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What was the worst video game reboot of all time?
- Thread starter MvCSpiderman
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Spaceman292
Banned
This is the opposite of true.
The Snake
Member
My only real memory of Rocket Knight was that I was following it on Facebook (which is something people gave a shit about back then) and all these people with profile pics of characters from the then-unreleased game would flood the comments about how amazing the game looked, etc. I called them out for it once, saying they were obviously fake profiles run by the dev team, and they only replied "No." lmao.
Talk about a long-forgotten game, though. Hell, that whole era of digital-only titles is like a wasteland of forgotten junk.
01011001
Banned
wait... wtf? people disliked the Shinobi reboot? how? Shinobi and Nightshade are amazing
also Bionic Commando was great too.
people are weird man.
I have to vote for Sonic, that game was supposed to be the NEW SONIC for a new generation, the big second coming of Sonic... and it turned out to be one of the worst AAA games ever made, maybe THE worst
also Bionic Commando was great too.
people are weird man.
I have to vote for Sonic, that game was supposed to be the NEW SONIC for a new generation, the big second coming of Sonic... and it turned out to be one of the worst AAA games ever made, maybe THE worst
01011001
Banned
Other M is not a reboot
The Snake
Member
The only way I can maybe see someone thinking Shinobi PS2 was bad is if they're young and played it late; perhaps it hasn't aged well (I personally haven't played it in a long time) but I can confidently say that when it came out it was a pretty big deal. It got decent reviews, not perfect, but me & the other PS2 kids were pretty damn happy with it.
Shut0wen
Member
10% for dmc? Its a solid game and there are far worser reboots then that game in the list, was a hard choice between sonic 06, alone in the dark and turok but i had to go for turok because man that game had nothing to do with turok at all, atleast alone in the dark had some good design choices while turok they took dinosaur and guns and that was it
01011001
Banned
there's my dreaded "didn't age well" phrase... I don't like that description of games. as all that says is that a game was always bad or mediocre, but people didn't care at the time because either there weren't any better options or their standards were lower back then
but back to the game, the first time I played it was at around 2013, and I loved it.
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The Snake
Member
I would say that regardless of how good the game plays, the general disdain the developer(s) had towards the series they were piggybacking on, as well as their attempts to spit in the face of the series' fans, kind of qualifies it. I mean really, the comments about Dante, the ego of the head developer...fuck those guys, man. DmC might play decently well but it's a shit game. I said it.
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
Not sure if it counts but the N.A.R.C. Reboot looked really bad.
The original was about 2 cops with sleeveless shirts driving around in a Ferrari and blasting drug dealers into a bloody mist with a rocket launcher.
They tried to reboot it on PS2 as some serious cop action/adventure drama where you have to deal with drug addiction.
Never tried the reboot because it didn’t interest me whatsoever and it got bad reviews.
The original was about 2 cops with sleeveless shirts driving around in a Ferrari and blasting drug dealers into a bloody mist with a rocket launcher.
They tried to reboot it on PS2 as some serious cop action/adventure drama where you have to deal with drug addiction.
Never tried the reboot because it didn’t interest me whatsoever and it got bad reviews.
SF Kosmo
Al Jazeera Special Reporter
I think he must mean the OTHER 2002 Shinobi game.
Which... yeah. What a steaming pile of shit that was.
SkylineRKR
Member
Strider was a good game.
Bomberman Act Zero was a piece of shit.
Bomberman Act Zero was a piece of shit.
cireza
Member
I agree. It pretty much used the exact same mold all first party action games from Sony are made with.
sublimit
Banned
Tomb Raider easily. They massacred the IP made it something completely different and then danced on the corpse of its legacy.
Crystal Dynamics hasbeen raping this series ever since 2006. At least now they found something else to rape.They must have got tired banging the same corpse again and again.
Crystal Dynamics hasbeen raping this series ever since 2006. At least now they found something else to rape.They must have got tired banging the same corpse again and again.
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Elektro Demon
Banned
It was actually pretty good. It's just people complained about the appearance which I could give 2 shits about and also it was a bit more streamlined then older DMC games.
Evil Calvin
Afraid of Boobs
Most of those listed are not reboots......mostly just a new game using the basic name. Mirrors Edge :Catalyst wasn't, Sonic wasn't.....it was just a new game, Bomberman Act Zero was just a new entry.
MajinSweet4
Member
I've gotten back into PS2 Shinobi and I think it's aged really well. Controls are crisp as hell and the camera while not quite as good as modern games, is still pretty damn good. (Although it only provides inverted camera controls by default, emulation can fix that) I'd say it's actually aged better than other action games from its time. Still a great game to blast through.
MvCSpiderman
Banned
Need for Speed is on the list, Crash has never had a reboot.
TKOFromTokyo
Member
Contra Rogue Corps
MvCSpiderman
Banned
Reboot came out of Sega's own mouth.
It's been called bad for years, has been on worst reboot lists, and has a 71% on MC.
I personally never played it but it's one of the top games people list as bad so it would apply to the thread.
But I always preferred Strider to Shinobi. So maybe I wouldn't have liked it anyway.
01011001
Banned
Catalyst was a reboot. it literally rebooted the whole story, it even moved the story up to the near future while the original was simply an alternate world where this dystopian city existed
everything about the story and the world was completely redone, down to the fact that Faith's sister isn't a cop anymore that got in trouble (which was the story in the first game). now in Catalyst, Faith and her sister were separated during a riot as kids and haven't seen each other since
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SF Kosmo
Al Jazeera Special Reporter
It's a super hard game, released before the era of Dark Souls brought that kind of thing back into fashion But it's dope and the fans liked it, and it got a sequel that was also well liked.
In retrospect it's something of a cult classic, in fact.
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LavitzSlambert
Member
Anyone answering anything on this list but Bomberman is either new to gaming or trolling. It was godawful in every way and a perfect lesson of what not to do for a reboot.
Fare thee well
Neophyte
Honorary mention that wasn't listed:
Carrier Command: Gaea Mission
Carrier Command: Gaea Mission
MvCSpiderman
Banned
Nightshade is panned from gamers you sure about the cult?
SF Kosmo
Al Jazeera Special Reporter
For sure that game has its fans. It was an expanded, dialed up version of the previous game. It was also still hard as balls.
01011001
Banned
(most) game critics and (all) review scores are useless, but even with that said... a 71% is... good... and the only actually good classic Shinobi games to begin with were the original first Arcade game and Shinobi 3 on Genesis. every other port, spinoff, Shinobi 2 and all the other things related to Shinobi were pretty mediocre to outright terrible.
and I'm saying this as someone who never played any of them back when they actually released. I played the reboot about 10 years after it launched for the first time... I played Shinobi 1 arcade the first time when it came out on XBLA... and Shinobi 3 I played at around 2001.
so it's not like I judge these games with the rose tinted glasses of a hardcore fan who played and consumed these at the time of release
and I mean, the Shinobi reboot got a sequel, so enough people bought and liked the first one to warrant a "sequel"
tommib
Member
I actually voted for tomb raider 2013. I think that for old fans from the 90s, the new trilogy is an abomination. Or maybe I’m wrong because they were all successful.
MvCSpiderman
Banned
This isn't always how games with sequels work, but from what I see in vids the reboot was cheap, so it may have been the case this time of profitable lie sales resulting in a sequel.
SF Kosmo
Al Jazeera Special Reporter
I don't think it was cheap, by standards of it's time. It had somewhat simplified visuals because it was optimized to run at 60fps, so that might be what you're clocking.
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deriks
4-Time GIF/Meme God
Dude, you're considering an opinion of people who make Sonic 06. I love Sonic and I have no doubt that they're on cocaine or something by then
Optimus Lime
(L3) + (R3) | Spartan rage activated
Shadowrun does not belong on this list.
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Sonic The Fighters
Member
Halo 4
After this game, almost 10 years of hell and bullshit happened to this golden franchise.
Finally, with the last version of MCC and Infinite, Halo is becoming great again.
After this game, almost 10 years of hell and bullshit happened to this golden franchise.
Finally, with the last version of MCC and Infinite, Halo is becoming great again.
