My Best Examples of Taking Video Games Too Seriously

February 8, 2010 – Raging Nerds and Taking Time: The Warcraft III Metagame Story and Its Impact on Starcraft II
All of the gameplay issues that plagued Warcraft III’s early days will return to haunt Starcraft II.  The question is whether Starcraft players will put aside their hatred for the Warcraft series and come to terms with that.

January 24, 2010 – Generic Nintendo Wii Hate Thread (Featuring Pretty Charts!!!)
Bad games can be purchased for any console.  Many sell.  But never have so many sold irrespectively of “quality”.  And the majority of this business is taking place on the Nintendo Wii.

September 23, 2009 – Introducing The Ghetto Playstation 3 Installation Team!
Remember kids: America invented capitalism.  It’s an economic system where one improves products by marketing them better than their inventor.  Best Buy, you have a fine service, but I summon my trap card: The Ghetto Playstation 3 Installation Team.

June 20, 2009 – On Challenge and Difficulty, And Challenging “The Days When Gaming Was Hard”
But still, many who grew up on the Nintendo believe single-player is the test.  These so-called pinball wizards, using modern single-player campaigns as a trump card, rail about the ease of today’s gaming.  And thanks to technologies like matchmaking systems, which will pit these players against opponents of equal skill, they will never ever know what it’s like to get their ass kicked by a gamer worth their salt.

June 6, 2009 – My Take on Left 4 Dead 2 v. Crybaby Bitches
You’re mad the core gameplay isn’t polished?  Only fixed the bugs that caused your computer to catch fire?  Boo fucking hoo.  By playing Left 4 Dead non-stop for seven months after the game’s release, you signed an imaginary EULA indicating you got your money’s worth for the game.

April 21, 2009 – Highperching, a.k.a. “Fix The Warcraft III Map Pool, Blizzard”
With no Goblin Laboratories (and thus no air transports), the intended concept is for only air units to have access to these fountains.  Through the glorious nature of Warcraft III’s gameplay, certain racial combinations can circumvent this with a combination of Tiny Great Halls, Mass Teleport, Wardens, Tinkers, etc.  And through the glorious nature of the Warcraft III community, “Highperching” was born.

December 14, 2008 - It’s Goin’ Down
If you travelled back three years and asked me what I thought of Nintendo’s chances with family gaming, I’d still be laughing today.  They obviously proved me wrong…[b]ut a company is using a library of tech demos and fitness software to push two million gaming consoles in a single month.  This bubble will burst, it’s just a matter of who’s caught in the blast.

October 12th, 2008 – The Starcraft II “Trilogy”: Why You Are All Complete Morons (With Update)
This week, I watched a racist crowd bemoan McCain for saying Obama was “a good American”, and gamers managed to look even dumber.  Incredbile.

September 11, 2008Digital Rights Management and a Pissed-Off Consumer Base: What It Tells Us About The PC Market
Either develop your games with a PC-first mentality, or don’t expect the respect of a consumer base that demands it.

March 15, 2008 – German History Makes For Gaming Trouble
In January of 2007, a pair of German teens were charged with murder after a couple was stabbed to death in their home. The police reported the two used the names “Reno” and “Sepheroth” [sic] as their aliases, giving Final Fantasy VII cosplayers relief from their role as the fanbase’s biggest scum. Square had little reason to worry, given the game’s ESRB Teen rating and lack of graphic violence. I’m just kidding, the German people went ballistic and the game is now one of the country’s most notorious “killer games”.

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