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Shenmue, Okami... top ten of the WORST games according to chilean "experts"
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Worst games being Grim Fandango, Shemnue, Psychonauts, Okami?... WTF.
The uninformed media trying to talk about videogames always end up being cringeworthy with their awful and lazy research on the subjects. That got to be it 'cause there's no sane person with knowledge in gaming on this planet that would really believe that.
The uninformed media trying to talk about videogames always end up being cringeworthy with their awful and lazy research on the subjects. That got to be it 'cause there's no sane person with knowledge in gaming on this planet that would really believe that.
Típico chileno
lol, experts
It's not even an University, just an Institute...
Anyway, this is a very well known shitty newspaper.. if you can call it like that
PD: Lun, antro, guaton psx.. wtf.. where am I again?
Me comunican que Bachelet compraría los cartuchos de ET para regalar a los niños daminificados :rolleyes
IdreamofHIME
Member
I did not know Kotaku had a Chile edition.
Earthpainting
Member
Are we sure this isn't an April Fools edition? I really like five of those. Psychonauts, Shenmue, and Okami are definitely flawed games, but the sum of their parts create something unique and memorable that make up some of the best times I've had with a game. Grim Fandango and Pac-Man are just straight up good games. Pretty sure we should send someone from the health department to go check on their drinking water. Something is definitely up.
Hm, this definitely would make a lot more sense. All the five games I liked from this all lost a lot of money. Maybe they're mixing commercial failures and proper bad games.
Trent Strong
Banned
Okami was one of my favorite games of the PS2 generation. But I played the HD version a few months ago and was bored to tears.
DracoBlade
Member
Maybe they are included due to their poor sales perhaps?
Only logical explanation for this unabashed rag.
Only logical explanation for this unabashed rag.
Dragon Puncher
Member
Jeff Gertsmann apparently a chilean now..
Breakfast at Noon
Member
GRIMFANDANGO! Are they fucking serious?
Acquiescence
Member
Calling Grim Fandango and Shenmue some of the worst games ever made is beyond blasphemy.
Okami though, yeah that game was crap. Not the WORST, but crap nonetheless. Especially if you played the PS2 original, when the multitude of cutscenes and slow ass dialogue were unskippable.
Okami though, yeah that game was crap. Not the WORST, but crap nonetheless. Especially if you played the PS2 original, when the multitude of cutscenes and slow ass dialogue were unskippable.
KillerDark
Member
Okami on this list automatically makes their opinions invalid. Completely ridiculous.
Why should they? LUN is a shitty newspaper and always has been a shitty newspaper. The only reason people read it it's because of the "faranduleo" (dunno how to translate that, basically it's the newspaper that mostly talks about the celebrities).
MetalFreak
Member
I don't even....
Tricky I Shadow
Banned
I don't know what's more offensive, the list or the fact that the OP actually drew attention to it.
Canis lupus
Member
Those experts need to play more NES games.
A Link to the Past
Banned
Yeah, I'm definitely on board with the idea that this is a list of commercial failures. Every single game on the list can be described as that.
SporeCrawler
Member
wow the chilean must have some kick ass games if those are the worst
I Wanna Be The Guy
U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
Came here to controversially agree with the list. Then I saw Psychonauts. Nope.
Okami is still shit though.
Okami is still shit though.
MrCunningham
Member
As groundbreaking as Shenmue was, it was still quite janky in some ways and can really test a players' patience. It's quite a polarizing game that isn't for everyone. I still give Shenmue a lot of credit for its accomplishments and ambitions, but it was not perfect... but also far from being the worst.
Desert Bus cancels itself out, IMO. This is a game that deconstructs the idea of what a video game simulator should be. It was intentionally designed to be dull and was a social satire on the monotony of real world job occupations. It was Penn and Tellers way of trolling the player, which was the entire point of their cancelled Sega CD game Smoke and Mirrors.
Grim Fandango is just wrong. I have never played Okami or Psychonauts, so I cannot comment on those.
Big Rigs deserves to be there. People call this a list of commercial failures, but Big Rigs was an unfinished piece of shovelware with misleading packaging that somehow managed to sell more than it should have. Truly a game worthy of any worst of list.
Pac-Man on the 2600 was not a fault of inferior hardware, the developer who ported the game just didn't give a shit and half assed development intentionally. This was the real downfall of Atari, as it was one of the most anticipated games of 1982 that was met with universal disappointment. This game was bad and deserves to be on any worst of list.
E.T. was an ill conceived cash grab. I can't blame the developer for how it turned out, given its limited development time. It's not the worst 2600 game ever, there are far far worse on the console. But it represents what can be so wrong with the game industry.
Duke Nukem Forever and Daikatana are almost cut from the same cloth, games that were either too ambitious or lacked strong direction to make them work. I would put Aliens: Colonial Marines in this category too... but neither DNF or Daikatana tried to fool costumers with fake gameplay trailers like Colonial Marines did. Jurassic Park: Trespasser was another highly ambitious project that missed its target with a rushed development time. The game was groundbreaking in some ways and a failure in others.
Desert Bus cancels itself out, IMO. This is a game that deconstructs the idea of what a video game simulator should be. It was intentionally designed to be dull and was a social satire on the monotony of real world job occupations. It was Penn and Tellers way of trolling the player, which was the entire point of their cancelled Sega CD game Smoke and Mirrors.
Grim Fandango is just wrong. I have never played Okami or Psychonauts, so I cannot comment on those.
Big Rigs deserves to be there. People call this a list of commercial failures, but Big Rigs was an unfinished piece of shovelware with misleading packaging that somehow managed to sell more than it should have. Truly a game worthy of any worst of list.
Pac-Man on the 2600 was not a fault of inferior hardware, the developer who ported the game just didn't give a shit and half assed development intentionally. This was the real downfall of Atari, as it was one of the most anticipated games of 1982 that was met with universal disappointment. This game was bad and deserves to be on any worst of list.
E.T. was an ill conceived cash grab. I can't blame the developer for how it turned out, given its limited development time. It's not the worst 2600 game ever, there are far far worse on the console. But it represents what can be so wrong with the game industry.
Duke Nukem Forever and Daikatana are almost cut from the same cloth, games that were either too ambitious or lacked strong direction to make them work. I would put Aliens: Colonial Marines in this category too... but neither DNF or Daikatana tried to fool costumers with fake gameplay trailers like Colonial Marines did. Jurassic Park: Trespasser was another highly ambitious project that missed its target with a rushed development time. The game was groundbreaking in some ways and a failure in others.
Guerrillas in the Mist
Member
Jesus, did Tim Schafer kill someone over there?
manueldelalas
Time Traveler
Haha, what the fuck.
MadJackChurchill
Banned
I still question Okami there, stuff like that really depends on the monetary return versus investment and Okami certainly didn't seem to have the development hell or presentation values that made BioShock Infinite a seeming failure despite selling millions. I think it was just bad timing for a studio closure that drew more attention to the game with people trying to figure out WHY Clover got shutdown like that, at most it flopped in Japan but not outside of it. The Guinness award too, though at the time of the list I wander if Demon's Souls was a better fit?
Lol what a GIF. Sums up my reaction perfectly. Astonishing mix of the correct with the wildly indefensible (even allowing for "opinions").
Yeah, opinions only go so far and none of those four belong on that list by any sane metric, even with the commercial angle you don't mix it up like that. I didn't care much for Shenmue at least when I initially played it and it has no place there.
