Halo 2:
"But these are MY elites. There lives matter to me. YOURS does not."
"That makes two of us".
At first, I thought Arbiter meant "your life doesn't matter to me, either". But he's really saying "MY OWN LIFE doesn't matter to me, either."
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Halo in general has a lot of scenes and themes that didn't really click for me until fairly recently. 2 and 3 in particular have no business having such good writing.
Replaying NITW as an adult (first time I played was in high-school) and I now understand the criticism Mae gets for not really acting like an adult or having any direction in her life. I definitely related to Mae at the time I first played it, so it’s fun to think back on those feelings now that I’m older and have my life figured out a bit better. That game is a masterpiece.
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It took me 10 years to figure out why the "Drag King" of Need for Speed Prostreet is a woman.
Did they try to read books to you!? Are you okay now!!?? ARE YOU DAMAGED FROM THE EXPERIENCE!?
Definitely Ocarina of time and how much it slaps on Link's face the idea of being a "man" or "an adult" back when he is a kid, that was toxic af and something that sadly happens to many kids (myself included), and it plays out perfectly when you realize he just lost all the years of his childhood transitioning to becoming a true adult. Having replayed and finished OoT for the first time as an adult, I can look at it and say that shit hit way too close to home
In warframe, it took me nearly three years to learn the character Ticker is Trans.
I am bread.
I am intrigued but not close to understanding what I’m supposed to do.
Say what you will about the game, but the most genius piece of Last of Us 2's story isn't even in-game. The way the main menu changes after you first beat the game. My mouth was agape when I put the pieces together on that one.
I kept wikipedia and several historical record sites open playing Like a Dragon Ishin. They had fun with the historical fiction and I got more out of understanding the history simultaneous to the fictional plot.
Ishin was a great ride from start to finish. I loved reading some of the real accounts. Like Oryō was mostly known for running through the Inn half naked to warn Ryōma of assassins.
When I first played Ocarina of Time at the age of 8, I completely misinterpreted a scene which is supposed to be a big reveal near the end of the game.
When Sheik invites you to the Temple of Time and says that someone is waiting for you there, my interpretation of the scene that unfolded was: Sheik is standing in front of you, essentially says "my task is done", disappears in typical fashion using a deku nut flashbang or something of the sort, then Zelda enters the room.
It wasn't until I played Super Smash Bros Melee and began to read discussions about it online years later that I was like "oh..."
But, Sheik is Zelda, it's constantly referenced every time sheik is present in anything besides oot. So wym?
Dark Souls 3. I played this game over 6 years ago and I still have no idea what that thing was about.
Souls (all of them) every scene, ever. I don't like reading item description and raise my decrypting level to inhuman. :)
The girl in the woods you rescue in Dragon’s Dogma is a reference to Schierke from Berserk
I was reading the manga and was “wait this is the the thing from the game”
80% of the jokes in Conker's Bad Fur Day when I was way too young to be playing it.
The pun competition line from MegaMan battle network completely went over my head as a child
Whiskey Hotel in Modern Warfare 2. When I was a child, I thought we were advancing our way through Russian forces into literal a hotel named Whiskey Hotel. As a young adult, playing the same mission again, I realised Whiskey Hotel is actually NATO phonetic alphabet for White House. I was dumbfounded.
The original Deus Ex
It would probably be the Milkman episode of Psychonauts. The storyline and subtext of the episode are not overly complicated, but analyzing the psychology of the character took me quite a while. I still think it's one of the best side stories I've ever seen in a video game.
Kingdom Hearts 1.
After the intro on Destiny Island, a cutscene plays in Traverse Town where Goofy sees a star blink out.
It took me until recently to realize that the star was Destiny Island being consumed by darkness.
I still have no idea what's going on in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial on Atari 2600, why he falls into holes and why he levitates when elongating his neck.
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.