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NGDBSS
Dec 30, 2009






I love how this game uses the old Spanish peseta as currency and pretends that, say, 1000 pesetas is not an insignificant amount. In reality the peseta had been phased out for the euro from 1999 to 2002 and was worth roughly 200 Pts per $1 US. The effect on the narrative is that Leon is just constantly rifling through the pockets of Spanish peasants for their spare change, and he can only spend it out here because any place that isn't the backwoods will laugh at him.

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NGDBSS
Dec 30, 2009






Captain Hygiene posted:

Oh sweet, I played through the game three times in a row and watched an LP of it and I'm ready for more, it's just that good!

That's funny, it's been long enough that I forgot that was a real currency and assumed the gamedevs just made the name up to sound close to something real. Second biggest RE4 revelation after the moment I found out spinels exist in real life :v:
My mother found a 100 Pts note in my sister's old bedroom, turns out she'd collected a bunch of weird currency over the years. I ended up passing it along to some goons I knew who would get a kick out of gaming history.

NGDBSS
Dec 30, 2009






liquidypoo posted:

I had decided on giving it a rest, but it seems I gotta ramp up the accusations of coward button usage to full force :v:
Excuse me, the valor button.

Douglas Adams posted:

Zaphod did not want to tangle with them and, deciding that just as discretion is the better part of valor, so was cowardice is the better part of discretion, he valiantly hid himself in a closet.

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