Sunday, December 21, 2008

XvY2: Algebra meets fighting

There was a fighting game on the Sega Genesis called Final Fight, in which the player had to fight a couple of women characters. Since this was deemed inappropriate, Sega refused, so the game creators revealed they were in fact transexuals, since apparently it's so much better to beat up transexuals then women.
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Final-Fight
Scroll down the SNES and GBA version section in Censorship for the proof.

  • 75. I am three quarters through the "100 facts about myself" blog post aspect. Ha ha! See what I did there?

As one or two posts might've alerted you, I am fascinated by the concept of "X vs Y". It's the height of laziness and awesomeness at the same time. "Hey, we've got the rights to X and Y, two independent intellectual properties. Let's stretch them both out further by making them fight" or "Hey, those guys with the other intellectual property are willing to collaborate with us, so we both make more money with half the work." (Aliens Vs Predator started because in Predator 2 the Predator ship had an Alien skull on it. Awesome.)

Often the pairings make only the most general of senses. Marvel Vs DC. Two entire UNIVERSES of superheros fighting. There've been some vague crossovers in the past (one or two insane characters saying they've off-panel interacted with someone from the other universe) and a couple of make-no-sense-story-arc-crossovers. Spiderman and Batman teamed up to fight the Joker and Carnage, who were the best of buddies until they disagreed on murder methods. "A giant smilie face bomb that detonates and makes everyone in Gotham die of laughter! MUAHAHHA" "Yeah, or we could slit their throats." "... What did I ever see in you?"

Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe. What do these two have in common? Absolutely nothing. But that doesn't stop them from making a fighting game around the concept. They even came up with a stupid story behind it.

Star Wars vs Soul Calibur. Ok, they didn't call it this, but what else can you call it when Darth Vader and Yoda are brought in to kick the crap out of stupid looking stylised warriors with swords larger then them, which follow no rules of physics and don't seem to be even sharp.


So, what other Vs would be awesome?


Zombies Vs Aliens: To make this as AWESOME as it should be, let's make three assumptions

1. Aliens can be infected with the Zombie virus if bitten (and somehow the bites can penetrate the skin of the Aliens)
2. Facehuggers born of zombies would be Zombie Aliens
3. Zombies still try to eat the Aliens, despite the fact their acid blood would melt them.

Now come on, picture a heavily populated human planet turned into a Zombie-world, with a dormant Alien Nest on the planet. The Aliens awake for some reason, start trying to do stuff, only for them to be facing hordes of the undead, and their own drones being turned into siff limbed zombies, all the while both sides are attempting to get at the few remaining humans (there are always humans) for food/replenished ranks. AWESOME. AWESOME to the MAX.


Batman Vs Jason: Need I say more? Batman's long lost cheerleader cousin is off having careless teenager sex with a jock when this activity rouses the attention of Jason. Batman must protect everyone from the Psycho while they escape, meaning he has no time to do his standard "research their weakness" thing so he can't just defeat Jason in the blink of an eye.

The "I know what you did last Summer" guy against Wile E. Coyote: Both lose, since they have an inherent anti-winning-streak, and are both so predictable it hurts. We all win.

Darth Vader Vs Davey Jones: This one just came to me. Excuse me a moment while I picture the awesomeness.


Think of your own X vs Y and post it in the comments.

1 comment:

Pixelation said...

Sigorney Weaver vs. Arnold Schwarzenegger
Die Hard vs. Titanic
Sex in the City vs. Desperate Housewives
Buffy vs. Blade
AC vs. DC
Acid vs. Base
Kramer vs. Kramer
Joe vs. the Volcano
Anson vs. Steve