Surely, the writers of CBS crime drama NCIS know what a massively multiplayer online role-playing game is, right? And that they don’t involve “high scores” in the Pac-Man or Galaga sense? Of course they do, so we’re taking this recent cameo of faux-MMO Fear Tower 3 as good-natured ribbing.
It may be the most successful on-screen trolling of video gamers sure to be offended by discussion about 16-core PCs and 10-meg pipes and online role-playing gamers that dominate the high score table like “MaxDestructo” here. It’s some of the best video game television comedy writing we’ve seen since Life and The Ghost Whisperer had their video game episodes.
Blayde
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 9:28 AMNerdgasm at it’s finest
You’re… -pause- -gasm- …awesome
Chuloopa
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 9:32 AM*moannn*
Peter Richards
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 9:45 AMMake. It. Stop.
My last root canal was less painful.
Rod
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 9:47 AMI honestly didn’t know whether to laugh or cry by the end of that episode.
MaxDestructo
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 10:12 AMSo glad to be finally accepted by mainstream media. Thanks, Kotaku :)
ZenMarx
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 10:31 AMWow I stopped watching this show years ago. Looks like the guy that plays McGee has a crack problem or something.
Pioneer
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 10:53 AMMy mother watches this show, even… buys the DVDs… I actually thought it was a parody of regular cop shows until I realised it wasn’t a parody. It was just bad.
Sesshomaru
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 11:04 AMWorst episode EVER!
SunSkorpion
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 11:47 AMFurther cementing my belief that this show sucks.
Reoh
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 12:27 PMWriters, this is why you do so about topics you know as opposed to ones that make people facepalm in embarassment for you.
Dunnowhathuh
Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 5:59 PMI actually read somewhere that the writers of these shows do this on purpose (I know they did similar things on shows like Lfe, CSI and Dexter). Something about trying to out-bullshit writers of other shows. Some of the responses I’ve seen to this video prove that the writers have successfully trolled many.
KennyLi
Sunday, February 5, 2012 at 10:38 PMYeah, i’m guessing that shows that pull in 50+ million viewers around the world each week rarely have anything in their script by accident. But let’s face it, as much as we wouldn’t change it, truthfully portraying our gamer culture would probably be even lamer than this scene! lol!