Video: When games humiliate us with pity

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Everyone needs an occasional helping hand in a game, but usually it's a furtive visit to a strategy guide or a video walkthrough. When developers start to program failure-sensitive helping hands into their games, and we activate them - then comes the abject humiliation. "So you do this for a living?" loved ones will sometimes ask.
Hideo Kojima, for example, recently presented a new addition to Big Boss's arsenal for Metal Gear Solid 5: a chicken hat. The hat makes guards ignore you, which makes the game easier, but you will look ridiculous, and Kojima is literally calling you a chicken. As the video below shows, this is only the latest in a long and embarrassing history of games taking pity on us for being rubbish at them.
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