What makes you rage in video games?
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Random encounters and Zubats.
Ultraluigi
doing whatever since 2011
luck based bs, criticals with 1% chance, empty level ups.
Quite a few come to my mind...
- Luck being more of a factor than skill for winning (such as Mario Party, mainly 1 and 9 and it seems like Island Tour will be even more luck-based)
- Losing a lead (in either Mario Kart or Smash)
- Disfunctional controls
- Not being given checkpoints in a long, tedious/annoying level
- Status Problems
- Total bias (i.e. mini-games like Crate and Peril)
^Adding to this, in Pokemon, if a move has a 30% chance of happening (like the burn effect of Scald or abilities like Poison Point/Static), if your opponent uses it, it's more like an 85% chance of happening but for you it's more like a 50% chance of happening.
And then, if a move already has imperfect accuracy (so basically 95% or below) the accuracy is already like 60% to 70%. :P
That's all I have at the moment. =P
- Luck being more of a factor than skill for winning (such as Mario Party, mainly 1 and 9 and it seems like Island Tour will be even more luck-based)
- Losing a lead (in either Mario Kart or Smash)
- Disfunctional controls
- Not being given checkpoints in a long, tedious/annoying level
- Status Problems
- Total bias (i.e. mini-games like Crate and Peril)
^Adding to this, in Pokemon, if a move has a 30% chance of happening (like the burn effect of Scald or abilities like Poison Point/Static), if your opponent uses it, it's more like an 85% chance of happening but for you it's more like a 50% chance of happening.
And then, if a move already has imperfect accuracy (so basically 95% or below) the accuracy is already like 60% to 70%. :P
That's all I have at the moment. =P
Dr. Javelin
Nathan Latsk
It's a well-known fact that Scald actually has about 90% burn chance.
I mean seriously. Every single time.
It's actually kind of handy when you're using it, because you can just spam Scald and they won't be able to switch in a physical attacker for fear of getting burned.
I mean seriously. Every single time.
It's actually kind of handy when you're using it, because you can just spam Scald and they won't be able to switch in a physical attacker for fear of getting burned.
Icemario
Star Spirit
The only things that come to mind are luck-based events that don't at all go in my favour, dirty hits in things like Mario Kart races, cheap shots in things like Mario Kart races and platformers and rebellious (frustratingly disfunctional) controls such as the flame attack in the Fawful Express battle in Bowser's Inside Story. There's probably more, but that's all I can think of at the moment.
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Pokemon DP
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>be a super-powered badass
>come across a door that needs to be lifted open, or a chest that needs to be opened
>have to tap the action button to open it because fuck super strength, we need to pad out the gameplay
please stop this
>come across a door that needs to be lifted open, or a chest that needs to be opened
>have to tap the action button to open it because fuck super strength, we need to pad out the gameplay
please stop this
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Pokemon DP
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that's why this travesty must end before it destroys us all