Lots of games have crates in em. Usually smashed and sometimes stacked with lots of flavors to choose from
Yeah sokoban!
The moment I knew I wasn’t going to bother with Metroid Prime 4:
I didn’t know there was a second boxxle
i wouldn’t know if it weren’t on one of those 50-in-1 carts that made the rounds back then, and i didn’t even care about it, only my older sibling played the hell out of both soko— boxxles.
that’s also a cool crate
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Damn shame that DJ Hero did not feature any crate digging
the crates gather around us stoically, perpetually existing, without love. some presenting us with the bounty of root vegetables, some stacked forgotten in corners. the only touch they receive is a smash to see what they contain. but now we have a thread to breathe meaning into their splintery existence
when i read about how the music video for eiffel 65’s blue was inspired by metal gear solid i rewatched the vid to see the influence and realized it mostly revolved around how much they loved the crates and hazard paint at the beginning of the game
Grim Dawn, an ARPG by developer Crate Entertainment, has a secret dungeon named Crate of Entertainment that can be accessed by breaking six specific Unassuming Crates hidden across the world in a particular order
the boss of this dungeon is also named Crate of Entertainment and is a giant nude man with a crate for a head. he’s flanked by aggressive crate minions and is one of the hardest bosses in the game
each major area in the game has virtually identical crates with different scan text basically amounting to “this crate was designed for the cold”, “this crate was designed for the heat”, etc, etc. in practice it only serves to highlight the shallowness of The Lore.
not a crate post, but I love how every few months nikki just starts panicking about death again
Where would immersive sims be without the humble crate
I feel like I must link to this, although warning parts of it have aged… well some words that were more readily said back in 2000 are in here so be forewarned and all that.
I liked that Half-Life 2 has you looking at a crate the second you get off the train, as a dare to Start-To-Crate.
every time i see a crate in a goldsrc game my pavlovian response is to just smash them open with my crowbar for any possible goodies:
Companion thread idea: improperly utilized shipping pallets
Immediately another idea I had was the inverse of this Gaming’s Cratest Shits and it’d be about the worst loot boxes















