User:PituckosTheCockatiel/sandbox/VideoGameMysteries

Video Game Mysteries is a term for unanswered questions or rumors in Video Games that got many people to get involved to answer those unanswered questions. Many started as rumors on the internet or schoolyard rumors or by the developers themselves.

Famous Examples

 * In Super Mario 64 there is a statue depicting a star in the heart of the courtyard, The statue has a blurry inscription beneath it which many interpreted it as "L is real 2401". Many theorized that Luigi is playable. Oddly enough, these theories where proven true when a leak at Nintendo revealed that Super Mario 64 was originally meant to have two players and even found unused model that seems to be Luigi but he was scrapped due to N64's limitations.
 * It is rumored that a experimental ai was made for the game which personalizes the game for some players with some copies featuring a mission called Wario's aperration which features Wario's floating head chasing Mario, and some copies feature an eyeless chain chomp.
 * Games made by Rockstar Games are famous for having many mysteries.
 * Grand Theft Auto San Andreas is alleged to have insights of Big Foot.
 * In addition, there are rumors of ghost cars that drive themselves in the rural areas of San Andreas although in actuality, most of these cars spawned in hills which causes them to slide hence the self moving ghost car. But that didn't stop players from alleging that they are real.
 * Grand Theft Auto IV: Many gamers are alleging that Ratman, a hostile creature who is half man and half rat, is located at Easton subway service station.
 * If you pick the Revenge Ending, there is a chance that Kate McReary will call you for a date despite being killed in the Revenge ending. This made people theorize that it was Kate's ghost wanting a last date before moving to the after life. However this was later debunked as it was just a glitch.
 * Grand Theft Auto V: In Mount Chiliad, a UFO appears in the mountain if you have 100% completion and when its a rainstorm at night, what's interesting is that the object's markings have an "FIB" logo which implies it's government related but regardless has been a case of speculation.
 * Red Dead Redemption: Players are able to encounter an enigmatic and otherworldly character known as the Strange Man who appears to know John Marston very well, including details about his past life in the Van der Linde gang that not even John himself remembers. In his last mission, The Strange man says "This is a fine spot" which is the place where John and Abigail are burried in the end of the game, John also proceeds to shoot him 4 times, with the fourth being stuck, and the Strange Man being unaffected from the shots, the shots symbolize that John, Abigail and Uncle will die while Jack will be sparred. The symbolism, the theme of his missions being morality and the Strange Man being unaffected by the shots made games theorize that he is either God, Satan or an angel of death.
 * He returns in Red Dead Redemption II as a painting which finishes itself. It is located in an abandoned shack where it is riddled with cryptic writings along with a mirror which if the painting is finished, the strange man will appear behind you. The Shopkeeper from Armadillo has picture of The Strange Man.
 * Undertale is known to have many secrets and mysteries that required to be unraveled through the game's code.
 * The most notable out of them is "Gaster". If you mess with the game's code and variables, you'll encounter a secret room with a grey door somewhere in the waterfall area. Going inside this door you'll find a strange humanoid creature with a black torso and white face with a creepy look, this figure is widely believed to be Gaster. The higher the values, you can encounter its followers that mention this mysterious person in which they were a royal scientist who constructed the CORE.
 * Indeed this name has some significance to the game, for instance entering the name "Gaster" when naming your character will restart the game, San's blasters in his fight are named "Gaster Blasters" in the files and the secret NPCs mention that name.
 * Sans has become not just a meme but a well for theories in the game because of his mysterious past, self-aware behavior and significance to the story. There have been many theories circulating this character as he occasionally appears ahead of the player, and that his personality is initially comedic but becomes serious certain at times and then oddly knows specific things than other characters dont know especially with the concept of LOVE and EXP and how many times he killed you in the Genocide Run. One secret in particular which makes this character more mysterious is that, if the player encounters Sans in the hallway during a pacificist run and then resets the game each encounter, on the fifth encounter Sans will give a key to his room in his house in Snowdin, which then contains another key to the basement of the house. This basement contains blueprints of a machine with strange writings, a strange machine wrapped in cloth and a photograph of Sans smiling along with a group of unknown individuals. In addition to this, Sans and Papyrus were stated to be recent residents of Snowdin as stated by the Shopkeeper who mentioned they appeared out of nowhere which implies that they weren't initially from the underground.
 * The Five Nights at Freddy's series is another franchise famous for its mysteries through its vaguely told storyline.
 * In the first installment, Golden Freddy is a hidden character that has a very rare chance to appear when viewing a specific room in which the poster changes from Freddy to a closeup of Golden Freddy. He is a yellow version of Freddy but without eyes. This Freddy will appear in your office once you saw the poster and if you look at them for a while, Golden Freddy will jumpscare the player and crash the game. In addition, if setting the difficulty of a custom night to the following: "1,9,8,7", the face of Golden Freddy will appear and do the same. In Five Nights at Freddy's 4, Golden Freddy is shown to have been an older version of Freddy.
 * The Bite of 87 is another famous event that has been referenced throughout the franchise. Mentioned in the first game by the Phone guy, it is an incident that involved an animatronic biting someone's frontal lobe off and caused the business to plummet in reputation. The culprit is never specified but there is speculation that it could've been either Foxy, Freddy or even Golden Freddy at some point, with Foxy having a gaping mouth that would've fit a human head inside and the fact he is hidden away in the Pirate's cove which was out of order, is a favorable suspect to this mystery. Freddy also is theorized to be the possible culprit as there appeared to be handprints on his face and a rule stating that Freddy cannot be touched which implied that an interaction with Freddy was the cause of the incident, with the rule probably being put into place after the incident.
 * When the sequel Five Nights at Freddy's 2 was released taking place in 1987, it opened more theories. One of the new animatronics at the time "Mangle", was popular in this theory as that animatronic was always in a dismembered state because of children dismantling the animatronic in which a child would've likely been bitten, and that the killing animation of Mangle has them opening their mouth wide while aiming for the head, more specifically the upper area. In addition, because the game is set in 1987, another popular theory was that, Jeremy the FNAF2 protagonist, was the victim of this incident. The fourth game also opened more theories for this mystery as it introduces Nightmare Fredbear who is similar to Golden Freddy, and the ending showing a child who was bitten by an animatronic. But was debunked later as it revealed to be only the Bite of 83, as it was confirmed the game takes place in 1983.
 * Minecraft: It is rumored that a mysterious entity exist in the game called Herobrine. It is rumored that he is the spirit of Notch's dead brother. However the Developer denied its existence with Notch revealing that he doesn't even have a brother. Herobrine became a recurring joke within the developers with every update announcing that Herobrine was removed.
 * It is also rumored that a great war happened in the game between Villagers and Pigmen. The Villager won the war and they banished the Pigmen in the depths of Nether, the pigmen were infected with the zombie virus making them zombified.
 * There was a mob called Pigman in the Alpha version of the game and unlike the pigmen in the final game, they weren't zombified making this myth even more believable.
 * Deltarune:
 * Throughout chapter 1 and 2, A character constantly mentioned called The Roaring Knight. It is theorized that He is either Deltarune's WD Gaster or Mike from Chapter 2. It is also theorized that he is the one who controls Kris during the endings of Chapter 1 and 2.
 * Mike is a mysterious character from Chapter 2. He seems to be related to Spamton as he is constantly mentioned by him and Spamton Neo's theme "Big Shot". Many theorized that he is the one controlling Spamton Neo. It is also theorized that he is the afromentioned Roaring Knight as he appears in the ending of Chapter 2.
 * Nier Automata: A reddit user presumably discovered a secret church in the underground area of copied city. It is unknown whether the easter egg is real or a hoax. It is theorized that the easter egg is a marketing campaign for the switch port of the game.
 * Half-Life: The G-Man is an enigmatic man who dresses in a typical business attire always carrying a briefcase and interferes with events of the game to be rigged in his favour. He seems to possess otherworldly abilities including teleportation, telepathy and stopping time. In Half-Life 1, he appears throughout the Black Mesa complex several times and observes Gordon from afar, vanishing when gets too close but after killing Nihilanth, the G-Man appears and offers a deal to Freeman which if he accepts will be put into stasis for years. His strangeness is enchanced with him having weird behaviours, lack of emotions and strange speeches. Its not certain what the G-Man's motives or goals are but it is implied that he orchestrated the Resonance Cascade and that he works on behalf of his unseen employers.
 * In Half-Life 2, the G-man awakes Freeman from his long sleep to transfer him to a dystopian world. Throughout the game, he can be seen at various points in each map and even sometimes in televisions. During the ending of the game, the G-Man saves and puts Gordon into a coma again until he can reactivate him in the right moment.
 * In HL2 Episode 1, G-man strangely never makes appearances. During the intro cutscene which is the only time you see him there, the Vortigaunts are seeming to block the G-man from speaking to Freeman which irritates him and causes him to leave. However in the second episode, he makes his regular appearances and then during the Mine chapter when the Vortigaunts heal Alyx, the G-Man reveals to Freeman that he took Alyx from Black Mesa as he saw some potential in her (despite rejections from his employers) and entrusts Freeman to keep her safe throughout the journey to White Forest. In the final chapter of Episode 2, Eli Vance is one of the only characters to openly acklowledge this mysterious individual and even refers to him as "Our Mutual Friend".
 * During the expansions specifically Opposing Force, the G-Man does interact with Adrian Shephard as in one chapter he saves the marine in a trapped room but then later, he first prevents him from arriving to his evacuation point in the chapter "We are Pulling out", and then next after Shephard disarms a nuclear bomb in "The package", G-Man reactivates the bomb which later explodes after the Genome Worm is defeated. Before the explosion, G-Man rescues Shephard with a helicopter but unlike Gordon is put into a stasis state and is put there indefinitely as G-Man implies his employers don't accept him. Its also worth noting the G-Man appears in the boot camp tutorial in which he is seen speaking to an officer in a unreachable room, and that Shephard's general comments on how Shephard got promoted mysteriously.

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