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Robbie The Rabbit – Silent Hill Series

Robbie the Rabbit is visible in many Silent Hill games. He doesn’t do much other than just there, but you usually find him in weird, unexpected places. The overall design of the stuffed bunny is creepy enough, with its pink fur, bloody mouth, and eternal grin. But it’s the eyes and unexpected places you find the bunny scattered throughout the series that’s so creepy.

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The Witness

There aren’t many open world puzzles games out there, in fact The Witness just might be the only one. Tasked with solving a variety of maze like puzzles, the game lets you solve them in a gorgeous open world environment that looks like a painting. There isn’t much point to the world other than determining what order you solve puzzles, but there are a few story elements hidden within that you might miss if you don’t go looking for them.

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Goat Simulator Waste of Space

“Waste of Space” is both a tongue and cheek reference by the developers of Goat Simulator, and a good explanation of the game as well. All the crazy, stupid, and glitchy antics of the original game are back, but this time in Space. Or at least, in space stations and government labs relating to space travel. The basic premise is still the same, you control a goat and your goal is to simply wreak havoc using the game’s physics engine.

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The Charge Card

While you’re exploring the ruins of Boston, there’s a chance you’ll come across a character named Parker Quinn. Quinn will sell you a “charge card,” which he essentially describes as a credit card. He charges 110 caps for it, but no matter what you do, you’ll never find a use for it. He’s hard to find, and it seems like an obvious scam at first. That is, until you play Far Harbor. There, you’ll find a character who’ll randomly redeem the card for 100 caps. It’s a lot of set up and mystery for such a small pay off.

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Gradius – The Konami Code

Every game is created with a debug mode so the developers of the game can test it. This debug mode is a set of tools the developer can access when they’re playing an early version of the game. It’s usually disabled once the game is released. While working on Gradius, programmer Kazuhisa Hashimoto thought that the game was too hard so in order to debug the game he developed a cheat code which granted players full power ups however he forgot to remove it. As a result, players were able to input a series of button presses and access most of the power ups in the game.

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Too Action Focused

The biggest, loudest complain from most people was that Resident Evil 6 focused way too much on action. It was an over-the-top third person shooter first, and horror game third or possibly fourth. There were big car chases, helicopters crashing down everywhere, and so many ridiculous melee and quick-time take down events the whole game felt more like a Michael Bay film than a Resident Evil game.

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Zombie Outbreaks

Every time a new zombie game is announced, we all collectively sigh. “Another zombie game,” we fruitlessly ask ourselves. But we also know that sometimes those zombie games are good, and sometimes it has to be zombies. Would Telltale’s The Walking Dead be any good if you took out the zombies? How would that even work? Even games that have enemies that function like zombies but won’t call them such, like The Last of Us worked perfectly because of the infected creatures.

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Metal Gear Solid V – Hidden 3rd Chapter

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain’s ending was as abrupt as it was disappointing. Many fans speculated that given the relationship between series creator Hideo Kojima and Developer Konami that the game was unfinished at launch. Thanks to data mining by fans after release, we now know that there was at some point intended to be a third chapter called “Peace” that didn’t make the final cut. It was rumored that this would eventually be DLC, but some fans suggest this mysterious third chapter is unlockable under the right circumstances, namely completel nuclear disarmament in the multiplayer mode.

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Outlast

The scariest modern first person horror games since Amnesia has to be Outlast. Set in an insane asylum, you run into naked brothers hunting you down as well as an equally naked doctor who wants to run experiments on you. The ending is a bit ‘meh,’ but the experience from start to end is one of the creepiest in the last decade.

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Unskippable Cutscenes

A lot of the time video game stories just aren’t very good. Sometimes they are good, but you keep dying and have to rewatch cutscenes because of it. You want to skip these cutscenes and get on with the game, but lo and behold, the game won’t let you. It’s like the developers are forcing you to sit there and watch the cutscenes for no reason. “We spent all day slaving over a hot computer for this,” you can hear the developers say “no you sit here and watch every second of it.”