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Posted: Nov 13 2008 07:59 am

I nominated Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles for THAT STUPID FUCKING POT.

Posted: Nov 13 2008 08:02 am

you wake up early Syd, its like 7AM your time.

I would add more but I havent played this game yet, do elaborate

Posted: Nov 13 2008 08:44 am

I get up early because I have to be to work early; I'm there right now.

In FFCC, the world is covered in poison gas and you carry around a pot that projects an aura that protects you from in it. Its range is limited and you have to put it down to fight. It makes the game completely unplayable with a single player and nearly unplayable with less than four.

Posted: Nov 13 2008 08:47 am

I'd nominate the Dawn Of Souls version of FF2. You literally can't beat that game without a shitload of luck. Most monsters later in the game have one-hit-KO moves that are unblockable (stone, for example) and they always get to you first. Also, monsters appear in the same spots over and over again.

It had good music, though.

Posted: Nov 13 2008 01:19 pm

I hated Spelunker (NES)'s "fall down a 1/100th of an inch and you're dead" nonsense.

Joined: Aug 05 2008 Location: CA Posts: 867

Not sure if it counts but I'd nominate any eighties era arcade game that featured a track ball. I have been pinched too many times.

Posted: Nov 13 2008 10:37 pm

The arcade vetsion of Sonic Blast Man

Win, or break your hand trying!

Posted: Nov 13 2008 10:40 pm

to beat the dead horse of deservedly obscure NES games:

-the hit detection in Defenders of Dynatron City (some enemies are basically immune to some characters attacks because of it. The others you just have to shoot at about 5 times to get 1 Official, Registered, The-Only-One-With-Ed-McMahon's-Picture-On-It hit).

-Skull and Crossbones (a goofy black Tengen cart). You have to kill 16 enemies to go fight the boss. You get a limited number of weapons. You have to use all your weapons before you can use your unlimited-use fists. Therefore, you will often have to use all your weapons before you can go fight the boss.

Posted: Nov 13 2008 10:44 pm

Bart Vs. The Space Mutants's use of putting run and jump on the same button.

Posted: Nov 13 2008 10:47 pm

oh, that reminds me--the NES's NARC did that too: jump and crouch = A... bullets and missiles = B. RECIPE FOR SUCCESS.

Especially if "success" = "accidentally blowing a footsoldier into a rain of limbs and bodyparts with one of your few missiles, instead of shooting him with the single bullet that would have been enough"

Posted: Nov 13 2008 11:02 pm

hot2trotzki wrote:

oh, that reminds me--the NES's NARC did that too: jump and crouch = A... bullets and missiles = B. RECIPE FOR SUCCESS.

Especially if "success" = "accidentally blowing a footsoldier into a rain of limbs and bodyparts with one of your few missiles, instead of shooting him with the single bullet that would have been enough"

heh, even though Narc was my first NES game I gotta say the point to go and arrest the drug dealers and Hobos was kind of pointless. I know want to play a game where I can shoot people, but instead I'd rather arrest them! Go being Politically Correct! But then again you can't arrest the Clown's, Trashmen and the Hippies that go around trying to blow your brains out ( which is kinda hypocritical).

Then you could say leading dogs onto mines is wrong... lol

Posted: Nov 13 2008 11:34 pm

Fighting Masters for Sega Genesis. Who honestly thought it was a good idea to create a fighting game with ONE attack button?

Posted: Nov 14 2008 12:18 am

Resident Evil 4 on PC.

It's on the PC now, but you can't use the keyboard and mouse to play it!

Joined: Aug 24 2005 Location: Mount Holly, NJ Posts: 1062

Drakken (I think it was called) for SNES.
Walk around a weirdly colored polygon-based world. When you run into enemies, you CAN'T CONTROL YOUR PARTY.

What the fuck is up with that "game"?

Joined: Aug 26 2007 Posts: 2752

Comeback AI in racing Games.

"How the hell did Toad get in front of me! He was in 8th five seconds ago!!!!"

2010 SLF Tag Champ Joined: Jun 07 2006 Posts: 12294

pretty much everything about dark sector. when a company manages to cram so many terrible ideas into the same game that it inspires me to get a GED so I can go to school and learn how to make games, you know it's bad.

Posted: Nov 14 2008 01:06 am

I remember Drakken... You only control one at a time and the rest of your party has the intelligence lower then anything... I'm glad I got it preowned for fifty cents at Gamestop.... that could be why I had no clue what I was doing with out the instruction manual.

Posted: Nov 14 2008 03:38 am

Eternal Champions had a meter for your standard specials. Ideally, it got rid of projectile fests, but that combined with the lack of combos meant you took a character with really good basic attacks and mashed away. Also, if you had the standard 3 button, you had to press start to switch between kicks and punches.

Joined: Oct 12 2007 Posts: 821

Syd Lexia wrote:

I get up early because I have to be to work early; I'm there right now.

In FFCC, the world is covered in poison gas and you carry around a pot that projects an aura that protects you from in it. Its range is limited and you have to put it down to fight. It makes the game completely unplayable with a single player and nearly unplayable with less than four.

just making sure you know you can press X (or maybe it is y, I haven't played in awhile) to have the Mog carry it. It slows down single player a little, but it wasn't so bad.

I have to nominate the POW from SC:DB. They are just terrible implemented (I.E. slow, sluggish, a lot of needless muscle memory, completely unplayible on the move), and since they are the only moves you will be using, they were kind of a big deal.

Posted: Nov 14 2008 10:33 am

How about Little Nemo, the Dream Master? Whose brilliant idea was it to give him a slow, almost-no-range, upward-arching, very-short-term-stun attack?

Nemo's basic candy-throwing attack makes Chef Peter Pepper from Burgertime look like Arnold Friggen Shwartzenegger.

Joined: Feb 16 2008 Posts: 832

Syd Lexia wrote:

I get up early because I have to be to work early; I'm there right now.

In FFCC, the world is covered in poison gas and you carry around a pot that projects an aura that protects you from in it. Its range is limited and you have to put it down to fight. It makes the game completely unplayable with a single player and nearly unplayable with less than four.

y-you k-k-know in single player you can get a m-moogle to carry it right?

Joined: Dec 06 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 11244

Syd Lexia wrote:

I get up early because I have to be to work early; I'm there right now.

In FFCC, the world is covered in poison gas and you carry around a pot that projects an aura that protects you from in it. Its range is limited and you have to put it down to fight. It makes the game completely unplayable with a single player and nearly unplayable with less than four.

The game has no fucking ending. I kept playing, and playing, and playing, and nothing ever happened. Ever. This game sucks balls.

Joined: Oct 12 2007 Posts: 821

GPFontaine wrote:

Syd Lexia wrote:

I get up early because I have to be to work early; I'm there right now.

In FFCC, the world is covered in poison gas and you carry around a pot that projects an aura that protects you from in it. Its range is limited and you have to put it down to fight. It makes the game completely unplayable with a single player and nearly unplayable with less than four.

The game has no fucking ending. I kept playing, and playing, and playing, and nothing ever happened. Ever. This game sucks balls.

There is an ending, it is just hard to get to. It involves getting the unkown element, which will let you cross into the Abyss, where you fight the guy that made all the poison gas, and then a giant bird thing, and then all your memories. Also, there were a bunch of side stories going on.

Yeah, I liked FF:CC, not the best game ever, but it was fun

Joined: Dec 06 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 11244

nihilisticglee wrote:

GPFontaine wrote:

Syd Lexia wrote:

I get up early because I have to be to work early; I'm there right now.

In FFCC, the world is covered in poison gas and you carry around a pot that projects an aura that protects you from in it. Its range is limited and you have to put it down to fight. It makes the game completely unplayable with a single player and nearly unplayable with less than four.

The game has no fucking ending. I kept playing, and playing, and playing, and nothing ever happened. Ever. This game sucks balls.

There is an ending, it is just hard to get to. It involves getting the unkown element, which will let you cross into the Abyss, where you fight the guy that made all the poison gas, and then a giant bird thing, and then all your memories. Also, there were a bunch of side stories going on.

Yeah, I liked FF:CC, not the best game ever, but it was fun

Really?

How many times do you have to beat the same levels over and over to get to it?

Posted: Nov 15 2008 11:53 am

You know, the puny stun-candy main attack in Little Nemo pissed me off so much I've tried to wring an entire article on crappy NES stun weapons out of it..

with limited success.