10 HIDDEN Things Developers KNEW We Would Try 

In Portal you can use a Portal to make a rocket launcher shoot itself. You actually get an achievement from the Devs saying “We thought of that.”

I would love a ranking about most complex AI enemies/NPCs that included RainWorld!

The time travellers in Bioshock Infinite are great, they have so many little details that are just so cool. When they ask you to call the coin they flip, they mark their board with Heads. It looks like every time they flip the coin, it comes up heads. But if you look at the coin, it is tails. They aren't keeping track of the coin result, they're tracking your character, who had called the coin to be heads.

I'm surprised the Fable Demon Door puzzle isn't in this. Fable has a demon door with some stones around that you need to hit that correspond to different letters and you have to decipher his name from the stones. His name is HITS, but if you type in "SHI#" instead, he whispers it and a pack of Balverines (werewolves) spawn to fight you.

My favourite was near the beginning of "Shadow Complex" (2009). Your girlfriend gets kidnapped and you're supposed to infiltrate a secret military base to rescue her - but if you go back to the car that you both arrived in, the game lets you choose to just leave. Our brave "hero" says "Plenty more fish in the sea" and nopes on the whole thing; the credits roll, game over. Evil, but so funny 😄

I love that the devs for Metroid Dread knew full well that players would figure out how to sequence break the game and get items early, so they threw in some treats like a few extra action scenes and other ways to damage a boss. Very much a dev team that knows their players

I still think the far cry series giving the player a early ending where the player can just walk away is interesting.

Seeing Elizabeth in Thumbnail feels so nostalgic. I miss BioShock.

In Portal (the first game), Test Chamber 14 has a way to bypass the entire puzzle. When you enter, there's an elevator platform higher than you can reach. Drop a portal in front of it. Then go up the stairs and turn around; when the stairs retract into the floor, drop the other portal down there and jump in. You'll pop out with enough momentum to get onto the elevator. The developers' commentary brings this up, stating that during playtesting people figured out this trick -- and they decided that, this far in, they would allow anyone who figured out this bit of ninja action (or just listened to the commentary to be told how).

In Fallout 4, Codworths is the only NPC that calls you by your name, and the devs included some sillier names, too. Which is super great!

Actually in the original version of RE4, the boulder you use the dynamite on in there can be blown up with a rocket launcher. I'm thinking the developers were smart enough to remember this and put it in the remake as a result.

One more. In Hades when you meet Charron to buy stuff sometimes there is a large bag of cash off in the background, if you take it like the devs knew you would, you'll piss Charron off and he'll drag you to an arena where you have to fight him, and he is one of the toughest enemies in the game that already has some pretty brutal enemies.

I honestly never thought about shooting at the Luttece twins in Bioshock Infinite. 🤣

Man Futurama the game was a hidden gem at the time, main reason is me being in love with the show.. This is the first time i've seen it featured on Gameranx and I appreciate it!

I like the fact that Deadpool stretched censor square to hide all of his... *you know.*

I think i played Infinite at least 10 times and i actually never shot the luteces. Didnt knew about the dialogue, thanks Falcon!

In the original Modern Warfare 2 you are forced to restart after the game detects you intentionally killing friendlies, even if it's General Shepard during the training mission on "S.S.D.D." The case is still the same in the remastered version, but now you get an achievement/trophy titled "Precognitive Paranoia." While we're on this subject, you can also get the "Colonel Sanderson" achievement for killing seven chickens in ten seconds in "The Hornet's Nest" mission.

With the Breath of the Wild ball rolling shrine, I always just angled the whole thing so that the ball would roll off the ledge next to where it drops in, and then go run over to it in person, freeze it in place and then smack it with a hammer and basically turn it into a golf minigame. Way easier to do than even trying to flip the whole thing over.

One game that comes to mind is the original Yoshi's Island. That one piranha plant boss can be sniped with some effort before the boss room dialogue starts, and Kamek will be in shock and just leave without doing anything, ending the stage.

I love how in Witcher 3 you can do all of the romance options without being left alone at the end. Some dev just thought maybe the player would just skip the whole Novigrad questline, take the boat to Skellige, romance and break up with Yen, then go back to do both Novigrad and Triss, so romancing both of them shouldn't necessarily trigger the fake treesome scene.

The problem with being able to end the village scene quicker in the RE4 remake is it is only useful in the game plus mode. Having a pistol only the first time through the game will not work with the bell (at least it did not for me) so the cheat is useless until you beat the game.

I love bioshock infinite soo much and the dlc 😭

I remember figuring out I could flip the platforms completely over in the shrines in breath of the wild I felt like a damn genius as I did the puzzle basically standing on my head

Throwing bottles at the NPCs in the safe zone of Dishonored. Their reactions are priceless.

It would be hilarious if Rockstar puts an easter egg in GTA VI for Herbert Moon, he could show up as a shopkeeper in the game!

Hideo Kojima’s big idea pool is so deep that became very unpredictable.

There's a theory circulating that Herbert Moon made a deal with the devil and he's actually immortal. That's why when he's eaten by zombies in Undead Nightmare he's saying something like ' I'm Herbert Moon, I'm not suppose to die'

In Fable, in Knothole Glade you have to hit 4 obelisks in order to open a door for a quest. The letters are I, H, T, and S. And if you "type" in a certain vulgar term, itll spawn balverines(basically angry werewolves) to attack you

The MgsV Fulton ride is actually the best way to S rank a few particular missions and escape from a hard boss early

The RPG skip on Resident Evil 4 (Original) is definitely possible. You can shoot the rock that is blocking the path with an RPG and go straight in to the fight with the El Gigantes, instead of doing the cart dynamite puzzle bit, and fighting all the enemies.

When deadpool was on his phone taking a shit, i was on my phone taking a shit. Thats some crazy shit right there.

While the wrecking ball section can't be skipped with the rocket launcher in the original Resident Evil 4, the boulder can. I know because you can still grab the dynamite and have it stuck in your inventory for the rest of the playthrough.

I found the Botw puzzles fun. That ball one has many solutions apparently. I used the physics to ride the walls and it only took me like 4 tries

These gameranx videos give me life 🔥

I figured the rocket launcher skip in RE4 pretty quickly but I'm sure plenty of players beat me to it.

Tunic is such an underrated game that's fallen under so many people's radar. If you've not played it and enjoy old school Zelda games then you're in for a treat.

When you have 5 testers playing your game 40+ hours a week for 6+ months, they've already tried everything by the time the game releases. Whether the devs/designers make changes in reaction to the testers can vary.

Forgot to include the chimes in GOW Ragnorak. Hit the chimes so many times that it annoys the hell out of Ratatoskr. Completely unnecessary but funny to see his reaction because the developers knew we would probably try to annoy him 😂

Similar to the Psychonauts one, English classes in Bully have you playing boggle and seeing how many words you can get with a bunch of pre-selected letters. Each puzzle has one big word you can make using every letter and I usually tried to do that one first, one of the puzzles gives you "fights"... and the teacher has specific dialogue if you try to put in "shit" for that puzzle.

Also in skyrim if u are doing a dawnguard quest where u get zefer bow if u remove all the clothes of the dead woman her ghost will comment on it.

The old Infocom games, like Zork, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, and others, and the early Sierra games where you had to type the character's actions were known for their humorous responses to people typing foul language (usually out of frustration).

In a similar way to number 8, you've got that halo ce easter egg where you try to shoot captain keys and the Marines turn on you

Being able to refuse and shoot the Catalyst in ME3 was a nice touch.

Falcon, from an ideological perspective, i disagree with you alot, but your videos are hands down the absolute best gaming videos ever. I know the moment i hear your voice that im going to like the video and i dont even wait until the end to hit like anymore. Keep 'em coming!!!!

Censoring or prohibiting bad words is a pretty common thing, specially on games where can name your character. A Hat in Time though is the only game I know that not only acknowledges it but actually gives you an achievment for that

Uh, yes you can advance some game mechanics if you have the rocket launcher, try to shoot the spot where the boss will spawn and they'll stop the challenge once killed on the original RE4, I've done it multiple times with the unlimited rocket launcher, its something that's not impossible to do

I LOVE these earlier uploads. I have been staying up until after 12 for years at this point 🤣 Long live gameranx

Imo the best one is in Dragons Dogma. Right at the start of the game you get a dagger to unstick yourself (suicide dagger) and that's it's only purpose.. well it has a second purpose. At the critical junction in the game you're given 2 choices but if you get where I'm going you basically have a 3rd choice. This is never at any point presented to you nor even hinted at. But it gives you one of the coolest and strangest endings in a game!

In A Hat in Time when you get to the mission with the murder on the train, the level's gimmick is the weird crows with fedora and trenchcoat walking around everywhere and asking you questions. One will eventually ask you what your favourite part of the body is. You actually get an achievement for typing what all of us men are thinking right now. (30% of the players have this achievement💀)

As for the balloon thing in MGS, I wonder if that had any homage to Treasure of the Deep for Psx where you could do that too to any creature or object. It's funny to do to the hunters and poachers

Wow, I played Bioshock Infinite just a few hours before this video came out and also entertained myself shooting the Lutece lady just like in the video. What a coincidence!

MGS2: Adding the “kissing” sound effects to the posters in the lockers/bathroom stalls lol

Thanks for the video Falcon! Game designers are so clever, and so hilarious! :)

I’m surprised you didn’t include trying to look up 2Bs dress in Nier Automata. The devs included a really funny animation if you do

RollerCoaster Tycoon 3: If you try to drown people, you can't (unlike in the first two games of the franchise). Because they put in recreation pools (attractions), people won't drown anymore in regular water. RollerCoaster Tycoon 1 (and 2 ?): Renaming guests in a particular way so that cheats become active. Grand Theft Auto III (and even some installments after that): hidden messages in certain area's where the character shouldn't be able to come, but do.

Somewhat early for once, gameranx at 1:56am hit different. Amazing as always guys

the funnies thing about the deadpool one is at least in the clip when the censor bar appears he messes around with it

Falcon's laugh gets me all the time😂

I'd love a video on biggest boss health pools.

The last in-game-toilet I interacted with turned out to be a wormhole.

This instantly reminded me of a weird achievements video, one about looking up the cheerleaders skirt in a game called like Lollipop Chainsaw. Some weird zombie slaying game, but the dev knew some perv would go for it. 😂

i have one more. in The Last Of Us Part II, in the flash back when it's Ellie's birthday and Joel shows her the dinosaur statue, you can actually climb the statue by walking up the tail but the game does not tell you to do this, if you do this then it'll trigger a little dialogue and also it'll let you do a cannonball off of the statue into some water

Man I love "Ford CrOOUler". Such an iconic character

In Fable there is a mission where you have to open a demon door to find someone for one of your missions. The puzzle its to spell out the doors name, and if you spell out SHIT it sends 5 balverines(werewolves) to attack you.

I remember figuring out the Fulton device fast exfill and telling my friends about it. Soo much fun!

Im DeathLoop being an immersive sim if you try to use the code 0451 every other game has usually as the first code, the game will give you an Achievement. If used on the first door in the game Colt will say "Ehh, Old Habbits Die Hard."

How about in “High on life” when you pause the game and Kenny yells at you for pausing when he said shoot. Like they really knew we were going to pause the game for some reason.

Herbert Moon is still around, and now his main occupation is to be an internet troll!

In Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, you can steal something from the shop, it's not easy as the shopkeeper will likely catch you before you exit. But if you manage to steal something and re-enter the shop, you get zapped and killed for stealing.

RDR2 does have a major time and dimensional paradox with the man with the red hair. Real fans stare at rocks in the game to find this out.

holy crap GR...... you finally named the time stamps?!? thank you!!!

On my first inft rocket launcher playthrough (RE4:Remake) I tried that just out of curiosity and I was SUPER surprised when it worked lmao

i can't recover from the fact that stray got the indie game of the year and not tunic, so much love, effort and secrets with the golden path were put in the game it's just really sad

In mass effect 2 i made my character female and named her "German" 😁 Somehow i never fired on the twins in bioshock. So this is news to me. I do vaguely recall one of them mocking me for shooting something in that restaurant or the like though. I know someone in real life who looks, sounds and acts ALLOT like Herbert Moon. So maybe he still is around. He's presumably getting close to the end of his days as is the usa.

I see Elizabeth. I click. It's so sad we never got a follow up to one of the greatest games ever.

So many things to go try out now… thank you Falcon!

“These can be pretty challenging sections but there is a way to get through them faster uh..a rocket launcher”😂

Has been á long time, right? I was missing your amazing cartoons... 😉

In Assassin's Creed Valhalla, the first time you see an Animus Anomaly from distance it really looks like a bug. It literally tricked me the first time and I thought Hey I found an environment glitch! Then you realize that it is not and after you finish it you get "It's not a bug it's a feature" achievement. Thought it is really funny cause it got me. 🤣

The rocket trick was available in the origin. You can use the infinite or reg to do it but you have to be patient

Kingdom Come: Deliverance is a sadly underrated game that has an insane number of ways you can go about any particular quest, and rewards you for being creative. Picking off that bandit camp from a distance with your archery skills instead of tanking right on in, or maybe just sneaking in quietly and killing them in their sleep. Or poisoning their food and drink and waiting for them to keel over. Lure them into an area where another enemy or a friendly force is and let them deal with them. Surrender to them only to intimidate them and cause them to leave the area. Or try to offer them a bribe. Spook their horses and loot their camp while they're off running after them. And so on and so on.

In that breath of the wild ball puzzle, you can actually turn the entire puzzle upside down, where the whole platform is completly flat. Just aim it so the ball rolls onto the ramp, then raise it to fling it in the goal.

So I'm pretty late to the party when it comes to owning a Switch, I've only had one for a little over a year...Breath of the Wild being the first game I played on it. I did that exact thing with that ball maze puzzle! I didn't watch a video on it or anything, I just thought I was finally being clever because it was such a pain in the ass and I was looking for something to make it easier to finally get through it...only to find out now other people tried that as well (enough that Gameranx is putting it in a video)? That's good stuff.

Shoutout to the bioshock infinite section showing the AK assault rifle from RAGE. Which is an amazing game, by the way.

Remember the original Deus Ex? When you reach the head of the Statue of Liberty there is a guard with an assault rifle, you don't have one but you want one and the devs knew you want one. So, as the guard is a friendly, you shock him and take his assault rifle. You finish the mission and cutscene rolls and you agent bossman comes up with:" Hey Danton we found a shocked guard in the head of the S.o.L., you know something about it? What, me? Noooooooooo.... Not gona lie, 16 year old me was pretty amazed. The devs absolutly knew we would do that^^ And if you dont shock the guard you get the normal cutscene.

"Do it this way or else.." Otherwise known as the 'Squaresoft method of game design..' "You WILL do this battle/dungeon the exact way we want you to.. Or else we will make BLOODY SURE that you don't enjoy it..." For all I've subbed to FFXIV for about 8 years now, I am amazed that no one has written a script that just auto (bot) walks through the entire game for you. The mechanics are that nailed down with almost zero chance or indeed point, to straying from the intended mechanics.

Deadpool also had one where you can repeatedly beat Wolverine's unconscious body. Each time you hit him, Deadpool would say something different, until the achievement popped up. I can't rememeber how many times you had to hit him, but it was at least 20 IIRC

Wow after all these years I never knew you could do the metal gear extraction.

Hey gameranx, i watch your videos daily and im thinking about buying halo mcc i know its old but please make a before you buy a video on it-or atleast a halo based video,i'd appreciate it

Herbert just renamed himself mike, and now he sells pillows

That botw puzzle i tried to do legit first. Until i realized that me moving the switch controller moved the platform with gyroscope and it was a game changer so i dropped a hard save and spent the next hour getting used to motion controls while trick shotting and trying to get hole in 1 without having to touch the ball with link.

*In the original Resident Evil 4, you can actually SHOOT the Big Boulder in the Mines before the 2 El Gigante fight and DESTROY it without the Dynamite saving you you a lot of time*

I love easter eggs in video games.

The original Resident Evil 4 on Game Cube there was a part where Ashley was squatting on a ledge moving right beside you. If you tried to look up, the aim was suddenly disabled but she'd say "Leon, you pervert!" In the PS3 version you still couldn't look up but they didn't include that hilarious statement.

Actually with infinite rocket launcher you can clear the rubble that suppose to require dynamite in the original RE4 too, so yeah they just carry that over

You can also used 3 grenades then let ashley hit the wall once with the wrecking ball instead of the rocket launcher

i think the better "write a curse word"-interaction was in fable 1 The demon door on knothole island want you to know its name and its a plot quest You have 4 letters to figure the name out and can bruteforce it(not too many options, so quite fast) or get hints on the island The 4 letters are s - i - t - h If you type the curse word - 2 balverines(werwolf enemy) will spawn and attack you immediatly

“If there’s a toilet you better believe you can flush it.” Idk why but laugh so hard at this. Falcon the hero is hands down best

Oh, I remember one of Bender's favorite past times. I miss Futurama.

Having played all of MGS V, I actually didn't know about that. That is actually REALLY cool.