Somehow I imagine that many people on this forum might already know this, but I think in Season 8 or so of GCCX, Arino plays this for the “Moshimoshi Daisakusen” (Major “Hello?” Mission) feature, where he plays a really hard game and calls viewers randomly off of postcards they sent in when he needs advice. Given his remarkable action-puzzle skills, I remember these segments as being rather impressive, and also that the people he calls tend to give outrageously useless advice.
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Its called Die Nasty Warriors ok
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from an era where “indie game” meant a non-stop cacophony of chiming bells.
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Now thats a game concept. Look through the scope, estimate their weight, listen to their heart beat on the directional mic and set the dart strength. That guard? I think hes ready for surgery! (pop)
The fact that its Momus is hilarious to me. It also feels like 2001 to an absurd degree.
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That really long Silent Hill 4 trailer.
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He totally nails that dog.
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when games tried to describe soulsborne like combat as “intentional combat” and I’m like “please play another game”
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Intentional combat is when Elden Ring buffers your roll because you got hit and then it comes out two seconds later than you wanted it to
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unintentional combat is when you miss a headshot but kill the enemy anyway due to an exploding barrel you didn’t see
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Ah yes the Mikey Maneuver
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amazing trailer for a game i will never play
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the lad in gamestation c 2007 who sold me killer 7
he put his finger down on the box after putting it through the till and said “that’s a fuckin wicked game mate”
agree
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The one time I was in the States in a game shop (Electronics Boutique!) some random guy came up and told me to buy the copy of Dawn of Sorrow I was looking at. I was going to anyway, but yeah good advice
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I was once at a little locally-owned shopping mall game store and trying to choose between a couple of games. The person working there suggested that I buy Cubivore (which I’d never heard of) instead of the games I was considering. I did, and I’ve always wished I could thank that person for the good advice.
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18 years ago I took an Aria of Sorrow box to the till at a Gamestop but they didn’t have a cartridge in stock. Clerk chucked the box / manual away but I asked if he could fish it out the bin and let me have it instead.
In 2021 I sold that slightly water damaged box and manual for $110 USD.
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I was bouncing about the Internet and thought to look up Al Lowe, recounting briefly trying Leisure Suit Larry 3 as a youth.
Al Lowe looks how I expected Al Lowe to look.
For some reason this seems deep to me, even though it is not?
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Sometimes I think about Al Lowe’s Twitter feed, typically updated a few times a day with an endless fountain of gleefully misogynistic jokes and godawful puns with punchlines that end in sunny exclamation points and would’ve sounded like hack work back in the 90s.
FAKE EDIT: I just checked. He’s still doing it! He posted two jokes today.
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“My site doesn’t have the most humor on the web, it merely has the best humor on the web!”
Dude rocks, the teaser image for his LAUGHS section is an old Chik-Fil-A ad, he has a whole page devoted to mp3s of ancient Bud Lite ads that includes a list of ones he’s still searching for, imagine how many FEMALE BODY INSPECTOR hats this guy must have bought over the last 40 years, I bet he has professionally graded and “slabbed” copies of every Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue (up until they got “woke”), I bet if we met he’d see me as the son he never had or the biggest threat he’s ever encountered, that’s how it usually goes with me and older men, I really hope he’s been getting his prostate checked every year
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I think a lot about how Al Lowe blames google for ruining adventure games, because just being able to look shit up is how problem solving works now.
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