|
|
Rank: Administration
Groups: Administrators
Joined: 5/7/2009
Posts: 3,089
|
Out of Bounds: Eight Videogame Places You're Not Supposed to GoPack your bags, it's time to explore some fresh gaming terrain. Check out these famous forbidden locales.
|
|
|
Rank: Administration
Groups: Registered
, Administrators
Joined: 6/1/2009
Posts: 175
|
Have any game developers made any attempts at creating ARG (alternate reality games)? That is secret feature/rooms/easter eggs that give clues to meta-games that can be played in the outside world?
Evan
|
|
|
Rank: Advanced Member
Groups: Registered
, GameTrust
Joined: 6/1/2009
Posts: 197
|
Not that I know of, but you did just blow my mind.
|
|
|
Rank: Newbie
Groups: Registered
Joined: 6/11/2009
Posts: 1
|
What about the firepot room in Timorous Deep in EverQuest? Kinda similar to Newman's Landing in WoW in that it involves a lot of swimming. It's actually a useful place though once you get there. http://everquest.allakha...db/quest.html?quest=308
|
|
|
Rank: Newbie
Groups: Registered
Joined: 6/11/2009
Posts: 1
|
In Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, when you go into a city from the outside (i.e. from the countryside), it's treated as a separate area. You get a loading screen and the standard city is created, with inhabitants etc. However if you enter the city in a non-standard way (e.g. over the wall using a ladder made of magic paintbrushes), you get no loading screen, and you're among a bunch of ghost buildings intended only to be seen from outside and far away, with crappy textures, no collision flagging, and no inhabitants, detail, or objects.
|
|
|
Rank: Newbie
Groups: Registered
Joined: 6/11/2009
Posts: 1
|
And then there's the secret room at the end of Quake 2. Managed to fine a youtube video (skip to four minutes in): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfY7QcFFz8c
|
|
|
Rank: Advanced Member
Groups: GameTrust
, Registered
Joined: 6/1/2009
Posts: 1,038
|
@Zorp Plexion:
awesome stuff Zorp.
|
|
|
Rank: Advanced Member
Groups: Registered
, GameTrust
Joined: 6/1/2009
Posts: 197
|
@Albertane, Zorp Plexion, q2f:
Cool, keep 'em coming! Maybe I'll put together another travelogue down the line.
|
|
|
Rank: Newbie
Groups: Registered
Joined: 6/11/2009
Posts: 1
|
In twisted metal 1 in the streets level you can use the nitro to jump over the wall after which you'll find yourself driving around non-existence. If you drive around for a while you'll come upon Minion just sitting there in the middle of the ethereal plain. Surely a bug more than a hidden place, but it fits your criteria.
|
|
|
Rank: Newbie
Groups: Registered
Joined: 6/11/2009
Posts: 1
|
The oldschool MMO players (at least for MMOs with graphic interfaces...) may remember GREEN ACRES from Ultima Online. Hope this link works.. http://lh3.ggpht.com/_DM...r6TNlFuQ/s720/pist2.jpg
"An area on the map that is not legitimately an open area of the game, but which nevertheless some players managed to get runes to at some point. Used for testing by OSI personnel and, at one time, for training counselors."
|
|
|
Rank: Newbie
Groups: Registered
Joined: 6/11/2009
Posts: 1
|
Minus World in Super Mario Brothers. Here is the link.... http://www.gametrailers....bros-minus-world/116384
Evidently the Famicon version had multiple levels in Minus world. The NES version just trapped you until time expired. Still my favorite "hidden land not supposed to be there"
|
|
|
Rank: Newbie
Groups: Registered
Joined: 6/11/2009
Posts: 1
|
Atari 2600 - Adventure. Using the ladder to get the microdot to allow you to pass through the edge of the screen to see the developer credits.
|
|
|
Rank: Advanced Member
Groups: Registered
, GameTrust
Joined: 6/1/2009
Posts: 197
|
Some more good ones in here. A couple that have been touched on:
Re: Minus World -- I covered the Minus World in my "If These Bugs Are Wrong..." piece, linked at the end of the article. It definitely is a good fit for this article, too.
Re: Adventure -- I'm going to guess you didn't click through to page 2 yet. No worries, but when you do, you'll be pleasantly surprised.
|
|
|
Rank: Newbie
Groups: Registered
Joined: 6/12/2009
Posts: 1
|
a couple that spring to mind. on the old terminator games that bethesda created, the world expanded outside of the realms of each level. It was possibe to get out of the level fairly easilt and explore the rest of the world. WoW has so many hidden nuggets, a couple of older ones that spring to mind are old ironforge (that you can't get to any more, but still exists in the game. many movies of this location are around), the under construction mount hyjal, and of course ironforge airport. lastly is the special world in super mario world. http://img353.imageshack...061/specialworldpu5.jpg - which once completed, restarts the game from beginning, but with all the graphics replaced with an alternate set.
|
|
|
Rank: Newbie
Groups: Registered
Joined: 6/12/2009
Posts: 1
|
Well, if you're really old-school,... old time MUDs have plenty of hidden, not available rooms. On stock DIKU, they all have a limbo and void rooms (where you supposedly go if you're inactive).
In fact, in the original DIKU areas, Haon-Dor and others, there were some secret rooms, created by the level designers. These were unconnected, you can only get there via a random teleport, or with the wizard command goto and the secret number. These were later lost and removed by later versions, but it was pretty common for the game programmers to have their own 'personal' rooms for themselves.
|
|
|
Rank: Newbie
Groups: Registered
Joined: 6/14/2009
Posts: 2
|
@pajaro: Wow, there's actually someone out there that remembers muds, and Dikus to boot? Amazing.  I adminned and co-imp'ed Kallisti for quite a long time. I had my own room, but it was kinda boring so I started hanging out on the balcony of the floating castle there...name escapes me now. Room #7912 tho, I did "goto" with that many, many times, heh.
|
|
|
Rank: Newbie
Groups: Registered
Joined: 6/14/2009
Posts: 2
|
@AxL:
Redferne's, that was it!
|
|
|
|
Guest
|
