I was playing through Breath of Fire 2, and at one point it asked me “Will you jump in the toilet?”. Granted, it was necessary to progress through the game, but that’s a pretty bizarre thing to see.
Rings of Power was a fount of strangeness. It had the first nudity code in a console game, a madman in the game would spew things about coding the game, and there was a way (I can’t remember how, it’s been years) you could actually crash the game. Not unusual in and of itself. However, the game would say something like “Void (the big bad last boss) comes to your party and kills you instantly. Please press RESET”. Creeped the hell out of me the first time I saw it. 'course, this is coming from someone who, at 3 years old, was scared by E.T. for Atari 2600. That game still scares me, but for different reasons.
Guilty Gear X (please tell me SOMEONE here’s played it): There’s a character in the game, Faust, who’s your average 9’10" doctor with a 6’ scalpel and a bag over his head. One of his special attacks basically looks like he’s shoving his scalpel up your opponent’s arse. When I was playing the game, I thought “…no. No way he’s actually doing that.” Then I read some translated game quotes from a FAQ somewhere.
He was doing that.
Damn.
Please note these are all American-released games. I could tell you stuff about the games that never make it over here. I just spent about half an hour playing a game where you play as a baby harp seal.
Someone needs to play Eternal Darkness. Getting the BSOD on your Gamecube is incredibly frustrating.
In the toilet vein, in Banjo-Kazooie for the N64 there’s a section that would have you ask a voodoo shaman to turn you into a pumpkin so you can be flushed down a talking toilet. There’s also a cheat to turn you into a washing machine (in the sequel, the washing machine makes a reappearance as a necessary transformation).
As to crazy Japanese games, I don’t think anything will beat the arcade machine that involves ramming your finger up characters’ asses for points. It’s just… wow.
BraheSilver: Got it, got all the endings. The BSOD is weird enough, but how about when it pretends to delete your save files? Or your head falls off, and you can go and pick it up, and it starts reciting a speech from Hamlet? Fa-ree-ky.
Also: The game you’re talking about, Boong-Ga Boong-Ga, is just the tip of the iceberg, so to speak. Check out Toilet Kids . Or don’t.
Just about anything in Maniac Mansion. Including, but by no means limited to, being able to microwave an innocent hampster…and then being murdered by it’s owner if he finds out what you’ve done.
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("Within minutes, it will all be over. You’ll be hooked up to my machine, getting your pretty brains sucked out. Heh-heh-heh… ")
In the sequel (Banjo-Tooie) there were a couple puzzles that required you to actually kill innocent NPCs, which is something you don’t see in games a lot. In one instance, an ice cube creature has an item inside her that you need, but she won’t give it to you. Rather than go on a sidequest and do her a favor, you have to just attack her and shatter her. When you find her husband up on a cliff, he asks you to shove him back to his home, but he lands in a pool of boiling water instead, which ends up cooling the water and helping you progress.
You have the option, in Final Fantasy VII, of having Cloud, the main male character, hang out with Muuki (I think that’s his name) and company at the Honey Bee Inn (which is basically a combination brothel and love hotel). Muuki and co. are these buff men in speedos who appear to be gay (Muuki himself even has a mustache reminiscent of one of the village people) and interested in Cloud. Muuki also keeps referring to Cloud as “bubby” or somesuch; it’s been awhile since I played it. The whole scene was very bizarre. In fact the whole Wall Market sequence was pretty out-there. As one of the missions there you had to have a squat contest with a transvesstite who owns a gym. Very weird.
There’s a scene in I think Silent Hill. Your character walks around trying to find useful things to use while not being killed by lots of scarey monsters. Anyway, at one point she walks into a really filthy bathroom stall and the game asks you if you want to check the toilet. So you think, if the game is asking, there must be something useful in there. After your character sticks her hand in the toilet, well I can’t remember exactly what the game says, but it basically laughs at you and says, “that was disgusting, I can’t believe you stuck your hand in there.” And of course, there wasn’t anything useful in the toilet.
The best part is that there’s actually different… rather embarrasing quotes each character says when he does… um… a certain move. I <3 Guilty Gear.
How it ever got over to the other side of the pond from Japan, I will never know, but thank god it’s here.
Another game that comes to mind is the recent game ‘Disgaea’. It makes fun of everything, even itself. >_> I mean, does the king ‘choking to death on a black petzel’ ring a bell?
levdrakon: That’s Silent Hill 3. And that’s actually a reference to a previous Silent Hill game, where there was a necessary item in a filthy toilet. I think that part actually changes if you have a save from SH2 on your memory card.
The Silent Hill series had some truly bizarre moments in it, as well. In SH1, you find a key in a bag of jellybeans. In SH2, there’s a can in a kitchen somewhere. You find a trusty can opener to open it with, and the can is full of…light bulbs. And of course, there are the UFO endings in 1 and 3, as well as the Dog ending in 2.
Matilda Rose: Yay! IIRC, one of the quotes that you get if you do it in a Faust vs. Faust match is “My constipation’s cured!”. And now you know why the voices in Japanese fighting games never get translated and re-dubbed.
levdrakon: That’s Silent Hill 3. And that’s actually a reference to a previous Silent Hill game, where there was a necessary item in a filthy toilet. I think that part actually changes if you have a save from SH2 on your memory card.
The Silent Hill series had some truly bizarre moments in it, as well. In SH1, you find a key in a bag of jellybeans. In SH2, there’s a can in a kitchen somewhere. You find a trusty can opener to open it with, and the can is full of…light bulbs. And of course, there are the UFO endings in 1 and 3, as well as the Dog ending in 2.
Matilda Rose: Yay! IIRC, one of the quotes that you get if you do it in a Faust vs. Faust match is “My constipation’s cured!”. And now you know why the voices in Japanese fighting games never get translated and re-dubbed.
My favorite quote from that game comes from the Tentacle weapon, which any monster class character (and some other types, like the vampire lord and Hoggmeister) can equip, which has as its description: “Good for groping all kinds of things ^^”
In the Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask, one of the ways to get a heart piece is to give a sheet of paper to a hand that comes out of the toilet in the Stock Pot Inn. The best part? The guy in the toilet thanks you by giving you the heart piece, saying “I found this down here”.
Mazikeen don’t forget Cloud having to gather items and get a dress made so he can dress in drag to sneak into the villain’s hideout at one point. Like something out of every bad sitcom.
I love the “I’m flaming…in a masculine way,” line Gex says when he grabs an invulnerability powerup on Gex 2: Enter the Gecko. He sometimes says “Flame On!” which is cute but just not the same.
On Max Payne, a couple of mild surreal moments. During the elevator ride in the flophouse hotel, if you shoot the speaker playing irritating Muzak, Max says “Thank you.”
The deja vu sequence after Max is injected with the drug of choice in the game, Valkyr. As you struggle with the drug in your system and relive some of the backstory (yet again), Max reads a note on a desk telling him he is trapped in a graphic novel (referring to the cutscenes and his overwrought detective film dialogue) and answers a phone call that is himself bombarding himself with that same kind of dialogue. He then repeats the scene when trying to run from the room, only this time the note tells him he is trapped in a videogame (and refers to the weapon stats menu in the game) and the phone call is someone else telling him that this is all the drug working on him and to fight it.
The Twins Peaks-esque show, “Address Unknown”, some minor thugs are watching as you try to sneak up on them while crossing between buildings. The narrator relates a recurring dream involving an increasingly strange conversation with a giant penguin only to reveal that he wakes up screaming in the asylum where he is a resident yet again. I watched it over and over it was so creepy and funny.
Not as gross or out there as some of the others mentioned, but still noteworthy.
So, first thing to do is remove your gown and hang it on the hook. Now, wait for Ford to curl up, then get the towel and the satchel. Put the towel over the drain, and the satchel in front of the robot panel. Now comes the part that drives most people crazy: they don’t know how to stop the upper-half-of-the-room cleaning robot. But, it’s so simple: just put the junk mail on top of the satchel.
Now you can push the button! Then step back and watch the Rube Goldberg shenanigans, which end with the Babel Fish stuck solidly in your ear (squish!). Bet you never thought outer space would be like this! However, now that you have the Fish, you’ll be able to understand anyone who talks to you.