10 Video Games That Punish You For Trying To Be Cool

10. A Botched Combo Loses All Your Points - Tony Hawk's Pro Skater

What is the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater franchise if not a wish fulfilment exercise for those of us lacking the co-ordination or flexibility to do trick skating for real?

It's a series entirely concerned with looking as rad as possible while pulling off death-defyingly acrobatic tricks, which if chained together into an implausibly long combo can net you a colossal number of points.

But the games also don't suffer overzealous showboats lightly, as if you decide to keep a trick going past your obvious capability, you'll end up falling flat on your face and pissing all your accrued points for the trick down the drain.

This can be infuriating if you've racked up hundreds of thousands of points while chaining a dozen moves together, yet because you dared to shoot for the moon rather than banking a sure thing, you ended up paying the humiliating price for it.

This is even worse if it happens while playing in front of a friend or livestreaming, so be sure to know you can land a tricky combo before showing it off in not-polite company.