Glad to be of service.lacktheknack said:
I'm also a big Myst fan, I'm just disappointed in how one of PC gaming's flagship genres more or less lost all of its appeal when the FPS ball really got rolling.
Games as my dad describes them.
- Thread starter MajorTomServo
- Start date
Recommended Videos
I'm also a big Myst fan, I'm just disappointed in how one of PC gaming's flagship genres more or less lost all of its appeal when the FPS ball really got rolling.
Whee, this was fun, though as my dad really does describe games like this, most of them I was able to get, you guys did get a few good curveballs in though, so it's only fair if I try a few.
First from an actual conversation, slightly edited to make it harder to guess straight away:
Hey, do you still play that game, the one with all the zombies, remember, where you wasted the entire day running through a forest?
And then let's try a few on my own:
Hey, what's that game, where you're the chick with the eye tattoo and everything's all blindingly white?
Dude, did you try that game, it's like, in space, and you're like, a total badass, and you gotta save the galaxy from a bunch of giant robots nobody else believes exists?
First from an actual conversation, slightly edited to make it harder to guess straight away:
Hey, do you still play that game, the one with all the zombies, remember, where you wasted the entire day running through a forest?
DayZ
And then let's try a few on my own:
Hey, what's that game, where you're the chick with the eye tattoo and everything's all blindingly white?
Mirror's Edge
Dude, did you try that game, it's like, in space, and you're like, a total badass, and you gotta save the galaxy from a bunch of giant robots nobody else believes exists?
Mass Effect
You ever play that one where you're a dude or dudette or even a robot from a list of dudes/ettes/robots and you go around smashing the other dudes. The more you smash a dude, the farther he flies.
Oh, and you can only move in two dimensions.
That one where it's legalized dogfighting while roaming the landscape.
Oh, and you can only move in two dimensions.
Super Smash Bros
That one where it's legalized dogfighting while roaming the landscape.
Pokemon
I thought this would be a game where we guess the answer of other people...not give out the answer...Well that's what I'll do! Good luck.
Easy: So you're this guy who swings around by the ceiling of this huge building and you beat up crazy people and, escaped prisoners. Ultimately I think you're trying to punch a clown in the face.
Medium: So you're this guy but not really and you have to save the world from this thing and you go through different lands but they're all mostly linear except for a couple. You fight monsters and stuff but you have to wait until its your turn but they can't attack you until you had your turn.
Hard: So its this game where you can be this guy (but there are other guys you can be, and some chicks too I think) where you walk around this desert place and other desert places just punching people until they die but its really easy because everyone dies really quick except for some big guys and some really fat guys. They totally explode when you kill them too.
Easy: So you're this guy who swings around by the ceiling of this huge building and you beat up crazy people and, escaped prisoners. Ultimately I think you're trying to punch a clown in the face.
Medium: So you're this guy but not really and you have to save the world from this thing and you go through different lands but they're all mostly linear except for a couple. You fight monsters and stuff but you have to wait until its your turn but they can't attack you until you had your turn.
Hard: So its this game where you can be this guy (but there are other guys you can be, and some chicks too I think) where you walk around this desert place and other desert places just punching people until they die but its really easy because everyone dies really quick except for some big guys and some really fat guys. They totally explode when you kill them too.
An aristocrat is fatally mugged, then comes back with a vengeance and weird hair. He then waffles as to whether to destroy the world, save it, or take it over himself.
A backwoods kid and his punk-haired not-sister set out on an adventure with their fat friend and a flying cat.
Troubled kids shoot themselves, but it's not actually suicide. It's magic. Or psychic powers. Whatever.
Some guy stumbles into the worst vacation spot ever.
Legacy of Kain.
A backwoods kid and his punk-haired not-sister set out on an adventure with their fat friend and a flying cat.
Lunar: Silver Star Story
Troubled kids shoot themselves, but it's not actually suicide. It's magic. Or psychic powers. Whatever.
Persona 3
Some guy stumbles into the worst vacation spot ever.
Silent Hill
I was so freaking proud when I got that one.lax4life said:
OP: I was thinking Borderlands and your dad thought Claptrap was just an annoying little kid.
OT: You are like this kid and then you grow up into this guy, and he always ends up fat even though he doesn't have to be, and you run around kicking chickens and dancing.
Fable
You got it right! I'm going to keep the easy and hard ones a secret for now until they are correctly guessed.Trivun said:
You got Easy right but, not the Hard one. The hard one is probably going to be really hard considering it wasn't that popular a game but, it is a game from this generation.Shanicus said:
That game where a bunch of communist are in that place with a lot of plants growing everywhere and you all have those gas masks. And then sometimes weird Dwarves with the force attack you.
STALKER: CoP
BEST. DESCRIPTION. EVER.Zantos said:
"So, you've got these bug looking guys and robot looking guys and toad looking guys flying inside a starship, and you're in command of them all and you get to shoot things and have sex with blue chicks."
Mass Effect
This game has been used on here before, but my Dad tends to describe things...interestingly.
"You play as some ugly fella with a voice that doesn't match his face, flying around in some ship, meeting a whole bunch of ugly aliens and killing some while making nice with others. Then you have sex with a space Australian. Or a guy, if you're a queer. (POSTER'S NOTE: I did not say Dad was the most forward-thinking individual.) Overall, it's a waste of time you could spend outside in real life."
Mass Effect 3
Another! (This is fun!)
"You look for crappy sheets of notebook paper while some fella who needs to eat more chases you around. Damn, boy, didn't you bring any extra batteries? And why does the game ask for $20 when you look at the guy?"
Slender
"You play as some ugly fella with a voice that doesn't match his face, flying around in some ship, meeting a whole bunch of ugly aliens and killing some while making nice with others. Then you have sex with a space Australian. Or a guy, if you're a queer. (POSTER'S NOTE: I did not say Dad was the most forward-thinking individual.) Overall, it's a waste of time you could spend outside in real life."
Mass Effect 3
Another! (This is fun!)
"You look for crappy sheets of notebook paper while some fella who needs to eat more chases you around. Damn, boy, didn't you bring any extra batteries? And why does the game ask for $20 when you look at the guy?"
Slender