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7/20/2025, 5:06:56 PM
This has nothing to do with irony poisoning or zoomers.
Referencing popular media of the time is just not going to land with some people, some people being burnt out on what's being referenced or not fond of it. Maybe it aged really poorly (Yes, references aged even before our current internet landscape, don't be silly). It's very cheap and easy to do, which there's nothing wrong with but these games lean pretty hard onto referential humor so if you don't like it you're gonna be annoyed more than anything when it comes up.
Remember spoof movies? It's a bit like that, the better ones would mix in good comedy that would age well without relying entirely on the thing its referencing while others, like the mid-2000s "X Movie" parodies, were just kinda crass low brow shit that made most of their money from tricking people by putting the biggest references in the trailer, iirc a few these went into production before the things they were parodying came out.
This also doesn't necessarily have to do with the reference being fresh or not, usually being worse if you're already saturated with said pop thing. I certainly wouldn't enjoy a reference to Avengers Endgame now (Pretend it hasn't been 6 years, I don't know what's popular anymore) just like I didn't enjoy a reference to Star Wars or Indiana Jones when they were in their heyday. Of course the people that DO enjoy mere timely references don't apply, doubt many of them would enjoy the Narnia parody movie now if they hadn't watched it back then.
Zoomers are absolutely obsessed with multimedia shit, specially in games. All of the big games have crossovers with other big franchises. Which I don't need to tell you is beyond referential, and any cynical person would see it as an obvious cash grab. Some of these are weird like a Mistborn one in Fornite and Alucard from Hellsing in Call of Duty.
Referencing popular media of the time is just not going to land with some people, some people being burnt out on what's being referenced or not fond of it. Maybe it aged really poorly (Yes, references aged even before our current internet landscape, don't be silly). It's very cheap and easy to do, which there's nothing wrong with but these games lean pretty hard onto referential humor so if you don't like it you're gonna be annoyed more than anything when it comes up.
Remember spoof movies? It's a bit like that, the better ones would mix in good comedy that would age well without relying entirely on the thing its referencing while others, like the mid-2000s "X Movie" parodies, were just kinda crass low brow shit that made most of their money from tricking people by putting the biggest references in the trailer, iirc a few these went into production before the things they were parodying came out.
This also doesn't necessarily have to do with the reference being fresh or not, usually being worse if you're already saturated with said pop thing. I certainly wouldn't enjoy a reference to Avengers Endgame now (Pretend it hasn't been 6 years, I don't know what's popular anymore) just like I didn't enjoy a reference to Star Wars or Indiana Jones when they were in their heyday. Of course the people that DO enjoy mere timely references don't apply, doubt many of them would enjoy the Narnia parody movie now if they hadn't watched it back then.
Zoomers are absolutely obsessed with multimedia shit, specially in games. All of the big games have crossovers with other big franchises. Which I don't need to tell you is beyond referential, and any cynical person would see it as an obvious cash grab. Some of these are weird like a Mistborn one in Fornite and Alucard from Hellsing in Call of Duty.
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