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

[The Genius]

NBA Jam back in the arcade days. I remember reading one of the programmers bragging he was a Pistons fan and if you played as the Bulls and had to hit the last shot to win, he made it so you would never score.

That game was one of the most frustrating cheats ever.

 

[The Genius]

Double post. Stupid iPhone. Can a mod please delete this?

 

[PinkiePyro]

Also, the dragons in Skyrim; I have to mention them. They sometimes grab you with their mouth, swing you around and throw you like litter, causing you to die. Always. The worst part? Sometimes I'm behind them and they still manage to glitch me to death with that attack.

actually that's sort of their kill cam move they cant/wont do it if your hp is above a certain level so eather use a bow or chug a health potion


what I hate is when the game plops down a enemy with a projectile attack right smack at the top of a jumping section

 

[Dr. Thrax]

Playing Command and Conquer 3 Kane's Wrath, I'm the Scrin (Alien race) and I've got a few Annihilator Tripods (Heavy walker, anti-vehicle anti-structure) out, one of the enemy AI (Set on Normal) is one of the Scrin sub-factions and has their superweapon, the Rift Generator (Works by creating a small temporary black hole over a certain area, ejecting anything in the vicinity into space, has a recharge time of 7 minutes, deals damage over time, but stops units in their tracks), out on the other side of the map, behind another enemy base.
A few seconds left on its countdown, and using the Wormhole support power, I was going to warp my Tripods to the revealed area around the Rift Generator, the Tripods have a close range EMP attack. Got the wormhole set up next to their Rift Generator, and was about to set the second one down and just as I set it down, they activate it right above my Tripods, when it would have been absolutely impossible for them to know my units were there from the Fog of War.

It didn't cost me the game, but it was infuriating because there was no way for them to know my units were there. Fucking cheating AI.

 

[AngleWyrm]

The cheapest thing a computer game has done to cheat me out of a win is Crash To Desktop.

 

[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?

 

[DaKiller]

Other than EVERYTHING IN EVERY MARIO PARTY EVER, I'd have to say the cheapest thing a game did to make me lose is when I made it to the end of mission 5 on very hard in F-Zero GX without making a single mistake (you literally can't make a single mistake if you want to win this) and the door closes before I make it to the end! I don't know what happened after that but I awoke in a smoldering crater at what was once a police station.

 

[righthead]

Battletoads. It's been a while since I played, but I think it was called level 3

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

Well, the cheapest thing...

The absolute worst thing any game can do is turn off or crash on you in the middle of saving for absolutely no reason.

Ok, besides New Vegas breaking...

Critical hits on your player.

 

[Major_Tom]

Killing Floor, 2-player suicidal, the game spawned 4 (four!) Fleshpounds at the same time. It also threw in a couple of Scrakes just for fun. *****.

 

[Et3rnalLegend64]

I swear the AI in Pokemon likes to cheat a lot to amp up the difficulty, Take the Elite Four, for example: if both you and your opponent's Pokemon get paralyzed or confused, they'll almost never have any issues, while you'll be too paralyzed to attack or will end up hurting yourself 90% of the time. Likewise, if they use any move that makes them better at avoiding your attacks or makes your accuracy worse, you'll almost never be able to score a hit.

I'd also like to add, when you go to a gym expecting their pokemon to be the specific type you've fought all the way through, then boom, they have some stupid pokemon that is immune or not very effected. Explain to me why clair has a fucking Kingdra so my stupid Ice pokemon are fucking useless. Also I would like to add that it is extremely annoying in the elite four as well. Seriously, why do they have pokemon using moves that are the opposite of their type, that throws strategy out the fucking window.

Apparently that's the same thing competitive players do too. If a Pokemon can learn a move through TM that works against a type that's commonly used against it, you take it. It takes a bit of thinking to realize how being dual-typed can help/hinder you against any given match-up as well. This makes the whole rock-paper-scissors deal less straightforward than "use fire against grass." I think it's clever, personally.

 

[Goldjit]

The rubberband effect in Burnout 3.

I can't count the amount of times I make a simple mistake after driving perfectly for almost 3 laps only to be cheated out of a win.

 

[Drops a Sweet Katana]

Galactic Civilisations 2. I have a huge fleet of about 40 corvettes, 40 frigates, 20 cruisers and 10 transport built in preparation to dick one of the other civilisations. Bearing in mind, all of these ships were sat in the same system (or at least in systems in close proximity to each other), the game figures it's a good time to spawn Dread Lords, so spawns them it did... Right on top of my entire military force. The ensuing few turns involved me trying to draw to ship away from my fleets with a scout ship, which thankfully could outrun the overpowered monstrosity, and me trying desperately to scatter my woefully inferior ships. I was not pleased.

 

[Pat8u]

Mount and blade I just defeated one of the larger towns, ooh what is this kingdom of rhodoks declare war on me, oh and they havent been at war for a while so they have a 1000 man army oh ands it coming for my towns.

Luckily I managed to get peace after two towns were lost and multiple lords caputured

 

[gostchiken]

Not a video game example but in D&D the party and I had a hard fought battle, and those who survived came out feeling like complete badasses. Turns out it was all just a dream, we get no xp, and those who died are actually dead.
RAAAAAAGE!!!
I know DM is god, but that was fucking bullshit.

 

[Rylot]

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.

 

[SonOfVoorhees]

Cheapest thing ever was in Op Flashpoint (360) had to kill guys in a building at an airport. All the time sneaking, skirting around the long way. Approached a window, enemy doesnt see me....have them dead centre and "bang bang bang" every shot hits the window sill even though the cross hairs are no where near the window sill. Enemy turns and shoots me dead.

 

[Random Argument Man]

The cheapest thing in gaming to exist is insane backtracking. The cheapest thing in gaming to cheat you out of a singleplayer experience is the game freezes before you saved. The cheapest thing in multiplayer? The list is too long...

 

[SonOfVoorhees]

Racing games - why is it that any time you clip another car or they clip you you always end up spinning 180 degrees? Hate that.

Beat em ups - Enemys that block everything. Hate that. Only one i remember is MK1, damn boss blocked 99% of your moves. So much for learning the move set of your chosen character.

Actually, any game where the boss is impervious to all your skill. Whether beat em ups or rpgs. Mostly rpgs where bosses are immune to everything you have even though you have spent many hours grinding, upgrading and improving your skills.

Yeah, its meant to make the game harder, but its just cheap.

 

[Lilani]

I've always hated the boss sequences in Kingdom Hearts 2, especially the final boss sequence. KH2 got into all these quick time sequence things, where you have to press triangle or whatever designated control in order to do some special, scripted supermove you just pulled out of your ass. I lost the last stage of the last boss because as I was fighting, there came a point where it asked me to press triangle as fast as I could in order to "deflect" a bunch of little lasers coming at me, and since I wasn't ready for this I couldn't get my finger into the optimum button mashing position and I died.

Really, Square? REALLY? The final test of all the levelling I've done, the abilities I've learned, the strategies I've put together, and the items and equipment I've accumulated comes down to how fast I can mash the fucking triangle button? Well fuck you, too.