Enough is enough

[stika]

And in the words of Zork: Grand Inquisitor: I am the boss of you!

[Neonivek]

Well, I am surprised no one ever brought up the "Life is short, do what you like" includes ragging on games.

[Numbers]

And in the words of Zork: Grand Inquisitor: I am the boss of you!

What the hell did I just watch?

[stika]

You never played Zork: Grand Inquisitor? You have to play it one day. It's available on GOG

[Numbers]

Never even heard of it. Then again, I'm assuming most people have never heard of my new signature, so what goes around comes around.

[stika]

Yeah I actually don't know that sig!

As for the Zork games, the first ones were amongst the first text adventure games ever made. The last few titles were first person point and click adventures. They focus heavily on humor, but the games are really well made. I highly recommend them.

[GrahamRocks!]

I recognize your sig, Numbers. Some of it anyway. I recognize the name Retsupurae.

[Numbers]

Retsupurae does Mystery Science Theater-style riffs on silly video games. They did a riff on KQ5, which they enjoyed for how thoroughly dumb it was. The top right image is actually the bear, which instantly became a meme amongst their fanbase for how he literally decks Graham if you get too close to him. However, they're most famous for their riff on Darkseed 2, a hilariously awful game that stars the wimpy Mike Dawson as its protagonist, which you might remember from this image:



The bottom middle picture in my sig is of this very scene. This image is kind of iconic, as far as their fanbase goes. It's shown at the very beginning of this "best of" video:

[Jack Stryker]

The top right image is actually the bear, which instantly became a meme amongst their fanbase for how he literally decks Graham if you get too close to him.

Yeah.  It's also ironic that the narrator tells you not to feed the bears afterward, when that actually turns out to be the right thing to do.

[stika]

Gonna have to watch these then. I hope they do one on Zork

[Neonivek]

Just skip their Kings Quest 7 one and their Cobra first person shooter one.

[Numbers]

They've done riffs on King's Quests 5, 6, and (sort of) 7. The KQ5 one is pretty funny. The KQ6 one is a little slow, mostly because the person playing the game didn't show any of the death scenes. It gets better when Jollo shows up. As for the KQ7 riff, they, their audience, and the person doing the playthrough all hated the game so much that they called it quits at the halfway point.

There are two different Cobra games they've done; Cobra Space Adventures, and Cobra 3D: The Shooting. Stay far away from 3D, it's outright intolerable to watch even with their commentary. Space Adventures is much better, and has several moments of outright hilarity, although it's very NSFW between the gory violence and the (thankfully censored) nudity. Like Darkseed 2, Space Adventures is a very, very long game, so expect a big time investment should you watch it.

[GrahamRocks!]

I'm trying to remember who the blond guy is underneath Ridley. He looks SO familiar...

[Numbers]

Amusingly enough, that's Cobra, the guy I've been talking about.

The characters on the top row, from left to right, are: Guy Kazama from Last Alert, Graham from King's Quest 5, Rock Knight from Cobra Space Adventures, Samus Aran as she appears in Metroid: Other M, and the bear from KQ5. The characters in the middle row are Anna from Deep Fear, Ridley from Other M, the Retsupurae logo, Ted Hartrup from Ambition, and Doc from It Came From the Desert. The characters on the bottom row are the protagonist from Arrival in Hell, Cobra, Mike Dawson from Darkseed 2, John Mayor from Deep Fear, and Parrot Grass, also from Cobra Space Adventures.

The poster seems a bit dated now, because there have been plenty of other riffs they've done with characters that would be better suited for this poster at this point. A few games with good characters off the top of my head are Alone in the Dark 2, Urban Runner, The Town with No Name, Shadow of Destiny, Earnest Evans, Hopkins FBI, Galerians, Minnesota Fats: Pool Legend, and most recently, Deep Freeze.

What I'm getting at is there's a lot of material they've worked on over the years.

It's always fun to read the comments below their videos and see how many user avatars are related to stuff they've done. At one point, I saw someone whose avatar was the shocked expression Valanice makes when Rosella is snatched away from her in the opening cutscene to KQ7. It's probably because her eyes are shaped like protractors in that shot, as one of them put it.

[GrahamRocks!]

Huh. And here I thought Parrot Grass was a Bellsprout.

[Numbers]

You need to see their Cobra Space Adventures riff just for the Parrot Grass plot twist. That alone makes sitting through the rest of the game worth it. Darkseed 2 and Ambition are other games that have great unexpected turns at the end that make it worth sitting down and watching the whole things. Then there are the games like Urban Runner that are just a whole mess of unexpected plot developments...

I highly recommend watching the games I just listed, but only watch them if you have a lot of time on your hands. You'd best start with Urban Runner, as that's the shortest of the games recommended here.

[GrahamRocks!]

What's funny is I don't usually watch them for their riffs on games. I watch them for their riffs on bad Let's Players.

[Numbers]

I mostly watch them for the games. They definitely put bad LPers in their place but there are only so many PewDiePie knockoffs I can take.

[GrahamRocks!]

Urgh... PewDiePie... I'm so tempted to watch something of his just to see what the fuss is all about, but I dunno...

I'll stick with LPers with actual good, funny, informative commentary, like Chuggaaconroy, thank you.

[Numbers]

Don't forget about ToeGoff and PawDugan.