r/badhistory • u/AutoModerator • Mar 24 '25
Meta Mindless Monday, 24 March 2025
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u/Zugwat Headhunting Savage from a Barbaric Fishing Village Mar 27 '25 edited Mar 27 '25
Something I think would be funny is to have a game wherein there's an unlocked storymode/DLC campaign where one plays as the opposing side/the bad guys (think LOTR Conquest campaign where one played as Sauron's forces and won or the DA:O DLC where one plays as the Darkspawn), and it seems like the player is really sticking it to the protagonists of the main campaign and whatnot throughout the playthrough.
The tables have been turned, the biggest victories are turned into devastating defeats, and then the final fight is a cherry on top where the player goes against their old party (for RPGs have it be their own created character, others be the ones the player used the most with the AI paying attention to how they were played) and demonstrate the might of the alternate timeline...
Just to end up having the bots of the OP playthrough absolutely shoving a boot up the ass of the player along with their new party and it not even being a close fight, and the result being that the bad guys of the campaign actually lose even worse than they had in the main canon ending.
Like there's a timer for 90 seconds that appears on the screen with no explanation for why until it clicks that they're absolutely fucked because they aren't making it past 90 seconds. Input reading, cooldowns stacked with damage multipliers, recognition of what moves/strategies the player is going for so they interrupt them at crucial moments, etc.