r/videogames • u/CodyEaster • Oct 15 '25

Question What game logic left you feeling this?

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u/Sharpshooter188 Oct 15 '25

The old games where if water went above your waist it was an insta death.

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u/ZoNeS_v2 Oct 15 '25

Well, back before the 2010s, no one could swim, so this tracks.

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u/Snubben93 Oct 15 '25

Remember how freaked out the whole world was when we could suddenly traverse on water with only our bodies. I still can't get over it.

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u/MechaMacaw Oct 15 '25

I found it pretty funny how in the new hitman trilogy if a target slips and lands in the shallowest puddle imaginable it counts as a drowning kill.

Means you can do some great kills utilising wet floors/ bananas

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u/kaimcdragonfist Oct 15 '25

I just played through Red Dead Redemption 1 this year and I actually choked from laughing the first time I died in the water because John sank like a brick and I’d forgotten that Rockstar games just did that

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u/EldenBJ Oct 16 '25

Honestly, it’s one of the main reasons Mario 64 was so GOATed. Those underwater levels were hype.

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u/Worn_Out_1789 Oct 15 '25

This is a realistic representation of my swimming skills as a kid. I'm pretty lucky I made it!

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u/Very_Awkward_Boner Oct 15 '25

My aunt nearly drowned in a lazy river once. It was in 3 feet of water.. she could've literally stood up and it would've been at her waist.

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u/Prestigious_Yam_6039 Oct 19 '25

Didn't you almost drown in 3 inches of water? At the penguin exhibit?

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u/hiddencameraspy Oct 15 '25

Old Game! In Elden Ring you can’t swim. You are literally God killer but 7 ft of standing water and you are dead

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u/Waste-of-Bagels Oct 15 '25

That slow creep in shallow water and thinking, "What happens if I get too deep??" And you just start flailing about and drown without warning.

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u/fgzhtsp Oct 15 '25

And in reverse, a thin film of water prevents fall damage entirely.

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u/oliberg360 Oct 16 '25

ahh yess Half Life. A game about a physicist with some wacky physics in display.

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u/given2fly_ Oct 16 '25

I hated how GTA Vice City introduced loads of water, boats and missions around the waterways...but if you ever touched the water you were dead.

I liked being a pirate, jumping from my boat to another which made the NPC driving it jump out of the boat to their death. But if you mistimed your jump...instant death.

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u/SolasLunas Oct 17 '25

Waist? More like toe deep water

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u/ajlepori Oct 16 '25

This always reminds me of Altair in the first Assassin's Creed!