r/pathologic • u/RedSoreiks • 21h ago

Door Texture with Greek Text in Pathologic Classic HD

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There's a door texture in Pathologic Classic HD with Greek text which for me, a Greek, managed to feel the most otherworldy element in a game full of weirdness.

Judging from the text it's basically a typically-graffiti-all-over wooden door from a highschool in Aigina (Greek Island).

Anyone who has spent an unhealthy amount of hours playing Classic already knows where that is - my question is...does anyone know the reason for this totally out of place texture. The devs are Kazakhs and/or Russians as far as I know.

I'm probably reading too much into it, but some lore fiends among you might know sth about it other that "it's just a random texture bro" :)

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u/evilforska 20h ago edited 20h ago

The simplest explanation would be, cyrillic to greek is like english to latin.

Im sure there are probably kazakh people in the team, but I mostly know of russians. Many studios went to Kazakhstan to base their operation after certain events.

And before all that happened, maybe some of them visited Greece and took a photo of graffiti. Thats my guess

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u/Electrical-Lab9147 14h ago edited 14h ago

I remember someone brining this up. Also one of the vent textures uses a company logo. It was talked about on the archived IPL forums. 

I’m guessing the texture was chosen before they had a good idea on what the time period would be (the 2004 build used a plastic bottle to represent the water item, a lot of the characters wear modern clothing, and the train looks newer than it should). 

2 and 3 have a much more cohesive art nouveau turn of the century look. 

Don’t know why it’s Greek 

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u/Geeneelee 13h ago

Between this and the surprise Greek in Pathologic 3, Greek players must be having a weird time playing these games.