It was a PC game, not a console game, and back then, mainstream media only gave a shit about games like Myst and The 7th Guest. In addition to the violent subject matter, it also showed admittedly pixelated sex between one of your targets, a rock star, and a female groupie who was riding him like a pony.
On my gaming shelf, the top shelf is devoted to my four favorite game series: Zelda, Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and Tales. I have cobbled together every mainline FF game ever made, every Zelda ever made, every main Dragon Quest game (except 3, whose GBC incarnation I am searching for), and every Tales game released in the US, including the GBA version of Phantasia and the two PS1 Tales games.
Yeah, that's true. I hope you understood I wasn't bagging on the blog, which is good. The title just reminded me of something Polygon would write as a title. Only they tend to compare apples to Chicken McNuggets in some of their articles. :)
I picked up Bayonetta 2 today, which was fortunate. It was the last copy of the game in town. Apparently this has been something of a hot commodity for Gamestop today. I suppose I could have just bought the downloadable version, but I really wanted the game on disc (as well as owning both games, though you can do that on the downloadable version as well.)
Man oh man, is this game fun. It beats the original in every way, and the original Bayonetta was already my favorite of the beat-em-up DMC/GoW genre. This cranks the whole thing up to eleven. The story is still as schlocky and raunchy as ever, but when the game itself is this good, I don't give a damn. I'll take this over any God of War game any day of the week.
The title of this post looks like a parody of a Polygon article.
Interesting. I'm in the "waiting for Wii U version" Smash Bros camp myself. Wonder how the Mewtwo download will work if you have both.
I'm definitely down for some Bayo 2 action today! Best games of that type ever made.
I have the SNES version of Zombies. It was a cool horror-themed Gauntlet-styled two-player game.
I was really sad when Nintendo Power, which started publication in the US in 1988, was finally shuttered in December of 2012. Other than EGM/1UP and Pixlbit, it was the only gaming publication, printed or online, that I really gave a damn about.
Wind Waker HD is awesome. I've played it more than any other game released on the Wii U/PS4/Xbox One so far.
Not to sound like I'm gloating, but I'm excited about GGXrd: Sign getting a release date and will be picking it up.
There was a point-and-click game called Dreamweb made in the 1990s by British developer Empire Interactive, where your objective was to kill seven people (a rock star, a politician, a priest, a business magnate, and three others, along with anyone who stood in your way) to prevent them from destroying the "Dreamweb" and triggering a nuclear war. However, if you read the documentation that came with the game, including the main character's diary which also served as copy protection, it made you wonder whether the main character you were playing as was just another schizophrenic or sociopathic serial murderer, since he was documenting his own deteriorating mental state. None of this actually appeared in the game itself other than a conversation at the beginning between the main character and his girlfriend, who is worried about him and wants him to see a psychiatrist. What's your reward for "winning" this game? Being killed by the police in a hail of bullets.
