Favorite Video Games

[Super Buu]

I rented Alundra as a kid. A lot. Then I remembered how much I loved it as a kid, found it on ebay and I realised what a legendary game it was.

On the topic of "hating games most people like", I have a big bone to pick with the MGS series. I don't really hate the game, but I'm sick to death of people telling me how deep it is. You meant 'ambiguous and convoluted'. Not the same thing. Japanese writers also seem to love blatant allegory and 'symbolism'. Like naming your main villain 'Sin' and having things named the A.N.G.E.L. SYSTEM. MGS somehow manages to master both, and convince people it's smart.

I have no problem with people liking it, but stop telling me the story is deep and subtle. Read any book. Shit, if you liked that you're gonna love Harry Potter. It's like people telling me Alien 3 was deep because of the bible references -- no, seriously, that happened. Things do not magically become smarter because you crowbar in lots of blatant references to other things. But the world, and Hideo Kojima, has apparently yet to realise this. Stick to scat jokes and strangling soldiers.