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Article #506628Re: Might be OT: Game hoaxes
From: Chuck
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2015 15:06
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2015 15:06
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>wrote in message >news:13130d16-9892-4cdb-9f34-0c2b8c268594@googlegroups.com... > >On Thursday, 18 January 2001 07:58:06 UTC, Htn963 wrote: >> For some reason, while washing the dishes, I thought of the undead >> settler >> hoax in Master of Magic and was chuckling. (The hoax claimed that if you >> turn >> a settler unit into undead, it can then build an undead city from which >> you can >> churn out all other undead units.) The only other notable hoax I can >> recall >> from my gaming experience is the claim that one can resurrect Aeris from >> Final >> Fantasy 7 by going through extremely detailed set of fool steps. Can >> anyone >> name any other, just for my own curiosity? Thanks. > >There's the famous Sheng Long hoax and there's also the infamous Polybius >legend (the game, not the historian). There was one with The 7th Guest about using the puzzle hint/help to often. I think it was you would miss some cut scenes, not sure but it was something the player would not want to happen. Were these hoaxes put out by players or the game designers? 7th was by the designers. I've played MoM but never heard of that one. Never played the other games.
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