Summer Games Challenge 2014

[noiseredux]

sounds awesome, blu. Yeah, if you have maracas then that's a good pick.

BTW, I'm not making a list this year - I'm pretty sure that was obvious by now. But I'll be keeping an eye on this thread. My idea is that I never finish the list anyway, and just end up playing what I feel like. So I'll do that this year without the list. But this thread may certainly inspire me to "feel like" playing what some of you are playing.

[Ack]

sounds awesome, blu. Yeah, if you have maracas then that's a good pick.

BTW, I'm not making a list this year - I'm pretty sure that was obvious by now. But I'll be keeping an eye on this thread. My idea is that I never finish the list anyway, and just end up playing what I feel like. So I'll do that this year without the list. But this thread may certainly inspire me to "feel like" playing what some of you are playing.

This is why my list is really only five games, with five in reserve. My list is also composed of games that I genuinely want to see through to the end, though they also feature some frustrations. If I beat the first five, I figure I'm done. If I don't but beat a couple of the reserves...meh, same deal. I only want to beat five, just like I beat on my list last year. After that, I'll have made it through some more classics and expanded my gaming knowledge.

That said, Daikatana is rough. I played a little more last night and made it through the first stage of the Crematorium, but on getting through the second stage the game crashed. But the game has issues: terrible AI, weapons that are cool ideas but suffer serious drawbacks when using(the chain-shotgun being the worst offender for guns I want to like but can't), and the level designs are horrendous. I just gotta make it to the Daikatana...just gotta get there and start time traveling.

If Dave can include Typing of the Dead for his reasons of being a niche cult classic, Illbleed also fits these criteria in terms of survival horror cult classic. If his retort has sufficient persuasiveness, I will switch it to Samba de Amigo.

Typing of the Dead is the best known, most collected, and highest regarded game in the typing-game genre.

Illbleed is a little known, poorly reviewed, and little sought-after game in a reasonably popular genre with many, many superior games. Samba would be a much better pick.

poorly reviewed? Little sought-after?

WRONG!

@Blu, unless you have maracas, I'd go w/ the CULT CLASSIC Dreamcast exclusive Illbleed.

(EDIT: Ok, so probably poorly reviewed, but it is sought after cuz it's a DC exclusive and it's awesome...)

Illbleed earned around the 60% range in reviews. Take that how you will. It is a sought-after hidden gem of the DC's survival horror library(which is wonderful. If you like survival horror, you should get a Dreamcast folks), but it is a cult classic of the genre.

The Typing of the Dead, on the other hand, is a cult classic game as well, but it is a classic of a niche subgenre(typing games are a subgenre of edutainment games) and is more well known than other titles in the subgenre like Mario Teaches Typing, Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, Learn with Pokemon: Typing Adventure, etc.

[AppleQueso]

Frankly I find it really hard to imagine that Typing of the Dead is actually more well known than Mavis Beacon.

[fastbilly1]

I would say it is not, but Typing of the Dead is a game first and foremost. Mavis Beacon is a teaching device.

[noiseredux]

Frankly I find it really hard to imagine that Typing of the Dead is actually more well known than Mavis Beacon.

I agree. There was even a Mavis Beacon reference on The Office.

[Ack]

If I say "Typing video game," what do you guys think of?

[prfsnl_gmr]

If I say "Typing video game," what do you guys think of?

Mario Teaches Typing

[AppleQueso]

If I say "Typing video game," what do you guys think of?

Actually Mario Teaches Typing comes to mind first for me (darn you, prof-gammer!!), but a place like Racketboy is going to be a pretty biased sample.

I'd think the only reason why most people wouldn't say "Mavis Beacon" to that question is because most people don't tend to think of it as a "video game" at all.

[Stark]

If I say "Typing video game," what do you guys think of?

Icarus Proudbottom Teaches Typing!

[alienjesus]

If I say "Typing video game," what do you guys think of?

Icarus Proudbottom Teaches Typing!

This game is amazing and everyone should play it