{"id":80851,"date":"2015-09-02T14:00:57","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T12:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=80851"},"modified":"2015-09-02T14:17:27","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T12:17:27","slug":"biggest-videogaming-trolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/80851-biggest-videogaming-trolls","title":{"rendered":"Biggest videogaming trolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trolling, a verb that best describes a person or thing that intentionally makes trouble in a game, on the internet or just generally irritates people via a digital medium.<\/p>\n<p>Within video games, a troll is a character or fellow player in which the final circle of hell is reserved for.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FQdeNDZMANI\" target=\"_blank\">PlayStation Access<\/a> recently put together a list of NPC trolls that really annoy us, so we thought it only right that we made our own list of gaming trolls, be it enemies, merchants or NPCs.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>The Riddler \u2013 Arkham Series<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Sure the Riddler is a genius and mastermind of, well, riddles, but his arrogance and complete hatred for Batman drives him towards the edge of insanity.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the <em>Arkham<\/em> Series, you have to find riddle trophies that progress you through the Riddler campaign.<\/p>\n<p>These trophies are somewhat easy to find, but when it comes to the puzzles, they are a bit harder.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B1AN1gc8-RM\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the latest <em>Batman: Arkham Knight<\/em>, the Riddler makes it his quest to irritate the living daylights out of you, be it while flying around Gotham City, or even while you are trying to complete one of his dastardly puzzles.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like he wanted us to punch him square in the face. Mission accomplished.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Toad \u2013 Super Mario Series<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>You spend hours and a dozen of lives getting through any number of stages so that you might reach Bowser&#8217;s castle and save Princess Peach from all of the evil that is about to befall on her.<\/p>\n<p>Sliding down slimy pipes, smashing through blocks with your face\/head, dying over and over again, and finally dodging fireballs from Bowser himself.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r229PMwhV_I\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And yet, defeating Bowser so often resulted in little to no reward.<\/p>\n<p>As Toad stands there, giving you the middle finger, you realized that once again Princess Peach is not in this darn castle.<\/p>\n<p>That darn Toad lives to troll us; it&#8217;s like he doesn&#8217;t even care.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>The Cryptarch \u2013 Destiny<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>So you&#8217;ve spent your entire evening playing through strike playlists, and you&#8217;ve done the one weekly Nightfall that is \u201csupposed\u201d to guarantee a rare piece of gear.<\/p>\n<p>You are now ready to go and decrypt that legendary engram you got from the Nightfall, and all those blue engrams that you got from those strike playlists.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WGJ5tyqDa3k\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As you take your treasures to the Cryptarch, the anticipation rises as you expect a Hawkmoon from your legendary engram, and maybe one or two pieces of legendary gear from those blue engrams.<\/p>\n<p>Lo and behold, you get the same gloves you&#8217;ve already dismantled a thousand times before.<\/p>\n<p>There goes you weekly chance of getting an exotic gun, and all in exchange for varying colours of disappointment. Can someone end this Cryptach\u2019s life please!<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Crota \u2013 Destiny <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>You&#8217;ve just spent an hour getting to the end of the Raid, Crota\u2019s End. It&#8217;s 1AM and all you want to do is kill this oversized skeleton, but Crota is in the mood to mess around and obviously you will need to tire him out before you can kill him.<\/p>\n<p>Think of him as a little child that has eaten way too many Rascals right before bedtime, you know you are not going to sleep anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CYyv67IaV1Q\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>From jumping off of the ledge to chasing your ass down, to warping and smashing you flat into the ground, Crota just needs to take a chill pill and die when we want him to.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>The Other Player<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dvLub0UJcO8\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Is there any worse troll out there than the other player on the other side of the world? From the teabagging, to being blocked in a room that is about to expire (and by expire we mean explode), it&#8217;s all really rather annoying.<\/p>\n<p>Or how about while being pushed off a ledge while invaded in <em>Dark Souls<\/em>, it\u2019s all one huge laugh until your avatar loses an eye.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, we can point out every feature in a game and NPC out there that wants to hunt us down and frustrate us, but it is really just you and I who are the biggest trolls in gaming.<\/p>\n<p>Who are your biggest video game trolls? Let us know in the comments and forum.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>There&#8217;s more where that came from<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/80739-indie-games-we-just-cannot-wait-to-play.html\">Indie games we just cannot wait to play<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/80627-top-5-most-hilarious-fake-consoles.html\">Top 5 most hilariously fake consoles<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/80531-5-open-world-games-that-we-cant-wait-to-explore.html\">5 open-world games that we can\u2019t wait to explore<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A troll is a character or fellow player in which the final circle of hell is reserved for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":213,"featured_media":80853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[11688,15677,5524,3180,1464,15675,15679,15673,2384],"class_list":["post-80851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-arkham","tag-crota","tag-destiny","tag-feature","tag-super-mario","tag-the-cryptarch","tag-the-other-player","tag-the-riddler","tag-troll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80855,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80851\/revisions\/80855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}