Fun fact: Bubsy 3D was developed by Eidetic, the same studio that developed the Syphon Filter games and then became Bend Studio and made Days Gone a few years ago. Talking about humble beginings.
Interesting to say the least if true because I have syphon filter myself and it's not half bad ether at least to me anyway with animated games like bugsy(a animal cartoon character)it's tricky depending on what type of gear you have to work with🤔
It's not so much a shitty start when you consider there were no guideposts yet for 3d platformers. Not that Busy 3d isn't horrific, but it's understandable
According to TT founder and former CEO Jon Burton, Rascal was the victim of executive meddling. The game was designed to have normal 3D platformer controls a la SM64, but then the publisher forced them to have tank controls because Lara Croft was so popular at the time. This would've been bad enough on its own, but since the camera and player movement were never designed with tank controls in mind, the devs pretty much had to use duct tape to keep the game semi-playable.
I remember I started renting PS1 games and copying them once I got a mod chip, and I was determined to get my hands on every game at every rental store in the area. And then I burned a copy of The Incredible Sea Monkeys, and that was the moment I decided maybe perhaps I should be more choosy.
For real, everyone craps on this game and I don't think it's really THAT bad as a simple multiplayer arena fighter, and the graphics actually impressed me both back then and today, and people regularly crap on the graphics too! How many PS1 games were able to pull off cel-shading? Fear Effect was another of the few, but it honestly didn't look super great even with prerendered backgrounds and thusly all the resources used to draw just the characters vs Simpsons Wrestling rendering an entire 3D scene.
There's a conspiracy against that game. I still can't understand why people think it's so bad. I think it's great and some of my friends and relatives think so too. It isn't nostalgia, it wasn't my only game because my PS1 was chipped, I really think it's a great game.
The Crow was a game my brother and I booted on the Saturn just to laugh and make jokes about the game, it was terrible from day one, another game is a PAL exclusive called "Perfect Assassin", it's basically a point & click game, with an interesting set and atmosphere, but we had lots of fun with the various languages and the funny way the character moves.
Time Commando for DOS is pretty neat, the gameplay is clunky, sure, but the visuals blew my teenage mind back then, the setting, from stone age to modern times is also great, the console ports don't come close to it, though, specially the dreadful Saturn prototype that got a retail release somehow. Perfect Assassin is different, the backgrounds are static and to move and interact it's point & click, while TC you control your char using keys and the background is animated.
HOLY MOTHERFUCKING SHIT!!! I used to play that game in my old PSX and would hate every second of it! You just unburied one of those long and gone memories with this comment.
Good were the days when some of us could buy only one game at a time every other month. If we chose a shitty game, we had no choice but to play and somehow find pleasure in it, knowing that our next visit to the game store would be in a distant future. LOL Fifth Element was one of my shitty choices... 😂 Picking a game based on the cover art and images in the back of the box was the real struggle lol
What's funny is there's a PS1 game that stars Bruce Willis WITH voice acting by him. That's a lot of fun. It's a little over the top but better than that hunk of shit Fifth Element.
That 5th Element game is basically the same engine as Nightmare Creatures 1. Could basically say its a re-skin with guns instead of a staff or sword. Edit: That being said Nightmare Creatures is a gem in the midst of many PS1 classics. One my Fav games.
Quite a few tank control games on this list, everyone wanted to be Resident Evil, but totally missed on what made it so fun to play. Oh, when you do the second part of this video, have a look for a game called "Iznogoud". :D
That's why Resident Evil 4 was so good. Because it kept the tank controls, at a time when no other developer used them anymore. The tank controls were always the biggest source of horror. And the ammo system was designed in such a way that you could almost never miss a shot, otherwise you'd run out very quickly. Especially in Resi Evil 4, you have to not only hit the target, but the vast majority of shots have to be headshots, otherwise you'll run out of ammo very quickly. So RE4's tank controls, and the really relatively difficult fine tuning controls, trying to line up the targeting reticle with the zombie's head, as a dozen zombies are moving towards you, I've never played another game with that level of tension and horror as RE4 because of that It was really quite a brave thing in the PS2/Gamecube era to keep using tank controls when everyone else had moved on. But for RE4 it made perfect sense. But then for the next 3 or so RE games, they changed it to modern controls that are smooth and easy to use, and it ruined them. They all were far too easy to play, because of that, and so all the tension and horror vanished, and they just became fast paced average 3rd person shooter games. I haven't played RE 7 yet, or the RE 3 remake, so I don't know how well they maintain the horror. They're meant to be more horror than action again, like the first 4 games, but have modern controls. I'm sure they have jumpscares and stuff, but jumpscares aren't really scary, they're just surprising. In RE 4 there weren't jumpscares, you could see the zombies slowly walking towards you the whole time, and you could do very little about it to stop them, that was why it worked so so well. Instead of just trying to surprise you, the horror came from being able to see everything very clearly, instead of everything being overly dark and expecting something to jump out of the shadows
Fun fact, I had rascal as a kid and I played it on my parents projector screen TV. I left the game paused for several hours one day and when my brother and I came back, the image had been "burned" onto the screen in a bluish color. My parents got the TV fixed and never let us play video games on the family TV ever again (we had our own small tv)
Fun Fact: Cheevo "Cheeks" Smith got his nickname from former cell mates who passed him around the pod after being convicted of more than 800 counts of cp were discovered in his home. He has never shit the same since. Now that's a fun fact.
@@Sandman_Slim weird, sounds like you have some latent desires you should probably look into. I'm not judging you, but if you're having weird violent fantasies like that, you should probably talk to a therapist or something...
I remember thinking the 5th Element being a bootleg game, I had a modded PS1 and it was common to come across lots of bad games, since the SNES and Mega Drive bootleg carts, I had that in my mind, it's a weird game, feels cheap, no quality control at all, another case of people that don't play and don't know what makes video games fun and enticing, making video games.
That's disappointing, its such a cool movie. If that game were made now it could be so cool, it could hit that note that Cyberpunk missed. PS1 seemed like it had a lot of clunky games looking back.
Cyberia, it's one horrendous of a game. Time Commando. One of the worst Beat 'Em Ups i have ever witnessed. Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero ...... Ohh My ..... I'm speechless. .... O.D.T ( Or Die Trying ) ..... Basically this is not exactly a bad game ( at least for me ) but got a lot of issues and a lot of bugging glitches around the whole game. It's gameplay and controlling wise makes this title at almost impossible to play or even on passing throughout. But somehow, this game it's not that bad to my eyes; got something special for me. Recomended, if you want to die unfairly, and crying for mercy. Because, this is a hell of a game to deal.
Huh, i don't think the Simpsons game was THAT terrible. Not that great but not "shockingly terrible" on my book. Sure on the third tournament you had to rely a lot on underhanded tactics and dedicate your life on picking up every single item that spawned, but i still had fun with it.
I rented bubsy 3d when it came out and loved it. Made it all the way to the end in one go. I Don't know why it appealed to me so much. Still haven't beat that last boss. The boss is so incredibly broken. Not sure if its pilossible actually.
I was about to say. I don’t know anybody that had beaten that game. I bought it because it’s such a terrible and weird game that i have to have it in my collection
I remember being burned by how godawful The Crow, Spawn, Fifth Element and MK: Special Forces were. Luckily, the shop I was buying from was owned by my neighbor so he let us kids take it for day or two and return it back (and get new game) if we didn't like it. Those games weren't really cheap back then either, despite them being lot cheaper then SEGA\NES games.
Few things: Bubsy 3D was rendered in that way so the game could offer large draw distances, there was an interview in gamefan magazing about it. Also Rascal was pretty special as one of the few PSone games to run in its "high resolution" mode and offered software based mipmapping blending the textures, and was quite the technical marvel on PSone at the time.
I remember being massively disappointed with "The Crow." Absolutely loved the first film and thought the sequel was decent enough, so I was really looking forward to playing this game. What an unbridled disaster. After one monumentally frustrating play-through, I put in my closet and never touched that hideous thing again.
Its was the same kinds let down as Crow CoA. When I saw it in the theater its was "that was kinda rad!" Compared to the expectations.... hit hit below. I like the film but yea... the game! It was expecting a RAD GAME!! Git it from trading stuff to a cat in skool and when I got home n played it!! SOOOOOO EXCITED!!! It was "mann..... I got ripped off!" LMADO! High Hope's n let down heavily
You are 100% wrong about Matters of Teras Kasi. I thought exactly as you did AT FIRST. However bring a broke 14 year old it was one of the few games i had. I played it to the point of actually getting good. Unlocking everything. You can dodge. You CAN use weapons at will. You can also move a lot faster than you think. Now is it a great fighting game? Still no. But it isn't what you say. That game rocks and I'll destroy anyone at it.
Thanks to Jon Burton's videos, we at least know that Rascal was intended to be a MUCH better game because it originally had free-roaming 3D controls like Mario 64, but then some big wigs said "make the controls like Tomb Raider" and nothing TT could do or say would change their mind, and that's how the game was ultimately ruined. Neither the game nor the genre were meant for tank controls.
The Simpsons Wrestling may not be an actual concept Wrestling game,, but it's actually a fun game to play, the gameplay mechanics is definitely designed for kids, so I wonder why this is always in the list of terrible games?
I'd get together with some friends to play the worst games in our collections. Taking turns trying to get as far as possible. Turns out beer pairs well with hot garbage.
I do admit that growing up as a huge Star Wars fan, Masters of Teras Kasi was actually fun when I was 10 years old but given it's been more than a decade now since I played it, and seeing a lot of hate for it in recent times, I do worry I'll wind up disappointed if I fire it up again
It is not as bad as he said, it is a nice game for the time being! You could draw your weapon, use combos and if you managed to finish the game, you could play as Darth Vader!
If you’re gonna do shockingly terrible Mega Drive games, may I suggest? - Tintin in Tibet - Fantasia - Galaxy Force 2 - Dark Castle - Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Captain Planet and The Planeteers - Super Hydlide And if you do shockingly terrible SNES games… - Tintin: Prisoners of The Sun - The Itchy & Scratchy Game - Time Killers
You have such an extensive knowledge! I don't know how you managed to play through all of these games and still make videos on TH-cam. Just out of curiosity are you a physical collector or do you go about these digitally *Managed to hear you mention your shelf for tanguska. Would love to see what you got!
Ive never seen anyone ever mention Rascal. I made the mistake of buying that fever dream. Also, add Kingsleys Quest, Slamscape, and Jersey Devil to that list.
Kingsley's Quest is still one of my favourites from PS1 era :< Played it again a couple years ago on emulator and still enjoyed it. Maybe I just like to suffer 😂
Good grief, I remember Star Wars: Masters of Teras Käsi. Apart from the last word sounding very close to the German word for cheese (Käse), I was so thrilled to rent this from the video rental place in town as a kid, only to be quite disappointed by it at home. Oh well, at least it was a rental :)
Simpson wrestling was fun if you have someone to play with. As a single player game it's certainly one of the hardest and has the cheapest ai out there.
i played a little of every NTSC-U game over the past few years and I kinda just...accepted a lot of such "bad" aspects of the games as simply additional challenges. I enjoy the additional challenge of the poor mechanics of retro, and sometimes the less popular games
Just some constructive criticism - it would be cool to show more examples of what you're describing with footage etc like the sound effect melody you talked about in tanguska, would have been great to have heard it :/
Early 3d programming trick. FF7 was famous for this. Only the player sprites are 3d on 2d rendered backgrounds that appear to be 3d in short doses with fmv. I always thought it was clever.
Great list and video! But The Simpsons Wrestling, though it could have been better, I had as a kid and got some enjoyment out of it and wouldn't say it was one of the worst. I'd have replaced it with Psybadek (covered it on my channel - shameless plug!). Bubsy 3D is surely the worst of the lot 😂
Most of these are true but I’ll fight you and avgn about teras Kasi. Played it a good deal back in the day. Was into fighting games and played a loooootttt worse then that one. Had a fair amount of content too. Not even a big Star Wars fan. But that may be part of why I’m not as disappointed by it.
How can you have a show about shockingly terrible PS1 games and NOT have Pax Corpus (1997) on the list? That game was so diabolically bad it makes all of these look like game of the year candidates. I actually liked the Fifth Element game... I was addicted to it when it came out..
I only played/rented less than dozen PS1 titles, so I never how other games were so awful until returning to the family with PS4. There SO MANY bad PS4 Games and SO MANY bad PS1/PSP ports for PS4 on the PSN. Its no wonder people seem to care even less for the next gen
Great list of terrible games. Luckily we got the rascal demo as kids & it was somehow almost the whole game, but even as 10 year olds we hated it so much we ran over the demo disc with our bikes to make sure no one else had to play it. Cant wait to see Sub Zeros game in part 2.....*shivers*
Im sick of people saying the simpsons wrestling is a bad game, it might not be the best game ever but its still far better than golden eye on the N64. think im wrong? then play each of them your self one after the other one the system with the controller they were meant to be played on. in fact you would be lucky to find a single game on N64 that is better than the simpsons wrestling. again not saying the simpsons wrestling is a good game but its still better than 99% of the entire N64 library. with love the Duke
I don't think I've owned or played any of these PS1 games lol. At least with Bubsy 3D there's a happy ending as the devs went on to make the excellent Syphon Filter Trilogy on PS1. Their Bend Studios today and Days Gone is an underappreciated PS4 game. Wish Syphon Filter would return...
I do not really understand why MKSF deserves all of this hate. Maybe it's the worst title of the whole franchise, but taken alone it's not bad at all; I enjoy playing that from time to time!
Awesome to see the name of the game always visible. I often whatch your videos to get some ideas for my retro library and I always have to go back to the point where you introduce the new game.
Luckily I never played all those PS1 games with the exception of Rascal. I remember playing Rascal on Sony PS1 when I was a kid. It wasn't very good. Its controls appear to be very awkward and difficult. My top 4 worst PS1 games 1. South Park 2. Planet of the Apes 3. Rascal 4. Rugrats Studio Tour Anyway I think my favourite terrible PS1 game is South Park. Greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪
This may just be the funniest video on the channel at the moment. XDDDDD All of these games are straight up nightmares. I feel there’s potential with that Star Wars fighter. It just needs updated EVERYTHING.
Why would the Crow ever bother to dodge or block? Oh, that's right.. he's just a guy who can be beaten to death. That's how it is in the comic and the movie, right?
When I was little my mom took me to blockbuster to rent a game for the weekend. Naturally I saw the crow and got all excited. I got home and only played it 5 min before taking it right back out. My mom wasn't too thrilled about that, but than again neither was I.
It's a damn travesty when a movie is such a great opportunity to make an awesome tie-in game and they blow it. How could Fifth Element be a bad game?? There was such potential there. And this has been a problem for decades. Who the heck decided not to bother turning the Last Starfighter into a game??? WTF??
Man, i remember that vomit inducing 5th Element game... Played it the first time like 15 minutes and never picked up again until YEARS later... Hilariously i played it again for 15 minutes and then quit for good. Horrible game.
I gotta say that I'm maybe one out of 16 people that enjoyed playing Star Wars: Masters of Teras Kasi. I played as luke and just like MK4, you had a command to draw your weapon. There were big combos (10:37) with lots of hits and amazing visuals to that time. And after you finish the game, you can play as Darth Vader! Come on, give the game another go and pick a better character than Arden Lyn so you might enjoy it a little more! Thanks for the great video!
It's a shame about Rascal because technically the game is sound and doing (for the time) some interesting things with the hardware while even conceptually, while a product of the 90's, was alright. But the one thing that made the whole thing tumble down was the dumb decision of forcing the "Tomb Raider" camera at the last second, for an engine and game that was not designed for it, instead of sticking to the free controllable camera that it originally was designed with.
The Fifth Element is my favorite movie of all time. I spent an entire semester analyzing it during a film class. Unfortunately, my unwaivering bias could not touch the horror that is the game. It's just terrible in every way possible.
Yeah Rascal was an example of Executives getting more control than they should, Traveller's Tales basically ripped off Super Mario 64's Control Scheme and wanted to do that but the Publisher wanted to take a page out of the million selling Tomb Raider and Resident Evil titles Tank Controls and has since been Jon Burton's biggest regret, aka the long time Star Developer of TT Games.
The hate for Star Wars: Master of the Teras Kasi is such a cliche... it's not a terrible game, just takes time to master. Hell the original PS1 versions of Tekken 1 and 2 were way worse!
People say it's common devs deliver half-baked games nowadays, complementing and fixing (when they do) way after release, but Bubsy is dawn right early pre-alpha build stage, it's hard to believe this was a retail game.
Maybe he's recording them from a PS2. I remember when you played a PS1 game on a PS2, it had an options menu where you could choose to upscale the graphics and stuff. Some people seemed to be not aware of that, I remember telling a few of my friends who also had PS2s about that, and I was surprised to find out they didn't know about it.
Fun fact: Bubsy 3D was developed by Eidetic, the same studio that developed the Syphon Filter games and then became Bend Studio and made Days Gone a few years ago. Talking about humble beginings.
They also are the persons who make uncharted the golden abyss for the ps vita
Interesting to say the least if true because I have syphon filter myself and it's not half bad ether at least to me anyway with animated games like bugsy(a animal cartoon character)it's tricky depending on what type of gear you have to work with🤔
I guess the company had shitty start.
It's not so much a shitty start when you consider there were no guideposts yet for 3d platformers. Not that Busy 3d isn't horrific, but it's understandable
@@panuru9175 inever knew that that's awesome
According to TT founder and former CEO Jon Burton, Rascal was the victim of executive meddling. The game was designed to have normal 3D platformer controls a la SM64, but then the publisher forced them to have tank controls because Lara Croft was so popular at the time. This would've been bad enough on its own, but since the camera and player movement were never designed with tank controls in mind, the devs pretty much had to use duct tape to keep the game semi-playable.
I remember I started renting PS1 games and copying them once I got a mod chip, and I was determined to get my hands on every game at every rental store in the area. And then I burned a copy of The Incredible Sea Monkeys, and that was the moment I decided maybe perhaps I should be more choosy.
One thing I can say about Simpson's Wrestling, it has some of the best cell shaded graphics I've seen on the PS1.
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For real, everyone craps on this game and I don't think it's really THAT bad as a simple multiplayer arena fighter, and the graphics actually impressed me both back then and today, and people regularly crap on the graphics too! How many PS1 games were able to pull off cel-shading? Fear Effect was another of the few, but it honestly didn't look super great even with prerendered backgrounds and thusly all the resources used to draw just the characters vs Simpsons Wrestling rendering an entire 3D scene.
There's a conspiracy against that game. I still can't understand why people think it's so bad.
I think it's great and some of my friends and relatives think so too. It isn't nostalgia, it wasn't my only game because my PS1 was chipped, I really think it's a great game.
The Crow was a game my brother and I booted on the Saturn just to laugh and make jokes about the game, it was terrible from day one, another game is a PAL exclusive called "Perfect Assassin", it's basically a point & click game, with an interesting set and atmosphere, but we had lots of fun with the various languages and the funny way the character moves.
Haha thanks for the suggestion! I’ll check it out for part 2 🙂
Wait, was Perfect Assassin made by the same people as Time Commando? That game was not very good but I loved the advertisement...
Time Commando for DOS is pretty neat, the gameplay is clunky, sure, but the visuals blew my teenage mind back then, the setting, from stone age to modern times is also great, the console ports don't come close to it, though, specially the dreadful Saturn prototype that got a retail release somehow. Perfect Assassin is different, the backgrounds are static and to move and interact it's point & click, while TC you control your char using keys and the background is animated.
HOLY MOTHERFUCKING SHIT!!!
I used to play that game in my old PSX and would hate every second of it!
You just unburied one of those long and gone memories with this comment.
@@MauroGuedes Which game, the Crow?
Good were the days when some of us could buy only one game at a time every other month. If we chose a shitty game, we had no choice but to play and somehow find pleasure in it, knowing that our next visit to the game store would be in a distant future. LOL Fifth Element was one of my shitty choices... 😂 Picking a game based on the cover art and images in the back of the box was the real struggle lol
I chose pit fighter on game boy. I know what you mean
@@Trisentinel lol I feel your pain, I did the same on the Amiga!
What's funny is there's a PS1 game that stars Bruce Willis WITH voice acting by him. That's a lot of fun. It's a little over the top but better than that hunk of shit Fifth Element.
I feel your pain. My first trip to a trade in game store I got a dollar for Mario World and walked out with Phalanx. 😶
@@tristanholley7141 edit* That was Apocalypse on PS1, Only ever played the demo.
That Pamela Anderson game fighting mechanic is exactly how I feel playing Batman Arkham games lmao
I want to belittle you, but you're kind of correct.
That 5th Element game is basically the same engine as Nightmare Creatures 1. Could basically say its a re-skin with guns instead of a staff or sword.
Edit: That being said Nightmare Creatures is a gem in the midst of many PS1 classics. One my Fav games.
Quite a few tank control games on this list, everyone wanted to be Resident Evil, but totally missed on what made it so fun to play.
Oh, when you do the second part of this video, have a look for a game called "Iznogoud". :D
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That's why Resident Evil 4 was so good. Because it kept the tank controls, at a time when no other developer used them anymore. The tank controls were always the biggest source of horror. And the ammo system was designed in such a way that you could almost never miss a shot, otherwise you'd run out very quickly. Especially in Resi Evil 4, you have to not only hit the target, but the vast majority of shots have to be headshots, otherwise you'll run out of ammo very quickly.
So RE4's tank controls, and the really relatively difficult fine tuning controls, trying to line up the targeting reticle with the zombie's head, as a dozen zombies are moving towards you, I've never played another game with that level of tension and horror as RE4 because of that
It was really quite a brave thing in the PS2/Gamecube era to keep using tank controls when everyone else had moved on. But for RE4 it made perfect sense. But then for the next 3 or so RE games, they changed it to modern controls that are smooth and easy to use, and it ruined them. They all were far too easy to play, because of that, and so all the tension and horror vanished, and they just became fast paced average 3rd person shooter games. I haven't played RE 7 yet, or the RE 3 remake, so I don't know how well they maintain the horror. They're meant to be more horror than action again, like the first 4 games, but have modern controls. I'm sure they have jumpscares and stuff, but jumpscares aren't really scary, they're just surprising. In RE 4 there weren't jumpscares, you could see the zombies slowly walking towards you the whole time, and you could do very little about it to stop them, that was why it worked so so well. Instead of just trying to surprise you, the horror came from being able to see everything very clearly, instead of everything being overly dark and expecting something to jump out of the shadows
Resident Evil wanted to be Alone In The Dark.
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Fun fact, I had rascal as a kid and I played it on my parents projector screen TV. I left the game paused for several hours one day and when my brother and I came back, the image had been "burned" onto the screen in a bluish color. My parents got the TV fixed and never let us play video games on the family TV ever again (we had our own small tv)
That's not a fact, that's an anecdote.
@@Sandman_Slim fun fact: it's also a fact.
@@cheevosmith892 You should look up the difference. I'll wait.
Fun Fact: Cheevo "Cheeks" Smith got his nickname from former cell mates who passed him around the pod after being convicted of more than 800 counts of cp were discovered in his home. He has never shit the same since.
Now that's a fun fact.
@@Sandman_Slim weird, sounds like you have some latent desires you should probably look into. I'm not judging you, but if you're having weird violent fantasies like that, you should probably talk to a therapist or something...
I remember thinking the 5th Element being a bootleg game, I had a modded PS1 and it was common to come across lots of bad games, since the SNES and Mega Drive bootleg carts, I had that in my mind, it's a weird game, feels cheap, no quality control at all, another case of people that don't play and don't know what makes video games fun and enticing, making video games.
That's disappointing, its such a cool movie. If that game were made now it could be so cool, it could hit that note that Cyberpunk missed. PS1 seemed like it had a lot of clunky games looking back.
I wouldn't call The Fifth Element as 'shockingly terrible'. Sure, it's a mediocre stuff, but shockingly terrible is an overstatement.
I actually enjoyed a lot that Simpsons Wrestling game, still remember how hard was to beat Ned Flanders.
I made it to the last guy on my first time playing it
Cyberia, it's one horrendous of a game.
Time Commando. One of the worst Beat 'Em Ups i have ever witnessed.
Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero ...... Ohh My ..... I'm speechless.
.... O.D.T ( Or Die Trying ) ..... Basically this is not exactly a bad game ( at least for me ) but got a lot of issues and a lot of bugging glitches around the whole game. It's gameplay and controlling wise makes this title at almost impossible to play or even on passing throughout. But somehow, this game it's not that bad to my eyes; got something special for me. Recomended, if you want to die unfairly, and crying for mercy. Because, this is a hell of a game to deal.
Huh, i don't think the Simpsons game was THAT terrible. Not that great but not "shockingly terrible" on my book. Sure on the third tournament you had to rely a lot on underhanded tactics and dedicate your life on picking up every single item that spawned, but i still had fun with it.
12:44 Shockingly it actally isn't the last Bubsy game.
I rented bubsy 3d when it came out and loved it. Made it all the way to the end in one go. I Don't know why it appealed to me so much. Still haven't beat that last boss. The boss is so incredibly broken. Not sure if its pilossible actually.
I was about to say. I don’t know anybody that had beaten that game. I bought it because it’s such a terrible and weird game that i have to have it in my collection
I remember being burned by how godawful The Crow, Spawn, Fifth Element and MK: Special Forces were. Luckily, the shop I was buying from was owned by my neighbor so he let us kids take it for day or two and return it back (and get new game) if we didn't like it. Those games weren't really cheap back then either, despite them being lot cheaper then SEGA\NES games.
Few things: Bubsy 3D was rendered in that way so the game could offer large draw distances, there was an interview in gamefan magazing about it. Also Rascal was pretty special as one of the few PSone games to run in its "high resolution" mode and offered software based mipmapping blending the textures, and was quite the technical marvel on PSone at the time.
I remember being massively disappointed with "The Crow." Absolutely loved the first film and thought the sequel was decent enough, so I was really looking forward to playing this game. What an unbridled disaster. After one monumentally frustrating play-through, I put in my closet and never touched that hideous thing again.
Its was the same kinds let down as Crow CoA. When I saw it in the theater its was "that was kinda rad!"
Compared to the expectations.... hit hit below. I like the film but yea... the game! It was expecting a RAD GAME!!
Git it from trading stuff to a cat in skool and when I got home n played it!!
SOOOOOO EXCITED!!!
It was "mann..... I got ripped off!" LMADO!
High Hope's n let down heavily
@@xx7secondsxx Yep. Talk about getting the shaft.🤬🤬🤬
You are 100% wrong about Matters of Teras Kasi. I thought exactly as you did AT FIRST. However bring a broke 14 year old it was one of the few games i had. I played it to the point of actually getting good. Unlocking everything. You can dodge. You CAN use weapons at will. You can also move a lot faster than you think. Now is it a great fighting game? Still no. But it isn't what you say. That game rocks and I'll destroy anyone at it.
Thanks to Jon Burton's videos, we at least know that Rascal was intended to be a MUCH better game because it originally had free-roaming 3D controls like Mario 64, but then some big wigs said "make the controls like Tomb Raider" and nothing TT could do or say would change their mind, and that's how the game was ultimately ruined. Neither the game nor the genre were meant for tank controls.
The Simpsons Wrestling may not be an actual concept Wrestling game,, but it's actually a fun game to play, the gameplay mechanics is definitely designed for kids, so I wonder why this is always in the list of terrible games?
I'd get together with some friends to play the worst games in our collections. Taking turns trying to get as far as possible. Turns out beer pairs well with hot garbage.
Haha this sounds like a good time!
I do admit that growing up as a huge Star Wars fan, Masters of Teras Kasi was actually fun when I was 10 years old but given it's been more than a decade now since I played it, and seeing a lot of hate for it in recent times, I do worry I'll wind up disappointed if I fire it up again
It is not as bad as he said, it is a nice game for the time being!
You could draw your weapon, use combos and if you managed to finish the game, you could play as Darth Vader!
We acknowledge your sacrifice in playing these games to save us from the same fate😓
🤣 it was painful, but worth it!
I remember getting Special Forces at a TJ Maxx for like $3 and i actually enjoyed it for some reason
I enjoyed it too. Very mediocre, but playable and fun.
I’m happy you are still using the Tekken 2 intro song for your intro :) always gets me hyped to watch your content
If you’re gonna do shockingly terrible Mega Drive games, may I suggest?
- Tintin in Tibet
- Fantasia
- Galaxy Force 2
- Dark Castle
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- Captain Planet and The Planeteers
- Super Hydlide
And if you do shockingly terrible SNES games…
- Tintin: Prisoners of The Sun
- The Itchy & Scratchy Game
- Time Killers
You have such an extensive knowledge! I don't know how you managed to play through all of these games and still make videos on TH-cam. Just out of curiosity are you a physical collector or do you go about these digitally
*Managed to hear you mention your shelf for tanguska. Would love to see what you got!
He made a room/office tour video about 3 months ago, you may want to check it out
@@TaimatCR thanks for the tip!
"tomorrow never dies" should have been an honorable mention
Ive never seen anyone ever mention Rascal. I made the mistake of buying that fever dream.
Also, add Kingsleys Quest, Slamscape, and Jersey Devil to that list.
Kingsley's Quest is still one of my favourites from PS1 era :< Played it again a couple years ago on emulator and still enjoyed it. Maybe I just like to suffer 😂
@@SomnusLucisCaelum It was charming. It suffered from tabk controls like so many other early early 3d platformers, like Croc.
Good grief, I remember Star Wars: Masters of Teras Käsi. Apart from the last word sounding very close to the German word for cheese (Käse), I was so thrilled to rent this from the video rental place in town as a kid, only to be quite disappointed by it at home.
Oh well, at least it was a rental :)
Simpson wrestling was fun if you have someone to play with. As a single player game it's certainly one of the hardest and has the cheapest ai out there.
damn right it was and is still a good game
Celebrity Deathmatch is basically the same.
Nice intro, tekken 2 is my favourite ps1 intro of all 😎👍
thank you
i played a little of every NTSC-U game over the past few years and I kinda just...accepted a lot of such "bad" aspects of the games as simply additional challenges. I enjoy the additional challenge of the poor mechanics of retro, and sometimes the less popular games
Just some constructive criticism - it would be cool to show more examples of what you're describing with footage etc like the sound effect melody you talked about in tanguska, would have been great to have heard it :/
I agree but he probably can’t add in the music or the video will get hit with a copyright strike
I honestly appreciate these videos almost as much as the hidden gems simply so I know what games to avoid adding to my collection
I liked Rascal as a child. Now I'm afraid of coming back to it and ruin my memories.
Don’t do it to yourself haha
I did never got why MK special forces had those 70's Funky groove cinematics lol
Haha was such a weird inclusion, felt like a James Bond intro!
I played Fifth Element back in the day, i will play to finish the game again :)
Bubsy 3D wasn't _the_ last game in the series; it was just the last one for decades.
yup, there was a game in 2017
I'll say this for Tunguska. It certainly looks like it'll be lousy to play, but I do like the way it uses rendered video to change the camera angle.
Early 3d programming trick. FF7 was famous for this. Only the player sprites are 3d on 2d rendered backgrounds that appear to be 3d in short doses with fmv. I always thought it was clever.
First game in and I’m already dying with laughter 😂
Haha some really bad games with this one!
Love the channel and your presentation. Just wish you could showcase the sounds, voices etc when you mention them.
Great list and video! But The Simpsons Wrestling, though it could have been better, I had as a kid and got some enjoyment out of it and wouldn't say it was one of the worst. I'd have replaced it with Psybadek (covered it on my channel - shameless plug!). Bubsy 3D is surely the worst of the lot 😂
You played the fifth element so we dont have to.....you're 20 years too late......*sobs*
Most of these are true but I’ll fight you and avgn about teras Kasi. Played it a good deal back in the day. Was into fighting games and played a loooootttt worse then that one. Had a fair amount of content too. Not even a big Star Wars fan. But that may be part of why I’m not as disappointed by it.
11:11 can't stop laughing .
I've always considered "DragonHeart: Fire & Steel" to be the worst PSone game ever .
This comment literally saved me from buying it. Thank you!!
How can you have a show about shockingly terrible PS1 games and NOT have Pax Corpus (1997) on the list? That game was so diabolically bad it makes all of these look like game of the year candidates.
I actually liked the Fifth Element game... I was addicted to it when it came out..
I only played/rented less than dozen PS1 titles, so I never how other games were so awful until returning to the family with PS4. There SO MANY bad PS4 Games and SO MANY bad PS1/PSP ports for PS4 on the PSN. Its no wonder people seem to care even less for the next gen
Great list of terrible games. Luckily we got the rascal demo as kids & it was somehow almost the whole game, but even as 10 year olds we hated it so much we ran over the demo disc with our bikes to make sure no one else had to play it.
Cant wait to see Sub Zeros game in part 2.....*shivers*
Got the demo disc too. LOL and i know that feeling.
Im sick of people saying the simpsons wrestling is a bad game, it might not be the best game ever but its still far better than golden eye on the N64. think im wrong? then play each of them your self one after the other one the system with the controller they were meant to be played on. in fact you would be lucky to find a single game on N64 that is better than the simpsons wrestling. again not saying the simpsons wrestling is a good game but its still better than 99% of the entire N64 library.
with love the Duke
I don't think I've owned or played any of these PS1 games lol.
At least with Bubsy 3D there's a happy ending as the devs went on to make the excellent Syphon Filter Trilogy on PS1. Their Bend Studios today and Days Gone is an underappreciated PS4 game.
Wish Syphon Filter would return...
Haha you are one of the lucky ones! Oh man, same here… would love to see it make a comeback!
That Bubsy gameplay almost made me sick. That would be miserable over an extended period
You forgot to mention that Rascal's weapon also has a limited ammo. Some section can completely drain your pistol easily despite plenty of pickups
I do not really understand why MKSF deserves all of this hate.
Maybe it's the worst title of the whole franchise, but taken alone it's not bad at all; I enjoy playing that from time to time!
is it worth than Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero ?
@@LuriTV YESS
Awesome to see the name of the game always visible. I often whatch your videos to get some ideas for my retro library and I always have to go back to the point where you introduce the new game.
Cheers Asurael, yeah it makes it a lot easier for the viewer. It’s been suggested a few times, thought it was about time to implement it!
I played the Saturn version of The Crow. It's just as awful as the PS version.
Luckily I never played all those PS1 games with the exception of Rascal. I remember playing Rascal on Sony PS1 when I was a kid. It wasn't very good. Its controls appear to be very awkward and difficult.
My top 4 worst PS1 games
1. South Park
2. Planet of the Apes
3. Rascal
4. Rugrats Studio Tour
Anyway I think my favourite terrible PS1 game is South Park.
Greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪
The simpsons wrestling is good
This may just be the funniest video on the channel at the moment. XDDDDD All of these games are straight up nightmares. I feel there’s potential with that Star Wars fighter. It just needs updated EVERYTHING.
Haha thanks! Yeah same here id love to see a decent Star Wars 3d fighter some day!
Why would the Crow ever bother to dodge or block? Oh, that's right.. he's just a guy who can be beaten to death. That's how it is in the comic and the movie, right?
I could not find Tunguska anywhere! There’s quite a few games with the same title, but nothing like that lost disaster you showed O_o
Fun Fact: I found a copy of VIP at a mom & pop game shop for 1 dollar.
When I was little my mom took me to blockbuster to rent a game for the weekend. Naturally I saw the crow and got all excited. I got home and only played it 5 min before taking it right back out. My mom wasn't too thrilled about that, but than again neither was I.
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phoenix games for psx are so bad all games on this list look like a masterpiece
I have this weird feeling that I wanna try these games for some reason. 😅
Kyudo… no! Don’t do it! 😅
It's a damn travesty when a movie is such a great opportunity to make an awesome tie-in game and they blow it. How could Fifth Element be a bad game?? There was such potential there. And this has been a problem for decades. Who the heck decided not to bother turning the Last Starfighter into a game??? WTF??
Man, i remember that vomit inducing 5th Element game... Played it the first time like 15 minutes and never picked up again until YEARS later... Hilariously i played it again for 15 minutes and then quit for good. Horrible game.
MK Special Forces wasn't all that bad lol just took a bit to get used to the controls
Fifth element was my first playstation game... I still play it time to time
3:22 "Huh that kinda reminds me of The Crow"
4:52 "Hey it's The Crow!"
I gotta say that I'm maybe one out of 16 people that enjoyed playing Star Wars: Masters of Teras Kasi.
I played as luke and just like MK4, you had a command to draw your weapon. There were big combos (10:37) with lots of hits and amazing visuals to that time.
And after you finish the game, you can play as Darth Vader! Come on, give the game another go and pick a better character than Arden Lyn so you might enjoy it a little more!
Thanks for the great video!
It's a shame about Rascal because technically the game is sound and doing (for the time) some interesting things with the hardware while even conceptually, while a product of the 90's, was alright. But the one thing that made the whole thing tumble down was the dumb decision of forcing the "Tomb Raider" camera at the last second, for an engine and game that was not designed for it, instead of sticking to the free controllable camera that it originally was designed with.
THE CROW doesn't refer to the main character but to the bird that brings them back from the dead. The main character's name is not "The Crow".
You got me here, I never knew the existence of this Star Wars fighting game
Raid Shadow Legends: ahhhhhhh so many worthy opponents...
3:15 Back then, when I have this game, I thought that was Baek Doo San from Tekken.
Lmao my younger brother got VIP for a Christmas gift. Came out of his room 20 minutes later saying he hated it
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I didn't even make it through the jazzy intro before having to pause to hit that subscribe button.
I remember playing Simpsons Wrestling with my cousin when I was younger. Even back then I thought it was bad.
You forgot the absolutely delightful voice acting in Bubsy 3D. Thank the heavens you can turn it off 😖😬🤫
The Fifth Element is my favorite movie of all time. I spent an entire semester analyzing it during a film class. Unfortunately, my unwaivering bias could not touch the horror that is the game. It's just terrible in every way possible.
Such a shame how the game turned out! Fifth element is some great source material!
@@thatvideogamesshow They could have done so much with it. Makes me sad 😢
I tried playing it again a few weeks ago. Still sucks.. one of my favorite movies.. one of my worst games..
Wasn't "The Crow" declared the worst PS1 game of all time by the official UK Playstation Magazine?
It wouldn’t surprise me man 😅
3:30 ah yes, medieval castle, better give it some circa 70s kitchen floor tiles
My jaw hit the floor when I found out they made a Ubik game. There's a windows version I'm going to have a bash at.
Yeah Rascal was an example of Executives getting more control than they should, Traveller's Tales basically ripped off Super Mario 64's Control Scheme and wanted to do that but the Publisher wanted to take a page out of the million selling Tomb Raider and Resident Evil titles Tank Controls and has since been Jon Burton's biggest regret, aka the long time Star Developer of TT Games.
The hate for Star Wars: Master of the Teras Kasi is such a cliche... it's not a terrible game, just takes time to master. Hell the original PS1 versions of Tekken 1 and 2 were way worse!
I already know it's here. Before i've even watched it
Does it start with a b and end in y
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People say it's common devs deliver half-baked games nowadays, complementing and fixing (when they do) way after release, but Bubsy is dawn right early pre-alpha build stage, it's hard to believe this was a retail game.
I have to know.. At any point in the 5th element game, does he ever refer to himself as a meat popsicle?
I still have my copy of The Fifth Element and some cheat codes to make the game easy and somewhat enjoyable.
I'm shockinly ashame to say that I enjoy fifth element game at its time
Did you use an emulator to capture the footage?
It looks like the resolution is upscaled and there is bilinear texture filtering applied.
You're correct. It looks like emulation with bells and whistles to me...
Maybe he's recording them from a PS2. I remember when you played a PS1 game on a PS2, it had an options menu where you could choose to upscale the graphics and stuff. Some people seemed to be not aware of that, I remember telling a few of my friends who also had PS2s about that, and I was surprised to find out they didn't know about it.
You got Bubsy 3D for Christmas? I'm sorry, I'm sure you hate Christmas now. Had to have been traumatizing.
I’ll never forget 😅
I think "piss off" is my favorite British saying.
I know the game sucks, but man, I had a lot of fun playing Fifth Element. Lol
How and why? 😅
Bad games were (and are) very common, usually they have some redeeming feature... Until they are The Fifth Element.
😅 I’ll second that!
The City of Lost Children is a very odd game. The movie it's based off of wasn't even released in American theaters.
You have to at least give the devs and programmers of VIP some credit. It is not that easy to do your job with just one hand on the keyboard