Unwinnable Video Games [Bumbles McFumbles]
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
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The temptation to make the video cut off before a proper ending was palpable.
Balan appears at 12:08 for everyone just looking for that.
Phew, I was at 12:04 and was getting worried
i know this video isn't about them, but the funniest and cruelest example of an *intentionally* unwinnable game is the original arcade version of SMASH T.V. that promised players that if you did well enough you'd eventually unlock a "pleasure dome" that wasn't even in the game.
this made people so mad that the developers eventually had to relent and in later versions you could eventually unlock the pleasure dome.
EDIT: HOMESTAR MENTIONED
My favorite is the 'impossible' difficulty in the Penn & Teller game where you get obliterated in the very beginning to get destroyed and the game says "Impossible doesn't mean very difficult... impossible is eating the sun"
Funny as it is, the difference is that that is very much intentional.
Pfft, I could eat the sun, no problem.
The Bubble Bobble one is the most offensive to me. Like how do you scew you screw up in localization that you somehow delete the boss?!
"why do you play video games? For fu- NO"
Dr. Fun came out for a second there
All games are winnable, silly!
Just punch the cardrige, never seen one fight back
this guy gets it
You haven’t watched avgn
Time to prove them wrong
(I will never begin playing them)
Last time I was this early, the Roman Empire hadn't fell yet
Hey Dio have you seen my dog?
The Roman empire falls? Do we not do spoiler warnings anymore?
First thing that comes to mind is the SNES Lion King. While completable, it was made ungodly hard to make in store demos basically uncompletable so folks wouldn't beat it in store or from a rental, they had to buy it.
Remember when games just stopped you from playing the final level when you played on easy mode? Yeah I don’t miss that but that was better than a glitch in just cause 2 that stopped me from 100% it without a community patch
If we want to get technical, most pokemon games (especially older ones) are unable to be 100%ed since, without glitches, trading, and/or going to event distributions, some pokemon are simply unobtainable, you cannot catch them all
Waiter waiter!
More Jack rants about things he recently discovered please!
Trogdor being unbeatable is so in-character, bc Trogdor has a few appearances in various HR adventure games and he is ALSO completely unbeatable there-even when the goal is to beat him. Part of me wonders if that was on purpose
And when i say unbeatable, it's not by shoddy programming, the game basically goes "you stupid fucker, NOBODY can beat Trogdor"
Heck, in-universe, the only way Strong Bad is able to beat Trogdor in the Peasant's Quest section of the final episodes of Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People is effectively by cheating with an overpowered version of himself and characters with specific traits collected in the rest of the episode
It’s also perfectly in character for Strong Bad to make a level in a video game that the player can’t beat (probably followed by him using cheat codes to beat the stage and claim he’s better than you)
I have a story that marginally counts.
Jack, you mention undiagnosed bugs preventing completion? While it was more damage over time, my GameCube copy of Tak and the Power of Juju had a scratch so bad it would crash at the post-*final boss* cutscene and prevent me from getting the actual credit of finishing the game.
24:33
*Calls number.
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That last comment gave me an idea: release a game in an unusable state, release a day one patch for it, wait for people to get to an intentionally unbeatable part of the patch and have them figure out they have to temporarily downgrade the game to the unusable version that works in that section now to beat it
Bumle Fumle
Mortal Kombat 1 & 2 have unwinnable arcade modes. The AI gets to cheat more and more as you win, up to the point where the AI has 0-frame reversals with priority over every move you can make.
32:13 not calling DMA design as the developers of Kid Kirby was kinda strange
I figured this video would be about games where you couldn’t “win” because the last level is an intentional forced loss for story purposes (like halo reach) but this is cool too
Almost at episode 100! Where’s the time gone?
Any hints on what the next episode will be?
Technicality time!
Even tho Halo Reach has an ending, it’s made clear from the beginning there is no winning, you will die, and Reach will fall.
Only lasting as long as you can so hopefully others can escape.
There are only 2 games I can think of for this, specifically for 100 percent.
First is Monster Madness: Battle For Suburbia on Xbox 360.
Its original unpatched version is buggy out the ass and has issues with not only enemy spawns, but also item spawns on harder difficulties. As in Horror and Madness mode have multiple miniboss enemies in level 2 that, if you end up killing the wrong one, the key won't spawn because it was held by the first one you killed. It had to be held by the last one killed in order to continue!
Even after the bug patch, it has problems with the final level on any difficulty. In Madness Mode... almost impossible.
You need to gather tons of spare parts on floating platforms to get a part grade. Find either Carrie's secret sword or the nerd's secret hammer. If you tried to find either Andy or Jennifer's secret weapon to up the grade, it'd break the game and spawn inside tons of stairs out of your grasp respectively.
And the other? Harvest Moon DS's early copies
These versions are so buggy, they can either ruin your save file or prevent you from marrying the secret bachelorettes because of multiple issues.
For Witch Princess and Harvest Goddess, Buckwheet Rice is unobtainable, so you can't get their requirements. For Leia, if you return her to the ocean and accidentally let a storm happen, she'll be swept away and never appear again.
And for Hera, she'd either never wake up in her room in the mines, or she'd never accept any gifts.
But the best bug... everyone on the title screen will turn into variants of Leia the mermaid. This one funny video showed that each of them were different regional variants.
Ya got Galarian Leia, Hisuian Leia, Alolan, Paldean, even a corrupted Missingno Leia XD!
"There are two permanent states in life: winning and death" is my new motto. Thanks Jack
Right now my copy of Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 2 is unbeatable because the game won't load sword Trunks.
Not Kid Trunks, not melee Trunks, just the sword one. It did load a few times in the Overworld and in the pre battle cutseen but I can't battle him at all. I can't even view him in the model viewer.
I don't think this happens to ANYONE ELSE and I kinda hope so because I find it funny that the guy on the box art can't be used in the game
Great video, and I wouldn't mind a follow-up at some point. I know you had it at the beginning, but why didn't you mention Sphinx the Cursed Mummy? Also, did you ever hear about the computer version of a certain TMNT game?
Tokyo street racing Gran Turismo? Sign. Me. Up!
A game with a title like that is something i'd usually automatically skip over when browsing used games, but you've sold me on it pretty well.
Is he subbed to nitro rad, I get the feeling that he’s seen the silicone valley and star tropics videos.
Justice for Bub and Bob, they didn’t deserve having one of their games become unbeatable.
Because sometimes winning is not everything
heresy!!
Shoutouts to Age of Empires 2, where there was an achievement where you had to pre-order the game.
Unequivocally, a bumbles w. God, i love your content, Jack.
bummel funnel
Nice video jack
Hooray
Is it bad that I watch Jack make new videos not just to enjoy top quality entertainment and education that you can only find on the Bumbles McFumbles UA-cam channel (thank you for the tip Jack), but also to see who might be considered for Bumbles McRumbles?
I can 29:18 relate in just cause 3 I was not able to grab one of the collectibles EVER
So I never got the ability to complete it
I’ve heard a bout a funny one of these recently. Minecraft Apple TV edition. (Yet it’s real). In the last released version there are 3 achievements that are bugged and can’t be gotten. And due to how AppleTV’s OS works you cannot fix it at all… if you logged into the game with your Microsoft account it will sit there missing. 3 achievements forever.
Fun fact about the Silicon Valley entry: They corrected the programming for the faucet trophy in the PS1 version.
…The problem is that you would need to play the PS1 version. And if you know how vast the difference between the N64 and PS1 versions of Glover is, then you already know how not totally worth it PS1 Silicon Valley would be to play.
I wasn't expecting it to be mentioned, but my personal experience with an unwinnable game (aside from Just Cause 2 completion) is Dexter's Lab Deesaster strikes. There's a machine in the house levels you cannot fix because to unlock the shelf blocking it, you need to fix the sink. Which due to a programming error (likely reusing the keycard programming) removes the wrench from your inventory. The machine requires all your tools to fix, and you need 100% to actually finish the game. That one damn machine makes the original printing of the game unbeatable, and because my mom refused to look up a walkthrough or even let me do it, I've ended up with unfinished business.
Somewhat related, I think that, due to NA TVs running faster than JP/EU ones, the second Canary Mary fight in Banjo Tooie ended up requiring obscenely fast button mashing to beat. It is beatable, barely, but I've never even come close lol
Prinny Presents NIS Classics Volume 3 has a pretty infamous case. In La Pucelle Ragnarok, a map has trouble loading and crashes the game. This happens right after an escort mission where you're escorting *enemy units* so it's pretty noticeable because every time you wanted to try something you had to replay the map. And nothing worked!
Nothing... except waiting for the patch. And it only fixed *this* crash, not all the ones that could randomly happen.
36:49 I love how insane this sounds out of context in today's gaming climate.
Bumbles back at it with an interesting topic of games that were forgotten to be tested to see if they were able to run correctly also it's so shocking to see him mention stuff like Tales of & Xenoblade! Even crazier that Burninate was a Homestar reference! That's something new I learned!
Brand new favorite video!!! Absolutely love this topic and we're glad that you of all people covered it!!!
Bro spends 1500 hours on a game like just cause 2 yet says other open world games aren't worth the time. I call shenanigans
Spider-Man not crashing through the window properly sounds like it would have been a gag the game used in the What-If mode it had where a lot of things changed to be sillier or weirder.
I can't believe Strong Bad personally came to the house of every Guitar Hero 2 player just to punch them in the solar plexus and call them stinky losers.
Wait, I thought the Roger Rabbit phone sex line was a gag by AVGN! It was REAL? That bit is even funnier knowing that, now.
Man it sure is fun winning video games, I sure do hope there’s no games that I can’t win at.
WHAT?!?
Interesting use of sound effects, they’re a nice touch. Are those Dreamcast sounds?
I will never get tired of the yugioh card transistions being on theme with the video.
The trogdor jumpscare got me like no other
Video one of politely asking for the yu go oh iceberg to continue
Honey wake up, Bumbles McFumbles uploaded.
Watched a short and the thumbnail switched im scared
JACK'S IN THE HOUSE LIKE CARPET LADIES AND GENTS
i won all of these last night, sorry to tell you this jack
Secret Agent Clank is winnable I swear
Last time i was tis early, i wasnt
TOKYO XTREME RACER MENTIONED!!!!!
11:18 I cheated... I'm not srry
28:56 o no I own that one
banger video oomfie
I’m finally here early
No more heroes
Pizza
Time to buy copies of Bubble Bobble Revolution and Tales of Eternia to fuel my gambling addiction!
LET'S GO GAMBLING
(bugged copy)
AW DANG IT
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AW DANG IT
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AW DANG IT
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AW DANG IT
Funny comment
holy shit that IS a funny comment!
And the most unwinnable game of all:
Capitalism