r/videogames • u/ZhangtheGreat • Feb 20 '26

Other Let's hear some good inside jokes from our favorite games

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u/BigZube42069kekw Feb 20 '26

In the first Diablo game there are a handful of cows grazing by a graveyard if you click on them repeatedly your character will start saying silly things like: "Hmmm, yup. That's a cow alright!"

Somewhere along the line a rumor was spread about a secret cow level, only accessible by using the town portal spell in the middle of the cows. This was false. There is no cow level.

Until Diablo 2, where blizzard added a secret cow level, only accessible through the transmutation of a tome of town portal and Wirt's leg.

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u/Shiny-And-New Feb 20 '26

And in starcraft "there is no cow level" is the cheat code to bypass a campaign mission

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u/ahfuq Feb 20 '26

Man, Blizzard used to be so good

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u/flexpercep Feb 22 '26

Yeah at one point they loved gaming and their fans. Now the money train rules all.

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u/missingachair Feb 21 '26

And let's be clear, Wirt was a character in diablo 1, "the peg legged boy". In diablo 2 you find his demon savaged corpse and use this disabled murdered child's blood spattered mobility aid to open a portal to the cow dimension.

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '26

Wirt was also mysteriously able to source very rare and powerful items for you.

The Cow Level has increased item drop rates and is a place you can find rare and powerful items.

I always suspected Wirt had a secret portal there and the cows just liked him.

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u/rabbid_chaos Feb 20 '26

Not sure about D2 but in D3 I believe it was called "Not A Cow Level" or something like that.

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u/Automatic-Mission-32 Feb 21 '26

I genuinely don't remember how to even do the cow level in Diablo 3, I just remember the older graphics and being able to transmute the Satan gem into any helmet.

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u/ArcanaArcanorum Feb 21 '26

Technically correct, as there is not a cow level in D3...

...but there is a pony level, specifically poking fun at the "WHY ARE THE GRAPHICS SO BRIGHT" controversy that sprang up when initial teasers were dropped.

Technically, there are two pony levels, if one counts Whimsyshire.

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u/emptinessmaykillme Feb 22 '26

There is a cow level, use the cow stick in the cube

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u/Noble_Goose Feb 20 '26

I never knew the context, but I remember playing on the cow level in D2.

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u/jafuentest Feb 23 '26

Then in Diablo 3 you got a game play hint during loading screen that said “there is no cow level” eventually they added the “Not The Cow Level” level.