When the Gamecube was first announced and there were images of all the different launch games I remember thinking that the newer Wave Race looked awesome. Particularly the water. Shortly after I went camping near some water and went with some friends out on jet-skis. We went to this really cool cove surrounded by tall grass and all that. I remember looking at the water, the grass, and the mountains that were around and thinking "Man, Wave Race looks just like this!"
Well, I experienced the Tetris effect with Sequence, recently. I guess that counts.
Haha, that's really cool! It explains that one time I read a webcomic where everyone spoke in rhymes, and for a while afterwards even though I couldn't rhyme I still tried to do it in my head whenever I thought of anything.
My introductory archaeology class lecture last Thursday included a slide with some people walking through a swamp, and my first thought was "They'll be eaten by crocodiles."
My introductory archaeology class lecture last Thursday included a slide with some people walking through a swamp, and my first thought was "They'll be eaten by crocodiles."
Is there a particular reference you're making, aside from the adventure serials of the 40s and 50s that things like Indiana Jones and Pitfall are based on?
When Yakuza 4 had just come out, I was playing it pretty much for days at a time, and when I would get out of the apartment to go get food or whatever, I would freak out every time I saw like, a tiny bit a broken glass glimmer in the light, because it looked like a fucking storage locker key lying on the ground. That was the point at which I realized I had been playing too much Yakuza and was starting to lose grip on reality. Fun times though.
My introductory archaeology class lecture last Thursday included a slide with some people walking through a swamp, and my first thought was "They'll be eaten by crocodiles."
Is there a particular reference you're making, aside from the adventure serials of the 40s and 50s that things like Indiana Jones and Pitfall are based on?
It's mostly recent games like Far Cry 3 and Black Flag. Those fuckers taught me that if you set foot in jungle water, crocodiles will immediately hunt you down.
I used to play Monster Hunter for PS2 for hours at night with my friends. It got so bad that I would dream I was still playing, then in the dream I would go to sleep without turning my PS2 off and I'd shoot awake (for real) to see if I turned off my system. To this day, if I ever get hooked on a game and play it too much (which is rare these days) I dream I'm playing the game in my dreams.
I looked at this ad, and the first thing I thought was "Yeah, pure RNG, that's so bullshit. ...Oh wait."
Anybody else care to share some times where they mistook something in real life for a gaming term/object/whatever?
During the peak of my obsession with WoW, all denominations became *Gold*. To the point of using the term *Gold* in public unawares. Like *How much Gold is that?*. I was not alone in that. Quite a few members of my guild reported the same thing.
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