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Import from TV Tropes TVT:Main.EmptyRoomPsych 2012-07-01, editor history TVTH:Main.EmptyRoomPsych, CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported license
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Over decades of play, gamers have been conditioned with the notion that there is no such thing as an "empty" room -- [[The Law of Conservation of Detail]] demands that if a room is placed in a game, it must do ''something'' of value, be it a scripted plot event or NPC, [[Dungeon Shop]], [[Level Grinding|monsters to slay]], [[Inexplicable Treasure Chests]] containing [[Healing Potion|healing items]] or weapons/ammo, [[Plot Coupon|Plot Coupons]] to pick up, etc etc. After all, programmers and writers have limited time and money to do this, so they won't needlessly create a majestic cathedral and fill it with ... empty white space to distract the player from [[Notice This|more important stuff]]. Plus, why torture those players out for a [[Hundred Percent Completion]] by adding loads of [[Copy and Paste Environments|copy-pasted rooms]] with [[Missing Secret|nothing in them]]?
The purpose of this trope is often to keep players on their toes, either by filling the room with enemies (essentially a trap room) or to get the above confused reaction. Players who run into enough consecutive Empty Room Psych's may overlook or ignore a new one, thinking there's {{color|white|[[Self Demonstrating Article|nothing]]}} in it, which is of course the one that ''does'' have a goodie. Other times it is entirely unintentional, when the developers [[Dummied Out|forgot to remove a room]] that was part of greater expansion. Then again, it could be the designers really ''do'' just want to give us a [[Scenery Porn|pretty room]] for the sake of it.
Now if you wander into an ''exceptionally large'' empty room, especially one [[Suspicious Videogame Generosity|with a nearby]] [[Save Point]], this usually means one thing and one thing only: [[Boss Room|Incoming]] [[Boss Battle]]!
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