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Post by Blue_Mike on Jun 20, 2022 18:47:18 GMT
So despite having played certain games so many times I thought I knew all their secrets, easter eggs, cut content and inner workings backwards, occasionally I still notice things and wonder how I never saw or encountered them before. Here's a few I learned over the last few days:
Mass Effect
The doors at Peak 15 on Noveria (and elsewhere) have animated movement sensors on them. You can see it here at 54:47. A flap on the door opens up to reveal two red glowies, which is a completely unnecessary detail and you'd think that they'd need to be revealed already to see people coming, but whatever. I thought it was interesting.
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
Vaclav Koller can get murdered by Otar Botkoveli as a "message" to Jensen. I never knew this until today, because I usually do all side content, and it's failing to do the favours for Otar that causes him to burn down the Time Machine bookshop and murder Vaclav. |
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Post by Bill in the rain on Jun 21, 2022 4:21:15 GMT
Not gameplay, but it took me ages to notice the pun in Invisible, Inc.
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Post by minimatt on Jun 21, 2022 4:47:23 GMT
...I've just now noticed the pun in Invisible, Inc
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Post by Bill in the rain on Jun 21, 2022 4:54:01 GMT
Oh.. and this week I did realize that Smash Bros. has a dodge/roll move.
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Post by ToomuchFluffy on Jun 21, 2022 5:21:43 GMT
In Far Cry 2 militiamen sometimes throw up their arms in surrender if they are caught unawares and alone. I'm pretty sure that only happens when the player's reputation is high enough.
Also took me a while to notice how the A-Life in Shadow of Chernobyl works. I vaguely knew about it, but it's an entirely different thing when you put two and two together as something is happening in the game.
Mostly I mean how various people and mutants respawn in some place other than where they are supposed to be, so that they have to walk back to their assigned area. And how that usually happens "offline" as the player is not around. So usually they can just get back to where they have to be unimpeded as they cannot fight each other when the player's vicinity doesn't make them go online.
Also just various developments I had never seen because i never stayed around long enough. In Pripyat for instance Pseudogiants eventually just show up as normal A-Life once the story is done there. Similar case with the Dark Valley as a whole lot of Spetsnaz show up and invade the bandit base after having done the Lab there.
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Post by elstoof on Jun 21, 2022 5:41:59 GMT
The boat in Half Life 2
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Post by Vortex on Jun 21, 2022 8:04:38 GMT
That Half life boat thread/story will raise a smile until I die/am too senile to remember it.
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Post by dominalien on Jun 21, 2022 8:55:18 GMT
If HL2 were made now, they'd have to redesign the place so the boat is UNMISSABLE.
Edit: oh, and I did try proceeding without the boat on my recent playthrough. It's really not fun and the game suddenly becomes very different.
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Post by Psiloc on Jun 21, 2022 9:00:57 GMT
Did anyone save the boat story from the old place?
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Post by drhickman1983 on Jun 21, 2022 9:05:42 GMT
I've been playing Star Wars: The Old Republic onceva week with a friend for the last 8 months or so, just leveling and playing the story (it's actually gone a bit crap for co-op in the latter expansions).
Anyway, I've only realised that you can use the galaxy mapn to fast travel to different planets, instead of having to run all the way back to the shuttle.
Also found some lore in Skyrim that suggests that Ulfric Stormcloak is being (unwittingly) manipulated by the Thalmor, changes the perception of the whole rebellion.
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Post by JuniorFE on Jun 21, 2022 12:42:19 GMT
I'd say Riju secretly playing with sand seal plushies counts, considering I only just saw it in this video yesterday  |
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Post by Whizzo on Jun 21, 2022 12:52:42 GMT
No Man's Sky
The phase beam on a ship steals shield power from a target and gives it to you. Not having to recharge manually on a regular basis makes fights with lots of pirates a lot easier.
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Post by Vortex on Jun 21, 2022 13:00:25 GMT
Edit: oh, and I did try proceeding without the boat on my recent playthrough. It's really not fun and the game suddenly becomes very different.
 I applaud your dedication to the cause. |
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Post by Danno on Jun 21, 2022 13:07:31 GMT
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Post by Blue_Mike on Jun 21, 2022 14:55:44 GMT
The Adam Jensen you play as in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is almost certainly
EDIT: Be aware, that link is an absolute rabbithole.
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Post by Aunt Alison on Jun 21, 2022 17:28:57 GMT
Could probably do with some spoiler tags here
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2022 17:30:02 GMT
That Deus Ex one is a huge spoiler. Damn.
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Post by simple on Jun 21, 2022 18:00:42 GMT
I had zero idea about that Deus Ex one 🤯
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Post by convercide on Jun 21, 2022 18:13:51 GMT
Yeah, wow, I never knew that. Absolute mindfuck.
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Post by damagedinc on Jun 21, 2022 18:35:29 GMT
If HL2 were made now, they'd have to redesign the place so the boat is UNMISSABLE.
Edit: oh, and I did try proceeding without the boat on my recent playthrough. It's really not fun and the game suddenly becomes very different.
There's a boat? |
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Post by Danno on Jun 21, 2022 23:04:16 GMT
Tangentially, there are Monster Hunter 3/4 sound effects in the Pickle Rick Rick and Morty Episode
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Post by EMarkM on Jun 22, 2022 6:43:07 GMT
Also found some lore in Skyrim that suggests that Ulfric Stormcloak is being (unwittingly) manipulated by the Thalmor, changes the perception of the whole rebellion. I only found this out a couple of days ago - it cropped up on here or somewhere else, can’t remember now - and I had absolutely no clue before. I remember, on my initial playthrough, starting to see rumours online that he wasn’t the great “people’s hero” he was claiming to be, so I very proudly sided with the Imperials and was glad I had done so. In the light of this new information, maybe he wasn’t so bad after all..? |
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Post by drhickman1983 on Jun 22, 2022 6:57:13 GMT
Also found some lore in Skyrim that suggests that Ulfric Stormcloak is being (unwittingly) manipulated by the Thalmor, changes the perception of the whole rebellion. I only found this out a couple of days ago - it cropped up on here or somewhere else, can’t remember now - and I had absolutely no clue before. I remember, on my initial playthrough, starting to see rumours online that he wasn’t the great “people’s hero” he was claiming to be, so I very proudly sided with the Imperials and was glad I had done so. In the light of this new information, maybe he wasn’t so bad after all..? Whilst the dialogue is sometimes a bit meh, the underlying stories in the Elder Scrolls games are pretty interesting and can have dinner nice subtlety. There's a document in the basement of the Thalmor Embassy that details his Ulfric is being manipulated. He's listed as a "uncooperative" asset, and implies he worked with then in past but after the Malkarth incident he fell out with them, but he's still being influenced in less direct ways. Basically Thalmor want the civil war to continue indefinitely, as it makes both the Imperials and the Stormcloaks weaker. They explicitly say they don't want the war to end, and imply that will intervene on both sides to help maintain the status quo. Either side winning would not be good for the Thalmor. I can't recall what's worse for them. Or something like that. I guess my point is the political situation has a bit more depth and nuance than the sometimes wooden delivery suggests |
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Post by EMarkM on Jun 22, 2022 6:58:45 GMT
Despite what some seem to think, there really IS some very good stuff in Bethesda’s games.
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Post by Blue_Mike on Jan 25, 2023 23:32:36 GMT
The Adam Jensen you play as in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is almost certainly
EDIT: Be aware, that link is an absolute rabbithole.
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Post by Blue_Mike on Jan 28, 2024 23:47:03 GMT
Post-credits in Mass Effect: Andromeda, a datapad appears on the floor of the bathroom of the Tempest. It's an excerpt from a detective-noir story written by an Asari author who is also mentioned incredibly briefly as a conspiracy theorist in a planet description in ME3.
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Post by ToomuchFluffy on Jan 30, 2024 12:40:29 GMT
Most silencers in Necromunda - Hired Gun have different sounds based on the gun that they are installed on. Two of them on the M'MA do not do any silencing for some reason...
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Post by Blue_Mike on May 9, 2024 21:06:35 GMT
Can't believe I missed this before given how fucking blatant it is, but Deadshot appears in the opening scenes of Arkham City, in the line of prisoners Bruce walks past while handcuffed.
"Bruce Wayne? You're on my list." *aims finger gun at Bruce*
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