Loophole Abuse/Video Games: Difference between revisions

* Referenced in ''[[Baldur's Gate]] II'' with a magic ring that fires a blast of fire. The text indicates it was used in a duel between two drow, where each was allowed the use of one magical item. It was used by a friend of one of them, who shot their opponent in the back from the stands. [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder|Being drow]], everyone agreed it was a brilliant interpretation of the rules.

* ''[[The World Ends With You]]'' has the entry fee, in which the Conductor takes from the player whatever is most valuable to him or her. The loophole is that the Conductor gets to choose what that entry fee is. {{spoiler|In Week 2, he takes Shiki Misaki as the fee to hide the fact that he can't return her to life. In week 3 Kitaniji takes every other player from the game as Neku's entry fee because a player is helpless without a partner. This creates a situation so [[Unwinnable]] that even Uzuki and Kariya are doubtful of its morality. Thankfully there was Beat, a Reaper who was willing to [[Heel Face Turn]].}}

* In the ''[[Half Life]]'' expansion ''Opposing Forces'' protagonist Adrian Shephard can avoid the order to kill Black Mesa personnel to cover up the incident because he never officially got that part of his orders. He should be able to reasonably deduce that part of his orders by asking (or just watching) the others, but remains purposefully ignorant.

* Explicitly invoked by Aegis in ''[[Persona 3]]'': "Nowhere in the school regulations does it state that canines are prohibited from attending school." {{spoiler|It doesn't happen.}}

* In ''[[Disgaea]] 2'' you will repeatedly be subpoenaed by the Dark Court for various "crimes" committed by your party members. This being the Netherworld, you ''want'' to have extensive crime records, since it gives benefits. While the rules stipulate that a person has to find and enter the gate to the Dark Court, it doesn't actually have to be the person who did the crime. It also doesn't say only ''one'' person has to go in - you can form a ladder and throw up to nine people before the judge, who will write up everyone for this underhanded behavior.

* Played with in ''[[Inazuma Eleven]] 3'', when Coach Kudou forbids the entire team from going outside to practice or play soccer. To Endou, no soccer is probably as bad as having no food to eat, so he grows restless and starts kicking a soccer ball around indoors. Several of his teammates notice and realize that Kudou only forbade practicing ''outside'', so they start doing [[Improvised Training]] ''indoors'', as silly as that may sound. But then it turns out this was exactly what Coach Kudou ''wanted'' them to do, as being able to control and keep possession of the ball within tight boundaries [[Chekhov's Skill|would turn out to be extremely useful]] against their next opponents' tactics.

* The Cavern of Transcendence trial in ''[[City of Heroes]]'' required a team to get through the enemy-filled caves beneath the Hollows and then enter the Cavern, a massive room filled with monsters, and then activate 8 triggers (one for each team member) simultaneously that were spread throughout the room, in 90 minutes after receiving the mission. The obvious intended challenge was obviously for the team to fight through the caves, then clear out the monsters before activating the triggers. However, activating the triggers is all that's required to actually successfully complete the trial. A standard tactic quickly became having one team member with superspeed (which has a stealth benefit) and/or flight plus invisibility or some kind of stealth power, and recall (teleporting one teammate to your position) race through the caves, past all the enemy mobs, to the Cavern door and teleport in teammates. Upon entering the Cavern, the stealth teleporter would go to each trigger in turn and bring in a teammate, again without alerting any of the monsters. End result? A 90 minute trial that could be finished in a few minutes without having to engage a single enemy.

* A shortcoming in the engine that supported ''[[Defense of the Ancients]]'' allowed players to kill their own mobs. So what this encouraged was someone to stay behind and kill every single one of "Their" mobs so the enemies couldn't get experience at all, and thus the "Deny" mechanic was born.

** There also no rules against creating transgender characters either and have them fight against their "birth" sex. For example, someone can create a drag king <ref>female drag performer</ref> and fight follow Divas though dressed as a guy.

 

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