10 Worst Games Of 1995
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ส.ค. 2024
- 1995 brought us Kendall Jenner, Logan Paul and Tim Burton's Batman Forever. I think we can all probably agree it was a terrible time all round. Sadly there wasn't much reprieve for fans of video games either with releases such as DOOM for the SNES, Justice League Task Force, and Frankenstein: Through The Eyes of The Monster. You'll find all those and more in our 10 Worst Games of 1995.
VO: Peter Austin (@ThatPeterAustin)
Script: Cat Elliot (@cat_elliott_)
Video Editor: Anthony Hambling (@anthambling)
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While Burton produced BF, it's very much known that it's Joel Schumacher's Batman Forever.
so THATS why it felt like a in-between transition of both styles.
I doubt Tim Burton had any involvement.
@@paulheap1982 he did he was a producer, basically they didn't want to make his version of the movie so he quit
Beat me to it. Benippled chest plates are sort of neat I imagine, provided reasonable conductivity.
@@nutsandgum7704 Actually Warner Bros asked Burton to step down as director because Batman Returns had gotten a lot of backlash for being “too dark” for younger audiences, which led to McDonalds cancelling their Happy Meal tie-in as well as losing other lucrative promotional and merchandising deals. Also Burton’s only real involvement was giving Schumacher the green light to take over, there was a clause in his contract saying if he didn’t return as director for any reason he’d still get final approval on his replacement. His contract also guaranteed him a producer credit, but didn’t require him to actually do anything (he was busy making Ed Wood at the time anyway). It was Michael Keaton who opted out because he didn’t like where the franchise was going. Originally Schumacher wanted to adapt Batman: Year One and Keaton was on board, but the studio nixed the idea of a prequel and Keaton didn’t like the studio-mandated rewrites.
"...or they effectively just clone the previous game"
2K: *...why is everyone looking at me?*
We’re also looking at you EA
@@Wolf_Wendigo Don't forget Ubisoft
@@prototype2909
UBI?
TBH I don't any other UBI games besides JD, Ghost recon and, Rayman
Tim Burton's Batman Forever??
You beat me to it.
He produced it, apparently.
@@Gatorade69 nah, it's just another one of their screw ups
@@RyanBrown2K5 He had a producer credit but he did virtually nothing on the film. It was basically a way to pay him off.
@@plkrtn
From what I can understand they really did throw Burton under the bus to try to make it more family friendly to sell toys and whatnot. Burton actually had even started a third movie before he was unceremoniously removed from directing duty and that given to Schumacher.
I freaking loved Justice League Task Force as a kid.
*Ahem* excuse me, I mean "Tim Burton's Justice League Task Force."
No, it has to be DELETED!!!
Tim Curry was also the voice of the main character in Gabriel Knight 3. Fun fact about Gabriel Knight 3: it was partly based on the same book that Dan Brown used as the basis for Da Vinci Code. But the game was made several years earlier. When I read the book, there was nothing new in it for me, because I already knew all of it from the game. And the game was better.
Jane Jensen is an amazing writer, that's why the GK games were soooo good.
Da vinki????
1995 must have been an amazing year in gaming. Like a good half of these are perfectly good games.
Exactly my thoughts, this is ridiculous
it wasn't bad at all...alot of really creative and unique ideas that wont ever happen again were around back then....
The 90’s was the twilight of civilization. It was the last few years of greatness. Everything went to shit in 2001-02
When the list starts in the mid 60% range, it's a solid year. I miss the 90s so badly.
@@teknomax7883 It's because these people take these based on metacritic. Most of these were legitimately ok(Phantasmagoria, Spawn, Addams family values, for instance). You could do much worse in 1995. I mean, REVOLUTION X came that year and sucked more than anything on this list.
Gex came from a time when it was cool to actively reject the practical purpose of sunglasses while wearing them because it was such a badass move.
What's hilarious to me Separation anxiety was shorter and actually beatable to me compared to the first game that went on forever and featured a mech boss that would kill you in two hits
Doom for the SNES was great for kids like me whose parents hadn’t yet learned the value of owning an up-to-date computer (we didn’t finally replace our old Amiga 500 until 1996), but I always preferred playing it on my friends’ PCs.
This, exactly.
This was the port I grew up with for the same exact reason (loved the game, didn't have a good enough comp). And all things considered, it's an impressive port on its own.
And for those who think it's the worst, all I can say is: 3DO. Virtually unplayable.
I was on the nes until 2001 when my parents bought me an Xbox. Big change lol
My acquaintance with the series was DOOM Evilution in 1996. Hated it with all my guts.
1995 is the year I was brought into this world without permission. Thankfully, Batman Forever legitimately was the spotlight of the year since it was great, and I still love it to this day.
"Gex was... merely ok." is the most accurate review you could hope to find on that game. It's not bad, it wasn't bad at launch either. The only real issue with it? You can't put in a better game until you take it out.
Easily the most surprising bottom 10 I can ever remember.
Imagine if this year's 10 worst games were close to the quality of SOME of the games on these list.
It's only because many of the actual worst games didn't receive as many reviews; there were far fewer critics to review them all.
Case in point: Virtual Hylide.
Yeah I don't feel like games that get 60+% are that bad for the time.
@@jonnyOysters
Wild Woody, for example, wishes it was Gex.
Definitely up there for best of the Worst Ten lists. As in quality-wise, not as in worst of the worst.
If you believe the info here has any truth, you're a sucker. None of these are even close to the 10 worst games of 1995.
They have a lazy methodology that doesn't account for the fact that the reviews aren't there before everyone reviewed on the internet. If games ended up on game rankings (which is where the numbers exactly match), it's usually because they were notable enough to be talked about by people later. How were games reviewed "professionally" in 1995? Almost entirely in Magazines, and these rankings don't have magazines.
They're even not even correct about their own review count. The review scores match Gamerankings archives, but not the "7 professional reviews" count. Phantasmagoria has 6 reviews and only one of the reviews listed from 1995. 3 are from the 2000s. Multiple of these appear to be blogs. Doom has 4.
I think 3 is the actual "standard" but they missed games with 5 "Ecco Jr."
So if you're surprised, you don't realize they aren't trying.
7th Guest was a cool game and very revolutionary at the time. 11th Hour was good too. Phantasmagoria very clearly advertised that it was adult and very graphic. If people still bought it, they were warned so it was on them.
remember 7th and 11th well, 11th hour ramped up the feeling of it being realistic with the graphics of the ruined house and use of torch light, that use of torch light in a 1st person I don't think was really done well again until Doom 3
I don't think these lists are too accurate.
Being warned about something doesn't mean it gets a pass for being used badly. You can not like something and not be "offended" by it.
Oh, 1995...WrestleMania XI, King of The Ring, Starrcade, Halloween Havoc; They just kept pushing, and pushing, and pushing! Pushin' the trucks back and forth! They just kept goin' on forever, and they never kept score. They just kept pushin' along, until The Giant fell off of the ledge of the building, and he was presumed, DEAD!!!
Zero stars.
loved the WWW referemce
Nice trolling with Frankenstein Peter
"Tim Burton's Batman Forever" LMAO
I loved Phantasmagoria back in the day. It's so cheesy and all the grisly murders were hilarious.
I think the issue with this list is that you can't really use Metacritic/gamerankings for 1995. Too few publications, hence why okay games like Gex are featured here when there were way worse games released that year.
It's a clever move. Rather than play the games yourself, review them, compare them and then make a subjective list, just research review scores so when people inevitably disagree with your picks, you can just shrug your shoulders and blame Metacritic. Did I say clever? Lazy. I meant lazy.
@@PoutingTrevor Take your Xanax
Now that someone pointed it out I always notice how you say titular in every video.
Wait a second...half of this list is actually good to great games! What the hell was up with critics in 1995?
I wouldn't call 60 or so% good but it is interesting that so many got above 50%, which suggests they're mediocre rather than terrible to me. I am surprised that Gex got a much lower average score on the PS compared to the 3DO version considering how there was only a few months separating them.
@ARIXANDRE
There weren't as many critics, but they still demand 7 reviews from the publications they care about.
Which is allowing TripleJump to ignore legendary trash like Virtual Hylide and Sonic Labyrinth.
Its the fault of the channel more than critics. 1995 has way too few publication that did reviews, hence why Triple Jump can't really use the methodology they've used in later years.
Same thing that’s wrong with critics now in 2022.
Joel Schumacher right now: Hahaha yeah, glad I didn't direct Batman Forever! Thank Tim Burton!
It's too bad Cosmic Race didn't release in the US with 7+ reviews - I'd love to see a game on this site with a 0% rating.
1995: maybe a bad year for gaming, but a worse year for wrestling. What channel do I watch, the one with King Mabel or the one with the Dungeon of Doom? Or maybe I try and see if my TV station catches Hardcore TV so I can watch something actually good?
Feel like I'm walking into a setup here, but Frankenstein IS the name of the Doctor, not the monster.
NEEEEEEEEEERD
Tim Burtons Batman Forever...dear me, off to another good start...
Games that start out good and get worse - show Ass Creed, which was immediatlely followed by a better game
Games that start out naff and get better - show Grand Theft Auto, landmark watershed game right out the gate...
Great stuff guys
Also for Justice League they specifically say Genesis version yet show footage from SNES version.
When I Look At The Character Sprites In The Game Of "Justice League Task Force" My Brain Went And Said Like... "HEY! They Nearly Look Like That The Devs Almost Ripped Off The Character Sprites Work From Eternal Champions!"
I actually liked Doom on the SNES. I'm surprised Batman Forever wasn't on the list.
It's nice that 7th Guest got another sequel recently, done by the original makers, and it was actually quite good! They channeled the earnestly bad charm of the original game without falling up their own ass with self-awareness.
Wow when the video started I immediately thought of phantasmagoria and couldn’t believe you included it on your list!
That is so funny I also played the seventh guest and the 11th hour… I’m a sucker for those kind of games even when I was only 14 years old
That's so funny, my brother and I rented Separation Anxiety from Blockbuster so many times. We loved that game
I had forgotten about that Frankenstein game! I had a demo when I was a kid and your video just gave me memory whiplash 😂
I was going to say how Batman Forever brought us Kiss From A Rose by Seal, but apparently not even that's true because it came out the year before and was just rereleased and featured on the soundtrack.
Looking at these review scores, either reviewers were rather kind in 1995 or the year must have been a good one.
They excluded all the actual worst games, because there weren't 7 prominent critics willing to review them back then. But check out Virtual Hylide and Sonic Labyrinth for just a taste of what the list should have looked like.
One weird thing about Spawns is his expansive moveset. They don't highlight it, but the character can do so much more than punch and jump.
Like kick?
Whenever people ask where everyone knows Tim Curry from, I’m doomed to be the conversation killer with, “Frankenstein: Through the Eyes of the Monster”.
I'm honestly surprised that Hong Kong 97 isn't on this list. I mean, it did come out in 1995 didn't it?... Not to mention I'm pretty sure there were at least 7 reviews written on the game, considering how widely infamous it is.
@@Gatorade69 I'm guessing it specifically refers to reviews written at the time of the game's release, rather than all reviews written over the years from the time of release up until present day? If that's the case then that's understandable, considering a lot of people didn't know of the game's existence (nor written any reviews) until many years later.
I though that game was never officially released by Nintendo
@@rottytopszombiewaifu5249 Also it was literally just what they said in the beginning just made by some (admittedly very interesting) Japanese guy. Rather an actual development team.
@@mattwallace2221 it wasn't. Lol can you imagine Nintendo licencing a game where you genocide a whole country 🤣🤣. It was sold on floppy disks in Japan to be played on unlicensed super Famicom disk drives.
1995 had some awesome games - Command & Conquer, Warcraft 2, DK Country 2, Tekken 2, Hexen, Crono Trigger, MK3, Star Wars Dark Forces, Worms and more.
To be fair, if Maximum Carnage and Separation Anxiety had been made today, Separation Anxiety would have just been a DLC for Maximum Carnage.
Almost every Assassin’s Creed fan I know would say Syndicate is better than AC1.
Not sure how I landed here. I have so many tabs open! The Almighty Algorithm must have brought me here while I was sleeping. Anyhoo - this is a great video thank you! I'm on a game buying hiatus at the moment because these days, for every game I play, I have bought two more that I want to play through, and I was saying recently how spoilt we are now.
In a way, I miss the old days when there was so much crap to wade through, and you didn't have TH-cam so that you could see what a game was actually like, which meant you had to be very careful where you spent your money. It was a pain at the time, but I realise now that it heightened the experience, and when you came across that special gem of a game, it was just so satisfying back then...
i had _frankenstein through the eyes of the monster_ as a kid! i was about 9 at the time and my dad was a huge _myst_ fan (as many of our dads were at that age) so he bought a few similar games, including _7th guest,_ but also _secrets of the luxor_ and _gadget: invention, travel, and adventure._ i never got far in any of them, but had fun exploring the parts of the world i could and clicking madly on things. tim curry was the highlight though, hands down. (wish they'd bring these games to steam, especially gadget)
I believe Gex thing because each time you see a review with gameplay of gex it's always that graveyard level ...always!
No one has ever played that game l I never enough to see anymore of the game
I honestly wasn't expecting so many Super Nintendo Games. I know the snes didn't end til 1998 with Frogger but I was expecting more PS1/Saturn Games and Maybe some Atari Jaguar Games in 1995.
@Alec Cheshire
They're ignoring any game that wasn't popular and mainstream. Otherwise, you'd be seeing a lot more of Blue Lightning on the Jaguar CD.
I believe that 'Homncruse' is a bad transliteration of 'Homunculus'. That's how Wild ARMs got 'Holmcross' too.
. . .
Tim Burton ended up producing batman forever but director duties were taken over by Joel Schumacher. What a strange movie it ended up being...
I was born in 1995 and learning just now that Logan Paul and Kendall Jenner were born that year on top of some of these games being released as well now makes me immediately regret this fact.
I was in my 2nd last year of high school in 1995. I have a lot of memories of that time.
@@DrTedEsq same and I don't.
Lol your description of Addams Family Values sounds exactly like the description of Death Stranding! 🤣😂.
Something to keep in mind, it didn't have much to be compared against on the 3D0. Where as the Playstation had quite the library, even at it's early stages. So there was just a lot competition on a popular system like that.
I was 14 in 1995 and I never owned a CDI or a computer but some of those games I saw advertised in video game magazines back then and they looked amazing. I never even to this day got to play them like the 7th guest or the 11th hour or any other computer /CDI games. The only one that I ever really dig get to play later on was the very first Myst and even though at the time it looked amazing, I'm absolutely terrible at solving puzzles and a whole entire game of nothing but puzzles turned me off lol. I always wanted a 3DO as well and I never got to play that. When it first came out it looked revolutionary obviously it wasn't but hell even now I would still love to have one but it's just too pricey and it's just not worth it honestly.
1995 is full of insane games though. You should try Bioforge and Virtua Cop.
A special on games feat. Tim Curry is needed
i really liked the frankenstein game as a kid. i thought it had a great atmosphere. but my english wasnt that good at the time, so i didnt really finnish it, because i couldnt read every clue to the puzzles properly... i dont know if there was a version translated into german, but i had one in english...
1995 also gave the world me, for which 1995 owes us all a sincere apology.
I love the background music on your videos. The content is great as well!
Oh hey, it’s Gex Night.
Hey, all
Seeing the capture of Doom on the SNES gave me a headache.
the spawn game was red (limited edition red cartridge) I remember the advertisements they were like "PAINT THE TOWN RED"... BELIEVE IT OR NOT THE GAME I'M TALKing about was made by LJN. I was thinking of spider man *sad
I couldn't figure out what to do without cheating during the first ten minutes of Addams Family Values. Seemed very obtuse.
The list should be called "Worst REVIEWED games of 1995"
Used to love 7th guest and 11th hour when I was a kid, that vid hit me with some nostalgia
11TH Hour sure gets a lot of hate. I mean I think the 7th Guest story was better, it is clear the gameplay of 11th Hour was miles ahead. But as the video says, the jump in system requirements was enourmous, it was unplayable on a 486 DX2 66
I actually liked Frankenstein: Through the Eyes of the Monster. Still have my copy.
Nothing Tim Curry is in is ever trash, he knows what he's doing and always elevates it, TO SPACE!
DOOM on SNES is kinda a marvel that it worked at all... but I can understand reviewers at the time not adjusting their scores for the hardware, and it certainly wasn't as good as OG DOOM. Secret of the Stars is also probably the only SNES RPG I haven't played yet (excluding imports).
That was Joel Schumacher who did batman forever
I think "homncruse" would be "homunculus", but very, very engrished.
The Tim Burtun mistake is pretty bad. His batman movies were good. Check your facts.
Bruh, the late Joel Schumacher directed Batman Forever. Tim Burton produced.
Also, I like Gex and Phantasmagoria, but they include plenty of glaring flaws. But Cheesy and Wild Woody should've been on this list from the start.
5:16 Roberta Williams' Phantasma...Roberta Williams' Phantas...wait, Roberta Williams made this?
Okay, Roberta Williams was the wife of Melbourne underground kingpin Carl Williams. The gangland war kicked off in 1995. Now I'm 99.99999% sure it's not that Roberta Williams but Phantasmasgomi...screw it just the title alone has to have been dreamt up on the ecstasy that was being pushed at the time.
My friends I'm telling you what, when decks came out on the 3do and my pops scored a 3do AND gex from a flea market for a steal price, gex was the best shit in the market to us, it was dumb fun with decent collect a thon gameplay. I'm not saying it's good. I'm saying we f****** loved it. And I think I always will.
The WHOLE gimmick of Separation Anxiety is that it had some prerrendered CGI sprites., that was the selling point.... and also that it was a spiderman-venom game again too
I like that you said you personally like batman forever. Shows you don't have to hide your personal opinion to follow a script
geesh 1995 critics must've been spoiled if some of these were among the worst.
Batman Forever is a good movie (Two-Face is misjudged, but that's about it). Riddler is excellent.
I found Phantasmagoria also very pretty and I liked it but the story is quite bad. We don't get to see the characters move in the house. It just shows a nightmare then a couple drinking coffee. The puzzles where nothing to be happy about either. The gameplay was too simple. There is no plot twist. It's just about a demon and the magician tells you how to kill the demon. It's an interactive 50's movie in 90's clothing.
Frankenstien IS the name of the doctor, the monster is called Adam
Spawn for SNES is pretty awesome. It looks GREAT and controls are top notch✌
Secret of the stars...
With so many translation problems, I'm gonna assume (because I want to) that instead of Homncruse being the villain, the "Aquatallion" or whatever was really out to defeat the evil wizard "Tom Cruise"
I'm sure that he is so high up in the Scientologists that he is practically a wizard (he's gotta be ranking at least a 700 in his "Thetan" levels)
The plot totally makes sense insofar as ANYTHING related to scientology makes sense.
Maybe John Travolta could explain it better than me. Or Isaac Hayes. Or the musician Beck.
I enjoy Beck's music (most of it). It was truly a sad day when I learned he was in that cult.
What was I originally talking about?
Too many rabbit holes around the cr*ppy-verse. I think I broke my ankle.
Oh God, "Venom\spiderman: attack of the colons" was the most repetitive brawler I ever played in my life.
1995 was the year Team17 published the first Worms game, so there was at least one diamond in the rough back then.
This video is as much fun as a luau at Mel Blanc's house
As someone who really likes Batman forever, I want to earn you you guys are about to get a ton of crap in the comments about how it wasn’t Tim Burton’s film. Also assassins creed syndicate is much better than Odyssey or Valhalla.
Gex's music and sound can beat the rest of the games combined! Need a remake!!!
I don't care what critics say, Frankenstein is a damn classic!
Gex was always just a bang average game and I've never known anybody who particularly cared much for it, very strange to hear it spoken about so fondly here even if it is just in terms of pure nostalgia.
EDIT: Also at 5:25, are you seriously suggesting that Assassins Creed: Syndicate is a bad game, or that the AC series has gotten worse over time since the original??
Dr Frankenstein is correct and the monster is referred to as Frankenstein’s Monster
Tim Burton? You mean Joel Schumacher's Batman Forever. If Burton had done it, it would have been good.
Frankenstein IS the name of the doctor
Doctor Victor Frankenstein
He is called Frankenstein because his creator never named him
Sometimes I think these worst of videos in the 90's say more about the quality of the reviewers than the quality of the games.
Secret of the Stars may be crappy but the retro-retro 8 bit in 16 bits is precious. I automatically give it three points just for that.
GEX?!?!?!?! It was AMAZING
1995 was a good year for Hip-Hop, at least 🍸
Ah yes, i love you guys
Please, don't do that anymore!
Shows how much higher the percentage scores were in those days
Shows how easy it is to inflate the grades on your worthless list when you simply ignore games like Virtual Hylide and Rise of the Robots on Genesis and Game Gear.
I just love this channel
Wait, but half those games weren't that bad and are still included on compilations nowadays
Batman forever and batman and Robin... They were so Kool when I was a kid ,but when I rewatch them now every few years, damn they really did suck lmao 😂
13:56 Yes. Yes, I do remember.
Frankenstein is a fucking GOOD game!!!!!!
I love Spawn on the SNES.
Who else is here to talk about how Tim Burton didn’t make Batman Forever?
I've seen the thumb, I've not watched yet but YOU DARE say Frankenstein through the eyes of the monster is a bad game!!!!