And no this isn’t some disgusting euphemism, gutter-brains.
So you’re headed off to war or a horribly dangerous mission against overwhelming odds and brutal, painful death is almost certain. But here’s the rub: you can draft any video game character you like to mount up with you and take it to the bad guys.
Your choice? Choose wisely!
Continue reading Pictosium ad Nauseum: Who Do You Want in your Foxhole?
So you and your buddies decide to party hard at the local drinking establishment, a dive well known for attracting a mix of real and virtual characters, all there looking for a good time and a few drinks, not necessarily in that order. As you pound back the Koopa Ale and regale your pals with stories of high school football accomplishments and office politics, your inihibitions loosen and your judgment begins to abandon you and you start to mingle with a steady stream of video game inhabitants.
Six hours later, you come to, sprawled in your bed and there’s someone next to you and you think “Oh…no…no…no” and you peek over the sheets and, mouth agape, take a good long look at…
Your alarm clock goes off. Still in a sleepy haze, you groggily rise out of bed, yawn, stretch, emit an odor or two and stand–only to feel something odd. There appears to be a foreign object in your sweat pants, you pull the elastic, glance down and scream in terror when you see…
Continue reading Symposium ad Nauseum: Character You Would Least Like to Find in Your Pants
Video game makers draw on a variety of creative licenses to build their code on. Most of the resulting creations, of course, suck.
So let’s add to the pile–your choices for a TV show that would not work in the least as a video game.
Continue reading Symposium ad Nauseum: TV Shows Least Likely to Be Made Into Video Games
Whether it’s a game expresly designed to facilitate cars and trucks smashing into each other or the mayhem is simply the by-product of an open-world game, what are some of your favorite examples of Gratuitous Destruction of Conveyances?
We’re all about the nostalgia on the PV, so here’s a soft-ball for all you flower children who grew up cutting your teeth on the SNES or Genesis (sorry, the TurboGrafx doesn’t count).
What beloved 16-bit hit would you love to see given a current-gen treatment on the system of your choice?
Continue reading Symposium ad Nauseum: 16-bit to Current Gen
In honor of Zombieland‘s impressive box office take, how about a little something something about our favorite shambling-undead-slaughtering memories in the virtual world.
Lord knows there are plenty to choose from.
Let’s go negative this week. Reach back into the recesses of your mind where you store traumatic gaming experiences and share with us some of your worst encoutners with deranged video game physics.