Games that Cheat

[Quaxar]

I have long suspected the poker AI in RDR of looking in my cards. There's no possible way they can decide to stay in the game every time I bluff but quit immediately once I have good cards!

Many NPC-lives were lost at various poker tables...

 

[SoulSalmon]

The original Mariokart, on the SNES, there is documented PROOF that game cheats >.> other racers jumping WAY higher then you, reaching breakneck speeds because of an early attempt at rubberband difficulty, Mario and Luigi ALWAYS GET STARS NOTHING ELSE!
Yeah, Mariokart o.o

In comparison though, Mariokart Wii is feeble... It's almost hard to beilieve that it's the same series :/ (Same game almost...)


Oh! and Burnout Revenge, I watched a car BEHIND me crash into a wall, and spawn IN FRONT OF ME.
Cruis'n'world on the N64 did this too...

 

[Dexiro]

Wipeout HD/Fury is quite fair on Novice difficulty, it's still challenging and is as hard as any other racing game towards the end.

But cranking the difficulty up to Skilled or Elite is like inviting the AI to cheat. They blatantly go twice as fast as you and pull out the most convenient powerups.

Surprisingly it doesn't bother me though, there's really no need to crank up the difficulty unless you're going for the platinum trophy.

 

[The Harkinator]

Racing Games. SSX Tricky (snowboarding) was really evil at this, one racer would speed past everyone and shove you into defeat. B******. Fallout 3 when I kill Roy Phillips outside Tenpenny Tower and Michael Masters knows it was me but the other one doesn't WTF?

 

[kidwithxboxlive]

well, realism on l4d 2... iswear to god, the tanks purposly hide at the safe house... I SWEAR TO GOD

 

[Amaury_games]

Man, I can't hear cheating games, without remembering the very first Mario Kart, for the SNES, where the game wouldn't even pretend it wasn't cheating. The CPU weren't hit by obstacles, ran perfectly, had infinite items, and could even avoid your items by jumping them whenever they felt like doing so.
But, that's probably why it doesn't bother me so much that, in latest Mario Karts, they only get a lot of Lightnings and Blue Shells whenever I'm first. After taking almost 20 Shrinking Mushrooms from Peach and Toad on Rainbow Road on that first Mario Kart, while avoiding electric Thwomps that the CPU didn't have to worry about, this is nothing. Okay, it pisses me off sometimes, but I still take this over that cheating fiesta. It was worse than a Speed Racer race!

 

[Slaanax]

Actually in old days of Gaming, games cheated to make up for the lack of AI. Masters or Orion and civilization would do this.

 

[bob1052]

In WoW, the chess boss(seriously) can light squares on fire messing up your pieces.

Although that isn't some kind of hidden cheating.

 

[chieften]

No game cheats worse than Age of Empires in my experience, especially II. If the AI players don't have something they need, they just spawn it. Need 5000 food to create an army to ambush a player after a prolonged battle? The AI just generates it, and you're dead.

Not to mention that ridiculous jump from Moderate to high difficulties.

 

[Kapol]

Lots of games cheat. One that really got me was RISK: Factions. I had an army of 63 with a bonus dice against an army of... 2 I think. Around there at least. I walked out of that with less then 45 in my army. I've seen similar problems in Civilization Revolution/4, and RTSs like Halo Wars.

 

[Daymo]

Dissidia Final Fantasy. The game flaunts the cheating in your face. Level requriments on weapons ignored, accesorry restrictions ignored, having moves that won't actually be unlocked for another 15 levels and ignoring all cp caps to have a whole lot more abilities then should be possible. And yet I still enjoy the game most of the time.