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I'm probably one of the few people on this Earth that actually prefers Invisible War to the later sequels by Square. I quite enjoyed playing Pirates of the Caribbean by Akella when it came out. I guess the closest thing to it would be Mount and Blade but on a boat but with a boat load more problems. I have tried going back to it several times but can never make it passed about an hour. It has not aged well. Having said that very few games have got the feeling of sea travel as well as that game. I think it has something to do with sea cliffs and how all these modern survival on a boat games are just small island beaches. Dynasty Warriors 3 really isn't a good game and yet it really is. You have to know to know.
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Wrageowrapper posted:I'm probably one of the few people on this Earth that actually prefers Invisible War to the later sequels by Square. I'm sad to say that no, you are not.   I play Santa Slayer once every Christmas. I still have a bout of multiplayer Santa Slayer on my bucket list.
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Duke Nukem Forever. I made it about an hour in before I gave up.
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Spoke Lee posted:Spider for PSX. that was one of my first PS1 games and that was a frustratingly hard game
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Rise of the Robots. It looked really cool in gaming magazine screenshots but the game was so clunky and insubstantial and in mulitplayer, player 1 could only play as the cyborg.
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Vagrant Story for ps1. What a pointless confusing jerkoff of a game.
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Horsebanger posted:Sword of the Stars 2. Same genre, Master of Orion 3. I played the poo poo out of Master of Orion 2, the third game had all those cool design concepts about how to run a 4X different. I bought that poo poo on release, as a wild-eyed teen not willing to believe the somewhat publicly discussed train wreck of their design "process" could be that bad. The game is a non-functional mess. This was back in the day of gigantic paper manuals and everything, but the game doesn't really explain to you what everything does or why it is breaking down, the ideas behind "not micromanaging" and having a lot of stuff sort of happen on its own, it if does happen at all, doesn't really parse into engaging game-play. They had all these cool alien races, but the diplomatic system is convoluted and confusing. I really wanted to like this, but it's just Bad. 
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Keen Dreams is carried by its charming graphics, despite being worse in every other category compared to the The Universe is Toast trilogy.
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Bad Purchase posted:starfield this. played like 25 hours of this poo poo
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I have hundreds of hours in Mortal Online, carried mainly by the crafting system.
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Recore for Xbox. The game is actually kind of fun, you’re plunked down in the middle of a failed mission to a far away planet, inhabited only by the robots that were sent ahead to terraform it to get ready for the human arrival, which never happened save for a handful of people that made it to the planet. All the robots have a core, which can be extracted and used to upgrade three buddy robots. Then in the middle/end game, the developers made the baffling decision to have a checkpoint to get to the final area/boss where you have to do a minimum amount of core upgrade collection. The early game is designed like it’s an optional fetch quest upgrade system and then the developers decided “No, not like that, stupid! Play like this!” Completely ruins what would otherwise be a 7/10 game.
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BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:Breath of the Wild I know Zelda fans have written 10,000 words on the internet about how the weapon breakage system is actually cool and good and refreshing, but I hate it.
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MoonshineWilly posted:Recore for Xbox. The game is actually kind of fun, you’re plunked down in the middle of a failed mission to a far away planet, inhabited only by the robots that were sent ahead to terraform it to get ready for the human arrival, which never happened save for a handful of people that made it to the planet. All the robots have a core, which can be extracted and used to upgrade three buddy robots. Iirc the re-release they did of it removed that. I didnt make it far enough to find out though
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I'm still of the opinion that Brawl is the most fun smash bros game. Slipping is a good mechanic! The whole point of the game is to have fun with friends, and brawl did a great job of giving even "bad" players a chance to win occasionally. Other entries on the series, the best player will win pretty much 100% of the time, but brawl gives poo poo players that beautiful chance of victory every now and then when they get the smash ball and their wave dashing try hard opponent slips and falls right on their rear end ready to get hit. We played a hell of a lot of it in college. One of my friends went pro with the newer games. We met up at a tournament once and I was introduced to a few famous players and they were mostly the weirdest most unapproachable dudes I've ever met that took the game waaaaay too seriously.
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ET on the Atari. I think that game gave me the Intermittent Explosive Disorder I live with for all of my days.
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Ultima 9. I remember getting like 2 FPS running through Britian at the start but still played almost all the way through that piece of poo poo
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Vile_Nihlist666 posted:Mission Impossible on N64 I still think that banquet/party level is pretty cool
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Extra Large Marge posted:I still think that banquet/party level is pretty cool It might be good fun if someone cloned it in one of the modern Hitman games.
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I have played Too Human to completion.
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My dentist's daughter hung out at his office when she got off school and the two of us constantly played The Lion King for SNES since she got it as a gift for Christmas. We could never get past the stupid monkey level. At the time everyone called this game a masterpiece but I think as adults we've all come to the collective realization that none of us made it more than 2 or 3 levels in.
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Aramis posted:I have played Too Human to completion. Man I was so excited for this game before it came out because of how drat good Eternal Darkness was and then they deliver the big fart that was Too Human. Awful. Luckily I played it at a buddies and didn't endure more then was necessary to realize it was bad.
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A Fancy Hat posted:My dentist's daughter hung out at his office when she got off school and the two of us constantly played The Lion King for SNES since she got it as a gift for Christmas. We could never get past the stupid monkey level. Disney had that run of games based on animated movies that was really hit or miss. I played a ton of the Aladdin game on SNES, which I thought was great, but apparently the Genesis version was horrible. I remember the lion king game being really frustrating.
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MoonshineWilly posted:Disney had that run of games based on animated movies that was really hit or miss. I played a ton of the Aladdin game on SNES, which I thought was great, but apparently the Genesis version was horrible. I remember the lion king game being really frustrating. The gensis version was great and I played it a lot.
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^ ^ ^ The rumor is that the monkey level was purposely made so difficult so that kids couldn't beat it just from a weekend rental, and would have to go out and buy it. ^ ^ ^ I sunk hundreds of hours, I'm sure, into Civilization: Call to Power in the late 90's. Compared to both the official* Civ releases before and after (Civ II and Civ III) it was worse in almost every way, but it was the newest one at the time, and I spend good money on it, so why would I go back to Civ II? But it was pretty awful. Every wonder from the first two games was gone, they were all new and IIRC most of them were most esoteric than actual big BUILDINGS or projects. I distinctly remember one of them was The Emancipation Proclamation. I think most city improvements were still there, but I can't remember. The worst part was it was very easy to get "soft-locked". There was a unit called the Lawyer. It was part of a special class of non-military units that were normally invisible unless you had certain other units )I think maybe a Spy?) or certain buildings. But if you didn't advance far enough to have those units or buildings, you could never see an enemy Lawyer. The Lawyer had a unique ability called "File Injunction," or something similar. It was evil. It paused all construction that the city targeted for a turn. It might not be so bad if that skill had NO COOLDOWN. So you could sneak a bunch of lawyers into enemy territory, one for each city, then every turn thereafter just keep filing injunctions and nothing will get built by your opponent. Or, in my case, nothing was built by ME because the computer player knew and abused this strategy. The only way to get out of that scenario is hope you have both 1) The right tech already discovered (or will discover soon) to build a unit that can see invisible units and 2) Enough money to buy at least one of them to spot the lawyer and stop him. *Saying "official" since I guess there's a whole rigmarole on whether Activision was even allowed to make a Civilization game. Sid Meir wasn't involved, IIRC, and it's no surprise the direct sequel to it was JUST called "Call to Power 2" with the Civ name scrubbed from it.
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MoonshineWilly posted:
I loved Aladdin for the Genesis. Fantasia is the worst; seems like Sega and Disney learned their lesson after that turd; Castle/World of Illusion was really good.
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While not a bad game by any means, the design decision to add jumping puzzles ruined Doom Eternal for me. Mostly because it ruined the flow pf the game, especially when Doom 2016 was such a banger. If there was a portal or way to just skip the puzzle sections i might actually play it again.
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Devils Affricate posted:I actually played through and fully beat Biomutant. It was so bad that it was actually kind of fascinating. what? people didn't like biomutant? that game is awesome
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Seven Force posted:I loved Aladdin for the Genesis. Fantasia is the worst; seems like Sega and Disney learned their lesson after that turd; Castle/World of Illusion was really good. Whoops! I should add that a game I played that was bad was Awesome Possum Kicks Dr. Machino's Butt for the Sega Genesis. Really should have figured out the quality of the game from the name alone but i was like eight or ten or something. Holy poo poo that game. It's the only game i've even played in my life where I got unwell looking at it in motion for extended periods. I had always seen warnings about that in game manuals, but thought that was only for people with medical conditions. It's painfully clear that hey wanted this to be "Sonic, but an environmentalist" so bad, but lacked the skill to pull it off. You can barely control him normally, and even less so once he's in the air. You're constantly getting hit by everything because they learned level design at the same school that wants you to tighten up the graphics on level three. The main character also won't shut the gently caress up. Say what you want about Bubsy but as far as I can remember his quips where just at the beginning of the stage, and that's about it. Even as a lame, braindead kid I thought "drat this really sucks". Don't buy Awesome Possum. My final message. Goodbye~
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Bionic Commando (2009) was a goddamned blast in spite of its atrocious plot and it's a travesty that its failure essentially killed-off GRIN before the studio had a real opportunity to become a powerhouse:  The blue radiation zones were garbage, though
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I played a lot of Dr Jeckyl and Mr Hyde on Nes when I was a kid. Game is a legend for being bad.
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ChickenHeart posted:Bionic Commando (2009) was a goddamned blast in spite of its atrocious plot and it's a travesty that its failure essentially killed-off GRIN before the studio had a real opportunity to become a powerhouse: It's a real shame too. Bionic Commando ReArmed was outstanding. e: This whole era of Capcom's misguided attempts at capturing the western market on its own terms is filled with fascinating failures. Aramis fucked around with this message at 19:27 on Jan 22, 2024 |
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I got the 7th Saga for a birthday when I was a kid after reading about it in Nintendo Power. It's okay for a jrpg, which aren't really my thing these days, but after dozens of hours I ended up towards the end of the game where I wasn't strong enough to handle any of the random encounters and plot reasons meant I couldn't go back to an easier area, so I just was hosed.
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I played through the PS1 port of Chrono Trigger multiple times.
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Aramis posted:I have played Too Human to completion. Lol, I loved Too Human, I played it to completion and then like New Game++++++ or whatever. It scratched an itch for Norse mythology (but uh. robots), and a funky rear end controller scheme You basically got indestructible after a short time, but it was a good mindless time waster.
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GTA 4 I know it's cliche but getting a phonecall to go bowling when I'm trying to shake off a 4 star wanted level one too many times I just quit and uninstalled it.
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Valko posted:GTA 4 i dont think gta 4 is notoriously bad. it's not even considered bad by gta standards
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