History Redundancy / VideoGames

* According to the [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony One]], the selectable footage in the ''Make My Video'' game/editing tool series includes, in addition to the original music videos, "a load of random PublicDomain footage from the Steamboat Willie era cartoons, lots of black-and-white footage from people dancing from the 1930s, stock sports videos of people skiing or wakeboarding, and cartoons. I know I said 'cartoons' before, but there are a '''lot''' of cartoons."

* In ''VideoGame/LegoMarvelsAvengers'', one line that Crimson Dynamo may utter during a takedown is "Beware my laser light pistol of light lasers!".

* UsefulNotes/NintendoDS Lite, on startup:

* From ''VideoGame/LegoMarvelSuperHeroes'': Doctor Doom's Doom Ray of Doom!!!

* The NPC in ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver''/''Crystal'' (and likely ''[=HeartGold=]'' and ''[=SoulSilver=]'' as well) who gives the protagonist the [=ItemFinder=] asks if he/she agrees with his love of treasure-hunting by asking, "Am I right or am I right?" (It's still possible to [[TakeAThirdOption say]] [[MathematiciansAnswer "no."]])
** Blaziken, the Blaze Pokémon: Its ability, Blaze, can power up its Blaze Kick attack by quite a bit.
** Darkrai, It's a Dark type whose name is a combination of the english word "Dark" and the Japanese word "Kurai", meaning Dark. Its most powerful moves are Dark Void which puts enemies to sleep and Dark Pulse.

** The Spanish editions of ''[=HeartGold=]'' and ''[=SoulSilver=]'', instead of the current tradition of literally translating the versions' names, are called "Oro-''[=HeartGold=]''" and "Plata-''[=SoulSilver=]''", with "Oro" being the Spanish word for Gold while "Plata" is Spanish for Silver (therefore, the names will be "Gold-Heart-Gold" and "Silver-Soul-Silver")... Other languages (French, German, and Italian) fell victim to this, too.
*** All versions of Heart Gold and Soul Silver (including the Japanese version, and with the exception of the English version) are titled with a similar pattern the language's word for Gold/Silver followed by the English title.
** In the Celebi Event for HGSS, your opposite gender counterpart tells you "My grandpa once told me that Celebi can travel through time using a mystic power called Time Travel!" before it sends you back in time three years.
** Here's a small oversight on the game designers' part for ''[=HeartGold=]'' and ''[=SoulSilver=]''. When the lead Pokémon that [[AllInARow follows you around]] can use the HM move Fly to travel to different locations, you'll see an animation when you reach your designated location of your character holding up a Poké Ball as the Pokémon flies back into it. When you move, that very same flyer follows behind you immediately after.
** A sign in ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'': "Marvelous Bridge - Truly marvelous! And also a bridge!"
** ''Pokémon'' received an incredibly bad one in the form of Rotom. Rotom is normally a Ghost/Electric Pokémon, and it can change its form (altering its stats and giving it a unique move) by possessing an appliance (lawn mower, oven, etc). Recently, they changed it so that Rotom's Ghost typing is changed to one suiting the new form. The Fan Form becomes an Electric/Flying type, and it still has Levitate. Why is this redundant? Because Flying types and Pokémon with Levitate are both immune to Ground-type attacks.
*** In Random Battles on [[Website/{{Smogon}} Pokemon Showdown]], Fan Rotom is always given an Air Balloon as an item. Guess what the Air Balloon does.

** The messages whenever you're about to have a Double Battle or winning said battle against the Grunts of any evil organization is this. For example, in the case of Team Flare in ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'', the messages won't say "You are challenged by Team Flare Grunts!" and "You beat the Team Flare Grunts!". Instead, you'll get "You are challenged by Team Flare Grunt and Team Flare Grunt!" and "You beat Team Flare Grunt and Team Flare Grunt!".
** [[JokeCharacter Delibird]] gained the Hidden Ability Insomnia in Gen V, which does the exact same thing as one of its existing abilities, Vital Spirit.
** In the Gen I games, Tauros can learn the moves Tail Whip and Leer by leveling up. The problem is that both moves do the exact same thing, which is lower an opponent's Defense by one stage. However, this has been [[AvertedTrope averted]] since Gen II, where Tauros can still learn Tail Whip by leveling up, but Leer has been removed from his move list entirely.
** One of Stunfisk's possible abilities is Limber, which prevents it from being paralyzed. Come ''X and Y'', Electric-type Pokémon gained immunity to paralysis, and given that Stunfisk is Electric-type...
*** Even better part: Stunfisk is also part Ground, which is immune to Electric-type moves. Most of the paralysis-inducing moves, are Electric-type.....
** In ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', Nidoran was split into male and female variants. At the time, they were the only Pokémon to be divided by sex. Sexes were introduced in ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'' and a Pokémon's sex would be shown on screen. However, both male and female Nidoran did not get their names changed, resulting in the possibility of the game displaying the Pokémon's sex twice. Fortunately, [[DevelopersForesight the devs were one step ahead]] and {{averted|Trope}} this by making the game hide the default gender symbol for Nidoran without nicknames.

* The way the battle strings are put together in ''VideoGame/PokemonStadium 2'', combined with the game's somewhat more literal translation when compared to other games in the series, can result in such lovely sentences as "[Pokémon]'s WING ATTACK attack!"

* Someone in ''VideoGame/{{Earthbound}}'' gives you the "Machine that Opens Doors, especially when you have a slightly bad key" machine.

** Toichiro Yuri is a "{{Kitsune}} fox" (fox fox).

--> '''Mario:''' "You know what they say: All toasters toast toast!"

---> '''Mario:''' "If [[NoFourthWall you]] need instructions on how to get through the hotels, check out the enclosed instruction book.

-->'''Spy''': [[TheComicallySerious I appear to have burst into flame!]]/Fire. Fire! FIRE!\\
'''Soldier''': [[PunctuatedForEmphasis I! AM! ON! FIRE!!!]]\\
'''Medic''': I'M MELTING!\\
'''Heavy''': MY FLESH! IT BURNS!

---> '''[[spoiler:[=GLaDOS=]]]:''' [[AC:Well. [[ThisIsThePartWhere This is the part where he kills us]].]]\\

---> What's your favorite thing about space? Mine is space.

--> "It is the near future...the apocalypse has had an apocalypse."

** ''VideoGame/PlayerUnknownsBattlegrounds'' (PUBG) [[https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/578080/header.jpg?t=1628543037 rebranded itself]] ''PUBG: Battlegrounds'', an example of RAS Syndrome.

---> Lighthouse point: a point that has a lighthouse.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Bioshock|1}}'': "Bottom of the ocean, boyo. All oxygen comes from the trees! No trees, no oxygen!"

----> "It is I, Dr. Mobius, transmitting from my dome-shaped... dome in the Forbidden Zone. A zone... that is, yes... forbidden to you."

--> ''"My magic may be weak.. But my strength is strong!"''

* From ''[[VideoGame/LEGOAdaptationGame LEGO Marvel Superheroes]]'': Doctor Doom's Doom Ray of Doom!!!

--> "My friend Ron met these Chinese assholes. They're from Yangshan in China."

--> "He was sort of like the dork of the group. I mean, all of the other guys are made out of metal too, but they have other cool stuff. It's like you getting a costume that says, "Human Man," and trying to fight crime."

* ''VideoGame/PAYDAYTheHeist'' has Special SWAT officers. Special Special Weapons and Tactics.

--> "Everyone always asks me if we've met before." says Repeater. "Everyone always asks me if we've met before. Wait, did I just say that?"

* In ''VideoGame/LEGOMarvelsAvengers'', one line that Crimson Dynamo may utter during a takedown is "Beware my laser light pistol of light lasers!".

--> '''Mii''': My name is [first name] [last name]. My nickname is [first name].

--> '''Riki:''' [[LampshadeHanging This is redundant.]]

--> [[AC:You are in the hallway of the large house of the mayor. It is an amazingly large house.]]\\

* ''VideoGame/JadeCocoon'' : Story of the Tamamayu. "Tamamayu" means "Jade Cocoon" in Japanese. So... "Jade Cocoon: Story of the Jade Cocoon."

--> '''Mario:''' "If [[NoFourthWall you]] need instructions on how to get through the hotels, check out the enclosed instruction book.

-->'''Gumshoe:''' Prosecutor Edgeworth is a prosecutor, and that's why he's Prosecutor Edgeworth! [[spoiler:"Prosecutor Edgeworth, Defense Attorney"]] just sounds plain old weird, pal!

** That is not redundant it is not, unless it's repeated.

** In ''Puyo Puyo Tetris'', Arle tells the others they should clear some intrusive puyos "as ASAP as possible". The acronym ASAP means "as soon as possible", so she's really just saying "as as soon as possible as possible".

** Delibird gained the Hidden Ability Insomnia in Gen V, which does the exact same thing as one of its existing abilities, Vital Spirit.

* Game ''titles'' can also fall into this from time to time. ''VideoGame/DivineDivinity'', ''VideoGame/FTLFasterThanLight'', and ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfLegacy'' are notable offenders.

* ''VideoGame/PlayerUnknownsBattlegrounds'' (PUBG) [[https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/578080/header.jpg?t=1628543037 rebranded itself]] ''PUBG: Battlegrounds'', an example of RAS Syndrome.

* ''VideoGame/PlayerUnknownsBattlegrounds'' (PUBG) rebranded itself ''PUBG: Battlegrounds'', an example of RAS Syndrome

** From ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'', after [[spoiler:falling into Wheatley's trap]]:

* As if the title didn't make it incredibly obvious, the box for the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy discloses '''five times''' (twice on the front cover, twice on back, and the title) that the disc/gamecard includes all three installments.

* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'': "Innocent oblivious Marisa [[MemeticMutation is innocent"]].

* From UFC Undisputed 2010's career mode, when you ask your trainer about Stat Decay. "Each Skill and Attribute is represented as either Stable or Decreasing, this is represented as Stable or Decreasing on the Stat Bar, and through two stages: [[RuleOfThree Stable and Decreasing]]."

* The marvelously titled [[http://www.mostfungames.com/invasion-of-the-space-invaders-from-outer-space-episode-1.htm Invasion of the Space Invaders from Outer Space!]]

** One of the items introduced in ''Super Smash Bros. Melee'' gives the user the Screw Attack ability from the ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' series. You can use it as Samus, the protagonist of the series, who already has the ability built into her moveset.

* In ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' (specifically one of the fighting spinoffs), [[ImmortalImmaturity Remilia Scarlet]] (who's [[GiverOfLameNames not that good]] at [[CallingYourAttacks naming her spellcards]]) named one of her strongest attacks ''Scarlet Devil [Scarlet Devil]''.

* ''VideoGame/GameAndMatch'': ''Climber''[='=]s manual calls the Condor "the mysterious bird Hentori". "Hentori" is Japanese for "strange bird".

* In addition to the series title, VideoGame/DeadlyRoomsOfDeath has a DLC level set where at one point an "Unscheduled Announcement" is broadcast that begins by explaining that it does not appear on the schedule due to being an "Unscheduled Announcement."

* In the original ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'', Dante blurts out this redundelicious line: ''"eventually I should hit the jackpot sooner or later!"''

* [[VideoGame/BatenKaitos "An old evil book made more evil with the evil power. Great evil dwelled evilly in this strong, evil book, but now it's really, really evil."]]

* In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim''

* In ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' ''for 3DS''/''Wii U'', selecting the "Omega Form" of any stage simply made it a variant of the Final Destination stage, complete with its own unique scenery and music. This gives players more variety if they wanted to battle on the aforementioned stage. For some reason, players also had the option of changing Final Destination itself into its Omega Form... which does absolutely nothing.

* Because of the way that gear prefixes are set up in ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'', it's possible to spawn some weapons with rather...interesting names. Most of these belong to the comically illiterate Bandits. For instance, the "Wyld Asss Ass Beeter!" assault rifle, or the "Akurate Acurate smgg" submachine gun, which is notable for managing to misspell the same word twice in two different ways.

* In ''VideoGame/TouhouProject'' (specifically one of the fighting spinoffs), [[ImmortalImmaturity Remilia Scarlet]] (who's [[GiverOfLameNames not that good]] at [[CallingYourAttacks naming her spellcards]]) named one of her strongest attacks ''Scarlet Devil [Scarlet Devil]''.

** The Spanish editions of ''[=HeartGold=]'' and ''[=SoulSilver=]'', instead of the current tradition of literally translating the versions' names (in this case, Oro Corazón and Plata Alma), are called "Oro-''[=HeartGold=]''" and "Plata-''[=SoulSilver=]''", with "Oro" being the Spanish word for Gold while "Plata" is Spanish for Silver (therefore, the names will be "Gold-Heart-Gold" and "Silver-Soul-Silver")... Other languages fell victim to this, too.

--> [[AC:You are in the hallway of the large house of the mayor. It is an amazingly large house.]]
--> '''Crow:''' The house is so large it is amazing.\\