Similarly, picking a difficulty option in Doom
I just recently picked up a game that brings back the “quit insult” but I’m blanking on which one it was (I got a few new things for my birthday the other day so it’s all just a congealed mess in my head).
Nice. It’s always fun to see games continuing the tradition.
I remember some parents once sued a gaming company for making such messages with the claim that it was encouraging addiction. Or not as it the article making that claim?
Don’t go, the drones need you!
I have been saying “Press ‘Y’ to be a weenie” for as long as I can remember
Old games had a soul. Modern games have microtransactions.
id was the best for good natured shit-talking. Until 3d Realms ran out of gum.
Embrace cowardice? Yes No
I like the “if doom was like CoD” vid from like 10 yrs ago
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/C4yIxUOWrtw
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
In Solasta: Crown of the Magister, if you miss your spell or your shot your party members will talk shit. It’s funny.
There is an indy game called Barony that does this. I got this message when closing the game after getting smooshed by a boulder.
Not quite on topic but I miss one thing from Llamatron. When you paused it showed a small icon of a toilet or a cigarette.
Max Payne “I was too tired to go on.” or “I was afraid to go on.”
Game over screens too like Arkham City with the villain mocking Batman. System Shock with the hopeless death animation. Sometimes the deaths can get elaborate and repetitive though like some horror games.
Both of the examples you give are Id - and to be honest, I feel like this was always more of an Id thing than it was an overall trend
Yeah that’s very much id’s old 90’s machismo. This is the company that invented the word “gibbitude” in Ultimate Doom’s flavor text xD
Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri would vocalise “Please don’t go. The drones will miss you. They look up to you” when you go to quit.
Oh, they still do that, now it’s just nefarious and hidden behind concepts like FOMO and season passes
Yeah I love the fact that in this game, the message was just for the sake of it, while nowadays it would be in order to keep the person playing it addicted to whatever skinner box is integrated into the gameplay loop.
Only 14 hours until your next daily reward!
-
Press Y to concede with dignity
-
Press N to let a game bully you
-
