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The Great Gatsby - For NES!
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Fimbulvetr
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Jiguryo said:Did anyone here beat this game on, er, "no death" mode?
Yep.
So much of the hate for the Great Gatsby is because of the damn over analysis that is done in high school english classes. The book itself is amazing and unfortunately gets pushed aside as high school kids are forced to question the meaning of the eyes on the billboard and the colors of Daisy's dresses. Fuck high school english classes for ruining one of the great novels of the last 100 years for a vast majority of American students.
Chittagong
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$200 said:
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
That's about how I feel. I have a much better appreciation for Gatsby and Frankenstein now that I go back and read them.RyanDG said:
The Scarlet Letter is still a POS though. I thought so when I had to analyze it, I think so now. Their Eyes Were Watching God hit a lot of the same themes, and was actually good.
I AM JOHN!
Banned
It's funny that you mention this, since I had a completely different experience with it. Granted, my eleventh-grade English teacher is one of my favorite teachers I've ever had, but I loved it when I read it in high school and got a lot out of it. I guess it all depends on who you have. :\RyanDG said:
Ledsen said:
the same reason boardwalk empire is cool. Jazz age. Bootleggers, parties, flappers and the roaring 20s. Behind it all you have returning WWI veterans, prohibition and the disparity between rich and poor. It was written before WWII but you even get a hint of the up coming war and eugenics. Its one of the greatest american novels of the last 100 years.
Pinko Marx
Banned
RyanDG said:
Guess this is what ruined the book for me. I loved my Honors Lit class, had an awesome teacher, but he pretty much masturbated over the book. "SO MUCH SYMBOLISMS, I FIND SOMETHING NEW EVERYTIME I READ IT." Maybe I'll go back and read it again someday.
WrenchNinja
Member
.Blablurn said:
Okay, maybe this is why I dislike it.RyanDG said:
_Alkaline_
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cooljeanius said:
Funny, I just replayed that game today for the billionth time.
These days I just like to pretend that the game ends with Malth. It's basically the last point in the game where it's still incredibly fun. I can't be bothered going through 6-2 anymore knowing that I'll probably die on the final boss and be sent back to 6-1 again. I've done it before anyway.
I AM JOHN!
Banned
Jesus Christ, this game is fucking amazing. The attention to detail and completely bizarre take on everything is so brilliant, from the amazing cutscene with Daisy crying over the shirts to fighting alligators in the sewer. And I completely lost it at the boss fight with
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Only thing that could make this better is a boss fight against Myrtle's dog.
Meyer Wolfsheim and the Black Sox
Only thing that could make this better is a boss fight against Myrtle's dog.
This was fantastic. I finished it without dying but I didn't wait after the credits. 
Haven't read the book but this absolutely hilarious game and this beautiful comic from Hark, a vagrant! have convinced me it is an absolute must-read and funnier than anything ever.
Hail Gatsby! Hail Fitzgerald!
Haven't read the book but this absolutely hilarious game and this beautiful comic from Hark, a vagrant! have convinced me it is an absolute must-read and funnier than anything ever.
Hail Gatsby! Hail Fitzgerald!
Lionel Mandrake
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RyanDG said:
In my class we just read it straight. Never analyzed any meaning. It's quite possibly my favorite book ever.
prodystopian
Member
Just saw this elsewhere. So great.
This happened to me with Catcher in the Rye, which I enjoyed before reading it for class in HS. I don't like Gatsby (perhaps for the same reason; it was the same class), but I do want to read it again and see if I like it more now.
RyanDG said:
This happened to me with Catcher in the Rye, which I enjoyed before reading it for class in HS. I don't like Gatsby (perhaps for the same reason; it was the same class), but I do want to read it again and see if I like it more now.
Crash Station
Member
It's okay. Got bored in level 3. The train boss was cool at least.
Ledsen said:
It's not the most accessible of books, and some people dislike Fitzgerald's sometimes moralizing tone, but it's still a great story with several fascinating characters at its core. It covers a lot of themes such as money as an empowering and destructive force (Gatsby's immense wealth, the Buchanan's "old money" lifestyle), identity (Jimmy Gatz reinventing himself as Jay Gatsby), and disillusionment with humanity (Nick Carraway returning to the Midwest after Gatsby's death). The book leaves you with a melancholic sense of the irreversibility of time (Gatsby's failure to reunite with his lost love, Daisy) and the perpetuity of man's struggles:
Chittagong
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synt4x said:
I might have been that friend :-(
Although I think I only traded a couple of games and used my weekly allowances for preceding half a year.
The creators of Gatsby must have been inspired by this:
I loved the Angry Video Game Nerd's extended review of Jekyll & Hyde.
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/angry-video-screwattack/705627
I loved the Angry Video Game Nerd's extended review of Jekyll & Hyde.
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/angry-video-screwattack/705627
BlingBling!!
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GG sucked so hard its not even funny. Even this crappy parody does nothing for it.
That book can suck it along with its fans.
TROLL ON!
That book can suck it along with its fans.
TROLL ON!