OMGLists contributor, co-worker, and all around good guy Ben Karl has started up another GamePro blog site, OMGMetalGear. To celebrate the site's birth, Ben has concocted a wonderful list about death. It's the Ten Best Metal Gear Deaths!
Check out OMGLists "8 Blatant Loading Screen Cover-ups"! If you can help us come up with more entries you might win prizes beyond your wildest dreams! Hit the jump for the juicy details!
Back in the early days of disc-based gaming, companies weren't afraid of sticking a "Now Loading" screen in your face every two minutes. Now, companies employ stupid tricks to avoid them. Here's the worst ones:
8- Katamari Damacy's King of Cosmos chatter
Admittedly, the King's loading screen appearances were a welcomed interruption at first. However, as with all loading screens, they got extremely repetitive and obnoxious. At first we laughed at the King and his nonsensical statements. Eventually phrases like, "Maybe We'll invent a Cosmic Esperanto." made our eyes roll back into our skulls. These wouldn't even make the writers of SNL laugh. Shut your trap and just let us roll some more buses, dad.
In case you haven't checked it out recently, OMG Network sister site OMGNintendo has been a great read since its inception, and that's not intra-corporation brown-nosing. It really is a great site for all things Nintendo. While there's plenty great to read there, I've loved--what else?--the lists the site has put up thus far, ranking the top doctors and pirates to appear in titles on Nintendo consoles. They're comprehensive about bizarre categories, which is what I love to see in a list. I'd love to see more lists of this ilk, which is why I've complied a few character categories I'd like to see listed by OMGNintendo after the jump.
Is there any aspect of gaming more trite and boring than the save point? Besides all of Madden NFL Football? It's gotten to the point where if man encountered a floating glowing object in the middle of the street, his first instinct would be to save his progress, then OD on horse tranquilizers in the hope that he'd return to that spot (or maybe that's just us). You've got to hand it to the select developers that took an hour to think up something to save data besides a cheery innkeeper. And hand it to them, we shall. We're listing the 6 Sweetest Save Points in Gaming, and in honor of them, we've inserted a save point at the end of this paragraph. Just put your finger on the upcoming asterisk, and your progress will be saved, dear reader! **
6- Typewriter, Resident Evil series
Using a typewriter makes sense in Resident Evil's land of demon dogs and mutant zombies. Type in your current status, how many gems you've put in the lion statue in the police station lobby, and how many acid rounds are in the grenade launcher you've found in the pantry, indent, double space, and voila! You're assured of respawn when the giant snake bites your head off.
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