My favourite dialog from Full Throttle comes when Ben wakes up on a table in Maureen's ramshackle hut after wrecking his bike on the highway: Ben: Is this

My favourite dialog from Full Throttle comes when Ben wakes up on a table in Maureen's ramshackle hut after wrecking his bike on the highway: Ben: Is this an authorized Corley service centre? Maureen: Well, it's a Corley service centre, but I don't have the official paperwork. Ben: Ah, an *illegitimate* Corley operation. Maureen (stiffly): I prefer to call it a *renegade* Corley operation. In the original context, the joke is the distance between the scrappy environment and the official-sounding language. On the second playthrough, however, it has additional context. When I read the article, at first I was incredulous that the author would say bad things about Full Throttle, but as he listed his reasons I was like "oh yeah, that sucked, and that was terrible too, I didn't enjoy that bit at all". It's a testament to the game's thematic strength (and perhaps the power of human nostalgia) that I remember it so fondly today.