Comments on: The Video Game Lies Database

By: forex

forex — Sat, 30 May 2009 00:00:01 +0000

I really have to laugh because i fell for many of the lies, but one in particular is street fight 2 alpha when they said that if you win with ryu you will unleash shin guoken ( akuma’s brother). I guess that wasn’t a lie after all he’s in the new street fighter now, but as a different name.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:29:08 +0000

In Everquest, some of the lies started as a rationalization to explain some game mechanic poorly understood by the players (like the plains pebble making food last longer – some foods lasted longer than others by design, but players didn’t understand why, until that stat was displayed to players). Some started as tricks to fool later groups and guilds into failing encounters because the correct trick wasn’t done. Some were done for fun – like the original write up of a brownie illusion quest (nowadays, such an illusion item actually exists) with obviously hoax steps, like to acquire the “gnomish marital aid device” from an NPC who’s name was a barely mangled “ron jeremy.” And some were pure malevolant – such as the claim that Jade Reavers dropped off of the mayor of Rivervale (halfling home town). That item was the bottleneck for many rangers doing their epic quest, and far too many rangers were tricked into trashing important factions in the hope that they’d get what they were waiting months to obtain.

And one of the most cherished and beloved was a make-believe hoax done to someone who just bought a high-level character on ebay (before it was banned on ebay). One of the lines from that hoax still reverberate to any EQ player “where is burned woods this week?”

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By: Malefact

Malefact — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:35:26 +0000

This is a fantastic idea.

I vaguely remember encountering a ton of Pokemon/MissingNo misinformation I picked up over the internet, as well as countless, countless lies for how to get the Triforce in LoZ: OoT or the Stop n’ Swop menu working in Banjo Kazooie / Banjo Tooie.

Still, those lies were sometimes beneficial: they added a mystery and a thrill to the games – there would always be some things you’d never know. In fact, I believe that the flash game, “Nicholas’ Weird Adventure 2″ has a secret room which you can get to through a convoluted and impossible-to-guess series of tasks, created specifically to imitate ‘video game lies’ the author had encountered in the past.

By: Szonja

Szonja — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:57:21 +0000

great idea and very useful for researchers, thanks a lot!:)