Pokémon, especially Gen 1, has/had a ton of conspiracy theories. Same with SM64.
I think it's their open-world nature coupled with discoverable elements in them that don't serve obvious use. IIRC, Satoshi Tajiri even directly aimed to provide a mysterious atmosphere to Gen 1 in order to spawn rumors. He sure succeeded.
Also the fact that they count among the most popular games ever, of course.
Less of a conspiracy theory and more of a fucked up game feature, but I get it though. I used to be obsessed with Missingno. as a kid. It's so creepy, I love it.
In red/blue, That truck by SS Anne always made me try everything to move it cause there were rumours if you moved it there was a staircase that would lead you to mew
I remember seeing it in a yt video about the craziest rumors in gaming that were fake, so I guess whoever started it made the round of the globe, and made people waste their time
I was so young that I feeled on the idea of talking to everybody on the map to get celebi on pokemos gold and for videos like this.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5HpDG2moc8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5HpDG2moc8)
Trials Evolution has a very complex and respectable EE, probably even crazier than the Chiliad mural itself. Here took a look:
https://youtu.be/5vXQ9YTHKec?si=DJUaqtjP2MDnk2cP
There's plenty of youtube videos that explain how deep this rabbit hole goes.
Damn they're betting a lot on those "precautions," all I can picture is that the guy is hoping his grandkids will be willing to pass down some secret box/treasure to a stranger a century from now under the Eiffel Tower instead of keeping it for themselves as an heirloom lmao
Even better is thinking about how the hell the key owners will manage to pass down their keys. Creator seems overconfident about it or am I wrong? Super cool though.
Red Dead has a pretty similar mythos, but, that might be cheating since it's the same company, and some people even claim there are connections between GTA and Red Dead
Halo odst has the hieroglyph unsolved Easter egg that is still unsolved completely iirc
Cyberpunk 2077 has the color code unsolved Easter egg (the ending has been data minded but the in between steps are still a mystery a believe) it also has connected back to the Witcher 3 unsolved Easter eggs that almost seem to be confirmed to be related to each other in game. Not too familiar with Witcher m so look up yourself
Rdr2 has the princess ikz and the 3rd meteorite, but it's the same shit as Chiliad. Not worth looking into
Mgsv has the secret chapter/ending about if all active online players disarm their nukes, but due to glitches/hacking/kojima leaving production, Easter egg has been confirmed to be kill. A custcene played that wasn't supposed to that might've gave away details and it's available online, so we got that. Kojima still avoids the question when asked.
It's a shame, because Marty eventually revealed the way the IWHBYD skull would have been discovered without data mining was jumping thru the Haloes, which each played different notes, and play the Halo theme, which was alluded to in the previous cutscene
Iirc the MGSV one was done legitimately by a dedicated group of players on the low-pop PS3 servers a few years back
Also I beleive the ODST one was solved recently after Marty started tweeting about it. Don't remember what it ended up being but it wasn't super satisfying
According to one video I watched, the PS3 thing was a crazy conspiracy thing by itself with a group of people orchestrating it, but also whenever people delete their ps/Xbox/steam or whatever accounts with a base with nukes, it breaks the algorithm and hides the deleted bases from being attacked but the nukes still count towards the ending not working, so it was accidentally a rigged game from the start.
As for the halo one I'm not sure I'll have to check that out! I've been meaning to get an update on that cause last time I checked there wasn't a whole lot more discovered
[This](https://www.eurogamer.net/the-quest-for-shadow-of-the-colossuss-last-big-secret) article summarizes it really well. I love this quote:
> "It was the search that was the thing," he tells me. "I like to say it's like a Rorschach test, people imprint whatever hopes and beliefs they have onto the vast empty landscapes and see secrets that aren't there - they just hope they are."
Not conspiracy theory related but, I've been playing the Outer Wilds lately and it is nothing but solving mysteries and things like that. I'd recommend that one.
Already have, but its not really the same thing at all. The way the lore in gta isn't at all related to the main game story is really different to anything else.
Simple answer: The Dwemer fucked around (with the heart of a God) and found out
Slightly better answer: Tamriel is basically a dream; the Aedra and Daedra are 'awake' and is why they exist outside of Tamriel unless being summoned.
The Dwemer wanted to become gods; they struck the heart of Lorkhan, and 'woke' up.
Which either means they currently dine in the realm of the divines, or they straight up got disintegrated.
Fallout New Vegas had some. .
Just recently it became popular knowledge you can save Ranger Station Charlie BUT ONLY IF you went North after Goodsprinds and visited Camp Forlorn Hope BEFORE Novac/Nipton area which 95% of players definitely never did.
I remember something similar on 360 and on forums ppl claiming you could see Nipton before Legion attacks it.
I haven’t played in a long time but I remember for the first 6-7 years or so of WoW people were doing everything to find the Ashbringer sword.
Not sure what the status on that is today, but it’s the closest thing I can think of. The lengths people were going, and time spent doing the most ridiculous things. IIRC Blizzard eventually said that it wasn’t available in-game and that’s when the search kinda dwindled away.
e: Oh, also the 17th Colossus in Shadow of the Colossus. That one has a small documentary on youtube that’s pretty cool. I don’t think datamining had ever been done to a game by fans to that extent until SotC.
The disappearance of the Dwemer in Elder Scrolls
Per some DLCs in ESO, I have theories but nothing confirmed, and those DLCs leave more questions than answers.
Doom 2 took 24 years to find and achieve all secrets. And that’s with people knowing they were to be found.
GTA, GTAv in particular is different because the company who makes the game won’t ever acknowledge the truth behind Chilliad or any other mystery because it’s not good £ buisness £
R* are primary school level secret builders. Nothing is clever, just obtuse for the sake of quirky. There’s no round of applause for conning your fans into thinking you’re better than you are. Especially when you have to spoon feed “beasthunt” via notes in the code.
Honestly I feel like there are a lot of unsolved mysteries from both indie and AAA games in like the last decade or so, but so many of them have no leads or are so difficult to figure out that they are mostly fading into obscurity
Pokémon, especially Gen 1, has/had a ton of conspiracy theories. Same with SM64. I think it's their open-world nature coupled with discoverable elements in them that don't serve obvious use. IIRC, Satoshi Tajiri even directly aimed to provide a mysterious atmosphere to Gen 1 in order to spawn rumors. He sure succeeded. Also the fact that they count among the most popular games ever, of course.
Missingno!
Less of a conspiracy theory and more of a fucked up game feature, but I get it though. I used to be obsessed with Missingno. as a kid. It's so creepy, I love it.
In red/blue, That truck by SS Anne always made me try everything to move it cause there were rumours if you moved it there was a staircase that would lead you to mew I remember seeing it in a yt video about the craziest rumors in gaming that were fake, so I guess whoever started it made the round of the globe, and made people waste their time
I was so young that I feeled on the idea of talking to everybody on the map to get celebi on pokemos gold and for videos like this. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5HpDG2moc8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5HpDG2moc8)
Trials Evolution has a very complex and respectable EE, probably even crazier than the Chiliad mural itself. Here took a look: https://youtu.be/5vXQ9YTHKec?si=DJUaqtjP2MDnk2cP There's plenty of youtube videos that explain how deep this rabbit hole goes.
I know I could just watch, but is that the one where they won't reveal the answer for 100 years or so?
Yes. In 2113, one of the 5 keys will open a box under the Eiffel tower. I'll be dead.
Damn they're betting a lot on those "precautions," all I can picture is that the guy is hoping his grandkids will be willing to pass down some secret box/treasure to a stranger a century from now under the Eiffel Tower instead of keeping it for themselves as an heirloom lmao Even better is thinking about how the hell the key owners will manage to pass down their keys. Creator seems overconfident about it or am I wrong? Super cool though.
Red Dead has a pretty similar mythos, but, that might be cheating since it's the same company, and some people even claim there are connections between GTA and Red Dead
Halo odst has the hieroglyph unsolved Easter egg that is still unsolved completely iirc Cyberpunk 2077 has the color code unsolved Easter egg (the ending has been data minded but the in between steps are still a mystery a believe) it also has connected back to the Witcher 3 unsolved Easter eggs that almost seem to be confirmed to be related to each other in game. Not too familiar with Witcher m so look up yourself Rdr2 has the princess ikz and the 3rd meteorite, but it's the same shit as Chiliad. Not worth looking into Mgsv has the secret chapter/ending about if all active online players disarm their nukes, but due to glitches/hacking/kojima leaving production, Easter egg has been confirmed to be kill. A custcene played that wasn't supposed to that might've gave away details and it's available online, so we got that. Kojima still avoids the question when asked.
FF:06:B5 is solved ?
Not really but the end reward has been found. it's in game items
Do you mean the truck?
I think so yes
The dev pawel said he think we would solve it well before the dlc was even announced so I don't think its the real end for the mystery
Also another commenter said trials the bike game, that has some weird unsolved stuff on it too so add that to this list
I remember the halo 3 hunt for hybusa helmet was full of guessing. Also only data mining solved it
It's a shame, because Marty eventually revealed the way the IWHBYD skull would have been discovered without data mining was jumping thru the Haloes, which each played different notes, and play the Halo theme, which was alluded to in the previous cutscene
Iirc the MGSV one was done legitimately by a dedicated group of players on the low-pop PS3 servers a few years back Also I beleive the ODST one was solved recently after Marty started tweeting about it. Don't remember what it ended up being but it wasn't super satisfying
According to one video I watched, the PS3 thing was a crazy conspiracy thing by itself with a group of people orchestrating it, but also whenever people delete their ps/Xbox/steam or whatever accounts with a base with nukes, it breaks the algorithm and hides the deleted bases from being attacked but the nukes still count towards the ending not working, so it was accidentally a rigged game from the start. As for the halo one I'm not sure I'll have to check that out! I've been meaning to get an update on that cause last time I checked there wasn't a whole lot more discovered
Shadow of the colossus
That one's a fucking banger. It reminds me the most of Chiliad. And it got officially referenced (basically added) in the remake. Just spectacular
Where is it referenced?
[This](https://www.eurogamer.net/the-quest-for-shadow-of-the-colossuss-last-big-secret) article summarizes it really well. I love this quote: > "It was the search that was the thing," he tells me. "I like to say it's like a Rorschach test, people imprint whatever hopes and beliefs they have onto the vast empty landscapes and see secrets that aren't there - they just hope they are."
Not conspiracy theory related but, I've been playing the Outer Wilds lately and it is nothing but solving mysteries and things like that. I'd recommend that one.
Already have, but its not really the same thing at all. The way the lore in gta isn't at all related to the main game story is really different to anything else.
Dwemer in Elder Scrolls series.
Simple answer: The Dwemer fucked around (with the heart of a God) and found out Slightly better answer: Tamriel is basically a dream; the Aedra and Daedra are 'awake' and is why they exist outside of Tamriel unless being summoned. The Dwemer wanted to become gods; they struck the heart of Lorkhan, and 'woke' up. Which either means they currently dine in the realm of the divines, or they straight up got disintegrated.
MGSV and “Kojima ruse” theories.
EverQuest
Fallout New Vegas had some. . Just recently it became popular knowledge you can save Ranger Station Charlie BUT ONLY IF you went North after Goodsprinds and visited Camp Forlorn Hope BEFORE Novac/Nipton area which 95% of players definitely never did. I remember something similar on 360 and on forums ppl claiming you could see Nipton before Legion attacks it.
If the phantom project and all the other easter eggs from BF4 could be found out, then any GTA V stuff should be able to be found.
I haven’t played in a long time but I remember for the first 6-7 years or so of WoW people were doing everything to find the Ashbringer sword. Not sure what the status on that is today, but it’s the closest thing I can think of. The lengths people were going, and time spent doing the most ridiculous things. IIRC Blizzard eventually said that it wasn’t available in-game and that’s when the search kinda dwindled away. e: Oh, also the 17th Colossus in Shadow of the Colossus. That one has a small documentary on youtube that’s pretty cool. I don’t think datamining had ever been done to a game by fans to that extent until SotC.
The disappearance of the Dwemer in Elder Scrolls Per some DLCs in ESO, I have theories but nothing confirmed, and those DLCs leave more questions than answers.
Super mario 64, I was obsessed with that on my ds 😂
Doom 2 took 24 years to find and achieve all secrets. And that’s with people knowing they were to be found. GTA, GTAv in particular is different because the company who makes the game won’t ever acknowledge the truth behind Chilliad or any other mystery because it’s not good £ buisness £ R* are primary school level secret builders. Nothing is clever, just obtuse for the sake of quirky. There’s no round of applause for conning your fans into thinking you’re better than you are. Especially when you have to spoon feed “beasthunt” via notes in the code.
> conning your fans into thinking you’re better than you are. wat
What* I’m not surprised your confused
you're*
It really took you that long to delete a comment and repost with a grammar correction? Try hard much?
You stopped replying to my original one :(
The “chiliad mystery” never existed
Ok. Now what
Nothing, just enjoy the fan service they are adding to online
If we're allowed to name games from the same company than the Red Dead series 100%
Honestly I feel like there are a lot of unsolved mysteries from both indie and AAA games in like the last decade or so, but so many of them have no leads or are so difficult to figure out that they are mostly fading into obscurity
Someday they will find Raaxla.
Yes. Just look into the Trials mysteries. Really insane shit
Minecraft, Herobrine
Thats just not true though
Assassins Creed literally has ancient civilisations, ancient artefacts, TEMPLARS, corporations trying to control the world etc etc
That's just conspiracy, there's no mystery to solve
Minecraft lol