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

[snappydog]

Oh also the re-releases for the Kingdom Hearts games that will only be in Japan. They could have a bunch more money, but nooooo. Fuck 'em. Assholes T-T (Even though I will continue to buy the games, hell I am weak!)

How much would it hurt them to release a DLC pack for about 20 USD or hell, the entire game in Final Mix version for 50 bucks? It wouldn't! They would please the fans (and quell the anger from the wait for KH3) and we would get our awesome games. KH2 FM+ had the largest do-over (hell adding a good 15+ bosses alone) and what do we get? Just RE: Chain of Memories...

THIS.
Just aaaargh. I'm in Britain, so I didn't even get RE: CoM!

 

[Surpheal]

Huh, never struggled with that game.

Anyway, in Fallout: New Vegas, I was vilified with the NCR, so the Rangers did their "y'all better give us some pressies or we shoot yo ass". Then, three days later, I was leaving a mine with no Stimpaks, low health, and little ammo in my best guns (lovely lovely Deathclaws), and they showed up. They shot me. I respawned outside the cave. I couldn't fast travel because they blocked it, and couldn't run away because they were faster.

I had something like this happen to me, though sort of different. Came across the first town in which the legion decided to display their love of history, and I decided to go inside of the town hall. The legion had already left, but must have forgotten to take a few of their little dogs with them. So I clear out the building and skip town only to be greeted by some of Caesars mates. Apparently I had killed Caesars absolute favorite dogs about a town ago.

All I can say is that the grenade rifle from the mercenaries pack saved my ass in that one

 

[shrekfan246]

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.

Goddamn Zubat!

OT: Yeah, Pokemon.

Confusion: My Pokemon make themselves faint because they can't score a hit on the opponent while confused, while the opponent never hits itself. Assuming it even gets confused in the first place.

Doubleslap/Fury Swipes/Whatever else has the same effect: Whenever I use it, it hits twice and then ends. Whenever the enemy uses it, it hits five times and usually the first hit is a critical strike.

Hypnosis: Mine has about a 30% chance to actually hit, while the opponents always makes my Pokemon fall asleep. And then my Pokemon stays asleep for about five turns if I don't wake it back up.

Paralysis: I don't even know if I can convey how cheap this is. I've had a Pikachu get paralyzed by Thunder Wave before. That shouldn't even be possible.

Also, I've recently finally begun playing Black&White and I have the say that the Pokemon stats have either been artificially boosted since the last games or the AI is even more of a cheating bastard than before, because it always seems like my Pokemon can be fainted in two or three hits while if I don't use Leer a ton of times, every enemy I face only takes five points of damage from attacks that are Super Effective.

 

[omicron1]

Sly Cooper.
Enjoy the platforming, didja? Well, in order to get back to it, you have to beat this minigame. Oh, and there's barely enough time on the clock to win if you never flub up. If you miss? Even once? Sorry, man, try again.
I swear, even the voodoo alligator QTE-fest was a holiday compared to those.

 

[Timmyo00]

A bit of a weird game to point out but meh

Smackdown vs Raw - 2011
Ray's Evil story line, a bit into the match I hit my first finisher and the count stops at 2, "Ah so I have to wait for something to happen... just in case..." *Finisher,Kickout,Finisher,kickout* This continued for about 30 mins before I said "Screw this If I lose I lose now" Ran out hit him with a chair, DQ.
-Match Failed-
Tough it out and 45 mins in while he is getting his ass handed to him, someone finaly comes down, to hit him with a chair, DQ... thanks game

Or on a diffrent story line some runs down, distracts the ref, chair I need to be hit with to lock me onto the ground and not kick out. I say no to the game, somehow reverse the chair 3 or 4 times getting a 2 count each time before he hits me and I am not aloud to kick out... thanks game.

Halo:Reach
Cheap over cheat, The AI: "How do I drive car? maybe this cliff can help"

Minecraft
'You can totaly make that jump bro'

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

And no Saints Row 3 mentioning the aim bot everyone with a gun in that game has? (even on easy :I)
If you have the game and don't know what I mean, get a heli and a few cops pissed.

TF2
Autobalenced with an uber? Nah, Uber (or ubered by a medic)
Charge in as soldier/heavy
'hl2.exe stopped working'
I know people have this problem with the .exe but my game has Only ever crashed during an uber

All I got for now

 

[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!