Talk:Psychonauts
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Trivia (moved from main article space)
[edit]- Examining the tree stumps used as part of a system for traveling around the campsite gives a reference to a joke used in The Secret of Monkey Island, a game Tim Schafer also worked on. This line was also included in Grim Fandango.[1]
- In some of the campground levels there is background music that is reminiscent of Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit," a song with references to "mind expanding" drugs.
- Erik Wolpaw, a member of the original Old Man Murray team, worked as a writer on Psychonauts contributing story and dialog.[2]
- While once suffering from writer's block, Tim Schafer came up with the idea to develop many of the supporting characters of Psychonauts by giving them fictional online identities on the Friendster social network service and posting messages in-character.[3]
- The term psychonaut literally means a "sailor of the psyche," and is often used to describe users of psychedelic drugs.[4]
References
- ^ Psychonauts - Covered by Razputin's Domain
- ^ Rock, Paper, Shotgun: Wit Truncated By Bloglines » Blog Archive » RPS Interview: Valve’s Erik Wolpaw
- ^ GameSpy: Psychonaut Tim Schafer on Taking Risks
- ^ Liddell, H.G. and R. Scott (1843), A Greek-English Lexicon, Oxford, s.v. ψυχή and ναύτης.
European Release Date
[edit]Don't know whether EatMyShortz' comment was aimed at my changing the European release date, but it did actually get a 10th Feb release in the UK (got my copy today lol). Don't know whether this sticks for the rest of Europe, but I would guess it does. —Coined 19:44, 11 February 2006 (GMT)
PC Gamer magazine
[edit]PC Gamer is sold in many countries around the world. Each one created using a combination of it's own material and syndicated material. I think it should be indicated which nationality of PC Gamer gave the award "Best Game You Didn't Play 2005"
Steam
[edit]This game was added to Steam (content delivery) on Oct 11, 2006. It'll be good if someone would edit the Article Page and add Information about it. (I Already Edited the Infobox) --User:Subbu.exe 10:56, 11 October 2006 (GMT +5.5)
Tim Schafer first conceived the idea for Psychonauts while working on Full Throttle, which originally was to have an interactive peyote trip sequence. The idea was deemed unsuitable for a family-friendly game, but it led to Schafer's desire to do a game featuring psychological trips or interactive dream sequences.
i would not consider full throttle as family friendly; anyway there is a citation needed
Trivia Section
[edit]The article's trivia section contains the statement:
Several characters' last names mean "no", "none" or "nothing", including Bobby Zilch and Sasha Nein.
As far as I can tell from looking through the article Characters in Psychonauts, these characters are the only two. This bullet point should probably provide more or different examples... otherwise I don't think two counts as "several", or is grounds for a trivia point (more likely a coincidence in my opinion).
- Most of the trivia section is completely biased. The person who wrote it probably just sees coincidences between the game and real life and decided to post them, without ANY solid evidence.