In many games that we are familiar with, some more interesting built-in mini-games will be added. The presence of these games is often the icing on the cake of the game, and some of them even directly affect the progress of the game.
For example:
"The Legend of the Martial Arts" is a built-in game, dice, hunting, fishing, digging medicine, iron, boxing, mining...... It's all a built-in mini-game
In addition, the slot machine in Rainbow City in Pokemon Fire Red, you can buy the most powerful pet if you win a little more, the frog race in "Heavy Loader", the gameplay of Crash Bandicoot in "Uncharted 4", the dart throwing in "GTA5", the Texas Hold'em in "Red Dead Redemption", the Sega arcade fighting game built into "Like a Dragon 7", the blackjack in "Resident Evil 7", and the card game in "The Legend of Sword and Fairy 7".
These mini-games are generally outside of the story and can be triggered at any time. So even if it's the end of the world out there, you can still choose not to do the process and indulge in these built-in mini-games.
Naturally, the most ridiculed by players is the Gwent card in The Witcher 3.
Back then, there was a stalk of "the daughter disappeared and the father was addicted to gambling Gwent cards":
There's nothing more enjoyable in The Witcher 3's universe than having a GWENT card.
There are many players who don't even care about the plot, and go directly all over the world to find NPCs to play Gwent cards. The NPCs in the game can also cooperate, as soon as they hear that they are going to play cards, the armor master throws a sledgehammer, the swordsmith loses a big iron sword, and even the bloody baron, who has always been known for his infatuation, puts his wife and daughter at risk and sacrifices his life to accompany the gentleman.
"What? Your student is missing? It's a pity, let's get the Gwent cards first!"
Why are players so obsessed with playing GWENT cards? If you meet a female poker friend who plays GWENT cards in the game, they will take the initiative to sacrifice themselves after you win the GWENT card championship!
On the other hand, "Fallout 4" is also one of the games sought after by the majority of players, and there is also a funny meme: "The wife was killed, the son was abducted, and the father was addicted to picking up garbage".
The game gives the player the ability to create a home, a huge area must be built well, and this is one of the fun parts of the game, the materials used to build the home are done by picking up garbage. The game allows players to DIY the necessary items by themselves, and the raw materials are still the garbage that is scavenged everywhere, which leads to a huge demand for garbage. Finding all kinds of junk hidden in the game gives you great satisfaction and becomes addicted to it.
"I have a plan"
A mantra often used by Ducky van der Linde, the leader of Van der Linde's gang in Red Dead Redemption.
Whenever he says, "I have a plan!" (I have a plan!), it always makes my scalp tingle. He doesn't really have a lot of ways, but a way to set a flag. His mantras are many, including: "Trust me", "This is the last vote", "I have a plan, a great plan!", "One more vote", "One more vote!"
As long as the player sees this sentence, he knows that the calf must be finished in the future. And he keeps instigating the player, feeling like he wants the player to die.
The Portal cake is a lie
The Cake is A Lie. 蛋糕是个谎言。 不知道如今是否还有人记得这个梗呢？
In the early stages of the game, the protagonist notices that the words "The cake is a lie" appear several times in the dark room on the wall, and everyone doesn't think about it at the time. Later, I found out that this is a reminder to players!
The game's cute and charming villain, GlaDOS, once promised players that if you completed the test, you would get a cake as a reward. When the player actually completes the test, she says that she will send the protagonist to a room with a cake, but that the elevator ends not with a cake, but at the end of the elevator.
That's right, it turns out she's a cheat.
"The cake is a lie" has since become a hot game meme, with the phrase extended to "unrealistic promises that exist only to provide motivation and will not be kept". It is used to ridicule the empty promises of those in power.
Even quite a few games pay homage to it. In Minecraft, you will get the achievement "The cake is a lie" after crafting the cake, and in "World of Warcraft", the achievement unlocked after cooking the cake is also called "The cake is not a lie".
Dark Souls undead don't have knees
For "Dark Souls", where the jumping ability is better than nothing, the most worthy of players' complaints is naturally the height of the steps.
Due to the forced setting of the game mechanics, the player cannot jump above the knee, so there is a meme such as "the undead have no knees" and "knee-high walls". Many people ridiculed: Just the height of the knee can kill 10,000 Geralts, and stop 20,000 undead.
"The undead don't have knees" is actually a way for players to express their dissatisfaction with the jumping mechanic. In other games, jumping is easy, but in this game you need to meet various conditions, and even if you don't jump high.
YEARS LATER, AS LONG AS THERE IS A GAME ON STEAM THAT HAS A SIMILAR GAMEPLAY TO DARK SOULS, WE WILL SEE REPORTS FROM MAJOR PLATFORMS THAT THIS WEEK THERE WILL BE ANOTHER UNDEAD WITHOUT KNEES TO SPREAD THE FIRE.
The games that each era encounters are different, and the emotions invested are also different.
In the past, we also chased the latest games and experienced masterpieces from various eras
But one day I will stop and reminisce about the classic games of the past, and remember the youth that has passed away.
For our generation, games are not just a technical thing, they have become a special symbol of an era, integrating our emotional memories and precipitating the changes of the times.
The demolition and repair of the old streets, things are not people, only games, and they are still as wonderful as they were back then.
Every frame, every character, has not faded with the changes of the times, on the contrary, it has become more and more distinct.
That's right, it's not the games that we're missing, it's the times that belong to us.
Note: Some of the pictures in the article are from the Internet, such as invasion and deletion