2:01 in need for speed most wanted, the nitro increases your acceleration, if you are already at top speed it barely does anything.

Don't you dare tell me I can't double jump.

Team Fortress 2 made me realize that bullets come out of the player's eyes. Heavy weapons guy holds his minigun down by his knees but he's still able to shoot and hit targets while hiding behind cover.

Just imagine Bowser is the one trying to keep her safe in his castle from Mario 😂

There’s actually another video game lie I know of. In the horror game Five Nights at Freddy’s: Sister Location, when exiting the circus gallery control module through the vent on Night 1, You here something in the vent, trying to attack you, but there’s actually nothing there, it was probably just added to give you the feeling something is going to jumpscare you if you don’t move fast enough. But you can go AFK in that part of the game for as long as you want, because there is nothing there, it was just an illusion made to keep up with the horror genre

I swear all of these rubberbanding, gaslighting, asswhooping mechanics exist in Valorant.

I refuse to believe the XCOM 2 hidden accuracy buff is real because I will quite simply NEVER forget the time I had a 100% chance to hit a shot and it missed.

The Crash Bandicoot remake actually didn't affect the "coyote time" at all. What happened was they changed Crash's hitbox from a square to round, and crash can only jump when his hitbox is touching ground. Therefore, the flat bottom square hitbox of the older game made it so you could stand and jump much farther from the edge of a ledge than in the remaster. The rounded hitbox of the remake also makes landing a jump much harder, because crash will slide back and off the ledge if he doesn't land beyond the front rounded half of his hitbox. This actually really messed up the difficulty and certain levels like the skyward ascent stage was near impossible. They actually had to go back and modify the game in an update because of this.

Alien Isolation was such a fantastic game and I've always been yearning for a sequel. It's the only game that's made me literally scream. Turning a wrong corner to have that thing notice you and charge, just the most terrifying thing.

So after all these years of throwing my NES controller across the room when I was younger saying the game was cheating actually was true.

Oh. My. God. THATS why the Crash Bandicoot Reboot is so hard?!?! I thought I was going nuts or losing hand/eye coordination because I felt like it's SO much harder to play now 😭😭😭

Man, how did Eternal Darkness never get a sequel? Criminal.

25:50 The "neat little trick" to only render what you can actually see has been used in virtually every videogame that has graphics more advanced than the 70's Pong. Vanilla Doom and Quake have it, all Half-Life games and their derivatives have it, and every other such game does, modern or old. It's built-in into Unity and other engines. Games don't render everything behind you, objects behind buildings that you can't see, and even the backs of the buildings themselves.

Jay and Wesley.......after all these years I finally got their names.... In my opinion I like the coolguy voice better.

In NFS, the rubber banding was so bad that i can induce it by hitting the accelerator hard just before a sharp turn but immediately tone it down so as not to actually lose control, and the cars behind me respond by accelerating so much they derail themselves (These cars are normally locked into the road and never slide) and they all crash into the wall behind me letting me get a few more seconds of lead time.

I like how a single game gets called out for Occlusion Culling, when it's been an industry standard. Now yes, people need to learn how it works, but calling it a "lie" isn't how you go about teaching people.

As a kid I assumed it was by design that being further behind in mariocart ment I got access to better weapons. I was never under the assumptions that I would be able to get a lightning bolt or ghost if I was in second or first.

The original Pokémon games also lie to you about the catching as the great balls are better than the ultra balls, now thankfully it was fixed in the later games but Red/Blue/Green/Yellow made the great balls unintentionally the better ball

GTA V also has a hidden mechanic: when you're driving on high speed or doing a mission, some NPCs will try to crash their cars into you. And did anyone notice that in Clash Royale elixir bar fills a bit slower sometimes?

FYI, old 8-bit computers and game consoles indeed didn't have any RTC (real time clock). Timing had been done in various ways; most often, it was derived from the vertical or horizontal TV output sync signal. See, analog TV based on a vacuum tube (aka CRT) literally prints each frame on the display using a stream of electrons fired from the "electron gun" cathode at the display anode. (In fact, it's simply rather high anode voltage that pulls them from the cathode with a little help of the field modulation, but that's maybe going too technical.) The stream is directed by electromagnets; where the electrons land, a pixel shines up. The whole frame is printed by lines. Whenever the electron stream jumps at the next line, a "horizontal sync" happens. When the whole frame is printed, a "vertical sync" happens. And when they happen, a "HW interrupt signal" is (may be) sent to the CPU, which then stops its current work and executes the appropriate registered interrupt handler. As the frame rate is fixed (defined by the TV standard, typically 25 FPS for PAL and SECAM), so are the synchronisation signals frequencies; and thus, they are usable to keep track of time (well, let's say reasonably well).

I'm 100% convinced that most MMORPGs have some form of bonus system for people who play less, like better droprates, easier random encounters, better loot and so on, so that people who only play once a week don't fall behind that much.

Speaking of horror games. A little known title "Calling" on Wii featured a little easteregg hunt where you would spt this red lady in various hidden locations, and for every time you spotted her, a new message would pop up on your Wii's main menu message board in a red envelope with one creepy message after another.

Subnatica. You actually go crazy irl. And when the void leviathans stop chasing you after so far... you wonder. What can be deeper..

I think my favorite silliness is the first-person train sequence in Fallout 3 which turned out to be the character RUNNING along the tracks with a train compartment around him.

3:52 “After all, there’s nothing worse than feeling like the horror is extending past your device and into your home, at least until- … Ah, just kidding, I’m not going anywhere.”

“Is there anything more terrifying than.. a red health bar?” Me: Constantly being one shot

In arcade fighters, your opponents get progressively more difficult until you die. After you put in another token, they lower the difficulty substantially to let you beat that guy easily and move on to the next challenger. Very addictive!

I think you should have put in a part two.. "the times the games told you the truth" For example in banjo Kazoie when you're warned to not use certain cheat codes or game file will be deleted.

Am i the only one who didn't know there was two narrators?

I remember Eternal Darkness… 1am. Home alone. Dog and my feet tangled in the control cord. Hour sense my last save. “You’re controller has been disconnected” as 20 zombies swarm me right at the door way as I enter the room.

For me the biggest lies in games are the loots, microtransactions, and releasing an incomplete games.

4:20 i just noticed that in the farcry 4 is also like that, i remember being low health but then suddenly i felt like i was bulletproof for a minute since the enemies are shooting at me with the low hp

i didn't even realize there is two narrators

The one where you talked about Mario actually being the villain reminded be of a story where someone got kidnapped by their dad to avoid their cruel mother

i love that the lie for ddlc is "it's actually a horror game... but it has aNIME CHARACTERS??!?"

In some cases, the bullets don't even shoot. They just spawn at the destination and play an explosion effect.

21:34 This is actually visible in Halo 2. A cutscene in level 7 "The Oracle" shows projectiles appearing nowhere near the gun. I noticed it when I used the Needler here thanks to the glowing shots.

maybe it used to be difficult to "spawn" bullets from the gun's barrel... but nowadays it's extremely easy now, targeting and hit scanning is more accurate to the "shooting from the eyes" narrative but only if it uses hit scanning and not physical bullets

That rubberbanding is most noticable in GTA 5 story mode street races, when you take franklin and activate his abillity in some very clutch turn, the AI behind you goes easily without braking through it too, not to mention they are always behind you no matter how fast you go...

In mario kart (almost every one of them) itsnot ONLY the "first place gets worse items" mechanic, but NPC drivers (the 3 closest to first place) actively cheat (drive at 1000mph and cross half the map in 2 seconds) if you go way too fast OR perform a "non-intended" shortcut.

I just hate how videogames get the fact that we shoot bullets out of our eyes instead of our guns wrong

About the health bar length not being proportional to HP: in Minecraft it is, so surviving on half a heart (1HP) is actually impressive.

Things don't cease to exist if you're not looking at them in games, they're just not rendered. In other words, they cease to be visible. That's why events still happen behind you. Imagine in GTA online if players were disconnected from you everytime you stopped looking at them.

I write strategy guides, and so it was my job to test the permadeath mechanic in Hellblade to see how many times you could die before losing your progress. So I figured out pretty quickly that there was no actual permadeath mechanic, and it didn't affect me while I was playing. However, I will point out that this wasn't so much a lie as a misdirection. The game says, each time you fail the rot will grow. If the rot reaches Senua's head, her quest is over, and all progress will be lost. Nothing here is untrue. It's just that the rot cannot reach Senua's head because you fail during the course of the game. And to be fair, the game never says that it can. It just says the rot will grow. It doesn't say it will expand to her head. At the end of the game Senua dies in the final battle. It's an unwinnable fight. Enemies respawn endlessly, and you fight on forever until you get hit and don't dodge away before an enemy does a finishing move on you. When she dies here, the rot reaches her head. Her quest then ends, and you lose all of your progress, as this game does not contain any post game content, so your save becomes useless. If you want to continue to play, you have to start over. The game does exactly what it says it will do. It just leads you to believe that you can fail and trigger this mechanic by playing badly, while the truth is that the mechanic is set to happen at a specific point in the game.

The eye bullet trick was quickly noticed back when I was messing around watching Theater mode replays in my firefight games of Halo Reach. Every time I hid behind a box and shot over said box, AI enemies would notice me a lot slower. Eventually I’d see my Spartans’s bullets come out of the very top of their model instead of their gun. It made practical mechanical sense at least. I’d rather be able to more easily shoot over cover then grapple with realism.

For the need a little help one, in undertale, if you fail one of the ruins puzzles 10 times, Toby fox will auto complete it. But this change is visible because the 11th time you step on a wrong tile, all of your holes will disappear and you can go any place on the puzzle.

Rubberbanding in Mario Kart also has a breaking point. If you get too far ahead, it starts treating you as if you're behind. Generally, I would start dead last, get the ultimate boost, then get to first, then blow away everyone at the shortcut/cheat spot using the boost to permanently separate me from the pack. Sometimes Toad or a light racer would get fast and leave everyone else behind too.

1:00 - Ou yes the Mass effect 1 , great game, but that run got me pretty good. 13:04 Finally i can undersant why i had such a problems with platform games, when i tried to jump right on the edge, and still fail miserably, left me simply to get away from it. 13:40 - What a feature, Alien always lurks around me, when i needed to get throught that one dammit long corridor, that connects all rooms, but when you see him clearly from behind, he would turn around, but if you watch his tail that is behind him, it is much easier, to avoid it. Good to know, and learn few thing about games, and their secret features, like in Warcarft 3 , AI always has line of vision on your buildings. I'm looking forward to another great video.

To be honest, I would like a sample of each voice so that it's easier for me to decide.

Eternal Darkness. I LOVED that game. I really wish they'd do a remake. Also, the erasing all saved games made me panic for real.

25:50 it's called Frustum Culling (not frustrum) and it's widely used in most of video games, many times in tandem with Occlusion Culling.

The unrendering tactic has certainly been used in some interesting ways. In Dark Souls, if you aren't looking at enemies, the render rate drops to something like 1 or2 fps. It doesn't really become too noticable until you get to the fast moving dogs, which is why it sometimes feels like they just teleport out of nowhere and attack you

in walking dead game, the decision does make effect, in the last episode it all depends your interactions with Kenny wither he will go with u to find Clem or not. also for other characters as well

Ha, little do the devs know I deliberately drive in 2nd place until the last couple of corners and then go all out to win in driving games.. and shoot random things in FPS games to keep my hitrate down. I consider mechanics to be a part of the game, so abusing them is fair play.

I'm surprised you didn't mention the Mario Party dice. In Mario Party 1 & 2 and possibly others, you can save the game on any given turn and replay that turn 100 times. You and the CPU characters will only roll the same 2 or 3 numbers every time, like one possible scenario is Wario this turn rolls 4 or 6 depending when he hits A, Yoshi 2 or 8, Peach 1 or 3, Mario 1 or 9. Play the turn 100 times Wario will never ever roll a 1 and Yoshi never a 4.

That was actually crazy.. I was watching this video while playing a game, and right when you did the "turn screen off" bit around the 4 minute mark, my PC just immediately crashed to a black screen lmao

I've heard Alien Isolation has another dastardly trick (as does Lethal Company). I've seen evidence of this in play/videos too. If you have an open microphone, it will hear you. So even if you hide in a locker well before it enters the room, and you've never hid in a locker before, if you breath too hard or panic talk, it'll open the locker and snatch you.

Brother you really can pay attention to almost everything. Are you CIA? or FBI?

8:18 fun fact: there was planned to be a third pikachu evolution called gorochu, although it was scrapped, so it's likely this was a left over from a previous build of the game when they were still planning gorochu

My former older half sister's (she's no longer a part of my family, long story) kid was having trouble with crash bandicoot on a jumping level they couldn't finish because of difficult jumps, I went to the absolute edges of the platform and jumped from there and made it everytime. Was I just using the coyote time all this time playing videogames without realizing it? Another game that reminds me of Braid with a unique plot twist was Chernobylite. It's a great hidden gem where you travel a alternate Chernobyl wasteland with real world scans of the exclusion zone all around Chernobyl as a scientist looking for his wife with green crystals called Chernobylite that's helpful and harmful. Check it out.

As someone who played every Need for Speed title post 2003 at least once such as Underground 2 and Most Wanted 2005, and some other NFS titles religiously such as Heat, I never knew the nitrous didn’t actually do very much. Maybe it does in later games, but in the older ones it makes sense why it wouldn’t.

The real deception is that he actually voices everything🤔😁

We always called "rubber banding" the catch-up mechanic. I figured out ages ago that there are different driving techniques you can do to avoid triggering it. To exploit and bypass it, I always take a relaxed driving style approach. I almost never hit full throttle. The moment you punch it, it kicks in and makes the others faster. If you find the sweet spot, you can basically just cruise around the track in first place. Some games, I can lap other racers.

Hollow Knight was shown for about 1 second total, nice

No wonder your videos' narrator seems to change voice frequently. I'm been a supporter, subscriber and fan of your work for idk more than 4 years maybe? Well I can't really tell, but I for sure it's been a long time. I love your videos, every single of it. Keep doing what your doing, and always be awesome. Showing love and support from the Philippines. (PS: I didn't take the pool, because your both awesome and this channel with its videos are phenomenal!!!) 💙

Huh. It now occurs to me that the "shoot from your eyes" thing is something Elden Ring (and I think the Dark Souls games as well) apparently doesn't do. If you fire a bow while crouching, often the arrow will hit a ledge or something even if your reticle is properly aimed at the target. I always found that pretty annoying. Speaking of Elden Ring, I am convinced that Discovery and drop rate mechanics don't work the way they're supposed to. I know Discovery does work as intended even if the increase in drops is very marginal, but I'm also fairly certain there's some hidden value that increases drop rate as you level up in general regardless of your Discovery stat. At higher levels the early enemies just seem to drop way more stuff even if I don't level Arcane much or use Discovery-boosting gear, while at lower levels it's incredibly frustrating to farm tougher enemies for gear compared to later on. If I'm right about that, it would make sense as a way to discourage players from farming powerful equipment early. I also believe that the game is programmed to prioritize drops of weapons and armor pieces you already have, making it harder to for example get a full armor set. I can't prove it, and I know random chance can be much less evenly distributed than people expect it to be (because that's how randomness works), but it's just _too consistent._ I can totally see _occasionally_ getting four or five of each piece before the final one drops, but not _every single time_ I try to farm a set.

Wait, so technically in open world video games you’re always on the edge of the world.

my first video i see in under 1 hour after released i am always amazed by you

Matpat did a Doki Doki Literature theory I haven’t seen those videos because it has a warning saying it’s to scary and I don’t really like scary things.

I'm gonna be honest, I don't think the low health bar thing is completely true. I've died so many times immediately after it reaches the portion that's supposedly supposed to be worth more.

I remember in one game, Gothic 3, I think, you could use cheats to move just past the visible game area. And saw signs reading "If you're here, you cheated."

Imagine going to a haunted house only to find out that the ghost lady was hitching a ride on your back the whole time >_

27:07 Both

X-Com accuracy? Why can you have highest accuracy but still miss 100%?

Any 3D game uses fulcrum culling, not just the modern, big scenery ones.

I didn't know there were two voices. we need to know about facts and stories about the channel itself!

So that's why I suck at nfs most wanted

4:40 I'm an indie dev and I also do this with the health bar. I use a curve to determine how full the bar is vs the actual health percentage. This is not just for dramatic effect. We love stories of pushing just that little harder to survive when we're on the brink, it just feels right to do that.

About speed and boost in racers: It makes a HUGE difference. Often it is just a small gain in maximum speed, but a larger gain in acceleration - and the visual change is basically the balancing for that increases speed. And just having a bit more speed is often all that is needed to be able to overtake the competition 2-3 corners earlier which leads to massive time-changes. In racing games that are not designed with an arcade-feel (without rubberbanding etc) on longer tracks it can easily make 5% timesavings.

Jay and Wesley are both great

17:56 Need for Speed 2 has had a rubber banding mechanic my friends and I used to exploit. The mechanic: In split screen as long as your car is far behind your opponents car yours is slightly faster to make it easier to catch up. Once you cought up both cars drive the same speed (I really felt my car slowing down). This only happens when both players drive the same car (McLaren F1 372km/h top speed). The exploit: The race starts but only one players drives away. The second player remains at the starting/finishing line. Once the leading player completes the first lap (Our races got up to eight laps) the second player startes. Because of the rubber banding mechanic the second player is faster than the leading player. Of course the first lap time is terrible because you have waited but in the second lap you have the chance to set a new record as long as the leading player is not overtaken. Sometimes I even started with two laps late to the leading player to max out the effect. Do I have to mark out that me and my friends played the crap out of this game? And that the exploit only is usable when both players are experts on the track? Good times 😁

Fun Fact: I read that Raichu was actually supposed to evolve, at some point during the development of the Pokemon franchise it was going to evolve into a Pokemon called Gorochu or something like that.

7:28 Kicking a ghost? Sure such a thing doesn't work. Ghosts usually have no physical body.

Every like I lose a braincell

Why do they always lie to us?

The first mechanic is speed. I’m finding this really ironic as you speak so slowly. Your voice is sending me to sleep. I swear you’re a hypnotist.

Do not tell me I cannot Double jump

NFS MW fans like here ⬇⬇⬇

I think why coyote time feels so natural is that it simulates that last possible step, toes on the ledge leap of faith. The step pattern might not line up perfectly, which is something we can do naturally, so simply extending the platform makes up for the difference. It's something I haven't experimented with myself, but I imagine the best coyote time works out to be about a step's distance

That rubberbanding thing explains why when I used to play the tiger woods golf games (04 - 07) the game players would always improve closer to my score each tournament

Keep it up Wesley wait who’s who?

Snap back to reality 😂...

I've noticed "a little help" with a lot of games lately. They either do it secretly, or they indirectly tell you by putting you in a match during tutorial or right after tutorial and it evaluates your skills. Then after that match puts you in thr correct skill tier matches.

Yeah, Frustrum culling has been used since the 90s, but it's also doubled with Occlusion culling, basically, any object behind something, isn't fully rendered to save the CPU and GPU from working overboard.

Wow never new that

Where is the alien part

A lot of old games couldn't "keep time in seconds". So what they did was update a counter every CPU clock cycle (a.k.a. every time the NES updated the game) and used that as an estimate of the number of seconds that had elapsed. But when you play the game on a newer console/emulator, the CPU is faster so the "game seconds" tick faster. Also that is absolutely not how Frustrum Culling works! The mountain still 100% exists, it's just doesn't waste time asking your GPU what colour it is. If you walk backwards without looking do you fall into a void? No. Does loot falling to the ground fall through it, or stay suspended in mid-air when you look away? No. Do other players cease to exist because they are behind you? No. Every object in the game world exists at all times, for the purposes of collision detection, object permenancy, etc. When an object is "rendered" that means an image is generated from the object, this includes textures, shading, motion blur, reflection and diffraction of light, etc. i.e. If an object is not rendered it exists, but is for all intents and purposes invisible if you were to 'look' at it. The camera perspective from which you view the game world typically sits behind the head of the character and maps everything in the 3D frustrum (a pyramid without a top, laying on its side) in front of you, onto a 2D rectangle, to display on your screen. Almost every 3D game made in any of the popular game engines use both frustrum and occlusion culling by default these days. Frustrum culling doesn't render anything outside your field of view, and occlussion culling doesn't render anything inside your field of view but behind other objects.

(26:35) Code Lyoko reference righ there!

at the .18 mark to the left what game is that? its hard to see because of the effing UI from YT blocking the already blurry text and the fact that its only there for 3 seconds...

On a side note, that Alien in the thumbnail is so cute!