Potential concept: hoaxes that became real in later games?
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Hey there! Welcome to a blog post by me that doesn't have anything to do with the Giant Bomb API or any pimping of projects of mine based around it. Instead, you get to read a semi-lengthy rant!
Before we get started, however, there's a few things you need to know real quick:
- It's 9:21AM as I'm writing this bullet point
- I didn't sleep last night
- I wrote a very long, seven-paragraph rant about Red Dead Redemption's crazy DLC stuff, and what you're about to read was a footnote at the end of it
- I ended up deciding that the rant was worthless compared to the footnote
- The footnote isn't too great either
- I just realized I left my laundry in the (dorm) drier overnight. Blast.
Anyways, let's get into it! Like I said, I was ranting about Red Dead Redemption and all of its craziness surrounding its latest DLC pack, and I was going to go on and on about how strange it is to pile zombies and Bigfoot and stuff like that into what was previously a sorta-believable pulpy western game, when I realized that having Bigfoot in the game would actually be totally awesome.
Not because Bigfoot is very awesome on his/her own, or that he/she really fits in Red Dead Redemption at all, but because of the infamous hoax wherein some claimed that Bigfoot was in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. It's hard to imagine that putting him/her into RDR was anything but a shout-out to that past game.
So I was thinking about this, and then it occurred to me... maybe we should have a wiki concept for games that were supposed to have a certain thing in them, but it turned out to be a hoax, but then that thing was put into a sequel or spin-off of that game. I can only think of a few off the top of my head:
- Luigi was rumored to be in Super Mario 64, and was put into Super Mario 64 DS
- The Secret Cow Level was supposed to be a thing in Diablo, wasn't, but was in Diablo II
- Bigfoot not being in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, but being in Red Dead Redemption's Undead Nightmare DLC
- Sonic being in Super Smash Bros. (or was it Melee?). He most definitely wasn't, but then went onto becoming a character in Brawl.
I don't know if this quite constitutes a concept, but if it does, Giant Bomb, we need a terrible/awesome portmanteau to go with it. I'm all out of ideas, so... thoughts? Or perhaps other games that contain things that were supposed-to-be-in-previous-or-otherwise-related games but were actually hoaxes? I swear there's at least a couple more that I can't think of.
Apologies in advance if this is still rather ranty. I swear I meant it to be like two sentences long when I started writing it.
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