Games that are unplayable

[quote name='JSweeney']Sacred for the PC. Unless you go to thier website and get a patch, it is IMPOSSIBLE to get past one of the stages without cheating. They actually LEAVE OUT a key item that triggers the scenario that lets you leave the stage. Without cheating, you're doomed to stay in that level FOREVER![/quote]

Ugh! Sacred was the worst game experience I ever had... I played the demo for it and the game ran flawlessly. I finally get the game after their shipping delay and it wouldn't even run on my PC...when it eventually did run I would lose most of the character/item textures shortly after starting so it was impossible to play.

Worst of all, at the time they suggested running without the 1.15 patch to fix the texture problem...but the stupid copy protection refused to let me run the game after the uninstall/reinstall...even if I put 1.15 back on.

I haven't touched the game since then.
 
Digimon World 1 wasn't unplayable, I rented it and liked it a lot and even though I don't like digimon anymore, I thought about getting the newest one out.
 
Vanishing Point on both PS1 and DC were almost damn-near unplayable due to the oversensitve oversteering, unrealisting physics, shoddy collision reaction and difficulty.
 
[quote name='crazytalkx']Any Tomb Raider game[/quote]

Oh I second that one. I'm suprised I forgot about that. The play control is awful and unintuitive, and I've never spent more than 30 minutes playing any TR game. For some reason, the developers really thought this awful scheme worked, as they've used it six times in the game's history. Even Capcom offered some change in the controls with Resident Evil: Code Veronica. How they see that this control scheme is optimal for playing TR is one I'll never figure out.
 
[quote name='digioverload']Some people seem to be bewildered by my choices, so I'll explain a few of them.

Silent Hill 2 (PS2)
I heard it was good and I wanted to give the survival horror genre a try, but after playing for a few hours I found the entire concept of survival horror to be extremely stupid. Solving simple puzzles that are stretched out with backtracking while avoiding enemies is not fun to me. Making combat purposely slow and difficult just seems stupid. I don't understand how the entire genre is supposed to be fun. That doesn't mean the game is bad, but for me at least, this game is completely unplayable.
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I agree with that, except I played the Resident Evil remake on the Gamecube and found it to be unplayable. How anyone could give it a good review is beyond me.
Horrible camera angles + horrible controls + horrible combat + limited saves + boring puzzles + limited inventory =/= a good game.
 
[quote name='epobirs'][quote name='coolcps']Dark Cloud 2 and Silent Hill 2 are both great games, whoever mentioned those are crazy. Also I just went through Eternal Ring last week and thought it was a lot better than what people said about it, then again I did own Kings Field 1 and 2 (got 1 for 2.99 and the other for 4.99).[/quote]

I agree. I've enjoyed all of From's FPRPG games except Shadow Tower. I could never get past the first floor. Going to GameFAQs was no help. There is supposed to be a PS2 sequel that may already be out in Japan but no word of a US release.

BTW, did you ever encounter the Queen Wasp with the 10-foot extensible stinger? You have to really dig into Eternal Ring to find it.

I can recall other games that had instruction manuals that appeared to make sense but much of what the manual covered didn't seem to actually be in the game. Valkyrie Profile, Heroes of Might & Magic, etc.[/quote]

Valkyrie Profile was a little confusing, but I thought the manual did an ok job. As for in Eternal ring I fought all of the Queen wasps and destroyed the nests to get the Dragon Eggs. Eternal Ring was way too easy though, I never had to use any of the better healing items and I only died once, thats because I didnt know you could fall off into the water on the beach at the very beginning. I also went through the secret dungeon, that was pretty cool I thought.

One game that I think isnt unplayable, but really annoying to play is the SNES LOTR game. I thought it was fun and the whole multitap thing was sweet, but I had a full notebook of passwords, why no save function!?!?!?! Also it was hard to find out where to go because places looked the same.
 
Gravity Games Bike: Street. Vert. Dirt - I had the BB unlimited rentals card when I rented it and I regreted even renting it for one day. The only reason I decided to rent it is because there were two good songs on the soundtrack. After about 10 minutes I knew I had made a huge mistake, I was glad that I could return it, but still wanted my time back.
 
Morrowind(Xbox) This game crashes randomly and gives dirty disc errors consistently.. unplayable, unless you're lucky.

Anything using the Power Glove(NES) Yes, the power glove is "so bad" I had super glove ball, and that almost worked. Playing any other game with it is not unlike trying to steer a car while locked inside the trunk.

Star Wars: masters of teras kasi (PSOne)-Crap. Thats all it is. Crap. If there were a cd filled with nothing but boy george, cyndi lauper, david hasselloff, micheal bolton, and phil collins songs that inserted flaming bees into your inner ear, it would be a better use of a CD.
 
final fantasy tactics advance. and it pisses me off because i loved final fantasy tactics. it's one of my favorites.

xenosaga. i probably didn't give this one too much of a chance, but all i remember is that i popped this baby open at 3am attempting to play it and falling asleep with the ps2 on. haven't played it since.

i don't think i've enjoyed any tomb raider game.

sonic shuffle. think mario party, subtract the fun, and add a whole lot of load times.

i have aquaman sealed from the cc sale, but i'm scared to open it. for one thing, aquaman sucks. secondly, i heard the game pretty much is trash. and lastly, aquaman sucks.
 
In regards to the game ONE-I really enjoyed that game. My friend and I played it constantly. He completed it but I could not finish the next to the last level. Problems aside, I dug the game.


Unplayable IMHO:

Perfect Weapon(PS1) - HORRIBLE camera angles made it unplayable for me.
E.T. (Atari 2600)-after a minute (yes that long), I couldn't believe the piece of garbage that was in my Atari 2600.

That's all I can think of at this moment.
 
[quote name='Cornfedwb']One for PS1.. terrible controls, camera and obscene difficulty. I tried that game 4 or 5 times and gave up when I never did get past level 2. 40 enemies coming at you at once when you cant see a single one of them = problems.[/quote]

Man I'm glad I only paid $1.99 for One. That is one of the most unplayable games I ever ....uh....played. Total suck-osity in the control department.

Another POS is Midway's Greatest Arcade hits on GBA. It has Joust, Robotron, Sinistar and Defender. The developer butchered the utter HELL out of the controls on Joust, Robotron and Sinistar. None of those games control anything like the arcade. I can't say much about Defender because I don't recall playing the arcade version before.
 
[quote name='kristianator']final fantasy tactics advance. and it pisses me off because i loved final fantasy tactics. it's one of my favorites.

xenosaga. i probably didn't give this one too much of a chance, but all i remember is that i popped this baby open at 3am attempting to play it and falling asleep with the ps2 on. haven't played it since.
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Well those are both extremely far away from unplayable. In fact, personally I'd say FF:TA is the number one GBA game out, and Xenosaga is in the top 5 RPGs out in this generation. I'm assuming by you decreeing these games as unplayable.. you don't enjoy rpgs.

And people... unplayable does not mean 'I dont like it' or 'the graphics are terrible' or 'its a terrible game'.. unplayable means something is done so poorly (controls, bugs, etc) that the game is basically not-able-to-be-played.. thusly unplayable.
 
Hydlide
every Resident evil game ever
every fps ever

p.s. Xenosaga is in the top 5 worst RPGs this or any gen
 
[quote name='DenisDFat']Hydlide
every Resident evil game ever
every fps ever

p.s. Xenosaga is in the top 5 worst RPGs this or any gen[/quote]


i never agreed with the people who said you were a troll before.
This comment, however, makes me think differently.
 
FFTA-Awesome GBA Game.. I didnt' finish it , but I spent about 60 hours with it, figured I got my money's worth.

XenoSaga-Spent about 40 hours before passing out due to boredom. I can see how this game would be unplayable to some people.. the cutscenes are rediculous, and so is the story(It seems to be a trend in the xeno-series) I liked it a lot more than Xenogears, but I would classify it as unplayable for some, simply because you're only playing about 25% of the game.

Im just glad I got back about $45 credit for Xenosaga at EB.
 
If hating a stupid yet super-pretentious game, games with horrid control schemes and games with inherently flawed perspectives makes me a troll, then sign me up.
 
Batman: Dark Tomorrow. Awful, awful game...though my friends and I had a lot of laughs with the first level. In this game Batman can:

- run around like a kid with down syndrome.
- kick no higher than his kneecap.
- fall off a building into what looks like a pool of Skittles.
- die, get back up for 2 seconds, then die again.
- use smoke bombs that suck.
- handcuff EVERY FREAKING ENEMY or face getting the crap beat out of you upon their resurrection.
- not jump a chain link fence.

Ah, yes...good times, good times...
 
"Games with inherently flawed perspectives"

Never mind that they've driven the industry, both on hardware and software fronts.
Never mind that they've defined and redefined gameplay dynamics and control schemes time and time again.

"Every FPS ever" is unplayable? That's so far beyond laughable that it's pathetic. Just because you don't like them it's just silly to place that judgement on an entire catagory of games.

Look at the metrics that are used to judge the overall quality of a game...
Sales and critical acclaim. There are FPS games that score ridiculously high in both metrics.

More and more, as I look at you're posts, you come off as one of those "counterculture" movie reviewers... you'll swear up and down that something is great so long as it's underapriciated in your eyes. Then, the second it gains any modicum of mainstream success, you'll do a compete 180 and say it's the biggest piece of crap ever.

Heaven forbid anyone ask your opinion on something that's almost universally beloved.
 
"One" is a lke it or hate it game. While I like it, it is still, techincally, an unplayable game -- I had to use the cheat codes to finish.

If you thought some of the early level were troublesome -- like the platform jumping thru the roof tops, wait until you got into the computer/security system, full of blind jumps onto flipping platforms.

BAH! I like "One" but it was definitely unplayable.
 
I've gotta go with Oni....and Spider-Man 2 for the PC....both were utterly disgusting.....I've also gotta say Wreckless: The Yakuza Missons - Very repetitive and the worst excuse for a multiplayer i have ever seen. And just for good measure ill throw in Fur Fighters.
 
of course, you're exactly wrong

People are stupid, critics are people, sales and critical acclaim are based on stupid.

So I do not like Tetris, Marios 1-world2 , link to the past, and mega man 3 because they are pretty popular and critical darlings. Oh wait, that list includes the best games i've ever played.

I like what I like and hate what I hate.

And first person is a stupid viewpoint for video games, so I hate it.

but more than anything, i hate stupid people.
 
But what youve failed to notice Mr.DFat, is that the name of this thread is Games that are unplayable...not List your opinions about games and stuff you do or dont like.
 
[quote name='JSweeney']"Games with inherently flawed perspectives"

Never mind that they've driven the industry, both on hardware and software fronts.
Never mind that they've defined and redefined gameplay dynamics and control schemes time and time again.

"Every FPS ever" is unplayable? That's so far beyond laughable that it's pathetic. Just because you don't like them it's just silly to place that judgement on an entire catagory of games.

Look at the metrics that are used to judge the overall quality of a game...
Sales and critical acclaim. There are FPS games that score ridiculously high in both metrics.

More and more, as I look at you're posts, you come off as one of those "counterculture" movie reviewers... you'll swear up and down that something is great so long as it's underapriciated in your eyes. Then, the second it gains any modicum of mainstream success, you'll do a compete 180 and say it's the biggest piece of crap ever.

Heaven forbid anyone ask your opinion on something that's almost universally beloved.[/quote]

I usually don't disagree with JSweeney, but I have to on this one. I personally think the FPS's are over-rated as well. Metal Gear Solid was simply not fun to me, and I played all the way through it. Doom, Quake, etc. I recognize that there are people out there who really like this genre, but I find it to be the opposite of fun and am not motivated in the least to go beyond the first level in most games.

The perspective makes me feel like I'm in a box with a little slit in it trying to see what's around me. Imagine playing Paintball with a paper bag over your head and little eye-holes poked in the bag to see with. That's what a FPS is to me. Take off the bag, feel the sun in your face and the breeze on your cheeks, and see the whole world around you in perfect 20/20 vision. That's what going from a FPS to basically any other genre is to me as well.

After all, the question of this thread was about what games are not even worth finishing to you. I agree with this guy - for me all FPS games are not worth finishing (to me). You out there who love them, more power to you. But they hold nothing but uncomfortable claustrophobia for me and I do not get satisfaction out of beating them.
 
of course, you're exactly wrong
Because you say so, right? So exactly which diety did you bump off to gain omniscience?

People are stupid, critics are people, sales and critical acclaim are based on stupid.
Right. Because you're always right, and they're always wrong, right?
Exactly what credentials do you carry that make your opinions worth more than the critics, the gamemakers, and the public at large?

So I do not like Tetris, Marios 1-world2 , link to the past, and mega man 3 because they are pretty popular and critical darlings. Oh wait, that list includes the best games i've ever played.

Hmm, Tetris has been accused of late for being "same old, same old".
The Mario series has been attacked lately due to the GBA ports of them.
Mega Man 3, while part of a storied franchise, was never the critical darling of the series.
Hmm, wow. They become underdogs and then they become "the best games you've ever played". That doesn't fit you're MO at all.

I like what I like and hate what I hate.
Yep, that's a real rigious and defensible method for the analysis of games.

And first person is a stupid viewpoint for video games, so I hate it.
It's actually a very nature and intuitive one. That's why even people who just casually play games can adapt to it so quickly.


but more than anything, i hate stupid people.
Self loathing must be a bitch.
 
Resident Evil for gamceube is unplayable for me, mainly because i hate the controls and my tv is dark as hell, i cant see anything.
 
I usually don't disagree with JSweeney, but I have to on this one. I personally think the FPS's are over-rated as well.

There is a huge difference between overated and inherently unplayable.
I'm not saying that FPS games are the best style of games ever created, but to pass judgement on the entire catagory and say that every single FPS game is unplayable and a piece of shit is just ridiculous.
This topic wasn't what games don't you like, or what games are overated.
This topic was "Games that are unplayable". I'm sorry, but if you think all FPS games are unplayable, you don't know anything about videogames, or lost very far into the thick of your own elitist visions.


Metal Gear Solid was simply not fun to me, and I played all the way through it.

Firstly, Metal Gear Solid, for the most part, takes place in the third person, and relies more heavily on stealth than an FPS would.

Doom, Quake, etc. I recognize that there are people out there who really like this genre, but I find it to be the opposite of fun and am not motivated in the least to go beyond the first level in most games.

And this makes the entire catagory of games inherently unplayable? That's just silly.

The perspective makes me feel like I'm in a box with a little slit in it trying to see what's around me. Imagine playing Paintball with a paper bag over your head and little eye-holes poked in the bag to see with. That's what a FPS is to me. Take off the bag, feel the sun in your face and the breeze on your cheeks, and see the whole world around you in perfect 20/20 vision. That's what going from a FPS to basically any other genre is to me as well.

You don't like the genre. That's fine.
It doesn't mean the games are unplayable.


After all, the question of this thread was about what games are not even worth finishing to you.

Funny, that isn't what the topic says... it says "Games that are unplayable".
That sort of title is reserved mostly for games that are either so illconcieved or bug ridden that it is not physically or technologically possible to play the game. You not being able to muster up the desire to doesn't mean a game is unplayable.

I agree with this guy - for me all FPS games are not worth finishing (to me). You out there who love them, more power to you. But they hold nothing but uncomfortable claustrophobia for me and I do not get satisfaction out of beating them.

I still think you're framing the argument wrong. Unplayable and "not worth finishing" are two entirely different topics.
 
Pulse Racer (Xbox)

Oh god, that game is way unplayable. The controls suck hard. First I thought my Mad Catz controller was worn down, but when I plugged in my controller S, it was still unresponsive. It was a decent deal at $4.99 though, but was still lacking.

Also Black Stone: Magic & Steel (Xbox)

Got it for $4.99 during the Circuit City deal. That game was frustrating, I hated the camera and controls a lot. Whenever I would think I woukd hit an enemy, it instead hurled into either too late, or the wrong direction. Its laying there on my shelf. Lame/10.
 
[quote name='JSweeney']
You don't like the genre. That's fine.
It doesn't mean the games are unplayable.

I still think you're framing the argument wrong. Unplayable and "not worth finishing" are two entirely different topics.[/quote]

That's fair. I guess I need to rework my framework. Due to the flaws I mentioned before, I don't "get" the FPS genre - To the point that they are unplayable to me. I've tried Goldeneye on N64 many times with friends. I am ALWAYS the guy that everybody wants to find because I can fire a nuclear weapon at them and somehow miss, while they draw their watergun and shoot me through the eye with one shot (I know those weapons aren't in the game, my silly exaggeration).

I don't suck at video games. I've always been the guy that beats the game first or smokes his friends in Street Fighter/Smash Brothers, etc. But this FPS business. To ME, it is unplayable because my brain doens't "get" it anymore than the typical grandma "gets" the VCR. If you die or lose in a game and you can say "Oh, I died because I did xyz wrong" or "Oh, I wasn't expecting that to happen - I'll have to watch out for that" then you just need to get better. When you find yourself dying while doing everything "right" (or at least thinking you are) and you're not getting any better, that is unplayable.

FPS, to me, are unplayable. I suck at them. I tried to get better. I still suck at them. And, to be honest, until they figure out the camera thing, they're really not all that fun to watch. But that's more a preference thing than an ability thing.
 
so to get back on topic...

NES - Castlequest, it was interesting I must say as you travel through this castle of 100+ rooms trying to find the princess. Each screen on your tv = 1 room. The game even came with a map of the whole castle, but was still impossible to get through. I tried so many times, but it always ended with me being stuck because I didn't have the right key and could no longer progress... God I hated that game.

SNES - NCAA Final Four, true there was no ending, but Christ that game sucked.

N64 - Turok 3, the Turok series had really lost its luster at this point.
Body Harvest, I used cheats and still couldn't get through the "American" stage, the game was mind numblingly dizzying and I could take it.

GC - Turok Evolution, why I bought this game will forever remain a mystery, oh well the $8 I lost isn't the end of the world, and the multi-player isn't that bad.

There's others but those were the worst on each platform that I played at least.
 
[quote name='Rodego']ET for Atari is the worst ever. I still have no idea what the hell you are supposed to do in that game[/quote]

If you are talking about the Atari 2600, I did like that game. The idea of the game is to phone home and then get on the space ship. You have to do this while evading capture from the Man!!

If there was a game that was totally unplayable for the Atari, it was Pac Man. It had the most worst graphics of any game in the history of video games. The constant blinking gave you a migrane.
 
[quote name='Xevious'][quote name='Rodego']ET for Atari is the worst ever. I still have no idea what the hell you are supposed to do in that game[/quote]

If you are talking about the Atari 2600, I did like that game. The idea of the game is to phone home and then get on the space ship. You have to do this while evading capture from the Man!!

If there was a game that was totally unplayable for the Atari, it was Pac Man. It had the most worst graphics of any game in the history of video games. The constant blinking gave you a migrane.[/quote]

im sorry, your post hurts my brain.
 
It seems certain people here have a problem with the simulation of a first person perspective.

If one is physically impaired does that count toward rating a game unplayable or are we just dealing with pebcak? I can recall a Usenet conversation with the one bizzaroid who insisted HDTV, especially with widescreen, would never catch on no matter how far down the price came so long as NTSC sets were still available for a lesser price. It turned out the guy had a impairment that narrowed his horizontal field of vision. Less than one percent of the population has this exact condition. I forget the name but it had its own nonprofit org. In theaters he has to sit towards the back and even then it's like watching a tennis game. He genuinely cannot tell the diffence between widescreen and pan & scan, so he's decided that widescreen is a ripoff conspiracy even for those with normal vision!

Someone who has trouble handling 3D first person displays blaming the game is lacking in objectivity. It brings to mind the Dud & Pete 'One-Legged Tarzan Audition' skit.
 
Jedi Academy-Xbox, the game completely stops when you go to swing your light saber/switch views/jump/pretty much anything that involves movement. And all this while ur offline mind you, so you can only imagine the horrers of playing people over Xbox LIVE.
 
Mission Impossible for the NES

I haven't played it in a long time, but I remember never even being able to get past one of the first levels.
 
[quote name='BLarR']Jedi Academy-Xbox, the game completely stops when you go to swing your light saber/switch views/jump/pretty much anything that involves movement. And all this while ur offline mind you, so you can only imagine the horrers of playing people over Xbox LIVE.[/quote]

Um, I think this is a problem with your copy of the game, or maybe even your XBox. I played all the way through Jedi Academy without any stopping or slowdown problems whatsoever.

As far as Star Wars games go, it's on the lower tier, but still entirely playable.
 
[quote name='MarvinisaLunatic']Mission Impossible for the NES

I haven't played it in a long time, but I remember never even being able to get past one of the first levels.[/quote]

Could be worse. The Atari 7800 version of the popular C64 Epyx title Impossible Mission had a bug that actually made it impossible to win the game. There is a fixed version on the emulation scene but the real cartridges are useless. More so than if they had the winnable version, that is.
 
Man how could I forget about Night Trap for the Sega CD? Worst game ever, no controls, hard to see. Of course, as a 13 year old male, I did like the idea of spying on a teenage girls' slumber party :)
 
Big Rigs Over The Road Racing for PC. Your opponents don't even move, so you win every time of course. And every time you win it says "Your Winner!' Oh, yeah the game has no sound, you fall through bridges, and can drive completely off the level.
 
[quote name='Cornfedwb']One for PS1.. terrible controls, camera and obscene difficulty. I tried that game 4 or 5 times and gave up when I never did get past level 2. 40 enemies coming at you at once when you cant see a single one of them = problems.[/quote]

I just hink that one was a different kind of game. You wernt supposed to shoot and kill everything...just run throught the stage guns blazin till the end, like gungrave....I think thats the only way to beat and enjoy it. I beat "one" in one try all the way through.
 
[quote name='hutno']ONe deffnitely way playable granted the camera could get weird in a few select situations but deffinitely not unplayable as a whole[/quote]

Are you guys serious? I thought that was one of the best games on the PS1! I actually beat it, too...

RD
 
Lost Kingdoms - I couldnt stand it keep cards out of video games please. One exception would be that new Metal Gear Solid game for the PSP.
 
[quote name='Backlash']Golgo 13 for the NES. Lots of people liked that game but I hated it.

Also Spelunker for the NES. The controls and collision detection were horrible and totally unforgiving. I never made it past the second level (of course I haven't played it since I was like 10).[/quote]

golgo 13> J00

that is one of the greatest games i ever played. granted to beat the final boss, you need to be a total button masher(or have an advantage or max)
 
[quote name='Cornfedwb'][quote name='kristianator']final fantasy tactics advance. and it pisses me off because i loved final fantasy tactics. it's one of my favorites.

xenosaga. i probably didn't give this one too much of a chance, but all i remember is that i popped this baby open at 3am attempting to play it and falling asleep with the ps2 on. haven't played it since.
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Well ffta is extremely far away from unplayable. In fact, personally I'd say FF:TA is the number one GBA game out, but Xenosaga is not in the top 5 RPGs out in this generation. I'm assuming that you are right about xenosaga because I never got to discover the shitty battle system, horrible musical score, and boring first 15 hours of gameplay...wait, did i say gameplay?

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You had some spelling mistakes...I took care of those for you.
 
[quote name='Cornfedwb'][quote name='hutno']ONe deffnitely way playable granted the camera could get weird in a few select situations but deffinitely not unplayable as a whole[/quote]

From IGN's review.

Running down a corridor is fine, but controlling John Cain in any other environment is a challenge. His movement is almost too loose, resulting in missed jumps that should be incredibly easy. After dying numerous times on something that shouldn't be a problem, the game begins to get frustrating.

Which leads me to One's main problem: it's too damn hard. Any good game has a steady learning curve: it's easy at the beginning, so you get to know the control and how the game works, and then steadily gets more difficult. One starts tough and gets worse. But the really mean thing about One is the way you die. One makes you learn to do new things so you will have to die 20 times to figure it out. And the save points are spaced incredibly far apart so you have to keep starting over. Note to future developers: this is not fun.

Trust me, the game is near unplayable.


And... this is not terrible games, its unplayable games.. big difference.[/quote]

funny, I BEAT that game. It was lame, yes, but no where near unplayable.
 
[quote name='deathcabforcutie']tilt and tumble was an extremely fun game.. i didnt find it unplayable at all..[/quote]

Ever tried it with a gameboy player?
 
[quote name='eldad9'][quote name='deathcabforcutie']tilt and tumble was an extremely fun game.. i didnt find it unplayable at all..[/quote]

Ever tried it with a gameboy player?[/quote]

That actually sounds fun in that "Hey Look! I'm a funny idiot!" kind of way
 
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