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Posted June 04, 2019
I am playing Claw from 1997. This is a very difficult platformer game and that is why it is interesting, but the real challenging parts of the game are the secret areas.

I have nothing against secrets, but this basically leaves the most fun parts of the game hidden from me, and I need to replay the whole level and do some very tricky jumps just to enter those areas only to get one shot at it.Then if I fail, replay the same level over and over again, just to get there again.

I don't know exactly what is my point here, I guess it is just a rant. There are some old games that had entire levels secret like Quake 2 or Serious Sam, but those were just additional levels, nothing special, while here the best parts of the game are very inaccessible.

So, did you play some game where you think the best parts were hidden or required ridiculous amount of effort to reach, something like that...
Posted June 04, 2019
Nobody posted yet?
How about SiN?

Then there's Diablo IIs Secret Cow Level.
Here's the wikia page.
Post edited June 04, 2019 by NuffCatnip
Posted June 04, 2019
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antrad88: I have nothing against secrets, but this basically leaves the most fun parts of the game hidden from me, and I need to replay the whole level and do some very tricky jumps just to enter those areas only to get one shot at it.
At least, you can ignore that secret and carry on with the rest of the game. I'm currently playing Marathon, where you're supposed to find your way to some section of the colony ship via a hidden door (that is, a wall section where you must press the activate button for it to open), but there isn't even a slight hint about it. And you know how that goes: first you scratch your head, then you unload all your ammo to the walls, you scratch your head some more, you press every button you find, you load the game just in case the map didn't load correctly, then you try pressing the activate button on every nook & cranny of the level and voila, open sesame: ready to pop alien invaders once again.
Posted June 04, 2019
"Duke It Out in DC" had a really cool secret level where you went through this lab with all of these frozen baddies.
Posted June 04, 2019
Super Mario World had a LOT of hidden stages, i rmb there were a total of 96 levels/stages including all hidden 1s. Some of the hardest & most interesting 1s were in the secret areas, arranged in a shape of a star. Had a lot of pride & satisfaction completing it including the finding of all secret areas without any additional help. =D

The final stage against Bowser was actually a bit of a minor letdown though cos once u know the pattern he's pretty ez 2 beat, other than that it was mostly a fun game.
Post edited June 04, 2019 by tomyam80
Posted June 04, 2019
that;s one doomed space marine
Posted June 04, 2019
Rage had all these hidden levels that called back to classic FPS. DOOM (2016) has hidden levels that are classic Doom levels.
Posted June 04, 2019
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tomyam80: Super Mario World had a LOT of hidden stages, i lrmb there were a total of 96 levels/stages including all hidden 1s. Some of the hardest & most interesting 1s were in the secret areas, arranged in a shape of a star. Had a lot of pride & satisfaction completing it including the finding all secret areas without any additional help. =D

The final stage against Bowser was actually a bit of a minor letdown though cos once u know the pattern he's pretty ez 2 beat, other than that it was mostly a fun game.
My best friend and I finished that together decades ago. Same as you, feeling pride and accomplishment. The SPECIAL world after finishing Secret Star world was tough.

About secret areas, I believed I managed to find all secret areas and levels in Heretic without any walkthoughs.

There was a secret area in doom 2 was never found until 20+ years later. :o .
Posted June 04, 2019
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antrad88: I am playing Claw from 1997. This is a very difficult platformer game and that is why it is interesting, but the real challenging parts of the game are the secret areas.

I have nothing against secrets, but this basically leaves the most fun parts of the game hidden from me, and I need to replay the whole level and do some very tricky jumps just to enter those areas only to get one shot at it.Then if I fail, replay the same level over and over again, just to get there again.

I don't know exactly what is my point here, I guess it is just a rant. There are some old games that had entire levels secret like Quake 2 or Serious Sam, but those were just additional levels, nothing special, while here the best parts of the game are very inaccessible.

So, did you play some game where you think the best parts were hidden or required ridiculous amount of effort to reach, something like that...
The claw level in shogo is fun and secret(you can easily skip it by killing the one who asks you to do it and opening the next ares with a switch), if that counts.

Also the Leisure Suit Larry secret in KQ8(you need to press a bunch of bricks on a wall in one area) is nice to find.
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NuffCatnip: Nobody posted yet?
How about SiN?

Then there's Diablo IIs Secret Cow Level.
Here's the wikia page.
Yeah Sin had a ton of hidden stuff/skippable stuff depending on some choice you made/some stuff you blew up(in the first level you can destroy a ton of stuff in the chopper which leads to either cool lines/easter eggs or affects how the ground part of the level begins).
Post edited June 04, 2019 by GameRager
Posted June 05, 2019
Later Ultima games had not only secret dev rooms, but the Lands of Death as well, where living NPCs would go while getting replaced by a corpse graphic, because…I don't know, game design is hard.
Posted June 05, 2019
Hollow Knight's "Path of Pain" ultra-hard secret platforming challenge inside a rather hard platforming challenge area.
Posted June 05, 2019
I just remembered StarCraft 2 has a secret mission you can only play if you blow up a certain science facility on the Terran campaign.
Posted June 05, 2019
I loved the secret ant missions from C&C Red Alert.
Posted June 05, 2019
Sure,plenty of games have secrets and that's what makes them replayable and interesting.As for game secrets,being declared that's just spoiling it for someone else.So,you will get no secrets from me.
Posted June 05, 2019
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Tauto: Sure,plenty of games have secrets and that's what makes them replayable and interesting.As for game secrets,being declared that's just spoiling it for someone else.So,you will get no secrets from me.
I admire you pledge to the realm of secrets
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