The Worst Saturn Games I've Ever Played
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ส.ค. 2024
- Here I have compiled a list of games that I absolutely hated on the Sega Saturn. Sometimes a game just rubs you the wrong way. Be it technical reasons, a design choice, a certain art style, or a combination of reasons, you just can't enjoy them. Here is my list.
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Episode Notes:
1. Sadly, I own all of these games. Even the awful Death Crimson.
2. Real games on real hardware via RGB.
3. The opening montage is a group of games I disliked, but not bad enough to be included in the actual episode.
4. I don't usually do many episodes like this one, but a recent play of a few of these reminded just how bad they were. - เกม
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I know a lot of youtubers eventually get rid of their intros but please promise me you'll never get rid of yours. It's so perfect
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it's completely brain-dead to do that oh, what they don't realize is that's probably what got them going and kept them going,, I used to watch another Channel I think it was RGB or something like that and he completely changed his intro, that was probably half of the reason, the other half he just couldn't make the cut,
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This past Christmas my fiancee and I went to my mother's house for the usual family dinner. Most of my immediate family on my mom's side were there in attendance. Like always we were all sitting in the living room discussing current events and how much 2020 has been a neverending suck fest. The conversations are generally very lively but not this time. Everyone was battle ready and it made for a very tense atmosphere. We were about to get into a nasty fight when my cousin, having had enough of it, broke out his phone. What did he do with his phone you may ask? Did he start playing Candy Crush? Maybe he wanted to use the phone as a fact checker? Nope, he started one of your videos which instantaneously stopped the fighting. Most of us like gaming and it turned into a giant Sega Saturn debate. You my friend saved Christmas dinner.
@@SegaLordX please change the intro and outro, or just get rid of them.
Holy crap, that Jaguar line was a solid burn. I wish there was a second like/upvote button.
the "good old-fashioned shitty game" part was awesome
"This effort isn't just bad, it's offensive" man that line had me crackin up!
Hey dude, I need to go to sleep you're not helping :)
Dunno, this dude has a mad soothing voice.
That Hulk game made me feel violated looking at it. I first saw the Crow on AVGN. It was painful just to look at.
The Hulk game looks like a cross between the unreleased X-Men Mind Games for 32X and the unreleased 1994 Fantastic Four movie.
The 3D model of the player in The Crow City of Angels looks like melted candle or a melted crayon.
Death Crimson has a whole sub culture attached to it. Art exhibits and whatnot. In Japan at least. It's crazy. Got a sequel.
TWO sequels, actually
14:00 It was this moment I learned this guy never played Virtual Hydlide.
Lucky guy.
The suck
city of angels, hahahhahah I lost it when you said that!. Another great video man!
More like Shitty of Angels.
I have a new name for Congo on the saturn
Congo the lost shitty of shitz.
The shift to 3D was probably the worst time in console gaming . There was a fair share of shite on the saturn and PlayStation at the time . hardware limitations and lack of experience in making 3D games was 99.9999% of the problem.._
wilr1000 Hardware limitations weren't too much of a problem since other developers managed to make some impressive 3D games even on weak platforms like 3DO. What was the problem is that 3D was new thing and many decided to make 3D games for the sake of being 3D while they had no idea how to do camera stuff properly yet. We still getting gimmicky things because of logic like "system x can do z, let's shove z in any game". Kinect, motion controls on PS/Wii, touchscreen and touchpad controls where those just don't belong. Some games did those right, others "because we can", kinect never worked properly at all. Now it's VR... again...
"You'll feel violated dirty, never wanting go near it again." LMAO
14:10-14:20 :))
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@@SegaLordX why dont you cover the Sega games on PS2? That be great, like Shinobi, Sonic games and more.
Dude, why don't people like vids anymore I want you to know I watch and like all content I want to see more of.
Same here also
It's always about 10%.
Always been a fan of your channel since the beginning! Everytime I watch one of your Saturn videos I get sad because I feel like it will be the last one ( I mean how many quality videos can one make on the Saturn?) But you always seem to surprise me with the content you continue to put out !
Saturn is my all time favorite console with some of the best games released for it.But God it had some awful titles as well.
If the Saturn had the correct support it could have and would have ass raped the PlayStation and anything else, honestly I think it pretty much kept up.
@@DUKETACTICS333 I agree,it was more powerful than ps1 but the developers had no clue how to utilize its power.I also believe that Sega did not support the third party companies enough and they thought that releasing their arcade titles was enough to win the race.
@@majimamike4097 if they only had the coding for all of that stuff ahead of time PlayStation would have been waxed hard
Every console has good and crap games but it is a matter of opinion as we all have different tastes the only thing I hate is the childish banter crap you get from Xbox lovers that you are a puffter for having a PS4
every console has their share of stinkers
"What we have here is a good old fashioned shitty game." Lol that made my day
Love the vids! I played the Crow City of Angels back when I was 16 and I literally almost cried at how bad it was, it hurt my soul
Hardcore 4x4 was definitely one of the worst games I've ever played
My stomach turned watching that footage.
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So relieved that you didn’t include courier crisis. Controversial, but I loved that game.
The way the bullets come from where you used to be in Planet Joker is so funny
Such an entertaining video, loved it. Never played any of these and I think I'd better keep it that way
5:29 I don't know, if you know about dithering. It's a technique that makes transparencies and increases the color depth by making a pattern that looks like a screen-door or a dot-matrix and using a low quality video signal (Composite or RF) to bleed and blur the colors to create the effect. But since you are using the higher quality signal of RGB, where it doesn't bleed and blur, and is sharp, the effect doesn't work.
I'm aware. The effect still looks poor next to a real transparency. Even on a CRT via composite.
@@SegaLordX Oh I agree, real transparencies are better, but whenever there is a game that makes heavy use of dithering (such as Die Hard Trilogy) I have to play it via composite, it gets annoying seeing a screen-door, as oppose to a transparency.
I never really got to experience composite on the Saturn, even back then. I had a TV with S-Video when it came out, so I went straight to that. The mesh pattern is a bit more pronounced even in S-Video.
@@SegaLordX I didn't get to composite until the Dreamcast came out, before that everything was RF. 1st time I upgrade to S-Video was in 2015 when I finally got a CRT TV with the S-Video input (of course the newer HD LCD TVs had HDMI by this time).
Yeah, S-Video is the point when the signal is good enough to where the dithering effect stops working. It seems only RF and composite are the signals low enough to do the technique.
Man those transitions and text effects are some next level editing
thanks man for giving the Saturn screen time. my favorite system to date
The irony of smashing that Hulk game harder with your words than the character in-game ever could with his fists.
Where is Creature Shock, that's the worst Saturn game I've ever played.
Nice video, you threw me off with the footage of Battle Arena Toshinden in the opening montage, I had the PSX version of that game and it occupied me with some Street Fighter style action (many of the characters used the same move inputs) before Street Fighter: The Movie showed up, which I picked up on Saturn.
The Hulk, just as a comic nerd side note, was actually true to that era of the Hulk in comics. Banner was in control of the Hulk and he was a thinking man's Hulk. It made a better comic than it did a video game (since they had abandoned most of the common Hulk tropes). That's why when I heard the name of the game, I asked "Why?" That story line was a good COMICS story line but obviously made one hell of a bad game.
When a friend got me a Saturn for Christmas last year, one of the games that came with it was Black Fire. I popped it in and... beheld. Playing Black Fire is worse than looking at Black Fire and I'm pretty sure that violates a human rights law. And Sega's name on the box is the final baffling touch for me to use the game as a threat against my friends.
I remember loving Corpse Killer on SegaCD. I was 12 at the time, though.
I used to love playing Hardcore 4x4, but I completely agree with you on the graphical and gameplay glitches that can cause it to become unplayable... It's almost like it's an online lobby with slow dial-up speeds!
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That is the most amazing name ever.
Great video, as always! The one thing I'll say though is that Death Crimson, while a steaming pile of crap, is actually fun to play on a CRT with a lightgun. The act of pointing a lightgun on the screen and pulling the trigger is inherently fun to do, even when they're nonsensical or as low quality as Death Crimson is.
I would never recommend a purchase, but for the price of a blank CD-R, yeah its worth a shot (pun intended) if you've played all other lightgun shooters (a dead genre now!) and want something new, its alright to waste an hour with.
Dude this video came in clutch. I was just bout to go to bed with nothing to watch
The Bowser one yooo lol this made me laugh for some reason :)
Oh man, that 4x4 game hurts me. It could have been so much better! What a disappointment it must have been to anyone wanting to play such a game on the Saturn, only to get this.
As a Saturn owner from Day 1. I am happy to report I never played any of these atrocities. I guess I was a bit of a smart gamer back in my late teens early 20s.
I actually like Corpse Killer and have this Saturn version in my collection (along with 3do and 32x). I can see why most do not like it but for a FMV game, it was one of the better ones of the time period.
This
Can you use the light gun?
Agreed! And there were other great fmv games like Dracula unleashed
Nah. I disagree there.
Man you need more subs, quickly becoming in my opinion one of the best youtube gaming historians
Though positive reviews of good games are nice, scathing reviews of bad games are quite cathartic. I thank you for this.
Can I recommend a good video topic for you? How bout Atlus games on Sega. I noticed that you've talked about Capcom and Konami games on Sega platforms but I'd like to see you cover Atlus too. They put out some great games on the Sega CD and Saturn that never made it outside of Japan, but most of them are from their Shin Megami Tensei franchise. Did you know the Sega CD has a port of SMT1? And there were the MegaTen games released on Saturn (Devil Summoner, Soul Hackers, etc.).
I'd like to see a video like that from ya.
The one thing I hate more than anything in video games and I consider it the bane of all gaming existence is ... Timed levels.
omg I second that thought. Anxiety central
The lack of a proper Sega NFL game on Saturn was inexcusable. Heck, Sega of America could have easily used the Worldwide Soccer engine,creating a football title with mostly 2D assets. Heck, look at Tecmo’s Go Go Goal which offers 3D polygon graphics in 480/60 mode. Just sheer laziness, and it sits entirely on SoA’s desk.
I just realised the rasta man in Corpse Killer played Jean-Paul in Seinfeld. 🤣
My friends and I rented Off-World Interceptor Extreme for PSX repeatedly, so I was sweating seeing it in the intro of this vid. Maybe the Saturn version is no good, but we got a lot of enjoyment out of that schlock on PSX.
I included it in the opening as a game I didn't enjoy. It wasn't quite bad enough to make it in the main body of the video, though.
one redeeming quality for that rotten Hulk game: I dig that soundtrack.
I didn't know the word dreck is a thing in the english language...that caught me off guard
The draw distance on that Hulk game is laughably bad. The hulk can't even see 10ft. in front of him. How did they think that was acceptable?
i love the way you express your feelings about games. its just so picture perfect!
Fantastic video. I have a huge appreciation for Death Crimson because it was one of the first games that was most definitely INTENTIONALLY bad(along with things like Hong Kong 97) and it does it SO well.
There was also a death crimson exhibit at a japanese museum recently with a weird Saturn light gun made to look like a flesh mound with a mounted pink painted Saturn.
I’ve owned Criticom, and the N64 sequel, Dark Rift...😢😢
God bless
I owned both "Criticom" and "Hulk: Pantheon Saga", and boy do they ever belong on this list! I almost never parted with any Saturn games, but I sold both of those suckers, and to this day I feel a bit guilty about the $2 I defrauded some kid out of at my family garage sale by pawning off Criticom on him. Criticom is unquestionably the single worst game I have ever played -- as a fighter, it fails to a legendary degree on every conceivable level. I would add one other game to the "worst of the Saturn" list from a technical standpoint, even though I actually had some good fun with it: "Die Hard Trilogy", specifically the rail shooter version. Certain levels on that had the worst framerate I've ever seen -- literally getting close to 1 frame per second on the snow level. It was still fun in a stupid "blow everything up" sort of way, but it was a technical clusterflump.
Good. Make one of these for the Genesis. It would be interesting
nice video man like always thanks for your excellent work never stop uploading
I love the non-moving sky in Death Crimson! :D
What?! Whizz had a Saturn version?! I only know it as an obscure (but fun) SNES title!
I hadn't heard of many of these titles. Lucky me.
Great channel. Love the information and knowledge.
Hardcore 4x4 is awful and I’m thrilled you included it
I’m surprised DOOM didn’t make the list as the Saturn port is horrendous
Man, you are absolutely right about how we should not waste time trying to find the good in games. Great video, and great final words. These are some absolutely terrible games, and I didn't know many of them, so thanks for the public service.
Wow! I totally forgot about that hulk game. I loved it back then but would not want to play it now haha. Thanks!
Sad thing is that cycling game goes for alot on auction sites lol.Great work again buddy.
Funny what people will pay to have a full shelf of games, huh?
@@SegaLordX Yeah to right it's a complete waste of money buying a shite game even to pad out the collection,just forfeit it ffs lol.
Sega Lord X videos rock
and I love your intro with the Sega ident from Astal accompanied by iconic Sega characters
what song plays during your outro?
Stage 1 from Batman for the Genesis.
I like Whizz. The timer adds challenge and I love the music. I agree that it isn't a good game for kids. Never played NFL 97, Planet Joker or Criticom. Corpse killer is indeed really bad. The Hulk even more so, and it isn't even cheap. Neither is the almost equally aweful The Crow. Although I did have a laugh with it. Defcon 5 is sooo boring, yet I have it for 3DO and Saturn. The 3DO box art is laughably bad. Hardcore 4X4 has issues, sure, but I can still get some fun out of it. And yes, Death Crimson is horrible. I tried to get far into it, but it is very difficult.
Before you invariably ask or cover it...Virtual Hydlide.
For the first time ever you ask me to "take a look at the Hulk game..." and I replied with a very resounding "NO!" ;)
My friend, I feel the same way. I am a fellow Gen X'er staring down that 40 year old barrel. My fiance is 27 years old and does not understand why I don't waste my time on games I don't like. I am not going to look for fun from a $60 dollar game. This actually happened to me last year when I bought a Tales game (can't remember which one...Zesteria is good, Vesperia is my favorite...anyway). I even bought the DLC (stupid is as stupid does) before playing the game.
At any rate, I hated it and it did not take me long to figure that out either. Here I was $80-$90 in the hole and I simply did not care (Honestly, who cares about $90, I don't want to waste money but I'm not going to lose sleep over $90 bucks). My fiance is a bit of a penny pincher and she was almost mortified by my reaction. She asked me if I was going to at least try to have sone fun with it...aahhh, the younger generation. No dear, no I am not. I am going to play something worth my time and I'm going to tell everyone what a shit shack this game is. I wound up getting a full refund from GameStop (Hell freezes over) because a good friend of mine is the store manager. He took it in defective, gave me a fresh unopened copy that I promptly turned back in for $60.00. I promptly bought Assassin's Creed Odyssey for my One X and never looked back (I wanted to play the Tales game before Assassin's Creed).
The characters in NFL 97 look like officer Earl lol
Virtual hydlide! The guy slid round the environment, like he'd just shit himself, but still needs to squeeze one out desperately!! God awful game! GOD AWFUL GAME!
Ever see a really really ugly baby?
Death Crimson was a labor of love like that. The game is a meme appreciated in Japan even today. It is the most successful of the bad Saturn games.
*Lmao that clip of the crow game* "Bruh!" "Bruh!"
So is death crimson ox for the sega dreamcast a sequel?
Love the quote at the end. Great content is always.
These bad games have at least helped in leading to a good video. I agree with much of what you said toward the end. Life is too short to give too much time to games, even if others like them. I have had the experience of liking a game upon a second look, but usually there's a good reason to go back. Sometimes, it doesn't work out. And then there are games that many think are good, but waste too much time. I couldn't believe it when I first tried Okami on PS2 and it took about 20 minutes to actually get to the game. And people say the game gets good after 10-20 hours. That's not good enough for me. I know the updates have fixed some of its issues so I may consider trying it again at some point.
Fun fact: The Crow City of Angels game uses the Time Commando engine.
Worst Sega Saturn games i´ve ever played ??? There were many, but a game that suck is objectively to look.
Like you mentioned, a game you may like i don´t and vice versa.
These kinds of lists are always like that. I think it's pretty interesting to see people enjoyed some of these.
Maaan that Death Crimson first song is L0L such accordion rape
I just can’t believe the Saturn didn’t support transparencies. That’s what sticks out the most about its graphics.
I had one friend who had a Saturn and i got to play it one single time - I’m glad i got some hands-on with it and whatever we played wasn’t on this list lol
I still have a sealed copy of Corpse Killer for the Sega CD 32x. I have no memory of buying it, I'm guessing it was in a lot I bought somewhere and it looked so awful I never even opened it.
Other than the rosters NFL 98 for genesis is the exact same as NFL 95. I spent soooo many hours playing that game as a kid.
What is the song right before NFL 97? Reminds me a ton of marvel vs capcom or x-men vs street fighter
I know I know it which makes it worse not knowing!
It's from After Burner II.
I was so scared you were gonna put Bulk Slash on this list for some reason. After hearing that a lot of people don't like the Road Rash soundtrack, I don't know what's real anymore.
Big fan of Bulk Slash here.
the Premium Rush film (2012) feels like it was inspired by Courier Crisis lol
Defcon 5 is the only game on my Saturn I haven't finished. It was so confusing and boring, a real torture, for sure.
Defcon 5 = Amazon Warehouse Simulator
Sega Lord burnin' that midnight oil. I'm up this late because the contract I've been working just ended and I bought Spiderman PS4 to celebrate. Staying up late to play this masterpiece.
Oh. Wow. The Incredible Hulk. I remember being really into Tomb Raider back in the day, and when I saw the Eidos logo, I bought the Hulk, thinking that I would be getting an experience of similar quality... I was a stupid kid who apparently didn’t know how to track down game reviews.
there was a time that I could play crappy games just to see the good in them but I'm unable to do so at the moment. It's a bit of a shame because sometimes I can miss out on a unique experience because of it.
Worst saturn games????? IMPOSSIBLE
The Hulk franchise needs to get with the boys behind Red Faction and make a real Hulk game.
Ultimate Destruction was a real Hulk game.
Hardcore 4x4 was good fun at the time
"The Crow: City of Suck" 😂
What's the name of the song played at the end of your videos?
Gotham City Streets - Batman The Video Game - Sega Genesis
Let me introduce you to virtual hydyde.
AVGN covered those.
I know I'm in the minority but I actually had a good time with Virtual Hydlide . The graphics were pretty bad but it was an impressively large randomly auto generated 3d world. I think the worst part of it was the frame rate. Going back today and playing it makes it seem almost unplayable but back when it came out, I remember adjusting to it and playing the hell out of that game.
@@shamrice oh I know,guarantee if the fixed the draw distance and frame rate,it PROBABLY would've been a great RPG,and I for one enjoyed super hydlide
Damn buddy,you mustve hated hydlide so bad,you can't even spell it :"v
Virtual Hydlide wasn't bad at all.
"The Suck City Of Angels" ...i prefer to call it The City Of Sucking Angels.
Nice vid, Alone in the Dark 2 was atrocious on Saturn near unplayable in slowness.
Indeed. I almost put it on the list here.
Thanks to God I do not own any of them.. Thank you for your fantastic videos, Sega Lord X!!!
No problem. Glad you enjoyed it.
@@SegaLordX Always!!
Defcon 5 literally looks like Jurassic Park on snes with a better framerate. My god.
That NFL 97 on Saturn looks exactly like Madden on DS!