Previous posts:
Frontpaged:
May Community Monthly Musing Recap
My expertise: Memorization, obsession and Star Fox 64 (Monthly Musing)
I suck at games: Confessions of an Item Hoarder (Monthly Musing)
Regular Articles:
Why Kinect Will Fail: The Name.
My own Listblog, but with some interesting categories.
(Relatively) Short Blog: Environment in Red Dead Redemption
Dr. Samit, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love SPORTS! (Monthly Musing)
The Airport: Last Refuge of the Arcade?
Ranking the Zelda series from my own memories
An Essay/Review of a Canadian History video game
8-bit remixes of Gundam music!
Rental Recollections: 7-7-7
Maniac Mansion: The TV Show
One Song...Many Remixes:
Volume 1: Mega Man X, Intro Stage
Video Game Mind Teasers (on hiatus until site upgrade)
Volume 15: Missing Edition
Volume 14: Touch Fuzzy Edition
Volume 13: SONIC EDITION!!!
Volume 12: Continuing Edition
Volume 11: Back to the Beginning Edition
Volume 10: Prizes Edition!
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My videos:
Bit Transmission!
Guile's Theme + They Live!
Community Activities:
Destructoid: A YouTube Search Story
HAPPY 4TH BIRTHDAY DESTRUCTOID!
Podcasts:
History in Video Games: Roundtable Podcast
Personal Stuff:
Getting some classic SNES games!
Getting Mega Man Complete Works!
Deliberate Failtoid:
Why Battlefield 1943 is the worst game EVER!
Age: 23
Location: Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Profile: I'm a longtime gamer, and started playing video games during the transition from the NES to the SNES. Although I like retro games, I play mostly newer games on the 360. Still, my favourite gaming memories are from all-nighters filled with Goldeneye, Perfect Dark and Smash Bros. in the late 90s.
I'm looking for a career in public service, politics or other fields where research and writing are critical. Though, the closer it's related to games, the better.
I make videos, animated gifs, podcasts and all kinds of random stuff in my spare time. I'm also trying to develop my own gaming website (details coming eventually).
Systems: NES, Super NES, Gameboy, Gameboy Advance, Nintendo 64, Wii, Sega Genesis, Playstation 2, Xbox 360, PC, Colecovision (my dad's). Also, many other systems (including arcade) that I
not emulate.
Some Favourite Games:
Retro (NES-SNES eta): Megaman 3, Super Mario World, Super Mario All-Stars, Sonic 3, Final Fantasy VI, Chrono Trigger, Robotrek, Illusion of Gaia, Megaman X, Lufia 1 and 2, Strider, Metal Slug, Twilight Zone pinball.
Retro Limbo (N64 era): Ogre Battle 64, Banjo-Kazooie, Banjo-Tooie, Mario Kart 64, Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Mystical Ninja starring Goemon, Goemon's Great Adventure, Descent: Freespace.
Modern: Halo: Reach, Modern Warfare 2, Mass Effect 2, Bayonetta, Tales of Vesperia, Fallout 3, Bionic Commando Rearmed, Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Metroid Prime 1-3, Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam vs. Zeta Gundam, Hearts of Iron II, Europa Universalis III, Civilization IV.
"blogmaker"
I just wanted to see what kind of reaction I'd get from writing a quick "how many errors I can fit" post, as compared to my previous article, which was a mini-essay that took hours to write.
Sad to say, but it looks like satire wins out over rhetoric. I call it the "Sterling vs. Burch" rule...
also hobo is still an idiot
fail
"The missles never work they always fall straight down, major bug!"
The missiles part was hilarious. I'm quoting that.
It should also be noted that the topic of Battlefield will just generally attract more clicks because many of us play the game... whereas Manic Mansion is obviously a more obscure reference.
Interesting social experiment... though I don't think that the results are at all unexpected, and things are unlikely to change.
I'm still happy with my longer article, since it actually brought forward something that few people remembered. I was also happy with people who were like "I remember that show, but never knew it was based on a game!" That made it all worthwhile.
And just to let everyone know, it still took me a decent amount of time to write this article. It's tough to go from academic writing to "humour".
"The biggest problem is The gamemakers didnt look in their history books, because this game HAS NO NAZIES IN IT!!!"
And said, "Oh, it's a satire!"
Despite being right, have I overestimated the intelligence level of the average Internet commenter? :P
Hmm...maybe I should have switched the paragraphs around: starting with the usual whining about "cheap" things in the game then spiraling down into total stupidity.
Then again, i did play one match of the game, and i did fairly well. so i was thinking to myself "maybe he just sucks at it?"