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Which bit, the head or the shaft?

"This game is like real life, only life-ier." (ign.com)

Actually the first game that blew my mind (ign.com) was The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past...because it but an entire little world inside my tv. And does anybody remember the Legend of Mystical Ninja? You had to go to a travel agent to travel to the next level in the game and how much you paid determined what animated cutscene you'd see of your traveling arrangement. Also I will never forget the angry sound that played when you walked into a shop, declined to buy anything, and were asked to leave. Furthermore, it was my first exposure to minigames. I spent at least as much time playing two player air hockey in-game as I did bashing zombified villagers.

HOLYSHITIREMEMBERTHAT...Remember all those compilations of shareware dos and windows games that used to get released on retail discs and this game was one of them?

EA Presents: Gears of War and Peace

And the same can be said of the Peanuts cartoons.

My first game was a Dos version of the gameshow Concentration. After that I had an on again off again thing with video games but I didn't really get hooked until Fable II. I wish I had a better answer than Fable II.

Maybe if you fucking used it once in a while :grin:. Still, I'm honored to have Jake Rodkin of Telltale Games on my friends list. Sometimes when people come over, I'm like, "Remember that sweet Monkey Island game we played on the Wii? This guy worked on that!"

Oh fuck. That's the best.

EA Presents: The Bible: Book 5: Shooteronomy

EA Presents: Blast of the Mohicans EA Presents: The Old Man and the C-4 EA Presents: Shankenstein EA Presents: Much Ado About Knifing. Let's not forget anything's a video game title with the proper suffix or affix. EA Presents: Jane Eyre 3D EA Presents: Super Hard Times EA Presents: Sense and Sensibility 64

He eats kids.

Sounds like a woman of taste.

EA Presents: Burnout Paradise Lost EA Presents: A Comedy of Terrors EA Presents: Tony Hawk: Catcher in the Ride EA Presents: Aesop's Fable III EA Presents: D.H. Lawrence's: Guns and Lovers EA Presents: Virginia Woolf's: To the Fighthouse EA Presents: Richard Wright's: Native Gun EA Presents: Saul Bellow's: Henderson and the Pain King EA Presents: Tender is the Fight EA Presents: The Gun Also Rises EA Presents: The Rage of Innocents EA Presents: The Crime of Miss Jean Brodie EA Presents: A Boom with a View EA Presents: Grave New World EA Presents: Fahrenheit 450 Gun EA Presents: Gun Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest EA Presents: Stephen King's The Gunning EA Presents: Stephen King's ShIt EA Presents: Grime and Gunishment EA Presents: Harry Shot Her and the Sorcerer's Bones EA Presents: Beast of Eden EA Presents: One Gun Dread Years of Solitude EA Presents: Gun with the Wind EA Presents: Life of PiRates EA Presents: Bram Stoker's Attackula EA Presents: The Hell Jar EA Presents: Thomas Pynchon's Savagery's Painbow EA Presents: The Handgun Maid's Tale EA Presents: Shakespeare's King Fear EA Presents: The Interpretation of Screams EA Presents: The Wound in the Willows

"Even Obama couldn't reform this game." Ign.com real ones: "It's going to be a familiar experience for anyone that played the original!" - IGN.com "easier to digest!" - IGN.com "It starts slow and the presentation isn't perfect!" - IGN.com Exclamation points were added. Oh God... From IGN's review of Heavy Rain. "Were this filmed as a Hollywood picture, it would perfectly fit the body of work of someone like Martin Scorsese or David Fincher." Sigh. Also: The screenshot captions in IGN reviews are so weirdly bland and matter-of-fact that they seem like they were translated poorly from Japanese or something. From Heavy Rain review: "The art direction is great." "Character development is handled very well." "Intense scenes are rather common in Heavy Rain."

EA Presents: Lego Hamlet EA Presents: Something Wicked This Way: Guns EA Presents: 1984 2010 EA Presents: 2001 2001 EA Presents: Raymond Chandler Wrestling: The Big Sleeper-hold

EA Presents: Paradise Lost in Space EA Presents: Ayn Rand Wrestling Federation: The Fountain Headlock EA Presents: All Quiet on the Western Frontal Nudity EA Presents: Anna Karenninja

What?

I suppose I can understand why you say that if you've never heard The Idle Thumbs Podcast. I, too, used to like Idle Thumbs before I discovered the vastly superior TITP. The Return of the Progidal... ... My Son Returns.

Revenge of the Wounded Dragons on PSN is a decent alternative. That said, I mean, seeing as it's the only alternative and it's a fairly decent game...it's a decent alternative. I don't actually recommend buying or playing unless you're determined to experience kung fu movie themed beat-em-ups. There's also Rag Doll Kung Fu, but I'm not sure that counts in the same way.

Tanukitsune's thread about Bomberman Act Zero made me think about the pantheon of bad games. What's up at the top? What bad games have you personally played? Are there any games that are so bad, they're good, or does that principle not apply to games.

I don't know...that sounds pretty good. Oh! I remembered one of the worst games I've played: Perfect Weapon.

How appropo. Wakka Wakka.

I've only heard snippets, but the new Flaming Lips seems pleasantly jarring.