Have You Ever Thought a Game Was Rigged?

Sometimes, when I play Mario Kart, I feel like the game tries to troll you at the last second, like getting hit with an item when you're just feet from the finish line, and the opponent passes you. Maybe I just suck at it (:P), but sometimes I think games are rigged :P. Have you ever thought a game was messing with you in the same manner?

Your example is what I was going to say.

When I play RTS games against COMs sometimes, like How did he get battleships in thirty mins!?My civilization haven't found boats yet:|

I know for a fact, no matter how far ahead you are in Mario Kart 64, the comp has super powers and always catches up.

Damjat... human... want to play Damjat?

NFS games and their wonderful rubberbanded AI: I remember playing Most Wanted, opening up to a 15 second gap at times, only to have the AI 3-5 seconds behind me on the next lap.

Moreso Pokemon, though. Go to the Battle Tower/Frontier in those games and at times it seems the luck and AI are just set up for you to fail. OHKO moves have a 30% chance of landing at equal levels, even less two or three times in a row, yet I've experienced just that. Getting Guillotine'd twice in succession is not fun. Sometimes I feel like I can successfully predict when I'm going to get screwed over:

"Wow, that did some damage. But I should be fine, unless the computer scores a crit." *Very next turn* *Critical Hit!*
...ಠ_ಠ

NFS games and their wonderful rubberbanded AI: I remember playing Most Wanted, opening up to a 15 second gap at times, only to have the AI 3-5 seconds behind me on the next lap.

Moreso Pokemon, though. Go to the Battle Tower/Frontier in those games and at times it seems the luck and AI are just set up for you to fail. OHKO moves have a 30% chance of landing at equal levels, even less two or three times in a row, yet I've experienced just that. Getting Guillotine'd twice in succession is not fun. Sometimes I feel like I can successfully predict when I'm going to get screwed over:

"Wow, that did some damage. But I should be fine, unless the computer scores a crit." *Very next turn* *Critical Hit!*
...ಠ_ಠ

gpuFX16

Sports games that force you to lose some matches when your season is going too well. PES and FIFA occasionally nerf your players to do itBlack_Knight_00

I gotta go with sports games. No matter how well you do in the game, the AI always finds a way to kick your ass from start to finish. I remember playing an SNES baseball game called Extra Innings and no matter how hard I hit the ball with the bat, they opposing team would always catch the ball or throw it faster to first base before I ever got out there. So stupid!

Mario strikers on the gamecube. I swear that game gives you the most stupid goalie while the other team has the best goalie ever.

cops: the recruit.. the AI for enemy vehicles driver 2 times faster than a police cruiser and the traffic intentionally gets in your way. ambulances will literally park in the middle of the road if they have to to stop you from catching someone.

more importantly theres a car chase about 75% the way through the game involving you needing to tail someone in the ACTUAL fastest car in the game which is this suped up msucle car from space somebody builds for you and then your best friend jacks and then proceeds to do the impossibl and DRIVE THROUGH WALLS to preform a trade paint with you while your in a cruiser with your boss riding shotgun.

so at this point you have a car about 20% faster than you going 20% faster and the traffic is trying to bodyblock you at every major intersection.

its absolute cheating

Any game that I've ever played on Kinect...

...then I realised the 'controller' was just average.

My Dad used to swear NBA Jam was rigged.

Every game I have, in reality, just really sucked at playing :)

[QUOTE="Black_Knight_00"]Sports games that force you to lose some matches when your season is going too well. PES and FIFA occasionally nerf your players to do itMetamania

I gotta go with sports games. No matter how well you do in the game, the AI always finds a way to kick your ass from start to finish. I remember playing an SNES baseball game called Extra Innings and no matter how hard I hit the ball with the bat, they opposing team would always catch the ball or throw it faster to first base before I ever got out there. So stupid!

[QUOTE="Metamania"]

[QUOTE="Black_Knight_00"]Sports games that force you to lose some matches when your season is going too well. PES and FIFA occasionally nerf your players to do itBlack_Knight_00

I gotta go with sports games. No matter how well you do in the game, the AI always finds a way to kick your ass from start to finish. I remember playing an SNES baseball game called Extra Innings and no matter how hard I hit the ball with the bat, they opposing team would always catch the ball or throw it faster to first base before I ever got out there. So stupid!

Reminds me of the wrestling games back in the day, specifically the Nintendo 64 WWE games. During the season mode, you'll win like two-three easy matches in a row, no problem. But the next two or three are impossible; they'll reserve your every move and kick your ass all over the place. In other words, they literally throw the rule book right out the freaking window! It's retarded!

[QUOTE="Black_Knight_00"][QUOTE="Metamania"]

I gotta go with sports games. No matter how well you do in the game, the AI always finds a way to kick your ass from start to finish. I remember playing an SNES baseball game called Extra Innings and no matter how hard I hit the ball with the bat, they opposing team would always catch the ball or throw it faster to first base before I ever got out there. So stupid!

Metamania

Reminds me of the wrestling games back in the day, specifically the Nintendo 64 WWE games. During the season mode, you'll win like two-three easy matches in a row, no problem. But the next two or three are impossible; they'll reserve your every move and kick your ass all over the place. In other words, they literally throw the rule book right out the freaking window! It's retarded!

[QUOTE="Metamania"]

[QUOTE="Black_Knight_00"] PES has this thing where if you win too many season matches in a row it'll throw one or two impossible matches at you: your players are slow, miss passes, trip on their feet and no matter what you do you can't score: you hit the posts and crossbar, goalkeepers save impossible balls, your players miss with an open goal... it's stupid.Black_Knight_00

Reminds me of the wrestling games back in the day, specifically the Nintendo 64 WWE games. During the season mode, you'll win like two-three easy matches in a row, no problem. But the next two or three are impossible; they'll reserve your every move and kick your ass all over the place. In other words, they literally throw the rule book right out the freaking window! It's retarded!

Which is why I appreciate games that have the difficulty increase naturally on its own without being cheap at all, like in the case of Super Mario Galaxy. It gets easy, at first, but the challenge intensifies step by step and it's great. Wish more games would take more of this approach instead of just doing it in a way that pleases them the most and aggravates us gamers to no end.

I was playing bowling yesterday, and I got alot of nines, but never a strike. And my american friend totally owned everyone.

NFS: Underground. JasonDarksavior

This! worse rubber-banding ever! still an awesome series though

NBA 2K11,

It's like the computer cant miss sometimes and i botch open layups?

The ******* yellow car in RC Pro-Am.

Sports games that force you to lose some matches when your season is going too well. PES and FIFA occasionally nerf your players to do itBlack_Knight_00

play madden on all madden difficulty. its rigged. I could literally call out my turnovers before it happens. there was also a youtube video that showed all madden using wes welker pancaking julius pepper i believe, when welker was put into the LT position.

Yep.

Some of the older street fighters are too. Sometimes on the last fight, you win the first round. Then the second round you dont have a chance. Then the final round could start off pretty good, then all of a sudden the computer beats the sh*t outa you.

There was a freeway racing game I used to play on Dreamcast- Tokyo Extreme, I think. Basically you would challenge members of various freeway racing "gangs" and once you beat all the low level members the gang leaders would appear. It is freaking impossible to beat them regardless of how much money you have to buy the best car and tune it all the way up- I even saw one of the bosses crash right the hell into a metal post. Stopped dead. Then I looked into my rearview and lo and behold, THERE SHE WAS! Gaining on me, and I ended up losing the match. That was the last time I played that game.El_Zo1212o

Sometimes, when I play Mario Kart, I feel like the game tries to troll you at the last second, like getting hit with an item when you're just feet from the finish line, and the opponent passes you. Maybe I just suck at it (:P), but sometimes I think games are rigged :P. Have you ever thought a game was messing with you in the same manner?

AvatarMan96

No matter how exceedingly well you do, no matter how fast you go, the AI will catch up because that's how they're programmed.

Sometimes, when I play Mario Kart, I feel like the game tries to troll you at the last second, like getting hit with an item when you're just feet from the finish line, and the opponent passes you. Maybe I just suck at it (:P), but sometimes I think games are rigged :P. Have you ever thought a game was messing with you in the same manner?

AvatarMan96

Of course! He He. I always thought there are games that cheated or tried to at the ending moments like in earlier versions of FIFA where all of a sudden the strikers/forwards of the other team got a second wind as time winded down.

I know for a fact, no matter how far ahead you are in Mario Kart 64, the comp has super powers and always catches up.

TheHighWind

Definitely Puzzle Quest. I don't know how many times I quit that game with the words "cheating-a** computer" on my lips.ozzy811

yeah Need For Speed Hot pursuit. it can be a race of only Gallardos and yet i seem to lag behind...

Ridge Racer 3D on the hard difficulty.

Seriously, it's really obvious. No matter how well you take the corners, how many extra boosts you buy, etc. they will always remain in front of you until a certain check point.

Monopoly: Here and Nowon the PS3. The AI would always find away around my most expensive properties EVERY time, but I would always land on their expensive properties without fail. I love Monopoly, but that was just ridiculous!

Pretty much all of the Mario Sports games. They are all incredibly cheap. meetroid8

This... I remember playing Mario Baseball on the Gameboy when I was younger... One of the most frustrating games I ever played, don't think I ever won (but for some reason I kept trying).