Mass Effect 3: People hated the original 3 ending choices so much that one of the most popular ways to vent frustration was to shoot the starchild with your infinite ammo gun. Then when the extended cut DLC came out, people who tried shooting the reaper's boss were treated to a new ending right out of an annoyed DM's playbook: rocks fall, everyone dies.
@@leevio And not just that, spending 3 FUCKING games making choices only for the ending to be "A, B or C" regardless of what you've done for 66 to 140 hours prior (based on Howlongtobeat).
@@leevio I honestly still think the players were the ones being children here. Anyone who's grown up long enough to watch story choices become a thing is aware of the limitations and knows that the ending will still inevitably be A, B, or C, regardless of what you've done for 66 to 140 hours prior. Let's face it, games with more endings than that are often the ones that are less story involved and ultimately less worth playing enough to get all endings. Games like White Day, for instance. Great game, but hardly worth playing 11 or however many times. Mass Effect only having so many endings made perfect sense. And compare it to Telltale. Practically every Telltale game is nothing BUT making choices, yet you still arrive at similar endings anyway. It's fine. I'd think gamers of all people should be the best crowd for appreciating the journey more than the destination.
Lisa: The Painful has a ton of these. From a guy you can recruit into your party but ONLY after he tells you his entire life story in a minutes-long monologue, to a rope you can climb up a massive cliff only to be met with a statue of a hand flipping you off.
Suikoden has one of these also. There's a guy you need to recruit in the game not only for the best ending but for an in-story mission; it actually requires you to sit through a minute long TEXT rant. Problem is you screw up if you hit the advance button even once. Have fun with that.
You could make the entire video about Harada. Latest wind up was insisting for ages that Heihachi was 100% dead this time, only to reveal him as DLC a few weeks ago
Wasn’t Jun also dead? Not saying is the case cause I’m a bit of out of the loop on Tekken, but… couldn’t they add a dead character just to keep it on the roster but not lore accurate?
@@DragmaKerp Jun was never officially dead, just "Missing". Heihachi though was confirmed and even stated to be "Completely Dead" (Harada's own words BTW). To their credit, they even replayed the exact segment where he said that after showing the trailer at EVO so it confirms they've been well in on this. Troll of the year...or the decade.
When I saw Tomb Raider on the list I initially thought it was about the "nude Lara" cheat, where lots of people claimed it was in one of the games, then in the sequel it became a "real" cheat that just blew her up when you input it.
Serious Sam was almost a game designed to be nothing but one long troll against anyone that played it, but the best example of that was having health or anmo pickups that would give you one point of health or a single bullet, and then immediately spawn a huge wave of strong enemies to fight. And this happened multiple times per level.
Not helping is that the series hasn't Finished its Fight just yet. The closest we got to that was Serious Sam II, and we probably know how that game ended up being.
The Doubull trouble achievement in "Legendary" where they give you an achievement for fighting two minotaurs trapped in a room with you, and its only worth 1 Gamerscore. They then follow it up with an achievement apologizing for the pun. They got me pretty good the first time it happened to me
what about that "next gen" generic brown & gray shooter that when you press start button it gives you an achievement called "finish what you started" worth 1G and give you another 9G after clearing the game on very hard?
Proud to have earned both achievements legitimately. Currently working on the Ultra-Deluxe edition achievement Super Go Outside: Don't play The Stanley Parable for ten years. Only 8 more years to go!
Haven't payed attention to Tekken since T3, but aside from a panda, some of the characters were: a cyber ninja, an android, animated training dummy, tiny cartoon dinosaur and Paul Phoenix' bonkers haircut (yes, I'm counting it as a separate character- I mean, look at it). So, it makes me very happy seeing Mr. Harada trolling players who claim that, compared to this line-up of fighters, a pop-star is somehow unrealistic:D
😂 Lol, exactly! Why can't people just be honest and say they hate anything that references pop culture? But they know that if they say this it will be clear that they're bitter for no reason. So they have no choice but to conjure up pathetically ridiculous reasons for disliking things. Even though it makes no sense, people like this would rather spout nonsensical, easily disproven statements than admit that they have no sensible/legitimate reasons to hate things.
@@Ch3k0v I'm willing to place money on that it was nothing to do with pop culture, as much as it was to do with the character being a woman, if there is anything that the vocal gamers hate it's women, in their games or playing their games or not playing their games, or just daring to exist
@@NicoleTheDodo Well that's even worse. But there are plenty of female characters in Tekken, so I don't know why her being a woman would be an issue. Unless she's one woman too many 😆
@@NicoleTheDodo Fair point, and sadly, quite accurate- there's also the fact that she's not only a woman but a... for a lack of better term, a "girlish type"? Tekken 3 had Xiaoyu, who I think was supposed to be 16 and wore bangles the size of rings of Saturn- somehow I can't recall anyone getting angry that she could beat up a Lucha wrestler back then:D Dunno, either "gamers" got worse, or just the angry ones got louder
I will add to the trollness of Tomb Raider 1 where they put TWO large medipacks behind a locked door in the Atlantis level. There is a lever next to the door that you'd think would open the door? Nope, instead it releases a flow of lava that would chase you down the corridor. Ultimate troll.
That single-space raised gap in the original TMNT for the NES. You think you're supposed to jump it like everything else and that causes you to fall. Instead, you just keep walking and you'll cross it. AVGN even brings it up his review.
more trollish is that one pizza that's impossible to get. If you played through, then you know the one. . .it was also featured in that AVGN review and in the AVGN Advetures game, but in AVGN game, it's actually possible to get
The truly monstrous thing about the Tomb Raider one is that this’d be a minor troll today, but there wasn’t much of an internet to speak of back then. So rather than look it up, find out the truth, and move on in minutes, you had nothing but like speculation cause there was little in the way of message boards to correct you
To be fair to Miyazaki, he was actually telling us that the pendant did nothing, in that he said the best starting gifts were the "pendant or nothing at all". As these two options gave no benefit whereas every other starting gift had some benefit, (the old witch's ring enabling you to speak with the Daughter of Chaos being the most subtle).
@@marhawkman303 As a character you say nothing, but you initiate interactions with the majority of the other characters and can understand them, regardless of your starting gift. Without the ring however you cannot understand the daughter of chaos which is needed to be able to open up trade with her maggot egg servant nearby, along with one other specific condition, allowing access to some high level pyromancer spells.
@@MsOpportunity68 The way characters react to you in Dark Souls indicates that, while the game does not have voicelines for the character you play, the NPCs do not see the hero as silent. Thus, you are saying things... but the game doesn't show what.
SEGA recently trolled lots of fans when they announced a Shadow skin for Sonic Superstars, which was met with a lot of buzz from the fandom after asking for ages for Shadow to be in the game. Not only was this potentially a new character for the game, but it was also the first time that Shadow - a character invented after the modern designs - would get a 'classic' design, potentially opening the doors for others to follow. The it released and its literally Sonic in a Shadow onesie, like the blue blur had skinned the 'edgehog alive.
Seeing the Stanley Parabol on the list instantly made me remember the new ending added in Stanley Parabol Ultra Deluxe. Where as a response to the place in the original, where you escape the narrator by falling into hole without being killed or having a way back to the rest of the game. In which the ending added includes a very sarcastic song going. "Good job, you did it," several times.
What about how blizzard trolled people with a "sequel" to overwatch even though it was literally the same game but with more microtransactions and they kept using the PvE to promote the game long after they had internally decided to scrap it entirely. Classic jape, blizzard.
Made me think of GameFreak and Pokemon, actually. For years fans had speculated and wished for a Dunsparce evolution, wondering what sorta cool creature it'd be. Well... we got Dudunsparce.
shoulda been dundunDUNsparce, ya know like that musical sting that plays when a "twist" is revealed. dun dun DUN! . . . actually, i never knew this even existed, thought you guys made it up, but i just googled it just now and Bulbapedia confirms it and it also says that dunsparce has a 1/100 chance of evolving into a dudunsparce that has 3 segments instead of 2, so technically, would that mean the 3 segment one is dundundunsparce?
I think you mean the Haunter-for-Medicham trade in DPP, which was holding an Everstone to prevent you from getting a Gengar. I will take Dudunsparce ANY DAY over that trolly BS.
"Part of the point of the game is that you feel confused and alone in a scary world." Part of the reason I don't play Dark Souls games. I already feel overwhelmed and underpowered in my daily life, why would I want to come home from work and _intentionally_ play games that make me feel even more so?
I don't think you're wrong, but I do think that's one reason I found it so strangely comforting. That and the metaphor parallels with depression, it spoke to me in a "oh my god, someone gets it" sort of way.
Dark Souls give you an outlet to turn those exact feelings on their head in a way that your daily life might not. That's a potential reason you might want to play a game that feels like that.
It seems that jokes need a "Joke" tag from now on. I thought it was pretty obvious personally, there was no need to point out that the game is still in development in the replies
Dudunsparce. People had been wanting an evolution to Dunsparce pretty much since Pokemon Gold and Silver, and people have made countless awesome fakemon designs for an evolution. 23 years later in Scarlet and Violet, Dunsparce FINALLY gets an evolution- only for it to be the exact same thing but bigger and with an extra segment (or two if you're really lucky). I'm a more recent fan of the series and Dunsparce never stood out to me so I personally think Dudunsparce is super funny, but I know a lot of people were really upset about it.
it's also more in line with Dunsparce's inspiration, the Tsuchinoko, a mythical creature which basically does nothing special and is literally just an abnormally fat snake
If you want an example of Harada's great sense of humor, look up "Ono X Harada." The creator of Tekken and creator of Street Fighter face each other in a series of challenges and it is one of my favorite things ever.
Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn You are a naive player who wishes to embark on a new challenge: getting a Zodiac Weapon. At the time these are the best weapons in the game, and have sick particle effects to boot. So you start the grind. And oh boy what a grind it is. I can't stress it enough. Even to this day the Zodiac Weapons are infamously tedious to get, and that's despite the requirements having been lowered over time. You have to find items scattered across the map, fight unique bosses, complete world events for a random chance at a drop, complete lists and lists of specific dungeons, world events and tasks in a specific order so you are forced into a snails pace, spend copious amounts of money in items to infuse your weapon, grind dungeons ad-nauseum to charge up your weapon... And eventually, you will be greeted by the following message when it is time to upgrade your weapon to the next step: "Please be warned the chance of success for turning a relic weapon nexus into materia is 1.4%. Your relic will be lost if the process fails" The message is lying of course. There is no chance the process fails. The devs are just trolling you, going off of the fact that low odds were a common occurrence in steps prior, and a common gripe the playerbase had with the relic quest. The message is still there, though it only shows up on your first Zodiac relic. If you get another one it will not show. Fool me twice and all that I guess.
12:58 - And then the creators of Borderlands 2 did the exact same thing in the Tiny Tina DLC. There is a quest giver named Mr. Miz who shows up in the Lair of Infinite Agony and offers the player a chance to buy an item called the “Mysterious Amulet” while saying things like, “If I could choose any item to have with me, it would be this amulet” and “The secret lies in Fandir’s grasp” (which does make reference to the flavor text on a certain weapon) but is ultimately trolling the player into buying a useless item. The entire community went absolutely crazy trying to decipher a use or synergy for the amulet for what seemed like a long time.
TheIndieStone's Project Zomboid has a troll built into its tutorial. Make it to the end and it has you press a key "For the cure.". The key is actually bound to the Shout ability, with the popup coming up to say "There is no cure" and summoning a large wave of zombies. Oddly? It IS possible to beat the tutorial with a lot of patience and knowledge of game mechanics, but damn, what a god tier troll.
Star Trek Online has two I can think of, which arose due to the age of the game with new content being added over the last several years - "Where's Sulu?" and "Is Kurland there?" The first deals with an NPC that needed to be interacted with during one of the first missions during the first year of the game's operation - Akira Sulu. Players would continually ask in the zone chat "Where's Sulu?", since it wasn't immediately obvious to them at the time. It became a meme in the game, with people spamming the question over and over. Starting in the second anniversary event, the character Q could be asked "Where's Sulu?" and he would mock you for bringing up the old meme. For the second, one of the characters calls out 'Is... Is Kurland there?' in the Task Force Operation (TFO) 'Forged by Fire' - calling back to one of the missions released several years prior where the character of James Kurland had one voice line repeated every time his character contacted yours - "Kurland here." The players kept making fun of it, so it was kind of a troll-ish move to have the statement explicitly lampooned in a character voice line.
Where's Sulu? used to be... over 10 years ago... a legit question. Some exploration-based mission wanted you to go find him... wherever. then it got cut. Like you say.. the mission got cut BEFORE the second anniversary.... IIRC they're up to 14 now. "Kurland here." is partly because the character is voiced by a developer... and due to signing a deal with the Film Actor's Guild in Hollywood to get cheaper voice acting from Star Trek actors.... they can't record any new lines for Kurland. But they CAN re-use ad-infinitum what they already have. Which kind of feels like trolling the actor union honestly....
Brand new one today in Helldivers 2. After several times missing out on the anti-tank mines, the devs gave us a super-hard major order that grants them when we fail
The DMC one actually made me chuckle when I played the game. As for the Tekken one, well, I wasn't aware of it, but well done Harada trolling people who were probably trolls who had neither knowledge nor interest in the series.
I had assumed it was a situation where the achievement had like a .01% of popping on any action in the game. The real explanation is next-level sneakiness.
In Gothic 1, there's a character called Mud. He's a troll character alright, but if you have him stick around long enough, he actually helps you get into one of the factions. Which I only found out earlier this year after having played the game FOR 23 YEARS, and I think many other players still don't know, because Mud is SO ANNOYING no one ever had him stick around. I think the fact only came out a couple of years ago when someone played a challenge run (the challenge being having Mud stick around for the entire game). So, yeah. Gothic 1 would be my number 1 pick. Honorable mention has to go to any character you click multiple times in Warcraft 3. Special honorable mentions go to the human builders, who - when clicked enough times - will say "My lord, we've found a witch! May we burn her?" as well as "What? You're the king? I didn't elect you!". Also, some of the Trolls (ha!) ask if you wanna buy cigarrettes.
How did not a single Rare game make the list? Unreachable chocolate, pieces of cheese that meant nothing, Stop and Swap... Trolling players was practically Rare's trademark!
Well, the Stop and Swap thing was more a legitimate plan that got kicked in the danglies by hardware revisions... (specifically, later model N64s had the memory retention that they were planning to use reduced to a second or so, nowhere near long enough to swap games and, not wanting to release a game with a feature that may or may not work for a given player, they replaced it with the... functional version we actually got.) Not arguing the rest of your comment, but that was an actual plan that just got punched in the gut between start and finish.
Maybe they decided that was too low hanging of fruit. Or they hoped it would be mentioned for the commentor edition. Or they just found 7 before they got around to Rare games
The layout of SNES Bowser Castle 2. Not only does this track feel terrible to play on, but Nintendo literally trolled us with the layout. Seriously, this track does something no other track has the guts to do: this track actively tries to sabotage the race with its dead end.
Have to mention that Kingdom Heart 3 had been highly awaited for YEARS with many jokes about the weird names given to games beforehand like the final chapter prologue - and then after playing the beginning you realise you've just played Kingdom Hearts 2.9 and are only now starting 3 😂
"Kingdom Hearts 3... D happened. And that was when God started to test my patience." -SuperButterBuns, "Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance For Beginners"
@@Rusty84CVI was originally going to ignore this and write it off as a differing opinion to mine, but the fact that you have posted this same reply under multiple comments solely for engagement turns this into spam, for which I can justifiably insult you for, you invisible no name desperate for human connection.
When Takuza: Like a Dragon was revealed on April 1st, the first trailers revealed it to be like a JRPG based upon Dragonquest. It was meant as a troll. The thing is, fans LOVED the idea. So the dev's VERY QUICKLY remade the entire game as a JRPG.
My favorite unachievable achievement is "Level Four Revive Materia" in Hate Plus. Entire articles have been written about the fans' desperate attempts to find a method as mythical as the one it's named after.
Metal Gear Solid 2. All the pre-release content had you playing as Solid Snake. The full game had that too... for only the first bit. After that you played an an entirely new character.
It was funny to see how Ninja Theory kept trying to take an antagonistic approach to fans for Dante's original design only to make a story that ultimately ended up as how Dante got white hair.
Well the thing about Mega Man is, there were multiple projects planned for 2012, and the Bad Box Art Mega Man was intended as a tongue-in-cheek joke that would follow up the aformentioned proper titles that would have come out. But then those projects, MegaMan Online, MegaMan Legends 3 and MegaMan Universe respectively, all got canned while Bad Box Art Mega Man remained in development. It was less of a deliberate troll, and more of an unfortunate happenstance that made it seem like the devs were mocking fans.
By cancelling that many projects though (& eventually leaving classic fans in the lurch, & now even launching poor quality classic style NFTs), they already were/are mocking fans anyway. 😥 But yeah, the spitting on us after triple-crapping on us was indeed accidental. 😅
I love how in Tekken 8 Eddy's profile its stated that he actually did raid G-Corp headquarters but was defeated and went into hiding. So, it's canon that Lucky Chloe beat Eddy and made him her back-up dancer, complete with frilly dress (if the lore is to be believed).
No SNES Gradius 3? If you use the famous Konami code it makes your ship blow up. But not right away, mind you. You have to pause the game to use the code and it it shows you receive all the upgrades on the pause screen, even lets you play for a few seconds with all the powerups before…boom.
FFXIV players remember the troll in A Realm Reborn's relic weapon quest. A comically low percent to succeed in forging your weapon, and if you fail it's destroyed? I still think about it lol
Funny enough, I didn't know it was a gag. I was only working on it because the idea behind the weapon was too cool not to do. A friend had to tell me it's a gag before I went through with it.
As I've said before, the Pendant in Dark Souls actually is one of the more useful starting items as you can trade it with the crow for a Covenant item. Especially now that the online is almost entirely dead, it shaves a little bit of the grinding off of getting the "Prayer of a Maiden" achievement.
@@marhawkman303 and not get a gengar. Not really worth it. Plus, been a while, but isn't this around the point the games throw TONS of cash at you, because of cosmetics? 1500 pokebucks or whatever when you'll already hit 6 digits of cash naturally, as long as you don't buy all the clothes, is fucking pointless.
Came here to make a similar comment and found that you already got here. Hopefully enough people will dislike it or get bored of it to make AI "art" die off
The point of art is to make someone feel a certain way, or to explore certain ideas. Given your reaction... it would seem it has accomplished the task of making you feel. If the specific goal was to make you feel insecure, unsafe, or angry, then it is objectively good art. Jokes aside... art has always incorporated new tools over time. Some will use it, pretentious douchebags will pretend that refusing to use it makes them better than other people, and life moves on. It's fundamentally no different than the advent of digital art, or the invention of photography, or the discovery of superior dyes or paints. Lighten up, you're making a big deal out of something that frankly isn't a big deal.
@@dontmisunderstand6041 People are getting their art stolen. They didn't consent to having it used to train AI. It's wrong to take other's work, and it's still wrong if someone uses a computer to do it. Please stop waxing philosophical over theft.
@@SyndicateOperative AI is a predictive model and doesn't generate art by itself; it can't make something from nothing. It uses a pool of images of dubious consent of usage to do so. You can look up more about it and the impact it has on artists
The Stanley Parable trolled me with the Tuesday achievement. Do you know how hard it is to accumulate 24 hours on a PlayStation that will shut down with inactivity. It also doesn't tell you how long you've been playing on a tuesday, so it could be minutes hours or who knows how long before you actually get the achievement. And yes I do know about the set the clock back or head for Tuesday trick, and I still haven't got 100% Platinum because of that achievement😂😢😡🤬
Devil May Cry 5 "the best ending we could have asked for" unceremoniously roll credits and abruptly boots you back to the main menu, on the plus size, that does count as finishing the game and unlocks some goodies like bloody palace and Dante must die, that needs a full play-through to unlock otherwise
Baldur's Gate 1/2: There are NPCs in the games called Noober and Neeber. When you get close to them they force interfact with the player character and start talking random nonsense to you (the former is worse) and will continue to do so for at least 20 times. If you tolerate them and don't kill them (You can do so without rep loss) you actually get rewarded for it.
I still feel trolled over the FF7 remake we did get. Those whispers of fate... fifty quid for a remake which didn't even follow the same storyline. And it was only Midgar!
Tell me about it. They made a remake of FF7 that doesn't use turn-based mechanics, is an elseworld version of FF7 which plays like the inbred lovechild of FF15 & FF13, is part of a trilogy (which SQEX never marketed it as such) spreading over two console generations and parts of the game are only available in Hard Mode, which is only available AFTER beating the game on normal. And what's worse is that when SQEX got called out for not making the remake turn-based, they just responded that gamers can just play the original, ignoring the fact that the English translation is awful (even by 90's standards) and full of garbage dialogue, and apparently it's even worse for other European languages. There's a reason gamers have been asking for a remake of FF7 since Square started remaking FF games. And SQEX have been using that to troll consumers with Advent Children, with the Compilation Final Fantasy 7 games a pointless tech demo for over two decades.
No Man's Sky "Omega"?! How the heck long ago did you record this?? That was expedition 12 back in March! Now the newest update is Worlds (part I) and we are in expedition 14 fighting alien bugs and building a battle mech with a flamethrower like Starship Troopers!😆 They rebuilt some worlds building and redesigned the clouds, weather and water so it moves and looks more realistic! So good!
Speaking of unreachable items ,Elden ring has multiple locations where there are unreachable items that just tease you just out of reach few placed of note: the crumbling cliff right passed the grafted scion at the start of the game had a nascent butterfly fluttering just out of reach but is unobtainable since the cliff crumbles too fast or the room before malenia with the giant aeonia bloom, it has multiple aeonia butterflies fluttering around but you'll never reach the ones flying near the ceiling, around the top of the bloom and in the center of the room, there are other locations but those come to mind first
The Tomb Raider health pack thing reminds me: In Elden Ring, once you get to the end of the Haligtree, there's a bunch of Aeonian Butterflies by a giant flower right before Malenia's boss room. I'm almost completely sure it's impossible to reach the ones above the flower itself, no matter how you try.
Valve scheduled a game reveal for the 3rd day of E3, at 3:33 PM, in what they called the "Trilogy Show", and for the first two days of the event had dozens of Valve employees walking around in Half-life shirts. The game they announced was Portal 2.
One memorable troll for me is collecting the Korok Seeds in Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom. Apparently deciding that 900 wasn't enough, they added another hundred to the sequel. The reward for finding them all in each? A large Korok "seed". It is hinted at in the first game what the seeds actually are, and while the reward is useless, the seeds themselves do have a use in upgrading inventory slots.
@mattyt1961 It was the published "nude code" that was an April Fools joke that "totally worked" in TR1 that they actually made work but only caused Lara to explode in TR2.
I can see them make Lucky Chloe the next character revealed immediately after the dramatic return of the previously "Fully Dead" troll. To give Eddy more PTSD from characters returning in Tekken.
In the most recent Destiny 2 Dungeon (Warlord's Ruin) there are loot boxes as you'd expect, except some of them are booby trapped and will kill you if you open them.
In ds1 you can trade the pendant for some item that I dont remember which, on the birds that you trade stuff with, and I think equiping it lets you talk with the spider sis she usualy doesn't talk to you only while wearing it...or maybe that is another pendant....I'm sure you can trade it though
The way I understood Miyazaki's comment was that he was so good at the game (as one of the developers), he didn't need the "helping hand" of a starting item (either something useless or "nothing at all"), not that the Pendant had a secret purpose. Most everything in the games are explained or hinted at, but people are too ready to jump to conclusions/conspiracies.
The greatest troll in gaming history is when developers announce a remaster, and then make it significantly worse than the original. See silent hill and GTA for masterclasses on that one.
Wait, hold up, you got Dark Souls on this list, but chose the Pendant over the Calamity Ring? A ring you get only after beating a big dragon boss in the DLC, that has the wonderful effect of doubling all damage you take and nothing else.
here is one of my favortie troll in a games. in Zero time dilemma their a sense where you have to roll 3 dice and have them all land on 1. a 1/212 chance by the way. I'm thinking this will take me dozens of attempts to get lucky but no, your guaranteed to get it on the thrid try no matter what.
Honestly, it would probably have gone over with the (presumably intended) reaction of "ha ha funni joke" if it hadn't followed the mentioned cancellations (and also the cancellation of the Mega Man X MMO, but by all accounts that one wasn't actually on Capcom...). As it was, it was the equivalent of having a full meal taken from under your nose and then being given two slices of hard, dry bread with the thinnest coating of butter physically possible by the person who has just thrown your meal into the garbage.
@@michaelmann7816 Hehe, For die hard MM fans I can imaginge. To me MM is a series that had its peak during the 90's. The rest is a nice bonus (Like 9, 10 and 11)
For the comments edition: "Beat Saber" in Beat Saber is the easiest map in the game on Expert, then the moment you jump to Expert+ it throws notes all around the place and manages to become harder than anything else in the first three OSTs.
Mass Effect 3: People hated the original 3 ending choices so much that one of the most popular ways to vent frustration was to shoot the starchild with your infinite ammo gun.
Then when the extended cut DLC came out, people who tried shooting the reaper's boss were treated to a new ending right out of an annoyed DM's playbook: rocks fall, everyone dies.
You say it like that's not the best ending - take Bioware down with you.
That was just Bioware being salty for getting called out to Railroading the players where everything they did before didnt matter at all.
@@leevio And not just that, spending 3 FUCKING games making choices only for the ending to be "A, B or C" regardless of what you've done for 66 to 140 hours prior (based on Howlongtobeat).
I don't want to get started... Don't make me go back there.
But good example.
@@leevio I honestly still think the players were the ones being children here. Anyone who's grown up long enough to watch story choices become a thing is aware of the limitations and knows that the ending will still inevitably be A, B, or C, regardless of what you've done for 66 to 140 hours prior. Let's face it, games with more endings than that are often the ones that are less story involved and ultimately less worth playing enough to get all endings. Games like White Day, for instance. Great game, but hardly worth playing 11 or however many times. Mass Effect only having so many endings made perfect sense. And compare it to Telltale. Practically every Telltale game is nothing BUT making choices, yet you still arrive at similar endings anyway. It's fine. I'd think gamers of all people should be the best crowd for appreciating the journey more than the destination.
Lisa: The Painful has a ton of these. From a guy you can recruit into your party but ONLY after he tells you his entire life story in a minutes-long monologue, to a rope you can climb up a massive cliff only to be met with a statue of a hand flipping you off.
Suikoden has one of these also. There's a guy you need to recruit in the game not only for the best ending but for an in-story mission; it actually requires you to sit through a minute long TEXT rant. Problem is you screw up if you hit the advance button even once.
Have fun with that.
The best part of the LISA one is that the cliff is so high, the game won't let you jump off and you have to climb all the way down again.
You could make the entire video about Harada. Latest wind up was insisting for ages that Heihachi was 100% dead this time, only to reveal him as DLC a few weeks ago
yeah it was so surprising but also not at the same time, like you knew it would happen but you are still doubting yourself😂
@@sparkydeltorro he was so adamant about Heihachi being dead too 😂
Wasn’t Jun also dead?
Not saying is the case cause I’m a bit of out of the loop on Tekken, but… couldn’t they add a dead character just to keep it on the roster but not lore accurate?
@@DragmaKerp Jun was never officially dead, just "Missing". Heihachi though was confirmed and even stated to be "Completely Dead" (Harada's own words BTW). To their credit, they even replayed the exact segment where he said that after showing the trailer at EVO so it confirms they've been well in on this. Troll of the year...or the decade.
@@DirgeTV Well then... she took her damn time to reappear... jeez
I assumed that the next step of the Tomb Raider troll medipack escalation would be to make the unreachable medipack not a pick-uppable item
And then, one that bites you for a couple of chunks of health when you try. We shall dub this the mimipack.
When I saw Tomb Raider on the list I initially thought it was about the "nude Lara" cheat, where lots of people claimed it was in one of the games, then in the sequel it became a "real" cheat that just blew her up when you input it.
Put the medipack on a platform without collision so you always fall before collecting it
Or when you pick it up, you _lose_ a large medipack from your inventory.
@@BenMarcWilliams Ah, like a Rupoor for medipacks. A Medipoor, if you will.
Serious Sam was almost a game designed to be nothing but one long troll against anyone that played it, but the best example of that was having health or anmo pickups that would give you one point of health or a single bullet, and then immediately spawn a huge wave of strong enemies to fight. And this happened multiple times per level.
Not helping is that the series hasn't Finished its Fight just yet. The closest we got to that was Serious Sam II, and we probably know how that game ended up being.
The Doubull trouble achievement in "Legendary" where they give you an achievement for fighting two minotaurs trapped in a room with you, and its only worth 1 Gamerscore. They then follow it up with an achievement apologizing for the pun.
They got me pretty good the first time it happened to me
I loved legendary!
what about that "next gen" generic brown & gray shooter that when you press start button it gives you an achievement called "finish what you started" worth 1G and give you another 9G after clearing the game on very hard?
Dude I suggested that exact thing on a previous video, it was exactly my brand of shitty humour in both cases.
@@Eevolved32 I was surprised by how much I loved that game. I expected it to be super generic. And in a way it was, yet also still incredibly fun.
Stanley Parable had more achievements that were clearly trolling, like "Don't play for 5 years" and "Play for the entirety of a Tuesday."
The console release upped that achievement to be 10 years.
“You can’t jump”
Shame they didn't put that much effort into actually making a good game
Proud to have earned both achievements legitimately. Currently working on the Ultra-Deluxe edition achievement Super Go Outside: Don't play The Stanley Parable for ten years. Only 8 more years to go!
@@Rusty84CV "Me not understand game so game not good."
OK, kiddo.
Haven't payed attention to Tekken since T3, but aside from a panda, some of the characters were: a cyber ninja, an android, animated training dummy, tiny cartoon dinosaur and Paul Phoenix' bonkers haircut (yes, I'm counting it as a separate character- I mean, look at it). So, it makes me very happy seeing Mr. Harada trolling players who claim that, compared to this line-up of fighters, a pop-star is somehow unrealistic:D
😂 Lol, exactly! Why can't people just be honest and say they hate anything that references pop culture? But they know that if they say this it will be clear that they're bitter for no reason. So they have no choice but to conjure up pathetically ridiculous reasons for disliking things. Even though it makes no sense, people like this would rather spout nonsensical, easily disproven statements than admit that they have no sensible/legitimate reasons to hate things.
@@Ch3k0v I'm willing to place money on that it was nothing to do with pop culture, as much as it was to do with the character being a woman, if there is anything that the vocal gamers hate it's women, in their games or playing their games or not playing their games, or just daring to exist
@@NicoleTheDodo Well that's even worse. But there are plenty of female characters in Tekken, so I don't know why her being a woman would be an issue. Unless she's one woman too many 😆
@@Ch3k0vIt's because she's the kind of annoying cutesy girl they incel over plus the fact she was good in the meta
@@NicoleTheDodo Fair point, and sadly, quite accurate- there's also the fact that she's not only a woman but a... for a lack of better term, a "girlish type"? Tekken 3 had Xiaoyu, who I think was supposed to be 16 and wore bangles the size of rings of Saturn- somehow I can't recall anyone getting angry that she could beat up a Lucha wrestler back then:D
Dunno, either "gamers" got worse, or just the angry ones got louder
I will add to the trollness of Tomb Raider 1 where they put TWO large medipacks behind a locked door in the Atlantis level. There is a lever next to the door that you'd think would open the door? Nope, instead it releases a flow of lava that would chase you down the corridor. Ultimate troll.
That single-space raised gap in the original TMNT for the NES. You think you're supposed to jump it like everything else and that causes you to fall. Instead, you just keep walking and you'll cross it. AVGN even brings it up his review.
A leap of faith then.
@@michaelandreipalon359more like a step of faith
more trollish is that one pizza that's impossible to get. If you played through, then you know the one. . .it was also featured in that AVGN review and in the AVGN Advetures game, but in AVGN game, it's actually possible to get
The truly monstrous thing about the Tomb Raider one is that this’d be a minor troll today, but there wasn’t much of an internet to speak of back then. So rather than look it up, find out the truth, and move on in minutes, you had nothing but like speculation cause there was little in the way of message boards to correct you
that tomb raider troll just unlocked a core memory i had DEEPLY buried of HOURS trying to get it
My favorite trollings are elaborate doors that you can't actually open. Traverse Town hotel in Kingdom Hearts 1 says "hello"
i think the "micro tube top" on Dante is just a leather strap part of his pistols holsters
That makes sense, I always assumed it was holding his coat together at the front.
Same thing really
Shhhh, let them dream...
My favorite thing about the Lucky Chloe drama is the implication that dancers kick with any less force than a donkey.
To be fair to Miyazaki, he was actually telling us that the pendant did nothing, in that he said the best starting gifts were the "pendant or nothing at all". As these two options gave no benefit whereas every other starting gift had some benefit, (the old witch's ring enabling you to speak with the Daughter of Chaos being the most subtle).
I'd say Witch's ring is the most useful as... AFAIK you CAN't talk otherwise.
@@marhawkman303 As a character you say nothing, but you initiate interactions with the majority of the other characters and can understand them, regardless of your starting gift.
Without the ring however you cannot understand the daughter of chaos which is needed to be able to open up trade with her maggot egg servant nearby, along with one other specific condition, allowing access to some high level pyromancer spells.
@@MsOpportunity68 The way characters react to you in Dark Souls indicates that, while the game does not have voicelines for the character you play, the NPCs do not see the hero as silent. Thus, you are saying things... but the game doesn't show what.
exactly. If his second choice was 'nothing', rather than something useful, the first choice was probably close to useless, as well.
19:05 Jane pointing at nothing in particular and hoping that she doesn't sound crazy 😅
SEGA recently trolled lots of fans when they announced a Shadow skin for Sonic Superstars, which was met with a lot of buzz from the fandom after asking for ages for Shadow to be in the game. Not only was this potentially a new character for the game, but it was also the first time that Shadow - a character invented after the modern designs - would get a 'classic' design, potentially opening the doors for others to follow.
The it released and its literally Sonic in a Shadow onesie, like the blue blur had skinned the 'edgehog alive.
He clearly did. It explains why they seperated Classic Sonic and Modern Sonic.
Seeing the Stanley Parabol on the list instantly made me remember the new ending added in Stanley Parabol Ultra Deluxe. Where as a response to the place in the original, where you escape the narrator by falling into hole without being killed or having a way back to the rest of the game. In which the ending added includes a very sarcastic song going. "Good job, you did it," several times.
I love that song. Wish it was on Spotify.
Bottom of the TV Room ending?
Deltarune chapter two. When Susie finally learns healing magic from Ralsei, it’s an available skill. For 100 tp, it heals TWO HEALTH.
Laughed out LOUD when I chose it for the first time. I wasn't even pissed, it was just batshit hilarious.
It's even called Ultimate Healing!!! 😂
What about how blizzard trolled people with a "sequel" to overwatch even though it was literally the same game but with more microtransactions and they kept using the PvE to promote the game long after they had internally decided to scrap it entirely. Classic jape, blizzard.
Not to mention they're bringing back 6v6, so there's a good chance we just go back to Overwatch 1 but now with a battle pass lol.
That's not trolling, that's just predatory business practice.
"dO YoU gUyS NoT hAvE pHoNeS?" ~Blizzard probably
This is supposed to be fun. Let's not bring up depressing stuff
I mean, it was basically Activision at that point, and that is the Activision way.
Outro music so good it had to play twice
I thought that was a troll
These Devs live by the words of American philosopher William Frederick Durst;
Keep Trollin', Trollin', Trollin', Trollin'.
Harada took the chainsaw line a bit too seriously
Made me think of GameFreak and Pokemon, actually. For years fans had speculated and wished for a Dunsparce evolution, wondering what sorta cool creature it'd be.
Well... we got Dudunsparce.
Dunsparce was already perfect so there was only one way to go with the design: *Even more Dunsparce*
jokes on you: DUNDUNsparce is cool af~
shoulda been dundunDUNsparce, ya know like that musical sting that plays when a "twist" is revealed. dun dun DUN!
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actually, i never knew this even existed, thought you guys made it up, but i just googled it just now and Bulbapedia confirms it and it also says that dunsparce has a 1/100 chance of evolving into a dudunsparce that has 3 segments instead of 2, so technically, would that mean the 3 segment one is dundundunsparce?
I think you mean the Haunter-for-Medicham trade in DPP, which was holding an Everstone to prevent you from getting a Gengar.
I will take Dudunsparce ANY DAY over that trolly BS.
Missed opportunity to not put any link at all at the end, after Jane announced her "favorite video of all time, really, I'm not joking, pinky swear"
Yeah, I was thinking they were doing a fake-out outro after only 6 entries or something 😂
"Part of the point of the game is that you feel confused and alone in a scary world."
Part of the reason I don't play Dark Souls games. I already feel overwhelmed and underpowered in my daily life, why would I want to come home from work and _intentionally_ play games that make me feel even more so?
This is a very valid take. As someone else who doesn't like the Souls genre.
I don't think you're wrong, but I do think that's one reason I found it so strangely comforting. That and the metaphor parallels with depression, it spoke to me in a "oh my god, someone gets it" sort of way.
I was half expecting someone to either tell you to cry about it or just git gud to be honest when anyone mentions dark souls
@@korhol2065 heck, I'm a die-hard fan and I'm still afraid of that any time I express a Souls opinion 😮💨
Dark Souls give you an outlet to turn those exact feelings on their head in a way that your daily life might not. That's a potential reason you might want to play a game that feels like that.
Hollow Knight: the devs announced Silksong and then ghosted us
Except it's still being developed.
@@ChristophBrinkmann no sheet
It's coming.
It seems that jokes need a "Joke" tag from now on. I thought it was pretty obvious personally, there was no need to point out that the game is still in development in the replies
@@Mindflood18 you sound easily upset.
These games should have their own genre:
Troll Playing Games
Boo. Boo to Michael _Lindell specifically
Thousands? Give the fans a little credit, Andy -- they had probably written *billions* of words of fanfics by then.
Dudunsparce. People had been wanting an evolution to Dunsparce pretty much since Pokemon Gold and Silver, and people have made countless awesome fakemon designs for an evolution. 23 years later in Scarlet and Violet, Dunsparce FINALLY gets an evolution- only for it to be the exact same thing but bigger and with an extra segment (or two if you're really lucky). I'm a more recent fan of the series and Dunsparce never stood out to me so I personally think Dudunsparce is super funny, but I know a lot of people were really upset about it.
it's also more in line with Dunsparce's inspiration, the Tsuchinoko, a mythical creature which basically does nothing special and is literally just an abnormally fat snake
The box art Mega Man troll is like a precursor to the “Ugly Sonic” character appearance in that Chip&Dale movie 😂
If you want an example of Harada's great sense of humor, look up "Ono X Harada." The creator of Tekken and creator of Street Fighter face each other in a series of challenges and it is one of my favorite things ever.
Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn
You are a naive player who wishes to embark on a new challenge: getting a Zodiac Weapon. At the time these are the best weapons in the game, and have sick particle effects to boot. So you start the grind.
And oh boy what a grind it is. I can't stress it enough. Even to this day the Zodiac Weapons are infamously tedious to get, and that's despite the requirements having been lowered over time. You have to find items scattered across the map, fight unique bosses, complete world events for a random chance at a drop, complete lists and lists of specific dungeons, world events and tasks in a specific order so you are forced into a snails pace, spend copious amounts of money in items to infuse your weapon, grind dungeons ad-nauseum to charge up your weapon...
And eventually, you will be greeted by the following message when it is time to upgrade your weapon to the next step:
"Please be warned the chance of success for turning a relic weapon nexus into materia is 1.4%. Your relic will be lost if the process fails"
The message is lying of course. There is no chance the process fails. The devs are just trolling you, going off of the fact that low odds were a common occurrence in steps prior, and a common gripe the playerbase had with the relic quest.
The message is still there, though it only shows up on your first Zodiac relic. If you get another one it will not show. Fool me twice and all that I guess.
And they're not even the best weapons by a long shot anymore. Just there for bragging rights.
sorry ive been scrolling for a few minutes now and your the only final fantasy quote
mind blown Aerith has no history practically before final fantasy 7
that game named almost 30 million people
12:58 - And then the creators of Borderlands 2 did the exact same thing in the Tiny Tina DLC.
There is a quest giver named Mr. Miz who shows up in the Lair of Infinite Agony and offers the player a chance to buy an item called the “Mysterious Amulet” while saying things like, “If I could choose any item to have with me, it would be this amulet” and “The secret lies in Fandir’s grasp” (which does make reference to the flavor text on a certain weapon) but is ultimately trolling the player into buying a useless item.
The entire community went absolutely crazy trying to decipher a use or synergy for the amulet for what seemed like a long time.
TheIndieStone's Project Zomboid has a troll built into its tutorial. Make it to the end and it has you press a key "For the cure.". The key is actually bound to the Shout ability, with the popup coming up to say "There is no cure" and summoning a large wave of zombies. Oddly? It IS possible to beat the tutorial with a lot of patience and knowledge of game mechanics, but damn, what a god tier troll.
Memories abound of a medi-pack never collected, and for no real reason, I feel a little better. 😃
Star Trek Online has two I can think of, which arose due to the age of the game with new content being added over the last several years - "Where's Sulu?" and "Is Kurland there?"
The first deals with an NPC that needed to be interacted with during one of the first missions during the first year of the game's operation - Akira Sulu. Players would continually ask in the zone chat "Where's Sulu?", since it wasn't immediately obvious to them at the time. It became a meme in the game, with people spamming the question over and over. Starting in the second anniversary event, the character Q could be asked "Where's Sulu?" and he would mock you for bringing up the old meme.
For the second, one of the characters calls out 'Is... Is Kurland there?' in the Task Force Operation (TFO) 'Forged by Fire' - calling back to one of the missions released several years prior where the character of James Kurland had one voice line repeated every time his character contacted yours - "Kurland here." The players kept making fun of it, so it was kind of a troll-ish move to have the statement explicitly lampooned in a character voice line.
Where's Sulu? used to be... over 10 years ago... a legit question. Some exploration-based mission wanted you to go find him... wherever. then it got cut. Like you say.. the mission got cut BEFORE the second anniversary.... IIRC they're up to 14 now.
"Kurland here." is partly because the character is voiced by a developer... and due to signing a deal with the Film Actor's Guild in Hollywood to get cheaper voice acting from Star Trek actors.... they can't record any new lines for Kurland. But they CAN re-use ad-infinitum what they already have. Which kind of feels like trolling the actor union honestly....
This has big Mankrik's Wife energy.
Brand new one today in Helldivers 2. After several times missing out on the anti-tank mines, the devs gave us a super-hard major order that grants them when we fail
5:23 - EXCUSE ME?!?! THEY EVEN WENT AS FAR AS MAKING AN ACHIEVEMENT OUT OF IT?!? That is evil trolling.
The DMC one actually made me chuckle when I played the game. As for the Tekken one, well, I wasn't aware of it, but well done Harada trolling people who were probably trolls who had neither knowledge nor interest in the series.
Yeah, I have seen peopel who don't LIKE Chloe... but... not THAT level of "dislike"
Some fans of the series are weird, unfortunately. Especially as more recent culture war bs started to kick up.
@@FFKonoko Well, the "culture war" has corporate funding. That's why it went mainstream, the corpos WANT the plebs to fight over nonsense.
The Stanley Parable really deserves more praise in general but that troll achievement is next level.
I had assumed it was a situation where the achievement had like a .01% of popping on any action in the game.
The real explanation is next-level sneakiness.
In Gothic 1, there's a character called Mud. He's a troll character alright, but if you have him stick around long enough, he actually helps you get into one of the factions. Which I only found out earlier this year after having played the game FOR 23 YEARS, and I think many other players still don't know, because Mud is SO ANNOYING no one ever had him stick around. I think the fact only came out a couple of years ago when someone played a challenge run (the challenge being having Mud stick around for the entire game).
So, yeah. Gothic 1 would be my number 1 pick.
Honorable mention has to go to any character you click multiple times in Warcraft 3. Special honorable mentions go to the human builders, who - when clicked enough times - will say "My lord, we've found a witch! May we burn her?" as well as "What? You're the king? I didn't elect you!". Also, some of the Trolls (ha!) ask if you wanna buy cigarrettes.
How did not a single Rare game make the list? Unreachable chocolate, pieces of cheese that meant nothing, Stop and Swap... Trolling players was practically Rare's trademark!
Well, the Stop and Swap thing was more a legitimate plan that got kicked in the danglies by hardware revisions... (specifically, later model N64s had the memory retention that they were planning to use reduced to a second or so, nowhere near long enough to swap games and, not wanting to release a game with a feature that may or may not work for a given player, they replaced it with the... functional version we actually got.)
Not arguing the rest of your comment, but that was an actual plan that just got punched in the gut between start and finish.
Maybe they decided that was too low hanging of fruit. Or they hoped it would be mentioned for the commentor edition. Or they just found 7 before they got around to Rare games
As a Lucky Chloe fan, the salty tears of her haters was delicious.
I'd say Piranha Plant in Super Smash Bros Ultimate was a pretty epic troll, because Waluigi is still not a playable character.
Thankfully
The layout of SNES Bowser Castle 2. Not only does this track feel terrible to play on, but Nintendo literally trolled us with the layout. Seriously, this track does something no other track has the guts to do: this track actively tries to sabotage the race with its dead end.
Have to mention that Kingdom Heart 3 had been highly awaited for YEARS with many jokes about the weird names given to games beforehand like the final chapter prologue - and then after playing the beginning you realise you've just played Kingdom Hearts 2.9 and are only now starting 3 😂
This was the first thing I thought of too 😂
"Kingdom Hearts 3... D happened. And that was when God started to test my patience."
-SuperButterBuns, "Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance For Beginners"
II really should have been the saga's endgame.
actually said fuck you out loud.
Nice troll with the music at the end 😂
2:35 "one of the most accurate depictions of a dad bod" I feel seen 😂
I prefer the term "father figure"
@@screamingfalcon71... I am so mad that I hadn't heard that one or figured it out myself, that's such a good pun.
Man, the Stanley Parable is riddled with ways to troll the player, isn't it. The more hands on touch of that achievement is impressive though 😂
Shame it's not a good game
I just realised I could've gotten Go Outside 2 years ago. Just Commitment and Unachievable to go!
@@Rusty84CVI was originally going to ignore this and write it off as a differing opinion to mine, but the fact that you have posted this same reply under multiple comments solely for engagement turns this into spam, for which I can justifiably insult you for, you invisible no name desperate for human connection.
@@autisticandproudsnephew3636 multiple? This is the 2nd one, learn to count.
Plan for Unachievable?
When Takuza: Like a Dragon was revealed on April 1st, the first trailers revealed it to be like a JRPG based upon Dragonquest. It was meant as a troll. The thing is, fans LOVED the idea. So the dev's VERY QUICKLY remade the entire game as a JRPG.
It already was a JRPG, though not in the traditional sense. The J just means Japan(ese). You probably meant 'turn-based' as opposed to 'action'.
Skyrim: Very Special Edition should be on this list. Skyrim on Alexa? Classic.
I didn't know about that lol lol
@49ersfanMatt it still works!
It was real tho unlike alot of things its still around
My favorite unachievable achievement is "Level Four Revive Materia" in Hate Plus. Entire articles have been written about the fans' desperate attempts to find a method as mythical as the one it's named after.
Metal Gear Solid 2. All the pre-release content had you playing as Solid Snake. The full game had that too... for only the first bit. After that you played an an entirely new character.
And to follow that up, MGS3 starts with naked snake wearing a Raiden mask just to troll all the people that hated MGS2/Raiden.
It was funny to see how Ninja Theory kept trying to take an antagonistic approach to fans for Dante's original design only to make a story that ultimately ended up as how Dante got white hair.
Well the thing about Mega Man is, there were multiple projects planned for 2012, and the Bad Box Art Mega Man was intended as a tongue-in-cheek joke that would follow up the aformentioned proper titles that would have come out. But then those projects, MegaMan Online, MegaMan Legends 3 and MegaMan Universe respectively, all got canned while Bad Box Art Mega Man remained in development. It was less of a deliberate troll, and more of an unfortunate happenstance that made it seem like the devs were mocking fans.
By cancelling that many projects though (& eventually leaving classic fans in the lurch, & now even launching poor quality classic style NFTs), they already were/are mocking fans anyway. 😥
But yeah, the spitting on us after triple-crapping on us was indeed accidental. 😅
I love how in Tekken 8 Eddy's profile its stated that he actually did raid G-Corp headquarters but was defeated and went into hiding.
So, it's canon that Lucky Chloe beat Eddy and made him her back-up dancer, complete with frilly dress (if the lore is to be believed).
Perfect Dark and Conker's Bad Fur Day also had out of reach Pick Ups.
That DMC troll was honestly pretty funny. I enjoyed the game for what it was
No SNES Gradius 3? If you use the famous Konami code it makes your ship blow up. But not right away, mind you. You have to pause the game to use the code and it it shows you receive all the upgrades on the pause screen, even lets you play for a few seconds with all the powerups before…boom.
FFXIV players remember the troll in A Realm Reborn's relic weapon quest. A comically low percent to succeed in forging your weapon, and if you fail it's destroyed? I still think about it lol
Funny enough, I didn't know it was a gag. I was only working on it because the idea behind the weapon was too cool not to do. A friend had to tell me it's a gag before I went through with it.
As I've said before, the Pendant in Dark Souls actually is one of the more useful starting items as you can trade it with the crow for a Covenant item. Especially now that the online is almost entirely dead, it shaves a little bit of the grinding off of getting the "Prayer of a Maiden" achievement.
Pokemon Diamond/ Pearl: Mindy traded you a Haunter - with an everstone
Which is just *cruel* and *evil*
And she even teases you after the trade. "Haha, just kidding!"
@@Kleyguerth on the upside... you can vendor-trash the everstone.
@@marhawkman303 and not get a gengar. Not really worth it.
Plus, been a while, but isn't this around the point the games throw TONS of cash at you, because of cosmetics?
1500 pokebucks or whatever when you'll already hit 6 digits of cash naturally, as long as you don't buy all the clothes, is fucking pointless.
@@KeithElliott-zd8cx Well... the re-battle feature for enemies was basically a license to print money.
2:19 As a human artist, AI art still means "awful irredeemable art"
Came here to make a similar comment and found that you already got here. Hopefully enough people will dislike it or get bored of it to make AI "art" die off
The point of art is to make someone feel a certain way, or to explore certain ideas. Given your reaction... it would seem it has accomplished the task of making you feel. If the specific goal was to make you feel insecure, unsafe, or angry, then it is objectively good art.
Jokes aside... art has always incorporated new tools over time. Some will use it, pretentious douchebags will pretend that refusing to use it makes them better than other people, and life moves on. It's fundamentally no different than the advent of digital art, or the invention of photography, or the discovery of superior dyes or paints. Lighten up, you're making a big deal out of something that frankly isn't a big deal.
@@dontmisunderstand6041 People are getting their art stolen. They didn't consent to having it used to train AI. It's wrong to take other's work, and it's still wrong if someone uses a computer to do it. Please stop waxing philosophical over theft.
@@ShadowDancer98 That makes zero sense.
@@SyndicateOperative AI is a predictive model and doesn't generate art by itself; it can't make something from nothing. It uses a pool of images of dubious consent of usage to do so. You can look up more about it and the impact it has on artists
The Stanley Parable trolled me with the Tuesday achievement. Do you know how hard it is to accumulate 24 hours on a PlayStation that will shut down with inactivity. It also doesn't tell you how long you've been playing on a tuesday, so it could be minutes hours or who knows how long before you actually get the achievement. And yes I do know about the set the clock back or head for Tuesday trick, and I still haven't got 100% Platinum because of that achievement😂😢😡🤬
I fully lost it at Jane’s burger joke 🤣
Devil May Cry 5 "the best ending we could have asked for" unceremoniously roll credits and abruptly boots you back to the main menu, on the plus size, that does count as finishing the game and unlocks some goodies like bloody palace and Dante must die, that needs a full play-through to unlock otherwise
Baldur's Gate 1/2: There are NPCs in the games called Noober and Neeber. When you get close to them they force interfact with the player character and start talking random nonsense to you (the former is worse) and will continue to do so for at least 20 times. If you tolerate them and don't kill them (You can do so without rep loss) you actually get rewarded for it.
I still feel trolled over the FF7 remake we did get. Those whispers of fate... fifty quid for a remake which didn't even follow the same storyline. And it was only Midgar!
Tell me about it. They made a remake of FF7 that doesn't use turn-based mechanics, is an elseworld version of FF7 which plays like the inbred lovechild of FF15 & FF13, is part of a trilogy (which SQEX never marketed it as such) spreading over two console generations and parts of the game are only available in Hard Mode, which is only available AFTER beating the game on normal.
And what's worse is that when SQEX got called out for not making the remake turn-based, they just responded that gamers can just play the original, ignoring the fact that the English translation is awful (even by 90's standards) and full of garbage dialogue, and apparently it's even worse for other European languages. There's a reason gamers have been asking for a remake of FF7 since Square started remaking FF games. And SQEX have been using that to troll consumers with Advent Children, with the Compilation Final Fantasy 7 games a pointless tech demo for over two decades.
@@TheBlackSeraph Don't forget how long it takes to Platinum FF Rebirth. That's no joke. Took me 365 hours.
King of trolls is... Hideo Kojima. 😂
No Man's Sky "Omega"?! How the heck long ago did you record this??
That was expedition 12 back in March! Now the newest update is Worlds (part I) and we are in expedition 14 fighting alien bugs and building a battle mech with a flamethrower like Starship Troopers!😆 They rebuilt some worlds building and redesigned the clouds, weather and water so it moves and looks more realistic! So good!
Speaking of unreachable items ,Elden ring has multiple locations where there are unreachable items that just tease you just out of reach few placed of note: the crumbling cliff right passed the grafted scion at the start of the game had a nascent butterfly fluttering just out of reach but is unobtainable since the cliff crumbles too fast or the room before malenia with the giant aeonia bloom, it has multiple aeonia butterflies fluttering around but you'll never reach the ones flying near the ceiling, around the top of the bloom and in the center of the room, there are other locations but those come to mind first
Few places* of note (not placed)
The Tomb Raider health pack thing reminds me: In Elden Ring, once you get to the end of the Haligtree, there's a bunch of Aeonian Butterflies by a giant flower right before Malenia's boss room. I'm almost completely sure it's impossible to reach the ones above the flower itself, no matter how you try.
DmC has some of the best level deisgn and combat moves in action games....also has some of the best art direction in gaming
but sadly lacks dark souls filled with light.
Valve scheduled a game reveal for the 3rd day of E3, at 3:33 PM, in what they called the "Trilogy Show", and for the first two days of the event had dozens of Valve employees walking around in Half-life shirts.
The game they announced was Portal 2.
17:17 Lucky Chole looks like the Black Cat Dva skin from Overwatch.
“Whisper it” 😂
Does The Stanley Parable really count? That’s just The Developers Trolling You: The Game.
One memorable troll for me is collecting the Korok Seeds in Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom. Apparently deciding that 900 wasn't enough, they added another hundred to the sequel. The reward for finding them all in each? A large Korok "seed". It is hinted at in the first game what the seeds actually are, and while the reward is useless, the seeds themselves do have a use in upgrading inventory slots.
Yeah, they have a use at first. But if I recall correctly, you need less than half of them to finish upgrading all of your inventory slots.
6:24 a non existent remake (at the time, there now is two and they're both amazing)
The Tomb Raider troll I remember is the weapons cheat in TR1 would cause Lara to explode if you tried it in TR2
was that the weapons cheat? thought that was the "nude" cheat (maybe both?)
@mattyt1961 It was the published "nude code" that was an April Fools joke that "totally worked" in TR1 that they actually made work but only caused Lara to explode in TR2.
14:47 that pizza placement is wild 💀
Dude, Harada out here destroying folks on Twitter lmfao.
I can see them make Lucky Chloe the next character revealed immediately after the dramatic return of the previously "Fully Dead" troll. To give Eddy more PTSD from characters returning in Tekken.
I love the story Harada came up with. She's a cute girl Kazuya hired to troll his enemies.
Love that she read out the prompt "whisper it" instead of whispering the "short dark hair" line
In the most recent Destiny 2 Dungeon (Warlord's Ruin) there are loot boxes as you'd expect, except some of them are booby trapped and will kill you if you open them.
Dude, the entirety of Destiny 2 is one long troll. How does any company make a game that hates its players, its makers, AND itself *that much*?
In ds1 you can trade the pendant for some item that I dont remember which, on the birds that you trade stuff with, and I think equiping it lets you talk with the spider sis she usualy doesn't talk to you only while wearing it...or maybe that is another pendant....I'm sure you can trade it though
It is the Witch's Ring that lets you talk with her, I think.
@@favoritemustard3542 I knew I wqs wrong about that one but I couldn't remember what did that lol its been too long
Plot twist: Lara's butler put that med kit up there as revenge for locking him in the freezer
HL 2: ep 2 where they end the game as "to be continued".
Epistle 3 exists though.
@michaelandreipalon359 Clearly a 1:1 market substitute. /s
And then that ending got retconned in Half Life: Alyx.
@@Okusar Still better than none.
@@rikamayhem Such are Multiversal and Chrono shenanigans.
That Stanley Parable achievement is just the height of trolling. Absolutely amazing
The way I understood Miyazaki's comment was that he was so good at the game (as one of the developers), he didn't need the "helping hand" of a starting item (either something useless or "nothing at all"), not that the Pendant had a secret purpose. Most everything in the games are explained or hinted at, but people are too ready to jump to conclusions/conspiracies.
The greatest troll in gaming history is when developers announce a remaster, and then make it significantly worse than the original.
See silent hill and GTA for masterclasses on that one.
And then make it so you can't buy the original anymore. See Warcraft 3 Reforged for the advanced lesson.
@@eddythefoolDeforged, you mean.
Wait, hold up, you got Dark Souls on this list, but chose the Pendant over the Calamity Ring? A ring you get only after beating a big dragon boss in the DLC, that has the wonderful effect of doubling all damage you take and nothing else.
This reminded my that I haven't played the Stanley Parable since 2018, so I started it up and got the Go Outside achievement.
here is one of my favortie troll in a games. in Zero time dilemma their a sense where you have to roll 3 dice and have them all land on 1. a 1/212 chance by the way. I'm thinking this will take me dozens of attempts to get lucky but no, your guaranteed to get it on the thrid try no matter what.
Hate Plus's Hate Plus's Level 4 Materia achievement was a pretty good troll to me.
Box art mega man was a huge part of the mega man cult. I f****ing loved it in Street Fighter X Tekken. What a hommage and treat.
Honestly, it would probably have gone over with the (presumably intended) reaction of "ha ha funni joke" if it hadn't followed the mentioned cancellations (and also the cancellation of the Mega Man X MMO, but by all accounts that one wasn't actually on Capcom...). As it was, it was the equivalent of having a full meal taken from under your nose and then being given two slices of hard, dry bread with the thinnest coating of butter physically possible by the person who has just thrown your meal into the garbage.
@@michaelmann7816 Hehe, For die hard MM fans I can imaginge. To me MM is a series that had its peak during the 90's. The rest is a nice bonus (Like 9, 10 and 11)
Wow, crazy that this list has only just been created this long into the channel’s existence
For a current game there is the Dragon's Dogma 2 plague game mechanic. Pure troll by the developers.
For the comments edition:
"Beat Saber" in Beat Saber is the easiest map in the game on Expert, then the moment you jump to Expert+ it throws notes all around the place and manages to become harder than anything else in the first three OSTs.