10 Video Game NPCs Who Sneakily Knew EVERYTHING
If you want to know their secrets, you'll have to read between the lines.
When playing video games, it's easy to assume you and your character know the most. After all, all the NPCs in the game have to stick to the script while you're free to metagame and mess around to your heart's content.
However, every now and then you can come across a video game character who defies your expectations, or better yet, uses them against you.
Instead of being yet another blissfully ignorant NPC, a character like this is equipped with knowledge of your ultimate fate in the story, and unbeknownst to you, they actually foreshadow it with cleverly encrypted messages, prophecies, and many other sneaky acts designed to fool you into thinking it's just another irrelevant NPC with more irrelevant blabber to say to you.
It is only after you experience the events they hinted at that you realize what was going on the entire time, so if you don't want to look like a fool who ignored a secret warning or you're just curious to find out how creative game writers can be with their foreshadowing, the following NPCs and their messages might be of interest to you.
10. Blind Man Cassidy - Red Dead Redemption 2
The blind beggar, also known as blind man Cassidy, is a random NPC from Red Dead Redemption 2 that Arthur can encounter while traveling across the Wild West.
The man offers your character to read their future for a dollar, and although he might appear like a drunk vagabond, the man's powers are secretly the real deal.
The beggar speaks in cryptic messages and metaphors, but among his many different one-dollar prophecies, Arthur details the downfall of Dutch's gang in the final act.
In this fortune, Cassidy tells Arthur to "run from the seeker, or help others run." It might sound like a bad riddle, but if you listen to one of Dutch's conversations about books, he actually calls himself the seeker, in reference to his favorite author's novel. Knowing that, you can figure out that Cassidy is alluding to the choice in the finale, where you either help John escape from Dutch or try running away with the money yourself.
The beggar tells you your ultimate fate, and he does it for a mere dollar! What a steal!