ToriJ's Top 11 Worst Video Games List

[Ayen]

I'm just too obscure for this site.

4.

What do you get when you combine one generic fighter with a crazy in-depth creation mode? An overcompensating piece of trout, that's what you get! The character creation is awesome, you can spend hours just working on the moves alone, but once you're done that it's. That's the game! There's nothing left.

The characters are bland with no personalities, the stages are bland, the modes are bland, everything about this game is bland and forgettable. If you want a good fighter that lets you make your own character, play Soul Calibur III. Hell, play WWF War Zone. It's wrestling, but it still has enough elements that makes it more of a fighter. War Zone's character creation was great and it was worth going through the game as someone you made. This game is just a waste of time.
I've been watching WAY too many AVGN videos lately.

[Ayen]

3.

Power Rangers Zeo: Full Tilt Battle Pinball. Because that's the first thing you think about when you think Power Rangers, isn't it? Smurfing pinball! Not martial arts, or fighting monsters, or megazords! Smurfing pinball! If I wanted to play pinball I'd get a pinball machine. They even got the actual actors from the show to do the FMVs, and it's for a goddamn pinball game! It's just pinball that's all it is. You're hitting a ball at enemies, but all it is is just pinball. How do we go from awesome games like "Mighty Morphin Power Rangesr" for Super Nintendo; the game based off the movie, and the Fighting Edition to this piece of trout? It's so bad it doesn't even have its own wiki page they just throw it in with Battle Racers. A racing game for Zeo? You'd think Power Rangers Turbo would get the racing game, but no one in their right mind would want to play that. Turbo nearly killed the whole smurfing franchise! I want to punch something! *punches the wall* Ow! My hand!

[Slothy]

Capcom is the prime example of a company that can't win. Fans asked them to revamp Mega Man, they do that, and nobody is satisfied.

Not sure what you mean here because we got Mega Man 9 and 10 which were both good games and well received. Meanwhile, the often requested Mega Man Legends 3 got canned after teasing fans with a glimmer of hope. That understandably didn't go over well.

They're asked to revamp RE, and it worked.....with RE4, at least. When fans asked for more action gameplay in RE, Cap made RE5, and......fans didn't like it. The smurf? So then Cap blends the original RE games' gameplay and the later action gameplay, for RE6......still complaints.

Just because they gave fans what they "wanted" on paper doesn't mean the games were actually good. Hitting all the points on a marketing checklist doesn't mean much when your game plays like trout. It'd be like giving fans of Final Fantasy a faster paced battle system (assuming for a moment that they wanted one). You can end up with something like FFX-2 that actually had a fairly enjoyable battle system, or you can end up with FFXIII that has one of the worst battle systems I've ever seen. Sure, it's fast paced, but it's about as interesting as watching paint dry.

Fans begged Capcom to bring out a new Street Fighter game. They do it and everybody complains about it. Irony is, it still sold 6 million copies.

Unless those complaints came from the competitive fighting community I doubt anyone really complained too much. And if it was them complaining then I can't say they're unjustified since the game has had some issues through its various iterations (and it's not even a great example of a beginner friendly fighting game which was supposedly one of the goals, but that's another matter entirely).

Bionic Commando, MERCS, and Strider had requested sequels for years. Capcom makes sequels to them, finally, and nobody buys them. Same with 1942: Joint Strike. They were all good games, except for maybe the big BC reboot (Bionic Commando: Rearmed was choice, though).

I consider myself somewhat of a consumer of gaming news and I didn't even know that any of those except Bionic Commando got sequels. That might have something to do with them not selling well. And the Bionic Commando reboot sucking isn't a maybe. It definitely did suck.

[Rez09]

They made a pinball game? O_oa

I have to agree with you completely, after the Genesis and SNES titles, why anyone would decide a pinball game was a good idea is beyond me. I mean, an actual pinball machine wouldn't have been so bad, but video pinball has always been a shaky genre for me anyway, only Sonic Spinball coming to mind as an enjoyable title, so it seems like a complete waste of the Power Rangers license. Is there at least some humor to the boards, or life like in Spinball? Or is it literally just a pinball machine they stuck on a disc?

[Ayen]

At least Sonic actually makes sense as a pinball game with the way he turns into a ball. Power Rangers is about as random of a pinball game that you can make up. As for how the boards look:



I know the picture is kind of small, but I honestly couldn't find anything bigger.

[Rez09]

Yeah, it looks like they went the standard pinball board avenue; that's too bad, but I figured from your response to the title that's what they did. If they had done something more like Spinball, mixing pinball and platformer, it'd have at least been interesting to see how they accomplished it. It may have required a bit too much creativity from the dev team, though.

Do you know if any recent Power Rangers games have been made that are of the same quality as the 16-bit titles? It seems to me there is still potential in the license, especially since Bamco has sort of kept up with the Great Battle/Compati Hero series in Japan, and I'm curious if anyone has put out anything worthwhile since then.

[Ayen]

None that I know of. Lightspeed Rescue and Time Force were okay, but they don't hold a candle to the 16 bit games. I haven't played any of the other games past that.

[Old Manus]

WWF War Zone.

I just sprouted a considerable erection.

[Ayen]

One of the best wrestling games of all time can do that to you. Now allow me to kill that boner with a game that lives on in infamy.

2.

Superman 64. If you want a lesson on what NOT to do for a Superman game, or games in general then play Superman 64! We have flying through rings with an unforgiving time limit; doing dull and exhausting tasks in-between rings, and when you finally get through all of that you get to contend with the most awkward fighting controls in video game history! And would someone please explain to me why Superman needs a power up to activate his super speed? It should be fun to play as Superman! You should be able to just fly around and trout, but no. As far as I know DC Universe Online is the only one to do Superman right, and you don't even play as him you can just make a character similar to him, and it's ten times more fun than playing this game.

Why is it that with just the exception of a couple of movies, and one amazing cartoon show nobody can get Superman right? What's so smurfing hard about him? And who can we blame for this game being trout? DC and Warner Brothers. That's right, they hampered the development team with so many constraints we ended up with one of the crappiest video games of all time!

DC!
WB!

This game, and Superman III, and Superman IV, and Batman & Robin, and Smallville are the worst things you've ever done! Go to your room! I am very angry. I am very crossed. Go. To your. ROOM!

[Rez09]

I've never played this game, actually. I mean, I'm doing myself a favor by all accounts, but I'm still surprised I've never picked it up. Makes me wonder, though . . . have there been any good Superman games? Tons of enjoyable Batman titles, but I can't think of a single Superman one people liked. :/

[Fox]

That's all well and good ToriJ but you still haven't SOLVED MY MAZE!!!

Tons of enjoyable Batman titles, but I can't think of a single Superman one people liked. :/

Were there good Batman games before the Arkham series?

[Ayen]

Batman Vengeance was pretty good. Hard as hell though.

[Rez09]

The original Batman on the NES is a particularly well regarded, and I liked both NES Return of the Joker and SMS Batman Returns, though general public opinion on those titles is a bit shaky. The Adventures of Batman and Robin on both the Genesis and SNES seem well liked as well from the reviews I've seen, those most people seem to prefer the Genesis version where I liked the SNES version more. Sega CD Batman Returns, with only the driving stages on via menu option, also garners praise.

[Loony BoB]

No wonder I love all the games I play. Apparently I never play the bad ones!

[Bubba]

No wonder I love all the games I play. Apparently I never play the bad ones!

Yup, me too!