Similarly, picking a difficulty option in Doom
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.
Now if you die like three times they ask you to enable “easy mode”…
Only 14 hours until your next daily reward!
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.
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Press Y to concede with dignity
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Press N to let a game bully you
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Love this one from Carmageddon
What does it say?
I think it’s “Return to a life where you don’t get internal organs in your hair?”
Best I can do is “literal vegans in your hair”
Was hoping to find this here, many happy childhood memories playing this one
Don’t go, the drones need you!
I remember using Fasttracker2 in the 90’s, and when hitting the exit button it showed a yes/no dialog box: “Was Rome really built in a day?”
And Carmageddon asked something along the lines of “Really go back to screaming kids and pets that need toilet training?”
For FastTracker 2, which one’s quit and which one’s stay? BC it feels like if you think Rome wasn’t built in a day you take a break from sequencing to take a rest
I honestly don’t remember. It’s been 25 years.
I hate Ubisoft, but I love that Anno keeps reminding you to stop playing.
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?
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.
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.
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.
There is an indy game called Barony that does this. I got this message when closing the game after getting smooshed by a boulder.
