*Take the next couple of paragraphs extremely seriously*
Plumbers Don't Wear Ties (Hereby referred to as PDWT) is probably the greatest game of all time for not only making a great parody of one of the worst series in the world, but also innovating across all genres of gaming. Just like my previous blog entry, this'll be updated whenever I feel like it. I'm not sure what James Rolfe a.k.a The Angry Video Game Nerd was thinking when he called PDWT the worst game he ever played. I admit I was at one point a fan of The Nerd, but after calling my favourite game a piece of ****, I just had to draw the line. There are many of his fans out there. If you are in fact one of them, stay awhile and listen...Err, read before Yuki throws a Wiimote at you. She means business and no, I don't feel like even attempting to stop her, not that I could.
Anywho, let's start with the title itself: Plumbers Don't Wear Ties. It's a game about...Plumbers not wearing ties, or at least you'd think so! As The Nerd pointed out in his 'review', at one point, the main character in fact wears a tie. It broke expectations people! You'd think of something lame as a plumber not wearing a tie when you read the title, but when you play the game, your expectations get blown away! The main character, a plumber, wears a tie!
Other developers have followed suit in naming their games in an incredibly misleading way, though to nowhere near the same degree of effectiveness, in fact it may have even backfired on the developers. Let's go through some examples shall we?
There is no Super Mario Galaxy in Super Mario Galaxy. I spent forty, yes, forty hours trying to find out if there was going to be a Super Mario Galaxy. I found Good Egg, Space Junk, Melty Molten, Battlerock, and a whole bunch of other galaxies, but alas, no Super Mario Galaxy. This was one time where Nintendo shouldn't have followed PDWT's example or better yet, should've called it No Super Mario Galaxy. At least then I'd know what to expect and wouldn't be disappointed.
Devil May Cry? Oh you've gotta be kidding me. You can't even figure out what to make the player expect so you can smash their expectations? A devil might cry in this game. A devil might not. I have no idea what to expect with such a title so I expect everything. When I say I expect everything, that excludes boredom, and they manage to shatter that expectation. Again, terrible naming.
I'm not even going to get started on Metal Gear Solid...
Halo? Same with Super Mario Galaxy, I expected to see a halo somewhere, but unfortunately, I can't look at what's above my head. I then get told that the landmass I happen to be sitting on is a halo ring. Wait, the halo ring is THAT huge!? Oh come on! I'm shooting miniscule things on some gifreakingnormous person's halo ring floating above their head? Why can't I play as that guy!? As seen in just about every single RPG, anyone with a halo ring above their heads has super awesome powers. The guy I'm playing as has none. Should've named the game No Halo...
Final Fantasy VII? What's up with that!? Starting a series with an arbitrary number like seven!? And calling the game Final when a bunch of sequels came out later? The first game wasn't even that good! Why call it final as in ultimate all the time when it just sets things up for disappointment.
Whenever I update this, I'll get onto the story.
