A Journey Through the WORST Games Of All Time
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 มิ.ย. 2022
- I played "the worst games ever" so you don't have to.
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I appreciate the kind comments about the Zelda CD-i remasters. What started as a joke project became a personal effort to make the games somewhat fun, because the original design is, like you mentioned, really not that bad. Still dumb, as you said, and I made sure to keep the games as close to the originals as possible...while also not doing that! A very interesting and challenging project. I'm working a spiritual successor project right now that I hope will continue their legacy...in a good way. Thanks for playing!
ngl the cdi remakes were surprisingly very fun to play, they are also pretty short games so it's easy to replay them and playing them as the King... well, that was fun in its own right.
Tho the one thing no one seems to mention are the subtitles, there's some off the wall jokes that got me laughing harder than i thought
[chiptuned sound of going off-screen]
IT'S JUST BAD
Someone should do this for Superman 64
Those games are AAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!
@@moonman375 the king had a lot of cake
Quick history lesson: Pac Man for the Atari wasn't finished. They released the prototype. The dude who sent it in straight up said "It's not ready, this is what I have so far."
This is why i think atari was one of the worst Gaming company, this is just STRAIGHT UP HYUBRIS
Anyone curious about what a finished version with a decent ROM size would look like, should check out Ms. Pac-Man on the same platform.
And if you're curious what the 2600 could really do, there's a homebrew called Pac-Man 8k that shows off just how underused the system was....but in fairness, it was only designed to play Combat and Pong. Anything else requires racing the electron beam of a CRT television at over 14, 000mph, and exploiting the inability of the console to remember what it's already drawn....
If you can mentally track all the sprites, one scanline at a time? You can make a 2600 game.
So that makes it twice then where Atari released an unfinished version as the actual game? First with 2600 Pac-Man, then Fight for Life (if I remember right the version Atari released was an unfinished early build)
@@juststatedtheobvious9633 There are homebrew versions of Super Mario Bros for 2600, an improved version of Donkey Kong, among other projects.
@@alex_-yz9to Atari later on straight up gave no shits because they already knew they lost. Fight for Life, the final Atari Jaguar game released, is intentionally in the state that it is because its developer was pissed Atari did not pay him, so he gave them an unfinished prototype and kept the finished product as ransom, and Atari didn't even care and released what he gave them as the final product, so they had _something_ to put on the shelves.
“Mega Man X7 would go on to receive such criticisms as…”
Scott the Woz: “THAT GAME SUCKED!!”
That’s all Scott needed to say to be funny
It's so weird hearing Scott say something "sucked" lol. It's just funny to me, because he usually just says "stunk" or something
@@Triff3599Or he'd say something like: "This game blows!" And then proceed to throw it into the nearest toilet!
33:26 PeanutButterGamer
38:32 Caddicarus
46:53 Scott the Woz
55:16 Antdude
1:11:15 Somecallmejohnny
1:23:46 The Completionist
He just collected the game reviewers like the infinity stones or something
I don't watch marvel its a analogy
Pontez B. Gilson
SPONS
Scott the Woz with the tiny little schnoz
Antman
SomecallmeJohnnyYongBosch
ProJirad the Finishest
@@EthanTheGamer77 as a Marvel fan, I approve this analogy 👍
thanks for warning me about the hack fraud at the end
I honestly don't know any of those people listed
Yo, thanks for having me in the video, Gilly! It was fun to revisit the CDI Zelda for a bit.
Hey. When's the next time your going to eat some awful foreign snacks ?
This should add subscribers to gilly
Hi, been a while since i watched a video of yours, and by no means am i trying to make fun or offend you, but did you always pronounce your S's like that? I am having a mandela effect breakdown here.
@@jimbo2revengeance he doesn't in his newer videos or his older ones, its weird how much hes slurring his s's im this
@@Gemma-Majoran Thanks, at least im not schizophrenic yet.
Ninja Turtle footage while mentioning shell brands. You clever devil
You actually caught it
@@gillythekid if you want I could get defensive about a game before actually watching the video instead.
Bonjour
Most of the cameos of this video: heartfelt stories about why these games were disappointments or underrated gems.
Caddy and Scott: PUNCHLINE! BYE!
Honestly, it's very on brand for those two.
That's why I love them both equally.
Caddy & Scott: Partners in Piss
Especially Scott who literally had one punchline out of nowhere and then left
I was so happy when Caddy showed up. He never disappoints with his jokes and comments. XD
I hear that Sonic Boom wasn't even meant for the Wii U, that Sega decided to be limped dicked cowards regarding that three game deal they made with Nintendo _(which included Colors and Lost World)._ And instead of actually making a damn third game for Nintendo like they promised, they pussed out and took an already in development game that was meant for PS4 hardware and forced it into the game it became. Certainly explains a lot....
The developers weren't told what console they were releasing it on, and hoped for a multiplatform release. However, when they were told it was a Wii U game, it created a HUGE issue, as the engine they were using (Cry Engine) was NOT compatible with the Wii U at all!.
I'm just glad we got Colors out of that deal. Makes the whole thing worth it!
colors wasnt apart of the 3 game deal, it was made as an exclusive due to sonics main target demographic likely owning a wii (various other sonic games on the wii before, sonic in brawl, etc). the 3-game deal was specifically for the wii u, and included lost world, rise of lyric, and mario and sonic at the rio 2016 olympic games.
@@dialga236 And? That still leaves Rise of Lyric as the outlyer for not actually being designed for the Wii U initially. Sega ultimately pussed out on the deal by only delivering two games actually made for the Nintendo console.
@@TeryJones Im not disagreeing I was just giving a small correction, thats all. BigRedButton was working with way better hardware in mind, and the Cry Engine, which Rise of Lyric uses, is not optimized for the Wii U, at all.
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:18 Pac-Man (Atari 2600)
4:57 The Video Game Crash of 1983
6:53 E.T. (Atari 2600)
9:02 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (NES)
13:57 Action 52 (NES)
17:54 Night Trap (Sega CD)
21:22 The Legend of Zelda: The Faces of Evil & The Wand of Gamelon (CD-i)
26:59 Shaq Fu (Sega Genesis)
30:12 Zelda's Adventure (CD-i)
35:15 Bubsy 3D (PS1)
39:30 Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub Zero (N64)
42:36 Superman 64 (N64)
45:39 Megaman X7 (PS2)
49:00 Drake of the 99 Dragons (Xbox)
52:37 Shadow the Hedgehog (GameCube)
55:30 Bomberman: Act Zero (Xbox 360)
58:40 Sonic the Hedgehog 2006 (Xbox 360)
1:01:42 Ninjabread Man (Wii)
1:05:41 Duke Nukem Forever (Xbox 360)
1:09:38 Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric (Wii U)
1:12:47 Tony Hawk Pro Skater 5 (Xbox One)
1:17:45 Star Fox Zero (Wii U)
1:25:03 Mighty No.9 (PS4, running on PS5)
1:30:13 Balan Wonderworld (Nintendo Switch)
1:33:21 Conclusion
22:16 YTP Link!
Thank you!
I'm shocked Ride To Hell: Retribution isn't on here. That to me is a snub...
Thats a really basic as fuck list. Something an ai generated article would put up. And shadow the hedgehog? Seriously? Thank you for saving my life
@@Sassy_Witchi uh, i think that's the point 💀 he's trying out notoriously bad games not a list of his own bad game picks 😭
Listen, I'm not gonna pretend Shadow the hedgehog is a great game. But compared to most of the games in this video, it's nowhere near as bad.
Agreed
Tbh I actually enjoy Shadow the Hedgehog when I played it in a long time ago.
Heck I wouldn't even say it's 1 of the worst Sonic games of all time, mostly because there are so many games that are even worse...
It's still one of my favorite Sonic games. Despite how fucking insane and absurd the game is, there's an incredible amount of charm and passion put into it, and that goes a long way for me. I still believe it has some of the best gameplay animations in the series too, there's a lot of squash and stretch which I love.
I agree.
I was a bit skeptical about this video since most of these games have been pretty much done to death, but you actually had some fresh points on these and didn't just repeat what everyone else has said. Nice job.
He did for shadow and somehow did it worse, nothing was said at all why it's bad objectively, his points where just poor subjective reasons
@@TheShadowReviewer Thank you for your input Shadow Gaming very cool
@@TheShadowReviewer kek
@@TheShadowReviewer
Ah yes. Subjectivity. The worst thing to have in an opinion video.
My dude, you are fighting a war for an old video game. It doesn't need your defense. It exists, and you enjoy it so enjoy it. Others don't. Oh well. No one needs to agree with you for your feelings to be valid nor do people disagreeing with you make their lack of enjoyment invalid.
Plus its been a decade since AVGN tackled most of these
I got Big Rigs over the road racing at a Value Village for a few dollars and it deserves every bit of criticism thrown at it, its almost too broken to consider a game like these lol
oh yeah, i haven't played it but i know some of the history behind it and it's almost as interesting as balan or action 52
basically, an indie company went to a shady publisher and asked if they could make a racing game, and the publisher said they'd fund the game, however a few months in development the publishers basically went "we don't care what state the game's in, release it now" leading to them basically releasing a tech demo
then the publisher had them release another game that was basically the bike and car sections that weren't in big rigs, as well as fixing some of the most major bugs like the infinate reversing, being able to just drive out of the map and the complete lack of collision, but the game was still very broken and bare bones
I don't think you can consider Big Rigs a game.
Damn. And here we are in modern times complaining about games being disappointing yet there were also games in the past that were straight-up fucking awful...
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@@renakunisaki My Animal Crossing Calendar/Clock apps on my DS are more of a game than Big Rigs is, and that's saying something.
But hey, at least Sonic Boom introduced me to such people like Travis Willingham being esteemed voice actors, and even Knuckles being the lovable buff idiot is pretty fun, although it deviates pretty far from his canonical personality of "the angry, gullible one".
Im surprised that you didn’t talk about Ride to Hell: Retribution. That always seemed to be far more hated than Shadow the Hedgehog at the very least.
I think everyone and their mother already talked about it so he just left it out
@@nguyenquyetthang1326 everyone and their mother have already talked about Superman 64 and ET too
Was looking through the comments section just to see if this was mentioned. I was not disappointed.
Which doesn't make sense with his intro and why he chose the games, Ride to hell retribution should have been on this list regardless if it's already been down to death as it's been apart of bad game lists before
His reasons for shadow being a bad game literarily didn't make any sense and takes a second of thought to debunk if you've played the game (also his points more apply to sa1 and 2 and heroes the "sacred cows" of sonic games)
Opinions differ greatly with Shadow the Hedgehog. I, personally, have had those problems described with the poor design, level structure, and the maybe glitchy or downright broken objectives. I completely agree with its placement here. I just think that Ride to Hell should have been added.
I love how much screen time and complex dialogue were given to Scott The Woz.
Uh, what? That was clearly a game journalist from 2003.
@@ninjabluefyre3815 Yeah, I didn't know Scott was a time traveling game journalist from 3002! That's great. I loved everyone's brief appearances in the video(if I can be serious for a second), because I genuinely enjoy all of their videos, and Peebs is my favorite youtuber, but Scott The Woz, Time Traveling Game's Journalist From 200003, is one of my favorites, and I'm glad both Caddicarus and SomecallmeJohnny are still doing alright, because I thought we wouldn't see them again until like, next year, or near the end of the year, or something, but it's nice to see them in something like this, because the last time I saw this many people I'm a huge fan of in one video(that also had Caddy), was Caddicarus's review for a certain game where tons of people tried to stop him from reviewing the game, from Shane from Rerez, to Johnny, and a whole bunch of other people. Also, most of these people were on the Nitro Andre Show.
When did this “moment” start?
*licks lips* oooh.. The sarcasm tastes like wine.
I was expecting Ride to Hell: Retribution or Big Rigs, and definitely wasn't expecting Star Fox Zero.
Great video, btw. I'm sure it was painful to play all this garbage.
Star Fox Zero should not be here
@@EssexAggiegrad2011 That spot should have been given to Ride To Hell. That to me is a huge snub.
@@EssexAggiegrad2011if Zero was in there, then Paper Mario Sticker Star should’ve been covered here too. At least Sticker Star isn’t buggy and unplayable plus it’s family friendly.
Finally! Someone actually gives star fox zero a good shake and mentions that you can turn the motion controls mostly off. Every time someone mentions it, people just go off on it for the motion controls and it makes me so mad because you can literally turn them off! I can't count the number of times I've read a variation of "Star fox zero might be pretty good if I could just turn off motion controls" and I die inside every time.
@Grima the Fell Dragon The gimmick didn't ruin it. Peoples refusal to simply look in the frickin' options before shouting their bad reviews from the rooftops about not being able to turn motion controls off did.
@Grima the Fell Dragon so? The complaints weren't "My first impressions were of motion controls and I didn't like them therefore the game is bad." They were "You CAN'T turn them off" which is just a lie from people too stupid to actually check. If you can't be bothered to actually fact check yourself, than that's your fault, not the games.
@Grima the Fell Dragon The game does not have to hint or suggest that you can change the controls! Theres a settings menu. That's what it's there for! If you are a reviewer and complain about a game having bad controls but failed to even check if you could change them, thats YOUR problem. The game doesn't have to make a pop up for every feature and setting that someone could complain about just so that you know you can change it. Games don't have to tell you that you can rebind keys or change the resolution. It's your job as the player to actually check if what your complaining about is even actually even a problem at all.
@Grima the Fell Dragon wtf are you talking about? "I just looked up the game and you can't turn off motion controls" is literally a lie. You literally can! You can literally change one setting, and no one did and then bashed the game for it. You have done nothing but repeat the same bullshit blaming the game for not telling you you can turn it off. Stop blaming the game for you being too stupid to check.
You took most reviewers entire career and put it all in one video. Impressive job.
Almost, cause he missed a few games like Ride to Hell
Nice to see that while caddy is constantly annoyed by his own side characters, he annoys everyone else he can
Good vid though I wanna correct you about something regarding Miyamoto: while it's true he had influence over the decisions made in Sticker Star, the mandates he placed weren't as severe as the final game would make you think, and that the team just took his word to heart, and they've done nothing to improve that issue since then.
Also Yuji Naka, while definitely not entirely to blame regarding Balan's quality, still has a lot of that grandfathering issues that have plagued his work. Like you can't tell me the one button problem was placed there because Square executives thought it was good like c'mon.
I think the one button thing was there because it worked for Sonic once upon a time, but as games grew more and more complex you really can't ride that strategy anymore. Plus, if Naka did this (and I want to say it was Naka and not a Square mandate) to make the game as accessible to as many people as possible, including the youngest of audiences.... methinks he doesn't have confidence in his audience to understand using more than one button for multiple actions. Freaking Super Mario Bros worked fine on two buttons, Kirby worked fine on two buttons. Maybe Naka should've played a few Kirby games before trying to apply his multi-power idea into the game.
I wouldn't be surprised if Naka was the center of some issue during development. You don't get so many staff members recommending your removal with becoming a severe enough liability that you removal is preferable to the public backlash. Again Naka has a history of not being a team player as both Sonic Extreme and Geist Force show. Few people who have worked with Naka have had nice things to say about him.
The one button idea worked for Sonic because Sonic could do literally one thing, jump, and the entire game was based around that.
In Balan, only one button was used, but what that did depended on what suit you were wearing and (in a platformer) that action was often not jump.
I think Sonic proves that, if the costume idea had been scrapped, the "one button" was mapped exclusively to jump, and the game's platforming action was focused on interesting platforming challenges, it could have worked. Balan should have been the main character, he had plenty of style.
In short, if your game uses only one button, that button must be mapped to a single action, and that action should either be jump or shoot.
Bad Nintendo Fan obsessed with JRPG: NO, YOU’RE WRONG! Miyamoto is to blame for everything! He’s indoctrinating everyone at Nintendo with his bullshit philosophy! He’s destroying all the good video games! How am I suppose to get horny if the story isn’t like Final Fantasy 7? I hate him!!! AND NOW, I’M GONNA DESTROY HIM AND EVERYTHING HE’S EVER LOVED!!!
You know, my mom always said: Never bite the hand that feeds you.
So I think you petty assholes should stop blaming Miyamoto because one day, you’ll regret disrespecting him.
Mario never should’ve been in an RPG
1:20:30 Miyamoto didn’t work sticker star he just gave his thoughts on early builds while Tanabe took them to the extreme
On a side topic, I wonder how much influence Tanabe has on Intelligent Systems or any projects he works on? Because clearly, he doesn’t seem to understand what it means to have good game design. But as long as his projects print money (and don’t have an “understandable” catalyst such as a game he worked on being a part of a franchise Nintendo never cared about like Chibi Robo or in the case of Paper Mario: Color Splash, being released on a failed console), Nintendo will keep him as producer on projects like Paper Mario.
@@MrTherandomguy42 he's produced games like dk freeze and luigi mansion 3 he definitely just sucks at doing paper mario games LMAO
From what I’ve seen, one legit positive I will give to the CDI Zelda games is that Zelda’s VA is actually pretty good. It’s just the script that sucks! Zelda herself sounds fairly strong and mature!
Your channel is like a Platinum Games game. It’s absolutely incredible and everyone who experiences it agrees but it’s doesn’t receive the attention it deserves. This is maybe your best video yet, here’s hoping it does well on the algorithm.
"but it doesn't receive the attention it deserves"
I think NiER: Automata got all the fucking attention it could HANDLE, my guy.
Yeah, one could debate whether that's a Square game, a Platinum Games game, or a Yoko Taro game, but Platinum IS on the box, so I'm counting it.
16:15 I swear to god that's Winnie the Pooh
28:42 I swear to god that's Shantae
It's wild to think that most of the bad retro games became known to the internet public via James Rolfe's Angry Video Game Nerd series, it's even wilder to know that James only posted the first few videos as a joke (and as a partial dare given by Mike Matei) and who knew that thsoe videos would blow up and enable him to become a youtube giant in the video gaming community on youtube :)
Using that TMNT ad when referring to Ultra Games as a “shell company”…
I SWEAR IF THAT WASN’T INTENTIONAL
I was glad he didn't put that TMNT game on the list. A lot of people think it's a bad game thanks to AVGN. It's a flawed game but it isn't bad.
Timestamps for your convenience:
1:16 Pac-Man on Atari 2600
4:57 E.T.
9:02 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
13:56 Action 52
17:54 Night Trap
21:22 The Zelda CD-i games
27:00 Shaq Fu
30:13 The _other_ Zelda CD-i game (ft. PeanutButterGamer)
35:15 Bubsy 3D (ft. Caddicarus)
39:30 Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero
42:36 Superman 64
45:38 Mega Man X7 (ft. Scott the Woz)
49:00 Drake of the 99 Dragons
52:37 Shadow the Hedgehog (ft. AntDude)
55:29 Bomberman: Act Zero
58:40 Sonic 06
1:01:42 Ninjabread Man
1:05:41 Duke Nukem Forever
1:09:38 Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric (ft. SomecallmeJohnny)
1:12:47 Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5
1:17:45 Star Fox Zero (ft. The Completionist)
1:25:03 Mighty No. 9
1:30:12 Balan Wonderworld
Ah thank you
Huh, never knew the CD-i games got remade, that actually sounds like a really cool project to check into. Props on the huge project, I know tackling bigger stuff like this is intimidating!
This video showed up in my sub feed and recommendations already. The algorithm might of blessed you Gilly.
Seriously though the amount of effort put into this video, the research, the time and suffering in these games, then there's the collabs and cameos,- thee whole thing is a treat so far and the nostalgia is real seeing people talking about these games again, bit this time actually seeing these memed on games played is a treat, and your honesty while not overreacting is appreciated.
This is going to be the video that dethrones the PETA videos from the top, calling it now. It sure deserves it!
This year I started streaming (and finishing) what I called "ugly games" and played Sonic Boom, Mighty No. 9, Star Fox Zero and the Zelda CDi remasters and I loved them for the reasons you mention in this video. I'm happy to see that you gave these games a chance because indeed, some of them hide fun experiences in the layer of reputation and rushed development agendas.
This is the first video of yours I've watched, and I wanna say, great job! I was somewhat upset to see that you omitted Ride to Hell: Retribution. I definitely think that that game deserved to be in this video. But hey, maybe you forgot about it, maybe you just decided that there was no way in hell you would even give that game the time of day. I definitely would not blame you for that lol. It is clear that this video took astronomical amounts of dedication. Kudos to you, sir, you have absolutely deserved a subscription from me!
Now you see, what you did wrong in Zelda's Adventure was using the Jade Ring to fight Llort (the first boss). The ring does almost zero damage to him. Yes, the same ring you get in the same dungeon Llort is in from a talking mimic. You literally have to hit him like 50 tines with the default wand to kill him.
The rest of the game is very much like this.
sorry that this whole process gave ya such a headache Gill, but it was really nice to be able to have a large amount of content from ya to watch, always like your vids, I'd say you're more underrated than you ought to be
This was so so so well made. As someone who edits his own videos, I can't even imagine how long this took you to make! It clearly all payed off because this was a great video!
But I am legally obligated to be a cliche commenter and ignore your amazing work by saying you need to start work on the best games of all time video
Good job!
Can't wait for the sequel where you cover Big Rigs and Ride to Hell!
i really enjoyed shadow the hedgehog for its branching paths as a kid, they were often unique and fun challenges for most stages, not just "kill x enemies"
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It was first 3D sonic game I played and it's not like I had much more experience with 2Ds either so I didn't have expectations for it. And tbh, I didn't think it was bad game. Even back then with my way less critical mind I realized it had some kind of identity crisis between the "gotta go fast" gameplay and more combat oriented action adventure exploration and lack of commitment to either made both worse but overall at no point I thought I was playing a bad game.
Core-A Gaming did a video on Shaq-fu
Your guessing game isn't too far off. It was made by the same guys that made Prince of Persia. It's why it has the motion capture animations which is actually pleasant to look at. But the lack of a buffering system is the problem. If you don't know what that means, you have to wait until the animation is finished for an input to go through. This is why motion inputs are basically imposible.
I can't find any reference that the Shag Fu guys had anything to do with Prince of Persia, as that was made by Jordan Mechner, who rotoscoped his brother for the animations. However Shag Fu was made by Delphine Software Interactive, who made Out of This World and Flashback that are similiar to PoP gameplay wise.
This was some very good and concise work with a lot of character, insights, and fun. Chapeau!
I most certainly watched all of this! You're videos are always worth the wait, and I could honestly say that they keep getting better with each one! You are probably one of my favorite TH-camrs now, and I feel you deserve WAY more attention than you get! Keep up the awesome work, Gilly!
I love the description of “a Bukkake of enemies” lol that got me right in the chuckles lol
Much love to you Gilly and very excited to get to dig into an entire hour and a half video
53:55 I'm pretty sure the stage you're thinking of is The Doom. It's the fourth stage of the semi-dark path, and if so, the reason you couldn't find all of the enemies is because not all of them spawned due to a glitch. No, I'm not kidding, this is a real issue that is apparently very likely to happen, and to fix it, you have to use the checkpoints to warp to a different part of the stage and back, which makes the game spawn the missing enemy in.
Either that or Lost Impact. Same setting, same basic hunt down the things you need to destroy in a confusing maze of a level.
@@gameman250 That's also possible, but I feel like The Doom is more likely to be the stage because it's very likely that you literally can't find the last enemies without warping between areas to make them spawn. Both are very likely, however.
Only on the ps2 port- Xbox and GameCube don't have this, the game gives you more than the 60 needed to complete the stage it's actually pretty short only around 5 minutes for me as it's a straight line just occasionally going up floors
Same with lost impact, a 7 minute stage that is a straight line only requiring to go up floors and into one off set room
It's a space station after all the level design is pretty good and there's maps to not get lost, it's a nice touch
Soooo happy to see a new video man! I’ve missed your stuff for the last couple months. But I’m still always happy to go back and watch a ton of your re-runs. I really loved your video about the more unknown first person shooters with the vibe of DOOM and whatnot! Would love to see another video like that, if there’s enough games to like that to make another video lol
Long story short so happy to see a new video!
I definitely learned a lot from this vid. Didn't even know there was a remake to the CD-I Zelda games. They don't look...all that bad.
I suppose one of the big things with Shaq-Fu though is that people keep saying it's the worst fighting game (or the worst game) ever. It's hot garbage, but I could name at least 3 fighting games just on the genesis that are worse, and I could name LOADS more on the SNES that are trash.
Keep up the good work on these videos, man.
Ok, I am by NO means defending Bubsy 3D. That game deserves all of the hatred it gets. However, the developers never could expect Crash Bandicoot 1 and Mario 64 to release around the same time as it. The developers actually hated the franchise from when he was first conceptualized. They were likely banking on doing something completely original and never before seen, all the while, hoping people would go nuts until future 3D platformers would release and improve on literally everything. Fuck that game.
You are mostly correcty the story goes that the Accolade developers were showing off their game to E3/CED, and were 'jackshift" when they say the demostration of Mario 64.
So they already knew that Bubsy 3d was going to look bad in comparsion, but not just awful as it turn out to be.
It really sad, because the most 2d deaigners of tue game, made a entire 3d engine out of sratch, and spend a fair number if a better "version" of a bubsy game.
All Bubsy games suck.
>The developers actually hated the franchise
Given the atrocity they released, I'll believe it. "Crash and Mario 64 came out around the same time" is a joke-shop excuse; Bubsy 3D was clearly an intentional act of sabotage that made Action 52 look tighter than two coats of paint.
The developers could have had a better time of it if they didn't inexplicably use the "high resolution" PS1 mode for Bubsy 3D. If you've ever seen footage of it and wondered why it looks oddly "crisp" all things considered, this is why.
Apparently they thought they could make a unique selling point out of "one of the highest resolution games on PS1!". That resolution was never really intended for the kind of use cases that Busby 3D is, and the decision radically limited the amount of memory they had available and surely added a ton of headaches that weren't necessary, and not just for the visuals either.
@@adamgr6988 I never realized how sharp the game looked before, but now I can't remember a time I saw the game at a low resolution. I don't think I even remember seeing any instance of the patented Ps1 texture warp in the game either. But to be fair, the game is so ugly with using solid colors for giant textures that it's impossible to tell. Still, that's weird and uncanny.
Excellent job, Gilly. This video really brought me back to the kinds of videos I'd see as a teenager, in the best way possible.
Hey Gil! I saw this video come up on my recommendations shortly after you released it and binged your back catalog and decided to give this one another watch now that I'm all caught up. You're a great video essayist and I've enjoyed all your offerings, even the non-game related ones. Keep it up! You've more than earned your subscribers.
The Jekyll and Hyde actually seems like an interesting concept, and has a pleasing art style.
One of your best videos, I'll honestly rewatch it and recommend it to friends. Grrrrrrrrrrrreat work!
This is a great format, I like this a lot. Wouldn’t mind seeing more vids like this from you in the future, albeit, I’m not asking for 1hr+ videos lol I can imagine the work behind these is extensive. But good stuff! 🙂👍🏼
yeah.
LOONIE TUNES B-BALL was a fantastic representation of basketball in the 90’s on the Super Nintendo! If I still had all my Super Nintendo stuff, I would still be playing that game today!
I literally burned my copy of Superman 64. My words to it before it went into the bonfire were, "you're firewood," and I just tossed it in, packaging, cartridge, and manual together. And you know what? I still don't feel the least bit bad about it to this day.
It’s always interesting when you actually check out a title with a bad reputation. Sometimes you can actually find something you’d might enjoy. Don’t get me wrong you can also save yourself time by listening to the warnings! I think the main thing here is, if you really want to understand what makes a good game, you need to try out the spectrum
I held once, and attempted to play, Action-52 … when you collect you come across these things. You hold this thing in your hands that spawned many nightmares of the curious reviewers. I even remember a late night infomercial selling this thing. It was about 25 minutes and I always wondered why they never showed game play. Well years later and several epic reviewers take I had this legend in my hand. I played it and actually made attempt to play each game, as the trial mandates … and it’s not worth even the asking price. Not then, not now! Look I understand some titles are expensive because people will pay for it so they can have that complete collection … but this is not worth it. It sucks even compared to other bootleg multi carts. And no the limitations didn’t matter because the Genesis version wasn’t much better
But I think I ranted enough. Great video man! Didn’t expect such a long one, but was awesome to see. Maybe play something good? You need a palette cleanser lol
From beginning to end this was perfect. Cheers Gill. Thanks for suffering through those for us.
I'd love to see more long videos from you! I know you don't do em often but it's really nice to just listen to your voice!
Good vid! Your writing and narration have always been pleasant, and heck I easily got through this video even while suffering from a quickly rising covid fever! Watched the whole thing and now commenting for the algaes. You indeed give fresh insights to dead horses.
At least action 52 gave us the epic cheetahmen theme song, which has managed to outlive everything else in this abomination
Dude I used to LOVE bubsy 3D. definitely liked it as a child though. Something about the super weird and crazy colorful levels really gave me the feeling of a fun world to run around in. I also loved how the characters motion was animated and how quirky they were. I definitely spent a lot of time on that game. All that said, I clearly remember having no idea how to beat the levels really and also didn’t know there was boss fights.
i honestly loved the long video! it's nice to get full length content like this!
Just found your channel and it's great to listen to this while working. Nice work!
you can not just fit 15 years of AVGN's life in 95 minutes video
I don't comment on videos super often, but man, this has to be your best video. I was engaged from start to finish, and it was just a fun watch overall.
Finally got around to watching this video and i really loved
It it was fun seeing other youtubers i know and you did a very good job being fair and detailed about your explanation on your thoughts for each game
Awesome vid Gil! I’d love to see you cover more worst entries in beloved series, especially the majority of the entries that failed the jump to modernity/3D like Castlevania 64 or Final Fight Streetwise
I really wanna try those CDI remakes. Great video Gilly! 💙
I played shadow as a kid and never finished it and I recently went back and completed it and it’s not that bad of a game, not that good of a game it does make some questionable decisions, but overall I had a pretty fun time. I like the movement and I didn’t have any issues with the gun mechanic, just a few level missions here and there (like that DAMN Lost Impact)
Lost impact is around a 7 minute stage, the doom is around 5 and all but like one mission can be done gunless and it's still plays the exact same a 3d sonic game only better
I've played shadow a lot and it's an objectively good game that improved upon broken mechanics from heroes sa1/2 in so many ways
I knew a video this long would have at least one crossover, but I’m not joking, all of them were fantastic in both timing and choices. I’m so happy all of you are friends!!!
this is a great video man i love long videos so this is perfect while i’m at work thanks!
Just wanted to take a moment to swing by and say I can tell how much effort you put into this journey and I definitely appreciated the efforts. Good job, dude!
Random tangent since Wisdom Tree was shown in the video: I heard a story about them once that I don't know if it's true or not. But Wisdom Tree was formerly known as Color Dreams, making plain ol' unlicensed NES games. Apparently to cover their asses against legal action from Nintendo they changed their name and rebranded themselves as a Christian-based video game company, logic being that the big N wouldn't dare pick a fight with a Christian group, there'd be scandals!
It's all very true.
But to their credit, Spiritual Warfare is a pretty decent Zelda clone if you go in with lowered expectations. And Super Noah's Ark is just straight up good for a 16-bit FPS, since it's a Wolfenstein clone. Id was pissed at Nintendo's censorship, and the rest is history.
The kicker is that Wisdom Tree is still around. Now, I don't know if they have plans to rerelease their Color Dreams stock, but last I heard, they plan on doing that with their NES games. Maybe they'll be touched up to make them less janky?
I listened to this video while working today. My work passed by so quickly listening to this because it was so well done and interesting! I love it, so keep up the great work!! 😋
This is the first video I've watched by you. It's very good and well thought out. I admit, I subscribed due to your friends' cameo, whom I'm also subscribed to. That being said, you're covering old, dusty ground in a different way, and I appreciate it. Very well done, Sir.
Oh, you have more friends on here. Ha. I love it.
Silver the Hedgehog as a character is great and I love him. I'd say he's one of the only good things to come out of the game, ignoring that boss fight.
So true! Most people hate him because of that notorious boss fight... well, and simply because he's from Sonic 06, but he's a cool character.
hard to believe the wii couldnt handle sonic '06 considering Twilight Princess is on the system.
I like the idea of tackling done to death singular topics in a long form video like this. It's made hearing about Bubsy 3d, Superman 64 and Action 52 again feel fresh somehow.
Love the effort you’ve put in this one! Great! Nice cameos as well.
Shadow the Hedgehog is unironically one of my favorite Sonic games of all time.
Not in my top 5, but definitely top 10.
I have beaten Mighty No. 9 multiple times, including the hardest difficulty, and while I can agree that it can be fun, I'd call it plainly lame. Most of the game's best ideas are done half as well as they could be, aside from dashing, I like that.
As someone that loves researching and learning about awful video games, this video was really well made, man. You genuinely did your research and explained the games correctly because you actually played them, unlike most other channels that seemingly just read an article or two and quote it verbatim without understanding just HOW bad they are or how they work. It's exactly the kind of way I'd want the information presented to me and you did a fantastic job. Your hard work really, really shows and I look forward to seeing more of your stuff!!
Dude great job with all the cameos Gilly! That was awesome
damn if only this video came out one year later, Gollum would of been on here
and Redfall
Finally! Someone agrees with me that Star Fox Zero is actually a pretty good game. Felt like I was the only one in the world that thought that. Is it as good as Star Fox 64? No, or course not. But the game is absolutely beautiful, the shooting is satisfying, and the controls are not as bad as everyone makes them out to be, they just need time to all click before it becomes great. Also, if you want a Mighty No. 9 game that’s actually pretty good, check out Mighty Gunvolt Burst made by Inti Creates, the guys who made Mega Man 9 and 10.
From what little I've played so far, I'm gonna have to agree with both y'all. The dual screen "swap" actually didn't take too much time for me to adjust to, perhaps because I've had some practice on some other Wii U games where that kind of feature was optional.
@@Chaos89P Personally, I never actually used the swapping feature and I never really found the duel screens intrusive. I always saw it a driving a car: just a quick glance down and keeping your eyes on your driving the rest of the time.
@@slashtheporcupine6746 What I meant was I would change my focus from the TV to the Gamepad and back as I felt the situation called for it. Sorry if you thought I meant hitting the - button.
screamed in horror and nostalgia hearing you talk ab the avgn review of dr jekyll and mr hyde. great video!
Great video, I made sure to hit the subscribe button after this. You put a ton of work into this and it really shows, good job.
Not me clicking on this video and looking for AntDude because of the thumbnail xD
Were you like an anime fan on prom night when you played Mighty Number 9?
Do you Remember what the developers said? Having Mighty No. 9 is better than having nothing 😒
Amazing video man. So much research and so much work. Also I like how there are THREE Sonic games there! And he still remains popular. Damn.
You know what they say! Sega almost never learns from their mistakes!
This was a great video! Watched the whole thing, i hope it blows up
Luckily, we Europeans never experienced the videogame crash!
More a question for other people in the comments, are the performance issues with Mighty No 9 present on PC or is PS5 the only way to play it?
Fantastic work on this video, and its refreshing to see that there is merit in some of these awful games
As far as I know (played 5 levels IIRC), the PS3 version is stable. It's 30 fps, but it's stable.
I think that the PC version runs fine on modern and more powerful hardware, but why would you want to play that game when both Legacy Collections and Megaman 11 exist?
PC is very much the de facto version to play (it goes for very cheap every other day, right now even!), even if you have trouble running it you can downscale the graphics to the max, performance is critical for this type of game and the visuals aren't that great even on high
Regardless of that, the ice stage however suffers from a one big massive stutter midway through (around the area with slippery floors since it's trying to have real-time reflections) and then it just continues to run normally
Thoroughly enjoyed this dude! Subbed!
What an effort! I love it!!! Thank you so much for this awesome video
Ahh, Night Trap. Remember this:
Nintendo: "We would never let a game like this be on nintendo console!"
Nintendo now: *has even less censorship than the ps4 and has the ANNIVERSARY VERSION OF NIGHT TRAP ON SWITCH*
I can't believe the little bitches in Congress who thought the Night Trap was violent. Truth is they never played or even looked at the games. Nothing has changed either.
Great video. I think one of the biggest problems with mighty number 9 was how badly it ran when it first released, i know for alot of people the game crashed constantly, paired with the game only being decent at best made it so most people wouldn't want to give it a second chance.
Man I really enjoyed this, it felt like a nice sum up of a childhood, watching people review shitty games, and unveiling the curtain to see if they were really as bad as people say. seeing all of my favorite youtubers new and old was also a nice touch. Here's to another decade of gaming, shitty and amazing! 🎉
This is a very good video man. I enjoyed it and agreed on some of the parts of the worst games that came out throughout the years. Also seeing my other favourite TH-camrs discussing that how worst some of these games are,really made my day. Great video Gilly.
A fresh, calm fair perspective on these is just so refreshing.
I actually had a lot of fun with Mighty No. 9 and like it a good bit, it also has some fantastic character designs.
I also think Shadow the Hedgehog is pretty unfairly maligned. Like, it isn't great or anything, but it's an okay enough Sonic game if you beat all the Adventures and Heroes and want some more. I think the premise is what alienates people more than anything
The issue I have with the shadow segment is that nothing was said "it's kinda sorta fun" like okay what do you mean? As that seems to be the main point throughout it
Nothing objective was said the whole thing was subjective takes that made no sense when actually deconstructed
No music, stage design, cut scenes, level gimmicks, bosses and so on weren't talked about, it was an empty attempt to throw it into the video because it's seen as "the worst sonic game" (even though there's 06, free riders, the boom games, forces, the storybook games, sonic spinball, sonic unleashed for PS2/ Wii, sonic R, knuckles and the chaotix, sonic episode 4 and so on- and all of these have objective reasons as to why they are bad, where as shadow has to be all subjective reasons)
X7 actually was made worse for the western release, they doubled the health of every enemy in the game. Japanese version is a significantly better experience for that reason alone, though its still not a good game.
Source? I couldn't find this information myself.
@@ALloydRH After having already played the English version about 5 times, I played through the Japanese version and instantly noticed how much faster enemies would die. Especially when I was using Axl's Copy Shot.
I found a comparison someone made on twitter, but since its auto-deleting my comment for the link, I'll just try posting the videos themselves.
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Also found something interesting in the comments, someone mentioned that apparently you can play the UK version for Japanese damage values and English voice acting.
It was amazing to watch a 1 1/2 hour video from you man! It was awesome, and I would watch it again in a heartbeat! I’m just pissed that TH-cam hasn’t been showing me your videos lately AT ALL! I just checked your most recent videos, and I’ve missed like 3 months worth! And I’ve been subscribed as well as hit the bell, and liked all your stuff, leave comments etc. and yet I’m still rarely recommended your stuff, and unless I go out of my way to search it out, it’s never shown to me, and I’m really getting sick of it. There’s not much else you can do as a fan of your videos to get the proper reminders when you upload, and yet, there’s still no change. I hope this starts getting rectified soon, because your content is great, and is by no means too “edgy” for regular fans of gaming or fans of just TH-cam creators as a whole. It’s really a shame because all of your videos deserve be seen by hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people, every time you upload, and yet the views clearly show otherwise.
If I had any power, or pull as just a regular old viewer and fan, I would gladly do my part to see you become as popular as you deserve. You should be just as viewed and loved by just as many, if not more people than all of your friends that made cameos! Hopefully they all make some sort of shout out to your in some way if they haven’t already, because you deserve the traction!
TH-cam algorithm doing well recommending this channel. Great video so far. Subscribed!