Worst show based on a video game?

Yeah, we all know about the bad reputation of game-based movies, but what about TV shows? Sure, there were some good ones, but there was also garbage that shouldn't have been green-lighted. So what do you think is the worst of the worst?

I've seen a lot of crap in my day, and yet the choice is so easy. Two words: Sonic Underground. Did you just throw up in your mouth at the mere sight of that name? Congratulations, you're a normal human being.

Question for whoever has Wind Waker HD

I've been hearing about how five of the Triforce Shards are now found immediately on completion of what used to yield Triforce Charts. Out of curiosity, can anyone tell me which ones? I'd like to see if there's a reason why it's only five and not all eight of them. Also, are there more regular treasure charts to compensate, since in the original every single square on the map had exactly one treasure found with them?

Of course, it also means you also get to keep about 2000 rupees you had to part with in the Gamecube version, since Tingle only gets to charge you the deciphering fee three times instead of eight. Not sure I like, because, well, I'll be blunt: other than cleaning up the auction house and Rock Spire Island Beedle, rupees are entirely worthless. This isn't Skyward Sword where there's so much to buy if you're as much of a completionist as I am. At least back then you had an excuse to build up money (not that it was that hard, because Wind Waker is easily the game where money is the most plentiful). I suppose it greatly benefits those who cared so little that they had to grind money near the end just to pay Tingle, but still...

Edit: Apparently the Magic Armor uses rupees, not magic. So there's your use for rupees. It's only when you get hit though, so... is it an upgrade or a downgrade? Depends on how fast it burns those rupees, I guess. As for the remaining Triforce Charts, they're the ones that can be obtained before doing the Tower of the Gods, so I assume they were kept for that reason. I must ask... why? You can still head to Tingle's, get them deciphered, and get the shards before entering the Tower of the Gods, so unless there's something I'm missing, what's the point? And then the Hero's Charm was shoved at the very bottom of the Savage Labyrinth, making it by all means useless. At least in the original version you could get it in a snap...

When Double Dragon meets Phil Collins

Some video game songs can bear a striking resemblance to conventional music. Whether it's Robo's theme from Chrono Trigger and Never Gonna Give You Up, or Elec Man's stage and Journey's Faithfully, such incidents are bound to happen eventually.

However, I've run into a weird occurence: a remix of stage 2 from Double Dragon 2 that sounds more like Easy Lover than it does the song it's supposed to represent. And having played Double Dragon 2 a long time ago myself, I can assure you that the original has NOTHING to do with Easy Lover.

A cold in mid-September? Welcome to Canada.

Just to give you a warning, there will be no new videos for the next few days. As I'm sure you noticed in the last few, I've been fighting a cold lately, and now I've reached the inevitable point where my throat feels like sandpaper. Sorry about that.

So hey, Trollfreak, if you want to take the opportunity to make that Splash + Quash + Follow Me + Bestow event Pikachu with a forced Relaxed nature that you've always dreamed of, I can't even yell at you for it, so now's the time.

The stupid is strong in this one.

How can this idiot even breathe? Obviously confusing Gamespot with Gamestop is one thing no one with a brain would do, but the part that gets me is the fact that THE GAME ISN'T EVEN OUT YET (that would be GTA5), and Captain Amazing here just knows it's worth a 10. What is this I don't even.

You gotta have more stones in here!

Said every Eevee ever.

Full Pokédex Blue WR attempt fails on the very last turn

Remember Gen 1 freeze? Now you do.

I may have just found the most interesting YouTuber ever.

This is all sarcasm, of course.

The best part is that some of these videos hit the fabled 301 view mark. How does that happen?

The latest "how does this happen?" glitch

Many games have glitches where you keep wondering why they even exist, why they haven't been caught by the developers and so on, but this one found in the PS3/360 version of Diablo 3 is outright absurd, for two reasons: the PC version has been out for almost a year and a half and it never existed there (even though I'm fully aware you can't just copypaste a PC game on a console), and it works on one specific bonus on a particular set of items and ABSOLUTELY NOWHERE ELSE.

The idea behind the glitch is that when you equip two items of the Blackthorne set, you gain a boost of 100 vitality (which represents a rather substantial 3500 HP at level 60, which you have to be to equip these items), and keep these points as long as you have two items from that set equipped. The moment you have less than two, you lose these 100 points. (You probably already know how that kind of thing works, but I just want to make sure.) Well, what this glitch does is that whenever you log out, these 100 vitality points become a PERMANENT boost. You can then log back in, at which point you get another temporary 100 vitality boost that then becomes permanent when you log out, and so on and so on.

For reference purposes, since I'm aware most people here have never played this, your typical character will usually end up in the ballpark of 30000-60000 HP. So yeah, pretty freaking gamebreaking glitch there.

NicoCW: too good to avoid plagiarism, part 2

Not long ago I made a post about some cretin plagiarizing Nico and posting an image of his on Pokémemes, but it seems once wasn't enough, because, well, look at this. That... kind of pisses me off even though it's not my stuff.

The crazy thing is, look at the like/dislike ratio for something that's, for anyone who's been playing Pokémon for a while, the unquestionable truth. Either it hits too close to home for some people who don't want to admit it, or they're just putting their head in the sand and pretending it's not true.

Like this Memebase commenter, for example. Holy crap so much stupid. Where do I start? Claiming gen 6 is the best DESPITE IT NOT BEING OUT YET? Remember how the trailers made Other M look so awesome to most people (though I was really suspicious from the word go), and then it came out and it was the worst insult anyone could possibly make to a series? What's preventing it from happening with any other game, even X/Y? Granted, it's almost certainly going to blow the rest of the series away anyway, but passing judgement on a game before it's even out is absolutely stupid.

Then this twit chooses to argue over THE COLORS USED IN THE CHART. A chart that, mind you, was probably a fifteen-minute job, maybe even less. I have no words. It's not meant to be artistic, you numbskull. And then, "not everyone adores Hoenn and loathes Sinnoh". Taken word for word, that's true, but it's not the point of this chart. It's meant to highlight the ridiculous shifts in preferences of the Pokémon fanbase as a whole, where Hoenn went from franchise-destroyer (for those who weren't around back then, this really was how Ruby and Sapphire were perceived when they first came out) to getting entirely too much praise once we started getting regions that outdid it in every way - and said regions just don't get their fair share of praise. Until a few generations later when even better regions come by, and the cycle continues.

Let's be honest here: denying what this chart says is like denying the Zelda cycle exists. It may not be a universal thing, sure (I liked Wind Waker and Twilight Princess when they were new, and I like Skyward Sword despite the horrible controls, gasp!), but in fanbases this big, this vocal, and dare I say this devoid of anything resembling logic, you're bound to see weird patterns like this.

Sorry, I went on entirely too long about this, but this is what happens when I get mad. Can we get our oxygen back?

The butthurt over Pokémon Bank is amazing.

It's not like most of them are complaining about the fact that backwards compatibility used to be free (arguable if you only had one DS), either. It's all about the fact that they're imagining Nintendo is going to turn into EA overnight and start charging for event Pokémon and other stuff like that, just because they're charging for Bank. What the hell? They charged for Box, they charged for Ranch, and were they complaining back then? Of course not, judging by how much they're acting like big babies they were still in the womb.

Let's see here... Box came out in Japan in May 2003. That's ten years ago. If Nintendo was going to go down a slippery slope of nickel-and-diming, they would've done so long ago. As it stands all they're doing is relying too much on Mario to fill their coffers when their backs are against the wall.

As I said in my LP video, having to pay for the ability to transfer Pokémon kinda sucks, but they did say a while ago that they tried different avenues, to no avail. I guess what you make out of that depends on how much you trust the company, but I myself am inclined to believe they did a valiant effort, but the technology gap just wouldn't allow it. Am I the only one who finds the fact that a DS has an easier time communicating with a GBA than a 3DS amusing, if only because cosmetically and functionally it's closer to the 3DS than the GBA? Never discount that under-the-hood stuff, I suppose.

Anyway, my personal impression is that the trial period is mostly meant for those people who just want to transfer everything from their gen 5 games to gen 6 and be done with it, so that at least they won't have to pay anything. I think if Nintendo really wanted our money that badly, we wouldn't even get a trial period. I mean, why else would you need a trial period? It's not even like this is a game that you might want to try before buying it. You know exactly what you get going in. It's just storage, Pokémon transfer, and that's it.

I swear, the internet is the cancer of gaming, moreso than the companies themselves.