10 Times Video Games Were One Step Ahead Of You

10. Stick To The Script - The Evil Within

The Evil Within's DLC, Consequence, puts the player in the role of Juli Kidman, a police officer looking for her missing colleagues trapped inside STEM, a multiple consciousness-linking nightmare machine.

At one point, Kidman finds herself inside the STEM hub room, where the brain of the game's antagonist, Ruvik, is controlling everything. The player is meant to leave this room to continue their chase after the mysterious Leslie, but it doesn't take a PhD in mathematics to figure out that a giant evil brain jar plus a protagonist with a loaded gun equals an almost one hundred percent guarantee that someone will try to shoot the thing.

After all, it seems like the easiest way to destroy the STEM simulation.

Evil Within developers Tango Gameworks were also aware of this fact, which is why if you shoot the brain, the game will immediately cut to fake credits showing you a happy photo of Kidman and her buddies, before ending them abruptly and returning to the situation at hand.

Triggering this secret "ending" awards you the "Stick to the Script" achievement, to remind you that no matter how smart you think you and your ideas are, it's the developers who make the rules.