Which Game Characters Would Make Great Pets?
I’m not really a big “pet person.” Pretty much anything with a furry pelt induces a sneeze-fest in me. But video game creatures are imaginary, and thus won’t make my allergies flare up, which is precisely why I’d make an exception to my ‘no pets’ rule if I were able to have one. Yes, I understand that there is a huge, gaping hole in my logic here, but bear with me. If video games were real, aside from the world encountering multiple catastrophes of epic proportions, I’d have a menagerie of bizarre critters inhabiting my house.
Allow me to share with you my list!
With the recent arrival of Left 4 Dead to consoles and Twilight to theaters, I began to ponder an age-old question. No, it’s not why text message shortcuts for words have worked their way into zombie-themed game titles, or even why audiences are able to stomach another “youth vampire” film after The Lost Boys: The Tribe’s straight-to-video release earlier this year, but rather, “Who’s scarier: zombies or vampires?” Allow me to explain why zombies are the more frightening, and ultimately superior, of the two.
I don’t know about you, but when I think “video games,” I suddenly have the urge to watch The Martha Stewart Show. I mean, who wouldn’t feel compelled to scrapbook after playing 5 hours of your favorite FPS?
Sometimes, I think a good sense of humor is a necessity for horror directors. If they can’t laugh about severed heads strewn across the screen, then their films will have no personality. Xbox Live’s new Independent Video Channel further supports my theory with its recent launch of “Horror Meets Comedy”: a series of downloadable comedy shorts, which allows horror directors to make audiences chuckle instead of scream for once.
In case you didn’t get the memo, let me fill you in: video game movies generally aren’t the greatest. This topic has been discussed endlessly, but less has been said about directors’ other endeavors in the gaming world. With Peter Jackson helping out on the new Halo game (and movie, for that matter), and both Stephen Spielberg and Zack Snyder signing game deals with EA, there seems to be a trend of directors taking on new roles.