#DidYouKnow: #Cyberpunk2077 holds the somewhat contested record for most technobabble in a videogame. Not even going to mention the games that contest said record, this app doesn't need the toxicity. #FakeGameTrivia
Latest posts tagged with #FakeGameTrivia on Bluesky
#DidYouKnow: #Cyberpunk2077 holds the somewhat contested record for most technobabble in a videogame. Not even going to mention the games that contest said record, this app doesn't need the toxicity. #FakeGameTrivia
#DidYouKnow: We also get things wrong sometimes! In today's episode of our #Cyberpunk2077 playthrough, we mistakenly thought that Wesley Hunt was a reference to the Blade trilogy. He is, in fact, a reference to the 2017 Wesley Snipes movie The Hunter. Oops. #FakeGameTrivia
#DidYouKnow: As part of the #Cyberpunk2077 marketing, 1000 copies of William Gibson's Neuromancer were printed with V's silhouette on the cover. Those books are now a highly sought after collector's item. #FakeGameTrivia
#DidYouKnow: #Cyberpunk2077 contains a well-hidden shout-out to Stargate in a missable datashard. It's encrypted, but once you know the vowels, take in account the neutralization of aspiration, loss of apical and final consonants, you'll learn how to read it. #FakeGameTrivia
#DidYouKnow: Half of the pistols in #Cyberpunk2077 look almost indistinct from existing professional hairdryers. The shooting is what makes them legally different enough to avoid lawsuits. #FakeGameTrivia
#DidYouKnow: A late patch for #Cyberpunk2077 added a datashard containing a Johnny Silverhand fic that won an official contest held by the developers. Hasn't been found yet, but the little info there is on it suggests it's extremely lewd. Just like our rockerboy. #FakeGameTrivia
#DidYouKnow: Collecting every single datashard in #Cyberpunk2077, along with having reached 20 Intelligence and 20 Technical Ability, unlocks 1995's Ghost In The Shell as an Easter egg that's fully playable in the starting menu. #FakeGameTrivia
#DidYouKnow: In #Cyberpunk2077, V needing to get in an ice bath to endure their prolonged stay in cyberspace is a reference to how Keanu Reeves would take ice baths after days of shooting fight scenes on The Matrix movies. #FakeGameTrivia
#DidYouKnow: #Cyberpunk2077 didn't always lack a NG+! It was removed early on in development after it was suggested that getting all the romances on the same save file would logically result in all four coming over to V to beat them up because of the two-timing. #FakeGameTrivia
#DidYouKnow: #Cyberpunk2077 was originally designed as a clothes shopping simulator. All of the shooting, slashing, hacking, RPG-ing and so on was tacked on as a means to get the money to buy the clothes. Worked out pretty well, all things considered. #FakeGameTrivia
#DidYouKnow: The hidden room in the Peralez' apartment in #Cyberpunk2077 is inspired by true events, later depicted in the documentary Secret Mall Apartment. Only with less brainwashing. #FakeGameTrivia
#DidYouKnow: During the love scene with River in #Cyberpunk2077, he does a VERY nice, VERY gentlemanly thing that used to give your character a choice between a permanent buff or a point in Cool. IYKYK. #FakeGameTrivia
#DidYouKnow: There are still bi people in #Cyberpunk2077, it's just that the possible love interests don't go for different versions of V because it would make you seem like a hoe. #FakeGameTrivia
#DidYouKnow: The look of the braindance wreath in #Cyberpunk2077 was inspired by the seminal Arnold @schwarzenegger.bsky.social sci-fi classic Junior. #FakeGameTrivia
#DidYouKnow: One of the first #Cyberpunk2077 QoL improvements ironically removed the most probable feature of the future world: getting hundreds of notifications from various subscriptions per in-game day. #FakeGameTrivia
#DidYouKnow: Ripperdocs in #Cyberpunk2077 are a reference to how the US healthcare system of today has made significant improvements in the future of the game. #FakeGameTrivia
#DidYouKnow: Downloading a movie in #Cyberpunk2077 immediately raises your wanted level to the max. #FakeGameTrivia
#DidYouKnow: #Cyberpunk2077 takes a lot of its visual inspiration from the classic sci-fi Harrison Ford film Cowboys and Aliens. #FakeGameTrivia
#DidYouKnow: The little spider-bot thing in the beginning of #Cyberpunk2077 is currently being developed by #BostonDynamics. It'll feature 50% more dancing than its in-game counterpart. #FakeGameTrivia
#DidYouKnow: The mini-map in #Cyberpunk2077 was originally going to be displayed on the main character's phone in the lower right corner. When entering a gunfight, there would've been a slight chance of fumbling for your weapon, giving enemies time to shoot you. #FakeGameTrivia
#DidYouKnow: Keanu Reeves' role in #Cyberpunk2077 is a clear homage to his iconic performances in movies like A Walk in the Clouds and Sweet November. #FakeGameTrivia
#DidYouKnow: Completing the sumi-e paintings in #GhostOfYotei in a specific order unlocks an exclusive manga about Atsu that fills in the missing years of her life between the Night of the Burning Tree and her ambush of the Snake. #FakeGameTrivia
#DidYouKnow: There's a lengthy dialogue sequence between Atsu and Kiku in #GhostOfYotei that's a line-by-line copy of a conversation in the first Sly Cooper game. #FakeGameTrivia
#DidYouKnow: The wolf you gradually befriend in #GhostOfYotei was supposed to be quite young at the start of the game, and meant to grow older during its events, spaced out by time skips. Supposedly, it served as a subtle reference to "Lone Wolf and Cub". #FakeGameTrivia
#DidYouKnow: A #GhostOfYotei Mythic Tale is dedicated to one of the best @SuckerPunchProd protagonists. We're, of course, talking about Rocket from the N64 classic "Rocket: Robot on Wheels". As a reward at the end of it, you can reskin your horse into a unicycle. #FakeGameTrivia
#DidYouKnow: Originally, #GhostOfYotei featured Sims-style home base customization. It was deemed unnecessary, due to how every change had to be implemented through a series of cutscenes wherein Atsu actually built stuff. No one can plan for so much mocap. #FakeGameTrivia
#DidYouKnow: No illicit substances were consumed or otherwise referenced during development of the poison effect visuals in #GhostOfYotei, if we are to believe the developers' lawyers. #FakeGameTrivia
#DidYouKnow: To get the "Get Over Here" trophy/achievement in #GhostOfYotei, you have to throw a kunai at a target, then hit the prompt for the kusarigama assassination before the kunai hits them. #FakeGameTrivia
#DidYouKnow: A scrapped mechanic in #GhostOfYotei would've let player collect passive income from farmland. This was dummied out in the release, with the only remaining traces of it being the ability to purchase kunai from the farmer lady. #FakeGameTrivia
#DidYouKnow: The team behind the wolf in #GhostOfYotei referenced the 1995 film Balto in order to faithfully represent the animal. It didn't help at all, but it's still an underrated animated classic everyone should experience. #FakeGameTrivia