Ultimate Gamer?

[ariock]

You may or may not be aware, but there's a tv show called "WCG Ultimate Gamer" on tv. I believe someone told me about it recently, but let it lapse from my memory until last night. I was tuned in to watch the Office on Hulu and instead of watching 30 Rock afterward, I saw and clicked on the link to this show.

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[entelein]

I might've been waxing rhapsodically about the Halo 3 episode while playing Rock Band with you guys. It was a great episode. I really enjoyed the pre-trails of paintball and code-cracking/bomb planting before they actually jumped into the game. In that way, they're kinda Omegathon'ing it. One of the coolest contestants is a Frag Doll, too.

[ariock]

I'll take a look at that episode when I get home tonight. I also see that one of the contestants is from PMS clan. That's pretty damn cool too, I think. Too bad their talents are being wasted on NBALive. I'm imagining the final episode will be playing Madden. That makes me a sad Ariock.

The latest episode also involved playing Halo3, but they had to do it while standing on a pedestal for several hours, with the hosts coming in at intervals to offer the players temptations like food or money. Which is ripped almost directly from Survivor.

I kind of liked it, apart from the blatant unoriginality. But they need to do more gaming and fewer physical challenges. From the previews, it also appears that they had to do a real-life dance contest to parallel DDR. I can't imagine that being anything other than painful to watch. Physical challenges are sports. Sports already have their own shows.

[entelein]

I haven't really seen the other episodes, only the Halo one.

I kinda liked the physical challenges for the Halo one, though, because it tapped DIRECTLY into what makes a good Halo player. The team that communicated the best and worked as a team the most won the challenge. It wasn't about physical prowess, it was about teamwork and strategy. The bomb arming real-life challenge was cool - they had a hooked stick thing and a rope to pull their bomb out of a cage full of stuff, and then they had to 'hack' the access code (basically a 4 digit number sequencing game) to get into the opponent's base and place the bomb on the pedestal. It was pretty groovy.

[michelf]

I don't think their ultimate gamer could hang with the Omeganauts.

[michelf]

Okay, if one of their contestants is a Frag Doll then I take that back.

[ubersaurus]

I kind of disagree with the vgcats guy on one point. Good games come along pretty often as I see it; at least every couple months. They're not all concentrated on one or two platforms, but then, were they ever?

In just the past few months when, mind you, I've had barely any time to play games, new games I've played include the Samurai Shodown Anthology, Street Fighter 4, Bit.Trip Beat, World of Goo, R-Type Dimensions, Soul Calibur 4, Castle Crashers, Gradius Rebirth, and I've got the Penny Arcade games on tap to be started soon. I'll grant my gaming tastes aren't mainstream - a lot of retro stuff, fighters, and shooters - but if even I can find a metric ton of good stuff, so can that guy!

[vortech]

1. I hear excitebots is a great game and that came out days ago.
2. I'm so tired of hearing about "casual" gamers and how they are ruining things.
3. In a rant where you rail against a loose definition of "gamer" you use the term "casual game" and never define it?

feh.

[ariock]

I don't know that you'll care if I respond to this. To be honest, I'm not sure exactly why you keep coming around here, as it seems like my writing tends to frustrate you more than entertain you. Generally, when someone frustrates me more than they entertain me and I have no real connection to them, I just take them off my friendslist

[vortech]

Sorry, I was entirely responding to the VGcats comic. I can see how that wasn't clear. I did it here because you were already discussing it.

Also, I'm not frustrated at all by the things you post. I'm sorry it came off that way. Also, I like you a lot, personally. I can understand/am used to my internet writing coming off as too argumentative, but I really don;t know why you would think I don;t like you.

(if you don;t like racing games (specifically wacked out arcade style racing) using the wiimote, I don;t think you want excitebots.

[vortech]

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[gupfee]

You've totally missed the point of the show, which is the Real Life/Big Brother drama llama of shoving 10 hipster kiddies into a sleek apartment and making them go to the roof to dish on each other.

Also I am responsible for making K watch this show. And I don't regret a minute of it. :D