10 Best Video Game Secrets Of The Decade
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Everyone loves a good juicy secret. And by everyone, I mean a very specific group of video game developers, which is basically the same thing.
They've been sneaking bonus content into our games for years, making hidden levels, shoehorning in scavenger hunts, and dropping easter eggs like they're going out of fashion for us to hoover up on a play through. All of this allows us to marvel at how very clever we are for discovering them.
Secrets are some of the most beloved parts of gaming, after all. As much as games like Red Dead Redemption 2 might get praised, it's finding the vampire lurking in Saint Denis that gets players talking excitedly, and planning their routes to find it.
With that in mind, the last 10 years of titles have offered up some of the very finest examples for players to search for.
From old franchise references, to touching homages, to tiny, secret fragments scattered throughout a world begging to be pieced together, here are the video game secrets from the past decade that made our adventures all the more worthwhile.
10. Take The L - Resident Evil 2 Remake
The Resident Evil 2 Remake diligently recreated many of the easter eggs that made the original game great, as well as paying careful homage to pieces of lore that have become canonised since the first 90's release.
One knowing nudge and wink comes in the welcome banner set up for Leon S. Kennedy - new recruit to the Raccoon City police department - which you spot as you enter one of the rooms of the overrun police building.
In the OG, a translation error rendered Leon's welcome sign with two Ls, making 'Wellcome Leon' a loving misspelling that has lasted the years since. In the remake, this flub was noted with a corrected sign, spelt correctly, now with a gap between 'wel' and 'come' for where the extra letter would have been.
But that's not all. If you have a good rummage through the desks in the room, you'll find the spare 'L' that should have been up on the sign tucked away in a pile paperwork. Wonderfully unnecessary, but good fun all the same, and a brilliant secret nod to players who loved the first game enough to be disappointed by the fixed spelling.