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You do know that Kung Fu on NES was developed by Nintendo right? By the exact 4 people who made Super Mario Bros. There is an Iwata asks covering the subject.
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What is the worst Nintendo developed game?
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You do know that Kung Fu on NES was developed by Nintendo right? By the exact 4 people who made Super Mario Bros. There is an Iwata asks covering the subject.
grim-tales
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I absolutely loved TTYD and did find much to enjoy in SPM, whats put me right off even trying SS is the fact there is no story (apparently), and levelling up/partners are all gone
It just sounds crap and very boring.I absolutely loved TTYD and did find much to enjoy in SPM, whats put me right off even trying SS is the fact there is no story (apparently), and levelling up/partners are all gone
I honestly haven't even beaten the game yet. I started it and didn't get back to it because of how much of a disappointment it was. It's just sad
Mother 3. Why is there a story in a Nintendo game? They should all be about knights rescuing damsels from dragons. Plus the gameplay suxxx, it's full of loli waifus and the graphics are something like out of a Sonichu comic. The music is also worse than Mussolini. That guy was like 50 Hitlers, so you know that's bad. The guy should go back to writing copy, WHICH HE SUCKS AT TOO.
Really, the game would've been better if they scrapped it and made Clu Clu Land 2: Bubbles takes Manhattan.
Really, the game would've been better if they scrapped it and made Clu Clu Land 2: Bubbles takes Manhattan.
Lowlander2
Banned
I would probably go with Kirby's Air Ride. Around six months after F-Zero GX comes out, which would go on to become a nigh universal recommendation of the racing genre, one of the slowest, most doldrum racing games ever is released and, in some circles, suitably laughed at.
Perhaps the comparison between the two is unfair, but who can really blame me? GX is considered an absolute racing gem nowadays, and even at the time it received high praise and was singled out for its great sense of speed. Burnout 3 would also come out at around the same time as Kirby's Air Ride, and boy did those two other arcade racers show how much a sense of speed brings to a racer. Or more accurately, what a lack of speed takes away from it.
Perhaps the comparison between the two is unfair, but who can really blame me? GX is considered an absolute racing gem nowadays, and even at the time it received high praise and was singled out for its great sense of speed. Burnout 3 would also come out at around the same time as Kirby's Air Ride, and boy did those two other arcade racers show how much a sense of speed brings to a racer. Or more accurately, what a lack of speed takes away from it.
my suggestion to you is to play more video games.
YuriLowell
Member
Sticker Star.
GuessMyUserName
Member
... Uhhhh Kirby's Air Ride isn't really a racing game so yeah, comparing it with the likes of F-Zero GX doesn't make any sense.
I don't mean it in a "Smash Bros. isn't a fighting game" kinda way, but literally there's very little "racing" about the game. At least City Trial, which is the meat of it. You explore the little sandbox world collecting powers, finding/building cars, sabotaging enemies, and then in the end you all do a random mini-game which varies from battle, specialist competitions (gliding, jump, yes, speed/races), darts, and battles.
XANDER CAGE
Member
Uh, am I remembering things wrong? I don't recall City Trial being the "meat" of Air Ride at all. There were plenty of circuit races.
Or maybe I just haven't played it in a long time. Air Ride is a fucking weird game.
ThaneKrios
Banned
Wii Music was one of the biggest "wtf" momments I've ever had.
LiveFromKyoto
Member
Please teach me how to have fun with the original Kid Icarus. I bought it on VC last summer & I've been trying to get into it for months. But it just seems unfairly punishing, overly long, and the design concept unbalanced and half-baked.
LiveFromKyoto
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I like Ice Climber and Clu Clu Land. And Balloon Fight is awesome.
So Urban Champion I guess.
EDIT: No, wait....it's definitely this piece of shit:
Which is a shame, because I always thought that was such an awesome name for a football game.
BodiesWithoutOrgans
Member
Wtf seriously mario kart 8 is amazing
I played the first Kid Icarus just 3 years ago. It was great and I think it's a shame it didn't get as much attention when I was younger.
thechristoph
Sir!
I absolutely loved TTYD and did find much to enjoy in SPM, whats put me right off even trying SS is the fact there is no story (apparently), and levelling up/partners are all gone
There are story beats. Like a toad will get rolled up in carpet, and go "oh no I'm rolled up in carpet please unroll me from this carpet" and you unroll the carpet. It's not all bad.
Baron_Calamity
Member
The only correct answer:
Everyone bought it to get an extra Wii remote, played it for 5 minutes and forgot it existed. it was bad by wii mini game standards.
Everyone bought it to get an extra Wii remote, played it for 5 minutes and forgot it existed. it was bad by wii mini game standards.
Joseph Merrick
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lyrick
Member
The only correct answer:
Everyone bought it to get an extra Wii remote, played it for 5 minutes and forgot it existed. it was bad by wii mini game standards.
The re-imagined Combat [Tanks!] game was fucking awesome! You should really try playing the games you purchase.
The only correct answer:
Everyone bought it to get an extra Wii remote, played it for 5 minutes and forgot it existed. it was bad by wii mini game standards.
A friend and I put dozens of hours into the tank mini-game. The controls were superb.
The lack of a full-game spin-off was one of our biggest gaming disappointments of the Wii generation.
EDIT: Beaten, and a tip of the hat to lyrick.
RetrospectiveLamb
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Yeah I'm in the same boat with you. TTYD is such an awesome RPG, I really wish Nintendo would go back to that structure. On the other hand, Sticker Star just takes like all the fun out of an RPG. I thought it looked amazing, but the story is so basic, meaningless, and lacks charm (which is crazy for Paper Mario game) and all the fun out of finding new gear, learning new moves, or leveling up is completely absent from the game. All you get are stickers to attack and it is incredibly frustrating running out of them. I literally had to use a guide also to figure out what the hell to do because it is so unclear on how to beat levels/world stages.I absolutely loved TTYD and did find much to enjoy in SPM, whats put me right off even trying SS is the fact there is no story (apparently), and levelling up/partners are all gone
Hell no. "Gamer" alone makes Game & Wario awesome.
Get past the first stage, seriously. It took me years to push myself past it and honestly the game is completely different after that. You get upgrades that increase your damage/range, stages have different alignments (horizontal, flying stages, Zelda II-like dungeon) and it's generally much more enjoyable when you get more powerful. The first stage is the hardest and least fun.
It's not really one of the best Nintendo games ever, but it's faar from the worst.
If you don't count Mario Pinball Land then maybe one of the Yoshi platformers?
LithiumSpade
Member
STUNT RACE FX / WILDTRAX
I remember reading bad review of this game back in 94, almost unplayable because of the extremely low frame rate.
No. No no no. That game was one of the coolest things I had ever played. Might not hold up now, but 20 years ago I only had friends for the purpose of having someone to play this against.
Urban Champion is probably the correct answer. A lot of terrible opinions in this thread tho. I swear to god I saw someone say Majora's Mask was the worst Nintendo game ever...
For my part, gonna go with this absolute piece of shit:
It's for storing your Pokémon! Which you can already do in the only games it supports! What the hell, Nintendo. Somewhere, some poor guy has "Creative Director: Pokémon Box" on his profile and I bet even Zynga would laugh that guy out of a job interview.
MrAstronaut
Member
Wii Music was pretty awful. I remember unboxing it one Christmas, my whole family played for an hour tops and it hasn't seen the light of day since.
I think the tank minigame on Wii Play was awesome.
I think the tank minigame on Wii Play was awesome.
Yep. The fact that everyone seems to forget this existed only validates it's awfulness.
I actually played through Pokemon Channel at least twice.
It's incredibly painful, it barely qualifies as a game. I guess one could argue it does possess some charm but honestly it's something that these days would be released as a promotional app.
I don't know who would have bought it if it wasn't for Jirachi promotion.
It's incredibly painful, it barely qualifies as a game. I guess one could argue it does possess some charm but honestly it's something that these days would be released as a promotional app.
I don't know who would have bought it if it wasn't for Jirachi promotion.
Acupunctur3
Member
I'd say the worst developed Nintendo game was Yoshi's Story. I say that reluctantly because it was one of my most anticipated games of all time, and the game itself was fantastic. However it was so unbelievably disappointing how easy it was to beat.
TwEE-N-Toast
Banned
STUNT RACE FX / WILDTRAX
I remember reading bad review of this game back in 94, almost unplayable because of the extremely low frame rate.
That game was awesome.
McBradders
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It's also fucking great.
Allan Holdsworth
Member
I don't know, but the worst I've played is Yoshi's Story. How it gets a pass while DS and New get shit on all the time I'll never understand.
SuperAngelo64
Banned
Ice Climbers.
just terrible...
just terrible...
Calamari41
41 > 38
Man, it has to be this. I'll never forget it... I went from putting the cartridge in, excited as hell to play the sequel to one of my favorite games of all time to the credit scroll in... how long was it? Less than an hour, right? Yeah, there's different paths, you can't see all of the levels in one playthrough or even three, and the whole "collect all of the same type of fruit with each Yoshi" thing, but talk about a devastating first impression.
It almost sounds like it's a different kind of game, doesn't it?I absolutely loved TTYD and did find much to enjoy in SPM, whats put me right off even trying SS is the fact there is no story (apparently), and levelling up/partners are all gone
People need to remember that beating the final boss the first time is not really beating Yoshi's Story.
Game and Wario is vindicated with the drawing app, which should've been built into Miiverse but whatever.
Spyder_Monkey
Banned
Calamari41
41 > 38
Right, I mentioned it in my post. I was just incredibly soured on the whole thing as a 10 or 11 year old who had spent days and weeks going through Yoshi's Island for the first time.
ReyVGM
Member
I like Ice Climber and Clu Clu Land. And Balloon Fight is awesome.
So Urban Champion I guess.
EDIT: No, wait....it's definitely this piece of shit:
Hmmm... why does the game's title have a goddamned asterisk?
woopWOOP
Member
I still like Ice Climbers and Clu Clu Land despite their flaws. Devil World has 2-player so that's cool too. Urban Champion is hella basic, but I remember actually having fun playing it against my brother when I was like 4 - 5 years old. Same with Soccer for NES.
Is 10-Yard Fight also Nintendo? Then my vote goes to that one. I really had no clue wtf was going on in that game. e: Oh, I guess that was Irem.
Doshin the Giant was pretty awful too. Maybe it's because I expected a game like Populous or Blacke & White first time playing it, but there really is nothing worthwhile to do in that game.
Is 10-Yard Fight also Nintendo? Then my vote goes to that one. I really had no clue wtf was going on in that game. e: Oh, I guess that was Irem.
Doshin the Giant was pretty awful too. Maybe it's because I expected a game like Populous or Blacke & White first time playing it, but there really is nothing worthwhile to do in that game.
So, what is everyone's opinion on Mario Party Advance? I think it's obvious that the N64 games are great with a group of friends, with a decent sized television & a comfy couch to sit on, and I was hoping for a portable equivalent that I could take on camping trips.
I didn't get any of that with this hunk of coal, especially since the majority of the games are (poorly) tailored to a single-player experience, and it wasn't all that much fun in general. Out of all the games that were released on the GameBoy Advance, I felt this Nintendo/Hudson Soft-developed game was the worst of the bunch.
I didn't get any of that with this hunk of coal, especially since the majority of the games are (poorly) tailored to a single-player experience, and it wasn't all that much fun in general. Out of all the games that were released on the GameBoy Advance, I felt this Nintendo/Hudson Soft-developed game was the worst of the bunch.
EatinOlives
Member
There wasn't any real reason to do the whole "play through only one level in each world at a time for a total of 6 levels, replay the game over and over to eventually play all the levels" scheme. It's just stupidly convoluted, and Nintendo seems to realize it as they have never attempted any progression scheme that stupid ever again. Especially when you're talking about kids who played through NES and SNES games and have a very good idea of how long they should be playing before seeing the credits roll. Yoshi's Story really had no business trying to be all "experimental" about its progression the way it was.
The game would've been infinitely better remembered had it taken those same levels and done a standard Stage 1-1, Stage 1-2, Stage 1-3 order. It's a solid ~6 hours to go through each stage for the first time, without making kids everywhere feel like shit/pissed off that they're seeing the credits roll after playing for 30 minutes.
grim-tales
Member
It was fairly easy and twee looking, but it had some great music