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 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
@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.
@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
@@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.
@@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?
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.
@@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.
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 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.
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
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.
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.
The lower tiers are for lesser known examples, not for worse ones. The top tier is where the worst generally are because the most stunningly awful ones like Big Rigs are famous for being so terrible. That said, I agree this iceberg is... not great, even if the narrator does an excellent job of discussing it. I'm not a fan of any "worst games" list that doesn't include Dragon Age 2, and any list that doesn't include Cyberjank 2077 is simply bad and wrong. The fucking Challenger had a better launch.
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.
Timestamps Tier 1: 1:16 E-Football 2022 2:38 Superman 64 4:03 Big Rigs Racing 5:28 Flatout 3: Chaos and Destruction 6:09 Balan Wonderworld 7:21 Bubsy 3D 8:56 Ride to Hell: Retribution 10:34 Duke Nukem Forever Tier 2: 12:45 E.T. 15:12 Sonic R 16:29 Fast and Furious: Crossroads 17:29 Sonic The Hedgehog ‘06 20:03 DDI Platformers 21:35 Daikatana 22:49 Left Alive 24:00 Rouge Warrior 27:12 The Quiet Man 28:44 Zelda CD-I 30:44 CID The Dummy 32:10 Indiana Jones: Staff of Kings (Wii) Tier 3: 33:46 Charlie’s Angels 34:38 Aquaman: Battle for Atlantis 35:31 Batman: Dark Tomorrow 36:49 Rambo The Video Game 38:05 Popeye (2021) 39:22 Chicken Blaster & Chicken Shoot 40:30 ReBoot (PS1) 41:23 Batman & Robin 42:31 Jerry Rice & Nitus’ Dog Football 43:50 Ceetahmen II 45:47 Spider-Man: The Sinister Six (PC) Tier 4: 47:45 Gundam 0079: The War For Earth 49:41 Pac-Man (Atari 2600) 51:13 The Grinch (PS1) 52:24 Yaris 53:46 Morphman 54:52 Orc Slayer 55:37 101 in 1 Explosive MegaMix (Wii) 56:44 Elf Bowling 1 & 2 58:13 Burglar X 59:23 The Letter (Wii U) Tier 5: 1:00:53 Pu Li Ru La 1:02:52 Steel Harbinger 1:04:19 Life of Black Tiger 1:05:33 Block Warriors “Open World” Game 1:06:51 Wars & Roses 1:08:05 The Graveyard 1:09:01 Slaughtering Grounds 1:10:05 Uriel’s Chasm 1:12:13 Super Fight 1:12:56 War of Three Kingdoms
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.
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!
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)
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.
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
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.
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".
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
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
@@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
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.
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
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!
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".
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.
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!
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".
Not a fan, don't know much, but I do have MSG collectibles named stuff like Gundam Leo and Gundam H, are those different mobile suits with the same name or like different forms of the original cause they don't really look all that much like the original. Really weird I don't have a Zaku though...
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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 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
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.
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.
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 !
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 don't consider Pu Li Ru La a bad game, sure the game is crazy, but it's part of the narrative. The crazy parts in level 3 came from a person's dream. Saying that the translation from Japanese to English is bad, is an understatement. Many games back in the 80s/90s were made by Japanese developers, who are not fluent in English, they know what they know, and hiring professional translators can be expensive. There's also games with bad translation quality, but are good, like Legend of Zelda, where Ganon is spelled as "Gannon", "of" in Triforce of Power or Wisdom was originally replaced by "with", and a lot more. There's also Wolfenstein 3D, although the Nazis in the game are supposedly German, their German is atrocious, simply because ID Software doesn't have any knowledge of German, so they just use what they know. Despite the bad quality of the German language, it was received 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.
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!
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.
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.
@@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...
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
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?
@@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
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.
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.
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
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.
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 don't see Petz Catz 2 for Wii, a game that blatantly lies to you on the box about being a pet raising simulator while it's actually a terrible Legend of Zelda knockoff in which you play as a cat. The insanity of that game cannot be understated, shame it's probably too obscure to have made this list.
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.
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.
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.
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
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...
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
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.
I tend to put iceberg videos on when I try to sleep as they're super relaxing, but after 5 minutes, I was enjoying this one too much to actually get to sleep oops
Its actually interesting that most of these bad games received mixed reviews, and decades later received terrible reviews. Reminds me Albuns like Nevermind and other bands that at the time, received mix reviews, but decades later received 5/5. Its usually the initial reaction that matters(with exceptions, of course)...
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?
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
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
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.
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
It still irks me to this day that it’s not called “Balan Wonderland”, it sounds much better in my head
the lan in balan goes really well with the land in wonderland
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
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.
@OrangeWing11man 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.
The lower tiers are for lesser known examples, not for worse ones. The top tier is where the worst generally are because the most stunningly awful ones like Big Rigs are famous for being so terrible.
That said, I agree this iceberg is... not great, even if the narrator does an excellent job of discussing it. I'm not a fan of any "worst games" list that doesn't include Dragon Age 2, and any list that doesn't include Cyberjank 2077 is simply bad and wrong. The fucking Challenger had a better launch.
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?
Timestamps
Tier 1:
1:16 E-Football 2022
2:38 Superman 64
4:03 Big Rigs Racing
5:28 Flatout 3: Chaos and Destruction
6:09 Balan Wonderworld
7:21 Bubsy 3D
8:56 Ride to Hell: Retribution
10:34 Duke Nukem Forever
Tier 2:
12:45 E.T.
15:12 Sonic R
16:29 Fast and Furious: Crossroads
17:29 Sonic The Hedgehog ‘06
20:03 DDI Platformers
21:35 Daikatana
22:49 Left Alive
24:00 Rouge Warrior
27:12 The Quiet Man
28:44 Zelda CD-I
30:44 CID The Dummy
32:10 Indiana Jones: Staff of Kings (Wii)
Tier 3:
33:46 Charlie’s Angels
34:38 Aquaman: Battle for Atlantis
35:31 Batman: Dark Tomorrow
36:49 Rambo The Video Game
38:05 Popeye (2021)
39:22 Chicken Blaster & Chicken Shoot
40:30 ReBoot (PS1)
41:23 Batman & Robin
42:31 Jerry Rice & Nitus’ Dog Football
43:50 Ceetahmen II
45:47 Spider-Man: The Sinister Six (PC)
Tier 4:
47:45 Gundam 0079: The War For Earth
49:41 Pac-Man (Atari 2600)
51:13 The Grinch (PS1)
52:24 Yaris
53:46 Morphman
54:52 Orc Slayer
55:37 101 in 1 Explosive MegaMix (Wii)
56:44 Elf Bowling 1 & 2
58:13 Burglar X
59:23 The Letter (Wii U)
Tier 5:
1:00:53 Pu Li Ru La
1:02:52 Steel Harbinger
1:04:19 Life of Black Tiger
1:05:33 Block Warriors “Open World” Game
1:06:51 Wars & Roses
1:08:05 The Graveyard
1:09:01 Slaughtering Grounds
1:10:05 Uriel’s Chasm
1:12:13 Super Fight
1:12:56 War of Three Kingdoms
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.
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
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
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!
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!
Morphman’s voice is haunting. “I’m an eagle!” You make really solid icebergs.
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
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.
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!
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.
Crazy how this is only your second video, it's very well done! Looking forward to watching your channel grow!
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
The ''sequel'' is called ''Midnight Race Club:Supercharged!''.
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??
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.
@@NTMonsty 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
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
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
Not a fan, don't know much, but I do have MSG collectibles named stuff like Gundam Leo and Gundam H, are those different mobile suits with the same name or like different forms of the original cause they don't really look all that much like the original.
Really weird I don't have a Zaku though...
Poor Bubsy his game is so bad that the good ending is just slightly worse ending.
i like to think the devs did that on purpose because they knew full well the game was bad
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.
Wow this must've taken a lot of time to research, film and edit, great job man subbed
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.
You deserve so much more subs! The video was entertaining, everything was explained clearly and the editing is nice
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.
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!
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!
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.
I am surprised Bear Simulator was not here as that has such an interesting story behind why it was abandoned.
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.
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
As someone who has watched Rerez' reviews of a lot of these games, this was certainly a refresher.
Wait, Bubsy 3D has two endings and both of them are bad?
Bubsy truly deserves to be miserable.
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!
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
@@Pepstep_07 i to enjoyed the game and the different worlds. what i didnt like was how like 6 different buttons all did the same thing
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.
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
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.
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 !
You get the essence of what an iceberg video should be 😃
I never knew you liked avgn
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
And to make things worse, he later got arrested for insider trading and corporate espionage.
I don't consider Pu Li Ru La a bad game, sure the game is crazy, but it's part of the narrative. The crazy parts in level 3 came from a person's dream. Saying that the translation from Japanese to English is bad, is an understatement. Many games back in the 80s/90s were made by Japanese developers, who are not fluent in English, they know what they know, and hiring professional translators can be expensive. There's also games with bad translation quality, but are good, like Legend of Zelda, where Ganon is spelled as "Gannon", "of" in Triforce of Power or Wisdom was originally replaced by "with", and a lot more. There's also Wolfenstein 3D, although the Nazis in the game are supposedly German, their German is atrocious, simply because ID Software doesn't have any knowledge of German, so they just use what they know. Despite the bad quality of the German language, it was received well.
intentionally bad is still bad
@@olivercharles2930 how is it intentionally bad?
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.
I’m kinda surprised postal 3 isn’t here. It’s definitely not as bad as some games here, but I’d say it’s probably as bad as duke nukem forever
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
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
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!
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.
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...
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 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
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
1:06:45 If I recall correctly, the “product received for free” tag is manually put on by the reviewer, regardless of how the product was obtained.
interesting
@@TheVomcharTV I don't use Steam often so I might be wrong, but I wanted to notify just in case!
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.
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.
Great analysis video! Thanks for uploading!
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
Hey that is my iceberg! Thank you for covering it!
The amount of voice cracks in this video are insane
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.
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 don't see Petz Catz 2 for Wii, a game that blatantly lies to you on the box about being a pet raising simulator while it's actually a terrible Legend of Zelda knockoff in which you play as a cat. The insanity of that game cannot be understated, shame it's probably too obscure to have made this list.
Wow, great video. It's one of the best iceberg videos I've seen yet.
Imagine making a game so terrible, you try to sue people for writing bad reviews.
man i used to play the hell outta elf bowling on a floppy disc i got from my dads friend, game was sick
Well Made Buddy! Keep Up The Good Work! :)
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.
As someone with an unhealthy obsession with iceberg vids and terrible video games; you deserve more subscribers ♥️
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.
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.
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
I hope this video is one of the ones that randomly gets 5 million views, I can't believe you only have a hundred subscribers!
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...
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.
@@IceSick90 Oh damn
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!
Great video man
pretty neat, hope more people catch onto this
Dude, I love this style of narration, the occasional, but not overbearing tangents you derailed on were pretty funny
Something tells me that the guy who made this iceberg really likes Rerez. Most of the games on this list are games they’ve reviewed on their channel
Could tell because of the Morph Man mention, which, as far as I know, only Rerez has actually covered that game.
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.
What do you mean you have only 346 subs
You deserve a LOT more, man!
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
Great vid! You're a very good narrator :)
Swag vid dude. Def subbin
more icebergs are to come!
I tend to put iceberg videos on when I try to sleep as they're super relaxing, but after 5 minutes, I was enjoying this one too much to actually get to sleep oops
Its actually interesting that most of these bad games received mixed reviews, and decades later received terrible reviews.
Reminds me Albuns like Nevermind and other bands that at the time, received mix reviews, but decades later received 5/5.
Its usually the initial reaction that matters(with exceptions, of course)...
Watching you blow up man. Great work. Subbed
holy- watching this and going and looking at your following is insane, you are a hidden gem dude.