10 unsettling mysteries you missed in video games
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The best solution I could come up with was Pathurnax. He wants to be a friend and wants Alduin defeated. He has lived long enough and has enough knowledge to know where all the locations would be without necessary being able/needing to go there himself. The Blades would have gained so much by making expeditions to those places but they almost never do?
So yeah, Pathurnax has one of the Greybeards write and send the letter to where HE knows where the Dragonborn is going. He has enough power to probably follow the dragonborn (spy) from afar the moment the first shout is heard
Date: 2023-07-05
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MrJamestastic
The Skyrim letters spell it out in-game, and have common sense gameplay reasons, there's no mystery unless you intentionally misinterpret.
The letters say that Not everyone is anxious for the Dragonborn's return because you're literally a god-given ruler who is going around picking factions to support. Random civilians hear your shouts & work to help you, but each stay anonymous to protect themselves, signing A friend (a common pseudonym btw) to make it clear they're on your side. Gameplay wise, it's a Radiant AI quest with a chance to pop every time you shout in public, & they don't want to break immersion by naming a character who couldn't be there.
As for the locations, they say I understand the Dragonborn can unlock the power here because they're sharing urban legends and myths. It'd be the same as saying I hear you can rule England if you pull the sword from this stone. You've never been there or seen anyone do it, but we all know the story & could share it with a hero of legend. Just maybe don't sign your name in case the current contenders disagree.
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The Skyrim letters spell it out in-game, and have common sense gameplay reasons, there's no mystery unless you intentionally misinterpret.
The letters say that Not everyone is anxious for the Dragonborn's return because you're literally a god-given ruler who is going around picking factions to support. Random civilians hear your shouts & work to help you, but each stay anonymous to protect themselves, signing A friend (a common pseudonym btw) to make it clear they're on your side. Gameplay wise, it's a Radiant AI quest with a chance to pop every time you shout in public, & they don't want to break immersion by naming a character who couldn't be there.
As for the locations, they say I understand the Dragonborn can unlock the power here because they're sharing urban legends and myths. It'd be the same as saying I hear you can rule England if you pull the sword from this stone. You've never been there or seen anyone do it, but we all know the story & could share it with a hero of legend. Just maybe don't sign your name in case the current contenders disagree.
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Louie
I've stopped trying to think about who the friend is in Skyrim. My last character got a letter from his first shout, at Western Watchtower, after you bring down your first dragon. oh! You say. the friend must be someone who was there for that! Maybe Irileth, or a guard? No. Because I fast travelled from Western Watchtower to Whiterun, elapsed time maybe five minutes, and the messenger approached me IMMEDIATELY. Nobody who was there in the flesh, would've had time to write the note, hire a messenger and have him deliver it, and if they did, it's way less trouble to just tell me where the damn word was. It's an Aedra/Daedra, that's really the only way it makes sense. Not to mention, half the time you're five miles underground when you use a shout that somehow, your friend knows about. I'm wondering if a friend might be an anagram for one of the (D)Aedra, that would make a bit of sense.
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I've stopped trying to think about who the friend is in Skyrim. My last character got a letter from his first shout, at Western Watchtower, after you bring down your first dragon. oh! You say. the friend must be someone who was there for that! Maybe Irileth, or a guard? No. Because I fast travelled from Western Watchtower to Whiterun, elapsed time maybe five minutes, and the messenger approached me IMMEDIATELY. Nobody who was there in the flesh, would've had time to write the note, hire a messenger and have him deliver it, and if they did, it's way less trouble to just tell me where the damn word was. It's an Aedra/Daedra, that's really the only way it makes sense. Not to mention, half the time you're five miles underground when you use a shout that somehow, your friend knows about. I'm wondering if a friend might be an anagram for one of the (D)Aedra, that would make a bit of sense.
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Mellow
I guess the friend sending letters in Skyrim are the blades, namely Delphine because the only other way to get shout locations is to ask the Grey Beards so it makes sense that the blades also do this and given their secretive nature it makes sense that Delphine sends anonymous letters to the Dragonborn. After all that is literally how she informs you that she stole the horn at the start of the game. Another reason why I think it's delphine is because she knew what was in bleak falls barrow, she knew how to find the dragon stone so it isn't a stretch to think she also knows about other locations related to Dragons. When you meet her later in Riverwood she also mentions that she was keeping an eye on the Dragonborn.
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I guess the friend sending letters in Skyrim are the blades, namely Delphine because the only other way to get shout locations is to ask the Grey Beards so it makes sense that the blades also do this and given their secretive nature it makes sense that Delphine sends anonymous letters to the Dragonborn. After all that is literally how she informs you that she stole the horn at the start of the game. Another reason why I think it's delphine is because she knew what was in bleak falls barrow, she knew how to find the dragon stone so it isn't a stretch to think she also knows about other locations related to Dragons. When you meet her later in Riverwood she also mentions that she was keeping an eye on the Dragonborn.
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Nobody
that Mankind Divided Jensen thing, I have an idea, he is about 90% augmentations, and VersaLife, I think is the one behind it all, so maybe that's all it is, his augs (as they call them in the game) on a model of him. It's not really him per-se but a realistic mannequin that looks like him. plus remember his buddy had to get the same augs to repair and replace now and again somehow so why not from the manufacturer itself? and as we learned in the game, he was an experimental candidate for some high grade ones. And his friend was always kind of sketchy as to where he got them, the mob could have gotten them directly from the place itself, they seem to all be connected.
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that Mankind Divided Jensen thing, I have an idea, he is about 90% augmentations, and VersaLife, I think is the one behind it all, so maybe that's all it is, his augs (as they call them in the game) on a model of him. It's not really him per-se but a realistic mannequin that looks like him. plus remember his buddy had to get the same augs to repair and replace now and again somehow so why not from the manufacturer itself? and as we learned in the game, he was an experimental candidate for some high grade ones. And his friend was always kind of sketchy as to where he got them, the mob could have gotten them directly from the place itself, they seem to all be connected.
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Robert
For Deus Ex- Mankind Divided. The story as it is told kind of points that the character you play as is not the real Jensen. Sarif tells you that your Aug's have serial numbers attached to them, and so when you find that your current Aug's do not have them, (or they were never found) it points that Jensen has something else going on.
Also the stuff for the Juggernaut collective seems to point that you are not the same Jensen you were in the past.
Lastly in the TF29 many dialogues you are said to be a bit a different a couple of times, and Chang even admits that he thinks you are a mole (which you are, but he is still willing to trust you.
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For Deus Ex- Mankind Divided. The story as it is told kind of points that the character you play as is not the real Jensen. Sarif tells you that your Aug's have serial numbers attached to them, and so when you find that your current Aug's do not have them, (or they were never found) it points that Jensen has something else going on.
Also the stuff for the Juggernaut collective seems to point that you are not the same Jensen you were in the past.
Lastly in the TF29 many dialogues you are said to be a bit a different a couple of times, and Chang even admits that he thinks you are a mole (which you are, but he is still willing to trust you.
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Ian
Probably a huge stretch but in the manga City Hunter people seeking help from the City Hunter have to write on the board of the train station the letters XYZ. Either the City Hunter will find them or the Hunter's partner will and they can set up a time and place of meeting. It's possible it's a reference of the partner telling the person to stay in the place of the meeting where the person will be save while the partner looks for the City Hunter.
It's fitting since it's Pokemon X and Y and the rumored Z would've probably resolved the mystery.
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Probably a huge stretch but in the manga City Hunter people seeking help from the City Hunter have to write on the board of the train station the letters XYZ. Either the City Hunter will find them or the Hunter's partner will and they can set up a time and place of meeting. It's possible it's a reference of the partner telling the person to stay in the place of the meeting where the person will be save while the partner looks for the City Hunter.
It's fitting since it's Pokemon X and Y and the rumored Z would've probably resolved the mystery.
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Balaam
What the is the point of the time stamp search feature if you don t specifically cite what each segment is? Number 10, Number 9, etc is absolutely worthless.
Gimme a picture, gimme a game title, gimme something to let me know what each section of the video is.
I end up backing out of your videos and bypassing them completely because of your trash inability to label things appropriately. I m just grateful I had the foresight to use an adblocker so u don t get a dime from me for your incompetent ineptitude.
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What the is the point of the time stamp search feature if you don t specifically cite what each segment is? Number 10, Number 9, etc is absolutely worthless.
Gimme a picture, gimme a game title, gimme something to let me know what each section of the video is.
I end up backing out of your videos and bypassing them completely because of your trash inability to label things appropriately. I m just grateful I had the foresight to use an adblocker so u don t get a dime from me for your incompetent ineptitude.
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Dusk
SKYRIM the letter is actually come from delpine or either her connection, she has connection to underground network, she is member of the blade which i pretty sure everyone knews so ill cut it short
delpine been stalking db ever since we first meet him in her inn,
she also the one who took horn of the windcaller,
i think her role is supposed to be traainer for db/player as the blade main goal is to guide and serve a db but well that until its heer who demand it
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SKYRIM the letter is actually come from delpine or either her connection, she has connection to underground network, she is member of the blade which i pretty sure everyone knews so ill cut it short
delpine been stalking db ever since we first meet him in her inn,
she also the one who took horn of the windcaller,
i think her role is supposed to be traainer for db/player as the blade main goal is to guide and serve a db but well that until its heer who demand it
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AllFather
I love your charm both of you. When i am driving around running my Landscaping business i am listening and relistening to epsiodes. The nostalgia just through your on point descriptions and nuances from our Renting from block buster days to the privileged world we have of over abundance of more! More! MORE! I will keep listening until i am considered too old to game and listen some more why because i can thats why.
Thank you oh so much
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I love your charm both of you. When i am driving around running my Landscaping business i am listening and relistening to epsiodes. The nostalgia just through your on point descriptions and nuances from our Renting from block buster days to the privileged world we have of over abundance of more! More! MORE! I will keep listening until i am considered too old to game and listen some more why because i can thats why.
Thank you oh so much
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danny
another implication that determines Adam Jensen was cloned is the fact that the Adam you play as has no recollection of the events after the first game. He knows he was in alaska but he doesnt remember what he was doing there or how. And also the fact that he has newer augs which could be argued that he found after the explosion, but how many times has Adam been exposed to explosions before and never found the secret augs?
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another implication that determines Adam Jensen was cloned is the fact that the Adam you play as has no recollection of the events after the first game. He knows he was in alaska but he doesnt remember what he was doing there or how. And also the fact that he has newer augs which could be argued that he found after the explosion, but how many times has Adam been exposed to explosions before and never found the secret augs?
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Darkprosper
I don't know how well it's implemented in BO3, but the plot point of the protagonist died early on and the rest is just hallucinations is one of the worst tropes to ever exist. It's really lazy and completely invalidates the emotional investment people have in characters or anything that happens in the dream. There's a reason why it's almost exclusively found in convoluted fan theories and not actual plots.
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I don't know how well it's implemented in BO3, but the plot point of the protagonist died early on and the rest is just hallucinations is one of the worst tropes to ever exist. It's really lazy and completely invalidates the emotional investment people have in characters or anything that happens in the dream. There's a reason why it's almost exclusively found in convoluted fan theories and not actual plots.
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Neonsilver13
Regarding the Deus Ex one, if I remember it right then there were some hints in Human Revolution that Adam was the result of some kind of experimentation on children, which was also likely the reason why he didn't need medication to prevent his body from rejecting his augmentations. So it might be related to that plot point from the previous game
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Regarding the Deus Ex one, if I remember it right then there were some hints in Human Revolution that Adam was the result of some kind of experimentation on children, which was also likely the reason why he didn't need medication to prevent his body from rejecting his augmentations. So it might be related to that plot point from the previous game
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Bjarne
i played skyrim years ago, and if my memory right, about this friend that send u location about words wall, most likely it's the dragon paarthurnax, the words power is said to be dragon languages, if again I'm not wrong paarthurnax have relationships with the dragonborn temple, so he can order them to send the letters
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i played skyrim years ago, and if my memory right, about this friend that send u location about words wall, most likely it's the dragon paarthurnax, the words power is said to be dragon languages, if again I'm not wrong paarthurnax have relationships with the dragonborn temple, so he can order them to send the letters
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Majin
I can't remember the location in fallout 4 but there is a skeleton chained up behind a brick wall by its wrist. Looks like they were chained and then someone built a wall to seal them in but couldn't find any info about what may have happened but is a strange find and it's in a small building
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I can't remember the location in fallout 4 but there is a skeleton chained up behind a brick wall by its wrist. Looks like they were chained and then someone built a wall to seal them in but couldn't find any info about what may have happened but is a strange find and it's in a small building
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Richard
This is just reminding me how I love when design studios like Bethesda, Obsidian, and Rockstar hide little things in their games that tell a small story, but don't have overall explanations.
Makes me more excited to see what will be found in Starfield, Avowed, and GTA 6.
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This is just reminding me how I love when design studios like Bethesda, Obsidian, and Rockstar hide little things in their games that tell a small story, but don't have overall explanations.
Makes me more excited to see what will be found in Starfield, Avowed, and GTA 6.
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skanda
Hey the princess thing from rdr2, don't we see some lady in her bedroom at night during a particular time in game, and she seemingly is trapped and we can't interact with her, and the guy in that house is kinda hostile when you approach him, I always thought that was her.
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Hey the princess thing from rdr2, don't we see some lady in her bedroom at night during a particular time in game, and she seemingly is trapped and we can't interact with her, and the guy in that house is kinda hostile when you approach him, I always thought that was her.
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Xylluk
10: 16 While it is tied in with the quest, you can get some information about the torture room from one of the beggars who say it's for Argonians who illegally cross into Cyrodiil I believe? A shame you can't confront her about it and have her replaced or something.
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10: 16 While it is tied in with the quest, you can get some information about the torture room from one of the beggars who say it's for Argonians who illegally cross into Cyrodiil I believe? A shame you can't confront her about it and have her replaced or something.
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Broke
There are other clues in Mankind Divided that suggests that the Adam Jensen in that game is a clone, but this is the first time I heard about that body in the bank. I do hope that we get a new game at some point, but at the moment it seems unlikely.
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There are other clues in Mankind Divided that suggests that the Adam Jensen in that game is a clone, but this is the first time I heard about that body in the bank. I do hope that we get a new game at some point, but at the moment it seems unlikely.
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OLBICHL
6: 51. there's only one friend who knows about the shouts and other secrets like that. paarthurnax. he's behind it all. after you leave his mountain, he takes out his reading glasses and writing feather and gives you another friendly hint
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6: 51. there's only one friend who knows about the shouts and other secrets like that. paarthurnax. he's behind it all. after you leave his mountain, he takes out his reading glasses and writing feather and gives you another friendly hint
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