Stories Of The Year #10: Underrated Games

9 responses to “Stories Of The Year #10: Underrated Games”

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   Chuloopa

   December 27, 2010 at 11:57 am

   I actually bookmarked it.. Pretty much one of the only Kotaku columns that i bookmarked – which is nuts considering how much i love this site.

   When the Goose published this article it immediately became my goal to hunt down the ones i did not yet posses, and so help me god, i shall catch them all!

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   Jimu Hsien

   December 27, 2010 at 12:45 pm

   Here I write new one for you. Most under-rated game on Kotaku?
   Dragon Quest IX.
   But seriously, that was a damn fine article, will you do one of your own, Mark?

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   TGK

   December 27, 2010 at 2:39 pm

   No Toy Soldiers and no Toy Soldiers makes TGK something something.

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   Mark Draper

   December 27, 2010 at 3:37 pm

   Dude, I don’t want to sound like the politically correct police, but there’s got to be a better word than ‘retarded’ for your opening.

   Unless we’ve gone back to the 1930’s when that word was okay to use, and the ‘retarded’ stories are about how Snake Oil could just be the next big thing to cure cancer, or an essay on how this young Hitler chap could be the German equivlent of Teddy Roosevelt.

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      Chuloopa

      December 27, 2010 at 11:59 pm

      Dude – don’t be so retarded

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         Bull Buckner

         December 28, 2010 at 11:24 am

         Really? You honestly think that it isn’t amazingly poor writing and judgement to use the word ‘retarded’ in a derogatory way?

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            Chuloopa

            December 28, 2010 at 11:58 am

            God – get off your high horse guys. first of all, Kotaku is a BLOG of sorts. Plus this article is light hearted, meaning you should hardly come in here expecting “Pulitzer Prize” worthy material.

            Serrels writes some fantastic and articulate stuff, but he can’t be expected to be writing that sort of things ALL THE TIME. It’s the holidays, it’s a fun article – don’t go ruining it with political correctness.

            Seriously, being PC has gone so severly overboard in this day and age, especially in Australia.

            My advice, either get over it or go elsewhere.

            Plus “some are funny, some are flat out Mentally Disabled” just doesn’t have the same ring.

            Mark isn’t having a dig at mentally disabled people in the slightest, and anyone who refers to them as “retards” does deserve a kick in the backside – but he’s not talking about them, he’s just using a word. A word in fun. In jest. In SATIRE.

            So honestly, get over yourselves or GTFO.

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               garnet 23

               December 28, 2010 at 7:18 pm

               agreed. retarded is slang.

5. 

   Mark Serrels

   December 29, 2010 at 9:14 am

   Thanks for the defence guys, but yeah, you probably have a point Mark. Will change to something a bit less inflammatory!

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