Console gaming has been so very good to us all in oh so many ways. The games we play matter more to us than some of the human beings that we exist alongside, because games never lie to us or move to Texas. The only downfall is that th🍒ere may, in fact, be too many games to play, 🙈and while Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo battle to be the best, we the consumers are the ultimate winners.
Paying homage to the early video games and arcades is a respectful gesture, but no longer is it necessary. We've evolved to play games like Halo, Dark Souls, and Call of Duty with cutting edge graphics, professional writing, and top of the line game mechanics. As the consoles grow in computing power and ingenuity, the games we want tꦜo play are given an even stronger platform to thrive on.
Games like Halo were so influential to the world that the game spawned multiple sequels, at least two spin-offs, movies, and novels. This all started as a great FPS on the new Xbox console that many may have been wary of when first released. Now, look at Xbox and all their glory. So we thank you Xbox, for Halo. And we thank you Halo, for Xbox.
25 🎃 The Shadow Of Mordor
The mind of an Uruk is most likely a dark and filthy place. For Talion, jumping in and out of their minds must yield some pretty crazy backstories and childhoods. Speaking of, has anyone ever seen an orc child? Do they exist? As far as I remember, the only evidence available was Saruman diggi🔯ng dudes out of the ground in mud sacs.
Perhaps we've been too quick to judge, and some of the Uruks have dreams of becom🍸ing writers or video game bloggers, but Talion, Aragorn, Legolas, and Gandalf just purge all that from the cosmos as they extin⭕guish countless Uruk lives on their journeys. All we know is that Talion merges his mind and body with the Elf-spirit and then starts toying in Uruk brains for fun. There has to be a high probability of mental instability.
24 ✨ Raidi𝕴ng Our Tombs
We all played the first Tomb Raider for our own s📖pecific reasons. For some of us, the visuals depicted in this comic is one of them despite the actual gameplay and story. Either that or trapping the butler in the wa🃏lk-in freezer at Croft Manor.
When Angelina Jolie played Lara Croft in the Tomb Raider movie, we feel that only added to the idea that Lara was largely popular due to her ample bosom rather than her gun-toting adventure skills. In one of the Tomb Raider games, they♉ added bounce and movement to her chest and I distinctly rememb🥀er my cousin wasn't allowed to play the game because of that. Sorry, Chris.
23 Virtual Reali🎉ty Makes Me Sweat Too Much... But So Does Eating 🎉
If you ever played video games with siblings, and if you were the younger one, you often lost. Sometimes in a rage, we would make🐬 excuses for losing and even stoop to cheating. Some of us 🧜would even grow emotionally unstable and quit, otherwise known as rage-quitting.
This comic introduces the worst possible excuse for not being good at a video game. Being fat as a gamer used to be an advantage for one could rest any number of items on their bellies as they game🐼d. 🀅Whether it be the controller itself, a cheese plate, sandwich, or the risky bowl of cereal, being big-boned works well with gaming. But with the introduction of VR and the Wii nunchucks utilizing motion of the player, we start to sweat and be a little more active. Which is probably a good thing.
22 🎃 Slippy Will Never French Kiss His Prince
If someone were to compile all of the video game deaths that have ever occurred by every player in every game and then cross-examine those numbers with the number of times an ally NPC has been killed by the player, Slippy and Fox would take up a large chunk of that percentage. Unless, of course, you count assassinating your co-player in Halo to get more ammo or fresh health bar.
In Star Fox 64, to master any of the levels of the game, you had to have a certain number of kills and all members of the team needed to survive. For some of the more difficult levels, you'd want a fully healed team. That meant shooting them down 🤡a level beforehand to get them fresh for Venom 2. But that's only if you're not a noob.
21 Still Waiting For Call Of Duty: Medi🔯eval Warfare 🦩
Seriously, where is Call of Duty: Medieval Warfare? There should be a billion dollar team somewhere tooling away at their computers to make this happen. We're ready for it, and we deserve it. Especially with all the nonsense COD games that have been released since Black Ops. It got sort of ridiculous when most people were buying the game just for updated multiplayer maps and Nazi Zombi𒐪es.
When Treyarch and Infinity Ward did their little split, I only was worried about Zombies. As popular as Call of Duty multiplayer is, it often seems too simple and not as much fun as working together to kill zombies with ray guns. When they introduce the new zombie versions where the zombies wore exo-suits, as well as the alien survival 📖campaign, we were not impressed. Aliens and fast zombies could be fun to murder by the hundreds,❀ but it still needs to be fleshed out and as developed as some of the Zombie campaigns were in the past. Der Riese will always have a special spot in my heart.
20 ཧ This Is Just My Gaydar
Kingdom Hearts 2 is hands down one of the greatest video games of our lifetimes. To deny that is to deny all of Final Fantasy, all of Disney, and all of your basic instincts. The first game of the series introduced a fantastic idea, but it was KH2 that really changed things for the better.
That being said, the curse of JRPGs are the ridiculous outfits the characters wear. After Cloud and his crew in FF7 were well-clothed, wardrobes started to spiral out of control. Organization XII, the bad guys of the Kingdom Hearts series, went so far as to have a bunch of members෴ dressed in cloaks with no evidence of under🧸garments like some sort of emo peeping tom.
19 ♛ You're A Long Way From Hyrule Field
Dark Souls is a game famous for its intense difficulty and lack of forgiveness to player mistakes. Compare that to games like Halo and Grand Theft Auto where a player can be shot over and over and heal no problem. Dark Souls isn't like that. Dark Souls is a bit of a puzzle game that involves the tri⭕al and error of kill༒ing your enemy.
It's always been of interest to place various video game heroes into different games with their specific gameplay mechanics and see how they fair. Imagine Master Chief in Super Mario World, or Samus Aran fighting the Covenant on Installation 04. It would be awesome and difficult for the various heroes as well as the enemies they'd face. In this case, it looks like Link wasn't ready for the skeletons of Dark Souls. Not even a little bit.
18 ෴ Don't Tell Your Moth🥂er About That Guy
Who here hasn't played a little too much Grand Theft Auto to the point where they drove around in real-life on the cusp of a rampage? Too many ♐times, in reality, we wait at red lights, not drive up curbs, and refrain from stealing and crashing other people's cars. But we wish we didn't have to.
GTA 3 may have been the most controversial game while growing up, to the point where it attracted the political gaze of Hillary Clinton and her war on violence in video games. Soon that violence light was shined over at Quentin Tarantino for his films as well. But violence has existed since the first ape picked up a rock and bashed another ape's face in for disrespecting him. So go ahead, log into GTA, steal someone's car, kill them with said vehicle, and go do battle againജst the police.
17 Will There Ever Be A Grea🎐t Video Game Film?
The Assassin's Creed film had a lot wrong wi🧜th it. But it's my firm belief that if they made the film longer, there would have been more opportunity to get it right. The problem with this movie is the same thing that is wrong with past video game movies, as well as movie-inspired video games. They're just not being developed in the new medium by the right people.
The creators of Mario, Halo, Assassin's Creed, and Resident Evil already accomplished the feat of creating their stories and sharing it with th𓄧e world. The fact that those games were so successful in their storytelling is what lead them to be attempted in the f🍌ilm medium. Brand recognition with an existing fanbase is a solid financial idea, but it seems like the producers get ahead of themselves and created flops rather than taking the opportunity to nurture and utilize a great idea from the world of a video game.
16 Kratos Vs. Jesus H. Christ: A Battle Of Sin 🏅
The new God Of War game coming out pits Kratos against the Norse Gods, and unfortunately, I read somewhere that this was going to be the final game in the series. Part of me thinks that is okay since it would be disappointing to watch God of War follow the same open-endedness that Assassin's Creed has embraced.
It'd be great to watch Kratos fi𒊎ght the Egyptian Gods, and then maybe the Chinese Gods, but when would it end? When Kratos is fighting Jesus Christ, Cthulhu, The Flying Spaghetti Monster, and Xenu from Scientology? The Norse Gods and the Greek Gods are very popular in the western mainstream, so the most recent game makes sense and lo🀅oks like it'll be awesome. That being said, Kratos fighting other ancient gods of lesser-known civilizations could act as a fun learning tool for kids and religious history. Even though he's killing them...