Lord British
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I just realised the life gauge looks like a spinal cord. Herrrp.
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Videogame facts that blow your mind (SuperMarioBros. SHOCKING SECRET INSIDE p #70)
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Diablohead
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Something simple yet effective I noticed in super metroid yesterday, when samus changes rooms and the screen fades to black then back again, her green visor never fades so it glows in the dark, it's a really neat simple effect.
Press up to make the barrel move up, press down to make it move down. Time the up and down with the movements of the barrel to extend how far it travels. Jump off when you can get out at the bottom.
Alx
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Valjean Lafitte
Banned
Has anyone posted this one yet?
There are hidden Sonic statues at the top of the Hydrocity Zone.
THEY ARE A WARNING
Man, how have I never noticed this? Good find!
Has anyone posted this one yet?
There are hidden Sonic statues at the top of the Hydrocity Zone.
THEY ARE A WARNING
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One of my top 5 games of all time and i never noticed.
And that carnival zone area was easy
Yeah it's a one and only contextual game play element/control mechanic that's never even hinted at in the entire game. That's bad enough in itself, but apparently that doesn't suffice for the "mightier than thou" jerks who insist that it was so obvious and totally easy because you are stupid and they are magnificent geniuses.
That's interesting. I never thought of that.
Anyone who says they weren't stuck at that point just doesn't remember being stuck.
He is as much as he is in any other Mega Man game, you just don't see him in the cockpit until he's defeated.
Gamecube cameo in MF, old?
Okay, please help, that thing doesn't look like a GC to me.
Top left part of the contraption, you can't miss it.
It was always about the coke and pills. And being haunted by your past. The 70s were a crazy time.
Azure Dream
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I called the official Sega tipline days after the game came out, the only time I ever did so, and they didn't yet know how to get past it.
Also, if you played in Sonic and Tails mode, Tails would sometimes get into a fit of jumping, which screwed with the momentum of it. And that could throw you off if you were just starting to figure it out.
Are you SURE ?
Because besides the color and lack of controler, I would say that the artist traced a flipped version of that image
BareKnuckle
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The camera left and right buttons on sm3dl are n64 C-buttons.
Posting from iPhone so I couldn't upload my own image
ResidentDante
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Has anyone posted this one yet?
There are hidden Sonic statues at the top of the Hydrocity Zone.
THEY ARE A WARNING
Oh shit!
The camera left and right buttons on sm3dl are n64 C-buttons.
Posting from iPhone so I couldn't upload my own image
They're pretty much just buttons with arrows on them. Also, the C buttons didn't have darkened arrows, they were just embedded/embossed/whatever the proper word is in English.
In Assassin's Creed Revelations; Ezio takes on a ship in Istanbul and arrives to Cappadocia by the same ship. The weird part is there's no sea, river, canal, or river anywhere near Cappadocia.
Here is an overall map:
It's a mystery how anyone can travel there by a ship
And here's a Google map link, zoom out as you want:
https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&so...d=112433465610375647533.00000112aa16a700b6680
toythatkills
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Maps in games have never worked. Like how in every RPG ever the world map makes no sense.
If this was in a Square-Enix RPG, you'd start at A and steer your airship north past the North Pole, and appear at the South Pole still heading north towards B. In reality you should just appear at the top somewhere near C heading south. At least that's how my brain sees it.
If this was in a Square-Enix RPG, you'd start at A and steer your airship north past the North Pole, and appear at the South Pole still heading north towards B. In reality you should just appear at the top somewhere near C heading south. At least that's how my brain sees it.
I remember getting stuck at that part in Sonic 3. I even bought a game guide (it was sealed so I couldn't read it in the shop) but even that didn't tell me anything about how to get past it. Eventually I worked it out for myself. A real "doh!" moment.Has anyone posted this one yet?
There are hidden Sonic statues at the top of the Hydrocity Zone.
THEY ARE A WARNING
UncleSporky
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Maps in games have never worked. Like how in every RPG ever the world map makes no sense.
If this was in a Square-Enix RPG, you'd start at A and steer your airship north past the North Pole, and appear at the South Pole still heading north towards B. In reality you should just appear at the top somewhere near C heading south. At least that's how my brain sees it.
You could loop around the map like that if it were oriented differently:
But that kills the horizontal wrapping.
FlutterPuffs
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KittenMaster
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This is more of a qurik in how tile maps work than a factual error, just like a lot of technical limitations in video games.Maps in games have never worked. Like how in every RPG ever the world map makes no sense.
If this was in a Square-Enix RPG, you'd start at A and steer your airship north past the North Pole, and appear at the South Pole still heading north towards B. In reality you should just appear at the top somewhere near C heading south. At least that's how my brain sees it.
Dr Zhivago
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You could loop around the map like that if it were oriented differently:
But that kills the horizontal wrapping.
It works if the planet is a torus.
Haunted
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Call Kotaku, jRPG worlds are all donuts.It works if the planet is a torus.
It works if the planet is a torus.
brilliant!
DiipuSurotu
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nicoga3000
Saint Nic
I never saw the zone after that as a kid. It was so unfair.
Diablohead
Member
Wait, how did they manage to put the world map on a globe in FFVIII then?
old games using flat planes for the world like mode 7 stuff on the snes have problems, stuff in 3d can work in different ways and is most likely modeled better, but I don't honestly know.
electroplankton
Banned
Wait, how did they manage to put the world map on a globe in FFVIII then?
Clearly, the aforementioned problem was present when maps were just a plan.
Wait, how did they manage to put the world map on a globe in FFVIII then?
See now my brain is fucked, because there's both a flat projection and the globe projection in FFVIII.
Duane Cunningham
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Wait, how did they manage to put the world map on a globe in FFVIII then?
Huh. Did the globe twist around or something?
EDIT: No, wait, the GROUND twisted around. It was a true 3D model, so you could approach land masses, islands, etc from different sides. On a flat map the orientation never changes... north is always up, etc. This is true whether it's Mode 7 (where it's still just a flat map, just shown enlarged and at an angle) or whether it's in a tiny little window. It's a flat map, so when you get to the top, the only choice is to warp you back to the bottom unless they want to show the map upside down or something, which would be silly. But when flying around a 3d globe (the ground, not the HUD I mean), the globe is really there... so north isn't always up, the direction you're facing is "up" (or "forward" is probably a better word) and as you turn, the globe rotates.
Why the fuck did I never realized this. We all know it subconsciously, if we go to the top of the screen we end up at the bottom... But still, damn.
Diomedeskun
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It works if the planet is a torus.
Well, there's one very well loved Western RPG that takes place on a torus.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
Hahahaha
The world map was actually in a Square Enix RPG. Dragon Quest III.Maps in games have never worked. Like how in every RPG ever the world map makes no sense.
If this was in a Square-Enix RPG, you'd start at A and steer your airship north past the North Pole, and appear at the South Pole still heading north towards B. In reality you should just appear at the top somewhere near C heading south. At least that's how my brain sees it.
I admit I got stuck there for a while, until I found a way past it.
But, there actually is a subtle hint what to do. Check the decoration on the barrel. Triangles pointing up and down. I needed to be a lot more obvious, though, and the barrel is featured with the same pattern several places in the level, so it's something you'd pick up on.
It didn't help that they don't even work the same way in Act 1.
Inside one, actually.
Never knew or saw this... I had to look up a video just to see what the cloud even looked like.
Maps in games have never worked. Like how in every RPG ever the world map makes no sense.
If this was in a Square-Enix RPG, you'd start at A and steer your airship north past the North Pole, and appear at the South Pole still heading north towards B. In reality you should just appear at the top somewhere near C heading south. At least that's how my brain sees it.
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BlazeHedgehog
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For me, I had a friend who was a pretty compulsive liar. He told me about the trick (up/down on the d-pad while standing on the barrel) and I figured he was just bullshitting me.