Which gaming classics do you loathe?
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I didn't like it at all either, and it's one of my fav types of games. It just didn't work for me..Lullabye said:
Zelda and Metroid (not a Nintendo basher, I love the classic Mario games and old donkey kong games)I just.. didn't like them. To be fair, I liked windwaker more than most others including the ones on the gameboy. (now that last one is blasphemy)
I would rather scrape my foot off with a cheese grater rather than play full games of Pokemon or Final Fantasy classics.
Yeah, I'm gonna have to agree here. The story doesn't really engage and it just plays bad.Lullabye said:
But to answer the question: Sonic the Hedgehog. It's like they didn't even try to make good games. They just wanted an edgy and cool mascot to rival Mario.
Ocarina of Time. I'll be honest, I played it about a decade after I should have, but I really just did not enjoy it. I could look past the fact that it looks like an ill veteran's damaged leg tissue, but the gameplay was clunky and the dungeons were goddamn boring. This coming from a Zelda fan.
I'm glad to see for once I'm not the only one thoroughly flummoxed by the cult around Nintendo. From Mario to Zelda, I still don't see why any of these gaming icons still matter anymore, except on the lids of cheap primary school kids' lunch-boxes.
The games are vapid, pointless and dumb for the most part. Okay, I understand that the original Super Mario Bros came to the US at a time of horrible video game deficit and it was pretty much the only thing the poor kids actually got to play for a few years, but you'd think people would grow out of it and move on already.
Having grown up in Europe where the NES never caught on as much (and at a slightly later date than the original Super Mario Bros), I never owned a console and played a lot of great classics on my PC as a kid including Monkey Island and my all-time favourite as a kid - Commander Keen (coincidentally made by id Software before they went on to make Doom). But, you know, in spite of the fact that Commander Keen was a much more interesting, varied and fun game than Super Mario Bros (ignoring the fact that Keen was itself a knock-off of Super Mario Bros for the PC with better graphics) I don't still hold it or the character as some great paragon of gaming. I barely even remember it, because it was a crummy kids' game and I got over my obssession with it when I was six or seven.
Would it hurt Nintendo to make some kind of original IP once in a while rather than milking its dreadful cartoons again and again? And when will people stop idolising the rubbish they played as kids when gaming has advanced so much further since in depth and sophistication?
Phew, been meaning to get that rant out for so long.
The games are vapid, pointless and dumb for the most part. Okay, I understand that the original Super Mario Bros came to the US at a time of horrible video game deficit and it was pretty much the only thing the poor kids actually got to play for a few years, but you'd think people would grow out of it and move on already.
Having grown up in Europe where the NES never caught on as much (and at a slightly later date than the original Super Mario Bros), I never owned a console and played a lot of great classics on my PC as a kid including Monkey Island and my all-time favourite as a kid - Commander Keen (coincidentally made by id Software before they went on to make Doom). But, you know, in spite of the fact that Commander Keen was a much more interesting, varied and fun game than Super Mario Bros (ignoring the fact that Keen was itself a knock-off of Super Mario Bros for the PC with better graphics) I don't still hold it or the character as some great paragon of gaming. I barely even remember it, because it was a crummy kids' game and I got over my obssession with it when I was six or seven.
Would it hurt Nintendo to make some kind of original IP once in a while rather than milking its dreadful cartoons again and again? And when will people stop idolising the rubbish they played as kids when gaming has advanced so much further since in depth and sophistication?
Phew, been meaning to get that rant out for so long.
True man here.Diddy_Mao said:
Go back to a lot of our 'classics' and it becomes clear that we have moved on... I thought I'd shake things up by playing on some old games and found my mind screwed but the lack of ermmm being good.
Playing on Metal Gear Solid one left me in a rage as I discovered you couldn't aim on it.
Playing on Tekken 2 made me laugh because there are no moves.
Playing Mario made me realise why I never cared about that damn series.
Altogether, I'm happy playing on Dragon Age and Demon's Souls.
But to be more OT- I don't like any Nintendo only game. Ever. Not lying. Simply hate them all.
Zelda makes me depressed, Mario is the bland adventure through bland ville staring Mr bland and Metriod can sod off as Timesplitters exists and makes all other shooters pointless. My fiend tried for 4 years to get me to accept these games.
*hides under a table and awaits the flames*