my parents call me  a useless unlockable as well

Skyrim has a perk that gives you a copy of a key to a lock that you've unlocked. Why would I want a copy of s key to a lock I've already unlocked.

In the original Final Fantasy 1 for NES, the Intelligence stat just straight up isn’t coded. There is no line in the game’s code that pulls from the Intelligence stat making it straight up completely useless

Every game with unlockable skills got the:
- +5% poison resistance while in water.

- Movement upgrade that makes replaying the game a drag until you unlock it again.

- Two skills that are really powerful together because two different devs came up with them.

Psychonauts 2 gives you unlimited ability cooldowns... after you've killed everything and 100%'d the game. Enemies do not respawn.

Skyrim speech tree has the final perk making it so you pass every speech check no matter what, the problem is there’s only 3/4 in the game and you have to get your speech to 100 with multiple prerequisite perks so by the time you do all that you’ve already passed every possible chance to use the perk

Jack from Borderlands Pre-sequel (the playable body double) had the skill Inspire in his 'The Hero of this Story' tree. Inspire occasionally has Handsome Jack give the player words of affirmation, or insult players after a respawn. Mechanically, it does absolutely nothing.

In South Park: The Stick of Truth, the perk "Let It Slide" seems useful, as it makes debuffs last one less turn than usual, until you realize that the Cure Potion does that instantly and is $1 at the City Wok, and Tweek Bros. Coffee, and is pretty common being found in most chests and enemy drops, even technically being free if you count buying your supplies from Canada, as they use a different currency there,

A personal pick for me is the ability to aim in Just Cause 3. Yes, the ability to AIM. In Just Cause 2, you could do it by default, but for some reason they decided it should be an unlockable skill in the next game. Keep in mind this is the game series where you fly around with a grappling hook and wingsuit and you have ludicrously strong auto-aim anyway, and the unlockable aim removes that aim assist. Especially bad when you compare it to other skills like ALL vehicles getting a nitrous boost + jump, planted explosives becoming rockets, making your grapple hook strong enough to down helicopters, and the DLC even gives you rocket engines on your parachute.

Doom 2016 has some pretty bad ones as well. Mainly the praetor suit upgrades. Ooh, a damaging burst after a powerup wears off, that'll be good for all like 6 powerups in the game. Especially when half of them are berserk powerups that give you insta-kill anyway. Made even worse when a later upgrade makes the powerup last longer, guaranteeing you'll have killed every enemy before it runs out and does the burst. Or the weapon upgrades. A scope on the assault rifle, or the sniper mode of the gauss rifle. Compared to mini-rockets or siege mode, the single strongest upgrade that melts anything in 1-2 shots. (And can get infinite ammo with specific runes)

fallout 4 has a perk magazine that marks diamond city on your pip-boy map...diamond city, the biggest settlement in the game that every player is required to go to to progress the story. its not even hidden or anything, you can spot it from the moment you come out of the vault, and chances are you'll already have gone there long before you ever find the magazine

Some more awards should go to the Hotline Miami unlockable secret masks, including:
- Two that make the game harder.
- One that turns up the gore and does nothing else.
- One that gives you a weapon which is slightly LESS effective than your bare fists.

For the Shadow of Mordor, I thought you were gonna mention the Shadow Mount for the reason, but the fact they just didn't exist in the last gen versions is much funnier.

I remember back in WoW when we still had the original talents these were called "noob traps" as they were something a new player might waste their points on but a veteran would know to avoid as they were either useless or there was just options that were so much better that they utterly overshadowed those choices.

If throwback reset the timer, it would at least have a use case. I always end up with an explosion in my face.

I dropped my phone in the sink right before you started coughing. I yanked it out and you started coughing I started laughing so hard.

Morrowind spell making will allow you to craft 0 point spells that do nothing. "I cast 0 points of Levitate!" And then you just sit on the ground.

Next video should be "Useful Lockables in Video Games"

I'm a big Deep Rock Galactic enjoyer, so my pick for a useless unlockable perk is "It's A Bug Thing". The game has these harmless creatures called Loot Bugs that just crawl around and are kinda cute, but they drop a bit of resources on death. Good as a last resort, but not much else. It's a Bug Thing makes them die instantly upon you walking to them, meaning no ammo lost. This would be pretty okay, but you only have 3 passive perk slots. If you took Bug Thing, you couldn't use:
Vampire: Health on melee kills
Resupplier: Resupply ammo faster and resupply more ammo
Sweet Tooth: Mining the ore that heals you, Red Sugar, heals more and gives speed
Born Ready: reloads weapons automatically when they're put away for a few seconds

In exchange for one of those, you get to not spend ammo to kill a passive creature for a bit of resources. By the way, you can just hit them with a melee a few times, which also uses no ammo. This perk is in the last tier of the perk tree, by the way. It's not entirely useless, but it might as well be.

I'm constantly shocked by how small this channel is. Considering the very high production values, interesting choices for video topics, and how good your voice sounds. Very much enjoyed this one, keep up the good work!

I say this in the best way possible, this gives the energy of early top 10’s YouTube videos, the delivery as well as how you introduce the next unlockable (showing the in game menu and letting the viewer read it instead of you giving a voice over right away), keep up the good work!