GAMES YOU HATE OR DISLIKE?

Isrieri
I don't know a lot of people who know what this game is. Make sure it stays that way.

I actually have a copy of Out to Lunch. It was one of the games bundled with my SNES when I bought it at a flea market. It's uh... Yeah.

I think the Ghouls n' Ghosts, Starfox, DKC and Street Fighter II were probably the better of the bundled items, in comparison.

author=Isrieri
I have actually tried playing Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. I'm just gonna say this: Its as bad as everyone says it is. But not necessarily because it was badly made. It's kind of like the video game equivalent of The Last Airbender: Something that obviously had money and a budget and talent behind the production just going to an inconceivable waste. How can you even make something this dull and bad?

The thing that confuses me is why they decided to delete a couple of levels and replace them with copies of other levels in the translation. Whaaaa?

It's poorly made in terms of actual gameplay design, but it does have some decent polish and I like the art style. Mostly it's just one of those games where you wonder why it exists.

author=Isrieri
As for a game from my childhood that I didn't like. That would be

I don't know a lot of people who know what this game is. Make sure it stays that way.

It can be equated to waiting at the BMV with that guy who insists on talking to you and telling him your life story. Or being on the airplane with the loud rowdy kids sitting behind you.

I just looked this up on youtube. It seems incredibly rudimentary but it doesn't look that bad.

The sound effects kind of hurt a bit, though, and that cover art is so off-putting.

Animal Crossing

Except for the gamecube version which i am biased for because i played it when i was young and impressionable. Also it had playable NES games in it.

I tried really hard to like these games, i really did, but at the end of the day i couldn't. There was something about not having anything to do after an hour of playing the game except for listening to conversations with animals that increase in repetition and the constant knowledge that animal crossing never ends and can't be won that really got on my nerves after a while of playing the game.

After a few weeks i ended up loathing the game.

Oh, I just remembered a game I thoroughly despise, not for it's gameplay or visuals, just in what it represents and the fratboy demographic it's groomed.

Call of Duty, I can't say much since I haven't played them myself, I've avoided it and Battlefield like any democrat probably would, but I've heard some are okay, some are great, and some are wretched, that whole genre in general, no, not first person shooters, Halo at least has some Depth, and DooM95 etc. are first person shooters. Unreal Tournament, Painkiller, are first person shooters.

I'm just gonna gimp Yahtzee's word "Spunkgargleweewee" for the genre of 'war hero shooters', which are progessively linear brown and grey filtered games catering to realistic military action but only after forgetting sucking your thumb in a corner for 50 seconds doesn't cure bullet wounds.

It's a genre that I absolutely loathe purely because it's the opposite of realistic and aggrandizing war is a cardinal god damn sin. The later games are particularly bad in that the enemies are some small foreign group of terrorists and you're equipped with all the super weapons the U.S. has at it's disposal. Some people say the multiplayer makes up for it, unfortunately I don't give a flying fuck about the multiplayer and neither do a lot of people, and if your idea of a game set on getting it's demographic to join the army is made up by playing with people who think alike, then I'm sure the loud belligerence of all the obnoxious tits on those games must be a real zone of catharsis for you.

I'm convinced Call of Duty is designed for two groups of people, Sociopaths who want to get deceptively inaccurate gauge of how long they'd survive in their planned office shooting, or masochists who get a kick out of having people yell at them.

But yeah, I do not approve of the genre, and I know my words here will do virtually nothing about the popularity, the developers of said games will stake it for themselves, they've already shown large bouts of desperation, Call of Duty: DOG as one example.

I'm not saying you're a bad person if you play the games, or that you have shit taste, I'm just saying I don't like their messages and wish they weren't as popular as they are.

Sand was a good move towards showing people in the demographic they were being twats, unfortunately no one seems to have been bold enough to make that kind of move again.

Ultimately, what I think will be a good move is to release a game that plays like the games of old, but with a deceptive coat of paint for the first few stages that mimmicks the brown and grey environments and atmosphere of the COD games, then just shit out all this amazing sauce in the players face. Thus not only giving them what they want, but making them desire more. Positive Education, you follow?

That's all I'll probably say on this topic. But one last thing, don't try to state I'm blinded by Nostalgia, I've played Doom 95 recently, as well as heretic, and I had far more fun with them and their intensity than i ever did playing Halo, and it's superior to COD because at least it has some worldbuilding going for it.

I heard several people claim that CoD: Modern Warfare is the best part in the series - might be because of that wham event happening in the middle of it (not gonna spoil it just in case)

I also dislike gun obsession in general - I accept them being effective weapons, but people claim that grazing someone with a pistol should make the target instantly explode into a shower of guts.

I like how Unreal Tournament 2004 has an anti-air weapon (anti-vehicle actually) and a shotgun named after an anti-air weapon. Another thing FPS players should know is that the range at which people use sniper rifles in games is the effective range of assault weapons in real life - you could shoot the stem of a cherry with such a rifle at 150-200 yards range.

Back on topic, there's another hardcore RPG I dislike because it's once more full of bullshit and unreasonable elements - Speak No Evil, an old RPG Maker game on this very site.

-The font is unnecessarily hard to read
-Enemy graphics have next to no variety: An enemy who was weak to one element suddenly becomes immune to it next area as they all look the same
-Spend highly limited resources to try and guess the weaknesses of oncoming enemies, without having any clues

Do hardcore RPGs that are legitimately challenging even exist? Either I end up playing slots or pull scratch tickets.

Try virtually any product by Atlus.

This is very much true.

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