No idea why, but over the years w/the exception of some of the big AAA titles (skyrims and fallouts and batmans and bioshock) i find myself way more interested in the weirdo/seedy/stupid/fucked up side of the console gaming coin. So I've actually started to go out of my way to dig through the games that are failures, sometimes commercially and sometimes just failures in the sense of not being games at all.
This thread is kinda dual purpose I guess - first i want to know if other people do this to the extent that i do, and second, maybe my pain can stave off the pain of others by telling you if its an awesome piece of shit or just a straight up piece of shit. Most of my expertise is on 360 w/a little bit of wii thrown in there (although man a terrible game with wiimote added is almost never fun). also if people have stuff they recommend, id love to expand my horizons.
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
I had planned on getting some shitty games while I was on Gamefly but never got around to it. Man vs. Wild is supposed to be pretty bad.
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 19:12 (eleven years ago) link
Plz note: a lot of these I don't think are terrible, in fact some of them are among my favorites - and not in a "so bad it's good" sort of way, which rarely happens w/video games. It takes a pretty fantastic concept to overcome terrible controls and camera nightmares.
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
if you are going to start extolling the virtues of Heavy Rain I am removing my bookmark
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 19:42 (eleven years ago) link
oh god no
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 19:44 (eleven years ago) link
one of the best arguments for console exclusivity is that thx to only having a 360 i never had the chance to own heavy rain. tried it at my friends house and was pretty O_O about how terrible it was.
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 19:46 (eleven years ago) link
so off the top of my head, a list of the stuff that qualifies that i currently own:
SplatterhouseBrinkBulletstormDeadly PremonitionNierNo More HeroesDead IslandAlone in the Dark rebootEarth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon50 Cent: Blood in the SandRageAlpha ProtocolEl ShaddhaiMadworldFuelCommand and Conquer: Red Alert 3Army of TwoKane and Lynch: Dead MenMetro 2033
i know there are more but i am not at home at the moment
stuff i dont have anymore but played
Clive Barker's JerichoShadows of the Damned
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 19:54 (eleven years ago) link
Whenever I visit my brother he seems to have dug up something on the Wii Virtual Console that fits this bill. I recently got a kick out of China Fighter (TG16).
Back in the day I somehow managed to accumulate a bunch of games like this for SNES (Bram Stoker's Dracula!) and NES, but I don't really have any contemporary examples.
― cwkiii, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
I'm totally into this sort of thing. In fact, I have two games in your list I still have to get around to, unopened.
I'm not sure something like Dead Island counts, though - by most accounts it's just sort of mediocre?
― Nhex, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
Also, do the Suda 51 games count when they are so self-conscious? (Lollipop Chainsaw included, I presume)
― Nhex, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 20:19 (eleven years ago) link
Speaking of which, KILLER7.
― Nhex, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 20:20 (eleven years ago) link
oh man, stop trying to get me to get Nier
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 20:21 (eleven years ago) link
God I want to play Tokyo Jungle so bad
http://www.eurogamer.net/videos/lollipop-chainsaws-suda-51-plays-tokyo-jungle
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 20:24 (eleven years ago) link
dude at this point nier must be all of what $4? thats the great thing about all of this
also yeah i wasnt sure if dead island really fit, but it is a total mess in a lot of ways. #1 being that if you allow their vaunted online coop, you end up finishing a bunch of story quests without even getting a chance to see them because some online psycho is off hardmanning through them solo, but if you dont play online there is some stuff that is basically impossible to do.
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
there was a totally hilarious review of Nier where some dude gave it zero stars because he spent a stupid amount of time on the fishing minigame trying to unsuccessfully catch a fish; something like an hour and a half later he realized he was 2 feet away from the spot where he supposed to have been fishing and caught the fish on the first try
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 20:31 (eleven years ago) link
can we talk about dos games here
― the late great, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 20:36 (eleven years ago) link
WarTech Senko No Ronde (360) plays like a mixture of one-on-one fighter & bullet hell shmup? oh and lots of animu bollocks. you can get this really really cheap. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icf6lPiPyFcTrauma Team (Wii) worth it just to play the Diagnosis & Pathology sections, which are Phoenix-Wright-esque. you get to tell an old guy he's got an incurable disease! controls for the Endoscopy section are broken, thankfully you can skip those bits.Recettear (PC) the dungeon parts are clumsy, the shop bits ridiculous - and yet it's just so charming, the localization probably counts for 90% of the goodwill towards this game.
― zappi, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 20:48 (eleven years ago) link
stuff i am currently considering as future entrants:
that conan gamehomefrontred faction: armageddonthe CSI game
stuff i will never stoop to i dont thinknaughty bear
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 21:23 (eleven years ago) link
how amazing would it be if there was a Conan O'Brien video game
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 21:24 (eleven years ago) link
the entire thing should be QTE minigames where the goal is to do the most awkward-looking time-killing lurchdance
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 21:25 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/dos-games/1051-1.jpg
― a hauntingly unemployed american (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 22:44 (eleven years ago) link
Conan O'Brien Kinect Adventures!
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 22:46 (eleven years ago) link
has anyone played DayZ yet? it looks kinda messy but interesting.
― zappi, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 23:05 (eleven years ago) link
ok fuck it, im buying duke nukem forever tonight. i think gamestop has it for under $5, so why not
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Saturday, 11 August 2012 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
hahaha whoo boy, this is really something
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Sunday, 12 August 2012 19:04 (eleven years ago) link
john, you know - earlier this morning, i was gonna respond to that post with something in the order "man, maybe there are some games that might not be worth the time"
then i walk into Best Buy today, and i see DNF brand new for three dollars, and i cannot resist
― Nhex, Sunday, 12 August 2012 22:02 (eleven years ago) link
That game has a demo, there is no reason for anyone to play that game :)
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 12 August 2012 23:25 (eleven years ago) link
John, you should post a video/audio review
― Fiendish Doctor Wu (kingfish), Monday, 13 August 2012 04:24 (eleven years ago) link
ok finished it. i know you will all think i am crazy, but it was infinitely better than i thought it would be. this is not to say that it isnt the most stupid and peurile game i have played in years because whoa it sure is, but the single player campaign is long and not actually bad. multiplayer is hilariously dated in a way that is hard to even describe, and painful to play, but you will be glad to know that there are still devoted maniacs for this just like every other shoot you in the face game on the planet. some particularly classy moments include slapping "wall boobs" until milk shoots out of them and the fact that if you hold up the ego boosting porn mags at just the right angle to the light, there are jizz stains on them. a couple of knowing moments where you say some horribly lunk-headed one liner and one of the space marine grunts in the area will respond with "uh. ok duke."
well worth $5, do not pay a penny more.
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 18:32 (eleven years ago) link
also, brink is turning out to be way way better than expected. of particular note is that the online crowd seems way less creepy than your average cod/halo/l4d peeps - no griefing, no attempts to fuck over new players, lots of avenues to feel like you arent shitty, even though i am sure that i am since ive been playing for a whole 5-10 hours. the vault mechanic or whatever is kinda meh, but the level design so far seems really solid, and the integration of changing objective based gameplay is pretty well executed. seems a little unbalanced in the sense that defensive chapters are way way harder than offensive ones, but that again might just be the way that the random allotments work. again, its sub $5 level now used, and although its no bulletstorm, its worth a look.
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
I'm quite tempted to get Nier at the moment.
Resonance Of Fate might qualify. Endless grind, almost no variation, really odd characterisation yet strangely addictive.
― Temporarily Famous In The Czech Republic (ShariVari), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 19:10 (eleven years ago) link
a couple of knowing moments where you say some horribly lunk-headed one liner and one of the space marine grunts in the area will respond with "uh. ok duke."
!
― thomp, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 19:52 (eleven years ago) link
there are plenty of times that you can feel the pain of some poor dude stuck with this ancient terrible character and letting his misery and distaste seep through.
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 20:00 (eleven years ago) link
I enjoyed Bulletstorm, I must say.
― Fiendish Doctor Wu (kingfish), Thursday, 23 August 2012 06:49 (eleven years ago) link
I have to say, my sense of humour has me wanting to play this just for the crying with laughter value:
http://youtu.be/pU84Da4gqF8
― frances boredom coconut (Trayce), Thursday, 23 August 2012 09:20 (eleven years ago) link
lolll. is the game bug-ridden or is that some kind of comedy mode or what?
― emo mcgee vs ricky hitler (Merdeyeux), Friday, 24 August 2012 00:45 (eleven years ago) link
skate 3 wonky physics videos are basically my favorite thing ever, cannot imagine the game lives up to the youtubes
― The muted sensation feels amazeballs. (forksclovetofu), Friday, 24 August 2012 01:10 (eleven years ago) link
I think its just bug ridden from what I can understand! It is so fucking funny to watch. Sort of like a Gary's Mod, only on accident.
― frances boredom coconut (Trayce), Friday, 24 August 2012 01:16 (eleven years ago) link
Every time I watch one of those it makes me wonder why I've never picked it up.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 24 August 2012 01:29 (eleven years ago) link
it is on my list. no surprise there i guess.
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Friday, 24 August 2012 04:24 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, that looks totally Garys Mod.
― Fiendish Doctor Wu (kingfish), Friday, 24 August 2012 04:56 (eleven years ago) link
Why yes, I am playing Red Faction: Armageddon. Much much better than expected, but still a huge bummer if you go in expecting Red Faction : Guerilla part 2.
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
I think I convinced my friend to buy Skate 3 after sharing that video w/ him over the weekend.
― cwkiii, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 18:24 (eleven years ago) link
xp the prospect is just too sad. Guerilla was wonderfully smashy.
― Nhex, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 18:28 (eleven years ago) link
well theres still plenty of smashy, the magnet gun in particular is v v satisfying and is working with some pretty impressive behind the scenes physics and mass calculations. the big issue is that its very linear, and the destructo is less fun in the underground crawl sections (although not always!)
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
feels weirdly dead spacey in some ways? also, if you see a mech, use it. plz note: i would be less happy with this if i had not picked it up for $5 at the pawn shop
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
word, word
― Nhex, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
I bought Skate 3 on Monday. It's awesome but I haven't had any cool glitches.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
I just enjoyed a nice, long bout of Skate 3 video induced laughter. Thank you so much for that gift.
― Old Lunch, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 20:01 (eleven years ago) link
future entries in this thread: http://www.gameinformer.com/games/lococycle/b/xbox360/archive/2012/08/29/lococycle-debut-trailer.aspx
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 20:03 (eleven years ago) link
the saboteur is properly great, don't put it in this cruel cruel thread :(
― NI, Saturday, 12 October 2013 16:12 (ten years ago) link
oh man you have me tempted to run out and buy this right now
― papa smango (fadanuf4erybody), Saturday, 12 October 2013 22:40 (ten years ago) link
saboteur was fabulous, gtfo
― Euler, Saturday, 12 October 2013 22:54 (ten years ago) link
No, I know, but it was a horrendous flop. Unfairly! I think it's awesome. But it still fits my criteria.
― ACA: not bad, needs more death panels (jjjusten), Sunday, 13 October 2013 06:23 (ten years ago) link
I mean BULLETSTORM is on my list but still got my number one spot that year. Deadly Premonition is also all time great. I do this out of love.
― ACA: not bad, needs more death panels (jjjusten), Sunday, 13 October 2013 06:27 (ten years ago) link
Nier is the only game this gen that i've gone back and replayed (twice!), just love running around the world listening to that amazing soundtrack while the companion characters bicker behind me. Drakengard 3 is coming out in the west next year and has the same writer/director and sound team, so hopefully it retains some of the atmosphere (Nier was a spinoff from the Drakengard series after all)
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Sunday, 13 October 2013 12:16 (ten years ago) link
i keep thinking about picking up Nier
― Nhex, Sunday, 13 October 2013 17:01 (ten years ago) link
Does 50 Cent: Blood on the Sands fit into this niche? the voiceovers push it into it IMO, the game itself is just totally uninspired.
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Monday, 14 October 2013 11:30 (ten years ago) link
Charlie Brooker is entertainingly vitriolic about that game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGC8fO8uAOA
― Neil S, Monday, 14 October 2013 13:25 (ten years ago) link
btw, Marlow Briggs and the Mask of Death is a self-aware-ish budget title that looks fairly enjoyable if you are so inclined
― Andrew Kornfan, Thursday, 17 October 2013 11:45 (ten years ago) link
When it hits a budget price I think I'll bite on Dragon's Crown
― Nhex, Thursday, 17 October 2013 16:19 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SURg-VSIq7M
― there's no camera to capture that yelping moment! (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 17 October 2013 16:20 (ten years ago) link
Ha, Ride to Hell dropped to $10 at BestBuy. I'm really tempted to get it from jjjusten's review here but... i've probably got enough legitimately good games in the backlog that it would be unwise
― Nhex, Tuesday, 22 October 2013 03:37 (ten years ago) link
Love this reviewhttp://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-07-10-ride-to-hell-retribution-review
― Nhex, Thursday, 24 October 2013 20:00 (ten years ago) link
god I love Cara Ellison
― Andrew Kornfan, Friday, 25 October 2013 09:01 (ten years ago) link
Contender:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5drSYII5mFY
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 6 November 2013 00:37 (ten years ago) link
man. he didn't even kill anybody in First Blood!
― Nhex, Saturday, 9 November 2013 05:41 (ten years ago) link
Ooooh, Catherine is hitting this sweet spot. Not so much terrible as just super super weird
― Wendy Carlos Williams (jjjusten), Saturday, 16 November 2013 06:20 (ten years ago) link
Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad on sale on PSN. Thoughts?
― Nhex, Friday, 29 November 2013 20:17 (ten years ago) link
Was on sale on XBL today too, grabbed it. Will report back... eventually.
― Nhex, Saturday, 30 November 2013 05:54 (ten years ago) link
Not available on ps3 in America god damn it
On the plus side flash sale on deadpool so uh oh
― Wendy Carlos Williams (jjjusten), Saturday, 30 November 2013 06:08 (ten years ago) link
Ha never mind, on sale for less in physical format. Tomorrow you will be mine, terrible terrible game.
― Wendy Carlos Williams (jjjusten), Saturday, 30 November 2013 06:11 (ten years ago) link
hm.http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-one/fighter-within/critic-reviews
― Strangers look on with a discernible, barely contained ‘wow’. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 20:42 (ten years ago) link
also:ride to hell: retribution - $7defiance - $7aliens: colonial marines - $9http://www.gamefly.com/Store/PS3/
― Strangers look on with a discernible, barely contained ‘wow’. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 20:43 (ten years ago) link
Aliens - that's the broken one that looks like a PS2 game?
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 21:58 (ten years ago) link
true of so many games, but yes
― Strangers look on with a discernible, barely contained ‘wow’. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 22:08 (ten years ago) link
a friend picked up the Alone in the Dark reboot mentioned way upthread as a gag and oh my god this is really something
― papa smango (fadanuf4erybody), Wednesday, 11 December 2013 01:55 (ten years ago) link
Aliens: Colonial Marines for PC download, $1.99 just for today. Comes with coupon for $5 off an Amazon download next month, they're usually pretty good with their "Best Of" selection in January.
― Nhex, Thursday, 26 December 2013 02:14 (ten years ago) link
dudes i want to talk about Anarchy Reigns
― Wendy Carlos Williams (jjjusten), Monday, 13 January 2014 18:34 (ten years ago) link
so its a sequel (kind of?) to madworld, closed world beat-em-up that is also apparently a 20ish character fighting game as well - im hot garbage with regards to fighters, so i am not a good judge. dumb as a brick in many ways, weird "why is this here" vehicle timed lap racing sections, no attempt at even vague coherency, interspersed with completely out of character and hamfisted "touching" dead kid storyline. its a glorious god damn mess so far, not as broken as ride to hell (which well jesus i dont know if anything in recent memory is that broken) but so bafflingly out of step with videogames of the modern day that it is quite refreshing. its no bulletstorm, but its cheap as dirt and solidly in the spirit of this thread.
― Wendy Carlos Williams (jjjusten), Monday, 13 January 2014 18:43 (ten years ago) link
sounds fun, will wait for $5
― Nhex, Monday, 13 January 2014 20:57 (ten years ago) link
just learned about this stinker recentlyhttp://www.gameinformer.com/games/dark/b/xbox360/archive/2013/07/09/a-vampire-who-sucks-at-everything.aspx
― hang son doong (am0n), Monday, 13 January 2014 22:56 (ten years ago) link
lol the voice acting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vczVtwQi8LY
― hang son doong (am0n), Monday, 13 January 2014 22:58 (ten years ago) link
jesus that music
― this harmless group of nerds and the women that love them (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 06:14 (ten years ago) link
Ride to Hell won GB's worst game award last year
― Who is DANKEY KANG? (kingfish), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 08:39 (ten years ago) link
ORION: Dino Horde is free this weekend (and if you really like it permanent ownership is on sale for $1 )
http://cf.shacknews.com/images/20130326/003_25155.nphd.jpg
u know u want to
― Mordy , Friday, 21 February 2014 23:14 (ten years ago) link
supposedly really really awful
― Nhex, Saturday, 22 February 2014 00:49 (ten years ago) link
The first good argument for me to own a gaming PC. Which I don't, so infinite sadface.
― Corpsepaint Counterpaint (jjjusten), Saturday, 22 February 2014 03:05 (ten years ago) link
daikatana only $1.5 right now on steam:http://www.gog.com/game/daikatana
― Mordy , Saturday, 5 April 2014 23:28 (ten years ago) link
noooooo
― Nhex, Sunday, 6 April 2014 01:18 (ten years ago) link
jjjjusten if you like bad games and you don't have even a mid-level PC that can run garbage from 2006ish then you're missin out.
― Andrew Kornfan, Saturday, 12 April 2014 04:05 (ten years ago) link
I know! Curse of Mac owner. And it's a shitty "old" mac, but that still means nothing came out for it ever.
― Corpsepaint Counterpaint (jjjusten), Saturday, 12 April 2014 04:34 (ten years ago) link
Ohhhhh yeah, grabbed Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard for 90 cents on that recent flash sale, let's get stupid
― a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 06:25 (nine years ago) link
I kept seeing these two Skylight games (for Vita) pop up in PSN sales and became curious enough to look into them. And, well...holy jesus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRtn_KG9jAw
― You dishonor your ancestors with your emoji abstention (Old Lunch), Monday, 12 February 2018 16:07 (six years ago) link
Just to be clear, these are pretty much brand new games and not something someone made for their high school computer class in 1996.
― You dishonor your ancestors with your emoji abstention (Old Lunch), Monday, 12 February 2018 16:08 (six years ago) link
Ah ha ha ha. Just saw that this is currently on clearance sale in the PSN store and came here to post a gameplay vid, totally forgetting that I'd already ragged on this irredeemable POS. Thanks for saving me some work, Younger Lunch.
― Why have more than 1,000 of my bucks disappearded? (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 00:36 (five years ago) link
jeeze louise
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 00:38 (five years ago) link
Ah heck, why not another, it's pretty funny to hear the reviewer get pissy about trying to 'play' the godforsaken thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ41J-sGyXs
― Why have more than 1,000 of my bucks disappearded? (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 00:42 (five years ago) link
To be clear, someone is responsible for making three entire games that look/play like this.
― Why have more than 1,000 of my bucks disappearded? (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 00:44 (five years ago) link
i'm definitely planning to do a adventure into this world on the switch but waiting another year or so for the library to 'mature'
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 01:05 (five years ago) link