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Daikatana: Is it REALLY that bad? Or has it been judged unfairly by posterity?

>> No.6389815

>>6389810
It's really that bad.

>> No.6389816

To kick off this thread, remind yourself that "fanpatches fixed it" is not an argument

>> No.6389826

It was too ambitious for the time of release. If it had been a modern indie game that had been fully realized it would be a great classic.

>> No.6389828

>>6389810
When your PC and N64 versions are completely trounced by a Game Boy Color port from an entirely different developer, yeah. It's that bad.

>> No.6389849

>>6389815
>>6389816
>>6389826
>>6389828
t. noobs who have never actually played Daikatana

>> No.6389868

>>6389849
ok romero

>> No.6389871

>>6389826
>It was too ambitious for the time of release.
No it wasn't. Devs were just incompetent.

>> No.6389893

>>6389810
It's... eh?
I know what Romero was trying to do, and his heart was in the right place, but this shit does not work.
Also the fact that he overhyped the game to hell and back to later release this half-finished Frankenstein can have something to do with a bad reception.

>> No.6389896

romero is a hack

>> No.6389901

>>6389893
>his heart
You mean his ego?

>> No.6389904
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6389904

The partner-AI is completly idiotic, almost every level and weapon in the first level sucks (The Ultimate Gas Hands can stay, though)
The save system also doesn't really work for the kind of game it is either.

If you use the fanpatch that came out a few years ago you can remove the partners, or at least make them invincible so that they're not a nuisance, plus it changes the save system to the standard autosave/quicksave sort of thing you'd expect from a shooter from the time. After that you'll find that it's a bog-standard late 90's shooter with a basic level-up system and different weapons each episode.

>> No.6389918

Daikatana is an expert level FPS. It's designed to be for experts. The problem is you have far too many people who played and reviewed it who really had no business playing it with their skill level.

>> No.6391041

>>6389810
Its based

>> No.6391045

>>6389918
Explain

>> No.6391473

>>6391045
I literally just did explain

>> No.6391498

>>6389810
It's bad but is not that bad.

It was bad for a game with a blank check.