What Do You Mean It's Not Cosmetic?: Difference between revisions

* A very subtle example is found in the ''[[World in Conflict]]'' multiplayer mode. As you ramp up your scores, you will soon receive a [[Rank Up]] or ten. While your fancy online rank insignia are pretty much useless in ''hard'' gameplay terms, they give you an unexpected but significant "soft" bonus in the extremely teamwork-oriented online mode of the game: on public servers, random players are much more inclined to follow a [[Colonel Badass|Colonel]] or [[Four-Star Badass|General]]'s orders, giving your side a higher degree of coordination and team play which translates into a significant advantage over a largely disorganized opponent.

** ''[[League of Legends]]'' has alternate champion models that can be unlocked for real cash. While having no impact on gameplay (except for a certain Annie skin that makes the "[[Oh Crap|stun ready]]" particle [[Fake Difficulty|hard to see]]), when you are on a team with zero skinned characters and the enemy team has three or four, you pretty much assume you will lose.

* Konami Man, Twin Bee and Vic Viper in [[Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin]] are gotten as rewards from beating the game on Hard difficulty with a level cap of 1, 25 and 50, respectively: their description only reads "5000 points", but each of them also gives a permanent 50 point bonus to STR, INT and LCK, respectively.

* Collecting Marks Of The Gods in ''[[Outland (video game)|Outland]]'' mainly unlocks some concept art for the game, but they also give you the ability to cling to walls longer, mark all treasure urns on your map and double the strenght of your melee attacks if you collect enough of them.