Slightly twisted things you find in games...

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Strafe Mcgee

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...that may or may not be unintentional. I started playing Yoshi's Island Ds today (great game btw) and I realise that Yoshi is using his unborn children as ammunition. Anyone else noticed anything slightly twisted in their games?
 

Nugoo

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Well, there's the RPG staple of barging into people's houses and taking all their stuff.
 

Jumplion

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Hey, the whole Mario franchise is twisted. A plumber saving a princess from an over-sized turtle, eats mushrooms to get bigger, eats flowers to shoot fire from his hands, jumps on mushroom people and turtles...that's Japan for ya.
 

Kogarian

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Jumplion said:
Hey, the whole Mario franchise is twisted. A plumber saving a princess from an over-sized turtle, eats mushrooms to get bigger, eats flowers to shoot fire from his hands, jumps on mushroom people and turtles...that's Japan for ya.
Yeah...Italians getting high on 'shrooms just to forget the fact that they get pain minimal wage...then they go out and stomp on turtles' heads. That's just sick.

There's also the fact that most people in games don't eat, sleep, or go to the bathroom...they just kill constantly.
 

Kogarian

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Wait, what about pokemon? You use balls to enslave animals...whom you later force to fight other people's animals into submission. Plus there's no established government...no trade...who pays for the free healthcare? Who pays for the useless cops? Why are they all clones?!?

Can you imagine having a yellow rat electrocute your pet turtle, who has an unlimited amount of H20 stored up in his body somewhere. Pokemon would be like a biochemist's dream come true.
 

000Ronald

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Jumplion said:
Hey, the whole Mario franchise is twisted. A plumber saving a princess from an over-sized turtle, eats mushrooms to get bigger, eats flowers to shoot fire from his hands, jumps on mushroom people and turtles...that's Japan for ya.
Me and my friend Mason once had a debate in class concerning whether or not Mario was a pothead (well, not really a debate; we both agreed he was higher than Lucy and her Diamonds). Mason did have a great sense of humor. I wonder how he's doing...

Back on topic, if you position yourself right, people will walk right into things like chainsaws and katanas in GTA: San Andreas. It's like the AI has no will to live. Made me sad...

Also, has anyone else noticed that all the male charechters in Sonic aren't exactly...anatomically correct? That really creeps me out when I think about it.

Apologies to anyone offended. And further apologies to anyone offended by my constant aplolgies. Blame my grama.
 

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Kogarian said:
There's also the fact that most people in games don't eat, sleep, or go to the bathroom...they just kill constantly.
That reminds me, with all the detail in Oblivion, the one thing missing from Every. Single. House... is a bathroom
 

Kogarian

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Nugoo said:
Kogarian said:
There's also the fact that most people in games don't eat, sleep, or go to the bathroom...they just kill constantly.
That reminds me, with all the detail in Oblivion, the one thing missing from Every. Single. House... is a bathroom
Wow, I never thought about that...unless, of course, all of those useless urns and pitchers are where...they go potty.

EDIT: And where are the children at?
 

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thebobmaster said:
In Indigo Prophecy/Farenheit,

When Carla sleeps with Lucas, she is actually sleeping with a dead man...necrophilia, anyone?
Don't get me going about that lol... holy crap that made me cringe.
 

RavenDrake

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There's always the general things that bug most everyone who gives them a second thought:
No matter what weaponry you happen to have and the locale you're fighting in, you can usually count on finding more ammunition for it stuck back in a corner somewhere. You can be foiling the advances of art thieves in a Civil War era mansion that's been closed to visitors for 20 years, but you can still get Desert Eagle .50cal mags from the bathroom on the 2nd floor.

Counter to this are games that abstract the ammunition like Oni's generic ballistic or energy ammo... but that same single clip that can make, what, 12 bullets in a bog standard automatic pistol can also make 6 rocket-propelled grenade packs that explode on contact and spray the area with tiny explosives. Or friggen 2 sniper bullets.

And, of course, there's the tried and true health recovery method that's been in every game since Gauntlet, towit: food lying on the floor will give you energy, eat it. As though some demented roasted meats fairy flies over the battlefields of the videogame universe hiding hams of healing in horrific hovels, and tucking the terducken of regeneration into empty 50 gallon barrels, usually right behind the Convient Subweapon Gnomes.
 

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The_Logician19 said:
Jumplion said:
Hey, the whole Mario franchise is twisted. A plumber saving a princess from an over-sized turtle, eats mushrooms to get bigger, eats flowers to shoot fire from his hands, jumps on mushroom people and turtles...that's Japan for ya.
Me and my friend Mason once had a debate in class concerning whether or not Mario was a pothead (well, not really a debate; we both agreed he was higher than Lucy and her Diamonds). Mason did have a great sense of humor. I wonder how he's doing...

Back on topic, if you position yourself right, people will walk right into things like chainsaws and katanas in GTA: San Andreas. It's like the AI has no will to live. Made me sad...

Also, has anyone else noticed that all the male charechters in Sonic aren't exactly...anatomically correct? That really creeps me out when I think about it.

Apologies to anyone offended. And further apologies to anyone offended by my constant aplolgies. Blame my grama.
What about the fact that the female characters feel the need to wear clothes, but none of the male characters do? I mean, if they were anatomically correct... well, that'd just be creepy.
 

Mr_Cynical

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on the subject of twisted games, i have one word for you: psychonauts.
that whole games is messed up, i love it.
but then again, it is a tim schafer job, so what do you expect?
 

000Ronald

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Never played Psychonauts

(immediately slaps self in face)

That's what you get!

On a related note, there's all kinds of fodder with SSBM. There's the fact that if you hit someone too hard they go flying the wrong way. There's the fact that even when they're impaled with someones foot, the characters don't bleed. There's the fact that half of the characters are clones. But now I'm just nit-picking.
 

bamforth

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Most of Nova prospekt in Hl2, murdering jack ryan with a gold club in bioshock, the heavy manically laughing as he mows down legions of opponents in TF2.