10 Hidden Game Discoveries Never Meant to be Found

Sometimes a developer hides something in a game with complete certainty no one would be able to find it. But with the use of exploits, hacks, glitches, and clever investigation, gamers managed to find them anyway.

Games Featured -SPOILERS-
Banjo Kazooie Nuts and Bolts
Crash Bandicoot 3
Unreal Tournament 2004
Hitman Blood Money
Time Splitters 2
Slender The Arrival
Life is Strange
Bioshock
Half Life 2
Jade Empire

Special thanks to FluffRave, PixelPixel1234, and Orange Velocity for their contributions. For render work by PixelPixel1234, you can reach him on our discord server!

Clips and References - SPOILERS

Crash 3 Exploit - Belko FUERTE and Mohammed Alassaf

Unreal Tournament 2004 Ballistic Weapons Soulblade950

Hitman "Allan Please Add Details" - JoesGuy

TimeSpiltters 2 "Is that too loud" - Time0to0spilt

Slender the Arrival "Not Even a Bug" - RapticGaming

Life Is Strange David T-Pose - @$$h0Ie Physics

Half Life 2 Error - TheHushedGamer and weaver cris

Jade Empire Exploit Easter Egg - Thirsty Wraith

#oddheader

[gamesmasher]

In Borderlands 2 one of the characters, Gaige, can say "Allan write some dialogue here"

[Gabe-llgm]

9:28 "You called it right! A high roll doubles your wager."

*gets a seizure then explodes*

[craigratio]

“Is that too loud” happened to me when i was about 14.
Nearly shat myself.

[ramp]

Alan has been slacking for 30 years straight.

[brady]

I wonder if the real Allen laughs when he sees this, or if he cries himself to sleep every time he sees it... Poor Allen

[kinocorner]

*The player snipes themselves* “That’s impossible!”

“Ummm...I’m certain that’s called suicide...”

[KusagariBlues]

They throw cheese at you.

Because you’re trying to cheese your way through it.

I see what they did there.

[YokosoOtaku]

I worked for a company that took contracts for Microsoft and was part of the test team for Nuts and Bolts. That glitch was DEFINATELY something the dev team was aware of, they just told us they didn't care. we had a lot of fun in between tests with it.

[SinaelDOverom]

Unreal has Portal capabilities (even UT'99 had them) and while they are underused in vanilla maps, a usermade maps can be created where 2 portals are perpendicular to each other (can't make them look at each other without glitching the game), so there would be a position where player could see themselves from the side, and thus snipe their own head off.

[bowserkidgamingAmaya]

*20 years later* Allan, where are the details, we need them

[N.I.R.A.T.I.A.S.]

6:05 I'm late to this, but when a NFL referee does a "T-pose" he's actually signalling unsportsmanlike conduct. Throwing a football at someone who isn't ready for it isn't very sporting.

[WeirdExplorer]

I've got one for that I discovered when I was a kid (we're talking 20-25 years ago). In the genesis game boogerman if you press ABC+start on the second controller it enters a debug mode where boogerman can go anywhere on the screen. I learned that bit from a geocities cheat code site long long ago. Well I tried doing the code right after you beat the end boss and was treated to an easter egg where two guys suddenly walk out and start waving. There was no reference anywhere online at the time, so I emailed the geocities site and they added it to their page. I remember screaming when I saw it, like I just found hidden treasure.

[Zilkenian_Davenport]

The "ERROR" one is a default model that appears when the model needed is missing or corrupted. It appears in almost all hl2 based games, including Team Fortress 2 and Portal 2.

[vinijoncrafts]

"Never Meant to be Found"

oddheader, almost every video title

[omcomphonetapes]

the source ERROR thing isn't too much of a discovery for people who've played garrysmod

[SumeaBizarro]

The Half Life 2 ERROR thing is probably least "secret" thing in wider context of people modding source engine, having community content in source based games or just playing garry's mod for more than 2 hours, given these situations are prone to sometimes cause the same ERROR model to be loaded as it always placeholds any model-objects missing from your game that is instructed to load. Garry's mod servers with added stuff usually will end up showing you the model a lot.

[roadrollerda]

Imagine having an error icon appear in a elevator talking to you and it just casually waits with you.

[thedyinlion]

Lol okay, so they throw cheese at you for trying to *"cheese"* the boss fight with Tiny in the Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy. Well played.

[fivemillionthreehundredeig]

Games that prevent save scumming.
Animal crossing: Mr resetti

[NoName-rbvp]

3:37
“Angels are sluttier than demons i guess?”
hmm
Botten left