GamerSushi Asks: Cheap Gaming?

ncaaAs you all know, I’ve been tearing up quite a bit of Halo Wars recently. The online multiplayer is so fun, and my friend and I have been testing out all kinds of strats in 2 v 2 arranged matchmaking. Our current one involves warthog rushing in the first couple of minutes of the game, and so far it’s working well.

However, while I feel the game is terribly well balanced, there are a few borderline-annoying things about it in terms of overpowered units, etc. The Covenant army gets a hero, depending on which race they choose. While the hero is a cool addition, when they are leveled up, they are virtually unstoppable and act as a one-man army.

Like I said, this doesn’t keep the game from being enjoyable, but it got me thinking about other cheap tactics or cheap factors in video games. You know what I mean- things that always own you or unfairly seem to just whoop you to the point of irritation. For me, I think one of the biggest ones was NCAA 2005 Football. Occasionally, the CPU seemed to decree with the football gods that no matter what you did in a particular game, you were going to lose, period. It was a really stupid system, and one that resulted in many a thrown controller.

What about you guys? Ever come across cheap tactics or cheap games that frustrated you?

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23 thoughts on “GamerSushi Asks: Cheap Gaming?”

  1. NHL 02 sometimes the other team would score no matter what, they would get faster all of a sudden and execute precision passing when they were sucking out of nowhere.

    Also, Mario Kart.

  2. That’s why I don’t play Halo Wars online. In Deathmatch, the leaders are already fully upgraded so they just use the Arbiter’s rage attack to destroy everything! One time the Arbiter destroyed twenty of my troops (including Vultures and Scorpions, somehow the Arbiter can leap up hundreds of feet into the air)with only a scratch on him! Not to mention the UNSC’s “leader” is a weapon coming from the Spirit, which does little damage and forever to recharge. And they get to use their leader power until supplies run out, which, if you’re playing deathmatch, is a very long time. Fair? I think not.

  3. Lol Anthony I love the mention of Mario Kart. You could be in last place the whole game and get a lightning item and some shells in come out and win. Gotta love the slingshot.

  4. The reason I hate 2Fort
    back in TFC (for those who DONT know) there was a grenade type called a Concussion Grenade. Oh yes, I hate those. not because of the cuncussion effect, since thats easy to negate. its the pushback, or rather, jumping efect that the conc nades did. Hey! why bother charging into the base, when you can just Conc jump past the defenses? SGs? no prob! your going so damn fast, they cant track you. lots of guys waiting for you up top? NO PROB! just conc jump past all of them, laughing your ass off as your medic flies faster than a scout! I HATED those damn things. Of course, I’d be lying if I said I never did that.
    I think one game ended with one team at 40 points, the other at 67 points (flag caps, that is).
    Also, Dustbowl. Now, I love that map, mind you, but the nade spam at the beginning of the rounds (anyone who played dustbowl in TFC will attest to it) was brutal, and cheap.
    Finally, for now, the feign death ability that the spy has. Honestly, its cheap as hell, but fun when you pull it off:
    Step 1: disguise as an enemy medic/friendly whatever
    Step 2: play dead at the front entrance of your base
    Step 3: watch your marks wander past you without thinking
    Step 4: unfeign, and kill.
    Cheap, but fun to do. works like a charm. try it sometime! I love doing that to Heavys and Sollys who wander in from down low on 2Fort.

  5. Also!
    Mario kart.
    true story: last place, got a lightning bolt (wait for it) does NOTHING! no, seriously, it doesnt do shit for some reason. luckily, I got a star, which got me back up. that game is cheap as hell..

  6. Where do I begin?

    Halo 3: Just about everything is cheap.
    CoD4: RPD, M16, NoobToobs
    WaW: Flamethrower, Rifle Nades, PPSh-41, Round Drum attachment (but I’ll let that one slide), the maps Dome and Courtyard, and Second Chance. Goddamn you Second Chance!!!
    GoW: BoomShot and all those other guns that take no skill or aiming.

    I could go on, but I think the list would include every game I’ve ever played that has multiplayer. Still, I love those games.

  7. AWPs anyone? Talk about the most imbalanced gun anywhere!!
    People use those darn things as shotguns/sniperrifles/assault rifles!
    Why even bother buying armour when most of the server is sporting one of those unholy cannons? I just buy a TMP and run in naked – hoping that spraying, praying, and a sudden suicidal appearance will catch said ding-wad and his gun off guard 😛

  8. [quote comment=”5827″]AWPs anyone? Talk about the most imbalanced gun anywhere!!
    People use those darn things as shotguns/sniperrifles/assault rifles!
    Why even bother buying armour when most of the server is sporting one of those unholy cannons? I just buy a TMP and run in naked – hoping that spraying, praying, and a sudden suicidal appearance will catch said ding-wad and his gun off guard :P[/quote]
    True that…
    Thats why I dont use hte damn things. overpowered to a huge degree. thats why I also play on servers that have the AWP either completely restricted, or partially (only two per team/you can only use an AWP so many rounds on a map)

  9. hah, damn captain! I was gonna say: CT’s / T’s AWPing the middle in dust2 right after spawning. If you get a bad spawn and are playing with good people, you are screwed…

    This is why we ban the AWP at MEAN =). Gotta keep it fun; if you wanna whore, go join a team.

  10. Mario Kart for the Wii. Seriously. On the 150cc, The computer would rape you. You would be in first, by a mile, then 5 blue shells later, you are in 8th. Oh was that your last lap too? Right before the finish? Oh how sad.

    Hey Eddy try warthogs only. I saw my friend do that against the computer, that told me the game was broken. I do not like Halo Wars. But regardless build nothing but hogs. Once upgrades. Wow, that was swarm death haha

  11. [quote comment=”5828″]One Word… Martyrdom[/quote]

    I disagree with this. While it is a pain, it is a legit part of the game that anyone can use and you can easily avoid it, for the most part.

  12. Oh, come on. AWPs? Really? Sounds like someone just gets owned too much. Anyway, I remember being frustrated as hell with alot of the older Mortal Kombats. Getting juggled and smashed by the CPU on a hard difficulty setting before you can get a single move off annoyed me to hell.

  13. [quote comment=”5833″][quote comment=”5828″]One Word… Martyrdom[/quote]

    I disagree with this. While it is a pain, it is a legit part of the game that anyone can use and you can easily avoid it, for the most part.[/quote]

    Easy to dodge? Don’t you watch Arby and the Chief? Episode 5 (I think) sums up my opinions nicely so I’ll just say: Anthony that’s bullshit. They should make you do a QTE or have a grenade left to use it. At least with Last Stand you need some skillz.

  14. I know tons of exploits, Specifficly in warcraft 3 when you play as ****** and you get a ******* and then ***** a ****** on the other team, you can ****** so fast that it ****** plus they aint expecting ******* **** to **** in and fuck them up. Or in gta 4 when you use a *** and then just keep ******* over and over untill they all ***** or ***** in a pit

  15. [quote comment=”5834″]Oh, come on. AWPs? Really? Sounds like someone just gets owned too much.quote]

    Last I looked,the game was called “Counter-Strike”, not “camper-Strike”.

    Real men use Scouts, for everyone else who can’t hit with more than one shot, there are AWPs.

  16. Skuba,
    It is easy to dodge. You just have to train yourself to NOT run over the body of someone you just killed. Once I did that, which took some time, I never died from Martyrdom again.

  17. maybe in pokemon where you are up against a certain strong pokemon that when ever you get it down to yellow or red health it either uses an item to fully restore or a move. I think Snorlax might do this, but theres also bitch trainers that do this too.

  18. [quote comment=”5840″]Skuba,
    It is easy to dodge. You just have to train yourself to NOT run over the body of someone you just killed. Once I did that, which took some time, I never died from Martyrdom again.[/quote]

    Or get a mouse with MOUSE 4 and 5 and then bind one of them to the action keys to pick any grenades up.

  19. [quote comment=”5839″]
    Real men use Scouts, for everyone else who can’t hit with more than one shot, there are AWPs.[/quote]

    Real men use whatever gets the other guy dead imo. I’ll leave it at that though, I was just giving you a hard time. I’m a P90 man myself. 😛

  20. [quote comment=”5840″]Skuba,
    It is easy to dodge. You just have to train yourself to NOT run over the body of someone you just killed. Once I did that, which took some time, I never died from Martyrdom again.[/quote]

    Never? I’d doubt that. I may over react with martyrdom but thats because it kinda ruins the whole thing. I’ve come up against entire teams using it. Not easy to dodge then. I wouldn’t mind it as much if you had to do either a QTE or still have a nade left (which may decrease nade spamming) as then there’s a chance I might get my helicopter called in for once.

  21. No, really, I never die from it anymore. I never pick up other weapons, so I have curbed the habit of running over their body. I usually kill, take cover and then move out again.

    But when I just started…oh man. I died TONS

  22. Cheap? Grifball Gravity Hammers. I have an extremely good connection, but somehow at the same distance from an enemy, i’ll strike first and miss, but he’ll strike from the same distance away and kill me, despite me having swung first and ‘missed’. Repeat forty thousand times and cue raging. Seriously. The Gravity Hammer is the most inconsistent weapon ever.

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