Random Gaming Discoveries

[RanmyakuIchi's icon RanmyakuIchi RanmyakuIchi]

The N64 port of Army Men: Air Attack, which was renamed Army Men: Air Combat, replaced the original OST with music all taken from Battle Tanks: Global Assault

 

[Tonberry]

In ICO, you can find a secret weapon, the mace, by completing an optional puzzle. The mace is way stronger than all the other weapons, rivaling the mandatory one you use in the final battle.
In New Game Plus, the mace is replaced with a lightsaber, which is more than twice as powerful. It has abysmally low reach when on your own, but if you're holding hands with the girl it grows like 8 times longer.

 

[Wechseln]

In the original Monster Rancher 2 for the PSX, you could get locked out of 100% completion by a banana.

You see, in this game you can send your monster in an errantry through the region to train, learn more techniques and fight rogue monsters for their bounty. The S Rank Monster of the Parepare Jungle, King Ape had a bug where he would only appear while using a B Rank Monster and having unlocked the Magic Banana in the shop, dissapearing completely once the next item in the shop is unlocked. This is not even the only monster you can miss on due to a hidden time limit.

 

[Dodgykebaab]

Did you know that in Japan people protested against the release of 1943!

Further Reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1943:_The_Battle_of_Midway#Reception

 

[MajesticSiN]

Banana

 

[UnboundByJunk]

In the video game Sleeping Dogs, if you look closely at the main character Wei Shen's left arm, you can see that he has a tattoo of his late sister, Mimi Shen.

 

[JoueurCitoyen]

Did you know that a lot of bananas are featured in 428: Shibuya Scramble?

 

[Deleted member 660650]

In the video game Sleeping Dogs, if you look closely at the main character Wei Shen's left arm, you can see that he has a tattoo of his late sister, Mimi Shen.

If you look closely at the plot of Sleeping Dogs you will see a huge BS that's not so obvious when you don't care to pay attention: Wei's momma was so stupid to make her drug addict daughter not flatline due to overdose by forcing her to live in America. AMERICA the land of D★R★U★G★ ayy lmao.

 

[UnboundByJunk]

If you look closely at the plot of Sleeping Dogs you will see a huge BS that's not so obvious when you don't care to pay attention: Wei's momma was so stupid to make her drug addict daughter not flatline due to overdose by forcing her to live in America. AMERICA the land of D★R★U★G★ ayy lmao.

I always thought of that detail as immigrants seeing America as this big land of opportunity only to be slapped with the cold hard truth. So like GTA IV ig.

 

[Octopus]

In the PS2 game Lifeline where you entirely control the main character Rio through voice commands, you can heal her health through reciting classic tongue twisters with perfect accuracy.

 

[UnboundByJunk]

In the PS2 game Lifeline where you entirely control the main character Rio through voice commands, you can heal her health through reciting classic tongue twisters with perfect accuracy.

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Kojima would've had a field day with this if they let him do it.

 

[Octopus]

Kojima would've had a field day with this if they let him do it.

It really does feel like a game Kojima would have made back in his Boktai days, being designed entirely around the cute gimmick.

 

[Vesthal]

In the Ps2 action game Rygar The Legendary Adventure (a remake of a nes game called Rygar) when complating it you will unlock "Pizzamour" mode. it's activated by pressing L1 during the Tecmo screen and when activated Rygar weapon will become a pizza. Btw i sugest playing rygar, it's a bit tedius but still a good ps2 action game

 

[kuroninneko]

Shenmue was first for the Sega Saturn before the project got moved to Dreamcast. These gotta be the best 3D graphics on any 32 bit console. Makes me wonder if people would buy a Saturn just for this game if they saw these graphics in a magazine

 

[Deleted member 660650]

I always thought of that detail as immigrants seeing America as this big land of opportunity only to be slapped with the cold hard truth. So like GTA IV ig.

Yes, a big land of opportunity for pew pew action and drugging!!! lol

 

[What's His Face]

Obscure II: The Aftermath has the shortest but one of the most important cut-scenes on PS2/Wii:

Spoiler

Why spoiler a YT link? Because of the content, duh. In the PS2 era it wasn't exactly common on console games to show a major playable protagonist

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end themselves

without cut-away - which didn't happen in this game. It pushed the already M-rated nature of the game even further (which already had an implied r*p* scene, gratuitous violence and gore, swearing, etc.). Again, uncommon on consoles in the early-to-mid 2000's. Characters killing others was par-for-the-course...but

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themselves

?

The game with the non-subjected but factually BEST cutscene ever is Shadow Hearts Covenant. However, I cannot share it as it would be considered highly offensive today (don't get me started...). However, If You Know You Know. Which is why I semi-list it here, as a spotlight on the changing of values in Western culture. Where once something was considered comedy (and many still do), others will (loudly) decry it as "hate." While SH:C isn't exactly obscure, it is old by modern standards and forgotten by todays' generation. I find this IYKYK cutscene as a "fun fact" due to the changing of culture and values in a post "knee-jerk social media emergent" society.

 

[Xdqwerty Xdqwerty]

The DS versions of crash of the Titans and the Madagascar 2 game use the same engine

 

[Turbo Kid]

This guy's corpse

can be found in this game

 

[ZEGA ZONIC]

According to Working Designs, Magic Knight Rayearth was their most gruelling, daunting, and toughest translation ever. Working Designs had snapped up the license to translate and publish Rayearth from Sega, and had given it a "pending 1996 release date". But then fate turned against them: Sega of Japan lost about 60% of the main code for the game in a major hard drive crash, causing a massive scramble there to gather the code from elsewhere. Then, a translation of the anime series for U.S. Saturday morning TV was announced by Nelvana, a Canadian animation studio. Working Designs was going to use the original characters' names in the game; Nelvana insisted that they use their translated names; the two companies ended up in a legal scuffle over this. Then, after finally winning the court battle and gathering the data from Sega...the Saturn market had died. Working Designs finished the game anyway, and thanks to a new translation from Pioneer, they kept the game the way they wanted. Magic Knight Rayearth was released in December of 1998, 8 months after the Saturn market died, with the original character names, and as the last Saturn game to ever be released in the U.S.

(Yes, I know it's a wall of text lol)

(And this was taken from the Moby Games page of said game)

 

[UnDubious]

"Pokemon Mystery Dungeon" is part of the larger "Mystery Dungeon" franchise, which typically adapts its gameplay to licensed franchises. They started as a Dragon Quest spin-off and have since been adapted to include spin-offs for Final Fantasy & Etrian Odyssey.

The one "original character" Mystery Dungeon series is Shiren. The Shiren games are arguably the best of them, at least starting with 2 on the N64.

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According to Working Designs, Magic Knight Rayearth was their most gruelling, daunting, and toughest translation ever. Working Designs had snapped up the license to translate and publish Rayearth from Sega, and had given it a "pending 1996 release date". But then fate turned against them: Sega of Japan lost about 60% of the main code for the game in a major hard drive crash, causing a massive scramble there to gather the code from elsewhere. Then, a translation of the anime series for U.S. Saturday morning TV was announced by Nelvana, a Canadian animation studio. Working Designs was going to use the original characters' names in the game; Nelvana insisted that they use their translated names; the two companies ended up in a legal scuffle over this. Then, after finally winning the court battle and gathering the data from Sega...the Saturn market had died. Working Designs finished the game anyway, and thanks to a new translation from Pioneer, they kept the game the way they wanted. Magic Knight Rayearth was released in December of 1998, 8 months after the Saturn market died, with the original character names, and as the last Saturn game to ever be released in the U.S.

(Yes, I know it's a wall of text lol)

(And this was taken from the Moby Games page of said game)

I remember the game was already overexpensive shortly after it came out cause it was instantly rare. Really good game though, and I don't even like the anime.

 

[kitestar]

in several konami games, the number 573 is usually the top score, while being an unassuming number its actually a pun standing for their name being 5=Ko 7= Na and 3=Mi so KoNaMi similarly namco has 765 which stands for Na Mu (or Roku) Go

 

[Turbo Kid]

If you spend too much time fighting Awakened Zero in Mega Man X5, he will start spamming an instant kill move and you basically can't win

In Viva Pinata Pocket Paradise there is a pinata many players will never see because when you create your save at the beginning of the game it is randomly determined whether or not it will ever show up on your save file

In the original Viva Pinata on the Xbox 360, you can cause a pinata to leave your garden if you harass it enough. Their whole body will turn the color white and they will leave the boundary of your garden while crying and you will NEVER see that particular one again.

Some bosses can be instantly taken out in Puppeteer if you have the right head equipped, almost Mega Man style

The Hong Kong Massacre game inspired the top down, Dragon's Breath, apartment shoot out in John Wick 4

Harley Quinn's weird escape sequence in the second Suicide Squad movie was inspired by Lollipop Chainsaw

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

Trades in fighting games can be linked all the way back to Asuka 120 as a selling point for the FM Towns Marty version. It wasn’t the first fighting game to have all women though as Variable Geo predates it by a year and Metal & Lace by 2 years.

Also the song names in Dodonpachi DaiOuJou reference companies that also make shmups.

Mukei (NMK)
Toa(plan)
Saikou Psikyo
Seibu Kaihatsu
Sakusetsu (complete misspelling of Success)
Taito
Takumi Corp
Raijin Raizing Eighting 8ing
Awaremu (aka Irem)

 

[Clippy]

Well, I guess I may as well contribute something other than a meme. If you've ever played Diablo you know that the hamlet the game takes place in has a river going around it. Its name is never stated in the game but it does have one - Talsande.

 

[Jayonnaise6105 Jayonnaise6105]

The decision to change the mainline Yakuza/Like a Dragon games from a 3D brawler to a turn-based RPG came from an April fool's prank.

A fake video was made as a joke, but the positive reception to it apparently made SEGA change the gameplay direction of the mainline games.