» Top Lists

• Top 10 Lamest Mega Man Bosses

  

  Written by Zeromage 24 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.

  (more…)

• Top 5 Musical Countries

  

  Written by Zeromage 89 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.

  (more…)

• Ten Steps to Making a Successful FPS

  

  Written by Zeromage 30 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.

  (more…)

• 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.

  (more…)

• 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.

  (more…)

• Top 11 Video Game Endings

  

  Written by Zeromage 103 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.

  (more…)

• Top 5 Worst Van Damme Movies

  

  Written by Zeromage 14 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.

  (more…)

• The Top 10 Reasons the Wii Has Dominated the PS3

  

  Written by Zeromage 228 Comments
  Last Updated:: November 9, 2008

  After Nintendo’s utter domination of Sega in every single platform generation, a new console war was started between Sony and Nintendo.  Sony thought it would try to take on the Nintendo franchise and learn from the mistakes of Sega. Sony succeeded in large part by beating out Nintendo with the Playstation 1 and 2. But a debate now occurs between what the better system is between the Wii and the PS3 in this most modern generation of platform gaming. Nintendo fan boys or not, the Wii is the clear winner over the PS3 for plenty of different reasons. In this list, we will go through these reasons to make clear why the Wii clearly dominates the PS3.

  (more…)

• Top 10 Video Game Quotes

  

  Written by Zeromage 47 Comments
  Last Updated:: November 7, 2008

  Its a well known fact that nerds love quotes, whether they’re video game quotes, movie quotes or almost anything else a nerd likes. Most people who know a nerd personally will tell you that its hard to have a conversation with him or her without hearing a quote from Star Wars or Indiana Jones at some point in the discussion. Whether the conversation is about politics, religion or even what’s for dinner tonight, you’re likely to hear “I find your lack of faith disturbing” or some other random quote from the nerd’s favorite movie. All the staff members here at Old-Wizard.com are guilty of this behavior, and are able to quote all of the original Star Wars movies, Monty Python episodes or Lord of the Rings books on command (and our wives and girlfriends will tell you that we do it all the time). With that in mind, here are our top 10 video game quotes of all time:

  (more…)

• Top 10 Problems with Modern TV

  

  Written by Zeromage 16 Comments
  Last Updated:: November 6, 2008

  TV really angers us here at Old-Wizard these days. We remember growing up and watching all those great cartoons and even “real life” sitcoms like Seinfeld that were both unique and entertaining. The TV medium today is an utter disaster. It seems that more TV programs are produced and directed by marketing departments than by professional writers. No wonder why there was a writer’s strike just a few months ago. Creativity has once again suffered at the hands of those who have no creativity but like to meet with other “professionals” at fancy restaurants convinced that their lives have any meaning whatsoever. In this list we will go through the problems with the era of Modern TV in hopes of raising awareness to an entertainment medium that could be much greater.

  (more…)
• «
• « Newer
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
• 7
• Older »
• »