10 Video Game Secrets You Were Better Off Not Finding

Discovering hidden secrets is usually one of the most fun parts of a game - aside from beating up your enemies and getting sweet rewards.

Even when they aren't exactly well hidden, you still can't help but pat yourself on the back for a job well done when you find something that you didn't necessarily have to, but rather did because of a combo of your skills and desire to search every possible area and unlock every possible thing.

But sometimes, the things you get out of this kind of suck. Many items are a good idea in concept, but in practice turn out to be a lot less useful and cool than they first turned out to be. Even if said reward is powerful, it can quickly turn out to be useless in the wrong circumstances, or if you've finished enough of the game that there's no longer a real purpose for it.

While these secrets can be a fun surprise, you may find yourself wishing you'd never discovered them in the first place, because they ultimately fall a bit flat.

Crash Team Racing was - and is - one of the most fun and challenging racing games of all time. As such, it also came with some suitably wonderful rewards, one of the best of which was unlocking the boss of the cup you'd beat as a playable racer.

Or at least, that was the case with four of the cups, netting you Ripper Roo, Papu Papu, Komodo Joe, and Pinstripe Potoro to play. So, naturally, you expect that the fifth and final cup will give you the big boss Nitros Oxide himself.

After painstakingly racing to the best of your abilities, you finally beat the cup, and - filled with excitement - finally get your reward... of Fake Crash as a playable character. Wait, what?

As it turns out, developers initially intended to provide Oxide as a playable character, but ultimately struggled too much with making his larger kart not totally break the game, and thus eventually opted to swap him out with Fake Crash.

In the remake, this was given a quick fix by resizing Nitros Oxide and his kart into a more manageable size and making him a playable character. It took a fair few years for this redemption arc, but it's one that likely soothed a lot of old-time fans.