Video games have the unfortunate and unique ability to show what lies ahead in the game by showing empty spaces in the inventory screen or menus, from which you can deduce what will happen and how long game lasts.
What is your worst example, what did games ruin for you even when you did not get spoiled by them cursed Youtube thumbnails?
For me, way back in '96, in Super Mario 64, when at the start of the game I first started playing around in outskirts of Peach’s Castle and accidentally died
spoiler
Bowser’s laughing zoom-in spoiled that he was the villain!
Sorry for the esoteric joke, please post your more earnest examples!
I don’t know if it counts but you know how the UI in Disco Elysium reads FELD Playback Device on the sides of the tape? Despite the fact that the FELD company and its building is completely collapsed, with their mythical * FELD Device * missing?
yeah, i dunno either, but a now-deleted dev progress blog post mentions it being part of a big In-universe mystery…
i guess they were future-proofing or something, but uhhh, sad to see how that went and allat