Meme Day 7 goes "What, really?"

[xyzzysqrl]

Meme 1, Day 7: Game With the Most Surprising Plot Twist/Ending (No Spoilers) -

Assassin's Creed 2. Let's just say this is the first game I've ever played where someone starts talking to the fourth wall and they AREN'T talking to me-the-player.

Actually both the Assassin's Creed games could just rack up a slew of points in this. The second was particularly good about it though.


Meme 2, Day 7: Favorite Game Couple -

Fusionette and Faultline, City of Heroes.

Let me lay this out for you: He's a young man coming to terms with what his past means. She's a mutant with an organic nuclear reactor for a heart and a tendency to rush into battle headlong. Together, they fight crime.

Fusionette and Faultline one of the few pairs of NPCs that appear constantly throughout City of Heroes. You bump into them first in the -zone- called Faultline, an earthquake-destroyed section of the city you'll hit around level 15-16. The hero Faultline, called "Jim" around them, is just an angry young man who wants you to help his friend who's in over her head. As you work through the mission arc, you learn more about them, they grow closer together, and finally it wraps up in a huge time-travel plotline that wraps up all the unanswered questions and leads Jim to take up the mantle of a hero.

... And that could well be it, actually. Until much, much later in the game. Around level 45, you'll be called to go to the Rikti War Zone, to help defend the city against aliens. One of your first assignments? Well, some operatives haven't reported in, go check it out. So you hike out there and...

Hey! It's Fusionette and Faultline, KICKING MASSIVE ASS. Yeah, they got together, and damn their powers synergize well. They joined up with the Anti Rikti Task Force to use their powers to help protect the world, and they're with you all the way to the end of the massive Rikti War Zone story arc, tossing cute one-liners around the whole way.

In retrospect, this is not a particularly romantic couple. There's a fair bit of dialogue, but no touching, tender moments. What I like most about it is that... well, for one it's incredibly comic-book. And for two, in MMOs there's so much "storm through, kick ass, leave". It's nice when NPCs show up again, having had some character development when you weren't looking. When the woof and I saw them again after that long, we actually cheered, and damned if keeping them alive wasn't a priority for me when I was slinging healing around. It felt good to see that love could bloom even between two mutants on an alien space craft, y'know?

(...speaking of "love blooming", my #2 couple? Snake and Otacon, Metal Gear Solid.)


Day 1: Your current favorite game
Day 2: The most Underrated game you’ve ever played
Day 3: A game that makes you really happy
Day 4: A game that makes you sad
Day 5: A game that reminds you of someone
Day 6: Favorite puzzle game
Day 7: The game with most surprising game plot twist or ending (don’t share the actual twists, and if you do, mark them spoilers for the love of all that is nerdy)
Day 8: A game you’ve played countless times
Day 9:A game with the best or most original soundtrack
Day 10: Favorite Retro game
Day 11: A game that changed your opinion about something
Day 12: A game that you dislike
Day 13: A game that is a guilty pleasure
Day 14: A game that no one would expect you to love
Day 15: A videogame character who you can relate to the most
Day 16: A game that you used to love but now hate
Day 17: A game that disappointed you the most
Day 18: A game that you wish more people would’ve played
Day 19: Favorite game based on a movie/book/comic/etc
Day 20: Favorite stress relieving game
Day 21: Favorite Fighting Game
Day 22: Favorite table-top RPG
Day 23: Favorite racing game
Day 24: The one awesome game idea that still hasn’t been done
Day 25: The most hilarious game you’ve ever played
Day 26: A game you’ve left sitting at the final boss fight and still haven’t returned to
Day 27: A game that you wish you could play, but suck at
Day 28: A game that makes you feel guilty
Day 29: A game from your childhood
Day 30: You favorite game (or series) of all time

Day 1 - Very first video game.
Day 2 - Your favorite character.
Day 3 - A game that is underrated.
Day 4 - Your guilty pleasure game.
Day 5 - Game character you feel you are most like (or wish you were).
Day 6 - Most annoying character.
Day 7 - Favorite game couple.
Day 8 - Best soundtrack.
Day 9 - Saddest game scene.
Day 10 - Best gameplay.
Day 11 - Gaming system of choice.
Day 12 - A game everyone should play.
Day 13 - A game you’ve played more than five times.
Day 14 - Current (or most recent) gaming wallpaper.
Day 15 - Post a screenshot from the game you’re playing right now.
Day 16 - Game with the best cut scenes.
Day 17 - Favorite antagonist.
Day 18 - Favorite protagonist.
Day 19 - Picture of a game setting you wish you lived in.
Day 20 - Favorite genre.
Day 21 - Game with the best story.
Day 22 - A game sequel which disappointed you.
Day 23 - Game you think had the best graphics or art style.
Day 24 - Favorite classic game.
Day 25 - A game you plan on playing.
Day 26 - Best voice acting.
Day 27 - Most epic scene ever.
Day 28 - Favorite game developer.
Day 29 - A game you thought you wouldn’t like, but ended up loving.
Day 30 - Your favorite game of all time.

Comments

[relee.livejournal.com]

Fusionette and Faultline are cool. I never got very far in the game, it's nice to hear they continued past their introduction when they re-did the faultline zone into a story zone.

I did some of the missions with them the last time I played, but I've never been able to keep playing CoH long enough to get all the stories.

[xyzzysqrl]

Yeah, the BF and I plowed through the game a while back on our way to 50 and did basically every major story arc in the game (at the time).