I’ll admit, this cover is pretty terrible even by my standards. Still! Let’s not focus on the bad because today we have reason to celebrate! For some disgusting and twisted reason, I have been able to churn out 10 of these ridiculous nonsense-filled bizarre-fests on a surprisingly timely schedule. So let’s continue into this triumphant issue with our heads high, our brains scattered, and our expectations low!
I wanna play more Mario Bros -
It’s the truth! I gotta say, that game is massively addicting. Even Nate Liles agrees. Take our text conversation from earlier today for example:
Nate Liles: NSMB is freaking amazing.
Ethos: Told ya! Non-stop awesomeness!
Nate Liles: AC2 is good too.
Ethos: So I hear. I don’t doubt it’s great, I’m just not interested.
Nate Liles: Wow. That’s rude. Go edit Kim Kardashian’s butt into my bedroom
Ethos: I’m on it.
Nate Liles: God, I hope so! She is a cutie with a booty
Perhaps that whole thing wasn’t relevant, but then again everything is relevant when Nate Liles is involved.
It’s now a day later! -
This is also true! I wrote that intro and first story yesterday. Since then, I’ve actually “beat” New Super Mario Bros Wii, but there are many levels I haven’t even played yet, and lots of star coins to collect. Hell, I might even write my first Riddlethos review for the mother fucker.
Review Controversy -
Continuing in that stream of thought, how would you guys like to see my reviews formatted? Riddlethos currently has a policy against numerical scores on reviews, but that doesn’t mean that I’m going to necessarily not have a score of some sort. Riddles has suggested a Ethometer of sorts. Thoughts?
Apparently Magna Carta 2 doesn’t suck -
I was skimmin’ ye olde RPGamer today and saw the review for Magna Carta 2. I just needed a reason to give this a try, and now I have it. I need to beat Dragon Age so I can move on. I’ll take a hack at it tonight!
I got some art assets I never showed you kids -
When I did that Zelda preview last week, I was later given access to some artwork. Most of it is floating around somewhere, but is it floating around WITH PATENTED ETHOS MS PAINT COMMENTARY?! I didn’t think so! So in honour of this, the 10th Issue Extravaganza, I bring you:
A Bunch Of Art Screens With Stupid Writing On It, And By A Bunch, I Mean Just Four.
Argh, I’m thrilled and all that Zelda gets to join in the fun, I’m just prepping myself for a lot of cringe worthy stereotypes.
Seriously, I just need to leave this one alone.
ZOH MY GOD, SPOILERZ.
Yup, no words.
That’s it! I had a few more screens, but I need to get to work, and this issue is already late enough. Look forward to many, many more beautiful Scatter Stormings!
Tags: Link's Choo Choo Adventure, Magna Carta 2, Nate Liles, New Super Mario Bros Wii, Scatter Storming, The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks
Your Ethometer could range between flaccid to erect.
BAH-HA HA HA HA!!! That’s not actually a terrible idea, whether you meant it as a joke or not!
Deadly serious.
Review scores are a good thing. It only becomes a problem when over a few years 20 reviewers with different gaming preferences covering various genres seem to have different ideas on how to handle the scoring system. Or when pressure from publishers and/or advertisers causes you to abrupty change what you use as an average. With just two of you, I think having a way for readers to get an idea of whether or not you liked this game more than that game is a good thing, even with expected Riddlethos absurdity.
@7thcircle – Fully agreed. Riddles likes only text reviews, and all the power to him, but I’m in the same boat as you. I don’t even mind if people scroll down to just the “score”. I do that for games I don’t care as much about, but I read the text if I’m more interested. I know I’m going to have a scale, I just don’t know what sort yet.
SN has pushed me in an intrigued direction, however.
If Oliver doesn’t like scores then let him carry on without them, while you give’em a try. It seems that in disliking scores, Oliver is generalising criticisms best levelled at the industry in the macro sense; such as disparity between score metrics, never using <5, the fallacy of Metacritic. But that is exactly why you use an absurd metric which indicates how you feel without aligning with an industry standard (flaccid, half-a-bar, erect), good luck fitting that into a metarating …
Just gang up on me, guys. It’s cool.
*sobs*
OK! I feel better having your blessing.
So review scores it is!
I’ve never heard of a “half-a-bar” penis before. It sounds like a John Bobbitt situation. That should be the lowest score possible.
“Ol’ half-bar” is what all the ladies called me back in high school.