The Doom movie.
It wasn’t even originally written to be Doom; just a bullshit, mediocre sci-fi nobody would have cared about until they forced the Doom franchise upon what would have worked better with Resident Evil because it was less Doom and more Resident Evil in spaaaaace. It also made me dislike The Rock because he lied his fuckin’ ass off about the movie.
Mario Bros would be here, but it looked like crap even from the trailers as a kid.
All the rock does is lie. I can’t stand his fake persona.
The ending part with the FPS was kinda ok they should have just made the whole movie FPS like hardcore Henry.
That movie hurt my feelings. They couldn’t even be demons?!
Almost falls into the “so bad it’s good” category for me.
Almost.
ET for the Atari 2600. Yes, I’m old.
Pac-Man might not have looked like the arcade version, but it was close enough, and we played the hell out of it. ET was a confusing snooze.
Wasn’t that the game that killed video games for six years? Or at least was pinned as such by reporters lol
Yes. They buried the unsold cartridges in the desert.
The origin of the term “shovelware” lol almost forgot about that
The Atari crash was a lot more multifaceted than that, but E.T. is often credited as one of the biggest factors. Though it was arguably more of a symptom of a lack of quality control as the market was being flooded with rushed titles.
The old story is that the game was so bad that the unsold cartridges were buried in the middle of the New Mexico desert.
Supposedly it’s the origin of the term “shovelware” to describe horrible quantity-over-quality types of games. Often with marketing tie-ins to popular media, to entice unwitting customers into purchasing the horrible games without actually reading up on it first. Modern usage tends to refer to the lazy mobile asset-swapped games, or the “1000 in 1” game packs that are just bad recolors of old games.
The two that come to mind are Ghost Recon Breakpoint and Farcry 6.
They might have been ok games if the previous ones hadn’t been so damned good.
At least with Breakpoint they tried to make it right with a new mode, but still don’t enjoy it as much as Wildlands.
Leveled enemies and weapons are just not something I’m going to play.
What went wrong with Far Cry 6? I’ve heard it’s pretty mid and I haven’t heard much about it since which leads me to assume it’s not even memorably bad or good
The thing that immediately ruined it for me was the leveled enemies and weapons.
Ok, so I can head shot a guy in this region and he dies, but same enemy one zone over takes like 10 shots.
It’s a lazy way of forcing artificial difficulty and making you follow a certian path through the game.
Did the same shit to the assassins creed series as well.
I bought a kindle to do the ebook thing a while back to save space. It’s so buggy and slow it gave me the ick for ebooks. Like the way it looks, like the idea of it, but the way it works is another ballgame.
I just use a crappy Android tablet I got for $20 on Amazon. Any yes, for that price it’s utter garbage, but all I need is an epub reader and an SD card.
I was on vacation, under a shade tree on a beautiful beach, sipping a piña colada, and turned my Kindle on to continue reading this really interesting book I had started on the drive.
Brick.
I was so mad I just put it away. I wasn’t going to waste any vacation time trying to figure it out. Glad I decided that too, it was well and truly a paperweight.
Never again
I’m using a very very old nook and enjoy it. I kinda want whatever I use to be just for reading, and nothing else. This way it all points to one thing. I also have like a first or second Gen kindle but it, while technically better, is slow as heck and filled with bloat.
I am tempted by modern colored e-ink, but I hear it isn’t super color accurate yet.
Diablo III
Starfield.
All Bethesda had to do was make it at least as good as Skyrim. Not Oblivion or Morrowind, but Skyrim.
But they couldn’t even manage that.
I was holding out hope until recently that things would be improved with updates kind of like No Man’s Sky or through DLC like what Phantom Liberty did for Cyberpunk 2077.
I haven’t read a lot of reviews because I like going into games blind but from what I’ve heard a lot of the issues really seem baked into the core of the game.
They added a car and a shitty side quest. That’s about it.
Few things have broken my heart quite like Bethesda’s downfall.
Most recently, it was probably Rebel Moon. I didn’t have high expectations and thought it was going to be schlocky, but it was not the fun kind of shlock in the end.
Game of Thrones
WHY HAVE THEY NOT MADE ONE GOOD GAME OF THRONES GAME???
Probably because the base material sucks (any “everyone is an arsehole” story sucks)
Plus, all the projects are cash grabs by capitalists with zero sense of taste or style.
You’ve never played the board game or LCG? Those are analog gaming masterpieces.
That would require friends and disposable income. If I had all that, I would just buy the Dark Souls modular board game 🤤
I was really excited that everyone was finally getting on the Internet.
The original Super Mario Bros Movie.
That movie is magical! … just … not exactly on purpose, nor too related to actual Mario.
You mean this one? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108255/
Oh yeah
The 1993 SMB movie was delightfully awful.
awww. I liked it D:
as a standalone, non-mario movie, it was decent. As a mario movie, it left a lot to be desired.
I mean it is a train wreck of a movie but I also very much enjoy it.
Mass Effect Andromeda. I loved the original trilogy, even the third one, and I was hopeful that they’d live up to what they were promising. Instead, we got a garbage game that completely tossed the idea of exploring a new galaxy. I tried to play it 3 different times, just to give it a chance, and I couldn’t go through with it.
I was mostly disappointed by the story, acting, and stiff characters. The environments? Top notch. The gameplay? Pretty solid, although the gunplay left some to be desired. The return of Mass Effect 1 style tooling around in the Mako? Everything I’d hoped for.
Too bad the game being so poorly received pretty much killed any forward momentum on similar games in that vein.
3D TVs. Not that 3D and very little content. Not worth the money.
I really wish they’d been more successful
Yeah, the tech is there but content is not.
Probably same reason why the Nintendo 3DS died.
Very gimmicky.IMO: VR is better anyway.
VR is too expensive for mass adoption
So was 3D.
Remember the prices for 3D TVs?
I bought one. It was expensive but nowhere close to VR.
Spore (video game) The original demo was amazing, what actually hit retail just was trash in comparison
No Man’s Sky. So much of what was promised was missing, the world just felt empty. It’s a much better game now.
Yes I fell for that game too. I was so hyped for it, I bought the soundtrack (which slapped actually) but yea it was bad.
I feel like I saw through the hype on that one. I like space games, but you can’t make what they promised interesting without some incredible things that the game didn’t have. It’s just going to be nearly infinite boring generic planets. Without systems to make them unique then there’s no reason to care about any of them.
I did follow it up to launch, and I pirated it when it launched because I wanted to see it. Yeah, it sucked. I tried it again a few years ago because they supposedly made it actually good, but I still don’t get it. It’s still got the issue where no planet is interesting because there are infinite like it. Yeah, you can build a base now, but I couldn’t get into it. Some people seem to love it now though, so good for them.
Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3, I don’t think I’ve ever matched this level of disappointment while sitting in a Movie theater since.
Oh, I guess it’s cliche but Star Wars Ep 1 for me
I was 12 when that came out, and while I recognized it wasnt good, the pod racing was cool enough I wasn’t too upset to have seen it. I did not watch the next two in theaters, we just rented them.
I’m old enough to have been a big fan of the originals and drove with friends to see it opening night
It was a really fucking bizarre experience. The crowd in the theater was packed, and ecstatic for new Star Wars. There was cheering and whooping when tbe title came up, etc. It was all fans.
But during the walk out of the theater…NO ONE TALKED. Like, literally no one. Everyone just silently shuffled out.
This.
