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Games where it is obvious the developer is not from the country it is set in.
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RE4 is comically bad in that regard and would have been cancelled a hundred times over if the target was set in a different country . It's like the game is set several centuries in the past.
It is a recurring plot point in Heavy Rain that the murderer leaves their victims' bodies in vacant lots, like the kind that are abandoned or half finished construction sites.
It becomes extremely confusing when every single member of this supposedly American cast keeps referring to the bodies found in "wastelands."
It becomes extremely confusing when every single member of this supposedly American cast keeps referring to the bodies found in "wastelands."
The weirdest thing is that the Ganados enemies do have some very specific 'Spanish from Spain' phrases such as 'Cojedlo' that they often shout out even though they're very clearly Mexican actors doing the voices. Then there's the character of Luis Sera dressed like a Tejano gunslinger in rural Spain.
The bit on MW3 with the family in London where in the same scene there are like two pubs, a red phonebooth, a red postbox, the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben, black cabs, red double deckers, lampposts from the Victorian era, and Union Jack flags everywhere.
Good luck with that bus route, mate.
The 42 doesn't even go through there! Also seeing the term "City Centre" to refer to London is just...what the fuck?
It's funny, but in the game SOMA by frictional games, the main character is from Toronto... and to anyone outside of SW Ontario, sure it's believable.
But anyone in SW Ontario/Ontario in general would notice immediately the character saying "To ron toe" instead of "Ch ran to" or "Ch ran no". that, they aren't from Toronto or even surrounding areas
But anyone in SW Ontario/Ontario in general would notice immediately the character saying "To ron toe" instead of "Ch ran to" or "Ch ran no". that, they aren't from Toronto or even surrounding areas
Came here just to say Heavy Rain.
Like it's painfully obvious Quantic Dream weren't able to understand American culture. From the terrible accents, the fact that they called a junkyard a "wasteland", the doorknob for Shelby's apartment being right in the centre of the door, Shelby just having 2 loose eggs in his fridge with no carton lol.
Thankfully they got a lot better at it in Beyond Two Souls & Detroit
Dunno if it was mentioned, but Death Stranding is like the ultimate example of it.
Death Stranding takes place in a post apocalyptic USA.
Who knew that an apocalypse would make the USA look EXACTLY like Iceland?
Thing is though, I have to assume Kojima knows his America from Death Stranding doesn't look like the real America whatsoever. What made him go 'fuck it, I'll stick with naming it America', I wonder...
Death Stranding takes place in a post apocalyptic USA.
Who knew that an apocalypse would make the USA look EXACTLY like Iceland?
Thing is though, I have to assume Kojima knows his America from Death Stranding doesn't look like the real America whatsoever. What made him go 'fuck it, I'll stick with naming it America', I wonder...
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Life is Strange due to Blackwell Academy. I don't know if the developers based it off a real private school but it sure doesn't feel like an actual U.S. school. Let alone one in a small coastal town that is collapsing economically.
I hear that one from time to time, I'm south of Toronto, but I more hear the Ch for the first T than it being enunciated
The team silent Silent Hill games.
Despite being Amazingly well researched in general, there are some really clearly Japanese bits plonked in which give it away.
Despite being Amazingly well researched in general, there are some really clearly Japanese bits plonked in which give it away.
Most Quantic Dream games, because they're set in America but have predominantly French voice actors for the supporting roles who aren't remotely convincing lmao
This is England apparently. (Cammy stage from Super Street Fighter 2)
Capcom has enough examples to fill a thread of its own.
This is the Netherlands, for instance, or at least what the country looks like in Final Fight 2:
Professor Layton, where the standard image of what they imagine Scotland Yard looks like, and a load of other London locations, has had the Elizabeth Tower (the Big Ben clock tower) somehow detach itself from Westminster and march into the background of any given shot like it's photobombing it.
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Scotland Yard is a recurring location in the Professor Layton series. It serves as the headquarters of the London Metropolitan Police Service. It is led by the commissioner. Outside of Scotland Yard is a large parking lot. Along the only street to the left of the building are plenty of trees...
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David Cage games. Heavy Rain is meant to be near New York apparently. Never ever ever got that vibe. Always thought it was some drab Europe city.
Ah yes, the Northern Lights, easily visable from all those castles we hold street fighting competitions in. English Heritage must be coining it in!This is England apparently. (Cammy stage from Super Street Fighter 2)
Lol yeah we have mountains here.Capcom has enough examples to fill a thread of its own.
This is the Netherlands, for instance, or at least what the country looks like in Final Fight 2:
Catherine supposedly has an American setting, but nothing about the layout of the bar or Vincent's apartment suggests that (let alone how Catherine sits on the floor at one point in the latter).
It's technically a space colony, but nothing about its businesses or living accommodations suggests USA.
Tbf I saw the northern lights very briefly in Newcastle once many years ago. I was drunk and it was very brief but my friends all saw them too.
I lived in Toronto for over ten years and everyone says Toronno. And I come from SW ontario
but also. The subway cars in that game are obscenely small and grungy and dim. Even our 90s train cars were fairly bright and clean. That was my first indicator, also you weren't ever walking around with a cheap coffee in one hand. Clearly not a game set in Canada made by Canadians
Definitely, but I'll say that pretty much all "Slavic" settings in videogames are just hilariously stereotyped. I understand that this is a problem in all US pop culture ever since the 1950s really when anything remotely "Soviet" was seen as evil but you would think that everyone east of Germany lived in a dystopian wasteland. That's why the Metro games were such a breath of fresh air for me, this one actually was set in a dystopian wasteland but the details of the world really showed that the devs lived in Eastern Europe (Ukraine specifically, I believe).
I got the impression that it only looks like that because of everything that has gone down. So this seems like a weird complaint.
When they use money and just swap the dollar, pound, euro signs so that the prices make no sense (PC Building Sim).
This is explained in the game though,
the initial death stranding event was a series of massive explosions all across the earth, completely changing its topography. The addition of timefall changed global climate.
Others said it already but the story explains this very well imo.
Sakura Wars V: So Long, My Love was released in the States for PS2 and the Wii. It's a Sakura Wars game set in 1928 in New York City. It's so stereotypical and "wrong-ish" that I can't help but shake my head and laugh at it. It's not even mean-spirited on their part; I could tell the developers made some effort but they just couldn't escape not only the Japan-to-America lens, but the anime-tropes-filtered-through-America lens.
It's especially true for the stuff dealing with Harlem and black and Mexican characters.
It's especially true for the stuff dealing with Harlem and black and Mexican characters.
I mean the Ace Combat games don't even pretend they are set in America but a Japanese version of it.
Not just the accent, the writing itself was Mexican. They'd yell things like "pinche güevón" and stuff like that. It was supposed to be the Basque Country too, which is even worse since it ignores not just Spanish culture but also Basque.
I think this is probably more a limitation of the engine or IOI recycling the "drink from cup" animation than a factual mistake. The mate has the bombilla clearly rendered.
It's hilarious either way. Tasty yerba mate.
This is England apparently. (Cammy stage from Super Street Fighter 2)
I live in England and can confirm this is exactly what it's like.
The waves in the background are corona.
The Crew, the traffic lights are on the close side of the intersection like most EU countries while in the US most cities have traffic lights on the far side of the intersection.
you Laugh, but I actually know people with names like Harry Cox and Dusty Battlefield.
ah yes, well known american games writer & lead rdr2 writer dan houser