Average or bad games with great soundtracks

[mormapope]

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Fuck JRPGs 

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[Trent Dole]

Mods help.

[Your Stalker]

Mass Effect 1

[The Sceneman]

Nail on the head with BioSHIT TURDfinite.

ehhhh

[tiesto]

Algarna, a really terrible sidescrolling action RPG for the X68000 that features the Ys 'bump' system. But the soundtrack is done by some guy you may have heard of... Yuzo Koshiro.





Also this could be the "Every Game Tim Follin Ever Worked On" thread:

Silver Surfer



Solstice



Pictionary

[Tasty]

Any given Sonic game.

[Great Rumbler]

3DO port of Doom:

[demi]

Typical troll thread.

Here's a real answer:

Midnight Resistance for the Sega Genesis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7-AHModlMA&list=PL6E89648837E20805

[MMaRsu]

Listing Chrono Trigger and Sonic 1,2,3 & knuckles  & third strike under average or bad games

 

[tiesto]

Typical troll thread.

Here's a real answer:

Midnight Resistance for the Sega Genesis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7-AHModlMA&list=PL6E89648837E20805

Yup, game has an awesome soundtrack. Hitoshi Sakimoto (FF Tactics, FF12, Radiant Silvergun) worked on it too.

[I'm a Puppy!]

Unlimited SaGa is the definition of a terrible game with an incredible soundtrack

[benjipwns]

normalizing hate smh

[Rufus]

Also this could be the "Every Game Tim Follin Ever Worked On" thread:

It is striking how most games he's contributed to are shit and/or forgotten. I wonder if he was just unlucky or somehow contributed to this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Follin#Game_credits

[benjipwns]

did somebody say PLOK and MAGIC JOHNSONS FAST BREAK?!?

[Great Rumbler]

Terminator for the Sega CD:

[Mr. Nobody]

Trying entirely too hard 

[SantaC]

[mormapope]

Trying entirely too hard 

I'm not lying though 

I don't consider average as meaning bad or flawed to the point of being bad, more of a "eh" response based on my tastes. Everything I listed I enjoyed a lot more due to their soundtracks. I can listen to Chrono Trigger's outside of gameplay and that alone makes me want to play the game, only to be sorta bored by all the mechanics and story bits.

Same with Persona 4.

Same with FFX.

When it comes to JRPG mechanics as a whole, modern, old, whatever, nothing can salvage that genre.

[benjipwns]

there's a game genie code to instantly win all battles in chrono trigger (which thankfully doesn't have random battles in the first place)

i'm not saying i used this to get the other 14 endings back in the day, but theoretically someone could to cut the game time by more than two-thirds, even more with proper save management and save states

though i also liked the story because it's one of the few games, really any kind of media, that handles a complex time travel story well enough that it ties off most all of the subplots and actually makes sense when you run through any single plot line...i have to imagine they wrote it (and Cross) like that crazy futurama episode where they used a chart to keep track of the body switching

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of course i did

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[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

lets make the shittiest superhero game possible, but give it triple AAA production values. "Great idea!" Said a guy to another guy, perhaps once.

[benjipwns]

IIRC, the animations in that didn't exactly scream AAA production values.

Though it did have a whole bunch of pre-rendered cutscenes that weren't too bad.

[benjipwns]

pretty good summary i think

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

the voice acting was excellent, full orchestral score, pretty good (for the time) CGI cutscenes and lots of em', also renting out the Batman license. Yeah, I'm sticking to that claim.

I've never since played a game that obviously cost so much money and was so friggin utterly terrible to play.

[benjipwns]

Probably the best way to experience the game:

[chronovore]

Nail on the head with BioSHIT TURDfinite.

That game was so shitty, it diminished its lineage for me.

[Tasty]

Nail on the head with BioSHIT TURDfinite.

That game was so shitty, it diminished its lineage for me.

I thought it was well received?

[chronovore]

Nail on the head with BioSHIT TURDfinite.

That game was so shitty, it diminished its lineage for me.

I thought it was well received?

 Oh, it very much was! So was GTA IV, another shit game.

 System Shock 2 was a tough game, a groundbreaking game, a game with choices. BioShock was a good game with slightly fewer choices, and engaging story, and tremendous atmosphere. Infinite was a game which dumbed down its predecessors' formula so far as to become pointless.

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