What's your opinion on pop culture reference in games?

What's your opinion on pop culture reference in games?

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*Peter Griffin in a sinking ship* I don't think Dr Who is any good at all.

cringe

only like them when I don't understand them. when I do I CRINGE

I don't mind them, many of them are actually funny in FO2

what i do mind is when i hear the developers going "OH THEY DIDN'T GIVE US TIME TO DO SHIT" and then they waste their time on shitty little easter eggs

Doctor Who would have been much less onions when FO2 was made. Then it went off the old series, which was very based.

you know that really annoying guy that always quotes movies and expects you to laugh everytime...

Do it right and it's worth a chuckle.
Do it wrong and Anthony Burch is a rapist pedophile.

Don't mind references to other games, but I fucking hate references to pop culture as a whole. I remember this advert that used to come on TV where this girl is recording her fucking dad dancing whilst he's cooking or some shit and he turns around and notices and he's like "don't you dare post that on YouTube™ I don't want to be going VIRAL hahahaha". That advert really used to grind my gears for some reason.

it's in a flooded panic room you retard

I do not care for Doctor Who

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this isn't from fallout 2

*Peter Griffin drowning in your tears*

cringe
pop culture is now referencing games


i want this world to end already

Back then it was just a nerd developer referencing stuff he liked, which at the time was not so "pop culture" as it is now. now it's just memer millenials trying to score internet brownie points by referencing whatever is popular

Jesus how fucking lazy can you be

Fallout 2 went too far.

Considering itll only be marvel and AOC references I hate it

The occasional one can be funny, see Fallout 1, but when the game is packed with them it ruins the tone of the game, see Fallout 2.

Peter wasn't in a sinking ship. He and his family were in a hideout inside their home.

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Will always be outdated by the time your game is out

They are funny, come on

I don't mind them if they're not a vital part of the game like the dr.who or UFOs in FO1, same with Monty Python references in FO2. But then in FO2 you also have the church of scientology and it's a vital part of the last city.

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I've never seen Dr Who but people making references to it make me reasonably upset. Usually it's a tumblr screenshot of

[character says something]
[other character says something]
[reaction shot][reaction shot][reaction shot]
"OMG I'M SCREAMING"

Imagine sticking your dick in her mouth in the middle of her doing that haha do you think she would be surprised

If you do a reference right, nobody who doesn't get it will know you've done anything at all

Anywho was alright up until Martha. Then it started going super cringe. Second season of Capaldi was pretty good though, just because you get to see Peter utterly unhinged

This. For NuWho.
The original stories are pretty kino when they aren't padded up the ass to make a 5 episode runtime for a 2 episode plot.

my theory is: would something original have been funnier? like if this was just a frazzled time traveler saying "shits still fucked go back another hundred years" would that have been more comical than just a TARDIS sitting around?

You do realize that this is a tiny Easter Egg, right? Literally just placed assets. Making an actual scene would have taken time and the original Fallout did not have much of that.

if its just a static prop, then just a static prop of a generic time machine appear with a text popup over then vanish it wouldn't have actually been that much different

the devs obviously enjoy doing it, so meh. let 'em have fun making the game I guess.

Okay great you're hired. Now get the game out for us in 18 months. Build the engine from the ground-up.