I got odst and I am enjoying it but I noticed something minor but irritating, to me at least and that thing you might ask?
the removal of the destiny awaits posters.
I know it seems like a small thing but I am tired and a little frightened with the ease of changing history.
we live in an era where greedo fires first and the destiny awaits poster is removed…these are relatively insignificant but what about governments, corporations and other entities when they decide what news from the past should be altered and changed…this sort of thing can be dangerous.
it reminds me of Orwell’s ministry of truth.
we are at war with east Asia, we have always been at war with east Asia.
still creepy, and now people who only play odst on the Xbox one won’t understand what us geezer gamers talk about when we mention bungies clever tease hidden in plain sight in odst.
And I’ve read 1984 four times before I was required to in 9th grade. I don’t think George Orwell was as concerned about protecting intellectual properties as you may think. He’d be rolling in his grave if he knew Greedo fired first now … “I warned them!!!” lol. I think he was more concerned about, you know, actual issues and actual things, not your nostalgia. It’s a good book, but you can stop worrying about the radio transmitters in your fillings. They can’t hear your thoughts.
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> How about the poster being from Combat Evolved? Now who’s a geezer?
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> And I’ve read 1984 four times before I was required to in 9th grade. I don’t think George Orwell was as concerned about protecting intellectual properties as you may think. He’d be rolling in his grave if he knew Greedo fired first now … “I warned them!!!” lol. I think he was more concerned about, you know, actual issues and actual things, not your nostalgia. It’s a good book, but you can stop worrying about the radio transmitters in your fillings. They can’t hear your thoughts.
I mentioned how the odst and greedo thing were trivial, but it still bothers me that they change history in this way when there is nothing important about it, I fear what could be done when the stakes are higher and budgets much larger.
btw I can not stand the term intellectual property, sounds too much like imaginary real estate.
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My bad. Never played destiny, never will. Didn’t care enough to look it up. My point still stands. Microsoft wouldn’t ever spend money to put someone else’s IP in their game.
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OK, just start calling people names, I’m sure that takes you far in life… I was providing a meaningful reply to the thread and yet you’re providing nothing.
here is a semi recent reason this bothers me, not too long ago I was watching the film “grease”. In one scene Olivia Newton John an John Travolta are in a diner, on the wall is what clearly is a coca-cola poster but the studio digitally blurred out the poster for whatever reason. Now when I see that scene I cannot look away at the defacing of the image.
the same thing was done in John carpenter’s first film “darkstar” one of the crew members bunks had a wall of centerfolds and the DVD has them all blurred out. So now what would have been minor background detail looks like the focus puller fell asleep.
this stuff bugs me, and I’ve caught it before in other games removing or changing content in updates.
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> here is a semi recent reason this bothers me, not too long ago I was watching the film “grease”. In one scene Olivia Newton John an John Travolta are in a diner, on the wall is what clearly is a coca-cola poster but the studio digitally blurred out the poster for whatever reason. Now when I see that scene I cannot look away at the defacing of the image.
> the same thing was done in John carpenter’s first film “darkstar” one of the crew members bunks had a wall of centerfolds and the DVD has them all blurred out. So now what would have been minor background detail looks like the focus puller fell asleep.
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> this stuff bugs me, and I’ve caught it before in other games removing or changing content in updates.
Yeah, it happens a lot. It’s for legal reasons. Sometimes rights & privileges change, especially when the company remastering the thing isn’t the original.
Darkstar is just such a fantastic movie!
I agree that it would have been better to have left both the Destiny poster and the centrefolds in Darkstar.
I wonder if the removal of the Destiny poster has attracted more attention than if it had just been left in place.
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> > here is a semi recent reason this bothers me, not too long ago I was watching the film “grease”. In one scene Olivia Newton John an John Travolta are in a diner, on the wall is what clearly is a coca-cola poster but the studio digitally blurred out the poster for whatever reason. Now when I see that scene I cannot look away at the defacing of the image.
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it seems like stuff in a 30+ year old movie should fall under “fair use” not to mention the coke logo is sooo ubiquitous that you can’t shoot in a big city without it popping up somewhere. We are seriously legislating ourselves into an intellectual property madhouse.
i don’t care, doesn’t impact the game in any way, besides, destiny is a terrible game…don’t need to be reminded about that fact.
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i tried destiny via the demo/trial and found it incredibly dull and repetitive…just shooting the same baddies over and over while playing some weak story element.
might as well have been playing against bots on a big open map…oh wait…i was, and when you try and explore you get killed by the game.
so you play generic mp against bots on a not so open map while find bits of junk for a ship you can’t even fly. glad i didn’t decide to go for the full game.
to me destiny is like a halo-ish game but without the epic campaign and without a proper mp.
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> So a poster, in a game, that as no impact on gameplay, that you see maybe a couple of times, irks you? You must be a joy to be around.
well the beauty of the poster was that at the time it was not seen as an ad for destiny it was just a poster encouraging people in the halo universe to go offworld and colonize. At the time it seemed like a clever nod to bladerunner, like the blues sax music during the rookie parts.
it was only in hindsight several years later that people realized bungie was planting a seed.
also since it was not so obvious I was surprised it was altered when other Easter eggs were kept in the game.
I used the term irk to denote minor annoyance but not rage.
I would think the canon purists would be more upset over this judging by some of the things that " irk" them.
