I love cooking shows. Really, it’s a weakness of mine. (Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I’m on a diet and if watching Paula Deen add a stick of butter to everything is as close as I’ll get to indulgence… well, I’ll take it.) I could watch the Food Network all day, and would if I didn’t need to earn money to keep the cable on so I could watch the Food Network. And I’m a pretty decent cook, provided ”beef” and ”open flame” are integral to the recipe.
But the news of a Hell’s Kitchen videogame has to rank among the upper echelon of silly ideas I’ve ever heard. Why? Because cooking is either a spectator sport or a participant activity. If you’re watching, you want to drool while watching the deliciousness take shape onscreen. If you’re cooking, you get to eat. Neither of which will happen with a videogame, I don’t care how next-gen the virtual cooking experience may be. (You will, however, get to hear HK’s Chef Gordon Ramsay, pictured, yell at you for your virtual incompetence.) Bytes will never equal bites.
Follow the jump to discover five other videogames I’ll never play… should they create them.
1) Vacuum Adventures: Sweep the rug for hidden jewels and old Cheerios
2) AAA Roadside Showdown: Who Can Change a Tire the Fastest?
3) Tournament Fishing: Grab your tackle box, launch the bass boat and let’s go! (Okay, this really is a game. Which frightens me.)
4) Velcro vs. Shoelaces: The Final Chapter
5) NapQuest
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Can I play Aaron from last season on the game? Or maybe Rock and then I can destroy the kitchen while Gordon Ramsay repeatedly yells “Bollocks!” at me in his usual soothing and helpful manner.
And which button overcooks the scallops and undercooks the lamb?
If they make a game of Dancing with the Stars, I’m outta here
But can a Hell’s Kitchen game possibly surpass the joy that is Cooking Mama?
finally! i get to make undercooked green risotto and get called “don-KEY” by the master!
Aparently you’ve never played Cooking Mama, which is what this sounds like. This thing better be on the Wii.
Y’all need to get better opening sentences for these. Take a cue from the AV Club:
“In what is most likely the greatest cooking-related video game since Burgertime, Canadian-based developers Ludia have announced plans to create a Hell’s Kitchen title.”
I would totally play Vacuum Adventures.
Vacuum adventures sounds awesome! I’d play it and probably this Hell’s Kitchen game knowing myself. It sounds hilarious.
And which button makes the chefs sweat into the food? Will the cyber Ramsey make the cyber chefs cry as much as the real one does?
If this actually passes through development, It will probably be rated
“M” for mature due to the constant stream of obscenities that Chef Gordon Ramsey will yell at you.
Also, I hate to say this Rob Grizzly but I saw a Dancing with The Stars game for the Wii at a local Gamestop this weekend. I guess we’ll see you later then.
NapQuest!!!! I totally want that game, when does it come out?
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