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Two Great Tastes...

by kensterfox

All right, that's it, no more peanut butter-and-pepperoni pizzas before bedtime. I just had the strangest dream. I was playing video games (no, not Zombies Ate My Neighbors), and they were so WEIRD! They... well, I'd better just describe them. This first one was about this cute, colorful world where some archetypical comic evil genius had erased all the data on these cute, papery critters that...

All right, that's it, no more peanut butter-and-pepperoni pizzas before bedtime. I just had the strangest dream. I was playing video games (no, not Zombies Ate My Neighbors), and they were so WEIRD! They... well, I'd better just describe them.

This first one was about this cute, colorful world where some archetypical comic evil genius had erased all the data on these cute, papery critters that looked just like little cars, and I had to raise them and make them race and do tricks and run into each other so they'd explode and leave candy all over the place... At least I remember the name of that one - "Viva Piñata: Trouble in Burnout Paradise". I had others, but for the life of me, I can't remember what they were called...

So there was this really hard one about this kid who left home with the hopes of going to Washington, D.C., San Francisco, and other cities and rescuing people from a zombie invasion...

Then there was this one about a gameshow about wearing the most stylish clothes, which made it easier to pick up stuff around the environment and kill people with it...

Let's see... then I played one where I used a detailed character creator to make an everyman kind of dude who wanted to be an assassin, so he leveled up by taking on quests to mow lawns, clean graffiti, and kill bad guys (who were also assassins)...

OK, then there was this one where you and a buddy could be dinosaurs who beat up members of a criminal organization that's taken over the city's government...

Then I played a game about a fighter pilot who had committed a murder. He finds out that he did it because he was influenced by an insectoid race invading from another part of the galaxy, and he has to blow up the gate they are using to make the trip before he is caught by the two detectives tracking him down...

That's all for now, though I know there were others... anyone have this dream before? If so, do you remember the names of the games I played?