Thread 723914083

ITT things that really stood out in a game and you were sure were going to be a "thing" but then turned out to just be decorative

Emerald was full of that shit, specially the second floor of some homes blocked by plant pots

>>723914083 (OP)
that fucking trilobyte thing at distant village in hollow knight

>>723914083 (OP)
Holy shit OP you are my nigga

>>723914083 (OP)
cathedral ward unused door

>>723914083 (OP)
Real
>>723916015
Also Real

>>723914083 (OP)
your pic is the first thing that would come to mind for me

>>723914083 (OP)
That one cave looking thing in ff7, near city o the ancients.

>>723914083 (OP)
the timbermaw hold "entrance" in azshara from vanilla wow

I have pokemon fatigue.

I saw a fish in the water one time, but it didn't matter.

>>723917294
It was for good reason. This door was supposed to connect the Ward to the Great Bridge and if you could enter from the back then that means you skip Father Gascgoine which is one of the most memorable fights in the game. Plus it would be a useless shortcut anyway.

>>723914083 (OP)
A bunch of doors and waterfalls in a bunch of different games. Also any time there's a chest behind a wall or counter or whatnot that you can see, but can't get to.

>>723920114
yeah but at least remove the prompt to open it lmao

>>723914083 (OP)
>yep. that's right. it's literally nothing.
>and it's not gonna BE anything, either.

>>723915280
That was an e-Reader thing. You would just battle random trainers and get junk rewards.

>>723920281
Pretty sure this was also E Reader stuff. Unfortunately a good chunk of material for Emerald are locked behind it. None of which they implemented in ORAS, by the way... except for like Deoxys I think.

>>723920257
There's millions of things to proofread, remove, clean up, table away etc. in the final stages of a game release. You miss a thing or two. It's fine.

>>723920281
iirc it was supposed to have some johtomons that would be in there for a specific amount of time during an event
i'm not sure if it was ever released outside of japan though
emerald would later have all the pokemon that were supposed to be there in the safari zone

>Mirage Island
>Every day, a random number between 0 and 65535 is generated by the game. If this number matches the first two bytes of the personality value of any Pokémon in the player's party, then Mirage Island will appear
>think its some cool shit that may or may not have to do with Mew or maybe some other legend
>Oops, all Wynaut! Yep, just Wynauts! Since the game already gave you a free one from the Daycare, here's more!
Emerald really had a lot of bullshit.

>>723920496
>>723920668
It was meant for Mystery Gift distributions. Theres text in Emerald and FRLG that says "Thanks for using Mystery Gift, theres a rare Pokemon in the cave, you should check it out."

>>723920496
>>723920668
According to Bulbapedo, it was meant for Mystery Gift event distributions (which were never released) where you would have been able to catch Johto mons in the cave (they were all made available in Emerald's Safari Zone anyway)

>>723920561
This is cool but because the guy looks dorky nu-/v/ will shit on it.

>>723920756
>I actually tried for this shit
>It's worse odds than a shiny

>>723919525
I never played this game. Wowfags how did you feel when seeing graphics like this for the first time?

even 20 years ago todd was lying

>>723920976
Based cool things identifier.

>>723920895
>>723920836
Fair but my point still stands that ORAS made no effort to implement a majority of ereader/mystery gift shit in the game.

conspicuous red dot in Cave Story

>>723919525
I believe Timbermaw was originally going to be maybe a raid? Also remember that cave in Felwood nearby where you go to save that Paladin and her buddy or whatever? That was a cut dungeon.

>>723914083 (OP)
In Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life there's a shed in your farm that is always locked and cannot be entered at any point in the game.
No idea if the remake did anything with it since I didn't bother getting it because it looked like shit.

>>723921446
If it's the one I'm thinking of then it's actually a marker showing the exact spot you need to jump from to skip getting the Booster.

>>723920756
Its a sovlful easter egg.
Back in the day some kid would have found this island by chance and told all their friends about it only for them to check for it and think they are bullshitting.

>>723920306
I got lucky that my mom picked one up cheap off of ebay. Even got like 3 cards to go with it. You could also change the enigma berry into berries that got fully released in later gens.

>>723916015
I'm completely sure that exists just so theory fags would keep discussion of the game alive, just like most things Toby Fox puts in his games

>>723921706
FUCK
GOD I HATE X AND Y

>>723920756
The island's point of interest was the unique berry, not the Wynauts.
Still not very useful, though.

>>723919683
This guy is full of shit. The e-reader worked perfectly in the US. You swiped a card and could fight a trainer with 3 mons. Two were visible on the card, while the third had to be discovered in battle.

>>723920756
i actually got it once in sapphire
it was a weird experience

>>723921181
>somebody else remembers this
I had so many damn theories about this stupid thing

>>723919525
Turtle WoW is making a 20-man raid there soon.

I don't have a screenshot, but there was a wall seam that looked like it would be a secret door in DS3 on the roof of Lothric castle (near where the gargoyle enemies show up). At some point I figured it would be a DLC entrance. It was never actually anything.

>>723921181
>>723921971
What if it actually did something, but we just... forgot?

>>723919525
Yeah. Same with the giant door that now leads into the Worgen area. Only took them what, seven years?

>>723914083 (OP)
In Tainted Grail, near the stairs down to the Frantic Berserker, there is a door set into the cave wall. It's in such deep darkness that you can only see it if you look at it from a certain angle, and you can't interact with it at all. I assumed it'd be used to return to the asylum later in the game or something, but no. It was nothing.

>>723915280
gen 3 campaign was a disaster and emerald was the worst with both magma and aqua bases

>>723922968
But having both bases was cool as fuck

>>723921030
>Wowfags how did you feel when seeing graphics like this for the first time?
I thought it looked like shit. I remember telling my friends that it looked identical to WC3 graphics, which were also absolute pig vomit compared to the evocative, beautifully crafted spritework of Warcraft 2. Of course, I have always hated the turn from 2D sprites to 3D. Even today, most 3D games look like shit.

>>723922968
team magma's base being in the same volcano groudon is in was cool as fuck though

>>723920561
No its not. It was the perfect post. Fuck you.

>>723920561
looks too much like led bulbs in a plastic sword than an even ethereal glow. Needs more work

>>723923127
At least its end game.

>>723921181
>that one named bandit in some random cave that caused the "doomed world" warning to pop up when killed.
I was so convinced that he must have been involved in some obscure alternate way to complete the main quest but no it was probably just an error.

>>723923127
Wasn't that the door in the intro that leads to Gruntys cauldron room?
>>723921915
I think he meant Europe, the e-reader never released there.

>>723924680
It's just a door Klungo walks out of in a cutscene, nothing more

>>723914083 (OP)
>>723921706
>>723921757
You could make a whole thread of shit in XY that never got explained

>>723921706
I LOVE X & Y!

>>723926247
Isn't that supposed to be the superweapon AZ created?

>>723926413
No, the Ultimate Weapon is the thing powered by Xerneas/Yveltal in Team Flare's base that comes out of the ground in Geosenge Town at the end of the game
The Sundial is in Anistar City and it's never explained, the most you get is the town description saying "Some say the enigmatic device used as a sundial came from outer space." It has some vague connection to Mega Stones since you need it to find them in the postgame but that's it.

THE BATTLE FRONTIER PROJECT HAS BEGUN

>>723914083 (OP)
I thought the Akalla Citadel Ruins were going to be significant in one of the two games, but all that was inside was a really generic cave I guess.

It's cool that we eventually learned what this was about, even if it was "unofficially"

>>723920561
cool looking hunk of plastic but the leds need a diffuser so It doesn't look like shit

>>723920281
It's mystery gift thing
All johtomons found there were added to the Safari extension except Smeargle which was added to the Battle Frontier
Shuckle found there were also supposed to have Berry Juice item as held item which is otherwise unobtainable in the whole gen 3 main games

>>723919525
WoW is full of shit like this which is why it was always so fascinating to try breaking into these places. It was always unfinished bullshit and lots of nothing, but it was fun to imagine what could be there. Even Hyjal had some groundwork laid out even though it was mostly empty.

That one unreachable island in Midnight Mountain in Spyro 3

It was just a placeholder by the dev for where the super bonus round island was supposed to be. It was meant to be unreachable until you beat the final boss, which would make a whirlwind appear that could send you there, but the level ended up being finished by another dev that didn't know this plan so the whirlwind was dummied out, the placeholder island left there, and the super bonus round island just placed normally alongside the other parts of the level.

>>723921915
It did not work for Emerald, which is what the footage is of that game. It did however work for Ruby and Sapphire and in Japan all gen 3 mainline games had compatibility with those cards that you are talking about. In the US, despite the first 6 sets being obtainable, they kept the functionality in Ruby and Sapphire only but patched it out of FireRed/LeafGreen/Emerald.

>>723921558
came to post this one
i remember rumors about your character being buried in there when he died or something.

also, i cant find a picture of it but i remember in mario 64 in hazy maze cave, in the room with nessie, if you looked up at the ceiling you could see a door in the distance, and i always wanted to know how to get to it
now i know it was just a clipping issue or graphical bug

>>723927335
They still consider this canon

>>723916015
It;s just a trilobite hanging in a room

>>723928708
that's what it ended up being, yeah, but the thing that got my attention is that if you hit it with spells if has a shield, implying there's supposed to be something more to it, but there just isn't.

>>723928797
Lore cow tools. Bug tools, even.

>>723927178
The disappointment from this shit right here made me give up defending totk. waiting 6 years to finally see what's inside, and it's not even a dungeon.

>>723920976
It looks like that $50 plastic sword I harangued my mom into buying me at disneyland.

I think I remember Runescape had a trapdoor near the fishing guild that couldn't be opened but had an special text was something ever done with it?
I quit over 10y ago yet I still rember it.

>>723921706
>ISN'T THIS LE SPOOKY
God I hated this game.

>>723920114
I guess the original intention was you never had to fight Gascoigne and could fight the cleric beast instead to progress.

I wonder why they decided to go the "Linear" route instead of the open world "go what way you want" route instead

>>723926965
I’m still upset

>>723930028
Because Gascoigne teaches you important parry mechanics and most players remember him over most bosses.

>>723928653
They kept the design but the ideas of what it represents are obviously abandoned

>>723929423
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSFtgVsZ-9U&t=914s

>>723921706
>>723921757
>>723926249
>>723929694

>>723914083 (OP)
But OP, if you beat the Elite 4 fifty times and then Mossdeep reaches 100 rocket launches, you can go to space and catch Deoxys

>>723921120
Using link cables everything I got to the truck legitimately, traded over a Gyarados with cut and surf, defeated surge to unlock being able to use cut, then cut my way to Erika to unlock being able to use Surf, got to the truck, and there was fucking nothing. At the time being 9 or whatever that was a big undertaking and I was pissed off. I remember surfing down and seeing the truck and thinking “it’s not a rumor, Mew confirmed!” and nothing.

>>723930513
I fell for a nonzero amount of those.

In Pokemon Sapphire, there's a guy watching TV, and any time you walk up to the TV he goes "get outta the way dude I'm trying to watch" and move you automatically. The TV screens flashing in gen 3 meant there was something important, and as a kid I was CONVINCED there was a way I could interact with that particular TV somehow.

>>723927178
>>723929117
But they fully explain what it is in Botw.
It was built as a way to defend the land of Hyrule from invaders by Sea from the East. And when the Calamity happened, Hyrule's military basically had their shit completely pushed in all the way to akkala. This citadel is wear they made their last stand. Thats why its crawling with powerful guardians in botw because it would have been where they REALLY had to fight to kill of the hylian soldiers (Or whats left of it).

There'd be nothing in there but a bunch of bones and rusty armour and weapons

it's funny how as a kid you don't always understand the boundaries of a game world and assume there's something there if you managed to go beyond it

like in pokemon I was always frustrated by the ocean routes being enclosed by rocks and I figured there had to be a way to get around them and explore. I really wanted to explore in ratchet & clank too, and you can actually clip really easily in that game and it kinda disillusioned me

>>723930696
Game Freak devs just put things like that in instead of actually working on the game.

Remember they cut the day/night system so they could put in shit like "fat dude pushes you out of the way of the tv when you try to interact with it"

This is not a dev studio that has its priorities lined up correctly

>>723930850
>they cut the day/night system so they could put in shit like "fat dude pushes you out of the way of the tv when you try to interact with it"
I don't think those two things are related at all actually.

>>723930737
>There'd be nothing in there but a bunch of bones and rusty armour and weapons.

Would have been way more interesting than what we got. Idc what the lore reason is to keep it boring, it was the first place I went to in TOTK and it was just the first of many dissapointments.

>>723930850
wtf is they day/night system in the game even, a pallet swap and a spawn swap? why remove that, blows my mind, it’s a nothing feature that’s just kind of fun and immersive

>>723921706
Bugged me big time that this had no follow up

>>723930946
I mean, this is the same studio that refuses to have optional tutorials in current year. Its always mandatory. It would take about 5 seconds to code it to be able to opt out. But no, I need to know how to throw a pokeball for the thousandth time

>>723930924
Then you’re stupid because the time it took to animate TV man they could have easily added day/night.

>>723930924
Its more about the decision making process of the devs rather than if those two things are specifically related.

>>723930946
>it’s a nothing feature
>that’s just kind of fun and immersive

Then its not a nothing feature is it? Then it just adds to the game

uhhh

>>723930946
>why remove that
because the GBA's screen is a piece of shit and they didn't want the game to be unplayable from 6pm to 4am

>>723926247
I wonder how late in development it came down there would be no Z version.

>>723931461
I’m saying it’s nothing to add in. A pallet swap on a timer…

>>723930737
sounds like a fun idea for a dungeon full of Stalfos, traps and secret rooms. fuck hacktendo

>>723921181
>he doesn't remember
lmao this n'wah lacks magical protection

>>723930451
Thanks king.

>>723931498
wtf same with GBC shithead it wasn’t a problem then

>>723931498
Are you implying the GBC is any better you fucking retard?

>>723927178
>you can find the arbiters grounds in botw
>totk announced, everything rises up
>holy shit the arbiters grounds are going to rise
>it’s nothing

>>723927995
Aren't there like 4 1up butterflies thrown there instead? It still has a purpose, just as a small little hidden one.

Looking back it's weird that Ultimate had no Ubi representation.

>>723931625
>>723931657
neither of you have ever looked at an original GBA screen, got it

yes the GBC screen was a lot better

One thing that struck me as odd was that in Zelda on the NES, a few of the dungeons have hidden stairs underneath some of the Armos statues, but they just go to the same place as the front door anyway.

Game Freak is unironically like a small indie studio in that there's a bunch of people who have creative input to put their "cool ideas"/cryptic bullshit in the game with zero context or further explanation

>>723931937
Oh so that's where Toby Fox got that from

MGS4 in the militia safe house

The future room in black and white

>>723930537
I believe you, anon, but just fyi, beating Surge only allows you to use Fly, you need Cut to even get to the Gym (it's Misty who allows you to use Cut). Also, it's Koga who allows you to use Surf (Eirika is for Strength).

>>723930537
>defeated surge to unlock being able to use cut,
But you have to cut down a plant to get to Surge's gym.

>>723921558
>>723928475
As the other anon said, it was rumored you were buried there at the end of the game, but there was another rumor that it was supposed to be the stable before the horse was moved to the barn.
>No idea if the remake did anything with it
It didn't. The shed's gone and they increased the size of both fields slightly since there was extra room now.

>>723914083 (OP)
>mega man legends
>vegetable stall in apple market has "no entry" sign you can examine
>appears to share a wall with the main gate on the map
alas, there was nothing. Also, the power plant is its own entire area but has no bearing on the plot nor any kind of sidequest. It doesn't even have a part or something

>>723921120
>>723930537
I had a German magazine that said in order to push the truck you needed to level a Geodude to level 99, without rare candies, teach it Strength, then level it to Golem via trade to be able to move the truck. There would be a ladder under it that would teleport you into the Silph Co fountain where you would fight MewThree.
Looking back I was retarded to believe it, but I was also 9, so I cut myself some slack.

>>723932506
>>723932512
Whatever, yeah. I just cheesed all that shit without entering the SS Anne so I could surf down to the nothing-truck.

Seriously, what the fuck was this weird checkered floor in the LTTP Thieves town? This has driven me crazy for decades. I don't think the weird shifting checkerboard texture shows up anywhere else in the game either.

>>723914083 (OP)
The bridge to the Upper City in Baldurs Gate 3. Cheap, lazy bastards.

>>723933009
isnt it just water?

>>723933137
I have no clue. The light world equivalent is the bottle merchant's rug. It doesn't have any interactions as far as I can tell.

>>723922968
it was also pretty cool that till you caught both of them, weather was really wack.

>>723919525
I feel like WoW in general has so many of those kinds of things. Like the landmark south of Dragonblight that looks like a giant dragon skeleton, the giant snake tail in that one troll dungeon, the underwater Goblin town, etc. Bunch of stuff that was never meant to actually be expanded on.

>>723933210
weird

>>723931925
I literally had every single GB. It wasnt. Also
>not knowing how to angle your screen perfectly so that the radial light from your ceiling fan perfectly illuminated everything
Skill issue. Stop making excuses for them getting rid of content.

>>723933596
I know, right? Feels exactly like the kind of thing for this thread. I've never figured it out after all these year.

>>723933009
It's just water. I'm 100% sure you see the same thing elsewhere, but I can't remember where.

>>723933009
I think the point was to show how different the town was from the lightworld equivalent. A den of thieves is no place for a merchant to set up shop.

>>723934474
>A den of thieves is no place for a merchant to set up shop.
Pussy speak. Sounds like an opportunity for good business to me!

>>723933009
>>723933137
>>723933210
i'm like 90% certain you could just grab a bush and throw it in to make a water splash effect, but i don't have a save file handy to test it myself

>>723914083 (OP)
That's where you caught Jirachi bro, just visit the space station 100 times

cool thread OP

>>723933009
I always assumed it was the skylight that allowed the light to enter blind's room.

>>723932495
wasnt this meant to be some kind of online functionality?
i feel like black and white had a lot of cryptic shit like this that just turned out to be unimplemented features

>>723934631
>i'm like 90% certain you could just grab a bush and throw it in to make a water splash effect, but i don't have a save file handy to test it myself
I just checked both the SNES and GBA versions, no splashing in either.

>>723914083 (OP)
They should have made this area take you to the Sunken King DLC

>>723935442
what the fuck? huh, what if you throw a bomb onto it?

Bros, we gotta find out what the meaning of that weird floor is

Speaking of doors, there are these unused doors in DD2 that even spurred some rumors about a potential DLC that will never happen

>>723935632
Same as regular ground.

>>723919204
>It turns out it was simply made to indicate a wolf fight in the lost woods, but the tree ended up here cuz a dev didn't notice

>>723914083 (OP)
>you can enter the smaller one to enter a slide level
>the big one on the front of the castle is just decoration though
same thing with the unenterable star painting

>>723914083 (OP)
This is just like when the game has you do something with a common item once very early and then it never happens again the entire game. Where you think the answer to a puzzle is doing the trick but nope it was just a one time thing.

>>723931965
This one is really insane. These symbols appear in the game's logo in one of the corners, turns out that if you overlay this frame with the regional map, it pinpoints the locations of the sealed legendaries that you have to collect some overworld stakes to unlock. Why is it down in the area zero makes no sense but that's the function of this one.

This one is more mysterious and pointless

>>723921030
it feels like home

>>723929816
>how to tell that you're brazilian or polish without telling it

>>723938693
I mean, yeah.
its still a very interesting secret, i lost hours trying to find stuff about it more than a decade ago.

Pokemon used to feel so mysterious bros
Mostly because I was a child but seeing footage of the mystery gift events on youtube and feeling like the world of the game was even bigger than I knew was kino

>>723921706
i love pointless shit like this that isnt followed up on, it adds a lot to the charm of the game. If this was an older game, it wouldve turned into a playground rumor and kids would tell you that she reappears if you catch every pokemon and run around luminos city 50 times.
In Sun/moon, your friend wouldve entered the room, gave his signature shrug and went "wow that sure was creepy....its like she's a ghost" or some gay shit

Honestly despite X/Y being pretty shit, i still look back on it pretty fondly. Short, simple, and megas were probably the least dogshit shoe-horned gimmick of the newer pokemon games. characters still felt chibi-esque and being the first 3DS game, it had an excuse for feeling incomplete, and was the last time in the series i was hopeful for a new entry because "now that theyve worked out the quirks and understand what theyre doing with the 3DS, the next game will surely be better" (it wasnt)

>>723938884
its a shame nobody really tried to just make a explorefag pokemon romhack, just a bigger more mysterious map

>>723926247
That thing at least had a sidequest attached to it.
The hex girl is just a meme now...

>>723914083 (OP)
I love this shit, filling game worlds with stuff that isn't for (you) makes it feel like an actual real place

>>723938884
It was full of esoteric puzzles to get optiona content for years
>Decipher this braille tablet using a codex of braille characters (not explained anywhere in game that it's a codex) then come back with a specific party composition to unlock three chambers with more weird braille puzzles
>Give a specific mon the ice cream as a held item to open the door
>Apply a specific nickname to open the door
I do wish there was more to the Ruins of Alph, maybe a special held item if you clear all the chambers instead of just a one-use sacred ash

>>723930838
Mmm. Makes me wonder why no one has made a handcrafted world, and when you go outside of the boundaries of that world, just procedurally generate more world.

>>723938884
This is forever the reason the games suck now. The mystery is gone. The adventure is gone.

>>723940384
>>723938884
>playing pokemon sapphire at night in bed as a kid
>walk into this random house like any other, a bit out of town on a route but whatever
>YOU'RE BEING WATCHED...
>immediately shot through with adrenaline, freak out and turn the game off and on again
>never go back in to find out about the trick house for years

>>723937601
Yeah this shit always bugged me.

>>723940524
Damn, playing at night and not hearing the goofy ass music fucked you over. RIP

>>723922968
The secret base with a hail magma/aqua post. It was just a regular secret base.

I used to think this sign actually said something instead of being a bunch of random pixels, imagine being that retarded

>>723923091
whats weird to me is that whole inept thing. he only gives you a costume in replaylee

>>723940702
I had to have the sound off so my parents didn't hear, but knowing myself I probably would have heard it as freaky clown music and that would've made it worse

I got all the event mons for Gen IV, but this thing I'm surprised they scrapped.
Yes I know about Legends using it.

>>723940760
>he can't read it
Lmao, filtered

>>723940760
L is real 2401, anon

>>723914083 (OP)
gen 3 had so much soul world building esoteric nonsense. gen 4 also had a fair bit. i think the lack of mystery and charm is one of the biggest reasons nu-pokemon SUCKS (other than the gay nigger npcs and cis torture never ending cutscences)

>>723927178
>>723929117
This was my reaction to both games anytime something interesting caught my eye, and the dev team knew full well people were going to expect more than a shrine or some throwaway reward.

>>723930737
>no no, there's an in-lore reason why it fucking sucks to play!
cool, it still sucks first

>>723938136
having the world map shape but with dots showing where the legendaries are isnt that insane you can clearly tell its the paldea map, its not like you have to read brail or anything

>>723931554
Whoa there, no good ideas in zelda anymore!
It has to be fucking easy and boring for the rest of time. And don't you forget it.
See this picture? Forget it.
Pray to the lamest retcon godess ever thought of instead.

>>723935868
Thanks for reminding me about this shit, now I'm mad again

>>723941287
Except the dots are not showing where the legendaries are because there are not that many, retard.

>>723940836
>I probably would have heard it as freaky clown music
Yeah, no. That's even worse.
>*Enter house*
>*Freaky clown music starts playing*
>*You are being watched*
>*Turn to exit*
>*A clown is blocking the doorway*

>>723941485
man the mystical triforce art was so cool

>>723941485
Zelda 3 drove me insane with its mysticism and the feeling of hiding endless secrets, it and OoT were the last mysterious Zeldas, and 3 is still sacred to me since it’s the only time Link gets the Triforce and actually feels like a LEGENDARY hero, making a wish to restore what is essentially Heaven.

That merry-go-round looking thing on Secret of Mana's world map.

>>723942925
I’m still tormented imagining the Secret of Mana we will never see

>>723942975
hm? was there a lot of dummied out content?

>>723942925
probably just a big circular tent, like a pavilion, yeah?
>>723942914
Yeah they really nailed their homages to the source material and tropes the old games were inspired by.

>>723941287
sorry for the confusion, the picture I was replying to showed the location of 4 legendaries in a very convoluted way, the one I posted just has weird symbols and the local map with towns as dots. But the symbols so far have no real meaning, they are still in the gamelogo like the cryptic symbol representing the 4 treasures of ruin

>>723943135
Kinda? It was going to be a CD game before that fell through, with more content. What we got was amazing but I still lust for the CD version. Maybe one day a Square leak will reveal stuff.

>>723942975
I love how you can flat out see on the map when they had to bump down their ambitions by three notches.

>>723943313
Meanwhile, the beta version had a lot more paths on it instead of wide patches of nothing.

>>723943313
Christ, that is an EMPTY world when seen in full instead of Mode 7

>>723943293
oh, interesting

>>723930850
that IS the game you brainrotted retard. not every game is hyper competitive rollslop

Not exactly a location but how many of you turds actually believed it was possible to beat vile in the start if you held off long enough?

>>723914083 (OP)
This entire game

>>723943135
Like half of the game's concepts ended up in Chrono Trigger, hence why the male and female protags in SoM kinda look like Crono and Marle.

>>723938884
i know it's not in the game but seeing stuff like the ho-oh at the end of the first episode filled me with an incredible sense of wonder and the feeling that the world was a vast and mysterious and awe-inspiring place

>>723943569
it's incredible how much DNA Square let bleed back then, Secret of Mana, Xenogears, Chrono Trigger, FF7, all born from the same soup

that one chest you couldn't open in Shining Force

>>723914083 (OP)
this fucking kid in my summer camp told me this bullshit story about running aorund the rocket site and checking the rock on a random tuesday would take me to the moon to find deoxys

Im still mad about it years later. Fuck you zack

>play Ocarina of Time with my sister a lot
>become obsessed with finding the Triforce somehow
>I'm old enough to be savvy about out-of-bounds shit and we have a gameshark
>Use it to explore all kinds of areas to search, including going to kid Zelda's courtyard outside of cutscene mode to look around
>leap into the water found there, turns out you can swim in it
>go into first person to look around, see only blackness- HOLY SHIT WE SEE THE TRIFORCE
>WAIT WHY IS IT MOVING? WHY IS IT PARTLY LIT? HOLY SHIT WHAT DID WE-
>...
>Oh. That's the texture for the Triforce that appears on Link's hand in the final cutscenes. Going into the water just fucked with the model and revealed the hidden texture when in first person

while the magic didn't die that day, a lot of the curiosity did

>>723914083 (OP)
Mine was the stop 'n' swap ice key in Banjo.

In the Cliff Diving event in World Games there was some stuff visible at the ocean floor that as a kid I assumed was somehow collectable with just the right jump.

>>723926965
I will never not be mad.

Always thought this tree stood out, even for the kind of game it is. It was probably related to one of the cut Colossi though.

>>723945075
one of those games where you wish they got just 6 more months in the oven

I can't find a picture but the Greeton gate in Star Ocean 3. There's probably all sorts of mecha over there but alas.

>>723929816
>>723938693
>>723938786
I spent years in Rookgaard wishing for that shit.
The trick to make the flame diminish even teased up players more.
I think they admitted already it was an unfinished quest, right? Fucking assholes. Tibia had a fucking terrible administration.

>>723944776
I had no idea you could collect the eggs in the game. Even then, the initial concept wasn't used. Fuck, that would have kept me playing for at least another twenty hours.

>>723945136
Ya alot of the cut colossi were cool as hell. The fact that the sandworm was supposed to be the smaller wimpier part of a duo shows we were robbed. At the very least they could have finished the other smaller one since the field you were gonna fight it in was completely intact in game

>>723943562
I remember playing this in Newgrounds.

>>723945354
honestly, while more colossi would have been amazing, we DID get 16 which was a damn lot in the first place; I would have preferred if they had spent time littering more little secrets across the world, give you a reason to spend hours dicking around.

>>723926247
>>723939467
There's a timeline with a fleshed out and finished Kalos

>remember wasting hours in dkc3 circling a suspicious rock formation
>went to look up a map to post it
>actual secret area there
I ... I didn't beat the game ...

>>723914083 (OP)
What was the deal with this rock?

>>723914083 (OP)
The 6th Archstone in Demon's Souls.

>>723946194
>you can actually go to where it leads to
>it's just a massive white hell void, blank canvas

creepy if a bit lame

>>723926247
>That one distant village with a lake that can be seen in victory road
Boy, I was MAD, you could not really get there so I thought it was teasing some future DLC or some shit.

>>723945254
>I think they admitted already it was an unfinished quest, right?
i dont think so? they arent dumb to do that i dont think

>>723946194
Would be nice to have a demon souls remake with the cut zone. Oh wait.

>>723946194
It always intrigued me. I felt that it was a secret level at first. Only to realize it was cut in retrospect.
>>723946238
Perhaps. They definitely wanted it to be ambitious in scale. But they didn't have the time or budget to deliver I guess.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFpy5fZC7p4

>>723946468
I hate to imagine what Bluepoint would've butchered in terms of the art direction. Had they decided to include the cut level.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiQ8wxOM5hA&t=345s

>>723946124
>NPC nearby says it's a wishing rock and people stick wishing tags onto it
>It's located next to the Space Center where rockets are launched into space
>This game's two unobtainable legendaries are based on a wishing star (with wish tags stuck to its head), and an alien virus from outer space
>The rock has blatant connections to both Pokemon, yet doesn't actually help you obtain either.

>>723933108
A shame that was.

>>723946395
I remember they did, years later after the removal of the island.

what was the point of this?

Terranigma had a peculiar circular area next to North America that had absolutely no relevance in the final game.

>>723946979
rookgard still exists, i was playing in there some days ago, dawnport is what was just removed some days ago for the new tutorial island.

>>723947102
It's a little nod to where Plato's Atlantis is supposed to be, beyond the pillars of Hercules (the straits of Gibraltar) and far west across the Atlantic.

>>723947102
probably meant to have content by landing on that island and then something happening in the sea, but it was either cut or just never implemented to begin with

>>723947189
Oh that actually makes sense, damn.

>>723947102
What's even stranger is that the maps shown in gaming guides at the time seemed to have been using an older version where there were rocks in that area that almost looked like some sort of skull.
It's hard to see here but sadly it's the best version I could find.

>>723947189
For some reason I thought Terranigma DID have Atlantis, so I skipped that idea, but then immediately realized I was thinking of Illusion of Gaia.

>>723921120
This is one I remember vividly with all the rumors back in the day.

>>723947353
In a way I feel that the glitch method of getting him is feels more 'legit' than the rumors

>>723947176
I haven't touched Tibia in more than two decades. I remember they removed Rook in some news. I was active there while many things were changing in Rook, particular because people kept trapping patches(I was one of those trolls lol)
I remember when we basically forced them to change the system and made people pass through others. Fun times.

>>723947269
Gaia has its own bag of shit to drive you nuts.
There's a hole next to the entrance of the cliff dungeon, for example, that looks like as if you could slide into it but you don't have the ability at that point and even if you hack it in there's nothing behind that hole.

>>723943549
I tried a lot as a kid

>>723947467
I adored Illusion as a kid but even back then I could feel the sensation of "This game probably had x3 more content but they took a chainsaw to it to save their own bottom line"

>>723947428
That as well. I just could not forget "There is a hidden pokemon if anyone can access the truck" and it just kept everyone wondering if there really was. What makes Pokemon Red/Blue special was that even if it was solved, there was tons of odd glitches, cheats, even weird ways to acquire Pokemon like Mew so many weird mysteries, and actual things you could do. It felt endless in it's own unintended way. After that it became sort of standard and "solved"

Fuck you, id, gimme those 1UPs!

>>723947581
MissingNo kind of opened a door that was way more interesting anyways, once that monster became public knowledge stuff like the truck felt boring; who cares about the psychic cat when you can tear elder gods out of the code to scream at you?

>>723947452
you can go back to rook during the tutorial, just ask a npc

I was so fucking certain that this bridge held some fucking secret that my brain was too smooth to actually get. Turns out that there was no way to get up there and there was no loading zones or nothing there, meaning it was purely for fucking show.3

seeing this in a magazine as a kid legitimately fucked with my brain for weeks, I was so certain there was a hidden 2nd Quest

>>723921446
they made it a ribbon in plus
i STILL don't know why skipping the booster makes the tow rope spawn and is crucial for the good end

>>723947102
There are things in Terranigma that make me wonder if they were meant to be more.
Like Polynesya and Mu are kinda there and barely have anything despite being missable content you can only unlock in the underworld.
In a similar matter, in Illusions of Gaia, i wonder what were the writters where going for with Seth he got eaten by the whale, only have him talk to you in the underwater corridor and then a last time when the souls talk to you before the final boss.

>>723947654
Not only that but changing your name changed what you managed to get in the Surf in the ocean to fight Missingno and even get random Pokemon.

>>723947910
I saw it as a sort of quantum deal; if you confirm the doc is dead, then he's dead. If you never collapse that state, there's a chance he's alive, and so he IS alive, and little things happen to make saving Curly possible.

>>723921120
>some guy ended up using ACE exploits and other shit to code a "virus" that alters the game's code and the code of anyone you link with to let you (or them) Strength the truck to get Mew
>this was done a few years ago, long after the game died and the original games became rare, so it ended up being kinda pointless.

>>723929816
I'm not even Brazilian (white as fuck) and I played like 100 hours of the trial of Tibia during my "play literally every free MMO / MMO trial on the internet" phase.

>>723944410
>play the "Final Fantasy" games on GB/GBC
>get the progenitors of the SaGa franchise and the Mana franchise instead
As a huge Sword of Mana fan, playing FFA on GB a few years later blew my mind, since Sword of Mana is just a straight-up remake of the game and a mostly faithful one too. I've always had SoM's songs stuck in my head, and I found myself humming to all the songs in FFA too because they're the same fucking thing.
Plus it's cool to see that the enemies in the game could jump around at any angle and you could pick your stats when you level up, two things I wasn't expecting to see in such an ancient-ass game.

>>723914083 (OP)
Pokemon dump, just because I've had the games on my mind recently:
1. Pokemon SwSh's Wild Area being a huge empty zone full of literally nothing. People yelled that it looked empty and dull, other people yelled it'll 100% have more content unlock, either progressively or after beating the game. Neither happened, other than maybe the max raids, kinda.
2. Pokemon LZA's train. There were people swearing on their grave that Lumiose was only the first city and that the train would take you to other places (or that there's an underground part of the city), neither happened.
3. The golf course in USUM.
4. The Ultra Dimension in USUM, especially that city that's basically just a hallway and some stairs.
5. The dex cut making people think GF was going to use the saved dev time to make the games 100x better.

>>723947939
>In a similar matter, in Illusions of Gaia, i wonder what were the writters where going for with Seth he got eaten by the whale, only have him talk to you in the underwater corridor and then a last time when the souls talk to you before the final boss.

That was sort of a fuckup. Seth go eaten by LEVIATHAN, the Biblical one, and became it, fusing with the godbeast. It never went anywhere and was obviously a cut quest line, but that was what happened to him.

Gaia really felt like they were trying to build way more up to a Biblical event and happenings, but had to cut way WAY back.

>>723930946
I personally think the lack of day/night is a good thing and Gen 3 was better for it, because I'm a nocturnal NEET and night time is universally a worse experience in Pokémon games. Encounter tables are worse and the same for every route, the graphics become dull and monotonous, and in general it's a strange feeling to be going on this adventure and interacting with all these people at night only. It's particularly bad in Gen 2 because the times of day are of different durations and night is aburdly long, starting at like 6 PM. The games are intended mainly to be played in daytime in-game and this should not actually be locked to real-life daytime. Gen 7 had a decent idea for this with the Moon time offset, but being able to control it manually(as I do in emulators) would be better.

>>723947910
>buy cave story plus purely to play curly story because there isnt a transcript of the added dialogue anywhere online (and lets plays are no fun)
>get to chaco's house
>curly, despite being a blabber mouth for the entire game non stop has absolutely nothing to say after sleeping with chaco
nicalis is full of cowards

>>723921725
Then get beat up for "lying"

>>723921120
still crazy to me how 8yos figured out you could dupe items without help of the internet

>>723948127
I dunno I love the idea of a night-only adventure, or the idea of there being Pokemon trainers of the day, and then ones of the night who exclusively use nocturnal mons

>>723948249
If this was better implemented I would agree, but as it stands night in Pokémon is really an afterthought. After Gen 4 they abandoned encounter table changes and made time of day almost purely cosmetic(barring some particular evolution requirements or Dusk Balls and such).

>Make a map for a completely separate era in the game from everything else you get to explore
>Only purpose for it existing is for a couple of cutscenes and you can't even explore it
I mean, it serves its purpose perfectly for the game narrative, but man, I wish they let you explore it, even for a little bit.

>>723948326
It's weird how many games did this back then. Illusion of Gaia has a giant map of a city that you only see for a few seconds, and only in Mode 7.

>>723948326
>Singing Mountain
>Save Schala
>visit 1999 before Lavos
>exploring all of Zeal

CT felt like a game that was meant to have a lot of truly obscure and wild stuff in it

>>723948326
There's a rom hack that lets you explore it

>>723940760
Why is somebody playing a Mario64 map/texture pack in super mario galaxy?

For what purpose?

>>723936930
It definitely is an out of place Lost Woods asset, though I don't know if any of the available beta maps have it to confirm

>>723948582
i think that's mario odyssey

>>723919683
>random spicnigger posts easily-found info
>screenshots his own faggot comment like it's something esoteric and secret
kill yourself.

>>723914083 (OP)
suffice to say, Waluigi wasn't in the game

>>723947859
Seeing beta screens for games like Four Swords Adventures in Nintendo Power as a kid mystified me with how different the final products looked. Somehow I ended up at the conclusion they were the "weird Japanese versions"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-SCQD8QGUs

>>723948326
>rent Chrono Trigger back in the day because it looked cool and I like RPGs
>play it
>think it's pretty cool
>get to this cutscene
>scares the everfucking shit out of me
>return the game and have a fear of volcanoes for a few years

What's funny is I've tried to get back into CT way too many times over the years, but I just can't do it.
It's not even a fear thing, I legitimately just don't like the game, it's mainly a classic due to utilizing a lot of crazy tech that most other games didn't do at the time and for having a beginning-to-end story instead of just a handful of story beats.
Trying to replay it now just annoys me, I don't like all the railroading, I don't like that you can't manually nudge your characters around in combat, I don't like how slow you learn new skills in the early game, limiting the use of the whole directional combat thing. Plus I feel like the game has too many playable characters considering you can only have 3 with you, I had the same issue with FF6+7.

>>723948774
hell, at least you had internet by that era, I was a kid in 1991 with NO idea how games were made, Japan was still some magic land far away, the concept of a 'beta' didn't exist in my head and there was no way to get more info; just that screenshot and a lot of wild speculation

>>723948764
what's funny is that waluigi in SM64DS is basically just a carbon copy of Luigi in SM64 but zoomers were too young (and dumb) to care

>>723919525
Vanilla wow was full of that stuff as expansions were never planned to be a thing, they just wanted to keep adding updates that would fill out the world.

>>723948730
>/pol/tourist sees image
>has a schizophrenic meltdown
Lurk more before posting

>>723941485
>It has to be fucking easy
Of all the critiques this is not one because nu-Zelda is significantly harder, or at least has the most organic potential to play in a challenging way, than prior Zelda games. Traditional Zelda games were notoriously braindead and easy to the degree where it was insulting.

>>723948895
Fair. It was still pretty confusing to me because I wasn't allowed on the internet 'til a few years later so Nintendo Power was my gospel. That screenshot would have tripped me up bad too.

>>723914083 (OP)
The blue statues all over the place in Phoenotopia

>>723946194
>dataminers show it to be a snowy expanse that collapses into a frozen fortress, with chestface yeti giants
>Dark Souls 2 gives us the snowy expanse and frozen fortress
>Dark Souls 3 gives us the collapsing snow
>Elden Ring follows a pretty satisfying arc, then reveals that what you actually just defeated was only the midgame boss, and that you now have to go to the snowy mountains of the chestface yeti giants
I think this was all the legacy of the cut archstone -- I feel a sense of closure.

>>723949458
we will never be free until the remake of King's Field 1 that is x5 the size of Elden Ring and kills the entire development team
come to think of it, Elden Ring seems like a modern attempt at a game of great mystery, but we're so far into the modern that there's no real way to cultivate that anymore

>>723919525
That cave/druid lair in felwood was a fucking nightmare. I died there so many times and the whole place would respawn if you died once. Also in Winterspring you could go down in the massive ravine south of the zone and there was a random cave there. Nothing in it just like the one in southern arathi highlands past the castle with a useless lighthouse.

>>723949654
i accidentally got into my character playing ds1 and this item description kept me going when i wasn't having fun

>>723947578
>>723948093
I always saw all these dropped plotlines as Illusion of Time trying to be like a weird kid fantasy novel, never thought of them as cut content (To on retrospect it makes sense when you consider stuff like the guy who is hunting you throught the entire who just gets burned alive a minute after he finally shows up, or the entire exposition dump at the very end)

>>723949904
As an adult, yeah, Jackal was a clear case of cut content. But when playing it for the first time as a kid? Holy FUCK. You expect some boss fight, only to see him die like THAT. Who cares about the rest? That one scene alone made it all worth it in the worst way.

>>723914083 (OP)
Couldn't this have been a secret base spot at least.

>>723930468
ZA's random trainer dialogue is so cheeky, there's a ton of meta stuff like this. Huge contrast to the usual
>Pokemon battles sure are fun!
prattle that NPCs usually get in prior games

The unknown cave and altering cave had me thinking there was some secret to them in fire red leaf green. And lavender town spookypasta

>>723950274
Trainers have had Reddit meme dialogue since Gen 4 in the English transdilation and since Gen 6 in the base script

>>723929816
I'm pretty sure you could fill all 500 posts before autosaging purely off Tibia myths, what a magical fucking game. Everyone being either kids or double-digit brownskins who couldn't operate a computer to search up a wiki kept the mystique.

>>723948223
some kid showed me how to do while on the bus home from school lol. to this day, i have no idea what the origin of the dupe was, just that it spread in school naturally.

>>723951629
Yeah, there are rook videos about one single theory that are hours long

The first Serious Sam had a destroyable floor in the first level that took a couple of rockets to blow up and led to a pitch black hole which was part of a scrapped secret.

>>723951501
what's this from? seems familiar, but i don't fully remember.
something smash bros melee maybe?

>>723929117
What got me with TotK is
>gets explained that Dragons are people that swallowed secret stones
>no backstory for the fucking dragons thag have been there since botw
Such lost potential

>>723926247
Three year generations were a mistake.

>>723952061
oh yeah, it is, in rainbow cruise

>>723951927
I legitimately did not know this

>>723917294
they cut it because the PS4 couldn't load the either area fast enough depending on which part you were coming from

>>723924338
would your save actually be doomed after killing him? or was the flag for the prompt just there.

>>723931937
my only guess, outside of it being a weird design choice, is that they wanted to place active armos there to attack the player but they accidentally played the armos with a door-spawn attached to them and forgot to remove it, and being that there is only one entrance and one exit on the screen, the door they spawn points to the same screen as the main door

>>723930179
ftfy
The Aryan Man's desire for knowledge is limitless

>>723948916
Luigi was only added in the remake. On the 64 you just got some 1 ups and a flying cap.

>>723924338
>>723952768
he was a nobody, someone just accidentally tagged him as essential
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Crazy_Batou

>>723953213
reading comprehension

Over half of that shit served no purpose and was inaccessible.

>>723953190
kek

>>723948774
This was a really fun game I didn't get to play a lot as a kid because of how hard it is to fucking play the thing. They ought to stick it on NSO or something and make it playable with Picture in Picture or something. I did try Tri Force Heroes but eh, wasn't as fun to me.

>>723927178
yeah this place was disappointing
>oh shit that's a big fucking tower, I bet that place is a maze inside
>no interior at all, just a shrine
BOTW is what made me stop buying Nintendo games/consoles

I'm still fucking mad

it's a HUGE ASS PORTAL

>>723914083 (OP)
this is one of those things that all of us just immediately understand what you're talking about
I guess our ape brains just really couldn't resist the shiny rock. Why the fuck did they make it so brightly white?

>>723952245
TOTK is so shit it's unbelievable.
Every good thing this game has is because BOTW had it and every bad thing BOTW had is infinitely worse in TOTK due to the bigger general scope and expanded item use in fusion.

>>723940760
link never opened those chests?

Heretic 2 had this fucking map as loading screen that teased a lot of stuff but then the path taken was just a straight line from Silverspring to the Cloud Fortress.
Why the fuck would you mention utterly specific shit like forgotten cities of ice or harpy islands and not follow through with them?!
There was also a giant globe in one of the earlier levels located in an elaborate room that seemed to originally have been a "find and enter the right combination of constellations and seasons" puzzle (Corvus even comments on this when you enter the room) but in the final game you just flip two switches and the "puzzle" solves itself.

>>723953249
no I understand that, what I mean is, even though he's tagged as essential, does killing him ACTUALLY doom your save, or just pop the message up?

>>723935868
one of them has remnants of dev blockout behind it and also one of the guards that patrols the route near the Encampment mentions being assigned to taskforce to investigate the mysterious doors as well
We're never going to know what they had planned for it, the game is abandonware

>>723919525
WoW is full of this type of shit. Mostly never finished ideas.

>>723953814
The map was kino. Gave a feeling that there's a larger world outside of the specific path you have to take in the game

>>723952461
I used to spend ages pausing melee to look at places in the background, or try to see what was off the edge of the screen, what is it about little mundane, out of the way and "pointless" areas that's so intruiging? specifically in games that have you stuck on a 2d plane.

>>723953651
Same, I got it on wii-u and never bothered with a switch as I was beyond disappointed. Never bought anything N since.

>>723953736
all of those would have let you enter the Emerald Dream zone that was in the game files but never used
WoW had so much cut content at release it's insane

>>723953920
you getting softlocked and the message popping up are entirely separate events, they just mostly coincide due to most npcs that cause a softlock on their death also causing the message to pop up as well
batou's just the one exception where he doesn't cause a softlock but does cause the message to pop up

>>723954314
ah I see, the message scared the shit out of me when I was younger so I never gave myself a chance to see if I was or wasn't actually fucked

>>723935868
iirc the icon on them also appears on the fuckhuge door that only opens when you have the godsbane so it seems like you would reach the last third of the game and be able to backtrack to a dozen something caves

>>723954497
Imagine how cool it would have been if there was a whole underworld beneath the world map linking them all together

>>723937601
Mario Kart World finally fixed this by letting you enter that window to access the mirror mode open world.

>>723943205
rather than a tent i think it's just a plaza. like a fountain and a cleared area around it.

>>723914083 (OP)
The Truck at the MS Anne in Blue/Red

>>723943313
god dammit Tasnica you worthless piece of shit, why are you so hard to find in game?

>>723930179
>haha shitty wojak
>did you see the shitty wojak I put in?
>haha

>>723954552
given there's no dwarven settlement but at least two exist in the world i can imagine they might've been down there too. alas.

>>723917294
I still mad, there is no excuse for that fucking door not to open

>>723954634
So you can drive in a straight line... backwards? Amazing.

>>723954965
>backwards
no you retard, mirror mode, not reverse mode, its so you can drive in a straight line where the left and right are flipped.

>>723920561
No, it's not. They had years to patch it

>>723954936
it's purely hardware related reasons, PS4 can't load the area fast enough for you to be able to make any use of that shortcut, and reworking the level geometry to add more time for the game to stream it in wasn't an option at the point of development they were in

>>723930537
I discovered it by Chance towards the end of the Game when I surfed the world because I happened to lose to a random Trainer after talking to the Captain and got teleported to the pokecenter. It felt more of an easteregg to me that the ship would Sail away after you talk to the Captain a 2nd time

>>723954995
... flipped?

>>723914083 (OP)
>Outward shows a world map whenever you travel to a new zone
>there's other cities you don't have access to
>one city's called "Haboob" (it's a type of dust storm, all the cities are named after wind. I slept through one once, my entire town was covered in about a half-inch of dust and everyone's pools needed to be cleaned of like a foot of mud)
>people meme and giggle about the name, but we never get to go there
>the game's final(?) DLC is just kinda underbaked and rough and doesn't go there either.

>>723955268
You flipped the wrong axis Dunston.

>>723927765
Stormwind had two of these. Gate between trade district and ole town and second prison in canal that suposed to be for prisoners more dangerous then stockade.

>>723942925
That's not what's mysterious about SoM !
There's literally a face in the sea !

>>723920561
>saying this in an era where automatic online patches have been a thing for 10+ years now
>dummying out the interaction of a door in a game's code is something a Hindi codemonkey intern could do in like 3 seconds
>it wouldn't even add a kB of data to the game's next patch
Ehhhhhhh......

>>723953276
In previous versions there was a NASU NPC that teleported you to the big island of FC World C

>>723926965
That was never going to be anything more than a "Fuck You" to everyone that wanted it
Remember the whole "kids have smartphones" thing they said?

>>723953736
Didn't it spawn a dragon in 1.8 ?

>>723921523
Jadenar.
As far as we know. Cut dungeons and raids in classic were. Timbermaw hold. Jadenar. Grim batol. karazhan. Stormwind vault. Caverns of time. Bay of storm(underwater portal in azarah) emerald dream.
Uldum is big question mark if there was any plans or if it was just entrance for eventually open up.

>>723955387
Ahh, yes. The False Stockades. My favorite thing was hiding in random parts of Ironforge that nobody ever went to, like the hovel back behind The Gnome king with a merchant that sold absolutely nothing

>>723955795
We just went to SW as horde and jumped under it from torch in old town. Then started to summon other people there.

Mondo's pickaxe lived rent free in my head for the entire game

>>723955340
He checked out

>>723956103
why does a high schooler have a pickaxe anyways?

>>723954185
that's the good old curiosity. Which is one of the reasons why open world games suck, they let you satisfy that curiosity, often in disappointing ways

>>723930179
Prometheus

>>723956506
open world by default doesn't suck, the "open world" that AAA devs decided was the new modern standard around 2008/2009 sucks, even Elden Ring feels full of legitimate mystery, but in general yes I'd prefer less open world games, even less of the good ones

>>723956264
big minecraft fan

>>723914083 (OP)
That bigass gate in the back of the shadow fort in dragons dogma

>>723930263
Parry is not important in Bloodborne... Dodge is
Obviously you can play with parry but calling it important is a stretch. There's some openings which make it easier but that's it

The Harvesters in Serious Sam 4.
In the whole campaign they only ever launch enemy units ONCE in a side mission and are otherwise just an irrelevant backdrop asset.
They don't shoot at you, they don't capture you with their drones (that also only appear in the first mission, don't do anything and are completely forgotten later on) and not a single mission is taking place on one of them - hell, you get conveniently separated from your team who gets sent to one of them.

>>723958073
>keep hearing how BB is so much faster than DS and how you need to constantly dodge and parry
>easiest, most braindead playthrough somehow was unga bunga-ing my way through everything with the heaviest, slowest shit in the game, almost completely ignoring guns and shit and rolling around with an unlocked camera

>>723914083 (OP)
This is right next to the rocket ship/space center that has no use whatsoever and no relation to the TWO legendaries that came from space
As I kid we all speculated about how to launch the rocket ship and catch jirachi or some shit, yeah turns out you had to pre-order Pokemon Colosseum for that.

>>723959334
mechnically it is faster only because you can't block, which is what most dark souls players do if they haven't played the game more than once, so while you're correct in that you can just roll through the game like it's dark souls, most players won't be able to do that because they were already bad at it in dark souls, which blocking made up for

>>723914083 (OP)
the grass to the left and right of Pallet Town

it was a big troll but man I really wanted it to have some kind of secret mechanic

>>723921120
if gamefreak had soul they would've added mew under the truck in remakes for everyone, but no, they just used it as a cheap cashgrab

this whole area with the cottage and waterfalls
of course it's well known WoW has a lot of these, especially vanilla
interestingly, the devs went out of their way to add minor stuff like NPCs to quite a few when they updated the old world with Cataclysm

>>723914083 (OP)
sevii islands in leafgreen and firered had like 900 locations like this and almost turned me into a schizo as a kid because I kept trying out random things to uncover their secrets

>>723961016
well obviously, since these were originally just made to be scenery for flightpaths but with mount flight they needed to actually make these all more than scenery you would never (legitimately) be able to reach or interact with

>>723914083 (OP)
This and HMCS Bitter

The Great Trees and their dream portals

>>723961738
Sure, but I wasn't talking about these areas. There are plenty of places you could reach normally without wall jumping etc.

>>723948582
That's Odyssey, and that's vanilla postgame.

>>723962576
what is it? haven't played conker

>>723963549
piece of chocolate (recovers your HP), it's just placed behind a grate in another area you can never reach
rare also put random bits of cheese all over perfect dark for a similar reason i think

>>723963795
ah, so not a counted collectible I assume, that's fun then

>>723963549
Unreachable piece of energy chocolate that, according to interviews, they deliberately put there to piss people off.

>>723945075
man this fucking game did things better than most "epic" rpgs 20 fucking years latter, so much wonder and mystery

>>723955091
Auf Englisch werden Substantive übrigens klein geschrieben, nur damit du's weißt

>>723955449
>automatic

AI has ruined zoomers and some ennials minds. AI can literally do nothing but agit prop and shitpost on the internet.

>>723947586
Shit yeah I remember obsessing over it. Seems like if you died by hitting the water, the bouncing motions would still net you a life or two.
Looks cool, but a mean thing to do in a game so much about hidden passages.

Greymane Wall

>>723963001
Craigslist... Home

this area in donky kong land, when you jump you can see a ledge, and it makes you think you can reach it, i tried for hours moving tires around but i couldnt get to it.

That one meteorite chunk no one ever found in RDR2. Also Mt. Chiliad

>>723940384
This is why Rockstar games releasing first on console only is unironically a good thing, despite me completely understanding why /v/ hates it. Because for at least a year we can discuss mysteries, Easter eggs, and the creepy stuff in their games without it all be datamined right away. We just don't live in the era where people can upload San Andreas Bigfoot mods with the x-files theme playing to trick kids

>>723931937
There's a similar weird glitch in Oracle of Ages. The shelves in the postman's house can be picked up using the power bracelet, revealing staircases that just lead back to the same spot. It even plays the secret sound like you actually discovered something important.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2geNj_mJZP0

>>723939080
Obscure romhacks are good for this, the creators are too lazy to document anything so you simply have to explooooore and it's impossible to be spoiled. though half the time the surprise is something stupid. I had an NPC trainer randomly call me faggot as he stormed off after I beat him (protagonist is locked female)

>>723948940
>NOOO THE JEWS THE JEWS
>votes for Trump and saves Israel
Why is /pol/ like this?

For me it's all the "You can save/revive revive Aeirth!" rumors
I wanted to believe but I remember one of them had her coming out of your pocket and even as a retarded kid I knew that was bullshit

>>723953276
Yume Nikki was never finished.

>>723960958
didn't they add a rare candy in FRLG?
>>723930468
so I presume neither this nor the message in the board in the train station were followed up on? I'm not buying the game to find out, at least not until a version with the DLC on the cart comes out.

>>723961016
>>723961738
in vanilla all new characters of any race spawned there and then got teleported to the starting zone. you could watch them pop up and disappear.

>>723939080
some romhacks make kanto and johto into open worlds, but it makes the worlds feel smaller, like being able to just walk up from violet city to mahogany town with a simple screen transition, when in the actual game they feel very far away from each other despite actually being very close

>>723914083 (OP)
>Zeno Clash 2 was pretty much nothing BUT that stuff since the devs filled it with tons of things that were just there to just look cool but one that stood out to me were those pyramids in bumfuck nowhere and their ominous humming.
And they thankfully ended up actually getting reused and given a purpose in Clash: Artifacts of Chaos

>>723970039
Kek, i probably should do it in my free time, just make some big ass maps with nice looks between the cities, like the anime there is a lot of walking.
Never did romhacks but i can probably learn

>>723949637
I think the Nokron/Nokstella areas really work in that sense of mystery to them well, where you feel like you're wandering around a place you shouldn't be in.
But it isn't the same as back in the day, because you can just look them up online and see 1000 2 hour long videos explaining everything.

>>723974423
I don't get these complaints, just don't look at the videos?

>>723914083 (OP)
I don't have anything from my zoomer childhood that really fills that category. The closest I got that I can think of that still doesn't have a good explanation is this chasm from LEGO Universe. I always thought there was going to be an update to the game where they would have built a bridge and you would explore this cut Mythran ruin. (bottom screenshot)
But honestly there haven't been any games where I felt a sense of imagination and discovery. I now know there was supposed to be a south Kalos, and I also know what the SoTC map was supposed to look like before they cut it down to 16. I just got a high a few days ago knowing Transformers WFC DS was supposed to have 13 more characters and 2 of those guys were already in Fall of Cybertron.

>>723974591
Fuck I met to post this picture.

>>723930179
Truth

>>723964871
Seems like a waste, you think you're going inside an old fossilized monster, but nope you leave his mouth and you're back out

>>723974523
Part of what made old game mysteries fun was that there wasn't an answer even if you looked around.
Anything can be a mystery if you just stay willfully ignorant. But what made something like Mew or the "17th Colossus" cool, was that you could do your research and still be mystified.

>>723970039
>I had an NPC trainer randomly call me faggot as he stormed off after I beat him
romhack?

>>723948764
The first event where Waluigi got absolutely kicked in the shins by Nintendo. He would go on to be excluded from multiple things in future and it would never feel ok

Hope you weren't expecting a secret or anything.

I still don't get it

>>723975669
wait a minute...

>>723942914
>""""Zelda 3""""

>>723976826
threelda

>>723930263
>Ludnig

>>723938967
that one at least is a reference to Japanese pop culture of ghosts appearing as hands on people's shoulders in photos. and it's a popular prank with kids to pretend to be able to see hands on their friends shoulders to freak them out.

>>723926247
Wasn't there also something with a weird note behind one of the billboards in the train station.
Also, I always found it funny how the weird little statue that was worth a shit ton of money ended up being just a tourist souvenir from Alola.

BEHOLD, the Lego Island cave

>>723953276
Yume Nikki as a whole was meant to invoke that feeling

>>723931937
there was a place with a big tree surrounded by other trees that didn't have anything to it. i kept thinking there was a secret there but i never found anything.

>>723964871
I will ALWAYS be mad that the X Ray doesn't work here.
And speaking of Super Metroid.

>>723976826
...yes? Link to the Past is the third Zelda game. Zelda 3.

>>723981512
how do you call Breath of the Wild

>>723981729
>how do you call
I would call it "you're ESL"

>>723981996
you didn't answer the question

>>723982112
Don't have to. You can't even type. Move on.

>>723966035
"Automatic" as in you don't have to go to the dev's website to manually download a patch, dumbass. Where'd you get AI from?
>ennials
Did using the word "Hindi" trigger some Indian bot or something?

>>723975185
old konami definitely would have made that piano unlock something if you played a certain tune on it

>>723984139
I feel like the death of cheat codes coincided with the death of mystery in games

>>723975185
I must be getting Mandela'd, that piano never did anything? I could've sworn there was a song or something.

>>723975669
>dev puts in an impossible puzzle
>fag reviewers don't play games long enough to find shit like this so they don't mention it
>get to this part and get stumped
>spend a week on it, but no dice
>look it up online, but everyone's avoiding spoilers so nobody says how to solve it
>never beat the game

>>723980980
That was always a big issue I had with the x-ray visor. Something that requires you to stop and scan shit really shouldn't hide any secrets, but Super Metroid was made in an era where getting confused meant buying a guide or hoping someone in your school knew.

>>723914083 (OP)
>one of the cooler areas
>completely optional
At least it feels really cool to find it on your own. Still, the game got really cut down before release.