Ah Christmas, the one time of year where we have to put up with that annoying Christmas spirit so here’s a list of ten games that are guaranteed to ruin any semblance of Christmas mode. By the way this list is not a top 10 list and only one game per series is allowed otherwise one series would practically own this list.
10. Mass Effect 3
Do you by any chance still need to buy a Christmas present for someone who also happens to be a HUGE fan of the Mass Effect series? If so and you don’t mind listening to them complain all Christmas this entry pretty much explains itself but in case you don’t know Mass Effect 3 got a lot of hate by fans because of the poor ending and it also made a lot of your choices in previous games completely pointless which in a game based around players being allowed to choice was quite a stupid idea by the developers.
9. Dead Space 1
One of the main things about Christmas is that you have to spend time with family because being around people you care about makes you feel comfortable or at least that’s the idea anyway. Now imagine if some kind of space virus would turn them into the zombie like necromorphs and all you had to defend yourself was by attacking them with impractical power tools while wearing what looks like an oversized bucket with slits cut into it on your head. Because nothing ruins Christmas quiet like attacking your undead aunt with a buzz saw.
8. Condemned 1
Christmas is that time of year where were supposed to have good will towards all men so what better way to get rid of that feeling then by beating homeless people with psychological problems to death with a piece of 2×4 with nails in it as a squeaky clean and probably very well paid FBI agent who also has a Taser to make things even less fair for the homeless although the homeless in this game aren’t exactly full of the Christmas spirit either.
7. Any games that makes the player sing
Ok I’ll admit I’m cheating with this one but let’s be honest there’s nothing more embarrassing or then listening to drunk family members badly attempting to sing to some bad song from the 80’s although that’s not as bad as listening to someone who thinks that they can sing actually sing but then I guess that’s why people watch the first week of certain shows.
6. Persona 3 Portable
The reason Persona 3 is on this list is because it’s a RPG about teenagers who fight shadows by shooting themselves in the head with a pistol in order to summon their inner demons or Persona’s. This one also starts with a cut scenes of a girl holding a gun to her head saying that all it will take is one shot and that she’s a chicken for not doing it which is surprising if you never played a Persona game before. They also feature something that would ruin any child’s Christmas by reminding them of it, school although why you’d give a child a Persona game is beyond me.
5. ZombiU
ZombiU is probably the first ever realist zombie game because one bite and you’ve become a zombie. Add the fact that you’ll be stuck in a lot of claustrophobic environments full of them and that the game is best played as a stealth game because firing your guns cause every zombie in the area to come straight after you and after a few sessions of ZombiU you’ll be in a completely opposite state of mind than you’re supposed to be in so if nothing else ZombiU is the perfect antidote for all those games out there that treat zombies as common enemies.
4. Dark Souls
You are dead, not the words you want to hear this time of year are they but if you turn on Dark Souls for the first time over the holiday season then you’ll have to get used to it quickly especially once you get to Orenstein and Smough but even if you’ve cleared Dark Souls you’ll still have a reason to turn it back on because when you start the game again it gets harder every time you clear it. That and the new DLC called “Artorias of the Abyss” has a boss in it called Kalameet who happens to be a giant black dragon who is a bitch to fight.
3. Legend of Zelda Majora’s Mask
You know with Nintendo’s current family friendly image it’s sort of hard to believe that at one time they let Majora’s Mask be rated E for Everyone. Seriously Nintendo what the hell, this is a game about Link having three days to stop the moon from crashing into the planet and killing everyone. Add to that the fact that this game has the ugliest and freakish looking fairies in the series. What an odd coincidence that I added a game about the world ending this when apparently it’s the end of the world this month according to the Maya calendar anyway.
2 World of Warcraft
Chances are that no-one that saw the name of this list though that WoW wouldn’t be on this list because lets the honest here WoW is a very easy game to ridicule which is honestly kind of unfair. It is however very addictive if nothing else and the idea of someone spending their Christmas staring at a bar slowly raising is a pretty depressing though but hey look at the plus side. Due to Mist of Pandora WoW now has 100% more Kung-Fu pandas and no that’s not the official statistic.
1. Silent Hill 2
At the start of this happy little list I pointed out that one game series would practically own this list I was reforming to the Silent Hill series and while any game in this series could have been put here I chose Silent Hill 2. Besides intruding Pyramid Head and those stupid nurses Silent Hill 2 in my opinion was the town at its best. Every creature you ran into are based on your character James Sunderland own guilty conscience and the plot itself was really interesting if really depressing. Interestingly enough Silent Hill 2 happens to be the only holiday resort on this list but from what I’ve heard its service is below par so I’d give going there a miss.
So that’s ten games guaranteed to destroy that annoying Christmas spirit but here’s my question, which games would you have put on it and why besides the Fatal Frame games.
