25 New Releases That Punish Players For Breaking The Rules In Video Games

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25 New Releases That Punish Players For Breaking The Rules In Video Games

Not all video games let players have the fun they want to. These ones completely punish the gamer for breaking the rules. We all love playing games. Be it alone or with friends, the experience is often competitive and challenging. There are plenty of great games out there that make us try our absolute best either trying to beat personal bests or defeating our closest friends. However, that’s all for naught when some players decide to cheat. Be it in multiplayer or single player, cheats have been around for a while and most of us have used them at least once. While some games just accept this aspect of gaming, others try and push back – many of which do so in interesting and sometimes cruel ways. Online games have a huge problem with this and it’s arguably worse when compared to cheats used in single player games. When you cheat online, you’re affecting the experience e of every other player with you in the game. It can frustrate and cause a lot of tension which usually never ends well. But plenty of developers are finding ways to get rid of these cheaters for good. Some are funny, some are poetic and others might seem like they’re pushing it. Here are 25 current games that punish players for cheating. THEGAMER VIDEO OF THE DAY

Den Of Mediocrity – Pokémon GO

via blog.ichibanelectronic.com When it first came out, Pokémon GO sent gamers into a tailspin, quickly becoming one of the most popular mobile games on the market and became a subject of multiple news stories – some good and some bad. People loved to get out with some friends and hunt down Pokémon in real life. While the game got millions of people out and about – there were those that found ways around the game’s primary mechanic. Instead of actually going outside, and putting in a little effort to catch Pokémon, some players used bots to go around the globe and catch a plethora of companions. Well, Niantic found a pretty great way to punish these people; by sticking them with common Pokémon like Pidgey, Weedle and Zubat. A just and fair punishment.

No More Gamerscore – Gears Of War 2

via blogspot.com As we’ve said before, some people are pretty impartial to their achievements. But chances are if you had an Xbox 360 back in the day, then you were pretty adamant about your gamerscore. Some players went to great lengths to improve it and it often became something of an obsessive pursuit. Well, it seems as though the people down at Epic Games took note of that and came up with a pretty good way to punish cheaters. Any people who unlocked certain Gears of War 2 achievements through an unauthorized hack were in for a pretty shocking surprise. Cheaters had their gamerscore’s reduced to zero – which of course, didn’t make them happy in the slightest.

Breaking The Bank – Overwatch

via vice.com Overwatch is still riding the popularity that it experienced upon first coming out back in 2016. The game has attracted a wide variety of players on console and PC. But with such a large demographic, there are bound to be a pretty sizable amount of players cheating. In fact, there have been a large number of bans distributed since the game came out. Cheaters are losing more than their pride with this game. Should players be found guilty of cheating and receive a subsequent ban, Blizzard has made it so that they won’t be welcomed back – at any cost. One Reddit user detailed their experience, noting that no matter how many times they uninstalled, reinstalled and even repurchased the game, the ban would always come back in a day or two.

Disconnect – Marvel Vs Capcom 3 Fate Of Two Worlds

via amazon.com One of the most popular fighting game series out there, Marvel vs Capcom brings together two awesome casts of characters and gives players a memorable experience that still holds up to this day. The game also marked the series’ first dip into online gameplay, and as you can guess, there were some growing pains right off the bat. However, the biggest problem was with the players themselves, not the online functionality. Players could easily disconnect before a loss, which made it so that the losses didn’t count. Capcom kept track of this, of course, and did something pretty devious. If people’s disconnection numbers started getting suspicious, Capcom would put these players on a special server – filled with others just like them.

The Company You Keep – Max Payne 3

via gamepur.com We have back-to-back entries with fairly similar punishments when handling obnoxious cheaters, this time it’s a shooter that’s caught our attention, specifically Max Payne 3. The Max Payne franchise is definitely one of the most popular and well known on this list, though it might have died down a little in recent years. But with the release of the third title in the franchise, the series was back on top – if only for a while. But as is the case with most popular games, players online were having their experiences dampened by hackers. Well, Rockstar handled this problem in a similar fashion to Capcom and just put all the troublemakers together. Should the cheaters have made it back on to the regular servers and continued with their deviance, they’d receive a ban.

Exploding Morons – GTA V

via imgur.com Rockstar is one of the biggest developers out there, and their Grand Theft Auto franchise is one of the highest earning in the industry today. The series has raised the bar time and time again. One thing these boundary pushers don’t tolerate however is cheating. That was on display for all to see in GTA Online. Though it had something of a disastrous launch, GTA Online soon became a hit and was home to an active, albeit aggressive community. Some players were worse than others though and Rockstar took notice. There’s a small glitch that lets the player bring in their car from single player mode into the online servers, which of course is something of an unfair advantage. So Rockstar decided to car bomb any players who took advantage of the cheat and force them to wear dunce caps in game.

Birds Of A Feather – Titanfall

via ign.com An interesting concept, Titanfall kind of fell flat on its delivery and was really improved with the release of its successor, Titanfall 2. But the original game did have a pretty active multiplayer community and its unique gameplay drew in a ton of gamers, all eager to try the title out. The game managed to attract some unsavoury characters as well. Cheating in online games is nothing new and while most just deal with it; it does at times really stifle the experience and in many cases requires interaction for the developer. Well this was one of those cases. Those who cheated in Titanfall’s multiplayer – specifically via the use of aimbots – were all grouped up together and forced to play each other. Talk about frustration well deserved.

Say Please – H1Z1

via futurecdn.net Zombie games are nothing new. Much like with movies and comics, the Zombie horror genre is an oversaturated one that some might say overstayed its welcome by a count over several years now. But there’s still a market – it seems – for these games and so, we keep getting variants. What H1Z1 might lack in originality it more than makes up for in the way it punishes cheaters. Cheating became pretty commonplace at one point – so commonplace that a jaw dropping 30,000 players were banned. Now here’s the funny part; anyone looking to get back were forced to make a public apology. You can actually find a good deal of them on YouTube. Of the 30,000 only five were relieved of their bans.

Big Brother Is Watching You – Counter-Strike Global Offensive

via digiseller.ru One of the oldest shooters still standing CS;GO is a mainstay of e-sport tournaments and has an incredibly active competitive and casual scene. It’s pretty well known among gamers and even those who don’t play the game have heard of it time and time again. Its popularity is pretty astonishing given the slew of sequels, prequels and spin-offs other shoots produce. While the game is popular among the most passionate in the gaming community, it’s also popular among cheaters. It can definitely be hard to keep track of cheaters in such a huge community, but CS;GO has a system called “Overwatch” which makes it easier for moderators to go through heating allegations and should it progress that far, look in on players who’ve been flagged one too many times to confirm such allegations. Kind of an Orwellian solution though.

Vigilante Justice – Ark Survival Evolved

via kotaku.com When visualizing Ark: Survival Evolved just think of Minecraft but in a much more wild, uninhibited setting with dinosaurs everywhere. As is the case with any multiplayer game out there, you’re going to get people who derive more enjoyment from annoying others than they do from actually playing the game. While it’s an aspect of gaming that many of us have gotten used to over the years, things were different this time around. Some Ark players went above and beyond to fight back against one troll. The troll, Ricky, had been making a certain group of players lives pretty hard, so they trapped him in a makeshift prison and prevented him from respawning by healing him every time his health got too low. It all seems to have worked out though, as the vigilante group of players eventually took Ricky in and it seems as though they hit it off fantastically.

Resetting Resetti – Animal Crossing

via youtube.com One of the most popular and well-known simulation games out there, Animal Crossing is an endearing and charming adventure that has attracted a wide variety of fans and is appreciated for its lax atmosphere. However, one thing that it seems the game’s developers don’t take all too lightly is doubling back on your save file. We all do this to some extent; save a game at a certain point and try out various things – sticking with the more advantageous outcome. But Animal Crossing actually keeps track of how many times you do this and eventually sends a mole named Resetti after you. It initially starts off as a polite warning about resetting, but things get worse the more you do it and the ordeal just makes the notion of resetting the game too much to handle at one point.

Seriously Stop – The Stanley Parable

via wikia.nocookie.net The Stanley Parable was notable for its interesting narrative and quirky, engaging narrator that really drove the story and made the game a unique experience. While deriving from the path often gets the player into interesting situations, there’s one instance – an ending in fact – where doing something that’s not expected of you can be detrimental. Of course, that is cheating. Once the game detects that the player is cheating, the player is placed in the “serious” room. This goes on for a while, with the narrator telling the player just how serious cheating is and condemning them to an insane amount of time locked up in the drab room. The only way to get out is by quitting the game or beginning a new one.

Who Needs Achievements Anyways – Saints Row 2

via saintsrowmods.com Quirky, random and often completely off the wall, the Saints Row games are something of a juvenile, sporadic answer to the acclaimed Grand Theft Auto series. The games have amassed a pretty big following and have earned a reputation for being completely unhinged. But it seems that the one thing that these games do take seriously is cheating. Activating cheats in the game not only disables the game’s auto save for that file – which can be pretty annoying for players who’ve gotten used to the feature taking care of that for them – but also disables achievements as well, which admittedly affects some players more than it does others.

Don t Auto-Fire - Metal Gear Solid The Twin Snakes

via youtube.com One of the most innovative and polarizing franchises in gaming history, the Metal Gear Solid games have made a huge impact in the industry and with fans. Though the recently released cookie cutter Survive isn’t exactly going over well with gamers, Hideo Kojima’s strange and often campy espionage thriller has a special place in many gamer’s hearts. One thing that the games are known for is how they completely mess with the player’s mind. This is usually done via story and some pretty creative adjustments made to the controls. At one point in the game, there’s some dialogue with Ocelot where he warns you not to use auto-fire. If you do, then your controller input is disabled and you get a game over. It’s a pretty harsh way to discourage taking the easy way.

You re Just A Dirty Hacker – Undertale

via youtube.com One of the most popular and notable indie titles in recent memory, Undertale has a pretty huge and dedicated following. The game has charmed many with its quirky characters, addictive score and engaging plot. As has been the case with many games released over the last decade, Undertale offers the player several different endings based on their choices and actions throughout their playthrough. These endings are a big reason as to why the game was so popular. One ending in particular is pretty interesting to look at. If the player hacks the game they get a particularly accusatory ending that the game itself seems to hint is something of a rarity. It begins with a friendly suggestion to contact the developer due to some bug, but then gets much more aggressive with you, with Sans saying "chances are, though... you're just a dirty hacker, aren't you? yeah, get outta here." Before hanging up.

An Explosive Confrontation – Paper Mario The Thousand-Year Door

via mariowiki.com Mario games have always been intended for a pretty young audience and with that demographic comes a certain amount of trust placed within the player. The Thousand-Year Door is a classic title for the GameCube that is fondly remembered by many, but probably not by those who decided to take advantage of a certain exploit in the game. The happy Lucky Lottery – as the name implies – is a lottery that can be found in the game. A number is randomly chosen at midnight, based off the GameCube’s time settings and prizes are awarded when numbers match from right to left. However, players can buy more than one ticket by changing the date settings on their GameCube. This has a catch though as the players is forced to fess up that they actually changed the clock – which leads to the clerk in charge, a Bob-omb named Lucky, to have a compete meltdown, throw the player a fake Game Over screen and charge them 500 coins.

A Pirate s Life – Quantum Break

via kotaku.com Known for the first two entries in the Max Payne series as well as the acclaimed Alan Wake, Remedy Entertainment have established a pretty decent reputation for themselves over the years. When they first announced their new science fiction shooter, Quantum Break, people in the community were pretty excited. Well, the game wasn’t all that great it turns out – and some expressed their disappointment a little more aggressively than others. It seems that some players out there just didn’t feel like paying for their copy of the game. In accordance with their tradition of ousting pirates, Quantum Break brands pirates with a goofy, but noticeable visual quirk. If you’re playing a pirated copy then lead character Jack Joyce dons a pretty gnarly looking eye patch. It isn’t much, but it certainly isn’t much fun to be reminded of.

Don t Fear The Reaper – Guild Wars

via youtube.com Most of the games we’ve played so far have been either shooters or fighters, but there’s another community that gets harassed by cheaters regularly. MMORPG’s tend to have fairly active communities that for the most part, are very communicative and cooperative. But as is the case with any game, there are cheaters that ruin the fun. Well Guild Wars deals with these people in a pretty sadistic way. Back in 2010, 3700 accounts were banned for “botting and match manipulation” which evidently didn’t really sit well with the game’s developers. But rather than just go on with standard protocol, ArenaNet decided to publicly execute cheaters via Dhuum – a God of Death that kicked the cheaters of the server one by one.

Mark Of Shame – Red Dead Redemption

via craveonline.com Another Rockstar game on our list, this time it’s the highly acclaimed Red Dead Redemption that we examine with its no nonsense approach to cheaters. Well, we say cheaters, but this is really just a pretty harsh method of singling out player attackers. If players get reported enough, and these claims turn out to be true, then it becomes way harder to team up and even approach other players online – based on the reputation given to these cheaters. There’s even a permanent wanted level that makes these cheaters stick out even more. It’s an incredibly dubious way of handling some undesirable players. The wild west might’ve been harsh, but Red Dead seems to be keen on upping the ante for their player base.

Nowhere To Hide – Slender The Arrival

via steamcommunity.com Horror games are supposed to scare you. It seems like a pretty straightforward and obvious thing, but there are plenty of horror titles out there that just don’t get the job done. Slender: The Arrival isn’t one of those as we’re sure many who’ve played the game will agree. As you might’ve guessed, one thing this game has in common with the other titles we’ve mentioned is that it goes above and beyond to punish cheaters. Not only does the game punish cheaters, but it scares them silly too. Should a player try and glitch out of the play area they’ll fall into a dark, bottomless pit – which isn’t anything all that new. But it’s what happens later that really makes The Arrival notable. As the player continuously falls, text appears on the screen reading; “not even a bug will save you from me.” Soon after, the game throws out its most unexpected jump scare, Slenderman himself.