History ArtificialStupidity / OtherGames

** The AI in ''Tag Force 2'' is considered one of the worst examples of this in a ''Yu-Gi-Oh'' game, to the point where it seems like the game [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard is actively trying to sabotage your efforts]] when you play a tag duel. A clear example came from a ''Tag Force 4'' ([[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PshGl7E2NG0 video here)]], when the AI used [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Prideful_Roar Prideful Roar]] against [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Clear_Vice_Dragon Clear Vice Dragon]]. The AI paid 2800 Life, took more than double that in damage, and promptly lost.

* ''Website/{{Akinator}}'' can be surpisingly daft at times, since he doesn't really understand the questions he's asking (they're all user-contributed); as a result, he may keep asking you almost identical questions, or directly opposite ones ("Is your character real?" followed by "Is your character fictional [[ViewersAreMorons (does not really exist)]]?") Of course, he'll ask if they have black hair and then ask if they have blond hair, plus the always entertaining "Asks if they're from one universe, is told yes, guesses a different universe". This is likely the only program to think ''Franchise/MassEffect'' and ''VideoGame/{{Halo}}'' are the same universe. And sometimes it will ask you if you've met/said hello to the character ''after'' you've confirmed it's a fictional character or dead historical figure. Apparently it believes you might be ''Literature/ThursdayNext'' or a time traveler.
** Mind you, [[YuGiOh depending on the character,]] they may actually have both black hair and blonde hair.

* GoldenAxe. Good game, [[http://epicgoldenaxe.ytmnd.com/ comically bad AI]]. Enemies will often suicide themselves without your "help". The most effective way to beat Duel is to get 2 enemies on opposite ends of the screen and keep fly kicking off them, like a pendulum swinging left and right. Mario enemies are smarter than this.

*** Force of Nature was similar-it had 8 Power, 8 Toughness, and had Trample (and extra damage above and beyond a defending creature's toughness hit the player-usually extra damage is wasted). This was at the expense of 4 green mana every round, or Force of Nature did 8 damage to the player. Destroying land, however, is tough, but one card made it easier: Living Lands. Living Lands turns all Forests (which PRODUCE the vital green mana) into 1 power, 1 toughness creatures. The AI was more then happy to fling these pipsqueaks at you. You can see where this is going...

** Then you have Mokuba, for whom this trope is invoked ''intentionally''. [[WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries What a digital dummy!]]
*** To give you the idea of how dumb he is, his second strongest monster is [[PromotionalPowerlessPieceOfGarbage Kanan The Swordmistress]], a normal monster with 1400 ATK and 1400 DEF. He summons none of his monsters in defense mode, letting you just keep knocking them down. His entire strategy is to draw ''one'' monster, Cyber Stein, which has the ability to summon a fusion monster. This is the only way you can lose to him, cause if he does this, he'll summon ''Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon''. Which he will gleefully prompt to crash and burn into your obvious Mirror Force/Sakuretsu Armor/Maneater Bug/Penguin Soldier/etc. Or even worse, into your more obvious Magic Cylinder, which will cause him to ''kill himself'' without fail[[hottip:*:Activating Cyber Stein costs 5000 life points. Magic Cylinder causes an attack by your opponent's monster to be cancelled and the ATK of the monster to be substracted from his life points. BEUD has 4500 ATK. A normal match has a player begin with 8000 life points]].

** The AI in ''Tag Force 2'' is considered one of the worst examples of this in a ''Yu-Gi-Oh'' game, to the point where it seems like the game [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard is actively trying to sabotage your efforts]] when you play a tag duel.
*** For instance you might have a monster that can't be destroyed in battle while it's in attack position, and a trap that stops all damage you take as long as you have a monster out, effectively making you invincible while that trap is out, as long as you ''don't'' switch that one monster to defense position. Your partner will switch her to defense position as soon as your opponent plays a monster with more attack then her.
*** The best example came from a ''Tag Force 4'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PshGl7E2NG0 video]], when the AI used [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Prideful_Roar Prideful Roar]] against [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Clear_Vice_Dragon Clear Vice Dragon]]. The AI paid 2800 Life, took more than double that in damage, and promptly lost.
*** While the AI is occasionally competent during duels, it gets really bad during the minigames. For instance, Tag Force 2 features a 'dodgeball' minigame, it's basically a matter of using different forms of ammo to KO 2 AI opponents. Unfortunately, several characters are prone to standing directly behind your character and throwing a bowling ball (1 hit KO)
** In ''Dark Duel Stories'', the AIs have a bad habit of offering high-ATK monsters as tributes to summon something just as strong or even weaker, example: Offering "Jirai Gumo"(2200ATK/100DEF; it is interesting to note that this is the strongest LV4 monster in the game, plus he is stripped of his detrimental effect) as a tribute to Tribute Summon "Catapult Turtle" (1000ATK/2000DEF). Might I also add the AI will also tribute monsters which have been equipped with two spell cards without hesitating, so if he powered up his "Tripwire Beast" to 2200ATK/2300DEF and also had Mountain activated, increasing the original ATK/DEF by 30% to a grand total of 2560ATK/2690DEF, it's not unsurprising for the AI to tribute it for a weaker monster such as "Morinphen", a LV5 monster with poor stats (1550ATK/1300DEF).
*** The AI also likes to use monsters who have lower ATK than DEF to attack, as long as the ATK is at least half the DEF. Sometimes, Yami Yugi will use "Megamorph" (which acts like a universal Equip card, increasing a monster's ATK and DEF by 500) on Mystical Elf just so that he can attack... with 1300 ATK.
** It's important to note that the AI in most ''Yu-Gi-Oh'' games varies from Cheap to downright stupid. When they're cheap, they're somehow able to see your hand and somehow draw the ''exact'' right card(s) to counter it...
*** Also, dueling the anime/manga characters, they can somehow see the defense of a face-down monster before it's flipped and will decide whether or not to attack it based on a stat it shouldn't know yet (of course, it'll sometimes wait a turn, summon another monster and then attack with the same weak monster they hesitated with anyway).
*** Another thing the AI will do, which can be called the "fake out dance" is to know a monster's high defense before it's flipped, but keep summoning monsters too weak to destroy it and apparently fake it out. Not too horrible, until they'll do this even if you have stronger offense monsters out. And they'll keep doing this until they lose.
** There's also its inability to judge the worth of cards in its hands, meaning that it discards randomly whenever an effect makes them do so, which can often make them cripple their entire strategy by eliminating their most important card.
*** To wit: The AI has three cards, which consist of a weak monster, a strong monster whose level is too high to be summoned, and a spell which makes the user discard a card but would let him summon the stronger monster. The AI will, 50% of the time, activate the spell, discard the stronger monster, and then summon the weaker monster which wouldn't need the spell in the first place.
*** However, it's averted in later games, where the smarter computers will only throw out a strong card if they have something to revive it. If they have this strategy, they ''will'' use it.
** ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'''s Duel Transer/Master of the Cards is also not immune. The AI Computer opponent you have unlocked initially has a few decks that are easy to overcome, but for some reason it likes to set off a combo of Waboku and Hallowed Life Barrier. I'll break it down: Waboku stops you taking damage that turn and stops your monsters from being killed, Hallowed Life Barrier is basically the same, except you need to discard a card to activate it, and all it does is nullify battle and effect damage, not protect monsters. I can see why it can help to prevent taking effect damage, but it's still a pretty stupid combination.

** The AI will sometimes use Premature Burial or Call of the Haunted to summon Gearfried the Iron Knight. For those who are unaware, either of those cards can be used to summon a monster from the Graveyard, but the card is then equipped to the monster; if the card is destroyed, so is the monster it summoned. Gearfried destroys any card that is equipped to it automatically. Yeah...
*** Even more humorous because Premature Burial costs 800 life points to use.

** There's a similar problem with the 1997 ''MagicTheGathering: Duels of the Planeswalkers''. Sometimes, the computer can come up with masterful combos and expert tactical plans. Other times: they sacrifice their last point of life to [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=371 Pestilence]] in order to kill some [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=189878 Llanowar Elves]], and summoning a [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=193868 Lord of the Pit]] and then doing nothing with it, meaning it eats all the computer's monsters and starts on the computer's life total. In particular, it will only attack if the creature is guaranteed to survive the creatures you have out or it has enough monsters to zerg you to death. This means that it doesn't, for example, fling expendable creatures at you to whittle down your forces, even if those creatures have a significant upkeep like sacrificing a creature.
*** In fact, this game had such huge AI weaknesses (and no multiplayer mode) that they defined gameplay. For example, the Psychic Venom card means that the computer takes damage when using a land, but the computer completely ignores it when choosing which land to use. The Spirit Link card causes a creature that attacks to heal you rather than doing damage, but the computer again will ignore it and keep attacking, and even cast spells on the creature that increase the damage it deals (which, in the presence of Spirit Link, would instead increase the healing). The Mishra's Factory cards, forms of land that can turn into creatures on demand, are ignored by the computer when considering what creatures you have, meaning it will launch attacks with weak creatures that are suicide when the Factories can block them. Of course, all of this was made somewhat redundant by the fact that you could tap the opponents' lands for mana burn...
** In Yugioh: Dungeon Dice Monsters, any character not found in the anime will just summon around their Heart Points and will eventually use up all their summons. They will then be unable to do anything, allowing you to have a many rolls as you need to summon anything. The Exodia pieces can be summoned this way, and by summoning then all, you get an instant win, and the AI is powerless to stop you.
*** You can beat ''anyone'' in the game with an equally inane strategy. There are summonable "items" in the game which take the form of chests. Only the summoner knows what's in the chest, and it activates when a monster passes over it. The AI will ''never'' run over your chests, in the expectation that it might be a trap (and, to be fair, it might). However, it is possible, by spamming cheap summons, to block your opponent so that the only path to your heart points is through the chest. At which point, the AI will helpfully sit around, waiting for you to kill them.

* ''Website/{{Akinator}}'' can be surpisingly daft at times, since he doesn't really understand the questions he's asking (they're all user-contributed); as a result, he may keep asking you almost identical questions, or directly opposite ones ("Is your character real?" followed by "Is your character fictional [[ViewersAreMorons (does not really exist)]]?") Of course, he'll ask if they have black hair and then ask if they have blond hair, plus the always entertaining "Asks if they're from one universe, is told yes, guesses a different universe". This is likely the only program to think ''VideoGame/MassEffect'' and ''VideoGame/{{Halo}}'' are the same universe. And sometimes it will ask you if you've met/said hello to the character ''after'' you've confirmed it's a fictional character or dead historical figure. Apparently it believes you might be ''Literature/ThursdayNext'' or a time traveler.

** Old versions of Jeopardy! for PC in the early 1990's had the AI contestants buzz in and answer in complete gibberish. The answer pool was so small that pulling a wrong answer from that could clue the player in another time.

* Exploiting the ArtificialStupidity of the guards in ''LodeRunner'' is very useful, with some levels relying on it. For instance, you can position yourself on a ladder so they climb upwards when you're directly below them.

* [[http://www.elementsthegame.com/ Elements: the Game]]: Some light spells have ReviveKillsZombie. On lower difficulties, the AI ''doesn't know this''. Cue your digital opponent vaporising his own creatures.

*** To give you the idea of how dumb he is, his second strongest monster is [[PromotionalPowerlessPieceOfGarbage Kanan The Swordmistress]], a normal monster with 1400 ATK and 1400 DEF. He summons none of his monsters in defense mode, letting you just keep knocking them down. His entire strategy is to draw ''one'' monster, Cyber Stein, which has the ability to summon a fusion monster. This is the only way you can lose to him, cause if he does this, he'll summon ''Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon''.

* Computer controlled helpers in ''VideoGame/{{Kirby}} Super Star'' have their uses, but don't expect them to live very long. Fortunately they're easy to replace.
** Similarly, your AI allies in ''VideoGame/{{Kirby}} and the Amazing Mirror'' can be counted on for jack squat. They'll mill around in random areas, getting random abilities [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard (including abilities not in their current area)]], and if you call them to your side...well, it's usually for one of three reasons: a boss fight, the fact that they bring health-restoring food with them, or one of them somehow snagged the [[GameBreaker Smash]] ability and you're just waiting for them to screw up so you can use it yourself.

* In many electronic versions of ''TabletopGame/{{Monopoly}}'', AI opponents are programmed to accept trades based on the value of the properties offered, rather than the situation. (Ex. getting an AI player to give you the third Orange property in exchange for a single Green property). While a human player can exploit this shamelessly, it also works when the AIs trade with each other, leaving you watching helplessly as one AI trades Boardwalk for a light blue, a purple and $25.

* Video games for ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}!'' have a particularly poor track record in this area. While some of the games' [[WhatAnIdiot idiotic]] moves can be justified by the fact that the AI couldn't possibly know the identity of your facedown cards, and that the kind of analysis that would allow a player to even make the right guesses can be really difficult even for human players, some of the cases are a little more obviously ArtificialStupidity.

** Yu-Gi-Oh 5D's Duel Transer/Master of the Cards is also not immune. The AI Computer opponent you have unlocked initially has a few decks that are easy to overcome, but for some reason it likes to set off a combo of Waboku and Hallowed Life Barrier. I'll break it down: Waboku stops you taking damage that turn and stops your monsters from being killed, Hallowed Life Barrier is basically the same, except you need to discard a card to activate it, and all it does is nullify battle and effect damage, not protect monsters. I can see why it can help to prevent taking effect damage, but it's still a pretty stupid combination.

* In many electronic versions of ''BoardGame/{{Monopoly}}'', AI opponents are programmed to accept trades based on the value of the properties offered, rather than the situation. (Ex. getting an AI player to give you the third Orange property in exchange for a single Green property). While a human player can exploit this shamelessly, it also works when the AIs trade with each other, leaving you watching helplessly as one AI trades Boardwalk for a light blue, a purple and $25.

* One animated board game for MS-DOS called ''Hexxagon'' was indeed a lot of fun. Pit red gems against chrome drops on a hexagonal board in deep space. Landing next to your opponent's pieces would transform them into your own. The hard Craniac was usually pretty good, but when it was running out of spaces to go, it tended to make stupid moves such as jumping pieces into spaces it could have cloned into and in the process of doing so, often opening up holes allowing its opponent to capture some of its pieces. These stupid moves usually cropped up when the Craniac was losing, so it rarely changed who won the game, although if you had been narrowly losing to it, such a move could turn the tide in your favour. On lower difficulties, the Craniac also tended to make stupid moves much more frequently, but in those cases, it was expected behaviour.