History Awesome / PapersPlease

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---> '''Obri inspector:''' Welcome to Obristan. Next! \\

---> '''Monologue:''' A new agreement has been reached with Kolechia. Grestin Border Checkpoint will reopen soon. [[AndTheAdventureContinues Return to your post on January 1st.]]

--> '''Shae:''' You know, Dimitri asked me to come. Said I would get through. But I guess he is not so much in control.

--> '''News headline:''' Bloody Scene In Gennistora! [[KarmicDeath Simon Wens Found Dead In Confusing Mess]]

* Your boss, Dimitri, is generally a [[{{Jerkass}} callous hardass]] who docks your pay [[labelnote:*]]or sends you to a forced labour camp[[/labelnote]] if you put anything besides official [=MoA=] plaques on the wall of your booth. He even has the gall to order you to break protocol and let his lover, Shae Piersovska, through. However, if you deny Ms. Piersovska without detaining her, on his last visit Dimitri yells at you for making him look like "a powerless fool" but is unable to issue formal punishment. Take that, you arrogant bastard.

* Can we put down a lone man making a game centered around simulating paper pushing and it being as good and popular as it did as a meta one?
** ''Game Informer'' even put it on their Top 50 Games of 2013 and gave it the award of Best Simulation.
** Yahtzee mentioned in his review that "hearing the obnoxious sound of that printer giving me another citation seized my heart greater than any number of dead mums." Considering Yahtzee's tendency to [[CausticCritic completely demolish any game that crosses his desk]], this high praise is a testament to Lucas Pope's skill. It ended up being number two in his top five list of 2013 and was even a hot contender for "Game of the year"! Even better, in one of his Let's Drown Out videos, a character in the game being played says "papers, please", to which Yahtzee outright says, "''Papers, Please?'' That's a good game. We should play that."
*** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRuHvW-dZ8I And then they did play it.]] And it is ''glorious''. Yahtzee even reiterates his love of the game early on, followed by his friend Gabe also admitting he really enjoys it ([[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments despite the Let's Play being hijacked about penises in cinema for a good 5 minutes of the hour]]).
** Papers Please eventually also became one of Yahtzee's most Influential games of the whole decade (alongside Pope's other game, Return of the Obra Dinn) as not only did it make what by all accounts something that sounded absolutely tedious into an engaging gameplay loop, the truckloads of clones that followed proves that it forever changed the landscape of gaming.

* Your boss, Dimitri, is generally a [[{{Jerkass}} callous hardass]] who docks your pay [[labelnote:*]]or sends you to a forced labour camp[[/labelnote]] if you put anything besides official [=MoA=] plaques on the wall of your booth. He even has the gall to order you to break protocol and let his lover, Shae Piersovska, through. However, if you deny Ms. Piersovska without detaining her, on his last visit Dimitri yells at you for making him look like "a powerless fool." Take that, you arrogant bastard.

* When someone drops a bomb on your desk, Calensk walks in and calmly goes "What is this amateur shit?" before telling you how to disarm it (mocking how cheap it is the whole time) and then just tells you to hand it over so he can sell it for parts. You don't even need to shut down the checkpoint, because he says he needs to work. Calensk has balls of steel.