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Myths have always been part of human society, but the Internet has allowed stories to be spread much more quickly and efficiently than ever before. In particular, video game rumors have become incredibly popular source material,&nbsp;as players try to find secret items or unlock hidden rooms. Inevitably, video game urban legends&nbsp;run rampant.&nbsp;While some&nbsp;of the gaming urban legends that fill forums online turn out to be true, there are countless others that are completely and utterly fictional. Some are instantly debunked by gamers, but others are able to fool huge swathes of the&nbsp;community. Sometimes, they&nbsp;become so engrained in the public consciousness that they are simply accepted as the truth – even when there is no evidence to support them.

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Most of the time, <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-best-games-of-all-time" target="_blank">games that players find enjoyable</a> will receive&nbsp;a ton of&nbsp;critical attention. However, game critics aren&#39;t above getting swept away by hype, and sometimes, customers will be left wondering why some&nbsp;overrated video games were so well-received by the press.&nbsp;

When it comes to&nbsp;video games that nobody actually likes, it often feels like no amount of bad word-of-mouth buzz can cause an expensive yet <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/biggest-video-game-flops-of-all-time/brandon-michaels" target="_blank">mediocre title to flop</a>. It appears that gamers sometimes want different things than reviewers, as the things that make a game impressive don&#39;t guarantee a title will be fun. The most&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/most-controversial-video-games-ever/nathan-gibson">controversial titles </a>are <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/games-that-escaped-development-hell/terrance-w-pryor" target="_blank">critically successful</a>, but&nbsp;loathed by the vast majority of players who didn&#39;t receive a free copy to review.

These train wrecks are video games people lie about liking, simply because&nbsp;Metacritic said they were&nbsp;&quot;universally acclaimed.&quot; Players know when they&#39;re having fun, and no amount of fancy language or big-budget trailers can change that.&nbsp;

Moral choices&nbsp;in video games have only grown as a trend over the years. There used to be a time when&nbsp;nobody cared about the ethics of Mario jumping on&nbsp;anthropomorphic&nbsp;turtles or the potential to cause a&nbsp;pileup by leading a large frog into traffic. That&#39;s because those horrors were just a bunch of pixels. They still are, and, granted, some <a href="/list/games-where-you-can-act-on-your-worst-instincts/jacob-shelton">games still let you do horrific things with no consequences</a>,&nbsp;but with the introduction of photorealistic&nbsp;models, deep characterization, and&nbsp;real-world values into narratives, video games have become greater engines for generating empathy and guilt.

Talented game writers use these emotions to challenge players with interesting and complex moral quandaries during the course of gameplay. This is entertainment value that can only be mined&nbsp;by the game industry, as no other medium gives control of a character&#39;s decisions to the consumer in quite the same way.&nbsp;No other medium can make the consumer feel the weight of a character&#39;s decisions quite so heavily.

For your consideration is a list of some of the&nbsp;video game moral dilemmas that most made players tear their&nbsp;hair out, wavering back and forth while staring at a &#39;Pause&#39; screen. Now it is up to you to upvote the ones you feel most strongly about. You can handle it.

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The gaming industry has evolved dramatically over the past few decades, morphing video games into experiences that are vastly different from their early predecessors. One thing that has noticeably changed, though, is the fact that games are now much easier than they ever used to be. Kids today have no idea just how tough titles on the likes of the <a href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/best-super-nintendo-_snes_-games" target="_blank">Super Nintendo Entertainment System</a> (SNES) could be and there are some truly super difficult games from the '90s that they would not even be able to imagine playing through today.That decade saw many titles that were practically impossible to beat with normal means. Some of the <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/hardest-video-games-of-all-time/ranker-games" target="_blank">hardest video games</a> from the '90s to finish would punish players in a number of unforgiving ways. Many had no save feature to back-up your progress, whilst others would instantly kill you and send you back to the start of a level if you so much as touched an enemy. With the exception of a select few examples like Dark Souls and Super Meat Boy, today’s games just don’t pack the same challenge. Take a look at these video games from the '90s <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/hardest-games-to-100-percent-complete/ranker-games" target="_blank">no kid today could beat</a> and see if you agree. Remember to vote up the ones you think are the most difficult to complete.

They say honesty is the best policy, but this doesn't seem to be the video game industry's philosophy. From deceptive trailers to &quot;Oh, by the way&quot; expansion packs, there's not&nbsp;a lot of honesty in the gaming industry these days. Luckily, the Internet is here to solve that problem these funny honest video game titles.Below are the best, most accurate examples of honest gaming titles that far more accurately convey what certain games are all about. If video game titles were honest, they'd go something like this...

While casual gamers play to earn achievements and trophies on their consoles, a select group set their sights on bigger goals: gaming world records. Those&nbsp;feats aren&#39;t as easy as turning on a console or PC. Attempting to break gamer Guinness World Records can take months or even years. Being able to snag a rare world record will give any gamer a great deal of satisfaction.

When it comes to world records, these are the most surprising ones owned by gamers. While records are meant to be broken, these might stick around in the Guinness Gamer&#39;s Edition for a long time. Vote for the video game records that impressed you the most.

Sure, <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-video-game-franchises/ranker-games?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">video game franchises</a> like&nbsp;Call of Duty and Madden&nbsp;are great, but isn't it time the video game industry spread their creative wings a little more? Game makers&nbsp;should learn something from the internet and start making awesome&nbsp;games like these funny <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/the-13-greatest-pop-culture-video-game-parodies/ariel-kana?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">video game parodies</a> below. This collection of funny video game parody art and hilarious video game parodies is a look into the future of gaming. They may be <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/parody-music-bands-and-musicians/reference">parodies</a>&nbsp;of&nbsp;video&nbsp;games now, but they'll all be a virtual reality very soon.Titles like Halo Kitty, Donkey Bong, Gears of Wario, and many more hilarious parody boxes should grace shelves any day now. Vote up the most creative parodies below.&nbsp;

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In order to be a truly great gamer, you must first create an epic &quot;battle station&quot; so you can comfortably destroy your enemies. The prerequisites for a proper gamer station include an ergonomic chair, a fan, and a mini fridge. From there, you can add amenities like multiple monitors, a surround sound system, and a foot spa if you're crazy like that. Or you can do what these gamers did and create the worst gaming setups the Internet has ever seen. Below are pictures of extremely bad gaming setups via the amazing subreddit&nbsp;r/shittybattlestations. They're a shocking look into the deepest, darkest dungeons of the gaming world, and are prime examples of what not to do when setting up your underground lair.

People <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/weird-stuff-on-amazon/whitneysmoore">love buying strange stuff</a>. That's just a fact. They especially want to get their hands on junk associated with their favorite brands. Therefore, the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/weird-stuff-on-amazon/whitneysmoore">best video game systems of all time</a> have had&nbsp;some profoundly bizarre add-ons available.&nbsp;It was&nbsp;a great way to make a few bucks&nbsp;and litter the cultural landscape with some fascinating detritus.Sold alongside successful flagship consoles like the Atari 2600 and Sega Genesis were some weird video game peripherals that didn't have much use, didn't make much sense, and sometimes didn't work at all. Some were specific peripherals for games like the Nintendo Mouse in Mario Paint or the Dreamcast Microphone for Seaman. There are classic add-ons we love and remember like the Power Glove and Power Pad, but there are also plenty of unloved gaming system peripherals that need some long-overdue recognition.

The crossover combination of legalities and video games isn’t anything new - gaming lawsuits happen all the time. Take for example, people like Patrice D&eacute;silets, who&nbsp;have struggled to wrestle&nbsp;back the rights to their&nbsp;games - in his case he had to rescue&nbsp;1666: Amsterdam from the clutches of Ubisoft, after they wrongfully terminated him. In the world of video games, lawsuits are pretty common as people fight for ownership, censorship, and more. Of course, not every lawsuit makes sense - and some are downright silly.&nbsp;It’s important to know when and how to pick your battles when taking the fight to judicial arenas. And over the years, much like non-gaming related legal fisticuffs, what we find betwixt are cases of individuals and parties alike who abuse the judicial system for the pettiest, and sometimes hilarious, of reasons. Whether these lawsuits by gamers are justified or not, they make for interesting reading.&nbsp;Get ready to chuckle and strain your neck with constant head shaking, these are the most ridiculous lawsuits in gaming.&nbsp;

Behind the scenes, your favorite video game is probably playing you. The <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/most-influential-game-programmers-of-all-time/ready-to-startup" target="_blank">smartest game developers</a> know exactly what makes us tick and use that to insure&nbsp;that we stay locked into their games for as long as possible. While games need to be fun, there are also a host of psychological tricks video games use to keep players in front of the screen.&nbsp;Some games scatter hidden collectibles all across their worlds, whereas others include secret alternative paths&nbsp;for players who enjoy seeing how much they can&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/video-games-that-reward-you-for-cheating/zack-howe" target="_blank">cheat the system</a>.&nbsp;Then there are free-to-play games, which take psychological manipulation to new heights&nbsp;so that players spend real&nbsp;money on&nbsp;digital goodies. When you think back on the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-best-games-of-all-time" target="_blank">best video games</a>, chances are you'll recognize a few of the tricks developers used to&nbsp;keep&nbsp;you&nbsp;playing.

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The video games industry -&nbsp;like many others -&nbsp;is still trying to figure itself out. There&#39;s no tried and true method to creating a great game, as players&#39; interests change across generations and fun is always subjective. On the plus side, this means the next big game can come out of left field;&nbsp;PlayerUnknown&#39;s&nbsp;Battlegrounds&nbsp;started off as a mod for the military simulator&nbsp;ARMA 2&nbsp;but ended up establishing an entirely new genre of <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-online-multiplayer-games/ranker-games?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">online multiplayer games</a>. Unfortunately, it also means developers often opt to take the safe route by only creating games that are in line with what&#39;s currently hot.&nbsp;

One of the main reasons <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/why-good-developers-release-bad-games/joesph-langdon" target="_blank">why developers make bad games</a> is they&nbsp;stops taking risks to theoretically maximize profits. This is a leading cause of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/stale-gaming-franchises/robert-carnevale" target="_blank">stale game&nbsp;franchises</a>&nbsp;and some of the most annoying video game trends every big-budget release seems to glom onto.&nbsp;

What&#39;s most frustrating is many of modern gaming&#39;s worst trends simply weren&#39;t issues in generations past.&nbsp;Before early access and day one patches, new games had to be finished and playable before they shipped, and there was no chance the best parts of a story would be locked behind paid DLC. Hopefully the&nbsp;good developers will learn from the past before gamers end up with an industry built on&nbsp;hot garbage.

Pretentious <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-best-games-of-all-time" target="_blank">video games</a> are difficult to play.&nbsp;They&nbsp;often try&nbsp;to break the mold, only to fail in the two most important categories:&nbsp;storyline and user experience. Instead, these games&nbsp;exude palpable self-importance.It's not merely <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/video-games-no-one-completely-finishes/john-saavedra" target="_blank">games that are impossible to beat</a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;games that aim to tell thought-provoking stories that are guilty of being pretentious. Others games fall short as well.&nbsp;They disregard gameplay mechanics, seeking fame and novelty. If developers only understood&nbsp;that most people play for fun, more games would have real&nbsp;substance instead of just a flashy facade.

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CAUTION: This list contains plot spoilers for various video games.&nbsp;Video games are arguably the most diverse type of media and while lots of titles avoid storytelling, there are plenty of <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-most-compelling-video-game-storylines">games that incorporate compelling storylines</a>. While most backstories&nbsp;are associated with the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-greatest-rpg-video-games-ever-made">RPG genre</a>, a surprising amount of different games also boast rich narratives. Sure, not every type of genre needs an interesting or intriguing plot to make it fun to play, but providing a narrative solidifies&nbsp;the&nbsp;purpose for&nbsp;why a player is going out on their adventure and justifies the events that are taking place.Although most games that want to include a story will do so in a rather obvious way,&nbsp;such as straightforward objectives issued by an NPC in a single-player campaign,&nbsp;there are some titles that hide an elaborate backstory. The narrative is purposefully difficult to uncover, with bits of information&nbsp;spread out here and there like a delectable bread crumb trail. Other times, the story is just hidden due to technical limitations&nbsp;preventing a studio from&nbsp;including&nbsp;everything they want in the game. In some cases, publishers opt to sell <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/best-dlc-packs/ranker-games">extra content to fans in the form of DLCs</a>.Whatever the case, it's clear that the most popular games in the world have hidden backstories that are as bizarre as they are interesting. Check out the list below&nbsp;for crazy storylines behind familiar games and vote up the ones that shocked you.&nbsp;

Classic video game catchphrases exemplify an integral yet often <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/dumb-video-game-dialogue/nathandavidson">overlooked aspect of many video games: dialogue</a>. Though new items and&nbsp;finishing combos usually attracted most of your attention, your favorite old-school video game catchphrase always interrupted whatever level you found yourself on to insert a bit of flair to the experience. Like <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/best-superhero-catchphrases/the-real-stan-lee">your favorite comic characters</a>' own catchphrases, older video game catchphrases now exist in pop culture on their own outside of the context of their original medium.&nbsp;If you heard one now, you would find yourself thrust back into past quests and challenges as if you'd played yesterday.&nbsp;What was your favorite classic&nbsp;video game catchphrase?The best classic video game catchphrases&nbsp;instantly catch&nbsp;your attention while also revealing aspects of a&nbsp;character's personality or skills. Such phrases&nbsp;also made them more relatable by providing&nbsp;them a way to interact without involving&nbsp;shooting lasers, fireballs, and/or jump shots. Some of these characters were hungry, like the president in Bad Dudes. Others were full, like Toejam who often walked around planet Funkotron letting everyone know he was stuffed. Vote up your favorite classic catchphrases from video games, and be sure that your&nbsp;voice can be heard too.

Video games with complicated storylines aren't inherently bad. On the contrary, some of the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-best-games-of-all-time" target="_blank">best games of all time</a>&nbsp;feature totally convoluted plots, and gamer hipsters will tell you that an absolutely batsh*t narrative is&nbsp;the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-most-compelling-video-game-storylines" target="_blank">pinnacle of storytelling</a> in the medium. However, nothing is immune to criticism, and all too often, enthused fans will confuse a complicated story with a good one. Just because a game features <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/huge-video-game-plot-twists/john-saavedra" target="_blank">a huge plot twist</a> that you never saw coming doesn't mean its story is finely crafted.&nbsp;It's important to recognize when a beloved series has gone totally off the rails. While a studious player will probably be able to piece together what's happening in&nbsp;Silent Hill,&nbsp;the most die-hard fans are confused by parts of&nbsp;Kingdom Hearts,&nbsp;and sometimes, even a game's director will acknowledge that&nbsp;their story is just a bit too much.

Arcade Games

Arcade games kick started the gaming industry in the 1970s, bringing an ever-expanding variety of titles to&nbsp;bars, restaurants, and bowling alleys around the world. Over the next two decades, they introduced millions of people to video games for the first time and allowed children to spend countless hours on arcade cabinets where they could spend small fortunes of quarters and dimes. Yet, despite the enjoyment they brought to so many people, the abiding memory of them is that <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-best-classic-arcade-games?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">old arcade games</a> were insanely difficult.While many people might think that this is because games were simply harder back in the good old days, the truth is that they were made that way for very specific reasons. After all, the ultimate goal of any developer was to get as much money from players as possible.So if you have ever wondered why arcade games from the '80s were impossible to beat, sit back and read on to find out the design secrets that were made to steal all your quarters.

Because certain games are notorious for having the most toxic communities, it can be difficult to want to give them a shot. Toxicity in video games entails rude behavior where&nbsp;trash talk, racial&nbsp;slurs, homophobia, and sexism make up a significant portion of communication. Unfortunately, some of the <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-games-to-play-online/meme-dude" target="_blank">best&nbsp;online games</a> seem to foster this type of attitude more than others, particularly games that are free to play, competitive, and require teamwork.&nbsp;While a toxic community might not be the sole factor that sinks a popular game, it can hurt its public perception, driving less toxic players away while creating a safer space for those whose enjoyment comes from verbally shunting others. Most gaming developers and publishers actively try to combat the antagonism within their communities, but obnoxious gamers are a hard group to quell. Unfortunately, even good games can be riddled with frustrating fanbases. Check out the games with toxic&nbsp;communities and vote up the ones worst ones.&nbsp;

Video games usually transcend time to become a beloved classic&nbsp;when they have&nbsp;one of three things:&nbsp;great art styles, gameplay that's too good to age, and music that's eternally catchy. For example, think back to old titles such as amazing NES games like&nbsp;Mega Man 2&nbsp;and the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/best-playstation-2-shooter-games/reference" target="_blank">best PS2 shooter games</a>, such as&nbsp;Star Wars Battlefront 2. However, not all amazing titles age gracefully.While they may have been epic when they were released, some classic games became a real mess with time. Compiled here is a list of video games&nbsp;were once industry pioneers. Others&nbsp;were merely intriguing at launch, only to become zits on the face of the medium with time. However, all these titles share a common theme: every game on this list has aged poorly. Very poorly. Vote up the video games that have&nbsp;gotten uglier with the <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/sad-songs-about-time/ranker-music?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">passage of time</a>.&nbsp;

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The video game industry is full of franchises that have been abandoned. After all, there are thousands of games released every year and it takes a special kind of franchise to be able to weather the test of time while releasing new titles. Only a few examples exist that have continued to remain successful, such as Mario, Final Fantasy, and The <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/a-timeline-of-the-legend-of-zelda-chronology/stephanroget?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">Legend of Zelda</a>. These series represent some of the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/best-video-game-franchises/ranker-games">best video game franchises</a> and have managed to evolve with the industry and&nbsp;adapt to the tastes of modern players.However, that isn’t to say that all dormant video game franchises are failures. In fact, there are multiple series that were put aside due to unfortunate circumstances, such as suboptimal market times for a specific genre or a studio's desire to go in a different direction for a while. Regardless, there are certain <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/video-game-rerelease-wishlist/joedonley">series that deserve a remake</a> or release for the latest gaming platforms. Check out the games below and vote up the dead video game series you would resurrect&nbsp;for an epic comeback.&nbsp;

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&#39;Red Dead Redemption II&#39; has been out for a while and gamers&nbsp;are still uncovering it&#39;s secrets. Like how do you get your horse to stop? One thing is for certain, the game has inspired countless memes on the subreddit <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/reddeadredemption" target="_blank">r/reddeadredemption</a>. Here are some of our favorites.&nbsp;

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'Red Dead Redemption II' has been out for a while and gamers&nbsp;are still uncovering it's secrets. Like how do you get your horse to stop? One thing is for ...