Back when optical disks were more common mediums for video games
Wasn’t there a GameCube game that did shit like that? Like if your sanity meter got too low the game would mess with you?
Edit: Found it
That game was great! Scared the shit out of me and always wanted to play more.
See also Psycho Mantis from Metal Gear Solid.
I fucking love games that break the fourth wall.
The whole Fission Mailed sequence near the end of MGS2 leaps to mind, also.
That’s cool af
Just imagine the Psycho Mantis fight if he could actually launch the disc out of the PS1 at you. 😳
“I see you have played a lot of Powerpuff Girls: Chemical X-Traction. So… You’ve decided to play a good game for once?” spits disc at you
Imagine if the antagonist in your game messed with the game menu and save files…
The Guardians of the Galaxy game did that, at least a little bit. The game seemingly ends, credits are rolling and then they slowly start to glitch out and some of the names are replaced with the name of the antagonist.
Then the credits crash out and a second bossfight starts. You can kinda see it coming, but it was still pretty cool for them to do that.
Sounds a bit like one of the scarecrow sequences in Batman Arkham Asylum where the game ‘crashes’
;_;
I, too, am a fan of undertale
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Smh video games these days a too easy. Fast travel, aim assist selectable difficulties. All these things take away from the player. And now gamers can’t even rage quit on their own. Damn vibeo game does it from them >:(
One of the things i like most about Hardcore mode in KCD2 is that fast travel is disabled. You have to really learn the map since a lot of places are in the middle of a wooded area. It really ups the immersion.
too easy. Fast travel
I feel you. When I repurchased Fallout 3 on PC I was pleased to find a mod that replaces fast travel with a motorbike and the need to scavenge fuel
freecupholder.exe
This actually happened to me once when I was a kid playing SimCity (I don’t remember if it was 2000 or 3000); The machine, a new but possessed Windows 98 machine, blue screened and ejected the 52x drive without spinning down the CD. So when the tray came out the disc flew across the room like a Lilliputian UFO.
Old school bugs were just objectively better. Software turning mundane everyday items to death threats is the type of action i need in my life.
Reminds me of goldsrc / Half Life 1 allowing server hosts to send console commands to eject the disc drives on clients to scare them.
Sometimes the game would just quit. But I remember that being more of a thing when floppies were around and playing a game in DOS using a CD was stressing the system. Or that cheap 5 in 1 floppy game package that had some bad code.
Shit. My Xbox still does that.
Dang. I haven’t had a console since NES and am bummed to hear that is a thing with a closed system at this point in time. NES only did that as it aged and we didn’t blow the right way 😅
Tbh it would be absolutely fantastic if a game pulled this off today.
“Did…did this game just burn itself to a DVD-R before wiping itself from my drive? Where did it even get a DVD-R from??? Wait a sec, my PC didn’t even have a DVD drive before today! Why is there a charge to PCRepairGuy on my credit card?! WHAT IS HAPPENING?!?”
This is a mobile game, how did a CD even fit into my phone?!??!
It has always been right beside the printer. Have you never noticed it so far?
Weird, I print PDFs from CD on my phone daily.
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Sounds like Kojima missed his opportunity. Maybe he couldn’t find the command that do this?
Given that the PS1 didn’t have a powered drive tray and the lid release was fully mechanical, he’d have to develop telekinesis first.
Perhaps the piezo speaker can still be used to mess with people.
