Post by Kris on Jun 24, 2014 13:16:49 GMT -5
No one likes to die.
This is pretty much a universally true statement - however - in just about any video game worth its salt, you're probably going to die at least once. And sometimes, the resulting animation/video/cutscene can be pretty f**king awesome.
Last night, after watching World War Z on Netflix - I was reminded of one of the most epic gaming moments of my childhood, which involved the Game Over screen of a little old Capcom dev by the name of Resident Evil 2.
So, I thought I'd share my story with you and see if you've got any epic Game Over screen stories of your own -or- just want to give a shout out to the ones throughout gaming history that you think have done it best.
My Story:
My Cousin Jason and I were about 14 years old, and he was staying over for the weekend. We both loved video games (what kind of mutant 14-year old doesn't?) and we had sequestered ourselves away in my room to play video games for something like 10-hours straight. He had brought over his PlayStation because I had an N64 (I couldn't have lived at the time without GoldenEye in my daily life) it was night time, and we were playing Resident Evil 2.
My Dad really disliked video games, primarily because he felt that they had turned me into the laziest kid he'd ever seen. Except for possibly my cousin Jason. (Side Note: Jason is now a successful Mechanical Engineer in Albuquerque, and I'm a Project Manager for a mid-sized New York fashion company, a freelance journalist, and Social Media Director for SWDTech - our minds were obviously rotted away.) Dad had been up to my room about 12 times during our marathon gaming sesh trying to get us to come down and do pretty much anything else. Primarily activities that involved physical exertion.
The final time that he came up, it was right in the middle of the Mortal Kombat level gore that followed the Game Over screen, there were about 12 zombies munching on our fallen Leon as blood squirted up on the screen and the words "YOU DIED" appeared and the ol' pixelated red red kroovy continued to flow. I thought it was pretty much the coolest thing ever. He disagreed.
"Jesus Christ!" Said Dad. "That's f**king terrible! What the hell are you guys playing?"
"Resident Evil 2." Said Jason. Dad stood with his arms crossed, looking like he was going to pull the plug on us.
"C'mon Dad, it could be worse." I said, trying to stall him as the chomping sounds continued.
"Really? How could it be worse? There are corpses eating a police officer. He's screaming and squirting blood everywhere." Dad had a pretty good point.
I was trying to think of some way to explain what, actually could be worse when my cousin Jason, without even a moment's pause says:
"The policeman could be eating the zombies."
Dad threw up his hands in exhaustion and we got one more hour in before we had to shut it down for sustenance and sleep.
THE END.
This is pretty much a universally true statement - however - in just about any video game worth its salt, you're probably going to die at least once. And sometimes, the resulting animation/video/cutscene can be pretty f**king awesome.
Last night, after watching World War Z on Netflix - I was reminded of one of the most epic gaming moments of my childhood, which involved the Game Over screen of a little old Capcom dev by the name of Resident Evil 2.
So, I thought I'd share my story with you and see if you've got any epic Game Over screen stories of your own -or- just want to give a shout out to the ones throughout gaming history that you think have done it best.
My Story:
My Cousin Jason and I were about 14 years old, and he was staying over for the weekend. We both loved video games (what kind of mutant 14-year old doesn't?) and we had sequestered ourselves away in my room to play video games for something like 10-hours straight. He had brought over his PlayStation because I had an N64 (I couldn't have lived at the time without GoldenEye in my daily life) it was night time, and we were playing Resident Evil 2.
My Dad really disliked video games, primarily because he felt that they had turned me into the laziest kid he'd ever seen. Except for possibly my cousin Jason. (Side Note: Jason is now a successful Mechanical Engineer in Albuquerque, and I'm a Project Manager for a mid-sized New York fashion company, a freelance journalist, and Social Media Director for SWDTech - our minds were obviously rotted away.) Dad had been up to my room about 12 times during our marathon gaming sesh trying to get us to come down and do pretty much anything else. Primarily activities that involved physical exertion.
The final time that he came up, it was right in the middle of the Mortal Kombat level gore that followed the Game Over screen, there were about 12 zombies munching on our fallen Leon as blood squirted up on the screen and the words "YOU DIED" appeared and the ol' pixelated red red kroovy continued to flow. I thought it was pretty much the coolest thing ever. He disagreed.
"Jesus Christ!" Said Dad. "That's f**king terrible! What the hell are you guys playing?"
"Resident Evil 2." Said Jason. Dad stood with his arms crossed, looking like he was going to pull the plug on us.
"C'mon Dad, it could be worse." I said, trying to stall him as the chomping sounds continued.
"Really? How could it be worse? There are corpses eating a police officer. He's screaming and squirting blood everywhere." Dad had a pretty good point.
I was trying to think of some way to explain what, actually could be worse when my cousin Jason, without even a moment's pause says:
"The policeman could be eating the zombies."
Dad threw up his hands in exhaustion and we got one more hour in before we had to shut it down for sustenance and sleep.
THE END.
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