hindsight is 20/20, my physical (and mental) vision is not. Everything else I tried (uninstalling and reinstalling, restarting, restoring files via Snakebite) just resulted in an infinite loading screen.

Ultimately I had to delete my savegame data and start over (thankfully my online stuff is safe).

[Akura]

Spoiler: So basically, you experienced (click to show/hide)

the true events of the original Metal Gear's final boss fight from the Boss' point of view.

[Tawa]

The war had changed.

That's MGS4, though

[SOLDIER First]

so you're saying automatic target-locking pod-based missile launchers are old news?

[Rolan7]

The war had changed.

That's MGS4, though

It's heresy.  War never changes.

Edit:  Speaking of...
I met Killian, mayor-proprietor of Junktown.  After we did some business, a shifty gunslinger walked in.  "Gizmo sends his regards."
As it happens, I had walked straight to the shopkeeper from the door (as one does), so the round hit me square in the back.  Ow, but I'm fine.
Killian responded, of course, by drawing his pistol and trying to shoot straight through my face.  Fricken...

Then it got weird, loyalty-cascade style.  I'm pretty sure a guard saw this situation and attacked *me*, though possibly I missed my companion Ian attacking him in my defense.  What I do remember is that the guards definitely aggro'd on me without me attacking anyone.  And also that Killington aggro'd on Ian, but *specifically not me*.  So Killzor killed my companion, the guards tried to kill me until I put them down, then Killllian was happy to talk to me.

How is this a death?  Killian's script was completely screwed- he was giving the same pre-assassination options, no way to start the Gizmo quest.  Also my pack mule died.  So I played around with a stack of TNT.

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Fallout 1
Mopping up early-game quests with a plasma rifle is rather cathartic.  I don't even have powered armor, just a powerful weapon and experience with desperately kiting/hiding.  I still die instantly if I'm lazy, or simply unlucky, which makes my plasma deathstick all the more satisfying.

[itisnotlogical]

After playing with Oblivion horses, which are goofy in their own wonderful ways, I forgot that Skyrim horses have a massive turn radius. When I parked my horsey on the very point of a rock for better vantage point on the Forsworn camp, there was nowhere to go but off the edge.

Skyrim.

[Draignean]

After playing with Oblivion horses, which are goofy in their own wonderful ways, I forgot that Skyrim horses have a massive turn radius. When I parked my horsey on the very point of a rock for better vantage point on the Forsworn camp, there was nowhere to go but off the edge.

Skyrim.

3-point horse turn? They do have a reverse...

[TheDarkStar]

I took some soldiers with mid-game armor and weapons and completed a flawless mission (iirc it was Difficult).

I lost the war ~5 days later.

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XCOM 2. I was hoping that that last mission could slow the completion of the alien's project but it didn't. There were two bases I knew about that I could have attacked, but they were both in regions I had no contact with and I was already in contact with as many regions as I could at the time.

[Rince Wind]

I lost my first playthrough to the avatar project as well.

[Rolan7]

Same, on Normal.  I'd say screw their expectations, but they did explicitly say 2 would be more difficult.

TBH, I did sorta enjoy dying in my first playthrough.  The forces of oppression were overwhelming, but I had rookies at a severe discount.  So many people died.  So many.
And despite the best efforts of every rebel left, the future refused to change.

[itisnotlogical]

I thought I had the game figured out once I'd learned flying, grazing and my own spell cards. I won a few matches without being knocked out, even!

Then my streak ended and, like most fighting games, I ended up being knocked around by giant hitboxes for massive damage with no recourse and seemingly nothing I could have done differently.

I hate fighting games.

Touhou 10.5: Scarlet Weather Rhapsody.

[Telgin]

Shotgun to the face from the final boss of Aliens vs. Predator (2010) in the marine campaign.  That fight reminded me just how much I hate unexplained damage sponge bosses.

It should not take 2 magazines of 99 10mm explosive tipped AP bullets to the face to kill someone on normal difficulty.  It doesn't matter if they're secretly a robot.

It's also really cheap when said boss can one-shot you with a shotgun if he's close, and that the layout of the boss arena coaches you to backpedal your way into a corner where you meet certain death from Damage SpongeBob's shotgun.

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Side note: I hate video game shotguns.  Which is more damaging to a target with bullet resistant armor?  An assault rifle with explosive AP ammo, or a shotgun with buckshot?  The shotgun.  Which is more damaging, said assault rifle's grenade launcher, or a shotgun?  The shotgun.  I probably should have taken the game's hint that I really should want to use a shotgun since I was tripping over them everywhere.  I'm pretty sure the shotgun does more damage than the smartgun (a "light" machine gun) too.

This was the exact same problem I had with the praetorian fight not long before, actually (except it didn't have a shotgun).  You instinctively backpedal from enemies, but the game dumps you on a staircase facing the praetorian.  You're supposed to charge forward to enter a circular area where you can backpedal with impunity, but instead I, of course, backed away and around the only corner I had.  I only learned that there even was anywhere to run after I finally killed it after about 6 tries (should have used a shotgun...) and walked past its body to find the other pathways.

Side note: I might have tried running past it sooner if I knew there was a run button before a tip on the death screen helpfully told me that Q made me run faster.  I spent the whole game wondering if I was supposed to be that slow.