I remember, in assassin's creed origins, since I wanted some XP to lvl up, I kept killing guards and then died one time, and on the loading screen, a tip popped up, "take quests instead of killing innocent guards, they have families too you know", I felt guilty and never did that again lol
Here's a fun one: In Ghost of Tsushima, there are areas where you swing on certain points with a grappling hook. I found two areas that were essentially just a rope swing with a long drop into a lake. They made me so happy.
I think i just recently found one of those. But my thought was i made a mistake in direction or something xD but according to what you said its possible that was deliberately there. But I can't remember where i was when i did that, because i use fast travel non-stop. xD
@@himticks I know of the one at the top of the Thunderhead Cliffs in the northeastern point of Iki. I can't remember if there is one in Tsushima, though.
In Call of theMountain, it's not just Aloy, it's every character. I couldn't make it through a cutscene without messing with the NPCs because it was just so funny to watch them talk about such *super serious* stuff while I'm trying to poke their eyeball and they're just constantly squirming and giving me angry side-eye.
Another good one is Modern Warfare 2019's "Clean House" mission, where if you shoot the baby enough times, it straight up calls you out for being a psychopath
Still not gonna get over this. Rockstar 2 made a game called RDR 2 where you spend most of the time riding a horse, looking forward. So some of the most insane moments in that game for me were when I randomly decided to look back. There's this one thing that happened to me that I still haven't found someone talk about in the game. If you ride out far enough after these two cliffs somewhere around Valentine (iirc) and you look back at night, you'll see a shining light at the edge of one of the cliffs. With binoculars you're not gonna make it out. So if you decide to go back, to see what it is, at some point you'll see it's actually someone who is holding a lantern. But more interestingly, if you decide to keep going for the lantern, the person will quickly put the lantern away and ride off into the forest. Once you go to the actual spot, there is nothing there. So clearly that NPC was somebody following you. And that's not even the best part about it. What's actually even creepier is at some point in the story you're bound to see a similar silhouette in the distance again. Just standing there, watching you and as soon as you decide to approach - immediately running away.
I think my favorite is in Metal Gear 3. Killing Ocolot at any point in the game is a game over due to a 'Time Paradox' since he exists in the first game, and 3 is a prequel.
Now that is attention to detail. They did some weird stuff in 5 too. Like really going to far when you "accidentally" kept the camera on Quiet too long ..
I got an achievement in Nier Automata while i was showing 2B's android booty up her skirt to my roommate. We laughed so hard. I don't care it's public, I'm in my 30's, but that sucks for some people lol!
In GTA5, play as Trevor (who creeps out everyone down town anyway) and follow a female on foot from fairly far away, like across a street. She will move away at a fast walk, then a trot, then a full out run, then you hear cops (but never see them), sirens, gunfire, everything lol.
@@itsRobbie_ That figures. I only did it once and by complete accident in the early part of the game after Trevor showed up. I was playing him and I noticed everyone avoiding me including the ones across the street. I pushed it to see what would happen.
Lollipop Chainsaw has a 0 point achievement for successfully looking up Juliet's skirt, which is actually incredibly difficult to do since she will change her stance and c block you if you try to rotate the camera in that way.
So does Nier Automata. I guess Devs just know if you put a female protagonist in a skirt. Players are going to look up it (either out of curiosity to see what's modeled under there if anything at all or perviness)
Omega Qunitet does the same thing, The character will even call you out for it. Which is crazy considering the rest of Idea Factory's games actually encourage stupid things like that.
"Washin' my pits, washin' my pits, this is the song when I'm washing my- OY! Can a bloke not get any bleedin' privacy round here? Buncha perverts, the lot of you!!"
Honestly one of the best ones. The Sol system is out of the way, not tracked, and every planet including Uranus is depleted, so there's absolutely no way you'd probe Uranus by accident lmao "Really, commander?"
I was like, "WTF" when Aloy reacted in Horizon: Call of the Mountain. The game was my first VR game. The experience was interesting, but I kept getting dizzy. Horizon is also one of my favorite franchises.
For the 0451 code, there is another neat subversion in Deathloop. If you try to input it into the first keypad in the game, the player character quips up: "Old habits die hard." And it even gives you an achievement
The halo CE clip made me remember the good old halo three days playing co op with my best friend. We would get through the opening mission up until you get to the first base of operations with sergeant Johnson. Then spend literally hours just killing as many people as we could at the base and see how long we could survive, good times.
one of my favorite examples of this is in ultrakill, where the game creator made dialogue popups that appear out of bounds when you do a major speedrun skip, like the Pipe Clip giving “Pipe Clip still lives” when you do it
Two of my favorite moments like this are 'South Park: The Fractured But Whole' (Cartman scolds you for cheating, while dressed as Bill Belichick) and 'Batman: Arkham Asylum' ("Reading the last page first?").
another good one from RE4 is trying to look at Ashley's underwear she immediately covers herself up and calls you out for it lmao they knew we were going to do it and we did it!!
Number 7 was written just for me: out-of-nowhere puzzles is my number one pet peeve in video games. The worst: "Hmmm, maybe if I move these mirrors to redirect the light...the door will open?"
In og ff7 when you leave Midgar you have to choose party members and if you chose the 2 girls leaving out Barrett and Red, Barrat says "I knew you’d do that!" Haha
Plus entering the rocket code. Doing it first try, Cid will be suspicious of you since it would be impossible to know in game already unless you worked for Shinra.
You don’t need power armor, jetpack, or console. Just tell your companion to flip the switch, sprint to the back of the ship, ride the boat to the too deck, and enter the ship after the switch gets flipped and before the ship moves. Enjoy the ride.
Dragon Quest 8 has a hidden room somewhere on the over map you can only get to once you unlock the flying ship. You go in and women in bunny suits offer you a "Puff-puff" saying yes blindfolds your character, they take you to the back and rub the character with what's supposed to be their chests, but it's really just slime enemies. It's pretty funny. You can do it with the other characters as well and they all have different reactions. The Funniest being Jessica as she just sits there looking mad.
When I worked for Focus Entertainment...we had a guy who was hired, paid and expected to do everything he could to exploit and break a game. His entire job was to do what the dev hadn't expected, so they could expect it, and do something about it. Sometimes that was finding a way to make it fun, if it wasn't game breaking, and sometimes it was just making sure they couldn't do it, if it would mess things up too badly. I was kind of jealous, because it seemed like such a fun job to have.
When I was involved with the Interactive Fiction community, there was a playtester who was notorious for these sorts of things (and much loved for it). He’d try taking a thousand napkins from a dispenser, eating random objects, and closing doors behind him to see what would happen, among many other things.
I dunno, it depends. I had a friend who did something similar to this for a little while, and he thought it would be a cool job to sit around playing games all day and trying to break them, but he said it was the most boring job he's ever had! It mostly consisted of him doing incredibly mundane things over and over again, like trying to walk through every inch of every single wall in the game, then trying to run through them, then trying to jump through them, over and over and over again. It didn't sound like fun. It sounded incredibly monotonous!
Just wanna say, your channel has really been there for me during some real tough times in my life. Being able to look forward to your daily videos about the gaming industry is whats keeping me sane. Thank you Gameranx and all those part of the team. I literally wouldn't be here if it wasn't for you. =)
keep up the good fight, mate. try to seek out whatever makes you feel really curious and gives you feeling of awe. i bought civilization 6 when it was heavily on sale, and it lead me down a massive, massive rabbit hole. now i listen to lots and lots of history audiobooks, and my youtube feed is full of history stuff, or history podcasts like the fall of civilization one. i also read history ebooks, or wikipedia before bed instead of scrolling reddit--which has also helped. i never connected to history before, but those civilization games and the paradox ones, and stuff like assassin's creed, etc., have all really brought it to life in a way that books never could. now when i wake up, i'm really eager to learn more about the past. anyway, i hope you find many more things to keep you curious and looking forward to something.
I'm with you on that man. If you need another really good videogame related channel to binge check out viva la dirt league. They have whole series of videogame parodies and satires that are just golden. Gameranx thank you as well for your excellent channel
I’m not sure if this counts, but in X-Men Legends if you are any character that has super strength like Beast you can throw Wolverine at enemies. If you throw him a few times for no reason he gets mad and will attack you; it doesn’t do any damage on you, but it’s still funny to see.
I started playing Yakuza Kiwami for the first time, and those "videos" are in there, too. But what's even stranger is that they are somehow the "reward" for completing the story of a hostess. Like, it's not even something I knew was going to happen, it just came out of complete left field!
The two I think of is God of War when Kratos throws his axe. The devs knew people would throw the axe and then see if Kratos would leave it behind if he walks the a door/portal. But nope, he calls it back every time on his own. And the Last of Us 2 that damn work bench. They knew EXACTLY players were gonna goto that bench for necessary upgrades. Made the room feel safe even if the silence was eery. Set it up in a nice spot, then boom, you're getting jumped and from that point I think we all approached the workbenches with more caution from then on.
Playing Dirt3 a few years back had a funny interaction. I was adjusting settings that could only be done, at that time, after you started a race. I'd change something, test, readjust and so on. I did that long enough for the navigator to say, "Um . . . We're in a RACE, you know."
For Doom 2016 at #4, you can actually shoot him just after the door opens and the animation finishes. If you don't enter the room you can still use your gun as he walks right, he has a forcefield shield and says 'Save your ammo' or something
My favorite was in Deus Ex (the first one, from 2000), you can pretty much explore anywhere, but if you set foot in the women's restroom at HQ, not only does a woman in there call you out on it, but during the debrief later, the boss mentions it as well. This was about a decade before achievements were a thing, it was just something DX vets would trigger just for the extra line (or avoid to keep the debrief scene shorter in case of a speed run).
In Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force, there is a mission where a character is abducted by the borg. In the next mission you are in a borg cube and you see the character being assimilated, If you look around a bit you can find essentially a small obstacle course leading to him, but most likely if you try to get to him they will beam him away just as you reach him. But If you start running for him before the dialogue ends you can make it in time and save him. They knew we would want to save him and made it practically impossible to do it first time through but when you know, you can get the headstart and make it. (The guy will just be recovering in sickbay for the rest of the game so It doesn't impact the story but its still pretty cool.)
Great list. Video games often anticipate our next move, which is part of what makes them so engaging. Some classics like The Legend of Zelda series and Metal Gear Solid are known for their clever ways of reading player intentions. Even Gates of Pyre, despite still in beta really gets into the player's head with its great Lore and storyline.
For fallout 4 on console you don’t need any console commands… just power armour with a jet pack. Can jump on the ship way before it takes off to crash the next block over.
one of my all time favorites was the original Diablo, there were cows on the map. you could 'interact' with them and they would moo. so ofc you make them moo, and moo, and moo, and eventually they just go MOOOOO! they KNEW we were gonna do that.
Lone Echo/Lone Echo 2, if you try to grab on to the female protagonists arm or butt when she floats through zero gravity to hold on, she'll push your hand off. Also when stationed, she looks at you while brushing your hands off her butt. Shame it wasn't recognised. It's a massive indicator that Devs knew their audience 😂
8:18 It’s also an Achievement. Killing the Captain spawns a squad of invincible marines from an otherwise locked room. Inside that room is blood splatter that spells out a name. Looking at said blood splatter unlocks the Achievement.
Years ago when I was playing the Cars game on GameCube, playing as Lightning McQueen, I slowly nosed up to a female NPC car trying to kiss her. She said "Ugh, that is so disgusting." Looking back on it now, it's kinda insane that they built that in. Unless I'm misremembering the entire thing and imagined it all.
Before Halo 1, Deus Ex had consequences for friendly fire and for sparing or knocking out instead of killing enemies that involve completely different story arcs. Also the code 0451 is a reference to the Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451 which fit perfectly into Deus Ex as that game is riddled with future dystopia themes, references and conspiracies that are actually facts. That the UNATCO HQ used a reference to state censorship is an early clue that you aren't working for the good guys.
god I remember the yakuza zero one, I had every other achievement and didn't know where to get that last one being "I did it for the achievment" so I looked it up and said to myself, "maybe I'm not getting 100% in yakuza zero."
Number 9: You don't need to enable any commands, you are not locked from moving. If you are wearing power armor with a jetpack you can get on the ship even on console. You DO die if the ship crashes while you are on the deck, but if you go below deck before it collides you survive.
In fallout 4, regardless of what platform you're on, you can hit the switch and then just run and jump across the rooftops to get on the ship. You do not need console commands.
I see Way of the Samurai 4 in the intro, I get excited to see something about it in the video because I used to think I'm the only person of planet earth who has ever even heard of these games, nothing shows up :(...
It took me forever to beat the guy with the minigun in the first one due to his rapid "what?" as I dodged so much. Unless that was a different game.... My favorite of the series was 2. Absolutely spectacular. Still have my save data for it as well.
In the small game vambrace: cold soul, a quest reward is a literal lingerie set. Anyway, if you equip it, the characters' eyes are slanted in an annoyed manner. They know how ridiculous it would look to walk around in a blizzard ... like that.
In one of the first mech warrior games you get on a training mission with your commander. He teaches you how to weapon lock enemies, so naturally you start by locking on to him. He then says ‘keep that laser out of my face!’ If you then shoot him, he will unleash on you with everything he has.
I have a video where I successfully rode the Constitution all the way to the building without dying or using console commands. Maybe they made it more difficult later on, I dunno. It required some very narrow timing and standing in exactly the right place at the back of the ship and then running to the front right after everything gets wiped off of the deck (which kills you if you're anywhere forward).
Almost nothing to do with the video, but my best friend, who is a total Halo nerd, and I were playing Halo CE and I saw the waterfall immediately land on the Halo ring. I walked over to it expecting treasure, and he said there wouldn't be anything... I found a skull
In Life is Strange 2, there's 2 super funny interactions that i just came across while playing. In the Motel at the end of Episode 1, before you enter your room u can go to one of the doors in the second floor in which you can hear people "wrestling" inside, if u stand outside the door for a bit, Daniel (lil bro) will come to the door and ask Sean (big bro) what is going on inside there? and u can respond to his question lol At start of Episode 3 when you wake up and had ur morning cup of coffe u will see one of the girls from the camp go into the outdoor shower, if u just walk around the shower for a bit, she will ask who is out there and what are you doing, and u can respond. Dont ask me how i got the 2nd one tho💀
I'm the type of gamer who fine-tooth-combs everything in a first playthrough so I don't miss anything. Definitely not as much as some might, because there's always something other gamers find that impresses and intrigues me.
In Tales of Destiny, it's possible to Beat Leon the first time you encounter him and he fights you. Doing so ends the game early, and yes, this even happens in the English version, translated and all.
Nah, you can jump on board the USS Constitution just with normal gameplay. You'll need the jetpack on your armour though. Just do it as it's counting down, before it takes off. Ride the ship, have fun, then get below decks just before it crashes.
I'm kinda surprised they mentioned RES-E 4 without talking about standing at the bottom of ladders waiting for Ashley, and that they didn't mention Lolipop Chainsaw.
Correction. I believe Deus Ex had a weapon drawn/lowered mechanic at least a year before Halo. As well as also solving the Serious Sam 4 dilemma. Blow up the door, steal the key, hack the computer, sneak in through the sewers. Just buy Deus Ex on Gog and give up your life.
