/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.9551447]

ITT: Games that aren't good but you kind of like anyway

[Anonymous No.9551495]

>>9551447
nostalgia when you got us under your pawn

[Anonymous No.9551516]

>>9551447
I don't like this game but the soundtrack is fucking badass and underrated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEIwqlXfUVs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVVb8hOyQnQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR8kUuNqP6k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_KrQNe7qv4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPFrg3X1mrE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ioYorKqYo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pYMWE88Jro

[Anonymous No.9551623]

>>9551516
>bad game
>good ost
seems many sonic games fall under this

[Anonymous No.9551641]

>>9551447
It has so many issues and I would probably hate playing it today but I have a lot of fond memories playing this as a kid

[Anonymous No.9551654]

>>9551641
lol this fucking game

[Anonymous No.9552293]

>>9551447
I love Spider-Man: Return of the Sinister Six, on NES, perhaps because it's my favorite super hero and this was his 1st video game I ever played, but I still genuinely like how it plays, and the level design for the 1st half of the adventure.

[Anonymous No.9552297]

>>9551447
git gud, sonic 3d is gud

[Anonymous No.9552302]

>>9551447
I mean it's not a bad game. Just kind of long with no save system on either console for some reason. The Saturn version is unironically probably my favorite game on that system, and I've played a lot of them at this point.

>>9551516
Yeah, both soundtracks are honestly brilliant

[Anonymous No.9552608]

Objectively not a good game, but fun to play with 4 players even though it sucks. The crappy janky animations and corny as hell presentation and music make it really entertaining. The character creator was always fun for inside jokes.

[Anonymous No.9553194]

>>9552608
Speaking of Dreamcast games, I kinda liked Slave Zero and MDK2 at the time. Wouldn't touch them now though.

[Anonymous No.9553197]

>>9551516
At last, I finally meet another man of culture.

[Anonymous No.9553226]

Shallow, stupid game with terrible AI, but was genuinely fun with friends now and again back in the day.

[Anonymous No.9553264]

Wolverine was the only comic book tie-in game for NES I actually like. My Dad bought all those games back in the day because he was a huge nerd.

[Anonymous No.9553272]

The one game I think could be salvaged with a ROM hack, as opposed to the dozens of Capcom and Nintendo licenses that have these silly fan-made implementations in what are otherwise working games.

[Anonymous No.9553274]

>>9553272
Forgot pic.

[Anonymous No.9553291]

Does Mega Man X6 count? I don't consider it bad, in fact I love it, but I know a lot of people hate it and shit on it. When you know what you're doing it's a lot of fun to play through, especially as Zero.

[Anonymous No.9553705]

>>9553197
echidna*

[Anonymous No.9553776]

>>9551447
I agree with you on this one.

Yet I can't think of another contribution.

[Anonymous No.9553783]

The game is a mess. Extremely non-linear, but the game gives you only a few cryptic hints on how to progress. Very frustrating without a guide. The dungeons are FF II levels of bad, the random encounter rate is ridiculously high in some places and on top of that, the battle difficulty is all over the place, ranging from piss easy to fucking hard.
I really don't know why I like this game, but I somehow do. It's a very creative title with some good music but the execution is just terrible.

[Anonymous No.9554894]

>>9551447
>>9552302
>>9552297
>>9551516
play the Director's Cut, faggots.
You'll start loving or love the game again after this.

[Anonymous No.9554902]

>>9553274
>>9553272
Considering Smash Remix exists and it's entire direction, you have a point.

[Anonymous No.9554913]

>>9554894
I didn't. Most of the DC changes were wholly unneeded.

[Anonymous No.9554914]

>>9554894
if its not on the saturn I'm gonna say fuck off, so it better be

[Anonymous No.9554916]

>>9551447
>>9554894
Yeah, Director's Cut takes it from a meh game to a pretty alright one.

[Anonymous No.9554917]

it's rather clunky but has a lot of charm, and it is the easiest neo geo fighter to 1CC. your special moves kill the opponents in like 3 hits

[Anonymous No.9554935]

>>9551447
this game is malicious and actively loathes the player
not sure why I keep coming back for more

[Anonymous No.9556520]

[Anonymous No.9556710]

>>9554935
Sounds like Crash 4

[Anonymous No.9556715]

>>9554935
I always lost it at the sound effects during the slippery ice minigame. This game is shit. I have good memories of playing it to death with my best friend but it sucks ass. The giant drop in quality from all previous Crash games let you know ND wasn't involved anymore.

[Anonymous No.9556739]

This game is actually much more fun than most of the forgotten MK wannabees. Everything combos into everything and the sound design is hilarious.

[Anonymous No.9557056]

>>9551447
Wolverine Adamantium Rage on the Sega Genesis comes to mind and I only enjoy it because of the graphics, music, and the game genie cheats I use to get through the bullshit.

[Anonymous No.9557876]

>>9551447
I grew up with Ariel: The Little Mermaid for my SEGA Genesis, and while I could never beat it as a kid, I still went back to it from time to time, there was just something about it that captivated me. I did give it another shot many years later, after finally getting into emulation and replaying the classics I grew up with, which I hand't played in years due to my console not working anymore, and while it didn't impress me, and I actually found it to be quite clunky, I went through the effort of beating it on the hardest setting with both Ariel and King Triton, it was fun, as basic as everything in it actually is. What I struggle with the most is how Ariel/King Triton controls, as it feels like the water is pushing them constantly, it doesn't feel responsive or fluid whatsoever, regardless of how it might be realistic in a way, I also feel the hit boxes needed some work, Ariel/King Triton's attack needed to be more effective, and they desperately needed more invincibility frames... the 1st and especially the 3rd level are both fun, and the reason I go back to this sometimes, the problem is in the 2nd and 4 level, which can both be a chore due to the shortcomings I've mentioned here.

[Anonymous No.9557975]

>>9553291
I would say so. The game controls fine, but it has bad level design and the weird nightmare mechanic that's always fascinated me. Music's great too. It's probably my 3rd most played X game aside from 1 and 4. X7 is just an almost unplayable trainwreck that makes it look great by comparison.

[Anonymous No.9557979]

>>9551447
I enjoyed this one a lot as a kid

[Anonymous No.9557986]

>>9556739
Yeah, it's not good, but it's an amusing and funny mess of a game. It almost feels like the thing was intended to be a big joke.

[Anonymous No.9557994]

i can fuck with everything other than the gameplay itself.

[Anonymous No.9558003]

>>9551623
>>9551623
it's extremely rare for a sonic game to have a bad OST. The only one that comes to mind is Chronicles, the shitty RPG that Bioware made. Apparently they had to throw out the music and get something working ASAP at the last minute.

On-topic (but not retro) I like Sonic 06. I know it's shit, but it's kind of fun, the music is good, and the incredibly broken state of the game makes me laugh whenever I play it.

[Anonymous No.9558004]

>>9552608
what the shit, that looks amazing. I want to play that.

[Anonymous No.9558014]

>>9557994
I know that feeling, the energy of the world and of the characters, the presentation of the visuals and of the enemies, it's all really cool. The gameplay just fuckin blows.

[Anonymous No.9558023]

>>9558003
>Apparently they had to throw out the music and get something working ASAP at the last minute.
not even an excuse for godly sonic osts, even by western teams.

[Anonymous No.9558032]

>>9553783
kind of reminds me of one game that I think is really cool. It is bizarre and doesn't make much sense, but it is neat. Kawazu makes some weird but interesting games. I feel the same way about Drakkhen on SNES.

[Anonymous No.9558043]

>>9558023
As a diehard JP soundtrack fanboy, I can't say that I agree with the quality of that soundtrack, but it is interesting to learn that they were pressed for time.

[Anonymous No.9558048]

>>9557986
It seems like the move was a whole joke, according to "the making of". Everyone except Raul Julia was coked outta their mind.

[Anonymous No.9558118]

One of the first games I played. It's a mediocre action platformer with very basic gameplay and graphics, and yet it's pretty charming overall, above all the music. It's also quite easy on the whole, although the last boss can be pretty bullshit. My favorite level was always the submarine one since you can blow up the terrain, so I used to spend a long time there blowing everything up and getting the occasional item.

Also, the ending is fucking hilarious. Tell me what Pero's doing here isn't what it looks like:
https://youtu.be/gW0dSvriJ9A?t=672

[Anonymous No.9558120]

>>9557975
I started X6 for the first time yesterday and Blaze Heatnix's stage feels fucking impossible with the damn Falcon Armor. I feel like I need to get the Blade Armor at least.

[Anonymous No.9558224]

>>9558032
Never heard of Wild Card, but it looks really cool. Drakkhen is also a game I really like and I don't know why. It is just as confusing as Ephemeral Fantasia.

[Anonymous No.9558256]

>>9551447

[Anonymous No.9559048]

[Anonymous No.9560185]

My favorite bad game

[Anonymous No.9560337]

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (GB/1998) is one of my favorite video games of all time, and one that I've played more than anybody ever should considering how little depth it actually has, and how ludicrous some decisions by Konami regarding its design were. A few things got me into this, the 1st is that an English translation came out in the last few years and gave me a chance to finally play it, this was the most crucial reason by far, because otherwise I'd have never even attempted to play it, the other reason is that this is historic for the Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG and TCG, since it essentially gave Konami the license for it and was used as the basis for the original rulesets. A lot of things about it are ridiculous, for example, do you want to get a Blue-Eyes White Dragon? Simple, just beat Kaiba... a 100 times, do you want a Red-Eyes B. Dragon? Simple, just beat Joey... a 100 times. You do get a card every 10 wins for each duelist, but the best ones require 100 wins... and I did it for about 5 or 6 of them, to get the cards I wanted, why? Well, this is the closest that we'll ever get to a Duelist Kingdom RPG, and it was my favorite arc, so its won me over for that reason alone, and kept me playing. Also, the artwork is incredible for the hardware and resolution.

[Anonymous No.9560338]

>>9558118
this design is just like the one Toei uses for their splash in movies. That isn't adapted from one of Toei's animations, is it? I could see them just using a character as a mascot.

[Anonymous No.9560363]

>>9560338
It's the very same character. This game was indeed adapted from one of Toei's movie adaptations of the classic Puss n' Boots tale, the second film to be exact.

[Anonymous No.9560368]

>>9558224
it's cool but nonsensical and hard to understand. I think people are attracted to it because it's weird, it's pretty, and it is by a famous square designer.

That said, I do wish it had an art book. I think it just flopped too hard because as far as I can tell, nothing published has the original artwork that they made the cards from, so you're just stuck with low-res sprites.

On the other hand, Hataraku Chocobo is a popular title (at least in name) for western fans, but it seems like once you get past the artwork, the reality is that it's just a single-player kiddie's first M.U.L.E.

>>9560337
Surprised that a fan wouldn't try doing a DK RPG in the modern era. Might not even appeal to new players though. I remember when the original series was running but I don't know if people really want that gameplay back.

>>9560363
Explains a lot. Reminds me of that animated adaptation of Around the World in 80 Days, which was Spanish I think, but looked like a Japanese animation.

[Anonymous No.9560383]

>>9560363
Oh, and another thing: this game, funnily enough, only came out in North America, even though the films didn't make much of a splash there at the time. There was an earlier, similar-ish game on the Famicom, though. Also, I messed up, it's actually based primarily on the third film.
>>9560368
Indeed, the film is loosely based on Around the World in 80 Days, and has that as its subtitle in Japanese.

[Anonymous No.9560418]

>>9551495
Is this the JRPG or the beat em up? I've wondered if the JRPG is decent.

[Anonymous No.9560508]

>>9551447
Sonic 3D Blast did so much for a Genesis game. How did it even run that FMV???

[Anonymous No.9560512]

>>9551654
Me speaking into the mic "Hey fuck you Pikachu."

[Anonymous No.9560519]

>>9560508
Here's an explanation by Jon Burton, who worked on Sonic 3D Blast, in his YouTube channel GameHut:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IehwV2K60r8

[Anonymous No.9560536]

>>9558256
>YOU ARE DEAD, DEAD, DEAD.
>YOU ARE DEAD, DEAD, DEAD.

[Anonymous No.9560546]

>>9557876
Had the Capcom one on NES and remember actively struggling with it as a young kid.
Then revisiting it as an adult many years later to find out it was stupid easy and I could beat it in less than an hour.

[Anonymous No.9560549]

>>9557994
Really the only thing that I dislike is the pure grindyness of it.
Other than that, it's actually my favorite in the series.

[Anonymous No.9560636]

>>9560337
considering that the game not being the best was a result of it just being an accurate depiction of Yu-Gi-Oh in 1998 and the game not really being that good back then, I can't really blame the game too much.

[Anonymous No.9561831]

Lego rock raiders ps1 version, it looks awful and confusing, but if you can get past that and take second to look&get used at the controls(especially driving as up on d-pad is gas, down is reverse and left/right rotates), its still mediocre game(with awfully long loading times on real ps1+disc), but I like the wasteland feel it has, plus the awesome soundtrack.

And its also worth noting how different the US and PAL releases are, the US came out first and feels like some sort of beta version, its really interesting.

[Anonymous No.9561919]

>>9558118

Based. The OST was soul too despite being primitive.

on the subject of NES, I like some "shitty" movie-based games like BTTF-2 and Friday the 13th

[Anonymous No.9562804]

>>9559048
>Games that aren't good

[Anonymous No.9562820]

>>9551641
I begged for this as a kid and hated it. Fuck this garbage. It was expensive because of the mic and it was stupid and didn’t even work right.

Picrel is a very average game and it’s probably one of my favorite on the entire system. It’s perfectly janky.

[Anonymous No.9562841]

>>9551447

[Anonymous No.9562872]

Kings Quest II fits this bill. Random encounters making no sense, a church in the middle of a wolf-infested forest (which will kill you if you dis the priest), and that fucking mermaid who only appears when you go to some totally-unrelated part of the map.
KQ2 really is not good and breaks all the laws of story-structure.

[There was a 2000s-era remake to make some sense out of this bullshit, but it just ended up even worse.]

Why am I still thinking about it? Because it had that sense of danger and romance, I guess.

[Anonymous No.9563063]

>>9551447
S3DB is pure ludo, idk what you're on about

[Anonymous No.9563065]

>>9560508
Genesis does

[Anonymous No.9563193]

>>9551447
I have a pretty lengthy list...
>Sonic 3D Blast
Saturn version is pretty good, it's a flawed experiment but I find it intriguing
>Three Stooges on the NES
I love the show and this game had a really interesting development, plus it's not bad as a mini-game collection.
>Jaws on the NES
When evaluated as an arcade style game with a map, it's pretty fun.
>Nightmare on Elm Street on the NES
4 player option? Solid platforming? Interesting concepts taken form the third movie? I'm thinking it's based.
>Dynowarz on the NES
Brilliant concept, solid game play needs more love.
>Mighty Bomb Jack on the NES
Pretty dense and addictive once you get the hang of the controls.
>Top Gun on the NES
So what if you suck at landing, this one is pretty relaxing and fairly impressive for its time.
>Double Dragon V on the Genesis
The Saturday Morning Watchmen of video games, pretty funny and encapsulates the 90s well.
>Techno Cop on the Genesis
Awful game play, bland presentation, but once the silence kicks in and you are gunning down thugs, it gets eerie. It feels like your playing through the last scene in Taxi Driver meets Laser Blast.
>Shaq Fu on Sega Genesis
The Black Belt Jones of video games is here, horrible concept but the art direction and presentation is top-notch. Game play is ehh but it is playable.
>Generations Lost on the Genesis
Flashback and X-Men rip-off with homoerotic cover art, still an oddly fascinating game with a fun Bionic Commando style grappling hook. Intriguing development history to say the least.
>Pit-Fighter on the Genesis/Arcade
Awful SNES port aside, Pit Fighter is prime slop, it's a cocaine fueled nightmare that deserves praise for the tone.
>Mr. Nutz on SNES/Genesis
Not a complicated game, but it has so much soul I can't help but love it and admire the craftsmanship that went into it. Also there were only like 3 people working on this under-budget oddity.