Baseball, hockey, football, basketball–screw them.
What is a memorable not-quite-mainstream sports video game? And All-Pro Curling 2009 doesn’t count.
Continue reading Symposium ad Nauseum: Non-Mainstream Sports Games
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Slow week coming up–I can feel it. The temperature is hot and muggy and productivity is going to see a serious nosedive.
So how about we just phone in the SaD today? This selection should be wide open and not require much brainpower.
Anywho, first person shooter, crappiest weapon….go.
This one’s pulled from the forums. Seeing as steroids and whatever other performance-enhancing substances our beloved pro athletes are injecting into their balls are back in the news, let us now apply the same probing eye to our video game characters.
Lots to choose from, for sure, but who sticks out to you as someone who is no doubt on the juice?
h/t Mach6
Before the days of the magic health recharge that is prevalent in most games today, players were forced to scrounge for life-giving items in their respective game worlds to make it to the next check-point or boss fight or inevitable Game Over screen.
Our favorites and yours below the jump!
Continue reading Symposium ad Nauseum: Odd Ways to Replenish Health
Spell-casting dudes are popular these days,.
Harry Potter, Gandalf, Merlin, all major pop culture sorcerors. How about their video game counterparts?
Speaking of Merlin, remember that episode of MacGyver when he traveled back in time to the Arthurian Legend and met Merlin? A very believable episode.
With games becoming more and more tuned to be interactive movies, the demand for engaging storytelling has risen. Gone are the days when simple plots like “the princess was just abducted by that giant lizard thing!” were sufficient for setting the stage for gameplay.
Stuff like Uncharted and God of War and Fable 2 and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed have scored well on the tale-o-meter, but what are the truly head-scratching narratives that nuke your cerebrum just trying to untangle the plot?
Continue reading Symposium ad Nauseum: Story That Made the Least Amount of Sense
When they’re not inspiring wretched movies made from their IP, video games are scoring a little better on the cartoon scale.
We may have eclipsed the Golden Age of video game animated series, but reach back into the recesses of your pop culture brain and tease out some memories: what video game shows spring to mind, fondly recalled or otherwise?
Thanks to Mach6 from the Jury Room for the topic!
Continue reading Symposium ad Nauseum: Cartoons Based on Video Games
Pardon the esoteric topic, but as any devotee of the legendary teen sitcom Saved by the Bell knows, there are few places in the world more conducive to claustrophobia, filthiness, anger and despair than the cramped boiler room at Bayside High School.
This is where, if you recall, Slater and Jessie were trapped while just above the prom was going on, thus depriving them of a seminal moment in their post-adolescent development.
If Jesse and Slater, the Romeo and Juliet of our time, can’t hack it, what makes you think that you and _________ could?!