[GrayFoxPL]

Grand Theft Auto 4 was in the second post.

Don't take bad post examples.

[Alchemy]

Shenmue was terrible though.

Its ok, I support this opinion. Not everyone wants to play a game of lucky hit.

[robot]

Megaman X had the coolest thing where defeating certain stages had an impact on other stages. I don't remember specifics but one stage lost all of its power, making some parts much easier. Always thought this was amazing since it took the original concept of fighting bosses in the right order to a whole other level (no pun intended).

Hopefully someone can provide more detail since I'm sure everyone noticed it, it's been awhile since I've played it.

Edit: found a good example.,.Defeating Chill Penguins stage causes the destruction to spill over to Flame Mammoths stage, extinguishing all of the fire in his level.

[shadyspace]

Shenmue was terrible though. Anyway, like the second poster, I was a bit shocked at the static on the radio right before a call in GTA. Really really cool detail.

I don't get this. Car radios are supposed to get static-y before a phone call...?

[endresults]

Like i said, lack of appreciation. Ill go ahead and point out Samus' HUD in Metroid Prime has more attention to detail than most games. Animations in the Hud Icons Helmet material visible and animated. Slime effect on visor. Steam effect on visor. Water effect on visor. Static effect on visor. Ice effect on visor. Glare of Samus' face on visor when a lighting effect nearby illuminates her face. I think im missing a few but DAMN! Nowadays FPS games dont even have a fraction of the attention to detail in the HUD/Visors.

Nowadays it's limited to just:

1. Blood effect on periphery of screen
2. Blood effect + red filter all over the damn screen

Baseball Stars for NES had some great quirks for the time it was made. This was one of the first sports games with player portraits, and it was done Mr. Potato Head style by randomly selecting from a pool of different face parts to make a unique face. Lots of different batting animations, as well, including hit-by-pitch animations. As seen in my avatar, if a female player was hit by a pitch, she would collapse into a pile of tears.

[ConcealedBlaze]

There is a ton of stuff that most people didn't realize. I post that list that I, Kazerei and some others did in Ocarina of Time: There are surely more, but these are the ones I found in OoT.

You just broke me. God I love that game.

I'm gonna add Deus Ex and the bathroom. It was totally second nature for me to wander around and search every nook and cranny for items, and I didn't hesitate for a second to check the women's restroom. Then a woman called me out on it, and I realized how creepy I was really behaving haha. God I love that game too.

[Rorschach]

Samurai Shodown 2

Link's vagina.

[GrayFoxPL]

KOF95 Terry throws hat when victorious, hat floats on water stream.

[shadyspace]

I mean, that doesn't happen in my car.

[ConcealedBlaze]

Megaman X had the coolest thing where defeating certain stages had an impact on other stages. I don't remember specifics but one stage lost all of its power, making some parts much easier. Always thought this was amazing since it took the original concept of fighting bosses in the right order to a whole other level (no pun intended). Hopefully someone can provide more detail since I'm sure everyone noticed it, it's been awhile since I've played it. Edit: found a good example.,.Defeating Chill Penguins stage causes the destruction to spill over to Flame Mammoths stage, extinguishing all of the fire in his level.

Beat storm eagle, ship crashes into Spark Mandrill's stage. No energy balls go through floor, and the lights flicker

Beat Launch Octopus, Sting Chameleon's stage floods, which is actually necessary to grab a powerup

[Risk Breaker]

Bayonetta had a lot of nifty details - her shadow is a butterfly etc. My special favourite is if you hold shoot while facing a wall she'll actually shoot the letter 'B' or a small heart on to the wall.

And not only her! Jeanne does it too iirc :D

[Kentpaul]

I don't know if this is a dream i had or real life but in re4 If you stand next to the lake long enough the big ass lake monster will jump out and eat you. Anyone know I was dreaming or what Because I was shocked.

[Alextended]

I mean, that doesn't happen in my car.

It happens on my PC speakers if my mobile phone is close enough and I get called/texted. I take it it happens on lots of other devices too.

[Jigsaw]

it's nothing special but in mgs2 it blew me away that you could zoom in so far that you can read the letters on the damn tranq darts

[shadyspace]

It happens on my PC speakers if my mobile phone is close enough and I get called/texted. I take it it happens on lots of other devices too.

Huh. I've never had that happen with any sort or speakers/radio with my phone or anyone else's. Maybe I have shit hearing.

[endresults]

Huh. I've never had that happen with any sort or speakers/radio with my phone or anyone else's. Maybe I have shit hearing.

From what I've read, not all phones cause interference. IIRC, almost all mobile phones in Australia create interference, and every phone I've had in the US does too.

[bede-x]

In Perfect Dark's Villa level you have to rescue the head of the Carrington institute and normally, you'd only see where he is, in the cutscene when the level ends, but if you're close the door that leads to the rooms where he's located quickly after opening it, you can squeeze between it and into where the cutscene usually takes place. The area beyond is actually real level geometry with Carrington tied to a chair.

Again in Perfect Dark, in the third level you have to get to the top of a skyscraper to escape a building, but it's actually possible to obtain a key near the top, that will allow you to go to the bottom again and exit out into the streets beyond. You can't go very far before falling through the geometry, but cool nonetheless.

Such an awesome game.

In Halo's outdoor levels when you fire a weapon, smoke will will blow from the riflehead and if you notice it, it follows the wind direction. If it blows to the right when shooting and you do a 180 turn and shoot again, it will blow to the left.

[jaypah]

There was a jetski(?) game for the original Xbox that had a sea monster come out and smack your craft if you drove too far out into the water. Scared the shit out of me the first time it happened! Sorry I can't remember the name.

[Ratrat]

The amount of clickables and varied dialogue in Policenauts was impressive. Lot of thought went into that game.

[Aguirre]

i can't get any screen shots, but in Crackdown 1 on 360, you could watch cars in the vast background drive about. its pretty awesome to kick back and watch the scenery go by.

[Pocks]

Crysis also did the liquid level in barrels thing. It was oil barrels instead of wine though. Ahh. I missed the older games part of the thread title.

Yeah, I remember being very impressed with that. It's even more impressive that TimeSplitters 2 did it beforehand.

[Manmademan]

It's not really old (it's current gen) but I always though this was highly amusing in Alpha Protocol:

Speaking of orphans, in another weird twisted attempt of moralizing/shocking the player, among its abundant statistics the game keeps track not only of the total number of enemies killed, but also the amount of orphans you've become guilty for during your missions. There are some funny results of stereotyping to examine here: The Arab terrorists all have about half a dozen children, while everywhere else it's almost invariably one or two. And who'd have guessed, childless mercenaries are apparently extremely rare.

[Spazznid]

There was a jetski(?) game for the original Xbox that had a sea monster come out and smack your craft if you drove too far out into the water. Scared the shit out of me the first time it happened! Sorry I can't remember the name.

Splashdown, one of my favorite extreme sports games

Turn your volume down!

Another Perfect Dark one, shooting all the bottles in the Villa mission will get you ridiculed for being childish IIRC, and if you are close enough to an enemy, joanna will hold her pistol gangsta style. All of the enemies' faces are modeled after members of the development team and in the XBLA version they've been updated to the new members and also include faces like Peter Molyneux. Alien guns 'Eat' their ammo. Alien guns have different sights/aim modes than human ones. With the right preparations, you can have your guns from the previous missions in Air Force One, and you can later keep the Hoverbike from AFO in the next level if you lowered it. You can kill aliens in Multiplayer by landing on their heads. the height level of your character determined the height of the camera in Multiplayer. GOD Perfect Dark is still unrivalled as far as FPS goes imo. It deserves a Proper sequel...

[B-Genius]

I don't know if this is a dream i had or real life but in re4 If you stand next to the lake long enough the big ass lake monster will jump out and eat you. Anyone know I was dreaming or what Because I was shocked.

It wasn't a dream ;) I think if you take pot-shots at the water it gets you as well. 'Del lago', the massive mutated croc (I think).

It's not that old, but I would have to say MGS2. Shooting individual bottles; flour pouring out of a sack at the point you shot it; Snake sneezing if you stood outside in the rain too long - little things like that blew my mind back then!

[Poimandres]

In Rocket Knight Adventure on the Genesis/Mega Drive Sparkster's jetpack will explode turning him black if you leave it charged for too long.

Jurrasic Park on the Genesis/Mega Drive was a terrible game, but it had a number of hidden "moves" you could pull of using the raptor, like tilting his head around or shaking food in your mouth.

Shenmue is definitely my favourite though. I spent so much time picking up and inspecting random objects, opening drawers etc and just walking around the city.

[Syril]

In the freeware game Iji. Okay, in the game the main character has a set of voice clips that will play for when she jumps, attacks, etc. If you kill enough enemies, it starts to effect her personality, and she changes to a second set of voices that sound more pissed off. In one of the levels, she gets mad at her brother during an argument, and switches to the "angry" voice clips for the rest of the level, regardless of how she was before. However, if you press Escape to skip the conversation before she gets angry, her voice clips will not change.

[someguyinahat]

Nethack, for being a game with very few graphics, put lots of attention to detail in the text responses to your actions. So much so it almost becomes a test to see if you can get it to do something illogical.

A simple one is when you kill a creature, it says "You kill the x." but when you kill an undead creature, it instead says "You destroy the x." If your pet kills the creature, it changes to passive voice: "The x is killed."

Corpses taste terrible normally, but if your form changes to a carnivorous animal (such as a jackal) suddenly corpses taste delicious.

If you can't lockpick a door you can use the kick command to kick it down. Try to kick a sink, and it says "Clank!"

If you throw something while you're floating, you move backward (Newton's Third Law.)

And don't get me started on all the ways a cockatrice or a cockatrice corpse can be used.

[ThoughtsOfSpeaking]

Bayonetta had a lot of nifty details - her shadow is a butterfly etc. My special favourite is if you hold shoot while facing a wall she'll actually shoot the letter 'B' or a small heart on to the wall.

Those are just the obvious ones. There is a massive amount of of little details that 000.01% of people noticed.


My favourite is the lipstick she shoots her dad with actually was a gift from him to her mother and has a special inscription on it.

[Cartman86]

I play Kojima games for this very reason.

[jackrubyn]

In Halo it took time for the sound (of an explosion from the rocket launcher) to travel from the point of impact to you if you shot at something distant. And also if you flew a Banshee, Ghost or drove a Warthog on ice and exited the vehicle, it would slide along the ice, scraping the surface, leaving visible trails of cracks. It was one of these things that you noticed at the time (and was greatly impressed by) so when it was cut from the sequels, it definitely made the sequels feel like they were lacking something.

[Mihael Mello Keehl]

In HGSS, you can fish with the Good Rod at the Lake of Rage when you first get there, although you'll only encounter mostly Magikarp. However, if you fish with Team Rocket's evolution-enducing radio signal playing, you'll encounter nothing but Gyarados.

!!!! say whuh!?

[RyougaSaotome]

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.

I'll never forget the first time I sat in a chair. For no reason other than that I could. Mind. Blown.

That game is just filled with amazing little details.

[grap3fruitman]

Samurai Shodown 2 http://i.imgur.com/XThOZ.jpg

Why you had this example prepped and ready to go, I do not want to know.

[See You Next Wednesday]

Halo: spent ammo shells had physics & would roll downhill.

[DrFunk]

From what I've read, not all phones cause interference. IIRC, almost all mobile phones in Australia create interference, and every phone I've had in the US does too.

It only happens with GSM (sim card) phones. Additionally, you need to be on a 2G connection to have interference with speakers.

Also concerning GTA IV, the brakes on cars would squeal depending on how hard you pressed the brake button. It was awesome

[M3d10n]

What, no Dwarf Fortress yet?

Same with Sonic 1. If you look at the sky, you'll notice it happening over the course of 24 hours. Green Hill Zone = morning, Marble Zone = mid-day, Spring Yard Zone = early afternoon, Labyrinth Zone = late afternoon, Star Light Zone = night, Scrap Brain Zone = early morning

Streets of Rage does something like that took: it happens during one night. It's dawn during the last stage, with the sun rising up as you advance.

[bomma_man]

Huh. I've never had that happen with any sort or speakers/radio with my phone or anyone else's. Maybe I have shit hearing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1mlponX_jw

[Dictator93]

Halo has a whole bunch of these things that i love. Shooting armor and having it ricochet back at me was a big surprise.

[GraveHorizon]

Didn't GoldenEye 007 have nutshot animations? I thought that was pretty cool.

There's been tons of games that do the liquid leaking from containers thing. I can think of a bunch of old shooters where you could shoot water dispensers in office type environments where it tracked the water level of the container. Max Payne I think is the first to come to mind but I'm positive there were others before that. Metal Gear Solid I think did it too. And I want to say Splinter Cell, the first one. And that extra bloody Dreamcast FPS... Soldier of Fortune maybe I think it was called.

Bums in the bathroom stalls. One of the funnest times with Molotov cocktails I've ever had in a video game.

[SolidSnakex]

GT4's driver animations



It's especially amazing considering that there are only a handful of cars that actually have a visible driver. You're also only able to see the animations if you view specific replay angles. So it's something that most people would never even notice but they still took the time to implement it.

[Kreunt]

the hacking system in Enter The Matrix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKKme...eature=related

[Unicorn]

Don't take bad post examples.

Hey, I didn't know it would start a shitstorm!

the hacking system in Enter The Matrix http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKKme...eature=related

This game had its faults, but this was indeed really awesome.

[kevinski]

As others have mentioned, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is full of small details. One of my favorites is watching the life cycle of the birds beneath the Outer Wall.

[Syph Medwes]

In HGSS, you can fish with the Good Rod at the Lake of Rage when you first get there, although you'll only encounter mostly Magikarp. However, if you fish with Team Rocket's evolution-enducing radio signal playing, you'll encounter nothing but Gyarados.

holy fuck

[Phat Michael]

shenmue thread? records of actual weather conditions of the Yokosuka during 1986/1987 were implemented into the game and all citizens would react to weather condition by getting their umbrellas out, changing clothes etc. in real time.

Not just - actually playing Space Harrier etc was just incredible. I also loved seeing the saturn(?) in my house. There are so many things about Shenmue i loved.

Just think about it.

Virtua Fighter fighting system
Day/Night/Weather cycles
Can walk into an arcade and play the games.
QTEs that actually werent crap.
Playing with a kitty.

I loved it. I really want an HD release so i dont have to keep taking my DC out and plugging it in.

[MTMBStudios]

Shenmue is the poster child for this - I don't think it gets any more ridiculous. Shame the game wasn't very good though.

[luka]

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. I'll never forget the first time I sat in a chair. For no reason other than that I could. Mind. Blown. That game is just filled with amazing little details.

If you sit in the chair with the faerie familiar equipped and wait a few moments she will float down and sit on the back of the chair next to your head. On top of that, in the Japanese versions (except the very first psx release) if you wait a bit longer she will sing to you.

[red731]

Games, mainly 2d platformers, where you are close to edge and then then the character starts balancing and leaning on the edge.
It is just an animation, but atleast the character knows about that edge.

[Dead Man]

Samurai Shodown 2

Holy shit. Mind blown.

[Poimandres]

Not just - actually playing Space Harrier etc was just incredible. I also loved seeing the saturn(?) in my house. There are so many things about Shenmue i loved. Just think about it. Virtua Fighter fighting system Day/Night/Weather cycles Can walk into an arcade and play the games. QTEs that actually werent crap. Playing with a kitty. I loved it. I really want an HD release so i dont have to keep taking my DC out and plugging it in.

You can actually win games for the Saturn in a couple of different ways, bring them home, and play them on Ryo's television.