So Bad It's Horrible/Video Games: Difference between revisions

{{quote|''"When I did a [http://www.gametrailers.com/player/16971.html Video Game Vault] on this game, I mentioned it made little kids cry. Upon further review, I was wrong: [[No Except Yes|it makes grown men weep like babies]]."''|'''[[Screw Attack|Stuttering Craig]]''' on ''3D Ballz'', "[http://www.gametrailers.com/player/20506.html Top Ten Worst] [[Fighting Game]]s".}}

* ''Super Pitfall'' was an attempt to update [[Activision]]'s classic hit ''[[Pitfall]]'' for the NES... but they didn't update the right things. The gameplay was sluggish and unenjoyable because of unforgiving amounts of [[Fake Difficulty]] stemming from terrible stage design, [[Trial and Error Gameplay]] that gives [[Guide Dang It|zero clue]] as to what to do, and [[Moon Logic Puzzle|logic-defying]] ways of getting to a different place (for example, at one point you must jump into a bird enemy that looks no different than any other bird mook in the game). Your character (who looks a bit too much like Mario) remains a [[One-Hit-Point Wonder]] and, while he does have a gun, it's near useless until the final level because most of the enemies are waist-high in height and you can't shoot while you duck! The graphics were awful, full of sickening strobing, slowdown, flickering, and bland sprites (waterfalls look like avalanches of blue garbage). The music is the same annoying loop played over and over again until the final level. The company that anonymously developed the game, Micronics, was also responsible for the NES [[Porting Disaster]]s of ''Athena'' and ''[[Ikari Warriors]]''. The game was a failure when it was released and is considered among the worst games available for the NES. (The obscure [[PC 88]] version of ''Super Pitfall'' was not so bad; it included a life bar, the ability to shoot while ducking, and [[Dungeon Shop]]s that made gold useful besides for [[Scoring Points]].) If you're still not convinced, check out [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juYxGcTq9HQ Aqualung's full walkthrough of the game] or [http://www.gametrailers.com/video/angry-video-screwattack/54664 The Angry Video Game Nerd's review].

* ''[[Plumbers Don't Wear Ties]]'' on the 3DO was a rare Western example of a [[Visual Novel]], but it had nothing but still images run through bad [[Photoshop Filter of Evil|Photoshop filters]] with annoying narration. The only way the player could affect the game's outcome was by selecting an option in a menu screen; thus, the game was no more interactive than a standard DVD menu. The game [[Railroading|railroads]] the player through a single specific sequence of choices. [[Wall Banger (Darth Wiki)|Most of those choices in the sequence cause the narrator to scold the player, even though they're the right ones.]] All other branches are [[Cutting Off the Branches|cut off]] immediately with [[Nonstandard Game Over|Game Over clips]]; thus, it's a failure even as an interactive story. Despite this, the game had control issues — you couldn't select another menu option until the narration had stopped. More puzzling is why the game used badly-edited images when its intro used [[Full Motion Video]]. The founder of [[GameFAQs]] [http://web.archive.org/web/20080215000026/http://www.gamefaqsinfo.net/gamefaqs/media/cjaycinterview.txt called it the worst game he's ever played], and [[The Angry Video Game Nerd]] [http://www.gametrailers.com/video/angry-video-screwattack/52921?type=flv had a similar opinion.] The whole "interaction" can be, and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjMAG5IDnek has been], easily replicated with video annotations on [[YouTube]]!

** To make insult to the injury, [http://micro-64.com/features/supermanbeta1.shtml it was revealed] that the ''beta version'' was actually ''more playable'' than the one that ended in retail ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCBX-OuZxcA people who played a leak of that version did confirm this]), and [http://web.archive.org/web/20110111070930/http://www.protonjon.com/blog/?p=48 the developers explained] that the game ended becoming such a mess because of [[Executive Meddling]]: the people on DC objected to every [[Acceptable Breaks From Reality]] that could have make the game a game because they didn't adjust to the image they wanted to give to Superman, and at the same time they didn't gave them enough time to reprogram the game and compensate for the loss of features. In fact, it was DC who insisted in the Ring Maze levels the most!

** By the way, you get to play as Cobra in it for one mission...fighting other Cobra troops as they say "GI Joe is HERE!" (''[[Wall Banger (Darth Wiki)|thud]]'')

* ''[[Power Gig Rise of the Six String]]'' is considered not only one of the worst ''[[Guitar Hero]]'' clones ever made, but also one of the worst rhythm games in recent memory. Its mission statement was ambitious: get players to "rock for real" by replacing the standard guitar controllers, with their coloured buttons and strum bars, with a proper six-string guitar that works both in and out of the game. They went so far as to make [[Take That]]s for this reason. Now, one of their competitors did this -- ''[[Rock Band]] 3'' can be played with a real six-string—but the real guitar for ''this'' game barely works in the game and sounds like you'd expect a $150 guitar to sound in [[Real Life]]. Worse, this game barely encourages players to learn to play real guitar. Aside from the "power chords," which can be turned off, the gameplay is ''identical'' to the game's chief competitors, only there are ''only'' six-string guitar charts—no bass guitars. The notes you play in the game aren't even close to how you would play the song in real life, eliminating the reason to have a real six-string as a controller. The track list does have some decent songs in it (including artists who have never appeared in any previous music game, such as [[Eric Clapton]] and Dave Matthews), but very few songs are available from the get-go. Players will have to slog through the game's story mode, which has an idiotic plotline centered around collecting "mojo" from different bands to defeat the evil Headliner who has [[Culture Police|outlawed playing music in public]].

* ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Eo8W3VsBrE Terrawars: NY Invasion]'', a PC game released in 2006 by Tri Synergy and developed by Philippines-based Ladyluck Digital Media. The game purports to be a budget-priced quality shooter inspired by ''[[The War of the Worlds]]''. Instead, the game is just about as shoddy if not much worse than its price tag. Level designs are either incredibly bland or painful to the eyes. Most enemies are generic aliens with different colors. The story [[Excuse Plot|doesn't make much sense apart from "aliens invade New York,"]] with phoned-in voice acting done by people who [[Not Even Bothering with the Accent|barely even ''pretend'' to give an American accent]]. Graphics-wise, it uses the dated Lithtech Jupiter engine (the same one used in ''[[No One Lives Forever]]'') but manages to look even worse. While gameplay itself is repetitive, dragging and plain un-engagingly boring. Gamespot described the game [http://asia.gamespot.com/terrawars-new-york-invasion/reviews/terrawars-new-york-invasion-review-6154704/ as a rip-off that has to be avoided]. And the sad part of all this: not only did the developers [[Shown Their Work|go through the trouble of making a scale recreation of NYC]], but the game was also intended to be a ''showcase'' of a burgeoning Filipino gaming industry.

* "[http://www.doomworld.com/idgames/?id=16760 Doomguy's Warzone] is not to be confused with something with the same name that came out years earlier. It is essentially a gameplay mod with far too many unnecessary difficulty modes, too many overpowered custom weapons, too many [[Goddamned Bats|ungodly annoying]] or [[Demonic Spiders|lethally-aggravating custom enemies]] amongst the randomly-generated roster, and almost [[AL Lof]] the resources are pretty much plagiarised...not to mention, there are a [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|ton of custom items]] that either [[Game Breaker|make things too easy]] or are [[Joke Item|utterly useless]]. [[It Got Worse|On top of all this]], the author, Doomguy 2000, [[What an Idiot!|continues to]] [[Beyond the Impossible|pimp the hell out of his disasterpiece]]; [[Wall Banger (Darth Wiki)|even being repeatedly told to cease and desist said pimping, by seemingly the whole Doom Community, didn't hinder him any.]] You may [[Face Palm]] at Doomguy 2000 for his [[The Determinator|unwavering stupidity]] now.

=== [[Little Big Planet]] ===

* Christian Weston Chandler (better known for the creation of ''[[Sonichu]]''; see the [[So Bad It's Horrible/Webcomics]] section for details) is infamous for his ''[[Little Big Planet]]'' mods. They are, barring perhaps the "First Date Level," quite bugged, poorly assembled, and full of [[Fake Difficulty]]. One of the mods, despite having been up for three years, has had fewer than 20 people clear it. This carried on to the game's sequel:

** There's also a ''Super Mario Kollision 2'', which somehow steals even more content than the above two put together.

* The '''[[Pippin (useful notes)|Pippin]]''', released in 1996 as a partnership between Apple Computer (yes, ''[[Apple Macintosh|that one]]'') and Bandai, was an unusual cross between a computer and a console, created with the intent of having a cheaper computer play on your TV screen. Instead, the sticker price was $599 USD at the time of launch, the very same price the [[PlayStation 3]] had at launch a decade later, and had substandard hardware below even those of computers of its day, including a 14.4k modem, an anemic RAM supply of 6 MB, and practically no hard drive storage, other than a floppy dock drive capable of handling four disks. Even its controller, the Apple Jack,<ref>(Not to be confused with the Kellogg's cereal Apple Jacks, or the pony from ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]''.)</ref> was apparently not of much use for connecting the Pippin to a standard Apple Macintosh computer. As the only ''legitimate'' game console Apple Computer released (this was before the iPhone and iPad), the library of games on the Pippin was small, with four times more games released in Japan than in the U.S.; most of them were from Bandai. Not surprisingly, the Pippin was an enormous failure, selling only 42,000 units and being released at a time when Apple was then on the verge of bankruptcy.

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