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* ''[[Dirty Dancing]]'' had a licensed PC game which was released nearly 15 years after the film was made, containing almost no music from the movie, almost no connection to its plot, and gameplay consisting entirely of mostly unplayably buggy minigames, the most functional of which is ''[[Follow the Leader|just a ripoff of]] [[Bejeweled]]''. |
* ''[[Dirty Dancing]]'' had a licensed PC game which was released nearly 15 years after the film was made, containing almost no music from the movie, almost no connection to its plot, and gameplay consisting entirely of mostly unplayably buggy minigames, the most functional of which is ''[[Follow the Leader|just a ripoff of]] [[Bejeweled]]''. |
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** For those interested, [http://www.spoonyexperiment.com/2008/08/03/dirty-dancing-pc-review/ here's] the Spoony One's take on the game. |
** For those interested, [http://www.spoonyexperiment.com/2008/08/03/dirty-dancing-pc-review/ here's] the Spoony One's take on the game. |
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| ⚫ | * The ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' game ''Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor'' had, aside from horrible balance issues and a thoroughly dull campaign, one [[Game Breaking Bug|spectacularly awful bug]]—if you installed the game to anything other than the default filepath then tried to ''uninstall'' it... kiss the entire contents of your hard drive goodbye! |
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* The ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' game ''[[Temple of Elemental Evil]]'' is evil indeed. [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard]], and we're not talking your average run-of-the-mill cheating. Probability distributions on the game's dice show that they are horrifyingly flawed. The AI's d20 rolls go higher than 10 about 90% of the time, and you can safely assume that any chance short of 100% on your end is going to actually end up around 50% or lower. The game also takes some pragmatic interpretations of the random encounter table; if you try to rest, and you're not in an inn, you ''will'' be interrupted by monsters, most likely in a group whose EL is greater than yours, and they ''will'' get a surprise round. The odds of you actually getting eight hours to recharge your spellcasters' spells are close to zero. |
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* ''[[The Lord of the Rings|The Fellowship Of The Ring]]'' for the GBA (licensed from the book, not the movie) was a tedious [[RPG]] riddled with bugs, some of them [[Game Breaking Bug|game-breaking]]. |
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings|The Fellowship Of The Ring]]'' for the GBA (licensed from the book, not the movie) was a tedious [[RPG]] riddled with bugs, some of them [[Game Breaking Bug|game-breaking]]. |
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* There was a particularly crappy video game adaptation of ''[[Fight Club]]'', released in 2004. Perhaps worse is that there are people who actually believe [[Older Than They Think|the movie was based off of the video game]]. |
* There was a particularly crappy video game adaptation of ''[[Fight Club]]'', released in 2004. Perhaps worse is that there are people who actually believe [[Older Than They Think|the movie was based off of the video game]]. |
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** Well at least they tried to for nine years. 2012 will see the debut of ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BssF6scsfSE WWE Brawl]'', which will be a pure beat em up game ''without'' a wrestling ring. |
** Well at least they tried to for nine years. 2012 will see the debut of ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BssF6scsfSE WWE Brawl]'', which will be a pure beat em up game ''without'' a wrestling ring. |
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* ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]: Spirit Detective'' for the GBA was abysmally boring in addition to sporting graphics that made the characters only distinguishable by their hair and outfits. |
* ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]: Spirit Detective'' for the GBA was abysmally boring in addition to sporting graphics that made the characters only distinguishable by their hair and outfits. |
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* ''[[The Polar Express]]'', a multi-platform Adventure game based on the hit movie. The graphics are okay for the time, nothing phenomenal and they don't reach [[Uncanny Valley]] like the film. The gameplay features various [[Unexpected Genre Change]]s, though they're poorly played out. The voice acting for some of the characters isn't so great either. The worst part of the game has to be the timespan; it can be beaten within a few hours or less, one sitting and it makes you feel you're missing out. |
* ''[[The Polar Express]]'', a multi-platform Adventure game based on the hit movie. The graphics are okay for the time, nothing phenomenal and they don't reach [[Uncanny Valley]] like the film. The gameplay features various [[Unexpected Genre Change]]s, though they're poorly played out. The voice acting for some of the characters isn't so great either. The worst part of the game has to be the timespan; it can be beaten within a few hours or less, one sitting and it makes you feel you're missing out. |
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== Seventh Generation (2006-Present) == |
== Seventh Generation (2006-Present) == |
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