Maelstrom declares games are best when spoofing serious things.

[Onyxmeth]

LordTheNightKnight said:
Oxy, you're missing the point. He's not referring to parodies as in the Mad magazine "Today we make roadkill of The Road Warrior" things, even if the video choice made it seem like that. He meant lighthearted takeoffs of those works.

Contra is like Rambo, but even more aggressive and manic.

Doom is Dante's Inferno, if it was more like the last third of Aliens.

Star Fox is all the flight battles of the Original Star Wars Trilogy, just with even more crazy enemies than the AT-ATs (which was a flight battle because of the snowspeeders).

Mario is in a variation of Wonderland, in that everything is whimsical and follows its own rules instead of the rules of reality.

Am I the one missing the point if the article writer puts together a poorly thought out analogy involving a movie an it's spoof counterpart? No. That's his issue. This entire blog post of his just doesn't make a lot of sense. Why does a game have to be a parody of something else to be at it's best? Tetris isn't a parody of anything. Also why can't a serious game be a parody of a film?

There obviously wasn't much thought going into this. Not amongst his best work.