10 Cruel Tricks Video Games Played On Open World Players

2. Gear Up, Get Captured Anyway - Far Cry 5

Plenty of games commit this cardinal sin where they set up the imminent engagement with a pile of foreshadowing that has you understanding you’re really going to have to pull out all the stops to prepare for this one.

So, you pop your buffs, use your best consumables, buy that gear you’ve been eyeing off and steel yourself for what’s to come.

And that’s where you find out very quickly that this wasn’t going to be a real battle at all, and it was instead a scripted fail state you were never intended to be able to beat. This happens repeatedly in Far Cry 5 where you’d be forgiven for assuming you can win the encounter that tells you to avoid getting hit by the hallucinogenic bliss bullets so as not to be kidnapped. But try as you might, any damage you take during or even after this encounter will initiate the kidnapping cutscene.

Even if you take out every single enemy in the area and take no damage in the actual engagement, the scripted cutscene will zip you to the capture you totally didn’t deserve.

Whether these scripted failures kick you to a game over screen or progress the narrative, as is the case in Far Cry 5, it’s not really relevant to how burned you’ll feel by the amount of time and money you sunk into preparation for a battle that didn’t even get off the ground.