What's the most obscure video game fact you know?

There is this billion-dollar franchise that nobody played yet or knows about it, but it's all in my head and will sell gazillions.

There's never been a good JRPG

Herobrine was never removed

in a MUD called Hellmoo (rip), you can cheese one of the few superbosses that normally require a party by abusing cover and spray
also
if you ordered a pizza and stole all the pizzas from the kitchen before the robot goes out for delivery, the delivery robot would deliver anything in the game. including mobs. that was fun

certain physical copies of mario 64 were bugged, not allowing you to access teh canon outside the castle and get to yoshi, even after getting 120 stars.
t. i had one of those cartridges.

There's an off chance that you'll see a Grey soldier on a building firing at you in a level of Army Men Sarge's Heroes 2. It's a glitch technically but it happens like only once in awhile. Just one random grey soldier in a game virtually without them; none at all in the level normally

Actual facts frick you.

>in the Pro Skater bonus level of Tony Hawk's Underground 2, there is a broken effect in the "Aztec" section of the map. A small flame lamp on the top left part of the map (after walking in the main doorway) has a small sprite of a hazard sign with "Temp Particles" written on it. This was not fixed before release.
>Devil May Cry 3 is influenced by a fake irl occult grimoire known as the "Simon Necronomicon", which broadly mixed the stories of HP Lovecraft, Aleister Crowley's religion and occult system of Thelema, and more recent discoveries in Babylonian history. As such, Arkham is named after the town in Lovecraft's writings. Jester was originally called Joker, because he's a wild card, but this was changed during the recording of dialogue because of the potential confused association with Batman (though he still calls himself "Joker" in his in-game voice lines in Special Edition). The main location, the Temen-ni-gru, is a Babylonian name translating to "foundation of fear". The main halls have these vertical glowing red and blue walls with what appear to be abstract carvings on them, but are actually enlarged cuneiform turned sideways.
>the very first level in the original Tomb Raider is Vilcabamba, a place known in the historical record to have been a settlement Mesoamericans fled to to try and hide from the Conquistadors. Between the original game and the remake, the location of the actual Vilcabamba was confirmed by archaeologists and historians, though the location was well known and visited prior to then. There were no dinosaurs living in it, sadly.
>in Sekiro, in the Fountainhead Palace, some people have theorised that the crater from which the immortal waters spring was caused by a meteor, harkening back to interstellar themes in Bloodborne and later Elden Ring. It seems that the okami there practiced onmyodo astrology to calculate positions of meteorites, as a shikibari/astrological board can be found in some of the rooms

the stars in majora's mask are personalized depending on your file name

In Halo: Combat Evolved, the tracks 'Under Cover of Night' and 'Rock Anthem to Save the World' have a distinct voice chanting in them. Some believe it was a native female, but it was actually Marty O'Donnell, the composer speaking in gibberish with it pitched up.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R is one of the first truly multi-core parallel processing games, but the game doesn't really check if everything happens in the correct order. When you load a save, different cores load different things and those things are initialized as soon as they are loaded. When the player loads a save, the game loads and activates enemy AI before it has finished loading the level geometry and its colliders, so every enemy sees the player through every wall before the player has even gained control over the character. That's why everyone is instantly attacking you even though prior to saving they hadn't detected you yet.

The fanfare to opening a boss door in DK64 is the same one as entering a room with a Stop n' Swop Egg in Banjo-Kazooie.

In the good spiderman2, if you save all the reporters in the burning theatre Mysterio will start spouting quotes from the evil dead movies (AoD included).
In jak2, in Haven city, in the gardens: there's a ratcher and clank poster on the wall behind one of the big water cannons.
Every single copy of SM64 had a functional cannon which could be used to reach yoshi after collecting every star.

In Resident Evil games with adaptive difficulty, the way it's designed is that walls and ceilings are given HP values, and firing bullets into them and bringing their HP to zero causes a change in the adaptive difficulty. This is due to the game interpreting walls reaching zero HP as "missing your shots" since you'd normally be trying to fire at enemies. Doing this reduces the difficulty, which is why you will see some speedrunners empty magazines into walls during segments where the player is unable to proceed (like taking a long elevator), because this makes the upcoming sections easier to deal with.

No, the walls aren't alive. It's just weird programming decisions, but funnily enough, some walls have more HP than other walls. It's not like it's a fixed amount across the whole game, which I guess is the developers taking into account the fact that the player can upgrade their weapons, so later game areas have walls with higher HP to account for this, otherwise you would shoot the wall once and game the run while losing as little ammo as possible. This is also why shooting at the sky (when you're firing at flying enemies) doesn't reduce the adaptive difficulty, because the sky doesn't have HP.

In We Love Katamari if you play out the sound associated with picking up all 5 Mount Rushmore head variants in the game in the proper order (this can be done easily in the collection), they sound out the phrase:
>Oh
>My
>God
>You’re
>Pregnant

The US version of Super Mario 2 is actually a reskin of the Japanese game Doki Doki Panic

Here's a cool rock that I didn't t know was breakable until recently. Doing so allows you to skip the fortress entirely.

I bet every speedrunning troon uses it though.

You can level your speechcraft faster in oblivion and Skyrim by selling your equipment one piece at a time.

Super Mario 2 is actually Doki Doki Panic

cry of fear, or lsd dream emulator

furry sex

the easiest money grind in blinx the time sweeper is the mine of precious moments boss because the money comes out of the boss in a less spread pattern than any other (aside from the other frog-like boss in deja vu canals but that gives less money)

If you feed that thing a health vial it becomes a pretty cool boss fight.

Jotaro from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure was planned to be in Marvel vs. Capcom 1. He was shot down by Marvel due to them not wanting another Norimaro situation on their hands.
His slot was went to Captain Commando in the final game.

In the Japanese version of Smash Bros 64, Captain Falcon jumps slightly higher than the NTSC version. This lets Falcon reach the top platform of Dream Land in a single jump in the JP version, but not in NTSC or EU version

There was a small PvP scene for the game Rocket Slime/Slime Morimori 2, and they banned a particular strategy that involved winning the tank battles by not not actually firing a single projectile at your opponent. The sequel was also never localized despite 2 being one of the best selling DS games on its release year.

In the english translation of FFVII for PS1, the game's code calls the last ancient "Aerith", her commonly accepted name used in all later translations. Only one place is she named "Aeris"; the character naming screen.
If you force her to be in your party by some other means (such as utilizing a glitch to skip this screen or plain cheats), the default name is Aerith.
In the same vein, the default name for the main character is Ex-SOLDIER, but that is deliberate as Cloud is the only character whose default name you are permitted to see for the intro sequence. But if you were to skip it somehow, he would just be Ex-SOLDIER forever.

A friend of mine works as a lead VFX artist for a British based video game company and he put a picture of a mutual friend of ours eating a sausage into a game somewhere.

The creator of Chulip wanted to make a sequel that takes place in the Bronx where you meet prostitutes and clergymen

The only reason Starcraft was so good is because Blizzard got tricked by a competitor into believing a much better RTS was about to hit the market, which forced them to remake the entire game from scratch

Doom and Doom 2 have a bug where since the levels are made out of grids and the game only calculates damage inflicted within them you can sometime attack an enemy and they suffer no damage.
It's called the Blockmap bug and it's very annoying.