Video Game LIES!

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I was thinking about some of the lies my "friends" have told me over the years about video games. Has anyone else been told supposed secrets about video games? For example:

I remember when I was in fourth or fifth grade and Mortal Kombat came out for the SNES. I played the shit out of the game and I was one of the biggest game nerds in my tiny ass school in a backwater town called Redacted, Oklahoma. I was talking to one of my friends about the Reptile secret when one of the kids popped of:

" Yeah,well have you heard of Rataro?"

I looked at him like he was crazy and asked what the hell he meant.

He told me there was a secret boss in Goros lair. He said when you fight Goro you can input a code that unlocks a secret boss that is like Goro except he is ratlike. Me being a honest person at the time and also being completely gullible I believed him. He told me a bogus set of button combos and he said you have to input them when the glowing red eyes in the back pop up.

Well I tried for quite some time to do this so called "secret" and I came to the conclusion that he was a sack of shit. Of course he never owned up to it, but I was smart enough to know he was a liar.

The best lie someone ever told me was by someone I actually trusted, but he admitted it was a lie. He was a bit of a genius and also happened to be a asshole. I was riding the bus one day and was sitting by my friend who happened to be a senior and I was in the 6th grade. I guess he saw my gullibility factor as well. We were talking about secrets in Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.
I was telling my friend about a few secrets and he asked me if I heard of the Dagger of (don't remember).

I, being the gullible asshole that I was, got excited and asked what it was.

I don't remember specifics, but he gave me an elaborate backstory that didn't quite fit with the Zelda series. Something about a elf behind a waterfall and he wanted you to do this quest and he turned out to be evil and you had to kill him with this special weapon. I told him he was a liar and he insisted that I try to find this "Super secret weapon".

Well once again I went home and tried to unlock this "Super secret" and it turned out to be bogus and I confronted him about it, and he just told me he was fucking around. I do believe that was the last time I got tricked like that.

The secret Resident Evil 2 character Akuma in EGM's April fools mag rings a bell when thinking about this.

Someone please tell me I'm not the only one who has been fooled by such antics.
 
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Many people tried to convince me that Fallout 3 is a good game. Ha. I didn't fall for it.
 
This has happened to me at least a couple of times, but it's been so long that I can't remember any specifics. I think that most of the people who have told me video game lies have actually believed them themselves, so I guess that would be kind of like an urban legend rather than an outright lie, though.

Your post got me thinking about the story of the head of Vecna. Fun stuff.
 
:rofl: Classic. That's the kind of thing that makes P and P roleplaying so great.
 
i originally heard that story in KODT

awesome story.

also the gazebo story they have in their BOT #1 or #2 is awesome too
 
There's a thing like this with the first Gothic game. I can't remember all the details, but one of the sub-quests (one involving you running around the land looking for pages from a journal) was supposed to have you meet up with a character that would give you awesome powers, like summoning Deamons willy-nilly.

One of the big-wigs over at the RPGDot forums claimed this to be the absolute truth, and for several years people were trying to discover this secret and/or calling him out on it.

Another falsehood story came about in the first Thief game, where people claimed that there existed an in-game upgrade to the bow. Nowadays it's just an inside joke in the Thief fanbase.
 
Oh man, MK brings good memories. I used to be the biggest fan of Mortal Kombat when MK2 came out. I heard a whole bunch of "secrets" that ended up being BS. My brother told me that if you beat the final boss of the original MK, sometimes, this six armed statue from the background will come to life and you have to fight it. It was supposed to have swords and crap and each hand so it was really really hard.
There was another one where someone told me you could fight Blaze in MK2.
 
when i was like 10 a guy always told me this lie about MK3.
He told me that there is a special move that you could impregnate one of the female characters with it and that she would explode after a while and babies would come out of her belly.
 
I remember the whole being able to knock someone into the tree mouths in the Living Forest stage fatality in MK2.

Though my favorite is the one where you could unlock Sonic in Super Smash Bros. Melee if you could take out 20 opponents in the Cruel Melee.

That's one of the few that actually influenced future games in a way that wasn't just a reference.
 
I remember telling people about a supersecret random encounter in F2. A fuel depot, out of which you could carry barrels off into the tanker and set out to a journey into JAPAN.
 
I've heard that if you finish Fallout 2 in less than two years of game time, then go to the Toxic Caves Depot, you will find a secret boss named "Kazuma" or something. I called bushit on it immediatly, a friend of mine tested and yeah, there's no Kazuma.
 
Ha, someone told me about knocking people into the trees too. There was also one where you could do a finishing move on Mileena or Kitana that would let you have sex with them.
 
Hah. Great one. Getting mew in the first pokemon is one of these for me. I did EVERYTHING. Got all 150 pokemon, avoided the SS Anne so i could swim around it at the end. So many different things trying to get it but no luck.
 
maximaz said:
Ha, someone told me about knocking people into the trees too. There was also one where you could do a finishing move on Mileena or Kitana that would let you have sex with them.
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Guess that was popular everywhere. I even heard that rumor in backwater Oklahoma.
 
Well I was actually referring to the trees, but yeah your right. :D
 
There's a movie at the end of one of the Tomb Rider games, i think the second, where Lara Croft is in the shower. When i was like 12 or 13, some kids used to say that if you could finish the game without saving, the camera would show you Lara completely naked. Alas, many pre-teenage boys lost countless nights to unlock this video, but none succeeded.
 
I remember one of my old roommates used to play Ragnarok Online, mostly because he was a compulsive gamer, but also because it was a lot of fun to troll the kind of people the game tended to attract.

To those unfamiliar with the game (hopefully, most of you), they make you start out as a completely useless character class called a Novice that you must stick with until you hit level 10, at which point you can swap out for one of the "real" classes. You don't have to, though-- though ill-advised, it is entirely possible to persist as the severely underpowered Novice all the way up to the game's level cap.

My roommate took a Novice to something around level 70 and then spent many-a-day taking perverse pleasure in pwning things in front of flocks of noobs and then making up all kinds of bullshit cheats and exploits to explain his power. After a long and one-sided battle versus a tough miniboss and some particularly inspired flim-flam on my friend's part, he had every player on that map believing that it was impossible for a monster to hit you if your character was standing at a perfect 65-degree angle. Over three dozen people went on to leap into the maw of ignoble death that day trying to perfect the exploit.
 
I remember trying to get Zack in my party in FFVII. there was a lot of talk about him being a secret character. you do meet him early in the game, but unfortunately all the hours spent on trying to get him in the party were completely wasted.
 
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