Jimquisition: The Sh*tiest Games of 2012
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If I can I'd like to add Carrier Command: Operation Gaia and Dungeon Defenders. Two of the most terrible gales I've played not only this year but this generation.
Carrier Command is a horrible game that switches between clunky control of vehicles in a strategy type thing to a foot soldier on the battlefield, and it is that awful. Both get caught on random slopes and scenery, it's got a pathetic aiming system and basically just blows so very very much.
Dungeon Defenders was one of the purchases I made because of friends, which was a mistake. This piece of crap is so boring and uninteresting. The AI for your own turrets is worse than the computer AI to the extent that it often glitches out and enemies can walk right over blocking units or are not targeted by friendly attack units. It's so pathetic.
Neither of those games should have been sold for money. I feel the same way Jim fely about that last game towards these two.
Carrier Command is a horrible game that switches between clunky control of vehicles in a strategy type thing to a foot soldier on the battlefield, and it is that awful. Both get caught on random slopes and scenery, it's got a pathetic aiming system and basically just blows so very very much.
Dungeon Defenders was one of the purchases I made because of friends, which was a mistake. This piece of crap is so boring and uninteresting. The AI for your own turrets is worse than the computer AI to the extent that it often glitches out and enemies can walk right over blocking units or are not targeted by friendly attack units. It's so pathetic.
Neither of those games should have been sold for money. I feel the same way Jim fely about that last game towards these two.
Ya know how right on the box of Zone of the Enders it says it's "High Speed Robot Action?"NameIsRobertPaulson said:
Imagine that with the game lagging and the framerate being choppy as fuck.
I was so excited for Steel Battalion when I heard the concept. Then I played the demo. $60 well-withheld.
People who cry and complain about Resident Evil 6 not being on this list should seriously shove a sweaty dirty suck up their throats. RE6 is *NOT* a bad game - it is a disappointing game, one that perhaps even shits on the entire survival horror franchise but to claim that it's one of the worst games is just taking it so absurdly far that just seriously... shut the hell up.
These games on the list are so broken that they borderline scams. They are so poor in their design you'd think that the developers intended to steal your money as if they made a cash grab-and-run with your money.
RE6 REALLY doesn't fall into that category. The game is not *BROKEN*, it is not a putrid pile of shit. The game wasn't designed with the intend to downright steal your money under fraudulent circumstances. (See 'The War Z')
The games Jim puts on there are so borderline horrendous that; like he said - defies human comprehension. The motives and reasons behind RE6 are not hard to understand at all - Crapcom wanted to appeal all audiences - NOT a good reason for the games design but a comprehensible one.
Stop comparing RE6 to these games. Sure it might have disappointed you, but it's far FAR from being anywhere NEAR as broken as these games. RE6 might be at worst a 6/10 game. It's nowhere near the bottom-of-the-barrel.
These games on the list are so broken that they borderline scams. They are so poor in their design you'd think that the developers intended to steal your money as if they made a cash grab-and-run with your money.
RE6 REALLY doesn't fall into that category. The game is not *BROKEN*, it is not a putrid pile of shit. The game wasn't designed with the intend to downright steal your money under fraudulent circumstances. (See 'The War Z')
The games Jim puts on there are so borderline horrendous that; like he said - defies human comprehension. The motives and reasons behind RE6 are not hard to understand at all - Crapcom wanted to appeal all audiences - NOT a good reason for the games design but a comprehensible one.
Stop comparing RE6 to these games. Sure it might have disappointed you, but it's far FAR from being anywhere NEAR as broken as these games. RE6 might be at worst a 6/10 game. It's nowhere near the bottom-of-the-barrel.
Already own itcahtush said:The game you're looking for is Steel Battalion, the original released in 2002 for Xbox.1337mokro said:
Though it probably costs a fortune now, as it comes with this beast of a controller:
But that is the exact point. It COST and still COSTS a fortune.
Motion control would allow you to do the same things with a price tag of ... 0$ (unless you bought a kinect JUST for that game). I will keep dreaming though. Maybe that virtual reality console will give me what I desire.
I'm assuming that The Escapist has it's fair share of Film majors or Game Designers, can somebody PLEASE get Jim Sterling an acting job playing a legitimate villain? That would be the most amazing thing of all time.
I didn't play any of the games on this list, so I guess I don't really have to worry about that.
I dunno what I would consider my worst game of 2012. I really only bought like 6 games this year, and I kind of enjoyed all of them.
I didn't play any of the games on this list, so I guess I don't really have to worry about that.
I dunno what I would consider my worst game of 2012. I really only bought like 6 games this year, and I kind of enjoyed all of them.
Have you tried Warfighter? I haven't played it but it got quite a bit of negative press, I kind of expected it to be in the list.Jimothy Sterling said:
I reviewed Warfighter for Destructoid and it got a straight 5/10. Totally mediocre. Even less worthy of note than RE6, really, as it was the epitome of ditch water.-Dragmire- said:
This has to be my favorite episode of the show. I loved the longer video with Jim giving a long, though fast paced and vitriol filled rant.
Any chance we can see "The Next Top 10 Shittiest Games of 2012"? or even just "Dishonorable mentions of 2012"? I wanna see more of Jim's rapid-fire ranting!
Any chance we can see "The Next Top 10 Shittiest Games of 2012"? or even just "Dishonorable mentions of 2012"? I wanna see more of Jim's rapid-fire ranting!
Ah, I guess the people who aggressively didn't like it were setting their expectations too high.Jimothy Sterling said:
I'm not being an asshole. And I don't care about cursing. I care about readability.Mr_Terrific said:
If you swear once and you're really so prissy that feel the need to "***" it out then fine. But nearly every single sentence of has one in; if you really want to swear that much just write the damn letters, or use the word "crap", or say or some other dumb fill-in non-swear bullshit.
Reading something with **** every ten or twenty words, not to mention the "lol, jk
" business or the quotes embedded in the middle of paragraphs with hyphened attribution, is really jarring. It's like reading a corrupted file with a text editor.Just fucking swear for fuck's sake.
Is that "Dark Messenger" playing? Thank god for you and your taste in music Jim!
Why is does the Silent Hill HD collection have to be so bad? WHY?!
Why is does the Silent Hill HD collection have to be so bad? WHY?!
That Diablo III wasn't on that list is a crime.
For simultaneously being the biggest letdown in over a decade (really. No one actually thought that Duke Nukem Forever was going to be good...) and for shitting upon the previous games that made it good in the first place, along with bringing monotonization schemes into the core gameplay itself. This game, made by one of the biggest "games for gamers" companies out there, couldn't even be released complete! It had to cut content in order to make it's deadline (instead of you know "when it's ready") and that content still hasn't been included!
There is nothing redeeming about Diablo III, other than there will be a whole lot of games already out or coming out in the same genre that will be miles above this piece of drek assembled by one of the most incompetent dev teams I have ever had the privilege to witness.
For simultaneously being the biggest letdown in over a decade (really. No one actually thought that Duke Nukem Forever was going to be good...) and for shitting upon the previous games that made it good in the first place, along with bringing monotonization schemes into the core gameplay itself. This game, made by one of the biggest "games for gamers" companies out there, couldn't even be released complete! It had to cut content in order to make it's deadline (instead of you know "when it's ready") and that content still hasn't been included!
There is nothing redeeming about Diablo III, other than there will be a whole lot of games already out or coming out in the same genre that will be miles above this piece of drek assembled by one of the most incompetent dev teams I have ever had the privilege to witness.
Now you see people, this isn't about bad games you didn't like, its about bad games that were just pure absolute shit-code.
Yes some of games listed by other forum members might have been bad (to their particular taste) (or just didn't live up to their pre-hype potential) (or changed from previous versions) but are still technically sound on their own, even if you personally didn't like it.
These games that Jim listed ARE pure shit. 100% Buggy, 100% poorly designed, 100% poorly implemented.
As somebody who owns a Kinect (which is only for the dancing games); I still love how that Steel Battalion video is 100% pure fraud. Half the time, the Kinect is reading most of the commands before they user completes them... I wish the Kinect was that quick and sensitive. Never once was there was that awkward 1 pause after you give a command and wonder, did it understand that...
Yes some of games listed by other forum members might have been bad (to their particular taste) (or just didn't live up to their pre-hype potential) (or changed from previous versions) but are still technically sound on their own, even if you personally didn't like it.
These games that Jim listed ARE pure shit. 100% Buggy, 100% poorly designed, 100% poorly implemented.
As somebody who owns a Kinect (which is only for the dancing games); I still love how that Steel Battalion video is 100% pure fraud. Half the time, the Kinect is reading most of the commands before they user completes them... I wish the Kinect was that quick and sensitive. Never once was there was that awkward 1 pause after you give a command and wonder, did it understand that...
I'd rather someone overtly hold a KKK rally than secretly not hire me, not accept me into a college, or deny me a loan or housing because of my race.Therumancer said:
But that's just me. The worst kinds of racism (speaking to the modern day US) aren't the overt hatred but the internalized biases that we don't even realize affect our decisions.