Monthly Archives: February 2006

List of video games considered the worst ever

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Wikipedia’s List of video games considered the worst ever seems like a project that has “Grief Me” written all over it. Worst, best, good, bad, is all so subjective with games — for every game classified as Worst, there’s sure to be a group of players that would call it Best. Of additional interest here, however, are examples of bad design and features that could kill a game: non-intuitive anything, bad graphics, buggy pathing, bad acting, didn’t invite Foton into the beta, etc.

Romero’s id

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GameSpot has a news blurb about John Romero, he of id and Doom fame, and a new (as yet unnamed) MMO that he’s developing. Here’s the announcement on CVG and here’s Romero’s announcement on his own blog.

Romero:

Many people already knew I was making an MMO for about the past 4-5 months but evidently there are a lot more who didn’t know as evidenced by the news blurbs that blasted out today after PC ZONE magazine announced it online.

And the torrent of diarrhea from people’s posts on the net about it confirms just how out-of-date most people’s knowledge of my history is after the id or Ion era. Bunch of L4/\/\3R5!!11one

Ya, really. How the hell did we miss this exciting news that might happen in two or three years?

(What the fuck does he think, we’re all Googling John Romero every day?)

But hey, that IS exciting news and now that I’m onboard, I look forward to trying his MMO in a few years … if it materializes.

Aggro Mgmt Guide

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From the Warcraft forums, Qil of the Emerald Dream realm has written a guide to managing (real life) aggro from wives: Serious Aggro Managers – The Guide. Largely, these are smoke and mirror type strats to divert the wife’s attention from how much time is being consumed by Warcraft. I’d recommend that one of the woman gamers write a similar guide for managing husband aggro, but I think we can all agree that’s just a matter of putting out platters of hotdogs and nachos and turning on the television. (Email tip from Byron.) (Thread archive)