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That's MS. Pirate To You 4
I have no idea where the cliché of the pirate queen comes from, beyond simple "oh shit, the pirate captain's a girl?!" narrative misdirection. I'm all for a bit of gender equality in positions of power, but I wonder why this progressiveness so often
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Psychopomp Up The Jam 1
In every culture of every region of the world, there's nothing quite as inscrutable as death and the journey beyond. We all formed our own ideas, despite the fact that most of them admittedly quite stupid. However, our psyches are such that it's some
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A General List From a Genesis Generalist 1
Hey all. Nothing too boat-rocky (is that even a valid adjective?) from me this week, just a list of Mega Drive games I've played. This list is far shorter than a hypothetical one for SNES games would be, largely due to me being a Nintendo kid, so thi
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Shop 'til the Drop 2
All right, time to christen this site with a new list. I won't be going for this fancy new "click trap" mechanic just yet (but man does that look like a tempting way to annoy people), so instead I'll do something to honor a lost feature of the old si
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Turn and Face the Chain (Ch-Ch-Chainses) 2
Like all middle-class white males, I'm afraid of chains. So when I see gigantic ones in my video games, it's definitely pause for thought. The first of which invariably is, "What the hell, why did someone make this? How did they make this?" It's perh
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Sugar and Spice in a World That's Not Nice 7
The old "damsel in distress" routine is perhaps one of the less socially progressive clichés that video games still deal in, due to the simple narrative elegance of a character wanting to fight for something they love. Pretty much every beat-em-up (n
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Tower Power 2
Pretty much the oldest cliché in the Big Book of Being a Bad Guy is to build your immense, trap-filled lair forever downwards, letting adventurers get deeper and deeper under the Earth's crust as they contemplate how great an idea following this dark
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Games That Believe Patience is a Virtue 11
Video games are normally whiz-bang affairs, dropping you in the action and having a dozen things happening at once. Any respite has to come from the player, or rather, the player's utilization of a handy pause function. Sometimes, though, video games
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Favorite PS2 Games 1
It seems that now that the PS2 is officially retired, happily running around a farm somewhere "up north", everyone's talking about the wealth of games for that system and the few in particular that really stood out for them personally. Having such a
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List of Games Beaten in 2013 1
An annual tradition. If a game's on here, I beat it this year. "This year" being 2013, inattentive future peoples. As is now customary, some end of year statistics. Everyone likes statistics. Total Games Completed: 65 2013 Games Completed: 20 2012 Ga
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Pile of Shame 2013 / Wishlist / A Miserable Little Pile of Shameful Wishes 2
Most people only start to feel shameful after drinking too much on New Year's Eve, or perhaps after a huge Christmas dinner, but I'm getting an early start. For this week, leading up to the 25th, I've been busily playing all the excellent Indie games
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The Timbre of Timber 3
Hey, a musical list. I don't make these often. After subjecting the endlessly patient @buzz_clik and @FunkyStudent to all manner of VGM jams on the Giant Bomb plug.dj room (found here), I've come to the realization that the best inspiration for atmos
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GOTY 2012 7
A list of games that are good. They are not bad. Phew, check out this super technical vernacular I'm swinging around like a deadly weapon. Hoo boy.The list is now finalized. I don't think any of these remaining Indie games I'm sitting on are likely t
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Games I'd Like To See On GCCX 1
GCCX, or GameCenter CX, is a Japanese television show that's starting to see some exposure in the west, partly due to the abortive efforts of "Kotak" to translate it in as obnoxious a way as possible, but largely because of the focused efforts of a s
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Desura December Dementia: The Determining Decider/Deciding Determiner 1
Indefatigable Indie-loving individuals, I need your help. Come December, I'll be following up my award-winning* Steam May Madness feature with a similar one for the relatively overlooked Desura digital distribution service, from which I've managed to
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Future Assassins of the Past 0
Playing some AC III, I've noticed Desmond must be just about out of ancestors to call on for precursor knowledge. Might be time to retire the face-morphing Northie candidate for some fresh blood. Seeing how there's probably still a whole mess of Assa
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Liststorm of Scariness 2
This list serves two functions: The first is to track the Shitstorm of Scariness October '12 (and '13) (and '14) (and '15) side-project of Messrs. Matt and Pat of the "Two Best Friends Play" Machinima series, in which they record themselves getting t
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More Like The RMS Frightanic 0
Greetings, ghouls and buoys! Sometimes, when a video game (especially a JRPG, for whatever reason, or really anything to do with the ocean or space) wants to have a bit of horror-filled fun to mix things up a little, they'll sic a haunted vessel on y
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Guns That Aren't In Borderlands 2 (Yet) 0
When you think about it, a bazillion really isn't all that many.
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A Dos and Don'ts Guide to RPG Mascot Characters 5
I mean, besides just "don't". That would make for a short list. Let's assume that a mascot character is like getting 85 or more on Metacritic: The designers don't get to eat if there isn't some adorable chirping nuisance making the game ever so sligh
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Castlevania Checklist: A Miserable Little Pile of Draculas Yet To Beat 6
I'm a big fan of Konami's series of vampire killing platformers, perhaps their most famous franchise that doesn't involve cardboard boxes. Yet I'll be daggered if I still don't have a veritable holy waterfall of these gothic adventures left to whip i
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Life is The Bubbles! 1
Inspired by a recent playthrough of the thoroughly enjoyable Everblue 2, I've completely changed my tune about how horrible most underwater instances in video games can be. Now I think they're all great! Without exception! (Do not read this list if y
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More Famous Military Leaders and Their Pokémon 2
An extension of this.It's been hot lately and I haven't been sleeping right. Not trying to make excuses, but... I dunno, I offer it as an explanation anyway.
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Where No Mento Has Pointed And Clicked Before 4
Just a list of adventure games I've yet to beat, since I've been getting into them again of late. Some of these are real bangers too, so I feel kinda bad about not playing them. Hey, why bother making a list if it won't make you feel bad about yourse
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Square-Enix Soundtracks I'd Like To See Theatrhythmicized 1
Like more than a few fellow JRPG Bombers, I've been utterly obsessed of late with the Square-Enix/Indie Zeros musical nostalgia trip that is Theatrhythm. However, as of now the game is staying within the confines of the venerable Final Fantasy series
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Video Game Absurdity (Now In List Flavor!) 1
I created a blog this week (right here in fact) about games that focus on absurdist and surrealist humor as a stylistic method to either frame an otherwise unremarkable game (like Amped 3) or modify the gameplay in a way so that it becomes purposeful
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Superboss Fortnight 0
Howdy folks. Inter-acquaintance and resident Japanophile Prime Hailinel recently completed an entire month's worth of daily blogs detailing notable end of game bosses. To honor this achievement, and because imitation is easier than innovation, here's
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Summonable Monsters of Master of Magic 0
I've been doing something of a loose analysis of Simtex's fantasy Civ classic recently, what with a whole "A Brief Jaunt Through" feature of late. So I'd figure I'd put together a list of everything you can summon and why you would want to. It's alwa
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Joey, Do You Like Video Games About Gladiators? 1
The arena. The roar of the crowd, the glory of bloody victory, the annoying fans that follow you around afterwards. Video game writers love the classical Roman Coliseum because it's an easy way to combine a narratively lucrative set-up (such as the m
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I Am Not A Number 3
Everyone on this list is a number.OK, maybe that's not quite true. Being designated as a number is considered to be quite dehumanizing, the resulting lack of empathy of those designated as numbers leading to some quite dire atrocities in our collecti
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E3 2012 0
I'm contributing!
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Brilliant Brutes 1
The Brilliant Brute is a simple misdirection ploy many forms of narrative media that deal with conflict might use when crafting a tough character, presenting a burly brick wall of a fellow who then later displays a heretofore hidden depth of intellig
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Winter is Coming 2
Possibly the most appropriate list in these hot Summer months. A typically topical tropical list, you might say. If you're a jerk.So yeah, these are games that are threatened in some way by an endless winter or a sudden cold snap, just like in that s
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Dude, You Look Terrible 2
A common trope in video games is that of the recurring boss: a persistent menace that won't leave you and yours well enough alone. Some are played off as comic relief, inexplicably hopping back from the many grievous drubbings you keep handing down t
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Best Giant Hands 3
Man, that Datura QL sure was something, right? "No, not really"? Suit yourselves.
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The Cool Old Guy 2
Every game needs a cool old guy, whether it's to help out and advise a cast of whippersnappers or just to be a raging badass who should theoretically be too old for this shit. It's an established trope, but a fun one.I'm increasingly becoming one of
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Every Sentient Species in Video Games 3
So yeah, I'm following through on a threat I made to make a big ol' list of all the fictional races from video games. I'm currently drawing the line at animals and other mindless creatures, since there's a hell of a lot of monsters in the wiki too, b
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Attention Duellists! 4
To go hand-in-hand with a recent article about rivals, I've put together a list of famous duels in video games. The "duel boss" is a fairly common video game trope, so I've narrowed it down to ten that have some significance to not only the games the
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They All Float Up Here 2
It's perhaps become something of an overdone trope in video games, yet whenever a game chooses to have one of its cities or a larger land mass floating through the air, it never fails to impress both conceptually and visually. As long as you can look
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Crouching Heroine, Hidden Princess 3
That's a pretty fruity title, I'll admit. Essentially, these are female deuteragonists who pretend not to be princesses (or simply don't realise their lineage) and it's always a big shock to absolutely no-one when the truth is revealed. It's a trope
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Voyeristic Pleasures 1
This list is of those games that I've only watched playthroughs of and have never played the games myself. It's one of those special levels of game dedication.
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Not Color-Blind Friendly 4
You heard me! Not every one of the offenders really makes a huge impression on me; I usually manage to find ways around the problems. Every once in a while, though, the game becomes all but unplayable due to bad color choice. Special awards go to
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Confused Childhoods 2
A collective of all the things (characters, games, etc) that have had trouble coming to terms with their identities, or just have confused us all to hell.
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Trippy Unique Games 4
Games that can hardly be defined by a genre.
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Wait...These Games Don't Have Sex? 23
These games tricked me! Admiral Ackbar is just as pissed as me!
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Delightfully Meta 0
Documentation of computers, consoles, and related items that appear within video games.The title of this list was taken from a PM sent to me by jensonb, describing this blog. I was invited onto the Bomb Should Have A Face podcast to discuss the blog,
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Kat's Disorganized List of Preferred Gamery 5
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Interesting Aliens or Supernatural Creatures 2
I honestly don't know if they're out there. I love that we use our imagination to guess what they might be like, but too often people try to make aliens a bit TOO relatable. Since it's impossible to guess what a true alien might be like, aliens wil
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The S-Rank List! 1
Self Explanatory. The games are listed in the order that I 100%'d them.
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Characters That Would Be Most Appreciated in a Meat Grinder 12
Let's just say there are some characters that I can not stand.
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Games That'd Benefit From More Nudity 5
Baby, you know that you agree with me.
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Art Styles That I Find Pretty Damn Awesome 2
Self-explanitory. I like some good looking games, mate.
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Games I Will Accept As Your Answer to the Question "What Is The Greatest Game Ever Made?" 212
Different people with different upbringings in different eras mean that everyone's going to have a different answer to the question. For the record, when people ask me, I usually say Tetris. It's certainly not my favorite game of all-time, but if yo
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Games that I have S-Ranked 2
I like Achievements. I like them so much, sometimes I play a game more than I want to to get all of them. Here are those games, and the stories that have never before been told. I also answer the question "would I S-Rank this game again if I lost the
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My RPG Completion List 1
Here's a (non exhaustive) list of some of the RPGs I've completed over the many, many years
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From Russia with Love (Great Games from the Eastern Bloc) 33
1C publishes most Eastern Block games these days. I love games that come out of Eastern Europe and Russia. If "Eastern Bloc" was a proper genre I would probably declare it as my favorite. So why the fasicination? I guess I just really like the cerebr
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Apocalyptic Toolkit 7
You know what? I don't care if it's zombies, the bomb, aliens, robots, foreigners, domestics, whatever. If people get feral on me, I'll be sure to let them know that there was once a vast, complicated, imperfect civilization, and that I saw it all.
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Scariest Horror Games 0
Here are my personal "top 5" horror games: the ones I had a hard time playing through at times. I've played most survival horror titles, but something about these made it difficult to play with the lights off. I'd recommend all of them, and quite a f
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Pages I feel embarrassed about having points on. 19
These are pages I really wish weren't in my wiki history, for varying reasons.
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Games I Have Completed 1
Every game I have ever completed. In most cases I am counting playing up to the credits as completing the game.
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If I could pick 10 people to save the world 4
So when the world is in danger and I can choose only 10 duders from the GBDODA (Giant Bomb's Database Of Definitive Awesomeness), I'll be enlisting the help of these guys, let's rock. Special mentions: Marcus Fenix - Master Chief? This guys the
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Games I Have Played 2
Every game I have ever played, including expansion packs but not including demos.
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Wiki Pages I've Created 0
The ones I can remember, at least. I'm sure I missed a bunch
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Animals That Would Scare The Shit Out Of Me If They Were Angry 4
---Top of the list: LESS scary - - - - ----Bottom of the list: MORE scary Special Thanks to Metal Gear Sunny for insisting I create a list. I then went on to create this incredibly classy list. :PAlso... bananas. That is all.
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Characters I Would Recruit For My World-Class Fighting Force 36
If I needed to start a world-class force of fighters--you know, men and women who needed to be on-call at all times, ready to fight terror wherever it may rear its nefarious head--these would be the guys at the top of my list.
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Good Licensed Games 42
I should note that I mean licensed in the traditional sense of taking characters or stories from other mediums and bringing them to games. I don't mean sports games like Madden or Tony Hawk, even though both are technically licensed products.
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Bosses That Would Make You Tuck Tail in Real Life 8
While there are MANY bosses that can fit into this category, this is the most elite of the elite. Not only would you not fuck with these bosses, but you would tuck tail the minute you saw even a hint of them coming your way.
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Pile of Shame 32
One of the (relative) downsides of covering games for a living is only having a finite amount of time to play games, and often having to play a bunch of games you'd rather not mess with. A consequence of this responsibility is lacking the time to pla
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Games I Bought Because of the Demo 2
Good thing demos exist, otherwise I would have missed out.
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Favorite game characters 0
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The Best In Classic Sports 8
A list in progress
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Favorite Game Soundtracks 6
Music can add so much to the enjoyment of a game. Here's a few that I think nailed it.
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My Ultimate Fighting Game Roster 2
If you asked me to make a cross-over fighting game, these are the characters I'd pick.
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Games I regret missing out on. 13
This list is comprised of games that I missed out on playing for one reason or another, whether it be because I didn't own the console it was for, I wasn't aware of its existence at the time, or it simply wasn't ever released in the U.S. Ideally, I'd
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Best Game Soundtracks to Have Sex to 21
Light some candles and draw a bubble bath. List updated as I think of them. (Disclaimer: This list is for Entertainment purposes only lol)
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If Pepsiman were a developer, she'd be taking notes from these games. 5
Good games or bad, if I were ever to be in a designing position at a game developer, these are the ones on which I'd be taking notes. By no means is this a "best of" list, though; sometimes the greatest hits offer the fewest lessons because of how th
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Stuff I Regret I Missed Out On 4
This is more about stuff that can't be played on the current line of consoles and computers. I realize there are ways, many ways, to play old games, but I'm talking the straight and narrow here.
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TODO 2
Pending tasks; stuff I need to get done
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Pages to rename/alias 3
A list of pages that should be renamed or have aliases added.
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Fantastic Freeware Games 3
Play these games. I could add more games to this list, but pages for them do not yet exist on Giant Bomb.
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