10 Illusions Video Games Create to LIE TO YOU 

Surprisingly, Pokemon X did the same

Hitman Blood Money had the same.

"Character 1 stands in a place compared to the mirror --> character 2 moved in to the direction of that mirror --> character 1 is seen" is literally how "advanced" it is. It's cool af but that could've been done in the first days of Doom

@@MrMango331 you have no idea how big games are developed

@@Lucky-gf8zq I mean, I don't know how well it works since I haven't played the game, making mirrors is hard but the detection part I think it can be replicated. Just get the info "if the player is infront of the mirror", this can be done by comparing the distance between the player and the mirror, checking if the player is standing in front (You can use dot product, rays or even some sort of box trigger that covers the space that the mirror would replicate, this would vary depending how exact you want it). Then save that the player is being "seen" by that mirror. Finally if the enemy sees the mirror then he can "see" the player, you can make him turn around or look at the direction of the player. I'm not an expert so maybe this is just a hacky way of doing things.

True.. However most of those time the "Hurry up!" just needs to be there for the story but they don't want you to miss out on collectibles and side-quests so it's not enforced.

@@xzenor It's lazy game design, because programming a dynamic world that changes even when the player isn't there is harder than just having player-triggered events.

@@kpopalypseoppar I wouldn't call it lazy.. they've got to think of an entirely different story for whatever happens if the player is not there in time. It's a bit rude to call it lazy for not wanting to write an extra piece of story that most people will never play. These games take years to develop in massive teams.. lazy isn't a fair word I think. It's a decision. You're welcome to create your own AAA game and prove me wrong of course.

@@kpopalypseoppar the programming doesn't make the difference, just run the event with a timer instead of an invisible trigger.

@@deutschlanddeutschland7111 I love it how I got two replies here from two people here, one saying "you're wrong cos it's easy" and the other saying "you're wrong cos it's hard". Love RU-vid comments, never change

Man, these Abstergo servers are almost as bad as my Xbox. Poor Desmond! LMAO

Ratchet and clank did the same. Flying the spaceship towards a different planet, sometimes it would take ages lol

Honestly Assassins creed has a perfect formula in that regard. Any little glitch or odd design choice can be explained away as limitations of the Animus.

@@fuzzytalks6239 No man's sky took that to the next level. You even have some control (sometimes) on loading screens, like slightly changing your direction on the initial loading screen, while star system names pop up and zip by (and I was confused at first why I can't go and land anywhere lol)

Yeah, AC isn't subtle at all about the game elements and incorporated them into the canon. Like the visible walls that indicate the edge of the map with the menacing hum when close.

Pee is yellow, if it’s not there’s something wrong

meanwhile there are hints in the same game that you can only learn by looking it up on google or being lucky someone else looked it up and mentions it

@@DrSwazz Actually, it should be transparent.

@@GamingNationShm False, healthy pee should be a little bit yellow but not transparent. google it yw

I will fight you all on pee color. This shit is important.

Plz watch the video 1st😂😂

More like #1 compoines who try to make you believe games should cost $70

Cyberpunk 2077: fair enough

@@Filtiarin and they didn't even included those cutscenes in the actual game They could've at least included the famous "Wake The Fuck Up Samurai"

That's the first warning sign of a bad video game, trailers with no actual gameplay footage.

It the stupid rubber banding trick so that you always feel like you can catch up or they're catching up with you. It's also a way for the computer to cheat.

I'm literally playing Most Wanted 2005 right now,so...Extremely relatable

There was a speedrunner so ahead that the rubber banding algorithm made a car crash into his over a hill to slow him

@@Joreel Euch, yes. They added this into GTA V and it made racing SO BORING. In fact, almost all of the driving in GTA V was worse than in GTA IV. Which makes no sense!

@@katestewart100 No? realistic driving or goofy physic driving of gta 4 doesn't always = better plus gta v has the option to remove that from races

I always thought about it this way, and maybe it doesn't make sense but here is my take. It kind of makes sense that in a sword fight if multiple enemies attacked at once would they be at risk of hitting each other on accident? The way they swing their swords they could potentially hit anyone close to them in any direction.

It looks particularly obvious in AC1. Playing Immortals Fenyx Rising (same Anvil engine) they don't wait so you can be fending off multiple attacks at once.

@@zachohmie1262 Highly unlikely, unless everyone just went in swinging for the fences without regard for their fellows. The best move multiple attackers can pull against a single opponent is to attack at once at the exact same time.

@@zachohmie1262 yeah but even 2 enemies could take you down easily (from a realistiv pov), if one pulls your attention and the other one just backstabs you. But games want you to have fun :D so they added the honor flavour.

I think a fighting game's story mode is also like that, since it's common I will get annihilated by my opponent first time and then I completely turn it around in the second or third try. Except for Ermac, screw him.

I think that happens in Dark souls games, like the bosses are more aggressive n the beginning but the more you die the windows the boss creates for you to win

This is actually a tactic many mobile games use, like for example Candy Crush. They would technically make the level impossible for like the first 10 tries, hoping you would get frustrated and end up paying for a power up. But they knew if you couldnt ever pass the level you would stop playing all together. So with enough tries, they would make it easy so you eventually beat the level thinking you got better, and feel confident you can beat the next level.

@@noobtaskmaster9884 no this does not happen in Dark souls, EVER. in Dark souls you can die 100 times to a boss, he will always be tough until you either level up or figure out how to defeat him.

@@ADCFproductions Actually this is somewhat false, but because it's the reverse of the truth, the more you die in dark souls, the harder the game gets as the world shifts more towards black, a hidden value in the programming. Killing bosses and defeating invaders shifts it back towards white making it easier. Gotta love the hidden systems.

Yeah the first time that happened I just thought it was a part of the story but then the 2nd time I noticed I was waiting for the portal to load

And opening the doors with button mash.. and crawling through the cracks.. they did a great job. The Mimir stories on the boat rides were the absolute best way to pass time though. And he would always pick right back up on the story next time so you never felt like you couldn’t interrupt the dialogue like in every other game. Was a more personal connection

@@Just_Lucky24 man! The stories were the shit the best way for a pass time

God of War did literally everything PERFECTLY. I honestly believe it is the pinnacle of gaming. It feels like someone took everything great about Zelda: Ocarina of Time, added a more mature story, and enhanced the game via every technological advancement of the past 20 years. Perfection

I did like that only it gets repetitive quickly much like the stories it's a nice thing but after awhile you just want to get to where you are going and when you realize you dont even need to move you'll find yourself using those moments to get something to eat or drink or just getting annoyed at how long its taking

Unless the devs added “Wasting time in this area spawns enemies” of course.

I've followed that rule for years, I recently started warframe though.. don't use it on that game lol I did 6 long missions before realising they were almost, if not never ending 🤣🙄

@@DeathWish92 I did that on World at War (the old one), because I didn't move, enemies kept spawning till I had no ammo, and the level didn't progress.

@@michaelcallummayaka lol glad I'm not alone, I felt like a right donut after.

When I started reading this I imagined a mother talking to her son, and it's hilarious XD

_Mexicans got on boots!_ That's a different kind of jump damage though

@@favoritemustard3542 do u know the game name at 1:06

@@viva8258 looks like doom

@@tontobonto2073 no after that

@@viva8258 Devil May Cry 5

Telltale games and Cyberpunk

Fallout 4. The first mission you usually come across with Preston loudmouth you can disagree and go with the disagreeing option over and over when it comes to getting the power armor and helping him, at one point I believe you’ll even strait up say no and he will just ignore the fact you denied him and you’ll get the mission to grab the armor and help him

Isn't the same in real life? Hahaha Sometimes no mater your actions you end up at the same result. That's called illusion of free will. 🤣

Just like in real life. Detroit become Human was one of the few story games where I felt most things actually made an impact in the story. Like to the point the main characters could die and the story goes on.

The Witcher 3 left the chat

How dare you educate me, a full grown adult who grew up on those cartoons. (Thank you)

That's way interesting, thanks for that piece of animation history.

Didn't know that, thank you

🤷🏾‍♂️ best cereal moments

@@kentdekingchoice3639 Saturday morning cereal moments

Maybe it was that too. Props to them for the two-fer.

Great comment, probably the best of it's kind, i'll give 1 like.

In nemesis they scared me lol

I always thought eventually something would jumpscare me on those screens, like nemesis bursting through the door lmao

Hell yes! And then in RE3 there’s a door that when you open it a bunch of zombies burst out at the screen. After two full games of door animations with nothing happening, suddenly having a group of zombies burst out at you scared the FUCK outta me. Capcom got me with the ol’ long con. Love it lol

They also did it in re2 when you were to find the pipe handle to extinguish the burning helicopter on the police presinct rooftop

Funny how everyone loved silent hill for that but ripped on bo2 tranzit lol

@@klokateer4372 its because cod has been garbage for over a decade anyways.

@@Gl-my8fw sorry but bo2 was the shit, you can say that about bo3, aw, infinite and onward

Cod died a decade ago

Morrowind made good use of the same trick

But that is the point of video games in the end lol

This is 8months old but how is it going? You know game developing? How did you get into it?

LOL! I am an engineer who uses game engines for non-game simulations and visualizations, but I play, mod, and make games as a hobby. One of the toughest lessons for an engineer to learn is that when making games, the most realistic simulation if often emphatically Not Any Fun At All. Fast travel and near-instant healing are great examples -- nothing like real life, but do you *really* want your RPG to accurately recreate the experience of weeks of recuperation after even a moderate combat injury? Or of walking back and forth across the same half-kilometer path five or six times in a row because some NPC talked you into doing their fetch quest?

It makes me nervous when the elevator ride is longer than it should be

Lol

Truth.

That's the truth. Also the "catfish difficulty" term that you just coined, made me chuckle a little.

I'll dig that. Catfish difficulty would be a very suitable name for that. Stay crunchy.

Is Catfish Difficulty when they tell you it’s Easy, but it’s really Permadeath?

Oh how double dog dare you sir

Metal Gear Solid 2 was basically an essay on this in game form.

Except for Detroit become human

@@ookami5329 Elaborate. I always thought MGS2's main theme was 'meme' - what ideas you grow up with and what you pass on. Just like the first one's was 'gene', what you're born with and how it affects you if it should at all.

You just gotta love the three coloured endings of ME3 :)

source engine games kind of had a lazy version of that. where a mirror was just a tv screen. IE it was a special texture attached to a separate camera. not all reflections did this, but some.

We purposely do that in Minecraft, lol

Players have done this in Minecraft with copy paste worldedit to create a shiny floor effect.

Fire Emblem systems juggle on that to get a perfect feeling for literally the entire series. They had a perfect feel on Sacred Stones but that system ended up being so powerful that some characters could hit 100% dodge chance and get invincibile.

And then you have Xcom, where 85% hit chance is really 50%, and 50% is really 25%.

RIP maxis too :(

Yea they have closed a lot of good or great Studios... also RIP Origin Bullfrog Westwood Mythic Maxis Pandemic Studios DreamWorks Interactive Also BioWare might be among those too at some point, as they are just a mere shadow of their former selfes, Thanks EA, your Branding remains a warning mark to skip those Marked Games(sorry devs but EA is the Devil of Gaming Industry, you kinda sell your Soul to them...).

The irony is that I grew up with EA all the way (and Lucasarts). Must be the reason why I have such an aversioon to Activision.

EA was actually quite liberal with all the studios they closed, giving them usually at least 3 financially failed games before closing them down. Some companies have or just shut studios down after 1 or at most 2 failed games.

@@JonatasMonte I grew up on Blizzard, Activision, EA, Ubisoft, Square Enix, Konami, Capcom, Bethesda/Zenimax and all the Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo studios, but sadly most of them are closed and said companies have either opened new ones or bought new ones, while there hasn't been Blizzard since 2017, just Activision.

And in Brotherhood when you conquer a Borgia Tower the game becomes much more colourful as well. I used to focus on the Borgia Towers very early so that the ambience looked more friendly

Same with doing radio towers in Far Cry and the AC equivalent. Forgot what they're called

@@rowanmelton7643 What do you mean? No colours get changed?

Lol apperently that does not work for me, because i never had the feeling like lets do that again. Tricks are not working on me 😈

I don't understand how contrast triggers a response to do the same thing again

Yeah, that was dope.

Then you should listen to the podcast Play, Watch, Listen. All four of the hosts are involved in the games industry in different capacities and talk about little known facts about game development really often. I love listening to them.

Also sanity did pretty much nothing

wait, for real ???

Do elaborate

@@angelakivlehen1417 Sanity didn't really do much at all

what were the hints? lol

Sometimes it's a necessary trick in large (or long) worlds. At some point coordinates become too large and precision errors become noticeable so your position is reset to 0 and world is shifted. Or the world moves instead of player like in your example to prevent this problem. Mobile games like flappy bird are the most obvious ones

And the newer games just lay it out in the lit areas.

Lol. Or like Fallout 76, "W-we meant for you to try to find the hidden glitches" 🙄

me at work: a tell my team leader its done on friday, he goes higher says wedneday...and the customer gets the info it is done already

cough cough cyberpunk cough

@@michael5147 nope, try square enix

@@michael5147 AC unity wants it's number

Gohan pulling z-sword from the ground was my favorite

The Sims 3 does the same thing with a "Find the..." minigame that would give you reward points to use in the game.

You can skip the elevators in Legendary Edition now, but I never do.

With modern day specs its super quick now.

Like what they add in ac valhalla?

Is it only an illusion? Or maybe even the opposite? Simple animation is just always repeating the same and flying through enemies without interruption. I would say that this stop on hit (like in God of War) is a step for more realistic animation, not just a trick. It doesn't fit with examples from the video at all.

Crazy good example 💯

Actually, HZD felt comically small to me. I live in Colorado, where the game takes place. I recognized some of the landmarks while I was playing, and it hit me: "Wait a second. . . Denver is NOT a 15 minute walk from Colorado Springs, ha ha!". (the two cities are more like a 1 hour drive apart) I understand why developers of these open-world games scale things down though (to make it more fun), and I did love the game even after that funny realization.

@@JamesBrisnehan haha, I can imagine, Bro. I live in the UK - the game literally felt like the size of the while island 😩 Frozen Wilds = Scotland etc. Haha

​@@JamesBrisnehan this is a good example of why real doesnt = better though. 1:1 representation wouldn't allow them to make such a dynamic environment fun without being TOOOO big (i.e. Assassins Creed Odyssey. They put so much world but not nearly enough content that it got dull and repetitive imo). Still, outside of comparing it to Colorado 1/1 scale (I totally thought it took place in Utah) they did a fucking phenomenal job of balancing realistic "enough" for the game's content

@@JamesBrisnehan I'm sure any game that takes place in a real place is like that. Would be pretty boring to walk past a hundred cul-de-sacs between major locations. Think Falcon made video in a while back where he stated that, generally, either you got a large world with little detail, or a smaller world with more detail. I thought HZD struck a nice balance in that regard.

I didn't always hate it, but I honestly assumed it was loading. Still a clever way to do it

that one did not really come off to me as a lie, more addressing the fact that most people dislike standard loading screens. it really only improves the game

I didn't "love" them in the sense that I wanted more of them where they weren't needed, but as a solution to a difficult problem, it was very creative and well done, adding lots of texture to the world and characters. Playing the LE, which lets you skip them, I find I let them go to the end more often than not.

I do love the elevators. There's fun bits of dialogue, and of course the elevator music :D

Listening to hilarious banter with the camera angled perfectly for Tali’s… “assets”. 😌👍

Thank you for the fun fact

I knew it felt lower than in the other Halo games, what the fuck 👀

Far cry 5 did the same

I felt so strong using the executing move in Sekiro, I still hear it. If I made a game I'd definitely add something like that

Nope I still love that

i agree. everybody always wants to complain about the "elevator loading screens" but to me it's pretty much the epitome of emersion, i remember being amazed at how the whole citadel really felt like one big place instead of individual areas separated by loading screens like most other games, ME 2 and 3 included.

Given that "the juicy lore conversations between characters" were by far the best part of the series, I have to agree. Any time the companion characters had anything new and interesting to say I was fascinated. . . even in the elevator, ha ha.

Also loved hearing the news reports.

Or rainbow six 3.

yeah that trick was a great way to make sure you really paid attention and gave it your all in combat

I played it without dying for a while until the "puzzle" where you have to escape a burning building, where if you take the wrong route or take a bit too long you die. I easily died 20 times there

@@Mario07101997 I think the illusion died for most players in that section.

Chloe (our own interactive main menu girl) in Detroit Become Human. She says (jokes) that our saved game have been corrupted. It really shocked me for a moment.

I literally just completed this game. Great experience but couldn’t help getting lost at points

🤣🤣🤣

What happens when rdr2 crashes?

I don’t get it 🤔

@@shuyo6073 They didn't have one thus it kept crashing is the joke.

ShuYo nothing it just always does, red read online specifically

Can't remember the name of the game, but I watches one of these type of lists, where one game gave the 360 and ps3 hell, Wii/U wasn't able to run it at all. PC required a high end GPU, and a fairly good CPU with plenty of ram. 90% of the game was low poly, but looked realistic af. All due to texture maps and shading. 1 rectangle box. 8 texture maps, several shader scripts, culling and boundary scripts. Now its a crumbling building and you can walk on the crumbled part. The main char was medium poly, but had so many texture maps and shaders that the animation skeleton was half assed set....yet you couldn't tell. Stretching and weird rotations were fixed by the shader at runtime!

That is literally the function of the normal maps ("normal" here used in the vector math sense). These encode the surface direction of simulated (or pre-baked) high-poly geometry at a very detailed level into the color channels of a bitmap, then the shader computes the light behavior for each pixel independent fo the real geometry. Texture maps, including the normal map, are interpolated between geometry vertices (this is a GPU hardware feature), so the normal vectors automatically scale with the pixel resolution. Say for example you have a simple cube with only 8 vertices and 12 triangles (6 faces, 2 tris per face). But onto each face you project a 1024 x 1024 pixel normal map. Now the light is behaving as if there were over one million vertices. Modern shaders may combine normal maps for gross geometry (such as ripples in a sand dune) with a detail normal (grains of sand). The detail normal is tiny compared to the object, so it can get away with lots of repetitive tiling -- and the best part is, the main normal map conceals that tiling very nicely. Many 3D artists will make an extremely detailed 3D model and a low-poly proxy. They then "bake" the normal map from the high-poly model's actual surface and store this as a normal map, so they can use the low-poly version in the real-time rendering.

Boundary Break? (;

In siege the terrorist ai miss around 10 bullets every time no matter what, you can use it to your advantage pretty well

Apparently they do that in most action movies as well. The good guy gets shot at about 10 times where the bad guys can't seem to land the single bullet.

well, i like that, i remember getting rekt in Medal of Honor Allied Assault in the late sniper levels, because i got shot the moment i peeked out of my cover

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Then, there is Thief, Dishonored, etc...

@@JOHNSMITH-vx5yz while the game loads , it's the only thing we can watch and it works perfectly , lara does look good in those animation. it's just nice distraction to avoid boring loading scene

Final fantasy 7 remake did this in the most awful way possible

@@JOHNSMITH-vx5yz 😐....yes

But if the heal comes with a 1-3 seconds delay it doesn't help that mutch. I hope they fix it to full release.

I wonder if it will still be like that at launch or if was just to make them not feel like they were dying a bunch so they would enjoy it and buy the game

Money is paper that a lot of people say it is valuable, is a representation of your productivity. You can see that easily with cryptocurrencies. So if enough people agree that in game money is valuable you could run an economy y vbuck, codcoins or whatever in-game-currency you want.

@@matiasvillarreal6207 sir, that couldn’t be closer to the truth, I agree and know about the concept that value is what the masses of individuals perceive it to be of an object be it virtual or in any other form.

@@matiasvillarreal6207 money is cotton

BUY THIS AND THAT PACK FOR 9.99. WORTH 90 BUCKS!!! No, it’s not, shut up.

@@matiasvillarreal6207 it's not at all a representation of your productivity but your point still stands I guess

i love that game!!

MASTER FOV is fooling us too...is there nothing sacred anymore?

Some games counteract that by making you walk slightly slower than other games to give you the sense it is far away

Good point

Especially if the character slides around too much. Ugh.

Suuure you did.

@@gavin3501 I actually did, I listen to there videos in the background as I play games. This time I had got a call to come get some food from my family and I paused it without looking. Not faking anything

@@OtterlyFriendly nah home slice. You wouldn't have seen it if it had been in the background

@@OtterlyFriendly and you would've had too go on to the video to pause it so you would've saw it

@@OtterlyFriendly and there's literally a thing in the top right corner that says *not confirmed. So quit your nonsensical bs that wasn't even funny if it had been true

i am getting flasbacks from GRID 2. sometimes I had to intentionally crash the enemies to slow them down and get ahead of them even if I played picture perfect. it was so frustrating that I stopped playing after 20 hours

I believe they have mentioned this in one of the previous videos on the same topic

Ive had opponents beat world records (by a lot) just to keep up and get close.

When you make top 10 it’s almost inevitable something will be left on the side...

TWO WORDS: Split second

Why does it matter? It's still a cool visual and downtime activitiy.

That's true, it's something I noticed a long time ago. Not in every game, but I'd say most. I'd imagine getting 2 character models to accurately interact is fiddly. Motion capture would make it easier I guess.

That's cause it is very difficult to animate such things in a videogame. Normally, you want your skeletons as simple as possible since they are cpu intensive. So there is a high chance that the hands lack the required finger bones to animate things like grabing, holding and dropping objects in a realistic way.

I have no idea why he was whining about Mass Effect elevators. There aren't many in the game, and they don't take long. The original ME isn't fast-paced in any aspect, so it doesn't feel out of place. In ME2, in the Citadel, there are load times and fast travel. That's supposed to be more fun?

I'm not sure about that, but one annoying thing about driving in GTA is that all cars seem to have the same top speed of just about 110 mph indicated speed (if you get mods like for FiveM, you can get faster cars)

@@michaelcallummayaka That's GTA V, vehicles in IV and older games tended to have a greater variety of speeds and handling

How's that a trick?