Biggest bullshit in a video game

I mean if the DC is something like 16 and he rolls a 3, takes 10... probably pretty easy to get another +3 to the check with some kind of doodad.
I think take 10 in 5e is that the die roll counts as a 10. *Edit* @Zippocat's Revenge it was a house rule in the 5e campaign I played in. I’m currently DMing and also playing in a pathfinder 1e campaign, so I’m more familiar with Pathfinder than 5e.
 
Online-exclusive achievements are a nightmare for completionists, especially when they're tied to online services that are now defunct. There are certain medals in Pokemon Black and White 2 that can only be attained through depositing Pokemon through the GTS. Which wouldn't be too bad if it weren't for the fact that Nintendo shut down those games' GTS support a fucking eternity ago. Not even Wiimfi can bring back shit like that. The devs really should've thought that through before putting those medals in.
 
Online-exclusive achievements are a nightmare for completionists, especially when they're tied to online services that are now defunct. There are certain medals in Pokemon Black and White 2 that can only be attained through depositing Pokemon through the GTS. Which wouldn't be too bad if it weren't for the fact that Nintendo shut down those games' GTS support a fucking eternity ago. Not even Wiimfi can bring back shit like that. The devs really should've thought that through before putting those medals in.
That's going to become a much bigger problem coming up here in the future since servers won't last forever. Also, how many games will simply be unplayable thanks to all the patches being connected to servers? I don't remember the last time I got a game day one with the disc that was playable out of the box.
 
Online-exclusive achievements are a nightmare for completionists, especially when they're tied to online services that are now defunct. There are certain medals in Pokemon Black and White 2 that can only be attained through depositing Pokemon through the GTS. Which wouldn't be too bad if it weren't for the fact that Nintendo shut down those games' GTS support a fucking eternity ago. Not even Wiimfi can bring back shit like that. The devs really should've thought that through before putting those medals in.
So many times this. I won't do another playthrough of Final Fantasy 15 ever since they fucked up the Comrades achievements and it requires you to offline downgrade your game and be forced to do some fuckery that requires your PC to act as a faux server so the game will load you into an offline version of the Comrades game of a very specific patch number so you can get all the grinding done and get the proper achievements, then you need to do it all again to progress in the game itself and redo the whole server set up to get the remaining achievements, and then finally once you're done you then log into the current comrades game so you get everything to transfer over to live.

Xenobalde Chronicles X has online achievements that are defunct since they removed the wii network, so if they ever port the game they better not have online bullshit and make it all offline.
 
I HATE when they remove things due to being "a limited time event" in games.

For example: Final Fantasy 15 and their chocomog carnival. I got into FF15 last year out of curiosity and I got excited hearing about minigames since I LOVE those things and at the time I was playing Crisis Core and was in love with the whole optional Materia hunt missions. Yea you can contribute it to me being super late as fuck but I found out that whole event was just gone.

I'm fine with limited time events in gatcha's, but I dunno things like the chocomog carnival or the assassins' creed thing I wish they were like "ok we're not gonna update the game anymore, let's just throw this shit back in the game why not". Hell, I remember reading bout some dude on reddit keeping his PS4 on since the event in order to not LOOSE IT for good. Stuff like that miffs me I guess.
 
I HATE when they remove things due to being "a limited time event" in games.
They did that in Satisfactory this past Christmas with the FICSMAS event -- they added an entire research tree, had literal Christmas presents falling from the sky on parachutes, Christmas trees that produced presents and spit them out onto conveyors, and a complete set of new items, recipes and buildings to play with, culminating in being able to build a big-ass Christmas tree (5+ stories tall) and place decorations like snowmen, snow blowers, candy canes and even useful constructions like power cables with working Christmas lights. They even included an advent calendar and allowed the event to run through the third week of January for people who missed the event in December. It was far more fun than it had any right to be. Christmas trees, candy canes and snowballs as far as the eye could see.

Then, at the end of the event, it all got turned off. The advent calendar and the entire research tree vanished, the Christmas trees stopped producing presents (and presents stopped falling from the sky), all the new recipes vanished from the machines' recipe selectors and all the new buildings and decorations vanished from the build tool. Existing decorations you'd placed were unaffected and still present, and any machines that still had one of the new recipes selected continued to operate normally, but it still fucking sucked because eventually that big "carefully-planned" section of your factory dedicated to FICSMAS stuff would run out of presents (since they weren't being produced anymore) and if you dismantled or reconfigured those machines, they lost access to the FICSMAS recipes forever. And you can never have enough goddamn snowmen in your factory.

Fortunately, they left the actual assets and functionality in the game, and a tiny little mod was put together pretty quickly that restored all of it again to no ill effect. So at least the devs didn't patch the game to remove the assets entirely.
 
Since i'm a lowkey kingdom hearts high

ICE CREAM BEAT IS FUCKING BULLSHIT. Birth By Sleep is my all time fave of the entries in the bullshit that is Kingdom Hearts, but GOD. FUCK. ICE CREAM BEAT. This is the PS4 version btw but i'm sure the PSP version of the minigame sucks too,

Honestly, disney town is a shit show but I have a fondness for it so I guess in a way i'm a masochists'. Terra's ridge racing is also bullshit especially on the last map since if you DON'T start your vehicle early, you bump into one thing, or you don't take that shortcut that'll launch you you are essentially fucked there is no way to recover you need to redo it.

Aqua's fruit ball, it sucks but that's probably because I don't know how to play it well and I hand it off to my brother who sucks like I do but still wins so whatever,

Ice cream beat however? NONE of us can beat that shit. Maybe it's because i'm not a rhythm gamer, or the music doesn't exactly match up with the claps, but it's just so b a d. It's just so bad I don't know how they let it out like "Mmm good enough!"
Some people say it's easier to mute it, or memorize the song, yea that's not going to get you any COOL ranking you need to advance to the next song, on top of doing the harder version for the reward. Thankfully Disney town is optional but if you want whatever prize you get for all clearing it GOOD LUCK.

Only pro's is seeing the wayfinder trio sit in that weird high chair thing like "where am I why am I fucking doing this please I want to go home".
 
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Since i'm a lowkey kingdom hearts high

ICE CREAM BEAT IS FUCKING BULLSHIT. Birth By Sleep is my all time fave of the entries in the bullshit that is Kingdom Hearts, but GOD. FUCK. ICE CREAM BEAT. This is the PS4 version btw but i'm sure the PSP version of the minigame sucks too,

Honestly, disney town is a shit show but I have a fondness for it so I guess in a way i'm a masochists'. Terra's ridge racing is also bullshit especially on the last map since if you DON'T start your vehicle early, you bump into one thing, or you don't take that shortcut that'll launch you you are essentially fucked there is no way to recover you need to redo it.

Aqua's fruit ball, it sucks but that's probably because I don't know how to play it well and I hand it off to my brother who sucks like I do but still wins so whatever,

Ice cream beat however? NONE of us can beat that shit. Maybe it's because i'm not a rhythm gamer, or the music doesn't exactly match up with the claps, but it's just so b a d. It's just so bad I don't know how they let it out like "Mmm good enough!"
Some people say it's easier to mute it, or memorize the song, yea that's not going to get you any COOL ranking you need to advance to the next song, on top of doing the harder version for the reward. Thankfully Disney town is optional but if you want whatever prize you get for all clearing it GOOD LUCK.

Only pro's is seeing the wayfinder trio sit in that weird high chair thing like "where am I why am I fucking doing this please I want to go home".
BBS is a high point for the series in a lot of ways but it's like devs have to always throw in that one thing that utterly mars the entire experience
 
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BBS is a high point for the series in a lot of ways but it's like devs have to always throw in that one thing that utterly mars the entire experience
Disney town and knowing if your fighting a secret boss as Terra is a disaster. I love Terra, but god the only time i've seen him win against the mysterious figure, I wonder how many controllers that dude went through. :semperfidelis:
 
One from Kirby's Dream Land 3, of all games.
Every level has a specific mission/gimmick that you must complete if you want to 100% the game.

There's one level where you have to find pieces to assemble a R.O.B. The level takes place in a maze like area, with 5 sub-areas that you can explore, with a piece hidden in each area. The problem is, you have to get the pieces in a specific order. Get one piece before you were supposed to get another, and you have to restart the level if you want to 100% the game.

Small potatoes compared to other things in this thread, but annoying for a game like this.
 
Since i'm a lowkey kingdom hearts high

ICE CREAM BEAT IS FUCKING BULLSHIT. Birth By Sleep is my all time fave of the entries in the bullshit that is Kingdom Hearts, but GOD. FUCK. ICE CREAM BEAT. This is the PS4 version btw but i'm sure the PSP version of the minigame sucks too,

Honestly, disney town is a shit show but I have a fondness for it so I guess in a way i'm a masochists'. Terra's ridge racing is also bullshit especially on the last map since if you DON'T start your vehicle early, you bump into one thing, or you don't take that shortcut that'll launch you you are essentially fucked there is no way to recover you need to redo it.

Aqua's fruit ball, it sucks but that's probably because I don't know how to play it well and I hand it off to my brother who sucks like I do but still wins so whatever,

Ice cream beat however? NONE of us can beat that shit. Maybe it's because i'm not a rhythm gamer, or the music doesn't exactly match up with the claps, but it's just so b a d. It's just so bad I don't know how they let it out like "Mmm good enough!"
Some people say it's easier to mute it, or memorize the song, yea that's not going to get you any COOL ranking you need to advance to the next song, on top of doing the harder version for the reward. Thankfully Disney town is optional but if you want whatever prize you get for all clearing it GOOD LUCK.

Only pro's is seeing the wayfinder trio sit in that weird high chair thing like "where am I why am I fucking doing this please I want to go home".
I grew up with Birth By Sleep, and I always dreaded going to Disney Town as Ven, solely because of that fucking minigame, and I usually love rhythm games. I can handle the other minigames, to the point that Fruit Ball is my favorite of the three, but Ice Cream Beat infuriates me to no end. In a way, it's almost a relief to see other people despise playing it.
 
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I grew up with Birth By Sleep, and I always dreaded going to Disney Town as Ven, solely because of that fucking minigame, and I usually love rhythm games. I can handle the other minigames, to the point that Fruit Ball is my favorite of the three, but Ice Cream Beat infuriates me to no end. In a way, it's almost a relief to see other people despise playing it.
For me Terra's ridge racing is my fave, but it pisses me off I have to google Ven's ending if you beat ice cream beat since I can't do it to save my life. Which in the long run kinda sours the whole thing since you HAVE to beat all the games in town I think if you want to see the dream festival ending (whoever goes last to the thing). I think I might be wrong, but at this point those damn ducks need to be put on a spit and roasted.
 
I grew up with Birth By Sleep, and I always dreaded going to Disney Town as Ven, solely because of that fucking minigame, and I usually love rhythm games. I can handle the other minigames, to the point that Fruit Ball is my favorite of the three, but Ice Cream Beat infuriates me to no end. In a way, it's almost a relief to see other people despise playing it.
Christ, I just looked it up on YouTube and it's so cluttered and full of moving stuff that it's really hard to follow, that it immediately carries on after you do your bit instead of a small 2-3 second break so you can refocus just makes it look frantic.
 
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Also, for a new personal piece of gaming bullshit... Frostarm Lawachurls in Genshin Impact, especially the bastards in Dragonspine. Though I could just be weak, as my only two Pyros are Amber (who i already suck at due to only using a laptop trackpad) and Xiangling, and Noelle is my only claymore user, as of right now.
 
Crusader Kings 2 lets you buy armies with prestige when you're a tribe. These armies aren't weak either as the soldiers you buy are significantly better than the levy troops you can raise.

When you transition to a normal Kingdom that can build cities and an economy you keep the prestige armies you already built and they still reinforce while only costing prestige.

It's so comically overpowered that it's just funny, especially when you're an unreformed pagan that can raid for money.
 
BBS is a high point for the series in a lot of ways but it's like devs have to always throw in that one thing that utterly mars the entire experience

I've never played it but I'm reminded of the jump rope in Final Fantasy 9. I'm about as good at that as I am in real jump rope. (:_(
 
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