10 "Bad" Video Games That Are Actually Quite Good
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- čas přidán 3. 06. 2024
- Video game critics can be a bit, well, critical at times. Some titles can actually be genuinely enjoyable experiences depending on how you come at them, and not in an ironic "The Room" sort of way. With a view to undo the injustices of the likes of Sea of Thieves, 50 Cent: Blood On The Sand and Deadly Premonition, here are 10 "Bad" Video Games That Are Actually Quite Good
VO: Peter Austin (@ThatPeterAustin)
Script: Cat Elliot (@cat_elliott_)
Video Editor: Liam Carroll (IG: ThatGeordieLiam)
#SeaOfThieves #DeadlyPremonition #RogueWarrior
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50 cent Blood on the Sand has a whole button on the controller just for cursing. And it's upgradable. It's amazing.
Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick has a dedicated one-liner button just for the sake of having it.
It's amazing for morons, you mean.
Lol
Scarface: The World Is Yours has a button for talking shit too, and it works into gameplay too.
Truly the most underrated feature ever
Mercenaries 2: World in Flames was pure fun in my eyes, despite not getting critical receptions!
I mostly loved that one too...I only got rid of my copy because it rarely worked. I just got so sick of having to constantly disconnect from the internet hoping it would actually start up instead of freezing & crashing on the damn title screen ( fucking EA and their goddamn always online DRM bullshit.... )
The world needs a modern Mercenaries game
I agree! Though some of the missions had glitches which made them pretty much broken and the trophies has problems too
I love the original one. Lucas Arts made good games. EA took over I think 🤔.
It's Imperialist propaganda
I like Shaq and don’t care about basketball. I am the target audience of Shaq Fu
Lmaooooo 😂
Blood on the sand will always have a place in my heart just for the zero punctuation review. One of the best ever.
Yahtzee!
Haha
I absolutely love Enter the Matrix. I still, to this day, don't understand how they messed it up so bad- but they tried a lot of really cool stuff that hadn't been done before and hasn't since. Plus I just like The Matrix.
Oh man I loved that game
7:34 EDF! EDF! EDF! EDF! EDF! EDF!
(Classic Game Room reference.....Damn I miss that channel)
I do appreciate that this list has games from many different eras and not just very recent games. It does seem that channels which review things like video games or technology in general never seem to reach back more than 3 or 4 years for lists like this. I've seen so many CZcams videos along the lines of "the best video games of all time" or "the worst tech products ever" but nothing before about 2016 is even mentioned. In other words, well done.
My broadband dropped out and the video froze just as Peter said Dino-mite and I blame him exclusively
I’m playing the Director’s Cut of Deadly Premonition for the first time now and I’m really enjoying it. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve laughed out loud, whether or not the game creators intended for it to be funny. Right Zach?
Scarface the game needs more love. It did have the major sticking point of no harming civilians, but it was still a really fun game that actually made you feel like a kingpin (taking over businesses that give you bonuses financially and with other skills, being able to call up pretty much any weapon or car to be delivered to you, explore a very detailed Scarface mansion that you can customize as you like) and much more.
It also got back most of the original cast as well as adding James woods, Tommy Chong, Bam Margera and many others and has potentially had a better radio station soundtrack then any GTA game. The coke selling mini games are fun too to ensure that you can just go over to a guy and get money largely whenever for more Kingpin convenience.
I tried to play it but the controls were fiddly as fuck.
Always glad to see 50 Cent: Blood in the Sand get some love. "GIMME BACK MY DAMN SKULL!"
If you make a part 2, you should include 187 Ride or Die, Fuse by Insomniac Games, and The Devils Third. All of these are good fun.
I was just playing 187 earlier
Another one is Assassin's Creed Unity. Yes, it deserved all the shit it got for being released unfinished, but as it is now is one of the best AC games. It has the best parkour, animations, stealth and combat of the whole series.
Hmm. I had a lot of fun with the gameplay, but I personally did NOT like the characters. Arno was blander than steamed tofu when one is suffering from a bad cold, and the female lead- I can't remember her name I'm afraid- was an irritant. Spoiler ahead- I was quite irritated with how she buggered everything up for you at the end! Again, I can't remember exactly what occured, it didn't make a massive lasting impression, I just remember my husband and I saying "Silly, bloody cow! What was she thinking!?" at the time (we played passing the controller back-n-forth, one mission each style).
Yea I enjoyed it as well and liked Arno but he's no ezio. Brotherhood is my fav
I love Alpha Protocol and The Bureau: Xcom Declassified.
Alpha protocol was the BOMB!
So sad they delisted that one on PS Now, I was excited to try it and I don't have a PS3 anymore 😢
I was hoping to see Alpha Protocol on this list. The way your choices and actions change the story are still rarely beaten
I was expecting to see it, too. It's a brilliant game if it's played properly. I think the big problem is it's not obvious how to play it properly (pistols!) unless you do a little research first, so I suspect a lot of reviewers took a suboptimal path through no fault of their own.
This is a great one. The game is janky as hell, but still really cool and fun regardless.
seriously Alpha Protocol deserves a sequel with better combat....everything else worked well and was awesome but having to hold the aiming reticle over an enemy for an eternity in order to actually hit them made combat a clunky mess of bs ( if I'm literally right in the dude's face, HOW THE HELL DO I MISS? )
@@newageBoundhippie "if I'm literally right in the dude's face, HOW THE HELL DO I MISS?"
As far as I'm concerned, that's practically the difference between an RPG and an action game: that layer of abstraction between what you literally see and what's going on underneath the hood. It's easy to get past that abstraction if it's something blatantly abstract like, say, menu-based turn-based combat in old school Final Fantasy games. Doesn't work so well when the game has the presentation of an action game, however. (Morrowind for example has the same problem.)
But yeah, playing the game with pistols and the chain shot ability pretty much bypasses that annoyance so you can focus on the good stuff. Didn't figure that out until my second playthrough, and I don't think I even made it through the first playthrough.
I bought this game at a closing video store
Great stuff as always, I really just like watching these videos. You should consider doing lists on worst to best Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings games, there are plenty for that I believe.
I freaking love Deadly Premonition! Even the second one! Its really one of best stories in video games ever
Eh, the second game isn't quite as satisfying IMHO. Feels like the story was a bit rushed, despite taking 10 years for the sequel to come out. I'm glad we got one, but the town of Le Carre kind of feels a little dead and too empty, whereas Greenvale in the first game felt much more alive to me, as whacky as the characters were they had routines, relationships with one another, clear motivations and histories you could uncover; even if you didn't explore very much, the game made you spend a lot of time getting to know them as suspects in the case, and whenever one of them became a victim you couldn't help but feel sorry for them, because Deadly Premonition did a really good job of making them feel like a living part of the game's world. What's more it is a great story that does a great job of keeping you guessing until the reveals at the end.
DP2 does not have very much of this; York is given a sidekick to interact with, and she's awesome and bounces off of him really well. But the other residents of Le Carre, whilst they're definitely in keeping with the outlandish quirkiness of the first game, we never get to know or hang out with them as much before shit goes down; the only one I kind of cared about was Danny Clarkson, since he becomes much more sympathetic once York interacts with him. Characters start being killed off almost immediately after York arrives, and then York goes to the crime scenes and is basically shown what happened, rather than having to figure anything out himself. For me the story in the Le Carre section is also little too short because it climaxes too early, but I enjoyed the interrogation in the 2019 segments. (Even if they are a bit long and have maybe too much dialogue) DP2 recaptures the humour of the first game, and York is just fun to hang out with. But bizarrely the game just felt really unpolished overall, and the story and it's ending wasn't as earned or satisfying as the first game to me; in trying to be both a prequel and a sequel it doesn't really do either justice. IMHO Swery kind of overextended himself and his small indie dev studio trying to develop 3 different games at the same time, (The Good Life ended up being delayed and is still yet to come out) and it really shows that there must have been a lot of pressure to get DP2 out on time; the game being set in 2019 is kind of a giveaway to me that it was meant to come out a year earlier than it did, although they were pretty late announcing the release date.
As an avid Sea of Thieves player since launch im super happy you guys included it on here i feel like it doesnt get enough praise Thank you TP for putting a smile on my face today!
u wanna play?
I would like to state a case for Godfather 2, I personally loved that game and the interesting aspects it introduced.
That game is my favorite platinum. I have sunk more hours into it than I can remember
It was a staple of its time
It doesn’t get enough credit
Online or offline? Coz the offline missions are quite boring, I finished 100% easily and not that long. The godfather 1 (ps2) is more challenging.
Literally the only game I revisit. I've done more than 8 playthroughs.
Force unleashed 1 & 2 🐐
Thank you for shouting out EDF! It's such a great series of games. No deep plot (or even plot at all really), no complex mechanics, no amazing physics or number-crunching stats. Just brainless fun using crazy weapons to kill endless swarms of alien/insects/robots. People often see it in a video and think it looks old, dated, boring, stupid. But they don't realize thats what makes it so fun. It's made to be a cheesy game. But in a good way.
“CAPTAIN!!!!”
“Y-yea?”
“LOOOOOK!!!!”
WET is a game that belongs on this list, so let's see if it makes the cut?
EDIT - It did not, which is a shame. If you haven't played it, give it a go; fantastic aesthetic style, decent voice-acting, fun game mechanics and a good soundtrack.
WET is excellent
Eliza Dushku has bad luck. I was majorly into Dollhouse when it came out, but the writing went south pretty quickly. WET is another example of Dushku turning in a great performance on a mediocre final product.
Nah it's pretty bad.
WET was actually a good game. It just under performed.
Unfortunately it's not on PC so I can't try it out.
If The Sniper 2 isn’t on this list I will write mr. TripleJump a very stern letter.
The complaints department will be inundated! Great game that.
1:25
"Tiny Peter" is actually tiny Ben...
Another great video.
Love you,
Uncle Jim x
Earth Defense Force was actually really fun.
huh, tbh i was expecting to see Agents of Mayhem there. All the critics say it's bad for being reptetitive, but if you want to have mindless third-person shootings in an Overwatch-like styled singleplayer world, and Uranus jokes thrown at you, it's one of the best games ever.
Agents of Mayhem is just awesome, but sadly, very very VERY underrated.
YES! I love Agents of Mayhem! much like the Saints Row series it's spun off of it's such mindless fun with plenty of humor
@@newageBoundhippie Absolutely! Agents of Mayhem sadly never got the love and attention that it really deserved ;-;
10:01 that joke was so bad, dumb and unexpected I actually chuckled, Well Done.
Alpha Protocol. Is it glitchy? Yes. Is Stealth absolutely broken? Yes. Despite this, I fell in love with the narrative a choices radically changing the outcome of the game.
I'm not really a huge basketball fan but I think Shaq is a cool dude and I still have my SNES copy of Shaq-Fu I got when i was a kid.
Goat Simulator is the perfect response to the last video where someone said "Playing a game yourself is better!". I mean I agree of course, but some games, such as Goat Simulator, I hated playing. However I loved watching others play it.
I always loved enter the matrix and never understood the criticism
Loved it too but it was a buggy mess.
Going for the BioWare move with Andromeda and Anthem. Both could have been written better, of course, but are a pleasure to play.
Shaq Fu's big problem is it's controls are horrific. It's very clear that the designers didn't understand why Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter are designed the way they are.
Here's an example. In MK, to do a special move, you often have to do something like back, forward + punch. In SF it might be hold back for a second, forward + punch. In Shaq Fu it's back, forwards, nothing, run. There's a few big problems here. First is that forcing you to do nothing makes doing special moves take so long that they're almost worthless. Second, I didn't include a + on purpose, because if you don't do everything in order in Shaq Fu, you'll get the wrong move. You can't go from forward to neutral and run, you have to hit neutral first. Third is that this command involves the Run button, so if you screw up, you're going to helplessly run at the opponent and get hit. Lastly, the AI doesn't play by these rules, and has instant special moves that never accidentally become a run. So against the AI, special moves are borderline useless, but they'll spam them ruthlessly, and be very effective.
This is just the start. Everything in Shaq Fu, from jumping, to blocking, to moving, to attacking, is designed very badly, with huge glairing flaws. Even other "bad" fighting games like Street Fighter the Movie and Star Wars Masters of Taras Kasi don't have these problems. Shaq Fu is definitely one of the worst fighting games ever made, and is a lot more well known then the few worse games, such as Rise of the Robots or Death Cargo.
Whoever was behind this script definitely either hasn't played Shaq Fu or just isn't a fan of fighting games so the reasons why it's hated were kinda lost on them.
I did QA on 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand and it is, to this day, the only game I tested that I still occasionally load up for fun. It's so over the top and ridiculous that it's hard not to love it, and the gunplay is surprisingly satisfying.
5:38 That's the thing with not only good, but superior sports games: Sometimes a sports game from a sport that doesn't interest you at all is SO GOOD and so accessible that you might end up having fun with it. For example: I'm totally not into Basketball, but heck, "NBA Jam" on the SNES was loads of fun to play ❤
7:18 "a bit of the ol ultraviolence" 😆
all the EDF games are insanely fun...also frustrating as hell, especially on Inferno difficulty...but sooooo fun
also all the Onechanbara games
and one of my favorite Gamecube games is Nintendo's only real foray into the FPS genre: Geist. ( note: yes, I kow the Metroid Prime games are in 1st person and involve shooting...and technically Hunters & Federation Force are more FPS than exploration platforming focused ...but the main Prime games are still more adventure centric and are actually classed as 1st person adventure. They're also part of an established IP whereas Geist was a new original one...that I still want a sequel to...or at least a remaster with QOL improvements... )
thanks for the video
Currently I am enjoying Generation Zero on PC but the french gaming magazine nearly killed its sales here giving 9/20 calling it shit but none of the players agree
6:42 just last week I was wondering what was up with that Dick Mychinko stuff from last year. I missed the start of it.
can someone please tell me where the censored *yeah* sound effect comes from?
It cracks me up every single time!
I loved the 360 version of Force Unleashed II actually, and not sure why people didn't like it much. That game was so much fun to me! The story wasn't really all that bad either and I thought the combat was great still, but tbh it was a tad easier than the first because you start out so powerful.
In my opinion; first and foremost the gameplay/combat just didn't feel nearly as satisfying. Combine that with a story that never had a chance to live up to the original and that could be completed in a matter of hours, I remember feeling really cheated. That's the first time I can remember buying a game on launch day and being supremely pissed off about it lol.
I got Jurassic World Evolution from Games with Gold a few years ago. It's pretty good honestly, more so if you played Dinosaur Digs expansion of Zoo Tycoon 1. It's sorta an updated version of that.
Missing Big Rigs from the list. Fantastic game, great controls and is great for when your feeling depressed since you never lose. Also how many car games can you drive at the speed of light in, in reverse? I thought not :P
Rogue Warrior! I try to convince people that this game has potential, but usually it falls on def ears. It’s just so not pc witch in turn is so 80’s witch is the decade it’s set in. & that song at the end of the game. Proper job 👍
More lists like this please 👏🏻
kane & lynch 1&2 were brilliant! especially in co-op
I had one of those 50 cent games I bought on PS2 in 2014 for like 5 dollars. I actually enjoyed it way more than I thought I would lol. Only thing is at one part the disc was warped or something and I could only get a couple hours in before it wouldn't work, never got to finish it.
I actually really like Shaq and am not a fan of Basketball. I've avoided Shaq Fu for years due to the negative reviews but it's so cheap that I may have to give it a go. Thanks Triple Jump, I've made myself known
I'm not gay but I fancy you both. Have a nice day.
I'd slow dance with Ben while he looked up into my eyes. No homo.
Sus
I had Shaq Fu as a kid, loved it, far from perfect but I’m glad to see more people saying the hate was undue
Man I loved enter the matrix when it came out.
Same. At the time i was sure a lot of the hate came from not being able to play as Neo, Trinity or Morpheus. Looking bad it was a bit all over the place
Murdered: Soul Suspect!! That game is an underrated gem. I bought it randomly for $5 brand new at GameStop on a whim. Was surprisingly surprised by the gameplay and interesting storyline. I would definitely recommend giving it a shot. I don't understand all the bad reviews and hate it gets.
Probably lack of real combat but for what it was I enjoyed it as well. It's a different kind of game and I enjoyed the story
Yes! Love for Enter the Matrix!
I never saw the Matrix movies when I was younger but I loved playing Enter The Matrix game
Balan Wonderworld is not that bad. I will die on that hill.
Change the title of this video to '9 "Bad" Video Games That Are Actually Quite Good and Rogue Warrior" immediately.
That matrix game was awesome
How any reviewer could think a game where you play as 50 Cent killing terrorists in the middle east is anything close to serious is beyond me.
Enter the Matrix was among my most played gamecube titles. I loved that game.
Sea Of Thieves would be a lot better if it had a offline single player campaign as well.
Pulling for Spider Man Shattered Dimensions to be on this list.
Nobody ever gives it even a compliment.
It's so incredibly fun, beautiful cellshading and a great linear spider man game
No one says it's bad, though. It just gets overlooked in favor of Spider-Man 2 and the 2018 game. I too think it's one of the best super hero games out there.
Oh SNAP! SHAQ-Fu shout out?! Yes!! 🙌
Btw Peter, whatcha on Tinder fir?? Are you and the fiancé swingers already?
Duuuudde I’m playin Enter the Matrix on Gamecube and it’s sooo much fun love the game!🤝💪🏽🔥
My friend loved that 1st Earth Defense force 😂. I thought it was alright, but he played that thing non stop. I let him borrow it and didn't see it for months.
Marcinko the Rogue Warrior is also voiced Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler, Marv, Sin City, Whip guy in Iron Man 2, the guy who killed Enrique in his Hero video.)
I think Giant Bomb helped Deadly Premonition the most. They were the first to give that game any attention with their dual Endurance Runs.
Mass Effect Andromeda should be on this list. Yes it has a lot of flaws, but its a lot better than its reputation. Its a fun game
Awesome list! Now do the opposite: «10 games that received universal critical praise, but were actually crap»!
10.) Days Gone
9.) Horizon Zero Dawn
8.) God of War (PS4)
7.) Ghost of Tsushima
6.) All Assassin's Creed games
5.) Fortnite
4.) PUBG
3.) Among us
2.) All Call of Duty games
1.) Pokemon Go
There's enough negativity in videogame media
FINAL FIGHT: Streetwise. I love this game
Shaq Fu was actually amazing for the time graphics wise. I remember being at my friend's house and playing it for the first time and being almost overwhelmed how life like it looked haha. The combat is actually fine too, honestly never understood why it seems to get so much hate in like worst games of all time lists
That’s my childhood right there this game definitely deserved more shine
As one whos mainly into fighting games: Shaq fu is just borderline unplayable competitive wise on a highly competitive genre (tournament fighters) for several gameplay mechanics flaws (Utterly delayed controls, really bad colision detection/hitboxes, 'Special' Bar hardly useless,etc).
Not only that, but for casual players these flaws also make the game insanely difficult to beat against the AI.
That pretty much sums up why it gets so much hate, especially from the fighting game community.
I enjoyed Force Unleashed II on the 360! It was good.
I don't really like sports, besides snowboarding and swimming... But I Love Mario Strikers. Mario Tennis is good too.
Batman Arkham Origins. The game has the worst metacritic score of the series when it's the best (Yeah, I said it) Arkham game
11:36 i think he's talking about me.
The best way to describe the Earth Defense Force games to people who haven't played them is that both the critics and the die hard fans are correct.
Here for the banter that comes from cultaholic after that rogue warrior reference 🤣
Shaq Fu was my GAME when I was little! I (dating myself) used to rent it all the time from blockbuster when I was a kid!
The game was hot garbage
Goat simulator is a great game to play with a friend who never heard of it before. The laughter is unmatched
I had a lot of fun with Blood in the Sand, the perfect budget bin Third person Shooter!
recently completed the game of thrones rpg (from 2012). shitty combat didn't deter from a really really good story, didn't expect that quality
I've actually played Enter the Matrix, Jurassic World Evolution and Force Unleashed 2 and I thoroughly enjoyed them
0:38 i used this same terminator clip in a recent vid so i'm just gonna _pretend_ you guys are watching my vids
Deadly premonition is amazing! One of my favorites :)
Call me a Strawberry because I'm Plump, Sweet & Begging for Cream.
Dunno if "Sea of Thieves" deserves a re-examining without going back to the first patch-version, cause... releasing a full-price game with lackluster content, only to turn around and make it actually worth playing after the fact, doesn't mean the critics were "wrong." And saying it's fun to just hang out with friends and sorta casually play the game doesn't make it any more a "good game" than getting together with friends to watch "The Room" and laugh at it makes the room an "actually good movie."
The rest of these seem incredibly apt, though. I'm not sure I'll ever get over the disappointment of Deadly Premonition 2 taking EVERY wrong lesson from the 1st one's reception that it possibly could have.
Earth Defense Force (franchise) is a budget game, it always has been. It started as a Simple 2000 game for the PS2 and was one of the few that could branch out into its own franchise (outside the Simple 2000 label, much like Oneechanbara). Anybody that blasts on EDF, clearly has no idea what they are talking about.
Alpha Protocol is pretty bad on the surface, but if you overlook the bad aiming and out dated graphics, theres some fun to be had
Patiently waiting for PewDiePie to talk about Goat Simulator in the next Meme Review 😆🎮
Triple jump inside jokes ranked from worst to best.
Kazam plays basketball too?
My friend and I bought 50 Cent BOTS as a complete joke but we played co-op and had a blast playing it
Was Jurassic World Evolution poorly received? I liked that game a lot. It’s a little shallow once you play it for a long time but it’s a decent park sim and like Peter said, the dinosaurs look excellent and there is a good amount of dino variety.
OK while I agree that Star Wars FU2 is short and should have been a DLC or a half priced game due to the length, I will say this, those games are a blast. I really don't understand the hate they get. The Alternate Time line DLC for the first one was dope.
Shaq fu is a hood classic 😂😂
Totally agree on Shaq Fu. In fact, I made an entire video pleading my case. The hate train is strong on that one.
I did give Goat Sim a go as one of my friends really likes it. Now Im worried about her lol
Deadly Premonition is my favorite game of all time. I cried.