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Reference in a Video Game?Alert reader Bill Groves writes:
Heh. Bill made a rough video for us. Okay that video wasn’t working right, even for me, so here’s a youtube embed, which I should have done in the first place I guess. 38 Replies to “Reference in a Video Game?”Commenting at Satellite News
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I do not hear “I’m Different.” I here do du do. But what ever.
I hear it. I’ve never played Portal, but I recognize GLaDOS’s voice from Jonathan Coulton’s song (“Still Alive”) from the game.
…which be stuck in my head for the next few hours. :silly:
The turret does, in fact, say “I’m different.” It may not be intended as a MST3K reference though; the turret, known as the “different turret” or, say the developers, the “oracle turret,” says that to tip you off that the turret, in fact, IS different from the hundreds of other turrets in the game that never say “I’m different.” If you hang around it asks you to take it with you, and reveals cryptic information about the story of the game.
Yeah I don’t think that’s really a MST thing. Earlier in the game the same turret says the same thing when calling out to you from inside a tube. It says that it’s different because it doesn’t want to kill the player like other turrets, it wants to be saved from the incinerator.
I can’t get the video to work. Keep getting “Plugin Error” messages.
I’m trying to think… how is this an MST3K reference?
@ferretface In the opening of the Sci-Fi eps Crow says “I’m different” when he’s introduced.
@shenny
/facepalm/
d’oh. shoulda known.
I don’t think it’s in ref to MST. Turrets are just simple objects that have trouble describing things like their own impending death.
WOW! That was a bunch of nothing.
Um…are we talking about the essentially musical tones? If we aren’t, then I GOT NOWHERE TO GO, I GOT NUTHIN’!!!!
Yeah, this is less a reference and more of a “tenuously linked coincidence.”
I don’t hear anything.
Nice find, but did you know that Crow saying “I’m Different” is itself a reference to Randy Newman’s “I’m Different” circa 1983?
Sorry, but I’m NOT downloading a plug-in.
Got the video clip to play; heard something, but not a clearly enunciated “I’m different” (which I guess would be Bill Corbett Crow).
If you wanted to show off the “I’m Different” Portal 2 turret, you should have linked to the Aperture Science fake advertisement. Like this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sNoGh4FKwA “I’m different!” (or possibly “Indifferent!”) comes in around 0:33 in the clip.
@Chuck,
Sampo changed it to a youtube embedded video. I do feel the same way though. All I keep hearing is “Indifferent”. Sounds like Bill needs to check his hearing.
To those who keep hearing “indifferent,” when the option for captions is selected the turret’s caption says “I’m different.”
They shoulda put some Crow parts on the belt.
@ #13, Geko:
I’d also call that a “tenuously linked coincidence.” Pretty sure it was just a nod to the fans that, yes somebody else is performing Crow, get over it.
I replayed that part of the game again and it could be saying “indifferent” and not “I’m different” but it is a goofy computer voice so it’s hard to say.
Yeah, I haven’t seen this big a stretch since Stretch Armstrong.
#22 Very Funny!! How about mine?:
I haven’t seen anything more staged since Lee Harvey Oswalds’ prison transfer!
(23) I like it VERY MUCH.
I call “no way”.
I don’t get it. This isn’t MST worthy at all.
And now for a true reference to MST3K.
Tonight’s season finale of The Cleveland Show on Fox had an MST3K reference. The family
goes to San Diego Comic-Con. Cleveland Jr. dresses in several different costumes during
the course of the show. One of them is a blue jumpsuit with a gray colored version of
Tom Servo perched on his left shoulder. The color of Servo is also a fun reference to
Tom’s first incarnation as Beeper.
Here’s an Entertainment Weekly article that has a clip of the show with the MST3K
reference. Check out the third clip.
http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/05/13/cleveland-show-comic-con-simpsons-comic-book-guy/
MikeK, good catch. Now that was a reference. Not some Portal 2 game clip.
Wow, the “Game Portal 2” made a reference to my favorite “Show Mystery Science Theater 3000”!
(And how can you see that and NOT think of Crow? Jeez, people, you call yourselves fans?)
I don’t hear, “I’m different.”
Nice find on the Cleveland Show reference… nice reach on the Portal 2 one ;)
The turret really does say “I’m different.” It’s very obvious in the game itself; this video just has pretty poor audio. I don’t think it’s a reference, though, because in context it’s nothing to do with Crow or MST in general. This turret is just letting you know that it (she?) is different from the other turrets, not that it’s changed from how it used to be. I call coincidence. I know #3 already said this, but maybe repetition will help it sink in.
i like hearing about refs.but i would not have botherd with this one. :-|
Krepta wins the thread. :laugh:
*I’m* different…so I’m getting a kick out of these replies.
There is in fact a turret that says “I’m different” as it passes by you in the game. I doubt this is an MST reference—in context the bot is trying to get you to help it as its about to be destroyed for being defective.
I hate when people are doing road work 2 feet outside my window when I’m trying to record videos of me playing a game at my PC!
I dont believe that this is a refrence to mst3k, because if you pick the turret up, it talks about the plot of Portal 2, the reason it says I’m different is because unlike the other turrets that try the kill you, this turret will speak to you about the plot.