And I'm Off

No posts over the weekend, I'll be heading to Rhode Island for Digital Overload. It's Ctrl+Alt+Del's big LAN party, unique in the way that, somehow, they think having access to the internet is mandatory. Wouldn't that upset the whole concept of a LAN party, you ask? Wouldn't that mean the only way to play with people in the room would be to join their laggy internet games, you ask? Yes.

And lol, yes, people still ragequit at LAN parties. Our assistant editor can attest to witnessing that last year

Nevertheless, I had fun last year as I had never been a part of a gathering of so many PC gamers in one room. Alas, I won't be having my computer this year, due to Ctrl+Alt+Del's fail website design that leaves the registration button up far past its days of functionality. I'll be sticking to a little hub of a friend's Xbox, which should be aiight

I suppose there should be some point to this update......So here's Jerry Jackson!

The Best Games You've Never Played: I Swear It's Not Fetish Porn Edition

The 1993 point and click adventure game, Day of the Tentacle, is a shining example of doing it right. You may recognize titles such as Sam & Max or The Curse of Monkey Island which were similar, more popular Lucas Arts adventures. While these franchises are getting modern a re-envisioning, DoTT is left alone, fading slowly into obscurity. However, I believe it is by far the best adventure game of its time. The game is about a group of 3 misfits that appear to be out of an 80’s teen movie, who are transported through time by way of portable bathroom time machines. They become stuck in 3 separate times, the past, present and future. The two goals of the game are to repair the time machines and to stop a purple tentacle from reducing humanity to mere house pets. This game does a lot of things better than other point and click adventure I have played and on top of that it’s a lot of fun.

Why It’s Great:

-Does not frustrate the player with “pixel hunting” to find important items or paths, something that plagues the genera.

-The time travel aspect is interesting, many puzzles involve changing things in the past to affect to future and help you characters progress.

-Item usage is for the most part logical, albeit wacky at times; at least it makes sense in the context. This is another problem with the genera, “How was I supposed to know to nail the banana to the string and lure out the baby moose from the rat hole?”

-Game is full of humor and interesting characters; they have more personality then most modern games.

-Voice acting also much better than most modern games.

-Meet real historical figures in their natural habitat!

-It’s also totally bitchin’.