10 Times Video Games Were One Step Ahead Of You

[@patrickpachal6410]

In Cyberpunk I accidentally called Jackie’s cellphone number after he was already dead and got a touching moment where V was just trying find a way to reconcile the fact he was gone. Short moment but a nice find.

[@eddthehead123]

I did that as well. It was amazing.

[@Ceriff88]

One thing I hardly ever see get brought up is in Metal Gear Solid 2, if you skip the cutscene where Solid Snake sneaks onto the tanker and shoots out a light, you start the game with an extra bullet and the light it still intact. Just one of those details that I have always appreciated in a game.

[@DETRACT0RD00M]

More Kojima genius

[@tskwerl]

Mass Effect 2. Where you have the option to send probes to planets to mine them for minerals. Go to the Sol system and head for Uranus. Send a probe down and EDI will say, "Really, Shepard?" Send another one down and she'll say, deadpan, "Probing Uranus."

[@renammartinez]

Players are like cats: both love to test fall damage on objects

[@molybdaen11]

Black & White had a secret naming feature too where it whispers your name between 0 and 1 a clock randomly. Almost made me paranoid the first few times until i tried another starting name and found out that not all names are included.

[@eddmario]

So, fun fact about Codsworth's name list: Each time a DLC for the game released, more names were added to his list.

[@ElShotte]

When it comes to Witcher 3's quests, I am fairly certain all quests with non-triggered locations have alternate dialogue that happens if you stumble upon the monster/location accidentally, earlier, or whatever.

[@VergilTheLegendaryDarkSlayer]

They do, which is why the monster contracts can be annoying since you skip talking to the contractor and cannot negotiate a higher reward

[@DiatribeDeity]

I'll always cherish my time in Fallout 4 with Codsworth following me around referring to me as "Mr. Fuckface."

[@nitrobreed]

The first time I heard it I was in tears laughing for 20 minutes straight 😅

[@adamb89]

Funny how the VA starts off all gung-ho with his acting, and then somewhere in the middle of the alphabet gets sick of it, his demeanor abruptly shifts, and they're all the same cookie-cutter style response.

[@jkitty542]

There's a level in The Witcher III where you need to perform an autopsy alongside a doctor. You're given the choice to inspect the victim's head, chest, stomach, and genitals. I of course, began to inspect his genitals again and again, and if you do it enough times the doctor will scold you and yell "Geralt can you please stop inspecting the man's genitals!" Love that the game knows it's fanbase so well.

[@blueseclipse725]

I'd add either the easter egg dialogue in Metroid Fusion that you can only get by trying to sequence break via shinespark chaining, or the bomb kill on Kraid in Metroid Dread. Those are clear examples that the devs knew people would try going very much out of their way to break the games.

[@renakunisaki]

Super Mario RPG, you can exploit your way to a much later area, only to be told it's a dead end. Even back when they had to think about every kilobyte, they still hid stuff.

[@cb-yc6gg]

Tales of symphonia; you can go north across the bridge early and get exclusive cutscenes and a character early that completely changes the first half of the game if you are willing to grind for awhile

[@nevtheskid4579]

Gamers are like cats, we can be hard to find sometimes but we're usually in the same spot for hours

[@Radignostic]

the one rdr2 detail they did leave out was the several bells in the game do not ring when shot or hit. like they meticulously crafted 3d representations of many bells only to completely miss the fun factor of playing a royalty free sound bite when you clip the hitbox. some of them even have physics but no sound

[@Nyperold018]

I like it when you can do a quest before getting the quest. (After all, why should a lost item only manifest when the one who lost it tells you about it?) Even better is when the questgiver acknowledges you're already done.

[@yvonnelivingstone3789]

In Baldur's Gate I loved finding out that you can steal a rune powder barrel before triggering a cutscene and the deep gnome using it reacts in an unexpected way.

[@VergilTheLegendaryDarkSlayer]

In the witcher 3 when Yen uses the necromancy spell and you don't ask if she's ok, she lightly scolds you for it then says a passive-aggressive remark if you ask if she's ok afterwards

[@BornDepressed]

What I wonder is if you can dump Gale into the Evershade and have him blow there, giving the middle finger to Shar and detonating him in a world unattached to the real world.

[@mage1439]

Gamers are like cats, they find ingenious and horrifying solutions to common problems. But instead of puking in a shoe, you're puking on existence itself somehow. Good game.

[@eddthehead123]

I love the "Who would even think to do this, let alone program a response to it?" stuff in games. It's great.

[@Starcat5]

"Gage, have you been reading the Strategy Guide again?" ~Arthur, The Journeyman Project 3

[@MrHealeyos]

If 'secret endings' count, Mass Effect 3; you can reject the final choices, and simply shoot the messenger. But that results in a "well screw you too, buddy" and gives you the worst ending (or best, depending on your perspective)

[@corrinarobinson7078]

Sadly, my memory of the precise details has faded with time, but I remember the very first Deus Ex was pretty good about such things. The one bit I remember the best was if you went rogue a little early, you could blow up an ally to turn enemy and the game knows what you did and voice acts accordingly.

[@GAMER3Productions]

If you type in the exact door code in South Park: The Fractured But Whole without looking into the location you supposed to go, Cartman cosplay as the New England Patriots’ coach calling you Tom Brady and saying You Broke The Rules!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@TrimutiusToo]

You think GTA V thought of everything? But what about Franklin trying to date Tracey... Now that would be an interesting phone call if it was possible... I kinda always wanted to do that for some reason...

[@anile8457]

Best example for me is v leaving voice messages for Jackie in cyberpunk They kinda hit hard in the feels

[@arrankharchkrall2916]

Regarding Gale in BG3's Act 1.... My first playthrough was the Dark Urge, and I found it funny when I ate his hand off. What I did not realize was that he would not be a party member at all for the rest of the game. I had been thinking and hoping that he would appear much later in the game without his hand. I ended up missing quite a bit of content as a result, but I didn't regret it! Whenever I do manage to get back to it and try to get the special dice set for Honor Mode, I'll just have the set of mods to have all companions in the party again simultaneously.

[@BaxterAndLunala]

Metroid Dread had one. If you acquired the Bomb upgrade before fighting Kraid through sequence breaking, you can use a hidden Morph Ball launcher to launch into his gut and start planting bombs to quickly kill him.

[@gryphman]

Gamers are like cats, whenever we see something nice, we're compelled to break it.

[@esotericmissionary]

The first two _Deus Ex_ games should get an Honorable Mention, as they both were doing this kind of thing long before it was a thing.

[@CondonErebus]

There's also all the shadowheart interactions of you don't recruit her where you keep running into her or she pops up randomly She'll have voice lines for these interactions.

[@Oroku_Sensei]

Just a friendly reminder. The bell thing is in the original RE4 game. You can shoot it to end the fight in that one too.

[@mattalan6618]

You can? I've tried but its not easy with the hand gun

[@Oroku_Sensei]

@@mattalan6618 you have to do it on your second playthrough with the sniper rifle

[@LadyKattrina84]

Gamers are like cats, we won't bother you until we want food.

[@LadyOnikara]

I've always liked what happens when you type naughty words in the parser based Kings Quest and Space Quest games.

[@flexiblenerd]

Always wondered how many names are recognized by Codsworth.

[@ramaset1]

There is a safe way to kill Gale in act 1 if you play dark urge. Right when he would pop out of the glyph when you meet him, if you choose the option to imagine chopping the arm off, you black out and wake up with Gale’s severed arm. He is presumed dead as he can no longer join your party or appear in the game during that play through…but there is no explosion.

[@marcobering3945]

The Dark Urge can get rid of Gale early, by cutting off the hand he sticks out of the portal he's initially stuck in. He doesn't appear in that play through again.

[@danielmason96]

A funny one I never see mentioned is horizon zero dawn. I got the complete edition and played the dlc as soon as I could to get good loot (before playing most of the story). As a result, there were fairly substantial dialogue references to the dlc content in the main campaign. Aloy also seemed confused in the dlc about things that would have been clear by story end, so I assume it was the same deal with multiple dialogue options. I remember being really impressed at the time since it seemed pretty seamless, but haven't come across a video mentioning it so far.

[@seanm6619]

Fallout 4-lots of names...unless you share a name with the baby.

[@brandonspears6996]

I accidentally triggered that ending in Far Cry 6. I wanted to go back to the other map and get some collectables, but i wound up getting the ending. It was def a wtf moment for me

[@DonkThikkness]

Kind of the opposite of this list, but got the pet Shovel in Baldur’s Gate 3 today. Decided at the Tiefling Camp Party it would be great to have Shovel go invisible and scare Volo. Well that resulted in violence and I was a bit surprised the Tieflings didn’t react by laughing. Larian built in so much reactivity, I was surprised by the game not being reactive. 😅

[@Kaileigh_Broko]

Love that devs are 10 steps ahead of us. Just shows they are real gamers too.

[@scp2539]

"gamers are like cats" you cant stop them from breaking things no matter how hard you try.

[@TarossBlackburn]

Hi-Fi Rush has a fun moment when you reach the robot with Z-Shielding during the NG+/Postgame playthrough. (spoilerspace) . . . . . . When you get back to the part in RnD with the Z-Shielding bot, you can call out Macaron to attack the armour. CNMN will pop up to chide you for cheating, because officially Macaron hasn't joined the party yet at this point. When you destroy the bot, Peppermint will complain you just broke everything but CNMN chimes in to note that he will start the cutscene as per usual. And then does.

[@chrisrudolf9839]

The reason for that achievement punchline ("stick to the script!") is... [spoiler alert]... ...that shooting the brain in the stem is exactly what the main protagonist did in the main game to finally escape the virtual world of the stem, after he had to fight an insanely tough battle against Ruvik to reach that room. Trying to do the same thing with Kidman in the DLC after you already played through the main game is therefore really obvious,.Yet the DLCs featuring Kidman's side of the story takes place parallel to the events in the main game and she reaches that room before the main protagonist, so if she did that, this would change the ending of the main game.

[@jtd8719]

So just don't have her able to attack the brain or don't put her in the room at all. Boom.

[@chrisrudolf9839]

@@jtd8719 I wouldn't say it was bad design of the game, there was a narrative reason why she would go through there and it is at least somewhat plausible that she would focus on getting to Lesley first instead of trying to shut down Ruvik's brain. Yet it would also be plausible for her to take a shot at it, so I thought it was a nice touch that they did the alternative ending instead of just forcing the player not to try it by making the brain not targetable or skipping the room with a cutscene.

[@TacoBaco]

Gamers are like cats: we like to lie around, mess with stuff we definitely shouldn’t, love getting to hard to reach places, and some of us eat the same thing every day.

[@peng1luver259]

6:49 I tried going by Undine or Undyne in this game and it straight up said haha no

[@philipcollier4883]

Gamers are like cats: Too often our worth is measured by the number of rats we kill in a basement

[@NYGiantsfan1029]

Disappointed the fractured but whole isn’t on this. I know it is a very small thing but having Cartman decked out in patriots gear calling you a cheater it you tries to put in the code for the basement without finding it first was great.

[@festro1000]

@3:34, mine was you tell them not to do something and they do it just to spite you.

[@scottyp1722]

Baldur's Gate 3 is great about letting you intuitively solve problems, but it completely ignores the value of rope. Rope has no use in the game. I can understand not letting you use it to make your own methods of climbing and descending areas as if you were creating your own vines, but not letting you use rope to tie up opponents that you knocked out is just weird.

[@N0P3Sugar]

Funny how farcry secret ending is almost always the canonical ending

[@louiemarks8501]

Gamers are like cats, if you put something tempting enough in front of them, they'll try and destroy it to see if they can. Also, in one of the english classes in Bully, you can spell out a rude word with the letters they give you, and the English teacher acknowledges that you've found something... Doesn't give you credit or let it count towards your score, just has a line of dialogue.

[@WhatTheFirstAidSpray]

It's debatable but there seems to be a theory that the village bell cannot be rung on the 1st playthrough regardless, not just because handgun/shotgun shots will not reach it, thus forcing you to do it "properly" on a clean run. For me the better "developer's foresights" are being able to use grenades and/or rocket launchers to skip some sections of the game. Don't want to spend ages getting to the turret to destroy the AA gun? Chuck a couple heavy grenades at it. CBA with the dynamite fetch quest? Rocket launcher does the same job. Ashley taking too long to smash that wall? Couple of heavy grenades and she breaks it first try. And best of all, sick of the flak-launching El Gigante at the castle? Rocket to the face. Also splash damage to destroy the counterweights for the castle portcullises.

[@PhaethonCrafts]

I think if you play as Durge in BG3 and chop off his hand you can avoid the explosion of doom.

[@praneshrao4132]

Eh, the Far Cry 6 secret ending was expected. There's an a moment where the game gives you an option

[@theatrebrad]

Skyrim is the king of adding extra dialogue for every possibility. Dialogue will change based on race, gender, quests completed, quests started, choices made, people you've encountered previously, and a many slew of other things.

[@tummy_fritters]

Gamers are like cats, they keep pooping in a box in my basement...

[@kimberlycelaya1895]

Who ever is reading this... have a great day! 🌼😄

[@neonclouds9295]

You're not my supervisor

[@kevincroft3087]

You too. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@whocares9033]

DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!!!

[@mattraffle4847]

Thank you....your the best 😅

[@CommanderLost]

No. You have a great day 🎉

[@SaganTheKhajiit]

Players are like cats: doesn't matter how much you tell them what they should do, they're gonna do what they want. They test their limits in every situation you put them. Their endless curiosity is only topped by their willingness to repeatedly try to jump onto places they shouldn't jump on.

[@theobnoxiouslycharming1747]

5:22 with a basic ass name like Timothy I legit always get my name into voice lines so I didn't bat an eye because they usually think of the Tims lol

[@wilomica]

Gamers are like cats, they will dash around like crazy in the middle of the night! I've played about 2000 hours of Fallout 4. The number of names that stumped Codsworth were few.

[@TheFinagle]

Ok, now I'm wondering what happens in GTA5 if you try to trigger one of those calls before you meet the person. Might do some testing as a reason to play GTA5 again. (then again the install comes with 100GB of useless baggage these days due to the online BS I never wanted nor opened)

[@psychicKult]

have you guys ever thought about doing joke lists? Today at work i kept thinking of the line "This is WhatCulture Gaming, and here's 10 of Our Videos You Should've Watched, ya Jerk." April Fool's day is coming up.

[@jiwik731]

Also in witcher 3 if you finish heart of stone DLC before story Gunter will tell you how to get best ending.

[@craigfury6110]

To the individual that is reading this.... You're doing great. Keep up the good work.

[@WhatTheFirstAidSpray]

Gamers are like cats... Because like some cats, some gamers hate you for no good reason 😂😂

[@Lysis320]

It's Jess!! Let's go!!

[@allenbrown8582]

Is Jess from IGN?

[@chad_b]

I think she's the worst one

[@minecraftboi58]

Gamers are like cats: they can be malicious and good hearted in videogames

[@davedoerffer9896]

did you recycle that cat line from a video a couple of weeks ago or is it the whole entry??

[@scrappy5207]

Jess is the most beautiful part of WC ❤

[@frankbrodie5168]

Yeah.. That Resident Evil IV Remake one is a lot of faffing to shoot the bell. Considering if you New Game+ in the original game with the unlimited rocket launcher you can trigger that villager scene pretty sharpish anyway. Just by firing a few rockets into their midst.

[@kamain8379]

Titanfall 2 You use cloak and the enemies figure it out and shout it out then shoot at you.

[@JacquelynLaRonde]

Anyone know what sort of mic Jess uses? thanks in advance!

[@derekstein6193]

7:52 Except being able to use rope for anything.

[@XxXL0neW0lfXxX1]

when i heard gamers are like cats, i thought she was gonna say "We want to break the game into such a sorry state we have to reset the game."

[@kcollier2192]

Gamers are like cats - they're secretly plotting to take over the world while acting like they already have 😁

[@_AcatHat]

Cosworth saying your book full of cuswords you named yourself now gets nerfed with the first update that hits your system. To get it back uninstall and reinstall and do NOT let the update hit your system!

[@krvgames9258]

The church bell thing was already in the original RE4. At least I think it was because I never tried it.

[@stevenstump246]

Yes it was. Not sure why they keep mentioning it like it was something new and creative whenever they talk about RE4 Remake.

[@krvgames9258]

@@stevenstump246 Because they don’t actually play the games that are on the list. Like Jess claims she does her own research, but I don’t buy that excuse because in one video where she was the host in 10 deceptively innocent video games with incredibly dark lore, Kirby and the Forgotten Land was number 1 and Jess got ALL of the backstory of Kirby and the Forgotten Land wrong, even claiming that Kirby fans theorized that the humans from the Forgotten Land traveled to Kirby’s homeworld and became Waddle Dees when what Kirby fans really theorized about is that the humans from the Forgotten Land went to Halcandra from Return to Dreamland and became the Ancients, which has a lot more evidence supporting it to be true. Hell, she even claimed that Zelda fans got confused about the Zelda franchise having 3 timelines all thanks to Hyrule Historia when Hyrule Historia helped Zelda fans better understand the Zelda franchise’s 3 timelines, meaning Jess WILLINGLY called all Zelda fans, like myself, stupid. What Zelda fans are really confused about is where Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom take place in the timeline, and you think Jess would know that, but she doesn’t because she doesn’t even do research.

[@jhknightmare5131]

Gamers are like cats; We probably shouldn’t antagonize the bigger animals but like souls players trying repeatedly trying to overcome a tough challenge we’re gonna prove we’re top cat😂

[@iangoen6862]

I still need to buy Baldur's Gate 3

[@drgonzo123]

I bought it, still haven’t had the time to play it!

[@mattalan6618]

​@@drgonzo123I didn't care for it despite me liking the first 2

[@lestatdeluca3601]

Kicks it off with one of my favorite games. ^.^

[@andrewsingsthehymns9567]

gamers are like cats, you have EARN their respect and can lose it instantly if you screw it up.

[@metalsiryn102]

Addendum to GTA3....GTA San Andreas does the same on the bridge....sorta.

[@gregwelsh2985]

"Gamers are like cats. We bite strangers who try to touch us."

[@Bronzescorpion]

The Witcher example is incredible bad. Not only are you given the quest to go to Skellige early, even though it is ill advised, so they have even suggested the option to go there for you, but there are way better examples within the same game, such as arriving without shoes to the bootblack, which no one would do, except for testing what would happen or doing a naked run. While I normally are okay for omission of an entry, I really think you missed the mark by not including The Stanley Parable. In the out of bounds ending, the narrator directly addresses you the player in how smart you must feel to have used an exploit, until you realize that his narration means that the developer had already plan for this to happen. It is a much more elaborate method than GTA3 and it even makes fun of you for trying to be clever. This is the textbook example!

[@jtd8719]

#10 is total BS for not respecting that players should have agency.

[@TheItalianScarecrow]

Gamers are like cats: they shed all over the couch.

[@badmonkeyking]

Gamers are like cats because I lay in one spot and if you inttrupt me I hisss and bit.

[@agar1950]

Gamers are like cats, they will destroy random crap just to see of they can.

[@foxboy1985]

Gamers are also like cats because we also like shiny things

[@Dwarf20000]

gamers are like cats if there is something nice we're gonna break it

[@BiscuitXL]

Gamers are like Cats because we have multiple lives 😉

[@Dethneko]

Gamers are like cats: They both lie about all day.

[@maloc1824]

Gamers are like cats, we try to knock everything over.

[@Ubu90]

actually the fallout 4 thing doesent work anymore

[@Joseph-z7s3b]

Gamers are like cats because when they get pissed,they sometimes break things.

[@cursedmonkey1033]

Gamers are like cats because the collective noun is the same. Clowder. A group of gamers is called a clowder. Same as cats.

[@mydragonseyes8177]

I’m about to break

[@rpgaholic8202]

Gamers are like cats...they can sleep most of the day away?

[@tourmalino3205]

Yeah gamers are nothing like cats, we're more like dogs, we crave attention and some of us do bad things to get it (looking at most voice chat trolls)