Almost Every Game is a laughably, obscene, repulsive, detestable, offensive, abhorrent, repugnant, abominable, execrable, odious, ignoble, unhandable, ugly, stupid, smelly, rotten, no-good excuse for a “game.” Not only does it lack even a pathetic imitation of 3D graphics, it also fails to include any Mel Gibson-voiced characters.
Instead, it usually relies on antiquated 2D hand-drawn graphics, sometimes even failing to make us believe that the game environment is real. Its developer is a single acne-ridden male who suffers from a chronic case of trench mouth, as well as an unspeakable sucking neck wound, probably incurred by a unfortunate accident with one of his 101 incontinent Dalmatians.
Yes, this is a review of Almost Every Game in the whole wide world. Except, of course, those with the following shining attributes:
All games developed by a single person just piss us off. There is nothing more annoying and aggravating then to download a game, expecting a multimillion-dollar graphics bonanza, and getting some little ball of shit banged out by some unpaid wannabe over a two-year period. That really burns our blood clots.
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An Independent Game Developer hard at work.
Nothing could possibly be more disgusting and repugnant than a game not developed by an industry-experienced team of fifty 30-somethings. Why these people think they have the goddamned right to write their own bloody game, we just don’t know. And the worst of it is, some of them even have the gall to encourage gamers to exercise their synapses as part of the “gameplay.”
More like “gamework!”
Screw you, independent developers. You suck monkey-nuncles. For your inconsiderate crimes against humanity, we award you all a shit-smeared 11.0. May you die from an incurable, painful disease at a tragically young age, and may thistle grow over your forgotten mass grave.
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Evening came. The tempest faded to a distant howl, and all was quiet on the homestead. The mournful strains of a solitary bagpipe drifted over the darkened hills . . .
Posted by jan at December 9, 2003 07:53 PM | TrackBackSee... I was going to suggest you take a look at Joseph Duchesne's site and review his... erm... "game(s)". But looks like you've covered that rather well (and I might add, uncerimoniously) already.
Posted by: Anklosaur on December 9, 2003 11:06 PMWill someone please lay a charge of buckshot into the buttocks of that accursed piper! Damned fool's driving me potty with all that caterwaul!
Posted by: aussie boy on December 10, 2003 02:17 AMWhat, praytell, should an ex-independent game developer do with all that extra time?
Perhaps they should devote themselves to a more noble endeavor, such as running a website devoted to cheap laughs at anothers expense. Hopefully they'll be more successful.
Then maybe I'd have something to laugh at, because the utter failure of this site to produce anything resembling wit or humor has bored me to tears.
Posted by: Number279 on December 10, 2003 06:45 AMBest... review... ever!!!
Posted by: Fringe on December 10, 2003 09:52 AMSounds like Number279 owns the website you linked to. HA!
Posted by: fuddes on December 10, 2003 10:26 AMWhere is your holliday spirit?
You're a bad person.
Hey Number297, if you don't like it here, the door's right over there, don't let it hit you in the ass on the way out. Buh-bye now.
Indeed,
alt.software-reviews.nicey-nicey is over -> there
Belvedere! Forget the piper! Lay that buckshot into the buttocks of Number279!
We'll teach that jackanapes to come sniffing around here with his haughty airs!
And then it's off to the club for a shot of Daddy Mulguthrie's Yellow-Tongue Gin on ice. Mmmmm! Smooth as gravel!
Posted by: aussie boy on December 10, 2003 03:55 PMMay I suggest Spiderweb Software as the exception that proves the rule? It's more or less just one guy. Sure, his games aren't the bee's knees, but they're better than most games ever released with "Ultima" in the title.
Posted by: H.M. on December 11, 2003 07:06 PMWell, I like GoatCactus Software (www.goatcactus.com), which has no games at all, and is of no earthly use to me at all, but just has a really great name.
Working two days a week on a goat farm may make me a little biased in this regard, however ...
Posted by: aussie boy on December 12, 2003 03:40 AMDo they teach you all those neat colloquialisms at the Austrailian Learning Annex where you got yurself lurned, AusBoy?
Posted by: Nick on December 13, 2003 03:35 PM