7 Times You Failed By Being Too Good at the Game

generally the point of playing a video game is to be good at it unless you're Us in which case the point is to be bad at it but in an entertaining way okay yeah cool okay I see it I see it here we go throw holy Mission they missed but to be wary of being too good at games Elite Gaming friends because there are some video games out there in which Flawless Perfection is punished possibly for balanced reasons possibly to keep you humble but probably because nobody likes a show-off see for yourself in these seven times you failed by being too good at the game enjoy and do beware spoilers for these following games [Applause] [Music] [Applause] thank you Elder of my subjects he is about the same but you have never met him but he has a long life ahead of him in the saw films serial killer antagonist jigsaw is a twisted Mastermind who uses weaponized Escape rooms full of traps to test his victim's resolve and will to live traps like the famous reverse bear trap which I'm guessing from the name releases a bear into the wild here's what happens if you lose oh no it tears your head in half cool in the saw video games on the other hand jigsaw seems much more interested in making his victim solve electrical wiring puzzles and walk across balance beams like they're on a goth version of Ninja Warrior [Music] don't get too good at the awful balance beam minigame however because it turns out that if you nail it every time you lock yourself out of the game's best ending for good in the prologue of the game you play as Campbell a drug addict trying to survive jigsaw's trials to discover the truth about his son what did I could [Music] at the end of Campbell's trials you're told that above you is another person going through a similar ordeal and that the elevator at the end of the balance beam next to you will only hold one person so either you'll need to get across that beam sharpish or you'll be sacrificing yourself so that the mystery other person can live make it across and you live for about 30 more seconds this is a saw game after all [Music] game over still with Campbell Dead the game continues regardless with you playing as a new protagonist Michael Tapp the son of detective David Tapp the character you play in the first game what follows is many hours of traps boss fights and yes fuse puzzles before you reach the very last trial which might appear strangely familiar that's right you've returned to the scenario in the prologue only now you're experiencing it from the other side and if you nailed that balance beam in the intro sequence I've got bad news for you buddy you're getting unavoidably squished if on the other hand you messed up the balance beam in the intro and died Michael gets out alive and you get the game's best ending where Michael either leaves and tells the world the truth about jigsaw or Don's a pig mask and becomes his new Apprentice we never find out which one he chooses but it's okay it also means that you don't have to do any more fuse puzzles so it's definitely a good ending foreign it seems that we have a visitor homes indeed come in hello Sir Henry Baskerville did you have a good trip famed literary detective Sherlock Holmes is known for two things one being a master of rashiocination and deductive reasoning and two being out of copyright so anyone can do whatever they like with the character [Music] as you can see with regard to point one however you might want to slow your roll when it comes to homes like thinking when playing 2011's Sherlock Holmes and The Hound of the Baskervilles because this is a game that actively encourages dull-wittedness more fitting of a Watson than a homes stupid Watson how I hate him in the books he's actually a respected doctor and decorated military veteran how I hate him the game has two achievements specifically designed for slow players there's coffee break which lack which players will unlock if they take more than 10 minutes to solve a puzzle scene and slow motion which are only awarded if you take more than 10 minutes to solve a hidden object scene foreign IST you're really going to have to actively try to slow down and do worse at the game if you want to unlock all the achievements I'm sure you can think of some way to waste holes's time [Music] there you go way you don't expect me to mop up do you come on those guys are cake not to mention much sexier than you well your sexy little friends they're coming for a dance laughs they're still sexier than you are a concept you might be familiar with in video games is dynamic difficulty whereby the game takes it easier on you if you're struggling like how you get better power-ups in Mario Kart when you're doing badly or how Resident Evil 4 gives you more ammo and health if you keep effing up sometimes however this Dynamic difficulty works the other way making things harder for you the better you do no game illustrates this better than God Hand the excellent and bizarre beat em up from Clover Studios and Capcom in which a man named Gene takes possession of a divinely powerful right arm which grants him legendary martial arts powers as you can see God Hand which is a hard game actually has six different difficulty levels ranging from Level zero to level die which should tell you a little something about how hard that is [Music] the way it works is that doing well consistently like avoiding being hit will cause the difficulty level to rise but keep taking damage or die and the difficulty level will drop what this means in theory is that the game is constantly adapting to give you the perfect difficulty throughout what this means in practice is that if you're too good at God Hand the game becomes a brutal borderline impossible slog make it up to level die and way more enemies spawn into the levels and they're much tougher than regular enemies meaning it's going to take forever to actually put them down and the bosses they're all brutally tough even the ones that look like tiny Power Rangers Our advice stop playing so well get punched in the face a few times and Savor a much more enjoyable gaming experience enjoyable for you I mean not the guys getting booted in the nuts [Music] ask most people who the villain of the Banjo-Kazooie games is and they'll say gruntilda the witch with a fondness for kidnappings and game shows [Music] ask anyone who made it to the end of sequel Banjo-Tooie however and they'll tell you without a moment's hesitation that the real villain is actually Canary Mary the Aging birdwoman who can all the way off into a bin Canary Mary is initially encountered in Glitter Gulch mine where she makes you do some annoying but not too onerous Minecart races Pizza reviews and she announces she's off to Cloud Cuckoo Land which is where you encounter her next and she has more races for you these races differ from the original Minecart races in two main ways one they take place in a big Clockwork Mouse instead of a minecart and two the final one is one of the hardest Challenges ever committed to a video game [Music] [Music] the way you speed up in these races is to mash buttons which is horrible but it's made even worse by the truly egregious rubber banding from Canary Mary if you pull ahead of Mary too early in the race because you're a button-mashing expert or have several extra fingers Mary will automatically catch you up and overtake you to such an extent that winning the race becomes literally impossible in fact the only slim chance you stand of winning is to stay very close behind Mary for almost the entire race and then try for a desperate last second Dash to avoid giving the rubber banding AI enough time to realize what it is you're trying to do [Music] what it is you're trying to do is enjoy playing Banjo-Tooie can't be having that of course FTL faster than light is a resource management Sim that takes place in space so mostly the resource you're managing is your crew who do have a propensity for suffocating to death although that might just be me [Music] come on anyway FTL has a final boss of sorts in the form of the Rebel Flagship an imposing capital ship full of little guys who would be adorable if they didn't want you dead now in the game prior to this point one of the most efficient ways of disabling ships and ending battles is to have your little guys teleport over to the enemy ship that you're fighting and just kill everyone [Music] that way there's no one left alive to operate any of the ship's systems the vessel is disabled and you win another space battle [Music] if you're a skilled FDL player and decide to use this tactic on the rebel Flagship however you're in for a rude awakening because while it is possible to kill all the crew on board when you do so this happens yes an advanced AI takes over the running of the ship and it turns out it's much more efficient than stupid actual humans when there are alive humans still on board they need to manually repair the ship and do things like Man weapons and shield systems thank you with the AI in charge all that becomes automated and the ship does a much better job of evading your shots healing itself and firing on you [Music] add that to the list of reasons AI is a bad idea alongside weird fingers in AI generated art and the singularity destroying all life on Earth with a swarm of Nano machines a solid number three the undertale character Napster blook is a sad ghost DJ who owns a snail Farm because undertale rules on this snail Farm players can engage in a mini game called Thunder snail in which you watch snails not traditionally considered a fast animal race each other [Music] taking part in thundersnell you pay 10g to enter and you must encourage the yellow snail by hitting the Z key repeatedly however if you're very good at button mashing and smash the Z key too quickly your snail will stop in its tracks with a big exclamation mark over its head turns out that's too much encouragement and if you keep it up your snail will Retreat inside its shell and then catch fire from all the pressure encouraging your snail the right amount so that it wins handily is also not the way to go by the way because then it turns out that the prize is 9g which you'll notice is less than you paid to enter [Music] now the real way to win thundersnail is to encourage your snail just enough so that it loses by a very very thin margin [Music] in that situation the snail thinks it won and so Napster blue gives you 30g to spare the snail's feelings [Music] like I said undertale rules I used to be just like you I believed in humanity the newspapers soap commercials politics and history books and one day the world kicks you in the teeth and you don't have any choice but to see things the way they really are in the action adventure qte Extravaganza Fahrenheit or Indigo prophecy if you're nasty it's your responsibility to unravel the mystery of why ordinary manned Lucas Kane murdered someone in the toilets of a diner one night all right what what have I done the game opens with this very event and with you playing as Lucas in the immediate aftermath and you have to clear up the crime scene as quickly and efficiently as possible so you aren't immediately thrown in The Slammer for a super fast game over don't move you are under arrest and that's how my story ends you need to hide the body mop the floor and importantly for the purposes of this video hide the murder weapon a knife if you're good at games you'll naturally nail all of these tasks but doing a good job of hiding the knife is bad for you further down the road the knife I've got to get rid of it this is because firstly the game doesn't show you where Lucas actually stashes the knife and secondly in the next chapter of the game you play as one of the detectives investigating this crime scene and one of the things you have to do is find the murder weapon here's his Fork but where's the knife this is now much harder to do on account of how you craftily hit it earlier in a random location that the game decides and then doesn't tell you we haven't found the murder weapon it might still be around here somewhere curse you passed me and I say that so much it's lost all meaning another classic outside Xbox this video if I do say so myself all about what was it what was it about this video we just did this one was about times he failed by being too good at the game yeah that's right not a problem for me if you'd like to watch this video it's from outside Xbox and it's about heartbreakingly tragic details that you didn't notice when you were playing the game and this from our sister Channel outside extra who just surpassed 1 million subscribers and I recommend you watch this video because it's about some of our favorite precious memories with Luke vanilla

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Keywords: outsidexbox, andy farrant, jane douglas, mike channell, 7 things, top ten, top 10, top five, top 5, list, countdown, difficult, hard, easy, easier, saw 2: flesh and blood, Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of the Baskervilles, God Hand, banjo tooie, banjo kazooie, FTL: Faster Than Light, undertale, snail, thunder snail, racing, indigo prophecy, fahrenheit, lucas, hide, knife, where, find, failed, too, good, videogames, game, slow, achievement

Id: bX9vY3PPH48

Length: 16min 17sec (977 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 29 2023