Dark secrets in video games?

[Naoto Shirogane]

And I mean ones that ARENT Blatantly obvious.

As an example. One from them original pokemon games and FR/LG

Garys Ratatta/Raticate:

We all know he had one right? then..He Didnt. What happend to it.

Remember the battle you had with him before the one in the lavender town cemetary? That was the last one he had with raticate.

Peice it together. HIS Raticate is GONE and you fight him in a CEMETARY.

Get it? Yu beat his Ratatta so hard you fatally injured it. Either He couldnt make it to a pokemon center or The pokemon center was unable to save it.

In other words. YOU KILLED GARYS RATTATA. Which is why he was in front of a grave in the cemetary. You killed his pokemon. So his battle with you their could classify as Revenge for your murder.

Any others? post em here!


EDIT: I think this is in the wrong place. just noticed it. so mod. Plz move?

 

[Moogles]

I always just assumed Gary came to his senses and realized he shouldn't take up a valuable slot in his team with such a sub-par pokemon.

 

[Naoto Shirogane]

That too. but there was no other reason for Gary to be in the cemetary. If he wanted a ghastly all he had to do was look on the first floor. Not the top.

Guess we helped him though. Rattata is the worst normal type ever.

 

[Dionysos]

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[ElvenAngel]

I always find dark secrets in games. Rule of the Rose is one of my favs for this thing... because it's full of them. Between what the game shows you and what the game lets you piece together, you get some pretty fucked up stuff outta that game. And it's AWESOME.

FF8 had one of my favorites though, the realization that Squall and his team and everybody else in Garden are essentially child soldiers... and that's more or less the reason why they're fucked up like that. It was a genius piece of writing without exposing the subtext.

 

[Abstract Debauchery]

Luigi in Luigi's Mansion 2, a good character in a fun little video game. Not much can be wrong here. It's a fucking Nintendo game, should be all well and good.

Oh, but Luigi is dead.

Oh damn, Nintendo, you scary.

But that's not all in the wonderful world of Nintendo. In Super Mario Galaxy 2, you're introduced to some things that most people never notice. They're never explained, they're never mentioned, nor are they referenced at all in the game.

The Shadow People of Hell Valley are just... there.

"Oh, those are just trees, quit being silly."

Look again.

THOSE ARE NOT TREES

And then, the granddaddy of all Nintendo secrets... EARTHBOUND, BITCHES.

As if this game wasn't amazing enough, the final boss and the events leading up to it are amazing. Some of the best damned writing I've ever seen in a video game. (And certainly much better than anything in the FF series). You travel back in time to kill a boss named Giygas, a powerful as shit overlord that WILL fuck your shit up.

In the events leading up to him, you're shown this:

It's called "the Devils Machine" and what does that look like to you? I shouldn't have to explain it. But basically, you're killing what's inside of it. YOU ARE ABORTING THE FINAL BOSS AGES IN THE PAST BEFORE HE CAN COME BACK AND RAPE YOUR SHIT LATER.

Of course, he still rapes your shit. At one point in the battle, your team is rendered useless and defeated. Your only battle option at this point is "pray". I shit you not, your ass has to pray OR GET RAPED. Not to mention that this entire sequence was inspired by the childhood events of the games director who, as a child, walked in on a movie in a theater by accident and the movie depicted the rape of a woman.

AND DID I MENTION THAT BATTLE MUSIC?

(some people swear they can hear Giygas screaming the name of the main character, Ness, over and over again as you murder him... you monster.)
Earthbound, also known as Mother 2, is one of my favorite games of all time.

This is the final boss in question when you first fight him:

This is him later, when you're killing him:

And let's not get me started on the mindfuck that is Braid, the Demon Children of Goldshire in World of Warcraft, The Hall of Tortured Souls in MICROSOFT OFFICE 95, and Polyblus... a game that no one is even sure actually existed.

 

[ElvenAngel]

I found the site I wanted to link earlier, concerning Rule of the Rose's dark secrets... It's full of massive revelations about the disturbing stuff going on in the game--and it's all the more disturbing because it involves little kids, a crazy old guy, kids killing adults and a host of other insane things depending on how you chose to look at them.

http://ruleofrosemysteries.com/

 

[Starships]

Chell mentioned everything that I wanted to say. It's kind of interesting though because Mario, Earthbound, and Pokemon.... all of those are meant to be children's games. It seems kinda sad and messed up....

Also World of Warcraft when you die, the angel whispers " Give us all your money " really fast. Subliminal message, I think.