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So a little while ago, I found this old issue of Game Informer a friend gave me in late 2007: I decided to give it a quick look and this caught my eye: someone sent in a drawing of Death from the game Darksiders II.  (Left page, center)  Now, I can't seem to find a lot of articles about the first game's development (most of the articles I've found are about the remaster) but I have found a few articles which seem to indicate that these characters were designed in late '09/early '10 (around the time they were working on the first game's tie-in comic) http://www.vg247.com/2010/01/12/darksiders-famine-pestilence-and-death-already-designed-says-joe-mad/ http://www.vg247.com/2010/01/12/darksiders-strife-fury-and-death-art-revealed/ So here's my question: if Vigil Games was founded in 2005, and Darksiders went into development sometime around 2007 (IIRC), how exactly does this drawing exist? How did the GI staff recognize this character who, by all indication, didn't exist yet? Could this, perhaps, be some kind of 'glitch' in existence?
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Nov 29, 2016 05:59
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Halt your investigations immediately. This is your only warning
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Nov 29, 2016 06:04
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This is freaking me the gently caress out.
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Nov 29, 2016 06:09
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Pwetty weird
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Nov 29, 2016 06:21
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weird that someone would put skulls on a dude named death
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Nov 29, 2016 06:33
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Malcolm Excellent posted:Pwetty weird Preeeeetty cool
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Nov 29, 2016 06:36
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I remember when Darksiders came out I noticed that the design for Death's mask looked exactly like... someone that I can't remember. A character from something else. Man this is really going to bug me for the next 5 minutes.
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Nov 29, 2016 06:43
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The original plan was to have you play as each of the four horsemen(horsepeople? one was a chick) in the game. Concept art for each of the horsepeople was released at the same time as the game was announced. The fan art of Death is literally a carbon copy of his concept art, right down to the crow crooking it's head.
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Nov 29, 2016 06:45
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Oh snap he's right, here's the picture
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Nov 29, 2016 06:47
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:I remember when Darksiders came out I noticed that the design for Death's mask looked exactly like... someone that I can't remember. A character from something else. Man this is really going to bug me for the next 5 minutes. According to the wikia (I know I know) - "The chosen look for Death is very similar to Raziel in Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver."
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Nov 29, 2016 06:47
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StrixNebulosa posted:According to the wikia (I know I know) - "The chosen look for Death is very similar to Raziel in Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver." Nah I'm pretty sure it was someone else with a skull mask that had no mouth
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Nov 29, 2016 06:49
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StrixNebulosa posted:According to the wikia (I know I know) - "The chosen look for Death is very similar to Raziel in Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver." Yeah. Death is more-or-less Raziel with muscles (and none of the sonorous tones of Michael Bell).
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Nov 29, 2016 06:50
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It's Vega from street fighter
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Nov 29, 2016 06:55
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Harlock posted:It's Vega from street fighter No it's Balrog
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Nov 29, 2016 07:01
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I don't remember Halo being bright green
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Nov 29, 2016 07:08
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New mandella effect: Balrog originally named M. Bison?
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Nov 29, 2016 07:09
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DrPaper posted:New mandella effect: Balrog originally named M. Bison? M. Bison originally Vega?
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Nov 29, 2016 08:14
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Holy poo poo.
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Nov 29, 2016 08:17
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Get ready for this one boys: the forest gump quote is actually "Life was like a box of chocolates". Whoa man.
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Nov 29, 2016 08:30
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Lumpy the Cook posted:How did the GI staff recognize this character who, by all indication, didn't exist yet? Could this, perhaps, be some kind of 'glitch' in existence? The artist included a description with the picture. 
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Nov 29, 2016 08:37
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:Nah I'm pretty sure it was someone else with a skull mask that had no mouth The guy from the splatterhouse remake but it was released in 2010 as well 
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Nov 29, 2016 14:19
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Someone get me Joe Mad on the horn... we need to get this poo poo figured out ASAP~!
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Nov 29, 2016 14:32
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Thinking about death today... what does something like this imply, on an existential level? Has this particular visualization of Death always been with us on some collective level? Hmmmm...
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Nov 29, 2016 19:27
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The Platonic anthropomorphized form of Death is a bald man in black speaking Swedish, of course.
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Nov 29, 2016 19:29
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Lumpy the Cook posted:Thinking about death today... what does something like this imply, on an existential level? Has this particular visualization of Death always been with us on some collective level? Hmmmm... I think it's more likely Joe Mad stole those poor bastards design.
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Nov 29, 2016 19:46
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Thinking about this again today... what could this all mean.
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Feb 7, 2017 23:50
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I want to think you're a phony, but I can't prove it. I ordered a copy of the magazine off Amazon, but it never arrived.
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Feb 8, 2017 00:38
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I could not figure out what in the hell you're talking about by looking at your pictures, so it's probably nothing.
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Feb 8, 2017 00:42
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Legin Noslen posted:I could not figure out what in the hell you're talking about by looking at your pictures, so it's probably nothing. Lumpy is suggesting fan art appeared in a game informer several years before the games announcement or release
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Feb 8, 2017 00:45
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the berenstein death
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Feb 8, 2017 00:44
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OP when I was 10 I had a vision of the pokemon Schulk at least two months before the Gold and Silver were announced so most likely the guy who drew this pic probably had a vision dream of Darksiders 2.
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Feb 8, 2017 00:48
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In case anybody here doesn't believe me, have at it: Game Informer Issue 175 November 2007 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FQN4UIE/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_ivPMyb33DQN2D
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Feb 8, 2017 04:49
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turn off the TV posted:OP when I was 10 I had a vision of the pokemon Schulk at least two months before the Gold and Silver were announced so most likely the guy who drew this pic probably had a vision dream of Darksiders 2. Did you have this vision while looking at a turtle? Cause that would probably explain it.
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