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Gaming's dirtiest words

We investigate 23 of the industry's most taboo utterances

Words: Ben Richardson, GamesRadar UK

Raiden
Foppish, effeminate and thoroughly unpopular surprise lead character in Metal Gear Solid 2. Now used to refer to any experience of a game pulling the digital carpet from under the feet of your expectations, dropping you onto the arse of shock as your mouth of unhappiness belows "Him? I have to play as him?"

"I heard Rachel led you on just to set you up with her ugly mate?"
"Yeh. She pulled a Raiden on me"

Revolutionary
Obligatory press release word sometimes abused by lazy journalists. Original meaning (to revolutionise) now watered down so far as to indicate something is 'probably maybe going to do something perhaps a tiny bit differently, but not too much'. [Alternatively: Redefining, Never Before Seen, Original]

"Pokemon Battleface Stuff-'Em-All-In 7 will boast revolutionary 'One-On-One' combat, and genre-redefining 'Movement' and 'Level' based gameplay"

RROD
Terminal and inexplicable death knell for your Xbox 360. Can - apparently - be solved by wrapping your console up so warm that part of it actually melts, which sounds less like a solution to us and more like adding insult to injury.

"Ahhhhhhghghgh! I gots the RROD!"

Sony
Schizophrenic console-spitting corporation that brought us SAPS, The Third Place, and a heavily-endowed girl in a pink bikini sitting on a toilet, but also the spectacular own-goal-alicious All I Want For Christmas Is A PSP. Note: Throws lavish parties patronised almost exclusively by hairdressers.

"Has Sony got a clue what it's doing right now?"

Update
Developer euphemism for 'the game wasn't quite finished, but we had to release it, and anyway with Live and PSN you can just download the game you should have been sold in the first place'. Also a compulsory software tart-up for your console that will always come along at the wrong time. Or brick your console. [Alternatively: Patch]

"But, sir, there's a terrible bug in the game that'll delete the player's save!"
"Don't worry about it, Johnson, we'll just fix it in the patch. Sorry, I mean update"


 
11 Comments
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Noface42  - 4 months 30 days ago 
Blu-ray and HDTV ftw
thomashalpenny  - 4 months 30 days ago 
2nd yay i am so happy (you mite not b able to tel but im being sarcastic)
SenorChunky  - 4 months 30 days ago 
Third!
Interesting Article, Its a 'Meh'
DoctorGordonFreeman  - 4 months 30 days ago 
nice article
THORSTEINTHESTAFFSTRUCK  - 4 months 30 days ago 
I have a PS3 and I love Vista. It almost never crashes, Apple. Maybe that is why you spend so much on advertising for you crapbooks and Icraps.

There isn't enough time in the world to point out the inadequacies of Apple and its *cough*"products" other than to say there are @ five superiour products to your [insert Apple product here] at less than half the price.
garnsr  - 4 months 30 days ago 
Activision should be inserted into the EA section. This article may have the most British speech of any I've read here.
GeneralTickTock  - 4 months 29 days ago 
yeah, Apple is insanely high on success. It used to be quality, now its just overpriced.

60$ for a pair of earbuds? they COME with the Ipod, so do Ipods really cost 60$ less if you buy them without earbuds?
Yeah, that does mean that shuffles would be FREE
deora2dude  - 4 months 29 days ago 
i laughed at the comment above...

anyway i love EA and im not just saying that because i live in vancover and if i say anything unenhancing they come and firebomb my house.... (heh heh)


but really i grew up with thier titles and they really do try... now lets hope SHIFT isnt SHIT (just remove the F!)
CreeplyTuna  - 4 months 28 days ago 
first of all, WTF guy who said second?! is that all you have to say? get a life

second, i want to say, apple's ear buds are COMPLETELY overpriced. you can get a pair of better quality headphones at best buy or an electronics store for the same or less amount of money. when circuit city went out of buisness, i got a great pair of headphones cheap and they sound better, feel better and block out noise better than apple's crap $60 ear buds- take that apple!
Narudude360  - 4 months 25 days ago 
Woohoo! Finally someone not caring about first comment! Congrats, Noface42, but thomashalpenny, shame on you! You too SenorChunky!
acklumos  - 4 months 25 days ago 
The two worst in this article: EA, and fanboys. EA seems to just pump out sequels as fast as it can, and for all you fanboys (especially xbox 360 and Halo 3 fanboys) for God's sakes just shut up! One console or game DOES NOT have to be the best ever created! Just because the PS3 doesn't have Halo 3 does not make it a bad system! 3 words: free online play. I may sound like a bit of a PS3 fanboy. I'm not, I'm just sick of Halo 3 fanboys who think Halo3 just has to be the best game ever, and every other game sucks.
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