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Post by Revolver Ocelot on Jan 12, 2011 12:26:44 GMT -5
Mortal Kombat.
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Post by lanceboyle94 on Jan 12, 2011 17:35:34 GMT -5
Revolution X. Everyone hates this game except me. I'd say that it's one of my favorite kusoges (at least the Genesis version; the SNES one is terrible) Just the title of the thread says we're talking here about our favourite kusoge (games so crappy that they're awesome in their own unusual way). Here are some of my favourite kusoge (the only ones that come to my mind right now): - Cheetahmen 2: probably the only kusoge game which has such a catchy music theme to the point that inspired a lot of fan-made remixes (expecially in Japan). If it wasn't for its so many bugs it would be a classic. - Tattoo Assassins: The worst Mortal Kompat clone fighting I've ever seen. It was so crappy that it never been released to the market. A new fact I learned toaday in Wikipedia: G-Mode bought the rights to Tattoo Assassins along with most of Data East's other titles. Hmmmmm...how about a petition for releasing it as a downloadable game for PC and consoles? As if! I already said it on the comments of a Cheetahmen 2 video on YT, but it amazes me that a relatively unknown unlicensed US-developed title became famous in Japan of all places. But then again this is the same country that had some American games that became really popular over there (such as the Crash series and Wizardry) And, on the topic of Tattoo Assassins and your idea of a rerelease, I now remembered something that was on an Argentinian videogame mag (Loaded. Not related at all with the PS1/Saturn game). It was a fanfic of sorts called LSD (probably not related at all with either the drug or the PS1 game), and one of the "chapters" had to do with Tattoo Assassins, in which the main character of that story had to recover a PCB of the game. When he arrived at his destination (Data East USA's former headquarters), he found a hobo, which was a guy named Joe, who had supposedly worked on the game and had recently given the PCB to a Konami (yes, Konami, more on that later) employee in exchange for some beer. The reason why is that Konami is trying to recover all of the funds spent on MGS4's development, and so they're buying the rights to crappy games and releasing them (this was around the time Konami released Target: Terror on the Wii, and in that issue's cover MGS4 was there), and now they plan on releasing Tattoo Assassins on PSN, XBLA and WiiWare (yes, imagine that: Tattoo Assassins on WIIWARE). He then goes to Konami of America's headquarters, and finds the whole place completely messed up. He thinks that it was the game's fault ("Everything it touches, it destroys it", something like that, because he previously mentioned what the Tattoo Assassins developers went through during the game's development), but then a Konami employee appears and tells him that they moved to newer offices. The main character (Rockman, which is the nickname of one of the mag's editors) asks him for the PCB, and the Konami employee gives it to him, but tells him that they have already extracted the ROM and are ready to release it. He then goes all "NOOOOO!" and returns to his office (he's a detective of sorts) and gives the PCB to the guy who told him to get it, who turns out to be Tattoo Assassins' bad guy. And then there's a "To be continued"
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Post by Lee on Jan 12, 2011 19:50:25 GMT -5
I was pretty obsessed with beating Lester the Unlikely as a kid. The game is pure shit, even the AGVN recently dedicated an entire episode to it; but a kid will play the game their parents buy. I remember, my mother telling me this quote:
"We were at the store, and we couldn't remember what game you wanted. I thought you said Final Fantasy 3, but then your dad said you already had that one (I didn't BTW, I owned FF 2); so we grabbed this game instead :Lester the Unlikely. Happy Birthday son!"
Happy Birthday, my ass. The fact I got this turd over Final Fantasy 3 only rubbed salt in the wound. Out of boredom I played the game more than any healthy person should, and I even made it to the final stage....once. The game sucks, but it still holds a special place in my heart as the kusoge that ruined by 12th birthday.
Fun Fact: I still have this kusoge, yet I no longer own Final Fantasy 3 ( FF3 is a far superior game, but who the hell is going to buy a second hand copy of Lester the Unlikely these days?)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2011 19:56:54 GMT -5
OUCH. Now that's a story.
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Post by underthepale on Jan 12, 2011 21:47:41 GMT -5
Hah. I like this topic so much, I am going to both, register AND delurk to respond to it.
Seventh Cross: Evolution for the Dreamcast. I have no idea if this is "an "official" kusoge, but... By all rights, this is not a good game. It had some great ideas. And everything works... But nothing actually functions. Combat is simplistic, magic renders combat trivial (especially later on when you get Death Curses...), the graphics are quite bad in places, the system for getting new parts is STUPID (it's random... Very random...) and so on.
But I enjoy it for some reason. I've played it through at least five times. It has three endings, an interesting story, and some good music, in places where it actually HAS music. And I've never been able to find an OST, sigh... Maybe I just found it soothing, I don't know. Also, has some HILARIOUS voice acting during the endings, including one of the most ridiclous mistranslations I have ever seen (Hint: "Nuclear excursion" has nothing to do with exploration...)
Yeah it's a thing.
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Post by Ike on Jan 12, 2011 22:38:19 GMT -5
I nominate Shock Wave for the NES, an unlicensed cart from American Game Cartridges. You may know them as the people who published Death Race.
I'm not sure if Shock Wave is a good game of its kind or not. It's a puzzle game where you play a small astronaut with a sonic wave gun of some sort, floating around blowing up rocks and mining minerals or vespene gas or meth or something. When you collect all the crystals you get teleported to the next stage to do it again.
This game has legitimately good music although I'm pretty sure it's just 8-bit remixes of other songs. The logic that governs this game is so bizarre it gives it a certain charm and forces you to think in its terms even if it's sometimes unreasonably difficult to see what you're supposed to do.
Here's some game footage.
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Post by annoyedgrunt on Jan 13, 2011 13:02:20 GMT -5
Count me as another lurker who just had to post.
WCW Nitro for the PC was a pretty lousy wrestling game but I played it a decent amount because I didn't have a console. The graphics were decent on the Playstation version but didn't stack up on the PC and the controls didn't translate well at all. It didn't have a storyline mode, just a series of matches like it was a fighting game. Two thirds of the roster were hidden characters but it didn't really matter because they were all mostly the same only with a different skin and finishing move.
However, the game was absurdly easy to modify. All the files were clearly labeled and could be altered with whatever software came with Windows 98. For example, the sound clip of announcer saying ""He hit the powerbomb!" was just a .wav file titled 'powerbomb'. It was a far more entertaining game once you changed it so two superheroes were fighting with random Simpsons quotes being shouted out.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2011 14:54:28 GMT -5
I'm a pretty big fan of Resident Evil: Outbreak, along with File #2. They were just released a few years too early to really take off.
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Post by hidetoshidecide on Jan 14, 2011 14:58:16 GMT -5
Here's a candidate: Dukes of Hazzard: Racing for Home for the Playstation. The gameplay was actually alright, if goofy- mission based racer, sometimes you had to have Bo lean out of the General Lee and shoot arrows at stuff- but I mainly remember it for having some of the creepiest, Uncanny Valley-est cutscenes I've ever seen. Stuff of nightmares. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWdYZiZIe7g
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Post by wyrdwad on Jan 14, 2011 15:12:12 GMT -5
I'm disappointed that there hasn't been a single mention of Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing in this topic yet. (: (Unless I just missed it!)
-Tom
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Post by Warchief Onyx on Jan 14, 2011 15:37:13 GMT -5
I'd say WCW/nWo Thunder for the PSX, which is considered by many wrestling game fans to be the worst one ever made.
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Post by annoyedgrunt on Jan 14, 2011 16:32:51 GMT -5
For some reason I like Chiller. It's short and it's incredibly easy on MAME thanks to mouse control but I can't imagine it was too difficult in the arcade either since nothing attacks you. I don't get a lot of enjoyment out of killing innocent people in games and if there was every a realistic remake on a current gen system I'd probably be sickened. Still, I think it's fun to play every once in a blue moon and marvel at the fact such a crazy game exists.
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Post by evilakito on Jan 14, 2011 20:35:07 GMT -5
I was pretty obsessed with beating Lester the Unlikely as a kid. The game is pure shit, even the AGVN recently dedicated an entire episode to it; but a kid will play the game their parents buy. I remember, my mother telling me this quote: I wouldn't really consider Lester the Unlikely a kusoge. I actually think it's a pretty decent Prince of Persia knockoff, though I will admit it's a little poorly designed in some places. But regardless, I played it all the time as a kid (and I didn't received it as a gift; I purchased it with my own allowance after renting it a few times). I know that I'm probably alone in saying that it's a good game, but even if you don't like it, it's not an ugly, poorly programmed, unplayable piece of shit worthy of the "kusoge" title.
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Post by Snarboo on Jan 14, 2011 20:59:36 GMT -5
I agree with you, akito, Lester isn't that bad. Yes, it's kind of ugly and awkward to play at first, but it's honestly a fun game. I also appreciated the nice little touches, such as Lester's gait changing as he becomes more confident in himself.
I'd still call it a kusoge, however.
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Post by A Winner Is You on Jan 14, 2011 23:53:16 GMT -5
Panic! and The Lawnmower Man for the Sega CD. I actually kinda enjoy both of them, but Panic is just... weird, and the gameplay is nothing more than pressing a button over and over again; while Lawnmower Man is nothing more than lame mini-games and horrendous FMV.
Battle Royale for the TG-16. A shockingly bad wrestling game with about three moves you can perform and ONE type of match you can play, the over the top rope battle royal, over and over and over again (to be fair, you can alter the number of wrestlers you go up against, but you're still essentially playing the same type of match). Despite this, I friggin LOVE the game, I suppose because I'm a freak and must've been dropped on my head multiple times as a child. The game is rife with terrible humor, the wrestlers are some of the most stereotypical pro wrestling tropes you can possibly imagine (one of the characters is like an amalgam of Hulk Hogan, Randy Savage, AND the Road Warriors rolled into one), the menu music is this godawful 'special bulletin' style tune (can't explain it any better than that, you'll have to listen to know what I mean), and when a grappler is thrown out of the ring they let loose an absurdly out of place Wilhelm scream - as if they were being thrown into a tank of deadly piranhas and electric eels. I'm almost ashamed to admit how much I've played this silly game, but I feel I've spent more than enough time playing it to know that it is 100% kusoge.
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