10 Video Game Signs You HAD To Ignore

Why is it that the more you're told not to do something in a video game, the more you instinctively want to do it as soon as possible?

Obduction, the brilliantly inventive successor to Myst and Riven, is based around the central area of Hunrath, a sleepy old Western town scooped off the Earth and plonked down onto an alien planet. Many buildings have this same sign pinned to them, warning you to stay away from "anything that even remotely resembles this diagram unless it has been disabled".

In a game that gives you so few clues, you'll probably be hyperaware of this warning at the start of the game, but then when no such device ever shows up, it's likely to either slip from your mind or trick you into thinking it's just a red herring.

It's only when you start planet-hopping and make all the way to the end of the planet Maray that you find one of these things. If, like me, the puzzles have taken you so long that you can't even remember the warning in Hunrath, you'll see this thing and go, "Ooh, shiny!", then run up to it and get blown to kingdom come.

It's so important a warning that dying to the device actually triggers an early end of the game. And once you boot it up again, you'll curse your stupid brain for not paying attention to something that could not have been made any clearer.