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it's definitely not the best game in the series (although iceborne helped improve a lot of the vanilla release's faults) but it's one of the ones i enjoyed playing the most, and this is why:
1) you pick up a lot of dung in monster hunter world. like, a lot. You're sniffing dung for tracks, you're making bombs out of it, so i think my friends and i decided that canonically the titular Monster Hunter you play as is an extreme scat fetishist. (which, i guess, is fine; i'm not here to yuck your hunters' yum.) but you definitely, definitely play with actual shit often enough for it to be Notable.
2) my character in monster hunter world was a lady with a blonde bobcut, and at one point during the game's early stages when the teostra armor was meta one of my friends made the offhanded comment that she looked like the princess of a fairytale germanic country, if that germanic country was extremely fascist.
3) this resulted in one of the enduring memes in my personal friend group, where my entire time spent playing this game was in character as Princess Glockenspiel of the enduring Kingdom of Glockenspiel, who hunts monsters for pride and sport, and to help fund the economy of the isolated nation through its export of its national dish, which is just literal Shit. I don't know why this is the meme that stuck around, but I really committed to the bit and I can't extricate the experience of live-rping this horrible shit eating fantasy eurotrash woman while bashing and smashing my way through the game.
my time with mh:w is viewed entirely through scheiße colored glasses.
1) you pick up a lot of dung in monster hunter world. like, a lot. You're sniffing dung for tracks, you're making bombs out of it, so i think my friends and i decided that canonically the titular Monster Hunter you play as is an extreme scat fetishist. (which, i guess, is fine; i'm not here to yuck your hunters' yum.) but you definitely, definitely play with actual shit often enough for it to be Notable.
2) my character in monster hunter world was a lady with a blonde bobcut, and at one point during the game's early stages when the teostra armor was meta one of my friends made the offhanded comment that she looked like the princess of a fairytale germanic country, if that germanic country was extremely fascist.
3) this resulted in one of the enduring memes in my personal friend group, where my entire time spent playing this game was in character as Princess Glockenspiel of the enduring Kingdom of Glockenspiel, who hunts monsters for pride and sport, and to help fund the economy of the isolated nation through its export of its national dish, which is just literal Shit. I don't know why this is the meme that stuck around, but I really committed to the bit and I can't extricate the experience of live-rping this horrible shit eating fantasy eurotrash woman while bashing and smashing my way through the game.
my time with mh:w is viewed entirely through scheiße colored glasses.
this game is the metric that i have to gauge the content of any other game by. "this game has so much to do!" someone says, and then i say "but does it have as much content as MH4U?" and invariably it does not. i'm not sure anything does! when will i find the next game that will suck the life and soul out of me like this game did? my life and soul are bad, and i don't want them anymore!
2019
would be a promising visual novel if it was finished
would also be a promising visual novel if the writing was good
would also be a promising visual novel if the writing was good
2018
proof that they'll just give a bafta to anyone these days
1998
yall remember when this came out and square was like "woah, nobody liked our ff7 crossover game; we shouldn't try that again"?
unrelated: do you think humanity is doomed to repeat its mistakes over and over until its ultimate undoing, or nah, we good fam?
unrelated: do you think humanity is doomed to repeat its mistakes over and over until its ultimate undoing, or nah, we good fam?
one day a nice gay person found a monkey's paw and wished for more positive queer representation in games, and this is the result of that detached hand's index finger curling inward
a game that is definitely queer representation, written entirely by straight people who either hate queer people or think they're the punchline to a joke. i think i would kind of prefer if the creators of the game just subjected me to a hate crime instead, to be honest; at least that would be sincere
a game that is definitely queer representation, written entirely by straight people who either hate queer people or think they're the punchline to a joke. i think i would kind of prefer if the creators of the game just subjected me to a hate crime instead, to be honest; at least that would be sincere
2007
as far as games that take place in the last few synapses firing inside a dying man's brain go, this is way more family friendly than bloodborne (at least until frederic chopin starts trying to line the inside of his piano with eyes)
backloggd dot com doesn't let you post gifs, so imagine in your mind's eye that i've just posted that one gif of trinity the tuck from rupaul's drag race clapping while shouting "WHERE. ARE. THE JOKES!?" because i can't imagine anything else i could say being more succinct
on the one hand, it's a true hidden gem with an amazing story and a killer soundtrack. on the other, one of your party members is a gay vampire pro wrestler whose personal sidequest involves defeating 100 diaper-wearing men named after curries at a pro-wrestling event called "The Man Festival," which ends with said gay vampire pro wrestler earning the prize of getting to bottom for the previous winner, and idk about you, but that's exactly the kind of queer representation i can get behind (dumb, horny)
2020
can someone Tell Me Why™ nothing fucking happens in this game
features an impossibly generous depiction of a future san francisco, which is depicted as clean and technologically progressive; i guaranfuckingtee you that by 2064 the city will be a disgusting shit-scented garbage island run by ruthless mad-max style rival tribes based on their district of origin before it is inevitably destroyed by the war between soma's cannibal techno-yuppies and the mission's anarcho-queer doomsday cult. (the upper class will have long left the surface behind in the salesforce tower, which now hovers over the remains of the city, its occupants laughing and clinking glasses of champagne together as they watch the trash pyre at pacific heights burn)
2020
the only game to accurately depict the famous arthurian legend where queen guenivere dies in the corner of a room because she couldn't maneuver around a small piece of debris in her path
2014
on the one hand it kind of really earnestly leans into the cringy mid-aughts college comedy film but with all the characters replaced by stereotypically fit, conventionally attractive gay men, but on the other hand there is a sequence where you get really high and then decide to shove your pet goldfish up your ass, and then you get eifell towered by the two EMTs who show up to get said fish out of your ass while maurice ravel's bolero plays in the background
(also: the emts are twins)
(also: the emts are twins)
2010
miranda lawson gatekept so young ladies of today could gaslight and girlboss without fear
2007
the premise of this pulpy, style-over-substance game amounts to something like 'what if quentin tarantino's kill bill was just about some NEET otaku with irritable bowel syndrome'. also has one of those GOAT video game soundtracks you always hear people talking about; i've spent the last fifteen years trying to figure out what the lyrics to pleather for breakfast are- what the fuck is she saying? nobody seems to be able to agree and it keeps me up at night