why did that fake anti piracy screen trend from a while ago just boil down to people making shitty creepypastas when real anti piracy measures in games are infinitely more hilarious like deleting your save file randomly or calling you an idiot
The creepypastas really ruined the appeal of the fake anti piracy screens. I don't get why it pivoted so hard into that, it felt so cheap lol
or like in The Sims where they put the naked mosaic censor over the whole damn game
I'm pretty sure it's because those really crazy anti piracy screens are mostly in obscure, smaller games. Mostly.
actual anti-cheat: pokemon black disabling exp made for one of the funniest bits ever, too
i'm saying this because i was somewhat into it before as well, it is most likely pure, unfiltered autism. and honestly, the convincing ones are still really cool to this day. that & the mario party ds anti-piracy ending was actually amazing LOL
i think a lot about that one SNES sports game that literally just pretended your TV was getting really fucked up
AAI2 just changing all the text to a fake language is top tier
The child audience is profitable and they like scary things
the funniest one imo is the diddy kong racing one where it just has a bunch of fuckery that it rolls for everytime a new race is started
