10 WEIRD Gaming Stories of May 2019

games are amazing but the world of gaming can be weird hi folks its Falcon and today on game race 10 weird gaming stories from May 20 19 number 10 is a Shiba Inu walking simulator it's actually specifically called the play dog play tag and of course as a simulator it is a one-to-one absolutely flawless reproduction of walking a Shiba Inu you know because normally you just let the dog drag you and throw you into buildings and vehicles destroying them that's what a Shiba Inu walk is like perfectly simulated here by play dog play tag now if you said to yourself hey that looks really real and very interesting but where's the competitive element because normally there's a competitive element to your world destroying Shiba Inu walk oh and guess what there is two player versus mode which you play split-screen because that makes sense in fact every single second of this it just makes more and more sense to me I think this seems very realistic simulator is the right word for it it's obviously intentional it's not trying to really simulate anything but I just wanted to note that this is one of the more liberal uses of the word simulator I've ever seen fun looking though for sure number 9 not quite as thankful for this one a bug appeared that caused players and Red Dead online to just come across massive piles of dead horses and that's just like dead like skins like maybe they've been through a fire or somebody just skinned them now for a while people were wondering if this was intentional it seemed to come with game crashes for a lot of people so a lot of people were suspicious it was a bug and when Rockstar finally addressed it on the 20th everyone found out it was a bug one that would get rid of other animals too so it'd be dead silent there wouldn't be a lot of ambient noise and there'd be a big pile of dead horses that would probably be hilarious not in real life of course there would be some sort of harbinger of the Apocalypse but in Red Dead online that be hilarious number 8 a wedding planning company in Japan created a new style of wedding that you can purchase with them that quote faithfully reproduces the worldview of Final Fantasy 14 in wedding form was announced as a collaboration between Square Enix and a wedding hall called de cero in Co Bay and people wanting to have that wedding can submit applications for the planning process now I don't mean to make fun of anybody for warranting a wedding the way they want it there's not a lot of big events like that in your life and if you want to do it the Final Fantasy 14 way go for it but I'm really interested in about 50 years when they're showing their wedding photos to their grandchildren and they have to explain that they just really really liked the 14th entry in the Final Fantasy series to the point where it was their wedding I love imagining this scene I mean who knows maybe looking back people like Final Fantasy fortune even more in 50 years maybe we legendary maybe those that tell of the exploits and your Zia will be looked back on as heroes number seven a patient who was terminally diagnosed with cancer posted to the borderlands 3 subreddit that his name was Trevor Eastman that he's 26 and was diagnosed with stage 4 esophagus stomach and liver cancer which is intense he also posted proof of his diagnosis just to make sure that people knew that he wasn't trying to fool them in any way and requested there would be some way he might be able to play the new borderland scam and it was up voted nine thousand four hundred and forty times a few weeks later another post came from Trevor sang one of the people from 2k have been talking to him to plan somebody to come fly out to him with a copy of the game and thanking everybody for their support and helping make it happen because let's be clear that sucks and it's awesome that they decided hey let's help this guy out number six the World Health Organization officially recognized gaming disorder as a disease proving that nobody can come up with a decent name for it like I don't know addiction because gaming addiction just properly describes the situation I don't know I don't want to make fun because there are definitely people that have a serious addiction issue with video games and in the World Health Organization definition Gaming disorder has to cause significant impairment in personal family social educational occupational or other important areas of functioning which results in impaired control over how much won games prioritizing gaming over other life interests or even important daily activities and doing all this despite the appearance of negative consequences it also classifies it as an addictive behavior which I don't really understand why they didn't just call it gaming addiction seriously Gaming disorder just sounds like any kind of gaming is some kind of a mental health problem gaming addiction on the other hand describes without having to define any of those things exactly what's going on I just consider that a weird man that being said is it good possibly I mean depending on how they actually set out to help people with quote unquote gaming disorder it could actually improve a lot of people's lives on the other hand people who use games as a coping mechanism for other problems perhaps worse problems I don't know how well this is gonna affect them number 5 Josh Holly a senator from Missouri announced that he's going to introduce legislation banning quote unquote manipulative online game practices particularly ones that push children to become addicted the legislation he tends to introduce is called the protecting children from abuse of games Act and more or less would come for the loot box phenomenon I mean it would come for other practices that are adjacent to loot boxes namely anything that could be classified as a gambling mechanic most likely and on the surface that sounds pretty good but on the knot surface it kind of sucks that game companies couldn't have just realized that pay what you're doing here is gonna cause the man to breathe down your neck I mean in theory what most people would probably prefer is that the doesn't get heavily involved in how video games are but I think in order for that to happen you can't have all of the major video game companies doing blatantly exploitative stuff I personally don't really want there to be a law about these things I would prefer that this just isn't a thing that we talk about ever again but in order for that to happen video game companies would have to be fundamentally different about their pursuit of money through gambling mechanics which sucks number four a gamer managed to get a refund from anthem despite playing it now I'm going to go ahead and say that I pretty much support this because he got the refund for citing false advertising and fraud for the reasons anthem has had bug issues none that I've really seen but I haven't really played it much since the launch and apparently loot is still in a state not a good state just a state well let's even go beyond that Bioware had a roadmap for this game that they haven't even bothered to stick to it's a disaster like it should just be regarded as like a disaster at this point and they basically have promised a bunch of things that haven't happened I would almost say that there's no one going outrage about it just because people were just like you know what actually no I don't even care just let's do something other than anthem which is quite interesting to me at least anyways they were able to hit up Amazon and get a refund because of the advertising of content delivery that was not even kind of a thing that happened and Amazon was like all right whatever we don't really want to do with this anthem crap so what just in case you're still not happy with that and bought it at Amazon you've got recourse that's actually kind of not normal normally we don't have recourse in situations like this as individual consumers so I mean that's weird but good number three a Sony patent was filed for a gyroscopic VR chair which would rotate the players entire body in relation to what they see in VR basically the seat works in with the VR to provide an experience that is much more immersive which might make theme park rides that you just do in your living room possible assuming you know you can fit this thing in your living room it doesn't look like a thing you could fit in your living room to be clear or maybe they won't even do that maybe they'll be some kind of like arcade experience to bring arcades back I can dream can't I bring arcades back come on number two I am just going to start this one off with a quote from sub verses creator because I think that this quote pretty much is the story I don't think you need to say anything else I will but after the game became a Kickstarter hit during an interview he said he didn't expect the success and that they just wanted to make dick lasers and big bouncy anime titties which is the goofiest sentence I've ever heard like there's no way he didn't focus group that sentence I don't know for what demographic exactly dick lasers and big bouncy anime titties not necessarily oil in water but also not necessarily the Sam thing let's just say it was a big hit though like it raised over two million dollars I guess like they know what they're doing as far as who they're targeting so to be fair maybe more people just need to take that approach I don't I don't know and finally number one in China $0.10 the primary funding people for pub chief shut down pub G on mobile in China in favor of a clone of the game that has no blood now the reason given for the shutdown is that they were unable to gain approval from the Chinese government I'm not a hundred percent on that cuz $0.10 really has a lot of pull in the Chinese government let's just say the other game game for peace is more or less the same thing basically it looks very very similar and players have reported that their progression history carried over to Game four piece which is very curious definitely sounds a lot like Game four pieces just pub G but you know whatever also this goofy game you shoot somebody they don't die I don't know how to put it they just they wave at you like hi how you doing thanks for the bullets in the face I appreciate those bullets Thanks how are you the weather's nice well have a good day bye bye China is weird I just stopped asking like how why how no you guys enjoy your game for peace couple bonuses for you a CJ and Big Smoke and the Resident Evil 2 remake it's yeah I mean it's beyond amusing to me they put their lines and Big Smoke is an obvious mr. X transplant he's bigger than CJ but he's also asking CJ if he's alright and stuff someone else modded a bunch of anime into fallout 4 although maybe that's perhaps a little less weird maybe it's just weird that it took this long for that to happen and finally we made a video about this but Sony and Microsoft decided to explore a strategic partnership anyways what weird gaming stuff happened to you this last month I'm sure it's something because it's been a weird month leave us a comment let us know what you think and if you like this video click like if you're not subscribed now's a great time to do so we upload brand new videos every day of the week and the best way to see them first is of course a subscription so click Subscribe and don't forget to click the notification bell as always we thank you very much for watching this video i'm falcon you can follow me on twitter at falcon the hero and we'll see you next time right here on game ranks

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Length: 12min 7sec (727 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 01 2019

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