History VideoGame / ForumWarz

* AscendedExtra: The Church of Saiyantology mentioned below was a community forum when it was introduced. Now it's a plot point in Episode II, and one of your clients that is among their organization is [[JohnTravolta oddly]] [[TomCruise familiar]]. Paranormal Panorama too, possibly, or it could be a subversion. After all, the mission that tells you take it down does specifically state it's there in the community forums.

* ChurchOfHappyology: The church of [[DragonballZ Saiyan]]tology. Episode 2 players can even find themselves on the business end of a Dianetics diatribe.

* TooSoon: InUniverse Example; The Troll ability "Threat Level: Red" involves making fake terrorist threats, something which even the real life [[{{Imageboards}} 4chan]] [[EvenEvilHasStandards thinks is a bad idea]].

* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: [[spoiler: How you ultimately dispatch Purifyingselector88 in Episode 3, and potentially how you deal with Shallow, depending on your alignment.]]

* WakeUpCallBoss: In Episode 3, the fights against [[spoiler: Nordstrom and Purifyingselector88]]. They don't have ludicrous amounts of health for no good reason, [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath despite being dispatched by other means]]. You eventually have to beat a thread with half a million health.

* FantasyCharacterClasses: Camwhores [[TheMedic can heal themselves]], Emo Kids were [[GameBreaker once so powerful that they had to be nerfed]] and [[TheBerserker deal higher damage with their class-specific attacks as they lose Ego]], and Hackers have more equipment slots than any other class while having to [[VancianMagic plan out their attacks to account for cooldown timers]]. Trolls and Permanoobs rely mainly on [[MightyGlacier trying to endure as many hits as possible]] as long as their drug supplies hold out. Hell, most Troll equipment emphasizes defense over offense.

You're browsing through the Internet when a shadowy figure contacts you with the offer of a mysterious power: pwnage. By either being really whiny, flirtatious, annoying, or [[LeetLingo 1337]], you can utterly destroy internet forums and send their occupants off to go cry in their blogs. Soon enough, the money and fame start rolling in, but then so too do the shady organizations, freaks, perverts, and weirdos who want your help.

* AllegedlyFreeGame: You have to pay to unlock any of the later episodes from the second onwards. You do get to keep playing the community forums and Episode I forums, though, as long as you don't open the notice that your fictional ISP account has been suspended following Episode I's conclusion.
** You can still continue playing- just sentrillion something and play through the Internet Court scene. You still won't be able to access the Episode II forums, but everything else will be reactivated.
* AntiPoopSocking: There's a maximum of four forum visits per day (with a rollover cap of 12), which is about 90 minutes of playtime at most.
* AscendedExtra: The Church of Saiyantology mentioned below was a community forum when it was introduced. Now it's a plot point in Episode II, and one of your clients that is among their organization is [[JohnTravolta oddly]] [[TomCruise familiar]]. Paranormal Panorama too, possibly, or it could be a subversion. After all, the mission that tells you take it down does specifically state it's there in the community forums.

* BerserkButton: One of your contacts, THE_SHIT, becomes enraged whenever he's asked a question. Then, after a head injury, it's reversed: He's fine with questions, but not general statements.
* TheBerserker: Fittingly enough, some of the Emo Kid's special attacks become more devastating when Ego runs low.
* BribingYourWayToVictory: In addition to more episodes, paying Crotch Zombie will allow you to purchase 69 forum visits, lottery winnings of 100,000 to 1 million Flezz, or a Thread Insta-Kill ability at the price of being disqualified from certain E-Peen as well as from Domination (an Un-Cheat enhancement can remove these if you want back in, though). There are also the game-improving purchases that don't do this, such as "Extra Character," "Disable Ads," and all the Community enhancements.

* ButThouMust: At the start, one of the possible answers to the question "Are you interested?" is "Not really, but I understand the game won't really continue otherwise." The other answers are answers in the affirmative to the question.
* CallAHitPointASmeerp: It's '''Ego''', not HitPoints!

* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: The Death Note attack has the highest damage in the game, but also [[CastFromHitPoints consumes 200 Ego upon use]]. Emo Kids might find it especially useful, since it's the only Aggression move they can learn without being Evil [[spoiler:and thus dooming themselves to a bad ending]], in addition less Ego left means they hit harder with their various attacks.

** Having an evil alignment doesn't end well for you.

* ElementalRockPaperScissors: Partially implemented: attack techniques and forums beyond the lowest levels have psychological types, weaknesses, and resistances. While there isn't a specific "X beats Y beats Z beats X" in place, classes end up specializing to various degree in some types of psychological attack. This makes some classes better against specific fora.

** '''K'''onservative '''K'''ristian '''K'''oalition
** '''F'''athers '''A'''gainst '''P'''ornography
** '''P'''ost-'''A'''pocalyptic '''S'''urvival '''S'''ociety
** '''S'''ociety for the '''P'''reservation of '''A'''ging '''M'''emes

* HitPoints: Ego serves as this, complete with CriticalExistenceFailure when it hits zero. Anything above that, you can fight perfectly the same as if it was full, [[TheBerserker or even better if you're an Emo Kid]].

* IHaveManyNames: [[spoiler:Shallow Esophagus is ''every'' [=sTalk=] contact in the game.]]

* ItemCrafting: Sets of ".moar" files can be assembled into a document, sound, video or application file. You can equip one of each file type at any given time, and sell duplicates (or outdated/off-class files) as VendorTrash.

* LethalJokeCharacter: Re-res and Permanoobs may generally be weaker than other classes, but since they don't have a mana bar of some sort, they can use their more advanced attacks indefinitely. Additionally, the ultimate Permanoob attack has an average damage of 1000, while other classes cannot get attacks with more than 400-500 damage.

* ManaMeter: All classes except Re-Res and Permanoobs have some sort of secondary meter in combat that's used for most of their attacks, displayed under your LifeMeter.
* MeaningfulName / PunnyName: Rather than being an anarchist [[ImageBoards Anonymous-type]], is Shallow Esophagus actually working for TheMan and playing you, or playing the system from inside? Given the name "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Throat Shallow Esophagus]]", what do you expect?

* PinataEnemy: The relatively easy to beat, level 22 forum "Undead Journal" almost always drops .moar pieces of the file "MAXIM'S HOTTEST CELEBRITY TUMORS.gawk", a powerful picture file (especially for Trolls, since it boosts Douchebaggery among other things). Additionally, the file sells for over 8 MILLION Flezz, yet has only 8 .moar pieces, so a few pwnages of Undead Journal are usually enough to get the whole file.

* PowersAsPrograms: Including literal "Program Files".
* PsychoSerum: It's a good idea early on to check with THE_SHIT regularly to buy the Steroids he provides. They are most useful to a Troll, as they increase Douchebaggery significantly, but any class can use them for the heal and the massive offense boost.
* RandomizedDamageAttack: All Permanoob attacks have randomized damage between a minimum and a maximum value. The difference between minimum and maximum is usually small (10 to 25 damage), except for their two strongest attacks, Urban Legend and Bash Helmet With Keyboard. Urban Legend's damage varies from 1 to 500, while Bash Helmet With Keyboard deals from 1 to a horrifying '''2000''' damage. That's an average of 1000 damage per hit. [[LethalJokeCharacter No attack in the game goes beyond a fixed 500.]]
* ShockSite: Another troll ability, ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin... [[spoiler:only subverted in that the pictures are innocuous and are a play on words of real shock sites. A goat for goatse, meat being rotated on a spit for meatspin, etc.]]. Not to mention '''tub'''mail. Some shock sites are also mentioned during your conversations with [[spoiler: Great Aunt Geraldine]], giving you the [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential choice of telling them to avoid the site, or to go ahead and visit]].

** Now including one to this very wiki, with the [[IncrediblyLamePun TvTripes.org]] forum. You're welcome.

* SuckinessIsPainful: Exploited in particular by Emo Kids, who can dish out a lot of pain to threads with horrible haikus and depressing poetry. Ophelia's Bad Poetry ability, which you receive for completing her mission, is '''especially''' painful.

* ThisLoserIsYou: A ZigZaggingTrope. Sure, you're a fat, pathetic BasementDweller who spends his non-pwning hours jerking it to bizarrely deviant porn, but you're also the only person in this whole CrapsackWorld other than Shallow Esophagus and maaaaaybe the FBO to have an ounce of intelligence, sanity, or common sense. And given your penchant for sarcasm and mockery, the whole "basement dweller" thing could well be an elaborate joke on your part (as Shallow comments at the start of Episode 3).
* TooSoon: InUniverse Example; The Troll ability "Threat Level: Red" involves making fake terrorist threats, something which even the real life [[{{Imageboards}} 4chan]] [[EvenEvilHasStandards thinks is a bad idea]].
* {{Troll}}: Your goal in this game is to troll various forums to death. There is a special Troll character class, too, [[StoneWall which does exactly what you'd expect]], but no matter what class you choose you'll still be doing quite a bit of trolling.

* WakeUpCallBoss: In Episode 3, the fights against [[spoiler: Nordstrom and Purifyingselector88]]. They don't have ludicrous amounts of health for no good reason, [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath despite being dispatched by other means]]. You eventually have to beat a thread with half a million health.

* Dangerous Forbidden Technique: The Death Note attack has the highest damage in the game, but also [[CastFromHitPoints consumes 200 Ego upon use]]. Emo Kids might find it especially useful, since it's the only Aggression move they can learn without being Evil [[spoiler:and thus dooming themselves to a bad ending]], in addition less Ego left means they hit harder with their various attacks.

* LethalJokeCharacter: Re-res and Permanoobs may generally be weaker than other classes, but since they don't have a mana bar of some sort, they can use their more advanced attacks indefinitely.

* [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique Dangerous Forbidden Class]]: For players with eye problems, this is the Hacker class. Some of its attacks induce InterfaceScrew that can hurt if looked too long at.

* GoodIsNotNice: Any good aliened PC is this. A Good Troll is especially this.

* CriticalExistenceFailure: Run out of Ego and you die, presumably in some sort of messy manner as the Game Over picture shows ample amounts of blood on your mouse.

* FissionMailed

* TooSoon: The Troll ability "Threat Level: Red" involves making fake terrorist threats, something which even the real life [[{{Imageboards}} 4chan]] [[EvenEvilHasStandards thinks is a bad idea]].

* IHaveManyNames: [[spoiler:Shallow Esophagus is ''every''[=sTalk=] contact in the game.]]

So you're browsing through the Internet when a shadowy figure contacts you with the offer of a mysterious power: pwnage. By either being really whiny, flirtatious, annoying, or 1337, you can utterly destroy internet forums and send their occupants off to go cry in their blogs. Soon enough, the money and fame start rolling in, but then so too do the shady organizations, freaks, perverts, and weirdos who want your help.

** '''F'''athers '''A'''gainst '''P'''ornography ,
** '''P'''ost-'''A'''pocalyptic '''S'''urvival

* KnightOfCerebus: [[spoiler:PurifyingSector88]] is actually quite sinister and vicious, compared to the rest of the antagonists. None of the others have [[spoiler:the death of millions]] as a goal, after all.