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From a 2006 artificial-intelligence independent interactive-story game, this fucker is extra funny. Starts to lose steam a minute or so before part 2, but the ending is strong enough to bring it back in the black.
I CAN FIX YOUR AWFUL LIVES!
Wha – what’s this a trailer for? A trailer for a… oh, it’s a trailer for a physics engine. But, why would that be – oh my goodness. Oh my, oh my lord. That is, wow, that is really, incredibly – holy hotels, that’s beautiful. That is so blasted beautiful. Holy hats. Holy hamburgers, my word is – how. How beautiful.
This sudden and relative inflow of TF2 videos is probably just in preparation for the replacement black-sexy XBOX I’m picking up Aug. 2nd, and the Intensive Playment Play that will ensue.
Almost immediately snagged by the otherwise asinine Escapist Magazine after posting but two of his signature reviews on youtube (Bioshock and Psychonauts), Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw is alone in a room of Half-Literate Rodents when it comes to reviewing video games with any kind of insight or lasting accuracy. Most of nerd-dom has no doubt been inundated with Yahtzee’s repertoire of titty/weener metaphor and modern game generation ennui, but if you’re one of few who hasn’t absorbed the breadth of the man’s work, consider yourself consumed for an afternoon. The back catalog of reviews is pretty goddamn impressive (155 at the time of this posting), with new reviews coming every Wednesday, thereby fulfilling the weekly qualification of noted category.
I post these here largely because I have an unwieldy binary boner when it comes to Team Fortress 2 (the Sniper and Pyro are kind of lame, admittedly), but you can’t tell me the jacket sway on the Spy and the initial spin out on the Heavy/Medic doesn’t warm the cockles of your cold inter-heart.
A cherry of a time waster that’s somewhere between an evolutionary pac-man and a semi-sloppy platform pipper. Play it! For ten of your minutes!
By no means a novel addition (I’m sure this has been posted and reposted on hundreds of thousands of millions of websites), I include it here because it is one of those pure flash experiences, clean and crafted from intelligible gameplay tropes, with an irreverence that is neither cloying nor contrived. It simply is, as we all aspire to simply be: Action Turnip, I salute thee.
Just look at this filthy little ingrate; it’s the perfect piece of shit disposable flash game! A husk of gameplay, in which the immediacy is its only virtue, its depth, literal (descending floor pun). Eat this game and get indigestion, you fast food instant gratification whore.
Strings of vulgarities!
An N/(tetris?) hybrid that features an awful title and no upgrades (which I assumed had become requisite fodder in “casual” game development), this burden will take up your time and make your mouse hand cramp worse than the loneliest, laziest Saturday/night.
I don’t know, this game is OK. There are some pleasant rhythms to be hit within it. The same way N was alright, and (tetris?) can be alright, as there are entertaining but ultimately unfulfilling rhythms to be hit within each title. On the topic of video games, GODS do I miss Team Fortress 2, the greatest game and most genuine social experience I’ve had since moving to Los Angeles (which I think is an outstandingly unintentional comment on this shit-bird of a city; the best people I met in LA weren’t in LA at all, huzzah huzzah).
Anyways, enjoy clicking on the sublimi-dick that’s on that there screenshot. yikes!
From the youtube description:
“Read the description or be a faggot. Your choice.”
Charming. Turn off the volume and annotations, as the music has a tendency to press on your patience.
See the correlating omnibus unpleasantness here.
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