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ITT we list our least favorite game developers.

Pic related. I fucking hate ljn. I've never played a decent game they developed; they all suck

>> No.668169

0/10
terrible b8 m8

>> No.668189
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668189

>Lightweight
>Make Bushido Blade 1 and 2
>Then make a bunch of dogshit
>Last game is a Sky Diving sim for the PS3
>Never make Bushido Blade 3

>> No.668203

OP what LJN developed games do you hate?

>> No.668202

Hey, I thought Gotcha! was pretty cash when my light gun used to work

beetlejuice was pretty good too. James Roofe doesn't talk about the better LJN games

>> No.668206

>>668169
I'm being genuine. Everything they made on the NES and SNES was garbage

>> No.668218

>>668202
>James Roofe
Mike Matinee

>> No.668220

>>668202
Gotcha is good but also developed by Atlus

Also to answer my own post >>668203
LJN was exclusively a video game publisher when it comes to video games. Although many of LJN's titles (particularly the pre-Acclaim ones) did not disclose the developer, there is no video game that has been developed in-house by LJN.All of LJN's video games were developed by external developers. >>668169

>> No.668225

>>668206
Ban this tripfagging troll

>> No.668226

>>668203
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Back to the Future
Back to the Future Part II & III
Beetlejuice
Friday the 13th
Jaws
Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge
Terminator 2
and all WWF games just to name a good chunk

>> No.668229

>>668169
Name an above average LJN game.

Saying LJN was crap is not exactly a boilerplate issue.

>> No.668230
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>>668218

>> No.668236

PUBLISHER =/= DEVELOPER

You would be surprised who actually made a lot of those pieces of shit

>> No.668232

Dendy

I'm glad I'm not a slav

>> No.668243

>>668236
My apologies. LJN is my least favorite publisher

>> No.668263

>>668159
Obvious trolling aside: Alien 3 on the SNES is LJN published and pretty magnificent. Struggling to think of much else that didn't stink, though.

>> No.668274

>>668263
I'm not trolling. I listed games above that I think are atrocious

>> No.668279

>>668159
LJN never developed a game, they just licensed games that were made by other people they hired or contracted

>> No.668283

>>668279
I know, I realized this later on

>> No.668286
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668286

>yfw this was actually developed by Rare and the music was done by David Wise

>> No.668297

I liked the True Lies game, it was hard as balls but kinda fun.

>> No.668301

>>668225
>ban this tripfag
>tripfag
He's a namefag, you fag.

>> No.668303
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>>668225
>he doesnt like things i like
>ban him hes trolling

Pls go.

>> No.668350

>>668303
nobody said that fagget

>> No.668380
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668380

Don't mind me, just busy being an LJN game which doesn't suck.

>> No.668384

>>668286
Really? I always thought it was decent.

>> No.668463

>>668384
It's probably the only good horror-movie-based game ever made. It's beatable with 4 players, which I had done. My brother and two cousins. NEVER going to play it again, though. GOD, it was a slog.

>> No.668607

>>668380

BAHN BAHN BAHN BAHN

dod-dod-dod-dod-dod-dod-dod-dod-dod

BAH-NA-NA-NAAAAH
BUH-NUH-NUH NAH NAH
BAH-NA-NA-NAAAAH

>> No.668706

>>668226
LJN didn't develop any of those games. Publisher != Developer.

>> No.668720

>>668380
Loved WWF Royal Rumble on my SNES.

Mr. Perfect was the best. I used to be awesome at that game.

>> No.672325
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672325

>>668229

>> No.672364

>>668232
Wasnt the "company" called Steepler?

>> No.672486
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672486

Excluding some 3 or so games, they released so much shit it's amazing.

>> No.672535

>>668159
monday night raw was fun

>> No.672540

>>668226
>A Nightmare on Elm Street

GUESS WHO FUCKING DEVELOPED THIS TURD?

Rare. there you go. think of it what you want.

>Back to the Future

Beam Software. they also did Shadowrun

google the rest of those if you wanna know the devs. it's interesting.

>> No.673758 [DELETED] 

>>668226
Arcade's Revenge was a good game.

>> No.673824
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673824

>Ctrl+F
>no Tiertex

You don't know anything about crappy developers.

>> No.673861

Friday the 13th is really fun if you have friends to play with.

>> No.673892

>>673824
I know nothing about pre-NES consoles but that fucking logo HAS to be for an Amiga company

>> No.673931

>>673892
Let's just say that they made one of the worst fighting games of all time, and a sequel to Strider before Capcom themselves made one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zUkK14bHDk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUGt4ZaIV1Q

>> No.673942

Acclaim were pretty fucking awful.

>> No.673949

>>673892
>I know nothing about pre-NES consoles

What would you like to know?

>> No.673975
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>>673824

I really liked Tiertex's Toy Story 2 game for the Game Boy. Funny story, there's a guy who used to make video remixes and he would usually throw in lots of Tiertex game footage. He says he actually worked there but he vanished off the internet after ranting about how terrible living in England is. Last thing I heard from him.

They're also responsible for the infamous Sonic Edusoft and a Strider sequel that Capcom had nothing to do with.

>> No.673995

>>668189
>Never make Bushido Blade 3

They can't. The rights to it belong to someone else. The Kengo series was supposed to be their spiritual successor to it.

>> No.674020

>>668189
Except Bushido Blade was never good in the first place.

>> No.674038

>>668189
Wait, Square just published that? Intredasting.

It's such a pain in the ass finding out who actually MADE these games when publishers took all the credit for entire generations.

I was just playing BB1 upstairs, prefer BB2 though...so fucking good

>>674020
Slap yourself

>>673995
Was Kengo any good? I remember my friends who loved BB being meh on it

>> No.674042

>>674038
I heard Kengo was pretty terrible. Even the footage I looked up did not look that good.

>> No.674460
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674460

EA... because ugly, large cartridges with the hideous yellow tab.

>> No.674492
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674492

>>668229

>> No.674497
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674497

>>673975
>implying the game wasn't just average for what it tried to achieve

They even predicted excerpts from Sonic 2 and Kirby's music in 1991. I'm fucking serious.

>> No.674502

>>674460
When I think of reasons to dislike EA, strangely enough, that thought never seems to crop up.

I quite like the EA carts, honestly. They're nice and distinctive. And since they're larger, you can get them out the console easier than regular sized carts.

>> No.674513

>>674502
I see what you mean and I guess I can agree with some better grip perhaps but.. so ugly IMO.

>> No.674530

>>674460
>Cartridge DRM.jpg

>> No.674542

>>674530
>Cartridge DRM?

>> No.674560

>>668286
Explains why the music is solid in this game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLZIpcCiT4o

Honestly, the game itself isn't all that bad either. It still has some flaws (navigation in general, put me in an inescapable position twice near the end) but I had fun with it. Playing as the dream warriors or whatever was actually pretty smooth feeling.

>> No.674631

>>668226
>Friday the 13th
That's Atlus

>> No.674642

>>672486
You better not be talking shit about old man playing a banjo in space.

I will go back in time to yesterday and beat the shit out of you if you are.

>> No.674660

>>668229
Maximum Carnage

>> No.675854

>>674492
>>668380
these. true lies was great. download it now faggotss

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/thread

>> No.678135

>>668380
Rented it once. Hated it because I couldn't figure out how to do finishers, or how to eliminate people except by random.

>> No.678178

>>674502
>And since they're larger, you can get them out the console easier than regular sized carts.
>>674513
>I guess I can agree with some better grip perhaps

I'm sorry, do you two lack opposable thumbs?

>> No.678269

>>668286
That explains why the music was awesome.

>> No.678309
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678309

I remember always thinking they were shit, even long before Superman 64.

>> No.678350

>>672486
Didn't Kemco make that Jacki Chan Adventures GBA Beat 'em Up?

>> No.678457

>>678309
it's funny, superman 64 actually was going to be pretty good. There's videos of a playstation version that was unreleased that was supposed to be what 64 was intended to be, but due to budgets and other bullshit, it got stuck in alpha.

>> No.678478

>>668286
source? no no no.

>> No.678547

>>678309

I liked Whizz even though it was hard, but anything else by them is shit.

>> No.681661
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681661

>>678309
seconded

For some weird reason I also never could stand Soleau Software.

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>>681661
Oh, and also Capstone.
Holy shit, did they make some terrible games...

>> No.681727

>>672486
I liked Top Gear and its sequel for the snes but I understand why we don't hear much about Kemco anymore

>> No.681735

>>674542
See
>>674460

That yellow tab is a DRM device unique to EA carts. It was to prevent someone from copying the game to a blank cartridge.

>> No.681748
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681748

LJN bad? Bitch, please. That was just a collection with bad timing. Just look at games from Ocean. God, I HATE those assholes forever, especially for the Cool World games which made me depressed for years.

>> No.681754

>>668350
He was implying it when he called him a troll, Eskimo butt.

>> No.681756

>>681748

How about their port of Maniac Mansion (I think it was them) and Rainbow Island?

>> No.681826
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681826

>>678478

>> No.681842

>>678457
I thought the story went that those videos were actually the beta version of the N64 game, which was ultimately scrapped because DC threw a hissyfit about Superman apparently killing people.

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>> No.681865

>>681842
Wait, nevermind. Actually did some googling like I should have done before.

Superman 64 still get a severely crippled release, but THIS gets shelved? Goddamn it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Wm4DtkdrG0

>> No.681890

>>681859
That Tom and Jerry game they made was decent

>> No.681907

>>681890

yeah forgot to write it, that game was not bad

>> No.681912

>>678478

A lot of LJN games were actually made by Rare or Software Creations.

>> No.681968
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681968

They made the worst Doom clones of the 90s, games like Isle of the Dead, Fortress of Dr Radiaki, and Nerves of Steel are the proof of that.

>> No.681979

>>681859
I can't really blame them for the crappy PC Megaman port, the guy who made it only had like two weeks to develop it.

>> No.683980

>>668189
Kabuki Warriors on the xbox

HAHAHA FAIL

>> No.684142

Acclaim made some shit games

I think most developers that made shit games are dead by now

>> No.684147

Atari under Infogrames made a lot of shit games

those dumb french bastards ruined it but who the hell gets into like 500million dollars in debt buying shit publishers like Ocean, Accolade and GT

>> No.684148

Good LJN game: Maximum Carnage

>> No.684181

>>668189
Honestly, Bushido Blade was a cool concept, but if you go back and play it, the execution was pretty clunky. The only reason it holds up at all is because there's almost nothing else like it.