I wasn't sure where to post this, since it is partially about games, then again it's not exactly about the games themselves.
I'm talking about game references showing up in unexpected places.
Since there are a lot of videogame references around (Frogger in Seinfeld, the ever-famous "Make Love Not Warcraft" of Southpark, and no doubt countless more) this should not become a collection of basically every obvious videogame reference out there, but of the "stealth" references, like design elements being reused in a different context.
Maybe the inspiration for this trhread will clarify that:
Recently I saw the video for "Spaceship" from Benni Benassi, which is impressively terrible, not only because of the ridiculous lyrics, the overuse of autotune and the same flipping rhythm that seems to be in every single Benni Benassi song, but also because of the visual effects in the video, which - in quality, coolness and realism - are easily surpassed by 2001 or even the original TRON.
One thing in the video makes it almost watchable, though:
For some reason, the person who designed the titular spaceship (which, by the way, can be seen for about 20 seconds in total) was about as creative as Benni Benassi himself, and just used the design of the Harborship of Bentus, as it appears in Homeworld 2.
Granted, they didn't reuse it exactly like it was, they changed the colour to blue (because, like, blue is awesome...), immensely lowered the level of detail (no docking area on the inside, no windows) and added a few antennae. There are also some landing legs which appear from somewhere on the ship's hull (no recognizable points of origin, they are just there suddenly).
So, since I don't expect Benassi to be the first to have done anything, has anyone here ever noticed out-of-context (ab)use of game elements in other media?
I'm talking about game references showing up in unexpected places.
Since there are a lot of videogame references around (Frogger in Seinfeld, the ever-famous "Make Love Not Warcraft" of Southpark, and no doubt countless more) this should not become a collection of basically every obvious videogame reference out there, but of the "stealth" references, like design elements being reused in a different context.
Maybe the inspiration for this trhread will clarify that:
Recently I saw the video for "Spaceship" from Benni Benassi, which is impressively terrible, not only because of the ridiculous lyrics, the overuse of autotune and the same flipping rhythm that seems to be in every single Benni Benassi song, but also because of the visual effects in the video, which - in quality, coolness and realism - are easily surpassed by 2001 or even the original TRON.
One thing in the video makes it almost watchable, though:
For some reason, the person who designed the titular spaceship (which, by the way, can be seen for about 20 seconds in total) was about as creative as Benni Benassi himself, and just used the design of the Harborship of Bentus, as it appears in Homeworld 2.
Granted, they didn't reuse it exactly like it was, they changed the colour to blue (because, like, blue is awesome...), immensely lowered the level of detail (no docking area on the inside, no windows) and added a few antennae. There are also some landing legs which appear from somewhere on the ship's hull (no recognizable points of origin, they are just there suddenly).
So, since I don't expect Benassi to be the first to have done anything, has anyone here ever noticed out-of-context (ab)use of game elements in other media?
