Overrated games

[danny_galaga]

am i the only one here that prefers Galaxians over Galaga?  

i can't remember ever seeing galaga in an arcade over here in the UK when I was a kid. Galaxians was the first and still is king!


Mame Golden Tee - what a pile of poo!

I also prefer Galaxians,  partly because of nostalgia, but also because the sound effects are better and it's harder.

Galaga does have more variety though.

i cant remember seeing galaga back in the day either (in australia). yeah, the sounds of galaxians brings me right back (i even started a thread about galaxians bringing me back   )

on mame i do play galaga more often though...

[patrickl]

bear in mind most comments are from the perspective of the time the game came out. so to me, space invaders was cool (in its time) while streetfighter etc were lame (in ITS time).

Oh, I thought we were talking about how the games were seen now.

[danny_galaga]

bear in mind most comments are from the perspective of the time the game came out. so to me, space invaders was cool (in its time) while streetfighter etc were lame (in ITS time).

Oh, I thought we were talking about how the games were seen now.

well now IM not sure either!!

[Tritoch84]

Street Fighter 2 was lame in it's time, if you were a button smashing idiot.

I don't know how it was where you guys live, but street fighter 2 where I live was a different story. If you buttonmashed, you would have got your butt handed to you. Even today, 2-D fighters take 10 times more skill than any 3-D fighter. I remember these DOA heads that all got owned by a boy that learned he could just kartwheel all day long and won the national tourny.

So, I guess it depends on if you ever got to really *play* the game in the first place.




Halo, most overrated game ever.

[Gunstar Hero]

I hate to say this, but TRON.

The arcade TRON was 99% cabinet, 1% game.

That said, I'll still drop quarters into one whenever I see it.  

Also Mortal Kombat was way overrated... and I am a big 2D fighter fan. I just can't see why anyone ever played that game over SFII or Samurai Shodown...

...maybe the blood and violence?  

[kujina]

Also Mortal Kombat was way overrated... and I am a big 2D fighter fan. I just can't see why anyone ever played that game over SFII or Samurai Shodown...

...maybe the blood and violence?  

There was lot of excitement over this game, the digitized graphics, the sound fx/music and of course the blood and fatalities. At the time I did enjoy MK but I still knew that SFII had better game mechanics and depth. That said Mortal Kombat is still a classic.

[Tritoch84]

Yes, thankfully, the buttonsmashing idiots went "BLOOD COOL OMG" and went to MK. When I say 2-D fighter, MK is that last thing that comes to mind.

It doesn't make MK anymore less of a classic for what it did.: Make shockwaves, get awesome publicity, and introduce new ideas to fighters.Controls where to "stiff" for me, never could get into it much.

[DYNAGOD]

the most overated game, clearly ,especially when you read the mame.net forums has gotta be
Cruisin USA!!!
I swaer t god ill go to my death bed with that damn theme song stuck in my head (sings "Cruisinnnnnn), and all it was a rail driver.. it dint do anyting special or introduce any ground breaking game play elements..
i think  people just make a big deal about it cause its one of the only games thay cant have..if cruisin was included in MAMe p,perfectly emultaed from day one,almost no one would mention or play it..

[Chris]

I don't like any of the fighting games.  If I must play one, I'll tolerate King of Fighters '98.

The Metal Slug seres bores me to tears.

Re: Space Invaders: I'm finding that the Atari 2600 version is more fun than the arcade version...

When I was a kid, I loved Starship I, Tail Gunner, SubRoc 3-D, and Star Fire. Without their special cabinets and controls, they're pretty boring.

I don't care for the shoot-em-ups where you end up with powerups that cause you to shoot fans or sheets of blasts with every button press.  If you can shoot more ammo at once than Xevious, I'm probably not interested.

I hear people raving about Ghosts N Goblins, but I can't see the fuss.

Crossbow and Cheyenne: Pretty boring without the rifle or crossbow.

Not fond of anything in the beat-em-ups genre.

[Chris]

I hate to say this, but TRON.

The arcade TRON was 99% cabinet, 1% game.

Naw, a lot of it was theme, too. The problem is that the harder levels become a matter of praying, getting lucky or memorizing patterns.  There's no way to play the MCP Cone or Light Cycles intelligently after a few levels, although the grid bugs and the tanks are ONLY interesting at the higher levels.

[Chris]

Oh, and this will get me in trouble, but as much as I loved to play Zaxxon, it was really seriousy overrated.  Remember the 3D first-person commercials for it?  Remember how disappointed you were when the game didn't look like that?

[Spaced Invader]

Gotta say the Street Fighter series...not that I'm a "buttom mashing noob"...I just never enjoyed the game...opinions vary...

[Stingray]

Space Invaders is one of my all time favorites. I own an original cocktail version and it gets plenty of play time. It's sandwiched between an upright Neo-Geo and my MAME cabinet. It looks sort of lost and insignificant sitting there, yet it's almost without exception the first thing that's commented on when people enter my game room for the first time. "Oh wow, is that a real Space Invaders???".

And I'm not really a huge fan of one-on-one fighters, be they 2d or 3d. I do own several for the MVS, but they only get played if I have guests who express an interest in the genre.

-S

[Harry Potter]

Street Fighter 3
All those bloody dancing, drumming and guitar playing games
Playstation 1 & 2

And Turbo Outrun. Everyone seemed to be getting all excited when it was included in MAME. Personally, the game sucks.

My $0.02 (May vary according to exchange rates)

[ChadTower]

PS1 and PS2 for sure...

All of the fighting games.  The only one I ever really got into was Virtua Fighter, and that was just because it was the biggest early Saturn release and I had just dropped $400 on a Saturn.

[fredster]

I agree with the Tron, but it had good points.

All that dragon's lair and Space Ace crap was a waste of cash IMHO.

[ChadTower]

DL and SA were cash cows, though.  I remember there always being a crowd around those games, even when the ops charged a freakin' dollar to play it.

[fredster]

Yeah, and you played it like once.

[AlanS17]

As for 3d fighting games, I think the Street Fighter EX series and the Soul series (Soul Edge, Soul caliber, Soul Caliber 2) are all great. However, the Tekken series sucks and the Virtua Fighter series sucks even harder.

As for 2d fighters, I think SNK fighters are mostly overrated. The Street Fighter series is great, though.

[ChadTower]

Yeah, and you played it like once.

Me, yeah, because I never had $1. 

[PetitMorte]

As a kid, I spend *hours* playing Scramble at the local grocery store.  After school, I'd ride over on my bike, break a few dollars into quarters and play and play and play... Just trying to get to the end.

And when I first found MAME, I loaded up scramble, and found ... well, suckage.

When you look back on it now, you can see that an awful lot of your childhood actually sucked... you just didn't know it at the time.

(remember back when CHiPS was on TV and rocked?)  (bleah)

[ChadTower]

Chips was always gay.

[dogg0]

my $.02:

Grand Theft Auto 3 is complete crap

[AlanS17]

I never got into GTA either.

[hyiu]

my $0.02 cents of personal opinion.....

space invaders and some old games...
they're not as eye appealing... but to me, its still fun to play a game or 2...

other old games like robotron, and galaga... they're still addicting as hell.... haaa haaa....

as for TRON.... game play is just very so so.... but I still play it once in a while....

fighting games... they're not all button smashers... (at least some of them are not...) I do play some fighters, and my skill is limited... but 1 thing I can tell you... skill /timing is required... (just like those old games...) if you just smash buttons... you'll be kicked hard from behind....

as for metal slug.... I never played it in arcade, and when I play it in MAME, I just keep pumping credits, and it gets old VERY QUICKLY...
but then last time, I have a friend's cousin who came and play....
he uses 1 credit, and passed 3 levels without dying... and keep going... and I'm like.... hmmmm..... it is possible..... its not just sucking $$$.... so... I guess I don't know before..... games like metal slug and guarlet... without limiting credits... it just ruins the game play....

as for "my" overrated game...

I personally think its Dragon's Lair....
somehow, this game is about memorizing the sequence....
its fun to watch, but I don't really find it fun to play....
for most older machines, I'll pump quarters in if I see them....
but dragon's lair... I'll just watch..... and I'm too lazy to learn....
haaa haaa....

[ultramagnus]

lets see:

the pac man series (how many were there!! and people say todays games are just rehashed!)
halo
far cry
the GTA series

[JonnyBoy]

Halo. I've seen people in my school have these bizzare parties where they all get together and spend the entire night playing Halo. They think that your merit in life is determined by your killing skills in Halo.

[RayB]

HALO is top of the list! There is NOTHING Halo does that hasn't already been done and done better on a PC years ago.

[duffjr]

Any Metal Slug game, god the boredom.

a space invaders fan

if you keep pumping credits in the machine, you're going to get bored considering you get unlimited bombs and a new machine gun everytime you die.  imagine if you got a spread in space invaders that refilled everytime you continued.  try to beat any of those games on one credit, specifically metal slug 3.

[duffjr]

I agree, Street Fighter games are all the same.  It's all button mashing in the hopes of getting combo... and when you get a combo, you spend the next couple of times figuring out how did I do that.

Space Invaders is a classic.  Back then, it was the best game ever, but when you compare to now, it's seems basic and boring.

maybe "street fighter" games, but i hope youre not talking about the entire 2d fighting genre cause Marvel vs Capcom 2 is a masterpiece

hate both those games...you can just kill someone if they forget to block.

[duffjr]

mario kart 64, mario kart double dash, extreme g, chameleon twist, donkey kong 64...the 64 killed all of my favorite games

[AlanS17]

I agree, Street Fighter games are all the same.

[lcddream]

the only one i can think of right now is half-life for the pc ...i played that stupid game a few times(including cs) and man the controls are so damn slow/stiff
yet its the most played fps 

[SOAPboy]

the only one i can think of right now is half-life for the pc ...i played that stupid game a few times(including cs) and man the controls are so damn slow/stiff
yet its the most played fps

[lcddream]

yes i'm very well aware of being able to remap controls, i played quake/ut/ut2kx for many years(more than i care to admit)....half-life however i never liked(no matter what control scheme/sensitivity level)

[RayB]

yes i'm very well aware of being able to remap controls, i played quake/ut/ut2kx for many years(more than i care to admit)....half-life however i never liked(no matter what control scheme/sensitivity level)

Half Life feels slow because you probably played it AFTER it was first released. The speed of movement in FPS games increased in later games, like Unreal Tournament, then Quake, etc...

I agree, going BACK to Half Life, it feels slow now since we're so used to current games with running on by default.

[lcddream]

yes i'm very well aware of being able to remap controls, i played quake/ut/ut2kx for many years(more than i care to admit)....half-life however i never liked(no matter what control scheme/sensitivity level)

Half Life feels slow because you probably played it AFTER it was first released. The speed of movement in FPS games increased in later games, like Unreal Tournament, then Quake, etc...

I agree, going BACK to Half Life, it feels slow now since we're so used to current games with running on by default.

fair enough

[MaximRecoil]

Since I got my Neo Geo I have had a lot of fun with the fighting games, since neither me nor any of my friends know ANY of the moves. It comes out fair that way.

You didn't need to know any moves to excel on the original Street Fighter II. I was very rarely beaten in the arcades in the early 90's on that game using only two buttons (strong punch and kick). I could also beat the computer in single player mode off one quarter without using any special moves. I remember playing in the Bangor Mall "Space Port" arcade around '92 on SFII CE against a guy who was a good deal older than me (I was 17 and he was probably in his late 20's). He was one of those loud, physical, obnoxious players and he knew every move in the book. He seemed to be on the verge of [real] violence by the time he was getting near the end of $10 in quarters trying to beat me (he went to the changer twice for $5 worth of quarters). He was like, "Man, you suck! You don't even know any special moves! All you do is punch and kick! You do the same thing every time! This is is *beep* bull*beep*!

Since I got the hang of that game in the early 90's, I have never met anyone who could beat me on a consistent basis, whether in the arcade, on the SNES or in MAME. Since that time I learned how to do the "hadooken" fireball of Ryu's on a consistent basis and I use it occasionally, but I still mostly use punch and kick. My 14 year old nephew who is a whiz at these new Xbox and PS2 games (which I couldn't care less about) is determined to beat me on SFII. He's been at it for about 4 years now.

I didn't like what SFII and "fighters" in general evolved into; which is more a matter of manipulating controls to blindly pull off some fully automated, guaranteed damage, forty-eleven hit "combo". Where is the timing and skill behind that?

[AlanS17]

Killer Instinct is all about combos, but you still have to know what you're doing to pull them off. I like the SF games, but KI is my favorite. However, since this a a thread about overrated games...

Speed Coin sucks to no end.

[SOAPboy]

yes i'm very well aware of being able to remap controls, i played quake/ut/ut2kx for many years(more than i care to admit)....half-life however i never liked(no matter what control scheme/sensitivity level)

Theres your problem, as ray said.. speed.. you have been strafe jumping for how long? then went and played HL1 and couldnt get that same flow down, and its week slow speed turned you off..

Q3A is one of the reasons i HATED how HL1 felt..

you and me should get down on some q3a sometime