29 Video Game Features With Bonkers Backstories

Those features are there for a reason — a weird, weird reason
29 Video Game Features With Bonkers Backstories

We’ve all played video games with outrageous backstories, like defeating a giant space turtle or saving the world from an alien invasion. But few video games have backstories as bonkers as Splatoon 2. One of the game’s bosses is a sentient sushi roll that lives in a submarine. And if that’s not weird enough, the sushi roll is actually trying to protect the world from an alien octopus. 

But there’s a reason why every video game character, level, weapon and setting exists — even sentient sushi rolls and alien octopuses. Here are some of the craziest stories we could find about well-known video game features…

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29 Video Game Features With Bonkers Backstories
The corpses in Dead Space are medically accurate. After the producer deemed the initial designs for the corpses not scary enough, the developing team
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Nathan Drake in the Uncharted series originally looked a lot like Johnny Knoxville. Developer Naughty Dog based the character model on the Jackass sta
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The brown-on-blue color scheme in the Atari 2600 version of Pac-Man was a result of the company having a rule against black backgrounds for non-space
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Axton from Borderlands 2 is bisexual thanks to a code screw up. When playing as Axton and reviving another player, there's a chance a flirtatious dial
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