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teawrecks, do gaming w What are the best video games full of references to other media?

Heh, does Astrobot count?

2xsaiko, do gaming w What are the best video games full of references to other media?
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Evoland 2 has a lot of references.

adhocfungus, do gaming w What are the best video games full of references to other media?

Cookie Clicker is overflowing with them.

rem26_art, do gaming w What are the best video games full of references to other media?
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The Henry Stickmin Collection is a set of games that were on Newgrounds that is a choose your own adventure game with a ton of references to other things. From Marvel VS Capcom 2's Ironman Infinite combo to Jojo.

It's made by the same developers as Among Us

Fogle, do gaming w What are the best video games full of references to other media?

I just recently played man-eater and that had a ton of references in it

9point6, do gaming w What are the best video games full of references to other media?

I think the borderlands games take the award for the quantity of egregious pop culture references

rtxn, (edited ) do gaming w What are the best video games full of references to other media?

Alan Wake, Control, and especially Alan Wake 2. AW2 even has a legally distinct Max Payne with both the likeness and the voice of the original.

teawrecks,

What do you mean legally distinct? You know that’s Sam Lake, writer and creative director at Remedy, and face model for Max Payne 1/2, both also developed by Remedy?

rtxn,

I know. Rockstar acquired the rights to Max Payne at some point before releasing Max Payne 3. Remedy couldn’t just include a character they didn’t own, but they couldn’t stop Sam Lake being Sam Lake either. Plus Casey being the knock-off of two out-of-universe characters is funny.

teawrecks,

Ah, I guess I didn’t know they didn’t have the rights anymore. Tbh I played through AW2 and didn’t connect that Casey was a reference to Max Payne lol.

rtxn,

It’s a bit more obvious if you’ve played through AW1 and Max Payne recently. AW1 contains a couple of excerpts from Wake’s book The Sudden Stop, starring detective Alex Casey. They are written in the exact same style as Max Payne, and narrated by James McCaffrey, Payne’s VA.

MossyFeathers, do gaming w What are the best video games full of references to other media?

The binding of Isaac has shit ton of them.

Do old build-engine shooters like Blood, Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, etc count?

Sapienza, Italy in Hitman has outfits for red and green plumbers.

Sam and Max has references to all kinds of things.

Hypnospace Outlaw has a ton of references to pre-y2k pop culture.

Power Wash simulator has a number of official crossovers with IPs like SpongeBob, Warhammer, Laura Croft, Final Fantasy VII, etc. (oh shit I just checked and there’s a Shrek one coming out soon).

Mesophar,

Final Fantasy XIV has tons of them as well, especially in the side quests and FATEs. The localization teams do a stellar job sprinkling all sorts of references and nods to pop culture.

Rookwood, do gaming w What are the best video games full of references to other media?

They are 20 years old at this point but the original Guild Wars was full of pop culture references.

Wrufieotnak, do gaming w What are the best video games full of references to other media?

Evoland 2! Where the first game is mainly reference and no game, the second one is a completely original story and world which includes references. I highly recommend it.

2xsaiko,
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Oh damn, I didn’t think I wouldn’t be the first to post about Evoland 2 of all games in this thread, it’s pretty obscure, isn’t it. Great game though.

whatsgoingdom, do gaming w What are the best video games full of references to other media?

Alan Wake 2 has a lot

n3m37h, do gaming w What are the best video games full of references to other media?

Conkers Bad Fur Day (live and reloaded).

Borderlands 1/2

onlinepersona, do gaming w What's up with the icon of this community?

Weird. I don’t see anything at all. Maybe a mod could set an image related to gaming? A PC, console, or something? !piracy has a supercool script that generates a new image every week using AI from a generated sentence. Would be cool to have something like that too!

@JonsJava what do you think?

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JonsJava,
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I’m listening…

onlinepersona,

I found the post explaining how they rotate the banners, but it can be used to update the community icon too. The tool is on github and depends on contributing to AI Horde (crowd-sourced AI). Dunno if that’s too much work.

If it is, there are AI site likes www.craiyon.com that allow generating images manually and uploading them manually. Maybe you could use that to make a banner and icon. If not, you could also pick something yourself (if you already have something in mind), or ask the community to share suggestions in a pinned post and the most liked on after a given timeframe (a week?) is picked. It could be a monthly / bi-monthly / quarterly / semestrial / yearly thing 🙂

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otp, do gaming w What's up with the icon of this community?

I’m just seeing a white G on a green background

RightHandOfIkaros, (edited ) do gaming w What's up with the icon of this community?

That doesn’t have anything to do with gaming, no.

Although I don’t see that as the icon for the community. I use Connect for Lemmy and this community shows that it doesn’t have an icon, so perhaps this is a default icon set by your home instance or preferred frontend?

snooggums,
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As a third party user, I also see the icon only on feddit.io view of the community and not on the lemmy.world view of the community (or on midwest.social). In fact, I don’t see any icon on LW or MS, just feddit.

I wonder if the community had it up last month and the change to the icon didn’t federate.

Atelopus-zeteki,
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It's been that way for as long as I've been seeing it - months and months. I assumed there was a high level of inclusivity amongst gamers. I mean lots of people like to game.

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