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Joined: Aug 26 2007 Posts: 2752

This is kind of like the school bully picking on the retarded kid with a neck brace. ET for the atari has been penned by many and you know what hilarious, everyone knows it's shit but i bet no one other then a game review has played it. Everyone wants to be like Seanbaby and they assume no one will mind burying what he has already condemned.

It's like Stephen VI digging up Formosus, mocking the corpse then burying him again then Sergius III comes along and digs the body up again, videotapes himself beating the dust out of it then proceeding to necro it then post it on youtube for the world to see.

I will admit this though, spoony's review of ET is by far the most psychedelic:

Posted: Aug 01 2008 12:02 pm

ReeperTheSeeker wrote:

Everyone wants to be like Seanbaby and they assume no one will mind burying what he has already condemned.

You mean like Deadly Towers?

Seriously, I doubt anyone even knew what it was until Seanbaby reviewed it. Now it's the coolest game to hate.

Posted: Aug 01 2008 03:34 pm

I cant read the review of Turkish Exorcist Seanbaby did for the Wave without maniacally laughing, that guy is pretty damn funny sometimes.

Posted: Aug 01 2008 05:43 pm

As a game E.T. is pretty bad as an Atari game, but imo the Pac Man port was worse and even then there are far worse games like Superman 64 and Aquaman: Battle for Atlantis. As a historical game though, E.T. is probably the worst for being among the games that started the 1983 crash.

Joined: Jul 16 2006 Location: 22 Acacia Avenue Posts: 324

I can say that I owned ET on the Atari.

I hated it before it was cool to hate it.

Posted: Aug 03 2008 11:05 pm

I've owned Deadly Towers and E.T. before Seanbaby reviewed them.

Deadly Towers I guess wouldn't be so bad if you didn't die so easily. Seriously, it's like you can't even walk forward in a room because there are so many crawling blue things and crazy tumbleweeds flying around in a frenzy. The times that I've attempted playing it basically consisted of me walking into the first room (I'm pretty sure the walls are either orange-brown or green) and then bouncing around getting hit; whenever you get hit by something, you automatically take a few steps back and more often then not there's another blue slime thing waiting to slam into you. If I don't die from taking too many hits I usually fall off a cliff or something (which are also unfortunately abundant). I've tried entering passwords from the internet where I have all the item and stuff but I always end up somehow getting teleported into this labyrinth and there's basically no exit (one time I spent almost two hours looking for one).

In ET you basically just walk around and randomly fall into a hole. I don't think it's the worst game I've ever played, it just has no redeeming value; there's absolutely nothing fun about it, and I have no reason to spend time playing it.

Posted: Aug 04 2008 01:26 am

I dont think this game would have gotten as much press if it didnt have the ET title to it. Its still a shitty game but their are a ton of shitty ass games from the 2600 that are more obsure but suck just as bad.

The programmer on this game actually admitted it sucked because he was rushed on the project big time. If I remember he was a pretty reputable programmer and lost his good name in the buisness because of this title. He still manages to show up at gaming conventions and has a good sence of humor about it.

I really never played 2600 games because I was a member of the NES generation so to me alot of 2600 games suck because of how technology weak they are compared to what the NES was, I guess you had to grow up playing the 2600 to really give a good judgement on what games really suck and what not

Joined: Apr 09 2008 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 3112

Who wants to start a site called Perfectly Content Gamers? We can play games and appreciate them for what they do right, while still acknowledging flaws. We will review Deadly Towers and say that it's a pretty average game with some hit detection problems.

Now I really wanna do it.

Joined: Jul 16 2006 Location: 22 Acacia Avenue Posts: 324

Greg the White wrote:

Who wants to start a site called Perfectly Content Gamers? We can play games and appreciate them for what they do right, while still acknowledging flaws. We will review Deadly Towers and say that it's a pretty average game with some hit detection problems.

Now I really wanna do it.

Yea, but that would be like watching NASCAR without car crashes. Who could possibly find that entertaining?

Title: Titlating Joined: Dec 17 2007 Posts: 5042

You know its perfectly possible these people could hate these games with no knowledge of seanbabys reviews. Highly unlikely but possible.

Joined: Apr 09 2008 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 3112

Avian wrote:

Greg the White wrote:

Who wants to start a site called Perfectly Content Gamers? We can play games and appreciate them for what they do right, while still acknowledging flaws. We will review Deadly Towers and say that it's a pretty average game with some hit detection problems.

Now I really wanna do it.

Yea, but that would be like watching NASCAR without car crashes. Who could possibly find that entertaining?

Yeah, but you can still save a crashless race by hanging around friends with BBQ and alcohol. It's all about the mood you set. If you're lonely and just wasted a couple hours and only got one or no crashes, then yeah, but in a relaxed, social environment, it's pretty cool.

If I were to do it, it would be somewhat in the vein of Syd's top 100 SNES and NES reviews. You bring up a game, and then have a panel of a few different people give thoughts and debates on it, and put it in a coherent manner. I've always kind of wanted to do a critique that wasn't angry douche like AVGN or irate gamer, but wasn't as boring as mainstream review sites. Ideally, I'd like the contributors to be pretty well-versed in game history, game makers, a little bit into technology, etc.

I think it has the potential to go over well. I know I'm tired of these cookie-cutter reviews that are ignored in favor of how many points out of ten the game gets, and appreciate anything new to the formula. Look at Yahtzee Croshaw. People pegged him as another smarmy twit angry reviewer who could just make poop jokes. It turns out he's pretty damned smart, and his reviews are pretty damned insightful. Just look at how popular he's gotten and he doesn't even *GASP* give a score!