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Metro Exodus has a 9/11 easter egg or "joke" ?
- Thread starter Rodjer
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Tons of jokes have been made about 9/11. What's the issue with a video game making some ill reference to it?
That's why This War of Mine is so amazing and why everybody should play it.
Excuse me? Do you know anything about 9/11? There were many people on those planes who died as well, who are just as much victims as the people who were working in the twin towers. On one of the planes the passengers bravely faught back against the hijackers and crashed the plane in a remote field, sacrificing themselves to prevent the deaths of more people.
Huh. Doesn't really make any sense being there. (why would anyone in a world destroyed by nukes and worse give a shit about 911, or remember it?)
So September put 911 into the mind of a Dev while he was setting up that room? Nothing special there.
So September put 911 into the mind of a Dev while he was setting up that room? Nothing special there.
Looks like it's just referencing the event. I don't see anything humorous about it and it seems to purely be "there was an event that happened," so I doubt it's a joke. Likely a nod to the event as significant. The small plane is a little bit of an odd creative choice to identify the event that does make me uncertain, so perhaps they could have chosen a different symbol. (Though I'm also not sure what symbol would work better in this exact scenario.) It's also perhaps odd to reference it without more context so that players could understand better the message/intent.
Does this room in the game have its own story/identity that provides more background to the shelves seen in the footage and thus maybe explain why 9/11 would be referenced and in what way?
Does this room in the game have its own story/identity that provides more background to the shelves seen in the footage and thus maybe explain why 9/11 would be referenced and in what way?
It's a pre-apocalypse military bunker from what I understand, so in the context of the story it would have been put there by a modern (the nuclear war occurred in 2013) Russian soldier or someone else who works on the base.
I think the Lead Director has a PhD in Aeronautical Engineering. That's maybe why a plane was used as reference and not something else.
I don't think this is offensive though.
I don't think this is offensive though.
The "ResetEra is always so triggered!1" and "ResetEra.gif" posts in this thread make no sense.
From the first page, I see:
From the first page, I see:
- 1 person suggesting others to not make 9/11 jokes.
- 1 person concerned about the reference's existence because innocent people were in that plane.
- 4 people (including OP) confused about the plane's existence.
- 22 people seeing it as a harmless reference, not an offensive joke, and saying nothing else.
- 1 person seeing it as a harmless reference, not an offensive joke, and telling everyone (is everyone just one person now?) to chill.
- 4 people joking about ResetEra as a whole based on the opinions of one person.
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This board does have kind of a reputation of always being offended.
But sometimes it's justified, like not excusing racists because of 'freedom of speech' and not allowing people to hate on others because of sexual orientation.
But this is not one of those cases, I agree.
Not calling this post out as if it's unique because there's a deluge of similar posts:
But frankly I'm more tired of the not insignificant amount of people whose first inclination when a thread like this is made is to whine about outrage. It's especially irritating when there is a ton of good discussion going on in this thread. If you don't feel the thread is important or is based on a false pretense, report it.
As far as the actual 'reference' or 'joke' or whatever this is, I'm not really sure how to feel. I don't particularly like American exceptionalism or nationalism, e.g. the pledge of allegiance, etc. But I guess I also don't really see the purpose of this as an easter egg either. As someone who doesn't have a lot of interest in the Metro games after playing the first one a while ago, I don't even really remember the in game history and what happened to the world and Europe to get it to the point we see in the games.
You said it far better than I could.
But frankly I'm more tired of the not insignificant amount of people whose first inclination when a thread like this is made is to whine about outrage. It's especially irritating when there is a ton of good discussion going on in this thread. If you don't feel the thread is important or is based on a false pretense, report it.
As far as the actual 'reference' or 'joke' or whatever this is, I'm not really sure how to feel. I don't particularly like American exceptionalism or nationalism, e.g. the pledge of allegiance, etc. But I guess I also don't really see the purpose of this as an easter egg either. As someone who doesn't have a lot of interest in the Metro games after playing the first one a while ago, I don't even really remember the in game history and what happened to the world and Europe to get it to the point we see in the games.
You said it far better than I could.
I mean, it is clearly them trying to be a little cheeky, here. It isn't in any way respectful. It isn't like they are memorializing it or anything. Someone on the development team thought it was funny, so they put it in the game. I don't see any other way of looking at it.
That being said, it isn't a big deal. It is pretty insignificant.
That being said, it isn't a big deal. It is pretty insignificant.
it seems like its a reference to the fact that 9/11 happend in the metro world and the significance of that event was probably much more dire than even in real life. nothing more
That's how every single one of these threads goes. "Outrage culture" whining is more prevalent than anyone ever actually getting outraged.
Thanks for this post.. i was searching trying to find the outrage..
I don't see how that could be construed as a joke. There's no attempt on the part of the game for it to be funny.
So true.