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.
Oh, they still do that, now it’s just nefarious and hidden behind concepts like FOMO and season passes
Now if you die like three times they ask you to enable “easy mode”…
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.
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.
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?”
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
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.
