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{{quote|''"Fake Difficulty? What Fake Difficulty?"'' - |[[Challenge Gamer]]}}
 
There's [[Fake Difficulty]], [[Fake Balance]], and [[Fake Longevity]], then there's this.
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This is subversion of the control the developers have on the players. Basically, the player finds ways to play the game that the developers and designers did not intend. It comes in two forms:
 
* '''True Fake Skill'''
 
** True Fake Skill is '''Fake Skill''' which takes little to no actual skill to pull off. Basically, with True Fake Skill, [[Who's Laughing Now?|the player has the unfair advantage]]. This is often used to reliably counter [[Fake Difficulty]] or [[Fake Longevity]], but not always. [[Save Scumming]] to perfectly get through an area that has no [[Fake Difficulty]] is still a display of Fake Skill.
 
* '''Alternative Skill'''
 
** Alternative Skill is '''Fake Skill''' which takes real skills to pull off, such as [[Difficult but Awesome]] [[Good Bad Bugs]]. As such, it is not necessarily an advantageous way to play the game. In some circumstances, it's still easier than playing the game normally; in others, it is of a category only tried by [[Challenge Gamer|the more ambitious sorts]]. Note that Alternative Skill doesn't necessarily require a lot of skill; it just has to be more challenging than stomping [[The Goomba]], jumping over the barely noticeable [[Bottomless Pits]], or pressing the Start button.
 
Don't confuse '''Fake Skill''' with the use of deliberately programmed cheats or playing on Easy Mode; those things are ''supposed'' to be in the game, and are expected to be discovered and exploited. This only applies to when the player finds '''unintended''' ways to give himself some sort of advantage. On that note, do not confuse with simple exploitation of [[Good Bad Bugs]]. If someone switches on the game's "[[God Mode]]" from the options menu, that is not this trope. However, switching it off and on repeatedly to trick the game into thinking it's not on God Mode absolutely ''is'' this trope. Doing so to glitch the game in a manner that only causes the game's title screen to look funny however, is not this trope.
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[[Challenge Gamer]]s will use this constantly. [["Stop Having Fun!" Guys]] and [[Scrub]]s are as likely to use '''Fake Skill''' as they are to complain about it, albeit for very different reasons.
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== True Fake Skill Examples ==
* In plenty of platform games, it's possible to gain two or more extra lives in a single level, commit suicide, restart the level, gain 2-3 more lives, commit suicide again... basically the platform equivalent of grinding/powerleveling.
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