History Headscratchers / FreeGuy

* Would something happening inside a videogame be a jeopardy clue? Jeopardy is supposed to be common knowledge and I don't believe a lot of people know about stuff inside happening inside RPGs. Maybe just the name of an RPG game but that might be it. That's like a whole Jeopardy category on plot points of a show like "Barry" or "HandMaiden's Tale" and I tend to believe TV shows are more ubiquitous than video games. I, for example, had a typical upbringing steeped enough in pop culture, that I'm actively here but when I watched the Guild or Free Guy I only have a basic understanding of it to the extent that plot exposition fills me in. My point: Not even some of the biggest fans of the film Free Guy would be able to answer any questions about the games that it's based on.

** It might be a 'waste of time', but the idea of NPCs having entire lives outside of a game storyline or the player character's gameplay isn't new. It's been implemented in video games like Oblivion. It's not beyond the realm of disbelief that ambitious gamemakers like Keys and Millie might code this into their game or that a big company like Soonami would have the resources to make it happen.

** His coding just needs to know it's pleasurable and not the difference between flavors. It may be a case of just being different is enough. Also as we learn he's programmed to like that specific flavor. Really the coding has to be incredibly advanced that he feels anything good/bad.

** In regards to player accounts, they've all been deleted prior to Antwan physically destroying the servers. Earlier, after Keys initiates the change in the environment to create the bridge to the build, Antwan orders Mouser to wipe out all player accounts in order to get Millie out of the game. So, they were completely erased before Antwan even physically damaged the servers. And, seeing that Free Life has switched to the fish-bowl gameplay that Keys and Millie intended with Life Itself, that means that any of the items they had in Free City no longer apply anyway, as they wouldn't be able to interact with the [=NPCs=] or environment in the game.

** In regards to player accounts, they've all been deleted prior to Antwan physically destroying the servers. Earlier, after Keys initiates the change in the environment to create the bridge to the build, Antwan orders Mouser to wipe out all player accounts in order to get Millie out of the game. So, they were completely erased before Antwan even physically damaged the servers. And, seeing that Free Life has switched to the fish-bowl gameplay that Keys and Millie intended with Life Itself, that means that any of the items they had in Free City no longer apply anyway, as they wouldn't be able to interact with the NPCs or environment in the game.

** In regards to player accounts, they've all been deleted prior to Antwan physically destroying the servers. Earlier, after Keys initiates the change in the environment to create the bridge to the build, Antwan orders Mouser to wipe out all player accounts in order to get Millie out of the game. So, they were completely erased before Antwan even physically damaged the servers.

** In regards to player accounts, they've all been deleted prior to Antwan physically destroying the servers. Earlier, after Keys initiates the change in the environment to create the bridge to the build, Antwan orders Mouser to wipe out all player accounts in order to get Millie out of the game. So, they were completely erased before Antwan even physically damaged the servers.

** He doesn't. Every time he is killed, he respawns without them. And much like how he got the glasses off the bank robber, he ends up stealing them off of other players as well (a deleted scene shows a player killing a nut vendor, and Guy stealing the player's glasses as retribution for killing the NPC). And given that the glasses in the montage are seen changing in styles during the film's events, it's clear Guy has been stealing them off of other players after being killed and respawning back in his apartment.

* How is Guy able to taste the Bubblegum ice cream? How would you even code that in? And can other flavors be coded in? I know he’s sentient but he has no frame of reference for the flavor.

** Presumably, the first time that he put on the sunglasses, the ''Free City'' code flagged his character object as a PC (Player Character) instead of an NPC. Since other players don't lose their glasses when they respawn, there's no reason for Guy to, either.

** Antwan was so desperate at that point for a fix that could ''not'' be circumvented by software. He'd already tried the reboot and it didn't work, and he knew Millie had already hacked the game enough that she couldn't be ejected from it -- so how could he be sure that she (or someone else) didn't put in other failsafes to keep Blue Shirt Guy in the game? For Antwan, physically destroying the servers was a method that was '''guaranteed''' to stop Guy.

* Why does Guy respawn with the player sunglasses he's not supposed to have?

** Destroying the servers knocked Free City (or rather parts thereof) offline but that does not necessarily mean that the data storage was itself damaged or that they had no external backups.

** It might be a technical distinction. The game may well have code to allow a player to initiate a kiss, but not to cause an NPC to initiate a kiss. As such, Guy spontaneously kissing a player should not be possible, even if a player could initiate a kiss on Guy.

* As Antwan used a fire ax to destroy the severs, deleting Free City in the process, do all of the players' data become deleted as well? And if so, do all the players have to start all over after the game gets rebooted as Free Life?

* As Antwan used a fire ax to destroy the severs, deleting Free City in the process, do all of the player's data become deleted as well? And if so, do all the players have to start all over after the game gets rebooted as Free Life?

* Antwan spends several minutes to go to the server room, when he could have just ordered another reboot or even a shutdown, which would have been much faster and achieved the same effect.

** Millie's an experienced programmer who was actively looking for insight into the code; it's possible that she was able to write a patch to allow her avatar to kiss Guy by copying the code from the moment when he kissed her originally.

* Guy develops the ability to kiss [=MolotovGirl=] through [=AI=]. Then later, he loses his memories, so Keys has [=MolotovGirl=] kiss Guy to recover his memories. How did she initiate this kiss? Did they add a button?

** not all player characters are fans of guy.

* Guy's attraction to the bombshell character is noteworthy in that there doesn't seem to be a parallel in Key's and Millie's relationship being focused. So divergence based on becoming truly intelligent, foreshadowing of things yet to come, or a affect of screen time emphasis?

** not all player characters are fans of guy.

* For someone who went viral all over the world, nobody appears to be that interested in Guy inside the game. No player characters looking for him or fangirling over him when they see him... I wonder why?