That's what I meant, you're making the joke from the perspective of a person that doesn't realize there's an octopus in the game, even though there is one.
And the reason I said it's confusing is because the game title is only perceived by the player of the game, and the player is explicitly told/shown that you're playing as an octopus. So the perspective used in the joke is impossible, but I understand that I'm being pedantic, feel free to ignore my ramblings caused by the uncontrollable urge to point out the inconsistency.
Everyone in that game can see he's an octopus, to the point you could argue it's also explicitly shown to them (he literally has an octopus head and tentacles in full visibility, and can't even speak English) and one character besides the chef is confused upon finding out no one else realised.
I think you'd have a hard time making an argument it's hidden from any in game character any better than the player.
Let me try to, anyway.
IIRC, you start the game in the aquarium as an octopus, and then escape. That's when you're explicitly shown to be an octopus. Every NPC, however, sees the octopus in some amount of disguise. So even if we constantly roll a nat 1 on perception check like all the NPC, we didn't have to roll it on the first encounter, therefore we know it's an octopus.
You don't remember correctly. The aquarium escape is near the end of the game and the first time we see him out of disguise. We start the game at his wedding and then time skip to his house, he starts clothed both times.
Is that so? Then, I stand corrected and retract my complaint, it somewhat makes sense now. And in my defense, it's been more than a decade since I played and I think I finished it in one sitting, so it's a blur.
I've read a wiki page about it, critics didn't even score it too low. To me it seems that the issue was that Sony tried to make something just to profit off, without considering making it fun or novel, unexpectedly people didn't want to pay for yet another multiplayer shooter without anything new.
half life could just be using phone battery rules. even if your total phone battery capacity is 80% it's original capacity, it still lets you charge it to "100%", its just that you've charged it to 100% of that 80%.
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SomethingBurger@jlai.lu · 136 pts · 1y
i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk · 77 pts · 1y
See also: Duke Nukem Forever
Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org · 57 pts · 1y
See also: BioShock: Infinite.
Protoknuckles@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 1y
See also Halo Infinite
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 1y
And Katamari Forever
toynbee@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 1y
They were probably referring to the development time.
rtxn@lemmy.world · 109 pts · 1y
> Final Fantasy
> For the 16th fucking time
Compare that to:
> Endwalker
> Literally walk to the final boss
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca · 92 pts · 1y
No Man's Sky
Obviously I am up here
Skua@kbin.earth · 47 pts · 1y
Therefore you are a woman
AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca · 39 pts · 1y
Assigned female at purchase
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 1y
"Oh, Trans' Sky"
CyberMonkey404@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 1y
But you don't own the sky
tetris11@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 1y
Take my love
Take my land
Take me where I cannot stand
BugleFingers@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Take me out [Wash has been removed from the chat]
To the black
Tell them I ain't comin' back
I don't care
I'm still free
You can't take the sky from me
supercargo@r.nf · 3 pts · 1y
Klear@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
That's still my ringtone.
IndiBrony@lemmy.world · 79 pts · 1y
> Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
> Not a single vice to be found
> House Flipper
> All houses are orientated normally
> Untitled Goose Game
> Has title
> Octodad
> Absolutely not a single octopus in the game whatsoever
> Golf With Your Friends
> No friends.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee · 19 pts · 1y
I was thinking Vice City, no vices?? But I think I get what sort of vice you mean now
IndiBrony@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 1y
For anyone else who still doesn't understand!
jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org · 7 pts · 1y
bingrazer@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
Depends on if you’re using British or American English
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
Oh wow, now I want to make one of those physics gimmick games where you fire houses out of a trebuchet.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 1y
I will back this project on Kickstarter
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
I feel like I have enough of a skillset and experience that with a solid free month I could make a terrible iteration of this.
Now all I need is the month.
IndiBrony@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Because of the use of the superior siege engine, I thoroughly approve.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz · 7 pts · 1y
I have to challenge the octodad one: He has a wife and children obviously he isn’t single !
abfarid@startrek.website · 2 pts · 1y
With Octodad joke, are you implying that you didn't see through the disguise? If so, I don't think it fits with the rest and is confusing, tbh.
IndiBrony@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y
Not so much that I didn't see through the disguise, more that the running joke of the game is that nobody else sees it other than the chef.
abfarid@startrek.website · 1 pts · 1y
That's what I meant, you're making the joke from the perspective of a person that doesn't realize there's an octopus in the game, even though there is one.
And the reason I said it's confusing is because the game title is only perceived by the player of the game, and the player is explicitly told/shown that you're playing as an octopus. So the perspective used in the joke is impossible, but I understand that I'm being pedantic, feel free to ignore my ramblings caused by the uncontrollable urge to point out the inconsistency.
Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 1y
Everyone in that game can see he's an octopus, to the point you could argue it's also explicitly shown to them (he literally has an octopus head and tentacles in full visibility, and can't even speak English) and one character besides the chef is confused upon finding out no one else realised.
I think you'd have a hard time making an argument it's hidden from any in game character any better than the player.
abfarid@startrek.website · 1 pts · 1y
Let me try to, anyway.
IIRC, you start the game in the aquarium as an octopus, and then escape. That's when you're explicitly shown to be an octopus. Every NPC, however, sees the octopus in some amount of disguise. So even if we constantly roll a nat 1 on perception check like all the NPC, we didn't have to roll it on the first encounter, therefore we know it's an octopus.
Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 1y
You don't remember correctly. The aquarium escape is near the end of the game and the first time we see him out of disguise. We start the game at his wedding and then time skip to his house, he starts clothed both times.
abfarid@startrek.website · 1 pts · 1y
Is that so? Then, I stand corrected and retract my complaint, it somewhat makes sense now. And in my defense, it's been more than a decade since I played and I think I finished it in one sitting, so it's a blur.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 1y
You’re a very fun person
abfarid@startrek.website · 2 pts · 1y
What, you don't find it fun to understand humor more in-depth by overanalyzing to death the aspects of a joke?! What a weirdo...
Kushan@lemmy.world · 70 pts · 1y
You know what, shout out to Concord here. The official definition of a concord:
Everyone did in fact agree not to play the game.
sukhmel@programming.dev · 3 pts · 1y
I've read a wiki page about it, critics didn't even score it too low. To me it seems that the issue was that Sony tried to make something just to profit off, without considering making it fun or novel, unexpectedly people didn't want to pay for yet another multiplayer shooter without anything new.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world · 61 pts · 1y
>Battlefield 4
>Actually has 32 multiplayer maps which would constitute a battlefield
>Pokémon Yellow
>Has other colors
Zagorath@aussie.zone · 22 pts · 1y
Also:
> Is at least the sixth game in the Battlefield franchise, with the most generous possible interpretation of what counts as a mainline game.
Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 55 pts · 1y
>Dark Souls
>Souls emit light
>Hyper Light Drifter
>There's no car in the game
>Final Fantasy
>Has more than 10 sequels, hardly "final"
Piemanding@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 1y
>Dark Souls
>Literally only one Dark Soul
rockerface@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 1y
To be fair, DLC souls are pretty dark, and "drifter" also means "wanderer"
nl4real@lemmy.world · 53 pts · 1y
No Fortress, nobody plays as a fucking team, and it's the third game.
GoodEye8@lemm.ee · 13 pts · 1y
I technically it might be the first game on the account of the previous 2 being mods.
dubyakay@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 1y
Then it'd have been called Team Fortress 1.
quantenzitrone@lemmings.world · 1 pts · 1y
first game was TF0
game versions are zero-indexed
Dungrad@feddit.org · 50 pts · 1y
DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y
Switch sides after the first game, there's your counter strike.
Dungrad@feddit.org · 3 pts · 1y
Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org · 44 pts · 1y
affiliate@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 1y
it's a rounding error
spankmonkey@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y
Rounding up on .5 is the most common method of rounding!
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 1y
tetris11@lemmy.ml · 30 pts · 1y
davidgro@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
Target audience is GPUs
rain_worl@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
> find "matrix filter" on shadertoy
> look inside
> pow
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 1y
But you're saving Zelda, so I think it gets a pass. Link's Awakening is right out though, Zelda isn't even a character in that one.
Cheems@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 1y
They call it halflife because Gordon is middle aged
Rokin@lemm.ee · 12 pts · 1y
He is 27 tho
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca · 33 pts · 1y
Ya, but look at what he does at his job. He'll be lucky to make it to 54.
rain_worl@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y
and that's why it's called half life
pkmkdz@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y
And G-Man puts him into space prison for about another 27 years. I say name sticks
Sabata11792@ani.social · 37 pts · 1y
Oxygen not Included: Starts with oxygen.
bollybing@lemmynsfw.com · 32 pts · 1y
rockerface@lemm.ee · 31 pts · 1y
Dead Cells
Literally unable to die
Slay the Spire
The Spire slays you (I'm bad at it, okay)
WldFyre@lemm.ee · 31 pts · 1y
Control
Literally everything is out of control
HawlSera@lemm.ee · 28 pts · 1y
Mortal Kombat 1 - This is the 12th game in the series
rockerface@lemm.ee · 10 pts · 1y
See also: Battlefield 1
Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works · 27 pts · 1y
Resident Evil:
Numerous non-residents are evil too
Justas@sh.itjust.works · 26 pts · 1y
You are alive and fight in claustrophobic environments.
son_named_bort@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 1y
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
Zelda doesn't even appear
odium@programming.dev · 11 pts · 1y
Hades 2: Hades is barely in it
Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 24 pts · 1y
rockerface@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
With infinite wealth come infinite taxes. This is how you know this story is a work of fiction
sag@lemm.ee · 23 pts · 1y
Have white souls in it
intensely_human@lemm.ee · 19 pts · 1y
EVE Online: humanity’s distant future
Halo: “Run! It’s the demon!”
Mario Kart: drive around as Bowser
Call of Duty: skip work to play
Overwatch: small ground troop battles on city streets
Battlefield: Hardline: use signal jammers to disrupt enemy radio comms
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y
To be fair, the first happens entirely on a Halo. The rest of the series is a lie.
magic_lobster_party@fedia.io · 17 pts · 1y
Half Life is an accurate title. During normal playthroughs it’s rare to have more than 50hp.
stoy@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 1y
That depends on implementing the proper impulse for the onehunderdandfirst time
yamanii@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y
River City Girls
You can play as the boys.
ICastFist@programming.dev · 11 pts · 1y
Counter Strike - You're attacking first
Double Dragon - Lacks even a single dragon
Freespace - Space is already occupied
Risk of Rain - Never rains
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War
Singing is an important part of the plot.
affiliate@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
half life could just be using phone battery rules. even if your total phone battery capacity is 80% it's original capacity, it still lets you charge it to "100%", its just that you've charged it to 100% of that 80%.
polycephalum@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 1y
Is in color
quantenzitrone@lemmings.world · 2 pts · 1y
souls are displayed as white orbs of light