Super Smash Bros, Contact
There was a party happening at my house that I could not possibly stop! So I just kinda ran with it and tried to play some games and whatever, because that is the only way I can really handle being in an enclosed space with people I don't know. I may have social anxiety issues!
I played Super Smash Bros, the new one, for an hour or so, just checking out how rock stupid this game has gotten. They have a whole bunch of weird Nintendo easter eggs. I understand that is entirely the point of this game, and I am in fact kinda mad that I got like 80% of them, but for the target audience of Super Smash Bros, it makes no goddamn sense! Like, what children, what tiny babies, know what Balloon Fight is? Do they know who Starman is? I guess they might have borrowed the WarioWare games from their weird Uncle Josh and know who Kat and Ana are. I do not know what my problem with this is.
Anyway, it was kinda fun. I had a really cool game where Ridley is flying around like an asshole, but you can convert him(?) to your side and you get all the kills that he causes, so I got like nine kills in that match. I also did not know that there are Xenoblade Chronicles characters in this game, which is WEIRD. So...fine, Super Smash Bros is good, I guess, it's just so dang odd.
I also played a "sit around a fire" game called Contact, which is difficult to explain. It's a bit of a "guess what I'm thinking" game, but there are various levels you are playing at. The guessee gives all the players the first letter of the word, and they can ask essentially 20-question style questions, but the guessee cannot give a straight answer. They can only answer by guessing what the asker is thinking about, or saying "I don't know..." Any other player can shout "Contact!" if they think they know the word the asker is thinking of. If the guessee can't figure out what the asker is thinking of and someone has announced contact, there's a countdown, and if both players say the same word, the guessee must give the next letter of the word, providing more clues. This continues until someone provides a question that leads to the word the guessee was actually thinking of. So it's interesting push-and-pull, in which you spend most of the time trying to figure out a clue that will stump one person, but not everyone, in order to get more clues, until you can narrow it down to a distinct word.
It was fairly fun, figuring out what clues are being laid and how you can describe something without being obvious. I cheated a bit by eventually coaching most of my questions in pop culture references that I didn't think the guessee would get (I managed to score a clue by invoking Skeletor), but I ended up picking hints more often than others (Because I'm so great :P). There was this real great moment when a drunk person wandered out to the fire and we forced him to play, and he was just too drunk to get it. We eventually pushed him into providing the clues "RAC" and someone asked, "Is it something you put your shoes on?" After thinking on ten seconds, he responded, "No, it's not a racetrack." Which is a brilliantly clever answer, but also completely insane, but that would not be the first place any sober person goes. (The word we were all thinking is "rack.") That moment alone was worth learning the game.
There was a party happening at my house that I could not possibly stop! So I just kinda ran with it and tried to play some games and whatever, because that is the only way I can really handle being in an enclosed space with people I don't know. I may have social anxiety issues!
I played Super Smash Bros, the new one, for an hour or so, just checking out how rock stupid this game has gotten. They have a whole bunch of weird Nintendo easter eggs. I understand that is entirely the point of this game, and I am in fact kinda mad that I got like 80% of them, but for the target audience of Super Smash Bros, it makes no goddamn sense! Like, what children, what tiny babies, know what Balloon Fight is? Do they know who Starman is? I guess they might have borrowed the WarioWare games from their weird Uncle Josh and know who Kat and Ana are. I do not know what my problem with this is.
Anyway, it was kinda fun. I had a really cool game where Ridley is flying around like an asshole, but you can convert him(?) to your side and you get all the kills that he causes, so I got like nine kills in that match. I also did not know that there are Xenoblade Chronicles characters in this game, which is WEIRD. So...fine, Super Smash Bros is good, I guess, it's just so dang odd.
I also played a "sit around a fire" game called Contact, which is difficult to explain. It's a bit of a "guess what I'm thinking" game, but there are various levels you are playing at. The guessee gives all the players the first letter of the word, and they can ask essentially 20-question style questions, but the guessee cannot give a straight answer. They can only answer by guessing what the asker is thinking about, or saying "I don't know..." Any other player can shout "Contact!" if they think they know the word the asker is thinking of. If the guessee can't figure out what the asker is thinking of and someone has announced contact, there's a countdown, and if both players say the same word, the guessee must give the next letter of the word, providing more clues. This continues until someone provides a question that leads to the word the guessee was actually thinking of. So it's interesting push-and-pull, in which you spend most of the time trying to figure out a clue that will stump one person, but not everyone, in order to get more clues, until you can narrow it down to a distinct word.
It was fairly fun, figuring out what clues are being laid and how you can describe something without being obvious. I cheated a bit by eventually coaching most of my questions in pop culture references that I didn't think the guessee would get (I managed to score a clue by invoking Skeletor), but I ended up picking hints more often than others (Because I'm so great :P). There was this real great moment when a drunk person wandered out to the fire and we forced him to play, and he was just too drunk to get it. We eventually pushed him into providing the clues "RAC" and someone asked, "Is it something you put your shoes on?" After thinking on ten seconds, he responded, "No, it's not a racetrack." Which is a brilliantly clever answer, but also completely insane, but that would not be the first place any sober person goes. (The word we were all thinking is "rack.") That moment alone was worth learning the game.
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