>>94060422A lot of big games still have retro roots and are so homogenised and generic nowadays that if you referenced one someone may confuse the reference for 3 other things. Most big FPS games are out. If you get too specific people may not know what youre referencing either. There isnt much to work with thats memorable, distinct, not autistic like Minecraft, not centered around realistic violence, and has a big enough following that people would get it. Everyone knows FF7. Everyone knows Doom. Theyre just pop culture at this point.
If they tried to slip from the well known cliched games, then odds are the show was already pandering to gamers and could afford to drop references frequently to cover a lot of their audience. If any other show does this, the constant references will just seem out of place.
Gumball is probably your best bet for striking a middle ground without being dumb, and I cant think of many games they could even work with. Maybe Dark Souls, but thatd probably boil down to a "YOU LOSE, dude this game is so hard" kinda thing, because thats all Dark Souls is to normies. The hard game.
