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Cycle
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this review reminded me of this thread. i find it very endearing in how ridiculous it is. i bet this guy writes for ign or something now!
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dessgeega
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| ign hopeful wrote: | | Have you ever seen something in a videogame so amazing and unexpected it sent your brain into a near-meltdown, something that made you think "HOLY CRAP, I HAD NO IDEA THEY COULD DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT". I'm talking about things like the skydiving gun battle in No One Lives Forever, the zero-gravity level in Quake, the fight against Ganondorf in Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, where you think you've won and suddenly Ganon comes back to life for a showdown of near-apocalyptic proportions. Yeah, stuff so mind-numbingly brilliant that it takes your dignity, your sense of reason, and the layer of cynical jadedness that surrounds ever gamer and throws it into an industrial wood chipper. |
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helicopterp
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| Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 8:24 pm Post subject: |
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ooohhhhh I get it. It's about Fargo!
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dhex
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| Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 7:44 am Post subject: |
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eh i've seen worse.
hey what was that show - scottish - that did that ngj skit where the guy ate a bunch of mushrooms, dry humped his girlfriend while crying and tied it to games?
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captaincabinets
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| Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 8:44 am Post subject: |
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sounds like consolevania.
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It was.
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dhex
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i will have to hunt that down cause it made me laugh real hard. never really liked anything else i saw, though.
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Harveyjames
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or "_____ on acid" |
I kept a dream diary for years and then one day I fed it all into an online random prose generator. I told people the results were like 'Timothy Leary... on acid'! Ha!
| Shaper wrote: | | So: Shadow of the Colossus sans colossi? |
That game would be like, HEAVY |
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Harveyjames
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| Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 6:57 pm Post subject: |
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| dessgeega wrote: | | ign hopeful wrote: | | Have you ever seen something in a videogame so amazing and unexpected it sent your brain into a near-meltdown, something that made you think "HOLY CRAP, I HAD NO IDEA THEY COULD DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT". I'm talking about things like the skydiving gun battle in No One Lives Forever, the zero-gravity level in Quake, the fight against Ganondorf in Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, where you think you've won and suddenly Ganon comes back to life for a showdown of near-apocalyptic proportions. Yeah, stuff so mind-numbingly brilliant that it takes your dignity, your sense of reason, and the layer of cynical jadedness that surrounds ever gamer and throws it into an industrial wood chipper. |
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simplicio
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| Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 1:19 am Post subject: |
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| Shaper wrote: | | So: Shadow of the Colossus sans colossi? |
That game would be like, HEAVY |
You climb yourself.
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helicopterp
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| Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 7:58 am Post subject: |
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It could be a lizard-hunting simulator.
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