Cheapest thing a Game has done to Cheat you out of a Win

[WanderingFool]

Borderlands is king of this. Clear out a horde or mob of guys... high percentage chance the last guy you kill... his body will explode before your shields regen. Leaving you to look around for someone to kill for the second wind... nope nobody home. It's even worse than when they knock you down... then run away. Which they always do. Not that it matters, all it costs you is money; which is totally worthless in Borderlands.

The thing that pisses me off with that isnt the money cost (as you said, money is useless in Borderlands) its the having to go back to that point from the last New-U station. Specially annoying if the enemies have somehow respawned during that time.

 

[LongDanzi]

rainbow six vegas 2 I will be taking cover and all of a sudden I'm shot by a shotgun that sounds liked a pistol with a silencer and the enemy is a good 50 feet away with his back turned to me. it's always the last enemy.

 

[Some_weirdGuy]

Soul Calibur 3 cheated pretty consistently with characters doing moves from completely different skill sets. You'd lose a match and win one and then get completely raped in the third match. Turned me off of fighting games pretty much forever.

moves from completely different skill sets?
I don't quite understand what you mean, like characters doing moves that the character doesn't have?

Yeah, characters could, in a pinch, do moves that they shouldn't have access to.

I got pretty good at the game and there wasn't any moves a computer-player had used against me that I couldn't do myself as that same character. You just have to figure out which move it is(what it's called), they then tell you what button combinations to use in training mode/the move list.

Not to say you didn't see a computer player do something and be like 'whoa, how did they do that... i've never done that before, i want that move' XD. Computers doing the moves, especially in the super hard modes like vs competition, is actually a kinda neat way to see what kinda of cool stuff characters can do.

Anyway, it seems your issue was more a case of your play style not accommodating those moves, or you just didn't take the time to learn them. You'd be surprised the 'new' movesets that come up when you start experimenting with different hand positions or button combinations you don't normally use. ((circle/R1 in combination with different buttons(and directions) tends to do some neat things))

And once you get the hang of it, you find the skills transfer between characters easily enough.

 

[Lugbzurg]

Earlier today, I was playing Clayfighter 63-and-a-third.

Earthworm Jim vs. The pumkin guy.

The pumpkin guy was just one pixel of health away from dying. ONE PIXEL!

I was about to unleash my final blow, when he suddenly let out a flurry of combat moves and killed me.

That's just what happened today. I have years of cheap deaths.

Oh, wait. It's Midnight. I guess it happened yesterday, then.

 

[Beautiful End]

I guess it would be the fact that when you play, let's say, Final Fantasy, and you attempt to confuse or poison your opponent, it NEVER works. But if your opponent tries the same, it will ALWAYS work on the first try. Pretty cheap, if you ask me.

But more recently, it would have to be Gotham City Impostors. So I'm playing Bounty Hunter and I'm owning it for the first time ever. My kills are good, my score is good, I'll probably get some rewards because of that...my self esteem is good! So then the game disconnects. Whoops! I guess you can just kill all that goodbye! Why did it disconnect?! I DON'T KNOW! The game likes to disconnect like that! Apparently, it does that to my friends too. And it has such a nice timing; every time I'm kicking butt, it disconnects.
I know this no one in specific's fault. But still.

 

[Beautiful End]

Minecraft
'You can totaly make that jump bro'

MGS3
"Whats this thing in the grass I can't see? OH HIA SNAKE" (alarm)

Yep, those two.

Minecraft also cheated today...but I'm still confused. So I was playing the 360 edition on Peaceful (So no monsters. At all). I was mining happily and all of a sudden, I turn around and I see 3 squids kinda swimming/dying? by a waterfall. They scared the heck out of me because I thought they were giant spiders at first (I'm kinda new to this still). So I ignored them for a while. Then I turned around and I saw this giant Creeper-like thing coming at me. So I start hitting it until it dies. Turns out it was this thing called a a big Slime. Killed my wolf by pushing it into a lava pit. Almost killed me by doing the same.
So! Peaceful setting, huh?! No monsters, huh?!

And MGS in general too. I especially hated that in MGS4. An enemy would spot you from afar so what I would do was run away a bit, hide under a box and problem solved. Silly theory but I loved the fact that it worked if well executed (I mean, a box in the middle of a hall is just plain suspicious). But MGS4 pretty much made them useless. If the enemy spotted you and was suspicious, you could either run away or hope there was a hole or something you could hide in because he WILL find you! If you hid under a box next to a random pile of boxes (?), he would still figure out you were there. I kinda hated that. I didn't even use my boxes at all throughout the game.

 

[Sean Hollyman]

Getting hit by a Blue Shell right before the finish line in Mariokart Wii and DS.

 

[ShatteredBlack]

Oh God, this thread brings back bad memories:

In the original NFS: Underground, one of the last races is a 7-lap endurance, with each lap taking approx 5 minutes with a fully upgraded and tuned car.

Every single lap your opponent(head-to-head) will take a short-cut right before the finishing line. If you don't take it, regardless of your lead before passing to turn-off, the bastard would always come out far enough ahead of you to beat you to the finishing line.

Then, after conditioning the player to always take the short-cut to avoid losing the lead, on the final lap, the game spawns a panel-van sideways across the short-cut, blocking it entirely. Player car smacks into the van, coming to a dead stop. Your opponent, however, doesn't take the short-cut for the first time in 7 laps and cruises to an easy victory.


I still instinctively swerve when I'm driving now and see a panel-van!