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Subject: Do you think games are programmed to cheat?

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Well? We've all been playing when suddenly the situation changes. What was a fun romp through the game has turned to a white knuckled sprint through an insane valley of death...where the game over screen looms as an ever present threat to your sanity.


In the old NES days, I would swear the games were cheating. The one random element, say the program that randomly spawns bricks in Tetris, suddenly spews out 10 of the most worthless shapes in a row...all the while the tower of bricks grows ever steadily to the deadline.

The game was clearly cheating.

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Well, here we are. I guess that it was destined to come to this.

Clearly, the game is not programmed to lose.

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The cheating bastard AI's in Mortal Kombat come to mind.

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The Owl and Tigger cheat

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I miss having to put button combination cheats during gameplay to get a jet to spawn in front of me.

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Posted by: Maximus Decimus
Agreed. All the changes are good and add variety. Do we really want another Halo 3? Just running around with one gun and no armor abilities? It's good that 343 wants to try something new. Do we really want the same thing for three more games?

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Posted by: CrazyT
The cheating bastard AI's in Mortal Kombat come to mind.
OMG, freaking Shao Kahn. Nope, can't attack him, block him, jump over him...nothing. He just pwns you no matter what you do. Over and over and over again.

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There just aren't enough moments in the day to rectify the wrongs of the past.

Oh yes, old games especially. Most of the time it would do some ridiculous act in it's coding that you have no hope of overcoming, the old SNES Mario games come to mind.

-blam!- those flying fish...

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Skwid

It's like the game "Conflict: Desert Storm".

It didn't matter what your teams AI did, the enemy ALWAYS had the advantage because the game had already formed a plan to beat whatever the friendly AI was going to do. That's why your friendly AI could never kill a tank because the tank already knew what the friendly was going to do to try to destroy the tank.

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Posted by: CrazyT
The cheating bastard AI's in Mortal Kombat come to mind.
OMG, freaking Shao Kahn. Nope, can't attack him, block him, jump over him...nothing. He just pwns you no matter what you do. Over and over and over again.


Spam projectile attacks = win against Shao Kahn

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Ninja Gaiden for the NES. Almost impossible to beat, game is a damn hacker.

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If you assign every letter of the alphabet a number, a is 1, b is 2, etc., and you take all of the values of the word "MATH", and add them, you get 42. So math is the meaning of life, the universe, and everything.


Posted by: AgileNaruto001
Oh yes, old games especially. Most of the time it would do some ridiculous act in it's coding that you have no hope of overcoming, the old SNES Mario games come to mind.

-blam!- those flying fish...
Kaizo also comes to mind.

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Posted by: MyNameIsCharlie
The game was clearly cheating.


Ryu from SFII or SF3A comes to mind.

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There's a phenomenon known as "rubberband" programming in which the better you perform, the more difficult the game becomes.

Mario Kart Wii is a good recent example.

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Posted by: AngryBrute1
Oh yeah, since somebody does not believe what YOU believe; that makes us vapid...
I cannot grasp that what you call "Something happened to nothing, and that nothing became something, and it was smaller than than a period."

You mean like how it is near impossible for computer players to lose in most games?
They probably do a little bit either to make you lose or to put up a challenge.

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Posted by: CrazyT
The cheating bastard AI's in Mortal Kombat come to mind.
Fighting games seem to be the biggest offender of the AI cheating you.

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Posted by: FUNKY B0B
There's a phenomenon known as "rubberband" programming in which the better you perform, the more difficult the game becomes.

Mario Kart Wii is a good recent example.
Max Payne actually advertised this as a selling point for the first game. Better you do, the smarter and more accurate the bad guys got.

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Posted by: FUNKY B0B
There's a phenomenon known as "rubberband" programming in which the better you perform, the more difficult the game becomes.

Mario Kart Wii is a good recent example.
Racing games do this all the time. If your ahead of the CPU(s), they will get magic speed boosts, become almost flawless in their driving abilities, etc. Probably the only exception is in racing simulators like Gran Turismo and Forza.

Burnout is a huge offender of this. You have to be damn near perfect to get more than a couple second lead from second place.

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In some cases I do feel like the game is made to make you feel like you just suck. Especially in racing games.

I push my car through corners, floor the gas pedal on straights, yet each and every car on the grid is literally right behind me.

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Posted by: FUNKY B0B
There's a phenomenon known as "rubberband" programming in which the better you perform, the more difficult the game becomes.

Mario Kart Wii is a good recent example.
I remember Mario Kart DS having some mechanics along these lines. For example, in each set of races a few random characters would have their top speeds boosted regardless of what kart they were using, and if any of them got into 1st position they would automatically travel at top speed. There's also the fact that when you're in 1st and 2nd position you only ever get bananas and the occasional green shell, and everyone in the back of the pack gets the good items.

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