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Chicken soup, a nice healthy meal that manages to help combat colds, which at the moment, is very useful. Swirling my spoon round and paying attention to the contents, I realised- Games these days are so much like chicken soup. Yes, you may look at me in that way, but after such topics as, "Cheesy Gaming" what did you honestly expect? Well, anyway, here's the run down of how games must be like Chicken Soup.
Carrots
Carrots are not essential in chicken soup, so maybe I should just skip them and go straight to the chicken. But maybe they have a reason for being included? Does their orange colour add to the overall enjoyment of the soup? Or maybe they add some strange taste? Basically, carrots are a maybe thing. They don't have to be included in the soup, but maybe they should. So really, carrots are cinematic effects. They aren't needed, but they make the game feel that little bit smoother. Well, only if you're a carrot person. And if you don't like carrots? Then you get MGS2…
Chicken
Chicken is essential in chicken soup. Heck, it doesn’t even need explaining why. So really, chicken is basically graphics, because without them, you'd be playing pong for centuries. Without chicken, it'd be plain vegetable soup. And you don't want that, do you?
Spuds
Potatoes are one of the most versatile vegetables around. Mash them, roast them, chip them, the list goes on. So the one thing in games that changes a lot really suits potatoes. Yep, it has to be sound. Creepy music plays as Jill tries to stay alive, chirping birds whistle In the trees as Mario fumbles about, Hooker's make moaning noises as the car shakes back and forth- sound can be manipulated to create every effect imaginable. That's why sound is best portrayed as potatoes- because depending on the preparation method- you're going to get a different effect each time.
Swede
Swede is your Marmite of the soup- you either love it or hate it. People will argue about whether it adds to the taste or completely ruins it. So really, it's like realism. The people that swear by realism will shove copies of Grand Turismo in your face, and the people that hate it will tend to sway towards the Mario's and Sonic's of the gaming world. It's all about opinion really- taste and game wise.
Onion
Onion is bunged into the soup for a reason. Without it, you'd have a swirling mass of big chunks floating around. Onion is the icing on the cake, the finish to a game. It's the attention to detail and final tweaking that gives soup, sorry, games their appealing features. Oh, and they taste nice, too.
Lentils
Lentils are debatable. Are they rice or are they some kind of dodgy vegetable? And why are they in the soup in the first place? They have no taste whatsoever. That's why lentil's are like celebrity voice-overs. What is the real point? Sure, they may be famous, but there are other people who'd do the job just as well, if not better for a third of the price.
Stock cubes
Stock cubes are the final piece to the jigsaw. They hold everything together, and are responsible for the homemade chicken soup taste. Stock cubes are therefore the extras. They are included to make the game extra-special, and add that little bit extra to the experience.
And then there's more. If you leave chicken soup until the day after preparing it, the juices are so full of flavour, it tastes even better! And the same applies to games. If you spend time sorting out the bugs, adding finishing touches and pushing that release date back, you end up with a really special game.
So in the end, it's all down to vegetables. That's why games are great. Yeah…
Thanks for reading
Microchips
Carrots
Carrots are not essential in chicken soup, so maybe I should just skip them and go straight to the chicken. But maybe they have a reason for being included? Does their orange colour add to the overall enjoyment of the soup? Or maybe they add some strange taste? Basically, carrots are a maybe thing. They don't have to be included in the soup, but maybe they should. So really, carrots are cinematic effects. They aren't needed, but they make the game feel that little bit smoother. Well, only if you're a carrot person. And if you don't like carrots? Then you get MGS2…
Chicken
Chicken is essential in chicken soup. Heck, it doesn’t even need explaining why. So really, chicken is basically graphics, because without them, you'd be playing pong for centuries. Without chicken, it'd be plain vegetable soup. And you don't want that, do you?
Spuds
Potatoes are one of the most versatile vegetables around. Mash them, roast them, chip them, the list goes on. So the one thing in games that changes a lot really suits potatoes. Yep, it has to be sound. Creepy music plays as Jill tries to stay alive, chirping birds whistle In the trees as Mario fumbles about, Hooker's make moaning noises as the car shakes back and forth- sound can be manipulated to create every effect imaginable. That's why sound is best portrayed as potatoes- because depending on the preparation method- you're going to get a different effect each time.
Swede
Swede is your Marmite of the soup- you either love it or hate it. People will argue about whether it adds to the taste or completely ruins it. So really, it's like realism. The people that swear by realism will shove copies of Grand Turismo in your face, and the people that hate it will tend to sway towards the Mario's and Sonic's of the gaming world. It's all about opinion really- taste and game wise.
Onion
Onion is bunged into the soup for a reason. Without it, you'd have a swirling mass of big chunks floating around. Onion is the icing on the cake, the finish to a game. It's the attention to detail and final tweaking that gives soup, sorry, games their appealing features. Oh, and they taste nice, too.
Lentils
Lentils are debatable. Are they rice or are they some kind of dodgy vegetable? And why are they in the soup in the first place? They have no taste whatsoever. That's why lentil's are like celebrity voice-overs. What is the real point? Sure, they may be famous, but there are other people who'd do the job just as well, if not better for a third of the price.
Stock cubes
Stock cubes are the final piece to the jigsaw. They hold everything together, and are responsible for the homemade chicken soup taste. Stock cubes are therefore the extras. They are included to make the game extra-special, and add that little bit extra to the experience.
And then there's more. If you leave chicken soup until the day after preparing it, the juices are so full of flavour, it tastes even better! And the same applies to games. If you spend time sorting out the bugs, adding finishing touches and pushing that release date back, you end up with a really special game.
So in the end, it's all down to vegetables. That's why games are great. Yeah…
Thanks for reading
Microchips
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Tart eh? Meh. :P Anywhoo, what a great mistake that was.
Wahey!
Wahey!
He says chicken is the Graphics. Tart that he is.
The chicken was the gameplay surely?
You managed to entirely miss out Gameplay.
Well done.
Well done.
Heh, yet another interesting and brilliant post.
How.Do.You.Do.It
*ponders directly into gamma rays*
How.Do.You.Do.It
*ponders directly into gamma rays*
*fishes out PS2 controller out of soup*
nope can't see the connection
*dips MGS2 disc into soup*
no cinematic experinces happening eww sweed yukk
nope can't see the connection
*dips MGS2 disc into soup*
no cinematic experinces happening eww sweed yukk
Whitestripes wrote:
> Microchips wrote:
> And if you don't
> like carrots? Then you get MGS2…
>
>
> My joke
Yeah, and 'twas pretty good too.
Cheers guys.
> Microchips wrote:
> And if you don't
> like carrots? Then you get MGS2…
>
>
> My joke
Yeah, and 'twas pretty good too.
Cheers guys.
Microchips wrote:
And if you don't
> like carrots? Then you get MGS2…
My joke
And if you don't
> like carrots? Then you get MGS2…
My joke
Well written mate, nice one.
Microchips wrote:
>
> Onion is bunged into the soup for a reason. Without it, you'd have a
> swirling mass of big chunks floating around. Onion is the icing on
> the cake, the finish to a game. It's the attention to detail and
> final tweaking that gives soup, sorry, games their appealing features.
> Oh, and they taste nice, too.
Onions taste nice? Eughh.
Good post by the way, well thought out.
>
> Onion is bunged into the soup for a reason. Without it, you'd have a
> swirling mass of big chunks floating around. Onion is the icing on
> the cake, the finish to a game. It's the attention to detail and
> final tweaking that gives soup, sorry, games their appealing features.
> Oh, and they taste nice, too.
Onions taste nice? Eughh.
Good post by the way, well thought out.
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