When video games immitate life...

[beatniknight]

Perhaps you all remember the old days of video games, when a black mage would cast Bio3 on a dragon and all the while save a princess or a city or a world. One might assume the guise of a little boy in a hat saving a princess from Ganon, or a little boy in a baseball cap with psychic powers saving the world from Giyagas, or you could even be a

Comments

[risingtofall]

I dont know about San Andreas being a game where you side with the bad guy. He's getting revenge on the people who killed his momma! I didn't think the character was a bad guy, a victim more then anything. I did notice that a few times throughout the game he says no to drugs. Thats gotta count for something right?

[bluepose]

I was about to say! And let's not forget that the cops in it are crooked as all hell. Goddamn you, Officer Tenpenny!

[phoenixredux]

The most heinous criminal act in that whole game is the part where you have to set fire to a whole field of kine bud. Sure, I've done that in real life, too, but only in much smaller amounts at any given time.

[beatniknight]

None the less, he does beat up little old ladies on the street and take their money. Or at he does when I control him.

[phoenixredux]

This, from the makers of Vice City?

Do I at least get to steal cool cars and pimp hos in a fully interactive 3d environment?

[beatniknight]

No. From what I hear you're not even able to draw blood in it. But you do get to give massive swirlies.

[phoenixredux]

I need a new copy of San Andreas. Somehow I accidently deeply scratched the disc. I was so mad! I just wanted to climb a tower with a sniper rifle! But of course, I couldn't. Oh, brutal irony!

[alourdan]

Holy Shit I remember Earthbound. I loved that game.

But I spent about a week killing those golden alien things trying to get Poo's ultimate sword AND NEVER DID.

Oh SNES. I pine for you.

[beatniknight]

Earthbound, by far, is the greatest game of all time. I was deeply upset when the third in the series (yes, the SNES Earthbound is in fact a sequel to a game previously only available in Japan, now available as a rom, called Earthbound Zero. The one we're used to is known, in the series, as Earthbound Mother) never came out. My dream is that, someday, I will convince Nintendo to make a new Earthbound, written by me.

[jebimstr]

They re-releasing Earthbound and Earthbound 2 (the original two) for the GBA but only for Japan.

damn them.

:P

but yes, I <3 Earthbound... i should download an emulator just to play on my laptop... or i could find a power adapter for my SNES and just play it on my SNES!!! muwahahahaahahahahahahahhahahahaha *ahem* :P

[beatniknight]

As I say, www.vimm.net is the nerd's holy grail. Just about every SNES or NES game ever made as a rom, available for free and easy download with no viruses (couple of pop-ups though). Seriously, if I can only impart one thing to you, let it be www.vimm.net, the greatest site in the world.

[thegayboyfriend]

Manhunt? isn't that a gay cruising website?

[jebimstr]

Yes.

and.

No.

[thegayboyfriend]

"If you are turned off by violence or extremely disturbing images of murder with odd tools, I suggest you stay away."

[beatniknight]

Also, it's the site for some singer or another. www.manhunt.com is the singer, www.manhunt.net is the cruising.

[leothefox]

Yuck. Has the concept of escapism finally died?

[beatniknight]

Pretty soon you'll get to take a virtual physics test.

[leothefox]

Well, suicide is painless...