Sega Nerdcast 14: Phishing To Win
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If you were all good boys and girls and listened to the show in its entirety, you would have heard that we’re giving away a free copy of Sega’s newest *cough* masterpiece – Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer!
All you have to do to be eligible to win is post a comment in this post telling us what is the crappiest game you’ve ever played and why. Oh yeah, you also have to be a U.S. citizen and never have traveled to Mexico. Okay, I’m totally kidding on that list bit, but if you want to get some Shiren action, let us know about your crappy game experiences!
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9 opinions for Sega Nerdcast 14: Phishing To Win
segaprophet
Mar 16, 2008 at 11:41 am
I’d have to say the crappiest game I’ve ever had the misfortune of playing is Creature Shock for Saturn.
I picked it up during a Blockbuster sale because the cover art piqued my interest, but it was all downhill from there, horrible controls, laughably bad FMV sequences. Just overly sloppy and not fun.
cube_b3
Mar 16, 2008 at 11:45 am
I have beaten Shadow The Hedgehog and Final Fight: Street Wise, 2 of the shittiest games on Playstation 2.
As I am a Sega fan I have played WILD METAL on dreamcast as well.
James
Mar 16, 2008 at 11:47 am
Holy crap… Wild Metal… WOW! I actually liked that game :X
cube_b3
Mar 16, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Try Playing it in 2004 for the 1st time.
Kogen
Mar 16, 2008 at 2:22 pm
Sword of Sodan: It’s by EA and it’s similar to Golden Axe in theme, except it’s the worse game I’ve ever played. It’ll list the issues:
1) The sprites take up the entire screen, and as you might guess, it’s ugly and one of the most unplayable games to ever exist.
2)No music.
3)About 4 levels that take 5 minutes.
4)You collect potions and have to press start to even use them, after that, they usually don’t do anything worth noting.
Truely one of the biggest pieces of crap to ever exist.
And about the nerdcast; the Rome game Chris mentioned is just like Rome: Total War. I’ve played the second one on something(DOS I think), and it’s very similar. Though I’d suggest people buy Rome: Total War instead if they have a gaming PC and aren’t familiar with the franchise of TW. Those old games still seem interesting, regardless; I know I’ll get either of them(there are two) if I ever see them around cheap.
Sega Uranus
Mar 16, 2008 at 5:12 pm
I wasn’t expecting a Nerdcast this soon. I enjoyed it, of course, and I would love one of those Broadband Adapters, that would be swell of you.
The worst game I’ve ever played… ehh I can’t choose. The worst Sega game I’ve ever played was X-Perts for the Genesis. It’s a spin-off of Eternal Champions, and it was based around Shadow Yamoto (that ninja chick). Basically you play as three characters at the same time in different areas of a map, and you have a certain objective to accomplish, the thing is NOTHING works. The whole game is running in real time so if you were to pause you just look at your map, and at any time you could be attacked by a random enemy that is just wandering down a hall.
The controls are a complete mess, the graphics at first glance look impressive, but they are just awful and clash with the background in the worst possible way. Just everything is wrong with the game, nothing works, it’s one of the worst games I’ve ever played, and easily the worst Sega game, download a ROM if you don’t believe me, no one could find a second of enjoyment from it.
It makes me sad, besides the art Eternal Champions was an amazing game, if not a little too gorey.
NightsB
Mar 16, 2008 at 9:25 pm
The worst game I have ever played is Acclaim’s The Crow: The City of Angels for the Playstation. And since I’m not only a Saturn collector, but a bargain bin surfer with mounds of awful, awful turds lining his shelves, that is saying a lot. “The Crow” isn’t a video game, it is a nightmare.
I’d like to preface this by saying that I know nothing about The Crow as a franchise. My friend gave this to me on my birthday because he knows that I love awful games, and he wanted to know if I could ever appreciate this. I would have rather gotten SARS instead.
The first thing that goes totally wrong with the game is the cover: it has “3-D fighting with a vengeance” plastered in front of an icy-blue “serious” face, and thank God it’s so clear about that because I was really tired of fighting without a vengeance. Apparently the game is about a guy who was killed by some dudes and he came back from the grave to fight those dudes, much to everyone’s chagrin.
After the title screen, you’re unceremoniously placed in front of a shack, or something. Logically, you’d press “up” on the D-Pad to move your character towards the shack, which is north of you. However, he moves right instead, because he is facing right. This is one of those games where you have to use left and right to (slowly) turn in the direction you want to walk, and then press up to actually begin your trek. And boy, is it a trek. You barely move at a snail’s pace.
Then there’s the enemy A.I.. The bad guys hate you for some reason, but they can’t see you if you’re more than ten feet out of range. For instance, in the same first screen, there is a man LITERALLY PACING in circles in the doorway of the shack. If you’ve engaged an enemy, but you walk to the other side of the room, he’ll forget about you, go back to his original spot, and begin walking in circles again. Once you’re noticed, you have to wait a few minutes for his equally slow movements to reach your character. And then the battle begins.
It’s like fighting as Helen Keller underwater. You can punch and kick, and pressing the D-Pad while you punch and kick yields uppercuts and side kicks that are even slower than the normal moves, slowness enhanced only by the epic lag time between button presses and on-screen action. There’s a suspiciously low hit chance percentage. The bad guys fight equally as slow and just as tactfully.
Since you’re undead, the game logically makes it so that you are far tougher to defeat than your foes. However, this translates into about four hundred hits on your guy before he’s even close to death. At around the fortieth blow you realize that the game is teasing you.
The grainy, repetitive music is mercifully low but the grainy, repetitive voice-overs are, well, grainy and repetitive and a thousand times as poorly scripted. “Get him!” “I’ll get you!”. The story progression makes Shadow the Hedgehog look like Citizen Kane.
I’ve never gotten past the first level, which sucks because I have played it for well over an hour. My friend told me he originally wanted it because there were half-naked women on the back case, and he was nine when it came out. Needless to say, he’s never seen the half-naked women. They are in level two.
In conclusion, I secretly love it, so please send me Shiren the Wanderer because I’ll probably “get” it better than some wanky Sega-hating Gamespot reviewer.
Graham
Mar 17, 2008 at 1:11 am
“Needless to say, he’s never seen the half-naked women. They are in level two.”
Classic! :o)
SOUP
Mar 17, 2008 at 9:18 am
The worst game that I ever played would have to be Superman 64 for the N64.
I was really looking forward to playing as Superman in a game. I mean come on, he flies, shoots beams out of his eyes and can toss cars. How could it be bad.
Well, they could force you to fly through rings with completely broken controls, where missing them would actually hurt Superman, and then make everything look like they puked on it and covered the camera’s lens in vaseline.
This game destroyed my childhood
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