What're some of your favourite Video Game Secrets?

[Deleted member 257420]

That Video Games are fun, what a lame secret, it’s not even true!

 

[_oBSOLEte_]

In 1995's Dark Forces from LucasArts, there's a hidden room with a graffiti saying :
"Ewoks suck". It's funny, because it's true.

There's also an obscure reference in that game to the movie "Brazil" (which is the greatest movie of all time). In the level where you kill Boba Fett, you storm into the administrative quarters of some imperial city. There are two adjacent offices, each one with an imperial officer. Across the wall of this room there's a single rectangular desk. Each room has a switch allowing to draw the desk on its side. This whole setup is a nod to this scene of the movie :

This easter egg is my favourite. It implies that the Empire in Star Wars is not just some evil space nazi empire. It implies it's just another bureaucracy, not particularly evil in essence, but naturally becoming fascist by it's scale.

 

[AkiraSO4]

The two T-Rexes on the first goddamn level of Tomb Raider 2.

Imagine a first time player seeing that. I would have quit!

 

[GardeniaSky's icon GardeniaSky GardeniaSky]

Basic bitch answer but the paintings in Ocarina of Time in the castle courtyard where you talk to Zelda. Also if you shoot one of the side windows someone throws a bomb at you and tells you to be quiet.

 

[Dai]

Getting Gill as a playable character in Street fighter 3 3rd strike on the Dreamcast, you had to beat the game with every character without continues, and with the default game settings, i tried for a while until i did it, only to play it later in xbox and ps2 to find it was playable since the beginning without doing anything .
As mentioned before, getting the hadouken in Megaman X and the shoryuken in X2.
Getting the All-magic, all-summon and all-skill materia in Final fantasy 7.
Those were the days

 

[kitestar]

my favorite secret would have to be the one i somewhat have a stake in finding an alternative input for...
i think NieR automata was several years out and yoko taro was goading everyone to find some final secret that everyone was on the hunt for, some lad on twitter poked around the code and eventually found the ps4 version of the code which became more-or-less affectionately known as the platinum command: R2(held)↑↓↑→←□○△☓
i attempted to replicate the code only to find out it was slightly altered to:
RT(held)Up, Down, Up, Right, Left, Y, A, X, B
you'd normally expect a code to more-or-less be the same across input variations, but for some reason, it was turned into a variant for the PC/xbox release
folks on gamefaqs are unfortunately too cruel...

 

[NeonKnights]

It's just a basic one but the Dwemer ruin Kagrenzel in Skyrim has a secret/glitch under the pool of water where you fell in from the top entrance. Somewhere under the large pool of water there is a sort of entrance in the rocks you can swim through and it will warp you to the top entrance where you can take the fall again. I found this way back when no one knew of, or mentioned this as far as I know.

 

[trickybus]

In The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, the Forbidden Woods has a boss called Kalle Demos. Its dungeon has a river flowing through it that has the power to restore life to withered trees, of which there are eight that Link can water. Thing is, the water will only retain its restoration power while it's inside the Woods; once Link bottles it up and removes it from the Woods, he has twenty minutes before the water "spoils".

If you can clear the way to Kalle Demos and manage to get a bottle of Forest Water into its boss room, you can pour it on the boss and kill it instantly.

 

[Kamako]

Another fave one of mine is when you start Serious Sam: Second Encounter, you fall from a spaceship into a deep pool of water. If you swim low enough, hidden beneath a jutting rockface is the rocket launcher. You have just enough breath to get down there and reach the surface again.

Also, the gigantic invisible bomberman

 

[stealthRUSH stealthRUSH]

unlocking Hornet (Daytona USA #41 car) in Fighters Megamix

 

[SpikeSlania]

When I think secrets I think Super Mario RPG especially after this song hit Newgrounds over a decade ago. Between the Lazy Shell, Casino, Final Fantasy themed boss, and of course the Forest Maze secret itself, there's plenty to discover

Edit - Just realized I forgot to mention about using Geno Whirl to one hit ko the Giant Sword :P

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

The Soul Bonus from Gunstar Heroes when fighting Timeron for the second time

 

[Kamako]

The Soul Bonus from Gunstar Heroes when fighting Timeron for the second time

Surviving and then uploading the full 100 min run for a 10 second secret is a chad move.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

Surviving and then uploading the full 100 min run for a 10 second secret is a chad move.

And I've learnt that it's a reference to a really obscure Sharp X68.000 game.

Treasure are crazy, I love them.

 

[DaxterDotEXE]

Never played Just Cause (any of the games) but this has been sitting in my brain for quite a few years now: