Video games, no matter what genre they fall under or what they are played on, are meant to be entertainment. The ever created was made in the late 50s by Physicist William Higinbotham to make a scientific exhibit more fun and "interactive" for people touring the lab at Brookhaven's National Laboratory. While its graphics didn't hold a candle to even the simplest of games of the present day, the game Tennis for Two becameꦏ a smash hit, paving the way for the gaming industry tha💃t we enjoy and participate in today.
Most games have the same basic three core components. One is an objective, the reason why a person wants to play it. It could be because the story of the game has them play the part of the hero (or villain), or the objective is more about a personal gain like achieving the highest score. Another core component is a rewards system, it could be about earning points and trophies or unlocking items and even characters. And the third is offering different levels of difficulty. Games ar🌱en't really fun if they're too easy or too hard for the target demographic. Making things challenging enough to keep players interested, but not too challenging that they want to rage quit is an important balance that most game developers should keep in mind.
Though some game devs seem to have a different idea of what makes a game fun and they add in hidden (or not so hidden) elements that can really mess with a player's game and even their head. Here are 20 Games That Trolled Players, and 10 Times Players Trolled Game Devs.
30 Trolled Players: Batman Arkham Asylum: Scarecrow Figh🅠t
Batman: Arkham Asylum has players take on the role of Batman as he faces against the Joker and many other adversaries in Arkham Asylum. Among them is Scarecrow, who uses his fear gas to trap Batman in his own hallucinations. There are three levels of morbid hallucinations during the fight with Scarecrow and on the final level, the game suddenly freezes and then crashes, probably invoking fear in most players. Things get more confusing as the game's intro plays aga😼in with Joker behind the wheel of the Batmobile, taking Batman into Arkham.
29 Trolled Players: Far Cry 5: Resist Ending 🦋
Far Cry 5 has players taking the role of a rookie Junior Deputy who goes to arrest Joseph Seed, leader of a doomsday cult. Throughout the game, players dismantle the control Seed has on Hope County. Spoiler warning for the end of the game, but eventually t꧋he player can choose to either "Give In" or "Resist." Resisting mean꧙s a fight with Joseph who has brainwashed all the allies made in the game. Just when it seems like things would end on a happy note, a nuclear bomb detonates in the distance sending everything into chaos. And that's the "good ending".
28 ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ Gamers Trolling: GTA V: 𝓡Doomsday Heist Orbital Cannon
Grand Theft Auto Online allows players to explore the open-ended world of San Andreas and work together or compete against one another in matches. But as with all good things there comes along those that want to spoil the fun for everyone. And the fun of the Doomsday Heist was quickly ruined, according to , by spammers and hackers abusing the use of the orbital cannon made available with the update. Trolls had found workarounds to gain easy access to the unstoppable and overpowerꦉed weapon that lets players target other players and destroy them with one shot.
27 🅷 Trolled Players: Doki Doki Literature Club: The Whole Game
Doki Doki Literature Club gives off the appearance of an anime-style dating simulation game. Players can pursue one of the three available girls; Sayori, Natsuki, and Yuri. Spoilers for anyone who haven't played through the game, but in reality, the game is a psychological horror game that breaks the fourth wall. The game presents dark (and disturbing) subject matter the♊ longer it's played and seems to have a mind of its own (and it sort of does) as it "glitches," restarts, deletes save data, and more. There are multiple endings which require multiple playthroughs, re-installations, and haꦗrd resets.
26 Trolled Players: Breath Of The ⛦Wild: Collect All 900 Korok Seeds
Breath of the Wild lets 🍰players control Link as he awakens from a long sleep to a world that had been devastated by the sinister force of Ganon. Players complete quests and collect weapons and items to aid them in their goal to assist Zelda and defeat Calamity Ganon. One of the items that can be collected are Korok seeds, which can be used to add more slots for weapons, shields, and clothing. There are 900 seeds to collect hidden in puzzles all over the world. And the reward for collecting all the seeds? A pile of Korok #2.
25 ⛄ Gamers Trolling: The Divison: Lau𓂃nch Day
In The Division pl🍌ayers take on the role of a Special Agen🍨t tasked with keeping order after a smallpox pandemic brings New York City to its knees. On launching day of the game, all players found themselves loaded into the same lobby. A few players realized that it's pretty easy to prevent others from entering the game's first safehouse by in the open doorway.
There is a workaround to be able to phase through players who do this, but it wasn't well known at the game's launch, so ൩many players found themselves unable to progress.
24 Trolled Players: Diablo III: Whim👍syshire
When the third installment of Diablo 3 came out it seems as if the majority of the fanbase were disappointed by it. Server issues and the new feature of auction houses really left a sour taste in players' mouths, as well as many thinking that the game's new graphics were "too bright" and "cartoon-like." While Blizzard eventually shut down the auction houses their responses to criticism over the game's art style were to make a secret level called Whimsyshire. Whi🌼msyshire features teddy bears, pink flowers, and unicorns as monsters and all the normal world objects💖 are replaced with cute objects.
23 🃏 Trolled Players: Witcher 3: Romancing Both Yennefer And Triss
The Witcher 3 includes many characters from the past two games including Ciri, Yennefer, and Triss. Just like in the previous games Geralt can romance either Yennefer or Triss and potentially gain an ending based around either woman. However, if the player tries to romance both women 🔯equally they'll get a special cutscene.
Yennefer and Triss trick Geralt into thinking he could have them both and then leave him in a pretty compromising position.
After that, any further conversation leads to both women saying they want ജnothing more to do with him. It doesn't pay to be a player.
22 💜 Gamers Trolling: Dark ✃Souls III: Iron Pineapple
Dark Souls III is considered to be a pretty challenging game, and players like Iron Pineapple only make it harde💯r. Some of his exploits include armor known as "The Armor of Thorns" to take out invading players. It deals damage while it rolls and in a group it makes for a pretty effective way to take out invaders.
He's also dressed up like Shrek to battle other players, and created "traps" for treasure hunting players.
As far as 🔜trolls go, Iron Pineapple isn't mean-spirited and, according to this with him, most players enjo♎y his antics.
21 Trolled Players: GTA🍒 V: Epsilon Missions
GTA V is pretty full of "trolling" moments, but probably the most obvious of the game are the "Epsilon" missions. They are a collection of missions Michael takes on durinꦓg his "Strangers and Freaks" questline, where he has to do tasks for a "cult-like" religious group. For most gamers, these missions are some of the more boring ones, where players have to do things like run five miles through nothingness, wear clothing called "Epsilon robes," etc. What's the real kicker is that the "reward" for completing all of the missions is nothing more than a tractor.