[General Discussion] Cheap, cheating games. ARGALJKAGE RUBBERBANDING BULLSHIT

Originally Posted by Soluzar

Don't you mean the whole Dead or Alive series? The boss fights in those games are incredibly cheap, which I would find annoying if I didn't already hate the games anyway.

I dunno, the boss fights in the first couple of DoA games were cheap but you could sometimes win them by spamming the same move over and over at them. I never finished Wu-Tang Taste the Pain though. I filled pretty much every character's chamber board up with not too much difficulty but could never beat the motherfucker in the straw hat (Second to last boss). The one time I almost did it, getting him down to his last energy bar having only lost one myself, he suddenly went apeshit and basically fucked me with one long combo and endless cheap power moves. I used to love that game but damn was it unbeatable.

I never had a problem with NFS Underground though. I always felt that if you lost that it was because you'd fucked uop by hitting something, not because the computer was using magic catch-up powers.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by OZZcln

Monster hunter......and any wyvern on it. Anyone who has played ,I'm sure you've experienced the "toenail of death" from azure rathalos. That moment when he's turning around and a combination of dirt hitting your eyes and his toenail grazing you, that results in one hit ko. Stupid. I think that is one of the cheapest games ever at moments. I think every monster on there, can at any given time, decide they want you dead and cheat to do so. Like knock you down, wait when you're just about to get up, then attack and do that until you are dead. There is also those cheap combos you can get stuck with if you are unprepared: Gravios' Roar+beam combo. Rajang punch combo (I've had him completely miss me with the punches,then he decided to hit the ground at the end of it to stun me then one hit kill me) Anything involving Rathian's backflip and a wall behind you....the list can go on and on.

Again I think you're confusing bad gameplay mechanics with cheating. Proper cheating is where the computer completely ignores the limitations placed on you by the physics model or whatever in order to win. Guile doing insta-sonic booms is cheating as you have to charge them up when you do them yourself. Guile blocking every move you make wouldn't be cheating technically as you could do that yourself, assuming you had the reactions of a ninja master...

How ya doing, buddy?

GRID Racing Driver has some pretty heavy rubber banding going on. If you're out front, the AI cars tend to keep up-ish never really falling more than a couple of seconds behind. I believe this is entirely intentional though to keep the races interesting. GRID is all about racing other cars, not beating lap times per-se and the flashback feature means if you fuck up a corner you can always get another go at it. Also, the rubber banding is turned off completely on savage, extreme and ninja difficulty so if you're a decent driver you can win those races fair and square by quite a margin. Essentially the harder difficulties are for racing purists who want the challenge of other drivers taking a proper racing line and the easier settings are for people who want to see all the cars in the race get smashed up. The only time the rubber-banding becomes annoying is on the Le-Mans 24 races where because most of the track is so fast, if you fuck up, you're quickly left behind and the rubber-banding is pretty much one way only and you can never catch up. The Le Mans races can in fact be easier on the higher skill levels because you can lose the chasing pack, giving you more room for error. The downside is that you get fewer Flashbacks so mistakes can end in race over, rather than losing a few places.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.