Here’s your chance to wow all those Alpha males and the cheerleaders who shot you down. The limo rolls up, the gymanisum door opens and the assembled crowd gasps as they see you, a shocking image of uber-confidence with the following draped on your shoulder:
The new year is upon us and as 2009 withers away and dies like the geriatric old man that our clip art catalogs dictate, let us welcome in 2010 with a nod to babies, that universal symbol of newness and poop!
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!
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…
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.
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?
I have little else to offer here. The subject line speaks for itself. Ninjas in video games.
Also, I promise no mention of Ninja Gaiden, at least not from me…
