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Random Loot is Random
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fox
about 12 years ago
rare*
fox
about 12 years ago
interesting, nobody mentioned LOTRO yet.

there you can have a shiny lock-boxes as a loot drop, but the drop rate of keys to open them is so rate the only viable option is to buy them from the cash shop :-)
js
about 12 years ago
In WoW, I once got a thorium lockbox opened only to find another thorium lockbox inside the first lockbox.
Hammerdin
about 12 years ago
Diablo II was the master of this.
Andrew Hall
about 12 years ago
Have you been playing Solomon's Quest?
Sjcodan
about 12 years ago
@Mr. Al: how'd he lose money? he still has the key
Mr. Al
about 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_121599]@d[/url]: well he lost money. keys aren't really that expensive, but it still stings when these things happens
brocoli
about 12 years ago
Well, at least it wasn't an unidentified cursed scroll of punishment.
d
about 12 years ago
Well at least in this instance the player hasn't really lost anything...
atata
about 12 years ago
yep. Opened a locked chest in Amalur, found 1 lockpick.
Blu Mage
about 12 years ago
I was hoping for a second it'd be a Mimic
FW
about 12 years ago
In Skyrim all you do is pick the lock. Keys are for lesser mortals... or quest-specific locks.
Someone
about 12 years ago
Binding of Isaac in a nutshell: Open chest, get something useless. Blow up random rock, gain incredibly useful item.
Marielx
about 12 years ago
Steam in a nutshell
Nikari
about 12 years ago
Like everyone already said, Isaac. Buy key, open chest, get lit bomb. Every time, every day.
AEIOU
about 12 years ago
in some other RPGs, you'll need a specific key to open the chest only to get a key for a lower tier chest
Charlie sheen
about 12 years ago
You guys just don't get the forth dimension aspect of it. I understand because im Charlie sheen. I got tiger blood , i got magic at my fingure tips. If im in it it's a smash if it's not it a turd that opens on a tug boat!
L
about 12 years ago
v SO MUCH WIN!
MagusX2
about 12 years ago
Your Epic loots are in another castle...
Paul
about 12 years ago
Binding of Isaac
Jake'm
about 12 years ago
@BLU Scout: Here's the fun thing, though: I've HAD that happen to me before! It was a freakin' matryoshka chest that sapped your keys!
TheBaron87
about 12 years ago
Hopefully it was a D3 key so poor not-Link can quest somewhere where the random loot is free.
Triv
about 12 years ago
@Destructoid editor: Cod sucks ass tho, starfox is where its at! lololol
Uncle Ben
about 12 years ago
Remember, with micro transactions gaming will go down the shitter. remember that, gamers. remember that. and don't forget to buy your official amazing spider-man triple action web blaster! "batteries and web sold separately"
Destructoid editor
about 12 years ago
I am so sick of retro gamers enjoying their childhood classics and classics they missed out on in the past! DEATH TO snes, nes, genesis, game boy, dreamcast and anything else that does not play COD!
IGN Editor
about 12 years ago
I don't get it. MOAR BRO game humor! call of gears duty theft auto halo, bitches! don't forget to give up your rights as consumers and swith to the cloud so corporate america can fuck you up the ass and take you whole collection of games away at will, gamers! WHOOSH! you favorites are gone.
niko bellic
about 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_121307]@Roman[/url] For the last time i don't want to go fucking bowling!
Roman
about 12 years ago
@niko bellic Hey cusin! want to go bowling?
Talcon
about 12 years ago
>You bought key for 500 gold
>The chest contained 250 gold
Tk
about 12 years ago
Master locked regular chest in skyrim. Took 7 picks to open.

7 picks inside...
SaliantSunbreeze
about 12 years ago
At least you didn't waste the key. Just one less chest for you to deal with.
An Onymous
about 12 years ago
It's funny cause it's true.
Mouse
about 12 years ago
Random loot is best controlled. Find something nice early by chance, sure, but not MegaEndGameDeathSwordOfGloomAndDoomAndThingsThatGoBoom+11. That should only show up in the secret post-game dungeon of Dexter's Lab, and should only be a 1/882777010489288485790 from secret boss treasure chests.
Madplayer
about 12 years ago
Looks like Kingdoms of Amalur loot system :)
USAF_Son
about 12 years ago
This pretty much sums up Diablo II locked chests.
-_-
about 12 years ago
That chest is a mimic!
Anon E Mouse
about 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_121218]@Slim[/url]: Nope. It doesn't. Check the UESP.
about 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_121245]@Dusk[/url]: Keyception!
Vulpis
about 12 years ago
You played Star Trek Online, SirRandom?
Dusk
about 12 years ago
Yo dawg, I heard you like keys, so I put a key in yo chest so you can key when you key.
Phil
about 12 years ago
You like random loos where you can find something awesome? You don't mean something like the first story:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/LegalCenter/story?id=985438&page=1#.T1JJa-V7VhE

Was vacationing in Conway when it happened and saw it in a local paper, kind of disturbing.
SirRandom
about 12 years ago
I used to play this one MMO where you had to buy in-game cash to get a 'chance' on getting something useful.

Kinda like how TF2's crate system works, but there were far more crap items in that MMO than in TF2. Besides, I don't uncrate in TF2 anyway.
Miguel Young
about 12 years ago
ha, curti
tenho gostado dessas tirinhas com os personagens pequeninos
Nuckel
about 12 years ago
I sort of dislike games in general that have keys, crates and other useless items in the loot pool. Especially if you got to spend real money get some of those or open them. That is just one more attempt to milk the gamers.
Slim
about 12 years ago
Morrowind was kinda cool because chest loot was partially determined by the Luck skill. SO boost your luck and you'll find some pretty sweet gear.
Dan Sidney
about 12 years ago
You really really really really really really need to play Castlevania: Harmony of Despair. Then we'll talk.
Lunaluxlepus
about 12 years ago
I kinda even enjoy that kind of disappointment in RPG, you know. Even shitty 'loo' is a part of an RPG experience!
Davtwan
about 12 years ago
Screw games with too much random elements. If I wanted something where luck decides the majority of the game, I'd waste my $5-$20 on a slot machine.
BLU Scout
about 12 years ago
@Jake'm: Oh that would be freaking beautiful.
Nerfnow
about 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_121167]@vash_ts[/url]: A full run takes about half an hour so starting from scratch was not bad. If the 1st couple of levels didn't give me something good, I'd restart right there and cut my losses.
Schrikvis
about 12 years ago
Binding of isaac.
They should have made a babby mode where you can save.
Shidoshi
about 12 years ago
reminds of Binding of Isaac.
Bugamn
about 12 years ago
So, a random loo for desperate adventurers in dungeons?
Jake'm
about 12 years ago
And then you have treasure chests that contain locked chests... that contain an even smaller locked chest within them.
vash_ts
about 12 years ago
binding of isaac was nicely done, but starting from scratch every time was hell to me...
about 12 years ago
Sixth, haha. Also, if only this were the case for tf2, open crate get key back.
Fenixius
about 12 years ago
[url=#user_comment_121163]@Kyong[/url]: Binding of Isaac is exactly what I thought of when I saw this. Love it. Looking forward to Wrath of the Lamb, too!
Kyong
about 12 years ago
Damn you, Binding of Isaac.
Fourth
about 12 years ago
Watchyup.
Third
about 12 years ago
sup
Second
about 12 years ago
I was here
First
about 12 years ago
First?