“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.
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
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.
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
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”
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.
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 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.
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.
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
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.
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
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 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
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.
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.
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.
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
@@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
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.
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"
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
@@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 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.
"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!
@@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.
@@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.
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
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
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
@@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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
@@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".
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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?
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
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.
"Absolutely nothing different" -Gameranx talking about COD difficulties. Excuse me but the grenade spam on Veteran in World at War would beg to differ.
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
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.
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.
@@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
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.
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 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.
@@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.
@@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.
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.
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.
@@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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
@@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.
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
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.
@@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
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.
@@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.
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!"
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.
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.
@@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...
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.
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.
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
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.
@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.
I like when the AI in starcraft instantly knows where any and all "hidden" expansions are as well as getting into position for attacks well you are still across the map
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.
I played bo2 into the ground then quit CoD. Came back for Cold War and was really liking S1 but by the end of season 1 just had to throw the whole game away lol
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
The best example of a "good" hard-mode, I can think of, is the "Mad House" mode in RE7. Of course it does the the "enemies are stronger" thing but it moves item/enemy placement, adds more enemies, etc etc. I'm having fun with it at the time of watching this video.
I don’t find playing single player games on harder difficulty fun it just gives me crippling anxiety about everything in the game. I find easy fun because I like to do dumb things in games.
Playing it on easy takes out the accomplishment like i played God of War III on easy and i got bored whereas chaos mode made it worth playing because you cant coast
You bought the game, you play it how you choose to. Anyone who calls you out for playing it on easy is just an Ahole, they may aswell be telling you how to spend your money and what to do with the goods you purchased - don't pay them any attention because enjoyment is a subjective experience and no one can tell you "play it on hard it's more fun".......as that statement is completely untrue for you.
@@waldiotm98 Not everyone plays to feel accomplished. I get that people like to challenge themselves. I prefer to enjoy a game for its mechanics, story or world. I get bored doing the same thing over again. Overcoming a challenging part, for me, is more of a relief to finally be over an annoying part of the game rather than feeling like I accomplished something.
as someone with motor apraxia and arthritis, and feel for anyone with even worse issues, i wish more games considered the struggles of gamers when making their difficulty modes
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.
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...
@@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.
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.
The higher difficulties for Civilisation VI just make everything faster for the AI. Strong units start showing up way before anyone could legitimately get them and it's basically impossible to get ahead on research. I don't understand how anyone can find it fun. They're always considerably ahead of you no matter how well you play.
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
@@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.
I hate forced tutorials and tutorials that keep looping until you do the move exactly the way the game wants, especially for moves you never end up using in game anyway.
I feel like a big reason a lot of these continue is because there's a good amount of people who love it for the nostalgia of the "old days" when game design was at its infancy.
as the owner of both Fester's quest, and TMNT on the nes, and someone who beat both, i say, f**k nostalgia. I'm glad when that crap is changed or removed.
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.
#4. In Grim Fandango I reached a point where I interacted with absolutely everything possible multiple times, I even talked to everybody more than once, just couldn’t find any way to proceed.Turns out you had to talk to one particular group until they mention a specific person so you can trigger an item and continue...oh, and their dialog resets every time you step away, so if you don’t do it enough times to trigger the event, you’re back at 1.
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.
When you talked about insane puzzles I immediately thought about the LucasArts point and click adventure games like Monkey Island. You need some crazy outside the box thinking to beat those games without a guide.
Or you basically had to try clicking on everything and using every item in your inventory on everything you see to progress. Monkey Island is especially legendary for making no sense, creating a Rubber Chicken Pulley by using a Rubber Chicken on a zipline always stands out in my mind.
@@cattysplat Well to be fair when you grave it it does say its a a rubber chicken zipline thingy but ofc I see your point. especially monkey island 2 its insane even with a guide
I remember Twisted Metal was really bad for “cheating AI” cause some of the bots would just go around freezing you 16 times in a row. You as a player can only shoot 2 in a row then have to wait for it to charge back up. (Mr.Grim was particularly the worst one for it lol)
I only played it once being really young at a friend's house.... That experience bears a significant painful wound that is forever embedded in the deeper recesses of my subconscious that, alas, I regretfully in my failure to contain, allowed its noxious contents to resurface and contaminate my immediate temperament into one of resentment and bitterness for myself in never establishing closure. It overwhelms me with the most depraciating and crippling doubt in my integrity of being a diehard, no bullshit, strictly all or nothing, go big or go home, pro tier difficulty elitist if I am well within my faculties by refusing to ever revisit this cumbersome specimen of auxiliary interactive, tactile input transmission peripheral apparatus/ coordinated response interface software.
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
Dynamic difficulty was the one that drove me nuts! Because it made me quit Xcom, i played the game pretty well but then i got brickwalled because my 95% hit chance missed like 50% of the time.
Aside game mechanics, what I'm really tired is with the players that will always find ways to make you feel inferior to them, cause you were suppose to accept that "challenge" that is in the game. You know, the kind that say "get gud". Or those that talk about how games are fun, but when they share their playthrough, they are constantly cussing, getting annoyed, frustrated and even destructive. I mean, you are masochist, fine, but don't deny it! =P
i hear ya. we should all be able to play games at our own pace, if other people prefer harder modes, i'm all for it, i just wish they didn't put down those who can't, or even just don't really want to. its why i don't play Souls-Bourne games, i don't like the challenge that set forth, but sadly too many games are utilizing that style of combat difficulty now cause its "trendy"
I don't even understand where that mindset comes from. The whole "Hard mode is the only real mode" argument is just...so without any reason. Because, how can one difficulty setting, or mode be wrong, while others are right? They're all in the game made by the devs afterall. (Obviously this only applies to games that have a difficulty setting)
@@Alexia-ys6yx who knows, i think alot of people just have ideas in their head about how things should be, and don't like it when others don't do as them. like, some people think when you play scrabble you should be allowed to see hint words beforehand, or whatever, and others think you shouldn't, cause its all about the challenge. or how some people think you should never use strategy guides when playing a game, others think you should, at least when you're really stuck.
One of the recent examples of trial and error is The Medium, which frankly pissed me off. All the "Crash Bandicoot" run away sequences are impossible to finish, unless you do the perfect run, which means dodging/rotating the exact same second this opportunity comes. Not to mention the one shot mechanic the game has that made these moments especially annoying.
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.
I never had a problem with the jungle puzzles in the witness, though I can see why you'd dislike them. The only puzzle I didn't like was the optional final one with a time limit. Some of them took me a while to figure out, so limiting my time made me unable to get the platinum
I really hate when a game doesn't autosave enough so you may have to redo hours of gameplay (thanks Skyrim). Or when a game autosaves right when your about to die, often resulting in you having to go way far back because it *doesn't autosave enough in the first damn place!*
I remember a friend of mine noticed that some FPS games have friendly AI. He'd hang back and let them be bullet sponges because he noticed they wouldn't go down or die unless he personally shot them. It sounded really cheesy, but he considered it a viable tactic to advance the game.
I never realized this until now. Luckily I hated grinding. Unluckily I got the towns locked out without swapping out half the base weapons. I still beat Ultimecia but it took a LOT of tries and luck.
“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.
Cop got 9hrs of sleep and golden gaming chair.
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
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.
@@godknightomega gta 5 cops can ram you no matter what speed you travel at lol
@@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 trouble with horror games doing the "play over and over until you get it right" is you stop being scared and start getting annoyed.
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
It ruins the immersion but it is a really difficult balance between being immersive/Scary/Fun
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.
*cough* The Evil Within 1 *cough* *cough*
But for real. That game has so many "gotcha!" deaths for no reason.
@@BigBossDragonZ Evil within gas labyrinth.
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
I agree. The developers design toys like this on purpose so special needs kids can’t enjoy the toy
@@Allmenshouldrespectallwomen Get back on the shortbus
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”
What is a ''Trial and Error'' sequence?
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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.
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.
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.
@@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.
*FFXIIV intensifies*
*Ozma has entered chat*
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.
Same with skills and abilities with limited uses, whereas enemies that are supposedly weaker than you have unlimited uses.
At least halo allows you to abuse that mechanic for yourself :)
GTA 3 is by far the worst about this.
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
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.
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
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...
@@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.
@@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
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.
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”
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.
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
@@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
Call of duty zombies is a pretty big offender of the “how in TF did you know where I was” trope
They’re probably using Alexa. Siri would send them elsewhere
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.
It's like screen watching taken to its logical extreme.
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"
It's most common and obnoxious in RTS games - AI players will just get faster/better economy or straight up free units/upgrades
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.
it’s gotten better take for example mk11 and 1 just delay your button inputs
There's a huge difference between challenging/fun and hard/frustrating
^ This
Yup. Fromsoftware in nutshell. Their games are easy but re*arded devs make it as annoying as possible
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
@@Allmenshouldrespectallwomen thank you for the meme
@@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.
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
@@Freestyle80 uh oh we got a badass over here - what did you beat sekiro blindfolded? Chode lol
It makes the duels more exciting
@@Freestyle80 Man are you cool.
@@Freestyle80 oh ok🙄
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.
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Definitely, Doom Eternal was meant to be played on the hardest difficulty. Such a great game
@@jathinbanala5995 oh yeah that’s what i meant my bad :p
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@@noahmoody1640 im gonna download this and come home and play it , yall making me miss it
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.
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
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
I think skyrim's levelling worked well, the progression mostly went well until you powerleveled a non-combat skill
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.
I'm surprised they didn't mention that or at least put it together with "Cheating AI" this "purposefully dumb AI"
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.
Honestly, escort missions suck regardless of difficulty.
@@Monsuco amen to that!
One of the annoying mechanics is when the Ai can track you through walls and everyone of them knows your exact position.
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.
@@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.
@@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
@@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.
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.
Theif: The Dark Project did difficulty really well! It changed the objectives and or level layouts depending on the difficulty!
I before E except after C...thief
@@Fuhgit-lu4tj: Though you’re right in this case, there are many English words where this rule does not apply.
That reminds me of one of the 007 games. The third-person one. Great game.
@@Tasdanian huh, that's weird
@@DaleStrickland now now. Dont make a game arguement into an english arguement
"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!
Yeah that was heinous
The tutorial is easy, just do it in the correct order. Otherwise I just think driving games really aren't your forte
Omg! I remember that!! We almost threw it out the barracks window! Made no sense to open with that!
Good post
@@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.
@@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.
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
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
Probably just what was on hand
@@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.
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.
@@jojoversus1100 oh yeah. It’s like 10 steps away. And I’m sure there isn’t even any mobs in the way
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.
The second one is more worse than this
I haven't played since I was a kid but I don't remember this being a thing.
Every NFS game rival vehicle that could do 400mph+ to catch you on the last lap...
THIS! Completely ruins NFS games for me
Bruh i remember lapping the final dude in underground 2 🤣
@@maliisadrable5994 That race was such a letdown, most of the stage 5 races were more difficult than the final race.
Rubberbanding is the WORST mechanic in any racing game.
And make U turn with that speed
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.
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?
@@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.
@@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.
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.
Mario kart 64 was so bad I never paid for another in the series. The original was balanced perfectly.
Bullet-sponge enemies are the absolute most annoying, frustrating and stupid kind.
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.
@@windrider2190 Fuck that.
@@windrider2190 slag was basically necessary to play uvhm
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.
@@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.
When they add waves of normal enemies to a boss fight. Screw that.
Indeed, I loved the Batman games, but Arkham Asylum and Arkham City are full of this, and it just feels cheap.
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?
I've encountered this in so many games and not once was it ever fun lol
Beat em ups: want some *INFINITE* regular enemies while you fight the boss?
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
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
Some games will even force the difficulty up or down, just switching the settings on you with no prompt.
@@cattysplat i want to search it, remember any games?
@@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.
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
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.
We’re looking at you, Insurgency Sandstorm.
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.
Were looking at you cod
@@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".
Jackal snipers :)
I absolutely, positively hate time limits in every form. They never make something fun, only anxiety inducing
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.
Then don’t play it you freaking babies.
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.
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.
@@Miguel-yx9zg I love the first Mafia, as well as the first Godfather :)
If it's one thing I hate in video games is being timed to do a quest.
This is one of the reasons why I refuse to play Pathfinder: Kingmaker.
I hate that so much.
GTA VC players would laugh
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
GTA San Andreas Zero Missions...
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
FF 13: let’s give this enemy 1 billion health and call it hard mode
I wish this was a joke.
Well let's just give every optional boss in ff13-3 more than 5 billion health and call it normal difficulty :D
Should this boss fight take 30 minutes in real time on hard mode?
Then clearly it should take 45 on brutal.
FF12: Amateur.
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.
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?
In fighting games, AI don't cheat by inputing the AI's moves, they cheat by reading YOUR inputs.
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.
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
@@zukushi2533 what game?
@@izzym6422 Sounds like some Sektor bullshit.
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.
"Absolutely nothing different" -Gameranx talking about COD difficulties.
Excuse me but the grenade spam on Veteran in World at War would beg to differ.
I'll take memories i never wanted to re-live for 300 Darek
My man
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
This also applies to the Uncharted games on Crushing.
WAW definitely let you know when you were playing veteran. Even if you weren't taking damage.
"Game crashing randomly" I'm looking at you Skyrim...
Yep.
Skyrim on the ps3
Especially modded Skyrim.
@@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.
@Black Coffee correct i run modded skyrim on ps4 and it doesnt crash
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 a person who usually does have to play on Easy due to disability, I really hate it when content is cut on lower difficulties.
What disability do you have?
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.
@@Bulbatron How did you get blind? Blue Light?
No ! I was born with the condition, and I said I was nearly blind - in one eye. What do you mean, 'blue light'?
@@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
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.
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.
That's why I stopped playing racing games
@@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.
@@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.
@@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.
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 love when games have a seperate difficulty choice for the puzzles, like Silent Hill has
player: its pitch black! i cant see anything!
AI: good thing i have a built in aimbot
🤣 So true
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.
Reptile: I´ll go invisible to ambush my opponent!
Opponent: That´s cute
“ALL YOU HAD TO DO, WAS FOLLOW THE DAMN TRAIN CJ!” The most annoying mission in GTA: SA.
@@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
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.
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
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.
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
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
GOD YES THAT PISSES ME OFF SO MUCH.
100%
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.
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.
@@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.
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
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.
@@Acinnn well said.
TitanFall 2 has the best checkpoint system ever. Literally died and went back 5 seconds before which is so satisfying
Titanfall 2 was perfect imo
Best checkpoints system ever in the Best fps game ever
Yeap, wish TF2 had a longer campaign
All we had to do was follow the damn train, CJ
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
@@histkontext you can shoot from the bike though wtf are you on about?
I felt and heard that so many god dang times as a 8 yo 😂😂😂 it hurts so good man good times
I wanted ice cream shove it!! *jk lollll*
@@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
I loathe bullet sponging, it ruins my immersion big time.
Don't play the Uncharted series
@@SaxyCalzone bad sponging i take it?
@@adamc8409 oh yeah. Unless you play the absolute lowest difficulty
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.
@@SaxyCalzone or Destiny. Or Destiny 2. Just...don't play Destiny anyeay.
"When difficulty is fake"
Memories of DS2 furiously popping up in my brain
“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?”
Good ole DS2...more enemies equals more of a challenge am I right? God that game still frustrates me just thinking about it
Shrine of Amana intensifies
"Cheating AI"
Ahhh, you must have played StarCraft back in the day.
historic car cup gt40 anyone?
oh my dear mercifull god, don't remind me please.
TBF, AI back then wasn't advanced enough to win fair.
Yeah, I remember some of the ludicrous armies they can pull out of their asses. Not to mention the ludicrous number of burrowed hydras...
You heard of the cops or enemies in Cyberpunk 2077?
Age of Empires, where the CPU has infinite resources.
They literally sent villagers inside my area and built a stable or a barrack just to assert dominance over my failing empire...
Or other Games where the Enemy has infinite Ammo,Mana,Stamina.etc. .
@@theratking013 Call of Duty where the enemy has infinite grenades...
Warcraft and command and conquer where the AI can build things 4 times as quick as you
“Surprise mechanics” is what we all hate.
11:56 Final Fantasy 8: "It makes grinding of any kind, at all, pointless." O.o
Escort missions where the the escorted are dumber than a bag of rocks with the constitution of a wet paper bag in a hurricane.
XCOM much?
Looking at you Goldeneye
@@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.
@@otakon17 Another thing I detest. It's similar to Wasteland 2 in that regard.
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!"
Man if there were checkpoints in vice city I would have beat that demolition man mission such a pain
"just bigger numbers"
so like 90% of the games ever made
That actually made me laugh man thx
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.
You mean more numerous
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.
4:32
"ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS FOLLOW THE DAMN TRAIN, CJ"
Oh my god, something deep within me just broke
I just like listening to this guys voice at this point.
Same
If it's not falcon.. I don't listen no hate to Jake though 😏
Yeah, same. He's just so calmly annoyed that it's just great to listen to. He's the Jules of gameranx.
I wouldn’t call “bugs” mechanics, they are not supposed to be there lol.
I was thinking the same thing.
They are actually suppose to be there as reality dictates it...and Bethesda
true lol
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@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...
Demons souls has the oposite of adaptive difficulty, it gets harder the more you die and easier the less you die
Ah yes, the old Gradius/R-Type difficulty curve.
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.
The driving lesson on Driver for PS1... fuck that 😂
Bro it took me forever to pass the damn tutorials
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.
@@MillionDollars00 I bought driver when it was brand new Day one and didn't pass that Tutorial until I was like 15
It is hard, but once it's done you're good enough to beat the game
It's easy to do when you know what your doing
I did it again recently on ps vita
When you talked about timed missions I had some Mafia 1 PTSD. Fuck that car 😂
Me too
I cant beat the race.
@@Layaway_Virgin it took me like an hour or more to beat that race in de
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.
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.
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
You just have to approach the game like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day.
just play the song of time backwards. doubles the amount of time you have.
@@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
This is kind of off topic, but I just had the best orange.
This was wonderfully random!
Nice bro, I just had a badass mango
Nice. I'm having dates filled with dark chocolate. Best healthy sweet snack IMO
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
Nothing like a great orange. Sumos are my personal fave!
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.
God bless you mate 🙏
@Off Planet then don’t lol 👍🏼
Then you suck at video games then
@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.
@@roysweatman8436 🤣
I like when the AI in starcraft instantly knows where any and all "hidden" expansions are as well as getting into position for attacks well you are still across the map
I've had friends do that on Star Wars EAW
You guys have never played an empire earth game those assholes actually cheat like it’s written in the code
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.
Some of the impeccable accuracy AI exhibits in shooting games can be quite frustrating.
Especially in Star Wars games. Like, aren't Stormtroopers suppose to be terrible shots? Stay true to the source material.
When they're shooting you with pinpoint accuracy from 57 meters away, behind a wall, with a submachine gun
Yes mohaa sniper level lol
“like try playing a game with unresponsive controls, or ones that will just crash randomly, a perfect example of this is” COD COLD WAR LMFAO
Was worse with black ops 4.
@@stonedscenekid no it really wasn’t lol
I played bo2 into the ground then quit CoD. Came back for Cold War and was really liking S1 but by the end of season 1 just had to throw the whole game away lol
@@nunyabusiness8538 yes it really was. I rarely had any crashing with Cold War. Black ops 4 I couldn’t get very far without it crashing.
@@stonedscenekid so you’re saying cold war doesn’t crash? lmfao get real n get outta here
Enemies that can only be defeated by discovering some pattern and using specific weapons at points.
I think God of War and Devil May Cry are the only exceptions
@@TBone4Breakfast DmC was really bad about this with the color-coded enemies. Actual DMC games don’t do this though excluding the Plasmas in DMC1.
Matee you're taking a shot at every hack'n slash in existence
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
The best example of a "good" hard-mode, I can think of, is the "Mad House" mode in RE7. Of course it does the the "enemies are stronger" thing but it moves item/enemy placement, adds more enemies, etc etc. I'm having fun with it at the time of watching this video.
I don’t find playing single player games on harder difficulty fun it just gives me crippling anxiety about everything in the game. I find easy fun because I like to do dumb things in games.
I always play games on the hardest difficulty.
Playing it on easy takes out the accomplishment like i played God of War III on easy and i got bored whereas chaos mode made it worth playing because you cant coast
You bought the game, you play it how you choose to. Anyone who calls you out for playing it on easy is just an Ahole, they may aswell be telling you how to spend your money and what to do with the goods you purchased - don't pay them any attention because enjoyment is a subjective experience and no one can tell you "play it on hard it's more fun".......as that statement is completely untrue for you.
@@proffessorX +++++
@@waldiotm98 Not everyone plays to feel accomplished. I get that people like to challenge themselves. I prefer to enjoy a game for its mechanics, story or world. I get bored doing the same thing over again. Overcoming a challenging part, for me, is more of a relief to finally be over an annoying part of the game rather than feeling like I accomplished something.
i always appreciate how passionately this channel supports disabled people
as someone with motor apraxia and arthritis, and feel for anyone with even worse issues, i wish more games considered the struggles of gamers when making their difficulty modes
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.
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...
@@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.
Such as the ‘anger,’ ‘that’s just… wrong,’ ‘tough luck,’ ‘mythic,’ ‘thunderstorm,’ and ‘catch’ skulls
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.
I would love a top 10 games whos difficulty changes the entire game
Oh man that sounds amazing
I don't know how Gameranx knew, but I was just complaining about video game difficulty and you upload this.
The higher difficulties for Civilisation VI just make everything faster for the AI. Strong units start showing up way before anyone could legitimately get them and it's basically impossible to get ahead on research. I don't understand how anyone can find it fun. They're always considerably ahead of you no matter how well you play.
GTA V and RDR2 npc’s amazing aim. They never miss when they shoot at you.
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
Majora's Mask, really? I guess some people don't talk to the Scarecrow to know about slowing down time.
Yeah as soon as you start play the song and get some extra time
You’re right. Where is scarecrow! I gave up completing MM on 3ds
@@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.
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.
I hate forced tutorials and tutorials that keep looping until you do the move exactly the way the game wants, especially for moves you never end up using in game anyway.
Driver
Yeah, he mentioned Driver
I feel like a big reason a lot of these continue is because there's a good amount of people who love it for the nostalgia of the "old days" when game design was at its infancy.
as the owner of both Fester's quest, and TMNT on the nes, and someone who beat both, i say, f**k nostalgia. I'm glad when that crap is changed or removed.
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.
AI Cheating: Some AI move faster when you're not looking at them, like in Dark Souls
Teleporting dogs, anyone?
8:00 that sounds like a personal problem to me, kid mode sounds normal while adult sounds hard. Why does that make sense to me?
Who even Wants to play easy mode? It sound The most Boring shit ever!
#4. In Grim Fandango I reached a point where I interacted with absolutely everything possible multiple times, I even talked to everybody more than once, just couldn’t find any way to proceed.Turns out you had to talk to one particular group until they mention a specific person so you can trigger an item and continue...oh, and their dialog resets every time you step away, so if you don’t do it enough times to trigger the event, you’re back at 1.
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.
"games that break the rules" oh how many times i've been screwed by a level 3 bot in for Honor that feints things that are literally unfeintable.
I can relate to this something fierce
every bash you throw gets dodged and any attack you throw gets parried
When you talked about insane puzzles I immediately thought about the LucasArts point and click adventure games like Monkey Island. You need some crazy outside the box thinking to beat those games without a guide.
Or you basically had to try clicking on everything and using every item in your inventory on everything you see to progress. Monkey Island is especially legendary for making no sense, creating a Rubber Chicken Pulley by using a Rubber Chicken on a zipline always stands out in my mind.
@@cattysplat Well to be fair when you grave it it does say its a a rubber chicken zipline thingy but ofc I see your point. especially monkey island 2 its insane even with a guide
Disc World 1 + 2
I remember Twisted Metal was really bad for “cheating AI” cause some of the bots would just go around freezing you 16 times in a row. You as a player can only shoot 2 in a row then have to wait for it to charge back up. (Mr.Grim was particularly the worst one for it lol)
I forgot that anger until now haha
I only played it once being really young at a friend's house.... That experience bears a significant painful wound that is forever embedded in the deeper recesses of my subconscious that, alas, I regretfully in my failure to contain, allowed its noxious contents to resurface and contaminate my immediate temperament into one of resentment and bitterness for myself in never establishing closure. It overwhelms me with the most depraciating and crippling doubt in my integrity of being a diehard, no bullshit, strictly all or nothing, go big or go home, pro tier difficulty elitist if I am well within my faculties by refusing to ever revisit this cumbersome specimen of auxiliary interactive, tactile input transmission peripheral apparatus/ coordinated response interface software.
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
Dynamic difficulty was the one that drove me nuts! Because it made me quit Xcom, i played the game pretty well but then i got brickwalled because my 95% hit chance missed like 50% of the time.
I like grinding so Dynamic Difficulty is the worst for me.
You won't just quickloading missed shots were you? That's not how the game works lol.
That sounds like XCOM being XCOM to me tbh...hell the 50/50 shots did better because I was like, "Coin flip! GO!" and had better odds.
Aside game mechanics, what I'm really tired is with the players that will always find ways to make you feel inferior to them, cause you were suppose to accept that "challenge" that is in the game. You know, the kind that say "get gud".
Or those that talk about how games are fun, but when they share their playthrough, they are constantly cussing, getting annoyed, frustrated and even destructive. I mean, you are masochist, fine, but don't deny it! =P
i hear ya. we should all be able to play games at our own pace, if other people prefer harder modes, i'm all for it, i just wish they didn't put down those who can't, or even just don't really want to. its why i don't play Souls-Bourne games, i don't like the challenge that set forth, but sadly too many games are utilizing that style of combat difficulty now cause its "trendy"
I don't even understand where that mindset comes from. The whole "Hard mode is the only real mode" argument is just...so without any reason.
Because, how can one difficulty setting, or mode be wrong, while others are right? They're all in the game made by the devs afterall. (Obviously this only applies to games that have a difficulty setting)
@@Alexia-ys6yx who knows, i think alot of people just have ideas in their head about how things should be, and don't like it when others don't do as them.
like, some people think when you play scrabble you should be allowed to see hint words beforehand, or whatever, and others think you shouldn't, cause its all about the challenge.
or how some people think you should never use strategy guides when playing a game, others think you should, at least when you're really stuck.
One of the recent examples of trial and error is The Medium, which frankly pissed me off. All the "Crash Bandicoot" run away sequences are impossible to finish, unless you do the perfect run, which means dodging/rotating the exact same second this opportunity comes. Not to mention the one shot mechanic the game has that made these moments especially annoying.
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.
I never had a problem with the jungle puzzles in the witness, though I can see why you'd dislike them. The only puzzle I didn't like was the optional final one with a time limit. Some of them took me a while to figure out, so limiting my time made me unable to get the platinum
That’s the last trophy I have left for the platinum 😭
You guys beat the game?
That's what I get for having ADHD
@@danielvulpis432 I managed to do everything except the final puzzles.
It’s my last trophy and I gave up on it a long time ago 😅
@@DigiDemii I got to the bird one and gave up
I also quit after trying 1000 times the fucking time limit puzzle.
I really hate when a game doesn't autosave enough so you may have to redo hours of gameplay (thanks Skyrim). Or when a game autosaves right when your about to die, often resulting in you having to go way far back because it *doesn't autosave enough in the first damn place!*
My man , are you really crying about skyrim? Where you can save whenever you want, you are just lazy.
I learned to use the "Wait" function to autosave early on and it was a lifesaver. Goddamned Vampire den outside of Marthol had me raging
@@Crimsonwtf literally lmao when I'm playing skyrim I save every 5 seconds you never know what's going to happen
I become save champion thanks to New Vegas
@@Reza-desu Me too
"Its infinitly buggy and freezes up"
Fallout New Vegas: Am i a joke yo you?
You mean basically every Fallout game from 3 onward?
Fallout 76 laughs at them all...
I've grown to love this channel
I remember a friend of mine noticed that some FPS games have friendly AI. He'd hang back and let them be bullet sponges because he noticed they wouldn't go down or die unless he personally shot them. It sounded really cheesy, but he considered it a viable tactic to advance the game.
For FF8 when I found that out from my cousin...i realised I was my own enemy 😐
I never realized this until now. Luckily I hated grinding. Unluckily I got the towns locked out without swapping out half the base weapons. I still beat Ultimecia but it took a LOT of tries and luck.
My favorite cheating AI moment, Lance having Dragonite's under level 55
is that a pokemon reference? i used to play those when i was younger but i barely remember them now lol
Or Ghetsis having a Level 54 Hydreigon in Black and White. Zweilous doesn't evolve until Level 64... cheating bastard.
this video made my day much better, so much empathy finally after all this struggle with those mechanics through all this years, man!