Shitty Video Games

[ImTheWiseJanitor]

I noticed we now had a "Shitty movies" thread to go with our "Shitty music" thread, so I thought I'd see if maybe we could start one of these.

I'll start us off with Vanquish.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT5wg51JB8w

It looks like the typical futuristic shooter with little substance, and it really is. But it's done in a way that makes it apparent that they did it that way on purpose (which is fine, because sometimes that works). There are a lot of things that it could have done without, though. For example, I've never played a game that actually punished the player for using melee attacks. Basically, you have this super-powered DARPA weaponized armor and it overheats when you perform certain actions, leaving you completely unable to use it while your machine takes 10-ish second to cool off (you can move around fire your weapons, and evade attacks, but that's it). Any time you use a melee attack, whether it's one punch or several, your suit instantly overheats,. You can never jump - not even off of ledges. You get a special prompt when you're able to use jets to jump up or down. You move at a fixed pace, with the exception of using your suit's boosters to powerslide in any direction - which is cool, but it's just another thing you can't use when your suit's overheated. Also - You can easily beat the game in less than 3 hours.

There's just a whole list of things I could go on about that I don't like about this game. ESPECIALLY the credits. Holy christ. It uses an interesting mini-game idea, but then it just drags on...and on...and ON...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twaqt9WlMpQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twaqt9WlMpQ)

It's fun as a shooter. The dialogue is all corny hardcore space marine talk, and story is like 24 had a baby with Red Dawn and took place in Halo, but those things actually make the game somewhat entertaining to watch on your first playthrough. You'll absolutely get a laugh out of it. They could have fixed a few of the mechanics and made this into a fun little game I'd play again for kicks. But after beating it twice for the sake of the trophies alone, I don't know that I'll ever feel the need to play it again.

[october_midnight]

I could literally talk for an hour about the one night I played some of this game. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman_%281999_video_game%29)

[ImTheWiseJanitor]

I don't even think I got the pleasure of playing that one. :P

Here's an example of "so bad, it's good," though. I've seen a friend play this once and he's sold it since then, and now apparently it's impossible to find for less than $200.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEIi3X9NCMU

[exilajei]

There was a Batman Forever game I had for my Game Gear back in the day that was absolutely horrendous. I couldn't even get past the first level. I found out later you literally had to jump through the floor of the next level to get up there, which was done with some incredibly stupid button combination. I'm getting frustrated just thinking about it.

[frankie teardrop]

you guys are familiar with the angry video game nerd, yes? he's touched on both superman 64 & the batman forever game.

[owinn]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - NES

fuck this game


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjUz8IT0CYg

OH and Airwolf


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVMupgM344M

[nemesiswontdie]

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m57/Tigerdragon_01/Bionic_Commando.jpg

This game right here was the biggest piece of shit I've played in a VERY long time. The only joy I got out of this game was the easter egg that you get when you fail against the mechanical worm and trading this piece of shit in.

Shit controls, shit story (His wife goes missing and you're in a town taken over by an army of sorts and you find out your bionic arm IS YOUR WIFE! OOOOHHHHHH) and shit music. The only decent thing about this game really is the voice acting from Spencer isn't too bad.

A major problem with this game is that it's got the same invisible wall that can kill you like in Superman 64 (as mentioned above). You try and swing into a part of town and you hit this barrier you're not supposed to go past and to tell you not to go past this mark it's radiation that can kill you. Well just get out of the radiation right? Well no, it only gives you about a half a second to get out of radiation or you're fucked and you got to do that whole level again.

Also, here's a video the of the easter egg.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLVYkz5WEio

[Wretchedest]

Yeah superman 64 was legendary bad.
As a ten year old i remember trying my damndest to actually like it and failing all over the place...
Did anybody play that first sonic game that came out this generation? My god that was fucking terrible. I actually liked the sonic adventure games but that one was unforgivably awful...


I do remember playing batman forever on my genesis and liking it... it had that mortal kombat image capture thing going on, right? Dont think i got very far...

[owinn]

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m57/Tigerdragon_01/Bionic_Commando.jpg

This game right here was the biggest piece of shit I've played in a VERY long time. The only joy I got out of this game was the easter egg that you get when you fail against the mechanical worm and trading this piece of shit in.

Shit controls, shit story (His wife goes missing and you're in a town taken over by an army of sorts and you find out your bionic arm IS YOUR WIFE! OOOOHHHHHH) and shit music. The only decent thing about this game really is the voice acting from Spencer isn't too bad.



Voiced by Faith No More's Mike Patton no less. Eh I remember being on a Bionic Commando binge when this came out and thought it was pretty average but not the most terrible game I'd played. Capcom had a double whammy with this and Dark Void in such a short space of time.

[Space Suicide]

I love Mortal Kombat but I bought this game in 1997, whoa such a piece of rubbish. I was so excited too as I had gotten my first console MK game...well this game fooled me by the cover. I was 7 at the time.

http://powet.tv/powetblog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/mortalkombatmythologies.jpg

[exilajei]

Oh god that game was terrible.

Let's get this one out of the way...
http://www.3drealms.com/duke-nukem-forever.jpg

[owinn]

Oh god that game was terrible.

Let's get this one out of the way...
http://www.3drealms.com/duke-nukem-forever.jpg

too soon dude, too soon.

[Jinsai]

I disagree completely about Vanquish. I loved it, and outside of my complaints about it being too short, I thought the gameplay was amazingly well polished. You could also take mastery of that game to a crazy level, and it provides post game challenges that actually put you to the test. Sure, the plot is dumb, and the dialog is a joke, but the actual gameplay and action was unique (and authentically exciting), tight, and fast paced.

I also think the Bionic Commando game was really underrated. It's hard, and the lack of checkpoints is frustrating, but the game mechanics are solid. Yeah, the radiation was frustrating, and it sort of screwed up the way it encouraged you to search around for collectibles, but unless you were hunting around for hidden stuff you didn't run into those walls.

I think the most disappointing game I've picked up lately has been Hunted: The Demon's Forge (http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-3/hunted-the-demons-forge)
It looked so promising, and I was looking for an action/rpg designed for coop gameplay. The game turned out to be dreary, repetitive, and stupid. Worse yet, the gameplay is clunky and glitchy crap, and the whole point (the two player coop) is ruined by terrible imbalance and poor teamwork mechanics. Add to that the fact that the game is frustratingly difficult and punishing even on easy difficulties. I want my 15 bucks back.

Also, I was pretty let down by FEAR 3. The coop gameplay in that had a great premise, but it's poorly executed, and the level design is astonishingly bad. It's also completely tame and the least scary "horror" game I've played since Resident Evil 5.

Oh yeah, and Sumioni for the PS Vita is bullshit.

[Space Suicide]

I think the most disappointing game I've picked up lately has been Hunted: The Demon's Forge (http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-3/hunted-the-demons-forge)
It looked so promising, and I was looking for an action/rpg designed for coop gameplay. The game turned out to be dreary, repetitive, and stupid. Worse yet, the gameplay is clunky and glitchy crap, and the whole point (the two player coop) is ruined by terrible imbalance and poor teamwork mechanics. Add to that the fact that the game is frustratingly difficult and punishing even on easy difficulties. I want my 15 bucks back.

My friend got that last Summer for us to play and it was horrendous and pretty boring. Traded it in two days later.

[virushopper]

I love Mortal Kombat but I bought this game in 1997, whoa such a piece of rubbish. I was so excited too as I had gotten my first console MK game...well this game fooled me by the cover. I was 7 at the time.

http://powet.tv/powetblog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/mortalkombatmythologies.jpg
That and also
http://i.imgur.com/FQke9.jpg

[ImTheWiseJanitor]

I disagree completely about Vanquish. I loved it, and outside of my complaints about it being too short, I thought the gameplay was amazingly well polished. You could also take mastery of that game to a crazy level, and it provides post game challenges that actually put you to the test. Sure, the plot is dumb, and the dialog is a joke, but the actual gameplay and action was unique (and authentically exciting), tight, and fast paced.

It WAS tight and fast-paced, I'll give it that. There weren't any times where I felt that anything was dragging. But there were so many little things that stopped me from really enjoying the game. God Hard mode is FUCKING FSBFAKJHF<JEKHSFDNIF. Infuriating. :P I didn't finish it, but just because I didn't have time before the due date.

[DF118]

Deadly Premonition is the most game ever.

http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/1/17166/1362764-dp_york3_super.png

[Beef of the Sea]

http://pcmedia.gamespy.com/pc/image/article/118/1185987/eye-divine-cybermancy--20110803022258223.jpg

E.Y.E Divine Cybermancy from steam, they tried so hard to push it right in the middle of this flash-in-the-pan cyberpunk revival recently, and it just didn't fit.
The game play just felt super clunky and awkward, the plot (If you could call it that.) was convoluted and confusing as hell.
With the constantly respawning enemies, and the way the gameplay panned out, it just felt like Unreal Tournament with stats.
Guess I was sucked in by it's kinda cool character design and art style, but in my eyes it fell well short of the mark.

[darktemplar007]

Giant Bomb's playthrough of Deadly Premonition is one of the best things ever. Such a bad game.





http://media.teamxbox.com/games/boxart/1106153965.jpg
This is my favorite bad game ever. The AI is god awful (if you are on co-op they cannot handle two people at once, they completely ignore the second person after seeing the first). The plot is horrid, you randomly get revealed important plot points that didn't exist prior to certain cut scenes that were apparently driving motivations for some of the characters. The map editor is terrible. One of the boss fights I beat by crouching under the boss' weapon right in front of him and shot him the face while avoiding all damage. Me and a friend cloned ourselves in co-op, so there were three of us (one just stood there). You fight a Jedi thing too. Who also is a power generator thing. Or something.
The only thing this game had going for it was the weapon upgrade system, but it was really pointless and basically amounted to "now it's stronger! or has a better scope!".
However, I fucking love it for how terrible it is.

[xmd 5a]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB1zWEhgrLs

I'll never get tired of this haha.

[nemesiswontdie]

I also think the Bionic Commando game was really underrated. It's hard, and the lack of checkpoints is frustrating, but the game mechanics are solid. Yeah, the radiation was frustrating, and it sort of screwed up the way it encouraged you to search around for collectibles, but unless you were hunting around for hidden stuff you didn't run into those walls.



At the time, I was really big into trophy hunting so I got the game because a friend of mine said it was good and the trophies were easy.

I was stuck on that damn Bulldog challenge for the longest time, AND the fact that there are collectibles IN A FUCKING OPTIONAL TUTIORAL. Who in their right minds puts collectibles in a tutorial that you can completely skip? Grin does and thank God, they aren't around any more.

The voice actor I thought was decent like I said, but other than that. I fucking hated that game. I did forget to mention the lack of check points too. Doing Commando mode during the the library and a few parts after that was just insane. I was stuck on the library part for at least 4 hours.



That and also
http://i.imgur.com/FQke9.jpg

Damn, got to post that before I got the chance to! Special Forces and MK4 were the first two MK games I ever got.

Then I bought MKTrilogy on N64, which wasn't bad besides you had a limited amount of re-trys and you couldn't play as Shao Kahn.

[Jinsai]

At the time, I was really big into trophy hunting so I got the game because a friend of mine said it was good and the trophies were easy.

Well... for one thing, on a relative scale, that is not an easy trophy game.

[nemesiswontdie]

Well... for one thing, on a relative scale, that is not an easy trophy game.

It really isn't.

[sentient02970]

I noticed we now had a "Shitty movies" thread to go with our "Shitty music" thread, so I thought I'd see if maybe we could start one of these.

I'll start us off with Vanquish.

Wait, this is the actual trailer? That opening line, LOLOMG. Amazing.

[ImTheWiseJanitor]

Wait, this is the actual trailer? That opening line, LOLOMG. Amazing.

SO many awesome corny one-liners. "How do you suggest we get out of here?!?" "We pray!" "Thank God I'm an atheist. Let's go!"

[owinn]

Sherlock Holmes : Nemesis

Witness the horror that is Watson auditioning for the role of weeping angel in the Dr Who episode "Blink"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13YlEPwOfmk

[Wretchedest]

I axtually like the sub zero game

[Jinsai]

I axtually like the sub zero game

Yeah, I mean, it's not great by any means, but it reminded me of some of the clunky games I used to play on the Commodore 64. Maybe it was a weird nostalgic thing for me, and even though it wasn't a good game by any stretch I still enjoyed it.

[dlb]

Fuck this game! Seriously!

http://www.transformersvideogames.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Playstation-Beast-Wars-294x300.jpg

[ManBurning]

I have to agree about Transformers: Beast Wars. I picked this game up for the PC in like '97 or '98 and Was a huge fan of the TV serious, thought the game was gonna be great, and it was balls!!

Now that I think about it, Transformers games are generally terrible. There hasn't really been a memorable TF game.

To the poster above that wrote TMNT for NES, nah I love that game! That game is underrated. People just say it's bad because they can't pass the water level. The game was fresh and unique for it's time, I don't know a TMNT kid who didn't have that game! Considering the NES' limitations, I thought the game was well designed for it's time, sure it's a little odd at times fighting frogs and chainsaw men and moths that literally have nothing at all to do with the Turtles universe, but all in all, it's a good starting game that has a unique feel to it.

If ya want to talk about shitty TMNT games, that 2007 movie tie in was pure trash! Actually, any TMNT after Konami lost their lisence was garbage.
Even TMNT: Re-shelled, oh god... what a horrible horroble fucking remake of an all time classic.

[Space Suicide]

I have never played this and I've seen it loads of times when I go to Gamestop. Even used at $6.99 for the Collector's Edition would I still not bite. Interesting game concept and story but poor, terrible execution and laughable graphics at the year it was released (2008). I have watched reviews and read them and I think this game would be a blast to play since it's so shitty and I'd have a good time laughing my ass off when I'd be playing it. Anyways the cover...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c4/Turning_Point.jpg

Anyone play it?

Gameplay:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mu7HQRqKK8A

[Frozen Beach]

Deadly Premonition is so bad it's good. Plus, it being a Twin Peaks ripoff is awesome.

Game that really fucking sucks? Postal 3. Glitchy unplayable piece of dog turd.

[Rossva]

Borderlands.




I know I kne, I'll get my coat. Guess I'm just suffering from Skyrim comedown.

[Sutekh]

South park n64... Most tedious single player campaign ever

[Piko]

Superman 64 might be the worst game I've ever played. Force Unleashed 2 being another. All the buildup, bought the special edition, and the game ended up being a four hour waste of time. It was DLC on disc, sold for 60... Still pretty angry about that one. If only that got enough rage against them like Mass Effect 3 got.

[Fixer808]

Battlefield: Vietnam left me distinctly underwhelmed. And a whole host of FPS games set in a near, dystopian future where everybody looks kind of blocky and has awful dialogue.

[dlb]

South park n64... Most tedious single player campaign ever

that one was really bad. Can't believe how many shitty PS One games I did pick up when they were 50% off.... :(

@Space Suicide:

Played it and frankly I played worse games. It's still pretty laughable compared to how big they used to advertise it.

[nemesiswontdie]

Borderlands.




I know I kne, I'll get my coat. Guess I'm just suffering from Skyrim comedown.

I hated Borderlands. It just was not fun for me. People kept telling me to play co-op and it would change my mind...I did play co-op and it was just awful. I don't know. I just didn't like it.


Superman 64 might be the worst game I've ever played.

http://i357.photobucket.com/albums/oo14/nemesiswontdie2/578121_449925351703829_191424007553966_1559656_631 261807_n.jpg

[wizfan]

Bad Boys 2. Yeah. Filled with memorable one-liners like "Bad day to dick around with us" and "You're not calling me a commie". I'd have more fun rubbing my shit on my monitor than playing it again.

[owinn]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/14/50_Cent_Blood_on_the_Sand.jpg

OK so gameplay was "ok" and it was like when you watch a movie that's so bad it's unintentionally hilarious and me and a mate had good times running through it, taking the piss as we went through the whole campaign. Charlie Brooker summed it up perfectly though :

"The game's so desperate to appear grown-up it ends up looking downright ridiculous, like an adolescent straining to grow a whispery little moustache and bragging about how many girls he's fingered"

[xmd 5a]

http://download.xbox.com/content/images/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d80258410a03/1033/boxartlg.jpg

Bought this last year hoping for an experience comparable to the GBA Yu-Gi-Oh! games I used to love. Instead I got an impenetrably difficult, incredibly limited and frustrating mess of a game. Worst XBLA purchase I've made by far.

[wizfan]

Sad to hear. I loved the Yu-Gi-Oh! GBA games.

[nemesiswontdie]

It's all about that Yu-Gi-Oh game that was on PS1, you know, the one that if you wanted to buy a card it cost $9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 9999999999999999999 for no fucking reason and it could be the shittiest card in all of the game and it's still be that price.

[Jinsai]

The game doesn't suck, but Ninja Gaiden gets way too much love. Some of the level designs are just awful, and the camera is complete crap. The difficulty is one thing, but the controls and camera make it hard to justify such punishing gameplay.

[frankie teardrop]

you mean the original? that's a straight up endurance/brutality match, and a huge part of my childhood. was huge for me as a kid to beat the first few games. fuck the third one, though.

[Kid Charlemagne]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Batman_%26_Robin_%28video_game%2 9

I remember buying this at EB Games with my brother and getting so excited for it on Genesis and we were so disappointed that we ripped the fucking box. Also the Jurassic Park video game for Genesis was damned near impossible to play.

BTW, I had that Batman Forever game for Game Boy and remember not being able to beat that first level. What a piece of shit, and that was a Christmas gift.

[Jinsai]

you mean the original? that's a straight up endurance/brutality match, and a huge part of my childhood. was huge for me as a kid to beat the first few games. fuck the third one, though.

Oh no, I was referring to the reboot of the series. I loved the original games when I was a kid.

[kdrcraig]

Also the Jurassic Park video game for Genesis was damned near impossible to play.

I loved that game, I remember it being incredibly difficult though.

[Kid Charlemagne]

I loved that game, I remember it being incredibly difficult though.

I could never get through the power station when the T-Rex breaks through, I would always die.

Also I remember hating this game since my brother would always whoop my ass at this:
http://gamesdbase.com/Media/SYSTEM/Sega_Genesis/Box/big/Fighting_Masters_-_1992_-_American_Treco.jpg

[henryeatscereal]

YO YO YO! Shaq Fu is in tha house!!!

http://www.questionablefilms.com/shaqcover.jpg

[Space Suicide]

YO YO YO! Shaq Fu is in tha house!!!

http://www.questionablefilms.com/shaqcover.jpg

The fuck is that? Wasn't there a game to his movie, Shazam! too?

[october_midnight]

YO YO YO! Shaq Fu is in tha house!!!

http://www.questionablefilms.com/shaqcover.jpg

Oh fuck I played that at a friend's house once. That, Spider Man - Maximum Carnage (the red cartridge one)...come to think of it, he liked a lot of shitty games lol. Oh yeah, and that shitty MK: Sub-Zero Mythologies game or whatever it was called. So bad...

[henryeatscereal]

The fuck is that? Wasn't there a game to his movie, Shazam! too?
Oh yeah Kazaam, was a bad one too!
Shaq Fu is a lot worse in my opinion: i mean a baskeball-fighting game!!!??? WTF!!!

This game is so despised, there's even a website devoted on destroying all Shaq-Fu cartridges: http://www.shaqfu.com/ourmission.php

[kdrcraig]

This game is so despised, there's even a website devoted on destroying all Shaq-Fu cartridges: http://www.shaqfu.com/ourmission.php

Ha that's pretty funny, that game was terrible.

[Piko]

I liked Maximum Carnage... never played Shaq Fu, fortunately. I wanted to, but I'm glad I didn't.

[poinoup]

Batman Forever (SNES/Genesis): It needed to load in between screens..."HOLD ON" is forever burned into my brain.

Rise of the Robots (SNES): Oh dear lord this was bad.

Metal Morph (SNES): One hit deaths, terrible controls and gameplay. This was a running joke among my friends and I years ago.

Also, I was never a fan of 3D fighting games myself either, except Virtual Fighter...I always preferred a 2D environment in fighting games.

Finally, FUCK BOMBERMAN ON THE 360! Yay, a gritty, darker reboot...snore.

[liquidcalm]

I've spent some time struggling to think of anything, but finally my brain kicked into gear:
Festers Quest.
I *HATED* that game when I was a kid, I've played some bad games, but that was a proper level of bad I don't think I've come across since. *shudder*.

[Kid Charlemagne]

Talk about Shaq Fu all you want, I still believe this game was worse.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/67/MjordanSNES_boxart.jpg

[henryeatscereal]

Combat Basketball rules!

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OaoDIJsSW9w/To9J8WxDQ-I/AAAAAAAAF8s/129y0-ZEUJY/s1600/Bill+Laimbeer%2527s+Combat+Basketball+SNES+boxart+ coverart+hudson+soft.jpg

[owinn]

YO YO YO! Shaq Fu is in tha house!!!

http://www.questionablefilms.com/shaqcover.jpg

I went to the Future Entertainment Show when I was a wee nipper and asked the editors of some (at the time BIG) gaming mags what they thought the worst game ever devised was - Steve Jarratt from future publishing piped up straight away "Shaq Fu is the largest pile of moldy old toss I have ever had the displeasure of playing" I think this wins the thread personally.


Ocean made some dreadful ports of Taito games like Rainbow Islands for the NES - I'll never forgive them for making my NES look shittier than my smug Amiga/Atari ST friends machines.

[wizfan]

Speaking of Shaq Fu, I came across this today and LOL'd hard. Schmuck Fu!

http://www.destructoid.com/fan-made-patch-gives-shaq-fu-the-comedy-treatment-227803.phtml

Somebody hacked the rom of the game and altered the character lines.

[Kid Charlemagne]

Combat Basketball rules!

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OaoDIJsSW9w/To9J8WxDQ-I/AAAAAAAAF8s/129y0-ZEUJY/s1600/Bill+Laimbeer%27s+Combat+Basketball+SNES+boxart+co verart+hudson+soft.jpg
As a fan of the Bad Boy Pistons, this works on SO many levels.

[Space Suicide]

Owned this, bought it for $4.99 used at Gamestop sometime ago, don't have it anymore though. Not great at all

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/73/TimeShift_coverart.jpg

this game always looked shit too, never bothered to play it though:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f4/Haze_boxart.jpg/256px-Haze_boxart.jpg

[wizfan]

Wow. These covers. Wow.

[liquidcalm]

Haze was a steaming pile.
I really enjoyed the first level, everything was going ok, then the second level was bland, massive, unending drive along with crap controls which got stuck in an endless loop.
then I never played it again.

[henryeatscereal]

wow, there's lots of bad basketball games, it's almost like a genre...

http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/bigboxshots/2/588602_40354_front.jpg

[october_midnight]

With all the SNES basketball games, I was half expecting to see this one:

http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/2698/315457-looneytunesbballbox_large.jpg

Which would be a massive mistake since THIS GAME WAS FUCKING UNBELIEVABLE.

[Kid Charlemagne]

If we're talking shitty sports games, this deserves an honorable mention:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2a/MMSoccerBox.jpg

[henryeatscereal]

oh my... Megaman soccer, what a ripoff!

[nemesiswontdie]

http://i354.photobucket.com/albums/r440/thoughtoftheweek/RagDollKungFuFistsOfPlastic.jpg

You can buy this piece of shit on PSN. I got it for free because they were giving it away. I thought I'd try it out and I didn't last 5 minutes playing this piece of shit.

If I had to say this game was a piece of shit or a pile of shit. I'm gonna have to say it's a pile of shit. Just one turd nugget doesn't sum up this game.

[Vertigo]

[Jurassic Park 16-bit] I could never get through the power station when the T-Rex breaks through, I would always die.

Jesus. There is pretty much one reason in the entire game to use the flash grenade, and that is when the rex comes sniffing around. First played through that game when I was 8, and even then, I'd have to actually make a conscious decision to ever be killed by the rex. For shame, sir.

Although that particular instance is a bad example (seriously, you always died?), that was an insanely difficult game. Lots of blind leaps where the punishment for being unlucky/not knowing the level layout is instant death, and certain enemies were absolute bastards. Not a bad game at all though; if you could stand the difficulty level I'd call it a decent game for the time. Great sound and music, some curious gameplay systems, some of the best graphics on a 16-bit system, and you get to be a freaking velociraptor. Or steroidal deinonychus if you want to be anal.

The sequel, Jurassic Park Rampage Edition, stands up better today because the difficulty's so much lower (much less emphasis on puzzles and blind jumping), and the game's a bit longer. Same gameplay system though.


Bad games... I've never played a Call of Duty demo I enjoyed, and I've tried most of them. I really hate the whole "realism" trend that dominates modern shooters, give me an Unreal or a Half-Life any day of the week.

[Kid Charlemagne]

I was like four when that game came out, I had no fucking clue what I was doing. I've also only completed a handful of games in my entire life. That not being one of them.

This game however I beat, and let me tell you, it was a horrible concept despite the fact it was based off the T2 game. I used a lot of quarters in elementary and middle school playing this bad boy:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e3/RevolutionX_arcadeflyer.png

[Space Suicide]

I was like four when that game came out, I had no fucking clue what I was doing. I've also only completed a handful of games in my entire life. That not being one of them.

This game however I beat, and let me tell you, it was a horrible concept despite the fact it was based off the T2 game. I used a lot of quarters in elementary and middle school playing this bad boy:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e3/RevolutionX_arcadeflyer.png

Oh the memories, I remember when I was about 6 years old at the bowling alley and they had this game in the arcade right next to Killer Instinct.

[wizfan]

I had played the arcade, too! I was six, I think. I only played five minutes. It looked fun, but the gun controller was annoying. I remember the chick with the gun at the side of the cabinet (Kerri Hoskins, who also performed the bikini-clad girls in cages in the game and Sonya Blade in MK3).

I read on IMDb that the "New Order Nation - NON" logo (you can see it on her arm) was a parody of the NIN logo.

I recently completed the game on MAME and it was just hours of stupid, but somewhat fun, shooting stuff fare. It was seizure-inducing at times, though. Did they have to add a flashing effect to every single thing that happened on screen? Damn.

Wikipedia says a sequel was going to be released, with Public Enemy, but was cancelled because the original sold poorly.

[Fixer808]

They still HAVE one of those at an arcade downtown. Also Lethal Enforcers, which is different from Revolution X by the fact that it's awesome and fun.

[october_midnight]

If you're talking about the Movieland arcade or whatever it's called on Granville, fuck yeah lol. Made $20 off my friend last year there when he said he could 'take me' in Street Fighter II. Foolish, foolish Jonny. Also...hearing someone say Killer Instinct was out when they were 6 years old just made my back AND hip hurt.

[Piko]

Yeah, that was pretty terrible. Think I got past the first stage before putting it down.

[Dr Channard]

My general opinion, timed missions and levels in games are bullshit! A timed mission can turn what was an otherwise fun game into utter shit.

[Space Suicide]

My general opinion, timed missions and levels in games are bullshit! A timed mission can turn what was an otherwise fun game into utter shit.

Have you been playing Final Fantasy XIII: Lightning Returns?

[ImTheWiseJanitor]

I just wanna amend any statements I made in the original post about Vanquish being super shit. I've seen the light, and Platinum Games is a godsend. Vanquish is actually wicked awesome.

[Jinsai]

I just wanna amend any statements I made in the original post about Vanquish being super shit. I've seen the light, and Platinum Games is a godsend. Vanquish is actually wicked awesome.

Yeah, that game was an underrated gem.

[ImTheWiseJanitor]

Yeah, that game was an underrated gem.

And it's CRAZY fast. You could kill a morning or an afternoon plowing through it in like, 3 hours. Hell, I have to work in the morning, and I could probably start a new game now and be done with it before I start losing any sleep.

[henryeatscereal]

Since this thread is bumped i'll post this:

I was watching the Angry Videogame Nerd and i was shocked beyond belief, i can't even believe someone made this game (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_97_%28video_game%29) !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_aXcH1zDEE

[Dr Channard]

Have you been playing Final Fantasy XIII: Lightning Returns?

No, never got around to playing that one. But if it forces you to race against a clock, I don’t see myself enjoying that.

I’ve never made a game, so maybe I’m talking out of my ass here, but putting a countdown to “YOU LOSE” in a game these days feels like a lazy and cheap way to ramp up the difficulty. It isn’t fun, it’s just infuriating.