Knowing what a Bad Game is

Okay, this really isn't a guide or anything, just a joke thread.. like the jokes of someone I shouldn't name-drop out of SOOO many people worshipping him as God when he really isn't!! *shakes fist!!*

Ranting aside... I'll start

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A bad game will have voice acting that falls under the three requisites (doesn't neccisarily have to be just one of them either):

-dull and soulless

-so the character will be taken for granted even if they shouldn't

-Constantly barking orders at the player or another character as if the whole universe and other universes beyond that are going to explode if nothing is done about it!!!!!!111oneone

You can Always recognize a Bad game by the Most Importent Factor- If the main epice of Music is a 10 sec. Loop that get's on your Nerves right of the Bat.

Stiff and unresponsive controls.

Bad, annoying music.

You know a game is bad when the box says "Developed by EA" *Ba-dum-chshhh*

That was lame.

Seriously though, bad level design can put a game in its grave really fast.

A bad game will have damage-detection so touchy, a windmill blade turning at .025 mph will knock your character over and eat his last hit point. D8

Oh, and the camera-man will be credited as "Bob the Drunk"!

You know a game is bad when the box says "Developed by EA" *Ba-dum-chshhh*...

*Looks at her Sims 2 Cd and cries*

Why does everyone hates the Sims?


Anyhow...
(And mind you I'm very bad at trying to be funny.)

- Loop-holes (Not including the game Portal in which I only have fun with continued loops.)
- Games that has that particular main character that is the same in almost every other game.
- Same thing as above but only with bad guys.
- Really cruddy graphics with no good or real story line to back it up. (I'm surprised on how many of those are out there and still some what popular.)
- Hints that are so cryptic that its nearly impossible to know what they want you to do because it has nearly no logic to it at all.
- Hints that are so easy that a two year old could figure it out. (Like pretty much saying exactly what you have to do kind ruins the game.)
- Similar to what Roam said but polar opposite: very, very loose controls. (I like mine in the mid-range because of my reaction time is odd compared to most people but I absolutely hate it when the controls are way too stiff.)
- Games that have really bad glitches. (Most of the more resent Sonic games are to blame for my reasoning on this. Like that time I was in space and couldn't continue because I keep falling through the floor for no apparent reason and but I wouldn't die instead continually fall... in space. Or that one time I keep falling through the floor on the pinball machine and couldn't continue the game because I always fell in the same spot. I'm I the only one that gets these glitches because everyone else I talk to never experience these problems. T_T )
- Continuing with a game way too long. (There are those few that continues but are still good.)
- Adding too many Characters to a game or deleting perfectly good characters and replacing them with someone else that is pretty lame.
- Games that Try to copy another game. (There are those few that seem to be a bit better at doing that though. For example Maple story is a copy off of another game which I see much more decent than the game its copied from. I have to say that had to of pissed a few game developers off though. XD)
- Games that are easily completed within 3 hours of sitting down and playing. (I thought people were saying games are getting harder... I actually find many more older games that are much harder than these newer ones.... I can't believe how many times it has happened where my parents would buy me a game for Christmas and I would beat it before we go to grandma's for dinner. -.-)
- People that thinks lowly of the game because of its genera, how popular it is with others, how hard or easy it may be. (Ok I know that one really didn't fit in the category.)

Anyways, my list is long and as odd as it seems I have a large respect for most games.
Its actually hard for me to actually "hate" a game or put it on a "black list" because of a few problems it may have or what other players may think of it or character's in it. ect.
You actually can tell this is so because I tend to defend some games. I believe that most games don't deserve such negative attention that they some time receive because of how the play hasn't observed the game well enough to see why so many like it or dislike it or if its over-hyped or under-hyped. ect.

Ack sorry about spilling so much of my opinion. XD
I will shut up now.

A bad game is a licensed game.

Turtles in Time would like to have a word with you.

A bad game, to me, is simply a game that is not user-friendly. Whatever it be messy level design, convoluted controls, game breaking glitches, gritty pixelated graphics, gimmicky excess features or even a poor presentation, these flaws do not make a game user-friendly. Games should be presentable and easy to get into for everyone to enjoy. Less is more, not less. I believe a goal every developer should have is to be more considerate for the player and make the game more easily accessible for everyone while still making it challenging and fun.

Bad games have bad movement and combat systems .....and also music I hate overly repetitive music

What makes a game bad...

1. Terrible voice acting (thanks 4Kids)
2. A weak and/or bland story
3. One dimensional, bland, and/or dull characters
4. Bosses that are too easy to beat
5. Glitches
6. Music that doesn't fit the mood
7. Truck driving controls (aka bad movements and controls)
8. Bad cameras

Correction: Most licensed games are bad games.

A bad game = EA and THQ (I saw the THQ building on a field trip once...Big ass THQ sign on an OVAL biulding! :0).

Remember guys: This is meant to be a joke thread, not something to be taken too seriously... I did see a few cases of this here..ish.

A bad game will feature a cast of characters that will:

- Make you go 'WTH!?'

- Give you nightmares

- Make the game completely unplayable

A bad game is one that is so small that you can't FIND IT!

Yes I speak of the DS. But that isn't so bad. Think of how small the next generation of handheld games will be! I speant an hour looking for one of my games because I misplaced it.

Bad games dont have PAT THE BAKER

A bad game has the following:

-camera angles that will literally cause you to break your neck

-needs to have half naked (or even naked in some instances) girls to make the game more "enjoyable"

-is the same game every year with 1 new unnecessary mode and a light sprinkle of graphics *cough*madden*cough*

(Your going to have to thank TRAViS for this suggestion)

ET for the Atari is one of unmatched titles for one of the worse game in video game history.
It was so craptastic the extra games they had was buried in a landfill in New Mexico.
(I also heard that they buried it in cement as well so that no one would dig them back up.)

YouTube Video of ET game
Wiki on the ET game
Snopes.com Urban Legends on the ET game <- may contain pop ups

Oi yes the ET game that of classice video game history for terribleness. But that is a bit more serious than what this topic calls for I think.

"A bad game is one that doesn't have a fishing mini game in it!" Says my boyfriend....He was being silly, but he does love fishing mini games.

Oi yes the ET game that of classice video game history for terribleness. But that is a bit more serious than what this topic calls for I think.

"A bad game is one that doesn't have a fishing mini game in it!" Says my boyfriend....He was being silly, but he does love fishing mini games.

The fact that it is true is what is funny. XD
(That and them having to get rid of it by dumping and burying with dirt and cement in a landfill in New Mexico to either forget about the mistake or just to get rid of the product that nearly sold almost nothing.)

ET's quality can be rivaled by only one thing.


Superman 64.

When there are sliding tile picture puzzles.

STOP IT. STOP IT THEY'RE NOT FUN. THEY'RE NOT FUN AT ALL. MAKE PROPER PUZZLES. DON'T MAKE ME COME OVER THERE. >

When there are sliding tile picture puzzles.

STOP IT. STOP IT THEY'RE NOT FUN. THEY'RE NOT FUN AT ALL. MAKE PROPER PUZZLES. DON'T MAKE ME COME OVER THERE. >

I wonder if this is the Finding Nemo game you speak of. XD I hated them too...I hated them so much that I HAD to complete them all. Even the hard optional ones...and I did. I feel special!

But yeah, haveing those in the normal gameplay was a pain. ;-;

When there are sliding tile picture puzzles.

STOP IT. STOP IT THEY'RE NOT FUN. THEY'RE NOT FUN AT ALL. MAKE PROPER PUZZLES. DON'T MAKE ME COME OVER THERE. >

I HATE THOSE. Especially if they had a "simple" solution (only a few moves) and you spend half an hour trying to solve it...

Which reminds me. A game is bad when you have a adventure/puzzle/point-and-click game and suddenly there's an action sequence you have to complete to be able to move on A bad game randomly mixes genres just because the developers wants it to last longer.

Speaking of puzzles, a bad game is one that makes you go blind. I love you Super Bubble Pop, but that flying disco ball, and birght acid trip colors give me a headach. But...I can't stop...........ow my eyes....

http://s44.photobucket.com/albums/f21/Yami...erBubblePop.flv

This video dosn't show you the true horror of the colors in this game.

A bad game will rip out all the good parts of an original, more better game, because it was purchased by a company that does not know any better. It will also have a title screen AND cover that makes no sense or no connection to gameplay *cough*Mobile Light Force*hack*

A bad game is not fun.

That is basically all-and-all.

In more detail.:

A Bad Game is a game that annoys the viewer by different ways, from loading screens, to bad gameplay, to voice acting, to music, to availability, to price. Anything that destroys the interest or fun of the game is '+1' on the 'Bad' scale, and enough points on said 'Bad' scale... and it's a bad game. Most good games only have 1 or 2 points.

Fun-Wise, bad games are different for everyone. The most detested game of one man might be the favorite of another. It all depends, really.

-You sit there and suddenly you die.
-You're walking and suddenly your body is thrown through a building. (you die XD)
-You fall through the level design and and it doesn't count as a death until you disappear.
- Too many cliches (dying and then coming back to life)
-Having too many characters to count.
These are the only ones I can name on top of my head.

-You sit there and suddenly you die.
-You're walking and suddenly your body is thrown through a building. (you die XD)
-You fall through the level design and and it doesn't count as a death until you disappear.
- Too many cliches (dying and then coming back to life)
-Having too many characters to count.
These are the only ones I can name on top of my head.

Soo, basically, all of Sonic 06. XD

Soo, basically, all of Sonic 06. XD

lol yeah 8D.

A bad game also does not have any sex appeal.

*SHOT*

lol j/k

Action 52

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_52

I rest my case.

Inflated Prices = Major nono.

Good example of what to do.: The Orange Box. $50 for 5 games ftw.

Good example of what NOT DO DO: $200 for 4 games.

Watch the trailer, the less it looks like actual game play, the worse the game is going to be. For example: Auto Assault's trailer had little in common with what the game looked like in action, meaning that the game's devs thought the game play wouldn't get any attention (true of other MMO's as well). NiD's trailer was game play, and you all know how that turned out. Portal's trailer was also mostly game play, or at least diagrams of it. Sonic 06's trailer had featured Sonic doing thing that you obviously would not be doing in game, and we know about that little debacle.

A bad game has cross species love triangles and hedgehog kissing....*cough* Sonic 06 *cough*

A bad game is a game that looks like someone threw up on your TV Screen, and then programmed it some how.

And it still looks bad on PS3. On an HDTV. And it's blu-ray.

A bad game is a game that was obviously never debugged, and in fact, it seems as if the creators might have thrown in some bugs on purpose. A bad game will often try to cash in on something popular but fail miserably. A bad game will use 'weasel words' in advertising...