Maybe it's time to Chiliad a bit
March 21, 2022 2:07 PM Subscribe
The hidden recesses of long-played videogames can sometimes reveal fantastic surprises. The mountain of Chiliad in GTA V is apparently one of these slowly unfolding, little-visited spaces. Come along on a journey that involves Sasquatch hunting, magical transformations, and alien visitations, plus a side journey into the Old West. Perhaps a bit grand with its naming, here's Chiliad - Gaming's Greatest Mystery [1h], an astounding watch into the tucked-away borders of truly popular videogames.
Ah, Mount Chiliad. In its San Andreas incarnation I used to love outfitting a bus with rocket boosters and seeing how far I could launch it off the summit.
posted by GallonOfAlan at 1:46 AM on March 22, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by GallonOfAlan at 1:46 AM on March 22, 2022 [1 favorite]
I love easter eggs like this. Lots of fun.
It helps if you play the video at 1.5x speed. I think they were trying to sound dramatic, but it really drags.
posted by Fleebnork at 6:15 AM on March 22, 2022 [1 favorite]
It helps if you play the video at 1.5x speed. I think they were trying to sound dramatic, but it really drags.
posted by Fleebnork at 6:15 AM on March 22, 2022 [1 favorite]
That was nuts! I feel simultaneously smarter, and, in the best way, stupider (especially since I've never played GTA or RDR).
Does anyone know how many of these reveals are the tail wagging the dog? People find a mystery that's already there but are possibly just abandoned artifacts, so Rockstar responds to the fandom by making them intentional in the next release?
posted by Mchelly at 10:08 AM on March 22, 2022 [1 favorite]
Does anyone know how many of these reveals are the tail wagging the dog? People find a mystery that's already there but are possibly just abandoned artifacts, so Rockstar responds to the fandom by making them intentional in the next release?
posted by Mchelly at 10:08 AM on March 22, 2022 [1 favorite]
There's a thing with Breath Of The Wild where people wanted a secret to be there so much that the devs put one in with an update. But I think a lot of these are there as evolving easter eggs.
It's crazy that it took breaking into the source code to make this one happen. So that's how deep this thing was hidden. I wonder what else is lurking, in this game or others, that nobody has even thought to look for, even in a code search?
posted by hippybear at 3:06 PM on March 22, 2022
It's crazy that it took breaking into the source code to make this one happen. So that's how deep this thing was hidden. I wonder what else is lurking, in this game or others, that nobody has even thought to look for, even in a code search?
posted by hippybear at 3:06 PM on March 22, 2022
Does anyone know how many of these reveals are the tail wagging the dog?
Speaking as a game dev expert (i.e. a D&D ref who knows nothing about video game development but whose players constantly focus on the most minor of details that I then have to improvise around to make as interesting as they want them to be): the correct answer is close to 100%.
posted by HeroZero at 3:20 PM on March 22, 2022 [2 favorites]
Speaking as a game dev expert (i.e. a D&D ref who knows nothing about video game development but whose players constantly focus on the most minor of details that I then have to improvise around to make as interesting as they want them to be): the correct answer is close to 100%.
posted by HeroZero at 3:20 PM on March 22, 2022 [2 favorites]
I only made it 5 minutes into the video, but will try again at 1.5x speed. (No knock on the video maker.) I love mysteries and the unexplained, and I really love video game mysteries for some reason, though I’m not a devoted gamer myself. Polybius is one of my favorite urban legends, and at one point years and years ago I registered sinneslochen.com (sp?), based on the name of the company that produced the dread arcade game. (I had thoughts of creating a phony corporate website to perpetuate the legend of Polybius. That was around the time I started writing a blog that mapped out an imaginary war between two former Soviet republics. Yeah . . . not good.)
If, ehem, anyone wants to recommend me a game that is rich with mystery and awe and “whoa, what is that?!”, feel free to send me a MeMail.
posted by Don.Kinsayder at 6:16 PM on March 22, 2022
If, ehem, anyone wants to recommend me a game that is rich with mystery and awe and “whoa, what is that?!”, feel free to send me a MeMail.
posted by Don.Kinsayder at 6:16 PM on March 22, 2022
Sinnesloschen. That was it! Looks like some debt-buying firm has the name now. Weird, as that is a cobbled together German-ish pseudo-word, I think, for sensory erasure. Okay, that’s unsettling.
posted by Don.Kinsayder at 6:21 PM on March 22, 2022
posted by Don.Kinsayder at 6:21 PM on March 22, 2022
A few years ago GTA V mystery videos were my number one "thing to watch while eating" go-to. The combination of the game's popularity, world scale, and enigmas--Mt. Chiliad, the Yeti, etc.--made the genre of videos exploring the game and suggesting outrageous theories fairly popular.
GTA's popularity and size make it hard to find similar game mysteries that feel like "events" in the same way, but Fez and Inscryption come to mind as games that generated similar feelings for me.
posted by mesh_drifting at 3:59 PM on March 23, 2022 [1 favorite]
GTA's popularity and size make it hard to find similar game mysteries that feel like "events" in the same way, but Fez and Inscryption come to mind as games that generated similar feelings for me.
posted by mesh_drifting at 3:59 PM on March 23, 2022 [1 favorite]
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