While the current trailer for The Last of Us 2 was stunning in its harsh survivalist violence, it had one last surprise in store: a character is revealed playing a PS Vita. Given how few individuals play the system nowadays, and the brand-new game is set in 2033, we discover the ramification hilarious that one of the few pieces of tech to make it through the apocalypse would be Sony’s underrated portable console.
Which got us thinking: what are the most absurd devices that pop up in video games?
Sure, a lot of video games integrate tech advances that fill our own world, like mobile phone. We have actually discovered some circumstances when consisting of a specific piece of consumer tech feels, in hindsight, genuinely bizarre. These go beyond product positioning to flex the suspension of shock, making us question what sort of world we’re playing in.
Here are our favorite moments when gaming and gadgets do not blend well at all.
In the Metal Gear Strong series, Solid Snake (and his different other aliases) tends to communicate with his superiors using a Codec receiver, a discrete gadget which directly manipulates the small bones of the ear by utilizing nanotechnology. You wish to believe, then, that Snake would have carried on from his chunky old Sony Walkman Cassette Player to something a bit more … advanced.
After all, there’s a wide range of reasons why cassette tapes are now a thing of the past: they’re bulky, need to be manually rewound, and the sound quality isn’t precisely top-tier. And yet Solid Snake refuses to leave his old-fashioned music player behind. Perhaps he’s simply persistent; maybe he’s nostalgic; or maybe Apple Care will not cover devices that are taken into a warzone.
Nintendo Switch– Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze
The Nintendo Change is a magnificent console, but it’s difficult to argue that its Joy-Con controllers are best suited to smaller sized hands when they’re separated from the console. At a stretch, you could most likely picture a chimpanzee utilizing a single Joy-Con without much difficulty. A tie-wearing, 300 pound ape?
Not a chance. We think Nintendo missed out on the memo, though, as Diddy Kong and the ham-fisted DK play Nintendo Switch together as part of the video game’s idle animation in Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze. Diddy most likely provided him the inferior right-sided Joy-Con as well, the saucy little monkey.
( And before we get notes– yes, we understand the initial version had DK and Diddy grooving on the 3DS. That Nintendo decided to update it for the re-release is touching.)
Energizer batteries– Alan Wake
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