History WebVideo / RosssGameDungeon

* DifficultySpike: Lampshaded by Ross during ''The Chosen: Well of Souls''. The game gets way too difficult way too suddenly. At the beginning of the third level, he encounters a type of enemy that takes him over ''100'' hits to kill and can kill ''him'' [[OneHitKill in only one hit]], when all the other enemies take him 1-3 hits to kill. Every group of enemies in the first section of level has at least one of these bastards too.

** Level Three in ''The Chosen: Well of Souls.'' It opens with an EliteMook that can not only OneHitKill you, but takes over 100 hits from even a fully-optimized character to bring down. It only gets worse from there, but that particular level is singled out as a DifficultySpike big enough to build a space elevator on.

* ''VideoGame/KillingTime''

* ''Killing Time''

* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: During the ''Armed and Delirious'' episode Ross notes - several times, especially during the ending - that he is not cutting any context or relevant dialogue. It really is this bizarre and nonsensical.

''Ross's Game Dungeon'' is a review show created by Ross Scott, who most know as the creator of ''Machinima/FreemansMind'' and ''Machinima/CivilProtection.'' The series mainly covers and analyzes obscure games and occasionally more recent games as well, with the humor taking a more deadpan approach in comparison to other review shows.

* BlackComedy: As shown by ''Machinima/FreemansMind'', Ross loves this.

** Ross references a joke he made in ''Machinima/FreemansMind'' in the ''VideoGame/{{Tyrian}}'' episode.

* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: Ross accuses ''Polaris Snocross'' of this for its aggressive rubber-band AI that makes races almost impossible to win, even with fully upgraded sleds. It gets to the point where he was forced to edit the text files to cripple the AI-controlled racers and the computer would ''[[UpToEleven still try to cheat him out of a win]]''.

* UpToEleven: Discussed in ''Tyrian.''
-->'''Ross:''' ...and your primary guns have upgradeable levels. They go up to 11. Literally.

* [[invoked]]UncannyValley: Ross discovered what the Uncanny Valley of roads looks like in ''VideoGame/TheCrew'' -- unmarked backwoods dirt roads that are inexplicably as wide as five-lane highways.

** In the review for ''Uncanny Valley'', when Ross describes how it falls between other games in terms of its experience a graph appears which shows the [[invoked]] UncannyValley, with the game in the low point of said valley.

* RantInducingSlight: Ross ''absolutely loses it'' at the out-of-place Christmas level in ''[=CarnEvil=]''.

* EightDeadlyWords[[invoked]]:
** Ross states he didn't finish ''VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein 2009}}'' because he didn't care what happened to anybody due to nobody in the game seeming to give a damn about the horrors around them.
** Ross runs into this hard with ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'', being tempted to quit the game almost immediately due to melodramatic, unrelatable characters, and eventually giving up before the end of the first episode.

* ChristmasEpisode: Has one every year since 2014, with the first one being the winter-themed ''Polaris Snocross'', admitting the "snow, therefore Christmas" connection is weak at best. When he reuses the reasoning for his 2016 Christmas episode, ''Freak Out: Extreme Freeride'', he admits he's using this logic simply because there otherwise aren't many Christmas-themed games worth covering, many either being one-note minigames or holiday-themed versions of normal games. By 2017, he had to resort to a game he had ''gotten'' for Christmas when he was a child. The first (and for a long time ''only'') actual "Christmas" game he reviewed was ''VideoGame/StillLife'' in 2015, which is a puzzle/adventure game where the main character stays with her father and bakes cookies for him on Christmas Eve. [[BlatantLies And does absolutely nothing else]]. In 2018, he briefly covered a handful of indie Christmas games, but quickly gave up due to their poor quality, and resorted to something more akin to a Halloween game on the tenuous basis that it involved Christian themes (adding "Christ" to "Christmas" in his words). He does the exact same thing for 2019, starting with another handful of explicitly-Christmas-themed games he didn't take to, before resorting to an even more intensely Christian-themed game for the rest of the episode (with the bonus that parts of the plot resembled ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife''). In 2020, he did the impossible and managed to find a ''second'' actual Christmas game to cover that was not so terrible that it made him want to kill himself after 2 minutes of playing it, and remarked that such a thing may never happen again.

* BaldOfAwesome: Ross states ''Baldies'' gave him a new respect for bald people, as the titular baldies remained a nearly unstoppable ferocious empire through the entire game, took the worst the enemy could throw at them in stride, and even took over ''Hell'' simply through [[ZergRush overwhelming numbers]] and a bit of cleverness.

** In the ''[[VideoGame/BlackMirrorVideoGames Black Mirror]]'' episode, Ross suggests that a more satisfying ending than [[spoiler:Samuel killing himself to stop the family curse]] would be to deliberately cause a demonic invasion of Earth, which could tie into ''Bozo's Night Out'', a game set a couple of years later in the same country that features (what Ross interprets as) a demonic invasion.

** He brings it up again in ''[[VideoGame/BlackMirrorVideoGames The Black Mirror]]'', a franchise which was poised to release a new game with the same name as the original (save for the omission of the "[[SpellMyNameWithAThe The]]"), saying that he wasn't planning on reviewing the game yet, but was forced to bump it up to the front of the line since the new game would be out in only a month and its nearly identical title would condemn the old game to obscurity, especially since ''Series/BlackMirror'' the TV show had already done most of the work.

* ''[[VideoGame/BlackMirrorVideoGames The Black Mirror]]'' (Halloween episode)

* YouMakeMeSic:
** In the ''Quarantine'' episode, Ross isn't happy to find that the only website that has the ''correct'' final password [[note]]"KEMO CITY A NICE PLACE TO VISIT" instead of the incorrect "KEMO CITY '''IS''' A NICE PLACE TO VISIT" that every other site had.[[/note]] misspells "city" as "sity". He gives them points for effort, at least.
** This seems to be one of Ross's pet peeves, as the episode on the ''Construction Bob'' games zooms in on every misspelling, and he pronounces the words as written in his voice-over.
** Ross was on the receiving end of this from self-proclaimed Grammar Nazis saying the title of the show should be "Ross' Game Dungeon" and not "Ross's Game Dungeon". In Follow-Up Episode #1 he gives them a TakeThat where he cites ''two'' grammar books that both agree his spelling is actually the correct one.
--->'''Ross:''' Well, let me tell you, Grammar Nazis: The Grammar SS would have had you sent to the Grammar Russian Front for overstepping your authority. [...] See, this is why the Grammar Nazis lost Grammar World War II.
** While reading the synopsis of ''Armed and Delirious'', he corrects a few grammar and syntax mistakes.
** In the ''VideoGame/ANewBeginning'' episode, he points out the item that has been mislabeled as a "refirgerator".

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