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| vwalbridge:
To be fair, it's not like ET was the only garbage game every made. In fact, plenty of garbage games were right along side ET at that time. However, what made ET different and made it King of the Hill of garbage was 2 reasons: 1. They chose to make a game based on a very popular movie. The game was going to get A LOT of attention for this reason alone...so better not screw it up. 2. They waaaaay over produced the game. The game saturated the market. The game was already terrible...why did they keep making copy after copy? Doing so only entrenched the game further into the history as worst game ever. |
| monkeybomb:
--- Quote from: leapinlew on February 25, 2016, 11:26:42 am ---Queue: someone coming along saying how the game wasn't that bad if you read the instructions --- End quote --- It's still bad, really bad, but it changes things dramatically. The worst game in history title is silly fun, but I think people actually take it seriously. Watching that is the fun part imo. |
| Howard_Casto:
Yeah but the thing is, if your game is really good it's intuitive enough to where people don't need to read the instructions. The one of the reasons Super Mario Bros. is most likely the most important video game of all time is the fact that the first stage teaches you how to play smb in the scope of the first level without so much as a line of text. Well that and the impressive amount of logic sentences you can build just from a jump. Ignoring that though, the instructions don't fix some of the worst hit detection of all time. The fact that you can fall in a hole if the top of your head hits a hole ABOVE you is the main reason that it's so crappy. |
| SlammedNiss:
--- Quote from: vwalbridge on February 25, 2016, 12:09:54 pm ---However, what made ET different and made it King of the Hill of garbage was 2 reasons: 1. They chose to make a game based on a very popular movie. The game was going to get A LOT of attention for this reason alone...so better not screw it up. 2. They waaaaay over produced the game. The game saturated the market. The game was already terrible...why did they keep making copy after copy? Doing so only entrenched the game further into the history as worst game ever. --- End quote --- If the game wasn't named 'ET', I don't think it would have garnered near as much hate as it did. |
| vwalbridge:
--- Quote from: SlammedNiss on February 25, 2016, 01:22:01 pm --- --- Quote from: vwalbridge on February 25, 2016, 12:09:54 pm ---However, what made ET different and made it King of the Hill of garbage was 2 reasons: 1. They chose to make a game based on a very popular movie. The game was going to get A LOT of attention for this reason alone...so better not screw it up. 2. They waaaaay over produced the game. The game saturated the market. The game was already terrible...why did they keep making copy after copy? Doing so only entrenched the game further into the history as worst game ever. --- End quote --- If the game wasn't named 'ET', I don't think it would have garnered near as much hate as it did. --- End quote --- Exactly my point. Still a crappy game but riding on the coat tails of a popular movie didn't help at all. |
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