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Worst Games Of the Year
Thanks to Bryan Gurney who pointed out the sharky list of ten worst games of 2000. Now, granted, there's still some time left, but what a list of games you never want to see. Any ones you think they missed? And I think we can all guess the worst game of 2000 *coughdaikatanacough*
Damn dude, I just about busted a gut on that one.
Airport Tycoon has got to make the list of top ten worst games this year. Ugh. What a horrible waste of money.
Awful graphics, awful game-play, awful tutorial, awful manual, awful user interface, TONS of bugs...
But the worst thing? The awful waste of what looked to be an awesome concept. Man, if they had made it on the level of playability and usability of something like SimCity or TransportTycoon, it woulda been an awsome game. A real opportunity lost.
Here's a link to a review of the game. In my opinion, the review is much too kind. I wiped it off my disk and threw the CD, box, and 'manual' in the dumpster. First time I've EVER done that with a game.
Utter crap. Stay away. (For the record, the game's original name was "Airport Mogul" in the UK, and aparently it was just bought, repackaged, and renamed with no attempt to actually have the new name reflected in the software, installer, or even in parts of the manual... totally sloppy and slip-shod).
- Spryguy
- Spryguy
There are three kinds of people in this world: those that can count and those that can't
Thats a sort of game I can appreciate. Oh wait, I do! :)
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You have no idea how satisfying it is to talk to an ex-classmate and find they are (still) working at a golf course for just over minimum wage... then drive off in your new Prelude and enjoy your 6 figure salary
My Vote's On This Doofus
great comedy company.
Actually seagull doesn't taste too bad, if it is prepared correctly, plenty of seasonings. I just have a difficult time catching them, cause they fly away.
> "Software designers are so infatuated with the fact that they can, that they don't stop to think if they should."
Exactly!
It's interesting to note that Soul Caliber doesnt' have any blood.
Drakken* also has an option of not showing any. (The dead bodies slowly fade out to nothing.)
Sure, the gore in Mortal Kombat 2 was, shall we say, interesting, but it didn't add anything constructive to gameplay. And to tell you the truth, I haven't missed the blood at all in the latest games !
* Someone even did up a nude Rynn model for Drakken! I don't mind this, because, hey, if a users wants to see a virtual character get "nekkid", that's their business, but to ship a game that way, IMHO "shows a lack of taste and good judgement." Yeah, sex sells, but do we have to keep exploiting it for sales? i.e. The real live "Laura Croft" at E3 was under 18, but yet you needed to be 18 or older to get into the show!?
Cheers
I had to buy the game, just cause it was banned.
Same with Solider of Fortune and Caramagedone.
Techniques: Apply patches, fend off port scans and DOS attacks, viral infections
Bonuses awarded: Service Packs
Objective: Avoid BSOD
The only way to win.
Give me my freedom, and I'll take care of my own security, thank you.
Ahh yes... Last summer I went home for a wedding. While there I stopped in a record store (figurativly speaking, of course) that I used to get great local stuff, imports, and bootlegs at.
:)
While there I asked the counter guy "hey, [old classmate's name] doesn't still work here, does he?". To which they responded "yeah but he's off tonight".
The scary part is that we graduated 13 years ago, he isn't a manager or anything, and when we were in HS, he was just getting paid in CD's.
LOO-HOOOoo...ZERRRRR-HEEERRRRR
The thought DID cross my mind that it could be a part time gig for free cd's, but no... if you knew him, you'd know in your heart that it was full time...
Come on guys, get over it!
Daikatana was a really late game, and it wasn't that great (it might have been great, at least technologically, if it came out at the same time as Quake 2 like it was supposed to). But it wasn't terrible, just untimely. Most of us couldn't sit down and code that game engine, draw the graphics, animate the models, program the AI, make the maps, etc.
The real 10 worst games of the year are probably written in Visual Basic and distributed as shareware.
I decided to reinstall FF7 on my laptop, and on the back I noticed a few ads... including Tomb Raider II and Daikatana.
The catch phrase, under the Daikatana logo?
"Beleive the hype"
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Not the brightest idea behind it... But the graphics are awesome!
Still, BoP was kind of fun, but it was one of those games where you really had to have two humans in order to play properly. My favorite was when you elected to go to DefCon 2 and put the ball back in the Soviets' court, and they replied, "Our answer will be arriving via the North Pole", followed by the aforesaid message.
echo -n "Would you like to play a game? "
/usr/games/$x ] ; then /usr/games/$x
read x
if [ -f
tput clear
exec
else
echo "Funny, the only way to win is not to play at all."
fi
exit 0
I was pleased to find out that Star Trek: New Worlds made the list along with Sydney 2000. I loved the fact that they actually mentioned the "using arrow keys to enter your name". What kind of programmers are out there programming games? Are they really that lazy, or under pressure to push the game out the door that they cannot make a few changes from the "Console" to the PC version of the game?
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Thankfully Black Isle seems to be picking up the single-player CRPG game where Origin left it beaten and for dead in the filth of Ultima 8 and 9. Even after making the proper incantations and getting U9 to run at a barely tolerable speed, I just didn't like the game. The first couple areas were insultingly basic (not to mention they completely broke the continuity, considering U8 had the guardian taunting you about his successful invasion, and you became a demigod and gave it all up just to return home ... to earth?) The ubiquitous gypsy gives the most ham-handed delivery, lord british sends you on your quest like you were picking up a pack of salami from the 7-11, and nowhere in the game does it ever truly feel dramatic. Contrast to Baldurs Gate 2, which has lengthy intra-party dialogue (though not quite as interesting as Torment's -- also by Black Isle), numerous side plots, lots of color text (every item has a detailed description, from daggers to gems to unique magical items), and a main plot that doesn't reveal itself within the first hour of gameplay. The more than competent voice acting doesn't hurt either.
... who was that anyway?
Interplay (parent of Black Isle) has a very long history of CRPG's, and even this Ultima fanatic will gladly hand them the crown. Origin will be as forgotten as the name of the company that made Wizardry
I've finally had it: until slashdot gets article moderation, I am not coming back.
Hell YEAH, mod that UP!
I remember being SO disappointed with the X-Men NES game. (and SO happy with the Arcade game! X-Men Rule!)
If that isn't enough to convince you to mod the review up, read the bit on Ninjas from "The Legend of Kage". Having a random rating category in a review of bad games rules, and Ninjas are Slashdot tradition as well.
Ninja Rating: 7
While most ninjas are notorious for being silent assassins of the night, it's nice to see one who's not afraid to climb trees and wear neon dresses. The only thing that could make this ninja cooler is a big sombrero and a Tonka Truck t-shirt.
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Um, 6 figures doesn't go very far these days. That is just $100,000. So do you want to spend 3/4 of a years salary just for a car? I don't think so. Besides, if you live in Manhattan or Silicon Valley that salary basically affords a one room apartment and cool places to eat.
Myself, I earn far less than that, but if I had that kind of money I'd still probably pick the Prelude (actually, I just bought a very cool VW Golf Turbo) over one of those big heavy gas guzzling beasts. A penny saved is a penny earned, and while you are spending your stock options on cars, I'll be saving my options so my kids can be rich.
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Take pieces of white bread and roll into small balls.
Take long piece of string and tie one end around the ball of white bread.
Put ball of bread on ground and wait for seagull heh heh heh.
Seagull swallows bread, swallows string - et voila!
If done for instance on the back of a moving boat you can then tie the string to the railing at the back of the boat, and build up quite a collction.
If you want I could also do the exploding seagull, too.
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My policy:
Warez it for PC, and if I like it, buy the Linux or Mac version...
Deus Ex just flies on my cube..
Your Working Boy,
Seriously... 640x480? I guess it's so you can see your 'fashion plate' in action more clearly.. Though that fu??in backfires on my 1024x768 LCD.. Can you say BLOCKY? Feh.
When Rune hits it'll hit pretty darned hard... I just hope the mod community (it uses the Unreal engine/UnrealEd/UnrealScript) starts creating some groovy class/stat/RPG/ addons and hopefully some massive worlds..
I've got the warez gold master and I'm positively hooked.. Gotta love the dwarven work sword..
Your Working Boy,
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Yeah, nice logic, the apostrophes would be in there had slashdot footers been allowed to exceed 120 characters.
The ivory tower has never had to reach so h
Comic Guy Voice: Worst game, ever!
Yeah, yeah, ok, mod me down, but it had to be said.
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My family does this too...
(Dijital ponders starting a support group for this... how American)
Dijital
Diji
"I came, I saw, I WTF'd!"
As you can see from this review by the NY Times tecnology section, they pretty much all do.
Oh, if you don't like registration, try this link instead.
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God Damn moron moderators! To quote from the moderation guidelines:
Concentrate more on promoting than on demoting. The real goal here is to find the juicy good stuff and let others read it. Do not promote personal agendas. Do not let your opinions factor in. Try to be impartial about this. Simply disagreeing with a comment is not a valid reason to mark it down.
I think I've made my point.
I looked through that list and, man - they missed quite a bit. So here you have it, from the gaming gods of PC Gamer (if you must look at their website that is a shadow of its former self after being swallowed by IGN, a despicable Gen-whatever site, go to www.pcgamer.com)
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(as reported by the venerable PC Gamer magaizine, October 2000, not restricted to this year, although quite a few were. Not all of the text is reproduced, just choice quotes
10. Curse You, Red Baron - "A half-hearted attempt at budget software from our sardonic 'friends' at Sierra"
9. Evel Knievel 3D Stunt Game - "I don't know what's more incredible - the fact that Evel can still walk... or that HeadGames can ship utter crap like this"
8. Test Drive 8 - "the series fell from grace even quicker than MC Hammer"
7. Beatdown - "...and AI code that's suffered from one too many malt liquor forties"
6. Mode - "Also known as Annoying Performance Artist Interactive"
5. Nations - "as far as I know, this is the only time the phrase 'wet fart of a game' has been used in PC Gamer's history [in a review]"
4. Swamp Buggy Racing - "catering to a demographic that does not actually own computers"
3. Extreme Paintbrawl - "As it stands, Paintbrawl's lead designer confessed that the game shipped without any AI" - that is not a joke, it actually happened...
2. Extreme Watersports (not what you're thinking) - "not even the programmers' mothers would buy this"
1. Skydive - "It's as if Satan himself got his hands on a DirectX SDK, and decided to share the incomparablepain and suffering of the inferno with the PC gaming market"
Well, there you have it. Be careful, though - just as you shouldn't post without reading the article, don't bash Dakitana without playing it. It's a really sucky game but is not as bad as most ignoramuses think it is.
Did I just defend Dakitana? Oh my...
LOL
I have stashed away on one of my forgotten backups is a Global Thermonuclear War game that a friend of mine wrote in Qbasic back durring a late night coding frenzy in college, it really seemed fun at 4am after a couple 12packs of dew. :)
Daikatana is the worst game of the year not because it sucked itself down, not because the sidekick AI was slightly smarter than a watermelon...
Daikatana sucked because of Romero's endless spending and Eidos's decision to back them financially. This (helped) cause the demise of Looking Glass Entertainment Maker of such incredible games as Thief 1 and 2, and System Shock 2.
Its really Ironic that a division of Ion Storm managed to produce one of the best games of the year, Deus Ex. It is even more Ironic that Warren Spector, Producer of Thief 1 works for Ion Storm. And now, Warren Spector has the rights to Thief 3 (damn good thing he does too!) and it looks like Ion Storm will be releasing it.
That is a strange cycle of events...
Try to hack my 31337 firewall!
It's not a strategy game, it's a twitch game. "Max out your karma" is a strategy game, but it's like Quake; A great amount of effort expended for a minimal payoff.
The best thing about the slashdot games engine is the network performance. Of course, the worst thing about the slashdot games engine is the network performance. And is it just me, or is the moderation system a lot like PK'ing?
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
They'd better move their servers offshore if they want to do that. They'd probably get busted sooner-or-later for copyright infringement for copying the page onto their servers.
(Don't laugh, things that stupid seem to be happening a lot lately in the States.)
If the games get any worst, it will be, get the warez, then MAYBE buy the game.. do you see a reason to spend $50 on a shitty game like this?
If your hands had to go up to play with your nuts, I'd be worried.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Really? Quake 3? Starcraft? You know, I really can't think anyone would class those two as the worst games of the year.
Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
Yes, for the CD itself. I already cut it in half, now all I have to do is mail it to John Romero's desk along with a strongly worded letter on how Daikatana was such a steaming load of elephant crap.
Initially, my reason for buying it was to see if it could be a good single-player game, but it had its chance.
"Ancillary does not mean you get to rule the world." --U.S. Circuit Judge Harry Edwards, speaking to the FCC's lawyer
Gamecenter did another story about the the top 10 worst of all time.
1 0worst
http://www.gamecenter.com/Features/Exclusives/Top
I was going to nominate this, but you beat me to it. Pretty pathetic...
Christmas time is upon us, and this is when the worst games are released because every game developer wants their game out before XMAS. No QA, half-baked ideas, etc.
Hence, there is more than enough time for the worst game of the year to be released.
From the movie "Wargames" with Matthew Broderick. If it is based on a movie, free feel to let me know.
"Don't mind me cutting myself on Occam's Razor"
I swore zdnet or some similar news service had an article just like this, and it listed South Park Rally and that Star Wars RTS game as well.
It'd take a real turd to top the follies of Daikatana. Daikatana built up its pathetic reputation over a span of four years. I don't think that anything in development now could be as bad.
"Ancillary does not mean you get to rule the world." --U.S. Circuit Judge Harry Edwards, speaking to the FCC's lawyer
>IE to fuck up the little form-interface thingies >when I moderate. That didn't happen in 98.
Do you mean the moderation drop-down boxes?
My Win98 system resources dropped to 10% after IE loaded an entire slashdot document.
I had a book of walkthroughs for adventure games-- maps and solutions for Zork, Sherwood Forest, Enchanter... It also had a solution set for "Softporn adventure." It didn't sound very impressive. Of course, I was about ten when I aquired this solutions manual. Anyway, a walkthrough for softporn is available here
But....Dikatana....was....on....the....list.
Ooohhhh... a Prelude
Can I suck your dick?
i kinda liked southpark rally....
wouldn't daikatana count as the worst for the last four years?
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These bite major ass.
Perhaps this will be construed as flamebait also, but what I'm giving here is really my personal opinion on Diablo II.
:P
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Diablo II is one of the worst games I've played this year. One of the reason probably being that I haven't played a lot of games this year, and my tastes are generally towards RPGs; I've never enjoyed any FPS at all. So obviously my comments are biased, but hey, its always good to see things from a different perspective, no?
Anyway, the thing I hate most about Diablo II is that it is being marketed as an RPG, and in some reviews I even read about it being the best RPG title of the year. That's quite an insult to the genre, because Diablo II is as much as RPG as the cheap D&D hack 'n slash game you can find at arcades.
It lacks a good storyline, consists of nothing but killing and more killing, and in fact compared to the original Diablo, its even lost one of the things that made me play the game in the first place.
The original Diablo had much more of a sense of gothic horror than the sequel. The game felt dark, there was a smell of evil in the air, and as you went down the dungeons you'd feel slightly nervous and wishing for some kind of holy protection.
In Diablo II, I don't feel much of that at all! It truly felt like a third-person shooter; zero immersion. The concept of waypoints and the way you save games is also very un-RPG like.
So basically Diablo II ranks as the worst game of the year for people who like to play RPGs.
Global Thermonuclear Warfare Definitely a lose-lose game. In fact, I'd say the only way to win is not to play at all.
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I always play this game called laugh at the nerd. In this game a bunch of people sit around and laugh at the nerdy looking guy. One day, i'll be laughing, but so far that game has sucked.
Yeah, EB gives refunds...
Intolerant people should be shot.
Well It wasn't so hard after I figured out how to get out of the church in the plague infested village in the N64 version. I can say I think that 5 bucks (and no more mind you) was worth it for rental.
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No fair! Taco has changed the game so us new people can't get past level 2. He said it prevents "level-whoring," whatever that is *shudder*
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I think we can all agree that this flop of a game barely deserves mention. It's horrible "graphics" consist of a few icons and a green logo. The gameplay is horrible at best; trying to get First Post is not my idea of adventure. And what's with the giant flame-spitting Katz at the end of level 4?
Ive played that damn game about a thousand times and have never cracked the top 20...
The monkey forces an ISP to install Windows NT in New York, NY. The monkey is wanted for crimes against God in New York.
The ivory tower has never had to reach so h
Worst game of they year? Chicken with an artic lorry...
"But Doctor, if they take away my head surely I'll die?"
"Fun Gums"
I dono't wy. D'you?
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I always thought the First Post game was rather weak.
Then again, I've never liked strategy games...
these games seem to be absolutley fine if you ask me...
And by the way, there were some comments that dissapeared for some reason in this forum.
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The only one on this list I had the unfortunate pleasure of buying and playing was Force Commander. Problem is, the idea seems so damn cool. Star Wars Starcraft! Of course it was awful for all the reasons pointed out in the article and more. I still can't believe someone thought that camera system was a good idea.
After playing through the first 2 missons of Force Commander, I realized that this game wasn't getting any better and shelved it. The plot was half-way interesting: lowly Imperial officer rises through the ranks, and presumably ends up switching to the rebellion (didn't get that far). But between stupid AI on units and a camera angle that makes things look like a Picasso painting...One has to wonder how this can be from the same publisher that gave us Tie Fighter and Jedi Knight. LucasArts needs to find some better game companies to farm their license out too.
I forgot to mention that for two months after I bought it, I couldn't even RUN Daikatana. I had Windows 2000, and the game had a slew of serious problems while running under Win2K. Not until I got DSL did I download the 44.3 MB (!) patch and experience the load of crap as it was meant to be seen.
"Ancillary does not mean you get to rule the world." --U.S. Circuit Judge Harry Edwards, speaking to the FCC's lawyer
Hmmm.... I'm surprised Simon & Schuster let their name anywhere near that.
The secret to surviving in any industry is that if you can't make money selling crappy products the legit way, sell crappy porno or pseudo-porno products instead.
I do give them credit for wearing this like a badge of pride:
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I picked up the Nintendo Gameboy version of this game and I noticed there's a trick on this version. Seems if you just say the words Hi Tech Geeks Rool to the Katz, it switches sides and is an ally (only lasts until game save, sadly). Then you just have to use your game cable to swap it with another Gameboy, feed it some scriptkiddy food, swap it back to the original Gameboy and it evolves into Spencer the Katt with a Cat of Nine Tails.
Doesn't work on the Linux version, sadly.
--- Will in Seattle - What are you doing to fight the War?
Wait... Now I read...
:-D
Sharky Games - PC - Games - Ten Worst Games of the Year
My game is cross-platform, and runs better on UNIX/Linux, so I'm out already...
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M$FT is up to their old tricks:
preemptive announcements, vaporware, FUD, etc, etc.
Beachhead 2000.
I was actually looking forward to a little bit of updated nostalgia in the vein of the first two games for the C64. I was sorely disappointed. Unfortunately, I checked this game out when I should have been studying, so even the horrible control and dated graphics were enough to contribute to my procrastination efforts.
hahaha Thanks, that insight made me laugh =)
Well one of them might be RedHat 7.0. Pitty to say this but even redpartisans here are flaming it very badly.
However two OSes will surely be on the Ten Most: Win00 and WinMe (Win you? No thanks).
Well Windows00 may have got some points to stay out of the Ten Worst as a desktop system. However, as a server, it is surely inside. As far as I see, no one tries to use it as a server system. Sincerly, I would say that after more than half year I have met only one attempt.
However the absolute champion is surely Windows Me. Fantastic! In a region where still 80% of users live M$, I have not seen one single copy of this thing. And I still remember how, some years ago, people would hunt for Windows Betas, raw betas, release candidates and even weird copies snagged from Redmond's Howl. Today, WinMe does not show up even on pirated copies. No one even talks about it. Most people don't even record about its existence.
Sincerly no one even remebers when this thing was launched...
So M$ maybe you have the honour to be in a line with a Linux distro. However 1st place goes to you. For the first time in 15 years (since you launched that mutant called DOS 4.0).
I remember that one, and it was indeed wonderful -- one of the all time greats even with its primitive graphics and occasionally absurd gameplay (I've got to choose between abject humiliation and destroying the world over a tiny, unimportant conflict somewhere? There's no other choice possible? I don't think so).
:)
Has anything even remotely similar been attempted lately? I guess the "geopolitical sim" market is going to lag behind FPS and RTS for a while longer
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Well, I suppose Richard Garriott's decision to rush-release Ultima IX: Ascension in late 1999 did some good after all. It made it possible for this last game of what was a great series to be excluded from that list! I've been playing the Ultima games since around 1986 (with Ultima III on my C-64), and am terribly disappointed with the final chapter of the series. As are many other former Ultima fans. Thin plot, no continuity, bad voices; about the only compliment I can give U9 is that its graphics are excellent. Except you'll need a 800+MHz Athlon with a Voodoo5 AGP to experience it fully...
Qu'on me donne six lignes écrites de la main du plus honnête homme, j'y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre.
Everyone should read this review. This guy ranks right with jeffk for random acts of humor. And I quote *ahem*:
However, graphics aren't everything so let's move on to the next area in the game - the interface. It's really difficult to put how terrible Force Commander's interface is into words... let's see... hmmm... OK, I think I've got it! The interface in Force Commander is akin to jumping into a piranha-infested pool filled with heavily-salted lemon juice after having just survived an attack by the paper-cut monsters from the planet Fleshwound.
Wow, that made my night.
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okay, I'm behind the times, but this review is much more funny:
http://seanbaby.com/nes/w20-1.htm
I cannot find WinME in the list. I tried to play with them, but they are so terribly borring. I have to say that its absolutelly no improvement from the previous version of this point&click game.
If programs would be read like poetry, most programmers would be Vogons.
...to produce a table of contents for their articles.
Guess that brings me out ahead, though I don't buy a lot of games these days. Too interesting trying to wreck my body on a mountain bike. (Got a HUGE sting from something this weekend, swelled up on my arm like a walnut! =)
Most of these that allegedly suck are reminiscent of games which sucked 10 years ago. Guess it's a winning formula with the suits. ("But it was *HOT* on the Apple ][ in 1981!" "Yeah, but there were only 9 games out for it then!")
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If this was a guy that beat you up every day, was the biggest jerk in the world
Pretty close. Didn't beat me up (ever) but was quite the asshole to me. We hung out in the same group of friends, but that was about as far as our association went.
so why are you so satisfied that your life is so much better that you can call him a loser?
Well maybe it's because in school he felt he was so much better than I...that I was pathetic, and now I've made quite a nice life for myself, and he's still working for CD's, and (I've come to find out after seeing another former classmate)living in his mom's house at the age of 30+. I don't give a shit how happy he thinks he is, that's pathetic. And the fact that all through school he felt he was so superior to me, makes me laugh.
Oh, and I worked in music stores for over 7 years. Crappy job, crappy money, crappy life. Others may enjoy it, I don't. Just because someone works in a record store in and of itself doesn't make them a loser...its this guys whole package. Hindsite, I didn't explain all that in my orig post. Oh well.
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You are a fucking moron.
Sorry to hear you feel that way, dude. I was sifting through a box last Saturday and found some old SoftLine and SoftTalk magazines, from 1981-1982. There was apparently a game called SoftP0rn, even then.
Better reading was the interview with Bill Budge (RasterBlaster) (before he got sued to copying a popular pinball machine design) and reviews of some of the hardware and games.
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A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Yes, it was number ten. But it should have been one.
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You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
The games industry has sunk to a new low.
Almost makes me ashamed that I work in the [games] industry.
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"The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite." -- Thomas Jefferson
A bit of nostalgia: http://www.gamecenter.com/Features/Exclusives/Xpic ks/ss03.html .
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Be careful, though - just as you shouldn't post without reading the article, don't bash Dakitana without playing it. It's a really sucky game but is not as bad as most ignoramuses think it is.
The sucky game factor is only half of the equation. The true loathesomeness of Daikatana comes from the $20 mil. and 3 years of "Suck it down!" "John Romero is going to make you his bitch!" and (my personal favourite) "Are you ready?" which lead up to said sucky game.
But it Daikatana isn't it? :-)
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Super Pitfall is on my list of ALL TIME WORST GAMES OF *ANY* PLATFORM...it was definitely the buggiest Nintendo cart I ever played.
"John Romero is going to make you his bitch"
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It really should say by whom a comment was moderated
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was for the ZX Spectrum. I guess only Uk/Europe peeps would remember those. The software house had previously created an awesome game for its time called Valhalla and following that they brought out a game called The Great Space Race. I used my birthday money and "borrowed" some of my building society savings without my parents knowing so that I could buy it. As I stood there looking at the box while deciding whether to buy it (I never bought without reviews but Valhalla was sooo good), my friend convinced me to purchase...that steaming pile of dogturd!!? Oh well, never liked him much anyway :)
Guess what... I beat the Game. I like to see things through and it was not hard. The games ending left you feeling like "thats it???" But some of the missiong before the end were fun becauser of the amount of People u had to use. Also you got to use Ewoks as Cannon Fodder. Sending 3 Ewoks against an AT-AT was so much fun( I hated those smeggers) Minus the ending I liked the game overall. I think the biggest problem with the Game was that the game was so late. If it would of Came out on time it would have faired better.
If we refuse to be flexible, we are in effect opting out of the game of life. The world moves on without us.
I think one of the worst games in 2000 is Srabble. I mean, who actually plays scrabble?
Does anyone else remember it?
Oh, yeah, it came with the "distribution" version of Windows 1.0 (just the interface stuff). When Win 3.0 came out BoP was all you needed to score an "upgrade" copy, if memory serves.
...much the same way that "Showgirls" shouldn't have been in theatres. So now EBX, Babbages, and Fry's have an XXX section? How immature has the industry become?
"Ancillary does not mean you get to rule the world." --U.S. Circuit Judge Harry Edwards, speaking to the FCC's lawyer