The trouble with horror games doing the "play over and over until you get it right" is you stop being scared and start getting annoyed.

@JJJ-uo2xb

3 жыл бұрын

Outlast had me friends t-bagging the big naked dudes because they just couldn't figure it out. So they just stopped taking it seriously ha

@Mr.Rogers91

3 жыл бұрын

It ruins the immersion but it is a really difficult balance between being immersive/Scary/Fun

@professorbaxtercarelessdre1075

3 жыл бұрын

that's a part of why i don't play them, like alot of people are loving the new RE remakes, but i can't see myself getting passed things like Mr. X or whatever, and Alien Isolation sounds impossible for someone like me, just cause i'm not as skilled at that kind of stealth, and i grew up playing the Splinter Cell games and loved the Dishonored and Batman: Arkham games, as some examples.

@thedorkknight5824

3 жыл бұрын

*cough* The Evil Within 1 *cough* *cough* But for real. That game has so many "gotcha!" deaths for no reason.

@Mushu2801

3 жыл бұрын

@@thedorkknight5824 Evil within gas labyrinth.

“Cheating AI”? What about Need For Speed, especially Most Wanted and Carbon, where you drive a Lambo at 350 km/h and the cop AI suddenly can catch up with you in Ford Crown Victoria.

@nittayoshifumi8252

3 жыл бұрын

Cop got 9hrs of sleep and golden gaming chair.

@SinfulSlayr

3 жыл бұрын

It's fun to drive in manual, attract cops at maybe 75 mph, then hit a straight path and accelerate to 250 and then the cop pulls in front of you... I feel you man

@godknightomega

2 жыл бұрын

A yes the famous "Mario Cart" rubber banding racing A.I. No matter how far a head you get in the race, they ALWAYS catch up.

@daniel-kn3tq

2 жыл бұрын

@@godknightomega gta 5 cops can ram you no matter what speed you travel at lol

@samainord

2 жыл бұрын

@@daniel-kn3tq aint sure about that they get far back pretty easily, and the only problem is there always a roadblock or patrol ahead of you

The one that grinds my gears is when playing a turn based RPG and the boss takes multiple turns for no reason other than to utterly murder a party member.

@a2pha

2 жыл бұрын

There are a great many RPGs that do this. It was actually a mechanic I was considering when programming a RPG, yet in my mechanics I set it so anything the computer can do, the player can also do.

@Tokru86

2 жыл бұрын

If bosses only would have one move each round it would be way way to easy because typically you are outnumbering them 4 to 1 or something.

@D_YellowMadness

2 жыл бұрын

@@Tokru86 In theory, that makes sense but the boss usually has attacks that hit everyone at once while doing crazy amounts of damage, inflicting status effects, & sometimes having random crits & the ability to summon allies. Shadow Queen was terrible about that in Paper Mario 2. She'd attack twice & summon 2 hands in the same turn & the hands would immediately attack too. It was very easy for her to end the fight in one turn.

@paulduchamp4736

2 жыл бұрын

*FFXIIV intensifies*

@Zenrikku77

Жыл бұрын

*Ozma has entered chat*

I think one of the ones I hate the most is the when all enemies level with you, so you can never find higher leveled enemies, or lower leveled enemies, they're all exactly your level enemies. So the FFA 8 one he said about.

@steveharveysmustache3988

Жыл бұрын

This is why I got tired of ac origins. It was a fun game but it just felt like the enemy and loot leveling went on forever

@bartfourie8359

Жыл бұрын

I max grinded ff8 and leveled up a hell lot and when i reached the last boss i got stuck there and never beat it,now i know why and im sorta pissed off as ff7 and 9 were completely different

@justapug6396

3 ай бұрын

I think skyrim's levelling worked well, the progression mostly went well until you powerleveled a non-combat skill

I really hate the “trial and error” sequences in horror games. Most times it ends up ruining what that scene is supposed to be, an extremely tense and scary moment. Eventually it can turn it into a frustratingly repetitive bore

@Allmenshouldrespectallwomen

3 жыл бұрын

I agree. The developers design toys like this on purpose so special needs kids can’t enjoy the toy

@snnnaaaaaakeeeee4470

3 жыл бұрын

@@Allmenshouldrespectallwomen Get back on the shortbus

@ThatFletcherGuy.

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I have had a few horror games turn very stale and loose all sense of atmosphere and tension because I’ll just be like “yeah yeah ooo scary now just fucking work”

@GrlmRiper

3 жыл бұрын

What is a ''Trial and Error'' sequence?

@beezerthebee

3 жыл бұрын

Hey, I just started a commentary channel can you check it out!?

An amazing reference for A.I. cheating is infinite ammo, when you have the ability to run out of ammo and some ashat is raining bullet hell upon you with infinite amounts of ammo.

@thereprehensible435

3 жыл бұрын

Same with skills and abilities with limited uses, whereas enemies that are supposedly weaker than you have unlimited uses.

@andrewgreeb916

3 жыл бұрын

At least halo allows you to abuse that mechanic for yourself :)

@jojoversus1100

3 жыл бұрын

GTA 3 is by far the worst about this.

@SiFiFreak

3 жыл бұрын

I'm playing cod ww11 on hardened. Half mag per enemy minimum. Enemies spawn behind you. Enemies perfect accuracy and can see you almost anywhere and your own health is such that more than likely you just did instantly. It's ready frustrating

@Vanadium

3 жыл бұрын

I played Metro exodus redux on ranger mode. No hud at all. Infinite ammo for the enemy and only one or 3 bullets left after I pick the weapons up. Makes no sense at all.

That cheating AI hit me hard. Especially in fighting games. Like the AI code can read your moves when you hit the button and then just block everything perfectly. So annoying.

@citizen_grub4171

Жыл бұрын

It's like screen watching taken to its logical extreme.

@bartfourie8359

Жыл бұрын

The early ps1 fighting games were really guilty of this and the worst for me was soul edge when you faught cervantes"i hope i spelled that right as its been +-20 years lol"

@araonthedrake4049

4 ай бұрын

It's most common and obnoxious in RTS games - AI players will just get faster/better economy or straight up free units/upgrades

@wolfwing1

3 ай бұрын

it's not even that, people have shown like street fighter 2 AI can hit you with attacks that can't. Like your doing Attack A that stops attack B, but they still hit you.

@ItzsIshr

3 ай бұрын

it’s gotten better take for example mk11 and 1 just delay your button inputs

Goldeneye and Perfect Dark had more or less content depending on the difficulty mode, but it worked well. Every difficulty had additional objectives... and it made sense, cus a recruit would not be sent and expected to achieve what a 00 agent would be capable of. Mariokark 64 was really bad, where if you let 1st place get out of sight, they were gone. Toad passes you and you crash, he is 1/3 lap ahead all the sudden, and you gotta hope for nothing but stars and lightening bolts or theres no way you are catching them.

@donerzombie1349

Жыл бұрын

Wut?! Mario kart has so many catch up items ypu get when behind, the game is made to break exactly this "too far gone" issue. Just having a chance is also more than one should have after a crash. Where is the fun in rubberbanding and knowing no matter how bad you perform, the bots won't be too far gone?

@gwoody4003

Жыл бұрын

@@donerzombie1349 oh I didnt meam the game itself was really bad. I love Mario Kart 64. I meant the AI cheating is really bad. If Toad or Princess would pass you and you lost sight... they were suddenly a half lap down the track. Or if you were not in 1st, they would pass you like you were standing still to catch up to 1st place.

@donerzombie1349

Жыл бұрын

@@gwoody4003 Dude, I played that one a lot, but I absolutely can't agree to that. They weren't that bad, mostly one just got a few bad exits and ramed the wall so the higher cc bots leaped on that, but other than that, it was pretty manageable.

@imnotmike

Жыл бұрын

I used to really like Mario Kart 64, but after I realized how it was utilizing rubber band physics I could never play the game again. I can't take a game seriously when doing good doesn't get you further ahead and doing bad doesn't get you further behind. You just sleepwalk through all but the last few seconds of the race and then try to pass everybody right at the end. The worse you drive, the better you do.

@Spinozin

8 ай бұрын

Mario kart 64 was so bad I never paid for another in the series. The original was balanced perfectly.

I hate in racing games like the need for speeds when your winning and the games just like "ohh no you don't" and the AI just fly past you like your not moving. And it's usually about 90% of the way through the race so you have to start all over again

@jayhovah5621

3 жыл бұрын

Also when they have every car in traffic purosefully change lanes/turn just to get in your way. I get the game has to be a challenge.. But it's ruined if its not realistic. Not that games need to be REAL, but there's no way that every car is going to get in your way or be able to pass you when you were previously going top speed. Seems like car AI has a long way to go...

@The7Reaper

3 жыл бұрын

@@jayhovah5621 There's nothing wrong with the AI, the devs are fucking people on purpose so you spend longer on the game, thats my theory anyway.

@Pankake51

3 жыл бұрын

@@The7Reaper and with the forza horizon games when the ai can just miss checkpoints without any repercussions. I rage quit a lot of off-road races in horizon 4 because of that

@theredguy4845

3 жыл бұрын

That's the lazy rubber banding system they have and it sucks and when I was trying to beat a record on NFS Hot pursuit remastered I notice the traffic would often times block the short cuts to.

@bearrett50kal17

3 жыл бұрын

I think Forza and GT Sport have the best racing game AI. I only really have experience with Forza but heard good things about GT AI. I like that I can beat "Pro" Forza AI and their fastest AI are called "UNBEATABLE" but are in fact beatable, and there's no "catch-up" mechanic which is usually the culprit for rubberbanding AI. From my experience the Forza AI difficulty levels just set the AI lap times to a certain average, so if I'm 2 seconds a lap faster than the fastest car, I know I can turn my difficulty up for some close racing.

Player: *hides in completely undiscoverable location* Game AI: “hey Siri navigate to player”

@jesterinadeck_2980

3 жыл бұрын

GTA V cops pretty much. You could be hidden from the cops completely go down an alley and they will avoid every single alley and street on the way and go straight to the alley you are hiding in.

@reddawnstudios2016

3 жыл бұрын

That's like a good chunk of stealth games, where either the ai will completely forget about you, or like what you've mentioned, WILL home in you no matter where or how you try to hide

@spacetexan8695

3 жыл бұрын

@@reddawnstudios2016 it’s silly sometimes Half the time I laugh and the other half I want to scream 😂 I LOVE games that implement line of sight AND last known location

@ellis3320

3 жыл бұрын

Call of duty zombies is a pretty big offender of the “how in TF did you know where I was” trope

@Kokopilau77

3 жыл бұрын

They’re probably using Alexa. Siri would send them elsewhere

One of the things i despise the most is that the A.I. in most shooting games has LASER accuracy. getting shot in the head from 200 meters by an A.I. with a handgun is absolutely infuriating.

@milessmiles99

2 жыл бұрын

We’re looking at you, Insurgency Sandstorm.

@ledumpsterfire6474

2 жыл бұрын

It's frustrating because it's an easy fix. A good simple fix would be a "chaos factor" to dampen their accuracy. Most of the time firing is based on something called raycasting, where basically the game draws a line between the gun and a point being aimed at, but the AI can track a moving target with perfect accuracy. You could just simulate accuracy when they fire using the distance the AI is firing and the range of the gun they're using, and then calculate that chaos factor to cause a slightly randomized change in the raycast determining where the bullet goes.

@OneNativeWolfe74

Жыл бұрын

Were looking at you cod

@cericat

Жыл бұрын

@@ledumpsterfire6474 seriously, my original programming assignment in UDK 3 was a bot that moved semi randomly and had variable time to shoot and accuracy, it still killed my testers pretty consistently but it shook them up because it seemed "realistic".

@isaacfrand3824

Жыл бұрын

Jackal snipers :)

The one thing I hated about the older GTA games wasn't that I had to start a mission over again if I failed, it's that i'd sometimes have to take a long tedious drive across the map just to get back to the checkpoint. Why don't they just reset you at the checkpoint when you fail?

There's a huge difference between challenging/fun and hard/frustrating

@DemonLordGamingAC0

3 жыл бұрын

^ This

@fs0cieety

3 жыл бұрын

Yup. Fromsoftware in nutshell. Their games are easy but re*arded devs make it as annoying as possible

@darrylsmith5148

3 жыл бұрын

I very much agree I finally finished Dark Souls not too long ago And I didn't feel accomplished I felt relieved it was over

@DemonLordGamingAC0

3 жыл бұрын

@@Allmenshouldrespectallwomen thank you for the meme

@Allmenshouldrespectallwomen

3 жыл бұрын

@@DemonLordGamingAC0 excuse me?

Ghost of Tsushima has an amazing difficulty system. Lethal would make enemy hits actually lethal, but your blows are also very lethal.

@Freestyle80

2 жыл бұрын

yeah and that makes the game easy as shit, so no you only like it because you can brag that beat in the 'highest difficulty' thats not really difficult

@BlazeFire591

2 жыл бұрын

@@Freestyle80 uh oh we got a badass over here - what did you beat sekiro blindfolded? Chode lol

@noegodinez1777

2 жыл бұрын

It makes the duels more exciting

@Phyrrax

2 жыл бұрын

@@Freestyle80 Man are you cool.

@abhijithsb6673

2 жыл бұрын

@@Freestyle80 oh ok🙄

"Expecting too much of the player" I'm always reminded of the intro to Driver, "Oh you've just loaded the game for the first time and want to dive right into the story? Cool. Perfectly execute all these advanced manoeuvres." Yeah... Thanks for that... Was not surprised to find a million hits on how to hack the opening level so you can actually play the rest of the game!

@finalnuts6595

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah that was heinous

@CharlieFoxtrot

2 жыл бұрын

The tutorial is easy, just do it in the correct order. Otherwise I just think driving games really aren't your forte

@ludane9087

2 жыл бұрын

Omg! I remember that!! We almost threw it out the barracks window! Made no sense to open with that! Good post

@D_YellowMadness

2 жыл бұрын

@@CharlieFoxtrot Pretending to think an objectively hard mission in comparison to the rest of the game is easy, contrary to everyone else's opinion & then liking your own comment doesn't make you look like a badass. It makes you look desperate. A player who's really that good would either think "Damn, I'm really good at this!" or "Wow, this game is easy from start to finish." They wouldn't *specifically* think the tutorial is easy. It's like specifically saying Farewell is easy in Celeste. Everyone will know you're jut trying to seem cool.

@chambeet

2 жыл бұрын

@@D_YellowMadness Excellent comment. And true. (I mean yours, btw.) I only driven Driver once, years ago, but I gave up specifically because that stupid intro “training” mode.

That #3. I totally relate to that. I will usually play a game on the easiest difficulty for a few reasons, for one, I do it so I can safely learn the mechanics of the game at my own pace and for another, I play games to enjoy the story, and a higher difficulty makes it harder to get from story part to story part.

@imnotmike

Жыл бұрын

I almost never play games on easy, but I really appreciate the people who do. I don't want my games to be ridiculously hard unless I pick the ridiculously hard game setting. I want games to have easy settings, normal settings, and hard settings, and I don't want anything locked behind a difficulty gate. If your game is fun enough on hard, I'll play it on hard. If it's not fun, I won't. You shouldn't be trying to force me to play your game in a way that's not fun just to access all the content.

@BlindSp0tz

Жыл бұрын

@@imnotmike I agree in a general sense, but I think there's a time and place for everything, and there should be games gatekeeping content behind skill-checks. Thinking about the Souls series, which would never have had the success they had if they had a difficulty setting for instance, or Hyper Light Drifter that had a game critic getting mocked for finding it too difficult, or Super Meat Boy, etc... There are lots of games out there, and having some that are just there to test your skills is not a bad thing, I think. It also makes for a better game when it's designed from the ground up to be hard, instead of relying on tired tropes like just making bullet-sponge enemies or tightening the duration of a QTE.

@bartfourie8359

Жыл бұрын

I allso play games on easy mode first time unless its a game type im good at but,some games like the souls games are fun when you master how to dodge and evade attacks and they are made hard by design and would just be another run of the mill game with easy difficulty settings but that said,some games mechanics are just boosted at higher difficulty mode making them unplayable especially racing game and fps

@Acinnn

Жыл бұрын

When I usually play story driven games on easy for couple of reasons. It takes more time to finish it otherwise and tend to get obsessed with the story and not interested in anything else so like this it's at least not for too long, also I don't want to get too frustrated when I play, I prefer bit of power fantasy.

@billyalarie929

Жыл бұрын

@@Acinnn well said.

Bullet-sponge enemies are the absolute most annoying, frustrating and stupid kind.

@windrider2190

3 жыл бұрын

Borderlands specifically for me. UVHM and the Digistruct Peak Levels. Oh, all the enemies are becoming thicker and thicker bullet sponges, let's restrict the player's customization by only making one or two builds viable while also making it to where they'll constantly have to rely on a single elemental effect that simultaneously screws them over. What a great idea, 10/10, nice game mechanic.

@philithegamer8265

3 жыл бұрын

@@windrider2190 Fuck that.

@LinvestigatesMC

3 жыл бұрын

@@windrider2190 slag was basically necessary to play uvhm

@StoveToTheFace

2 жыл бұрын

I agree. I personally even hate seeing the damage numbers above their heads even in full RPGs, I always turn it off because it makes it too obvious I'm playing a video game, I can't get into it.

@thereprehensible435

2 жыл бұрын

@@StoveToTheFace Eh... Damage numbers and a bar let you calculate exactly how absurd health totals are tho'. Turning them off, you just feel the minutes pass as you waste time on sponges. Doesn't solve the root of the issue.

One of the annoying mechanics is when the Ai can track you through walls and everyone of them knows your exact position.

@thevashfan12392

3 жыл бұрын

back in the ps2 era that was standard practice because of having to cut-corners due to memory constraints and not to mention the technology was still struggling to gain enough memory, clock speed, and hell in the early-early days when the console was first launched; we didn't even have graphics cards; we were still using 3D accelerator cards and voodoo 1, 2, or the new voodoo 3 card if you were seriously rich. heck 3DFX and 3D graphix were some of the hottest new things back then. sure it was polygonal as all the nine hells but it was cutting edge for the time. nowadays ye can get away with fewer polygons and just use mesh effects to weave a picture into a complex overlay on top of the polygonal form. I.E: giving characters color, shape, texture, and fine details when it finally renders.

@jojoversus1100

3 жыл бұрын

@@thevashfan12392 It's funny that you bring up the PS2, because I was playing GTA: Vice City Stories last night & there were enemies shooting me from OUTSIDE MY HIDEOUT while I was INSIDE. It was some serious, serious bullshit lol.

@thevashfan12392

3 жыл бұрын

@@jojoversus1100 cops could do that in vice city and gta 3 It was kinda fixed by San andreas then weirdly came back in 4 after tbogt

@jojoversus1100

3 жыл бұрын

@@thevashfan12392 I've actually played 3 since BEFORE its release, when we rented it from Hastings (lol). I was 8 in '01. That masterpiece blew our minds then, & I'm replaying it on PS4 now & I gotta say, it still holds up. I do notice the tracking b.s. in 3, but it seems to be a lot more manageable. I think they cut a few programming corners with Vice City Stories, but that's okay. I still love every bit of it.

@Skellitor301_VA

3 жыл бұрын

The Aliens game used this pretty well actually as secondary AI giving the Alien hints to where you are, while not fully giving away where you are.

I love when games have a seperate difficulty choice for the puzzles, like Silent Hill has

I remember my uncle playing Majora's Mask and he was on the final stage and he barely had enough time to make it to Skull Kid and most the time he didn't make it in time so if he failed he had to try super hard to run to the top of the tower before the time Runs Out

@warlockpaladin2261

2 жыл бұрын

You just have to approach the game like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day.

@TalesOfSurvival

2 жыл бұрын

just play the song of time backwards. doubles the amount of time you have.

@bartfourie8359

Жыл бұрын

@@TalesOfSurvival knowing this would have made allot of difference back in the day as that game was a rush when you were on your last day

I think Doom Eternal handles it’s high difficulty option really well. On Nightmare the enemies have no health amplifiers so they aren’t spongier and doesn’t slow the game down. However the player receiving more damage per hit means that they have less mistakes to make and it fits the break neck pace and 100 decisions a minute game design, and finally it makes the AI super aggressive and unrelenting meaning the players have to move around the arena and be on top of everything to keep goin’ and it’s exhilarating.

@beezerthebee

3 жыл бұрын

Hey, I just started a commentary channel can you check it out!?

@noahmoody1640

3 жыл бұрын

Definitely, Doom Eternal was meant to be played on the hardest difficulty. Such a great game

@ollytherevenant1653

3 жыл бұрын

@@jathinbanala5995 oh yeah that’s what i meant my bad :p

@CvX21k

3 жыл бұрын

id Software :*

@apaapa14

3 жыл бұрын

@@noahmoody1640 im gonna download this and come home and play it , yall making me miss it

Talking about timer, remember the 1st Prince of Persia? where you had exactly one hour to complete the game, and if you failed you had to start all over again? it took me picking it up after 20 years to finally beat the game with no cheats.

@adnanasif9538

3 жыл бұрын

The second one is more worse than this

@Myskully14

3 жыл бұрын

I haven't played since I was a kid but I don't remember this being a thing.

"When difficulty is fake" Memories of DS2 furiously popping up in my brain

@LucaxCorp

2 жыл бұрын

“Here’s two huge enemies you have to fight at the same time while three smaller dudes are constantly nipping your heels. What? Isn’t this fun?”

@bryce6274

2 жыл бұрын

Good ole DS2...more enemies equals more of a challenge am I right? God that game still frustrates me just thinking about it

@MICHAELTUMANGDAY

3 ай бұрын

Shrine of Amana intensifies

Fully agree on puzzle handling. It's so easy for developers to forget how little sense a puzzle makes to someone who doesn't already know the solution, and sometimes they screw up by not thinking of potentially more logical answers or reasoning that completely undermine the intended solution. One difficulty I felt was severely mixed was the first Lost Planet. It did some COOL stuff for harder difficulties, like making enemies significantly larger, adding more of them to the level, and even making you fight two of the boss. However, it also throws in severe heat depletion which is literally a time limit slowly creeping up on you the whole time you're playing. On any normal setting, it's not a big deal, as you can build up a lot of heat from killing enemies and scavenging heat sources so it's not a problem, but they went overkill on increasing the rate of depletion such that it just feels unwinnable. Enemies could have been made to give huge amounts of heat, but they just give the same amount as always, or very close to it, making it deplete just as much as you gain in the time it takes to shoot one down, even if you're pretty quick about it.

Theif: The Dark Project did difficulty really well! It changed the objectives and or level layouts depending on the difficulty!

@Fuhgit-lu4tj

3 жыл бұрын

I before E except after C...thief

@Tasdanian

3 жыл бұрын

@@Fuhgit-lu4tj: Though you’re right in this case, there are many English words where this rule does not apply.

@ninjalemurdude

3 жыл бұрын

That reminds me of one of the 007 games. The third-person one. Great game.

@DaleStrickland

3 жыл бұрын

@@Tasdanian huh, that's weird

@luqmanazli4450

3 жыл бұрын

@@DaleStrickland now now. Dont make a game arguement into an english arguement

I love how when he mentioned dark souls' lack of checkpoints, it showed gameplay of ds3, which has checkpoints literally 5 minutes apart from each other

@HYLOBRO

3 жыл бұрын

I know right 😂 I was like? Shouldn’t you be showing DS footage? Of the run back to the bed of chaos being like 15 minutes of walking to then be pushed into the hole in the floor and do it over? Haha

@OhNoTheFace

3 жыл бұрын

Probably just what was on hand

@gernottiefenbrunner172

3 жыл бұрын

@@HYLOBRO it's maybe two minutes if you run past enemies. That's still too long for retrying that random boss, but for a relatively easy, and consistent boss, it'd be ok.

@jojoversus1100

3 жыл бұрын

Lest we forget the Lothric Castle bonfires. When I saw Shezman's Dork Souls parody I seriously thought he was exaggerating. Then I played it. You can quite literally see the 2nd bonfire while sitting at the first.

@MrChaos500

3 жыл бұрын

@@jojoversus1100 oh yeah. It’s like 10 steps away. And I’m sure there isn’t even any mobs in the way

The most egregious example of “trial and error” is Dragon’s Lair, you have to guess *everything* in that game on your first playthrough… and unless your memory is perfect, every playthrough afterwards

GTA V and RDR2 npc’s amazing aim. They never miss when they shoot at you.

@missybraithwaite

3 ай бұрын

Same with Melee. For some reason they’re allowed to stun lock me and essentially disable any blocking/counter mechanics while they sap 4/5ths of my health yet I’m not allowed to do the same to them and they’re still allowed to counter without so much as blocking

When they add waves of normal enemies to a boss fight. Screw that.

@zebediahzwick2664

3 жыл бұрын

Indeed, I loved the Batman games, but Arkham Asylum and Arkham City are full of this, and it just feels cheap.

@fabiomatil2018

3 жыл бұрын

Remnant: from the ashes. EVERY BOSS in the game. I don't get why people loved that excuse of a game. Also they're bullet sponges so f**k me, right?

@Papa_Static

3 жыл бұрын

I've encountered this in so many games and not once was it ever fun lol

@Gekas.

3 жыл бұрын

Beat em ups: want some *INFINITE* regular enemies while you fight the boss?

@curple3

3 жыл бұрын

The boss fight in Deus Ex: The Missing Link uses a lot of normal enemies, but mostly because the final boss is locked in a room. It's actually a pretty fun boss fight

I remember in God of War 2, there was a part where you had to escort some scribe and defend him from enemies. In general, escort missions in any game are terrible on harder difficulties unless you have great ai.

@ahumeniy

3 жыл бұрын

I'm surprised they didn't mention that or at least put it together with "Cheating AI" this "purposefully dumb AI"

@Monsuco

2 жыл бұрын

This is why Elizabeth from Bioshock Infinite is best girl. I was dreading having to keep track of her when you first meet her and she starts dancing around. Then the game just tells you "don't worry about Elizabeth during combat. She can take care of herself." and instead she ends up saving your butt time and time again by giving you ammo or health.

@jakebrady7426

2 жыл бұрын

Honestly, escort missions suck regardless of difficulty.

@jakebrady7426

2 жыл бұрын

@@Monsuco amen to that!

Number 3: i despises it heavily due to how i like to play a game, Yes i play it on easy difficulty but thats cause i want to absorb the story, the characters, learn mechanics so when i play it for normal or hard i can actually focus on the actual gameplay but this ruins it for me, which is why i love it when a game has story friendly mode so i can actually focus on the story.

@Sachi10007

2 жыл бұрын

Well you shouldn’t be playing games on easy in the first place that just shows that you suck you can still absorb the story the characters and learn the mechanics on normal mode like a normal gamer does

@terrdragonyt393

2 жыл бұрын

@@Sachi10007 And why should i care about playing like a normal gamer, i play my way and other play there way. Plus you dont know when normal mode of a game might be broken with a mechanic that makes it harder for no reason. Everyone is allowed to play hiw they want to, which doesnt mean they suck at the game, it means they actually want to enjoy the game and not turn into a sweaty mess or get pissed off at the game.

@hexadecimal973

2 жыл бұрын

Most games aren't really hard if you know what you're doing since a lot haven't done the harder difficulties the right way, e.g. Call of Duty. And the games that have done the hardest difficulties right are most enjoyable on hardest difficulties and bring you enjoyment once you beat said games on hardest difficulties

@hexadecimal973

2 жыл бұрын

We all start from somewhere I guess, once you get comfortable with yourself you can try harder difficulties

@reptiliuskenny4176

2 жыл бұрын

@@Sachi10007 hey. Shut up.

Timers should be number 2. Scaling difficulties aren't common enough to be worse than timers. Any time a time limit is added it doesn't matter how well a player did anything if they God forbid are too slow...Timers are typically either "why was there a time limit? Finished in 2 seconds" or "OMG not enough time". At least scaling difficulties can be done right since ya know...don't need timers.

"Game crashing randomly" I'm looking at you Skyrim...

@ezrafaulk3076

3 жыл бұрын

Yep.

@flaqko5686

3 жыл бұрын

Skyrim on the ps3

@racermigs1

3 жыл бұрын

Especially modded Skyrim.

@ezrafaulk3076

3 жыл бұрын

@@racermigs1 there ARE mods meant to improve the game's stability, but if you don't get the load order right, it CAN still crash, yes.

@ravenspurplebeats5412

3 жыл бұрын

@Black Coffee correct i run modded skyrim on ps4 and it doesnt crash

FF 13: let’s give this enemy 1 billion health and call it hard mode

@Majinhero

3 жыл бұрын

I wish this was a joke.

@JustAnOwl3203

3 жыл бұрын

Well let's just give every optional boss in ff13-3 more than 5 billion health and call it normal difficulty :D

@andrewgreeb916

3 жыл бұрын

Should this boss fight take 30 minutes in real time on hard mode? Then clearly it should take 45 on brutal.

@amalanparty

3 жыл бұрын

FF12: Amateur.

@GodOfOrphans

3 жыл бұрын

see if you can poison them, it deals damage based on a percentage so the spongey bosses that can be poisoned get utterly melted by it, it works on Orphan at least the first form and it works on Vercingetorix IIRC the only really spongey boss that's immune to poison as I recall is Long Gui and that thing is just a glorified damage sponge and not even really fun to fight mechanically.

I'm not an " easy mode" player either, but I agree with the sentiment. I don't think content should be locked behind difficulty levels, or hell even pay walls. Ultimately, we paid the money for the game, and if you don't want best completed on easy level, don't put an easy level on the game.

One of the games I had the terrible random crashing/bugging out is Skyrim. I mean, you can just leave a building and your follower just decides to stay behind because they're next to a chair or something clipping their path to the door. I once had to restart because my follower got stuck somewhere and I didn't notice until multiple auto saves later. I couldn't find them and had to start over, and didn't know that this was a common glitch at the time. It's not a difficulty mechanic, but it is something tne game failed to ever fix even on the special edition remaster.

Every NFS game rival vehicle that could do 400mph+ to catch you on the last lap...

@dbPopRocks

3 жыл бұрын

THIS! Completely ruins NFS games for me

@maliisadrable5994

3 жыл бұрын

Bruh i remember lapping the final dude in underground 2 🤣

@Esvald

3 жыл бұрын

@@maliisadrable5994 That race was such a letdown, most of the stage 5 races were more difficult than the final race.

@davidchawner3301

3 жыл бұрын

Rubberbanding is the WORST mechanic in any racing game.

@KRawatXP2003

3 жыл бұрын

And make U turn with that speed

If it's one thing I hate in video games is being timed to do a quest.

@utisti4976

3 жыл бұрын

This is one of the reasons why I refuse to play Pathfinder: Kingmaker. I hate that so much.

@ananthups3208

3 жыл бұрын

GTA VC players would laugh

@alesthra

3 жыл бұрын

it can suck. Still..it depends on how much they give to you. I've encountered games with low time limit, that you easily fail or barely finish or gives you so much time, that it's basically impossible to fail. In example some quests in AION. they give time limit to hunt down some mobs during given time, but they die so fast, that you end up killing 2-3 times more than needed

@CameronBaileyQuote

3 жыл бұрын

GTA San Andreas Zero Missions...

@sethwillavize629

3 жыл бұрын

I could have been really into that mail game with the baby and the rain that like aged stuff I got like 40% through and I hated every second it felt like let it be slow and relaxing or speedy and pumping me up it tryed to choose both sides and that's kinda just not how you do things

Thank you for that easy mode one, I have to play on easy mode, I'm a bit slow thinking so it makes things less frustrating for me and I still get to enjoy it

@a2pha

2 жыл бұрын

You and me both.

Oh my God, Cuphead! That “easy mode can’t take you to the boss” mechanic was such bull. I was playing Cuphead with my nephew, and we’d gotten through all the levels together and we’re having a great time, and he’s so excited to fight the devil and king dice, but then we got told to play the normal mode to do that. He was crying because he wanted to keep going, so I changed the difficulty, and we restarted, but then I had to leave. I took time out of my week the next week to beat all the bosses on normal just so that me and my nephew could fight the devil the next time we met.

As someone who has started gaming late in their 20s I would be highly discouraged if the game is nagging me about playing on easy. some games I need to play first in easy to grasp the concept and replay it afterwards in a harder setting, like currently doom eternal which is awsome to see the progress I've made

@cattysplat

3 жыл бұрын

Some games will even force the difficulty up or down, just switching the settings on you with no prompt.

@Marasma

3 жыл бұрын

@@cattysplat i want to search it, remember any games?

@chocobofangirl

3 жыл бұрын

@@Marasma Resi 4 has dynamic difficulty for one, you get more or less enemies in certain set pieces based on your performance, and other elements.

@sethwillavize629

3 жыл бұрын

Ive not played doom yet but ive heard good things I love it when games become better and actually make you better and let you do cool things on harder levels let the player change with the enemies stead of being perfect with the same things you'd get on the easiest level reward me for having good strategy kinda why I like chess and games like it and hate checkers after the first move I could see 10 moves ahead without looking in a minute

In fighting games, AI don't cheat by inputing the AI's moves, they cheat by reading YOUR inputs.

@vksasdgaming9472

3 жыл бұрын

It is very blatant making high-level AI completely useless as way to improve skills (it will always beat you). Press button, eat huge combo, lose.

@zukushi2533

3 жыл бұрын

i recently played a game where the game doesnt move a projectile to where you are, but where you are going, sometimes litteraly can see snaping its path to hit you

@izzym6422

3 жыл бұрын

@@zukushi2533 what game?

@jojoversus1100

3 жыл бұрын

@@izzym6422 Sounds like some Sektor bullshit.

@johnserosanguineous1886

3 жыл бұрын

They can definitely cheat by doing things you you can’t. I’m thinking of the old Mortal Kombat games, where the AI’s hit box is smaller than yours. They can throw you at an animation that won’t connect for you. Hit through your blocks, but their blocks always work etc.

that's what I love so much about halo! You can activate a "skull" that increases the enemies ranks wich sometimes gives them better armor and a bit more health. but also increases their AI-behaviour.

@johnbuck4395

Жыл бұрын

I never understood why bungie/343studios/whatever decided to hide the skulls in places (some of which required ridiculous means of locomotion like explosive jumps, jumping diagonally, etc) as if they didn't want players to find these, yet they make the game more difficult when obtained and activated...

@cericat

Жыл бұрын

@@johnbuck4395 probably thought the way to access nightmare difficulty in the original Quake was cool... *sighs* To access it you need to access a secret area in the 3rd chapter select entrance while dropping down.

@isaacfrand3824

Жыл бұрын

Such as the ‘anger,’ ‘that’s just… wrong,’ ‘tough luck,’ ‘mythic,’ ‘thunderstorm,’ and ‘catch’ skulls

@imnotmike

Жыл бұрын

Bungie and Microsoft literally did a study on Halo where they had people play the game and all they did was futz with numbers, causing enemies to do more damage and take less damage, and then when they asked players about the AI, players who played it on the "harder" difficulty setting said that they thought the AI was better compared to players who played it on easier settings, even though there was no change at all to the AI. There was a big article about it a few years back.

In 1 of my FPS games the AI cheated by somehow having the ability to shoot through cover, like no matter how indestructible it is no matter how thick it is the AI can shoot through it.

@dillzilla4454

3 ай бұрын

fun fact, they aren't usually shooting through cover. it is the game having cover zones that if you sit in too long you will take random damage. W@W was bad at this with grenades literally spawning under you if you sit still for too long

@majoroverkill4532

3 ай бұрын

@@dillzilla4454 in my case it's the issue of enemies suddenly being equipped with fully automatic instakill rifles

rubberbanding AI in racing games. its a time where you againts ai and the farther you left enemy behind, the more they have "speed boost" for no reason.

@AndrewB23

3 жыл бұрын

That's why I stopped playing racing games

@bearrett50kal17

3 жыл бұрын

@@AndrewB23 It's mostly an arcade racer game mechanic, which is why I've steered away from arcade racers as I get older. There's no rubberbanding in Forza games in my experience, and I've beat every Motorsport game from 4-7, and every Horizon game. Forza difficulty settings are perfect in my opinion, as even the "Unbeatable" AI are in fact beatable if you know how to build, tune, and drive well. I've heard good things about GT Sport as well but I'm only on Xbox.

@Exponaut_R-01

3 жыл бұрын

@@bearrett50kal17 Mmmmm it was either 6 or 7 that definitely had some rubber banding. You could switch to the AI in replays and they’d have like 1100 HP in their telemetry going down straights.

@Jimmyzation

3 жыл бұрын

@@bearrett50kal17 I am currently playing motorsport 3 and 4 and they definitely have rubber bending. In my experience, if you are behind an opponent but less than 1 second from him, the game 'shuts off' the rubber bending, but if you far from them, you will never catch them. What I am finding is that most of my races are decided in the first lap, when they are all close together. If I am at third place on the second lap or more, then I instantly restart the race because it's impossible to catch them. I also noticed a HUGE effect on the last lap of every race. They just magically grow some extra pair of tires or horses under their hood and close the gap to you. Although, I also noticed this effect doesn't occur every time. Sometimes when I am very far away, they can't catch up to me.

@atomic...

3 жыл бұрын

I hate the crew 2 for this, you'll have a 30sec lead and doing fine, but two corners later there 6 seconds behind you and doing a million miles an hour.

I mostly play on Normal/Medium/Default difficulty level. I just want to have fun and experience the game. Repeating sections of the game multiple times just because the game is artificially made harder by enemies with more health or some mechanic like that isn't rewarding at all to me. I just get frustrated and waste time for no reason like that. I don't have so much time to play games as I had when I was younger, so wasting it on harder difficulty is just pointless for me.

In defense of EDF, the point of the higher difficulties isn't so much the challenge (which is bullshit, yes) than dropping VASTLY more powerful weapons that can utterly crush some missions. I always go play the early missions of hard mode when I'm stuck in late normal, because while it may suck, it has the very real possibility of allowing me to go back with the power of a galaxy.

I love the special challenges you are able to choose in dragon age inquisition. It’s separate from the generic difficulty you choose. But it’s the way I’d love to see in more games

I absolutely, positively hate time limits in every form. They never make something fun, only anxiety inducing

@ThreateningDarkWolf

3 жыл бұрын

It had to be a big friggin mall, everybody's dream in an apocalypse... except that you can't just have fun and expect to get away with it. I swear god, trying to find zombrex and having 10 individual active missions at the same time is sure not fun.

@LucaxCorp

2 жыл бұрын

Then don’t play it you freaking babies.

@custos3249

2 жыл бұрын

Same, only to me, it feels like driver's ed if your regular instructor had randomly been replaced with a cop, and the moment he sits down for your practical exam, he stares silently at you and clicks a stopwatch.

@Harlekijn1982

2 жыл бұрын

In the first mafia game, you drive a taxi for the first part of the game. The time limit to get people to their destination is just enough. If you hit something on the way you are often not going to make it in time.

@Harlekijn1982

2 жыл бұрын

@@Miguel-yx9zg I love the first Mafia, as well as the first Godfather :)

player: its pitch black! i cant see anything! AI: good thing i have a built in aimbot

@2GlitchinAwesome

2 жыл бұрын

🤣 So true

@noyou1735

2 жыл бұрын

Man I hate games like PUBG ai practice where the ai can see through particles, like bushes and tall grass. Same with BO2, surprisingly not battlefield 1 though.

@hectorguzman9

2 жыл бұрын

Reptile: I´ll go invisible to ambush my opponent! Opponent: That´s cute

That Alone in the Dark remake's driving through the collapsing city was pretty terrible. There was a jump at the end of it that sometimes you wouldn't make it because the ground at the end of the jump wouldn't load in. I solved it by pausing the xbox in mid air, which allowed time for the ground to load in.

what i loved about Alone in the Dark is that it allowed you to SKIP sections you just could not complete. I was so happy with that feature, more games should have them, nothing worse than buying a game and being unable to complete it, assuming its single player, who does it hurt if i can skip a tricky level and still experience the rest of the game.

TitanFall 2 has the best checkpoint system ever. Literally died and went back 5 seconds before which is so satisfying

@willi2895

3 жыл бұрын

Titanfall 2 was perfect imo

@giorgosnikolaou7219

2 жыл бұрын

Best checkpoints system ever in the Best fps game ever

@tanmoymridha5002

2 жыл бұрын

Yeap, wish TF2 had a longer campaign

"Absolutely nothing different" -Gameranx talking about COD difficulties. Excuse me but the grenade spam on Veteran in World at War would beg to differ.

@TensionalSpy

3 жыл бұрын

I'll take memories i never wanted to re-live for 300 Darek

@icecoldjohnnyy

3 жыл бұрын

My man

@codylockx3795

3 жыл бұрын

Holy crap the grenades are bad in all but WAW was the worst! I almost forgot because haven’t played that one in forever. Playing the last two remasters on veteran have been a headache

@Hidden_lvl

3 жыл бұрын

This also applies to the Uncharted games on Crushing.

@BlueLightningHawk

3 жыл бұрын

WAW definitely let you know when you were playing veteran. Even if you weren't taking damage.

My number one is changing the forced camera angle mid-movement in a platformer, for example in Prince of Persia or Dark Omen

So glad you mentioned the witness. The rules changed puzzle to puzzle so its not like you could stick with the rules based on intuition and use that to add on to it when they make the puzzles more complex. They kept changing every rule so you could never know what the rules actually are

As a person who usually does have to play on Easy due to disability, I really hate it when content is cut on lower difficulties.

@philithegamer8265

3 жыл бұрын

What disability do you have?

@Bulbatron

3 жыл бұрын

No ! Visual disabilities. I'm almost blind in one eye and short sighted in the other. I generally find most games' easy difficulty to be about right for me. I do play on normal sometimes, if there is no other options or if I'm feeling reasonably confident.

@philithegamer8265

3 жыл бұрын

@@Bulbatron How did you get blind? Blue Light?

@Bulbatron

3 жыл бұрын

No ! I was born with the condition, and I said I was nearly blind - in one eye. What do you mean, 'blue light'?

@sjonnieplayfull5859

3 жыл бұрын

@@Bulbatron hexagon turn based strategy, rpg's with turn based battles, rts, if that is your cup of tea, stuff like that with less focus on seeing the enemy first could be your chance to play on legendary

When you get locked out of quests without it being apparent you can't go back. The simple; make sure you have done everything, are you sure, text box really helps

@SoftisNelaris

3 жыл бұрын

GOD YES THAT PISSES ME OFF SO MUCH.

@sethwillavize629

3 жыл бұрын

100%

that alone in the dark car escape sequence and sonic 06 was lowkey my favorite things to replay constantly (after i knew where to go in the car sequence in alone in the dark and 06 was one of the first games i ever played so it holds a special place in my heart even tho its flawed)

Something I hate is Normal mode being buried by a ridiculous amount of "difficult modes" Easy Normal Hard Harder Hardest Nightmare Impossible Are you still having fun? Olympus God We're not worthy

"Cheating AI" Ahhh, you must have played StarCraft back in the day.

@tailsnumber1fan5590

3 жыл бұрын

historic car cup gt40 anyone?

@epikreaper19

3 жыл бұрын

oh my dear mercifull god, don't remind me please.

@deidyomega

3 жыл бұрын

TBF, AI back then wasn't advanced enough to win fair.

@andrewgreeb916

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I remember some of the ludicrous armies they can pull out of their asses. Not to mention the ludicrous number of burrowed hydras...

@Mark6O9

3 жыл бұрын

You heard of the cops or enemies in Cyberpunk 2077?

“ALL YOU HAD TO DO, WAS FOLLOW THE DAMN TRAIN CJ!” The most annoying mission in GTA: SA.

@TongueCutOutByYoutube

3 жыл бұрын

@@alfredjamesdanielsiii8025 I agree, maybe the one with the rc plane and limited fuel, but even that one became easy after gettin good. This guy just chasin meme clout

@HepauDK

3 жыл бұрын

Using a joystick for driving/flying made those parts a heck of a lot easier. :) I remember clearly that I had a joystick placed between my mouse and the keyboard when playing GTA:VC and GTA:SA.

@cathymilner744

3 жыл бұрын

Try the mission where you gotta do the 3rd heist with the latina lady and it keeps glitching where no progress can be made making you load to your last save

@RE4uk

3 жыл бұрын

Passed it first time last year on pc with controller. More than 30fps & knowing how that mission is programmed helps, stay high or not too near the train.

@tarrker

3 жыл бұрын

When I played through it on PC I legit downloaded a bot that would play that mission for me. I refused to play it even one, more time. x_x

1:49 ultimately, most of the time timers on games make them less fun, either you have to rush so you can't enjoy exploration or even core aspects of the game all that much or it's a "fake" timer like in Lightning Returns where it rushes you for no reason since in reality you have all the time in the world (apparently most just fast forward the last day cause they already did everything doable). I ended up playing on easy because the timer worried me so much but even only using starting gear there was so little challenge I lost interest in the game and only because of a mechanic that brings nothing to the table and should have been fully story driven so that completing the main story is the only thing advancing the timer and you cannot run out of time even if you afk a week.

Great vid. I didn't notice that I already liked it. That means I was binge watching em. Great channel. U have played so many games it's hard to imagine it. Expert level for sure. Gj.

Escort missions where the the escorted are dumber than a bag of rocks with the constitution of a wet paper bag in a hurricane.

@osareafallire

3 жыл бұрын

XCOM much?

@SlayerRunefrost

3 жыл бұрын

Looking at you Goldeneye

@otakon17

3 жыл бұрын

@@osareafallire No, XCOM gets "false percentages and gaming against the player when they're doing too well". XCOM will FUDGE your rolls when you're doing too well.

@osareafallire

3 жыл бұрын

@@otakon17 Another thing I detest. It's similar to Wasteland 2 in that regard.

@dapperfan44

3 жыл бұрын

The earliest example I experienced in my youth was the Spyro 2 escort mission. "Why don't you literally just walk to the left to Hunter you stupid goat!"

I just like listening to this guys voice at this point.

@bornmonk4234

3 жыл бұрын

Same

@s3dghost

3 жыл бұрын

If it's not falcon.. I don't listen no hate to Jake though 😏

@knightmare3706

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, same. He's just so calmly annoyed that it's just great to listen to. He's the Jules of gameranx.

In Majora's mask, there is a side quest to get a song that slows down time so you aren't stressing yourself in dungeons. I don't remember ever knowing about this when I originally played it on the N64 but it definitely exists in the 3DS remake

One of my favorite games rn is WolfQuest Anniversary Edition because of the highest difficulty: Accurate. Now there's the obvious that stamina and health recover slower and your hunger goes down faster, as with many games I bet. But the actual numbers for those values don't change on either the player's wolf or any of the enemies. What did they do? They made it so everything does more damage. Yes, you're more dangerous to an elk, but the elk is more dangerous to you too. I dunno, I love playing on Accurate so this made me happy because of how much it forces you to act like a real wolf and gague situations on whether it's worth it or not XD

Man if there were checkpoints in vice city I would have beat that demolition man mission such a pain

Demons souls has the oposite of adaptive difficulty, it gets harder the more you die and easier the less you die

@stevenclark5173

3 жыл бұрын

Ah yes, the old Gradius/R-Type difficulty curve.

4:32 "ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS FOLLOW THE DAMN TRAIN, CJ" Oh my god, something deep within me just broke

I tend to avoid games that have some kind of time limit as a core mechanic because that runs entirely counter to my playstyle. I like to explore, collect everything, play around with mechanics and AI, and generally just take my time. I don't see the point in rushing through a game I spent $60 to enjoy. It's even worse when the devs make the map fun to explore, but then shackle you with a time limit that discourages exploration.

@Orange_Swirl

Жыл бұрын

*Unsighted has entered the chat*

All we had to do was follow the damn train, CJ

@histkontext

3 жыл бұрын

I hate to this day this game for not allowing me to shoot from the bike while driving. After GTA IV is san andreas unplayable

@GodKingBob

3 жыл бұрын

@@histkontext you can shoot from the bike though wtf are you on about?

@sethwillavize629

3 жыл бұрын

I felt and heard that so many god dang times as a 8 yo 😂😂😂 it hurts so good man good times

@princessc.j.6192

3 жыл бұрын

I wanted ice cream shove it!! *jk lollll*

@saladass9015

3 жыл бұрын

@@GodKingBob I think he meant free aim shooting not just straight ahead, also mission is easy af even when i played as a 8 year old you just gotta match the speed and avoid hitting stuff

When you talked about timed missions I had some Mafia 1 PTSD. Fuck that car 😂

@anshitgupta1294

3 жыл бұрын

Me too

@Layaway_Virgin

3 жыл бұрын

I cant beat the race.

@anshitgupta1294

3 жыл бұрын

@@Layaway_Virgin it took me like an hour or more to beat that race in de

@racermigs1

3 жыл бұрын

I had flashbacks of Zero's RC Plane mission in GTA San Andreas. The timer doesn't even say how much time you have left.

The Trial and Error is probably what lowers my enjoyment of horror games the most. They are supposed to be scary but then you die to the same guy 12 times because you didn't see the speck of light down the hallway and all fear for what may happen instantly melts away to just reveal poor gameplay.

Probably my favorite "cheating AI" is when I'm in GTA Online and I'm being chased by hostile NPCs that are shooting at me. I'll be driving flat out in a super car and some blonde bimbo in a Chevy Aveo look-alike passes me up while shrieking in terror. It's like the car is powered by the driver's fear.

I loathe bullet sponging, it ruins my immersion big time.

@SaxyCalzone

3 жыл бұрын

Don't play the Uncharted series

@adamc8409

3 жыл бұрын

@@SaxyCalzone bad sponging i take it?

@SaxyCalzone

3 жыл бұрын

@@adamc8409 oh yeah. Unless you play the absolute lowest difficulty

@treg5298

3 жыл бұрын

I get the reasoning for difficulty in the remake for Resident Evil 2, but it really threw me for a loop when I realized zombies could take five plus bullets to the head and still attack. Immersion ruined.

@martyncurrill2766

3 жыл бұрын

@@SaxyCalzone or Destiny. Or Destiny 2. Just...don't play Destiny anyeay.

I wouldn’t call “bugs” mechanics, they are not supposed to be there lol.

@angrypenguin2039

3 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing.

@joekickass8943

3 жыл бұрын

They are actually suppose to be there as reality dictates it...and Bethesda

@professorbaxtercarelessdre1075

3 жыл бұрын

true lol

@noctus1409

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@noctus1409

3 жыл бұрын

@@joekickass8943 LOL, are you saying Bethesda makes glitchy games?😄 When I was a kid I thought ALL North American game developers made buggy games- since "the best" games always came from Japan...

I can't help but smile seeing EDF pop up is this and yes it has bigger numbers but it also effects friendly fire and enemy's move way faster.

Thank you! I've been yelling for years that there are better ways to express increased difficulty than most of the lazy "fixes" we see from most devs. If you just stack bigger numbers or more enemies, that's boring. Make it a more tactical experience? Now you've got my interest.

Some of the impeccable accuracy AI exhibits in shooting games can be quite frustrating.

@SlayerRunefrost

3 жыл бұрын

Especially in Star Wars games. Like, aren't Stormtroopers suppose to be terrible shots? Stay true to the source material.

@dylangallagher6700

3 жыл бұрын

When they're shooting you with pinpoint accuracy from 57 meters away, behind a wall, with a submachine gun

@GorGob

3 жыл бұрын

Yes mohaa sniper level lol

Rabi-Ribi (a bullet hell metroidvania action game) has cool ways of making the difficulty settings more unique. The increases to the stats aren't very big in most cases but they make up for it with things like increased projectile speed, more complex versions of the boss attacks, completely new boss attacks, new situational buffs for the bosses, & stricter item limits for the player. It falls apart in Bunny Extinction Mode though, where boss health sky rockets so the bosses that already had the most health increase in difficulty by a wildly disproportionate amount so a player who's good enough to coast through most of the game can get stuck on chapter 5 (a boss gauntlet containing the hardest bosses & no shops or save points) for days.

Here's just a couple of those I love- 1) Your shotgun wont hit a thing if its not in close quarters but the enemy's will still hit from a mile away, 2) Non-sensical enemy scaling (Oblivion rats anyone?) 3) Don't need hand holding but some games , esp. in the later acts are just terrible at letting you figure out how to progress the plot, quests .

Personally, the best example of interesting difficulty recently is Ghost of Tsushima. If you played on Lethal difficulty, it dropped everyone's health pretty low so that both you and the enemies only get a couple of hits at most before falling, as opposed to the standard nerf bat mode. Made me a better player and felt rewarding.

"just bigger numbers" so like 90% of the games ever made

@sethwillavize629

3 жыл бұрын

That actually made me laugh man thx

@JWonn

3 жыл бұрын

It's almost impossible to have sliding difficulty without fiddling with numbers to some extent. If done right players shouldn't notice. It's when you turn common enemies that die in a couple hits into vertibly bullet sponges that this can feel dumb.

@AllProblemo

3 жыл бұрын

You mean more numerous

@eddapultstab2078

3 жыл бұрын

It's more than that, it's that the numbers ultimately don't mean anything, in Diablo for example, it boils down to to numbers but you can feel progression in ability as you go. In the division series, which I feel is the poster child of this issue, is you can stack up bonuses get high-quality gear and it would work literally the same on every mission, there's no sense of getting stronger there is no sense you are a super agent trying to save a nation when the only way to get a leg up is to have an obsessive knowledge of the games mechanics. At that point you should find a new game.

I've never heard of anyone who complained that they didn't have to grind to beat a boss. (FF8) You really slapped this together with little thought.

11:56 Final Fantasy 8: "It makes grinding of any kind, at all, pointless." O.o

This is kind of off topic, but I just had the best orange.

@SageROSA42

3 жыл бұрын

This was wonderfully random!

@tiggs03

3 жыл бұрын

Nice bro, I just had a badass mango

@smashboy14

3 жыл бұрын

Nice. I'm having dates filled with dark chocolate. Best healthy sweet snack IMO

@floatinggoose9197

3 жыл бұрын

Sae this comment a few months ago. I hope it was you who posts it Multiple times. That would be very sad to steal it

@msg4672

3 жыл бұрын

Nothing like a great orange. Sumos are my personal fave!

Age of Empires, where the CPU has infinite resources.

@flaminG-Ghost

3 жыл бұрын

They literally sent villagers inside my area and built a stable or a barrack just to assert dominance over my failing empire...

@theratking013

3 жыл бұрын

Or other Games where the Enemy has infinite Ammo,Mana,Stamina.etc. .

@mesothelimoa341

3 жыл бұрын

@@theratking013 Call of Duty where the enemy has infinite grenades...

@cameronliddell9533

3 жыл бұрын

Warcraft and command and conquer where the AI can build things 4 times as quick as you

The thumbnail made me remember about the evil within 1 where in nightmare/hard they added more enemies, change their positions, and even add an enemy thats supposed to be in a later chapter into the earlier ones (mimic in chapter 3 & 4)... it also reminded me of the many times i died in akumu mode

I've grown to love this channel

The driving lesson on Driver for PS1... fuck that 😂

@cruelwraith2games926

3 жыл бұрын

Bro it took me forever to pass the damn tutorials

@MillionDollars00

3 жыл бұрын

As I kid i never passed it. As an adult with a license and a decade of driving experience, I still can't pass it.

@cruelwraith2games926

3 жыл бұрын

@@MillionDollars00 I bought driver when it was brand new Day one and didn't pass that Tutorial until I was like 15

@jayhovah5621

3 жыл бұрын

It is hard, but once it's done you're good enough to beat the game

@chrismassey9892

3 жыл бұрын

It's easy to do when you know what your doing I did it again recently on ps vita

I played a Tom Clancy game, where most hits to me were fatal and I had reply, rather than starting from where I left off. I appreciated this.

One of the difficulty setting that pretty much compiled all of this but was still good was DMC's "Dante must Die" difficulty. It was hard, but also very fitting for a hack'n slash / Beat'em all type of game.

I play literally everything on easy. So I can see it through. And now that I’m sitting here battling cancer at 43.... I can say I’m glad I did. I played the “real game” on hard mode hahahaha.

@michaelyates5276

3 жыл бұрын

God bless you mate 🙏

@mflury7599

3 жыл бұрын

@Off Planet then don’t lol 👍🏼

@Sachi10007

2 жыл бұрын

Then you suck at video games then

@roysweatman8436

2 жыл бұрын

@UCmNnmW0nPOcezWP3BGM9ZNA wow imagine how shitty your life is that you only comment on people's comments where they mention they "play on easy" and you have to say they suck at video games. Now which one is really the saddest there 🤔, oh and stfu no one gives af if someone plays on easy or hard while blind folded.

@mflury7599

2 жыл бұрын

@@roysweatman8436 🤣

AI Cheating: Some AI move faster when you're not looking at them, like in Dark Souls

@jojoversus1100

3 жыл бұрын

Teleporting dogs, anyone?

The most annoying to me is lazy scaling for difficulty. I hate bullet-sponge enemies being the difference between settings. There are easy ways to make a game more (or less) difficult using existing mechanics like lower ammo capacity or enemies drop less goodies. Steeper accuracy penalties at longer range, and/or greater recoil effects. Less effective buffs or shorter duration. Little things that make it more challenging but not stupid.

Dead Rising was amazing because of the time aspect. I could run through that game in no time at all. Loved it.

@johnbuck4395

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, the timer for the dead rising series is one I can deal with since it's a sandbox type game. When it comes to a set plot, though, I don't like too many timers unless it's sidescrolling platform games

Majora's Mask, really? I guess some people don't talk to the Scarecrow to know about slowing down time.

@jamesjammiejam

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah as soon as you start play the song and get some extra time

@HYLOBRO

3 жыл бұрын

You’re right. Where is scarecrow! I gave up completing MM on 3ds

@zackc5973

3 жыл бұрын

@@HYLOBRO theres one in the observatory and the curiosity shop. All you have to do is play song of time in reverse, you dont have to talk to him, he just tells you how to do it. You can also move time forward by playing song of time with the notes doubled up.

@JWonn

3 жыл бұрын

Also if you get the new item in each dungeon before time runs out you can skip portions of the dungeon when you come back.

“Surprise mechanics” is what we all hate.