Sunday, May 30, 2010

Top 5 Video Games With Weak Stories

Even though I planned on using this blog to discuss more important things, like cancer and kittens, video games are one of the most important things in my life, aside from The History Channel and being phat. So, 'here goes.

#5: Ninja Gaiden 2

Ninja Gaiden 2 will whip you, beat you, tear you limb from limb, eat you, shit you out and then laugh at you as you come back for more. You've never had your ass kicked so hard in your life, even if your dad was and/or still is a racist drunk redneck who believes that daily beatins be de only way to becomin' a man. The only reason you'll keep coming back is so that you can kick this game's ass, and then show the achievement to all your friends saying you did, then dare them to. Next thing you know, six more suicides have been reported in the newspaper, and you've won.

#4: Dynasty Warriors 3-Present

Dynasty Warriors is about playing a Chinese Warriors in the Three Kingdoms Era and killing hundreds to thousands of Chinese soldiers, officers and general on the battlefield so that your kingdom can win. That, or you can visualize all the Chinese soldiers being various people you care very little for, and that you're tearing them to pieces with your pike as they scream, "Lu Bu! It's Lu Bu!" and pretending you're Lu Bu, the most bad ass Chinese person to ever exist in the real world and video games.

#3: Lost Planet 2

Team up with three other players and fight off hoards of giant, man-eating, disgusting bugs that are sometimes the size of a skyscraper turned sideways. The human colonized planet of E.D.N. III is an unforgiving one, but it's just too damn addicting to stay away. Will you kick ass as Snow Pirates, Desert Raiders, Jungle Pirates, the government of NEVEC, Ex-NEVEC operatives, Mexicans, or Chinese Women Gone Wild? Your choice. Just remember to have someone to strangle when that giant boss decides to insta-kill you, or that rocket launcher fagget blow shit up near you and knock you off an edge while the game says you committed suicide all by yourself.

#2: Rainbow 6 Vegas 2

You could play through the most boring campaign I've ever seen, or you could play Terrorist Hunt, a mode that pits you and three other people against blood thirsty terrorists consisting of every nationality that isn't white. These multi-cultural terrorists often say such colorful phrases such as: "Mother fucker!" "I'll fucking kill you!" "Come out come out where ever you are...!" "SHIT!" "I'm gonna find you!" and more! You often die in one hit even when wearing Kevlar armor, and you will die often. However, it's so satisfying when you kill all 50 terrorists in an area on the hardest difficulty all by yourself, like me, or with a group, like me. Either way, the enemy likes it when you shoot them in the face right after they threaten you for killing 49 of their friends.

#1: Demon's Souls

This is a game unlike I have ever seen. It's the hardest, most unforgiving, epic game I have ever seen. You're all alone against a legion of demons, mutated abominations, dragons, possessed people, the undead, and much more evil than can be described.

This game is beautiful and, ironically, soulless in its treatment of you. Even though it punishes me, even though it treats me like shit, I cannot hate it at all. It's the one game I've never rage-quit before, but only quit after exhaustion of playing it for hours upon hours on end.

One of the best aspects of the game is the music. Almost every game ever made has used synthetic music, music synthesized from orchestras. However, Demon's Souls does not do that. Demon's Souls is a game with the sound of real instruments and real singing in it, as pure as it gets. Also, the music is just amazing. Every track of music for levels and bosses fits perfectly, 100%! Here is my favorite track of music from the game. Perfect.

This is my second favorite game of all time, right behind Final Fantasy VI, and I'm pretty damn sure it always will be.


Oh, and it's Lu Bu