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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A developer on Batman: Arkham Asylum spent two years on nothing but the titular character's cape. YOU ARE UNDSR CLOSE SRYERLAN They had to create 700

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Oblivion's original Radiant Al was too smart to ship. In one case, a quest became impossible to complete in testing because skooma addicts kept killin

25 Entry by Andrea Meno

29 Video Game Features With Bonkers Backstories

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The corpses in Dead Space are medically accurate. After the producer deemed the initial designs for the corpses not scary enough, the developing team

23 Entry by Hestutomo Restu Kuncoro

NDLO A bug from another game inspired Devil May Cry's iconic feature where the main character can suspend enemies mid-air using continuous attacks. Co

22 Entry by Kevin King

Nathan Drake in the Uncharted series originally looked a lot like Johnny Knoxville. Developer Naughty Dog based the character model on the Jackass sta

21 Entry by VictorCamo

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CRACKEDCON Overwatch sound designer Paul Lackey wanted the game's hit confirmation sound effect to be satisfying to hear but couldn't find one, until

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GEOMETRY WARS STARTED AS AN ANALOG STICK TEST. While working on the Xbox prototype hardware, the developers of Project Gotham Racing encountered issue

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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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Counter Strike started out as a free Half-Life multiplayer mod that was created by two college students. A year later, the mod got so popular it was i

15 Entry by Andrea Meno

John Romero's head behind the Doom lI end boss was a joke the artists put in, thinking Romero wouldn't know. The head is behind the spot you shoot to

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12 Entry by Chan Teik Onn

CRACKEDc Nintendo's hit real-time strategy/ puzzle game, Pikmin, was born from a tech demo featuring Mario. Dubbed as Super Mario 128, the demo featur

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Donkey Kong 64 was bundled with the N64 expansion pak because of a single bug. FECANSION DONKEY AK Onhrer INCLUDEDE KONG G DX4 COLLECTOR'S EDITION YEL

10 Entry by Chan Teik Onn

Sonic the Hedgehog was initially a rabbit. Developer Yuji Naka wanted to give the character a somersault attack, but later figured that it'd make zero

9 Entry by Chan Teik Onn

CRACKEDC COM STARDEWY VALLEY began as a C# exercise. Computer science graduate Eric Concernedape Barone wanted to improve his coding skill after his

8 Entry by Kevin King

Scott Cawthon created Five Nights at Freddy's animatronic mascots after his previous game was mocked for being inadvertently terrifying. Cawthon devel

7 Entry by Maclise

STARCRAFT During development Blizzard had trouble keeping the harvesting units from bunching up together like L.A. traffic because of their pathfindin

6 Entry by Timon DJ Spajic

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

5 Entry by Carlos Suarez

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kay got its iconic art A style thanks to Playstation 2 limitations. At the start of development, Okami was using realistic graphics, but due to the ga

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CRACKEDO The sounds Minecraft's ghasts make are the sound designer's vocalizations and the noises of his cat being disturbed in its sleep.

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Sonic the Hedgehog can't swim because Yuji Naka, the co-creator of Sonic, assumed that hedgehogs can't swim. IIME 4615 RINGS 1 33 N He's wrong.

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