Gaming

Two playthroughs ago, I realized that the entire honeybee brothel sequence in original ff7 used a combination of writing/camera work/blocking/framing/mini games to foreshadow that Cloud is a big fat fraud and a scared little boy (imo he's a satire of gamers). The level of sophistication in that games design is just nuts.

The scene in Silent Hill 2 where you’re in a room with Angela and it’s basically a construct of the sexual trauma she endured from her brother and father.

When I first played SH2, I kinda innocently didn’t realize all the huge implications in front of your face.

The boss character (aptly named “Abstract Daddy”) is quite literally designed to look like a huge hulking man, on a bed, underneath bed sheets, doing…something.

The worst was realizing that the fleshy pistons pumping in and out in the room were meant to be seen as “foreign objects” entering…Nah, I’ll stop there.

More or less the entirety of Sanitarium. I had to play it a second time to know that it was talking about the mental recovery of the main character. Before that, to me it was just someone travelling between strange worlds.

It didn't take long (pmuch immediately), but I giggled like a kid once I realized that the subtitle for the first South Park RPG sounds just like Fractured Butthole.

Diablo in Diablo games can never be killed permanently

I think I'm a real idiot for this but my first playthrough of The Last of Us Part II I didn't realize that Lev was trans. I just thought he shaved his head before he was a man, because he was like 12 or something and you're not a man at that age. I somehow missed that, and that he was supposed to be an elder's wife which maybe I missed or just forgot but should have been a pretty clear sign. I didn't know why everyone was all pissed off about the "woke trans agenda" people were saying was shoved down their throats. Who gives a shit that there's a trans character? That's definitely a relevant topic today so for people who played a series that previously dealt with homosexuality shouldn't be surprised that they talked about being trans as well.

It didn't take years, but the amount of research I had to do to understand Cradle beats anything from any other game, including crafting game wikis.

Like if you don't know two specific stories about the Buddha, none of the rest of it makes sense.

There is a side mission in Final Fantasy 16 called Caulk and Bawl

world of warcraft tbh - at some point all quest text was insta-sped through and it was about gold and gains, not lore and bore

I have a problem we're I need a story explained multiple times. I'll watch a movie stand up and immediately have no idea what the movie was really about. Like reading a book then realizing you zoned out and your eyes just kept going. It's annoying for my wife more than me lol. I had to watch Star wars so many times till later in my thirties I got it. I was a fan and had no real clue why lol

Oh dang it released? I need to buy it. How is it? Good?

I thought his parents were dead when I played it the first time.

When I was a kid, the Metal Gear Solid series went right over my head. I didn't care tho because it made me feel like I was playing a grown up game. I should probably replay them all

Well that is just the nicest fucking ending I’ve ever heard of. Not only emotionally but artistically.

I was like 10 or 11 when I played the first Half Life, and it never occurred to me that those headcrab zombies were scientists.

inFAMOUS 2 at the ending has an interesting one.

In the good ending, Cole admits that he's afraid of death but goes along with it anyway. If we assume Good and Evil Cole are the same person (close enough), it suggests that in the evil route he was scared enough of death but also had enough disregard for others to not go through with the sacrifice.

All that talk about "not knowing the RFI would cure the plague" was bullshit, too, because it's mentioned that was the original purpose of the RFI and that it absorbs ray sphere radiation, the cause of the plague.

The point I'm trying to make is that in the evil ending, Cole goes through all these mental gymnastics to justify staying alive, and on some level he knows the gymnastics are all bullshit. By trying to make the morality in the game more gray, Sucker Punch wound up making it even more black and white, but in a cool way.

You don't wanna know how long it took for me to realize diagon alley in Harry Potter was a pun on diagonally.

What's sadder is it took me two weeks after that to make the connection to nocturne alley to nocturnally.

Ratchet and Clank titles are naughty

Black ops 3 campaign was wack. A lot of illogical scenes that only make sense if you know the twist at the end, which isn't explained well in game so you have to look online to see how it was deciphered by other people. Super fun gameplay, felt more like an rpg than an fps most of the time. But man the twist being that //spoiler// the character you thought you were playing died in mission one, and you were rp'ing someone else's life/memories through their eyes in an attempt to make a self aware sorting algorithm gain a true consciousness. Which explains why the events were weird and the characters acted out of character, because they were never real, they were memories of memories of someone who lived a different life than the player character does. Truly insane. At all times I had to question: is this bad writing, or an insanely deep cut for the final twist?

Anyways 8/10 best story mode of a cod game I've played.

Imma be honest here. Leisure Suit Larry for the pc: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leisure_Suit_Larry_in_the_Land_of_the_Lounge_Lizards

I was like eight years old trying to figure out this puzzle game.

The end of Warcraft 3 expansion campaign is called "A Symphony of Frost and Flame". Everyone is fighting to reach a "Throne" first. A Game of Thrones. A Song of Ice and Fire....

Fuck me.