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Post by moran on Apr 18, 2015 6:42:37 GMT -5
Mortal Kombat Mythologies. We may have a winner.
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Post by voltagecontrol on Apr 19, 2015 20:24:30 GMT -5
Energy for the Pc Engine. The indistinct art and strange characters makes it feel as if there is hidden depths there somewhere - like we are seeing a snapshot of a much larger world. Plus, the gameplay is actually rather good, once you get used to the strange pauses between screens. Energy is a better game waiting to happen... Yeah... there is just something about that game which makes you wonder if with work it could have been good. The music is very well done.
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Post by LouieBee on Apr 20, 2015 11:13:26 GMT -5
At one time or another, I got quite into an incredibly mediocre Gears of War clone called "Inversion" on PC. It is a full on B-Tier shooter, with bad voice acting, story, characters, etc, etc. The only real feature that would make it stand-out is the titular inversion itself which is effectively anti-grav, but it works its way nicely into the gunplay. Anyway, aside from completing it several times over, I am now in the process of recording a video playthrough on the Playstation 3 version (which will be uploaded onto Youtube when I am somewhere close to the end of it).
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2015 13:27:40 GMT -5
Fading Hearts, for PC. It's a visual novel made, as far as I can tell, by first-time developers with access to decent assets, who clearly loved visual novels and decided the best way to express this was to perform the visual novel development equivalent of banging pots and pans together to the rhythm of a classical music song.
This is a more appropos metaphor than it looks as the music in the game sounds worse than MIDI tunes from the early 1990s, which pushes Fading Hearts into So Bad It's Good territory for moi. I take that as proof that a skilled musician (i.e. Bobby Prince) can make good use of primitive tools, but an amateur can only do so much with even the best tools.
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Post by JDarkside on Apr 21, 2015 6:17:52 GMT -5
I think I remember seeing Hope Chapman streaming that a few years back. I was amazed by how stupid it was. It also helps support my thesis that Key poisoned and entire generation of creative minds.
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Post by dskzero on Apr 21, 2015 6:50:37 GMT -5
Red Alert 3.
It's a terrible game but goddamn it's hillarious.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2015 9:10:27 GMT -5
I think I remember seeing Hope Chapman streaming that a few years back. I was amazed by how stupid it was. It also helps support my thesis that Key poisoned and entire generation of creative minds. Yeah, that was her that did that. She called it the "The Room" of visual novels, which...Actually, yeah, it fits. Instead of Wiseau's casual in-character sexism we have the main character getting tips from a pick-up artist to save his love interest from an abusive off-screen boyfriend. See, the first time I played that game I was too busy being enraptured by the horrible MIDI music to notice how screwed up that above premise was. When the depths of the shittiness finally hit me, I had to stop playing for a while.
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Post by akumajobelmont on Apr 21, 2015 10:11:12 GMT -5
D-Xhird on the Saturn, closely followed by Battle Arena Toshinden Remix and Toshinden URA. I know they are not very good fighters, but I personally love the vibe that all of them have. D-Xhird is quite the looker too, and all have brilliant music. I don't know if I'd go so far as to call them 'bad' games though. Average? Sure. Below par? Maybe.
FIST! on the other hand, is just plain bad. Each character has like, five moves. That's it. I play it for the music though. That's what tipped me over the edge into 'need to purchase' mode, the Redbook audio.
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Post by dskzero on Apr 21, 2015 13:23:29 GMT -5
I had the biggest crush on Sonia on Toshinden. :$
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Post by djslope on Apr 23, 2015 8:55:42 GMT -5
I was really into Hover for the pc when i was younger hahaha
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Post by hydlidian on Apr 27, 2015 3:41:09 GMT -5
Oh yeah, I liked Hover as well!
I think my admiration for Virtual Hydlide could be one of these cases although, I genuinely like it as well. I bought Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2013 for Wii U some time ago and that one is definitely one of so-bad-it's-good games. So goddamn much cheese and stupidity. It's wrong to even call it hunting game. It's more like an animal genocide simulator.
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Post by Lash on Apr 27, 2015 11:17:18 GMT -5
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Post by Scylla on Apr 27, 2015 12:00:18 GMT -5
Uhhhhh Virtual Hydlide? Cruis'n USA?
I dunno, the concept of this topic doesn't click with me. I can't wrap my mind around "It's fun and I enjoy it a lot, but it's a bad game". I can definitely see flaws even in games that I love, but if I enjoy a game, then I obviously see some merit in it and wouldn't call it bad. I don't even care if I'm in the minority on that. Even if most people call a game bad, it's not going to convince me that it's bad if I like it. Like with the mentions of Castlevania Adventure in here. I enjoy it a lot too, but I consider it a good game. Or like Lagoon, that's a widely hated game, and while I can certainly recognize a lot of flaws it has, I still enjoyed playing it and wouldn't call it bad.
*shrugs* But that's just me.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2015 12:22:24 GMT -5
I define "So bad it's good" as "Amusing in ways the developer did not intend".
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Post by chronotigger65 on Apr 27, 2015 12:35:35 GMT -5
I tend to like King's Quest 5 on the NES. Truth is I would rather play this then not get to play any other version of the game at all. I also like The Castlevania Adventure on Game Boy. It's better then the lackluster CV Legends. Finally, while it's not a bad game more ok, I enjoy Alien 3 SNES.
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