10.The Elder Scrolls game is bigger than Britain

Many RPG players stick to core missions / stories. They listen carefully to the tutorials and methodically work through the remaining side missions once they finish with the main game. There is another type of gamer: those who treat open world type games as the name suggests. Many gamers have delighted to hit the road, be it the vast frozen lands of Skyrim or the sprawling city of San Andreas from the GTA series, and randomly do whatever they want. However, these worlds have a border. You can only travel so far before hitting the game wall. Some maps are larger than others. The map for the second installment in Bethesda Softworks’ popular Elder Scrolls series, “The Elder Scroll II: Daggerfall,” is huge. Bethesda, the publishers of the game, claim that the world map is roughly equal to the size of the island of Great Britain. Maybe a little bigger. Where it takes most players a few tens of minutes to cross the map in your typical large open-world game, Daggerfall takes days. The best time so far is 61 hours and 54 minutes (!). The record for running the 874 miles from Land’s End to John o’Gorates in Britain is 9 days, so Daggerfall is huge, but it takes longer to walk through a real map equivalent, although real humans tend to have blisters. So again, you won’t find as many centaurs, spriggans, and boar men.

9.A Strange Dark Souls World Record

Gaming world records are usually quite mundane: sprinting, high scores in arcade games, and record times in racing games. An avid gamer, however, found a novel way to get his name in the record books. Benjamin “Bearzly” Winn of Edmonton, Canada set the record for successful completions of the PC version of the devilishly difficult Lovecraftian RPG ‘Dark Souls’, all using different types of game controllers. He put together a total of 9 finished games with the different controllers, from the mundane to the seemingly impossible. “Bearzly” used: A Wiimote
An Xbox 360 controller (with 1 finger)
A steering wheel
A dance mat
A microphone (implementing voice control)
A “Rock Band” guitar
A “Rock Band” piano
A “Rock Band” drummer
And a couple of “Donkey Kong” Bongos Fair play.

8.’Duke Nukem Forever (Took) Forever

The gaming community is not known for its patience. When players have to wait another year for a promised game to be released, it better be at least 9.5 / 10, lest you release a hate kraken online. One of the most notorious mistakes after a long delay was ‘Duke Nukem Forever’. First, the game was kept from its release for 14 years (announced in 1997, released in 2011!). That’s as long as it takes a child to get from birth to the end of elementary school, have a bar or bat mitzvah, and most of the non-head hairs come out. Second, at the end of it all, your rewards were a copy of ‘Duke Nukem Forever’, one of the most boring games ever released. Fortunately for developers, Duke’s “Enforcer” (a twin rocket launcher) is not commercially available for long-time fans to purchase.

7.That’s the name of the game

We all know “Tiger Woods PGA Tour”, “Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!”, “Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater” and … “Emlyn Hughes International Soccer”? Not? How about “Shirley Muldowney’s Top Fuel Challenge”? Ok, that’s less likely. Over the years there have been many obscure celebrity endorsed video game titles – sometimes the game stays dark, sometimes it’s the celebrity who’s not as well known, sometimes they’re downright weird. DS game ‘Who’s Cooking? with Jamie Oliver ‘, a cooking simulator where the player prepares some recipes from the English chef’s repertoire. That’s. Some have said that there is an easter egg hidden in the game – you can induce the fake healthy eating advocate to cry profusely on screen if you manage to cook a turkey twizzler gumbo. But that’s probably just an urban legend. Another odd one is the 1986 Commodore 64 / ZX Spectrum title “Peter Shilton’s Handball Maradona,” a soccer game in which you control one player, rather than the entire team. That player is then England goalkeeper Peter Shilton. So why is the legendary Argentine player Maradona in the title? Well, at the 1986 FIFA World Cup, Diego Maradona scored a very controversial goal (he used his hand very clearly, which is a foul), which led to England losing the match and being out of the tournament. To cash in on this sensational scandal, the game’s developers dumped the words “Maradona” and “Handball” into the title, ostensibly to cash in on the prominence of the event. The teams in the game are all teams from the English National League, a league Diego Maradona never played in. One of the weirdest celebrity games of all time is the 1991 Japanese game ‘Gorby no PipelineDaisakusen’ for MSX2. The ‘FM Towns’ gaming PC variant from Famicom and Fujitsu. This Tetris-style game tasks you with building an oil pipeline from Moscow, then in the USSR, to Tokyo to improve diplomatic relations between the two states. “Gorby” refers to Mikhail Gorbachev, the prime minister of the USSR, who appears in cartoon form on the cover of the game, the birthmark and all! Three months after the game’s release, the USSR was dissolved. The plans for the “Yeltsin Daisakusen Vodka Distillery” were never realized.

6.A Nightmare Funded by a Crowd

Waiting years and years for Duke Nukem Forever to release must have been frustrating for fans, but that’s nothing compared to the ‘Star Citizen’ saga. After first launching a Kickstarter to develop the game in 2010, English game developer Chris Roberts, known for creating the “Wing Commander” game series, has yet to give participants a release date. That’s it despite raising $ 339 million in pledges! The ins and outs why and why are too numerous to cover in detail here; It goes without saying that if the “Star Citizen” affair just fades away and no games are released, it will be considered one of the biggest scams of the digital age.

5.game over

We’ve all done it – we played a low-budget or no-budget crappy video game on Steam or miniclip.com (in the past), or after buying a cheap 300-in-1 PC game bundle *** INCLUDES DUNKY KANG! ‘(Long ago). These types of games have one thing in common: they all suck. The defining game of this sub-genre of games is the wacky unlicensed craptastic ‘Hong Kong 97’, released in 1995. It was designed by a Japanese fan ‘Kowloon’ Kurasawa, packed with terrible level design, graphics and a gruesome story. You play as ‘Chin’, a heroin-addicted super soldier and cousin of Bruce Lee, tasked by the Hong Kong government with killing the people of China, not a small number of people, due to a chaotic influx of immigrants from the mainland. to the island city-state after the 1997 handover from the UK … hell, maybe it was prophetic. This game is often considered the “worst game of all time”. But that’s not the reason this game is notable among the thousands of titles that float in the cesspool of shitty games. There is a photo of a real corpse displayed on the “Game Over” screen. No kidding here. A real dead person. Out of this came a whole conspiracy theory (which was much more interesting than the game itself). Some claimed it was the body of a Polish boxer named Leszek B? TO? Y? Ski, who committed suicide 3 years before the game was released. Was he really murdered, the one still used in the game taken from a video recording taken by the killers of him? Did China participate in it, perhaps in retaliation for speaking out against the recently reached trade agreements between the CCP and Poland? It turns out that the designer took a screenshot of a mondo movie from “Faces of Death” that included footage from the Bosnian war. So who was the corpse? A dead fighter from the war in Bosnia. God, this game sucks.

4.Chris Houlihan and his secret room

The title of this post sounds a lot creepier than it should. Chris Houlihan was not (as far as can be determined) a CIA torturer or serial killer. He was once a kid who won a cool award. In 1990, Nintendo Power Magazine organized an incredible competition: Participants had to submit photos of themselves with Warmech from the Final Fantasy franchise. The winner was a young man named Chris Houlihan. Your prize from him? He has his own secret room in the SuperNES version of the game “The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past”. Chris Houlihan is now immortal.

3.The guy who’s been playing sports management simulator for 333 years

Dedication to one’s work is often upheld as a primary ideal of modern society. No one represents this as well as Sepp Hedel, a German man who took it upon himself to accomplish the often thankless, exhausting and high-pressure job of leading a number of soccer teams. For over 300 years, in a video game, of course, Germany’s world record holder played ‘Football Manager 2017’. He began his virtual career with FC United of Manchester, staying with the club for 50 years. He then moved to India, where he administered Bengaluru for 200 years. He ended his career in England with Hereford FC, leading the small-town market team to 45 league titles in 83 seasons. How long did Sepp play the game in real terms? 81 days. Or 1,940 hours. When life-prolonging biotechnology becomes commercially available, Sepp should probably go for the record of managing a football team for 300 IRL years. Or he doesn’t count …

2.How to Make a Gorier Horror Game

No matter how many flying intestines and geyser-level blood jets you add to a game, there will always be the protective barrier that is the screen / monitor. You will not be “in” the game world itself … yet, although it is yet to come. When “Resident Evil 4” was released to much fanfare in 2005, players were treated to another release from the franchise loaded with fear. But someone, somewhere, must have expressed how disappointingly mundane the game was. This prompted NubyTech to release a special controller for the game, usable on GameCube or PS2: a blood-spattered chainsaw controller. Either that, or this was another “collectible” add-on to squeeze as much money as humanly possible from gamers. Still, it’s another controller for “Bearzly” Winn to beat Dark Souls with.

1.Taking the obsession too far

There are many urban legends and creepypastas associated with video games, from the story of ‘Ben Drowned’ about ‘The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask’ to the infamous urban legend of ‘Polybius’ about a 1980s arcade game that is Rumored to have caused several dire symptoms, placed in arcades by mysterious men dressed in black, the gaming world is no stranger to scary stories. The ‘House of Final Fantasy VII’ case actually happened. Probably. Much like the ‘Star Citizen’ thing, the ‘Final Fantasy House’ story is too long and tortuous to cover in a list cycle (watch the video above), but here’s a breakdown to help you rappel down the rabbit hole; After doing more research, you can decide if you believe this strange story – the story, in short, is that two individuals referred to as ‘Jenova’ and ‘Hojo’ attracted people to live with them. Jenova then convinced these tenants that they were all reincarnations of characters from the game, coercing and controlling as a manic cult leader. Given the hours that many people spend glued to the screens, immersing themselves in an alternate reality where they can be heroes, perhaps. this urban legend is really true