10 Things Developers Didn't Think ANYONE Would Find

Some secret things in video games are added by developers for no discernible reason whatsoever. Maybe they were bored? Here are some cool examples.
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1:01 Number 10
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3:31 Number 8
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11:47 Number 1

[@therebelrobot4691]

As a dev, you are correct. We do this because we are bored and told to focus on things that make no sense 99% of the time.

[@gameranxTV]

👌👍🏼

[@ralphharrison6622]

can you explain why in racing games the ai drivers rubber band, and run the player off the road with no penalty?

[@lauryntonio]

@@ralphharrison6622m not a developer but i would think the rubber banding is to avoid situations where you're like a lap and a half in the lead with 4 laps left kinda thing (happens in like Crash Team Racing, I wish there was rubber banding for some occasions there :( as for running players off the road without consequence - maybe overly aggressive AI that may not be programmed to be punished at all

[@PandaGamingPodcast]

@@ralphharrison6622 lol turn about is fair play, I do that in Project Cars PCVR and GT7 PSVR2. I run NPCs off the road, and I use my side and rearview mirrors to not let NPCs pass. So if the Ai treats me that same way, if it can, I like the game more.

[@TyrJustice]

You're a game dev? Name every game then.

[@user-kp2gv3um3l]

10 sidequest stories that could have been the main plot of the game

[@gameranxTV]

Thanks for the suggestion. Noted

[@MX.6]

Nice suggestion

[@Karlach_]

Witcher 3's Blood and Wine DLC could've been the entire game lol

[@tylercromer627]

Man the ubisoft leak side mission in watchdogs 2 coulda been the whole game

[@damBeckwith]

Game dev here. More specifically a environment artist/level artist/level designer. If I had to take a wild guess - using the Dragon Age one (and others alike) as an example - originally there was likely nothing down there when players figured out how to exit the playspace, but after the developers noticed that people were doing this, they added that little easter egg after the fact Source: I'm guilty of doing this myself 😆

[@drewby618]

I remember stumbling upon the grunt at the end of Halo 3 and thinking it was the funniest thing I’d seen at the time. Love stuff like that

[@gameranxTV]

👍🏼

[@ryan_raus]

Duuuude yes! I remember that lol

[@justsomehalofan4386]

There's also another talking grunt that appears on the finally level of Halo CE, that one appears in a room of the warthog run and it is pretty easy to miss. I know there is one in halo 2, but I forgot which level it appears on.

[@Melvinator311]

Absolutely awesome to see developers do this stuff! I never see these things because I am not that smart as to finding them so it is always fun to see videos that showcase them. Thanks again for a great video Gameranx! ✌

[@gameranxTV]

Thanks for watching

[@Iosaiv]

You know Gameranx is tha man!

[@James-gj8rn]

The Arkham City plan's in Arkham Asylum were crazy, to know that they had that planned from the get-go, man i wish Suicide Squad was melee focused Single Player like the Arkham game (i'll miss Keven Conroy's Batman. Rest In Peace King)

[@jimmythegamer2231]

Even if the game itself is terrible, at least we'll get to hear Kevin Conroy's Batman one last time when Suicide Squad comes out in 2024.

[@Kalibre97]

This is my favorite Easter egg of all time I think. The scarecrow one in city comes close but there was nothing like the "oh shit" feeling of the blueprints lmao

[@James-gj8rn]

@@Kalibre97 I just realised I misspelled Kevin but I don't want to edit it, I'll lose the heart

[@cout2339]

@@James-gj8rn Do it.

[@cout2339]

@@jimmythegamer2231 It will be beyond terrible.

[@holyheretic3185]

I like to think there's a group of people who just have to develop something easy like the pause screen so when they finish they just go crazy with Easter eggs

[@scorpios_corz]

Sometimes they are artifact bugs that happen and they can't fix the issue without rewriting code, so they push it to obscure locations just so the game can function on pass the bug they haven't been able to fix yet or it maybe that they are hardcoded and cannot be replaced and may be game breaking if they do, which them means rewriting code, which ultimately cost more money than leaving the easter egg / bug in game

[@locloud8119]

The washing machine and cow!!!!

[@mrd989]

Need a “10 side characters that should have their own game” video next. Great content as always 👍🏾

[@GameEsthetics]

That is a great video idea 😮 I think one would be cool for Vaas from Far Cry 3

[@mrd989]

@@GameEsthetics that would be a good one.

[@GameEsthetics]

@@Xaviar_Western I unfortunately never played it 😔 I turned the game in pretty fast after beating it

[@stormchaser419]

After all these years, this channel is still one of my favorites. Good quality overall. Love the presentation and content. If you are into video games, this channel should be on everybody's top 10.

[@Schwertfisch13]

As a german subscriber i can only say: Jawohl Ja!

[@BrandonGavin_EDC]

I need 10 games that deserve a next Gen remake!

[@gameranxTV]

Thanks for your suggestion

[@jthornton4460]

Seconded! Darkwatch, Fallout: NV, and Singularity spring to mind

[@gyro-zeppeli6367]

Mass effect games , the witcher 1 and 2 , the og assassin's creed , some resident evil not numbered games , dmc 1,2,3

[@Gigi-fv9ky]

Red dead redemption

[@Fuzzzz6]

Dino crisis!!!

[@saorwen]

I've played a ridiculous amount of The Simpsons: Hit & Run and as far as I can recall those cow heads are the only objects in the game that are sprites with a rotate towards camera behaviour, which suggests that they may be late additions, that the cow head washing machine was a test object and deleting anything late in development could have been risky. It's also possible that that specific cow head may have been acting as some kind of master object that the others were cloned from.

[@jsullivan2112]

Are we not going to talk about the milkshake visual pun that is a washing machine with a cow's head?

[@saorwen]

@@jsullivan2112 Yeah, It's pretty "cheesy". All the better for a test object!

[@HeisenbergFam]

"We live in an age where everything will be eventually found" is one of the most accurate sentences said in history

[@gameranxTV]

👆🏻

[@rydekk-4644]

Except the list of clients of Epstein. That remains a mystery.

[@sevenwordsmusic]

As a dev, I do this things because I love when I found them in games myself 😊

[@therealbahamut]

A few key lessons every game dev NEEDS to learn before they put something in a game: 1: Someone WILL find that. 2: Someone WILL try to do that. 3: Someone WILL master that. 4: Someone WILL mod that. 5: Someone WILL post that all over the internet. These should NEVER be questions you ask as a dev because the answer is always "Yes. Yes they will." thanks for coming to my TED talk.

[@DagexonDark]

You can still access all of the Crash Bash levels on the version of Spyro 3 that's on the psn store for ps3 FYI. I just love that it still wasn't removed years later on a digital rerelease

[@gameranxTV]

👍🏼

[@lauryntonio]

LMAO????? That's insane and hilarious 😭

[@CP077]

i always love his, its an effort of both players and developers goofing around, where devs manage to spare some time for that small detail for players who manage to find or stumble upon.

[@crymshark3606]

I appreciate the consistency and quality of the videos :)

[@gameranxTV]

🤝thanks

[@officialnucky]

Number 1: Are you telling me you don't wash your cow heads in a washing machine, Falcon?

[@AlexSanchezber]

Thanks for all of your hard work guys. You guys are awesome !

[@gameranxTV]

Thanks for your support

[@Iosaiv]

Not even a little.

[@jeezycreezy4220]

As far as the Simpsons: Hit and Run entry goes, I find myself thinking back to another similar kind of thing in another game and I wonder if the explaination is similar. In Soul Reaver 2, there was supposed to be a cutscene of two guards unaliving a female vampire right before you get to the Pillars of Nosgoth in the very beginning of the game. For narritive reasons, the devs cut the scene, but for some reason removing the female vampire model would wreck havok on the game, so instead they placed her suspended in space just outside of the map near where the cutscene was supposed to trigger. You can actually still see her if you know where and how to look without using cheats or mods. I wonder if the cow washing machine was a similar situation where removing an object from a deleated event would cause the game to freak out, so they just moved it to a place that was supposed to be inacessable.

[@axemansjazz6670]

This has nothing to do with the subject at hand, but I saw the “Drink Duff” beer sign in Simpson’s Hit n’ Run and it made me think of this. The name of the beer in The Simpson’s, Duff Beer, is actually named after Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagen. Axl Rose would introduce him as Duff ‘The King of Beers’ McKagen during concerts and the creators of The Simpson’s were either friends with or fans of Guns, so they named the beer brand after Duff McKagen. There’s a random tidbit of info for ya lol.

[@rainmancw9022]

The original Morrowind had lot's of Easter Eggs. One that stood out in my mind was the high level sword hidden in the hillside just south of Balmora. Guess a dev forgot to pick it up lol. Love this vid! Cheers

[@gameranxTV]

👍🏼

[@GeekOfAllness]

I don't think that's really an Easter egg. All the obtainable daedric armor involved finding one piece at a time in some random nook or cranny (or killing the one dude and breaking the main story). And there are tons of little things throughout the game you can easily miss. An Easter egg is something that doesn't really make sense in the game and requires a reasonable amount of effort (or luck) to find. High-level items hidden in weird places meet the second criterion, but they make perfect sense in the game.

[@michaelcherokee8906]

Also "lot's" means belonging to a lot, or, possibly, belonging to Lot and you just forgot to capitalize the name. You pluralize by simply adding an s, no apostrophe.

[@VNOMALII]

crash bash was my life as a kid along with crash team racing & the spyro trilogy (original games). ah man, the nostalgia. sitting 2 inches from a black box tv with a thick glass curved screen, unplugging my sisters controller to get the upper hand if i was loosing 😂. 90's and early early 2000's were the best and i'd go back in a heartbeat if i had a time machine. i truly wouldn't hesitate just to experience that feeling again. i have also spent around 1.5k hours on guild wars 2; amazing open world mmorpg, so many things to do, unlock, and discover, and for an 11 year old game to this day it still has a massively thriving community. definitely worth a look for anyone that is into grinding, strategic boss fighting, crafting, and trading. play a variety of long lasting stories, or just run world events. takes a while to get the hang of and understand all the variants of weapons and armour, but once you know what you're doing it is a very fun game.

[@yeahg420]

Ubisoft had to take the loch ness monster out because he wanted tree fiddy for his likeness

[@BuildinWings]

Lake Pawnee is pretty clearly based on Lake Geneva, WI. That's where Chicagoans go to vacation, it's as oblong as Loch Ness, and it's a huge gamer mecca (it's where D&D was invented). Even the landscape the devs used around Lake Pawnee is near-identical. Only difference is that the skyscraper in the game's horizon is replaced by an observatory dome IRL, because Lake Geneva is about 45 minutes northwest of the city.

[@spencerthompson]

Love these Easter egg videos. I didn’t know any of these lol

[@CoreDreamStudios]

The cow washing machine may of been used as a physics collider for above ground. I've seen extra stairs in WWE 2K22 under the ring via clipping which allowed the ring to have a collider.

[@kacyboyd5844]

The cow and the washing machine might be a reference to the song "working at the car wash" instead it would be "working at the cow wash"

[@neilusdin2389]

Fascinating. In the almost 8K hours I put into Guild Wars 1, I have never, EVER seen the naked man. Even during the closed betas I was in.

[@Vrince.]

game devs are scary people you never know what they are capeble of

[@gameranxTV]

😅

[@vivekkparashar6369]

Another nice video, Though I also like the dev rooms in some games like in Skyrim etc ..the dead body room is just a creepy 😂

[@TurjanStarstone]

Great vid! Took me right back to my Star Wars Galaxies days... In Mos Eisley starport there was a shuttle you could book passage on to travel to other worlds. I managed to clip inside that ship once and saw a curious little oddity : a set of white female underwear appearing upright, as if it was being worn by an invisible person. Perhaps the bra and pants had been left there deliberately, or perhaps they were merely a vestige of a character model that had been used as an indicator of scale when creating the shuttle, and then only partly removed - who knows?

[@fejamolonblun2002]

Resident Evil 4 and GTA V are my two favorite videogames !!! Both of them are pretty fun

[@gameranxTV]

👍🏼

[@NegativeNanase]

It took until last year for people to find the lost scrapped level design for the Sheogorath Jabbawack for Skyrim

[@reddragon2943]

No one really Appreciates the people that work on making games as much as they should. Respect to all that work their asses off to bring us the best games out there.

[@thornofsociety6857]

Guessing the Watchdogs one is intentionally incomplete precisely as a nod to the hazy photos of Nessie.

[@alec7568]

I have no idea about that washing machine but that cow head is definitely a reference to the nicotine addicted farm animals from the tomacco episode. The tomacco field is also featured in that level so I think it was unused assets for the tomacco field.

[@EvelynnWinters2000]

In Metro (I think it was last light), there's a scene where you're walking through a hall just after a theater scene, and there's some showers to the side with some women showering. Normally, they're behind a frosted glass, so you can't see anything beyond very blurry silhouettes. But if you walk into the corner of the structure there, you can clip above, and fall down behind the frosted glass The weird part is, they aren't Barbie dolls, they actually made nipples, and... other parts, that you normally can never see (well, except for a different model during a stripper scene, but that's only the upper half) Kinda shocked me when I discovered it. If you do a part 2 to this, you should include it, because I haven't seen ANYONE mention it ever

[@Mr.AtheTriggerGalleon6310]

Wow,I've never heard this before, and I've watched ALOT of these types of videos.

[@EvelynnWinters2000]

@@Mr.AtheTriggerGalleon6310 Yeah, I just discovered it by pure chance (I swear) Wasn't paying attention to the game, was looking at my phone, and ended up walking into the corner of one of the structures there, partially clipped but fell back out. That made me curious, so I tried doing the same thing a couple more times, and clipped through and above. Takes a few tries to do each time, but it's not hard to replicate Also you can't get back out after you clip there, lol. Gotta reload a save

[@KeybladeMasterAndy]

I just realized the Psychonauts 2 easter egg, as bizarre and random as it is, is STILL thematically relevant to the level.

[@MetalHeadReacts]

One of my favourites was in Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain. Once you complete the game the credits roll, as you'd expect, most people skip them... but if you let them run, eventually you come to a credit for "Coffee Guy" at which point, out of nowhere, a voice yells "COFFEE GUUUUUUUY!!!"

[@joe-4587]

there is also doom eternal speedrunners finding the tutorial lab with the BFG 9000 away from the map, while the developers reacted to it. Great video

[@bowmansblame]

The whole game would crash without that cow/washing machine.

[@nashdiy8570]

Way back when in the early 2000s there was a game called “Jam Pack” and it had a lot of levels from various games. But for Crash it was those mini games and they were a lot of fun.

[@6FStyleCo]

I kinda remember this

[@GreatKingCody]

This happens when you are required to push X amount of Git commits per week, but finished your work on Tuesday.

[@hgHannesh]

The last one is the cow of the episode S11F05 which want the Tomacco plant which Homer created.

[@GimmeAHullYeah]

Thanks for this!!

[@ryx1993]

I saw a post somewhere about stuff like this. I think is was TF2 someone found a coconut in an out of bounds area. Did something to remove it and the game just stopped working

[@christianbrewster2571]

Love you guys! Gonna morph into a Cuckoo and push falcons eggs out the nest so he can raise me. ❤

[@gameranxTV]

😅🦅

[@dadzerker7963]

Maybe some of these are in the same vein as FFVII needing the Cloud sprite in every scene for the game to run properly. That's a great story as well

[@typhonviserys8288]

12:12 - It's the tomacco cow!

[@springchickena1]

the washing machine underneath the map is for loading screens that either werent used or you didn't see playing the game. most of the time out of bounds areas include cutscene interiors and props

[@artsnfarts]

I actually found the psyconauts one completely by accident and was incredibly confused when I found it 😂😂

[@ewan7283]

With how long I spent getting lost on Zephyr I’m surprised I never found that Easter egg😂

[@messupmachine9212]

I was gonna say that the low poly models where there probably to make a psx variant easier but when I looked at them I hesitated on leaving this tidbit of speculation.

[@VongolaXZax]

How about a 10 times, "your own companions betrayed you" in games?

[@BlackMoonHowls]

I didn't know about the door thing in Fallen Order.

[@theodenkingofbrohan]

Ubisoft being against fun explains a lot of their games

[@dem0nchild610]

Hell I had spyro 3 and didn't even know about the crash bash demo and I absolutely love crash bash ended up getting it

[@AP-bc7mg]

Oh man, the Secret Cow Level cameo brought back some memories.

[@jshiner9719]

Gameranx, y’all are KZbin’s best. No hyperbole. Best channel on the interwebs.

[@fejamolonblun2002]

Game Developers love to leave Easter Eggs on their videogames !!! So players can find em'

[@edwardaverilliii1658]

Having worked on a few games (Compaq/Fisher-Price Wonder Cruiser, for one), a lot of times the art folks end up waiting while us engine guys add functionality. Bored artists do, well, strange things. BEWARE BORED GAME ARTISTS, IF YOU VALUE YOUR SANITY!

[@whyjnot420]

I have 4,936 hours 23 min of of playtime in Inquisition and somehow I never heard of that one. Well done.

[@DontStealMyNoEffortName]

In watch dogs there was this bug where if you got a big vehicle such as a garbage truck and back it up into the water (not all the way), then take cover on the side of it and go to the back and press the button to go around the corner it will put you on the bottom of whatever river or lake you were at and you will be able to walk around underwater

[@EvilOrangeJuice]

That washing machine is also in chapter 7. I used to go to it after glitching out of the map. The cow head is near the same spot for the barn ramp. I think it's a placeholder like a prefab for objects.

[@Rj_xxiv]

I really like easter eggs and specially those ones that are related to some other games or movies

[@Forever_Zero]

I've never played Dragon Age but my favorite is the pie with the hat with creepy music, it's very random but I love it

[@gameranxTV]

👍🏼

[@masonl2088]

Been watching you guys sense I was in high-school, I'll be 26 this summer. Keep up the great work 🤙🤙

[@gameranxTV]

🤝

[@Alcobia_S]

Man, I miss hit and run… fuck, time flies

[@ChakatNightspark]

Some stuff just gets left behind that were just used as place holders, some areas might even have these items like in Number 9. perhaps Area that was going to be used at one point assets/place holders were placed down for perhaps Creatures/mobs would be. But, the Area was Scrapped, but just not removed, so the asset/place holder items and place might still exist. There Could be Tens or Hundreds or Thousands of Undiscovered locations and Items in Games that have still Yet to be Discovered by people. Due to Location of said items and Locations

[@hermanturnip3984]

I would agree with you. Most of the code I write for work projects could have dozens of fields and icons hidden away out of sight, each performing a certain task (or just plain forgotten about) that nobody needs to see. Once I compile nobody would be the wiser that they're there.

[@chasehensley9415]

Great content, I really appreciated the heart yesterday.

[@gameranxTV]

We try to reply to as many as we can

[@chasehensley9415]

​@@gameranxTV ❤

[@hollyhartwick3832]

The Fallout Boom thing reminded me of another not-so-secret secret. It's fairly well known by now. What came to mind is the developer shooting gallery in the basement of Let's Pretend in Saints Row IV, which is also where the Loud Locust gun is, an easter egg weapon referencing the Noisy Cricket from Men in Black.

[@jasonqlwilliams]

the best part of every video is "its falcon"

[@fallenshadow83]

I have heard about times where devs took an asset out and the game stopped working. Perhaps the cow head is required to make the game work?

[@AngelTomov3]

I still remember most of Counter Strike 1.5 and 1.6 maps, they all had some "easter eggs" and secret rooms underneath the maps

[@Pshock13y]

You have to hit the WARD part of the sign to see a clip by Pendleton WARD?!?! that's just fucking clever

[@L1f35aGl17ch]

Ayyee pretty sure that cow in the Simpsons game is a re-creation of the cow from the "Tomacco" episode of the show, I bet there was gonna be a side mission involving it but they cut it because you can't have kids doing a mission about giving people a tobacco product (I reckon)

[@ErRaticFuture]

I get happy when I hear the voice and I know it’s falcon doing the video today 😂💙

[@TheLeetCasualGamer]

They say if you type "boom" in the comments, your head would explode from another awesome Gameranx video.

[@VongolaXZax]

I remember the dev room in Fallout 4, that was neat.

[@danieln6700]

I do remember playing crash from the spyro menu. That was cool

[@desilette83]

I liked the smiley below Karazhan in World of Warcraft.

[@julimpd]

The cow is from the "tomaco" episode but that specific washing machine wasn't used in any episode as far as I can recall

[@klokateer312]

The Cow is probably an asset that was used for the billboard but changed it's mind. Maybe a Mad cow joke. It could also be a reference to "Don't have cow man"

[@zebracorn4281]

I love making my games as bright as possible, especially when there's a lot of dark caves.

[@neito-kun8438]

I really love your videos ❤️

[@gameranxTV]

Thanks

[@exorcistintraining13]

I remember stumbling across Lord of the Pies, the creepy music playing. I was so confused. I fell through the floor trying to talk to Solas lol

[@johntorres4311]

Just in time for my favorite channel.

[@gameranxTV]

🤝

[@veyselonair6948]

I love those games. Number 10, number 9, number 8... I loved playing them. Wow

[@chrisbaled7471]

7:30 I remember i accidentally played Spyro when playing around with the main menu in Crash Bash on my ps1 I always told all of my friends of this secret dragon game on crash bash and they all thought i was lying

[@TheAlbinoRat]

Too many easter eggs in my lifetime but I remember randomly finding Max from Sam & Max in Jedi Knight (late 90's) when playing my mates PC. Good times. From memory an NPC has to open the door to where he is and I randomly followed an NPC for no particular reason other than messing around and that's when it happened. Lol. Me and my mate were like WUT. Lol

[@Galax2000]

also modders have some times where they are bored and impement funny stuff. im in a modding team for splatoon and we are working on a big mod for splatoon 2 and we added new colors set and one color set was called balls. the creator in our team forgot to remove it and someone found it after beta release.

[@ryanvealt2151]

There is a very specific easter egg (cod zombies name for quest) on the black ops 3 zombies map der eisendrache in the spawn room. With some very specific steps it was finally found after like 7 years and it shows a spinning picture of a dev and his family encased in a big heart. Probably put there as some inside joke under the developers but yeah funny things happen.

[@tigerofdoom]

My guess with the cow / washing machine is that those were expected to be called in to the scene, and they just randomly happened to get the same pre-load coordinates below the map. Probably just a copy/paste thing

[@economistsingh1828]

Thank you for recognising watch dogs 1.

[@danny4489]

Cow Head is from the Tomaco Episode (The Simpsons: S11 E5 "E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)"), and the Dryer may be a reference to the Jackpot game Bart played where it got jammed and caught fire. (The Simpsons S8 E15: "Homer's Phobia")

[@viwesvideos]

8:28 that spirit of "just do fun stuff and leave it in the game" still exists. Forget about the AAA low quality crap, incomplete buggy games with "seasons" made for investors, get indi games instead! Those are made for gamers, not investors. and THUS have this great gamer attitude still

[@jbezzaplays]

theres an old ps1 magazine that had pandemonium on it that if you enter the level select cheat you got the whole game its just after each level the game ended and you had to enter the cheat again then select the next level

[@cas48spyder]

Dead Island 2 took forever but it is like one of very few that was a complete release. Many games lately come out half done and get patched after and dlc is actually parts that were taken out of main game. Nothing over the top but it's bug free pretty much and very smooth, with amazing characters.