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StonedAutopilot
Joined: Aug 04 2010
Location: Milwaukee, WI
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There are games that are undeniable classics. Link to the Past, FFVII, Bubsy...
But are there things about these games you can't stand? Or are there any "classics" that you despise?
I'll start. Ocarina of Time just bores me now. Maybe that's the cynic in me, but I hate the intro and the bosses are way too easy.
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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I hate that most games made before 1985 don't have endings or continues. Play until you die, then you're done. Bah to that.
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SteelBallRun
Title: Kenka Bancho
Joined: May 05 2010
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I hate arcade games designed to milk you for quarters. A lot of older games seemed like that.
A lot of typical classics really don't appeal to me much.
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Syd Lexia
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Yeah, most arcade beat 'em ups and light gun games aren't designed to be won on a single credit. They're designed to milk money out of you until you win or give up.
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Andrew Man
Title: Is a Funklord
Joined: Jan 30 2007
Location: Annandale, VA
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| SteelBallRun wrote: |
I hate arcade games designed to milk you for quarters. A lot of older games seemed like that.
A lot of typical classics really don't appeal to me much. |
Yea, I daresay all arcade games are designed to milk you for quarters.
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Sehkmaenzo
Joined: Jun 29 2010
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I'm pretty sure I'm gonna draw a lot of aggro for this, but...
I hate sonic. All of them. Always have. Sorry. 
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Andrew Man
Title: Is a Funklord
Joined: Jan 30 2007
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| Sehkmaenzo wrote: |
I'm pretty sure I'm gonna draw a lot of aggro for this, but...
I hate sonic. All of them. Always have. Sorry. |
What do you hate about them?
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aeonic
Title: Sporadic Poster
Joined: Nov 19 2009
Location: Kissimmee, FL
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i hate the original ff tactics (a classic in my book) because of the goddamn ending. all that work for nothing.
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Sehkmaenzo
Joined: Jun 29 2010
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Well, I have played Sonic 1, 2 and 3 and the GBA ones, and it just seems like it's more of a memory exercise than a platformer.Because of the game's pace, you have to already know what's going to come your way to survive, being "good" doesn't help you as much as it should. It's not a matter of difficulty, it's more like unfairness. A game can have you running over the same stage 20 times like DKC 3 and still be fair, even if a bit tough.
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Greg the White
Joined: Apr 09 2008
Location: Pennsylvania
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I hate the original Link to the Past because I don't know where I'm supposed to go without a guide. Could they at least have numbered the dungeons on the map?
The Medal of Honor games. It's like the developers looked at all of the praise for large-scale, intense firefights and impressive set-pieces, and decided "Bullshit, people want more long, boring sniper-town missions."
Halo. Bungie has a bigger budget than heaven, yet they decide to release the same damned game over and over. I think people wouldn't mind a retcon if it meant more than three architectural styles.
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SteelBallRun
Title: Kenka Bancho
Joined: May 05 2010
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| Yea, I daresay all arcade games are designed to milk you for quarters. |
Some are far worse than others. I remember beating Tekken 3 at Disneyworld for a quarter using nothing but Paul's Phoenix Smasher. Eat that Ogre, you cheating son of a bitch!
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
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At the end of the day, every old school platformers comes down to muscle memory. There's very little randomness in say, SMB1. Enemies appear at the same starting locations every time and move in the same directions at the same intervals. As a result, it is possible to play through SMB1 the exact same way every time if you desire. The underwater levels might be an exception. I'm not sure. I usually skip them.
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Andrew Man
Title: Is a Funklord
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Yea, also, if you are trying to get Super/Hyper Sonic, it adds more difficulty to the game. Chaos Emeralds are awesome.
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Ice2SeeYou
Title: Sexual Tyrannosaurus
Joined: Sep 28 2008
Location: South of Heaven
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Anything to do with chocobos
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UsaSatsui
Title: The White Rabbit
Joined: May 25 2008
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Andrew Man
Title: Is a Funklord
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| Ice2SeeYou wrote: |
| Anything to do with chocobos |
Chocobos were pretty cool when they first hit the scene. They were fun and useful in FFVI.
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Thorton02
Joined: Mar 13 2009
Location: Arlington
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No reasonable way to continue or save your progress. I think it was 1941 that only gave you one guy and no continues(I could be wrong).
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Nekkoru
Title: Polish Pickle Wench
Joined: Jan 25 2008
Location: Warsaw, Poland
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I think it's safe to call GTA III a classic by now, so, what I hate: Portland, the first district becomes nigh-impossible to navigate after a certain mission, because ALL the gangs hate you: the Mafia (controls the largest territory - Saint Marks, Red Light District, parts of Downtown), Triads, hell, even the Diablos want a piece of you. Worst of all, those italian bastards carry shotguns (two shotgun hits to any vehicle - instant explosion).
So, until you get that bulletproof Patriot from Ray Machowski later on (and even then, if you lose it, you're fucked), you can forget about doing anything there - and it's the easiest district to navigate for vehicle missions, which you are forced to do before the last mission to raise the required five hundred thousand dollars.
So, yeah.
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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
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I dislike how narrow most games defined the options for play control.
I have always had a hard time with older platformers such as Castlevania and SMB. As the games have grown and offer more options, I have found them to be more fun for players with less skill, such as myself.
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StonedAutopilot
Joined: Aug 04 2010
Location: Milwaukee, WI
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One hit kill games. Fuck you Contra III. You may be fun as hell and super addictive, but no macho man on Earth takes a single goddamn hit.
Wait, not true. Forgot about Kimbo Slice.
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
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I remember that whatever capcom classics disc that had the arcade version of Bionic Commando had a blurb about how it was designed as a quarter vacuum and it was impossible to beat so they automatically gave you unlimited credits. I remember dying as soon as the 2 seconds of flashing invincibility after respawning was over in the later levels. So fucking impossible.
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SteelBallRun
Title: Kenka Bancho
Joined: May 05 2010
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| I remember that whatever capcom classics disc that had the arcade version of Bionic Commando had a blurb about how it was designed as a quarter vacuum and it was impossible to beat so they automatically gave you unlimited credits. I remember dying as soon as the 2 seconds of flashing invincibility after respawning was over in the later levels. So fucking impossible. |
I remember playing through it and man, oh man is it a far cry from the NES/360 versions.
Credit count on that game? About 50.
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AtmanRyu
Title: The Wandering Dragon
Joined: Jun 25 2009
Location: Atlanta, GA
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| Passwords. |
To be specific with this one, long-ass passwords that took half a page to write down and turns out you mistyped ONE letter, thus not only realizing that you wasted 5 minutes writing the password altogether, but also wasted hours of gameplay for that matter, forcing you to start again...
I'm looking at you, River City Ransom!!!
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aeonic
Title: Sporadic Poster
Joined: Nov 19 2009
Location: Kissimmee, FL
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or any of the ssi computer games for D&D. a decoder wheel, really? bullshit
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InvaderDim
Title: Dispondent Adolescent
Joined: May 19 2010
Location: Denver, CO
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| aeonic wrote: |
| i hate the original ff tactics (a classic in my book) because of the goddamn ending. all that work for nothing. |
Nothing? I thought the ending was rather poignant.
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