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Worst reviews EVER

Zen

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ThatObviousUser

ὁ αἴσχιστος παῖς εἶ
Reporting for duty.

Electric Playground said:
Score: 2/10
Reviewer: Shaun Conlin
Platform: Nintendo 64
Developer: HAL Laboratories
Publisher: Nintendo
Genre: Fighting Action

Even though it appears to be a culmination many fantastic Nintendo games, it simply isn't even close to resembling anything remotely good. Don't be brainwashed, kids, this is not cool; it's a rip-off to be taken at face value.

They've raced go-karts, they've partied hearty, they've guided us through RPGs, they've hopped, skipped, jumped and scrolled along countless platforms, parapets and palisades. In short, these fluffy fat-heads from the most popular of Nintendo games have found every which way to earn a place in everybody's video game library.

Of course, they've never really fought each other before; not like this. This is a whole new approach for PlumberBoy and his pals. Sadly, Super Smash Bros., while exciting in concept, is nothing more than a blatant suck on the wallets of the fans of the fluff of the fat-heads. This is too obvious, too plain a poorly implemented ploy to scam consumers by hiding a cheap and paltry game behind the so-called "demand" for more Mario.

Super Smash Bros. only vaguely resembles a fighter by today's standards, it's 2D. A 2D fighter on the N64. In 1999.

But hey! It's a new way to play with Mario! Even that zany Pikachu thing from Pokemon gets a chance to put up its dukes and fight like a plumber. And look! There's Fox McCloud from StarFox! There's Link of legendary Zelda fame, there's Yoshi and Kirby and Donkey Kong and Auntie Emm and Toto too!

Arrrrg!

A cute and cuddly 2D fighter, to be sure. And way too easy.

Adding insult to wet-spaghetti injury, Nintendo went out of their way to make this game way too easy. They re bragging about it.

You see, while there are 12 fat-heads to play with, four of which are hidden characters like Luigi or Captain Falcon (from StarFox), the control configuration is of the one-button-fits all variety. That is to say, the same button-combos work the same magic for each and every character. Nintendo says this "convenient system allows you to switch easily between characters without having to get the hang of basic moves all over again." That's a load of crap.

It's Nintendo's clever way of covering for the sloth at HAL Laboratories, the developers who appear to be too lazy to add any kind of depth to an already desperately shallow game.

Sure, each character has its own special power (easily invoked), Mario collects that power-star thing and chucks his fireballs; Fox McCloud fires a laser gun and powers-up with a light-sabre (the only redeeming element in the game) and, of course, Yoshi licks people and makes 'em eggs.

And yes, there are loads of modes. Loads of power-ups and bonus levels and hidden gems and secret treats and special surprises and Toto too. Wouldn't be a Nintendo game without 'em. The nobody-does-it-better multi player mode is there too, like that's what it's really all about. However, there's no way I m going to ask three friends over just to see if this is the secret of Smash's success; I want to keep what few friends I have. I'll not ask them to endure this pap with me.

Funny, Nintendo doesn't even refer to this game as a "fighter," they call it an "action" title. You don't KO your opponents, after all, you merely whittle down their hit points then perform what would otherwise be a "fatality" by booting them off the platform. Ok then, an Action title. Even so they are being very generous with the term "action."

After all, it's still a 2D game, a non scrolling, multi-player platformer, if not a fighter. And it's poor. Granted, this would have been spectacular on the old NES, even quaint for the SNES, but come on! This is the N64 where I can fly an X-Wing and dogfight with Tie-fighters; where I can use stealth and treachery and cap bad-guys in the back of the head in Goldeneye 007; hunt dinosaurs with a rocket launcher, cross check Pavel Bure til he's out for the season; body slam Hulk Hogan for using mascara in his beard...

Fair enough, this is suppose to be an "everyone" title, but "everyone" should expect more on the N64, I don't care how old you are. Just because you're eight years old doesn't mean you should have to suffer a dud like Smash and it's low res happy-happy-joy-joy version of fighting. Even though it appears to be a culmination of many fantastic Nintendo games, it simply isn't even close to resembling anything remotely good.

The arenas cover most of the environments from each character's respective backgrounds; Kirby's Dream Land, Pokemon's Saffron City, Zelda's Hyrule, Metroid's Planet Zebes, etc. Basically, a cheap lift from old titles including the 8-bit pixilated landscapes from the NES games. This is suppose to have that "cool!" or "how quaint" effect, or "boy, does that ever take me back." Don't be brainwashed, kids. It's a rip-off to be taken at face value.

The funny thing is, Super Smash Bros. is doing quite well on both the rental and the sales charts in spite of my disapproval. I assumed "everyone" could perceive Super Smash Bros. as a cheap cannibalisation of games and characters who's days of glory are long past...

And, while I recently praised Nintendo for at least showing the gumption of utilising the franchise mandate in a fairly fresh way by having their tired-old, same-old characters jump from genre to genre, now I can only praise them for a very good marketing department (and all in one, long, run-on sentence, too!).

How they managed to convince so many people that this Smash crap is what "everyone" has been asking for all along is beyond me.

This might very well be the pinnacle achievement for Nintendo. Convincing gamers that a fluffy-kiddie, cutesy-wutesy character called Jigglypuff (another conniption causing character from Pokemon) can kick butt with the best of 'em by singing its opponents to sleep is no small feat. Still, it's a feat that stinks.
 
IGN's review of Guilty Gear accent core where they gave it a 5.9 because they judged it how the Wii remote+ nunchuk controller is the "primary control mode" BUT they also mention if you play it with a classic controller it gets the same score that the PS2 version got which was an 8.5.
Hell the second paragraph told you that if you have a classic controller to read the PS2 review instead.

Epic LULZ
 

segarr

Member
The guy who gave ME a bad review without knowing it was an RPG and that you could give your character points for each level.
 

morningbus

Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
EschatonDX said:
No 8.8 yet?

C'mon GAF, you can do better than that!

Derail imminent.

The reaction to the 8.8 review is ridiculous, not the actual review itself. 8.8 is a good score; not what I would have given Twilight Princess, but a good, almost 9.

Now, the Game Informer review of Paper Mario is bullshit [Thanks A link to the snitch!]. They reviewed the game based on what they thought their audience would think of such a game. Incidentally, a 6 turned out to be head-spinningly low for that game.
 
morningbus said:
Derail eminent.

The reaction to the 8.8 review is ridiculous, not the actual review itself. 8.8 is a good score; not what I would have given Twilight Princess, but a good, almost 9.

Now, the, and I hope I'm remembering this right, Gamefan review of Paper Mario is bullshit. They reviewed the game based on what they thought their audience would think of such a game. Incidentally, a 6 turned out to be head-spinningly low for that game.

Game Informer.
 

Firestorm

Member
EschatonDX said:
No 8.8 yet?

C'mon GAF, you can do better than that!
The 8.8 was a valid score.
Putting in the name of a late game dungeon and item in a game that's really about the experience of seeing amazing new things and exploration was not cool >=o
 

Petrae

Member
Regulus Tera said:
And here I thought the SNES VS Genesis warz had died a long time ago.

Actually, if you listen closer, one of the reviewers goes so far as to define the 16-bit era as "shit". I'm guessing the first video game system for these reviewers was, at the earliest, the PSX.
 

Regulus Tera

Romanes Eunt Domus
Drkirby said:
12 pages and over 7000 words long o_O

I am not going to read that, but someone needs to teach him the concept of keeping it simple. If all else, write a short review, and link to the 7000 word one as a more in depth review.

Check his Animal Crossing feature.

Pretty entertaining, if you ask me. Also, his Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots review was hilarious if you had been following his previous articles.
 

morningbus

Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Navigatr's Toy Story 2 Review: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4i6QoWONLQ

The reviewer actually sounds pretty pissed that Disney didn't use "Silicon Graphics Computers," failed to create another Donkey Kong Country, and postulates that this is somehow the Sega Genesis' fault.

I do love these reviews, though.
 
IGN's reviews of Football Manager 2009, Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn and God Hand come to mind. Their GTA IV review (no matter how much I enjoyed that game) was also a joke.

Game Informer's Paper Mario fiasco is also infamous.

And let's not forget that idiot who panned Deus Ex on release.
 

Raging Spaniard

If they are Dutch, upright and breathing they are more racist than your favorite player
Grimm Fandango said:
The score or its place in this thread?

Careful.

I'm talking about the review itself, I couldn't care less about scores, they're silly.
 

vireland

Member
Zen said:

I love the part where Hsu is rambles about knowing how the story will end and talks about how this and that took place
on EARTH.

Buuut, he didn't see the real twist coming - that in Gears you're actually the BAD GUYS who invaded the Locust's planet - at all. One of my favorite game twists of the 21st century.

Cliffy B and crew rocked the house - twice in a row, and schooled Resistance on in-game narrative done right.

And yes, it was a crap review.
 
Guybrush Threepwood said:
Sonic 1 review

Sonic 2 & 3 review

These guys make me want to break something.
God. These guys are fucking pussies.

"I think what kills this game is that it doesn't have a save function"

What the fuck? You can beat the first game in under an hour.

EDIT: And then they bring up the furries. Fuck these guys. They're Nintendo fanboys who are stuck in the past.
 

Regulus Tera

Romanes Eunt Domus
morningbus said:
Navigatr's Toy Story 2 Review: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4i6QoWONLQ

The reviewer actually sounds pretty pissed that Disney didn't use "Silicon Graphics Computers," failed to create another Donkey Kong Country, and postulates that this is somehow the Sega Genesis's fault.

I do love these reviews, though.

What's the story behind the Gaming in the Clinton Years reviews? Did they really air during the nineties in TV? What was the name of the show? Or is Navigatr mocking something somewhere?
 
vireland said:
I love the part where Hsu is rambles about knowing how the story will end and talks about how this and that took place on EARTH.

Buuut, he didn't see the real twist coming - that in Gears you're actually the BAD GUYS who invaded the Locust's planet - at all. One of my favorite game twists of the 21st century.

Cliffy B and crew rocked the house - twice in a row, and schooled Resistance on in-game narrative done right.

And yes, it was a crap review.
Um spoiler tabs? I guess no twist for me huh?
 

Azelover

Titanic was called the Ship of Dreams, and it was. It really was.
Firestorm said:
The 8.8 was a valid score.
Putting in the name of a late game dungeon and item in a game that's really about the experience of seeing amazing new things and exploration was not cool >=o

The content of the review though was a little strange at places, I'm sure it has changed now but at the time the text seemed to gripe on strange things, it was obvious there was an aspect of it aimed at getting attention regardless of the validity of the score, which was really good. The reaction at the score itself was totally undeserved, but there was more to it than that. The reviewer had been incredibly condescending towards the Wii at launch and there was some genuine sentiment that played into it. Turns out it was actually a pretty good score, but it wasn't just the score then.
 

Forkball

Member
Tim Rogers is awful. The fact that someone used money to pay him for his thoughts on video games instead of giving it to starving children should be considered a crime against humanity.
 

HK-47

Oh, bitch bitch bitch.
Raging Spaniard said:
I'm talking about the review itself, I couldn't care less about scores, they're silly.

He was talking to Mike

Also need a link to the infamous Ninja Gaiden C- review
 
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