Games that Cheat
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The xbox Magic the Gathering game starts cheating if you win in single player more than 5 times a day. It starts setting your deck so that you get none of the cards you want, and it gets all it's cards.
Hisoutensoku/SWR/IaMP story mode enemies don't cheat as much as practically play a different game. Take, for instance, Hisoutensoku. You? You get super moves. Big fancy ones, potentially, but you have to build up to it, use your move, and make sure it connects or weep as you waste so very much potential.
Instead, the average boss (every level is a boss) does stuff like THIS:
I'm not complaining, though. Mostly since it's awesome.
Then there's Sacrifice, final boss thereof. Now, in Sacrifice (a rather unconventional RTS, in case you're wondering),
Instead, the average boss (every level is a boss) does stuff like THIS:
I'm not complaining, though. Mostly since it's awesome.
Then there's Sacrifice, final boss thereof. Now, in Sacrifice (a rather unconventional RTS, in case you're wondering),
creatures cost souls to summon. Between one and five, depending on how powerful it is. The souls are tied up for as long as the creature is alive. Once it dies, the souls float out of its corpse. If the creature was yours, the souls are blue - you can walk over and collect them instantly.
If it's anyone else's - even an ally - the souls are red, and things get complicated. You can cast a spell called Convert - a sac (short, I assume, for sacrifice) doctor pops out of a portal and starts bringing the creature back to life. It then drags them off to the nearest shrine or, failing that, your altar in a helpless state. Note that sac doctors are fragile. Killing them while they try to res a creature will result in their disappearance. Killing them as they carry it away will result in the captured creature's release, alive and angry, if only on half health.
Once taken to a shrine/altar, where only one conversion can happen at a time, it takes a while to convert the creature. About 10 seconds for each soul it has (ultimate creatures have as many as five). Converting souls is difficult and stalemates often happen since, you know, taking them back is so much easier than conversion. Careful strategy is required to get out of even a winning battle with more souls than you went in with.
The final boss? Powerful army and spells, just like you, and all souls are blue to him. So yeah.
Somehow, despite this, the entire level manages to be a pushover.
If it's anyone else's - even an ally - the souls are red, and things get complicated. You can cast a spell called Convert - a sac (short, I assume, for sacrifice) doctor pops out of a portal and starts bringing the creature back to life. It then drags them off to the nearest shrine or, failing that, your altar in a helpless state. Note that sac doctors are fragile. Killing them while they try to res a creature will result in their disappearance. Killing them as they carry it away will result in the captured creature's release, alive and angry, if only on half health.
Once taken to a shrine/altar, where only one conversion can happen at a time, it takes a while to convert the creature. About 10 seconds for each soul it has (ultimate creatures have as many as five). Converting souls is difficult and stalemates often happen since, you know, taking them back is so much easier than conversion. Careful strategy is required to get out of even a winning battle with more souls than you went in with.
The final boss? Powerful army and spells, just like you, and all souls are blue to him. So yeah.
Somehow, despite this, the entire level manages to be a pushover.
Quick thing about street fighter. You know you can start inputs for moves while another move is going off. Vastly reduces the timing for charge characters.Saltyk said:
The Brotherhood problem you´re referring to is easy to overcome once you have some assasins at you´re disposal. But yes, it almost pushed me to the bounds of sanity before i realised that.Kukakkau said:Say hello to my team's saviour for that battle Clubbed (it was funnier when he was a seel...)MonocleClaire said:
One hit kills all dragonites with an ice beam - i love it to bits
I remember there is this race in AC:brotherhood that you have to beat in a fast time already but even faster for full synch to be that "perfect assassin". Now on the route of the race you have to pass around 4-5 crossbow guards - who are pretty dam accurate and if they hit you while jumping/balancing you can be sure to fail. A timed acrobatic race is fun, doing while under crossbow fire is not.
Nazi zombies. Fun, but buggy at the best of times. The spawner is generally dickish anyway but there are a couple of specific cheating scenarios that repeat themselves:
1. You get a limited power up and suddenly the zombies disappear, only to strike en masse when the powerup runs out.
2. You blow off a zombies head, but it keeps coming. Not only is this a hassle, but it also deprives you of the extra points you get for a headshot kill.
3. There's one zombie left and it's a slow mover, so you leave it toslowly chase after you while you rebuild some barriers. Suddenly it starts sprinting, which it genuinly shouldn't, corners you and kills you.
4. The random weapon's box is deceptively cheap but loves to give you shit weapons.
5. Zombies occasionally climb through fully built barriers, usually at the worst possible time.
6. The melee is a fickle friend, wildly inaccurate, even if the reticule is red, and jerks the camera about, disorientating you.
7. Favourite cheat that makes the game feel evil? Flamethrower should be the best weapon. I only used it once, in a desperate crowd of sprinters situation.
They were still sprinting at me, only they were also on fire.
1. You get a limited power up and suddenly the zombies disappear, only to strike en masse when the powerup runs out.
2. You blow off a zombies head, but it keeps coming. Not only is this a hassle, but it also deprives you of the extra points you get for a headshot kill.
3. There's one zombie left and it's a slow mover, so you leave it toslowly chase after you while you rebuild some barriers. Suddenly it starts sprinting, which it genuinly shouldn't, corners you and kills you.
4. The random weapon's box is deceptively cheap but loves to give you shit weapons.
5. Zombies occasionally climb through fully built barriers, usually at the worst possible time.
6. The melee is a fickle friend, wildly inaccurate, even if the reticule is red, and jerks the camera about, disorientating you.
7. Favourite cheat that makes the game feel evil? Flamethrower should be the best weapon. I only used it once, in a desperate crowd of sprinters situation.
They were still sprinting at me, only they were also on fire.
most rts games
why is the AI allowed to control each worker at the same time whilst i have to use my crummy brain to go from one to the next telling it what to do?
if anyone ever played axis and allies by atari then you know what cheating AI means.
player gets a pop cap of 20. AI gets whatever they like. compliment this effect with the rediculously specialist units and then you have a game that unwinnable
EDIT: fallout 3 and new vegas. im 2 feet away with a shotgun aiming at the head with a 95% of hitting but that 5% is still enough to make me miss completely. What has my guy got a middle ear infection???
why is the AI allowed to control each worker at the same time whilst i have to use my crummy brain to go from one to the next telling it what to do?
if anyone ever played axis and allies by atari then you know what cheating AI means.
player gets a pop cap of 20. AI gets whatever they like. compliment this effect with the rediculously specialist units and then you have a game that unwinnable
EDIT: fallout 3 and new vegas. im 2 feet away with a shotgun aiming at the head with a 95% of hitting but that 5% is still enough to make me miss completely. What has my guy got a middle ear infection???
"And don't forget that one giant mud crab, such an annoyance,Vhite said:
or being Over Encumbered by plans ."
A lot of these examples could be called cheap or unfair, but straight-up cheating? No way. You can't define the rules of a game someone else created.
all games cheat on thier hardest dificulties, it's part of thier charm. The thing that bugs me most, is when the game learns from your tactics between lives.
My brother recently picked Tekken 6 up and Azazel really is a bastard, IMO they dropped be the ball on Tekken 6. Azazel was just so cheap, it seems to me like the developers put him in just to piss players off. Tekken 3 was by far the best of the series.Zedayen said:
Another vote for Mario Kart here.The A.I rubberbanding in that series,especially Mario Kart 64,is ridiculous.
Puzzle Quest is another one.The A.I always seemed to know in advance what gems were going to drop down so was able to get massive chain reactions going and string together multiple turns.PQ2 still has some elements of this although it's not quite as bad
Puzzle Quest is another one.The A.I always seemed to know in advance what gems were going to drop down so was able to get massive chain reactions going and string together multiple turns.PQ2 still has some elements of this although it's not quite as bad