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Glaring Anachronism


Jack Frost
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All throughout the chapters are those cool Playboy magazine pick-ups with the nekkid ladies. A neat touch, to be sure, but there's just one problem:

 

The game takes place in 1945 and Playboy didn't begin publication until 1953.

 

I mean, shit, I realize the developers are Czech and all, but a simple Google search would've revealed that little factoid.

 

I already knew and didn't have to look it up, but it takes me right out of the atmosphere of the game every time I find one.

 

Granted, the game is set in a fictional universe, but then the publication should have been fictional as well. Something that reminds one of Playboy, but isn't Playboy...

 

As it is, it just makes the developers look stupid... :rolleyes:

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Oh, don't get me wrong, I like the nekkid ladies. :) I wasn't suggesting they shouldn't have been there...

 

I just wish they'd been more creative about it and done pornography of the time. Y'know like single B&W still photos that were obviously made by amateurs and such or even Tijuana Bibles... Y'know, like it really was at the time?

 

That would've been really cool for them to have done that kind of research, but barring that they could've made a fake publication that only exists in Empire Bay and avoided the anachronism entirely.

 

Y'know like the way Empire Bay tries to be New York but isn't?

 

Something like that...

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All throughout the chapters are those cool Playboy magazine pick-ups with the nekkid ladies. A neat touch, to be sure, but there's just one problem:

 

The game takes place in 1945 and Playboy didn't begin publication until 1953.

 

I mean, shit, I realize the developers are Czech and all, but a simple Google search would've revealed that little factoid.

 

I already knew and didn't have to look it up, but it takes me right out of the atmosphere of the game every time I find one.

 

Granted, the game is set in a fictional universe, but then the publication should have been fictional as well. Something that reminds one of Playboy, but isn't Playboy...

 

As it is, it just makes the developers look stupid... :rolleyes:

 

Another no-lifer, that´s all I can say.

And by the way, I´m czech too and we also did make alot of awesome games!

= ArmA, Operation Flashpoint, First Mafia, Vietcong - so please, shut the fuck up.

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