History RememberTheNewGuy / VideoGames

** Dr. Eggman was given two robot minions; Orbot, introduced in ''VideoGame/SonicUnleashed'', and Cubot, introduced in ''VideoGame/SonicColors''. Despite having never been seen before, they speak as if they've been around to witness Eggman's failures since the beginning.

* Prior to his appearance in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight'', Jason Todd was absolutely unmentioned in the first two games and companion media, not even mentioned in the database entries and the Batcave DLC we see in ''City'' was missing the iconic Robin display monument. About the only reference was an oblique comment ("Didn't I Kill You Already?") in the Joker's Funland challenge DLC. Knight has several flashbacks dealing with Todd before TheReveal. Why is this prominent? [[spoiler: It's because Jason Todd is the very same Arkham Knight who serves as the titular [[TheDragon Dragon]] to Scarecrow.]]

* ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'' is a prequel to ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'' that focuses on John Marston's former gang, which was assumed to consist solely of him, Dutch Van der Linde, Bill Williamson, Javier Esquella and John's wife and son. The Van der Linde Gang as seen in ''2'' consists of two dozen people at the start of the game, most of which were never been mentioned by any of the characters in 1 despite their significance to the characters' backgrounds. Protagonist Arthur Morgan in particular is never mentioned despite [[spoiler:his role in helping the Marstons escape the gang and giving them a chance at a normal life. To the game’s credit, there is an InUniverse explanation in his case. John tells one of the girls from the gang that he thinks about Arthur all the time but doesn’t talk about him because it’s too painful. True to his word, he very rarely mentions him in the epilogue. His wife also cries every time Arthur gets mentioned.]]

** Hylia is introduced in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword Skyward Sword]]'' as a GodOfGood tasked by the Golden Goddesses with guarding the Triforce, the patron deity of the tribe of humans who would subsequently become known as Hylians, the namesake of the land of Hyrule, and [[spoiler:the ancestor of the Royal Family specifically and the Hylians in general on account of the first Zelda being her reincarnation]]. Despite filling such a crucial role for the people of Hyrule, none of the previous ''Zelda'' games from any of the different timelines made any mention of her. Gets even weirder with ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild Breath of the Wild]]'', the first major console game to be released after ''Skyward Sword'', which is stated to be the latest chronologically in its timeline; statues of Hylia are ubiquitous, and she is worshiped across the land as Hyrule's patron deity. Before ''Breath of the Wild'', fans assumed that the people of Hyrule had forgotten about the Goddess Hylia after so long to justify her absence in previously made but chronologically subsequent games.

*** The game doesn't introduce the [[{{Precursors}} Zonai]], but in the previous title they were only ancient people who created interesting ruins. In this game they're the founders of Hyrule and central to the plot spanning several millennia.
*** The [[FishPeople Zora]] woman Yona is said to have recently come from a Zora settlement distinct from Zora's Domain (implicitly one outside of the boundaries of Hyrule), which at least justifies why Link never ran into her in ''Breath of the Wild''. But she is also [[spoiler:Sidon's childhood friend and fiancée]], something you'd think the Zora Prince would bring up to the guy he considers his best friend.

** The other 874 (and counting) Pokémon introduced after [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Gen I]] don't help on this front either. This is particularly weird because it sometimes tends to handwave it as the newly introduced Pokémon being newly-discovered species... even though the residents of that region all know more than enough information about these new mons to train and use them for the same purposes as any other region, which sort of implies that the regions don't interact with each other a whole lot. It's especially odd with the almost-obligatory [[VideoGameRemake remakes]] two or three generations later, where once the player beats the Elite Four, the next 200 or so extra Pokémon introduced since the original version will just sort of appear out of nowhere [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight without anyone seeming to particularly notice]], except for the local Professor who first tells the player that they're here now.

** The other 747 (and counting) Pokémon introduced after [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Gen I]] don't help on this front either. This is particularly weird because it sometimes tends to handwave it as the newly introduced Pokémon being newly-discovered species... even though the residents of that region all know more than enough information about these new mons to train and use them for the same purposes as any other region, which sort of implies that the regions don't interact with each other a whole lot. It's especially odd with the almost-obligatory [[VideoGameRemake remakes]] two or three generations later, where once the player beats the Elite Four, the next 200 or so extra Pokémon introduced since the original version will just sort of appear out of nowhere [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight without anyone seeming to particularly notice]], except for the local Professor who first tells the player that they're here now.

** A non-character example is featured heavily in VideoGame/Fallout4, with the newly introduced T-60 Power Armor being included in the introductory cutscene and the playable prologue (both set before the great war) and a loading screen explicitly stating that it "saw extensive use" and was a "common sight" prior To the Great War, despite never having been even alluded to in any prior game, needless to say it is something of a broken base, especially with Bethesda's seeming inability to decide whether it is superior or inferior to the T-51b.

** Krauser from ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'' is a guy that protagonist Leon met in the time period between ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'' and ''4'' that the player never got to meet until ''4''. What's a tad jarring is that the game seems to take this trope a step further, introducing him almost as if his presence was some kind of shocking plot twist (which is further reinforced by the fact that it ''is'' one from Leon's in-universe perspective) and acting as though a first-time player is somehow supposed to know who he is. His introductory cutscene even makes it a point to dramatically reveal his face in a close-up. ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilTheDarksideChronicles'' retroactively addresses this with its storyline, with Leon and Krauser as the two protagonists of the main plot (which is set a few years before ''[=RE4=]''), and the trope becomes effectively averted if you actually play the games in chronological order.

** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'' features a counterpart to Genesis in this respect with Roche, a Third Class SOLDIER. He appears as a mini-boss during Avalanche’s raid on Shinra and has WorthyOpponent face-off with Cloud, [[CanonForeigner despite him not appearing or existing at all in the original game]]. However unlike with Genesis, the response to Roche has been far more unanimously positive likely due to him not impacting the original story like Genesis did and the fact his BadassBiker BloodKnight personality is so contrasting with every other SOLDIER that he’s become an EnsembleDarkHorse.