Drizzlehell
Banned
Now, "bad" is a relative term obviously, and the definition of it may vary from person to person. But in general let's agree not to post things like Call of Duty or <insert any PlayStation game here> and be like "oh aren't I clever, I named a game that's not really bad but everyone loves to dunk on it for laughs, har har har" - that'll just make you a cunt.
In general, this is about video games that were either panned or received universally mixed response from critics and audiences alike, but for some reason you really love it and played it a lot. It could be because you were a kid and didn't know any better, therefore you played the shit out of it because it was the only game you had at the time, or because it was based on a movie or a comic book that you are really into. A lot of movie tie-in games or some crappy comic book adaptations are the perfect examples of games that I have in mind here. Or even games that managed to gain a cult following, despite being painfully mediocre, yet uniquely charming (eg. Bloodrayne or Deadly Premonition).
My pick is this:
In a lot of ways, it's a game that is primarily responsible for developing my gaming tastes at a very young age when I was just getting into more complex 3D games. It was a bit janky, a lot of its elements feel rushed and unfinished, it had an infuriatingly large amount of buggy escort quests, but on the other hand, it's one of the first games that I remember which had things like 3rd person melee and gun combat, environmental puzzles, inventory management, and even graphic adventure-style dialogue trees and dialogue puzzles. When it comes to specifying what are my favorite game genres, all of the features of those genres can be traced back to this one, crappy Episode I game and how it managed to shape my tastes forever.
And yeah, I still enjoy playing it from time to time. I spent countless hours playing this thing as a kid because for the longest time, it was one of the 4 games that I had installed on my dad's PC and it was all that I could play at the time. The other games being Star Wars Racer, Quake 3, and Unreal Tournament. Naturally, I managed to get insanely good at all of them, and I could probably even speedrun The Phantom Menace if I bothered to get into that scene. I remember watching a speedrun of this game on during a GDQ a few years back and to my amusement, a lot of the tricks used during that speedrun were the same glitches and shortcuts that I managed to find by myself when playing this game as a kid (there were even some that the speedruner himself didn't know about that I found).
In general, this is about video games that were either panned or received universally mixed response from critics and audiences alike, but for some reason you really love it and played it a lot. It could be because you were a kid and didn't know any better, therefore you played the shit out of it because it was the only game you had at the time, or because it was based on a movie or a comic book that you are really into. A lot of movie tie-in games or some crappy comic book adaptations are the perfect examples of games that I have in mind here. Or even games that managed to gain a cult following, despite being painfully mediocre, yet uniquely charming (eg. Bloodrayne or Deadly Premonition).
My pick is this:
In a lot of ways, it's a game that is primarily responsible for developing my gaming tastes at a very young age when I was just getting into more complex 3D games. It was a bit janky, a lot of its elements feel rushed and unfinished, it had an infuriatingly large amount of buggy escort quests, but on the other hand, it's one of the first games that I remember which had things like 3rd person melee and gun combat, environmental puzzles, inventory management, and even graphic adventure-style dialogue trees and dialogue puzzles. When it comes to specifying what are my favorite game genres, all of the features of those genres can be traced back to this one, crappy Episode I game and how it managed to shape my tastes forever.
And yeah, I still enjoy playing it from time to time. I spent countless hours playing this thing as a kid because for the longest time, it was one of the 4 games that I had installed on my dad's PC and it was all that I could play at the time. The other games being Star Wars Racer, Quake 3, and Unreal Tournament. Naturally, I managed to get insanely good at all of them, and I could probably even speedrun The Phantom Menace if I bothered to get into that scene. I remember watching a speedrun of this game on during a GDQ a few years back and to my amusement, a lot of the tricks used during that speedrun were the same glitches and shortcuts that I managed to find by myself when playing this game as a kid (there were even some that the speedruner himself didn't know about that I found).
