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The 50 Weirdest Moments in PC Gaming
Via GameSetWatch, a feature on the personal site of the well-traveled games journalist Richard Cobbett. The Circe Du Strange details fifty of the strangest, most out-of-place game elements in the history of PC gaming. From classic text adventures to games released in the last few years, the piece outlines some mighty odd design decisions. "30) Command and Cretaceous - While the original Command and Conquer suffered from really bad expansion packs, the first offered a particular entertaining secret. Adding the -funpark parameter when running the game opened up a top secret set of five missions that pitted the standard armies of GDI and Nod against. dinosaurs. For no reason. There was even a briefing movie and bonus music track. And developers Westwood didn't even mention it."
... that Zonk posted a slashdot article about how playing video games is like eating out pussy?
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
How much crack did the author smoke before he decided this nonsense could possibly be interesting to anyone except him?
Even the passages on stories I understand in some detail (the carmageddon zombies and robots and the simcopter kissing boys) seem to be totally incoherent. If I didn't already know the back story, I'd be left without the slightest idea what happened, much less why I should care.
Am I the only person who read the whole article and left without even the vaguest understanding of what actually occurred in most of the examples? Is the Laura Croft story about a person dressed as a video game character, or about a scene in a video game? What the fuck are "Vangers?" Since when is "someone once made a Myst parody" an interesting statement?
Have I ever wondered where the name 'Guybrush Threepwood' came from?" Well, no, actually. Hadn't ever heard the name until now. And, since you've give it to me with no god damned context, I can't imagine what I'd care. Someone quotes PG Woodhouse in choosing the name for something. Can't tell you what it is, 'cause the author was too busy ejaculating over his own stylistic flourishes to treat the reader with respect.
Give me a break. For the five people in the world who already know all the context behind every and every story, this article is probably rather entertaining. For everyone else, it's a waste of time.
I need to beable to filter stories, so I can remove all stories that are named "the [number] of things done by [something]". I think they are tabloid shit.
Well that was a waste of time....