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00:00As millions are finding out while diving into the likes of Elden Ring,
00:03it's the mysteries and random payoffs that can make gaming so much fun.
00:06Almost like a return to the days before the internet, before you could google every last
00:10part of a given title's secrets, open-world titles, or games with huge open components
00:15to them in general, can hide all sorts of dynamic encounters only a handful of players will ever see.
00:20I'm Scott from RockCulture.com, and these are the 10 rarest events in open-world video games.
00:25Number 10, The Painted Cow The Elder Scrolls V, Skyrim
00:29Skyrim is home to an abundance of strange and out-of-left-field encounters. It could
00:33take up 10 whole spots by itself thanks to the sheer amount of content on offer.
00:38Let's take a closer look at two across this list though, starting with The Painted Cow.
00:42This event has no known way to get triggered, so you'll need some blind luck on your side.
00:46You'll know that you're about to witness the encounter when you see a farmer leading a painted
00:50cow towards a giant's camp. When spoken to, the farmer will say he's offering the cow to
00:55the giants in order to protect the rest of his livestock. This encounter also has multiple endings,
01:00unlike other NPC encounters in the game. Most have a fixed narrative that won't change,
01:04but here there are two endings, and in one we see the giants reject the cow and kill the farmer,
01:09the cow escaping. The other has the giants accept the cow and allow the farmer to leave peacefully.
01:14The cow doesn't get eaten and instead goes on to live with the giants in perfect happiness,
01:19until you stop monitoring what's going on anyway.
01:219. The Bad Bad Ending Dying Light 2
01:24Obvious spoilers for Dying Light 2. The sequel to Techland's open world masterpiece brings back
01:29the fun and thrill of parkouring across a luscious cityscape, along with the joy of slicing and dicing
01:34your way through those zombie hordes. It also has multiple branching story paths, and several
01:39endings to try and obtain. One of the more elusive endings requires you make a lot of wrong choices
01:43during specific events across your playthrough. This awful ending shows the city of Velador
01:48devastated by the launch of some missiles that you fail to stop. Luan is dead, Hakon is dead,
01:53and Mia is also dead. Topping it all off, if you side with Juan till the end, he decides to hide
01:58away from civilisation, hoarding all the food and supplies he can get his hands on, leaving any
02:03survivors to starve and waste away. What does your main character Aiden do? Well, nothing,
02:07he just leaves the city and goes back to being a pilgrim. If for some reason you want this horrific
02:12ending, just follow these simple steps at key moments in the game. Firstly, kill Hakon in the
02:17church when the opportunity arises. Next, give the VNC tower to the Peacekeepers, but give it to
02:22Juan instead of Jack Matt. Don't romance Luan at any point in the game, and lastly, save Luan during
02:28X13. Congratulations, you now get the most depressing ending in a video game since Mass Effect 2's
02:33complete suicide mission failure. No Man's Sky is a video game that has certainly come a long way
02:41from its original release in 2016. Receiving a lot of criticism for being a half-baked title,
02:45Hello Games continuously updated and turned No Man's Sky into a game worthy of owning,
02:50with reviewers and critics praising it profusely from 2020 onwards. Between the dates of 18th to
02:5531st May 2021 and then the dates of 8th to 21st December 2021, a special themed expedition took
03:02place. Players could attempt to get a hold of Mass Effect's SR1 Normandy as one of their frigates.
03:08Players had to play the expedition between those dates to have even a chance of finding and owning
03:12this iconic ship. Expeditions as a mission type offer the chance to win cosmetic rewards as you
03:17reach certain challenge milestones. Changing every week, one of the cosmetic rewards was the Normandy
03:22itself, though to maintain exclusivity, anyone who didn't grab the ship on those specified dates can
03:27no longer acquire it at all. The Persona series as a whole has lots of fun and sneakily hidden
03:34secrets, most come in the form of special bosses that will take some finessing to find. The Reaper
03:38is one of those rare encounters, a powerful and intimidating foe that most players will have missed
03:43on their first run through. So strong that even high level players who have gotten good gear can
03:47be wiped out in mere seconds, caution is a must if you wish to do battle. Even Morgana and the
03:52rest of the gang will comment on how powerful the aura of the Reaper is when it finally rears its
03:56head. To get the Reaper to appear, players need to meander around in mementos for quite some time,
04:01never leaving the floor that they're on. After a good chunk of time has passed, you'll eventually
04:05start to hear some chains rattling. This is a good sign or a bad one, depending on how you want
04:10to view it. If the player continues to wait around, the Reaper will eventually turn up and immediately
04:14make a beeline straight towards them. Hopefully you're ready, because this is a supremely hard
04:19and well-hidden fight for a reason. One of many instances in Mass Effect 3 that
04:26relied on specific things happening in both previous games, during Mission Citadel Medijel
04:30Sabotage, you must have spoken to and completed all of Conrad Werner's tasks. Doing so will make
04:35Werner a potential war asset during this mission, and he'll give you access to his Dark Energy
04:40Dissertation, worth a whopping one whole point towards your Galactic Readiness endgame stat.
04:45You can also snag some more points for the Galactic Readiness Meter if you've been super
04:48diligent with your time to this point. You'll need to have finished the following quests.
04:52Feroz Data Recovery, a fetch quest that must be completed not long after you destroy the Thorian.
04:57UNC Asari Writings, an incredibly tedious collectible quest where you need to find 14
05:02writings spread throughout the galaxy, and buy the Elkos Combined Armoury Licence from a vendor.
05:07Until this point, most of these had felt pretty pointless, but beating all three nets you an
05:11incredible boost to the dissertation in the form of four more points. Yes, if you hadn't guessed,
05:16these amounts are arguably not worth all that effort, but the triggering of them is certainly
05:21rare because of it. The Witcher 3 is a sprawling open-world
05:26game with so much to discover, from references to Doctor Who's Weeping Angels to character
05:31Berna Brand being found chained to a rock if Geralt gets her sentenced to death during the
05:35story. Even rarer though is the strange instance of a ghost ship that appears at a specific location
05:40at a specific time of day. To peek a glimpse at this eerie sight, players will need to be
05:44roaming the seas around Skellig and Hindersfjall on the Skellige map at around 1am. If done
05:49correctly, you'll be greeted by the sight of a ghostly blue transparent ship. However, you have
05:54to be quick as this encounter doesn't last very long, the ship disappearing below the surface
05:58once more. This ghost ship can't be interacted with, so just enjoy the sight for what it is,
06:03a scary random encounter on the seas of a mysteriously dark fantasy world.
06:08Kilburn Final Fantasy VII
06:10The gargantuan Final Fantasy games are filled with hidden secrets and bosses, especially strewn
06:14across their wider open-world maps. Some secrets players may never discover unless they have a
06:19guide to hand, or are adamant about searching every nook and cranny. Kilburn is one of those
06:23rare encounters, with the odds of stumbling into battle with them supremely small. The zone that
06:28Kilburn spawns in is called the Rocky Path, located within the Whirlwind Maze. Rocky Path is
06:33an area most players will quickly breeze through due to how small it is overall, meaning this
06:37creature is barely ever talked about. Kilburn then is a bizarre looking enemy that takes the form of
06:42a die. It will fight the player by rolling itself and then attacking according to whatever number
06:46it lands on. Each number correlates to a spell, such as casting fire or ice, slowing party members
06:51down or just healing itself. All this said, fear not, as despite being rare and looking quite
06:56intimidating, Kilburns are complete pushovers, posing very little threat despite their rarity.
07:02A Literal Vampire Red Dead Redemption 2
07:04From the studio that bought you the heart inside GTA IV's Statue of Happiness,
07:08it's no surprise Red Dead Redemption 2 is also filled to the brim with random secrets.
07:12One rare encounter comes in the form of a vampire, also known as the Saint Denis Vampire. To find him,
07:18you must undergo the task of finding five pieces of mysterious writing that line the
07:22walls of Saint Denis. These can be found in any order, after which Arthur or John will
07:26jot down a location in their journal, in the guise of a pentagram. The location itself is in an alley,
07:31just south of the cathedral, with players needing to go there between 12 and 1am.
07:35Once in the right spot, you'll be met with a grisly sight, the vampire drinking the blood
07:39of his newest victim. This particular creature of the night is surprised that somebody managed
07:43to find him, and will be hostile from the get-go, threatening you to leave or you'll be his next
07:48victim. If you stay and fight, well, good luck, as it's a one-hit kill should you get hit by any
07:52attack. Succeed, though, and you'll be awarded the incredibly rare Ornate Dagger, as well as
07:57some stringy meat and two bat wings. Tasty.
08:00Number 2, Maik the Liar The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim
08:03A character most Skyrim players will have missed, Maik the Liar has quite the reputation amongst
08:08fans of Elder Scrolls overall. However, he's still one of the hardest encounters to stumble across,
08:12mainly as there's no correlation on how to get him to pop up, similar to the Painted Cow.
08:17This mischievous Khajiit wanders around spreading hilarious misinformation and appears as an
08:21easter egg for completionists. Maik has appeared in every Elder Scrolls game since Morrowind,
08:25where this devilish feline made one hell of an impact. Thankfully, Maik is harmless and does
08:30nothing more than make ludicrous comments about people and certain situations, ranging from combat
08:35tips about trying to fight with two swords, in-jokes about how Winterhold was once referenced
08:39as a city before Skyrim, and much more. Number 1, Morden's Soulless Lives?
08:44Mass Effect 3 Finishing this off,
08:46let's head back to Mass Effect 3 with one of the rarest encounters in the game, Morden's soulless
08:50surviving the events on Tachanka. Getting this to happen requires very specific actions to be taken
08:55at key points across the trilogy, as well as having a high enough renegade skill to pull off the
08:59necessary dialogue options. So, where to start? Well, firstly, you're going to need to go back
09:03to Mass Effect 1 and have Rex killed on Vermeer. Second, during Morden's loyalty mission in Mass
09:08Effect 2, you'll need to destroy all of Malon's data. Third, you must tell no one about the STG
09:13sabotage to the Shroud Tower. Lastly, the only way to stop Morden dispensing the cure in the moment
09:18is to use the renegade option, which takes quite a few points to get in the first place. If you're
09:22successful in all of these areas, you'll manage to convince Morden that it's for the greater good to
09:27not dispense the cure. Morden will then insist he needs to go into hiding, pretending that he died
09:31while curing the genophage. Morden will become a war asset for you to use in the endgame,
09:36avoiding death but never being seen again. And those are our picks for the rarest events in
09:41open-world games. Let me know your favourites down in the comments below, and please subscribe
09:44to the Woculture Gaming Podcast. For now, I've been Scott from Woculture.com, and I'll catch you soon.