Has anyone here got any funny, crazy or any other stories involving good/bad/just plain loopy RNG?
I just started running Resident Evil REmake on the GC after watching a few, and was pretty lucky with the first mansion segment. The zombie spawns were quite merciful and even when I took a couple bites I dodged well, the Elder Crimson Head lunged immediately and happy days. I got past the dogs nicely at the courtyard...then got wrecked by the big shark guarding the Gallery Key.
Also Aragog is pretty annoying at times in Chamber of Secrets.
I had that dumbass glitch happen in Resident Evil 2 where Dog Birkin can grab you above the tubes and get you stuck above the level haha. Such bullshit. I'd say it counts as RNG bc hes grabbed me before up there and I didnt end up stuck lol.
Mario Party 9 Bossrush: everything went well, even the RNG Boss at the beginning, got a timesave of 1 minute, a nearly perfect run! Just to get completely destroyed by the second last Boss due to terrible RNG. I still got the WR but it still wasn't a good time...
Rare cross drop in stage 2 of cv1 during my FUCKING race at agdq. Still triggers me. And the troll axe drop in stage 4 of that same run.
My luck is astronomically shitty.
Pokemon Red: Gen I miss'd into a Selfdestruct in Rock Tunnel.
Gen I Miss = 1/256 chance Opponent chooses moves completely randomly, so Selfdestruct = 1/4 chance 256 * 4 = 1/1024 chance
Really, really cool videogame.
Harvest Moon 64 has an "all photos" run, which is basically doing everything there is to do in the game. One of these photos requires your character to be chosen as the "king" at a certain festival. There's a character there that gives you a cake, and if there's a coin in the cake, you are the king and you can keep going. If not, you have to reset, try again, and hope for better RNG.
It's completely random, and the variable is calculated when you sleep the night before. You can't save the day prior or that variable will be stuck, so if you're not chosen, you have to reset and replay the last two days and just hope you get it this time. There's a 10% chance to get it, and it usually takes 5 or 6 resets to get it right.
So I was several hours into the marathon run when I got to this festival. A lot of this run is grinding and repetition, and I'd practiced these parts enough that my hands were kinda moving on their own while I tried to think ahead to the days after the festival. I ran into the festival and grabbed the cake, expecting the rejection dialogue.
But I get it on the first try- which wouldn't be a problem except that this never ever happens. As long as I've ever played this game, I've never gotten it on the first try. I get a quick flash of winning the festival before the screen goes blank because my hands are on autopilot and used to hitting the reset button quickly to loop through these iterations as fast as possible.
So I'm just sitting there looking at the blank screen like "why did I just do that?!", and it takes me a moment to be like "okay, it's just one reset. There's usually five or six, so one more doesn't add that much time", and I get back into it. I start the game back up, as I would have done if I'd lost the festival and run through the motions again.
The whole thing kinda woke me up, so I'm not on autopilot anymore, but it's still going to take five or six resets to get the right variable. I head back to the festival to talk to the cake girl again. I get it again! First try! Of course, I'm actually paying attention this time, so I'm not anywhere near that reset button, and I save a decent chunk of time by using only one reset on that festival.
My sister and I had this argument about what the chances of that were- whether you compound the two 10 percents or not- but I was thinking too much about the game to really get into it. I know there are some pretty rare occurrences out there, but getting two favorable 1 in 10s in a row (1% chance) is the luckiest I've ever been in any of my runs.
Thanks for sharing guys. :)
This just happened today. In the middle of a Resi REmake run, after dropping off the pesticide and picking up the death mask, the phone rang just as the mini cutscene that occurs when a door is opened came up. It was landline so I couldn't even pause, so I jumped out and answered, then found I got killed by the first zombie you encounter in the game. This isn't really RNG in the sense of the game's programming, but the timing of the phone was phenomenal.