20 Unlucky Moments That TOTALLY Ruin Your Game
Even the best player cannot save themself from bad luck in these games!
Video games would have you believe that skill can solve everything. If you're bad at the game, you lose, but if you just practice long enough, eventually the game will reward you for your efforts with awesome prizes and special new powers.
However, as great as it would be to live in this purely skill-based reality, the truth is that not everything is up to your own competence. Sometimes, luck can be just as important, and if you run out of it, no amount of practice can save you from what's coming.
Losing in a game can be heartbreaking, but what's really going to shatter your very soul is losing because of an impossibly bad streak of misfortune. You might do everything correctly and overcome every challenge and still have the entire experience ruined by a randomly generated accident.
A bad dice roll can cause you to miss out on the best ending or even kill off your character. The following moments can destroy a perfectly good run, no matter how well you play, all because of bad luck.
Whether they make or break you is entirely up to chance. You just have to trust the RNG gods.
20. Realistic Deaths - Kingdom Come: Deliverance
Kingdom Come: Deliverance prides itself on its realistic depiction of medieval Bohemia, but its dedication to authenticity can sometimes go a little too far.
If you need convincing, just take a look at the game's hardcore mode.
Kingdom Come’s hardcore mode is a special extra-hard difficulty setting where you begin the story with two permanent debuffs and most of the quality-of-life features taken away.
That is, provided you even manage to start a new campaign on hardcore mode.
The developers thought it would be a funny idea to include special random events that will prematurely kill your character, mimicking the abysmal survival rates of average medieval peasants.
Whenever you start a new hardcore campaign in Kingdom Come, there is a 90% chance you will be greeted by one of the several instant game over screens, describing how Henry didn’t even make it past his infant years in all their gruesome detail.
The good news is that after you read the game over screen, you can immediately try starting the hardcore campaign again.
The bad news is that if you were planning on bragging about having zero deaths in Kingdom Come, your perfect streak was just ruined by a random dice roll.