So what video game secrets are a favorite of games past? I'm talking about those hard to reach items, areas, and general randomness that make you feel all warm inside. ^^

My favorite coming to mind are:
The Hall of Heroes from the PS1 game Medievil.
The Hadouken power-up in Mega Man X.

Finding the secret areas in Fort Frolic in Bioshock was great. You press a button under a counter in a shop and it opens two locked areas full of goodies.

I will never forget the first time I pressed the buttons on the microwave in black mesa.

The moment, when I found a secret room in factory in Rayman 3. Full of frozen RoboPirates (from Rayman 2 ;) ).

Ah I love destroying that casserole in Half-Life ^^

Every secret in Super Mario World. There was very little more gratifying then flying under a level with a key, or completing the whole Star Road and unlocking chocolate land.

The few that come to mind are:

1. Rainbow Road jump over the edge secret in MK 64
2. Wario stadium in MK 64 where you jump into the wall at that nintendo sign up onto the ledge, you then get picked up and placed at the finish line, completeing a lap in about 6-8 seconds.
3. for some reason, i always enjoyed getting 120 stars in mario 64, then talking to Yoshi, and flying around the castle.

I can't really think of anything else, which is odd, because all I can think of are nintendo 64 games. Perhaps there just aren't as many random secrets in games as much as there used to be.

Strane enough a lot of the secrets in Serious Sam 2 are really nice. "Don't feed the monkey secret has been found!" or "The naughty bush secret has been found!"

idk. in mgs4 i was amazed when i pushed a button on the tv remote, haha.

Personally, I hate them. I am Ok with unlockables if the game tells you how to unlock them, but in-game secrets annoy me. A game should expose everything it has to all players.

Ultrajoe:

Gamer137:
Personally, I hate them. I am Ok with unlockables if the game tells you how to unlock them, but in-game secrets annoy me. A game should expose everything it has to all players.

You would be happy not knowing, so they only increase your happiness when you find them by accident.

All of the vehicles in Halo 3's last level.

Choppers carve through flood much better than that freaking warthog.

there's a chopper in the last level..?

Reep:
[quote=Ultrajoe post=9.68772.642167]
You would be happy not knowing, so they only increase your happiness when you find them by accident.

All of the vehicles in Halo 3's last level.

Choppers carve through flood much better than that freaking warthog.

It's a Puma...

Finding the heart of new york in GTA4, its an actual BEATING HEART!!!

Me too simski, me too. Loved the gag in Episode 2 where Magnusson recalled said casserole and said something along the lines of, "..if you pull this off, I may just forget about that incident you caused back at Black Mesa. You know the one I'm talking about, the one concerning one's microwave dinner."

Also have to give a nod to finding the cheeses in Perfect Dark. They weren't hard to find, but still made me laugh.

Icarusfallz:

Reep:
[quote=Ultrajoe post=9.68772.642167]
You would be happy not knowing, so they only increase your happiness when you find them by accident.

All of the vehicles in Halo 3's last level.

Choppers carve through flood much better than that freaking warthog.

It's a Puma...

What the hell's a puma?

(nice RvB quote)

There is a secret that appears when you download the horse armour expansion for Oblivion. In a three level bandit cave, on the second floor there is a chest hidden in some mushrooms. When you open it there is a glitched book inside named 'Horse Armour Plans'. If you take these plans and read then it will say ' I'm a set of plans, go buy some Horse Armour'.
I laughed a little when I found this, and now everytime I go through this cave I collect these plans. Also, you can't drop the plans either which is odd.

finding the insomniac museum in ratchet and clank 3

Xhumed:

Icarusfallz:

Reep:
[quote=Ultrajoe post=9.68772.642167]
You would be happy not knowing, so they only increase your happiness when you find them by accident.

All of the vehicles in Halo 3's last level.

Choppers carve through flood much better than that freaking warthog.

It's a Puma...

What the hell's a puma?

(nice RvB quote)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puma

Vigormortis:

Also have to give a nod to finding the cheeses in Perfect Dark. They weren't hard to find, but still made me laugh.

It wasn't much of a secret, but I always loved seeing the BAFTA award in the safe of the G5 building.

my favorite secret in VG
I guess the church in Duke Nukem 3D... "that's one doomed space marine"
or the bear ring from Castlevania Circle of the moon.. being able to play a teddy with a rocket launcher that blows snot bubbles when standing still... awesome
And the room with the machine gun from RE2 you had to play the second scenario to open that door.
I also like spidey in THPS 2 with his awesome "do whatever a spider can" trick.
The pirate ship puzzle level from golden sun was also fun.
I cannot recall all the fun secrets I've found.

Ack, the secrets in Painkiller on some levels were pure evil, actually almost offensive platformy jumping puzzles.

There's one level where you have to find 7/7 secrets to unlock one of the bonus cards, and there's just no way you'd find them without a FAQ. Most of them being 'jump into the fatal water, but land on an invisible ledge' kind of thing. One involved actually glitch jumping up the side of a wall, jut for starters, then strafe jumping to gain stupid speed, then jumping around an impossible corner. I had to abuse the quicksave so hard to finally get that one!

1) where's the house
2)Croc! Croc had loads of secrets. such as the tiny slipperry(?) island which hangs over infinity. or the cave full o snakes.

pxZero:
Every secret in Super Mario World. There was very little more gratifying then flying under a level with a key, or completing the whole Star Road and unlocking chocolate land.

Hell yeah, that's the 'zaz secrets in today's games lack.

Giant Panda in Warcraft III.

Amazons in Rome:Total War.

Indiana Jones in Morrowind.

ninja chicken:

Xhumed:

Icarusfallz:

Reep:
[quote=Ultrajoe post=9.68772.642167]
You would be happy not knowing, so they only increase your happiness when you find them by accident.

All of the vehicles in Halo 3's last level.

Choppers carve through flood much better than that freaking warthog.

It's a Puma...

What the hell's a puma?

(nice RvB quote)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puma

Stop making up animals!

That link leads to a cougar!

ive yet to find the damn thing. or the ghost! just hte mongoose.

Accidentally caping under the tape on Cheese Bridge in Super Mario World... thought I was dead because I missed the platform, then bam!

Secrets seem a touch spoiled now: even if I ignore listed achievements and Gamefaqs et al I've mates who don't and tell me everything anyway. Well they don't tell me exactly, it's more insidious than that. They ask me if I know about it... The day after GTAIV was released my mate with a player's guide said to me:

"How far have you got? Have you got to the bit where Roman gets killed in front of the church where he gets married to Mallorie?"
"Not yet, but thanks for the warning. I do so hate finding out plot twists for myself, especially in sequels to beloved games I've been anticipating for years."
"Don't mention it! I got a map of all the hidden stuff too, if you want to borrow it when I'm done ticking everything off."
"Sigh."

Heck the FIRST level of pain killer had that secret where you needed to tip a lamp. If it falls the wrong way from even a fight you can not get teh secret. Don't even start me on the snowy bridge secret along the bridge tower. I had to Quick save/load 40 times!

Me and my pal thought it was really cool when we found a secret cave bit in SFX Superfly (dirt biking) its hard as hell to get to though. In the Fox Creek level you have to jump over a canyon and down the side of a house to hit a small ramp behind a fence that puts you on a different roof and to go into a cave and do some jumps and your there.... Hard.

And i also laughed when i found Haris Pilton and Floyd Pinkus in World of Warcraft.

Unknower:
Giant Panda in Warcraft III.

Amazons in Rome:Total War.

Indiana Jones in Morrowind.

ninja chicken:

Xhumed:

Icarusfallz:

Reep:
[quote=Ultrajoe post=9.68772.642167]
You would be happy not knowing, so they only increase your happiness when you find them by accident.

All of the vehicles in Halo 3's last level.

Choppers carve through flood much better than that freaking warthog.

It's a Puma...

What the hell's a puma?

(nice RvB quote)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puma

Stop making up animals!

That link leads to a cougar!

dts what a fuckin puma is!

in gta 3 the sign that says "You weren't supposed to be able to get here, ya know" and at the same place in liberty city stories says "hello again"

Hmm someone here is named ninja chicken. Wasn't there a "Ninja chicken" secret in Serious Sam 2?