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"Have you ever thought about who you are in this? Are you the man in the pot, Diogenes? Are you his hand? Are you the top of his hammer? I think not: Where your hand moves, the hammer may not follow. Nor the man, nor the man's hand. In this you are his will. His intent. The embodied resolve in his uphill ascent."

"I hate this game, but why am I playing it? Well, that's the question everyone has asked themselves. They all have the same reason; because you're angry and you wanna win. You wanna beat the Nintendo—but the cold fact is that nobody cares but you."

"The grotesque brown sludge of dirt, salt, and snow will pile upon the curbs and all the yuppies and helicopter parents will look up and shout 'plow us!' and I will look down and whisper 'Shut up, I'm playing video games.'"

Fucking Minecraft. I have tried my best to see the good in Minecraft. 'It's Legos, but digital! YOU CAN BUILD ANYTHING!' And it's true: I would rather have the kids playing Minecraft than fucking Candy Crush or some other brain-eating shit-wheel of a game. But try getting a child to STOP playing Minecraft. It's like trying to pry a fucking lion away from dinner. I have seen people cry less when having their actual children ripped away from them. It's just a game, dear. And I spent the majority of my childhood waiting for gaming platforms that did NOT use shit-ass block graphics. You should really take advantage of the new technology.
Drew Magary, "My Kid’s Insane List Of Reasons To Be Thankful, Annotated"

It does come with a World of Warcraft hat, which will help explain to people why you disappeared for several months and returned as a manatee.

"You wait ages for a turn-based fantasy-themed strategy game to come along and then you miss the bloody bus you were supposed to catch because you haven’t got around to putting your pants on yet because it’s vitally important that you take just one more turn, and then just one more turn after that, and, seriously, forget it, I don’t even know where the bus is going anyway and all my pants are at least as far away as the other side of the room, and there’s an ogre eating my livestock."
Rock Paper Shotgun (referencing Elemental: Fallen Enchantress)

"I decided to take it home to see what all the buzz was about. Big mistake. For the next few months, I spent every possible moment playing the game. Sleeping only a couple of hours a night, I would stay up 'till dawn playing, wake up minutes later and get right back into it. I was even going home from work at lunch to get a hurried hour in. It got so bad my roommates had a "talk" with me. Finally, I finished my first game, and proceeded to stumble about for weeks after, having paranoid delusions that aliens really were invading Earth, cautiously looking for a flashing red 'enemy in sight' warning in my peripheral vision."

"...as time progressed, the player still sat glued to that screen which displayed scores of rather simple yet complex atoms. Operating the joystick frantically, another level was conquered. And another..."
"...Staring at the screen in a bewildered fashion, the player continued. Another fresh cup of black coffee was put on the desk next to the computer - by someone whose face had a kind of weary, worrying look."
Unattributed quotes from the manual for the Puzzle Game Atomix

Mario: Well, I must say I find the music very relaxing, and I have just beat level 19! How long have I been playing?
Fafa: Er, seven hours.
Mario: WHAT?!

When I attended the MacWorld Expo to promote The Fool's Errand in 1988 and 3 in Three in 1991, people marched up to me, pointed accusing fingers, and shouted, "I HATE YOU!"

It was the ultimate compliment. Puzzle-addled students hated me because they were too tired to study for their exams. Business professionals hated me because they were blurry-eyed on the job. And even a pair of newlyweds hated me because I ruined their honeymoon.

I'll just play one more round of executin' everything I see
Grab a dead bad guy banana and then hey, I'm in Round 3
Woah, I just got a bubble bonus and my points are goin' strong
Maybe I'll just play a little more, I'm sure it's not that long
Brentalfloss, Bubble Bobble With Lyrics

“Seriously though, just one more dungeon. It’s not like—oh, heck.” The tank went down, and [Auggie] burned all her cooldowns to try to get the packs down before the whole team wiped. “—we have school or anything. Aw, man.”
Amber yawned. “Like, whatever? You’re like, gonna be tired all day.”
“I’m fine! Hey, quick question, could you tank for me real quick?”
“Go to BED you nerd!”
“One last dungeon, I just need the daily.”
Stellar Ranger Dark Star Series Three

"Not only did I wipe Lemmings from my hard disk, I overwrote it so's I couldn't get it back."

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