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Yeah all those were awful except the Galaxy one. Really a lame article all around but I do love stuff like those things in Galaxy 2. Makes you wonder about the things you don't see in games but are there.
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randombattle posted:Yeah all those were awful except the Galaxy one. Really a lame article all around but I do love stuff like those things in Galaxy 2. Makes you wonder about the things you don't see in games but are there. Man, do I have the site for you.
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May 1, 2011 20:42
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In the 90s there was this polish gaming mag called Secret Service. One of their april fools gags proved quite effective. They started the issue with a lengthy article explaining that the whole staff was actually female and they just took male pseudonims because people wouldn't take all girl ran pc magazine seriously. They even attached pictures pointing out who was who. They said they were sorry for misdirection but it was time to come out. A lot of people fell for this. Even a year later someone tried to explain to me that everyone writing for Secret Service was a chick. I don't have that issue but I'm pretty sure the next month they published some of the nerd rage mail that joke generated. I recall another april fools hoax, I think that one was published in Gambler (another old polish game mag). It was a review for PS1 game that didn't exist. It was supposed to be a rad castle simulator where you played as the king. All commands were issued by voice through the microphone and servants supposedly picked up on the way you were speaking and would mock your voice behind your back. Doesn't that sound cool though? There were also some over the top details like one of the reviewers fainting during the epic ten minute intro. I might actually have that issue somewhere...
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May 1, 2011 20:54
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I wish I could see the outraged mail from that gag. I honestly can't understand why someone would be outraged that they read an article by a female then a male. Is it really that big of a problem?
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May 1, 2011 20:57
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Syrg Sapphire posted:Man, do I have the site for you. This site is awesome 
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JammyLammy posted:I wish I could see the outraged mail from that gag. I honestly can't understand why someone would be outraged that they read an article by a female then a male. Is it really that big of a problem? Imagine that you've been enjoying this magazine for a while, when all of a sudden, all of the old articles you liked suddenly become trite nonsense written by people who don't really understand games, and who are trying to push some weird agenda on you! What a bunch of jerks!
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May 1, 2011 21:02
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pw pw pw posted:Seriously? You don't see the baby in that picture? And the womb in the other picture? And the fact that the game is called Mother, but basically has nothing to do with mothers otherwise? Ok, I can see it now that others have mentioned to look at the black rather than the red. It's called Mother because the plot is modeled around the John Lennon song of the same name - with Gigyas the invading alien raised by an Earth family, the father of which steals the alien Psi powers to take back to Earth, prompting the invasion.
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May 1, 2011 21:05
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randombattle posted:Yeah all those were awful except the Galaxy one. I disagree. Now that I've seen the Mother Baby, I can't unsee it. Oh god  Not actually a video game, but if somebody told you this today and you weren't around when it actually came out, you'd probably think it was an urban legend: William Gibson writes self-deleting poem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrippa_%28a_book_of_the_dead%29
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Ghostlight posted:Ok, I can see it now that others have mentioned to look at the black rather than the red. I always thought the Mother title came from Mother Earth, which is what you're fighting for against invading aliens/insane future aliens/human expansion and greed. Though the John Lennon thing also has merit, the games are littered with Beatles references.
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May 1, 2011 21:59
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Doc Hawkins posted:Imagine that you've been enjoying this magazine for a while, when all of a sudden, all of the old articles you liked suddenly become trite nonsense written by people who don't really understand games, and who are trying to push some weird agenda on you! What a bunch of jerks! You're being ironic, right...
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I'm being derisive and contemptuous, while explaining the (terrible, stupid, illogical) motivations of the letter-writers. It's a shame you had to ask! Poe's law applied to gamer sexism, I guess.
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May 1, 2011 22:28
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Pretzel Rod Stewart posted:You're being ironic, right... Ridiculously super obvious that he is being sarcastic
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Thread posted:Stuff about the Braid ending. I remember there being some talk that the point of the extra Braid ending wasn't actually about the nuke, but some message about obsession. Like, you had to be pretty obsessed with getting the stars considering how obtuse they were, and how ridiculous some of the requirements were (Like waiting for two hours, or having to get it before beating world 2). I think it was meant to be a message about what obsession can do to people, and how dangerous it can be when that level of dedication and obsession is taken from something harmless, like collecting all the stars in a videogame, to something much more sinister, such as the race to develop the most powerful weapon. Dr Snofeld posted:That was Bowser straight up lying to his son, though. I haven't played it since first completing it when it came out, but I'm pretty sure in the ending scene boswer goes "About Princess Peach..." and he gets cut off by Bowser Jr. going "I know she's not really my mama," E: Yup Obnoxious Brit fucked around with this message at 23:41 on May 1, 2011 |
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May 1, 2011 23:34
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Obnoxious Brit posted:I remember there being some talk that the point of the extra Braid ending wasn't actually about the nuke, but some message about obsession. Yeah, it seems to be about obsession with knowledge and mastery of systems. It's the only thing that would drive someone to find all the stars, and when it's let loose in the real world it has all kinds of unintended consequences, of which the atomic bomb is and always has been a great symbol.
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Yeah, Braid truly and ultimately is about obsession. I think most people just have an issue conceptualizing that an ending that is both very well hidden and necessitates a ton of effort can be a bad ending, so obviously it's the true ending and the regular ending is fake!
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May 2, 2011 04:01
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The excel one is a pretty clear homage to Doom, what with EXCELKFA being the secret code.
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flatluigi posted:Yeah, Braid truly and ultimately is about obsession. I think most people just have an issue conceptualizing that an ending that is both very well hidden and necessitates a ton of effort can be a bad ending, so obviously it's the true ending and the regular ending is fake! Another indie game (if you know it you know what it is already) Aquaria does much the same thing. The "Extra" ending is really the bad one.
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May 2, 2011 05:43
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Obnoxious Brit posted:I haven't played it since first completing it when it came out, but I'm pretty sure in the ending scene boswer goes "About Princess Peach..." and he gets cut off by Bowser Jr. going "I know she's not really my mama," He never refutes it. He's just shocked. I'm not listening to anyone who disagrees. Peach gave it up. 
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May 2, 2011 06:00
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The Earthbound/Mother talk last page reminded me of a website I read a few years ago. Some guy went into great detail breaking down the final boss area, explaining what he thought the setting meant. He paid particular attention to the music - how it shifted around a lot, sometimes it sounded like creepy breathing, sometimes like strained talking, ect. There were music samples littered throughout the post/article (it might have been a forum post, but I don't think so). I've googled it a bit, but haven't been able to come up with much. This article is the closest thing I could find, but what I'm remembering was longer and more in-depth (especially with the music, as mentioned). Anyone know what I'm talking about?
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May 2, 2011 06:11
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Is it on here? http://cruiseelroy.net/
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flatluigi posted:Is it on here? http://cruiseelroy.net/ When it comes right down to it, the website/article may very well no longer exist. I hope it does, though, since it was really interesting. Thanks for you help all the same.
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pw pw pw posted:Seriously? You don't see the baby in that picture? And the womb in the other picture? And the fact that the game is called Mother, but basically has nothing to do with mothers otherwise? Didn't Itoi say at some point that the scene was inspired by him stumbling into a porno theater showing a rape film when he was like, six? I'm curious how exactly the child image fits into that. 
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pw pw pw posted:I think there is some DEFINITE credence to the abortion theory. I see three screaming faces surrounded by pink swirlies. I don't see a baby in there. EDIT: Oh, wait, there it is.
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Anybody who can't see it needs to look at the negative space. Stop looking at the red and look at the black. Picture the red as the background and the black as the foreground.
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Funny thing is, the "rape" scene in the movie Itoi is talking about is really, really tame. Well, for a love-making scene, that is. From an article discussing the movie: quote:Now we’re treated to a flashback of everything that happened in the beginning of the movie. This is the scene. Itoi probably misrememberd it pretty badly.
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May 2, 2011 10:31
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Yeah, anything a child doesn't understand left unexplained to him can mess up a kid's head pretty bad, I'll give you that. It's just dumb when the exact same rape/abortion discussion comes up every time Earthbound is mentioned.
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Kikka posted:Yeah, anything a child doesn't understand left unexplained to him can mess up a kid's head pretty bad, I'll give you that. It's just dumb when the exact same rape/abortion discussion comes up every time Earthbound is mentioned. OK but you did just describe a sex scene where, at the end, the woman is strangled to death. I'm not entirely certain that's more of a distinction than just splitting hairs. Seeing that or seeing rape onscreen would gently caress up a six year old pretty badly. Especially if someone tried to explain it to him afterwards.
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Dewgy posted:OK but you did just describe a sex scene where, at the end, the woman is strangled to death. I'm not entirely certain that's more of a distinction than just splitting hairs. Seeing that or seeing rape onscreen would gently caress up a six year old pretty badly. Especially if someone tried to explain it to him afterwards. Yes yes I'm not saying Itoi getting scarred by seeing a woman strangled during sex in a movie at 6 years of age is injustified, geez!
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Kikka posted:Yeah, anything a child doesn't understand left unexplained to him can mess up a kid's head pretty bad, I'll give you that. It's just dumb when the exact same rape/abortion discussion comes up every time Earthbound is mentioned. I don't really understand why it's dumb. Are you saying people should know by now or that the discussion takes away from talking about something else?
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Lone Rogue posted:I don't really understand why it's dumb. Are you saying people should know by now or that the discussion takes away from talking about something else? It's always "agluhgluh Giygas is a fetus and Ness is a coathanger  " when it come to Earthbound discussion. I dunno, I was a hardcore Earthbound fan when I was younger, so I've come to hear all the possible theories and alternate theories there is to hear about Earthbound and Giygas.
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I'm just happy to see this thread updated. It's fascinating.
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New Pop-fiction about Bigfoot in San Andreas: http://www.gametrailers.com/video/episode-11-pop-fiction/713378
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Someone mentioning a world select code being in Super Mario Bros 3 a few pages back reminded me of something. As a kid I used to kinda like playing Sonic 3D Blast. It was frustrating as all poo poo but what the hell I enjoyed it back then, anyway.. I remember one day I was playing to pass the time and I just reached the Rusty Ruins zone if my memory serves me right. My father started to clean the living room and when he was stumbling around with the vacuum cleaner he accidentally kicked the poo poo out of my console. I was upset because the screen sort of flickered blue but then I realized that there was a select screen of some kind. It had white text on a blue background and it had a list of all the stages of the game. I naturally selected the very last boss fight since I hadn't reached it before but unfortunately Robotnik kicked my rear end and I had to start over. I tried pretty much everything back then to make it happen again. I tried a ton of different combinations on the pad and tried to check out every inch of the Rusty Ruins maps. I even tried to replicate the conditions by kicked my console but I never could get the select screen to appear again. To make things worse, nobody ever believed me  Someone must know how this happened and how to make it happen again! Edit: I guess this isn't that much of a hoax but people thought it was. Probably still do
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Spekkof posted:Someone mentioning a world select code being in Super Mario Bros 3 a few pages back reminded me of something. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp1uTXPNlzE
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To actually explain it: whenever something unexpected happens in the game cartridge, the developers made it so that it brings up the level select instead of crashing. Pretty simple, unfortunately.
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Macaluso posted:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp1uTXPNlzE Silentman0 posted:To actually explain it: whenever something unexpected happens in the game cartridge, the developers made it so that it brings up the level select instead of crashing. Pretty simple, unfortunately. Proof and an explanation. This is fantastic. Thanks
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As an error handler Sonic 3D Blast will fall back to the Level Select screen. Try flicking the cartridge ("Flickies Island") or pushing it or tilting it. Earlier in this thread cartridge tilting was required in OoT's debug menu. efb!
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I think all the Genesis Sonic games do something like that. I remember hearing Sonic 3 takes you to a bonus stage, for example.
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Silentman0 posted:To actually explain it: whenever something unexpected happens in the game cartridge, the developers made it so that it brings up the level select instead of crashing. Pretty simple, unfortunately. But it's also a surprising bit of forethought on their part. Instead of making you lose all your progress mid-game, you'd get the option to pick up where you were or skip ahead if you want. And they even worded the screen thhat comes up to make it seem like you found an easter egg instead of the game just glitching, so you wouldn't even be mad about it.
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