Tell me what happened to secret areas in video games.
They still exist, but they're rare. Off the top of my head Deus Ex: HR, Dark Souls, and GTAV all had secret areas.
>>321066793
New Wolfensteins had some.
Legend of Grimrock stole them all?
>>321066793
Normies dont care for that, to much effort, sorry let me rephrase that, money to put into to please a dwindling minorityI loved DMoMM for that, it was one of those game that made you look everywhere for secrets while still being entertaining even if you didnt find anything on top of a cliff house
Talos Principle, Serious Sam 3 and Shadow Warrior had tons of them.
"M-muh immersion" happened.
>>321066793
lots of that in the Talos Principle
>>321066959
>GTAV
Where? There were a lot of places not used in the story but there isn't much to find there.
>>321066793
Game developers have something like telemetric. And thanks to that you know that only half of players finish game. Combine that with more expensive to make games and boom - they aren't making any secret zones/levels at all.
>>321067416
what the fuck, where is this? i swear i covered every inch of this game
>>321068176
In the B-world with the Sphinx go to the first puzle to your left and check the messenger alcove to find a stamp.
Then go behind the exit teleporter and try to use the wall behind it twice.
>>321066793
DLC
>>321067416
>earth defend force
>sam serious
is this dark force?
>>321066793
Why bother designing good maps when people will convince themselves that open fields are epic?
>>321067420
Feels ruined singleplayer games.
>>321069486
what if i likeboth , when they are good done?
>>321066793
Payday 2 has one on the GO Bank heist behind the wall in the spawn area
>>321066793
Secret areas have to be made, and since games are rushed and made with as little money and effort possible, including ANYTHING that most players will miss is a waste and the first thing to be cut if it's even proposed to begin with.
See also:
- unlockables
- optional areas and quests
>>321071041
Indies would have been the saviors, but the creators are stuck with retro pixel artstyle and refuse to move on.
>>321067674
There's a mine in next gen
They got even more secret
>>321073536
do you really think they can capture the early 3D look? at all?
>>321066793
Who cares about easter eggs in games anymore ? Its the cawadooty and dorito era
Movies and tv need to have more secrets about gaming now
>>321066793
Secret areas are not cinematic
>>321066793
Dataminers and leakers happened so nothing is actually secret anymore
>>321075103
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_PZ12ZTVPA
There was also this one game that someone found a secret in recently years after its release, but I forgot the name of.
>>321068176
Trust me nigga, unless you had a guide you probably didn't catch everything. Fuck the ice mountain area itself had more easter eggs than most games have period.
>>321069590
>good done
>>321074310
I'm hoping some small team eventually comes along making an oldschool key hunting fps where level design takes priority since we haven't got a game like that in over a decade. People making a title like that as a passion project, not those rainbow colored hipsters who only know how to make 2deep4u 2 hours long garbage.
>>321074320
Bryan Cranston confirmed for GTA VI
>>321075364
I think Donkey Kong had a secret that remained hidden for a very long time, think it was the credits or something.
Even modern FPS and open-world games still have secret areas/easter eggs.
>>321066793
Publishers asked why bother putting something in a game that not everyone is going to see. They questioned the monetary cost of including secret areas that half their audience will never encounter.
Then they decided to stop having them.
>>321066793
There are plenty you lazyfuck
>>321074320
Call of Duty has secrets though. I remember you could find a terminal that lets you play all of Zork in black ops 1
>>321076201
i'd kill to do that, but if anything i'd leave it up to doom WAD makers, they have been doing this shit since the mid 90's and STILL do it to this day.
>>321075716
>finding the jetpack
>>321067416
>>321067561
Croteam is so disgustingly based for easter eggs
They're based for everything, actually.
>>321066793
Taken out and sold as DLC along with all of the end-game bonus shit, like costumes, alternate characters, etc.
The internet ruined the point of easter eggs/secrets.
No point in adding them now other than to get a shitty 500 word article written by some faggot hipster playing for street cred, claiming he remembered the time when easter eggs were all over the place and super fun and exciting to discover on your own without the internet.
No reason to add them now, honestly and truly. It will just be datamined and plastered on every game website in an attempt for some queer to say "i found it first" instead of caring about the easter egg itself.
>>321081140
I always wondered, how many of you actually care who wrote the guide instead of scrolling through all the introductory self-wank and just getting straight to the actual part that interests you if you're stuck or just want clarification on what to do or how the particular mechanics work? I've been using guides since forever and during that time I haven't checked once who wrote it.
>>321066959
What did Deus Ex HR have?
>>321083127
Sticky notes with reddit rage faces.
