Archive for Tag: What the Crap?

  • What the Crap?: NPCs Say the Darndest Things

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    RPGS. These are the games that allow you to escape from your office cubicle and enter into an alien world filled with elves, leprechauns, eskimos and other made-up creatures grouped as non-playable ch

  • What the Crap?: Your Money’s No Good Here

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    A wise man once said, "mo' money, mo' problems." This may be true in real life, but how does it stack up in videogames? Perhaps it would be better to say "mo' types of money, mo' problems." If you've

  • What the Crap?: On Yoshi

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    Ah yes, our little green friend Yoshi. Let me take you back to the turbulent time known as 1991. America was still adjusting to the end of the Cold War, but more importantly, we were eagerly awaiting

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    What the Crap?: Difficulty Settings and Modes

    Columns Columns by Mark Freedman on Comments2

    Why, cruel videogame industry, are we forced to play Goldilocks when sitting down to play our games? Games all have their own ideas of what Easy and Hard mean, have different rewards (and sometime none at all) for choosing a more difficult setting, and really produce a schism in groups of people who say they've beaten a game. I really don't care if you've beaten the game on "Super Easy," you shmuck!

  • What the Crap?: When This Baby Hits 88 MPH

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    Kids these days and their YouTubes and their Vice City mods. In the video I'm about to show you, we see some Marty McFly-like character in a plain red shirt driving around Grand Theft Auto: Vice City in a DeLorean.

  • What the Crap?: Silly Sports Scarcity

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    I know there isn't much sports chatter here @ GameCola, but sports games are a great chance for non-athletic types to juke, putt, dunk, slide tackle, punch, headbutt...whatever your taste may be. In the olden days, sports games weren't simulations; they were what started the idea of "arcade" style, meaning you could sit down with a group of people and play a sport in an unrealistic and fun way, but still stay true to the basic nature of the sport's rules. There's not really that many videogames that do this anymore, and I don't understand why. Such games have a wide audience of both sports fans and multiplayer-game fans, and they're so damn fun to play. If you want a realistic sports game, just watch a real-life sport!

  • What the Crap?: Unlockables

    Columns Columns by Mark Freedman on Comments9

    I hate it when you buy a game and you have to unlock all this shit.

  • What The Crap?: Gamer Garbage

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    No, I'm not talking about your cousin who sucks at videogames. I'm talking about the movie Gamer. As you may have guessed, the movie is about games, but instead of being a movie about a specific video

  • What the Crap?: Voice Chat

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    Is this thing on? You bet your sweet ass it is. But for many, there isn't a "thing." For others, some use this thing as a boom box over their shoulder like it's the 1980s, or they use it to be racist

  • What the Crap?: Street Fighter the Movie the Game the Article the Sequel?

    Columns Columns by Mark Freedman on Comments8

    There are so many videogame name conundrums out there, it boggles the damn mind. Street Fighter is such a great game series. They decided to make a movie based on Street Fighter II, and they called it Street Fighter. Looking at this name…is it supposed to be a prequel to the game? Is it somehow … Continue reading "What the Crap?: Street Fighter the Movie the Game the Article the Sequel?"