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Metro Exodus has a 9/11 easter egg or "joke" ?
- Thread starter Rodjer
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This does seem in bad taste for this reason, those planes were used as weapons that helped murder thousands of people, using the murder weapon to acknowledge 911 is just lame and tasteless. If they used the toy plane to reference the conspiracy theory that the government planned on using remote control airplanes to orchestrate an attack, it's still inappropriate.
Think of it this way, if they used a toy gun to acknowledge the date of a mass shooting, would that be cool? Obviously not.
Think of it this way, if they used a toy gun to acknowledge the date of a mass shooting, would that be cool? Obviously not.
It's an easter egg. Using a plane seems like a weird reference though. If they'd put a flower or something in there it might be a nice tribute to commemorate the event. As it is, it's like someone screaming "hey, 9/11!" with no context, making it very hard to read.
I mean it's like the most on the nose thing you could possibly do to reference such a huge event in history. I'd take no issue with using a gun in any other of the dates. The only thing they are doing is saying in an obvious way "this happened".
I kind of fail to see what's "neat" about this "easter egg". It's not something to make a big deal about but it is weird and in bad taste.
Also on the subject of 9/11 jokes being acceptable - I can see them being funny sure but it's all about context and given the tone of the Metro series such a joke would seem out of place, especially a meta joke like this one (assuming it's a joke).
Also on the subject of 9/11 jokes being acceptable - I can see them being funny sure but it's all about context and given the tone of the Metro series such a joke would seem out of place, especially a meta joke like this one (assuming it's a joke).
I am, some of the stuff posted here is beyond crazy. I swear there are groups who go looking for stuff to get offended about, like puzzle solving communities.
You wouldn't use the murder weapon to memorialize any tragedy. To me, that glorfies the attackers and does not honor the victims.
Some Stalker devs left the project and opened up their own studio: 4A
Stalker was still in development at the time, afaik.
Agreed, we can make fun of the Holocaust, we can make fun of anything, but the intent of this particular case it's strange.
Although, it also may be a case of lost in translation kind of thing... eastern European humor and all that.
I hate to get in the way of some good old fashioned reductive snark, but I think you'll find it—- actually, you know what? You go for it. :)
If it helps, I also compared it to the Auschwitz Museum and Memorial.
That's hardly a joke? It's clearly a hamfisted attempt at showing reverence for the victims and acknowledging the impact of it on the world at large but there's nothing comedic about this at all. That's a really big reach, frankly.
Good thing they didn't!
It seems fine but just to be safe I propose a forum-wide boycott and mass spamming of the #BoycottMetro hashtag on twitter
I don't understand what's going on in this thread. It isn't a joke, just a light acknowledgement. Yet people are getting angry over it? Insanity.
This honestly looks like being offended for the sake of being offended.
But as others have said, there were also victims inside the plane.
9/11 shouldn't be a big thing that you have to respect outside america. I mean, you guys are making jokes about a-bombs and you targeted civilians and a cultural center to cause as much damage as possible.
I'm from NYC, watched it happen with my own eyes from my school window and know tons of people affected by it directly.
Even I can't for the life of me see what there is to get upset about here. It's a reference, so what. Show me where the devs are mocking victims and you may have a point. People will obviously immediately recognize the plane if anything.
Not every reference has to meet your very personal parameters and guidelines in order to not be some malicious or tasteless offense, it's just a little nod.
This thread is almost as ridiculous as that Iwata gravestone easter egg one.
Even I can't for the life of me see what there is to get upset about here. It's a reference, so what. Show me where the devs are mocking victims and you may have a point. People will obviously immediately recognize the plane if anything.
Not every reference has to meet your very personal parameters and guidelines in order to not be some malicious or tasteless offense, it's just a little nod.
This thread is almost as ridiculous as that Iwata gravestone easter egg one.
It's not like it only affected Americans so I don't really get that line of thinking. Whataboutism when it comes to joking about horrific events is kind of weird as well.
Joke about what you like but don't whine when someone doesn't like it which is what most good comedians realise.
It's just an in game acknowledgement of a real event that had far reaching consequences. It's not like someone that worked in that office in the game world would build a plaque for it, but sticking their child's toy plane up there makes sense.
It's not making any statement or commentary beyond "this is a thing that happened"
It's obviously a reference too it. I don't see how it could possibly be a joke though, what's the punch line?
Era, what are you guys doing.
Maybe people are reacting to the name of the Twitch clip rather than the actual reference in the game.
I was kind of thinking the same thing as just the plane itself says nothing outside of this is a thing that happened in 2001. Don't really get where the joke part comes in.
It's not like concentration camps from world war 2 where millions of people were killed are now open to be toured or anything...what? Wait a second!
Same thing I was thinking after reading the OP.
Yeah this also true tbh. However hard Devs may try to convey war as a harrowing experience in cutscenes, games are mostly meant to be exhilarating and fun which does a disservice to the actual events and victims. But that's a different conversation to be had.
I wouldn't be surprised if some people in this thread just saw the video title and didn't bother watching it.