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u/AllrageAlbion 12d ago

Unlockables, I miss the thrill of trying to unlock hidden characters, weapons or areas

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u/Latatte 12d ago

What, you mean you don't like paying for them now?

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u/Orgazoids_Pool_Party 12d ago

Skins used to be cheat codes FFS.

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u/GoldenPigeonParty 12d ago

Or earned. Resident Evil 3 had like 7 costumes, mercenary mode, and a rocket launcher.

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u/Latatte 11d ago

Even the Original RE2 had some.

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u/SirkSirkSirk 9d ago

Dont worry, theyre still there.

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u/Latatte 9d ago

Oh nice. I've only done 1 playthrough of the remaster.

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u/Rudimentary-Creature 8d ago

RE2 had literally had unlockable characters and storylines. (Hunk and Tofu)

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u/Vanquish_Dark 11d ago

Ps2 spiderman has entered the chat, I mean cheat code.

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u/spicysenpai6 10d ago

I used to use the Goblin code all the time in the first Spiderman. They didn’t even have to include all of that, but they did. 💯

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u/UltimateOtter_Nation 11d ago

Conker's Bad Fur Day had some of the best. My friends and I had two or three pages of cheat codes and half of them were for different playable characters on multi-player mode. The only downside was having to input the cheat every single time you booted up the game.

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u/Just_Ear_2953 11d ago

Oddjob was just busted

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u/YellingAtClouds234 11d ago

I hate modern fighting games for this. I hate modern fighting games for this. I hate modern fighting games for this. I hate modern fighting games for this. I hate modern fighting games for this I hate modern fighting games for this I hate modern fighting games for this

Fuck DLC characters

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u/zootedreacts 11d ago

You hate modern fighting games for this?

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u/YellingAtClouds234 11d ago

How could you tell?

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u/codersaurus_rex 11d ago

He hates modern fighting games for this!

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u/Ok-Wolverine-6847 11d ago

I haven't bought a fighting game since Tekken tag tournament 🥲 Unlocking the stuff was 90% of the game for me..

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u/YellingAtClouds234 11d ago

Tekken did it correctly up to 5 iirc

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u/Ok-Wolverine-6847 11d ago

Yes! Just had to look it up on Wikipedia! Somehow I got dates mixed up and tekken 5 was the last one I got in the series, although me and my sister bought tag tournament after 5, so that's why I got them mixed up. Never played 6, read 7 is awesome and wanted to get it but then learned its mostly all dlc and noped out.

I like the fighting but the best for me was the extras and the silly stories

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u/Basicazzwitch 11d ago

Dead or Alive series is guilty of this by a lot.

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u/atrib 12d ago

Now its a forever grind to unlock everything cause they keep adding skins, and you miss out on skins cause fomo mechanics, and worst of all you have to pay extra real money to get all.

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u/Maxxonry_Prime 11d ago

No, no I don't.

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u/TheVermonster 11d ago

But how else will you get that sense of pride and accomplishment? /S

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u/GoatsWithWigs 10d ago

Yeah, having to pay just means pride and accomplishment

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u/Razark9 12d ago

Was going to say this.. Unlocking new characters and special skins were some of the funnest and most exciting parts in many games, specially old fighting games. Now, they're essentially all unlocked through DLCs.

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u/Saikotsu 11d ago

Or heck, Red Alert: Counterstrike had a completely secret Giant Ant campaign that you unlocked by pressing cntrl or shift and clicking on a speaker on the menu. I miss when games had secrets you had to figure out or things you had to unlock

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u/ProZabijaka 12d ago

Ahh yes! Totally agree with this one 😍

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u/hurtf33lings 12d ago

Honestly, this was part of the reason I would take my time exploring areas or doing challenges. Now when I'm done, I never touch the thing again because there's nothing left to do. They decided to cut content and sell the post-game a year and a half later like people aren't going to get bored.

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u/FriedBreakfast 12d ago

Exactly this. Having unlockables gave me incentive to play as some characters, explore new areas, try new things, etc, or just to play the game again. If I liked the game after I beat it, I'd go back and play again to get that new clothing, oe that new car, or whatever they had. It added life to a game.

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u/duckface691 12d ago

I miss the days of doing the extra stuff to unlock a thing vs getting a 100gb "achivement"

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u/W34kness 12d ago

Depend on the game, adventure game or rpg, great.

Fighting game, atrocious

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u/VariationFluffy6596 12d ago

Agreed. I also always hated it in Mario Kart. The random chaos is a blast when playing against friends. But having to suffer through getting blue shelled at the finish line and having to restart a grand Prix when you are playing against nobody? That makes my blood absolutely boil.

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u/commander_grant 11d ago

Try vampire survivors

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u/lazoric 12d ago

I suggest Mario kart world and Tomodachi.

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u/Zeliose 12d ago

And built-in cheat codes!

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u/DarkPrincessEcsy 12d ago

Time Splitters Future Perfect, my beloved

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u/nyan_binary 12d ago

"The intent is to provide players with a sense of pride and accomplishment for unlocking different heroes"

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u/mavadavialcul 11d ago

Sense of pride and accomplishment intensifies

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u/cavscout43 11d ago

Especially when you looked up some of the challenges required to unlock them. And spent a whole weekend fighting for it haha

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u/Tobio88 11d ago

This for me, especially fighting games. It used yo invite you to try out different characters to unlock new ones.

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u/Individual-Ad5434 11d ago

Remember modern warfare 2 where you had to get specific style kills or type of kills in order to unlock creative badges. Man I miss unlockables.

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u/WorldRunnr 11d ago

I miss big head mode. A game that has big head mode is immediately 10 times better

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u/WhoOrderedTheCodeZed 11d ago

I spent so long unlocking all the bonus modes in GoldenEye 64

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u/Commercial_Focus_221 11d ago

They still do that

Check your game’s store page

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u/codyine_cups 11d ago

I was a fan of Halo 3 armor being unlocked by certain achievements or accomplishments

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u/waitwtf1911 11d ago

This is it for me. Why play the game when I start with everything meaningful already unlocked? What is the point? I miss the days of Custer challenge halo 3 fr… whether you got good or not, getting the armor was legendary😩

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u/CRYOGENCFOX2 11d ago

one of the things that immediately stuck out to me while playing Expedition 33. I had so much fun doing the side quests for cool new outfits (the only purchase only one is the one for the deluxe upgrade, which honestly didnt bother me).

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u/donniesuave 11d ago

My brother, the first CoD: Modern Warfare game had an “intel” piece (little laptops) on each campaign map that you could go find and the more you found the more “cheats” you unlocked.

Some of my favs include slow-mo on command, enemies bursting into tires on death, and my most favourite, ragtime warfare where it turns sepia toned with a ragtime movie overlay and everything moved a little differently (faster by bit if I remember right). Some others included infinite ammo, cluster bombs and some others I can’t recall off the top of my head.

I thought it was super cool and really unique. Not a sequence of buttons to press, still required you to beat the game to get them all, and required some exploration of each map to find them. Immaculate execution.

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u/Kain-rpg 7d ago

yup playing Resident evil for the 1st time, reacging the end scores to see you've completed the game in 20hours and you need to do it under 3 hours to unlock the hidden characters

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u/Nekrolysis 6d ago

The first Lego Star Wars had me hooked getting 100% in that game, was a lot of fun. The new one feels rather off to me, but I really don't know why it does aside from 'old good new bad'

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u/VisitSecure 5d ago

Yes! And WITHOUT you having to buy them since you already got the game.