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Kirby is my favorite platforming series after Mario and Sonic.

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Double X

Nah it was we were running out of rifle ammo and we didn't have enough shotgun ammo to kill those bastards. We had to start from a slightly earlier point and conserve our ammo.

That game was the one of the masters of atmosphere...for a supposedly scary game, it never had any points were things would jump out at you either. Just the locations, the time of day (love how the light changes with the time of day), and the creepy sound effects made that game give you shivers if you played it alone on a dark night.

Double X

Did you play Kirby 64? Good stuff, earliest Kirby game I remember playing.

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89: The anthropomorphic animal mascots with "tude" era of the early 90s

Yeah, Sonic deserves all the blame for this one. Somehow developers were misled to believe that just because it worked for one video game franchise, it would work for any game.

This has to be one of the most appallingly cliche and unimaginative trends in video game history. Sure it worked perfectly for Sonic, because he was just the right mix of badass and adorable, in both appearance and personality, and his games were amazing.

But that being said, he inspired this awful trend, you know how it is, a great formula works once and becomes a huge success, next thing you know everybody wants to recreate it.

Now not all Sonic clones are bad, in fact some of them were great in their own right, Rocket Knight Adventures, Ristar, ToeJam and Earl, Earthworm Jim. Those were great. But while they were inspired by Sonic they weren't a direct imitation of him either, gameplay wise they were original takes on the platforming formula. The good clones however were overshadowed by the tons of awful shameless Sonic ripoffs. Awesome Possum, Rocky Rodent, Wally Bear, Aero the Acro-Bat, Radical Rex and of course everyone's favorite representive of everything a video game mascot shouldn't be, Bubsy Bobcat. These characters were just obnoxious, annoying and with ugly designs, but more importantly their games were HORRIBLE.

Somehow dispite all these sh*tty games of the 16 bit era, the trend didn't die during the crossover to 3D in the late 90s and early 00s. Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Gex, Sly Cooper. Generic Sonic wannabees, but they were still good games so I can't complain about that.

Still, the 90s was flooded with the "tude" characters, some of them like Kid Chameleon still ended up being great games but so many of them were just horrible games and laughable attempts at "replacing" Sonic and Mario.

I mean look at that above picture, have you seen ANYTHING so generic and retarded? That has to be the most uncreative character in gaming history. If anyone came up with something like that now they would be crucified.

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Kirby

Thats mine. Definitely.

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88: EGM

Just how wrong can one game magazine be? EGM is the obvious answer.

If this was in order this would be number 2 or something.

When this magazine makes a list of the most overrated games ever and it consists almost exclusively of Sega and Rare games, you know you're dealing with some really stupid fanboys. EGM are just the best example of why video game critics aren't actually, you know, critics. Just some blind fanboys giving the most useless kind of consumer advice imaginable and somehow getting paid for it.

Take my word for it, DON'T LISTEN TO VIDEO GAME CRITICS.

Theres absolutely nothing that makes their opinion more valid then yours. Unlike music and film critics, who actually ARE critics, it dosen't require any basic understanding of what this form of media is all about, all these guys know is their history, and by that I mean they quote Wiki a lot.

EGM are just the worst, they hate on any remotely original game with a cult following. Because they don't understand why games get praised for you know, being different, and for not being exactly the same as the overrated piece of sh*t shooters and action games they hand A ratings out to like candy.

I understand a gaming magazine has more fuctions than just reviews. But why pay to get your gaming news coverage when you can get it free on the internet, especially when you have to suffer through a lot of biased bullcrap for it.

EDIT: These were the same assh*les who spread the Sonic in Melee rumor that turned out to be false, so my hate for them is also personal.

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87: Gamer humor

It's the worst kind of humor.

Now of course there are exceptions, I love the Angry Video Game Nerd's rage fueled rants, though he did inspire a trend of awful imitators like The Irate Gamer (f*ck that guy) and I like Penny Arcade just as much as everyone else, but once again it started the trend of gaming webcomics and though there are some decent ones (VG cats, Dueling Analogs) a lot of them are f*cking horrible. Overall, sometimes video game related humor works (Screwattack, Seanbaby) and sometimes it's just apallingly awful (Just about anything on G4, Most gaming forums).

Gamer humor, how can I describe it?

CRAB BATTLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now imagine just saying that over and over again for no reason and at the most random moments. That's gamer humor.

Now of course, gamer humor is something you won't get if you're not a gamer, just like you wouldn't get pulling your pants and underwear down to use the urinal if you're not retarded.

You can thank gamer humor for such popular phrases as "All your base are belong to us", "Where is that DAMN fourth chaos emerald", "Do a barrel roll", "Giant enemy crab" and of course "i herd u liek mudkipz". Phrases that were funny at first, because they originated from something that actually was funny, but yet again, they had to be quoted to death by f*cking EVERYBODY.

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86: Consoles going multimedia

There's a reason why they are called video game consoles, hmm, I'm gonna take a guess and assume that reason is because they play video games. You know what's great about a console that has a DVD player, can play MP3s, store photos and videos and browse the web? Well absolutely nothing, it just makes it an outrageously expensive piece of hardware that has a bunch of sh*t you already have, all I want is to play video games.

"The Wii sux, does IT have a DVD player or blu ray? No"

Because it's a f*cking video game console, you dumbf*ck.

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Dr_Rez

I have to disagree. For someone who doesn't have the money to buy a DVD player, stereo w/ hard drive (receiver) , and game system it makes it possible.

This way i don't compromise.

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Kirby

If anything, my favorite aspect about the new systems is the ability to play MP3.