10 USELESS Video Game Skills You Were Tricked Into Buying

Levelling up your character can be a pretty tricky thing to master. You’re always limited with what type of skills and upgrades you can invest in, and if you don’t pick the right ones, you waste valuable points and potentially screw up your build.

Now, in most circumstances, you can learn how to differentiate between good and bad skills through trial and error. However, sometimes things are not so simple. Sometimes, games just like to play a nasty trick on you.

Every now and then, a game will present you with a skill that, on paper, looks like an absolute must-pick, but in reality, ends up being a useless and regrettable investment. Either by a deliberate decision by the developers or by a poorly thought-out gameplay element, the skill has no good application, or worse yet, only hinders your abilities.

You can never tell these skills are terrible just by looking at them. You have to experience it yourself or have someone warn you about it beforehand. And since no one likes buyer's remorse, let’s examine these hidden useless skills together to know what to look for.

Project Zomboid, the isometric zombie survival game, allows the player to create their own custom survivor by purchasing unique traits and skills. What you pick matters greatly, as you're limited in the amount of points you have to spend, and once you're spawned into the world, you're stuck with whatever traits you picked - both good and bad.

The traits are divided into positive and negative ones; however, you shouldn't trust the in-game distinctions, as some of the bad perks can absolutely prove beneficial, while a handful of the "good" ones just make things harder, like the trait "Speed Demon."

Speed Demon allows you to drive every car in the game faster than normal. The trait sounds useful and fun on paper, but in practice, it's anything but.

Unsuspectingly, driving cars at faster speeds makes them more likely to get into an accident. Not only that, at higher speeds, your accidents are more likely to be lethal.

You basically invest a point into a skill that gives you more opportunities to die in a game already filled with death traps.

Not to mention, there's no point in driving faster in a world where zombies chase after you at the pace of a leisurely stroll.