8 Video Game Skills You Wished You Never Bought

And finally, we end on a skill so utterly useless that not even the original creator of the game knew what it does.

Say hello to the Combat Shooting skill from the cult classic and highly underrated first Wasteland game, which seems to have influenced the Fallout series' love of having useless skills by having the absolute king of them within their own title. What it does is, well precisely nothing, and when asked about what buffs this ability provides, Brian Fargo the games creator responded with something along the lines of "what the absolute living hell are you talking about mate?"

Now broken skills aren't all that uncommon within video games thanks to the constant shuffle of code and conflicting departments all implementing their sections at once. Still, this one is particularly strange as it appears as a skill you can choose on the character creation screen of the DOS version, meaning that it was clearly meant to be important, as after all you're putting it front and center for the player to engage with straight away.

After searching through the game's files, data miners and code jockeys came up short as to what the skill actually does, and even the name is confusing, as aren't we already shooting in combat?! WHAT ARE YOUR SECRETS?! Thankfully though this was fixed for the sequels, and even made into a joke in the remastered version of the original game, where the skill still does nothing, but at least you get an achievement for it.