8 Video Games That Punished You For Going Too Fast!

8. Icarian Flight - The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind

While exploring the beautiful (if a little jagged by today's standards) world of Morrowind, you might have your quest for picking the local flora interrupted by a scream and a rather squishy sounding splat. As you venture towards the source, you'll come across this poor fella known as Tarhiel the mage who is looking a little worse for wear.

And by that I mean he's dead.

Oh well, time to pick his corpse clean, the vultures that we are! By doing this you'll grab a scroll of Icarian Flight, a spell that will boost your acrobatics by a whopping ONE THOUSAND for seven seconds. Huzzah! With this you'll be able to travel around the map at lightning-quick speeds! No more walking for us! See you later losers and all that!

However, it's here that the devs were clearly having a laugh at your expense because while it's true that you can now hop about the map like a circus flea, the spell doesn't actually protect you from fall damage! So you best be aiming for lakes and rivers otherwise you're going to be piercing your eyes with your shin bones.

I guess the clue was in the name of this spell.