I think it's interesting to see a response to a recent video about The Beginner's Guide say "um actually nobody thought it was real" when I had multiple people get mad at me for saying that it being a metacommentary was obvious especially as you continued playing the game for both the idea that it was obvious and the idea it was metacommentary and not "real"
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I firsthand saw journo colleagues get mad at it because they thought it was real. Saying nobody thought it wasn't is an outright lie.
it's SO WEIRD! like it's something that a bunch of us all saw for ourselves, and yet
Wasn't there kind of famously a review that encouraged people to Steam refund it because they thought it was real?
the video mentions that but also mentions that they can't find the review in question so I don't want to take that as a definitive thing just in case. ESPECIALLY because of how the time that The Beginner's Guide came out was uh...
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God, yeah. It was a time, huh?
Looking up the specific one I was remembering, it later got edited to clarify that the writer thought it a framing device but that she thought it was valid for people to think he'd actually stolen someone's games and that people should refund it on Steam if they thought so.
https://www.destructoid.com/the-best-new-ips-of-2015/
Edit: Right, and the Destructoid review from a different writer makes it clear he believed the setup at first, but realized it was a framing device before the review got posted.
https://www.destructoid.com/the-paradox-of-selling-the-beginners-guide/
https://www.destructoid.com/reviews/review-the-beginners-guide/
There is realism to it but to think it actually convinced so many people to a point where they think the stuff in the game actually happened is kind of impressive to me.