/v/ - Video Games

masochist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_games_notable_for_negative_reception

Go wild

>>15618314

I am surprised that SimCity2013 and No Man's Sky made that list, but Mass Effect: Andromeda did not. But I guess it was a different type of failure.

See, all of these games have one thing in common, and that's that they were massively hyped up and then proved to be a big disappointment. The list is missing many games that, like Andromeda, were never expected to be very good by most people, and so when they came out with all the grandeur of a small wet fart, nobody was really surprised. The reaction was less "terrible!" and more "meh" despite being very bad.

But OP, if you really want to suffer you can go on Steam and find the lowest-rated indie games. There's a good chance some of them don't even work properly.

>>15618306

Anything made by Ubisoft in the last 10 years or so?

Half-Life 2

>>15618342

That's a whole new level of bad. There are games with bad controls, graphics, sound. Hit detection is fucked, it pisses you off. But at least it makes you feel something. With Ubisoft games you slowly cease to be a human being, unthinking and unfeeling, until you fade from existence.

>>15618363

true

Superman 64

E.T.

Sonic Adventure

Battlefield 4 before patches

>>15618342

Weren't Rayman Origins/Legends technically Ubisoft? I get what you mean though

anything by Telltale "Games"

>>15618306

State of Mind

I had to fucking drop that piece of shit after 3 minutes of the tutorial.

Superman 64 (obligatory)

Shaq Fu (also obligatory)

Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing

Rogue Warrior

Any 3D Sonic game made post-Dreamcast era

Nier Automata

Jersey Devil for the PS1, a 3D collectathon platformer where the collectables and platforms are 2D sprites instead of 3D models. All the jank of a cheap 3D platformer, with none of the actual benefits of 3D.

>>15618526

>Any 3D Sonic game made post-Dreamcast era

But Heroes was okay, Shadow was actually decent, Unleashed could have been the best but some major fuck ups that soured the whole thing, and Generations was Unleashed without the fuck ups.

Honestly Im getting tired of you niggers. The only actual, legitimately gutter trash Sonic games are Sonic 2006, Sonic Boom, the Bioware one and Sonic Forces.

Tomb raider angel of darkness, driv3r and Crash Bandicoot 4.

>>15618549

I'm honestly surprised that's shot up where I live from like $8 to $30+ now.

>>15618556

Hey give me some (You)'s credit, I specifically went to reddit just to get the image filename right and am phoneposting instead of working right as we speak.

>>15618335

Simcity 2013 wouldn't have been half bad if it wasn't for the always online drm that'd boot you from the game if your internet shat out for 1 second

>>15618335

Wikipedia is controlled by leftists, no surprise they'd protect their own.

>>15621570

What don't you like about Tyrian?

>>15621528

>Wikipedia is controlled by leftists

It's controlled by liberal cliques and state-sponsored astroturfers.

>>15621576

Glad you asked. Where to start? The controls suck, the sound effects are terrible, the weapons are underpowered, and the level design and enemies were clearly thrown together with absolutely no thought put into them. Most bosses are boringly and simple with very repetitive attacks. The pacing and difficulty progression is absolutely schizophrenic. Worst of all, you can brute force your way right through many badly-designed enemy attacks and formations by simply having a powerful generator to keep your shield recharging fast.

And you know what? The music isn't even that good. I've played bunches of 2D shooters with similar later age FM-style soundtracks CONSIDERABLY better than this.

I'm so glad I finally played this turd so I can know just what you nostalgiafaggots get so worked up over. You know what's better than Tyrian? Jets 'n' Guns. Hell, you know what's better than Tyrian? Fucking Touhou. I shit you not, the bottom of the barrel in modern indie 2D shooters is still better than this turd.

Tyrian was released in 1995. Let's have a look at what else was released in 1995: Donpachi, Strikers 1945, Viper Phase 1, Cho Ren Sha 68K, and motherfucking Raiden and Raiden II got proper home ports with The Raiden Project. Every single one of these kicks the SHIT out of Tyrian. And that was a weak year for 2D shooters.

I can only conclude one thing: The people who hype this stinker have very limited experience with the rest of the genre. People who played DOS games and nothing else, with little interest in other game platforms of the time. But even that isn't the best explanation, because arcade shooters finally started getting PC ports only a few years later. This game is a joke compared to its obvious Compile shooter inspirations.

Oh, and maybe people who value humor or "intellectual" pursuits (in this case, pointless decision-making) in video games over good action. Well the joke's on you: you're playing the wrong game genre!

Somehow, a shooter is mostly a game where you shoot things and dodge bullets. But this definition is far too vulgar for any European mind. I mean, no real European man can enjoy a simple thing like that and keep looking into a mirror with some respect for himself. Because it's a definition that makes the game a matter of agility, and not of intelligence and strategy. And this, for a genuine European mind, is the most despicable thing of all.

So Euroshmups are a (mostly missed) attempt to "level-up" the intellectual interest of the genre. So to say, a desperate attempt to turn poker into chess.

This is achieved by adding to shmups the most unexpected elements possible, and there are basically three different types:

-adding difficulties to destroying enemies (limited ammo, weapon management, weak weapons, excessive enemy health, etc.)

-adding difficulties to controlling the ship (ship control taking care of gravity or inertia, needlessly aping the old Asteroids style of acceleration and turn buttons, etc.)

-adding difficulties in the level design and gameplay (level traps, things that kill you before you're dead because you need to know ahead of time that you need X amount of health to survive something that isn't dodgeable, everything that requires a complete anti-natural behavior)

Euroshmups are basically games that tend to give the bigger possible malus to players who rely on skill. They usually are insanely difficult and frustrating for those who try to beat them by playing them in the manner of a typical arcade action game. Seriously OP, Euroshmups are right up your alley. Grab an Amiga emulator and dig in.

>>15618367

What the fuck is this?

>>15621598

Tyrian certainly isn't an amazing shooter mechanically, but it has a lot of weird shit in it that makes it interesting to play once.

Godus

>>15621598

You're completely right if I wasn't being clear.

Now I want to hear what you have to say about Fallout.

>>15622289

i had a friend who had this when i was very, very young. all i remember is a side-scrolling game where you played as a tiger in power armor or something. it fucking sucked

>take a pong clone, make the main mechanic frustrating to control, make numerous puzzles revolving around this mechanic and don't stop to consider whether or not this would actually be doable

>also add in only one song for practically the entire game, add a fuel system that decreases as you play the stage and every time you miss the ball, have a score-based gas station that's also annoying to even gas up, and a horrifying cat boss that appears at random before any visit to said gas station

>>15621478

Even without that, it's still the objective worst city builder ever, because the entire plot size is scarcely larger than a city block. They also dumbed down literally every element of gameplay.

And all of this was because of limitations created by the agent system meme (that also hog-ties up Skylines) and focus on pretty graphics over all else.

No, SC2013 should forever be preserved as the perfect shining example of everything that is wrong with modern games.

>>15621622

Euroshmups are games made by people who are bad at shmups and for people who are bsd at shmups.

-t. Played Astro Avenger with my father.

>>15621622

I played a shitty slav shmup recently and it's fucking hot garbage, it makes euroshmups worth dying for.

>>15623347

Euroshmups are different but they are usually bad.

Just go watch AVGN.

>>15623328

>that fucking ending

>>15618306

E.T. for the ATARI was extremely hyped and yet infamously bad, a complete business disaster, but that happened over 30 years ago which is why you haven't heard of it.

>>15622289

Literally an asset flip before asset flips

>>15618554

>Crash Bandicoot 4

wrath of cortex? i liked that one tbh

state of emergency 2 was some piece of shit

also i enjoyed k&l2, mostly because of the 1st one

star fox adventures

/v/'s favorite game

please reply to me

The Sniper 2. You won't believe it's a PS2 game.

>>15628275

Grr I'm angry.

you want some shit?

>>15618335

Same thing for Daikatana. Not that bad of a game, but hyped up to oblivion.

Any game by Midas Interactive and Phoenix Games.

>>15628335

>Not that bad of a game

You didn't play it when it was new.

>>15623466

I meant it in the way that some yuro thought "I will make about flying a ship, shooting other ships in space and shieeet", without understanding what a shoot em up is or should be.

White Knight Chronicles

>>15631374

That fake as shit trailer and decoy protagonist still pisses me off.

>>15631366

It's not that bad if you have a manual, confusing as shit otherwise.