What is your most hated game of all time? One that made you want to punch babies?

[quote name='jer7583']Well I said NIS and Atlus in that post because Atlus releases just as many crappy games that sell based on japanophile appeal alone.[/quote]

Trauma Center? Riviera? Shin Megami Tensei?

Puffa cought exactly my point, that NIS is no more "honorable" or "hardcore" than EA or Ubi.. they milk their customer base just as well, but without all the polish and variety in their games.
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They're also selling to a targeted market. What they're making works for that customer base. Why would they change that if it works?

As for what I think they should do? I'm not sure. I don't really know if they're capable of creating something outside of that "hardcore" (read: obsessively nerdy) customer base.
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....I didn't ask what you thought they should do, I was asking how else can you make a tactical RPG "hardcore" outside of ridiculously powerful enemies that require extensive power-levelling.

The obsessively nerdy comment is uncalled for, I think. There are some people that just ENJOY games with crazy levelling-schemes. Like the people that enjoy top-down shooters with 1 billion + bullets onscreen.
 
[quote name='Rasen']They're also selling to a targeted market. What they're making works for that customer base. Why would they change that if it works?

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The obsessively nerdy comment is uncalled for, I think. There are some people that just ENJOY games with crazy levelling-schemes. Like the people that enjoy top-down shooters with 1 billion + bullets onscreen.[/quote]With that kind of argument, you can't disagree with sports titles in any way. They're selling to a targeted audience, and by the looks of the sales figures, it continues to work.
 
Sonic Heroes. Bought it on day one... and I damn near swore off playing another Sonic game ever again. Thankfully Rush and (for the most part) Secret Rings have made up for it.
 
Why am I the first person to have said Mario Party 3+. It is easily the most retarded game ever. I remember playing a 4 hour game and lost all my stars in the last 5 minutes. Games based entirely on chance are just fucking stupid.
 
[quote name='BattleChicken']Advanced D&D: Heroes of the Lance for the NES.

Description:
Based on the later parts of the Dragon Lance book Dragons of Autumn Twilight, the heroes are descending into a ruined city in search of the disks of Mishakal.

The gameplay consists of horizontal fighting with a maze like map using doors to change the view. The party consists of the 8 Heroes of the Lance, using one at a time and you can switch between them at any time. Each character has different types of attacks and spells making them more suited to fighting different enemies as well as acting as lives.

One of the AD&D games that make a break from the usual RPG style.


Translation:
Every character's (except tasslehoff) normal attacks go over the heads of the enemies at the start of the game - so you'll get stabbed in the nads to death by shrimpy goblin things... that or you'll fall in pits and die. -- WORST GAME EVER.[/QUOTE]


GAHHH!! I had this game too!! Putrid pile of dreck

Bought it, played it, beat it, and punched myself in the face as punishment all in the same day.

[quote name='blandstalker'] When I was in college, I watched a guy playing the arcade version. He made it all the way to the end, then did it all again (the game makes you). [/QUOTE]

Yeah about that whole "You made it to the end, now fuck you and do it all over again." If the guy who thought of that is allowed to pro-create, I'll track his sons down and punch them all in the face.
 
I've got no beef with trauma center, but Riviera? SMT? Snooze fests. No thank you. Why waste my time when I could be playing something good..

NIS=EA, but without all the money and rappers.
 
[quote name='derder']Why am I the first person to have said Mario Party 3+. It is easily the most retarded game ever. I remember playing a 4 hour game and lost all my stars in the last 5 minutes. Games based entirely on chance are just fucking stupid.[/quote]

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The leveling part of NIS games is annoying, but NIS games are like Chess with a story.

They may not mess with the gameplay too much, but at least there is value in its art/comedy.
 
I dont recall too many games I actually paid money for and hated due to frustration, its more "levels" or "difficulty" within certain areas of a game.

Most of the games you guys have listed are old 8bit titles.....where the only way they could give a game longevity was to make the game impossible to finish :)

For me, an example of controller-throwing frustration would be: Gears of War (recently), some of the levels..like that damn "assault the Pump House" mission on Hardcore.....after 30 tries I finally beat it, then cried myself to sleep.

Or the Mission from VICE CITY where you gotta race that guy in the car...I finally had to cheat to beat the level. The one where after 10 feet your car is wasted by the half-dozen cops that pounce on you because you are street racing, meanwhile the PS2 races its car perfectly.

So you gotta try to block the road, or you gotta try to park a faster car near there, or you gotta do this or try that or this or that....to me, thats horseshit.
It almost ruined what was otherwise my idea of a perfect game.
 
[quote name='HeadRusch']
Or the Mission from VICE CITY where you gotta race that guy in the car...I finally had to cheat to beat the level. The one where after 10 feet your car is wasted by the half-dozen cops that pounce on you because you are street racing, meanwhile the PS2 races its car perfectly.[/quote]

I actully remembered that one. :whistle2:&
 
[quote name='jer7583']If we want to talk about mainstream, popular games.. I can't stand all those cookie cutter NIS Strat/RPGs that the supposedly "hardcore" flock to just because it's 2D and got anime characters.

They churn out copycat shovelware worse than EA does, but somehow people are blind to it because it's atlus, and disgaea was rare at one point. I would keep a copy of phantom brave around if I ever needed a sleep aid, however.[/QUOTE]

omg, someone finally gets it.

I kept my copy of Disgaea to give it a serious playthrough, but yea, it seems most of NIS's games are just recycled off of one another with only a little bit changed... which sounds an awful lot like Madden or Dynasty Warriors.

But since they are Nippon Ichi they get an automatic pass.
 
[quote name='derder']Why am I the first person to have said Mario Party 3+. It is easily the most retarded game ever. I remember playing a 4 hour game and lost all my stars in the last 5 minutes. Games based entirely on chance are just fucking stupid.[/QUOTE]
I freaking hate the Mario Party games. Every time I had to review one, it was torturous. Here's one of my MP reviews: http://www.gameinformer.com/NR/exeres/812E7AA9-CC71-4580-A7A6-D760C349F47D.htm

[quote name='HeadRusch']Or the Mission from VICE CITY where you gotta race that guy in the car...I finally had to cheat to beat the level. The one where after 10 feet your car is wasted by the half-dozen cops that pounce on you because you are street racing, meanwhile the PS2 races its car perfectly.

So you gotta try to block the road, or you gotta try to park a faster car near there, or you gotta do this or try that or this or that....to me, thats horseshit.
It almost ruined what was otherwise my idea of a perfect game.[/QUOTE] I honestly don't remember that part, so I guess it wasn't too bad. I played the entire game in one week for a strategy guide. I put in literally 90 hours at the office that week, but I still absolutely loved the game and gave it a 10.

I'd say the newest Sonic the Hedgehog (next-gen) is my pick. It's so bad, I actually show it to friends for us to ridicule. My favorite part is when Silver the Hedgehog comes back from the future to kill Sonic, and the first mission he does is USE HIS TELEKINESIS TO HELP SOME OLD MAN GATHER APPLES! Not only is it ridiculous, but the load times are horrendous, and you aren't even given instructions on HOW to gather the apples. I had to look at GameFaqs to find out how to actually do it, even after a good (bad) 25 tries!
 
[quote name='Rozz']TJ Lavin's Ultimate BMX for the PSX and Katamari Damacy for the PS2. Here is why I didnt like Katamari Damacy. I know some fanboys are going to be angry after reading this.[/quote]

I will avoid your reviews at all cost! Anyway....


Halo. I hate these games with a passion. I have never beaten a single one of them and can never get into the story. The gameplay is boring and doesn't excite me one bit. I can't even see why it has a following. After every fight it looks like a raver got killed and his glow sticks got splattered all over.
 
[quote name='Roufuss']:rofl:

So you're the evil Game Informer guy who gave them a rep as Nintendo bashers... nice ;)[/QUOTE]
I wish I could take all the credit for it, but we literally got a plaque from Nintendo joking about our Mario Party scoring before I ever reviewed one of 'em. :)
 
[quote name='Snake2715']Hey I have Athena boxxed and ready for you in my trade list![/quote]

HAHAHAHA sweet, I can't wait to get it so I can play Hulk Smash with it, then toss the remnants into a furnace. Let me go see what I can dig up for a trade.
 
[quote name='sallyballs']


Yeah about that whole "You made it to the end, now fuck you and do it all over again." If the guy who thought of that is allowed to pro-create, I'll track his sons down and punch them all in the face.[/quote]

HAHAHAHA and a donkey punch for all his daughters!
 
[quote name='ViolentLee'] I honestly don't remember that part, so I guess it wasn't too bad. I played the entire game in one week for a strategy guide. I put in literally 90 hours at the office that week, but I still absolutely loved the game and gave it a 10.
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I think its one of those parts where you either got lucky on your first run through it, or you got stuck like a priest in an alterboy, and had to run through about 200 times to finally pass it.

Its right at the end, one of the last missions...the guy you race becomes your wheelman when you rob the bank at the end of the campaign....he drives one of those Sabre Turbo's (red with the white or silver stripe down it), meanwhile you get some shitbox BMW clone that can't hope to keep up. I honestly have no idea how people pass that mission without cheating, and I've played a game or two in my time :p I finally gave up and cheated with the trick that cars can fly...5 seconds after he takes off down the road VROOOOM! Up into the air he flies :D I then hit the "lower your wanted level" cheat and coasted to easy victory.

Partially pissed at Rockstar because I had to resort to that to finally complete the game, forever preventing me from getting 100%....

does is USE HIS TELEKINESIS TO HELP SOME OLD MAN GATHER APPLES! Not only is it ridiculous, but the load times are horrendous, and you aren't even given instructions on HOW to gather the apples. I had to look at GameFaqs to find out how to actually do it, even after a good (bad) 25 tries!
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Once upon a time I owned a brand new Atari VCS. A few years later there were games like this available for it.....enter the great video game crash of 1983. The writing is on the walls, fellas! :D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983[
 
nba live (any of them)

all of the nba live games pale in comparison to the nba 2k series games...when playing live, it just doesn't feel right...it feels unnatural while playing...
 
[quote name='Kendal']I will avoid your reviews at all cost! Anyway....


Halo. I hate these games with a passion. I have never beaten a single one of them and can never get into the story. The gameplay is boring and doesn't excite me one bit. I can't even see why it has a following. After every fight it looks like a raver got killed and his glow sticks got splattered all over.[/quote]
You do realize there reason the Halo series is so revered is because of it's online play/multiplayer, right? Have you even tried out the online play at all?

Nobody really argues that the campaign is less than stellar.
 
[quote name='HeadRusch']Or the Mission from VICE CITY where you gotta race that guy in the car...I finally had to cheat to beat the level. The one where after 10 feet your car is wasted by the half-dozen cops that pounce on you because you are street racing, meanwhile the PS2 races its car perfectly.

So you gotta try to block the road, or you gotta try to park a faster car near there, or you gotta do this or try that or this or that....to me, thats horseshit.
It almost ruined what was otherwise my idea of a perfect game.[/quote]

I hated that effin mission! I think in the end I made a 2 garbage truck roadblock to stop that guy. And he still caught up and I barely beat him.
 
Top Gun for NES. I used to pretend that the end of level 2 was the end of the game so I wouldn't get so frustrated at the later levels.
 
[quote name='HeadRusch']I think its one of those parts where you either got lucky on your first run through it, or you got stuck like a priest in an alterboy, and had to run through about 200 times to finally pass it.

Its right at the end, one of the last missions...the guy you race becomes your wheelman when you rob the bank at the end of the campaign....he drives one of those Sabre Turbo's (red with the white or silver stripe down it), meanwhile you get some shitbox BMW clone that can't hope to keep up. I honestly have no idea how people pass that mission without cheating, and I've played a game or two in my time :p I finally gave up and cheated with the trick that cars can fly...5 seconds after he takes off down the road VROOOOM! Up into the air he flies :D I then hit the "lower your wanted level" cheat and coasted to easy victory.

Partially pissed at Rockstar because I had to resort to that to finally complete the game, forever preventing me from getting 100%....[/QUOTE]

NOW I remember it. You were right to bitch. I just spent half an hour digging for the issue w/my strategy guide in it, to see how I actually beat it. What I said wasn't all that helpful -- probably because it's ALWAYS tough:
[quote name='My GI Vice City Guide']Hilary is far better than the psychos in Vice Street Racer [an earlier mission]. His car is better than yours, and you can't really push him around. Plus, you're given two stars from the start. How do you beat him? Don't let him get too far ahead of you. He will mess up a few corners and may get turned around, which you can use to take the lead. He won't be down for long, though. There are a few places where, depending on whether you're winning or not, two cops will try to sandwich you from opposite ends: the right turn where the bridge to the mansion is on your left, and the right onto the bridge after the destroyed building. [/QUOTE]
 
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fuck this game so hard. I played this a lot and could never figure out anything. From where the game starts, if you walk one screen south you fall off the friggen map. So painfully confusing.

Also reminds me of the Swordquest series for Atari 2600 which was ball breakingly frustrating.
 
Dragon Warrior IV

Why do you ask?

It was a fantastic game back in the day and I really got into it. I Was really getting into the story and having a good time. Then my Nintendo would start to blink and my save would get erased. I restarted the game a few times and this was always the result.

They should have recalled all front loaders and replaced them with toploaders. Anybody who bought the original NES should get a DS lite for free. That system was such a piece of shit hardware wise - and there was no internet to get a 72 pin connector from and how is a kid going to get one anyway? How ironic the greatest system ever was the worst designed ever.
 
[quote name='Trakan']You do realize there reason the Halo series is so revered is because of it's online play/multiplayer, right? Have you even tried out the online play at all?

Nobody really argues that the campaign is less than stellar.[/quote]

Yes, still bleh. I also don't like having little kids calling me a nigger or fagot or some other slur. I also noted that the gameplay was uninteresting to me. That means I find the game in general boring, online and off. I have played so many better games online than Halo, I still don't see why the game is followed so rabidly. Maybe I have been spoiled by PC FPS gaming. Perfect Dark offline mulitplayer is hands down better than Halo. Hell, I would take Timesplitter 2 over either Halo game solo or multiplayer..
 
[quote name='wageslave']Dragon Warrior IV

Why do you ask?

It was a fantastic game back in the day and I really got into it. I Was really getting into the story and having a good time. Then my Nintendo would start to blink and my save would get erased. I restarted the game a few times and this was always the result.

They should have recalled all front loaders and replaced them with toploaders. Anybody who bought the original NES should get a DS lite for free. That system was such a piece of shit hardware wise - and there was no internet to get a 72 pin connector from and how is a kid going to get one anyway? How ironic the greatest system ever was the worst designed ever.[/quote]

Are you fucking retarded? I have two working launch NES systems. PSX/PS2 are the shittiest in design. Go smoke another rock.
 
Gunvalkyrie for xbox really stands out to me as one of the few games I detested because of it difficulty (mainly because of its shitty controls and how it required pinpoint accuracy platforming at some points). I did waste my time finishing it though.

The more I think about the more I want to fucking punch something.
 
[quote name='Kendal']Yes, still bleh. I also don't like having little kids calling me a nigger or fagot or some other slur. .[/quote]

I don't even bother with in-game speech unless I am playing with people I know aren't jackasses. It really isn't necessary in casual play anyway.
 
You know....I really fucking hated Shadow of the Colossus. fuck that game and fuck everyone who said it was good.

So boring....so clunky...ugly to look at. Wow a whole 13 boss fights with nothing to do inbetween. Great i get to spend 20 min riding on the back of so fucking monsters ass just to figure out how to jump onto its back...just to fall off and spend another 20 min climbing back up.

God i hated that game soooooo much.
 
Spec Ops on the PS1.

Lousy controls, bland environments, and not being able to kill an enemy shooting an entire clip of ammo into his head at point blank range yet you can kill someone from a mile out with one shot to the leg. It was pretty damn hard too (although the seemingly broken gameplay likely had something to do with that). I truly hate that game.
 
[quote name='Soodmeg']You know....I really fucking hated Shadow of the Colossus. fuck that game and fuck everyone who said it was good.

So boring....so clunky...ugly to look at. Wow a whole 13 boss fights with nothing to do inbetween. Great i get to spend 20 min riding on the back of so fucking monsters ass just to figure out how to jump onto its back...just to fall off and spend another 20 min climbing back up.

God i hated that game soooooo much.[/QUOTE]
I got nothing out of that game, either. I played maybe 2 levels and shelved it permanently. I usually have enough patience for 2 levels from a game; if it doesn't grab me, I'm out -- especially if I don't get Achievement Points for 'em. ;)
 
[quote name='ViolentLee']I got nothing out of that game, either. I played maybe 2 levels and shelved it permanently. I usually have enough patience for 2 levels from a game; if it doesn't grab me, I'm out -- especially if I don't get Achievement Points for 'em. ;)[/quote]
yeah imo SoTC is overrated, if the game had stuff to do in between boss battles and a more fleshed out story, it would have been epic

not to say that the collosus battles weren't epic, the game just coulda been so much more
 
[quote name='dastly75']yeah imo SoTC is overrated, if the game had stuff to do in between boss battles and a more fleshed out story, it would have been epic

not to say that the collosus battles weren't epic, the game just coulda been so much more[/quote]I agree. While I really liked SotC, it could've been so much more, graphically and game wise. I think it's precursor, Ico, though is far more overrated. One giant escort mission with mundane puzzles. It did have some neat atmosphere, though.
 
I agree that SOTC is definitly overrated. Another game I hated was Jaws for nes. My god was this a piece of shit. All you do is move a ship, which looks more like an anchor, and randomly you would move around the water and fight stingrays, crabs, and starfish. Deadly starfish that will kill you if you even touch it. Not only that you randomly collect shells, which to this day I still have no idea what they do besides points.

Finally when you do meet jaws it takes at least 2 hours just to sit there and shoot him because it would take about 20-30 shots just to take one life bar away from jaws. Then half the time jaws would disappear and you would have to repeat the whole process again. I swear they should have renamed jaws to you just bought a big pile of shit, congratulations!
 
Ghosts and Goblins
Ghouls and Ghosts
Odama(GC)

The last one is simply cause the soldiers don't follow orders fast enough. I'll sit there and yell commands while they literally walk right into the Odama ball.
 
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