@Lusipurr- What was the turd that Xseed published that you mention?
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]]>Thankfully, I got into gaming pretty late (PS2-generation) and as such have avoided most of the truly epic stinkers out there. The worst games I’ve played could really only be described as “mediocre at best” and mostly consist of JRPGs that still sit on my shelf, unfinished.
]]>Seriously, I have played some *awful* games in my lifetime–things far, far worse than this. In fact, things far, far worse than Deadly Towers even. You have to remember that I started gaming on a Pong Console (which I still have laying around somewhere), and have owned just about every console in between at one point or another.
E. T. The Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600 was thoroughly awful, but there were so many awful games for that system that focusing on that example seems a little unfair.
Ghosts ‘n’ Goblins on the NES was frightful and near-impossible if only because the controls were so unresponsive and the difficulty so unforgiving that most people never progressed beyond the second stage.
SaGa Fronter 2 was absolute garbage, but at least one could say it was reasonably well put-together. And then of course we have later examples like The Sims, Fable, and Flower–all of which fall down for one reason or another.
If anything, at least the major companies are not producing the complete shit that they were once upon a time. Now, that crap is limited to minor producers who make things like Hamsterz and the Mary Kate & Ashley games.
This is worth thinking about when one considers that Capcom made Ghosts ‘n’ Goblins, for example.
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