Some gaming tropes are silly. Like the one about always meeting someone you know, or knew from the before times - before the game started. You know the scene, the hero is calmly going about his mission to save A from B by doing X, when suddenly it turns out that his ex-girlfiend is the [...]
Sometimes games just shit you right off. It’s not that they’re bad games, exactly, it’s just that they do bad things. Nobody really knows why they keep doing these bad things. Don’t they know they’re KILLING THEIR MOTHER?
1. Swimming/Underwater Levels
In real life, swimming is a fun and relaxing activity. In games, swimming is a way [...]
The alternate title for this post was “Starship Tropers”, but I was afraid that either people wouldn’t get the pun because it was too in-your-face smart, or that it would look like I can’t spell. Either choice is unacceptable, while also deftly edging in on the subject at hand - the beloved trope of the [...]
Something must be in the air. Game-related controversies had been at an all time low until recently, probably owing a lot to the absence of everyone’s favourite mouth-frothing conservative lunatic, Jack Thompson, who was silenced (mostly) after being caught doing lines of coke off the back of a dead hooker*. But just recently there has [...]
Nobody is perfect. There are some fantastic games out there, sublime samples of entertainment that eat up your time and warm your heart. But nobody is perfect. Sometimes when you’re playing a game it can quickly turn from “Wow I love this game and want its babies!” to “HULK SMASH PUNY TELEVISION!”
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It used to be so easy.
We had gamers and we had normal people. Gamers were lifeless shut-ins who stared blankly at glowing squares and only ventured outside to buy cake-coated fat bars. Normal people went outside to play sport and talk to girls, I assume.
Then came Nintendo, and games quickly became associated with children. So [...]
There are zombies everywhere. The gaming industry is bursting with extended franchises, long-running series, and ongoing characters - many of which started before some of their audience was born. It isn’t madness, of course - ontinuing an established brand has shown itself to be a crowd and pocket pleasing idea - but it does have [...]