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Posted: Jan 13 2009 07:40 am

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Expensive projects that didn't live up to the hype.

Posted: Jan 13 2009 09:12 am

So what inspired this thread? Did you stumble upon Syd's article of the worst 10 NES games that you actually played?

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Dr. Jeebus wrote:

So what inspired this thread? Did you stumble upon Syd's article of the worst 10 NES games that you actually played?

The article is a good read.

http://www.sydlexia.com/worstnintendogamesyouveplayed.htm

Still, I don't think that the worst games are the ones we care about. People tend to avoid games that are flat out horrible. When a game gets a rating of a 0%-40% from any magazine or website you can bet it won't be played by most.

For me, the games that I am hoping to target are the ones we get excited about and then depressed because they really sucked.

Metroid Prime Echos was a perfect example. I liked the original Metroid Prime very much, yet the second one was boring and off putting. It was advertised to be a great game, but never matched the hype. To me, this makes it one of the worst games. It was very disappointing.

Posted: Jan 14 2009 09:37 pm

GPFontaine wrote:

http://www.sydlexia.com/worstnintendogamesyouveplayed.htm

Who's this "Syd Lexia" guy?

Posted: Jan 15 2009 02:57 pm

Stanley cup hockey for snes. Being a big hockey fan, I was so pumped for that game only to find out it was total bullshit! It was impossible to score unless you did that cheap looper shot over the goalie's head from the blue line. It's like the developers never even tested the game.

Could anyone else score a regular goal, or am I just that terrible at the game?(but I know i'm not because my confidence is overwhelming when it comes to hockey games)

Anyway, 12 years later I am still bitter about it.

Posted: Jan 15 2009 10:27 pm

Syd Lexia is our lord and master. All members of this site serve under his grand power! FEAR THE WALRUS!

....Yeah, I'm random at times. Actually, he's just the guy who came up with this site. It's a great site.

I don't know what everyone else thinks, but no matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't get into the Spellforce series. I got the "5 games in one" pack because, hey, five games about a fantasy genre adventure that combines RPG and RTS! What fun! Well, I got turned off in a hurry. I didn't even have the interest to get through the tutorial level. I hate it, because that opening cinema scene in the first game was pretty cool-looking. After that, however, came the game with sub-par graphics, HORRIBLE voice acting, not-all-that-convenient gameplay, and an overall concept that I've simply seen a lot of in games beforehand. It just doesn't work for me.

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For me, worst games means buggy, unplayable games with no decent gameplay. Unenjoyable games are more like what some people think. The ones that don't cater to my tastes, and that although they are legitimate retail releases, there are serious things that irk me.

Posted: Jan 16 2009 01:42 am

disappointing game? any bond FPS after goldeneye. i gave them all a shot, but they werent goldeneye.

Posted: Jan 16 2009 10:25 pm

The hype for ET and Superman 64 were not small, and those are both horrid.

Personally? Super Smash Brothers Brawl. Not bad, but nowhere near as good as the hype. Adventure mode would've been better as a huge cutscene instead of a repetitive sidescroller with the levels drawn not from the playable characters' source material, but out of the rears of the game developers. The only thing that kept me going were cutscenes and bossfights.

VS mode is solid, better than Melee, but the 1P experience is about three steps behind Melee.

Posted: Jan 17 2009 12:25 am

I can agree with Puff on the adventure mode, it got boring very quickly and I hated the enemies. I constantly thought to myself, "Why am I fighting these assholes instead of Kremlings and Waddle Dees again?".

Posted: Jan 17 2009 02:15 am

Rycona wrote:

I think the lists are important at least to game developers. They can keep these games in the back of their mind so they know what to NOT do when making video games. That's the primary importance I can see of such lists. On to my disappointing games:

I second that. They can also be important from a historical perspective. I mean, would anyone EVER remember the travesty that was "Custer's Revenge" without those lists? It's important that the memory of things like that be preserved to have a benchmark for how low games can go, on multiple levels.

My most disappointing game...tough one. As much as I adore 'Oblivion,' it would be up there because it took all the beauty, exploration and just...*exotic* nature of Morrowind.....and gave me a generic-graphics, generic-quest RPG. Its a great game in and of itself, and an AMAZING game for roleplaying, but nothing feelingwise or storywise compared to its predecessor.

Posted: Jan 17 2009 03:57 am

Everyone is going to have a different opinion on what the worst game ever is. I think some people have a negative life experience that sometimes happened when they were playing a certain game and doesn't hold a special place in their heart because of it.

Think about it playing Final Fantasy on a Friday Night around 8pm with the pizza fixing to there or playing Final Fantasy and all of a sudden someone breaks in your house and ties your parents up and robs you with the theme music to FF in the background while your mom is crying. You would think I am shitting you and maybe this is an extreme example, but people will leave out details like this when they give the reason they hate a game. A deep rooted psychological type phenomenon.

Overall i would say the worst game is Dr.Jekll and Mr.Hyde or Dragon's Lair for Nintendo

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SoldierHawk wrote:

Rycona wrote:

I think the lists are important at least to game developers. They can keep these games in the back of their mind so they know what to NOT do when making video games. That's the primary importance I can see of such lists. On to my disappointing games:

I second that. They can also be important from a historical perspective. I mean, would anyone EVER remember the travesty that was "Custer's Revenge" without those lists? It's important that the memory of things like that be preserved to have a benchmark for how low games can go, on multiple levels.

My most disappointing game...tough one. As much as I adore 'Oblivion,' it would be up there because it took all the beauty, exploration and just...*exotic* nature of Morrowind.....and gave me a generic-graphics, generic-quest RPG. Its a great game in and of itself, and an AMAZING game for roleplaying, but nothing feelingwise or storywise compared to its predecessor.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/75-Oblivion

Yeah... I know you watched it before you wrote your post.

He puts everything in perspective. Fucking immersion.

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Ba‘al wrote:

I can agree with Puff on the adventure mode, it got boring very quickly and I hated the enemies. I constantly thought to myself, "Why am I fighting these assholes instead of Kremlings and Waddle Dees again?".

Some of those enemies were fucking scary too.

Regardless, everyone saying, "Vs mode was cool, but 1P sucked" are basically saying the same thing everyone else has been saying, therefore not a disappointment. It would be a disappointment if you had been let down by Vs. mode.

Posted: Jan 18 2009 01:22 am

Smurfsrdead wrote:

The biggest disappointment for me however, was Neverwinter Nights. It was originally supposed to be a complete transfer of the pen and paper DnD to the online world, but all it ended up being was a stupid little game with a big toolset to create your own campaigns. It felt like a huge step down from Baldur's Gate 2.

Holy crap, I know everyone is entitled to an opinion, but if I kenw where you lived, I would go over to your house and punch you in the ovaries for making such a statement!

NWN is my all time favorite game. EVER.

I think that's why I despise NWN 2 so much. It's not NWN 1, and Bioware made the mistake (Again) of handing one of their titles over to Obsidian, who can't make a complete and polished game to save their lives. (See Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords)