History VideoGame / LimboOfTheLost

** Steve Bovis, the creative director of the game, seems to have a... bizarre understanding of how capitalization works for titles: instead of just capitalizing the first letter of a title, he has the habit of capitalizing the entire word of a title. This shows up in the subtitles every now and then, and can also be seen in forum posts made by him that are floating around the Internet.

** Steve Bovis, the creative director of the game, seems to have a... bizarre understanding of how capitalization works: instead of just capitalizing the first letter of a word, he has the habit of capitalizing the entire word. This shows up in the subtitles every now and then, and can also be seen in forum posts made by him that are floating around the Internet.

* SockPuppet: Not in-game, but in RealLife: Steve Bovis wrote forum posts under the name of FABLE, pretending to be a fan of the game and recommending it left and right. Things got a little iffy after "FABLE" started berating a fellow forum member, whom he had helped beat the game, about posting hints on the forum for other people, saying that it was taking away the point of the game and disrespectful towards the developers who had worked so hard coming up with the puzzles. After the argument had gone on for a while, with Bovis actually chiming in as himself and backing FABLE up, an admin found out that for FABLE and Bovis had the same IP address. Bovis explained that a play tester had been posting the messages without his knowledge, and that they only owned one computer that was connected to the Internet due to "safety reasons". [[InternetBackdraft The forumgoers didn't exactly buy it.]] Witness the whole thing in all its facepalm-inducing glory [[http://www.gameboomers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/233736/1 here]].

* ChekhovsGun: You start with a seal of some kind in your inventory; whilst beforehand you use it to translate a drunken guardian's speech, you don't see how it's supposed to be used until Chapter 3.

* LaughingMad: The subtitler. Not any of the characters, the subtitler himself. The subtitles are riddled with crazed laughter that doesn't feature in the spoken dialogue.
** Going by some forum posts attributed to him, this appears to be a VerbalTic (for a given value of 'verbal') of one of the game's creators.

* UnfortunateNames: Cranny ''Faggot''.
** Her name is quite possibly derived from that of celebrity chef and CausticCritic Fanny Cradock. Amusingly, whose name is more unfortunate depends on which side of the Atlantic you're on.

** Vinny of ''LetsPlay/{{Vinesauce}}'' played the game in one of his more popular streams. The highlights can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPe1GqeeDr4 here]], while the full stream can be watched [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-H4wu30Sks&list=PLlc94szfcNDHdHdZewnAvKeBXWYZVGdtT here]].

* UnsoundEffect: In Laura's first appearance in Chapter 3, she mistakes Briggs as the Soultaker and screams... with the subtitles rendering her scream as, "Screeeaaammmm!!"

* {{Irony}}: The option for "Resume the game" on the Pause menu is "BACK TO HELL".

[[quoteright:215:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/limboofthelost.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:215:"Your darkest dreams" is all too accurate.]]

* SequelHook: After the ending, there's TheStinger and the title card for Limbo 2.

Due to its absolutely massive amount of plagiarism, the game's been pulled off store shelves. It's still available in pirated form, though - while we at TV Tropes don't encourage it, you can sweep the Web and find a copy, [[BileFascination if you absolutely have to experience its legendary badness]]. Considering that most of the content was ''already'' pirated anyway, it'll probably even count as poetic justice. An alternative is to read the excellent LetsPlay from the Website/SomethingAwful forums by LetsPlay/TheDarkId: [[http://lparchive.org/Limbo-of-the-Lost/ it does an excellent job pointing out each and every insult to your intelligence without forcing you to actually play it]]. There is also another LetsPlay by [[http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=400406 Wields-Rulebook-Heavily]] which also does a good job at covering the game. For those who would prefer a video playthrough, Vinny of WebVideo/{{Vinesauce}} has livestreamed the game in its entirety; the stream is preserved [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlc94szfcNDHdHdZewnAvKeBXWYZVGdtT here]].

* MotorMouth: William Nilmates, the guy you first find in a cage in the Prologue, has such a habit of doing this that his cellmate apparently died with his fingers still plugging his ears, and Briggs ends up falling asleep at one point when he trails off into unintelligible rambling.

* TheEndOrIsIt

* LaymansTerms: The conversation with the zombie in the Prologue gives us this wonderful exchange (paraphrased):

--> '''Zombie:''' I was putting Grunger off his food.

--> '''Zombie:''' Well, to be quite honest, I do think it may have been my bodily emanations.

--> '''Zombie:''' Well, you know, my sort of [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness odoriferous redolence]].

--> '''Zombie:''' Well, to put it bluntly, I stink!

* MotorMouth: The zombie you come across in the Prologue has such a habit of doing this that his cellmate apparently died with his fingers still plugging his ears, and Briggs ends up falling asleep at one point when the zombie trails off into unintelligible rambling.

* CaptainObvious: Briggs tends to weer into that territory half the time when you tell him to Look at something.

For one, the game is an asset flip almost a decade before [[Creator/{{Jimquisition}} Jim Sterling]] coined the term; [[UsefulNotes/{{Plagiarism}} pretty much every background is shamelessly ripped from another game, without so much as a mention or acknowledgment to be found - not even in the credits.]] Secondly, [[PixelHunt the items you need to pick up are often dark in color and hard to make out against the usually-dark backdrops, making progress a chore]] (in one instance, an item is partially obscured ''by your compass'', which can't be taken off of the screen). Third, the game's animation, CGI and otherwise, would look primitive in the late 1980s (The game, by the way, was released in 2008). Fourth, there's a constant and extremely annoying whisper of "Join us... Join us... Join us now!" in the background that plays every three minutes or so (shamefully ripped from the ''VideoGame/{{Thief}}'' series), which is fine and atmospheric [[MostAnnoyingSound up until you go stark staring mad]].

For one, [[UsefulNotes/{{Plagiarism}} pretty much every background is shamelessly ripped from another game, without so much as a mention or acknowledgment to be found - not even in the credits.]] Secondly, [[PixelHunt the items you need to pick up are often dark in color and hard to make out against the usually-dark backdrops, making progress a chore]] (in one instance, an item is partially obscured ''by your compass'', which can't be taken off of the screen). Third, the game's animation, CGI and otherwise, would look primitive in the late 1980s (The game, by the way, was released in 2008). Fourth, there's a constant and extremely annoying whisper of "Join us... Join us... Join us now!" in the background that plays every three minutes or so (shamefully ripped from the ''VideoGame/{{Thief}}'' series), which is fine and atmospheric [[MostAnnoyingSound up until you go stark staring mad]].

For one, [[{{Plagiarism}} pretty much every background is shamelessly ripped from another game, without so much as a mention or acknowledgment to be found - not even in the credits.]] Secondly, [[PixelHunt the items you need to pick up are often dark in color and hard to make out against the usually-dark backdrops, making progress a chore]] (in one instance, an item is partially obscured ''by your compass'', which can't be taken off of the screen). Third, the game's animation, CGI and otherwise, would look primitive in the late 1980s (The game, by the way, was released in 2008). Fourth, there's a constant and extremely annoying whisper of "Join us... Join us... Join us now!" in the background that plays every three minutes or so (shamefully ripped from the ''VideoGame/{{Thief}}'' series), which is fine and atmospheric [[MostAnnoyingSound up until you go stark staring mad]].

* CopyAndPasteEnvironments: [[{{Plagiarism}} Quite literally.]] Within the same game, too. Expect yourself to be getting very tired of looking at the same cave bridge over and over. The fact that the environment is made up of screenshots from other games is hardly the game's only failure.

** [[spoiler:Flaying the Mayor and wearing his skin]] does NOT WORK THAT WAY, GOOD NIGHT!

* {{Gonk}}: Nearly every single character encountered, except maybe the French Mystic.

* HumongousMecha: One that pops out of nowhere at the end of Chapter 4. And serves no purpouse at all in the story.

[[{{Understatement}} The game is not without its problems, though.]]

* SmugSnake: Alas, Briggs himself will swing between making ridicolously dumb-looking faces and smugly grinning with superiority at will. This is evident during the climax of Chapter 3.

* {{Jerkass}}: Cap'n Briggs rather unhesitatingly mutilates people to advance the plot... and sometimes, for no real reason. Not just that, he commits ''murder'' to get an arm to make gruel. Holy Hell. Let's not forget when he claps what can best be descried as a bear trap onto a guy's head so he could steal his '''pen'''. Said pen is then used to blind a sea monster -- which, as far as we know, has done '''nothing wrong'''. Blinding the sea monster doesn't actually do anything useful, but it turns the pen into a nib, which is then used as a lockpick to remove somebody from their chains. All this to get a clue to get to the next area, which is cryptic to the point of uselessness.

Due to its absolutely massive amount of plagiarism, the game's been pulled off store shelves. It's still available in pirated form, though - while we at TV Tropes don't encourage it, you can sweep the Web and find a copy, [[BileFascination if you absolutely have to experience its legendary badness]]. Considering that most of the content was ''already'' pirated anyway, it'll probably even count as poetic justice. An alternative is to read the excellent LetsPlay from the SomethingAwful forums by LetsPlay/TheDarkId: [[http://lparchive.org/Limbo-of-the-Lost/ it does an excellent job pointing out each and every insult to your intelligence without forcing you to actually play it]]. There is also another LetsPlay by [[http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=400406 Wields-Rulebook-Heavily]] which also does a good job at covering the game. For those who would prefer a video playthrough, Vinny of WebVideo/{{Vinesauce}} has livestreamed the game in its entirety; the stream is preserved [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlc94szfcNDHdHdZewnAvKeBXWYZVGdtT here]].

* AnachronismStew: Possibly justified by the otherworldly setting, but it's a tad odd how Briggs just takes it in stride.

* LetsPlay: Wields-Rulebook-Heavily [[http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=400406 takes a bullet for the team]] and plays the game so you don't have to.