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Gaming encounters of the left field kind
Sorenson
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Games tucking away little surprises to screw around with the player is nothing really new and, given the scales and scopes that games these days are getting, not actually that surprising. Sometimes the developer botches it and it gets telegraphed way in advance, while others manage to keep them under wraps right up to that very instant, catching you off-guard and really throwing you for a loop.
We're not here to talk about those sorts of surprises.
What we are here to talk about are those surprises that not only catch you off guard, but catch you off guard because they are nonsensical, non-relevent, and just completily fucked up - the things that come at you from the proverbial and titular left field, if you will. This is shit that can rack your brain and completily brand itself into your memory wherever the game in question is concerned, so wonderfully wierd it is. And given the diversity of the playerbase here at Penny Arcade, I figure it's time for somecross-contamination and know we can get some good pollenation going as far as bizarre shit in games goes.
My brother, owing to his impeccable taste in games, picked up that Dead or Alive volleyball game from blockbuster one night, and I figure "sure it's trashy, but we've got it for five days, why the hell not?" So ensues less-than-enthusiastic pursuits of scantily-clad chicks playing volleyball. It's not bad, so it might be passable if I gave a shit about the sport in the first place, but as far as I'm concerned it's a timekiller.
Pick the most stereotypical trashy pop and latin music you can imagine scantily-clad women playing volleyball to - that's the soundtrack. Or so I'd thought. I'm playin', the current music track ends and relative silence reigns for a few seconds, and I'm just waiting for the next one to start so my brain can block it out...
...when this motherfucking German oom-pah band comes out of fucking NOWHERE and starts blasting in the background with all their brassy polka goodness. German polka. In a fanservice volleyball game. Aimed at horny young men. This isn't so much coming out of left field as it is coming from the left field of the Retired Actors Baseball Team which is halfway across the goddamn country. Damn good track, though, and there was actually a second polka after it, though not nearly as catchy as the first which I still hum on occasion.
But you know what's the wierdest thing? The game burned the polkas to my Xbox hard drive. Just those two, for whatever reason - and no, they weren't something that were sitting there from a custom soundtrack, because if that were the case I would have gotten some Wierd Al and a bunch of my brother's other music that I don't know a darn about in addition to this, and the Myron Floren tracks I did load up are extremily different from it especially since the accordian parts are secondary to the big hulkin' brass that comprises the majority of the one song I remember - this was all the game's workings.
I'm telling you - there is hidden polka in DOA Extreme Beach Volleyball, and that has got to be the wierdest fucking thing I've come across in gaming, wierder than horse wieners and crossdressing soldiers and gigantic singing piles of shit combined.
EDIT: And poking around on Amazon ensuring that the songs WEREN'T Myron Floren has led me to the knowledge of the polka version of It's A Small World. Must resist orge to buy for L4D streaming...
We're not here to talk about those sorts of surprises.
What we are here to talk about are those surprises that not only catch you off guard, but catch you off guard because they are nonsensical, non-relevent, and just completily fucked up - the things that come at you from the proverbial and titular left field, if you will. This is shit that can rack your brain and completily brand itself into your memory wherever the game in question is concerned, so wonderfully wierd it is. And given the diversity of the playerbase here at Penny Arcade, I figure it's time for somecross-contamination and know we can get some good pollenation going as far as bizarre shit in games goes.
My brother, owing to his impeccable taste in games, picked up that Dead or Alive volleyball game from blockbuster one night, and I figure "sure it's trashy, but we've got it for five days, why the hell not?" So ensues less-than-enthusiastic pursuits of scantily-clad chicks playing volleyball. It's not bad, so it might be passable if I gave a shit about the sport in the first place, but as far as I'm concerned it's a timekiller.
Pick the most stereotypical trashy pop and latin music you can imagine scantily-clad women playing volleyball to - that's the soundtrack. Or so I'd thought. I'm playin', the current music track ends and relative silence reigns for a few seconds, and I'm just waiting for the next one to start so my brain can block it out...
...when this motherfucking German oom-pah band comes out of fucking NOWHERE and starts blasting in the background with all their brassy polka goodness. German polka. In a fanservice volleyball game. Aimed at horny young men. This isn't so much coming out of left field as it is coming from the left field of the Retired Actors Baseball Team which is halfway across the goddamn country. Damn good track, though, and there was actually a second polka after it, though not nearly as catchy as the first which I still hum on occasion.
But you know what's the wierdest thing? The game burned the polkas to my Xbox hard drive. Just those two, for whatever reason - and no, they weren't something that were sitting there from a custom soundtrack, because if that were the case I would have gotten some Wierd Al and a bunch of my brother's other music that I don't know a darn about in addition to this, and the Myron Floren tracks I did load up are extremily different from it especially since the accordian parts are secondary to the big hulkin' brass that comprises the majority of the one song I remember - this was all the game's workings.
I'm telling you - there is hidden polka in DOA Extreme Beach Volleyball, and that has got to be the wierdest fucking thing I've come across in gaming, wierder than horse wieners and crossdressing soldiers and gigantic singing piles of shit combined.
EDIT: And poking around on Amazon ensuring that the songs WEREN'T Myron Floren has led me to the knowledge of the polka version of It's A Small World. Must resist orge to buy for L4D streaming...
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- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
My 12 year old mind was fucking blown.
And yeah, the MSG2 Naked part fucked with my head too.
noom edis moon side
Let 'em eat fucking pineapples!
I just talked to one of my friends the other day and basically described the entire game to him, all endings included. Even as I was mentally laying out the storylines, I was thinking "Wait, seriously?"
I love the hell out of that game, though.
Also, worth mentioning since it's not an ending..(Drakengard 100% Story Complete Spoilers):
Essentially the villain is attempting to take over the world via a possessed record.
The fuck.
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The credits rolled and....surprise! more game.
bonus image:
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
Also, I know it makes me sound like a dork but MissingNo. in the original R/B was pretty damn scary. Even though I did it on purpose, it was terribly unnerving: having the skin of a bright and fun world peeled back to see raw, dangerous data.
I got some enjoyment out of that.
I was all
what have I done? what did I bring into my house?
The fucking moon.
Edit: this isn't me, but it's a pic from the moon in the game:
You mean it requires screen glare? Would that still work on the DSi?
I bet you hated games like Super Paper Mario too, then.
"Oh noes! Suddenly I'm Bowser!"
I haven't played Super Paper Mario. But y'know what that situation has above FF8? I FUCKING KNOW WHO BOWSER IS.
Edit - Gonna add some clarification on my stance before I go to bed.
In fact, I actually enjoyed battling with that party more than any other party set-up during the main story.
EDIT: BTW, Henroid, are you a fan of LOST? For some reason I feel I've seen you in the LOST threads, and if that's true, this kind of plot device should be no problem to you whatsoever.
But still. Here's some dude out of nowhere you've never heard of--FIGHT!
I call bullshit. There's no way that
- There's mysterious polka in DOA Volleyball, I should know I played more than enough...poker. Yes, poker. To buy the Venus.
- It mysteriously burned itself to your harddrive.
Someone put it there to fuck with you, rube.3 different ones too, the same for easy/normal, one for heroic, one for legendary.
It took me forever to figure out I had to literally blow on the DS to clear the dust off a painting in Another Code.
And then when the Colonel tries to tell you to do the same thing in MGS2, but it really does just reset your game. I think I'd heard of that X-Men game back then, so I was pretty close to doing it...
Really though?
They weren't lying.
Fuck you game, just fuck you. That was mean and uncalled for.
Explanation:
Then you get to the song where the little girl's dad has died and you have to help summon his ghost and if you fuck up you have to watxch this little girl cry because her dad is dead.
As soon as that's over, it's back to the goofiness without missing a beat.
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Similar situation for me in the Phantom Hourglass. The part where you have to close the DS to transfer the symbol from the top map to the bottom... When I first got there I didn’t know what to do, I spent like an hour trying to draw the damn thing, even tried to scribble the stylus across the screen to the whole "pencil transfer" thing and that didn’t work. So I closed my DS in disgust at this clearly broken game...
Surprise!
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Oh man that was awesome. I still remember when I thought my brother and I were stuck and my brother was like "OH NO IT LOOKS LIKE WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO RESET THE GENESIS" and before I could stop him he pressed it and binary filled the screen. To this day I still think it's one of the more clever moments in video gaming. Also the first level to X-Men 2 was surprising too. The moment the game starts up it just drops you into the first level with a randomly picked character. No intro screen, no character select screen, nothing. Only after you beat the level did it show the title screen and such, though I think if you died it'd return you to the character select screen.
As for something not X-Men related, just like the original Bionic Commando, the latest one has a twist right near the end of the game. I admit, it was great, because it was so cheesy, out there, and was the last thing I'd expect. It was extremely hilarious and I'm glad they put that in, haha.
EDIT I'm going to have to do a Let's Play of that game so you charlattans can see Grade A Gaming first hand
I always thought that was really awesome, even though I never played it. The NES X-Men game had something similar: I don't remember all the exact details, but apparently you can't reach the game's final level through normal play. The only way to get to it is via a cheat code at the start-up screen ... which is actually printed in the tiny fine print on the front of the game cartridge. So you have to turn off the console, look at the code, then turn it back on and use the code to open the final level.
But then, as I race into the treatment plant, I find it all irradiated, and in order to activate the machine or whatever the fuck, I have to run in there and die. If I don't do it, I'm a fucking coward who denied his destiny, despite the fact that I have a super-mutant companion who is fucking immune to radiation and could walk right in there and flip the switch with no harm to anyone goddamn you game.
To this day I maintain that I really enjoyed the game, but ever since seeing that ending I've never gone back to play it again.
Sucks to be you then; the Laguna parts are arguably some of the best in FFVIII.
Also, it's not exactly a shock as to who they are - they're all listed in the manual.
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
GM: Rusty Chains (DH Ongoing)
I was so pissed when that happened!
Everyone probably already knows about it, but I thought the Bioshock twist was incredibly clever.
Except the sword is a fucking spaceship. And now I have to fight on the fucking moon.
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