If you ever come across Sonic's Schoolhouse buy it. It's a Sonic the hedgehog, first person shooter, edutainment title, that looks like some joke doom mod. Sonic has a horribly wrong, high-pitched, somewhat nasally voice and says things like "Lemon color phone."
Platoon is a bad NES game that I've killed several hours with. Enemies fall out of the sky and kill you with next to no warning, enemies pop up behind bushes where you can't see them at all, and the first level is such a labyrinth you half expect a minotaur to show up.
Since this signature affects old posts, I'm leaving a message here in case anyone searches for my username. This account died in early 2013. I am no longer a fundamentalist.
Don't add to my problems by pretending my past views are still held in the present. I do not have any patience for that. Feel free to ask me what I think now.
I had picked up Enter the Matrix for ps2 brand new, I enjoyed the heck out of it and never had a single problem. Then I read about all sorts of game breaking glitches and general crappyness but I liked it quite a bit.
I heartily enjoyed Castlevania 64 back when it was first released. I don't care how broken it is, how frustrating it is, or what anybody thinks. I'll still throw on the soundtrack if the mood strikes me.
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Rurouni_Fencer wrote:I heartily enjoyed Castlevania 64 back when it was first released. I don't care how broken it is, how frustrating it is, or what anybody thinks. I'll still throw on the soundtrack if the mood strikes me.
Rurouni_Fencer wrote:I heartily enjoyed Castlevania 64 back when it was first released. I don't care how broken it is, how frustrating it is, or what anybody thinks. I'll still throw on the soundtrack if the mood strikes me.
I've actually heard quite a few people say over the years that Castlevania 64 is unfairly bashed and not as bad as it is made out to be. I will have to try it some time to see for myself
RyaNtheSlayA wrote:
Seriously. Screw you Shao Kahn I'm gonna play Animal Crossing.
You see, I have this thing about bad games. You can still enjoy bad games, even really, really terrible games, if you keep a few things in mind:
First, consider what the developer got wrong in your eyes. Why might they have chosen not to do things in the manner in which you prefer? How did they instead handle certain mechanics that you dislike?
Second, consider what the developer did that was good. What worked? Why? What aspect might you have enjoyed even more than some of the games you really liked?
Third, consider what the developer was trying to do. What ideas did you see implemented or were attempted? Is this the way things are for all ports of the game?
Let's take a game that many folks generally consider terrible: Shaq Fu. Yes, Shaq Fu is a bad game, but let's break it down and discuss it a little bit.
First, what did Shaq Fu get wrong? Poor controls, first and foremost. The AI is hit or miss. The story is also hilariously bad.
Second, the graphics aren't terrible. No, really, I've seen far worse. The storyline is actually quite funny. There's actually a pretty large cast of characters to work with. Also the explorable minimap in between fights is actually pretty cool, and the Game Boy version included platforms in stages, mixing up the action a bit.
Third, this game was animated by the guys that brought us Flashback. If anything, Shaq Fu was supposed to be a fighting game equivalent of a cinematic platformer, the Prince of Persia of 2D brawlers. Watch the fight sequences during the credits to see how it should have played. The trouble is, the controls suffer from delays and are bizarrely complex, resulting in a horrible mishmash of movements. I think this is in large part because the devs were trying to do whatever they could with the fluid animations while still making a fighting game which could react as quickly as possible, and the end result was a mess.
And frankly, I don't think we should criticize the story too much...after all, consider how many fighting games have awful stories.
So there you go, a look at Shaq Fu which might actually help you appreciate it a little bit more. Now does this mean that it's great and you shouldn't make fun of it? Well, no. But it still has value as a video game.
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Oh, one last thing. No matter how terrible a game may be, there is always someone out there who will call it his favorite. It's one of the reasons why reviewing older games is so difficult, because inevitably you're going to crucify a game that someone's whole childhood was built around.
Hard to follow an awesome and thought provoking post like Ack's, but I have also noticed a lot of people will bash a game or never play it simply because its the bandwagon thing to do
Like with Halo games, you're not cool in the FPS crowd if you like Halo especially among the PC gamers. I still maintain that the first one was pretty good
You're not cool with the survival horror crowd if you liked Resident Evil 4 or RE 5....well, actually, RE 5 was pretty shitty but I digress
By the same token, there's a bandwagon of praise for some games that are pretty shitty. I get tired of hearing people talk about what a great tribute to Metal Slug and Contra Alien Hominid was by people who have never even played it. Honestly, I thought Alien Hominid's gameplay was pure shit
And yet, I still enjoyed its art, humor and mini-games. So I guess I just proved Ack's point that even bad games can have value
RyaNtheSlayA wrote:
Seriously. Screw you Shao Kahn I'm gonna play Animal Crossing.
