History FailedASpotCheck / VideoGames

* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'''s guards weren't particularly bright in the original, upgraded in ''The Twin Snakes'' and [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty its]] [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater other]] [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots entries]].
* In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'', the guards would never think to check human-sized lockers while actively searching for the player during an alert mode. This made lockers a great place for hiding dead bodies and yourself during the alert (so long as you didn't make any noise while in the locker)
* This is how, pathetically yet unfortunately, a good deal of events go awry in the story events of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'', most notably is [[spoiler: the vocal chord parasite infection outbreak that occurs on Mother Base thanks to Miller's paper-thin excuse of "Kids aren't dangerous without weapons, so why bother looking for anything else?" and since they didn't sanitize/burn the kid's clothes/belongings (as the vocal chord parasites don't affect children, but can still cling to clothes and so forth) the Kikongo strain of the vocal chord parasite spreads. Quiet tried to kill one of the infected hosts before so as to prevent the outbreak from occurring, but as she's [[TheVoiceless mute]] for reasons of her own choosing, the attempt is averted due to Ocelot and Venom Snake's intervention and thus the outbreak occurs thanks to Miller's delightful negligence in sanitization efforts regarding the kids brought to Mother Base.]] Thanks for that, Miller.

* In ''VideoGame/PotionPermit'', Helene asks Reyner about her request for a new furniture design from him, but he tells her that it's delayed because he never heard from Forrest about it. It then turns out that Forrest wasn't able to build it because he didn't spot the note about its materials lying on the floor of the ranger post.

* ''{{Franchise/Pokemon}}'':

* In ''VideoGame/NoUmbrellasAllowed'', accurately appraising an item is essential in uncovering its true value before haggling with your customer to buy it at a lower price. If you miss at least one attribute of the item, the next customer will point that out to you when they buy it from your store. Failing to accurately appraise an item usually happens when you're pressured by the seller to pay for it immediately or stop appraising it, or are prevented from evaluating it subjectively using blue cards by a [[EmotionSuppression Fixie.]]

* In ''VideoGame/PoliceQuest'', if you don't check your tires before driving off, you WILL end up with a flat tire. In ''Open Season'', if you don't check the door with a stick mirror, you WILL get your throat ripped out by the guard dog. In ''SWAT'', failing to slice the pie while entering a room = death.

* ''VideoGame/BloodOmenLegacyOfKain'': Kain fails to notice the peculiar sigil on the forehead of the Oracle of Nosgoth, which would've otherwise tipped him off to the fact that the Oracle was, in fact, Moebius the Time Streamer.

* Despite her tentacles, facial markings, and occasional {{Verbal Backspace}}s, Inklings in ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon 2}}'' don't notice that [[TokenHeroicOrc Marina]] is an Octoling, assuming these differences to be fashion statements or odd misspeaks. Only [[spoiler:the members of the Squidbeak Splatoon notice, and even her best friend Pearl doesn't bother confirming her own suspicions until the events of ''Octo Expansion'', after which she continues to obfuscate stupidity about it in public]]. Somewhat justified, as Octarians live underground and haven't had regular contact with the Inkling race in over a century.

* Happens all the time in ''VideoGame/Minesweeper'': it's a puzzle-solving game about finding mines in a rectangular grid.

Happens all the time in * ''VideoGame/Minesweeper'': It's a puzzle-solving game about finding mines in a rectangular grid.

* ''VideoGame/{{Hitman}}'':

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** This also factors into several of the [[AnyoneCanDie potential deaths]]. Failing to notice significant details, such as [[spoiler:Mitsuru]] being left behind when passing through a trapped room, contributes directly to their tragic demise.

** From ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonExplorers of Sky'', at the beginning of secret episode 4 ("Here Comes Team Charm"), sure Graveler it's an [[EmptyRoomUntilTheTrap empty room with a treasure chest]] and [[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Team_Charm three statues]].

** In ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'', it never seems to occur to the scientist who revives fossilized Pokémon that she isn't so much reviving ancient creatures as she is stitching together barely functional abominations from mismatched parts and inventing their back stories as she goes. Unless she does it on purpose, but she's hiding it well. If the Pokédex is of any indication, nobody else seems to notice this neither.

* ''VideoGame/Borderlands1'' marks the objectives for the missions on the map with a large target. However, once you go into [[DifficultySpike Old Haven]] you have a mission to shut down signal fires that are spewing columns of smoke up into the air and drawing unwanted company from miles around. For the first time in the game, the map doesn't show you the locations of the fires, the map instead displaying a ping dead in the middle of the map, which will be obviously useless for anyone who has spent the game using the map markers as gospel. Or you could just [[NoPeripheralVision look up at the sky and see whereabouts in the level the massive columns of smoke are coming from]].

* Despite her tentacles, facial markings, and occasional {{Verbal Backspace}}s, Inklings in ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon 2}}'' don't notice that [[TokenHeroicOrc Marina]] is an Octoling, assuming these differences to be fashion statements or odd misspeaks. Only [[spoiler:the members of the Squidbeak Splatoon notice, and even her best friend Pearl doesn't bother confirming her own suspicions until the events of the Octo Expansion, after which she continues to obfuscate stupidity about it in public]]. Somewhat justified, as Octarians live underground and haven't had regular contact with the Inkling race in over a century.

* ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' marks the objectives for the missions on the map with a large target. However, once you go into [[DifficultySpike Old Haven]] you have a mission to shut down signal fires that are spewing columns of smoke up into the air and drawing unwanted company from miles around. For the first time in the game, the map doesn't show you the locations of the fires, the map instead displaying a ping dead in the middle of the map, which will be obviously useless for anyone who has spent the game using the map markers as gospel. Or you could just [[NoPeripheralVision look up at the sky and see whereabouts in the level the massive columns of smoke are coming from]].

* ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' consists of you checking all possible paths of attack the antagonistic animatronics may take against you. The problem is there are many of these and while you may get caught up checking out one of them that is giving you plenty of grief, you'll fail to notice another coming after you. They know this and take full advantage of it. The ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2'' takes this UpToEleven with even more paths of attack and animatronics.

* This is how, pathetically yet unfortunately, a good deal of events go awry in the story events of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'', most notably is [[spoiler: the vocal chord parasite infection outbreak that occurs on Mother Base thanks to Miller's paper-thin excuse of "Kids aren't dangerous without weapons, so why bother looking for anything else?" and since they didn't sanitize/burn the kid's clothes/belongings (as the vocal chord parasites don't affect children) the Kikongo strain of the vocal chord parasite spreads. Quiet tried to kill one of the infected hosts before so as to prevent the outbreak from occurring, but as she's [[TheVoiceless mute]] for reasons of her own choosing, the attempt is averted due to Ocelot and Venom Snake's intervention and thus the outbreak occurs thanks to Miller's delightful negligence in sanitization efforts regarding the kids brought to Mother Base.]] Thanks for that, Miller.

* This is how, pathetically yet unfortunately, a good deal of events go awry in the story events of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'', most notably is [[spoiler: the vocal chord parasite infection outbreak that occurs on Mother Base thanks to Miller's paper-thin excuse of "Kids aren't dangerous without weapons, so why bother looking for anything else?" and since they didn't sanitize/burn the kid's clothes/belongings (as the vocal chord parasites don't affect children) the Kikongo strain of the vocal chord parasite spreads. Quiet tried to kill one of the infected hosts before so as to prevent the outbreak from occurring, but as she's [[/TheVoiceless mute]] for reasons of her own choosing, the attempt is averted due to Ocelot and Venom Snake's intervention and thus the outbreak occurs thanks to Miller's delightful negligence in sanitization efforts regarding the kids brought to Mother Base.]] Thanks for that, Miller.

* ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain'': In ''Blood Omen'', Kain fails to notice the peculiar sigil on the forehead of the Oracle of Nosgoth, which would've otherwise tipped him off to the fact that the Oracle was, in fact, Moebius the Time Streamer.
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfDragoon'': Martel wants the player's help to find all fifty [[{{MacGuffin}} stardust]] hidden throughout the world. While several of them are very well hidden, in Deningrad there's two directly behind her and the fiftieth one is in the room right next to hers in her home village.

** While everyone berated ''Franchise/MetalGear'' for being unrealistic that you could just hide in a box and no one would spot you, with the recently added taunt, The Box Trot, it has been proven multiple times that a Spy hidden by nothing but a cardboard box in the right place could fool many unaware players. This is hilariously displayed in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZg0CV-S8bI these]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PZ_Tt4FT-M three]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7KkdINnN_8 videos]].

* In the ''Franchise/CarmenSandiego'' game "Great Chase Through Time", a lot of the thieves are HiddenInPlainSight. [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation It's easy to assume that the Good Guide spotted them right off the bat and just wanted you to figure out where they were hiding yourselves]], with you failing the spot check. However, everyone in the past apparently does this too, as Julius Caesar never looks ''to his left'' to see Doctor Belljar hiding behind a pillar right next to him, The servant never looks behind him because the camel Buggs Zapper is hiding to find that the camel is a cardboard cutout, Isabella doesn't notice a chart with mysterious lands in her room, Beethoven doesn't spot the foreign instrument in the orchestra that Jacquelyn Hyde is playing, and Thomas Edison simply stands there staring at the wall without realizing that Dee Cryption is ''RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM'' hiding behind a battery.

* In ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheStickOfTruth'', the [[PlayerCharacter New Kid]] could only be a boy, but in ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheFracturedButWhole'', if you decide to play as a female New Kid, it is shown that ''everyone'' in South Park believes that she is a boy no matter how feminine she dresses. Several of the party members even have quotes in which they state that the New Kid has "very soft skin" and "is too pretty" for a boy (Scott and Butters respectively), especially notorious whith [[DistractedByTheSexy Clyde]], who tells the New Kid that she has big "raisins" (i.e. breasts), but still thinks she's a boy. Others such as Kyle outright think that the New Kid is a feminine-looking boy. Averted with Wendy, who tells the New Kid that she already knew since the last game that she was a girl, [[SecretKeeper but decided to keep quiet about it out of respect for what she believes is the New Kid wanting to remain mysterious]].