Gone Home easter egg alludes to shared universe with Bioshock - Sensationalist Headlines

[QUOTE=Natrox;43652212]look at how much people care about this tiny, unimportant, stupid thing[/QUOTE] that's internet forums for you

From the sound of things the article is somewhat twisting Gaynor's words and you guys are just eating it up so that you have another chance to shit on this game.

rofl way getting upset over literally nothing.

[QUOTE=Ganerumo;43652122]the devs are [url=http://thefullbrightcompany.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/vgx_lording.jpg?w=640&h=360]kind of huge pretentious hipsters[/url] and the game is worth 20 bucks, which is FAR too much considering how short it is.[/QUOTE] Every time I see this image all I can think is Ned Flanders parents, some beatnik hipster douches. [t]http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q104/Joon01/Simpsons%20Misc/boomboom.jpg[/t] Am I the only one? To make it clear to anyone I don't have a particularly strong opinion of Gone Home one way or the other. My stance on the thing is that it's an interactive story and not a game. A game can be an interactive story and vice versa but for it to be game there needs to be objectives, a way to lose and some sort of opposition and challenge.

[QUOTE=Jojje;43653910]Every time I see this image all I can think is Ned Flanders parents, some beatnik hipster douches. [t]http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q104/Joon01/Simpsons%20Misc/boomboom.jpg[/t] Am I the only one?[/QUOTE] Holy shit. The more I look at it, the closer to the truth it seems

Does anyone here even know what a hipster is?

hey wait if you guys are always complaining about how gone home has a bunch of undeserved praise, how is agreeing with that praise in any way hipsterish? it's conformist if anything why it's almost as if it's an arbitrarily defined and often contradictory buzzword! shock bloody horror

This is why this guy is retarded. System Shock and Bioshock arent even fucking in the same universe so how can they even be connected. And how the fuck can a person decide if their game is in another TWO games universes? Why would Gone Home even be connected. Like I know none of this matters and its just some pretentious Twat doing something stupid as fuck who thinks its smart but still, im pissed off at the fact that these thoughts went through someones fucking head and thought it sounded like a good idea. Also people are fucking forgetting that there is a VERY big difference to fucking referencing and easter eggs, and saying your game is part of two universes, two which arent even connected themselves. A reference is this. In MGS2 Snake is called Plissken for a majority of the game, this is a reference to Snake Plissken in Escape from New York, Snake is also based off him. Thats harmless, is Kojima and shit just making a reference too their inspiration. Gaynor on the other hand is flat out saying these references, which could have just been simple easter eggs like every other game does with references, are fucking actually more than references and that his game ties in loosely with both Bioshock and the System Shock universe(which again arent even connected themselves) Now what makes even less sense is this Gaynor guy is saying "Loosely" that makes no fucking sense, you cant like have like only 10% of the universe connected, its either connected or its not. I wouldnt care but the Shock games are my all time favorite and this fucking guy really has no right to ever put his game in another companies universe on a fucking whim, and its less about the connection and more about Gaynor just being a fucking tool. And I bet there are some people out their who eat this shit up and probably think its deep.

Well yeah it's just a game subtly referencing another game. Then you can fantasise about the two stories being interconnected but who gives a shit.

[QUOTE=HoodedSniper;43655734] And I bet there are some people out their who eat this shit up and probably think its deep.[/QUOTE] Is that really so much worse than the people who eat this shit up and get [I]really fucking mad[/I]?

[QUOTE=Raidyr;43657173]Is that really so much worse than the people who eat this shit up and get [I]really fucking mad[/I]?[/QUOTE] I highly doubt people are really fucking mad about this. I think people are just saying how stupid this is all and that Gaynor is being an idiot. Like im not frothing about this and I dont even care anymore, but when I first read it all I was thinking about is how dumb this all is and how dumb Gaynor is and im sure the majority is as well. Now if Irrational Games comes out and said the entire Shock universe was part of Gone Homes then id be mad. So yeah I think it is worse that people will eat this up and think its super deep because all Gaynor did was make a glorified easter egg. Plus those are the type of people that would continually bring it up and praise it for being a Citizen Kane of references while the people who saw this and thought it was dumb are just gonna forget about it.

it's a pretty big deal ever since the UN passed that resolution mandating that everyone buys gone home

[QUOTE=HoodedSniper;43657411]I highly doubt people are really fucking mad about this. [/QUOTE] Between your two posts you've typed 488 words into this thread about a video game reference inside another video game. That's something only a mad person does.

[QUOTE=SigmaLambda;43661476]Between your two posts you've typed 488 words into this thread about a video game reference inside another video game. That's something only a mad person does.[/QUOTE] I had no idea word count=Anger amount. Fuck, all those school essays I wrote, they must have been so angry.

I always wrote my essays with a hint of pure hate.

It seems Facepunch calls this game bullshit in every thread it's mentioned. Maybe the game is bad (haven't tried it) but this is just about a reference, no need to point again the game is pure crap.

[QUOTE=Zeke129;43661303]it's a pretty big deal ever since the UN passed that resolution mandating that everyone buys gone home[/QUOTE] With the countless articles praising the crap out of it, you'd think that actually happened.

[QUOTE=SigmaLambda;43661476]Between your two posts you've typed 488 words into this thread about a video game reference inside another video game. That's something only a mad person does.[/QUOTE] And you've failed to provide a proper response to his argument. But as long as we act condescending, nobody will notice right? In my opinion gone home is wasted potential. The gameplay would be interesting if it were applied better, the idea of piecing together the story and solving puzzles in an open enviroment would be great if it were expanded on. It barely qualifes as a game. Which is why people are so polarised by it. The plot is the main hinging point, and gone home doesn't even get that right. Why would I care about these disjointed, 2d characters who only exist to litter the house with clues for an ultimately un-satisfying ending? I can't understand characters who aren't there, because then they aren't characters. Interaction between characters is an important part of conveying who they are, but this is stripped away to form a bare bones, and overly pretentious experience where the most basic mechanics fails to keep interest, and where the characters are non-existent.

all this talk about "hurr if its a reference that means they're both related" remind me of this stupid video [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blaX_eMz3Qw&list=PL35FE5C4B157509C9&index=16[/media] references and easter eggs are just what they are