Popular games (that really suck)

[ChadTower]

Oh I see you are confusing your personal opinion of a genre rather than the actual quality of a genre  (in other words, not an opinion).  you can think it sucks, but that doesn't mean that it sucks.  The quality of a genre is quantifiable, if you like it or not isn't. 

Actually, I'm confusing whether or not one can pick and choose when to apply such a standard and when one can make that type of genre spanning declaration.

Any procedural crime drama (law and order, csi NCIS, ect)..... Twice as offensive for every spin-off it's produced. 
Any contest reality show in which a person without talent has or can win.  Also applies to talent shows that revolve around a lame talent (dancing shows). 
Any reality show in which the stars of the show don't have a real job.  (Jersery shore.... real housewives, ect). 
Shows that are remakes of older, better originals (hawaii 5-0, V... all that remake crap nbc already cancelled a few years back)
Cartoon remakes that rape our childhood memories (gi-joe renegades, transformers prime ...ect)
Naruto

[RayB]

I didn't mind Altered Beast...but it is short and there really isn't much of a story behind it.

I like Golden Axe too, but I always hated the ending.

I dont think I ever beat Golden Axe. What happens in the ending?

I did however beat Xmen the other day. That was the biggest let down EVER. 

At the end of Golden Axe a kid is playing the Golden Axe arcade game and the characters from Golden Axe come out of the screen causing the kid to run...or something like that. Pretty stupid to have such a heavy, non-comedic medevil game end in such a goofy way. I mean if the entire game had comedy elements or jokes throughout it would be one thing...but they play up the whole game as serious...and then that.

I LOVED that ending!

[Bootay]

I didn't mind Altered Beast...but it is short and there really isn't much of a story behind it.

I like Golden Axe too, but I always hated the ending.

I dont think I ever beat Golden Axe. What happens in the ending?

I did however beat Xmen the other day. That was the biggest let down EVER. 

At the end of Golden Axe a kid is playing the Golden Axe arcade game and the characters from Golden Axe come out of the screen causing the kid to run...or something like that. Pretty stupid to have such a heavy, non-comedic medevil game end in such a goofy way. I mean if the entire game had comedy elements or jokes throughout it would be one thing...but they play up the whole game as serious...and then that.

I LOVED that ending!

Hey...to each their own I guess. 

[Savannan]

Any FPS on a console

[Bootay]

This thread motivated me to go play Golden Axe.

Man, when I was a kid, I thought this was the coolest game ever.  And loved the ending.

Now?  Eh... well... it seems like one of those games where if you do everything besides the regular attack, you could probably beat it on a couple of credits.  Just keep it to jump slashes and shoulder butts and you're good to go.  I fired up the video on Youtube and *finally* saw the much hinted at yet never quite revealed trick to beating Death Adder.... you just keep jumping up and slashing over and over.

Ah well.  Still... kinda... fun.

 

I like Golden Axe...just not the ending.

[saint]

Video games have endings?

[ChadTower]

Any FPS on a console

Powerslave on the Saturn was actually pretty good.  Too many jumps that were near impossible to get over the gap, though.  You'd fight your way through a hard level and then die jumping a broken bridge section.

[RayB]

Earthworm Jim

[Donkbaca]

The topic is ARCADE games, please cease with all this console nonsense. Pit fighter was pretty bad...

[ChadTower]

I figured someone was gonna mention Power Slave.  Never figured it was going to be the most accomplished man that ever lived.   

I don't always play console games, but when I do, I prefer Keith Courage in Alpha Zones.

[Bootay]

I loved Pit Fighter when it first came out. I think because the graphics were good for the time. It had the digitized graphics before Mortal Kombat was even out. Going back and playing it today is hard though..the controls are terrible.

[shmokes]

There have been a ton of good FPS games on consoles.  Chronicals of Riddick, Goldeneye, Metroid Prime, King Kong, Far Cry (the one that was an Xbox exclusive).  People who make this claim about console FPS games are just snobs.  I mean, it's a given that keyboard/mouse is almost always a superior control scheme, but the extent you are taking it is like saying there's never been a good racing game controlled by a gamepad, or a good flying game without a flight stick and rudder pedals.



edit: spelling  (good racing, not food racing   )

[RayB]

The topic is ARCADE games, please cease with all this console nonsense. Pit fighter was pretty bad...

Oh really? Subject line says "Popular games (that really suck)"

Let me add one to the list: Monopoly

[Donkbaca]

nope, it says arcade games

[ChadTower]

Yahtzee bores me.

[Blanka]

COD (I see no fun in this)
Super Mario Galaxy (could have been OK, it sucks because of the wiimote).
Super Mario 64 (just because it's everyone's No1, I think it stinks graphically (don't tell me it is the first 3D graphic adventure.... boooh, diddy kong on the same machine DOES look good), no action, too much humping trees, too slow, boooring).
Super Mario Kart series (could be OK, but the computer is really a pain in the ass with the assignment of goodies, I want lightning and red turtles in the first position too! Other carts behind outside view go faster than all others looking at the speed of the dots of the map. Peach is always helped. Being stuck behind obstacles really stinks).
Super Metroid (boooring, slow, too large, did I mention SLOOOOOWWWW).
Yoshi's Island (unbearable because of the abducted baby sound!)
Angry Birds (another sound-problem for my ears).

Oh, BTW sonic haters in this topic: I love Sonic. The Game Gear version rules. Great sprites, decent gameplay, not the over-the-top levels of the Genesis and the best music on any 8-bit platform.

[Blanka]

The topic is ARCADE games, please cease with all this console nonsense.

Sorry..... please change topic title, we might not read page 1!
Arcade games are ALL good.
Except Golden Tee off course, which sucks badly, but that is a disguised Wii I would imagine.

[Blanka]

Video games have endings?

When RAM was enough to hold more than 254 pac levels or a certain DK progress, and it was affordable to use some RAM for the end scene, yes, they had endings. It is hard to think of games that don't have them (beside the 16-64K ram classics off course).

[upprc04]

Just curious,

Why is everyone so down on Golden Tee?  Do people have the same opinion of SilverStrike.  I think the bags spin off is a little much, but all are good bar games with friends.  Never really got in to Golden Tee, but silver strike is a good game to put a $1 in per person and play against several of friends at the bar.

[RayB]

ANY AND ALL NEO GEO FIGHTERS




PS: You have to edit your very first message subject line in order for it to change in the forum view.

[Donkbaca]

I am not down on Golden Tee, I am just not high on it, not a big fan of the bowling games either.  "Hey, lets take turns spinning this trackball!"

just doesn't do it for me.

big buck hunter is overrated too.

[Gray_Area]

I like Golden Tee and bowling games. I like the animal shooting games, too.

@Blanka: maybe you missed Saint's sentiment. Technical exceptions aside, games went on forever. It was only when they started making stories out of them that this changed.

[Malenko]

ANY AND ALL NEO GEO FIGHTERS

meehhhhh Samurai Shodown 1 and 2 were fantastic

[Bootay]

ANY AND ALL NEO GEO FIGHTERS

meehhhhh Samurai Shodown 1 and 2 were fantastic

I actually like most Neo-Geo games including the fighters.

[saint]

Video games have endings?

When RAM was enough to hold more than 254 pac levels or a certain DK progress, and it was affordable to use some RAM for the end scene, yes, they had endings. It is hard to think of games that don't have them (beside the 16-64K ram classics off course).

(My tongue-in-cheek joke is that I was never good enough to get to any endings )

[CCM]

I figured someone was gonna mention Power Slave. 

[CCM]

Hey...to each their own I guess. 

Isn't this pretty much the only answer to all of these 'Popular whatever (that really suck)'  threads?

[Bootay]

Hey...to each their own I guess. 

Isn't this pretty much the only answer to all of these 'Popular whatever (that really suck)'  threads?

Pretty much...

[Harakiri]

Pac-Man sucked a lot! ^^

[wizkid32]

Angry birds rocks, BTW.  (just not on a cab...)

Jurassic Park anyone?

[ark_ader]

Thayers Quest.

[popsicle]

Ok, don't throw anything at me... Galaga.  I prefer to play Galaxian, Astro Blaster, a whole slew of other 'contemporaries'.  Maybe because it has the fame it does (even non-gamers know Galaga) I tend to secretly roll my eyes when someone asks to play it.  I guess that's not the same as saying it sucks, but overrated IMO.

Wrong thread then?   

 

[Louis Tully]

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[Blanka]

No they weren't.  They were retarded fast and that novelty put stars in people's eyes.  The gameplay is awful.  The music and sound effects are like having your brain run over a cheese grater.  The story makes the mario series seem literary.  The art direction is garish.    The whole thing just sucks.

The story of Mario literary. ROFL. Well let me tell you that story: "Gay Italian Plumber (who should not dig ---Bad words, bad words, whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when saint censors you?--- anyway) has to rescue worthless non careful ---smurfette--- for the 35th time from the same castle by kicking Bowser of a platform he just gets back onto in the next sequel when the ---smurfette--- has run into her secret lover Bowser once again".
These games are NEVER about story. But I still remember sonic landing on my Game Gear (and on my friends Genesis). It made every other platformer look crap and sound crap. As a grown up, I cannot say anything else today. It still looks stunning, and (I have to admit the GG version is even better, maybe because it does not have the oversized non-understandable levels of the Genesis versions and Sonic 1 and Sonic 2 on the GG have - by far - the best ever 8-bit soundtrack made for a game).

Back to the real crap:
Angry Birds and Wordfeud. I want to kick my school kids for playing that.

[Nephasth]

Ok, don't throw anything at me... Galaga.  I prefer to play Galaxian, Astro Blaster, a whole slew of other 'contemporaries'.  Maybe because it has the fame it does (even non-gamers know Galaga) I tend to secretly roll my eyes when someone asks to play it.  I guess that's not the same as saying it sucks, but overrated IMO.

I prefer Galaga over Galaxian, but prefer Gorf over Galaga...

[Hoopz]

Madden.  Too many buttons! 

I guess that shows that I am getting old.

[wp34]

Madden.  Too many buttons! 

I guess that shows that I am getting old.

If you can run one of these you can play Madden.   There's some buttons. 

[wp34]

I got to play a dedicated Spy Hunter recently.  That game stinks. 

[Xiaou2]

I got to play a dedicated Spy Hunter recently.  That game stinks.

 You mean, You stink at Spy Hunter, and dont like that fact right?

 Spy Hunter is a desert island game.  The AI is perfectly Awesome.  Every game is a new experience, with intensity rarely matched.

[wizkid32]

No, he must mean Spy Hunter 2 sucks.  And I agree...