@@gurvmlk Believe it or not there are some younger gamers out there who literally weren't alive during the 16-bit era, and actually don't know about the numbering discrepancy with some of the older FF games.
@@mchevre It's really just an alternative version of the confusion caused to us from the 90's when the Final Fantasy series suddenly jumped from III to VII. No matter which generation you belong to, the localization of Final Fantasy has been messing with your head.
"But...the Future refused to change" is still one of the most haunting Game Over screens. Also, those Final Fight game over screens freaked me out as a kid.
Glad I'm not the only person to be freaked out by a continue screen as a kid, except in my case it was the Ninja Gaiden arcade game. Which was similar in how it portrays the main character about to be killed by a contraption that's inching closer and closer as the timer ticks down.
i have to mentally prep myself with that one, even now, it scared the hell out of me as a kid. the worst game over screen growing up was surprisingly mario kart... just something about that tune... ugh.
The Chrono Trigger one will always stand out because it isn't just a short sequence, it's an entire ending cutscene. I wish more games had extended death cutscenes if you died in specific places or ways. The Arkham games do this so well it's almost worth dying to every boss on purpose, multiple times- just to see every death cutscene, of which each boss often has several!
Chrono Trigger’s is by far not just the most dramatic of the bunch but the most terrifying. It’s incredibly bleak & haunting. Plus fact that it mirrors a real life nuclear apocalypse - nightmare fuel
It's more than knowing the world is screwed, it's watching how it got screwed to the hopeless situation you saw and knowing it wasn't something that took place in the blink of an eye. You get to watch others try to stop it and fail just as you did, each "last hope" dying out one after another until there truly is nothing left.
It really doesn't a mirror a real life nuclear apocalypse in the slightest. Nuclear war isn't actually the end of the world, just a setback that's extremely overblown by anti-nuclear activists who managed to infect pop culture.
@@Cainus44 Only one billion people will die (34 million immediately, the rest later from starvation) rather than eight? Sounds like a jolly good time, we should have a nuclear war at our next international dispute.
The fact that you get to see lavos completely destroy the earth which you’ve been trying to prevent just shows how serious the fight is, seeing everyone in a state of panic as the world slowly crumbles, that’s terrifying
For me personally, chrono trigger is the most dramatic game over. That scene with Lavos destroying the world is pretty epic. Also, I really love the ending where everyone turns into a reptilian. 😆
@@nataliemeyers2626 isn't that a Japanese release only game though? I know they are porting it to the switch world wide soon, in July I think? I have heard about it but I didn't own a Super Famicom/Famicom when I was a kid. They were tough to get on account of the internet being in its infancy, and the games for it weren't sold here in the US, so there was no way for me to access any Famicom games. Huge bummer because there are some really great Japanese release only games, i.e., Back to the future II. I've played that when I was a young adult on an emulator and it was WAY better than the crappy back to the future games we got on the NES, SNES, and the SEGA Genesis.😆 Thanks for the info! I'll definitely have to play this game when I get some free time on my hands. 🤝
Interesting thing to note about the Nosferatu game over: If you get it a certain amount of times (at least eight, I believe?), you'll get the bad ending. You'll know for sure you're going to get it if you see Erin's face change in the photo.
Chrono Trigger went so hard in the "you screwed up big-time" direction that as a grown-ass man, I'm still breaking out in goosebumps at that nearly 30 years later. It's THAT good at what it did.
I would have included DKC2's game over screen over DKC3's - Diddy and Dixie locked in a Kremling prison cell is way more dramatic than Kiddy and Dixie being shut in Kiddy's bedroom.
Chrono Trigger and Secret of Mana, I witnessed a lot of these game overs during my childhood. I get emotional remembering those times 😅 Nice selection and video as always 👊
@@daveh8447 I agree! For me, Secret of Mana is special because it was one of the main games my dad bought to me and made me like the RPG genre when I was a kid. I didn't have much luck with Chrono Trigger cause it was never released in Europe at that time, and I only experienced it later in my teens through one of the 1st ever emulator made between 1999/2000 on PC. Do you remember the genre of the game you mentioned? Or was it also an RPG?
@@leeroy7634 Yes! There are so many great retro titles to explore and talk about. Sometimes I still play them, but now at my age, I'd rather watch people play them than myself. Patience is not the same as before haha.
I like the Nosferatu's Game Over picture, because it shows a subtle animation when it's already too late and you'll get a bad ending even if you go on playing.
Most video games are just like "whoops, you died, now the world plunges into darkness, game over" if you bite it during the final boss. But not Chrono Trigger. That game goes out of its way to show you, in excruciating detail, the consequences of your failure. It's just one of the many, many things that makes it a timeless classic.
Small detail on Nosferatu (specially on the non Japanese version since it's easier to perform) : If you answer No after the girl became a vampire (you can see vampire teeth on the photo), the part where Nosferatu convert her don't appear and you directly have the Game Over screen.
I love how a game about a talking chicken wasn’t afraid to show what happened to the aftermath of the bomb blast but a game about men fighting to the death was
Uhh I still get a goosebumps whenever i saw Chrono Trigger game over scene, it’s just so sad and you can just feel how chaotic the people were during the destructions😔. I almost cried the first time i saw the scene, because i keep on asking how did the future get destroyed so badly..this game is definitely a masterpiece for me, never ever will i forget it😄
Punisher (Capcom) was just plain depressing. Frank is on an operating table, and Micro is doing CPR. Not only is there a count down, but you see a heartbeat monitor. You flatline and he looks horrified. Nick Fury had one too, it’s a SHIELD paramedic and some hot chick standing there. But didn’t have the same impact.
The arcade cabinet version of Final Fight would of reached #1 for me. I am 42 now and every since then I would recall this scene. I mean, damn! Being tied up in a chair as you are watching the fuse of dynamite burning out to your destruction. Wow!
I think I would have gone with DKC 1 or 2 if we're talking dramatic game overs. 3's is definitely haunting, but the sad harmonica of 2 while the whole screen goes red, and looking at a seriously battered pair of Heroes in 1 made for some dramatic game overs as a kid. But that could be my nostalgia bias talking.
I love the Chrono trigger game over. Not only does the world get destroyed, but you have to watch it happen, just to rub it in that u failed In Halo: CE, if you don’t make it to the longsword in time in The Maw, you get to watch the ship blow up with u on it
There is one I still can't find many years later..its by a beach, zombies come and tear up the protagonist. I dont remember the game, but thought that one was dramatic and intimidating.
nice on this, I remember these being pretty brutal. I was expecting to see Wing Commander on here, I think that ending sequence scared me off that game back in the day
The only reason I knew about Nosferatu was a rental store had it in stock and I rented that and Dracula X. It has a high learning curve but it's a fantastic game all the way around
Chrono Trigger's game over screen is unique because it forms an integral part of the story. And since the final boss is available to fight throughout most of the game, everyone got their asses handed to them one of more times by Lavos and got to see this game over ending, therefore knowing exactly what event the game was trying to prevent.
@@ELLLLLLDriiiiitch Well you could always just hit the reset button if you don't want to wait through it, and fortunately (for both saving time, and storytelling atmosphere) it only plays if you lose specifically against the final boss.
@@gurvmlk Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey does something like it. Your quest is to stop Earth from getting engulfed by this demon pocket dimension called the Schwartzwelt, and if you die (and you will, because SMT) you get treated to a cutscene of the Schwartzwelt expanding to cover the planet. It's incredibly unsettling the first time.
DKC 3 wasn't dramatic at all, but seeing those Fatal Fury game over screens brought back memories.... Alfred Chicken isn't dramatic, but it is funny as hell
It was indeed a very impressive game over, but I feel it wouldn't test well on "The 20 Most Dramatic SNES Game Over Screens". But, hey, maybe the creator will do other consoles! This is a nice theme for a video series.
It gets overlooked, because it was a Japan only release, but Romancing SaGa 3 had a good one. If you get a game over on the final boss, there is a special animation where the boss flies off screen in a massive fireball and cuts to the world map being engulfed in flames, a la Chrono Trigger.
That Secret of Mana game over haunts me. It's a game, I know, but that singular line - "Sadly, no trace of them was ever found" - I feel sells how hypothetically serious a world saving journey would be and the consequences should you fall.
Final Fight 2s was something else as well. Watching the water slowly rise, with your character freaking out, until they drown. Honestly, that'd be worst, at least with the explosives, it's done and over, you're dead. Unless you somehow survive the explosion.
SOS/Septentrion and Wing Commander had way more dramatic game overs than a handful of these that were just a dramatic song playing. SOS has you PLAY the Game Over as the ship sinks with you having no way out and Wing Commander plays an entire cutscene with spacenavy funeral.
Muy interesante éstos finales dramáticos! Pero el de Donkey Kong Country 3 no lo dejaste terminar, ya que un poco después se cerraba la puerta dejándolos totalmente a obscuras! Saludos!
Wait, that's odd. So when Zombies Ate My Neighbours was changed into "Zombies" in the UK the chainsaws were censored into axes... but they changed the purple goo on the game over screen into red and rather disturbing looking blood dripping down the screen?
3:47 Technically not a "game over" screen. That's actually one of the game's 13 base endings. Called Bad Ending: The Apocalypse. So an actual legitimate ending for the game, rather than a "you died, try again?". Though it feels like a game over because Chrono and friends failed to stop the destruction of the planet. Game Over screens can occur anywhere in the game, or in multiple locations, Bad Ending: The Apocalypse can only occur when fighting Lavos, the game's main boss. Which makes it unique in how to get that scene.
I think Chrono Trigger was truly the most intense one, it had the biggest feeling of dread and failure. It's not just a simple game over screen. The game continues on with a cutscene showing what the player already knows that in 1999 Lavos destroys the world. Only this time instead of it being story exposition to inform the player it's instead a gut punch to hit home that you failed and because of that the world ended. What's even worse is the text on the screen, "But. . . the future refused to change." It just hits so hard as if destiny is unmovable and unavoidable, that no matter what you do your fate is determined from the get go. It left such an awful feeling. No other game that I have played in 30 years ever gave me the depth of failure as much as Chrono Trigger did.
PS: Yes, Final Fantasy VI (also known as Final Fantasy III from its initial North American release) 🙏
It's almost like people think that not everybody already knows this.
@@gurvmlk Believe it or not there are some younger gamers out there who literally weren't alive during the 16-bit era, and actually don't know about the numbering discrepancy with some of the older FF games.
@@mchevre younger gamers are the worst
@@mchevre It's really just an alternative version of the confusion caused to us from the 90's when the Final Fantasy series suddenly jumped from III to VII. No matter which generation you belong to, the localization of Final Fantasy has been messing with your head.
@@danielmalone4446 ok boomer
"But...the Future refused to change" is still one of the most haunting Game Over screens. Also, those Final Fight game over screens freaked me out as a kid.
Glad I'm not the only person to be freaked out by a continue screen as a kid, except in my case it was the Ninja Gaiden arcade game. Which was similar in how it portrays the main character about to be killed by a contraption that's inching closer and closer as the timer ticks down.
yeah it is
other one that is super creepy but almost no one talks about is Breath of fire 2 bad ending
Lavos's scream is especially haunting, it's like he's taunting the player.
@@gurvmlk no music, just that saw noise
i have to mentally prep myself with that one, even now, it scared the hell out of me as a kid.
the worst game over screen growing up was surprisingly mario kart... just something about that tune... ugh.
The Chrono Trigger one will always stand out because it isn't just a short sequence, it's an entire ending cutscene. I wish more games had extended death cutscenes if you died in specific places or ways. The Arkham games do this so well it's almost worth dying to every boss on purpose, multiple times- just to see every death cutscene, of which each boss often has several!
I read that Lavos's cry was sampled from a nuclear warning siren, which makes the game over scene even more poignant and scary to me.
Wild.
Because that's a warning for us, humans if we don't change
I never freakin knew that. The game over was already haunting...now it's even worse.
Chrono Trigger’s is by far not just the most dramatic of the bunch but the most terrifying. It’s incredibly bleak & haunting. Plus fact that it mirrors a real life nuclear apocalypse - nightmare fuel
It's more than knowing the world is screwed, it's watching how it got screwed to the hopeless situation you saw and knowing it wasn't something that took place in the blink of an eye. You get to watch others try to stop it and fail just as you did, each "last hope" dying out one after another until there truly is nothing left.
It really doesn't a mirror a real life nuclear apocalypse in the slightest. Nuclear war isn't actually the end of the world, just a setback that's extremely overblown by anti-nuclear activists who managed to infect pop culture.
@@Cainus44 Only one billion people will die (34 million immediately, the rest later from starvation) rather than eight? Sounds like a jolly good time, we should have a nuclear war at our next international dispute.
even right now i can tell you that nuclear apocalypse will never happen
we will rather drift into a global autocratic tyrannic dystopia
The fact that you get to see lavos completely destroy the earth which you’ve been trying to prevent just shows how serious the fight is, seeing everyone in a state of panic as the world slowly crumbles, that’s terrifying
For me personally, chrono trigger is the most dramatic game over. That scene with Lavos destroying the world is pretty epic.
Also, I really love the ending where everyone turns into a reptilian. 😆
On the other hand though, Chrono Trigger's standard game over if you lose anywhere else is pretty lame.
Live-A-Live goes a step further beyond CT and erases everything in all points in time and leaves you with nothingness.
@@nataliemeyers2626 isn't that a Japanese release only game though? I know they are porting it to the switch world wide soon, in July I think? I have heard about it but I didn't own a Super Famicom/Famicom when I was a kid. They were tough to get on account of the internet being in its infancy, and the games for it weren't sold here in the US, so there was no way for me to access any Famicom games. Huge bummer because there are some really great Japanese release only games, i.e., Back to the future II. I've played that when I was a young adult on an emulator and it was WAY better than the crappy back to the future games we got on the NES, SNES, and the SEGA Genesis.😆
Thanks for the info! I'll definitely have to play this game when I get some free time on my hands. 🤝
Chrono Trigger is my all time favorite RPG because of the multiable endings and outcomes. The story and characters were fantastic. Nuff said.
@@gurvmlk this is less of a game over and more like a secret bad ending
"But the future refused to change" is to this day, the most tragic game over screen for me.
Interesting thing to note about the Nosferatu game over:
If you get it a certain amount of times (at least eight, I believe?), you'll get the bad ending.
You'll know for sure you're going to get it if you see Erin's face change in the photo.
Chrono Trigger went so hard in the "you screwed up big-time" direction that as a grown-ass man, I'm still breaking out in goosebumps at that nearly 30 years later.
It's THAT good at what it did.
Clock tower had also some disturbing dying scenes
Other games: aww, you died.
Chrono trigger: good job, now watch the world END
"Sadly no trace of them was ever found..."
Is really depressing
I would have included DKC2's game over screen over DKC3's - Diddy and Dixie locked in a Kremling prison cell is way more dramatic than Kiddy and Dixie being shut in Kiddy's bedroom.
For me it would of been DKC. That music.. that defeated face on your Kong... That feeling has never been replicated.
Oh it was a prison cell!? I thought the entire time that it was a furnace!
Chrono Trigger and Secret of Mana, I witnessed a lot of these game overs during my childhood. I get emotional remembering those times 😅 Nice selection and video as always 👊
Secret of Mana was great. There was also the Super Nintendo game would like cartoonish Mechs. I can't remember the game but it was freaking awesome
@@daveh8447 I agree! For me, Secret of Mana is special because it was one of the main games my dad bought to me and made me like the RPG genre when I was a kid. I didn't have much luck with Chrono Trigger cause it was never released in Europe at that time, and I only experienced it later in my teens through one of the 1st ever emulator made between 1999/2000 on PC. Do you remember the genre of the game you mentioned? Or was it also an RPG?
don't forget Secret of Evermore
@@leeroy7634 Yes! There are so many great retro titles to explore and talk about. Sometimes I still play them, but now at my age, I'd rather watch people play them than myself. Patience is not the same as before haha.
I like the Nosferatu's Game Over picture, because it shows a subtle animation when it's already too late and you'll get a bad ending even if you go on playing.
Most video games are just like "whoops, you died, now the world plunges into darkness, game over" if you bite it during the final boss. But not Chrono Trigger. That game goes out of its way to show you, in excruciating detail, the consequences of your failure.
It's just one of the many, many things that makes it a timeless classic.
Small detail on Nosferatu (specially on the non Japanese version since it's easier to perform) : If you answer No after the girl became a vampire (you can see vampire teeth on the photo), the part where Nosferatu convert her don't appear and you directly have the Game Over screen.
Wing commander, they actually do a funeral for your character with dialogue, taps, and a 21 laser-gun salute.
Getting an actual military funeral and eulogy in Wing Commander was pretty cool as well.
What I find the most dramatic about Chrono Trigger's game over is that, the Earth turns out to be flat all along.....
I love how a game about a talking chicken wasn’t afraid to show what happened to the aftermath of the bomb blast but a game about men fighting to the death was
For me it's the tales of series when it's a solid black or white screen with the words, "and they were never heard from again."
Outlander: **show game over screen**
Me: *new fear unlocked*
You should have included Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War. That game's Game Over screen is ridiculously brutal.
Sorry. I was probably thinking of one of the endings in the game. I haven't completed it yet.
That might be because there's never been an official english translation of the game.
Once you lose in Chrono Trigger, you never forget the message or the sound...That scream used to give me nightmares
Uhh I still get a goosebumps whenever i saw Chrono Trigger game over scene, it’s just so sad and you can just feel how chaotic the people were during the destructions😔. I almost cried the first time i saw the scene, because i keep on asking how did the future get destroyed so badly..this game is definitely a masterpiece for me, never ever will i forget it😄
That Outlander game over screen... pure art.
Punisher (Capcom) was just plain depressing. Frank is on an operating table, and Micro is doing CPR. Not only is there a count down, but you see a heartbeat monitor. You flatline and he looks horrified. Nick Fury had one too, it’s a SHIELD paramedic and some hot chick standing there. But didn’t have the same impact.
What about S.O.S, man?
Dude, those game over/ending screens are among the most tragic ones EVER.
The arcade cabinet version of Final Fight would of reached #1 for me. I am 42 now and every since then I would recall this scene. I mean, damn! Being tied up in a chair as you are watching the fuse of dynamite burning out to your destruction. Wow!
You missed Donkey Kong Country game over, that music and screen gave me the chills when I was a kid!
I think I would have gone with DKC 1 or 2 if we're talking dramatic game overs. 3's is definitely haunting, but the sad harmonica of 2 while the whole screen goes red, and looking at a seriously battered pair of Heroes in 1 made for some dramatic game overs as a kid. But that could be my nostalgia bias talking.
I love the Chrono trigger game over. Not only does the world get destroyed, but you have to watch it happen, just to rub it in that u failed
In Halo: CE, if you don’t make it to the longsword in time in The Maw, you get to watch the ship blow up with u on it
There is one I still can't find many years later..its by a beach, zombies come and tear up the protagonist. I dont remember the game, but thought that one was dramatic and intimidating.
7:13 is what you came for.
Final Fight game over screens gave me anxiety while trying to break a $5 bill at the quarter machine in a hurry 😂😂
nice on this, I remember these being pretty brutal. I was expecting to see Wing Commander on here, I think that ending sequence scared me off that game back in the day
Poor Lucia in Final Fight 3.
If she had the muscles to break herself free, that would be really badass!!!!!
The only reason I knew about Nosferatu was a rental store had it in stock and I rented that and Dracula X.
It has a high learning curve but it's a fantastic game all the way around
I'm well over seeing an alien burst out of a spaceman's chest. But the team failure of Chono Trigger still to this day gives me chills.
Absolutely outstanding video thanks dude!!!!!!!😎👍👍👍👍
Final Fight really tries to get you to throw your money at them with those continue screens
Chrono Trigger's game over screen is unique because it forms an integral part of the story. And since the final boss is available to fight throughout most of the game, everyone got their asses handed to them one of more times by Lavos and got to see this game over ending, therefore knowing exactly what event the game was trying to prevent.
The dude splattered in the car was pretty funny. Not something I would expect to see in a Nintendo game.
street fighter 2 is an honorable mention... you see your character beat up and your opponent talks trash...
I'm not sure how anything ranked over that whole ass game over cut scene from Chrono Trigger lol
Nice choice with the Lucia thumbnail
Not even 10 seconds into the vid and I already got PTSD. This is gonna be great.
Lol was waiting for Barts arms to rip off. Now that would've been dark...
As somebody who grew up on the 32X version, the lack of blood on the SNES Blackthorne game over has always bothered me.
Although it's a terrible game, I always found the game over screen for Rise of the Robots quite unsettling
Same
that chrono trigger game over screen still gives me goosebumps
Man I love this channel…so much nostalgia
Ah yes, Earthbound and Chrono Trigger, my two favorite RPG games
The Donkey Kong Country trilogy has by far the scariest game overs I've seen in a Nintendo game.
“Sadly, no trace of them was ever found”
had me like 😳
Honestly, the Virtual Bart is the most shocking
Chrono trigger went the extra mile lol
The one game where you don't just lose, but you see the direct consequences of your failure play out for you.
And I just realized how annoying it is because it's so long
@@ELLLLLLDriiiiitch Well you could always just hit the reset button if you don't want to wait through it, and fortunately (for both saving time, and storytelling atmosphere) it only plays if you lose specifically against the final boss.
@@gurvmlk Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey does something like it. Your quest is to stop Earth from getting engulfed by this demon pocket dimension called the Schwartzwelt, and if you die (and you will, because SMT) you get treated to a cutscene of the Schwartzwelt expanding to cover the planet. It's incredibly unsettling the first time.
@@gaminggoddess85 Neat. I've never played any of those, so I wouldn't know.
The super alfred chicken game over represents what any spelunky 2 player does when they see two turkeys in close proximity
Not to forget The Lost World for Gameboy, where most hazards and enemies lead to a different death cutscene.
for me, this channel is being the best video game ever
DKC 3 wasn't dramatic at all, but seeing those Fatal Fury game over screens brought back memories.... Alfred Chicken isn't dramatic, but it is funny as hell
Chrono Trigger's Lavos ending freaked me out as a kid. Gave me nightmares.
It still makes me shudder.
Ninja Gaiden (Arcade) is also quite dramatic, more so than the final fight ones - in my opinion.
Batman 1 on Nes had the saddest game over screen thanks to its music.
I...never knew that scene was in Chrono Trigger. Neat!
Some were not dramatic, but just plain funny.
Still doesn't compare to "You and your friends are dead. Game over"
Great work! Very original, keep up the good ideas!
90% of you came for the thumbnail. Be honest
I suggest Lost Vikings 2 for a dramatic gamr over screen. It's on par with a few of these.
Should’ve included the game over from ffx-2 against vegnagun. That Game over screen was brutal.
It was indeed a very impressive game over, but I feel it wouldn't test well on "The 20 Most Dramatic SNES Game Over Screens". But, hey, maybe the creator will do other consoles! This is a nice theme for a video series.
@@dukedarkwood2098 oh my bad. I thought it was all games lol. Oof
That's the one that destroys all of Spira when you lose, right?
@@KitsuneYojimbo or if you run out of time. It’s a timed fight
@@Clad_in_Darkness_Gaming Huh, interesting. Never knew it was timed. I only knew of the whole destruction of Spira if you died to it.
It gets overlooked, because it was a Japan only release, but Romancing SaGa 3 had a good one. If you get a game over on the final boss, there is a special animation where the boss flies off screen in a massive fireball and cuts to the world map being engulfed in flames, a la Chrono Trigger.
What really makes these scenes is the music. Without the heart wrenching music, these scenes would not have the same impact.
Romancing saga 3 when you lose to the final boss is on par with Chrono trigger. Lol I hated dying because it was such a long cutscene
Somehow I'd prefer no trace of me ever being found than being told that someone's kid brother is more adept than me.
chrono trigger death is goosebumps man. Nuclear strike. That definitely is dramatic.
The Final Fantasy, Secret of Mana, Outlander, and Chrono Trigger all got me on a personal level. Every one broke my heart at some time.
kind of unrelated but i remember the Ninja Gaiden arcade game over screen haunted me 👀
That Secret of Mana game over haunts me. It's a game, I know, but that singular line - "Sadly, no trace of them was ever found" - I feel sells how hypothetically serious a world saving journey would be and the consequences should you fall.
Also, the Super Alfred Chicken one made me hungry. 😋😋😋😋
Final Fight 2s was something else as well. Watching the water slowly rise, with your character freaking out, until they drown. Honestly, that'd be worst, at least with the explosives, it's done and over, you're dead. Unless you somehow survive the explosion.
Why the dislikes tho? The video is awesome.
UA-cam + Videogames (Always happens, no matter how well you do)
Nam 75 on the Neo Geo is something in the final boss which really lingers to you if you fail at defeating the boss in a certain amount of time.
Why do I find the first game on this list DISTURBING!?
I love this channel!
LOL did you see the Aliens one? Game over man!
Rofl
SOS/Septentrion and Wing Commander had way more dramatic game overs than a handful of these that were just a dramatic song playing.
SOS has you PLAY the Game Over as the ship sinks with you having no way out and Wing Commander plays an entire cutscene with spacenavy funeral.
Wing Commander definitely deserves a spot
I remember the game over screen from the Mighty Max game being a terrifying picture of Skullmaster. And the game was lousy, so I saw it a lot.
DKC is the saddest lol. Final Fight 2 and 3 and Outlander seem messed up lol.
Looking at Outlanders game over screen now as an adult... Shit is straight up vehicular homicide
Muy interesante éstos finales dramáticos! Pero el de Donkey Kong Country 3 no lo dejaste terminar, ya que un poco después se cerraba la puerta dejándolos totalmente a obscuras! Saludos!
Wait, that's odd.
So when Zombies Ate My Neighbours was changed into "Zombies" in the UK the chainsaws were censored into axes... but they changed the purple goo on the game over screen into red and rather disturbing looking blood dripping down the screen?
The game over screen from Breath of Fire 2 does it for me.
that's thumbnail.
thanks for refreshing my sexual awakening🤣
secret of mana one is heartbreaking made me cry as a kid lolol
3:47 Technically not a "game over" screen. That's actually one of the game's 13 base endings. Called Bad Ending: The Apocalypse. So an actual legitimate ending for the game, rather than a "you died, try again?". Though it feels like a game over because Chrono and friends failed to stop the destruction of the planet.
Game Over screens can occur anywhere in the game, or in multiple locations, Bad Ending: The Apocalypse can only occur when fighting Lavos, the game's main boss. Which makes it unique in how to get that scene.
It's subtle but SuperMetriod always disturbed me. Samus left nearly naked surrounded by lava and poison plants.
I think Chrono Trigger was truly the most intense one, it had the biggest feeling of dread and failure. It's not just a simple game over screen. The game continues on with a cutscene showing what the player already knows that in 1999 Lavos destroys the world. Only this time instead of it being story exposition to inform the player it's instead a gut punch to hit home that you failed and because of that the world ended. What's even worse is the text on the screen, "But. . . the future refused to change." It just hits so hard as if destiny is unmovable and unavoidable, that no matter what you do your fate is determined from the get go. It left such an awful feeling. No other game that I have played in 30 years ever gave me the depth of failure as much as Chrono Trigger did.