10 Secret Video Game Mechanics That Let You Mess With NPCs

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[@noahfecks7598]

In LA Noire, you can mess with your partners by ditching them right before they get into the car. When you drive off a little bit, they'll run after you and give you a hard time. But if you drive off a long way, they'll get dropped off by another cop car where they threaten to report you to the captain. Add in the fact you're playing a by-the-book character that doesn't even pull his gun unless he's in a shoot-out, messing with your partners is a nice touch.

[@richardlittle4133]

The absolute joy in her voice when she says " wiggling potato sacks." Makes me laugh and a little scared, to be homest.

[@kallie6662]

My vote for worst character in video game history goes to Angus Bumby from Alice Madness Returns. Seriously one of the most vile insidious villains in any game. Never been that angry at a fictional character in my life.

[@ramonochoa3496]

I agree

[@legz5766]

yep. 100%

[@darkdoc0268]

In the game Evil Genius, if you want an easy way to keep spies and investigators out of the way, you can create a small circular corridor with a single entrance off to the side away from your main base entrance and bait them into it. You can keep them occupied by installing rows of doors one right after the other. This will keep them occupied until they get bored and leave. Since these items only give a small amount of heat, it's unlikely to increase your notariety by much.

[@Aloyus_Knight]

"Tis but a scratch" & "Look, you stupid bastard, you got no arms left" "yes I have" "look!" "just a flesh wound."

[@wadewilson5712]

I did the goblin war in Oblivion and its worth it to see them out in the wild see each other then attack while i just stood there and watched

[@vc180191]

Fallout 4's skipping dialogue has one more alternative, if you use the Triangle/Y button to skip (which is normally used for getting more info), the skip noises sound more confused than polite/aggressive, this also stacks with being drunk, so there are 6 different skipping options (although insulting is by far the most comprehensive, since specific NPC's get specific insults, there's well over 40 of them).

[@ryanrowe1975]

Good narration

[@Jeremiah12thLvlGeek]

In Dragon's Dogma 2, you can mess with NPCs just by being nice to them. They occasionally fight each other, so as more and more citizens of a town fall in love with you, they start following you around and fighting over you.

[@civilwildman]

Given that this year marks the 40th anniversary of the franchise, I’d love to see a vid of the top 5 Transformers games.

[@wadewilson5712]

there are only a few of those to begin with

[@jiblitin1520]

@@wadewilson5712 There are probably 100s of games with Transformers characters in them though.

[@julianadeau5797]

One of my favorite mechanics to use in order to mess with NPC's is one from back in the day. In the pre-Halo Bungie game "Marathon", if you encounter a bunch of enemies all grouped up together, hitting one of the ones in the back will cause them to attack each other. It was pretty hilarious going through much of that game, wiping out entire groups of enemies with a pistol and many an evil chuckle. It's funny thinking, "Hey, weren't there four Phfor there a moment ago? Oh, yeah, they mutual homocided each other!" X'D

[@FelisImpurrator]

Phfor... three, two, one...

[@Willroast]

Best I've ever seen was in Deadly Tower of Monsters game (2016). The whole thing is presented as a behind the scenes dvd extra so the "director" narrates the whole thing. There are SO MANY ways to mess with the director, all with him speaking as though it is a finished project. One great example is if you simply run in circles. If you do it he will start talking about how his main star had a weird way of getting ready for a scene that involved running in circles. If you keep doing it, the director has 4 or 5 more really funny lines. The game is FULL of stuff like this. It is also an AWESOME game. I highly recommend it.

[@ASLTheatre]

Reminds me of the what happens in The Bards Tale when you skip a dialogue. Out of chat your character will say “BORING”.

[@scrappy5207]

In games like Saints Row, I use the sidewalks more than roads which results in 20,000 civilians run over 😅

[@Rodgerwilco91]

I swear whoever writes these videos has only played like 30 video games. All of these top 10 videos have the same games on them.

[@noctumdraco]

There are times in GTA5 where Michael's family is sitting at the table in the kitchen and I got curious one day and started chucking molotovs at the door. The fire spread enough to reach the table and actually ended up harming them causing cries of anguish to come from Michael.

[@bobbyboswell13]

i love how number ones portion of the video wasnt showing any of what you were saying

[@vincevvn]

I hate when they do that. It’s like pointless to show

[@cppblank]

People play Red Dead Redemption more than once? It is too long for that

[@EXMachina.]

In RPGs i usually pick any mage class that uses Illusion or Necromancy because it allows to mess with NPCs causing them to fight each other

[@mr.skinskull3148]

Great narration!

[@clericofchaos1]

Does the riot cheat in san andreas count? Yes, it is a cheat code, but you'd never know it existed if you didn't look up "san andreas cheat codes" so that seems pretty secret to me.

[@mrroboshadow]

now ya know Oblivion was an expansive game, even back then, cause i played the game and i dont remember ever running across a single goblin

[@marcushailey8498]

GTA 5 NPC's are never safe when im playing 😂.

[@jimiball]

You forgot that in fable you can give store owners beer and then push them outside and steal eberything

[@weezyyeswes]

When you mess with the other protagonists in GTA v, they will punch you one time instantly killing you. I think that's pretty funny

[@hugoafonso2102]

I saw the title of the video and immediately thought: "It's a Jess video, it can only be a Jess video. " 😏

[@Jamal-bl7yh]

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[@Varangian_af_Scaniae]

Low effort video, you could have shown the "secret mechanics" instead of talking about them!

[@orangefrisby2366]

3 videos in 24 hours, whatculture churning them out. Danke

[@Nachoyoudad]

Dam

[@WeNeverHadForever]

My vote for worst character is Kefka from ff6.

[@WeNeverHadForever]

They Skyrim goblin wars was broken for a really long time. I provided skin retextures for the person who made the mod that fixed it way back when before Bethesda got around to fixing it.

[@WeNeverHadForever]

@Michaeljennejohn8969 sorry, I meant Oblivion. Been playing aot of Skyrim lately lol

[@TheOmegaDragon]

Zelda Tears of the Kingdom have a lot of funny things you can do with them.

[@davidfitzpatrick6535]

3:45 Nah man I come to Videogames for the story so I just let the narrator get on with it.

[@foxboy1985]

Howdy yall

[@marcushailey8498]

Hi everyone 👋🏾.

[@guntermangelinckx5433]

Good evening from Europe.

[@ada31181]

HELLO EVERYONE AND GOD BLESS US ALL 👍🏿😎👍🏿