As was foretold, we've added advertisements to the forums! If you have questions, or if you encounter any bugs, please visit this thread: https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/240191/forum-advertisement-faq-and-reports-thread/
Options
What Ends Up In The Doomsday Bunker
Zonugal
(He/Him) The Holiday ArmadilloI'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User regular
(He/Him) The Holiday ArmadilloI'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User regular
The bombs have fallen. The storms have come. The earthquakes have shaken and the nuclear winter is here.
But you have foreseen all of this, and over the last year have developed a communal doomsday bunker with your friends & family (as well as anyone else you believed you could cohabitate with for 15-20 years). You were put in charge of curating entertainment & media for the bunker.
Each day I'm going to post a prompt based on the situation above and we'll have a discourse over what would be the six best items to stock within the proposed genre/category.
Some conditions:
-- Presume you have enough monitors/television, game consoles, computers, and/or accessories for you & others to fully utilize your choice(s).
-- Once the doomsday bunker is sealed, you no longer have access to the internet in any capacity. But you can setup local-area-networks and you can have downloaded any mods/DLC/expansion packs for any game.
-- Compilations are acceptable, but they have to have come in one actual game (cartridge, disc, ect). So Super Mario Bros All-Stars would work, but Star Wars: The Best of PC wouldn't work as it was a series of separate discs in its box.
But you have foreseen all of this, and over the last year have developed a communal doomsday bunker with your friends & family (as well as anyone else you believed you could cohabitate with for 15-20 years). You were put in charge of curating entertainment & media for the bunker.
Each day I'm going to post a prompt based on the situation above and we'll have a discourse over what would be the six best items to stock within the proposed genre/category.
Some conditions:
-- Presume you have enough monitors/television, game consoles, computers, and/or accessories for you & others to fully utilize your choice(s).
-- Once the doomsday bunker is sealed, you no longer have access to the internet in any capacity. But you can setup local-area-networks and you can have downloaded any mods/DLC/expansion packs for any game.
-- Compilations are acceptable, but they have to have come in one actual game (cartridge, disc, ect). So Super Mario Bros All-Stars would work, but Star Wars: The Best of PC wouldn't work as it was a series of separate discs in its box.
+1
Posts
What six action and/or horror video games do you choose for your communal doomsday bunker?
Are you favoring a great experience over replayability? Are you looking for something that has a terrific single-player experience or something that your bunker community will be able to enjoy together at once via multiplayer?
I'll give a heads up that shooters (vehicle-based shooters, first-person shooters, & third-person shooters will all be given their own future genre/categorty), so don't feel pressured to have to include any of them here.
2. OFF
3. Bloodborne
4. Shadow of the Colossus
5. Resident Evil 4
6. Portal 2
Justifications upon request.
I'd go with
Halo Master Chief Collection: a whole bunch of great games with both co-op and versus multiplayer. Could make co-opping through the campaigns a special occasion thing that you only break out, say, once a year, and rotate through each game so you only hit a repeat once every six years.
Super Mario Maker: Do platformers count as action games here? The level designer means we can always churn out more content for everyone, and at some point we can all spend a couple years becoming mario speedrun pros.
Rocket League: simple and straightforward but with a high skill ceiling. It'll get dull eventually because everything will get dull eventually, but it would take a while, in the same way it'd take a while for you to become fully sick of playing catch.
Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition: you got nothin' but time to grind out those 1-frame links.
Pac-Man Championship Edition DX: kind of just the purest video game that there is. I'm a little worried about it not having as much longevity as some of the others, but there's definitely a lot there for just grinding out perfect scores on every stage
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: huge roster of characters, fairly high skill ceiling, supports up to 8 players, and has a stage builder to inject a little more freshness into it.
I didn't end up including any horror games because i think most horror games are gonna suffer pretty badly from the longevity issue; horror games are usually on the shorter side and once you see the scares a couple times they lose their power. Some Resident Evils are pretty replayable if you're going for high difficulties/perfect playthroughs/speedruns or whatever, but i dunno if they're replayable enough. I could see the case for dropping Pac-Man for RE4 though.
http://www.audioentropy.com/
what's an action game then
http://www.audioentropy.com/
I'm leaning towards LEGO Marvel Super Heroes for my fourth game as I think its a pretty solid all-ages affair with a lot of easy, bonus content (the 180+ characters).
http://www.audioentropy.com/
But hey, its your doomsday bunker.
Left 4 Dead
Smash Bros Ultimate
Diablo 2
Sekiro
Hades (I'm calling this an action game but can concede it is a roguelike if you think it deserves that category instead of being in both)
sure but it seems like at least two of yours would too, worms is a strategy game and mega man is a platformer
seems hard to avoid genre overlap here
http://www.audioentropy.com/
-- Arcade/Puzzle/Simulation
-- Brawling (Beat ‘Em Up/Fighting)
-- Exploration (Adventure/Platformer)
-- Fitness/Music/Party
-- Racing/Sports
-- RPG/Strategy
-- Shooter
I'm really struggling to remember action / horror games that had local coop.
Hades. I think it's the most impressive union of game design, art, music, acting, writing, and while not infinite replayability, there is a lot going on here.
Batman Arkham City - There is so much shit in this game in addition to a ton of DLC with new characters and that whole combat challenge mode would keep you entertained for a long time. It's just Arkham Asylum, but more and better.
What was the name of that game where you could build and destroy buildings on Mars? Red Faction or something? Whatever the best version of that was in the franchise was really popular around here for a while.
Horror is a lot harder to pick for since once you've played a horror game the jig is up, right?
I have been thinking on this and, yeah, I can't really pin down any horror game that has impeccable replay value?
If Dead By Daylight had LAN capabilities I think that would be a fun choice (your bunker community could have a fun time once a month with it).
My other idea for horror is something like this:
Wots this
Omori.
2. Resident Evil 2 (OG or Remake)
3. System Shock 2
4. Doom 2016
5. Killing Floor
6. Prey
I mean if this stuff is all you've got for 15-20 years, it NEEDS to have some mutability to it.
I don't really know of any single-player title that wouldn't get stale after 300 runs over ten years.
Unless it was a "creative" sort of single-player title like Minecraft/Terraria/Satisfactory.
I guess Terraria or Minecraft could be considered action/horror titles if you look at them in the right light.
StarCraft, or Age of Empires II
Quake III, or UT2004
Counter-Strike Source
Minecraft
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
Street Fighter III
Honorable mentions go to Left 4 Dead and/or L4D2, and whichever Gears of War has the best offline local co-op (probably 3 if you have an infinitely reliable XBOX 360 in the bunker)
What six action movies do you choose for your communal doomsday bunker?
Are you favoring a classic, defining film in the genre or something you know a group of folks can enjoy year after year? Are you going to try to split up your picks by leading actor or director, or will your list be entirely James Cameron?
I'll give a heads up that martial arts & superheroes films will be given their own separate days, so don't feel pressured to have to include any of them here.
Aliens - I maintain that it's more of a thriller than a true action film but, still, that's where it resides in the pop culture lexicon
Pacific Rim - the best Western tokusatsu/Mecha anime we're ever going to get, frankly
Die Hard - You know this one
District 9 - also in that horror/sci-fi/thriller zone with Aliens but when it pops off, oh my goodness does it go hard
Predator - a subversion of the '80s Cold War action flick that also transcends it. Better than any Terminator movie besides 2, and yet I'd still I'd rather watch this than 2 for some reason
2. Batman (1966)
3. Princess Mononoke
4. Get Carter
5. Hot Fuzz
6. The Raid
This has got me wondering about user created content. AoE2 has a very robust map designer built into the game that allows you to basically make whatever you want provided the art assets are there. What about WC3, where the map designer is a separate program, but is even more powerful? What about modding? For some games all you need to make an amazing mod (again, outside of art) is the ability to modify .txt documents. How much you're allowed to create content for your games that you bring in could make a pretty big difference in what I'd bring.
I have no real input on today's topic because I rarely watch movies more than once.
Pacific Rim
T2
Aliens
Face/Off
Demolition Man (I could change this with Die Hard With a Vengeance depending on the day, probably)
I think this will be one of my choices for when the Sci-Fi genre comes up down the road.
Somehow a movie with both Denis Leary and Rob Schneider ends up in one of my top 20 lists. It's kind of inexplicable.
But Wesley Snipes is absolutely incredible in Demolition Man, holy shit. His diet during filming must have been nothing but scenery.
Can't wait for these to become quest treasure 50 years after the doomsday bunkers get swarmed by the dire-rats.
What six western-produced animated TV shows do you choose for your communal doomsday bunker?
Are you leaning towards something incredibly long (say, The Simpsons) or a critical darling that while shorter may have value in repeated viewings over the years (sg: BoJack Horseman)? Are you going to try to split up your picks by genre within the animated field, or will your list be entirely animated sitcoms?
I'll give a heads up that anime TV shows will be given their own separate day, so don't feel pressured to have to include any of them here.
Batman: The Animated Series
Avatar: the Last Airbender
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
Castlevania
Kim Possible
Bob's Burgers - Because I've never seen it so at least I've got something new to look forward to when the world ends.
1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. Point Break
3. Terminator 2
4. Fast and Furious 5
5. Jurassic Park, if that falls under action
5. The Matrix, if not.
Western Animation
1. Avatar: The Last Airbender
2. The Legend of Korra
3. Batman: The Animated Series
4. Transformers (G1)
5. ReBoot
Its a short TV show by comparison to others! But, also, its amazing...
Bob's Burgers
Despite loving the Transformers I don't think I've ever seen the whole series front-to-back, maybe that.
Whatever the best DC animated series is, I tried to watch some of Batman TAS a while ago and it was a bit too slow/kiddie for me, but that could be early-episode shakiness.
Invincible
Archer