SomethingAwful.com is known for its uncanny ability to poke fun where poking is due. The site recently turned its guns on the video game industry.
Last week’s Photostop Phriday involved lampooning the gaming industry for taking itself too seriously. This weekly feature involves the modification of pictures in a darn funny way to illustrate a preset theme.
The Pretentious Games segment caught a lot of titles in its sights, but World of Warcraft took some really humorous hits. Check it out by clicking here.
It used to be that video games were mind-numbingly simplistic, consisting solely of crude blocks moving around the screen. Now we have incredibly complex stories, stunning full motion video, and amazing interactivity. It's the complex story end that has led to a great deal of pretentiousness seeping into video games. Now it's not just "move the crude block," it's "move the crude block that killed his wife and is haunted by a demon of his own guilt." This week the Something Awful Forum Goons celebrate the introduction of pretentiousness into video games by making them even more self-absorbed and needlessly intellectual. Grab your thinking cap and enjoy, bucko!
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