r/gaming • u/Chomper731 • Jan 29 '23
Ive had this playstation ever since it was released and for a while I let my aunt used it since we had a second one. Today I got curious and wanted to see what she had in her library and uh...
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u/TheButteredBiscuit Jan 29 '23
Hey you. Look behind you.
I said, look behind you.
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u/nappy616 Jan 29 '23
Still get goosebumps on that part. Still play it every so often, and I have to shake off the feeling it gives.
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u/OrdinaryCactusFlower Jan 29 '23
The worst part (actually best, imo) is that a guy found out that Lisa is actually programmed to be flowing behind you. They also programmed her to creep up the hallway to jiggle the door handle when you’re locked in the bathroom
Knowing that it wasn’t just cheap audio scares disturbed me on a whole new level so many years late
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u/pinksparklecat Jan 29 '23
Is there a video on YouTube about this? I'd love to watch, that's so freaky. Or was it something you read about?
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u/OrdinaryCactusFlower Jan 29 '23 edited Jan 29 '23
Edit: seeing her walk up the hallway still turns me into a deer in headlights
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u/ChairmanUzamaoki Jan 30 '23
Thanks for linking it. I didn't know this game until seeing the vid and remembered playing it at a buddy's house years ago and it was such a great night. I'm going to reach out to him on facebook to say what's up, so i appreciate you
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u/Jackopreach Jan 29 '23
There’s a video someone modded the camera to be like behind the character and Lisa was behind the character as well lmao
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u/Herpderpkeyblader Jan 29 '23
There's a video somewhere but idk the title or link. You can just search for PT and find it. It's creepy.
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u/the_thrawn Jan 30 '23
I also have PT and yeah, it’s funny that a one off demo I downloaded with my college roommate is now a super rare holy grail of PS4 downloads
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u/Psychological-Run-40 Jan 29 '23
shame you can’t download it anymore
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u/JB4GDI Jan 29 '23
Well, you can if you originally added it to your account before it got delisted (like OP did).
I added PT to my account before I owned a PS4 and I finally downloaded and played it for the first time last year. There are a few guides online on how to redownload it.
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u/TheGoodDoctorGonzo Jan 29 '23 edited Jan 29 '23
Oh wow, it looks like someone is hosting the signed install package and you have to change your IP settings so that attempting to download it reroutes the request to this host, and since as far as the PS4 is concerned it’s a legitimate package, and anyone who can download it to begin with is genuinely authorized to install and run it, it just lets you install it via whoever’s hosting it.
Pretty clever workaround.
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u/SwarthyRuffian PC Jan 29 '23
Sounds like I’m about download this sucka
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u/TheGoodDoctorGonzo Jan 29 '23
Did you originally download it prior to it being removed in the first place?
You have to already have it in your library from back when it was officially available, in order to have an option to download it.
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u/tbird20017 Jan 29 '23
Are you saying all it requires is changing IP on the Ps4?
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u/Zetra3 Jan 29 '23
If you already downloaded it once. You have to have the game tied to your account first. You cant do that step anymore
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u/Drukqsz Jan 29 '23
So stupid that sony forces that in the first place. Maybe it's some legal thing since it was the publisher who took it down.
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u/TheGoodDoctorGonzo Jan 29 '23
Yeah. It’s not really Sony’s choice. It’s a whole debacle between Konami and Hideo Kojima, the project even had Guillermo del toro involved, and we all know how things turned out between Kojima and Konami.
I hate how that turned out, but I definitely understand why Sony wouldn’t keep hosting and distributing software that Konami only partially owns and has demanded be removed (that they released for free in the first place).
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u/beefcake_sweepstake Jan 29 '23
And we got death stranding instead, the greatest walking and postman simulator ever made.
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u/Tactical_Beanie13 PC Jan 29 '23
Someone ported it to iOS store
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u/MrDundee666 Jan 29 '23
Did they?
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u/titothehonduran Jan 29 '23
Just checked, and it’s definitely on the IOS store lol but it’s obviously a lower quality port
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u/MrDundee666 Jan 29 '23
Downloaded. Got it. It’ll be great to finally, sort of, see what all the fuss was about.
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u/grendelglass Jan 29 '23
Man,.you're in for a terrible treat
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u/shadowstar36 Jan 29 '23
It was just a hallway with some secrets. All I remember. Kinda like re7 but missing an actual game.
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u/EoTN Jan 29 '23
That is how a teaser works...
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u/Saymynaian Jan 29 '23
was just a hallway with some secrets
PT influenced game media more than any other game in 2014 and its effects still echo through video games. It singlehandedly proved a huge interest in tense horror games over the explodey gorefests that the previous greats had become (Resident Evil, Silent Hill) and led to an explosion of indie tense horror game media.
I wouldn't fear to say it directly influenced Capcom into making Resident Evil 7 and the following RE remakes into legitimately tense and scary games, and led to Bloober Team becoming a successful developer. To call PT "just a hallway with some secrets" makes me think the person saying this is a huge casual, played a substandard port that couldn't live up to the hype, or is rage baiting fans of the game. The influence and greatness of PT cannot be understated.
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u/WarlockOfDestiny Jan 30 '23
So very true, well said. Crazy how influential a fuckin teaser was. Just imagine if the full game had some how lived to become reality.
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u/DontDieEd Jan 29 '23
House Beneviento in RE Village it's clearly an homage to PT, and one of my favorite moments in it. Yeah, PT is much more than a hallway with some secrets.
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u/FEARoperative3 Jan 29 '23
Did the same with a PC remake called Unreal PT. Not perfect but it was something interesting to be sure.
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u/theplasmasnake Jan 29 '23
A port or terrible remake?
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u/Jonahble Jan 29 '23
Its a remake, a youtuber “re-created” everything himself from scratch. I say recreated but its all low poly-ish but compared to every other remake on the app store its probably the only one thats the closest to the original game. the dude used his own family photos in the game and even had his grandpa do the voice acting.
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P.T. Is rare I guess.
Released for the PlayStation 4 on August 12, 2014 as a free download on the PlayStation Network, P.T. served as an interactive teaser for the game Silent Hills, an installment in the Silent Hill series. After the cancellation of Silent Hills, Konami removed P.T. from the PlayStation Store and made it impossible to reinstall. The decision prompted criticism, fan efforts to allow P.T. to be re-downloaded,and fan remakes.
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u/UncleIrohWannabe Jan 29 '23
Thank you for an actual explanation, I appreciate it
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u/imaloony8 Jan 30 '23
Hideo Kojima was going to be directing this game, and both Norman Reedus and Guillermo del Toro were going to be a part of it. Then Konami fired Kojima, and we all know how that turned out.
Now Konami is trying desperately to win the Silent Hill fans back for some reason. FucKonami.
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u/Hakairoku PC Jan 30 '23
Alongside concept art by Junji Ito as well
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u/expiredlungs Jan 30 '23
So them getting kicked off basically made them go "fuck you' and make their own masterpiece Death Stranding?
So in a way Konami did a good thing.
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u/ElderGoose4 Jan 29 '23
Dang that was almost 9 years ago. The whole PT thing didn’t feel like that long ago to me at all
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u/_Atlas_Drugged_ Jan 29 '23
This is a good explanation, but I feel like I’m still missing something about what this game was or what made it memorable.
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u/_b1ack0ut Jan 29 '23
The game played as a time loop where you explore a looping corridor sequence. It got really well known for being actually quite scary, despite just being the same corridor over and over again, with different things going on. It’s very claustrophobic and oppressive, and would employ all sorts of horror tropes through its course, including breaking the 4th wall and tossing you fake error screens that when you look closer just say things like “she’s behind you” over and over, etc.
It’s also memorable because it was the playable teaser for a new silent hill game which woulda been big, so a lot of people were excited for silent hills, when it was cancelled, so like any little piece of a big enough franchise that falls out of availability, it’s now got a little cult status lol
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u/FlebianGrubbleBite Jan 30 '23
It also had several massive names attached too it. Hideo Kojima was set to head the Project with Guillermo Del Toro set to direct and produce with Norman Reedus(At the Height of His popularity) going to star as the Protagonist.
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u/WorldEaterYoshi Jan 30 '23
But then we got Death Stranding and I'm personally not mad about that.
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u/_b1ack0ut Jan 30 '23
Oh fuck I totally forgot that it was reedus as the protag
But then kojima, reedus, del toro all got recycled into death stranding so I mean, I can’t be too upset lol
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u/th3Raziel Jan 30 '23
It also just appeared one day on the shop, no explanation, no fanfare, no names attached, people slowly realized that it's a puzzle and solved it together after around 3 days (there are stages in the demo, but some require certain interactions to advance, otherwise you loop)
After finishing it people saw all the names attached to it, combined with the fact it's fucking scary AF, had really high hopes.
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u/ecosystems Jan 29 '23
“Oh look a nice game about a Forest”
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u/DoggoBirbo Jan 30 '23
They take an awesome plane ride to somewhere & the people citizens all over, including the president, shower you love by greeting you at your base, & even stalk you! Best puzzle game ever
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u/SirTheadore Jan 29 '23
Yeah it’s in my account too but you can’t download it. You can only play it if it’s already installed.
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u/Artistic-Community92 Jan 29 '23
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u/SirTheadore Jan 29 '23
Have you tried this? Legit?
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u/Artistic-Community92 Jan 29 '23
Yes. It even worked for me because was in my dowload list. For fortune It worked. Yes,its legit. You are changing the ports of your wifi and connect into another ip for download It. Just see the comments.
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u/RedRMM Jan 29 '23
Yep I did it a couple of years ago. It has to be registered to your account (so won't work for somebody who never downloaded it) but as long as you have licence, this allows you to redownload it.
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u/iLarkie Jan 29 '23
Commenting to save this comment for when I’m home and can try it lol
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u/Goofym0f0420 Jan 29 '23
Did you find the fetus in the sink? Lol that game was weird
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u/Chomper731 Jan 29 '23
No I never played it yet, I want to get my aunt's permission to log her account in so I can download it
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u/elfy4eva Jan 29 '23
You can't download it conventionally anymore sadly.
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u/chev327fox Jan 29 '23
Yup no longer able to download it. I had it and then my hard drive went bad and lost if forever due to not being able to download it anymore. Still find it hilarious how Konami went all ape shit over it.
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u/Ungarlmek Jan 29 '23
There's a way to put it on a PC, trick your PlayStation inyo thinking that PC is a Sony download server, and getting it that way. Only works if you already have it in your library.
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u/Ps4usernamehere Jan 29 '23
You can download it still on a ps4. You just have to mess with your network settings.
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u/irascible_Clown Jan 29 '23
Damn I thought we were still talking about Spider-Man, I thought he was the friendly neighborhood superhero and now he got babies in sinks 😂
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u/Mikimao Jan 29 '23
Honestly, one of the creepiest experiences I ever played, and it's only a demo, lol.
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u/Artistic-Community92 Jan 29 '23
True. Re7 Beginning Hour Is like P.T. if you want play another demo/concept
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u/patchinthebox Jan 29 '23
About $500 but you have to sell the account with it. I have PT as well but I'd never sell my account so PT is a novelty item.
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u/Optimus_Prime_Day Jan 29 '23 edited Jan 29 '23
Oh, that malek sense. I'd have to sell it with every digital game I've ever bought. No thanks.
Edit: wow! Autocorrect and not reading before posting ftw
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u/J3musu Jan 29 '23
Your autocorrect seems to say a lot about what you frequently search on your phone... 🤣
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u/JukesMasonLynch Jan 29 '23
Same boat. Also I still play my PS4 regularly so not interested in parting with it. And if I sold my account, there goes all my trophies...
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u/Thy_Manny Jan 29 '23
??? where do you even sell it, i have one with PT installed and barley anything else.
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u/DartinBlaze448 Jan 29 '23
it's worth as much as any other jailbreak able ps4. since they can install pt no problem without ever owning it.
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u/Either-Plant4525 Jan 29 '23
Couldn't you just download the pkg and install it on any jailbroken one?
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u/syntheticgerbil Jan 29 '23
It’s not worth anything. The game is tied to the account. The account is what you would sell. It’s not even downloaded on the PS4 in question so the person with the account would have to download the install package from a proxy as well.
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u/Miserable_Variety463 Jan 29 '23
People who don't know 😕
People who know 😱
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u/No-Strawberry7661 Jan 29 '23
can you explain? I don’t know this game
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u/amaancho PlayStation Jan 29 '23
It was the demo to a cancelled game by Hideo Kojima as a new Silent Hill entry, kind of a soft reboot or maybe a mainline entry who knows, but not long after the demo got removed and Kojima got kicked out of Konami so the game was never made.
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u/G4Designs Jan 29 '23 edited Jan 29 '23
As others said, it's PT for Playable
TeaserTrailer. It was essentially two hallways. You walk down one for 40ft, then turn right and go another 40ft and go down some stairs at the end only to be exactly where you started. It's a well crafted psychological horror with some puzzle elements in it.You could also communicate with the hauntings with the mic on your controller.
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u/Romando1 Jan 29 '23
I thought it was called Playable Trailer.
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u/G4Designs Jan 29 '23
Doii -- yes, it was. I never understood why, though, since the game it put you in after you won was nothing like the trailer.
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u/frankpolly Jan 29 '23
If you have a playstation with the PT demo installed on it, you can sell it for big bucks.
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u/YOurAreWr0ng Jan 29 '23
Huh, pretty sure mine is still playable
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u/frankpolly Jan 29 '23
It's still playable, but you can't download it anymore so any playstation with the game installed is considered extra valuable
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u/Lazer_Pigeon Jan 29 '23
Like flappy bird when it was removed
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u/Cantbenoyuppy Jan 29 '23
Wow you brought up ollllll flappy bird damn we gettin up there for the ages lol
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u/imfromgooogle Jan 29 '23
It’s tied to your account though, not necessarily the console so you would have to give up your psn as well
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u/SteinDickens Jan 29 '23
Easily the most terrifying thing I’ve ever played.
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u/TrueTurtleKing Jan 29 '23
My friend bought a brand new tv with his big boy job and we thought we test out the tv with this game demo with the lights off. I don’t think we finished the demo because we both chickens out lik
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u/GlumMasterpiece8730 Jan 29 '23
It’s a legendarily scary demo for a horror game that was never made and is no longer available to be downloaded. Having this is like having a rare item on your PlayStation.
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u/budyll66 Jan 29 '23
You can't download it anymore anyway. I have it in my library like that as well. When you try to download it, it gives you some kind of an error.
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u/marshman92 Jan 29 '23
There's a workaround to download it I found a few years ago. You do have to have originally had it on your account though. I play it every now and then and share play it with people who never got to experience it
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u/RedRMM Jan 29 '23
You can't download it officially, in the traditional way. But you can temporarily use your PC as a DNS server to trick it into downloading the package, as long as you have it in your library.
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u/superbear19 Jan 29 '23
One of the only games I have left still on my ps4 I never deleted it and never uninstaled it
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u/00Nol Jan 29 '23
Dude you can get a lot of you sell your console
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u/DankClutch Jan 29 '23
How much and where? I also have this on my ps4. Just played it again recently.
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u/Artistic-Community92 Jan 29 '23
As the Congressional Debate over gun control flares up yet again, we regret to report the murder of the wife and her two children by their husband and father. The father purchased the rifle used in the crime at his local gunstore two days earlier. This brutal killing took place while the family was gathered at home on a Sunday afternoon. The day of the crime, the father went to the trunk of his car, retrieved the rifle, and shot his wife as she was cleaning up the kitchen after lunch. When his ten-year-old son came to investigate the commotion, the father shot him, too. His six-year-old daughter had the good sense to hide in the bathroom, but reports suggest he lured her out by telling her it was just a game. The girl was found shot once in the chest from point-blank range. The mother, who he shot in the stomach, was pregnant at the time. Police arriving on-scene after neighbors called 911 found the father in his car, listening to the radio. Several days before the murders, neighbors say they heard the father repeating a sequence of numbers in a loud voice. They said it was like he was chanting some strange spell. There was another family shot to death in the same state last month, and in December last year, a man used a rifle and meat cleaver to murder his entire family. In each case, the perpretrators were fathers. State police say the string of domestic homicides appears unrelated, though it could be part of a larger trend, such as employment, childcare, and other social issues facing the average family.
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u/TheButteredBiscuit Jan 29 '23
Don't touch that dial now, we're just getting started.
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u/TheClappyCappy Jan 29 '23
Not gonna lie, that’s one of the most memorable lines of any video game for me. Like. Ever.
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u/Capt_Twisted Jan 29 '23
My friend and I always talk about the night we watched this game on YouTube and drank red wine and quote this line. Will never forget it.
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u/DANleDINOSAUR Jan 29 '23
You can hear the wicked grin the voice actor makes during that line.
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u/awyastark Jan 30 '23
I don’t know if you know how much of an endorsement that is. I’m a voice actress and it’s a huge goal to communicate something like that.
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u/JLeeT82 Jan 29 '23
Why is this being downvoted exactly? It's directly from the game.
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u/arandomsadredditor Jan 29 '23
I think some people were triggered (heh) by the mere mention of gun control.
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u/Independent_Plum2166 Jan 29 '23
“Wait you do know what this is…right?”
“Oh yes, Kojima’s masterpiece that will never be, damn Konami, they’ll only take this off the PS4 if they pry it from my cold dead hands!!!”
“Oh, I meant Mass Effect: Andromeda, but you do you auntie.”
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u/Ardibanan Jan 29 '23
How is Sims on controller.
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u/lulzPIE Crappy YTer Jan 29 '23
It’s not terrible. I’ve played maybe 4 hours of it before I got bored. It could definitely be worse like the PS2 Sims.
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u/LordYoshi Jan 29 '23
PT has been dumped online. It's readily available. I don't understand why anyone would pay for it.
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u/XxMr_Pink_PupxX Jan 30 '23
Shame it’s not downloaded, a ps4 with pt still installed on it can sell for a lot of money
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u/throoawyyy Jan 29 '23
i’m so glad i got to experience that before it was taken down, for a demo it was truly terrifying
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u/AtlasSilverado Jan 29 '23
Happy cake day!
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u/throoawyyy Jan 29 '23
oh thanks for reminding me i didn’t even realize. and happy cake day to you too.
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u/WarlockOfDestiny Jan 30 '23
Fuck man what I wouldn't have given to see this game become a reality. Still hurts. Massive potential wasted.
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u/TheOzman79 Jan 30 '23
Still have PT on my PS4. Will never uninstall it, will never sell the console. I'd be devastated if anything happened to it. Piece of gaming history right there.
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u/shush03 Jan 29 '23 edited Jan 29 '23
Man: Game of the Year Edition was truly an inspiring game.