When I was young and had a super nintendo I loved playing Super Mario RPG.
I’m playing the remake and I’m at the scene after defeating Valentina. Mallow goes into the castle and Mario was left standing outside.
Back then I didn’t know why Mario pulled out an umbrella and it rained. I just realised after 20 years of playing the original that Mario knew it was going to rain because whenever Mallow cries it rains; Mario knew that Mallow would get all emotional when meeting his parents for the first time.
Blew my mind.
Diablo in Diablo games can never be killed permanently
Well that’s certainly a very handy piece of lore if you happen to be a videogame company that just, fucking loves money.
Neither can the butcher apparently.
None of the demons or angels can. That’s kinda the whole deal with the “eternal war”
When I first played Diablo 3 I was shocked when Diablo was summoned. My friend I was playing with who played thousands of hours on D2 just chuckled and said “well the game is called Diablo”
Which was one of many reasons I was sad about D4. First Diablo game without Diablo 😞
Well yeah. It would really kill the replay factor.
Blizzard did a fine job of doing that already in D4
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.
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.
Yeesh.
Abstract Daddy is the most blatant. But there is a lot of psychosexual implications in SH2. That early scene with Pyramid Head. All the Nurse enemies can be interpreted as James fantasizing about nurses while his wife was in the hospital. Maria appearing as a ‘sexy’ version of Mary to tempt him, etc.
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.
That’s the second, and only if you only count the modern games. First modern game was The Stick of Truth, first game ever was South Park: The Game on the N64 iirc.
They wanted to call it The Butthole of Time, but the ESRB or something wouldn’t let them put “butthole” in the title.
Not to be that guy, but it was the second RPG, not the first! First is Stick of Truth.
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.
It makes me sad how Cloud’s character growth (especially after late in the game when you go through his memories as Tifa) is sorta thrown out in his other appearances as he often is reduced back to the brooding tough guy attitude he fakes at the start of the game.
I wasn’t sure what happened at the Bee until I learned that bubby is slang for a homosexual’s husband.
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.
Ngl I was the same exact way. I heard people saying there was a trans character is the Last of Us Part 2 and I was confused thinking maybe it was just a character I somehow missed even tho it’s a linear game? And then I learned it was Lev and I genuinely completely missed that when I played it
I think its becuse it was only really the past five years when people started to think having any trans person meant “Pushing a agenda”, If it came out in 2014 or something I don’t think people would complain as much
People were upset about Borderlands:TPS shoving gay and girl power agenda down our throats in 2014.
Yes but it was much less wide spread on the internet, and typically it was from people who had no credibility or were already hated
What the fuck, I completely missed that!!
I thought lev was just like a young monk 🤣
Unfortunately, there are a lot of people that see a story focusing on anything other than straight white men as an “agenda.” It’s just a subtle form of bigotry.
Even if they’re not the focus. A trans person just existing in any media is “pushing an agenda”, it’s crazy. It’s the same with POC and any other non-straight person. A gay couple in a movie? AGENDA! A black woman playing a mermaid? AGENDA! The fact is, popular media has shunned and focused on straight white people for so long, any diversion (even if it’s based on reality) is a fucking agenda to these people.
Well that is just the nicest fucking ending I’ve ever heard of. Not only emotionally but artistically.
I thought his parents were dead when I played it the first time.
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.
Oh dang it released? I need to buy it. How is it? Good?
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!?
The ending to Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice. I’m not gonna ruin it for you guys, it’s a great game.
But I’ll just say, I kept on fighting every ‘bad guy’ I possibly could…
I had to google it after 15+ minutes because I thought I was doing something wrong. I was, but yeah.
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.
Ratchet and Clank titles are naughty
Ratchet and Clank: Gladiator. the naughtiest?
Care to elaborate?
There is a side mission in Final Fantasy 16 called Caulk and Bawl
Goddammit, was Toji Fox involved in the localization!?
Is it about bathroom remodeling?
Or that south park sausage stand
Dickin Baus
Gotta love Michael-Christopher Koji Fox, pun purveyor, meme maestro, and all around shitlord.
As someone who commented about Koji to Op’s comment.
I knew it!
Oooh M-Rated!