thought it'd be fun to talk about all the interesting small details in this game (or both sr1 and 2) because it's truly something where sr2 shines. I'm not talking about the well known easter eggs like the cabbit or the secret island, or glitches like the Freezer, i'm talking the tiny weird shit. Some examples
one of the absolute funniest for me has always been No Rings Boo Hoo, on the window of the Oring:
i actually asked Volition's tumblr account about it years ago and someone (I'm guessing IdolNinja because Who Else) went through a lot of trouble just to figure out what the meaning behind it was:
Another one that i've never really seen mentioned anywhere is the Bling news article you can see on the newsstands around the city, as well as in the backroom of at least one of the Brass Knuckles (the one in Museum iirc)
is this not the player character from the ps2 era build of sr1 (or Bling Bling in other words) that was shown during the 10th anniversary steam?
and finally, the Rusty Scissors billboard in sr1. now sr2 doesn't have hair salons anymore but V still reused it (you can see it in Projects) the fact that there's a billboard for a completely nonexistent service always felt unusual to me as basically every texture of this type in the game is linked to some kind of content: maybe it's for a location, or features a phone number, etc.
there's a bunch of other stuff i'd love to list but i don't wanna make this post overly long. maybe some of these have even come up and have been explained during a stream or in a tweet or something, but i feel like stuff like this rarely gets actually properly documented and discussed
one of the absolute funniest for me has always been No Rings Boo Hoo, on the window of the Oring:
i actually asked Volition's tumblr account about it years ago and someone (I'm guessing IdolNinja because Who Else) went through a lot of trouble just to figure out what the meaning behind it was:
Another one that i've never really seen mentioned anywhere is the Bling news article you can see on the newsstands around the city, as well as in the backroom of at least one of the Brass Knuckles (the one in Museum iirc)
is this not the player character from the ps2 era build of sr1 (or Bling Bling in other words) that was shown during the 10th anniversary steam?
and finally, the Rusty Scissors billboard in sr1. now sr2 doesn't have hair salons anymore but V still reused it (you can see it in Projects) the fact that there's a billboard for a completely nonexistent service always felt unusual to me as basically every texture of this type in the game is linked to some kind of content: maybe it's for a location, or features a phone number, etc.
there's a bunch of other stuff i'd love to list but i don't wanna make this post overly long. maybe some of these have even come up and have been explained during a stream or in a tweet or something, but i feel like stuff like this rarely gets actually properly documented and discussed