Games that Cheat

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In fighting games, when the AI CLEARLY reads your button presses and reacts BEFORE THE MOVE COMES OUT. Their reflexes are just inhuman and that takes away from the game if you like you play "arcade style".

Also when they themselves perform light speed actions like 720 motions on the joystick without jumping or hiding it within another move.

Also in racing games, when you get really far ahead, they'll suddenly speed up and catch up to you. No matter what cars you guys are using.

 

[aaronmcc]

I gotta vote for FFXIII. Specifically fighting Long Gui or Shalong Gui while under-powered. Theoretically, with the correct tactics you should be able to defeat any enemy with the correct strategy. But when you are not very powerful this is close to impossible against these enemies. They have an attack called Bay which is a scream that takes your entire energy, if not kills you. Now, if you have sentry mode activated you can negate about a third of this attack. However, not all your characters will have sentry abilities (or decent ones at least) and Bay can be activated within 1 second. This means your lead character MUST have sentry skills and you have literally an instant to activate them if Bay occurs. Factor all this in and add this too - this enemy has another ultimate attack called Ultima and it has activated Bay on me 3 times in a row simply due to the fact it was about to die. I call cheating. It's simply not fun when you work out a genuine tactic only to have your enemy spam their ultimate attacks.

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

Dawn of War and the expansion packs. More often than not the enemy will build the strategic point defense towers out on open ground, and the AI doesnt have squad or vehicle caps.

Every RTS game ever...

Bloody AI. It cheats! It frickin' CHEATS! No one can build a factory that fast. I know, because I've tried!

Also they are able to build multiple structurs simultaneously, train multiple units at the same time and seem to have infinite resources.

 

[Vhite]

Oblivion. You can be master of the universe with full enchanted deadric armor and weapon, all skills maxed but you will still get killed by *ucking mudcrab.

 

[drbarno]

mario kart?

Agreed. You'd be amazed how many times I had to go through the lighting cup on mirror just because the computer decides to cheat with as many blue shells as possible.

 

[John the Gamer]

All games with infinitely spawning enemies. And turn based games. Combat does not occur in turns. You just attack untill the other guy is dead. Pausible real time is ok though.

 

[AnAngryMoose]

Risk: Factions. That game fudges dice rolls every fucking time. You roll a six on attacking? It rolls a six. You roll a two on attacking? It rolls a two. It attacks and rolls a six? You roll a one. Because of that I didn't buy it.

 

[Kukakkau]

Pokemon (H)G/(S)S/C. Lance and his god damn Dragonites.

Say hello to my team's saviour for that battle Clubbed (it was funnier when he was a seel...)

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.

 

[moretimethansense]

Dawn of War especially Dark Crusade

- Infinite resources
- Can see you through fog of war (tested)
- And in the campaign if the AI has two HQs it has two squad caps meaning double the number of enemies INCLUDING Unique units!

 

[Toriver]

Every RTS game ever...

Bloody AI. It cheats! It frickin' CHEATS! No one can build a factory that fast. I know, because I've tried!

I reckon. They can control every single unit at once were we can only control one! Tis most bullshittits

In total agreement there, I've seen Civ 3 pull some pretty questionable shit.

In fighting games, when the AI CLEARLY reads your button presses and reacts BEFORE THE MOVE COMES OUT. Their reflexes are just inhuman and that takes away from the game if you like you play "arcade style".

Also when they themselves perform light speed actions like 720 motions on the joystick without jumping or hiding it within another move.

Two cases in point I can think of: the Apprentice in Soul Calibur 4 and Hakumen in BlazBlue. Now the Apprentice is practically broken as it is due to having force powers and all, so I can kinda understand the difficulty but the computer's speed with him is just ridiculous. Further, he is an example of your first point, blocking everything you throw at him and responding before you have any chance to block his own moves. Hakumen is an example of your second point. You can totally see it. If I'm playing as Hakumen, he's slow as hell and takes forever to charge his special moves. But if the computer's got him, he gains special abilities in less than a second and unleashes them ridiculously fast, compounded by the fact that he's just 300% my own speed with Hakumen to begin with.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Fucking Blazblue.

Fucking Score Attack.

Fucking Unlimited characters.

Did I mention how fucking evil it is to make me fight hyper powered versions of the characters?

 

[Kenko]

Some Strategy games are evil. Sometimes the enemies get hightier units or huge amounts of resources early on in the game and just flat out fuck you up.When me and a friend in Company of Heroes were playing a compstomp, the enemy plain out fucking rushes early on in the beginning with a fuckin King Tiger. And we were like...WTF?! We only had riflemen and a few light vehicles, wich is normal that early on.

 

[The Night Shade]

Every RPG and RTS ever all of them cheat in some kind of way

RTS:infinite resources and fast creation of units
RPG:infinite amounts of magic and critical hits

 

[ZombieGenesis]

To be fair, some RTS games don't cheat. They have others ways of messing you up.
Advance Wars for example doesn't need to cheat, since you and the AI opponent don't always start on the same level, especially in the campaign. While you're there with a factory and a few infantry units the opposition already has a few ports, an airport, a battleship fleet and a few Megatanks rolling casually to join boot with ass.
Megatanks > You

 

[pejhmon]

Left 4 Dead (2) on expert. Hunters / jockeys suddenly decide that they can slap you down 20 hp whilst stunned by a shove and the damage increase on jockey's is disproportional to the difficulty, they become stronger than hunters -_-. That, and chargers somehow gain an instant recharge on their charge if they kill someone whilst charging meaning that they can wipe a group far too easily. It's nothing like what you can do on versus

Starcraft 1's AI on custom maps must have been spawning resources since it made things far too quickly and was straight unfair as terran. At least they got a little retarded when they needed an expansion

Gears of War 2 on insane (excl campaign). Bots somehow manage to perfectly no scope headshot the second after sprinting with the sniper

The fact that almost all RTS's have AI's that just know where you are and where you have expanded to without any form of recon whatsoever

At least all of the above are dealable though, generally a bit irritating but nothing too bad. Can't think of any more

Oh wait, solitaire on the iPod mini. There was always a point where you could move 2 cards to 1 location (i.e. a 7 of spades and clubs are available on 2 different collums with a 8 of hearts on another collum), one of which led to the end game and the other guaranteed a loss and the AI seemed to love to make the latter occur for whichever one I picked -_-

 

[Continuity]

The vast majority racing games cheat with elastic AI.. you know, if they get to far behind the get a speed boost and if they get too far ahead they slow right down... annoys the hell out of me.

To be fair, some RTS games don't cheat.

Even the ones that don't break the games rules still cheat by doing several things at once, i.e. while a player can only manage the units on screen the AI will manage all the units on the map simultaneously... that annoys me. Perhaps just because I'm crap at RTS :-/

 

[Uber Evil]

I present to you The Computer Is A Cheating Bastard [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheComputerIsACheatingBastard]
I'm sorry about linking to TVTropes, but come on, this thread was asking for it.

 

[TheTaco007]

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.

 

[greyghost81]

Every Street Fighter game I've ever played.

 

[Cogwheel]

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),

Spoiler: you have to read a lot

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.