I’ve watched your videos for awhile, and I just wanted to say I love the way you build up the reveal before each entry. I could just listen to you talk all day and I’d find every second intriguing, can’t put my finger on why, but I know I want more. Keep up the great content!
Yeah hes basically the only channel that can make a channel all post entirely out of Top 5 lists released every week and have them be consistently entertaining
@@rabbidluigi I have watched almost ever single one of your countdowns, and I really don't trust you on that. You better not be lying bro, cause you will break your son's heart.
SUGGESTION LIST: Sorry if people think I’m spamming, just want to keep a solid list of my suggestions Top 5 games with the best voice acting Top 5 side characters more interesting than the protagonist Top 5 situational power ups/weapons Top 5 story modes in fighting games Top 5 visual novels Top 5 rivals in video games Top 5 playable villains Top 5 “meta” video games And yes, I know that RL has already done “Top 5 Rival Battles” and “Top 5 Games where you Play the Villain”, which aren’t the same thing as what I’m suggesting
"Battletoads isn't impossible by any means" Unless of course you're doing 2-player mode and make it up to the level where player 2's controls _stop working altogether._ (Also, shout out to Mini Laddd for the cameo at 5:30!)
On a side note, Cuphead is probably one of the most fair looking games I've ever seen. Unlike a lot of games, when you kill the boss, attacks after the boss can't kill you. And the hit box is actually really lenient and almost every attack is telegraphed and possible to dodge.
Smart Alec Some bosses were pretty BS imo like Rumor Honeybottoms and Cala Maria, but yeah, overall the game is pretty solid and fair, despite still being incredibly challenging.
Mental Popcorn That’s what I added “imo.” I found a majority of the bosses to be fair, but those are the ones I’d *personally* consider unfair because Rumor’s attacks are nearly impossible to telegraph the first few times you face her due to how unpredictable they are and Cala Maria has this annoying attack that turns you into a stone and makes you pretty much immobile for several seconds. I still managed to defeat them, but that’s besides the point.
I found that Wally Warbles, Hilda Burg, Cagney Carnation we're a pain on the hardest difficulty. Rumor is fine as long you stay in the middle of the room. I didn't find Mariea too difficult, I didn't find the other bosses impossible though, just hard
As someone whos played the first and second one like 7 times each, along with 4 playthroughs of demons souls, the bed of chaos and the crystal cave are some of the cheapest ways to kill a player, especially when the crystal dust glitches out in ur game, making u follow it to your death in dark souls 1. Tbh thats the only really cheap thing, the anor londo archers are overrated and so is orn and smough, they never killed me once, on any playthrough solo
Started playing the remaster on switch and this is my first ever. But so far i can't call it unfair, it just kicks you in the dick a lot. Except Capra Demon and lower Undead Burg... Fuck that shit. Going in blind it is really close to bs imo. The closest i have seen it get.
My problem with Battletoads is that the game is simultaneously well-designed as an experience and aggressively anti-player. The level design is well-carved for progress in most cases, but the player often has to be pixel perfect to actually beat it. Add to this how, despite having a six-hit-long life bar in the corner, the game pulls an absurd amount of instant death traps in a game which has twelve (technically thirteen) levels and only three continues to get through it, balanced by the awesome kind of soundtrack David Wise could pull off, and you have a recipe for a stew meant to hurt people from the inside out. On a more personal note, Battletoads also has a hard time deciding what the hell kind of game it wants to be. At its core, it's meant to be a beat-em-up, except enemies don't die until the last hit of your punch combo. Starting off, it has the angled plane to remind you of an arcade beat-em-up, but the next level sends you down a mine shaft on a bungee cord, then there's another brief beat-em-up section before your first major obstacle: the Turbo Tunnel full of instant-death walls. If you survive that, it's a side-scrolling platformer, then another Turbo Tunnel-esque stage with occasional beat-em-up parts, more platforming, an... auto-scrolling flight level? And from there, the angled view is done, replaced with mostly platforming levels aside from the worst idea ever: Clinger Winger. Battletoads is all over the place with its gameplay but tries to hang on to that sliver of a core to keep you from being too confused. And I am not entirely sure if the game gives you enough time to learn its mechanics well unless you play multiple times. ...I don't know what to think of Battletoads. It seems like a cool franchise, but does it know what it's doing? :( On a more self-assured note, I don't want to be The Guy. I never want to be The Guy.
"There's plenty of ways to approach difficulty without throwing the player under a bus, and expecting them bench press it" Lost it there. I think that's going in the list of really good quotes.
You should do a video on the most creative ways of doing damage/combating enemies in a video game. Maybe include the pins/psyches from The World Ends With You and/or the paintbrush mechanics from Okami and/Or Okami Den
Kirby Star Allies final boss: The friend hearts actually damages the final boss, literally defeating it with friendship. Also, you can damage enemies using gusts of air from Kirby breathing out after gulping air during a chain jump.
Top Five Most Important Videogame Franchise Histories. The kind of videogame franchises where when you talk about them, you basically have to talk about the history of videogames themselves.
Great video as always RL. :). A couple of ideas for the pile: - Top 5 Characters You Hate Loving - Top 5 Rage Inducing Multiplayer Series / Games - Top 5 Stupidest Haircuts in Video Games
Rabbidluigi, first of all, I love your top list, you take me back to my childhood with every video and I will always be grateful for that ;) For the #1 game: Takeshi's challenge: Actually, there were plenty of commercials leading up to the game launching date, each commercial was a clue in how to progress the game. Then again, it was ridiculously difficult to decipher, and even with that information, all of what you said is completely true.
The difference is that MXC is fair, Takeshi's Castle isn't. MXC pretty much took out most/all of the random mechanics from Takeshi's castle, along with the utterly unfair final fight where the boss literally has two waterhoses while you have a squirt gun.
Top 5 (or 10) Robot masters and/or mavericks. Also worth mentioning how great these countdowns are, to the point where I rewatch some. Keep up the great work!
See this is exactly why I love games like monster hunter, they always seem fair even some of the more difficult fights and stay enjoyable because of it,.... Until extreme bullehemoth anyway
I sometimes feel my week isn’t complete without a Sunday RabbidLuigi video. I should probably get checked to make sure this isn’t due to a weird medical condition, but I think that’s a compliment! So thanks!
Your uploads are what I look forward to every week. Awesome stuff. Even when talking about previously mentioned games, like I Wanna Be The Guy, you can make things interesting. You have a really cool perception and understanding of video games. Also, here's a countdown suggestion: Top five intense moments in video games.
If you haven't played "I wanna be the boshi" i would give it a go. It's a super hard fan based game based off of I wanna be the guy. Also check out MoonMoon_ow on twitch. He plays a lot of challenging games and is a pretty entertaining streamer. Cheers bro.
Really enjoyed this video. I like the way you go a bit deeper into the reasons why things are unfair or the history of the game, etc. Sets you apart from other TOP 10er youtubers. The way you write, I think you should be doing deeper analysis on games as opposed to clickbaity top 10s
Deaths in 'I Wanna Be the Guy' remind me of the Lazy Gun from one of Iain M. Banks' Culture novels. Point the gun at someone, a frozen turkey falls on them. Move the character to the left, a wild save point appears and smashes him.
I agree on the Mario Party decision- my friends call it the destroyer of friendships game, and I can see why they call it that. Also, that is a very respectful honor you are giving by wearing that poppy, a good honor. All in all, a great video.
I love games that have that perfect level of difficulty that it's hard but makes you believe that you can overcome it with time and patience, making you playing it more and more.
Fun fact about Beat Takeshi's Challenge. Everyday the Japanese Nintendo call center was bombarded with calls asking for help with this game and even they didn't know what to do. Most of the time they ended the call by playing a pre-recorded message saying, "Sorry, but the person helping you has died." I'm not kidding.
Just a quick comment about I Want to be the Guy. I think it's worth stating, but there was a game called Rick Dangerous which far preceded IWTBTG by a mile. It was an Indiana Jones type title with all the unfairness of you expect in IWTBTG - and it was actually sold, not given away free at its origin. A flash version of the game exists online to play (for free). It might have been worth an honorable mention as the probable inspiration for IWTBTG
Me, my best friend, and our girlfriends (who where also best friends) use to play Mario Party on the Wii together all the time. Boys VS girls. There's one game I will never forget. We were on the hotel map, there were 3 turns left, and the girls were minutes away from their first victory against us. Within 3 turns we were able to systematically take over enough hotels to take the win. Ever since then my best friend and I have had a saying we use any time the odds are stacked against us. It was something my girlfriend said during that game. "No one can win in the last 3 turns."
Ah, IWBTG... a nice warmup for the more challenging stuff I've pulled off over the years. Super Meat Boy for one, The End is Nigh for another, others I can't recall being "stupid hard" off the top of my head... Battletoads isn't on the list yet, but I'll get around to it eventually.
Battletoads is one of my favorite games of all time. The graphics, gameplay, music and level variety for the time were amazing at the time. I by gods did you get bragging rights if you'd completed this back in the day before save states!
I was expecting number 1 to be an EA game or at least one game from the cesspool that is Steam Greenlight, but you made a good choice for it. Perhaps you could do a list about background/side characters in video games more likeable or interesting than the main characters, or “ensemble darkhorses” as TV Tropes calls them?
My suggestion for a future video? top 5 video games created by one developer or a very small development team (if 5x single developer games can't be found) Also I dig your (not so new anymore) intro screen. But will your outro screen get a revamp anytime soon?
@@D_YellowMadness There's a lot... FURI's DLC added a boss which makes the entire game look like tutorial (not even exaggerating), Hollow Knight added a DLC which adds a 50+ bosses bossrush in which you cant die and only get health restored once every 10 or so bosses, plus added many of the hardest bosses yet AND at the end you have to fight a remixed version of the end-game boss (again, without dying once anywhere), there's Monster Hunter DLC which always adds crazy G Rank bosses (even MHW the easiest added Tempered Deviljho which is really hard)) etc.
Honestly half expected XCOM to be on this list. Not because of how the RNG is, but for the fact that it rounds UP the to-hit numbers if it's .5 or over. So 100% can actually be 99.5% to hit and the game decides you actually missed. Lost my entire squad to a 100% chance to hit rocket that missed and hit the building they were hiding behind.
This’s a pretty interesting list since what’s considered “fair” in games or not is entirely subjective. Some may find difficult games to be unfair, while I personally enjoy a challenge as long as the game itself is still fun and has pretty solid mechanics, such as with Cuphead. Except when a game is just so poorly designed that playing it is the equivalent to walking on hot coals. That too. Also I remember that the control-stick spinning minigames for Mario Party were so infamous that Nintendo had to issue a special glove so that people could avoid injury. So...yikes. Also also, Takeshi’s Challenge made Nintendo hesitant to work with celebrities in Japan afterwards, enough so that they almost didn’t work with Shigesato Itoi on what would eventually become the Mother series. Entirely glad that they did though, otherwise we wouldn’t have one of the best RPG franchises in existence.
"Mashing your hand into the hard plastic cause that's what everyone else is doing" "that's a bit unfair" No... Having to do what everyone else is doing is the definition of fair
I was confused because I was certain nothing was going to top I Wanna Be The Guy, but that's because I forgot about Beat Takeshi's Challenge. Its existence confuses me.
there was one underrated unfair game i found on steam a few days ago called "Rage in peace", and it did a really great job as a rage game using the concept that you, a depressed guy will die today with your head cut off, but you are not told when. The thing is that every single thing tries to cut your head off! Even in normal places, you will never know what's going to happen! Some of these traps actually made me laugh out loud!
Oh look, the bit's back and...didn't interrupt the flow at all. I doubt that was in response to my comment last week but hey, doesn't feel in the way this week, so I can appreciate that. In the meantime, I wasn't expecting a multiplayer game where, theoretically, everyone has an equal chance of winning to show up in a game like this. At this point, you might as well have put Goldeneye on the list just because of Oddjob. Nothing's more unfair than that.
A couple of silly ideas of mine: Top 5 games that reoccur most in your lists Top 5 topics I wont Make a list for The former might make a good April fools joke next year, if I do say so muhself
There's something about bullet storms in oldschool SHMUP's that I have a deep love of. I loved them as a kid, and they are the only hard thing in video games I can be bothered to deal with, as an adult. Now I play a modern title and navigating the inventory becomes a major "most unfair" pain in the backside that I have no time to devote to. Yes, I know, a middle aged guy seemingly moaning about modern games... But not really. It's just that what little time I do spend with games these days always seems to get eaten away at further by a whole lot of busy work that has no real meaning or impact. I loved The Witcher III, but all that inventory stuff was just fluff, at the end of the day. I needed a tincture for all the time I spent looking at an inventory screen (rather than enjoying the story and world) that was just full of... tat... rubbish. 47 mouse testicles and several chunks of dog tallow make a fine +2 damage bonus potion that lasts until the next time I scratch my chin? Oh, piss off. I'll just play the game and some situations will be mildly more testing. Fine. Modern BS clutter is "most unfair" to the average gamer over the age of 25 with real responsibilities.
What about top five hardest video game mods or something like that? I know it seems a bit out there, but I've been playing through Skyrim Special Edition with a mod called YASH, and let me tell you, that mod makes you yearn for the simplicity of old vanilla Skyrim sometimes.
I'm having scarred flashbacks of Duck Hunt the game that caused me to utter the "F" word for the first time for obvious reasons. And similar reasons are why I had a sadistic smile on my face when that hound of trolling was leaked as an unlockable Smash 4 character.
A suggestion that's somewhat the opposite of this countdown: Top five difficult but fair games. Originally conceived as top five difficult but fair bosses, but going for full games would be just as interesting. Speaking as a wannabe game dev who'd be interested in making such a game, it'd be cool to see you talk about the subject.
I rented OG Mario Party once, and we had really worn down N64 sticks and those minigames where murder on the palms, which was the only way to get reasonable results.
I would say that "unfair" games are games that change the rules midstream, even if the rules are wierd and unintutive you can learn those, but if the rules change on a whim there's nothing to learn or memorize.
100% Orange Juice takes 1 look at Mario Party and laughs. You want to ruin any and all friendships? Grab 3 future ex-friends and have the 4 of you slowly lose all sense of sanity at the madness that is cute anime characters playing the most sadistic board game known to man.
I think, at least as a more unconventional entry, (Forbidden) Siren would deserve a spot on a list like this. If you don't know exactly what you're doing you'll find yourself with a "wtf just happened" ending and desperately replaying section after section to find the one ridiculous measure you have to take to unlock new paths to get some more sense out of the story. (*cough* frozen towel *cough*)
Maybe he used to hate them but eventually stopped? I mean 1986 to 2016 is a fairly big time leap, it's not unreasonable to think someone could change their mind about the medium, especially with how much games have advanced since then
For a great video on Takeshi's Challege watch the JonTron video. "I don't even think it would be possible without a built in cheat" -JonTron on the last segment of the game.
These unfair games are nothing compared to real life
Well said.
So right
Too real, too real.
It was too obvious a pick for the list, only reason it was excluded
Too OP, please nerf.
I’ve watched your videos for awhile, and I just wanted to say I love the way you build up the reveal before each entry. I could just listen to you talk all day and I’d find every second intriguing, can’t put my finger on why, but I know I want more. Keep up the great content!
shayminister 492 I totally agree. I love that he doesn’t say what each entry is without a build up.
He's been doing it for over Seven years, by rules of logic and reasoning he is required to be good at what he does to keep it going for this long
Yeah hes basically the only channel that can make a channel all post entirely out of Top 5 lists released every week and have them be consistently entertaining
Yeah, I love his style and humor.
Top 5 most plot significant boss fights
Also nice poppy! *Salute*
Must exclude final bosses
@@SmartAlec1 good point, since the plot significance of the final boss is kinda a given.
I have two ideas:
Top five worst cases of backtracking in video games
Top five video games that hold your hand too much
As much as I love them Pokemon would do well on both list.
I really like that first idea
Me too
Skyward sword fits in both category
For backtracking, Metroid Prime Trilogy will DEFINITELY take a spot
Respect for wearing the poppy. Lest we forget.
Is there a story behind the poppy?
@@Arkegox Yes. Its a symbol of remeberance day. A time to honor those that died in war, specially those that died in WW1.
@@Arkegox It is symbol of WW1 as poppy was only flower that bloomed on battlefieilds.
Thank you for the explanation
I cut myself just by reading this edge.
Days without RabbidLuigi has talked about Spec Ops: The line - Zero
It was actually nearly a year before this so I'll take that.
@@rabbidluigi Must be one of your favourite games.
@@rabbidluigi I have watched almost ever single one of your countdowns, and I really don't trust you on that.
You better not be lying bro, cause you will break your son's heart.
SUGGESTION LIST:
Sorry if people think I’m spamming, just want to keep a solid list of my suggestions
Top 5 games with the best voice acting
Top 5 side characters more interesting than the protagonist
Top 5 situational power ups/weapons
Top 5 story modes in fighting games
Top 5 visual novels
Top 5 rivals in video games
Top 5 playable villains
Top 5 “meta” video games
And yes, I know that RL has already done “Top 5 Rival Battles” and “Top 5 Games where you Play the Villain”, which aren’t the same thing as what I’m suggesting
Okay, fair play, the subscribing joke was actually kinda funny this time.
Daniel Thomas Agreed. It was short and didn't break the flow too much
No, it's not.
*battletoads with microtransactions*
Eww.
Let's hope EA isn't reading this...
Don't give them any ideas
don’t use any capital letters, or else they might hear you.
Hey, want to make Clinger Winger actually possible by making the hypno-orb slower? Give us 5 bucks. -Micro$oft
"Battletoads isn't impossible by any means"
Unless of course you're doing 2-player mode and make it up to the level where player 2's controls _stop working altogether._
(Also, shout out to Mini Laddd for the cameo at 5:30!)
Metal Gear Survive. It's unfair such a horror exists in this world.
I agree
You should see the epitaph he gave the series in his Worst Games of 2018 video. Genuinely heart wrenching, and I’m not even a fan of Metal Gear!
On a side note, Cuphead is probably one of the most fair looking games I've ever seen. Unlike a lot of games, when you kill the boss, attacks after the boss can't kill you. And the hit box is actually really lenient and almost every attack is telegraphed and possible to dodge.
That is true.
Smart Alec Some bosses were pretty BS imo like Rumor Honeybottoms and Cala Maria, but yeah, overall the game is pretty solid and fair, despite still being incredibly challenging.
Crono Sapien the bosses weren’t bs. All it took was getting good.
It was almost entirely based on skill, it doesn’t get much more fair than that.
Mental Popcorn That’s what I added “imo.”
I found a majority of the bosses to be fair, but those are the ones I’d *personally* consider unfair because Rumor’s attacks are nearly impossible to telegraph the first few times you face her due to how unpredictable they are and Cala Maria has this annoying attack that turns you into a stone and makes you pretty much immobile for several seconds.
I still managed to defeat them, but that’s besides the point.
I found that Wally Warbles, Hilda Burg, Cagney Carnation we're a pain on the hardest difficulty. Rumor is fine as long you stay in the middle of the room. I didn't find Mariea too difficult, I didn't find the other bosses impossible though, just hard
Thank you for not including Dark Souls. I’ve seen several lists mistaking a challenge for unfair design.
OVERLOAD25 well there are sometimes when there are certain obstacles are indistinguishable from whether it’s the player’s fault, or the game’s fault
Hard but fair is often confused for unfair
As someone whos played the first and second one like 7 times each, along with 4 playthroughs of demons souls, the bed of chaos and the crystal cave are some of the cheapest ways to kill a player, especially when the crystal dust glitches out in ur game, making u follow it to your death in dark souls 1. Tbh thats the only really cheap thing, the anor londo archers are overrated and so is orn and smough, they never killed me once, on any playthrough solo
DS difficulty is just a meme
Started playing the remaster on switch and this is my first ever.
But so far i can't call it unfair, it just kicks you in the dick a lot.
Except Capra Demon and lower Undead Burg...
Fuck that shit. Going in blind it is really close to bs imo. The closest i have seen it get.
My problem with Battletoads is that the game is simultaneously well-designed as an experience and aggressively anti-player. The level design is well-carved for progress in most cases, but the player often has to be pixel perfect to actually beat it. Add to this how, despite having a six-hit-long life bar in the corner, the game pulls an absurd amount of instant death traps in a game which has twelve (technically thirteen) levels and only three continues to get through it, balanced by the awesome kind of soundtrack David Wise could pull off, and you have a recipe for a stew meant to hurt people from the inside out.
On a more personal note, Battletoads also has a hard time deciding what the hell kind of game it wants to be. At its core, it's meant to be a beat-em-up, except enemies don't die until the last hit of your punch combo. Starting off, it has the angled plane to remind you of an arcade beat-em-up, but the next level sends you down a mine shaft on a bungee cord, then there's another brief beat-em-up section before your first major obstacle: the Turbo Tunnel full of instant-death walls. If you survive that, it's a side-scrolling platformer, then another Turbo Tunnel-esque stage with occasional beat-em-up parts, more platforming, an... auto-scrolling flight level? And from there, the angled view is done, replaced with mostly platforming levels aside from the worst idea ever: Clinger Winger. Battletoads is all over the place with its gameplay but tries to hang on to that sliver of a core to keep you from being too confused. And I am not entirely sure if the game gives you enough time to learn its mechanics well unless you play multiple times. ...I don't know what to think of Battletoads. It seems like a cool franchise, but does it know what it's doing? :(
On a more self-assured note, I don't want to be The Guy. I never want to be The Guy.
I became The Guy. Getting there was a pretty fun 10 days of my life.
Basically it means you have to be well-rounded to beat battletoads, you can't just be good at only one thing.
"There's plenty of ways to approach difficulty without throwing the player under a bus, and expecting them bench press it"
Lost it there. I think that's going in the list of really good quotes.
You should do a video on the most creative ways of doing damage/combating enemies in a video game. Maybe include the pins/psyches from The World Ends With You and/or the paintbrush mechanics from Okami and/Or Okami Den
Paper Mario games.
The Scribblenaut franchise.
Kirby Star Allies final boss: The friend hearts actually damages the final boss, literally defeating it with friendship. Also, you can damage enemies using gusts of air from Kirby breathing out after gulping air during a chain jump.
Top Five Most Important Videogame Franchise Histories.
The kind of videogame franchises where when you talk about them, you basically have to talk about the history of videogames themselves.
I feel like we’re in need of a remake of Top 10 Worst Games Of All Time
Keyblade King Elliot oooooooo yes
Big rigs will still be 2, E.T will still be 1. Whats the point?
Great video as always RL. :). A couple of ideas for the pile:
- Top 5 Characters You Hate Loving
- Top 5 Rage Inducing Multiplayer Series / Games
- Top 5 Stupidest Haircuts in Video Games
That first one sounds very similar to a list a certain scorpion of the green color made.
@@kaelanmcalpine2011 Who was that?
Rabbidluigi, first of all, I love your top list, you take me back to my childhood with every video and I will always be grateful for that ;)
For the #1 game: Takeshi's challenge: Actually, there were plenty of commercials leading up to the game launching date, each commercial was a clue in how to progress the game. Then again, it was ridiculously difficult to decipher, and even with that information, all of what you said is completely true.
"Takeshi's Castle"? I think you mean the world's most toughest competition in town! It's MXC. Most Extreme Elimination Challenge!
Right you are, Kenny!
The difference is that MXC is fair, Takeshi's Castle isn't. MXC pretty much took out most/all of the random mechanics from Takeshi's castle, along with the utterly unfair final fight where the boss literally has two waterhoses while you have a squirt gun.
9:52 So THAT'S Where Toby got the Lemonbread Fight Idea from! You Activate a Save Point to Trigger the Fight with it! :3
Top 5 (or 10) Robot masters and/or mavericks.
Also worth mentioning how great these countdowns are, to the point where I rewatch some. Keep up the great work!
See this is exactly why I love games like monster hunter, they always seem fair even some of the more difficult fights and stay enjoyable because of it,....
Until extreme bullehemoth anyway
2nd gen Rajang, Brute and Molten Tigrex, pre-nerf Fatalis
Actually do use gloves, or you’ll damage your palm. Nintendo started giving up gloves for a reason
finally, i can call gamestop and ask about battletoads without being immediately hung up on
I sometimes feel my week isn’t complete without a Sunday RabbidLuigi video.
I should probably get checked to make sure this isn’t due to a weird medical condition, but I think that’s a compliment! So thanks!
Your uploads are what I look forward to every week. Awesome stuff.
Even when talking about previously mentioned games, like I Wanna Be The Guy, you can make things interesting. You have a really cool perception and understanding of video games.
Also, here's a countdown suggestion:
Top five intense moments in video games.
I love that rock metal version of ghouls and Ghosts theme
I Wanna Be The Guy (the first one) is one of my favorite video games.
Beating it was one of my best accomplishments in life.
If you haven't played "I wanna be the boshi" i would give it a go. It's a super hard fan based game based off of I wanna be the guy. Also check out MoonMoon_ow on twitch. He plays a lot of challenging games and is a pretty entertaining streamer. Cheers bro.
Hi I watch you from Japan. I really like your videos and always look forward to a new video by you. Cheers!
what is the piano music that starts at 4:02? I've played it before but can't place the name anymore
Really enjoyed this video. I like the way you go a bit deeper into the reasons why things are unfair or the history of the game, etc. Sets you apart from other TOP 10er youtubers. The way you write, I think you should be doing deeper analysis on games as opposed to clickbaity top 10s
Deaths in 'I Wanna Be the Guy' remind me of the Lazy Gun from one of Iain M. Banks' Culture novels. Point the gun at someone, a frozen turkey falls on them. Move the character to the left, a wild save point appears and smashes him.
I agree on the Mario Party decision- my friends call it the destroyer of friendships game, and I can see why they call it that. Also, that is a very respectful honor you are giving by wearing that poppy, a good honor. All in all, a great video.
I was in a casual "tournament" last may and the challenge was to get as far as you can in getting over it with one of those tablet pens
I love games that have that perfect level of difficulty that it's hard but makes you believe that you can overcome it with time and patience, making you playing it more and more.
I greatly appreciate the X6 music over the outtro. Thanks for the subtle honorable mention there.
2:20 I could hear that clip. Godspeed, Dunkey.
10/10 for that Default Dan cameo with Dan. Loved that playthrough...even if they kinda forgot the rules near the end and got stuck.
Oh hey, I actually like the subscribe plug for this one. Didn't feel like it came out of nowhere this time. Have a like.
With every entry I was like, "wait what could be more unfair than the last entry? ... Oh, right."
Fun fact about Beat Takeshi's Challenge.
Everyday the Japanese Nintendo call center was bombarded with calls asking for help with this game and even they didn't know what to do. Most of the time they ended the call by playing a pre-recorded message saying, "Sorry, but the person helping you has died."
I'm not kidding.
Man discovered you a few weeks ago and man you you’re hell of a dude !
_Takashi's Challenge_ feels like a scene-for-scene adaption of an obscure 80s comedy made into a game.
Just a quick comment about I Want to be the Guy. I think it's worth stating, but there was a game called Rick Dangerous which far preceded IWTBTG by a mile. It was an Indiana Jones type title with all the unfairness of you expect in IWTBTG - and it was actually sold, not given away free at its origin. A flash version of the game exists online to play (for free). It might have been worth an honorable mention as the probable inspiration for IWTBTG
That song at the end! Instantly reminded me of I Wanna Be The Boshy.
...what means that the song originally comes from a different game.
as someone who's beat getting over it in under 5 mins, I can say its a really good game and isn't unfair at all. Just has a big learning curve.
Agreed. Absolutely ruthlessly unforgiving? Yes. Unfair? Not at all
Me, my best friend, and our girlfriends (who where also best friends) use to play Mario Party on the Wii together all the time. Boys VS girls. There's one game I will never forget.
We were on the hotel map, there were 3 turns left, and the girls were minutes away from their first victory against us. Within 3 turns we were able to systematically take over enough hotels to take the win.
Ever since then my best friend and I have had a saying we use any time the odds are stacked against us. It was something my girlfriend said during that game. "No one can win in the last 3 turns."
Ah, IWBTG... a nice warmup for the more challenging stuff I've pulled off over the years. Super Meat Boy for one, The End is Nigh for another, others I can't recall being "stupid hard" off the top of my head... Battletoads isn't on the list yet, but I'll get around to it eventually.
Takeshi's challenge! Yes! Lol, jontron covered that game, you are awesome, it truly is an interesting game to say the least :)
Battletoads is one of my favorite games of all time. The graphics, gameplay, music and level variety for the time were amazing at the time. I by gods did you get bragging rights if you'd completed this back in the day before save states!
Thanks for wearing the poppy; it's a small detail but very much appreciated 👍
I was expecting number 1 to be an EA game or at least one game from the cesspool that is Steam Greenlight, but you made a good choice for it. Perhaps you could do a list about background/side characters in video games more likeable or interesting than the main characters, or “ensemble darkhorses” as TV Tropes calls them?
My suggestion for a future video?
top 5 video games created by one developer or a very small development team (if 5x single developer games can't be found)
Also I dig your (not so new anymore) intro screen. But will your outro screen get a revamp anytime soon?
Top Five Hardest DLC's (Bitterblack Isle, Nioh DLC, etc.)
A Hat in Time's Death Wish mode would have to be on there. For all the wrong reasons.
@@D_YellowMadness That last boss rush tho
@@D_YellowMadness There's a lot... FURI's DLC added a boss which makes the entire game look like tutorial (not even exaggerating), Hollow Knight added a DLC which adds a 50+ bosses bossrush in which you cant die and only get health restored once every 10 or so bosses, plus added many of the hardest bosses yet AND at the end you have to fight a remixed version of the end-game boss (again, without dying once anywhere), there's Monster Hunter DLC which always adds crazy G Rank bosses (even MHW the easiest added Tempered Deviljho which is really hard)) etc.
Honestly half expected XCOM to be on this list.
Not because of how the RNG is, but for the fact that it rounds UP the to-hit numbers if it's .5 or over. So 100% can actually be 99.5% to hit and the game decides you actually missed.
Lost my entire squad to a 100% chance to hit rocket that missed and hit the building they were hiding behind.
This’s a pretty interesting list since what’s considered “fair” in games or not is entirely subjective. Some may find difficult games to be unfair, while I personally enjoy a challenge as long as the game itself is still fun and has pretty solid mechanics, such as with Cuphead.
Except when a game is just so poorly designed that playing it is the equivalent to walking on hot coals. That too.
Also I remember that the control-stick spinning minigames for Mario Party were so infamous that Nintendo had to issue a special glove so that people could avoid injury. So...yikes.
Also also, Takeshi’s Challenge made Nintendo hesitant to work with celebrities in Japan afterwards, enough so that they almost didn’t work with Shigesato Itoi on what would eventually become the Mother series. Entirely glad that they did though, otherwise we wouldn’t have one of the best RPG franchises in existence.
"Mashing your hand into the hard plastic cause that's what everyone else is doing"
"that's a bit unfair"
No... Having to do what everyone else is doing is the definition of fair
i remember jontron finishing takeshis challenge
I was confused because I was certain nothing was going to top I Wanna Be The Guy, but that's because I forgot about Beat Takeshi's Challenge. Its existence confuses me.
5:32 hey it’s the guy who wants to put his mini Ladd in a bunch of mini ladds
there was one underrated unfair game i found on steam a few days ago called "Rage in peace", and it did a really great job as a rage game using the concept that you, a depressed guy will die today with your head cut off, but you are not told when. The thing is that every single thing tries to cut your head off! Even in normal places, you will never know what's going to happen! Some of these traps actually made me laugh out loud!
Also, whatever this game is at 0:42 , I aiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin't having dat shit!!
Oh look, the bit's back and...didn't interrupt the flow at all. I doubt that was in response to my comment last week but hey, doesn't feel in the way this week, so I can appreciate that.
In the meantime, I wasn't expecting a multiplayer game where, theoretically, everyone has an equal chance of winning to show up in a game like this. At this point, you might as well have put Goldeneye on the list just because of Oddjob. Nothing's more unfair than that.
Where did you get that 3-piece NES controller wall art? I need that in my life!
A couple of silly ideas of mine:
Top 5 games that reoccur most in your lists
Top 5 topics I wont Make a list for
The former might make a good April fools joke next year, if I do say so muhself
I feel like there's another category of unfair games, the ones where you explicitly have to spend (real) money in order to advance or succeed.
I only watch rabbidluigi videos to see where he hilariously throws in the like and subscribe part, makes me laugh every time
Whats that fighting game at 0:46
There's something about bullet storms in oldschool SHMUP's that I have a deep love of. I loved them as a kid, and they are the only hard thing in video games I can be bothered to deal with, as an adult. Now I play a modern title and navigating the inventory becomes a major "most unfair" pain in the backside that I have no time to devote to. Yes, I know, a middle aged guy seemingly moaning about modern games... But not really. It's just that what little time I do spend with games these days always seems to get eaten away at further by a whole lot of busy work that has no real meaning or impact. I loved The Witcher III, but all that inventory stuff was just fluff, at the end of the day. I needed a tincture for all the time I spent looking at an inventory screen (rather than enjoying the story and world) that was just full of... tat... rubbish. 47 mouse testicles and several chunks of dog tallow make a fine +2 damage bonus potion that lasts until the next time I scratch my chin? Oh, piss off. I'll just play the game and some situations will be mildly more testing. Fine.
Modern BS clutter is "most unfair" to the average gamer over the age of 25 with real responsibilities.
Top 5, or 10 Penultimate Bosses that're better than the Final Boss, or should've been the Final Boss?
Most people go to church on sunday. I spend all day on the couch in my underwear waiting for Rabbid to upload a countdown.
I don't what is it with people and chilling in their underwear,but I do it every day because I feel comfortable and relaxed.
Because of 7:52 I wanted to suggest top beards in video games, but then I remembered you've already done that.
So... Top 10 moustaches in video games?
As a 90’s kid from the US, loved the clips from Oregon Trail. Have you played it Will?
Ay, Rabbidluigi vid on my birthday! Nice!
What about top five hardest video game mods or something like that? I know it seems a bit out there, but I've been playing through Skyrim Special Edition with a mod called YASH, and let me tell you, that mod makes you yearn for the simplicity of old vanilla Skyrim sometimes.
Oh sweet, I'm here on time and can actually take part in the poll.
Does anyone know the name of the game behind the countdown numbers? Thanks!
I'm having scarred flashbacks of Duck Hunt the game that caused me to utter the "F" word for the first time for obvious reasons. And similar reasons are why I had a sadistic smile on my face when that hound of trolling was leaked as an unlockable Smash 4 character.
Wait why was there a clip of Dokupon Kingdom in there? (That game is awesome btw.)
I appreciate your respect for the veterans and dead of WWI with the poppy. It's small, but it's appreciated
A suggestion that's somewhat the opposite of this countdown: Top five difficult but fair games. Originally conceived as top five difficult but fair bosses, but going for full games would be just as interesting.
Speaking as a wannabe game dev who'd be interested in making such a game, it'd be cool to see you talk about the subject.
Cuphead, dark souls, and super meat boy should all be included
Beat takeshi hates video games, yet has given his voice and face for yakuza 6, toshihiro nagoshi you mad lad
Props to you for wearing a poppy, dude. We shall remember them x
2:21 I'm probably not the only one who knows the source of that MK8 footage. Bit of a cheeky inclusion
I rented OG Mario Party once, and we had really worn down N64 sticks and those minigames where murder on the palms, which was the only way to get reasonable results.
IIRC, Nintendo got a lot of heat over that back in the day - that's also why subsequent Mario Party games didn't do anything like that.
I would say that "unfair" games are games that change the rules midstream, even if the rules are wierd and unintutive you can learn those, but if the rules change on a whim there's nothing to learn or memorize.
I'll keep suggesting it until it becomes a thing! Top 5 most interesting/interactive credit sequences!
Battle Kid is an honerable mention imo. Although it is just a fangame of I wanna be the guy, so does it even count?
100% Orange Juice takes 1 look at Mario Party and laughs. You want to ruin any and all friendships? Grab 3 future ex-friends and have the 4 of you slowly lose all sense of sanity at the madness that is cute anime characters playing the most sadistic board game known to man.
what is the ending theme? I can't remember!
I have been rinsing your videos i absolutely love your style. British. And is that chopin i hear in the banckground???
Top 10 Video Games that never die due to a Fan base.
Super Smash Bros Melee being on there most likely, Super Mario 64, and Mario Kart Wii.
as someone who (very casually) speedruns getting over it, number 4 speaks to my soul.
I think, at least as a more unconventional entry, (Forbidden) Siren would deserve a spot on a list like this. If you don't know exactly what you're doing you'll find yourself with a "wtf just happened" ending and desperately replaying section after section to find the one ridiculous measure you have to take to unlock new paths to get some more sense out of the story. (*cough* frozen towel *cough*)
I seen a video where someone beat "Get over It" from start to finish in less than 6 minutes.
I've seen people fuck themselves with a knife blade first.
I beat it in less than 20 seconds I’m a less-than-a-minute-man lol...naw, I haven’t ever heard of the game
Check the video....the WR for that game is 6min
Top 5 villain protagonists in videogames
you mean anti-heroes?
No. Player characters who aren't heroic in the slightest and fill the role of the villain.
@@Alias_Anybody Don't give him a reason to talk about Spec ops the line again.
Top five cutest game characters/video games in general? Just as a bit of a weird challenge to come up with contenders.
I don't think Beat Takeshi hates video games because he was portraying one of the main characters in Yakuza 6!
Maybe he used to hate them but eventually stopped? I mean 1986 to 2016 is a fairly big time leap, it's not unreasonable to think someone could change their mind about the medium, especially with how much games have advanced since then
For a great video on Takeshi's Challege watch the JonTron video. "I don't even think it would be possible without a built in cheat" -JonTron on the last segment of the game.