Comments on: Worst Tentacle Rape Panel Ever: I-CON 26

By: dhex

dhex — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:08:47 +0000

i’m pretty sure i trademarked the term “soul cancer” back in aught-four.

anyway, you’d have to include fallout in there for worst fanbase. they may actually be the worst of all time, in terms of attitude (in terms of dressing up like an interstellar drag queen who fights crime in between musical montages, perhaps not, but among mere mortals…)

“Afterwards was a panel called ?AMVs: Do?s and Boo?s? that MK wanted to check out until she actually found out what an AMV is (for those who don?t know, they?re music videos featuring crappola music with anime footage, so for example, any random Fall Out Boy song with Naruto providing the visuals).”

speaking of souls, mine just shit its insubstantial pants.

By: Slonie

Slonie — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 23:14:57 +0000

I almost made an AMV once, back in like 2000…it was gonna be all the most fucked up parts of Blue Submarine No. 6 with “Under the Sea” playing. It would have been EPIC.

Closest I ever got was Angel Cop Condensed ( http://youtube.com/watch?v=bVpwJbLLivU )

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 20:04:52 +0000

Well, DKC does do one thing right, and its the soundtrack, which almost everyone agrees is awesome. My fave was the underwater piece.

BTW, if you want Katie, I can pass along some mp3s.

As for DKC furry, I can also ask at 4chan for you.

By: Katie

Katie — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 19:51:25 +0000

I LOVED DKC so much that I would turn it on just to listen to (what I then considered) a very prog soundtrack. I ended up recording the songs and listening to them on my cassette player! The graphics were pretty weird, you’re right. Everything looked like it was made out of overused tin foil. But I have to say, the mine-cart levels were sick, and those levels were even more awesome in the sequel.

I wonder if there’s any DKC furry art floating around?

By: Dave Gilbert

Dave Gilbert — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:30:28 +0000

Heh. In reading this report, you’d think I walked around I-CON with a permenant look of shock on my face.

…

Actually, that’s pretty much the truth.

By: djtiesto

djtiesto — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:17:53 +0000

Nice to see DKC made the list! But ehhh, FF7 ain’t really so bad. It just gets a lot of flack for being the one game that ‘broke’ the genre in America so to speak, and has the most rabid gamefaqs fanbase which makes it embarassing to even admit you like RPGs anymore… There are much worse RPGs out there (believe me I have played some *ABYSMALLY BAD* ones in my day), in fact there are much worse FF games out there, even.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:41:13 +0000

I also attended that hentai panel. In fact I convinced my girlfriend to go because while she had no interest in watching actual hentai she is a curious person. I said may be informative The saddest part of it was that I was the one that made us leave early. It was such a disappointment. Thank goodness your ?More Joy Than Just The Stick? panel was a lot more interesting. We actually attended a few of your panels.

By: dmauro

dmauro — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:39:01 +0000

It might end up being nearly the same list but: Top Ten Worst Video Game Fanbases. Or, Top Ten Most Annoying Soul Cancer Cliches. You could extend this to jRPGs as well since they seem to share a lot in common (and are also soul cancer) and to keep it on the topic of video games.

By: Shapermc

Shapermc — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:38:59 +0000

Madden feels like a very weak choice

-the real rockstar

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 05:59:36 +0000

Yeah, putting Shenmue ahead of DKC as per your suggestion really was a good move. DKC country actually had a good number of fans in the audience, whereas everyone uniformly disliked Shenmue. And since the plan was to start with everyone hating me, then liking my next choice, and then back and forth, it really worked out! Though then again, after Shenmue, everyone absolutely loved me hating on Madden, so my audience approval/disapproval plan was thrown kinda outta wack!

I should also mention that it was MK’s idea to add images from the South Park episode on WoW when talking about worst game ever #5, which got a massive reaction from the audience. Even those who disagreed couldn’t argue with my point, such as how no World of Warcraft player is truly proud of it.

On a side note, when my friend Katie found out that DKC was on the list in the first place, she got super upset! It was a fave game of hers from her childhood. But when she heard my reasons, she knew ended up agreeing with me!

As for pictures, I should probably do a search since I know tons of folks took pictures of my final presentation slide; when that FF7 box hit the screen, there were camera flashes everywhere as silly as it sounds! I also hope someone took a pic of me with the cosplay chick that ran up to hug me.

And as for taping, I simply never figured it was in the realm of possibility, hence why I didn’t ask in the first place! Maybe next year’s, though I have absolutely no idea what the topic might be. I’m afraid I’ve done all the top tens that I can…