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• Slapstic.com’s Review of Old-Wizard

  

  Written by Zeromage 2 Comments
  Last Updated:: November 29, 2008

  As many of you know, Old-Wizard has caused quite a bit of controversy within the online gaming community. And while we always love to post up lengthy Youtube video rants made by our detractors (who seem to have a lot of time on their hands), we thought it was time we showed you that we do get a lot of positive feedback as well. Which brings us to today’s post. A while back our pals over at Slapstic.com reviewed our humble little website. We probably should have mentioned this review a while ago, but being the lazy bastards that we are, we’re doing it now (What are you going to do about it?) Read on to see a few of our favorite quotes from the review and of course the link to the full review itself.

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• Top 10 Lamest Mega Man Bosses

  

  Written by Zeromage 27 Comments
  Last Updated:: November 28, 2008

  When Mega Man 1 came out for the NES, it was appropriate that the basic elements were represented as bosses in the game. After Mega Man 1 though, there was Mega Man 2 and 3 which had some of the most innovative bosses in the series. Who could forget the likes of Gemini Man and Snake Man who both made our “Top Ten Bosses from the Mega Man series” list. After Mega Man 3 though, the games decreased in quality and along with this decrease, the creative ideas for the bosses decreased. In this list, we will go through the robot masters that blew our mind in how poor they were as ideas for bosses.

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• Top 5 Musical Countries

  

  Written by Zeromage 101 Comments
  Last Updated:: November 25, 2008

  The 20th century of music saw a shift from the opulent and sophisticated modes of classical music, to music more as a mode of self-expression. The classiness of classical music saw its demise with pop music that was able to be communicated to anyone whether rich or poor. Who would capitalize on this medium the most? Which country would deliver the best music in this new medium? In this list, we will go through the top 5 music countries of modern of times. Unlike other lists, this list was easy to write. The choices came quickly. Some people will obviously be angry at a couple of the omissions on this list, but nonetheless, we speak with a conviction that will rise above the rabble.

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• Ten Steps to Making a Successful FPS

  

  Written by Zeromage 31 Comments
  Last Updated:: November 23, 2008

  With the release of “Left 4 Dead” for the Xbox 360, First Person Shooter (FPS) fans have come crawling out of their closets in as great of numbers as the zombies that attack you in these games. What’s the appeal of the first person shooter that makes these gamers keep coming back for more? In this list we’ll go through the ten steps needed to make a FPS that some gamers call “amazing” with sheepish predictability. The steps are fairly simple and are used in most, if not all the FPS games that have been released since Doom 1. Once the awareness of the predictability becomes more conscious, then maybe gamers will expect more out of these types of games.

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• Top 10 Things I Like, By DestructoMaximo

  

  Written by destructomaximo 27 Comments
  Last Updated:: November 20, 2008

  Since web lists are completely self-serving, narcissistic, and most times downright troll-ish, I thought I’d finally stop beating around the bush. Instead of the normal OW list explaining off our opinion as fact, I thought I’d make an honest list: Top 10 Things I like, by Destructo.

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• Video Game Review: Left 4 Dead

  

  Written by Zeromage 32 Comments
  Last Updated:: November 18, 2008

  Valve releases Left 4 Dead with as much fanfare as any game before it. For the past couple of weeks all we keep hearing from our readers is “Review Left 4 Dead, review Left 4 Dead”. Well, we have played it, and we’re reviewing it now. Unfortunately for this game though, there wasn’t much to review as it replicated most of the modern day first person shooter video games that we’ve played so many times before. You’ve got guns, you’ve got zombies, and you’ve got dark rooms. Snore Fest even after playing through the first scenario.

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• Top 10 Video Game Clichés

  

  Written by Zeromage 123 Comments
  Last Updated:: November 16, 2008

  Clichés are found in everything from music to movies to anything where creativity finds a home. This is no different with the video game medium, which mimics past ideas to no end. Why tamper with a formula for success? Repetition has been the basis of our great civilization, and so it comes as no surprise that there are numerous clichés in the video game medium. Some of the clichés we can do with. Some of them actually make us happy when we see them all the time. Others however are just plain annoying and we will go through these in this list. Here then are the top 10 most used clichés in video game history.

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• Mail Bag: November 14th, 2008

  

  Written by Sage 8 Comments
  Last Updated:: November 14, 2008

  As many of you know, our “Top 10 Signs That You’re a Hardcore Gamer” list ruffled a few feathers. In this edition of our Mail Bag, Sage responds to one of the more angry emails we received:

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• Top 11 Video Game Endings

  

  Written by Zeromage 104 Comments
  Last Updated:: November 13, 2008

  The Video Game Ending. It’s what every gamer seeks when playing the game. Gamers spend hours trying to conquer a game just to be able to see the resolution of their whole adventure or lack thereof. Sometimes tragedy strikes in the ending of the game, alluding to a subsequent game in the series. Sometimes the ending of a game just plain sucks like the end of Ghost’s n’ Goblins. Bad endings can ruin the experience of a whole game, which we will cover in a future list. For now though, we’ll go through the games with the best endings video game history. Making the choices were hard, and objectivity in these cases is always treading the line of subjectivity. Nevertheless, these are the endings that stood out the most for us.

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• Top 5 Worst Van Damme Movies

  

  Written by Zeromage 15 Comments
  Last Updated:: November 12, 2008

  On the eve of Van Damme’s new movie where he plays himself in real life, we decided it would be fun to put together his five worst movies. Of course, the amount of bad movies that Van Damme was in are numerous. One could easily make a list of Van Damme’s worst movies and include every single one he’s ever made. However, there were some exceptionally bad movies where he was the protagonist that not only involved his poor acting, but poor screenplays to combine with the bad acting into some of the worst movies of all time. It’s been said that Van Damme’s new movie will be his best because he is actually acting like himself (meaning consistently losing banal action hero roles to Steven Seagal). If it is, he will at least have one movie under his belt that he could be proud of in his 20 some odd years of acting.

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