weemadando wrote:The Saturn had huge commerical success in Japan. The 32x was bad.
Sega CD - just ewwww. There was nothing good about that at all.
I have to dispute that. The Sega CD may not have had a lot of games, and most of the ones it did have were pieces of crap. But the Sega CD had some all time classics that were never released on any other system. Dark Wizard is, IMO, the finest fantasy strategy game ever made. Snatcher is among the finest adventure games ever made. Sonic CD is the best Sonic game, hands down. Lunar came out on the Playstation years later, but it was cartoonier and the voice acting wasn't as good as the Sega CD version. Vay was a fantastic console RPG. Sega CD also had a version of the first Wing Commander with full voice acting. Can't get that anywhere else.
The system's emphasis on FMV was unfortunate, and it's rather telling that all of the games on this list use zero FMV, or close to it, but one thing the system did have was amazing CD-quality sound.
"I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark." - Muhammad Ali
"Dating is not supposed to be easy. It's supposed to be a heart-pounding, stomach-wrenching, gut-churning exercise in pitting your fear of rejection and public humiliation against your desire to find a mate. Enjoy." - Darth Wong
What about Aqua man. That was a peice of shit from every source I have seen.
Doom 3 works fine if you have a decent PC. I rather like it. True its not HL2 but then nothing van be HL2.
A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a unicorn
So Say We All
Night Stalkers Don't Quit
HAB member
RIP Pegasus. You died like you lived, killing toasters
Doom 3, like all ID games for a while now are primarily a vehicle to sell ID game engines. Hence, Doom 3 is not designed to run on current hardware, it's designed to run on *future* hardware so ID has a revenue stream for a few years. Same thing with Quake II/III. When QIII came out, everyone had to upgrade their hardware to run it well, same thing with Doom 3. Carmack/ID is really good at making top notch game engines. It's their business model, not making games per se
Luckily (for me) Doom 3 is also fun, if only because the the nostalgia that it evokes in me =)
Blah,
Miles Teg
Now I am become death -- the shatterer of worlds...
-- Oppenheimer 1945
weemadando wrote:The Saturn had huge commerical success in Japan.
Not to mention the coolest spokesperson ever... Segata Sanshiro.
YES! You can get the Comericals on Fileplanet but all the old Sega Starun Games used to have 30 second spots made of the games wiuth Sanshiro doing something vaugly related to the game.
Kicking Zombie ass(And then getting eaten because Martial Arts don't work to well on the undead) for House of the Head.
"A cult is a religion with no political power." -Tom Wolfe Pardon me for sounding like a dick, but I'm playing the tiniest violin in the world right now-Dalton
Damnation, I'm at work and I'm not about to go to Seanbaby's website to hunt for the link for this, but my nomination is for Berenstain Bears X-Treme Sports.
Let me repeat that name, in case some of you missed it the first time:
Berenstain Bears X-Treme Sports
I don't think there really needs to be any explanation of why this is A) A flop and B) a crime against humanity, but I'll link Seanbaby's review when I get home from work.
The BC3K series may have elevated itself to merely mediocre, but when you have a mega hyped game that was in dev for 7 years, and then it gets released and most of the features aren't even implemented and it crashes within minutes every time, that's right up there with Daikatana.
"I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark." - Muhammad Ali
"Dating is not supposed to be easy. It's supposed to be a heart-pounding, stomach-wrenching, gut-churning exercise in pitting your fear of rejection and public humiliation against your desire to find a mate. Enjoy." - Darth Wong
weemadando wrote:The Saturn had huge commerical success in Japan. The 32x was bad.
Sega CD - just ewwww. There was nothing good about that at all.
I have to dispute that. The Sega CD may not have had a lot of games, and most of the ones it did have were pieces of crap. But the Sega CD had some all time classics that were never released on any other system.
Popful Mail comes to mind. My sister was in love with that game.
To Absent Friends
Dalton | Admin Smash | Knight of the Order of SDN
"y = mx + bro" - Surlethe
"You try THAT shit again, kid, and I will mod you. I will
mod you so hard, you'll wish I were Dalton." - Lagmonster
Dalton wrote:Beyond Good & Evil flopped? That's a fucking travesty, because the game was excellent.
It's hard to see a good game die
Yeah, it was supposed to be a trilogy, still it's sales were very low and it dropped into the bargain bin fast.
Photography Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Dalton wrote:Beyond Good & Evil flopped? That's a fucking travesty, because the game was excellent.
It's hard to see a good game die
Yeah. (Hell, I have two copies). Unfortunately, it was overshadowed by games with bigger names and marketing budgets, if far less imagination, spirit, and charm.
Beyond Good and Evil and Tribes Vengeance both flopped with developers pulling support from the titles.
And on the matter of BC3k, you can never consider it a flop - sure its a buggy pile of shit, but the Derek Smart fan-whores will always shout you down. They are the most insanely one-eyed and stupid fanboys you will ever encounter.
Yeah, I'm disappointed to see Earthbound on there, too. It was a quirky game, but I liked it.
New nominee: the R.O.B. device for the NES. So rare I've never seen one, and I've seen everything else other than the Japanese Zapper that's mentioned in the Wiki article on the NES.
Stanley Hauerwas wrote:[W]hy is it that no one is angry at the inequality of income in this country? I mean, the inequality of income is unbelievable. Unbelievable. Why isn’t that ever an issue of politics? Because you don’t live in a democracy. You live in a plutocracy. Money rules.
Superman wrote:Anyone remember the Turbo Grafx 16? Worst. System. Ever.
That's mostly because the US TurboGrafx 16 didn't get shit for third party support, because of Nintendo of America's exclusive contracts with third party developers. The Japanese PC Engine actually had some great games for it, but because of the situation in the US, the TG 16 mostly got crummy licensed property crap.
That was also still back in the day when hardly any of the good Japanese games were ported over to the US, so the TG got screwed in that department, too.
Would Nintendo's CD add-on for the Super NES with Sony count as a flop? Even though it technically never really got off the ground? All the hype surrounding it, and it never materialised. Kinda sad really.
"It's you Americans. There's something about nipples you hate. If this were Germany, we'd be romping around naked on the stage here."
General Zod wrote:Would Nintendo's CD add-on for the Super NES with Sony count as a flop? Even though it technically never really got off the ground? All the hype surrounding it, and it never materialised. Kinda sad really.
No, because of the fact that it never got past the development stage. Something can't be a flop when it's never released.
Sony would use the experience to develop the PlayStation, anyway.
I learned a lesson in the christmas of 1994 when i got that, i was all excited to get it. Got it and played it, and that thing was shit, total shit.
And as if i didn't learn the first time, i got a Game.con in christmas 1997, that thing was shit, in fact i kept it for 6 years before i threw that thing away.
You wanna set an example Garak....Use him, Let him Die!!
Praxis wrote:From a corporate stance, the XBox is one of the biggest flops of all time.
Even though it sold well, $4 billion dollars in losses. Ouch.
That was part of M's master plan, and so far everything is going according to it, only the x360 is supposed to make any money.
Photography Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
You can get the Comericals on Fileplanet but all the old Sega Starun Games used to have 30 second spots made of the games wiuth Sanshiro doing something vaugly related to the game. 
