So we already have the “TAHYJFO” thread, so I figured other games need some love too.
What are some hidden mechanics, areas, references, or neat little details you’ve recently found out about other, non-hitman games you want to share?
I’m sure there’s plenty more out there that a lot of people might not know about.
I’m making this thread because I’m confident there’s lots of content and neat stuff people might want to share about their favourite games.
I just found out about a bunch of hidden moves in the Batman games that the controls never tell you about! This dude actually found 10 (1’s a bug)
Like, first off, I knew about Action Cameras for certain gadgets if you use the “wrong” bumper button. But you can actually trigger this stuff with a glide attack too!
Or even, in Arkham Knight, you can use a move that usually is used to pick up an enemy that fell over to beat them up. But it can also be used on unconscious bodies nearby to extend your combo, deal damage, and perform a unique animation!
I know in Jak 2 you can evade the guards by hugging a wall in a place guards cannot reach even if its right in front of them. Wall hugging is a hidden feature also, walking repeatedly into certain walls toggles it.
Pretty good video, but there’s still a ton more details in the Arkham games:
In City:
In Knight:
Wow. Thanks dude! I didn’t know like 90% of what you just said. 
This is one of my favourites that I already know about though! My favourite is trying to take them out near a ledge so I can use the ultra-rare ledge animation. It’s fun to see Batman dangle them over, only to drop them with a rope attached.
Pretty sure I’ve seen this happen in both City and Origins.
The shiny colours for houndour and houndoom in Pokémon are based on the colours dogs see
Ooh that’s a pretty cool detail!
Far Cry 4 has multiple endings, but also a secret ending. At the start of Far Cry 4, Pagan Min picks up the player character, and then leaves them alone in a room, promising to return. At which point the player is then meant to escape the building and start the main campaign. But if you actually stay in the room and wait for around 15 minutes, the secret ending is triggered and the game ends. I won’t say what happens for spoilers. I actually heard of this before doing Far Cry 4 and so decided to do this immedietly. It’s actually pretty great but does also spoil stuff from the story that you’re clearly not meant to learn until near the end of the game. I think Far Cry 4’s endings are better than the bad Far Cry 2 endings, the very bad Far Cry 3 endings, and the absolutely god awful atrocity that is the Far Cry 5 ending.
Speaking of waiting around, in Deux Ex Human Revolution, once you’ve gotten past the prologue stage and have arrived at the office building after being augmented, you’re told to meet your boss at the helipad and fly off to a mission where a factory is under siege by terrorists who have taken hostages. Normally you would do some stuff in the office building, before flying off to do the first real mission in the game, where you can try or fail to save the hostages. However if you take too long faffing around the office building, you will be told that the hostages have been executed and told off for taking so long.
And since we’re on the Arkham series, Arkham Asylum has a secret room. In that game you can use an explosive to blow through walls that you can see in your detective vision. In Warden Sharpe’s room, there is a wall that can be blown through, but it doesn’t come up on your detective vision, it just appears to be a regular wall. Inside, there are teases for the unreleased Arkham City. Apparently, I don’t know if this is true, but I believe somebody at Rocksteady themselves revealed this secret, because noone found it by the time Arkham City had come out, so the cool tease was wasted, but I’m not 100% sure of that.
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess on release had a dual release for the Gamecube and Wii. There is a key difference between the versions however, in that they flipped the screen for the Wii version. If you play the GC version, Link is left handed. But for the Wii version, due to the motion controls, the game was mirrored so Link wound be right handed, and it was considered more intiuitive due to the motion control design. When the Wii U HD remasted came out, if you play on normal, Link with be left handed like the GC version, and if you play the harder difficulty it will mirror so Link is right handed like the Wii version.
In Borderlands 2, the hub town, Sanctuary, has a somewhat secret character in it called Michael Mamaril. He has a 10% chance of spawning in the town and will offer the player a free, decent quality weapon. In real life, Michael was a fan of Borderlands who passed away in 2011 at 22 years old. His friend, Carlo, wrote to Gearbox asking for a short eulogy to be read out by the character Claptrap. Gearbox included him in the game as a tribute to him.
The GTA games are known for having a few secrets here and there, as well as tons of rumours. Those who were on Youtube a decade ago may of seen so many speculation videos about San Andreas hiding things. One easter egg that is true though is that there is a ghost on Mount Gordo you can see between 11pm and 12am.
Sonic the Fighters is a Sonic fighting game made in 1996 by Sega AM2, the creators of Virtua Fighter and Fighting Vipers. The game had a hidden scrapped fighter in its file, almost complete, called Honey the Cat. Honey was essentially the cat version of Honey from Sega AM2’s Fighting Vipers game. In 2012, Sonic the Fighters got an HD re-release for the Xbox 360 and PS3 (which sadly hasn’t been ported yet to anything more modern.) In that re-release, they actually made Honey a proper playable character. Honey would then get to appear in the Archie Sonic comic series as a significant character in that series own take on Sonic the Fighters storyline, with her being the CEO of her own fashion company. Since then she’s also had a couple of cameos in the IDW comics but nothing significant. Will she ever get a significant role again? Not impossible but she is certainly a far more minor character, but hey if Fang can make his big comeback for Sonic Superstars, anything is possible.
Sonic the Fighters is also infamous for lore reasons. In Sonic canon, a big element is that there are seven Chaos Emeralds, often collected through a game’s plot as macguffins. In Sonic the Fighters, the plot revolves around 8 emeralds, as the winner of the tournament will use all 8 emeralds to power up Tail’s Lunar Fox rocketship to reach the Death Egg II and defeat Metal Sonic and Robotnik. Gameplay wise, the reason there are 8 is because there are 8 playable characters, each holding a Chaos Emerald each, and whoever the player chooses will fight the other 7 characters fight to aquire the 8 emeralds. It’s just been a very funny lore break when Sonic in the video games very firmly establishes that there are 7 Chaos Emeralds (plus the Master Emerald). And in fact the IDW series is doing a mini-series based on Fang the Hunter, and it’s been revealed the plot of that will be Fang hunting for this mysterious 8th Chaos Emerald, which is a very funny callback to this weird plot.
And one more Sonic the Fighters thing: the game cabinet makes a blink or you’ll miss it cameo appearance in Wreck-it Ralph, during the montage of the arcade over the years as various cabinets are switched in and out. Ofcourse Sonic and Eggman would make cameos in Wreck-It Raplh, and there’s a drawing of Tails in the background of the bar scene.
Was playing smash bros and I completely forgot about this spirits reference
Starts Battles with a Bomb-Omb?!
Jeeeez that is a horribly good deep-cut reference.
Okay, wow… After being terribly disappointed with Watch Dogs Legion’s dropping the “Invasion” mechanic from the single-player of previous games (where you can get invaded by another player and must kill them before they complete a hack on you - I LOVED this in WD1)
I have just discovered that Sniper Elite 5 has continued this trend (much like Deathloop did a few years ago) and has a “Axis Invasion” mode (complete with a leveling system to give you incentive to play).
You spawn into someone’s campaign mission as a Jager sniper, and must kill the person currently making their way through the level (the other player is alerted too, if they die they can reset when the invasion first started, so they don’tlose too much progress.)
This has captured my attention and I am hooked on the idea of it! 
Even cooler, this is apparently available in co-op campaign too (where One invader must kill Two host players)
I highly anticipate the next time Sniper Elite 5 Complete Ed. goes on sale, since I’m sure this will be a great way to fool around with the game when I’m not making my way through it with @Silvereyes.
Okay, well, Batman detail update again, sort of…
The modding community for Arkham Knight is phenomenal and I’m so jealous. (Also just damn that engine will age like a fiiiine wine…)
The animated series suit, gorgeous. Joker-themed batsuit? Epic.
Telltale Series Batsuits?? Hell yeah!
My new favourite April fools joke for a game for the little big planet games they released a free fragrance costume dlc
I just found out that the Batman Arkham Origins DLC “Cold, Cold, Heart” is an adaptation of the classic Batman Animated Series episode “Heart of Ice”!
(Also, written by famous comics and animated DC media writer Paul Dini – made Freeze into the tragic villain we know in many versions today)
While watching the series recently, I found the episode to be pretty similar to the game’s DLC. Featuring Ferris Boyle as the CEO of GothCorp, whom has devices stolen from him by Mr. Freeze/Fries to get revenge on him after Boyle shuts down Fries’ cryo experiments for his wife and causes him to get disfigured.
The episode even ends with the line “Good Night, Humanitarian” with a heavy dose of disgust, knowing that Boyle is a massive hypocrite.
The Game DLC also ends its climax with that line, albeit edited to fit Batman knocking out Boyle.
https://screenrant.com/batman-arkham-origins-mister-freeze-dlc-animated-series/
I’m half a year late to this, but the recently released Another Crab’s Treasure has one of the coolest easy modes ever.
It’s a gun. You just… get a gun.
I’ve returned to This is the Police 2 after a long time to finish the game and get all the achievements. Turns out there’s a cop, Alliev, who bears a resemblance to Leon Trotsky when first hired:
Unfortunately, gaining his loyalty results in him shaving the facial hair and taking the glasses off.
Saw something about Goat simulator 3s new dlc I found interesting it has a deep rock galactic hat that replaces your baaas with a dwarf yelling rock and stone and a room full of a few mini M.U.L.Es one full sized one and a few flares there are probably references to other coffee stain properties but this is the only one I have currently seen
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So it turns out that the Misprint joker in Balatro has been telling everyone what the next card in their deck is this whole time. 
Thank goodness for partitioned game downloads. (If that’s what they’re called)
Didn’t know where best to put this, so I’m putting it here.
The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered has the main story game as you’d expect and also a roguelike challenge mode (No Return) on the side.
It takes up 84GB of my console.
Since its a PS5 title, I’ve found that I can use the nifty Manage Game Content tool to actually uninstall the main campaign portion of the game, while keeping access to the No Return mode (plus the main menu and some other stuff).
This saves me about 50GB which is great, since I have no interest in replaying the main story anytime soon, but enjoy booting up No Return every now and then for some gameplay fun.
I retain access to all NR features like every character, unlock challenges and all their equippable skins.
This was a really really smart move by Naughty Dog, wow. They let you uninstall the linear, cutscene/voice-line heavy main story but keep the bonus small PS5-exclusive challenge mode. Never would have guessed in a million years lol.
I’ve found out that for the game to “run” essentially, with just the No Return content installed, you of course don’t get access to the Main Story, nor can you access Guitar Free Play, and some of the Trailers and BTS Documentary are unavailable in the Extras menu.
The podcast series is available to listen to though which is interesting, and you can access the Skins and Cheats menu even though they’re not gonna do anything without the main campaign.
Plus, for whatever reason, the full Model Viewer menu is kept installed as well…
Thankfully the game prompts you to install the other content if you want to access it, so it’s not mandarory or automatic.
Still, saving 50GB while keeping full access to the roguelike mode is pretty cool!
The Stanley Parable came out on Mobile recently, and the Demo/Free Trial is yet another exclusive version of the game with a brand NEW ENDING! 
Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.
