THE BORE

General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: Eel O'Brian on January 13, 2007, 11:42:39 PM

Title: It's The Shitty Games Thread
Post by: Eel O'Brian on January 13, 2007, 11:42:39 PM

I bought Airborne Troops:  Countdown To D-Day this evening for five bucks, to feed my WWII games sickness.  It's sitting on my coffee table, unopened.  I'm actually kind of scared to open it.  I KNOW it's going to be terrible, even the screenshots on the back are empty of the promise of fun.  But, is it going to be PAINFULLY bad, or HILARIOUSLY bad?

the suspense is palpable

What games have you purchased that you knew were going to be terrible, but bought them anyway?  And why did you buy them?

Title: Re: It's The Shitty Games Thread
Post by: Van Cruncheon on January 13, 2007, 11:51:21 PM

Tony Hawk's Project 8 PSP

it was terrible :(

I traded it for Mario Kart Double Dash

which is also terrible :(

I am batting 0/2

Title: Re: It's The Shitty Games Thread
Post by: Christopher on January 13, 2007, 11:55:37 PM

Pikmin

Title: Re: It's The Shitty Games Thread
Post by: Eel O'Brian on January 13, 2007, 11:59:12 PM

Yes, but why did you buy them if you knew beforehand they were going to be awful?

unwrapping shitty WWII game now...

Title: Re: It's The Shitty Games Thread
Post by: Van Cruncheon on January 14, 2007, 12:01:39 AM

I didn't know they were gonna suck! I liked the demo of Project 8 for the three-sitty and the clerk insisted it had no load time issues as well as great graphics on the PSP. Neither were true, so I took it back and got Mario Kart DD for the GC instead, which I remembered enjoying on a Target kiosk way back when. This time, memory failed me; it sucked total ass. :(

Title: Re: It's The Shitty Games Thread
Post by: Christopher on January 14, 2007, 12:03:48 AM

I had a gut feelign that Pikmin was gonna suck but I WANTED it to be good so bad.  Granted this is when I didn't visit forums, or what have you.

Ugh honestly besides Shadow the Hedgehog it's the first game I stopped playing after one day, but at least I rented Shadow

Title: Re: It's The Shitty Games Thread
Post by: Eel O'Brian on January 14, 2007, 12:06:56 AM

Generic "Field Operations Manual" instruction booklet - check

Muddy B&W screenshots with numbers vaguely explaining game functions - check

Bargain Bin disc artwork, logo only - check

Title: Re: It's The Shitty Games Thread
Post by: Eel O'Brian on January 14, 2007, 12:14:29 AM

Developed by "Widescreen Games," game 4:3 only - check

Title: Re: It's The Shitty Games Thread
Post by: Van Cruncheon on January 14, 2007, 12:16:18 AM

Quote from: Eel_O_Brian on January 14, 2007, 12:14:29 AM

Developed by "Widescreen Games," game 4:3 only - check

hahahaha :lol

Title: Re: It's The Shitty Games Thread
Post by: Eel O'Brian on January 14, 2007, 12:27:31 AM

Main character voiced by larynx cancer victim speaking through voice box - check

Game takes place before D-day landings, yet there are looping background battle sounds - check

Glitchy, unnecessarily complicated aiming scheme - check

Character animations apparently captured at a Rave filled with epileptics - check

Title: Re: It's The Shitty Games Thread
Post by: Diablos on January 14, 2007, 12:34:35 AM

Shadow of the Colossus

Yeah, I went there.

Title: Re: It's The Shitty Games Thread
Post by: Human Snorenado on January 14, 2007, 02:10:33 AM

I would nominate ICO as a shitty game, but that would be an insult to the shitty games already mentioned in this thread!

Title: Re: It's The Shitty Games Thread
Post by: Itch on January 14, 2007, 10:49:04 AM

I swear it feels like they are deliberately trying to fuck up the Tony Hawk series.

Title: Re: It's The Shitty Games Thread
Post by: Eel O'Brian on January 14, 2007, 11:50:13 AM

Randomly spawning magical nazis that appear out of thin air already shooting me - check

Title: Re: It's The Shitty Games Thread
Post by: Yeti on January 14, 2007, 04:35:14 PM

I bought Shaq-Fu knowing it would be shitty, but in my defense it was only $2 at a used book store.

Title: Re: It's The Shitty Games Thread
Post by: bork on January 14, 2007, 06:01:07 PM

Quote from: Itch on January 14, 2007, 10:49:04 AM

I swear it feels like they are deliberately trying to fuck up the Tony Hawk series.

The DS Project Sk8land wasn't too bad though.  Was Downhill Jam on DS any good?  I like SSX a lot...