Games with poor balance?

Hi :)

I am doing some more research for my college work, and I want to know what games have poor balance (for example unfair against the player) and what causes this in the game, I can't seem to be able to think of any unfortunately.

I would greatly appreciate all answers I recieve, thank you. :)

Modern Warfare 2

Commando perk: gives you the ability to kill a person with one stab that teleports you to your target

One Man Army: infinite ammo and resources

Killstreaks: encourages camping and gives new players no chance to fight back

Nuke: ends the game...

Sniper rifles: kill you with one hit from great distances

Free-For-All: enemies spawn behind you ALL THE TIME

and much more

The deathclaws in Fallout New Vegas were out of whack. I was at level 31, could kill just about anything in the game with ease, and yet those things were still almost indestructible. Luckily they'd quite often get stuck running into a wall or something (or get stuck up in midair) so you could pummel them with bullets and they couldn't fight back.

A recent awful game I rented:- Bodycount, It's unbalanced random mess of a game.

Heroes of Might and Magic V

The elves Master Hunters are exageratedly strong.

The Warlocs have the best Monsters between all the races.

Modern Warfare 2

Commando perk: gives you the ability to kill a person with one stab that teleports you to your target

One Man Army: infinite ammo and resources

Killstreaks: encourages camping and gives new players no chance to fight back

Nuke: ends the game...

Sniper rifles: kill you with one hit from great distances

Free-For-All: enemies spawn behind you ALL THE TIME

and much more

Lox_Cropek

Beat me to it. Although I will say that no mess of a game has ever been so much fun. I still love MW2.

fighting games there is always that one character that someone will ruin like in mk it's ermac with the constant bouncing and juggleing or the same combo over and or or projectile spams same goes for street fighter it's sooooooo bad.

every cod ever made

screw the perks there is always i mean always that one retarded gun thats a smg ak74u rapid fire honestly?it's always a smg

think that about sums it up

World of Warcraft PVPtrastamad03

As far as PVPbalancing goes, MAG is a great example. Poor balancing stings especially hard here, because all your equipment and stage choicesare tied to a specific one of three factions, and you won't be able to switch anytime soon. I could go on and on about every minute mistake in MAG's balancing, but I'll make it simple: the SVER faction had heinously overpowered maps and weapons at launch, and with that level of victory and hype, it brought new players in by droves. The player discrepancy in SVER's favor turned things even worse, and even after a eighteen months and multiple balancing patches no other faction has stood a chance.

battlefield bad company 2.. gd medic !!!

MW2

Mortal Kombat, half the rostes has nothing to do on the higher tier characters...like try to beat Kung Lao with Barakadoubalfa

There are probably a lot more old-generation games that meet your criteria. Simply because there were no checkpoints or save games back then. At best, you had just a few lives and maybe a few continues.

Mike Tyson's Punch Out ... The only people I knew who could beat this were older teenage kids who had spent hours and hours practising.

Contra ... "bullets" flying all over the screen and you don't have a life-bar. One hit and you're gone.

Ninga Gaiden (NES) ... and the current generation ones are still very hard.

Battletoads ... All I can remember of Battletoads is the "surfboard" levels because I spent so much time on them.

World of Warcraft PVPtrastamad03

There are probably a lot more old-generation games that meet your criteria. Simply because there were no checkpoints or save games back then. At best, you had just a few lives and maybe a few continues.

Mike Tyson's Punch Out ... The only people I knew who could beat this were older teenage kids who had spent hours and hours practising.

Contra ... "bullets" flying all over the screen and you don't have a life-bar. One hit and you're gone.

Ninga Gaiden (NES) ... and the current generation ones are still very hard.

Battletoads ... All I can remember of Battletoads is the "surfboard" levels because I spent so much time on them.

supernator13

The games you listed are all hard (Battletoads was insanely difficult), but I wouldn't call any of them unbalanced. They could all be mastered with practice.

There are probably a lot more old-generation games that meet your criteria. Simply because there were no checkpoints or save games back then. At best, you had just a few lives and maybe a few continues.

Mike Tyson's Punch Out ... The only people I knew who could beat this were older teenage kids who had spent hours and hours practising.

Contra ... "bullets" flying all over the screen and you don't have a life-bar. One hit and you're gone.

Ninga Gaiden (NES) ... and the current generation ones are still very hard.

Battletoads ... All I can remember of Battletoads is the "surfboard" levels because I spent so much time on them.

supernator13

Feel free to mention old games :) It will show how 'seasoned' I am, although I'm only really seasoned as far back as the PS1, hardly know anything from the first ever games generations, but the more I learn the better and for every who reads this too. :)

For some reason... I can't help it... I see this image in my mind... it's unbearable...

Marvel vs Capcom 2 and Street Fighter 3 Third Strike

The few minutes I played of Dead Space 2 multiplayer was pretty unbalanced. When you play as engineers you own everybody. When you switch sides to the necromorphs you basically have no chance to get a kill unless you get lucky.

The deathclaws in Fallout New Vegas were out of whack. I was at level 31, could kill just about anything in the game with ease, and yet those things were still almost indestructible. Luckily they'd quite often get stuck running into a wall or something (or get stuck up in midair) so you could pummel them with bullets and they couldn't fight back.

Jackc8

Anything old school like Contra or Battletoads yes.

Any COD campaign on Veteran drove me to the point of madness.

As did Gears and Gears 2 on Insane a few times.

And yes regarding the Deathclaws, they were so overpowered it was silly.

Achievements on FF XIII were too hard too.

Snipers in Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and no scopers in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Extremely unfair.

[QUOTE="brucecambell"]I can give you the absolute best example at least in terms of multiplayer. KILLSTREAKS. Many people do not understand how this works. The killstreak is a mechanic designed to award dominating players with more tools for which they can further dominate. So lets say me or my team is dominating you & your team . . . . is it then fair to give us more weapons, tools, abilites to further our dominance? No. The Killstreak throws all balance of a game out of the window. Killstreaks are the biggest game breaking mechanic ever to be created. All streaks are bad but even deathstreaks make more sense since they give the losing players some help but killstreaks are the biggest game breakers out there Some developers have realized this. DICE for example understands this & this is why they have not implemented killstreaks in BF. You can test this for youselves, not just in cod but in others as well. I don't play cod anymore but i do play MOH which demonstrates this issue in the same way cod does. Many times i will join matches with bad players only to get pushed back into our spawn, have constant airstrikes dropped on us & then from those kills comes more airstrikes/killstreaks which further pushes us back & further leaves us no chance of getting out because every time we move we just get killstreaks dropped on our heads which again, gives them more tools to dominate with every kill. Its a never ending cycle. If mike tyson was beating up a little kid it would be unfair if god sent him down an attack chopper, airstrikes, a chainsaw, attack dogs, a bat, a knife, a sword, a machine gun & a nuke . . . . would it not? That is the beauty of the killstreaks & the beauty of how broken MP is for games with mechanics like this. I could get into the whole perk thing as well but lets save that for another time.sirkibble2

That's what deathstreaks are for...

Take no notice, i'm certain this guy hates any form of MP with a passion.

[QUOTE="sirkibble2"][QUOTE="brucecambell"]I can give you the absolute best example at least in terms of multiplayer. KILLSTREAKS. Many people do not understand how this works. The killstreak is a mechanic designed to award dominating players with more tools for which they can further dominate. So lets say me or my team is dominating you & your team . . . . is it then fair to give us more weapons, tools, abilites to further our dominance? No. The Killstreak throws all balance of a game out of the window. Killstreaks are the biggest game breaking mechanic ever to be created. All streaks are bad but even deathstreaks make more sense since they give the losing players some help but killstreaks are the biggest game breakers out there Some developers have realized this. DICE for example understands this & this is why they have not implemented killstreaks in BF. You can test this for youselves, not just in cod but in others as well. I don't play cod anymore but i do play MOH which demonstrates this issue in the same way cod does. Many times i will join matches with bad players only to get pushed back into our spawn, have constant airstrikes dropped on us & then from those kills comes more airstrikes/killstreaks which further pushes us back & further leaves us no chance of getting out because every time we move we just get killstreaks dropped on our heads which again, gives them more tools to dominate with every kill. Its a never ending cycle. If mike tyson was beating up a little kid it would be unfair if god sent him down an attack chopper, airstrikes, a chainsaw, attack dogs, a bat, a knife, a sword, a machine gun & a nuke . . . . would it not? That is the beauty of the killstreaks & the beauty of how broken MP is for games with mechanics like this. I could get into the whole perk thing as well but lets save that for another time.Ilovegames1992

That's what deathstreaks are for...

Take no notice, i'm certain this guy hates any form of MP with a passion.

Dead Space 2 MP is completely unbalanced and not fun at all

Modern Warfare 2

Commando perk: gives you the ability to kill a person with one stab that teleports you to your target

One Man Army: infinite ammo and resources

Killstreaks: encourages camping and gives new players no chance to fight back

Nuke: ends the game...

Sniper rifles: kill you with one hit from great distances

Free-For-All: enemies spawn behind you ALL THE TIME

and much more

Lox_Cropek

[QUOTE="Ilovegames1992"]

[QUOTE="sirkibble2"]

That's what deathstreaks are for... brucecambell

Take no notice, i'm certain this guy hates any form of MP with a passion.

MP is fun and is just as important as SP, adding longevity and the ability to play with others. Its really not that bad or broken or whatever. I've played COD countless times but i dont take it seriously enough to worry about this.