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Added by Dave Snider on April 21, 2009
Internally the engineering team behind Giant Bomb uses the term "wikid" for the publishing system that works behind the scenes and lets everyone contribute content to the site. We arrogantly named it so because we thought we were such wicked (we're so clever) code-monkeys, but every time I come across the daily randomness on the browse pages here at Giant Bomb I think it's a better term for our actual user-base. There is some wild/cool stuff out there.
Vore
S-Rank
On a hunt for some of those pages I threw up a quick twitter (@enemykite) a couple minutes ago asking members to send in their favorite pages. While this list initially looks very questionable or childish, let's remember, this stuff actually exists in games so it's something we can totally get behind. Plus if you can't laugh at video games, you likely haven't played them. In any case, here's a sampling of what some of you guys and gals have created over the last six-months or so. This is just a small fraction of what's actually out there, so hopefully I'll return to this feature next week if there's enough interest.
I'll never think of Sonic the same way ever again.
"Vore" is an internet term for a sexual fetish for the act of a creature swallowing someone else whole while they are still alive. The act is also seen in many video games, in a decidedly less sexual manner.
Games where the crotch is used to the players advantage or disadvantage.
Never 'just' a nosebleed. Nosebleeds in video games have stories behind them, indicating past violence, drug abuse, or sexual arousal.
A wonderful collection of the most valiant product placement titles of all time.
A Palette Swap is a concept most commonly found in fighting games. Palette Swaps occur when two or more characters share the same same sprite or character model with only minor color or cosmetic changes. Although visually similar, pallet swap characters may have very different moves and personalities.
S-Rank system performance in DMC4.
‘S-Rank’ is a term used in games, most commonly awarded at the end of stages with graded missions or side objectives.
When a developer creates a game that could be perceived as a new installment in an existing franchise that they've worked on before, but doesn't share the same name due to licensing issues or other reasons, it's called a called a Spiritual Successor.
When the President wants to go for a burger, you know the cake is a lie.
Oversized pests such as rats or bugs are often used as low level enemies in role playing games. They can be found in most any Western RPG, especially ones that use the Dungeons and Dragons rule set.
When the player character (re)visits a certain area or location that were also present in a previous game, or visited later on in the same game, with some alterations.
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Crotch Damage ,
Nosebleed,
Games Based on Food Products,
Palette Swap,
S-Rank,
Meme origin,
Oversized Vermin,
Been Here Before,
Vore
59 Comments
Some awesome pages there. Great feature. I'd like to see more wiki content featured on the front end of the site. Why don't you do something like the Featured User Review at the bottom of the front page, but for wiki pages? That would be awesome.
I added Kanji to that Nosebleed page yesterday, but didn't get any points for it. Oh well.
Been Here Before links to the Giant Vermin page.
Been Here Before links to the Giant Vermin page.
Im starting to not love GiantBomb, but that's cool.
Edit: I'd like to clarify, i do love things like this though.
Edit: I'd like to clarify, i do love things like this though.
That nosebleed article finally made me understand why Chie and Yukiko pushed Kanji into the river in Persona 4 when they saw his nosebleed.
I also love giantbomb. We have so much in common. Wikid is a great name.
Those April fools top-lists were only for the first of the month, Dave.
lol, j/k j/k... Crotch Damage is a pretty fucking awesome page.
lol, j/k j/k... Crotch Damage is a pretty fucking awesome page.
That S-Rank picture from DMC4 was added by me. Awesome. I love Giant Bomb.
It's great to see people create hilariously stupid wiki pages which are, in fact, completely relevant to video games. This is the reason that Giantbomb is the best site for gamers looking for information regarding games: on one hand there's great, overly informative articles, and on the other, there's pages such as the ones listed by Dave.
Long live GiantBomb!
Long live GiantBomb!
Haha nice to see the oversized vermin page included in this list. That is always something so obviously overused in RPG games but yet perfect for this site. It just goes to show that yeah, having a site like this dedicated to video game knowledge and information allows us to really expand and inform people about the smallest and most unusual of things within video games.
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