10 Video Game Where You Can Gamble To Gain Ultimate Power (Or Lose Everything)
6. Weaponsmith - Metin 2
Metin 2 is an MMORPG set in a world inspired by Far Eastern cultures. You play as a variety of magically infused classes, but the true strength of your character comes from the gear they pair up with their abilities.
It is for the same reason that everyone who’s played Metin 2 will tell you that becoming stronger in the game is less about gaining experience and more about being extremely lucky.
The only way to upgrade the weapons you gain in the game is by having them enhanced by the town’s blacksmith. Now, this may not sound too strange, but the mechanic is actually completely chance-based.
Each time you give up an item for an upgrade, the blacksmith can either improve it or destroy it, and the rarer the item, the greater the chance of failure.
To make things even more frustrating, in order to fully enhance the weapon, you have to successfully upgrade it nine times, without failing even once.
That’s like asking someone to flip a coin and expect them to get heads nine times when the coin is also loaded to land on tails.
Yes, it's really as painful as it sounds.