Most difficult game to 'explain' from the boxart.

[GunstarHero]

On my 16th birthday, I wondered to Game and picked up Devil May Cry (just out that week..).

I stopped off on my way home to visit my grandparents, and was inevitably asked what I'd bought, to which I replied along the lines of 'well, you're this bloke, and you have big swords.. And I guess you probably kill stuff with them, like these glowing things.'

Thinking about it now, I can't help but wonder what on Earth my grandparents must have thought from this explanation. With no context, a 'bloke' killing 'glowing things' must be a bit of a mind-boggler.

Same grandparents, I tried to explain Pokemon. 'You catch little things in balls, then fight with them'.

What game on your shelf right now would be the most difficult to explain to a non-gamer? Give it a bash, see if you can make Okami, Zelda, Metal Gear (50 points to whoever pulls THAT one off..) make sense, in few enough words to not lose the interest/boggle the mind of your audience.

 

[Angerwing]

Soul fucking Calibur.

So you're after this sword, and there's this S&M zombie and a whole bevy of prostitutes, and Yoda.

 

[Cherry Cola]

In this game, you play a plumber, his brother, and two mushrooms as they try to save the princess of mushroom land from a dinosaur and his family.

This is why I let my sister introduce the Wii to guests.

 

[Guitarmasterx7]

GTA 4. So you're this hate filled murderous middle eastern dude who gets constant phonecalls from his cousin, and the objective of the game is to fuck about.

 

[AlphaOmega]

Psychonauts...yeah...

 

[TheGreenManalishi]

Arkham Asylum.

You play as Batman, being Batman.

[exit stage left]

 

[Lord Mountbatten Reborn]

GTA 4. So you're this hate filled murderous middle eastern dude who gets constant phonecalls from his cousin, and the objective of the game is to fuck about.

Middle Eastern? Niko is slavic.

OT: You are a nano-augmented agent, and you work for a supposedly anti-terrorist organisation, and most popular conspiracy theories turn out to be true.

 

[More Fun To Compute]

Wizardry 8. The box art is the word Wizardry and a huge number eight. You might look at it and think, is this game something like the magnificent 7 or the 7 samurai except with 8 wizards? Actually, that description isn't totally wrong.

 

[chromewarriorXIII]

LittleBigPlanet: So your this little thing and you jump around. And there's this guy, who is taking stuff...

Final Fantasy VIII: There's these kids who are trained mercenaries, and there's this sorceress and you kill stuff and then get these demons who do stuff.

 

[Blasphemous Rex]

Psychonauts...yeah...

So you run away from the circus and join a summer camp for psychics, then you break into an insane asylum and mess around in these crazy people's heads.

And then I provide the milkman quote.

I am the milkman. My milk is delicious.

 

[Quid Plura]

You play this chick in a black suit, which is also her hair, and she's a witch. And you have to fight things that are some kind of angels, but you're the good guy, and she has a bike as well.

(Bayonetta)

 

[asgardmothership]

Bayonetta. Ok...
you play as this woman who is a witch - "fine"

She fights angels with satanic weapons forged in hell - "ok"

She uses guns and swords to dispach angels in what is termed 'hyperviolence' - "right..."

She can forge demons out of her hair which is also doubles as a catsuit and therefore all her clothes fly off when she does a move known as a 'climax' - "I... have to leave."

 

[Serperoth]

Fallout:
This is the uber-armor of the games. Oh and the world was destroyed, and you have to survive.

 

[HSIAMetalKing]

Explaining No More Heroes to someone: So you're this guy with a lightsaber and you have to be the best assassin by killing all the other assassins.

 

[UPRC]

Every single JRPG ever made.

 

[WolfmanNougat]

Assassin's Creed (series)

You're a member of the KKK... wait, that's not right. Sorry, I'll start again.

You're a hoody, wondering the streets of historical cities in the Holy Land and Italy, sneakily killing people in the name of vague justice.

Yeah, I think that about sums it up... I mean, that's pretty much all I needed to say to my mum before just loading the game and showing her that I wasn't kidding.

 

[omega 616]

I'll give MGS a shot, your a guy who kills people who have been made from the greatest soldier ever aka your daddy.

Well you missed out major things from DMC, so I missed a few things out aswell otherwise it gets a little cluster fucky.