I've been far too positive lately. So in that spirit I've decided to make a list of games I hate. Games that in my mind completely and utterly suck. Now to clarify I'm not going to list games that were never meant to be anything other than functional at best. I'm here to talk about games that were meant to be good. And some people do think they're good (they're wrong). Maybe you're one of these people (and once again I want to emphasize you're wrong). But this is my list so fuck off.
So for the month of February I'm going to give you my list. One new game a day. Look forward to it and feel the hate flowing within you. And here it is in no particular order:
- Faxanadu
- Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
- Tao's Adventure: Curse of the Demon Seal
- Pac-Man (Atari 2600)
- Dr. Franken
- Torin's Passage
- Blues Brothers (SNES)
- Limbo
- X-Men (Sega Genesis)
- Harvest Moon: My Little Shop
- Child of Eden
- Herdy Gerdy
- Final Fantasy X
- Actraiser 2
- SaGa Frontier 2
- Children of Mana
- Assassin's Creed
- Burger Time: World Tour
- The Acceleration of Suguri X
- Spyro the Dragon: Enter the Dragonfly
- Impossible Mission (Atari 7800)
- The Sims
- Double Dragon (NES)
- Rhythm Heaven
- Dragon Quest Monsters: Caravan Heart
- Street Fighter
- Captain Comic (NES)
- Journey
Recently Spotted:
*crickets*
14. Actraiser 2
I'm well aware that I lot of my choices have been games that other people have really enjoyed, but as I reach the midway point with this I'd like to present a game that I truly believe may be the most universally reviled game ever made - Actraiser 2. The original is a beloved 16 bit classic. The sequel removed the charming city sim half of the game that made it such a unique experience, and doubled down on the action by making it insanely difficult to the point where no one wanted to play it. It was criminal on every level. Everyone should hate this game.
Personalitywise, Tidus was an exact clone of Zidane, the lead character from the previous game. The two were interchangeable. Only goes to further my arguement that there was nothing new in the game.
I forgot about that guy. See I wasn't a huge fan of FF9. It wasn't bad, but it just didn't hit me like FF7 and FF8 did. Maybe I should replay it one day.
I never played Actraiser 2...and its probably a good thing because my memories of the original are untainted.
The first Actraiser was pretty awesome, never played the second one.
I'm glad to hear you guys skipped Actraiser 2. I've even tried giving it a second chance with proper expectations, and it was still really bad.
15. SaGa Frontier 2
The original SaGa Frontier was an incomplete mess that still managed to charm the hell out of me. The sequel was promising as hell. It has beautiful watercolor graphics, and this time the game would be focused on just two characters as opposed to the legion of main characters in the original. Formula for success?? You'd think so but no. SF2 is the game where nothing happens you see. Sure there's two stories going on, but the action was really limited, or you were just overpowered and never had to deal with a real challenge. Maybe there was more to it, but after a few hours I quit. It felt more like a novel where I just pressed X to advance the story. A game full of nothing I tell you.
16. Children of Mana
One last game from Square-Enix -Children of Mana, the long awaited return to the Mana series and marked the beginning of games that was S-E's grand attempt at revitalizating the series.... The Yea of Mana they called it. Sound glorious. It wasn't. All o the new Mana games ended up being experiments that had little to do with the original ones, and each one was generally disliked. Children of Mana was arguably the weakest. It was a dungeon crawler that was the definition of generic. There was no motivation to go in the tower and even less to go back to town. The while thing was a kick to the shin to all Mana fans.
17. Assassin's Creed
What pisses me off about Assassin's Creed is that I should absolutely love it. I should love the stealth killing, the exotic settings, the revisionist history.... it's all stuff I love. And yet this game finds a way to continually ruin it all because of that modern day setting. As soon as the story starts to get interesting, you zip back to present day for a bunch of blah, blah blah. And the combat just isn't as interesting as it should be. It gets repetitive quickly. Normally this would simply be a game I don't like, but because I should like it and I don't.... I hate it...
But you liked AC 2 righy?
Does that box actually say 100% pure action, lol! They should have put a dude bro sticker on the cover.