GAMES YOU HATE OR DISLIKE?

I will bash on a game likely almost no one remembers: Magna Carta. The art is beyond absurd, especially the female designs (back problems, ho!), even in the context of anime-esque art. Nothing about their designs has any basis in reality other than someone's fever dreams of what the human body is supposed to look like.

The battle system is the worst offender though. Each battlefield starts with a certain amount of each element in it, and when that element is gone, there's no way to recover it except to use opposite elements enough. The problem is, the ratio isn't 1:1, hell it isn't even 2:1. If you have a fire character, and a water character, both casting equally, soon everyone is out of spells/skills. What makes that worse is that your team is constantly changed, and never really in your control...and a few hours in, you're tossed with a group that is three water users. Two of them being healers, so entirely pointless, and means you run out of any usable spells very quickly.

The worst offense of the battle system is it is an action RPG design, with a 3 person party...like Secret of Mana or similar. Unlike Secret of Mana, which came out two full generations before this game, this game decided that the best way to do a 3 person party in an action game is to have no AI for the characters you are not controlling. So in essence, you control one character at a time, and the other two stand in place, getting wailed on by enemies. The best I could do is hide my good character behind two immobile idiot-walls.

I completely regret purchasing this game, but at least I got to trade it for a full season of Ranma 1/2.

The artist is apparently a famous manwha in Korea, at least from what I recall, and it was a big deal at the time about Koreans getting into the eastern RPG set. I can generally get past wonky art, in that I love Dragon's Crown despite the awkward proportions of some of the ladies, but Magna Carta was terribly thought out art + bad game play.

Well, they do look very 'flexible'. It was probably done for dramatic effect, speaking that Asian works enjoy being presented dramatically. I can't fairly say anything about the gameplay, however, as I haven't played it, but I've had my fair share of playing games that were dull and not even pretty to look at.

As for the whole Kingdom Hearts thing, I did not intend to completely trash the game; I was just stating what I'd felt personally about it. That only makes it bad for me, not anyone else. I'm sure there are plenty of people here, who haven't piped up on this thread, or have mentioned a different series that they dislike, that like it a lot.

We could easily compare this to Call of Duty. A lot of people love that and think it's good, and a lot of people don't.

It's all just a matter of opinion.

Sounds like one of Rob Liefeld's students!

author=kentona

author=Liberty
http://www.shinforce.com/xbox360/games/Magna_Carta_2/wp1-Magna_Carta_2-1280x800.jpgOMG.
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Dear god the art what the fuck is up with that?!

my hips immediately started hurting upon viewing that image.

I never thought I would be able to describe art as "Sweaty", but here we are.

Looking at that shit is making my skeleton uncomfortable.

author=Liberty
http://www.shinforce.com/xbox360/games/Magna_Carta_2/wp1-Magna_Carta_2-1280x800.jpgOMG.
XDDDDD


Dear god the art what the fuck is up with that?!

Good lord. I can replay the bones cracking in my mind.

The first Mother.

After being spoiled by Earthbound and Mother 3, it's really jarring to go back to it. I might buy the VC release at some point just so I can have official releases for every game in the series and to actually try to get through it again without being ass-raped by all the enemies, but I'm honestly reluctant to.

author=Aetherrevival
I think my least favorite series is probably...... Kingdom Hearts.

Kingdom Hearts bothers me just because it feels like one of those series where they throw in all these characters people know and love, just to give everyone a bone. You know the, 'Hey, it's that guy!', or the, 'Look, it's that girl!' syndrome. Crossover games make me a little nervous, because of that, but Kingdom Hearts does it to the fullest, in my opinion.

Japan fuckin' loves disney, and Squaresoft make good games, the crossover was an afterthought, I'd wager...

I have no problems with you disliking the game, just... what an odd thing to hate a game for, games do this all the time.

Smash Bros
Marvel Vs Capcom

Loads more but my brain is on hiatus tonight, point is I never really found insertions that blatant, though i may be biased since i was raised on both Final Fantasy and Disney.

Most of the really prominent characters are still original, Sora, Riku, Kairi, Ansem, Xehanort and all of the organization. Maleficent and King Mickey are the only other super relevant characters to the grand scheme of the plot, the rest are OC's.

I'll be honest, the story in KH is a convoluted mess, the battles and especially the music keeps me going.

Xehanort is a fucking rad villain, though.

author=Liberty
http://www.shinforce.com/xbox360/games/Magna_Carta_2/wp1-Magna_Carta_2-1280x800.jpgOMG.
XDDDDD


Dear god the art what the fuck is up with that?!

The hips that don't lie! Only they super-fucking-do because who even has hips like that?

I'm an unproffesional hobbyist artist and I can draw hips that don't defy reality to that extent.

Most people here can, and what makes this ill is that someone is getting payed for this, though I think it's probably a designer at fault, not an artist.

"I don't have a problem if you dislike this" *goes on to write a bunch of crap defending this*