Joined: 7/1/2005
Posts: 56
Location: Central Pennsylvania, USA
Dang, looking through those lists, seeing how many of them I own... and I thought they were actually decent! I sure was wrong ('cause whatever anyone else says HAS to be true).
Hydlide is one I gave a good review for (I looked back at it, realized I gave it far too many points, 7/10). Think: "Training RPG". All you do is train. Then you go get an item. Then you go train some more. And I think it's impossible to win at a low level--the dragon (and the final boss after it) hurt you when you just stand next to them. So a TAS would be much longer than 10 minutes due to training. Fortunately, this game has a "High Speed" setting (yay!).
I never got anywhere in Rambo. I always hated the one-way paths. Its enough to wander aimlessly in a maze, but when paths dissappear I get totally lost. (Can't try every path if you can't see them!) I never played long enough to find out what happens when your timer runs out. I imagine you lose.
I got maybe 1/8th of the way through Drakkhen. Drakkhen 2 ("Dragon View") is a much more interesting game, and quite different. Anyway, I really liked walking around the world in first-person. Better sound might have improved this game.
As for "worst games ever" you can include almost every game based on a movie or television show; so for our list we should only include those games that are particularly terrible.
Think: "Training RPG". All you do is train. Then you go get an item. Then you go train some more. And I think it's impossible to win at a low level--the dragon (and the final boss after it) hurt you when you just stand next to them. So a TAS would be much longer than 10 minutes due to training.
I successfully got to the dragon in about 6 minutes while testing, at the minimum level to cast 'wave'. At that level, though, you can only hit the dragon twice per full bar of health, and even so, on 'defence' mode. I imagine the last boss will be a bit worse. I managed to make it all the way to the wizards at level 1. Leveling twice on Hypers and twice on Eels doesn't take too long. Unfortunately, the rest of the movie would be slow leveling and/or standing around while your health bar regenerates. So, yes, ten minutes is an optimistic guess... but maybe not too far off.
In fact, I think I'll work on a complete run and see what happens ;)
Oh yeah, I saw a movie of Hydlide on some old site that had VirtuaNES movies. It was pretty boring... He kept running away to wait for health to come back. But it was worth it to hear the composer rip on the Indiana Jones theme even more for the ending!
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Joined: 6/25/2006
Posts: 138
Location: Fort Collins, CO
I think making an aboslutely horrible game into a cool video would be very difficult/impossible. Mainly due to the fact that the games are bad because not much effort was put into making the game and the controls are bad so there isn't much to work with.
I am however very interested in seeing a TAS of Extreme Sports with Berenstein Bears, or maybe Bible Adventures. Rapjam Volume One seems like a pretty sweet game, I mean it has Queen Latifah in it. HAHA White Men Can't Jump. I am going to stop now. All of these crappy games are freaking hilarious.
I tried TASing Cheetahmen once as a joke, but I didn't get very far because I couldn't stand all the glitchiness.
I found a glitch that lets you partially scroll off the right side of the screen, but makes your hitbox flip back to the left side of the screen. So I could just walk through everything until running out of health.
I think Garfield: A Week of Garfield would make a great movie from an awful game.
