Worst Video Games Iceberg Explained
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 พ.ค. 2024
- Let's talk about some bad games.
0:00 Intro
1:12 Tier 1
12:41 Tier 2
33:41 Tier 3
47:39 Tier 4
1:00:48 Tier 5
Background Music:
Tier 1: Nocturnal by LEMMiNO
Tier 2: Aloft by LEMMiNO
Tier 3: Encounters by LEMMiNO
Tier 4: 19th Floor by Bobby Richards
Tier 5: Blackout by LEMMiNO
Background Visuals:
@FreeVideoBackgroundloops
@FreeMotionBackgroundLoop
Footage Credit:
Please go check out the excellent channels I got footage from, which are credited at the beginning of each entry! The channels whose footage I used the most are:
/ @worldoflongplays
/ @longplayexpress
/ @johngodgames
/ @nintendocomplete
#iceberg #iceberggaming #gaming #games #gameplay
Hey guys! As a lot of people have let me know, the channel Rerez has reviewed a good chunk of these games in more depth. If you want a deeper dive into some of these games, go check out their channel! Their videos are a lot more professional than mine! www.youtube.com/@rerez
I’m surprised top banana wasn’t on here, if you make a part 2, could you put it on the bottom layers??
I haven't watched the whole video but if CID The Dummy is here, I feel like nobody on this planet realizes the game is only bad because of the motion controls on the Wii. The PSP version is fine and the PS2 version is definitely the definitive version of the game
You've gotta be kidding me
Rerez' take on some of these games were hilarious, the CID the Dummy one is my favourite. "Not just a dummy now am I!"
@theVomcharTV nah don't lie you watch rerez lol, some of these games have virtually only been covered by rerez and are otherwise too obscure otherwise.
I think you kinda underexaggerated the biggest problem of sonic 06: The game wasn't finished. No literally, it wasn't finished. Sega rushed it out the door and refused to delay it and eventually realized it couldn't run on the wii, so they took half the staff of 06 and moved them to a different game. Like there are major mechanics that just weren't programmed in, letting you do things like just fly over levels. Not only was it a bad game, it's quite possibly the most famous bad/unfinished game and it almost killed the sonic franchise. He became an industry laughingstock and still is to this day.
People hated Sonic before 06 even existed.
@markofthewolvessucks8930 Oh people absolutely did, but he was still respected. Like when people thought of the best video game franchises, sonic was actually one that came up a lot and most importantly, that opinion was actually respected by most people. Nowadays there's a stigma around sonic and it did technically start a bit earlier, but it really kickstarted with 06
@@louiepikmin3184 And it also started the reputation of "Sonic was NEVER good", which the franchises wasn't really able to overcome to this day.
@@dinohermann1887 more accurately, 3D Sonic was never good
And it really wasn't until maybe Colors, half of Unleashed if I'm being generous
@@KaitouKaiju
As someone who has no nostalgia for 3D Sonic, and only played Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 in like 2020, I can say that that's not true. They're good games with a few flaws, as opposed to the unplayable mess that some people think 3D Sonic is.
The thing with Balan Wonderworld is that it's a one-button game - everything is done with the left stick and a single button. Painfully oversimplified.
So you're saying I could basically play it with an Atari controller? Holy crap.
Sonic the Hedgehog
@@christinarawlings948 That's why 3D Sonic was riddled with issues. It's this one button mentality, while every other platformer, even at that time, used more than just one button to do stuff like attacking, jumping etc., which also results in less simplistic/boring level design due to the expanded moveset (a.k.a you can do more tricks with the character you're playing with while using said tricks and whatelse not). 3D Sonic is just too simplified in terms of control scheme and it's probably the main reason it struggled throughout the decades.
@@dinohermann1887 Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 both used multiple buttons. Triggers to shift the camera, X for spin dash/interact and A for jump. I'm using Dreamcast controls since that's how I play Adventure games.
@@arieson7715 Huh, I thought that every game directed/produced by Yuji Naka had the same one-button control scheme as his "recent" game Balan Wonderworld. But why then does Balan use a one-button control scheme despite the two Sonic Adventure titles not using it too, even though they were directed/produced by Naka?
Duke Nukem Forever actually lost the "longest development time" record pretty recently to Beyond Good and Evil 2.
Until that game actually releases, if it ever will, it shouldn't actually have said record then.
@@nobodyinparticular9640 It would be fair to give it an award for longest waste of time and money in game development if it never does. The amount of cash they've probably burnt so far on it is astronomical.
Beyond Good and Evil 2 will never be released.
I didnt know they were making a sequel, Beyond Good & Evil is a great game
@@brenetssss i played it recently and and i dont think it really holds up all that well
Honestly, the idea of a horror game with a deaf protagonist and the ability to not hear anything at all sounds like a great idea.
Always a disappointment when something comes out with a really unique idea but poor execution.
Sounds fire tbh
It’s too bad they couldn’t find some way to use sound vibrations. The fully deaf can feel (mostly low) sound frequencies through things such as touching a speaker playing music.
@ButteredToast32
I didn't know that! Maybe their playlist consists of rhythms that they literally like the feel of, if that makes sense
lol no
Very surprised there was no Hong Kong 97 in this iceberg
oh yeah, i remember that game! i think this is why i want to start making my own icebergs in the future.
That's because Hong Kong 97 is a good game
Hong Kong 97 is the Freddy Got Fingered of video games
Would it really count to put something that is purposely terrible here? Still a bad game tho…
@@internettrash5120 That is true.
It still irks me to this day that it’s not called “Balan Wonderland”, it sounds much better in my head
A perfect representation of how much effort was put into Big Rigs is that bridge you "cross" along the driving route. You just clip through, down into and across the ravine and then back up onto the road on the other side again. They couldn't even be bothered to add collision to the one object that the player is directed to travel across.
It is funny though
Don't forget being able to go to warp. In reverse.
It also should be noted that this was made when games where still only released in physical boxes. So when you look at the box on the shelf in a store, just based on the package, it would actually look like a legit game if you didn't know any better.
The strangest thing is that the camera doesn't follow you down so the game obviously knows there's something there
I read this right as it happened in the video
16:02 I didn't know that they're was controversy surrounding the Sonic R soundtrack! Nowadays everyone seems to love it, so the fact that there were people who genuinely found it annoying is super surprising to me. Especially since the soundtracks seem to be the one consistently good thing about the Sonic franchise. The more you know, I guess!
I know right? Its one of the most amazing soundtracks for any game I've come across.
Keep in mind the last real Sonic game was Sonic 3 and it was pretty early in the 32bits era
I can see why people would find the ost really odd (not to mention not everyone might like the style, the music is a bit "cheesy" even if I love it too)
@@Igneeka avalanche of opinions incoming
@@Igneeka the cheesy 90s style that i’m sick off
The turnaround for the soundtrack was once the tails doll became a meme
For an iceberg of the worst games of all time, there is quite a few games that are considered average. You’d expect all of these entries to be universally panned, especially on the lower tiers
The levels have to do with the rarity and lack of exposure of the games rather than popular concensus. I actually think some of the games of the lower tiers aren't as bad as those at the very top.
I played Superman64 as a kid back in the day, rented it from the local video store for the weekend. Those where the worst $5 bucks I've ever spent, I gave up the same night I rented it, and felt so horribly cheated. When even a fucking kid can say your game is garbage, _it is absolute garbage._ I'm so glad I didn't gave up on that store, because just the next weekend, they were selling some of them, and I bought what ranks as one of my top 5 vidya I ever had, _Mischief Makers._ And to think the guy running the joint sold it for just 10 bucks to me because "he didn't get it", kek.
But seriously, fuck Superman64, and also that Power Rangers game for the 64. I am still burning with rage despite that happening more than 20 years ago. Even Sonic 06 was better than fucking Superman64.
Yeah Big Rigs for example is worse than most of the lower tier games, cause it isn't finished and barely even qualifies as a game. At least you can play and finish the other ones.
Yeah, this list felt rather lack-luster in terms of the worst video games of all time.
Aside from some missing well known examples like Drake of the 99 Dragons, some of the positioning of listed games on the Iceburg chart don’t feel right (Chicken shoot and Elf bowling should be a little higher up and CID the dummy a little lower down).
At least this wasn’t a very similar Iceburg chart that for some reason put Goat Simulator on theirs (by no means have I seen GS being considered as one of “the worst games of all time” since it was intentionally designed to be glitchy and wacky because it is a parody game and all and most people really seem to like it)
@@XpWhister04man goat simulator is a 10/10.
Whoever made this iceberg must have been a fan of the channel Rerez, as most of the games in this list where covered by them in their Just Bad series. I suspect that might be why there’s so many mediocre games.
2011 was such a wild year. So many games that were hyped to hell. Skyrim, Dark Souls, Portal 2, Dead Island. And of course, Duke Nukem Forever. I remember taking the day off of school and going downtown to get it. I think i played for about 4 hours and haven't touched it since lol.
Portal 2 is a good damn masterpiece, you can't convince me otherwise.
@@averyfields8183 couldn't agree more, man. I love that game
@@cauliflowerconnoisseur2710 Have you heard of the Fanfiction "Blue Sky" before?
@@averyfields8183 the writing in portal 2 is literally reddit and valve humor is an abomination
@@ExValeFor my apologies, but did I ask for your opinion?
See, if The Quiet Man wanted to make people who can hear feel the same frustration as the deaf, they should've just had everyone using sign language, and then the second playthrough have the subtitles. It'd give anyone who knew sign language the ability to tell the story right away, inclusive to the deaf and those who are considerate to the deaf, and an exclusion to those who take hearing and speaking for granted, inverting the status quo,. But they did it wrong and bad, and everyone was lost and dissatisfied.
In fact, you might have had a chance of picking up a couple signs along the way thanks to ASL's almost cipher-like replacement of English words along the same grammatical structure. That would have at least offered some kind of value to non-deaf players even if they have zero chance of figuring out the story
Wow, you make it sound like people who dont know sign language are assholes or something. Not knowing that language doesnt make you a bad person, geez...
@@icarusgaming6269 1. That is not how ASL works, I think you're talking about a pidgin sign. 2. I don't give a fuck about ASL, why couldn't the game be made in BSL, or PSL, or Japanese sign language? Not everything has to center America
The best thing of that game is that the character is not even deaf, he just acts like he can't hear anyone because the plot is stupid
@@BooksandBuns Because otherwise others couldn't understand?
I'm surprised no one mentions the game Journey of the Light, an indie game that came out on Steam back in 2015. It was a puzzle game where you play as a floating ball of light and you must light lamps scattered around eight large levels to beat the game. The issue is, there weren't eight levels, but just one. Players who bought the game couldn't get past the first level and when the game was datamined, players discovered the game consisted entirely of the first level.
When players accused the game's developer, Lord Kres, of scamming consumers, he explained that the game consisting of only one level was the result of a glitch caused by releasing a bug fix patch, and that the glitch didn't occur after he playtested the game with the patch installed. He had built up a small following as an up-and-coming indie developer after he showcased early builds of a game called Voxelized, which came out after Journey of the Light, funnily enough.
YOU WHAT!
my dad bought me ninjabread man for the wii and when he saw how it looked, he never bought me a game without asking me again. I haven't heard about this game in years so it's neat to see it here
Honestly I wonder how the dev of The Letter is doing because even if the game wasn't great the dev seemed to genuinely be passionate, I hope they're finding success
From what I've seen, he's actually doing alright. He is making a new game and is making game dev videos. He even put The Letter on Steam, and was self-aware to recognize its reputation in the decription: "Relive the Wii U game that gathered so much hate it became a cult classic with a uniquely passionate following".
I really hope the dev gets to put out more games that people can play and appreciate them, hell, they could get a team
Yeah, these are the type of devs I enjoy
Sure, I like good games, but it jsut feel like a game is more bearable or hell even enjoyable whe you know that the dev genually tried, had passion and cared for the game. Sure it may be garbage, but atleast they were passionate and cared...as long as they keep improving over time, they may make the next Hallow Knight, the next Cult of The Lamb
Elf Bowling was a NOVELTY game, and a pretty memorable one at that. You just had to be there to appreciate those early internet games.
Loved Elf Bowling as a kid. Would kill for an emulator file.
Gutter ballllll
Elf bowling is legendary.
Loved playing both games on my grandpa's computer. Cracked me up so much as a kid.
Do you remember Shockwave? It was a program that allowed you to play similar style games on your old PC!
Thank you for keeping the "Woo, this video was SO long geez I can't believe how long this was" to a minimum.
Also I like the ambience and a special kudos to the clarity of your speaking. A lot of iceberg channels/videos don't take their audio quality seriously.
Late response but I agree with this comment wholeheartedly. I’m really over the “A Brief Retrospective of Insert Game Here lolrofl” and the video is twelve hours long trend.
Morphman’s voice is haunting. “I’m an eagle!” You make really solid icebergs.
I'm glad that none of MDickie's games are included, they are literally some of the most replayable games I've ever played.
Wrestling Empire is just straight up a good game
keep it hard core!
@@BorfieKai
Yeah, Hardtime and YouTestament were so bad they're good, but Empire is straight up genuinely a good game that completely shows up pretty much all AAA wrestiling games.
There not bad games. Graphics don't always mean everything. They have that early 2000s charm to them and I love it. I am glad that MDickie is still making games to this day. I love the interactions in his games
The only real disqualifying thing you can say is that MDickie himself has weird delusions of grandeur.
This video is awesome man. You're not making stupid jokes every 3 seconds, you aren't shaking the screen with dumb edits. Just thanks man, great voice too.
Shame he simply made up crap when he tackled ET, which has a way to actually beat the game during a time when none was expected.
Also, people complaining Superman 64 is too easy? And not about insane time limits vs, garbage controls and poor explanations?
K.
That duke nukem forever joke was hilarious though
Kiss him already
You must be part of "Generation Queer". @@notacat7127
Oh my gosh, when Balan Wonderworld came out, I was so obsessed with that game and how bad it was. No I haven't played it and I likely never will, but I was just eating up all videos talking about it and the book.
Small correction on the Gundam 0079 section- the suits are not called "Gundams", the name refers specifically to the protagonist's suit, with the suits as a whole being called "mobile suits".
Hence 'Mobile Suit Gundam'
Your comment is 1 like away from perfection.
Depends on what series you're talking about
literally nobody says that everyone who doesn’t care just says gundams
I know this was a massive undertaking for you to make and I think it really paid off, this is so well done
YOU WHAT!
Damn when I saw "149 subscribers" I thought I was seeing things, this is so high quality. I love iceberg videos and this one's definitely up there as a well researched and interesting iceberg. I hope to see more icebergs from you! Subbed!
I literally checked just to see if this was true cuz I couldn't believe it. How is that this channel doesn't get recognition??
Instantly subbed.
It's now 440!
It's 526 now
i do wish he would've actually *played* the games...
@@OxygenMagnet bro i’m not playing 50 games for one iceberg video i’m sorry
Thank you for not crushing Balan Wonderworld. I loved the game in spite of its flaws and you were very matter of fact and objective with the coverage.
I believe it was Austin Eruption who did a fairly extensive video on the game's supplemental material and lore, and having watched that, I feel that there was definitely a lot of potential which was sadly left unmet due to various constraints and deadlines.
@@ConvincingPeople i feel the same way. the story characters and aesthetics had charm but the gameplay and level design kills it. in another better universe balan wonderworld was an animated story oriented tv show or movie because as a game its just not good
@@Meriamfunlandagain i to enjoyed the game and the different worlds. what i didnt like was how like 6 different buttons all did the same thing
so a few fun facts about big rigs that i diddn't know about until recently
1 the game was literally a money laundering scheme, like the publisher explicitely told the devs to release it undercooked so they could write the loss off their taxes (or something, similar, and equally as illegal/unethical)
2 it actually got a "sequel" (though i forget the name) which was just the same game, but using cars and bikes instead of trucks, and that was slightly more playable
3 as implied by the first 2 fun facts, the game was originally going to be...well a full game with way more tracks, as well as the ability to ride cars and bikes
when it was released, it was effectively a tech demo for that unreleased racing game
Here's the thing with the other truck moving/not moving in Big Rigs:
Eventually the publisher or developer or whatever put out a patch so that the truck would move, but it STILL stops right before the finish line, so they couldn't even patch the game properly. Also, apparently one of the very few tracks just doesn't load. At all.
On a different note, Duke Nukem Forever is no longer the game with the longest development time, as Beyond Good and Evil 2 surpassed it last year.
They also unfortunately changed the YOU'RE WINNER' message to 'YOU WIN' in said patch.
In the Rouge Warrior segment, it's mentioned that it was criticised for the overuse of profanity, but a lot of people didn't know that Richard Marcinco used basically as much profanity in his books, so if anything it's a faithful homage to the original books
Dude great video, subbed! Narration was basically exactly what I look for in an iceberg video especially as I like to fall asleep to them - consistent tone and volume, no sudden spikes to jolt me awake, engaging direction and writing. If you wanted to, you could honestly make a second iceberg of worst video games since this one missed quite a few (that the other commenters mentioned, also the original Action 52 and other games like Custer’s Revenge and the Alone in the Dark reboot) not your fault though since you didn’t make it. I’d watch a part 2 for sure!
Oh and how could I forget Evony??
Things to point out:
1:04:18 Life of Black tiger got most infamous because it somehow had it's trailer published on the official playstation youtube channel: th-cam.com/video/uM523jjrvf4/w-d-xo.html
1:08:07 a walking simulator is how people call a game where there isn't much gameplay besides just walking. It's something that is pretty common in "artsy" games, so the term became a sort of tongue in cheek way of calling something pretentious as well.
Wow I remember watching really old Watchmojo and similar videos as a kid and seeing shit like the ET game, Cheetah men, Big Rigs and more on those lists. Kinda nice to see a modern video tackling ALL of these classic bad apples here.
Whoever made this iceberg, DEFINETLY is also a Rerez fan!! : D
If there is an order as to what level these games go in to, I'm not seeing it. It clearly has nothing to do with how obscure they are.
@@optiquemusic6204 Not sure what it has to do with my comment, but do agree!
All of Digital Homicide's library was pulled over the behaviour of the company and perception of asset flipping.
It's really hard to argue with the final card game being maybe one of the worst ever, the 3 kingdoms period has so much recognition internationally, to the point Koei's been turning out entries to two series based on the war for over 35 years in the case of Romance of the 3 Kingdoms, and 25 for Dynasty Warriors.
Chicken shoot was one of the very few wii games we had. (I can only think of 5 off the top of my head) I think some of the frustration likely came from motion controls, and the shooting being finicky. I recall yelling „I shot that one“ at the tv a lot.
The game did initially scare me. I think it was the chickens hitting the screen, also I have a vague memory of something in the forest level being spooky. No I did not feel comfortable shooting the maid. Also you could see some of the chickens fly to heaven after you shot them.
Again, as a kid who became aware of my mortality way too early, shit was scary.
However, outside of just dance 2, (maybe wii sports) chicken shoot probably saw the most playtime. So maybe it wasn’t that bad?
Left Alive almost certainly had their game's cover-art done by Yoji Shinkawa solely to bait Metal Gear Solid fans into buying it.
honestly the shit worth buying from square enix are avalanche games and games made by the FF devs
Imagine working real hard on a game and then it gets put into this iceberg
Hard work means nothing if the end product isn't worthwhile.
I know that "It's the journey, not the Destination", but I'd argue that it is "The Journey AND the Destination".
I can relate to that cat game at the beginning of this iceberg.
@@TheRealNTM No, only journey.
Sonic 06 still makes me sad, because I can see just how fucking hard they tried to make a good game. They just didn't have enough time and resources because of Sega's greed and corporate fuckery.
@@KnoxCarbon nah that game was trash even from the concept
Crazy how this is only your second video, it's very well done! Looking forward to watching your channel grow!
Honorable mentions: Lester the Unlikely, Hotel Mario, Fallout Brotherhood of Steel, Lord of the Rings Gollum, Redfall, Call of Duty Ghosts, Resident Evil 6, GTA Definitive Edition, Wolfenstein New Blood, Monkey Mischief, and the Last of Us Part 2.
I don't think any but the most perpetually online shut ins would legitimately consider the likes of New Blood or The Last of Us Pt2 contenders for "worst of all time". They certainly aren't good games, but if you play something like them and something like Carmageddon 64 side by side, there's just no contest.
And I didn't even think RE6 or Brotherhood of Steel were THAT bad. Mediocre, yeah okay, but not really much more so than FO4 or 76 🤷♂️
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@@thecrispymasterthis is mentally challenged
One important thing to note about balan wonderworld is that it was made by Yuji Naka, one of Sonic the Hedgehog creators (he made the momentum-based engine and gameplay), which is the main reason why it was such a big disappointment for many people
I actually played the Wii version of Staff of Kings as a kid and remember liking it. In fact, I still have the disc. I was a big Indiana Jones fan, and there weren't many readily accessible Indy games outside of Staff of Kings and the LEGO ones. I would've liked to have seen the 360/PS3 version release, but it got cancelled. I remember seeing a teaser for it on X-Play.
As someone who has watched Rerez' reviews of a lot of these games, this was certainly a refresher.
I am surprised Bear Simulator was not here as that has such an interesting story behind why it was abandoned.
I'm honestly surprised that YIIK: A Postmodern RPG wasn't on here since I remember there being a lot of controversy with the story, characters, and gameplay. Luckily though the two main devs are trying to make a revamped version as a free update for anyone who bought the game initially so there's that to look forward to at least.
YIIK may be disliked for its millennial writing and all around cringe and repetitiveness. But the game functions and works well, no massive game breaking bugs or unfinished levels. It may be unlikable but it is not unplayable, incompetent, or unfinished
@@RetroLogan64 I guess so, though the list seems to be more about games generally disliked by the public rather than all of the games being genuinely terrible (I doubt Sonic R is that bad). I played YIIK myself and it definitely isn't the worst (mostly just being average with the boring/slow combat and very rare scripting bug), but I could see somebody not being happy with the game. The devs and community do have passion for the game though which I will not deny and I can't wait to see what revamps the update will bring, since the new changes do look interesting and might greatly improve the game.
@@RetroLogan64Late reply but the game did have bugs. They've probably been fixed by now, but from what I know, your game could freeze entirely while fighting a boss, or having a particularly extensive battle, causing you to have to load a previous save. There's a good review of the game by the user Running Shine, though you've probably already seen it.
Also there's the cringe mechanic with Rory that assigns a value to how many times you'd been dismissive or mean to him, which would cause him to commit suicide and would completely erase his existence from the game pretty much.
Y'know, without knowing the context behind how Rogue Warrior came to be, I had once made a joke about how it writes its protagonist like a teenager would write in a creative writing class without a "no swearing" rule.
I later found out, nope, that's just how the real person the game is based on talks in day-to-day conversation.
Wow this must've taken a lot of time to research, film and edit, great job man subbed
The issue with balan was that litterally everything was tied to 1 button.
that was weird . i mean every face button was either jump or attack
You get the essence of what an iceberg video should be 😃
I never knew you liked avgn
The easiest way to see if someone's never actually played 06 is if they call it one of the worst games ever made. It's not even remotely close. I wouldn't even call it the worst Sonic game.
Looks like you're pretty new to TH-cam from what I've seen, I just wanted to say I really appreciate your channel and all the depth you put into making this Iceberg, if I was to watch an Iceberg compared to someone with a million subs next to your sub count, I wouldn't have been able to tell you who had more experience. Keep up the amazing work and you have my sub for this.
I feel like the Creator should have called this the "Bad and Disappointing games iceberg", since a lot of these seem like they were more disappointing or just mediocre rather than *the worst*.
But that's not on you, you're just going through the iceberg chart. Good video!
I think the "longest development time" record should go to Dwarf Fortress, it was in the works for 30 years until it now finally go a Steam release.
But it was released long before it ever got steam.
@@KaitouKaiju Yea but those were Alpha/Beta releases, the one on Steam is the "full" release.
Pretty sure it’s still being worked on. The steam release was done to pay for medical bills
"The original OP"
The original original poster.
This was a super fun video!! Your narration was great and made it worth listening to. So many of these icebergs just have people reading from a script but this is an exception. Can't wait to see more of your content!
You deserve so much more subs! The video was entertaining, everything was explained clearly and the editing is nice
Fun Fact!
Duke Nukem Forever is no longer the game with the longest development. That dishonor now goes to Beyond Good & Evil 2, which is still unreleased.
It means games that actually released and not games that are still in development hell.
Also didn't Beyond Good and Evil 2 officially get cancelled a while back?
@@GamersHolyArmy No, it's still in development, it just had a reset to step 1. Ubisoft never announced a cancellation of the project.
@@GamersHolyArmyActually, Duke Nukem Forever's record was beaten by Black Mesa (fun made remake of first Half-life), but if BG&E 2 will be released, it will be beaten too
GTA VI and Elder Scrolls VI are probably gonna shadow all of those games in development times
If they’d have taken the time to remove the glitches and speed up the loading times, Sonic 06 wouldn’t have been that bad. And fixed that damn silver fight
I don't read video game reviews at all but listening to them rip apart bad games makes me only slightly consider beginning to read them
The amount of voice cracks in this video are insane
There are a lot of games missing in this iceberg. For example, the Zelda CDi games were mentioned, but not Hotel Mario? At least the former(s) had hilariously memable cutscenes, we can't even say that about the latter. And the last game in the video was hated because it only exists to be a cash-grab that tries to extract every last Yuan from its players, by using a beloved story/IP? Well, that's just gaming in a nutshell for the past decade or so.
Great video, TheVomcharTV. Keep at it.
Hotel Mario wasn't memable?
The hell are you on about? A million TH-cam poops that absolute memed the hell out of hotel mario
@@brandommario2 Exactly!
"You know what they say, all toasters toast toast" - hotel mario
"gay luigi" - also hotel mario
@@olivercharles2930 I guess I just wasn't exposed to all those sweet Hotel Mario memes. That game (and many others) should have still been in that iceberg...
This is why I don't agree with people who say that The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is a "horrible game". It maybe poorly made, but it is still an OK game... Especially compared to all of the games on this Iceberg.
low hanging fruit. okay games can still bad!
@@alicemargiela Not all of them! Some games are treated as complete garbage, when most of them still have some qualities.
45:51
The comparison to SM64 and Quake seem particularly wild on this one. This thing looks like a flash game from 10 years later, which doesn't seem bad for an indie flash game, especially one by a shovelware studio.
Great video overall though! You put way more into this iceberg than other people do and it genuinely shows in quality, the editing shows a good channel. Hoping you make more !
Honestly a great video. I always enjoy these types of obscure media. One fun fact about the Life of Black Tiger. There is still a teaser on an OFFICIAL playstation youtube channel. How someone approved of it is still beyond me... Also, it uses stolen music from the Anime Parasyte the Maxim.
For Big Rigs there was an update that added moving AI (although the AI never finished so there's still no way to lose) and fixed (in most definitions of the word) the "You're Winner" graphic.
Life Of Black Tiger was also thrust into infamy when the trailer was posted to PlayStation's official TH-cam page despite the amateurish, everything, leading to people questioning Sony's quality control.
The Slaughtering Grounds, along with Digital Homicide's other games, were all removed from Steam in 2018 after the studio attempted to get Steam to give them the full names and addresses of the people they were attempting to sue for their bad reviews of Slaughtering Grounds and other games. Steam refused the request and subsequently terminated their relationship (or whatever they call it) with Digital Homicide over it.
really glad i came across this video, i love iceberg type videos and this was no exception! beautifully laid out with amazing narration! keep it up :)
Hey, you're doing a really good job! I can see that you just started your channel and this was an excellent iceberg video, especially considering it was your first. Keep up the good work!
Sonic R is unironically one of my favorite games ever. It's a racing game, not a platformer, that's how it's supposed to control. It's novel for a racing game, focusing on collection. The ost is so good, one of the best sonic OSTs, and that's hard to do. Such a good game.
I like '06, but that's just cause the jank is fun and has the best sonic OST no question
I find people seem to hate on anything to do with the Saturn. There where way worse racing games on the PS1 and N64 which don't get mentioned.
@@System_Sega honestly 3D aged worse on the Ps1 and N64 lol
I remember grinding out to unlock everything on sonic r as a kid I loved it and the music especially!
Sonic R is underrated.
Honestly, I find the Drift duo to be worse than R.
I completely forgot about The Life Of Black Tiger until watching through this. I remember rewatching gameplay videos of it as a kid because I couldn’t buy the game.
When big rigs is on the begining of the video you know the rest of the games will be an abomination
Sonic R is a funny one as it came out when I was a kid obsessed with Sonic, and I desperately wanted the game after going into a shop that was selling it.
Great analysis video! Thanks for uploading!
Wow, great video. It's one of the best iceberg videos I've seen yet.
Amazing video, hope this channel pops off like it deserves!
This is definitely a class iceberg video. Take my sub and keep up the good work!
Duke Nukem Forever is really not that bad. It does a lot of different things in the story that are very unique. I think it was hated more than it should have been. It’s a solid 7 overall
12 years for an okay game. It's the main issue
@@crack4184 yeah well blame 3D Realms. Gearbox ended dev hell for the game and it was far better than people said at the time.
I express my admiration for the amazing work you did there.
There was only one game I was expecting, but did not see - Limbo of the Lost.
But I thoroughly enjoyed it nonetheless
One correction about Duke Nukem Forever: It no longer has the longest development of any video game. That honor now goes to Beyond Good & Evil 2.
It's still being made???? Been waiting for it for ages
Not until it comes out. Till then it's still Duke Nukem Forever.
@@smupking9592 it's not. They just haven't canceled it is all.
@@IceSick88 Oh damn
32:11 you know the game is bad when the best part is a different game that was added as an add-on 😅
The guy who initially made this iceberg must have been a fan of Rerez.
Have aways been a PES person during the FIFA era, could actually dribble in PES instead of constantly losing the ball to opponents 5 miles away somehow, and scoring or defending goals is fair compared to the coin toss that is FIFA, where you point the joystick is where the ball or goalie goes. Wondered what happened to it. Since PS4 launch couldn't find it anywhere anymore...
Gotta love these icebergs 🔥🔥 good video
pretty neat, hope more people catch onto this
awesome and well made video! worthy of being something i watch while having lunch, which is very much a compliment! i have an interest in "bad" things, especially video games.
My favourite part of Cheetahmen II was when Dr Morbis appeared and said "It's Morbin' time"
Dead meme
Bad comment
@@melvint-p9500 more like dead comment 💀
Meme not dead yet ?
I’m surprised the iceberg does not include Takeshi's Challenge
I'm happy this video got alot of views for you. You put in alot of of work to make quality content and you were rewarded for it may you continue to succeed
This was an incredible video!!! Especially the part about Marcinko. I'm excited to learn more about this guy.
20:03 If you wanna learn more about Data Design Interactive and its life, as well as its games, I'd highly recommend "Merry Christmas, Data Design!" or the Shovelware Variety Hour series from Scott The Woz.
This is dope. Good shit man.
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The actual plot of The Quiet Man is *wild.* There's so much bizarre shit about ancient Gods, chosen one prophecies, and identical twins that you have literally no chance of figuring it out without subtitles. If the intention was to have you try and follow along based on body language, they wrote the story in a way that goes against that in every way possible. I suggest you look it up, cause it's so much crazier than you could possibly imagine
Aquaman: Battle for Atlantis and Superman: The Man of Steel belong together in a double feature listing because just like the CDI platformers, they are the same game. Somehow the staff transferring from Atari to TDK managed to bring over the entire source code and landed *another* contract with DC Comics, and what they made was a reskin of a game that was terrible to begin with. How these bandits got away with such a scam in broad daylight is beyond me. They were responsible for Dark Tomorrow too, but that game is at least different from the other two
Watching you blow up man. Great work. Subbed
Some of my first ever video games were Batman: Dark Tomorrow and Aquaman: Battle for Atlantis. They came as a three-pack with a godzilla fighting game, and my older brother got them when I was about three. If our next two choices of video games weren't Metroid Prime and Sonic Mega Collection, I might not still play video games today.
EDIT: Nevermind i actually had Batman Vengeance. I never got past the vine hallway, I don't remember if it scared me or if I just couldn't get Batman to shuffle along the wall.
Imagine making a game so terrible, you try to sue people for writing bad reviews.
It's not really unfair to compare Busby 3d to better platformers released at the same time, since the game is intended to be a mascot platformer series to compete directly against them.
yeah it is. Mario 64 came out a year before Bubsy and it still looked better
Yes it is. Bubsy was made to compete with the likes of Mario 64, which released before Bubsy 3D.
We need more different icebergs. Nice video.
Great video man
Great vid! You're a very good narrator :)
Superman 64 got me in trouble for cure sing for the first time. I remember it came out around the start of a summer break when I was around 9 or 10 and being bummed out because I didn’t have an N64, but all my friends did. It was a big deal for em. I didn’t get a chance to play it till around a month later after hearing a few friends talk about how awesome it was. When we finally got to play it together it was the first time I ever used a naughty word. I told everyone that “the game is crap” and I got tattled on.
Wait
English isn' t my first language and despite knowing english for half my life I didn't know “crap” counted as a curse word???
@@Nameless-ny8nk It usually isn’t. The kid’s parents are probably fanatics
This is an interesting iceberg overall, but I feel it misses A LOT of games considered the worst of all time. For the fun of it, here's a list of all the worst games of all time that come to mind for me:
- Plumber's Don't Wear Ties (3DO): A "FMV" game that only has FMV video at the beginning. Criticized for a severe lack of gameplay, lack of usage of the 3DO hardware, and a bad/annoying story.
- Takeshi's Challenge (Famicom): A game made by famous Japanese jack of all trades Takeshi Kitano, it's a Famicom game where the protagonist... Honestly, I still don't understand the story, but you divorce your wife and find treasure at the end. It's insanely cryptic and frustrating by design, to the point where Takeshi himself taunts you at the end to just "chill, it's just a video game" or something along those lines.
- Crazy Frog Racer (PS2): I don't know why this one's considered one of the worst games of all time tbh
- Custer's Revenge (Atari 2600): An extremely offensive game where the objective is to... Procreate with a naked Indian woman. Need I say more?
- Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric: (Wii U) A shallow tie-in game to the Sonic Boom cartoon, infamous in part for being extremely broken upon launch to the point where Knuckles had an infinite jump glitch to skip... So much of the game.
- Desert Bus (Sega CD). A game where you drive a bus in the desert and it's a very realistic bus too. It takes eight hours to get a point, and you can't just hold the gas button down, because the bus goes to the right/left & can get stuck in the sand. However, the game was designed to be a criticism of people complaining about video game violence by magicians Penn & Teller
- Day One: Garry's Incident (Steam): I don't remember the particulars of why this was awful, but it was very much awful. The late TotalBiscuit's review of the game also got copyright striked and taken on TH-cam for a bit/awhile.
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (NES): An adaptation of the book (which has nothing to do with the book), which is seen as extremely frustrating; made infamous by AVGN for reviewing it twice. Although, it's impressive artistically.
- Friday the 13th (NES): A frustrating adaptation of the movie(s) with a horrible starting weapon, repetitive music & gameplay, horrible navigation, and more.
- Bad Rats (Steam): A puzzle game that is both offensive and bad. I can name why in just one flaw: the puzzle physics are inconsistent, meaning a method can be done multiple times and have a different result almost every time. How do you even...?
- The Town with No Name (Amiga CD32): A point-and-click game with graphics that look as though they were made in MS Paint, repetitive gameplay, and is just very... Bizarre, in both good and bad ways.
And there's a lot more: DARK for multiple systems, the Big Rigs sequel, Hong Kong 97', Shaq Fu, Drake of the 99 Dragons, Hotel Mario for the CD-I, Wally Bear and the No-Gang for the NES, Crazy Bus, etc..
This is a very helpful comment. Thanks!
@@TheVomcharTV You're welcome! :D
New subscriber 🙂 Great video. Would take a lot of hard work to complete a video like this. You did awesome
Just looking at the Aquaman game makes me seasick...