Rites of passage in different games

[u/MakisDelaportas]

Skyrim : Getting launched to space by a Giant.

The Witcher 3 : Farming too many cows in White Orchard will spawn this high level Chort to try and stop you.

Elden Ring : The teleporter chest in Dragon-Burnt Ruins that takes you to Caelid.

Feel free to add other examples.

[u/obeekaybee7]

Attacking chickens in Zelda

[u/honoratus_hi → u/obeekaybee7]

Attacking a chicken in Riverwood

[u/manondorf → u/honoratus_hi]

Being reported for theft by a chicken in Riverwood, more like

[u/GigaEel → u/obeekaybee7]

That's their fault giving a child a sword

[u/TacoTaconoMi → u/obeekaybee7]

Attacking Getting attacked by chickens in Zelda

[u/ihlaking → u/obeekaybee7]

Gotta just grab that one and ride it to the heart piece! 

[Windmill Song intensifies]

[u/Terrible-Anybody3907 → u/obeekaybee7]

Attacking chickens in any game

Why are chickens indestructible

[u/Penguin_Mania]

Having autopilot fly you directly into the sun in Outer Wilds

[u/Fr4t → u/Penguin_Mania]

Or hastily jumping out of your spaceship without a suit on.

[u/wizardeverybit → u/Fr4t]

Or forgetting to decelarate and crashing your ship into a planet

[u/fade_like_a_sigh → u/wizardeverybit]

I love watching Outer Wilds blind playthroughs, and it's always fun seeing new players start decelerating when 3000m away while doing 700 m/s.

[u/Jalexster → u/fade_like_a_sigh]

Hearing someone say "Why would I want to decelerate" while cancelling stage 3 autopilot and seeing them go flying past the planet.

[u/SpaceShipRat → u/wizardeverybit]

basically discovering the twenty-so different ways to die in that game. Made my day every time I discovered a new one. 

[u/Warmonster9 → u/Fr4t]

This is the real rite of passage for outer wilds lol. We all did this at least once xD

[u/XenonSigmaSeven → u/Penguin_Mania]

trying to fly to the Sun Station

[u/Wolfram1914 → u/XenonSigmaSeven]

-Docking sequence music from Interstellar playing-

[u/wizardeverybit → u/XenonSigmaSeven]

Feldspar style

[u/Laflamme_79 → u/Penguin_Mania]

Falling into the black hole at Brittle Hollow without your ship.

[u/wizardeverybit → u/Laflamme_79]

That one's intended, and not too much or an issue

[u/KuraiBaka → u/Penguin_Mania]

You mean immediately flying into the sun after getting into the spaceship to see if you can.

[u/Jinx_0602 → u/KuraiBaka]

It’s both, the answer is both

[u/WombatPoopCairn]

Fallout: New Vegas: Taking the shortcut to Vegas through Quarry Junction

[u/CoalHappiness → u/WombatPoopCairn]

the path with some chest hair

[u/NorysStorys → u/CoalHappiness]

The deathclaws arn’t even the issue. It’s the cazzadors.

[u/10ea → u/NorysStorys]

You can outrun the cazadors if you plan your route and avoid getting stuck on terrain. There's no hope of outrunning the deathclaws though.

[u/nicoflash2 → u/WombatPoopCairn]

“Why would I go all the way around when I can just go straight there… ohhhhh”

[u/NCR_Veteran_Ranger04 → u/nicoflash2]

Literally me on my first playthrough, after that, I turned off my critical thinking skills and just followed the quest markers

[u/ironsidepc → u/WombatPoopCairn]

THIS- it's shorter bro i promise

source: trust me

[u/RequiemTwilight → u/WombatPoopCairn]

In new Vegas, without looking it up or anything, I had it memorized to go go get the luck bobble head, and like one or two more for the infinite money glitch and running through the valley of scorpions was the worst.

Throwing it in 3P and looking at all the lag from 20-30 rad scorpions following you was somehow a thriller and a comedy at the same time.

[u/kempol]

This is the first time Im hearing about Chort

[u/topheavyhookjaws → u/kempol]

Yeah same, don't think this is a rite of passage at all because it feels like something you'd only know from finding it online. I'd never go around just murdering cows

[u/thesimplemachine → u/topheavyhookjaws]

There was a known exploit that you could farm the cow hides for money in the early game. When the word spread and more players started doing it, the devs found out about it, they added an obscure note about the "Bovine Defense Force" in one of the 1.XX patches.

The rite of passage is for players who didn't know they added that, going to grind for money to make the economy trivial in a new playthrough, and getting walloped by a surprise high-level enemy.

[u/Startled77 → u/thesimplemachine]

Oh my god, I finally understand that gwent card of a cow that turns into a chort now. Played through the game and dlcs 3 or 4 times now and never knew this

[u/topheavyhookjaws → u/thesimplemachine]

I'm saying farming cows for money isn't exactly a standard thing to do

[u/thesimplemachine → u/topheavyhookjaws]

Sure. I was just sharing the context of why so many people did it.

[u/Ridlin6 → u/thesimplemachine]

And i thank you because i had no idea what everyone was talking about

[u/TegTowelie → u/topheavyhookjaws]

Your average Runescape player has probably done this at least. Dont ask how i know.

[u/topheavyhookjaws → u/TegTowelie]

Oh for sure, I've killed many a cow in osrs for that hide grind

[u/Punch_A_Police_Horse → u/kempol]

I petition to remove the Chort from this and replace it with throwing the baby in the oven.

[u/zelandofchocolate]

Fallout New Vegas - what's that, I can't go north? Think you'll find I can actually.

Oh.

[u/brightness3 → u/zelandofchocolate]

it's fine i have a bunch of dynamite and a caravan shotgun

[u/Rinaldootje → u/zelandofchocolate]

Even before that,
Wait what is there in these canyons?

Why do I hear Buzzing noises?

[u/Lookitsa6ix]

The Witcher 3 doesn't fit here.

You only get that event when you're playing to cheese the game, its not something the majority of players will ever do cause why farming cows for money isn't a normal thing to do

[u/Kream-Kwartz → u/Lookitsa6ix]

fully agree with this. i finished the game twice and didn't even know farming cows was a thing

[u/Solaries3 → u/Kream-Kwartz]

I had no idea until these comments.

[u/Leviathansol → u/Solaries3]

Same...

[u/Mortholemeul → u/Kream-Kwartz]

Have you been living under a rock? People have been farming cows since like, civilization began.

[u/Kream-Kwartz → u/Mortholemeul]

you have a point

[u/Lookitsa6ix → u/Mortholemeul]

Pffft yeah alright buddy, next you're gonna say we farm chickens too

[u/Grigoran → u/Lookitsa6ix]

Ain't no way, them thangs is actual dinosaurs! Ain't no way you're gonna coax in a bucket

[u/Asshai → u/Lookitsa6ix]

If there's a rite of passage in W3, it's seeing for the first time that Roach isn't actually a horse but a mountain goat wearing a horse costume.

[u/R_V_Z → u/Asshai]

The real Witcher 3 rite of passage is thinking "surely Geralt will have no problem with this five foot drop" and finding out he very much will.

[u/lnfx → u/R_V_Z]

Helping this tree spirit and freeing the children is the right thing to do, and no one will get hurt!

Oh… ohhhhh no

[u/fonaldoley91 → u/lnfx]

Those crones are obviously evil, so I should do the opposite of what they tell me!

Uh oh.

[u/Dinosaur__Sheriff → u/Asshai]

Or trying to loot and lighting a candle instead

[u/mxbbcz → u/Lookitsa6ix]

Yeah, I only summoned the chort out of curiosity because I knew it was a thing. Otherwise, I never would have done it.

[u/zgillet → u/Lookitsa6ix]

OP is outing themselves as one of those people who instantly searches for "money glitch" for any game they play where they can't buy the best items instantly.

Dude has probably bought so much in-game currency.

[u/CurtCocane → u/Lookitsa6ix]

I got the Chort because I'm a moo-rderer

[u/Obskuro]

Stumbling into the graveyard in Dark Souls, thinking it's the easy route. Skeletons are always weak, right...?

[u/ComeClarity93 → u/Obskuro]

Killing the first few thinking they're dead to find the ambush assembling, turn around to retreat only to find the ones you thought you killed coming right at you

[u/ChefArtorias → u/Obskuro]

"interesting, very high number of items h... OH MY GOD"

[u/LordOfTheToolShed → u/Obskuro]

The rush to get the Zweihander before you get inevitably killed lmao Classic

[u/Tiny_Rick85 → u/LordOfTheToolShed]

Every playhtough since the first. Whether I actually will use it or not.

[u/Phootaphan → u/Obskuro]

When you've heard Dark Souls' reputation and think that's just how hard the game is. 💀

[u/Tiny_Rick85 → u/Obskuro]

I tried 4 times to play that game before I realized old depressed bitch literally tells you where to go, and it's not there.

Such an amazing trilogy.

[u/TYBEEEZ]

For Skyrim I’d actually say The Frost Troll is more the rite of passage

[u/HoJu21 → u/TYBEEEZ]

I think Skyrim has multiple, which is fitting given the cultural impact and amount of people who've sunk hundreds of hours into the game. The frost troll, the Riverwood chicken, the Skyrim Space Program, the Meridia's Beacon jump scare, all are reasonable submissions.

[u/ButterscotchExactly → u/HoJu21]

A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE BEACON

[u/BadApplesGod → u/ButterscotchExactly]

Playing the Nolvus mod pack somehow makes it LOUDER. Like for the love of all that’s holy, 4000 mods and we made her LOUDER??? WHYYYYYY

[u/wutImiss → u/BadApplesGod]

WHAT YOU SAY?? 

[u/NessaMagick → u/TYBEEEZ]

Interestingly, the Saint camp has become more of a rite of passage for first-time players these days.

One of the newfangled creation club not-paid-mods things puts a bandit camp right next to the road to Whiterun and chucks a sidequest at the player to clear it out. Typically seen at a very low level indeed.

But for whatever reason, the author of the mod made the bandits like, level 40, so unless you're on the easiest difficulty you'll die in two arrows if you approach it.

[u/ironsidepc → u/NessaMagick]

honestly, this update really disappointed me. I've sunk thousands of hours into the game and was happy to play it as-is, so coming back and seeing this awkward quest shoved in was a bummer

[u/GigaEel]

Digging down in Minecraft into a lava pit

[u/Troodon79 → u/GigaEel]

Or digging up and getting buried alive in gravel

[u/Tarc_Axiiom]

BotW: Getting absolutely fucking beamed by a Guardian on the plateau.

[u/bobsmith93 → u/Tarc_Axiiom]

Second playthrough rite of passage: forgetting you don't get have the paraglider and yeeting yourself off of a cliff to your death

[u/Due_Teaching_6974]

Choosing Angel in Cyberpunk 2077, caught me off-guard haha

[u/Nekuzu → u/Due_Teaching_6974]

They choose those names quite poorly or completely on purpose. I'd guess most people choose Angel thinking this was the chick.

[u/VeradilGaming → u/Nekuzu]

Not anymore, they patched it to show their faces a long time ago

[u/EricLFC → u/Nekuzu]

Angel is a man's name in spanish and unisex mostly everywhere else though

[u/Mih5du → u/EricLFC]

This might be true, but as someone who didn’t play CP, I assumed Angel was a chick from the parent comment

[u/Due_Teaching_6974 → u/Nekuzu]

No CDPR deliberately chose the names to confuse you, it was funny honestly

[u/KonradDavies0001 → u/Due_Teaching_6974]

I only played once on PS4 and then once on PS5 after 2.0, did they update the game to include images or were they always there? I went for Angel the first time thinking it was the girl but on PS5 I noticed the images so I could see who I was picking.

[u/GreyGanado → u/Nekuzu]

I chose Angel because my V likes pegging guys.

[u/SIacktivist → u/Due_Teaching_6974]

I've always wondered how people get tripped up by this. Angel is a unisex name, of course, but Skye is very much not, or at least leans heavily female.

[u/Obskuro → u/SIacktivist]

I guess I can thank Buffy for assuming Angel to be a dude.

[u/Burpmeister]

Spartan lasering a Banshee and getting splattered by the wreckage in Halo.

[u/Furicu]

Death by Tree in Valheim.

[u/TacoTaconoMi → u/Furicu]

Ive seen Trolls kill themselves by knocking down a tree from one of their swings and it fell on them.

[u/rickreckt]

Maybe Fuze the Hostage in R6 Siege

[u/Doobalicious69 → u/rickreckt]

Such a good feeling when you're defending the hostage and you that THUNK THUNK THUNK

[u/Kilo1125 → u/rickreckt]

Fuze has very different ideas on how to resolve hostage situations. Specifically, if there is no hostage, then the situation is resolved.

THUNK THUNK THUNK BOOM

[u/Baxtab13 → u/Kilo1125]

I never played much PVP in Siege, but having participated in the beta way back it always gave me such a chuckle the concept of the "Fuze Ace Clear".

One wall mine to kill:

-Entire enemy team

-The hostage

-Your entire team

-Yourself

No survivors.

[u/Icemannn44 → u/rickreckt]

Fat fingering the C4 retrieval and blowing yourself up.

[u/Wolfram1914]

Getting stuck at the moving barrel in Carnival Night Zone in Sonic 3

[u/azrendelmare → u/Wolfram1914]

That fucking barrel...

[u/Behold_I_Am_The_Wind]

If we’re talking about trap chests from Elden Ring, then I think the Mimic Chests in Dark Souls are most notorious for this

[u/atlasraven]

Morrowind: Scroll of Flight or Mudcrab

[u/Scribbles_ → u/atlasraven]

Morrowind: get called a slur by an NPC

[u/Mango027 → u/Scribbles_]

I literally just got off the boat. 

[u/Scribbles_ → u/Mango027]

I can tell, outlander

[u/Absolutedisgrace]

Maybe this is just older gamers. "Wow, ive beaten so many games. Wow im really good at this game". Discovers online. "WOW. Im pure trash."

[u/manondorf → u/Absolutedisgrace]

With some you could even get got the same way multiple times. 

"Wow I wreck the campaign in smash Bros I must be pretty good"  

-plays with friends, gets shit on  

"I practiced a bunch and can beat all my friends, maybe I'll try online"  

-gets shit on  

"I labbed and grinded and am highly ranked online, maybe I'll try a local tourney"  

-gets shit on

[u/Soul-Burn]

Sekiro: Yeeted by chained ogre. Woo guy. Ape.

Noita: Squidward. Sawblade. Clusterbolt. Honestly too many to list.

[u/Nova225 → u/Soul-Burn]

Finding a nuke wand and test firing it before you checked what was on it.

[u/Shakyyy]

Getting killed by the Dark Wizards outside Varrock in Runescape.

[u/Gladion20 → u/Shakyyy]

Old school RuneScape getting attacked by the masked bandits while running to Draynor

[u/zamwut]

Beat Witcher 3 twice since release, never had the Chort encounter. Guess I never passed the rite.

[u/Wind-and-Waystones → u/zamwut]

If you keep murdering cows in the starting area it spawns in to stop you

[u/Fr4t → u/Wind-and-Waystones]

Cows are friends so I'd never hurt them.

[u/wink047 → u/Wind-and-Waystones]

I honestly didn’t know you could kill cows in the first place.

[u/B4byJ3susM4n]

Halo 2: Sniped dead by a Jackal on Legendary difficulty

[u/Drak_is_Right → u/B4byJ3susM4n]

You forgot the again and again part

[u/Icemannn44]

Helldivers 2 must have dozens of these. Some off the top of my head:

• Landing your hellpod on a teammate
• Teammates landing on you
• Whiffing a HE strategem throw resulting in friendly firing chaos.
• Throwing a strategem on a rock you think is valid and watching it bounce into the army of enemies.
• You and your team all auto climbing onto the supply pod.
• Getting meleed and being flung half way across the map (and surviving somehow)
• Clipping a small stone in the FRV resulting in the most dramatic crash imaginable.
• Sprinting for the extraction while some dick deploys a 500kg far too early resulting in half the team not making it out.

Doubt this covers even 1/10th of the shenanigans that everyone has to go through.

Edit: Loving the contributions below!

[u/drainbamage1011 → u/Icemannn44]

Getting mowed down by the gun turret on the tutorial sequence.

[u/Icemannn44 → u/drainbamage1011]

Getting mowed down by your teammate's gun turret because they didn't consider placing it at a different elevation to your head.

[u/JimmyGunZo → u/Icemannn44]

Getting mowed down by your own turret that ignores the approaching horde to fire at the enemy you just killed

[u/BlazingShadowAU → u/Icemannn44]

Setting up your airstrike only to get ragdolled by something, causing your stratagem beacon to land next to you and your squad.

[u/Icemannn44 → u/BlazingShadowAU]

Damn that's such a core experience. Nicely remembered.

[u/RexDeDeus → u/Icemannn44]

-Lining up a rocket on an enemy only to have the invisible dead body of another enemy make it blow up in your face.

-being targeted by a sentry when there's seemingly no enemies around

-constantly getting tagged by guard dogs

[u/invader1984 → u/RexDeDeus]

• Lining up a rocket on an enemy only to have the now visible <soon-not-longer-alive "partner" going in front of you and make it blow up in your face. And blame you for it

[u/ItsNotNow → u/Icemannn44]

Good list!

Helldivers has so many things you learn the hard way, which makes it so entertaining.

[u/JimmyGunZo → u/ItsNotNow]

Any other game it's annoying at feck, but in helldivers its always 10x funnier 🤣

[u/Some_Other__Time___]

Silksong: THAT bench in hunter's march

Terraria: entering dungeon early

Noita: getting noited in any way, if you know you know

Minecraft: creeper jumpscare

Black Desert Online: realising its actually a fishing simulator

All i can think about for now

[u/ScarletSilver → u/Some_Other__Time___]

Also Silksong: THAT bench in Sinner's Road

[u/WolfKit → u/ScarletSilver]

And that bench in Bilewater.

[u/Drewskiiiiiiii → u/Some_Other__Time___]

The noita experience you have died: Explosion

[u/Vuduul → u/Some_Other__Time___]

I think that for Terraria it's the Eye boss spawn. I got Terraria after watching a lot of speedrunners so I was aware. But for the uninitiated who are not ready and do not have a rudimentary arena to fight the boss, this one is quite an eye opener what kind of game Terraria is.

Though, I would place Skeletor as a close second, that one is pretty good and can happen to people who just run around and stumble upon the Dungeon before the Eye spawns.

[u/MrLurid]

Going down towards the graveyard in Dark Souls 1 the first thing you do...

[u/Siergiej]

That cave exit early in Final Fantasy IX where you're told to not go this way because it's extremely dangerous so obviously you go there and get instantly one-shotted by a dragon.

[u/Jodelbert → u/Siergiej]

Oh yeah, what's it called? Tatzelwurm?

But if you get Queena with Death lv5 you can instakill it since it has a lvl that is divisive by 5. Lots of free Exp farming.

[u/Terramagi → u/Jodelbert]

Grand Dragon.

Farmed those things outside Daguerro to hit 99.

[u/ScarletSilver → u/Siergiej]

Similar to that one cave you see after the first real area in Expedition 33 that says "DANGER!" at the entrance , but you walk in anyway and get one-tapped by the lightning sheep

[u/hiimred2 → u/ScarletSilver]

Just take Maelle’s advice bro, parry it npnp.

[u/ye_esquilax]

Resident Evil 4: Shooting the lake.

Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time: Accidentally pressing A and selecting "Yes" after the Owl talks your ear off and asks you if you'd like to hear that again.

Final Fantasy 6: Suplex the train.

[u/GamesForPlebs]

Kicking the can through megaman legends bakery

[u/Ich171]

TES 3: Morrowind.

So many, getting to level 5 for the first time feels like a hazing ritual.

Including but not limited to:

-- Finding the cube for one of the first main quests.

-- Snowy Granius, the guy guarding the bridge to get to the cube dungeon.

--First time trying to bully the little white bugs.

--First time encountering enemies that damage your strength.

[u/Nerevar1924 → u/Ich171]

Feeling uncomfortable around Fargoth.

[u/Temporala]

Dragon's Dogma: Getting drop-kicked by Ogre.

[u/Material_Accident640 → u/Temporala]

That and getting the wrong character in the dragon cutscene (Fournival)

[u/GreyGanado]

I doubt more than 5% of players farmed the cows enough to get the chort summoned. That does not fit "rite of passage".

[u/WayTooLazyOmg]

Hogger in WoW

[u/RadioJared]

Exiting Midgar in FF7 and realizing there is an entire open world

Finishing Pokemon Gold/Silver and realizing the entire Kanto region from Red/Blue is now open to you

Having your favorite squad mate get murdered in X-Com

The Final Fantasy Tactics Wiegraf fight teaching you the value of multiple save slots

The computer absolutely fucking cheating on higher difficulties in any EA Sports game

[u/Shyface_Killah → u/RadioJared]

Wiegraf taught me the value of the Yell command.

[u/chunkyfela]

Swimming too close to the auroras engines in subnautica

[u/IceFrogger1313]

XCOM: Missing a high percentage shot and losing a squadmate as a result.

[u/arlondiluthel]

Soloing Randal the Vandal in Destiny.

[u/SafetyGuyLogic → u/arlondiluthel]

In D1, absolutely.

[u/aathas]

Your first corpse run in Everquest. Yes I'm old now get off my lawn.

[u/MRnibba_]

Fallout 4, instantly dying when touching a car.

[u/legendweaver]

The Hutton Orbital run to get the free Anaconda in Elite Dangerous. Also, don't forget to grab a souvenir mug while you're at the station.

[u/BigJayDB]

“Not the Chort!” - Coach Z

[u/agibberingfool → u/BigJayDB]

This guy homestars

[u/wutImiss → u/agibberingfool]

Consummate Vs! I said consummate. Guy wouldn't know Majesty if it hit him on the head... 

[u/AltGunAccount]

Dying to the Tree Sentinel at the start of Elden Ring also.

[u/yolkyal → u/AltGunAccount]

I saw that and immediately knew that it would be ridiculously hard and that I would die, came back for him aaaages later.

[u/makemebad48]

Satisfactory; wrong item in a complex belt. Or overloading power grid without a means to jump start it.

[u/Kay-lla → u/makemebad48]

No it's clearly crying over being pounced on by giant spiders. I never had arachnophobia before

[u/Solaries3]

Dragon Age: Origins. The Broodmother.

That's the grim dark Dragon Age I loved and lost.

[u/NCR_Veteran_Ranger04 → u/Solaries3]

The darkspawn were eh, made for a good one time villain and excellent redemption for loghain, but dragon age two is where the real meat of the plot is. The mage rebellion and demons are way more interesting than darkspawn. We don't even really know how spirts and demons work. The fade is such an interesting piece of lore that is hardly touched by Origins outside of the mage background, amd even then, it doesn't explain much.

[u/Velenne]

Trying to go off the edge of the map in Subnautica, hearing the reaper leviathans... and then...

[u/Waxhead101]

I just wanna say... that elden ring chest can fuck off. My first souls game experience and I get fucking sent to centipede he'll....

And my addition is in Ark survival evolved hearing the raptor call before being absolutely deleted by them while your just trying to chop down a tree

Oh and Valheim- thinking "hey look at this pretty forest-is that a troll?" And then you get to become a part of the forest

[u/DELETE-NINJA-TABI]

Punching the reporter in Mass Effect

[u/Mateorabi]

Discovering the secret exit from the Star Road in Super Mario World. 

[u/acravasian]

Diablo 2, try to make an insight runeword in a spear. Or try and lazurk a crystal sword with a too low item level to get a base for a spirit... thus ending up with 3 sockets and wasting your quest reward

[u/Tewddit → u/acravasian]

Duriel, Gloams(lightning ghosts), Stygian dolls, Diablo’s lightning hose, trying to bring your skeleton horde through maggot lair

[u/iifabian]

Give money to the bankclerk in hollow knight

[u/pornhub_premium]

Blowing up Megaton out of curiosity in FO3

[u/Axtdool]

Warframe: learning the big Spoiler.

[u/Montexe]

It's funny they added the Chort for killing cows, yet you could sell the same sword from Kaer Morhen indefinitely as recent as next gen update (maybe even today)

[u/BeligerentBard]

Planet Crafter: the thing that happens to almost everyone's first base...

[u/Khelthuzaad]

Warcraft III:

Defend me while i summon Kiljaeden in the end of the Scourge campaign

[u/Worldly-Ingenuity843]

Dragon Age Origins: Going to Orzammar before completing the other regions. Orzammar, in particular the Deep Roads, has the highest level enemies, so going there before completing the other regions will get your ass kicked

Nier Replicant: Getting killed by Kainé.If you try to rotate the camera to look up Kainé's skirt, she will kick the camera. If you do it 10 times in a row, she gets fed up and slice the camera with her sword instead, resulting in a game over screen

Halo: Trying to skip the Cartographer by jamming the Warthog through the doors.

Fallout 3 (& 4): Banging your knees on a parked car.

Magical Diary: Horse Hall: Dating the hot vampire that everyone tells you is evil.He is evil and steals all of your magical power

[u/kam1802 → u/Worldly-Ingenuity843]

Fallout New Vegas - going to Vegas the short way.

[u/blueviera → u/kam1802]

*trying to

[u/ElkSad9855 → u/Worldly-Ingenuity843]

Not true about DAO, I always did Orzammar first

[u/Darkzeid25]

The T-Rex in FF XII

[u/azrendelmare → u/Darkzeid25]

Hell, the t rex in FF VIII.

[u/manmadefruit]

Valheim: Death by falling tree

[u/thedrunkknight]

Dying to Magi Master after he casts Ultima on you on cultists tower in Final Fantasy 6

[u/Oni_Wrath]

GTA 4 swing set glitch

[u/Mateorabi]

Dwarf Fortress - first time doing major water-works project in your fort multi-room pool/cistern/dunk-tank.

[u/unlikemike123]

Dom in Gears 2 😭

[u/Orbmac]

Tons of them in the binding of Isaac. But maybe most famous is using the Bible on Satan.

[u/Jeff1N]

Final Fantasy 12: trying to fight a dinosaur way too early

Xenoblade series: similar for huge enemies you can find long before you are strong enough to have a chance

[u/84theone]

Shooting the lake in RE4

[u/enadiz_reccos]

As someone playing the Witcher 3, what does Chort have to do with the economy

[u/LordNubFace → u/enadiz_reccos]

At the beginning of the game the cows in the field will spawn infinitely and can be used as a cheese source of early game money. Instead of "fixing" this in the traditional sense they instead added a mechanic where a unbeatable chimera spawns if you kill too many cows. This chimera then proceeds to murder you as a punishment for your economic exploits.

[u/blueviera → u/LordNubFace]

It's not unbeatable I think, I remember hearing about people farming the cow loving chort agter they added it. It's just so high level you'll need to wail on it without getting hit for quite a while

[u/Spezalt4 → u/LordNubFace]

It’s quite beatable and an early source of its mutagen for its potion. I always kill the cows until the chort comes on replays

[u/ACuddlyVizzerdrix]

At least with the chest in elden ring you can dodge out of it if you're quick enough

[u/Xenoraiser]

Destiny: The Architects

[u/athleteCalifornia]

dark souls, the first time you get cursed in the depths and realize your health bar is now half size until you fix it, my buddy didnt know about the healer and played like that for a week

[u/glytxh]

DS1

Accidentally finding your way to Ash Lake waaaaay too early.

[u/kooliocole]

Preston telling you another settlement needs your help in FO4

[u/SoulOfABartender]

Whitney's Milktank

[u/derivative_of_life]

Path of Exile: Opening the skill tree for the first time.

[u/hepartan]

Nethack has so many, but my pick is: exploding your Bag of Holding that has all your precious belongings in it

[u/Zoncombs]

Planetcrafter, realizing liquid water now means your base built in the gulley you land in will be completely submerged and rushing to save everything.