Sorry it took so long to get to this, but I just wasn't feeling up to it...
Because your old pal is lazy. But if you remember many blogs ago, I listed the top 10 shockingest (lol, fake word) moments in video game history. I promised 5-1 but it never happened. So the wait is finally over.
Sorry, I'm alone this time.
#5- Halo 2
If there's one thing that Bungie can do, it's raking in cold hard cizzash! (Proof that the cool is not for everyone) Halo 3 was one of the best games of 2007 (or at least according to SOME people :evil: )The only thing that people knew going in to 3 was that they were going to finish the fight, why? Because at the end of Halo 2, you beat the giant monkey man and save the ninth dimension, (or whatever it was...) Master Chief says, "Sir, finishing this fight". And you think your Xbox is broken because the screen goes to black, and then.... THE CREDITS?!?!?!?!? THIS IS IT??? How anti-climactic...
#4-- Metroid
Okay, you may already know where I'm going with this.... Metroid was one of the most groundbreaking, revolutionary games on the NES, and at the end when you defeat the mother brain, you find out that Samus Aran...
IS A CHICK!!! When I first played it, I had no idea! Who WOULD'VE?!?!?!?!
You admit she's kinda hot though...
#3-- Final Fantasy VII (MAJOR SPOILER ALERT!!!)
Cloud vs. Sephiroth. The debate will go on, as to who the cooler character is, but there's no question who the bigger butthead is.
Aeris was a character that was only a one time gimmick, it's not like she could've come back in VIII, because...
During one point in the story, Sephiroth just comes down from the ceiling, (like a Wallmaster, hate those things so much...) and just sticks his sword through Aeris's chest! (crickets)... and... kills her? (gasps) not only being one of the most shocking, but also one of the saddest. It gave even the toughest of gamers, a good reason to cry at a video game... when they had extra lives.
#2 Call of Duty 4--
One thing that should not be joked about, however, is nuclear warfare. At one point in the story when you make it to the helicopter fly away and think you're ready for you're next mission.
BOOM!!!
An atom bomb explodes in a shockwave that devours everything in it's path, even throwing a fellow soldier off the helicopter! It's only explored even more when you take control of your fallen US soldier to survey the scenes of this nuclear wasteland. If you weren't shocked when this happened, you have... no... soul...
Well, that's marketable at least...
OKAY, recap time...
#10- Star Wars: KOTOR- Bad guy swerve
#9- Eternal Darkness- Erased Memory
#8- Mortal Kombat- FATALITY!
#7- GTA III- The... you-know-what.
#6- Resident Evil 5 trailer
#5- Halo 2 ending
#4- Samus is a CHICK?!?
#3- Oh my god, they killed Aeris!
#2- Call of Duty 4- The nuke
Here it is... the most shocking ever...
#1-- Super Mario Bros.
Without a doubt, the golden age of gaming, and electronics themselves, was the 80's. And this was a game that was quite a challenge for it's time. It was different from the arcades that most were used to. But, for now, just imagine yourself as a kid, playing a game you thought was absolutely impossible. Trying to find out how to get past those dang koopas. Then one day, it finally happens...
You defeat the evil king koopa and SAVE THE MUSHROOM KINGDOM! FINALLY! He falls into the lava, you walk over to see a toad who tell y--... wait...
"Thank you Mario, but our princess is in another castle..."
You're a kid, and you manage utter the big mother of all words, and wind up with a bar of soap in your mouth.
Sure, today, most of us can breeze through Mario like it's nothing at all, but back then, skills weren't quite what they are today, and making it to the end of a level was a BIG. DEAL. So finding out that you weren't even half done after all that work was quite a slap to the face. That is why it's Number One.
Sorry, but I was in a rush to finish this, so it may not be so great.
...dang Toad...
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