Comments on: Overlooked: Shamwood

By: duckofindeed

duckofindeed — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 05:27:34 +0000

I remember finding those scribbles in Portal 2. I even found some when I went through this weird gap in the wall, and they freaked me out, too. They were pretty cool, because they were out of the way, but they were indeed strange….

By: cary

cary — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 15:24:43 +0000

Quite a find! I’m pretty terrible at finding secret places in games. I usually end up blindly stumbling across them, like those little, creepy spaces in the Portal games that contained scribbles and writing all over the walls. They were startling enough to make me forget where I was going at the moment and made feel like I had entered a horror game!

By: duckofindeed

duckofindeed — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 03:31:16 +0000

It is. It is indeed.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 12:04:18 +0000

That’s pretty awesome!

By: duckofindeed

duckofindeed — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 03:57:35 +0000

I loved the Insomniac Museums, too. They were the best secrets ever made. (And as someone once pointed out, you have to be an insomniac to reach it. Unless you just change the PS2’s clock, of course.) You could just spend so much time in them, and I don’t know why more companies don’t do that. It proves Insomniac loves us.

As bad as “Quest 64” is, I’ve always had a much higher opinion of it after that. Still a bad game, but not as bad as I first thought.

By: Hatm0nster

Hatm0nster — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 00:55:19 +0000

Real Secrets are a rarity in games these days, and whole areas have always been rare as far as secrets go. They really feel special when found and by extension make their game that much more special.

My perfect example of such a secret is the first Insomniac Museum in Ratchet and Clank 2: Going Commando. I can’t remember if I stumbled upon it or unlocked it, but getting to wander those halls filled with goodies that didn’t make into the main game…that was just…special. :)