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Hyrax Attack! posted:SimCity owned, SimAnt owned, SimTower was decent so time to fire up SimIsle & undergo missions to protect the rainforest. For it, it was SimLife. I played SimCity and loved it, so why not SimLife? I'm not sure if it was me or oy older brother who got our parents to buy it, but I was def. the one that played it a lot more. I mean...look at that dope cover art:  A loving Tiger-Rhino? A Kanga-Toucan-Dinosaur? Oh, Hells yeah, this game will rock. Let's take a look at the game itself:   Oh... The first screen is the main "gameplay" area, you just watch little plant and animal icons live/die/spread/evolve. The second is the animal editor to make things. But I still played the poo poo out of it, even though by all accounts SimEarth was the superior "version" of the Maxis "Simulate a world/life" genre.
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Was SimEarth the one that came with a >200 pages spiral-bound manual?
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Narzack posted:Black and White was really fun. That drum beat was terrific, I still have it stuck in my head. One of my favorite moments was when a villager was talking about how he had to offer his son as a sacrifice for some reason. So I picked him up and dropped him in the cauldron, instead. gently caress that guy. The different game mechanics actively fought each other, but I think there's room for a decent sequel. They just have to, like, think stuff through. If the enemy can send soldiers to attack my town, defending the town by force shouldn't be treated as evil. 
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Presto posted:I remember the villagers going "We need offspring", and I'm like, buddy do you really need my help with that? iirc you needed to literally drop villagers on top of each other so they'd start loving. I think you could also drop them from too high and it would kill both of them. Incredible that people could say this game is bad.
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I unashamedly loved the hell out of Star Wars: Yoda Stories. It was never challenging, it was never complicated, the puzzles were puzzles in name only. It was just fetch quests. Get X to Y. To get X, you have to get A to B, he will give you M. Take M to N to get X. It was repetitive, the graphics were simultaneously charming and lovely. It was just a trance-like relaxing game for me.
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emSparkly posted:Sonic R is a game that’s notorious for being bad, but I completed it 100% and I legitimately like it. I've been trying to think of a notoriously bad game that I've done more than sampled and wasn't one of the cliche answers like ET or Superman 64, and this is it. In the late 90's, a friend of mine only had a Saturn and Sonic R was the only multiplayer game he had, so I played quite a bit of it. Eventually I started bringing over my N64 and PS1 to have something better to do.
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emSparkly posted:Sonic R is a game that’s notorious for being bad, but I completed it 100% and I legitimately like it. Me too, good soundtrack, frustrating to 100%, would do it again.
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Magical Drop 4: An insult to life itself
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I remember discovering Superman 64 has a Descent-like FPS multiplayer mode and one of my friend earnestly saying "wow, this is like a good game now" it wasn't, but it was considerably better than the single player.
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Droogie posted:I unashamedly loved the hell out of Star Wars: Yoda Stories. I liked those desktop games lol. I played the Indiana Jones one too.
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PureEvil6_13 posted:ET on the Atari. I think that game gave me the Intermittent Explosive Disorder I live with for all of my days. Did you ever stumble into the Easter egg in the ET game? When you fall to the bottom of one of the many death pits that make the game impossible to play, suddenly out of nowhere the fly thing from Yar’s Revenge appears and flies away? 8 year old me thought I had lost my mind. I had no concept of game developers hiding poo poo in games and I could not get it to happen again to confirm I wasn’t hallucinating and there was no internet to look it up. I considered the possibility that some game particles had rubbed off of the Yar’s Revenge cartridge and got stuck to the ET cartridge causing the thing from one game to end up in the other game.
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Ralph Hurley posted:Did you ever stumble into the Easter egg in the ET game? When you fall to the bottom of one of the many death pits that make the game impossible to play, suddenly out of nowhere the fly thing from Yar’s Revenge appears and flies away? 8 year old you had good intuition, as that's exactly what happened in OOT with Star Fox leftovers. Although the content in question doesn't normally spawn in the game, it's still very much present. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUto459oezE
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i should probably mention the hundreds of hours in Star Wars: Rebellion except i liked that game so much i dont consider it bad
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I also played an "educational" adventure game called Manhole (lol) that my parents had on their lovely mac when I had exhausted my NES collection. The lack of any objective or reward in this thing was maddening and boring, and made it feel like a fever dream. Imagine Myst but there's no puzzles and you just go around clicking on poo poo. I desperately searched for ways to win but it just took me in endless circles. gently caress this game. I wish I had kept it buried in my subconscious I feel legit bad just thinking about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyOTq1EpV5o&t=360s Suspekt Device fucked around with this message at 22:37 on Jan 23, 2024 |
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funeral home DJ posted:I tried Pit Fighter for the SNES multiple times at my cousin’s house, only to realize decades later that it was legitimately one of the worst SNES games ever conceived. Apparently the Genesis version was better, but Pit Fighter lives on in my mind as the worst game I’ve ever played. Pit Fighter was one of those arcade games that looked so cool when you saw the arcade machine by the grocery store entrance, but never got to play because mom wasn't going to hang around while a cart full of food. When we finally rented it, it turned out to be terrible, but we played it anyways because what else were were going to do? I don't think we ever made it past the double Executioner fight though. Ralph Hurley posted:Deadly Towers on NES was the most aggravating game I stuck with until the end. While Deadly Towers isn't a great game, it has a worse reputation than it deserves because of how obtuse it was. When I played it as a kid, I never got anywhere because there was no guidance outside of the vague goal of throwing bells in a fire or something like that. I don't think I ever found a single bell during my time with the game, because I spent most playtime wandering in that weird dungeon you randomly warped to. It would have been far more approachable if it gave you some guidance or came with a hint book or something like that. Instead, most people played it for 5 minutes, stabbed some blobs, wound up in the dungeon for no reason, said "What just happened? Where am I? What the hell is going on?" and turned it off. When I played and finished it years later with the help of a guide, it still wasn't great, or even good, but it's nowhere near the absolute worst the NES has to offer.
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Suspekt Device posted:I also played an "educational" adventure game called Manhole (lol) that my parents had on their lovely mac when I had exhausted my NES collection. The lack of any objective or reward in this thing was maddening and boring, and made it feel like a fever dream. Imagine Myst but there's no puzzles and you just go around clicking on poo poo. I desperately searched for ways to win but it just took me in endless circles. gently caress this game. My stepdad had this game. The only thing i learned from it was to be very afraid of manholes. Just the name is terrifying. Manhole.
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Suspekt Device posted:I also played an "educational" adventure game called Manhole (lol) that my parents had on their lovely mac when I had exhausted my NES collection. The lack of any objective or reward in this thing was maddening and boring, and made it feel like a fever dream. Imagine Myst but there's no puzzles and you just go around clicking on poo poo. I desperately searched for ways to win but it just took me in endless circles. gently caress this game.
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numberoneposter posted:I had Cosmic Osmo as a child. Bizarre game. Holy poo poo just saw a short playthrough. Children should not have been subjected to these games.
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Bad Purchase posted:Outpost Lord Harbor posted:I came here to post this game. I absolutely loved Outpost and played it a ton without ever realizing that it was terrible. Probably helped that I was like 10 years old and the game looked great. It was juuuust finished enough to convince my pea-brain that it was an actual, playable game. It wasn't. I "beat" the game by building dozens of terraforming stations. What happens when your "Percent Terraformed" number hits 100? Nothing. Sierra even offered a patch! They mailed you a 3.25" floppy that would fix the bugs! IT ONLY ADDED ANOTHER BUG! You could now build monorail stations, but not tracks or trains. There was no reason to build monorails in the first place, since you only got one settlement.
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You Are A Werewolf posted:Put years into Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Friday the 13th on the NES. I secretly love them dearly, but also loathe them for their difficulty. You can beat him without cheating. I did, after trying almost every day for weeks with the aid of a turbo controller. Then, the first time I got him, he got up and killed me because I grabbed the dip cannon, but didn't know you had to hold the button down to fire it continuously. Instead, I tried firing it by tapping the button, died, and had to start all over again. I finally managed to knock him again out a few days later, beat the game, and got the incredibly lame ending screen. Only decades later did I discover that you can stun-lock him in the corner and unleash repeated charged punches to cheese him. That game is loving garbage and the people who made it should be lowered into the dip vat. Oh and it was published by LJN, but actually made by Rare. Yes, the Rare that made timeless classics like Battletoads, Donkey Kong Country, and Goldeneye, was once a licensed crap factory that churned out dogshit garbage like this, various games based on gameshows, and other ghost written shovelware. The_Franz fucked around with this message at 23:07 on Jan 23, 2024 |
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The same people who made Dark Reign, a very well regarded RTS in its day, and its sequel also made an MMORPG. Was it set in their famous Dark Reign world you ask? Hell no, it was set in generic fantasy land and was called Fury. You don't remember Fury? Why would you. I just looked it up on the youtubes and the biggest video about it has under 15k views. The game was shutdown after a few months and the developer was soon to follow. I played it opening week!
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I played Stronghold 3 when I bought the entire series on Steam. The first game was fun. The second was pretty so-so. Stronghold 3 was just straight up garbage. I never experienced an RTS where units just got stuck in the walls when trying to pathfind to a gate. I didn't feel good even finishing it. The ending was absolute rear end and was probably a sequel bait for a fourth game that never happened. I couldn't even bother to play the Economic campaign. The game was apparently so bad that it eventually got taken off the company's store list.
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Waited in line at midnight for Duke Nukem Forever, I just heard it was finally coming out and didn't know it was sold to Gearbox as a pity project to be finished. It took a lot of hard liquor but I beat it solely out of spite for having wasted the money. I bought 2042 at launch but once Dice patched in all the missing stuff it became a lot of fun with the friends. Bought Starfield at launch thinking it would be Skyrim in space--but they completely yanked out the fun exploration aspect of getting to your destination so I refunded that. 
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I both beat, and thoroughly enjoyed, Metroid: Other M.
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the first level of 'the tick' on sega genesis was called 'night of a million billion ninjas' and it literally made you fight a million billion ninjas i found an article about it with google lol https://www.destructoid.com/i-hope-you-like-monotony-because-the-tick-on-snes-and-genesis-is-crammed-full-of-it/ quote:You may be asking if a game that’s mediocre can truly be kusoge. I’m not sure, I don’t make the laws here. However, I would ask you to try something for me: see if you have the patience to make it past the ninja levels. If you succeed, tell me how you feel.
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LuckyCat posted:I both beat, and thoroughly enjoyed, Metroid: Other M. Metroid: Other what? I know not of what you speak. It doesn't exist. Bottle. Baby. Baby Crying. The actual parts you played weren't too bad, but holy poo poo was the story terrible. You are dying in a volcano because some rear end in a top hat didn't explicitly tell you to turn on an armor upgrade that you had all along, but wouldn't use just because some rear end in a top hat, who you don't actually work for or answer to, didn't explicitly tell you to. Never mind it turning out that you had the loving screw attack the whole loving time, and it could cut through everything in your way with ease, but couldn't use it because, again, the same rear end in a top hat didn't explicitly tell you to. Meanwhile, the people doing this couldn't even get through the front door without Samus's help. I think my favorite bit of Other M trivia, and what sums up the design of it in general, is when the guy who originally created Metroid, and directed Super Metroid (probably one of the 10 best games of all time), asked why the gravity suit was purple. You designed Metroid, and probably had a hand in the original gravity suit in Super Metroid, and are asking a question like that!? The_Franz fucked around with this message at 01:08 on Jan 24, 2024 |
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meat police posted:Waited in line at midnight for Duke Nukem Forever, I just heard it was finally coming out and didn't know it was sold to Gearbox as a pity project to be finished. It took a lot of hard liquor but I beat it solely out of spite for having wasted the money. Never, ever, order a game immediately when it releases. If you preorder a game, you're just a straight up fool. (I'm not referring to you, but to anyone reading this). The last game I bought at release was Microsoft Flight Simulator in 2020 and only because I was in flight school and the game shipped with the sport plane I was training on and I figured it'd save me a whole lot of money practicing at home instead of paying for fuel or an instructor $50+ an hour, so timing was actually important. It was fine but there were some issues at first, as almost every single game has. The one I bought before that... no loving idea. I learned like 15 years ago to not pay companies to beta test their games for them. Just wait. You'll survive.
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Back when physical media was still a thing for PC games, there was an amount of trust in the developer/publisher to not gently caress up dramatically after all of the time, costs, and logistics of physically sending items all over the world. Yeah that's gone now. Anyone can release a piece of poo poo right out the gate now and everyone will be in an uproar but they can just patch it a few days later and the anger will die down and people will start coming back and all of the reviews and drama and blah blah blah. I'll just wait until I know the product that I am paying for will actually work before I buy it.
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LuckyCat posted:I both beat, and thoroughly enjoyed, Metroid: Other M. You're a sicko.
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Suspekt Device posted:I also played an "educational" adventure game called Manhole (lol) that my parents had on their lovely mac when I had exhausted my NES collection. The lack of any objective or reward in this thing was maddening and boring, and made it feel like a fever dream. Imagine Myst but there's no puzzles and you just go around clicking on poo poo. I desperately searched for ways to win but it just took me in endless circles. gently caress this game. I wish I had kept it buried in my subconscious I feel legit bad just thinking about it. huh this one's interesting to at least watch and does feel like somethings "off" about it if it was just a weird flash 15 years later instead of ripping you off out of a full game it'd be pretty neat it's almost got an LSD Dream Emulator thing going where you're just exploring and it has a mysterious and sinister vibe (despite Manhole being made for kids and all the innocuous characters/dialog attempting to be friendly), except that had a lot more areas and some randomization to build intrigue
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Worf posted:i should probably mention the hundreds of hours in Star Wars: Rebellion except i liked that game so much i dont consider it bad Dang that game had a lot of promise with deep unit rosters from the EU and good cutscenes, but I remember it being a bit clunky. Although I did find out that if you begin blasting every planet with the Death Star your approval goes so low it becomes maximum popularity & the rebellion loses, probably quite confused at fickle public opinion. For another game Tropico 2 was a sequel to a fun economic simulator, and they decided for a different approach by having it still be running a Caribbean island economy except you’re a old timey pirate lord. Which maybe could have worked but couldn’t overcome the hurdle of a pirate theme not being fun when paired with demands for more lumber & how you couldn’t go on missions only dispatch ships. It was one of the most unintentionally problematic games I’ve played, your pirates have core demands including time with wenches, so you must build brothels. Except they don’t staff themselves so gotta kidnap victims from settlements & yup it’s a sex trafficking simulator now. Go ahead & put them near the parrot & peg leg shops & the wacky skeleton pushing a wheelbarrow to save on labor costs.
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Speaking of bad Star Wars games, we played the hell out of Rebel Assault 1 and 2. At the time they were so cool because CD-ROM FMV "WOW IT'S LIKE PLAYING A MOVIE!" In hindsight, they were terrible. The controls, particularly in the parts where you flew speeders and fighters through canyons, were absolutely awful. The whole challenge of the game was basically fighting the awful controls, and the game in general was a series of crappy, on-rails shooters that were flashy, but ultimately not much fun. There's a reason why nobody really cares about those games now. The Rebel Assault 2 CD came with demos of Fate of Atlantis and Full Throttle, which are awesome adventure games though.
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I feel like Battletoads should be on this list because the first level is rad as hell, the second level is decent, but the third level is loving brutal and it doesn't really get much better after that. There's at least a couple other puzzle/race levels and a bullshit ice level too. Game might actually be bad and people only remember playing the first level over and over again because they'd game over in the third.
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The_Franz posted:You can beat him without cheating. I did, after trying almost every day for weeks with the aid of a turbo controller. Then, the first time I got him, he got up and killed me because I grabbed the dip cannon, but didn't know you had to hold the button down to fire it continuously. Instead, I tried firing it by tapping the button, died, and had to start all over again. I finally managed to knock him again out a few days later, beat the game, and got the incredibly lame ending screen. Oh yeah, I eventually figured out how to beat him (by stun-locking him in the corner), but it takes. So. loving. Loooong. To beat his rear end. I also made the mistake of getting killed thinking you tapped the button for the dip cannon. And whose bright idea was it to have Benny the Cab’s controls reversed (left goes right and right goes left)??? But circling around to the other LJN game I mentioned, Friday the 13th. That might have been the first video game to give me crippling anxiety and fill me with untapped dread, and it did a great job of it. There was nothing worse than the rare moment when you defeated Jason (… for now) in a counselor’s cabin and enter one of the larger cabins to light the fireplace, only to see Jason’s name in the corner. Oh please gently caress just let me light the fireplace and not run into him again in this multi-roomed cabin what the gently caress. That, and those drat wolves in the woods that had a howling sound effect much louder than anything else in the game 
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Froghammer posted:I am a JRPG lover through and through, and my household was a Nintendo household that skipped the SNES, which meant by necessity I played the everloving poo poo out of Quest 64 From another thread: Travic posted:I am one of about 3 people that loved Quest 64. I loved it so much I played it for a long time without a save pack. Meaning I started over every time I turned the N64 on...or died. Julius CSAR posted:I had the exact same experience with Body Harvest, another N64 game
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