# Inside jokes you'd like to see in video games **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 8, 2006, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inside-jokes-youd-like-to-see-in-video-games/343496 "2006-02-08T03:08:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inside-jokes-youd-like-to-see-in-video-games/343496/21 "2006-02-09T07:27:59Z")
I’d like to see an RPG or Zelda clone with a ridiulously long trading chain which has you crossing and recrossing the world finding the one guy one wants a hat with a picture of a taco on it. At the very end the last character will tease you about beig such a loser for doing all that work and take the last item without giving anything in return. > [@Incubus](#): > > Another thing that would be hilarious would be a house in town- not EVERY house, just one. If you go in, the inhabitants express legitimate shock, then a family member runs off to tell the guards, and you wind up spending a couple nights in the pokey for burglary 😃 At one point in “Secret of Evermore” for the SNES you enter a town and all the houses are empty and you can, like always, open up peoples chests and take their stuff. If you do so however when you finally find all the townspeople you get in trouble. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inside-jokes-youd-like-to-see-in-video-games/343496/22 "2006-02-09T07:29:51Z")
> [@Der Trihs](#): > > I swear I remember one where the wise old man gives the hero the standard speech about his great destiny and how he alone can save the world, pauses . . . then says “Had you going there, didn’t I ?” Maybe that was “Secret of Evermore.” It sounds familiar and seems in keeping with that game’s character. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inside-jokes-youd-like-to-see-in-video-games/343496/23 "2006-02-09T07:54:27Z")
> [@Fern Forest](#): > > Maybe that was “Secret of Evermore.” It sounds familiar and seems in keeping with that game’s character. Nope, never played it. ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inside-jokes-youd-like-to-see-in-video-games/343496/24 "2006-02-09T07:56:01Z")
There was an interesting riff on **The Hero’s Destiny[sup]tm[/sup]** in Arcanum. Right at the beginning, a young priest runs up to you insisting that you are the reincarnation of a great hero, destined for great things. Near the end, you can discover (depending on the path you take) that the hero is in fact still alive, being an elf who went into hiding. Therefore you can’t be his reincarnation. He tells you that you are a hero because you chose to be one, not because you were destined. In Fallout 2, sometimes when you were beating the crap out of some thugs they would say, “I really need a Limit Break.” ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inside-jokes-youd-like-to-see-in-video-games/343496/25 "2006-02-09T08:30:39Z")
Maybe a cutscene in a FPS that shows some rookie starting to hold his weapon in some ridiculous position (which, in a brief “rookie’s-eye-view” shot reveals that it gives him a standard FPS-style view of his gun), before being reprimanded by a superior. That, or, during your typical tutorial level… NPC/Instructor: “Press ‘x’ to open the safe!” PC [Pauses, looks over shoulder at NPC]: “Press…wha? _What_ did you say?” NPC: “I said _‘open the damn safe’!_” ---
**Author:** ![enigmatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@enigmatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enigmatic)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inside-jokes-youd-like-to-see-in-video-games/343496/26 "2006-02-09T09:54:11Z")
Obviously this thread can proceed no further without some fool posting [this](http://project-apollo.net/text/rpg.html) link 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inside-jokes-youd-like-to-see-in-video-games/343496.md?page=1)