Unintentionally Broken Characters in Video Games

Hey guys! I'm back with another video! I know I said that I would have this out by Wednesday at the latest, but I ended up drowning in school work, so I finally managed to get this out today. Thank you all for your patience.
Today, I'm looking at characters in video games that were unknowingly made extremely powerful, to the point where it makes you wonder how the developers didn't notice the first time around. We're going on a power trip, boys. Enjoy!

[@CoralCopperHead]

...You listed Oddjob as "unintentional" despite the fact that he was _entirely_ intentional. The devs went on-record in very early interviews saying that "Using Oddjob is cheating, he's there so players who suck can play and still have a chance."

[@kumatorahaltmanndreemurr]

As someone who sucks at a lot of PvP games, I gotta pay respect to Rare for that

[@Mudathan]

Pichu is there for the same reason but with the opposite path. Nerf the better player instead of buffing the weaker player

[@niksimmons4448]

There is a counter pick to Odd Job. Scientist #2 is the same height.

[@Luca_rbf]

Mario party is absolutely a fighting game. Just not the kind that you're thinking of

[@montyturner6511]

K.

[@jakeupl8615]

K.

[@sirspookybones1118]

K.

[@olsmellyknuckles9653]

I’m too late.

[@thatrandomcrit5823]

K.

[@CaseyEm]

Shrek on the gameboy is the way the movie was intended to be watched

[@robyn-anneelfenbein666]

I disagree. I cut my Gameboy in half to put the disk in and it didn't work!

[@MattTOB618]

​@@robyn-anneelfenbein666 No, you misread; they said _on,_ not _in._ You were supposed to set the disc on _top_ of the console.

[@makeitthrough_]

​@MattTOB618 Hello you, I'm Guru Larry! Here's five things I've put on me bum

[@DashingPunkSamurai]

Shrek is hate!

[@snickrdoodle_skywalker]

​@@DashingPunkSamuraishrek is death

[@travis8106]

Lets be real Plumber Mario also has a 6 figure salary

[@swishfish8858]

Dude moonlights as a mercenary that keeps getting hired to retrieve top-ranking government officials captured by foreign terrorists and warlords, even without the plumber salary I'm sure he's rollin' in the dough.

[@arthurbarroso4152]

​@@swishfish8858 let's not forget the part which he saved said officer also in another different planet(super mario Galaxy) , that's dedication

[@JoshuaKayle]

Salary? He’s a small business owner.

[@transorm987]

For a long time, Pichu is has not been considered the worst character in melee. Kirby and Bowser are far worse, most of kirby's throws can be escaped from merely be wiggling the control stick (which seems more unintentionally broken).

[@ArbitraryOutcome]

Yeah, I think Pichu still at least had some of Pikachu's strengths going on due to being a clone. Kirby was just straight up non-functional half the time (a stark contrast to Smash 64, the only game where Kirby was not just "good" but straight up top 3) and Bowser's characteristics in his laggy movement and attacks combined with his size work entirely against him. It's funny because he's at least been "okay" after his Smash 4 rework, meanwhile fellow heavy character Ganondorf was actually okay in Melee only to infamously end up bottom 3 (bottom 1 in Brawl and Ultimate) in every subsequent installment.

[@QuantemDeconstructor]

I coulda sworn you can also escape a few of them by pressing jump too

[@The_Big_Jay]

Kirby's grabs being escaped seems intentional, because the ones you can escape can all sewer slide off the edge, taking your opponent with you. They probably thought that was too broken. And literally nobody is bringing up Game and Watch, a character is literally programmed incorrectly.

[@SECONDQUEST]

​@@The_Big_Jaywhat. Gotta look into game and watch

[@seansquiers6506]

​@@SECONDQUESTGame and Watch's model was somewhat copied from Dr. Mario's (I think?). TLDR G&W's shield literally doesn't cover his body. He also can't L-cancel any of his aerials, the only character in the game with that flaw.

[@jazz-e-ternity]

I remember when I tried playing fallout 4 I suck at FPSs so combat was a pain for me, and when I found Codsworth I thought sweet I found my quirky robot this is fun. It didn't even click that he had a chainsaw so when another combat started and he charged in revving up the blade I just stood there doing nothing but watching my butler mow down a mob like it was nothing

[@CoralCopperHead]

Did you get to the part where you were rudely awakened by him being entirely incapable of dealing with anything beyond basic raiders and wildlife?

[@russianbear0027]

I found him to be quite deadly and useful as a support for a melee character​@@CoralCopperHead

[@InternetArchive1]

​​@@CoralCopperHeadThats why you get the automatron dlc, and make him into a literal tank.

[@WretchedRedoran]

Did you forget about VATS when you started the game?

[@forgotagoodname2717]

holy shit why can't the fallout fandom can't go for one comment without instigating a fight

[@Gooner333333333]

There was a female character that was the same height as Oddjob. She was 1 of the extra characters that had a blank picture

[@Encephalophage]

I gotta wonder how many kids figured this out in the 90's and circumvented the "No Oddjob" rule with it

[@jokerofspades-xt3bs]

the character is civilian (the first one) and yes while she is shorter then average she isn't quite as short as oddjob

[@CoralCopperHead]

@@Encephalophage Probably the same kids who used Mr. Blonde in Perfect Dark as if he's any easier to headshot than the classic Maian Body/Human Head combo.

[@del3496]

It's also worth mentioning Boone from Fallout New Vegas That dude can literally wipe out Legion Assassins early in the game like it's nothing

[@vogonp4287]

Yeah. Sometimes I'm jumpscared by someone getting headshot when I didn't expect it. I don't even have to know that there are enemies. He'll just take out anyone instantly.

[@del3496]

@@vogonp4287 That's why I avoid using Boone, he makes most of the fights too easy He's a beast even in unarmed combat in the cassinos

[@Copperyfoxx]

Yup. I’m not the most talented of gamers. Acquiring Boone is basically my highest priority when I start.

[@del3496]

@@Copperyfoxx I think that's his entire technical function: assist early game trolling until you get way too strong

[@dragonace119]

ED-E plus Boone is just an absolutely brutal combo. Though Raul with the Medicine Stick easily deletes even deathclaws.

[@thegatorhator6822]

The phenomenon of Fighting Game DLC characters being INTENTIONALLY busted out the ass for like 3 - 4 months until patched (and the next busted character is released to replace them) is about as subtle as a brick to the head.

[@shis1988]

Steve: *maniacal laughter*

[@bigbananadealer846]

its like star wars galaxy of heroes. best character ever is released but only krakens can get it and by the time free to play peoplr get it hes no longer meta

[@CharaTF2]

its either that or theyre a bad or mediocre character until something is discovered or a massive balance change

[@thegatorhator6822]

@@CharaTF2 In recent years it's been obvious they release them very broken to push sales then patch them down just in time for the next one. FighterZ had LOTS of examples. Mortal Kombat does it. TEKKEN does it.

[@endplanets]

Where my Ned Flanders from Simpson's Wrestling. Homing projectiles that circle the map for like 20 seconds and you can have like 8 up at once. Or his lightning spell which calls in lightning strikes (which stun and deal high damage) every 3 seconds for 30 seconds, and you can have like 4 of them up at once.

[@NemesisOgreKing]

Stupid sexy Flanders.

[@RipperCyclotron]

You forgot to mention you need to kill him twice because he gets revived with full health. He is pretty much a boss character.

[@gyrozeppeli4862]

@@RipperCyclotron that's just Christian powers

[@Austin-gj7zj]

@@RipperCyclotron he has rizzen

[@jrr2117]

I’ll give them this, MJs missions are more fun than the first game. But her being so insanely better than Spider-Man when dealing with the hunters is ridiculous. And she just eats tranq darts, while I’m pretty sure Miles gets hit by the same kind of dart and passes out. Like what lmfao

[@emperorfaiz]

@@SimoneBellomonte Don't forget to do your homework after you're seething over an harmless opinion.

[@svenmsandity3973]

google supports their presidential candidates by giving their hate groups messages a voice while shutting down people questioning it

[@darkspawnsenior9488]

@@emperorfaiz Clowning isn't seething, Spider man 2 is preachy garbage. No matter how good the gameplay is it wont make up for the clown story.

[@CoralCopperHead]

@@darkspawnsenior9488 "Plot in a video game is like plot in a porn movie: it's expected to be there, but it's really not important." ~John Carmack, Masters of Doom (May 2003)

[@darkspawnsenior9488]

@@CoralCopperHead Yeah, and if the porn video you were watching insulted you and the actors lectured you on how your porn tastes were patriarichal, you'd probably shut it off before you got to the sex.

[@JJAB91]

I don't think I've ever heard anthrax referred to as simply "a bacterial infection" before.

[@punishedwhispers1218]

Oddjob is overpowered because every female is Lady Dimetrescu to him

[@aidenb7444]

He has not played Guilty Gear, he has no idea how bad things can really be.

[@NCEYSPT]

Sol Badguy

[@CerealExperimentsMizuki]

My mistake was trying to use Baiken for the whole game.

[@AlmightySmorg]

⁠@@CerealExperimentsMizuki Your mistake was playing with one hand

[@CerealExperimentsMizuki]

@@AlmightySmorg yes you spelt out what I had implied.

[@Emerald_Raven08]

​@@AlmightySmorg that just makes it more immersive

[@typicalcheeto8871]

5:47 Holy shit, it's Anthrax.

[@NaoyaToudou]

getting ptsd watching this video. i feel like i'm watching one of those old PBG ranking videos

[@Ghostguy693]

MY MAN PBG WAS THE SHISH AS A KID

[@josephbilderback4549]

May I ask why PTSD?

[@itsjojohnnyyyy]

Holy shit Naoya Persona 1.......

[@rosemaryjones5550]

Oh feck I forgot pbg

[@xenotiic8356]

Not sure you know what PTSD means

[@BaxterAndLunala]

There's another advantage that Oddjob has that wasn't mentioned: regardless of the mode, Oddjob always has a one hit kill weapon in the form of his hat.

[@LedYouAshtray]

215 people believe this lie, unless you're talking about later games Oddjob never uses his hat in GoldenEye 64

[@CoralCopperHead]

The misinformation spreads. The first time I saw Oddjob use his hat was the Wii reimagining.

[@LedYouAshtray]

@@CoralCopperHead exactly

[@freedustin]

Oh Oddjob...yeah that's why we don't disable the mines.

[@frosch409]

This was from James Bond 007: Nightfire, not Goldeneye 007.

[@LivingArkly]

"Despite this, however, whenever a quality video game based on the Shrek universe is released, it usually ends up exceeding expectations by at least a fairly moderate margin." Brother, this needs an editing pass god damn.

[@Clouditivity]

wdym?

[@gustavolopes5094]

This gave me an aneurysm. Man, such a bad sentence. Says literally nothing. I assume this meant "there are some hidden gems", but it didn't even communicate that.

[@amberhernandez]

"Despite this, whenever Shrek _does_ get a good quality game, it handily exceeds expectations." I gave myself thirty seconds to write an alternative sentence.

[@gustavolopes5094]

@@amberhernandez That's much better. But I think the existence of the sentence itself is still a problem. If most of the games are bad, then it directly, immediately follows that if one isn't, it excedes expectations.

[@davisvoelzke8011]

1:00 Marth wasn’t in smash 64, so roy wasn’t a clone of a previous character. He was a clone of a character from the same game

[@cshift620]

Yeah, I probably should’ve clarified that in the video. I knew they both appeared in the same game but I think I must’ve forgotten to put something like that in the script. Still, thank you so much for watching, and thank you for the correction!

[@robertsides3626]

The thing about Perfect Dark is that you were able to swap head and bodies in multiplayer. So you could offset the giant Elvis head for an even skinnier version of small Oddjob. Turning the game into am arms race of dwarfs in skintight gray suits duking it out.

[@IAmTheSaladMan]

I’ve never heard one person call Goldeneye ‘Goldeneye 64’

[@TheDrizzle56]

In the 90s we called it 007 or Bond usually, in my neighborhood anyway

[@kiamichisonger1263]

I have lmao

[@yordansic]

Literally everyone calls it that.

[@SomeDudeWhoIsntDead]

7:42 c-shift when he discovers games can have multiple genres.

[@Kazmahu]

I'm surprised this isn't doing more numbers. Your production values are really good and you have a great sense of humour. Keep it up!

[@Cheefqueethfr]

I’m high asf so I’m just sitting here enthralled in the video and the pointless information I’m taking in, I love it and I subscribed. Let’s watch you grow OG

[@jacobengland6443]

Dude same; I watched a more recent vid of his and I subbed immediately

[@AnonymousAnonposter]

DUDE!

[@theoneandonly-qs1uw]

can we get much higher

[@thespectacularspider-man2549]

Mary Jane was intentional, direct line from one of the people running the game was: "We need to make Mary Jane a capable Hero, and if She's overpowered? Ehh, I don't really care... People wanted us to cut down or remove the Mary Jane segments, but She's necessary for the story we want to tell."

[@MustacheOnMars9]

Something that this video fails to mention about Harley Quinn is that in stealth, her ledge takedowns are instantaneous, are performed quickly, have almost no cooldown/endlag, and despite being classified as a "Loud Takedown," are actually silent and her only silent takedown (likely a glitch/oversight). Very, very useful in Endless Knight.

[@CloakedOccultist]

One that i'm VERY surprised didn't make it on this list is Salvador/Gunzerker (Borderlands 2). Easily the best character in the game for various jank reasons, but partly due to a broken interaction with his core ability, Gunzerking. While gunzerking, you're able to dual-wield guns, however special weapon effects are shared, or carried over between both weapons. A popular example is using the Lady Fist which has a hidden +800% critical damage multiplier and being able to put that on any weapon in the game. In the past it also used to be way more powerful, as you were able to carry damage stats from your right hand weapon to certain left hand weapons that had unique projectiles (again, a popular example being a high damage rocket launcher main hand and then the Pimpernel, a sniper that has it's bullets split into 5 upon hitting something, in the off hand to gain the damage stats of the rocket launcher). Honourable mentions to Zer0's B0re which lets you effectively one shot some bosses as it makes your weapons pierce and increases their damage multiplicatively, and Maya's Cloud Kill which will instantly melt anything below the highest difficulty levels.

[@empdisaster10]

Maya's cloud kill also doesnt scale based on your weapon but instead your level making it so you can use a slag weapon with high effect chance like the slagga and just rely solely on cloudkill since theres barely, if any enemies with corrosive resistance/immunity and the few things that do you can just switch to a different weapon for

[@GeneralSouthParkFan]

Gunzerking becomes even more broken under the realization that it breaks the few balancing factors Salvador does has, like how Money Shot's bonus relies on your magazine size (which completely breaks for any gun on your left hand, which allows for builds like Deputy Salvador/Pimphab Salvador to exist). Or how some unlisted projectiles like the Pimpernel or Flakker just take on the damage properties of your currently held gun (a fact for the former that would be conventionally useless instead proves busted because Sal can hold a high power launcher & Pimpernel simultaneously). I could probably go on for an eternity as to how Salvador is probably a prime example of being walking bug abuse, but that's kinda already obvious to plenty of folk as is. In the Borderlands franchise, I'd probably say that Sal ranks 3 in terms of having the most busted theoretical damage formula. Amara & Zane likely tie due to Amara's access to double dipping, & Zane being similar with Boresplosion existing. If we're talking purely minimum effort maximum results, nothing possibly beats out Boresplosion Zane though. Complex Root, Splash Radius Passive on a Hustler CoM, & Eraser will let you deal ungodly damage without having to care about aiming. Imagine having the bullshit damage of B0re, alongside Gaige/Nisha's playstyle of blindly spraying enemies, & you have the most ungodly build that has ever been conceived in the franchise (only balanced by the specific class mod being a nightmare to farm). The Mind Sweeper + Pull The Holy Pin combo on Moze can also be said to be functionally similar to Boresplosion, but it lacks the same consistency & Moze is outright blocked out of Complex Root abuse due to no built-in ability to negate self-damage like Zane has with Duct Tape Mod. Deputy Salvador/Pimphabbing at a bare minimum still requires aiming at stuff to achieve its broken amount of damage, but Boresplosion does not, which is weird as hell to say because Zane as a whole is otherwise far more involved to play than Salvador (Unless you try to replicate Salvador's shenanigans with Clone like using the Grease Trap for some busted fire explosions, or effectively infinite ammo through his ammo regen anointment on the top of my head).

[@bigchungus6827]

@@GeneralSouthParkFan I wouldn't exactly say conventionally useless. Gun swapping is by far the most broken on sal, but shooting a flakker then swapping to ahab will still delete most bosses in the game on any character. Also, moze is, as far as damage formulas go, the most broken char in 3 imo, just by virtue of almost every damage modifier you can think of double dipping on short fuse, and the ability to force it to activate if you know how to count your shots. For general use, though, Complex Root is the most egregious example, yes.

[@GeneralSouthParkFan]

@@bigchungus6827 When I said conventionally useless I referred to the Pimpernel in specific, as it's impossible to really swap to a Rocket Launcher to abuse its projectiles taking on the properties of a launcher like the Durp or World Burn. Also yeah in general, Moze is the easiest character to break in BL3 thanks to Short Fuse abuse especially with investments to Splash for really nice double dipping (Ties that Bind Amara has access to potentially Quadruple Dipping with Ties That Bind/Indiscriminate/Remnant, which can be especially powerful when you fully invest in elemental boosts and Splash, but TTB completely lacks the ability to handle single target as does a standard Blue Tree Moze build) She's also the only one to my knowledge with a limitless damage ceiling as the Mind Sweeper CoM can constantly create microgrenades provided you proc Pull The Holy Pin until the enemy just dies. Eraser on the other hand can only create a new projectile as many times as until the game realizes they're Eraser projecties, stopping the chaining entirely. Boresplosion nonetheless has a degree of high damage consistency that the Mind Sweeper lacks, which is insane given that this is Moze we're talking about, the character I just vented about having a really damn good DPS floor. Boresplosion is just a uniquely busted build for Zane all around, & using the Complex Root alongside makes it more braindead than any other build in the game.

[@bigchungus6827]

@@GeneralSouthParkFan While I generally agree, apart from not liking Complex Root abuse due to extreme retinal damage, in my personal experience, Moze is the most consistent in one shotting bosses, and that's mainly due to Short Fuse, as I said. Obviously, outside of that there's a ton of other extremely powerful setups (I think I've one shot everything in the game with white elephant amara, even after that setup has been heavily nerfed), and even some weapons like the charge up rocket launcher (Kickcharger? I can't remember the name) that can potentially do enough damage to one shot most enemies in the game without passive trees. And of course melee damage conversion with Fish Slap (Combined with Guardian Angel for even easier complete annihilation of bosses), Face Puncher... that's also comically busted. Tl;dr, whoever was balancing BL3 was asleep on the job.

[@isauldron4337]

Mary Jane was intentionally made op in Marvel spiderman 2

[@danii7120]

Wakasagihime!!!!

[@lonelyteapot858]

"I want you to go back to 2001" 💀

[@Gringle9coolguy]

"Sir, a call came in.... "

[@emo-nordegraf]

mr president, a second final smash has hit the second tower

[@swishfish8858]

the Brits in the audience having flashbacks to "Your majesty, there's a second bus coming!!!"

[@cosmicspacething3474]

*ceases existence

[@ChargeJN]

“oh shit, BIONICLES.”

[@danielwilson8604]

pichu also benefited from the introduction of the rage mechanic, once you hit a certain amount of damage you get an attack bonus, which pichu can induce at will, never needing to be hit by an opponent.

[@knotvocalcovers5436]

You are such an amazing content creator!!!! The amount of effort you are putting into a channel with not a lot of attention rn shows how much you just love creating entertainment and it shows! Please never stop these are SO QUALITY!!!!

[@punishedwhispers1218]

Eh he calls Smash a fighting game so, 0/10

[@seansquiers6506]

​@@punishedwhispers1218Found the Tekken nerd

[@svenmsandity3973]

google supports their presidential candidates by giving their hate groups messages a voice while shutting down people questioning it

[@sierracrowe3473]

It'd be nice if he could actually explain some of these choices. I don't play fighting games, so I'm still lost on how Pichu was "unintentionally broken" in Smash Ultimate. I figured the first character he'd mention would be Ice Climbers, as they're ACTUALLY unintentionally broken in Melee.

[@Yesnaught]

That pikachu/pichu comparison made me remember Pikaman

[@Dr.Appleboi]

Bro, I binge watched all of your vids and you’re hella underrated, I really hope you get popular soon cus your video quality is gold.

[@JustAGamerFromGlasgow]

It was great to see the jump in subscribers from 60 odd to almost 1000! These videos are class!

[@thesucc990]

Great video dude! If you're ever planning to do a part 2 of this, you should check out Salvador from Borderlands 2. He's considered to be the most broken character in the series primarily due to spaghetti coding.

[@thomasdixon3334]

This was so entertaining for such a small channel, keep up the good work and I see you going places ❤

[@tylerdavis3]

Dude I watched a couple of your videos and I figured you had at least a couple hundred thousand subscribers, I can’t imagine you won’t fairly soon if you keep at it.

[@Dovah_Slayer]

Making codsworth a sentry bot is my favorite thing ever (curie is pretty good when you give her power armor and a super sledge though)

[@spagheleton]

this is a great video! you deserve a lot of subs :)

[@mildlystable5083]

Your content is solid. Seriously, your editing and commentary is amazing. Keep it up

[@KitKat_293]

god powered red riding hood is completely in keeping with the shrek lore and spirit. love to see it

[@Femboy_Grey]

Good work on hitting the algorithm :3 enjoying the videos

[@Ghostguy693]

7:35 Sorry to be the "Uhm, ackshually" guy, but iirc Sakurai confirmed that Smash is supposed to be played as a party game first and foremosr.

[@crowMilatonin]

You think being 5'4" is bad? I'm 4'10"

[@CoralCopperHead]

Being short is an advantage. You can get places big people can't, and you can escape grabs more easily. I'm 5'8 and I wish I was closer to *_3'_*

[@coltonwilkie241]

Kick the baby

[@LarsOfTheMohicans]

Greetings, stout Dwarf. How goes the mining and brewing in your mountain home?

[@snartboy5000]

can you fit under the sofa

[@jakescartoons6045]

Okay, the Oddjob thing isn't that big of a deal. You don't have to hold the ADS button to aim down. You can just aim down by pressing C-Down (assuming you're using 1.1 controls). And if you're using 1.2 controls, just press down on the analog stick. Again, not that hard.

[@TheJacklikesvideos]

the only accurate Oddjob info in this thread.

[@Tuvok_Shakur]

I started out playing Turok and playing goldeneye this way was natural to me, no one i played with thought oddjob was OP lol but we all used 1.2 so we could actually aim up and down

[@PainisMusicOfficialNotSpizheno]

"Just like war, Codsworth never changes." That's one terrifying line.

[@GenghisConnThr333]

"Spider-Man 2 is fantastic" HAHAHAHAHA

[@jameson1465]

xbox d rider?

[@GenghisConnThr333]

@@jameson1465 Never owned an Xbox in my life lmao.

[@xobunnyfangsxo]

Ah yes nothing more hilarious than having an opinion

[@coltonwilkie241]

He meant the Spider-Man 2 game based on the movie.

[@LoafyMolasses]

pretty sure they made a character the size of Knick Knack from the Man With the Golden Gun, but then just put a oddjob character map on it because they knew nothing about the source

[@Nicksolvo]

It’s been a WHILE since I laughed so much at a video. A majority of your jokes landed, and you earned a sub 👌🏼

[@saltdriven9137]

You have a cute editing style. Love the little quips

[@dungeonpastor]

Minor clarification, a stun gun is a non ranged version. A Taser is the ranged one. English is weird.

[@matsuringo24]

Oddjob is also fun as hell in Nightfire since he has a throwable one hit kill hat that seems to be heat seeking. I loved throwing that thing across the snow gondola map.

[@diale13]

Just beinged all your videos, great content my man :D

[@TheFaresamin]

Dude I just noticed the sub count you really should keep at it you're gonna blow up soon. The vids are super entertaining and well made

[@memetan_24]

You can hear the smash player in the way he talks i bet bro doesn't even know what okizeme is

[@skapokonroll]

A character that I feel would absolutely fit this list is Penta Penguin from Crash Team Racing (the original). The thing with Penta is that he was added as a last minute addition and has very weird things regarding him (he has some placeholder voice lines, has a random mask between Aku Aku and Uka Uka...). And while in the American version he's just a regular racer, in the Japanese and European versions he was incorrectly given the stats of Nitros Oxide, the final boss of the game who's not even playable in the PS1 version. This means that this silly penguin who only appeared in a cutscene in Crash 3 is the best racer to play as in the game if you're Japanese or European!

[@1Myojin]

another great video man!

[@huyphan7825]

I'm still mad Pichu wasn't kept top tier. Would've been the perfect joke character comeback

[@jhudaeapayton6863]

this video goes hard, bro needs more subs

[@PhantomSavage]

There was another Bond game that came out in 2002 called Nightfire that also had a multiplayer mode... Oddjob was also one of the playable characters. They fixed his height... but they also gave him a unique throwable weapon, his hat, that was an instant kill. It wasn't even a one-time weapon, you just had to pick it up again and continue using it. For context, some shotguns weren't even an instant kill in Nightfire's multiplayer, in fact the only two weapons in the game that were an INSTANT kill was The Golden Gun, which was locked behind a game mode, or Oddjob's hat.

[@hotelmario510]

Nightfire ruled. The last level was impossible but the multiplayer was one of the best on the PS2 in my opinion

[@Galvamel]

Oddjob was not broken, and he wasn't small to make Jaws look bigger, the developers confused him with Nick Nack, who dressed the same but was a dwarf.

[@SergioPDhe]

Neat Video! Some things i would correct through - While Melee Pichu's self-damage doesn't help, it's actually just a minor weakness for the character - so much so that Pichu does fine in Ultimate despite having the same mechanic. The self-damage just isn't that much, and most of his strongest moves in melee (most notably Neutral Air) don't inflict self-damage. The bigger issues imo (which were buffed in Ultimate) were bad range on his attacks (a weakness shared by Pikachu) and lackluster damage output and kill options (Which pikachu has with Up Smash for high% and Up Air for low%), as well as an absolutely atrocious tech-roll. I'm not an Ultimate player, but IIRC Pichu had a very strong combo game and Forward-Tilt as a solid kill option before the nerfs which took away these weaknesses.

[@homerogordo5548]

Freddy instead of cyrax? What a rare world we lived

[@thesalmonorchestra651]

Over Kabal too, arguably the strongest character ever made in the series in his MK9 iteration

[@lmcgregoruk]

8:04 Pretty sure Rare just confused Oddjob and Nick Nack, remembering that one was short and one had a killer bowler hat. Then conflating the two together.

[@thembosupremepizza1827]

i notice the audio clipping on each cut, hope you get better about this in the future bc i love ur content

[@E_blanknamehere]

In 2001 I didn’t have much time to think about smash on the Game Cube. Most of the year was spent growing in my mom

[@houyo]

"I want you to go back to the year 2001." Me too, buddy. Me too.

[@trevorkun25]

very funny, loved the format of list but with your sense of humor, i lol at the divorced chainsmoker reference

[@dudemankewl6291]

Woah! Shocked how little subs you had. Glad youtube been suggesting smaller creators lately. Got a few laughs from your video and subbed. Not all hits, but this seemed like a gem. I kinda came in negative like "Oh god! This dork talking about the same stuff with the same lame takes." But I think I was just being negative.

[@bloon104]

12:58 Codsworth is top tier in not only being your companion. But also cracking that algebra joke

[@ladyibis580]

Seeing Oddjob in the thumbnail was what brought me in. I remember just how cracked he was in multiplayer, being so short and hard to hit. Pair that with good strafing skills, playing with Oddjob was too OP and my friends and I quickly banned the use of him. XD

[@fatyoshi696]

Launch baihe in tfh is a contender for one of, if not the most ludicrously overpowered fighting game characters ever conceived, which is wild considering she came out just a few months ago. She's intended as a high mobility zoner, with various projectiles that cost magic to use which you restock using her armor stance and either tanking a hit with it or playing the reload timing minigame it has, but that's about as far as what was intended goes, because they gave her a few unfathomably busted mechanics that made her basically impossible to deal with. First off, there's the armor stance. The armor was active frame 1 and cancellable into from almost anything including specials, which is already pretty strong, but they also made it cancellable into dashes, jumps, and most importantly back into specials, which means that you could loop special -> armor stance -> special for infinite blockstrings, and whenever you wanted you could just cancel the armor stance into an instant airdash for a left-right mixup at absolutely any time. There's also another major oversight with the armor stance: remember how projectiles cost magic to use? Well if you cancelled into them from armor stance, no they didn't. If instead of just throwing the projectile you did armor stance then immediately cancelled into the projectile, you could ignore the magic cost for basically no downside, making baihe's zoning infinitely stronger than it was ever meant to be. Plus, baihe's projectiles also had another unique property, which is that they didn't increase the hitstun scaling, giving her completely effortless infinites off of almost everything so if you got hit just once by her, which is easy since she has really strong mixups, the round was probably already over. The one move that propels baihe from your usual overtuned top tier into worthy of being considered the number 1 most busted fighting game character in existence though is siege cannon, a super strong, super fast projectile that's crazy plus on block and full combos from anywhere on screen at the cost of your whole magic meter, but you guessed it, with the armor stance trick you could skip the meter cost. It's hard to put into words how unfathomably busted this is, at any point during a blockstring baihe could just siege cannon then go for any mixup she could imagine with no cost and no risk, if you got hit you got infinited to death and if you blocked it she could just do it again and you'd eventually fail to block and have to eat the infinite. You weren't safe at long range either, her absurd zoning made siege cannon especially scary since you're already trying to fight through the projectiles to get to her, and if you ever failed to block a siege cannon, regardless of the distance, she could get an infinite off of it and just win. If you ever got hit by siege cannon, you lost on the spot. If you blocked it close range, you also lost on the spot. Siege cannon has no counterplay other than praying they don't use it when you're unable to dodge it, it might be the single most busted move in any fighting game ever. And as if all of that somehow wasn't enough, baihe also had one more instant win card in her pocket: if you tiger knee'd any of her specials (at the end of the special move motion, do an upwards input as you press the attack button) she would become fully invincible for the move's whole duration... for some reason. This lets you use any special move on wakeup freely, and while you can't do the armor stance trick with it you can do wakeup tiger knee special -> armor stance -> siege cannon to instantly win the game if your opponent is near you and blocks it or gets hit, as well as stay invincible for literally the entire match if you can keep inputting the tiger knee specials frame perfectly. So basically yeah launch baihe was one of the stupidest characters ever conceived and it's what you get when you lay off the whole dev team partway through QA, I didn't even mention some of the other busted stuff she had like the best anti air in the game by far, the projectile reflector kick that can reflet your own projectiles and launch them crazy fast, the upwards moving special that can be used infinitely in the air so you can air stall forever with it, and the fullscreen level 1 super that also crashed the game if you tried to through it but this should get the point across

[@nils6831]

great editing, keep it up

[@AdamantineAxe]

Once you turned off auto aim, and switched to yellow button aiming Oddjob was more of a liability with a slightly larger head hitbox because of his hat. No-one picked him twice.

[@solouno2280]

Same happened with zoo tycoon 2 that put Chapultepec zoo in TIJUANA

[@TheJacklikesvideos]

all your typical body shots would be headshots. he was super easy to counter. at least with Jaws, people would have to go extra out of their way to get headshots.

[@Wackstunn]

My dad knew how broken Oddjob was, and chose to use him. My older brother knew how broken Oddjob was, and chose to beat him. I did not know who Oddjob was because we didn't have Goldfinger on VHS, so I called him the angry chinese man.

[@unexpected9370]

just found your channel. i liked the video good job i'll stay around

[@raub_hase]

nice videos man. greetings from germany :)

[@kumatorahaltmanndreemurr]

One of my favorite examples of this trope is Magolor in Kirby Star Allies. He’s got an insanely diverse arsenal of attacks, including a screen-sized sword that can _shred_ bosses’ health bars. And if that wasn’t enough, he has a fully invincible guard (most characters take chip damage when guarding) and a teleport that can be stretched out long enough to just ignore certain bosses’ attacks. The Three Mage Sisters are almost as busted as Magolor, but they have to be unlocked by getting the good ending in the DLC campaign. Magolor is unlocked by simply playing through the main story

[@bowserknight]

The thing about Oddjob is, in one of the next 007 games, called "Nightfire", its multiplayer mode also had Oddjob as a playable character. In that game, he had a special weapon which only he can use. Once per stock (if I remember right), he could throw his hat which just instantly kills any enemy it touches. I think it also had slight homing capabilities. I can't recall if he was also smaller in that game. So he was somewhat broken in 2 games, not just one.

[@MewsSnep]

Ya I was just about to comment that myself. I swear that heat seeker missile of a hat could just be launched across the map to get cheap kills on your older brother lol

[@Blundabus1337]

"2023 is a monumental year for video games" I like how the entire list is sequels, starfield, and small ass indie games that have maybe 5 hours worth of content.

[@xobunnyfangsxo]

I'd rather have 5 hours of content than 100+ hours of slop lmfao

[@Blundabus1337]

@@xobunnyfangsxo Back in the early 2000s it was 100 hours of content. It's not a monumental year unless a good AAA new IP comes out.

[@MyHandleIsAplaceholder]

Pizza Tower is not that small

[@SaenGaems]

the soying over spiderman 2 killed a pretty good video, idk how anyone can think 2 was better than the first in anything other than gameplay variety.

[@wildfire9280]

Well… better to warn you than say not to worry about him.

[@themememaster7844]

I never thought i would hear music from "Spiderman friend-or-foe" in any video nowadays. Thank you

[@zepharcher]

Gonna need the name of the banger song played during the SuperSlam segment 🙏 great video!

[@JacobTheCroc]

Smash Bros Melee was made in 13 months and that's considered small amount of time. Meanwhile Like A Dragon Gaiden was made in 6 months at the same time LAD Infinite Wealth was being worried on. Wild to think about it.

[@Frank_144]

I died when the announcer said ANTHRAX

[@KingRoni1222]

Insanely over the top based pick of music at exactly right here --> 20:36 I recognize Spider-Man : Friend or Foe's soundtrack wherever I tread!

[@daiyahigashikata]

"i want you to go back to the year 2001" sure! (de-ages until i disappear)

[@MobiusRosa]

Most likely won’t mention it here because it’s so obscure, but the version of Maria in the Sega Saturn version of SOTN is incredibly busted. She has a dragon helm on by default (increases your damage), and has multiple overpowered spells, one of which will just make you immortal

[@lordcrimson913]

Upon release, Mesa in Warframe was stupidly broken as her ult was literally an aimbot with unlimited ammo that would kill ANYTHING in the players' vicinity, you didn't even have to see them on screen, if the enemy could see YOU, they were as good as dead. She's been reworked and now you actually need to aim her ult but it still nukes any room she's in.

[@DEFRaven]

You put codsworth over McCready? MC was bugged for a long time and gave 100% headshot chance in vats while you were in stealth.

[@DEFRaven]

Also Freddy over the most broken Netherrealm character to date, Kabal?

[@lychenthrope]

This is such a nostalgically formulated video. I feel like its the early 2010s again. Sighs wistfully.

[@TheFaresamin]

The spider man friend or foe music triggered strong nostalgia. I used to play the vs mode with mom before school. It was a really fun game

[@Hakasedess]

Can't believer you didn't bring up MacCready in the fallout 4 section, who before being patched allowed you to, get this, fire ANYTHING (including nukes) with pinpoint accuracy in vats... at any distance so long as you have line of sight. Like literally any distance. This includes distances where, without him, you could not even get target lock.

[@MCDexpo]

What the flash game Super Smash Flash 2 did with Pichu is amazing. When he hits a certain damage threshold, similar to lucario, his attacks are VERY amplified

[@Eevee860]

Also, ultimate gave pichu aura, so he gets stronger each time he hurts himself

[@RainingMetal]

Oddjob gets another unfair advantage in another 007 game: Nightfire. While he's so short that his hitbox becomes a recurring issue to shoot at (that distinction belongs to Nick Nack in that game), he has a unique weapon to his arsenal: his hat. It's a one-hit projectile that regenerates over time.

[@ShyestofGuys]

Was so interested for codsworth i watched the whole video. A big thing not mentioned is that his str is 9, pe 10 and his health is 195 base. The reason he drops off late game, especially in the base game, is because his energy resistance is a 5 and his defense is that of girded leather armor otherwise, and late game when you're dealing with constant synths and lasers this means he is very very weak and gets chewed to death. The rest is here though so that's good.

[@thunderguy111]

it's crazy that even when talking about games released this year the jokes feel like they were written in 2014

[@Garr3ttGuy]

That Spider-Man Friend or Foe music on the SM2 section was unexpected but welcome