"The 10 games should have been called..."

"more mainstream" doesn't mean it won't still be mocked. WoW apparently has over 11 million subscribed players, who I'd assume could totally be classified as wieners. Rush Limbaugh has over 10 million daily listeners, who I'd assume could totally be classified as blowhards.

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#6 posted by Anonymous , November 14, 2008 2:58 PM

Many a family get-together has been ruined by the ill-advised choice of 'Risk' for the evening's entertainment.

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#7 posted by demidan , November 14, 2008 3:05 PM

Wow with the new expansion, Bath for the B@tch Queen! 1337 and lifeless!

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#8 posted by Takuan , November 14, 2008 3:15 PM

Risk?

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#9 posted by Antinous , November 14, 2008 3:20 PM

It would be interesting to keep the names and change the graphics. Bill Gates for Monopoly, an empty condom dispenser for Risk...

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#10 posted by mdh , November 14, 2008 3:28 PM

....an empty cheetos bag for WoW.

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#11 posted by Tenn , November 14, 2008 3:53 PM

I played 'Sorry!' a lot with my mother. Nothing quite so satisfying as being in the last stretch, losing completely, and pulling out a series of 'Sorry!'s to win the game.

Yeah, it's definitely better titled 'F@ck you!"

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#12 posted by jimh , November 14, 2008 4:02 PM

This classic sketch shows the "Sorry!" dynamic in action, best board game on television ever imho:

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmdfSXWVW1M
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJLVgPPF40M

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#13 posted by Spherical Time

, November 14, 2008 5:04 PM

Poker = Liar?

Chess = Brainy?

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#14 posted by jtegnell , November 14, 2008 5:21 PM

Would rather have seen more board games than video games. "Sorry" was, disappointingly, the only one.

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#15 posted by franko , November 14, 2008 5:51 PM

sorry -- making fun of warcraft players is SO 2005. the myst one made me laugh, though.

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#16 posted by Chuck , November 14, 2008 6:12 PM

I blame that board game for turning the word "sorry" into a taunt. (Also, in my old school, the word doubled as a "TIMEOUT!" -- as in when someone punches you in the back of the head then runs away shouting their apologies loud enough for the teacher to hear -- as well as a threat.)

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#17 posted by ornith , November 14, 2008 6:45 PM

The DiabloII one is so accurate. And encapsulates what's so great about the game. Sometimes, you just want to click on things and make them die. (Who else can't wait for DiabloIII?)

But yeah, WoW, pretty mainstream now. And there really are *some* actual women on there (like me).

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#18 posted by tjvm , November 14, 2008 6:54 PM

I LOL'd (literally) at the Myst one.

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#19 posted by porkophilic , November 14, 2008 7:12 PM

Somehow I prefer the term "World of Wienercraft" to my wife's version, "World of Wankercraft".

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#20 posted by Talia , November 14, 2008 8:46 PM

I absolutely LOVE Diablo II actually. The click interface is convenient. :)

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#21 posted by BlackTiger , November 14, 2008 11:31 PM

Honestly... I didn't find these as amusing as I expected. College Humor seems to be slipping a bit, lately.

CoD4 should've made more fun of how getting all of the -unlocks- is the real work...

And, really. Myst wasn't that hard. Honest.

By far the easiest game in the trilogy.

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#22 posted by mhlaxp , November 14, 2008 11:43 PM

Wow, didn't even bother to download Pricedown for the GTA joke? As lazy as most of these jokes were, that's just pathetic.

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#23 posted by jackie31337 , November 14, 2008 11:51 PM

jtegnell @14 Would rather have seen more board games than video games. "Sorry" was, disappointingly, the only one.

Likewise. I'm not sure what it says about me that I didn't recognize most of the video games. I didn't think I was THAT old....

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#24 posted by mdh , November 15, 2008 12:11 AM

World of Mancaves

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#25 posted by Jardine

, November 15, 2008 12:21 AM

Was Sorry! originally played with dice? I remember playing it with a set of cards that came with it.

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#26 posted by JFlex , November 15, 2008 5:10 AM

Chess = Hut One Hut Two Hut Three Hut Old Dirty Bastard Live And Uncut

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#27 posted by Daemon , November 15, 2008 11:13 AM

Actually, ff7 has a fairly large female fanbase.
Well... sephiroth does.

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#28 posted by OM

, November 15, 2008 11:17 AM

"World of Mancaves"

...Actually, World of Whiners would have been more apropos, as World of Warcrack has already been used.

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#29 posted by guy_jin , November 15, 2008 12:54 PM

@27: who are also virgins.

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#30 posted by raya , November 15, 2008 12:59 PM

Actually, ff7 has a fairly large female fanbase.
Well... sephiroth does.

Not to mention Cloud or Zack. Or Aeris. Or the Turks. Even optional character Vincent. I'm partial to Tifa myself.

Some of these are pretty funny but I'm underwhelmed by game-nerds-are-unable-to-relate-to-females humor. Lol no girlz on tha Playstation. Whatever.

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#31 posted by Anonymous , November 15, 2008 2:50 PM

Anyone notice "wieners" was misspelt?

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#32 posted by Teresa Nielsen Hayden / Moderator

, November 15, 2008 4:35 PM

Uncle Max @5:

Rush Limbaugh has over 10 million daily listeners, who I'd assume could totally be classified as blowhards.

I believe the usual term is "dittoheads."

SphericalTime @13: Poker = "Howdy, Sucker!"

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#33 posted by Teller , November 16, 2008 10:11 AM

From CollegeHumor I would've expected at least one gay version:

Where in the World is Carmen Miranda?

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#34 posted by Chris L

, November 16, 2008 10:19 AM

@21 Actually, its more like a quintilogy (is that right?) Six in all if you count Uru.

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#35 posted by Jezrael , November 17, 2008 1:50 AM

We at the Game-Nerd Awareness Group are appalled that this kind of humour is still considered 'OK'

Game-nerds, or 'people who play games' as we like to call them, are often able to live full and meaningful lives, including having active social lives with others in their clan, and having online chat relationships with members of the opposite sex

These people are not escaping reality but actively participating in a wonderful experiment of the imagination.

Respect them as you would any other minority group that you are contemptuous of, but are socially and politically prevented from making fun of.

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#36 posted by chef

, November 17, 2008 2:27 AM

As with many Photoshop memes, SA has done this before already, and in volume:

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/photoshop-phriday/honest-game-titles.php

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#37 posted by Nebula , November 17, 2008 2:42 AM

Sorry! was my favorite game as a kid, I must have played it hundreds of times with my friends...It's a kind of an international game, I've met it more commonly named as "Don't be angry, little man".

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#38 posted by nnguyen , November 17, 2008 7:59 AM

This was honestly not that amusing. Some of it actually felt insulting. "Definite Virgins VII"? That's a film, not a game. If you're going to make fun of a game, make sure it is one. I don't even see how that's an insult. It's like a jock going into a theater showing the movie and starts calling everyone virgins.

And since when is being called a virgin an insult?

Then the GTA joke is even worse. It reinforces the negative stereotype about the series, while looking like some lame attempt by Jack Thompson to salvage his image.

Like the rest of you, the only one I thought was remotely funny was the Myst one. And that was still immature and cringe inducing.

Really Mark, you missed it with this one.

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#39 posted by Antinous , November 17, 2008 9:17 AM

nnguyen,

Your comment has done nothing but reinforce the stereotypes that you're protesting.

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#40 posted by Ryan Waddell

, November 18, 2008 9:20 AM

Another person jumping on the "not as funny as I expected" bandwagon. Sorry was the only funny one, and it's hardly an original joke at that.

Nnguyen: yes, they used the FF7 Advent Children image to poke fun... But they were obviously referring to FF7 the game.

Also, the title of the article is "These 10 Games..." Not "The".