The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard: Difference between revisions

* [[The All-Seeing AI]] <br />Where the computer's AI has information that the player is denied.

* [[Contractual Boss Immunity]] <br />Any overpowered or instant-death skill will be useless on big bosses.

* [[My Rules Are Not Your Rules]] <br />Where the AI players break the explicitly laid-out rules of the game.

* [[Not Playing Fair with Resources]] <br />In strategy games, the game compensates for the player's intelligence by giving enemies unfair abilities to gain or gather resources.

* [[Rules Are for Humans]] <br />In a computer adaptation of an existing game (e.g. chess), the AI may have the ability to pull off moves which are against the rules of the game.

* [[Secret AI Moves]] <br />Where a character (generally in a [[Fighting Game]]) has some crazy move when played by the computer which human players can't do.

* [[SNK Boss]] <br />A [[Nintendo Hard]] boss in a [[Fighting Game]]. Known side effects include [[Rage Quit|thrown controllers]], [[Blood From the Mouth|frothing at the mouth]], [[Atomic F-Bomb|F-]][[Cluster F-Bomb|Bombs]], and the worst case scenario: Explaining to your parents [[Critical Existence Failure|just why their new television is pulverised]].

* In ''[[Super Mario Kart]]'', the AI opponents didn't just have [[Rubber Band AI]], but had infinite stores of super-special weapons and items that in several cases the player was never able to use—namely, the poisoned mushrooms, dinosaur eggs, and meandering fireballs. Then there's the Mario brothers, who could activate Stars at will, making them nigh-impossible to beat if they were in the lead. For the items the player ''could'' launch, the AI opponent also had the ability to dodge by ''jumping'' the kart its own height above the track. <br />They also out right clip through course obstacles like Thwomps and pipes while you need a Star to smash through the same things yourself. The only thing they they ''can'' bump into that slows them down are the walls, and that's if you push them hard enough into a wall. <br />Furthermore, the Grand Prix mode would select an order of skill for each of the computer-controlled players, based on your own character selection. If one of the Mario Bros. were picked as the "champion" racer (which happened if you chose Bowser or Koopa Troopa), you could expect perfect racing lines and cornering coupled with infinite and arbitrary use of the Super Star, allowing them to go at increased speed with no slowing down, plus invincibility. Having one of the plumbers trigger this on the final stretch, powering either past or ''through'' the player and being unable to stop regardless of what's fired at them (or even more annoyingly, just as that red shell was about to knock them out of first place) meant that it was often easier just to start a new game and hope you didn't get one of them as the top racer again.

* Apparently, the computer player chosen to be the first-placer in Mario Kart DS always has a maxed-out speed stat, regardless of what the kart they're driving should have. This makes characters that drive karts with already high acceleration {{spoiler|(Dry Bones)}} nearly impossible to beat. This may be because the designated top 3 are given boosts in top speed with the first placer given the biggest boost. If it happens to be a kart with high acceleration, your only chance of winning is to snake, simply put. <br />CPUs in Mario Kart DS will also move back into place if another kart knocks them away in midair.