Interesting myths/urban legends/theories in games?

[AbyssalSanhedrin]

There was a good one about Red Dead Redemption in which there was allegedly a werewolf in the pine forest area when the in-game moon was full. People were organizing multiplayer hunting parties and everything. There was some creepy stuff about one of the houses in one of the ghost towns (can't remember the name) which was supposedly meant to be haunted, people saw and heard strange noises and figures moving around in there. Neither true apparently but interesting nontheless.

 

[Jasper Jeffs]

There was a good one about Red Dead Redemption in which there was allegedly a werewolf in the pine forest area when the in-game moon was full. People were organizing multiplayer hunting parties and everything. There was some creepy stuff about one of the houses in one of the ghost towns (can't remember the name) which was supposedly meant to be haunted, people saw and heard strange noises and figures moving around in there. Neither true apparently but interesting nontheless.

Stuff like that always seems to be in Rockstar games, like Ratman in GTA IV who supposedly ran around at the speed of a car in the subway under Algonquin. San Andreas had a lot too, like Big Foot, a chainsaw wielding psychopath near Mount Chiliad, ghost cars, alien spaceships, an abandoned pick-up truck next to a hole full of body bags and an abandoned wheelchair on a small pier. I wish they'd actually implement some of thee NPC ones, but make them really rare so that it'd still remain as a rumour for a while until someone goes out of their way to record it.

 

[FilipJPhry]

There was a good one about Red Dead Redemption in which there was allegedly a werewolf in the pine forest area when the in-game moon was full. People were organizing multiplayer hunting parties and everything. There was some creepy stuff about one of the houses in one of the ghost towns (can't remember the name) which was supposedly meant to be haunted, people saw and heard strange noises and figures moving around in there. Neither true apparently but interesting nontheless.

Stuff like that always seems to be in Rockstar games, like Ratman in GTA IV who supposedly ran around at the speed of a car in the subway under Algonquin. San Andreas had a lot too, like Big Foot, a chainsaw wielding psychopath near Mount Chiliad, ghost cars, alien spaceships, an abandoned pick-up truck next to a hole full of body bags and an abandoned wheelchair on a small pier. I wish they'd actually implement some of thee NPC ones, but make them really rare so that it'd still remain as a rumour for a while until someone goes out of their way to record it.

It would be awesome if GTA V did an urban myth secret. Maybe actually putting in Big Foot? It's taking place in San Andreas, right?

 

[Doclector]

A lot of the theories surrounding silent hill are interesting, including whether silent hill takes everyone who visits to the foggy/dark hill, or just those with traumatic backstories, does it "bring" people there, or just trap them there, what exactly is the place anyway, that sort of thing.

Spoiler

My own theory is that when the cult of silent hill attempted to bring their god into the world, it created a thin place in between their world and the normal one, not exactly a hole, but a place at which the divide is thinner. There are three layers to this divide, the normal hill, furthest away from the god's world, the foggy hill, and the dark hill. This other world would seem to be hell or purgatory, as that would say why some of the character's monsters are based upon their own demons, and not the demons of those used by the cult. Purgatory would also make more sense, as the hill seems to "test" the characters. If a person passes, they leave, possibly on better terms, as better people, than they arrived as, if not, the town'll either let them leave with a catch, or not let them leave at all, some characters having gone mad and presumably joined the cult, some of them simply dead, even a couple possibly having been made into monsters themselves, although I personally would like to ignore those endings as one of them depicts somebody being made into a pyramid head, which if you know what he means in the first place, is makes next to no sense.

Of course, another theory could be that every single one of the characters is mad, somehow sharing a delusion. A horror version of the shivering isles, perhaps, a realm of the mad? See, now I'm thinking of boss monsters from silent hill talking about cheese.

 

[PinkiePyro]

lol dorkly just did an artical on urban legands the other day

http://www.dorkly.com/article/39521/the-dorklyst-the-7-cruelest-hoaxes-urban-legends-in-videogame-history

 

[RustlessPotato]

There was one I read about Half Life 2, where every time you die, you continue in a different universe, seeing as there could be infinite universe with infinite possibilities etc.. That's why Gordon is always extremely lucky etc... Must look it up because it also explained why nobody finds it weird he never speaks etc...

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

There was a rumor about a Russian game called 'Killswitch' (not the OTHER Killswitch). You either got to play as a woman or a ghost, both trapped in a coal mine and looking for survival. The weirdo thing about it is that the game supposedly deleted itself upon a character's death.

 

[MarsProbe]

Not sure if this actually counts as myth or urban legend, but does anyone remember the game called Endorfun?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endorfun

I never played it, but although it ended up being a fairly innocuous title, there was a lot of talk in the media about how this game would seemingly hypnotise people through subliminal messages in it's music and the like. I think this turned out to be a load of guff, though given how tedious the game looked, I can't imagine that many people will have played it.