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mew force shoelace posted:Dunwich Building in fallout 3 is pretty much exactly that and the Upside Down Sinners in WoW I love the Karazhan Crypt in WoW. For those who don't know there is a very large Castlevania inspired castle in a not very traveled to area. Eventually the castle got turned into a raid that can be fully explored but near by it is a crypt with a locked grate that can't be bypassed. Looking through the grate it looks like a little flavor area built just to show you that there's something down there but probably nothing interesting (like most road blocks in games). But players found out that if you suicided/blinked/generally try as hard as possible to get in there that the area down there is actually really really big and full of crazy theme rooms. It's a mystery why they would put so much time into an area they never intended for players to go. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiKNh9sNpm8&feature=related
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# ¿ Aug 31, 2010 05:30 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 21:23 |
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Not really a video game hoax in the literal sense but the multimedia series .hack is based around the idea of crazy paranormal stuff hidden in a popular MMO. It's got all the cliches that stories like Pokemon Black use (forum posts being deleted moments after posting them, mysterious white noise, ghostly children, being physically affected by events in the game) but for some reason doesn't really pull off being creepy, it's more like a mystery adventure trying to find out the meaning behind all these things. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.hack
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# ¿ Aug 31, 2010 06:33 |
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I'm just full of links but I remembered that GameTrailers started up a series on investigating ancient game rumors/hoaxes to see if there were any validity to them. They've mostly done relatively tame stuff but it's still interesting. http://www.gametrailers.com/game/pop-fiction/13123
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# ¿ Aug 31, 2010 07:53 |
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Here's some more old WoW myths in a pretty nostalgic article. http://www.wow.com/2010/08/30/urban-legends-of-warcraft-the-key-the-essence-and-the-ship/
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# ¿ Aug 31, 2010 21:36 |