And now I shiver at the thought of a parallel world where they became part of the standard poison effects next to sedative, emetic and lethal.
I understand that for a first game you will cut the most outlandish, unique, and developement ressource demanding mechanics, but that’s some big level shaping possibilities that were cut. We could almost ask for a remake. If only we had a dedicated advocate for such a thing on this forum…
2016’s Alpha had a porn magazine and we still don’t know what it was for 
seems pretty self explanatory as a long-form distraction throwable
Clearly an overpowered distraction item
It could have been inspired by Metal Gear Solid.
Heard a new dialog today during the Freeform Training. Lured some random guy with a coin, picked the coin up and waited behind some wall. That’s when I heard the guy say something like: «Oh my god, he’s dead!» I panicked because I had a lot of unconscious people lying around. But after a few seconds he added: «Haha, just kidding!» and walked back to his original position.
That dialog is one of the biggest trollings IO implemented in the game and gives a cold spine when heard in Elusive Targets at first.
Speaking about dialogue, I was doing a kill everyone run in PZ Hokkaido dressed as the motorcyclist and some guard yelled “He is dressed in a yellow and black track suit. Like in Kill Bill!”
I liked that.
The DJ’s in Club Hölle are four men of Dutch descent. As stated on the wiki:
These are typical Dutch names, so it was rather obvious, but there is some logic behind it though. Some of the most succesful DJ’s in the world are actually Dutch. I’m talking Tiësto, Martin Garrax and Armin van Buuren. To choose four Dutchies is also the safest bet since it’s Germany’s neighbour country.
It remains a mystery to me why there’s Asian text on their backs
Does the text on their backs even mean something?
Which is slightly odd because Germany has an electronic music scene dating back to Kraftwerk, in fact Holle is based on the real life Berghain which is a techno haven based in a disused power plant.
Germany is not very German centric when it comes to music apart from some genres outside of club music.
Yes. For example, the’‘征服‘’on 47’s back of DJ disguise means’‘conquer’'in English.It Simplified Chinese,not other Asian text.
Here is a Brief History of German Music by me a non-German.
First there is Wagner who did the songs the Nazis loved and the song we play at weddings.
Bach made that creepy organ song you hear in Halloween specials (it is called Toccata and Fuge in D Minor, you barbarians)
Then you have the other German people like Mendelssohn, Handel who get ignored because Apocalypse Now never used their music in the film.
Then they invented the other song we play at weddings called The Chicken Dance.
Then they gave us Kraftwerk who made music with computers which has become a large part of German musical heritage.
Then Boney M’s Rasputin came out to be memed decades later.
Then they invented The Scorpions who released Rock You Like a Hurricane
Oh and Milli Vanilli a band so bad they literally didn’t sing their own songs
They gave us Mambo Number 5 and the subsequent masterpiece known as Mambo Number Honk
Then there is Rammstein who make music Rolling Stone once called “Music to invade Poland to” but they aren’t Nazis.
Then there are house/techno people like Scooter who make music on computers t play in decrepit warehouses and munitions factories
Oh and 99 Luftballoons
And the GTAV soundtrack as well.
I almost forgot this, also a German cultural export.
That is all true and yet German people don’t care that much where music comes from to like it.
If you listen to plain radio here you hear english music. Very rarely German music. The most popular genres where German dominates is Schlager (positive and simple pop/folk music) and Rock/Metal (Rammstein, Scoprions, Ärzte, Tote Hosen). German music dominating the commercial music is over since Neue Deutsche Welle ended. And in clubs they indeed have more German music but not to a degree that makes having non-German DJs something unusual. Especially not if they are Dutch.
I never said them having a Dutch act was odd I just thought it was odd IO didn’t just make them German.
Also you forgot to mention Accept in your Rock category.
How could you forget Yello?
So the DJs represent the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse? That’s insane attention to detail there IOI!
I read somewhere that the lead singer of Yello (Dieter something) put a plaque in a train station in the 80’s that said something like “In 1997, Dieter will stand on this spot for an hour” and then when the right time came, he showed up, stood there, and then left. Concept art at it’s finest I guess.
Edit: It was in 1972 and it said „Am 23. März 1994 von 15.00 – 16.00 Uhr wird Dieter Meier auf dieser Platte stehen“ (On March 23, 1994 from 3 to 4 PM, Dieter Meier will stand on this spot). He did in 1994 from 3 to 4 PM, right on schedule and as promised. Dieter Meier | 1994 - datum II
