Creedence didn't sue John Fogerty for sounding too much like himself, their record label did.
I don't recall the exact details, but Fogerty lost the rights to the CCR catalogue after leaving the band and changing record labels, and the record company maintained a stranglehold on his old songs. When he released a new song in the style of an older CCR tune, they sued him for copyright infringement, claiming that the hook to the new song was just lifted from one of his older songs.
Supposedly, Fogerty brought a guitar with him to court and played both songs to prove they were legally distinct from one another, and the jury did not deliberate for very long before deciding that Fogerty was not guilty of plagiarizing himself.
Another fun fact, due to the labels brazen exploitation of the CCR catalogue, John Fogerty has also technically boycotted himself at one point, and refused to play his own songs live because, IIRC, he would have had to pay royalties to his label in order to perform his own songs.
Keep in mind, I'm going off memory of old interviews here, and not fact checking any of this. So the details could be off.
To be fair to Drew, this is the mission where I gave up on the game entirely. I was having no trouble tailing the interpreter from a safe distance and eavesdropping on his interrogations, when I started getting messages about how prisoners were being killed and I needed to "hurry up and ID the target."
I mean, in hindsight, it makes sense, but at the time, it felt like I was getting conflicting orders barked at me over the radio, and getting chastised for doing what I was told to do, and I just threw my hands in the air, and then immediately deleted the game from my hard drive.
Again, in all fairness, this was a last straw kind of thing. I don't blame the game for my own frustration, but I can't really blame anyone else for being confused by the way this mission is explained either.
I never really gave it much thought back when I played this game myself, but I'm having a really hard time figuring out how much of the sombrero scene is an intentional goof and how much of it is just unintentional nonsense.
I'm pretty sure Guyana isn't actually a hispanic country, and I think even though it's still Latin-American there are hardly any native Spanish speakers?
So is the goof that Raiden doesn't understand that Guyana isn't Mexico? Or is it that he just chose a ridiculous costume? The two random hispanic dudes happening to be the only people he comes across while in his disguise make me feel like that particular scene was written by someone who either didn't know where Guyana is, or they wrote it completely out of context and added it in anyway.
I know there's a codex conversation where they point out just how ridiculous Raiden's costume is, but I don't remember if they pointed out the geography. Seems like the kind of thing they'd have a two minute monologue about.
It's always hard to say if Metal Gear is being deliberate or not. The third game takes place in the Rainforests of Russia, after all.
I will say this. The No Man's Sky soundtrack album is amazing. It's one of my albums of the year. I don't think the game hangs in a best music category, but largely because the game sells short the music.
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