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Post by chaoticsonic on Jan 12, 2018 14:40:25 GMT
My disappointment might surprise people. It is a game I do like now. It is Sonic 2. I loved and owned the first game and upon playing the second one I thought "yuk". What I didn't like was that after the first game, which started you out in this brightly colored tropical environment akin to the Mega drive release,this time you started in this mountainous minecart level, it just didn't feel right for a first Zone, and my guess was right because the Green hills zone is the first zone in beta's. Also this mine cart thing and then the hang glider just didn't feel very Sonic to me. Also, I didn't have the Mega drive yet, so I wanted MS games to be as close as possible to their MD counterparts. Later on, with access to both games, I did appreciate the MS version for what it is and am impressed by the sense of speed they got out of the game. What bothers me now however, is that there is always a slight lag when Sonic jumps, he's not a 100 per cent responsive. I don't remember how the first game was on 8 bit, should replay it, but even compared to 16 bit, responsiveness is not something you need a Motorola 68 000 for. Look at Castle of illusion it's more responsive on MS than on MD. Another thing I resented about Sonic 2 as a kid were the bosses. Fighting Robotnik was so cool and I thought the robot animals were pretty lame and they're still not my favorite part of the game. Another game I thought was really bad as a kid but that, like Sonic 2, I didn't buy but rather borrowed from friends ; was Shadow Dancer. I haven't played it recently and I admire how far they pushed the graphics but I remember being horrified as a kid at how jittery, broken and buggy it seemed. Now I will probably buy the game to give it another chance ( cause like somebody said here, as an adult I have so many good games around, I just have more tolerance for a less good game ) and because Shinobi is probably my second favorite video game series after classic Sonic. A third disappointment was Battle Out run. The thing was, again I didn't buy this game but borrowed it, that my friend told me he had Out Run ( I hated when kids didn't know the exact names of their games, this was the stuff even as a kid I obsessed about ) I got all psyched up, so, it being an average game, I was even more disappointed because it just wasn't classic Out run. Just had the name slapped unto it.
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Post by omegamax on Jan 12, 2018 22:52:16 GMT
Rocky
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Post by BobSega on Dec 11, 2018 23:18:02 GMT
pit fighter!!! wath a mistake i made back then. Awful game. "I asked for Pit Fighter, not Sh;t Fighter!!"
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Post by mrsmith89 on Dec 15, 2018 10:56:09 GMT
I was so excited to get Bart versus the Space Mutants for Christmas, but it was so underwhelming. I never even got past the first level until playing it again as an adult. I had the same problem, it soon got traded in for another game. I have since got off the first level after 20 years ha!
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Post by rupert on Dec 16, 2018 9:39:32 GMT
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. I got it for Christmas or Birthday back when it came out. I don't think I specifically asked for that game but I can't blame my parents for picking it as it looks great and like all kids, I loved the film. However I found it to be far too difficult and not fun at all. I did try it lots of times as back then you didn't get many games. I recently found some buetiful hand dawn maps published in Mean Machines issue 5 and it has made me want to play them game again from an adult perspective. If I do then I'll post up a review.
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Post by BobSega on Dec 16, 2018 9:52:02 GMT
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. I got it for Christmas or Birthday back when it came out. I don't think I specifically asked for that game but I can't blame my parents for picking it as it looks great and like all kids, I loved the film. However I found it to be far too difficult and not fun at all. I did try it lots of times as back then you didn't get many games. I recently found some buetiful hand dawn maps published in Mean Machines issue 5 and it has made me want to play them game again from an adult perspective. If I do then I'll post up a review. Yeah I'd say the gameplay isn't the best, but I did persist and complete this game. It follows the movie...kinda. It skips from being aboard the zeppelin to being at the knights' tomb, getting past the traps to get the grail. I enjoyed having to collect a special item in some of the stages, though I don't think you actually need to, to complete the stage. But there's the Cross of Coronado in stage 1, the knight's shield in stage 3, Indy's father's diary in stage 5. I know there was also a version for the MD/Gen.
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Post by edwithmj on Dec 18, 2018 19:52:29 GMT
I remember the first game I ever returned to the store because of how much I hated it was Alien 3. I'm not entirely sure why my mom and I bought it in the first place, might've been cheap or something. We ended up bringing it back the next day, and picked up New Zealand Story instead. That one I did end up keeping. Wow each to their own but I find alien 3 to be one of the best shooters on the system. Games that were disappointing for me: Action Fighter: Far, far too difficult and as frustrating as Hell. Cyber Shinobi: Whoever made this should be ashamed. Why didn't they just improve on the original? Wonder Boy in Monster World: Far too easy. Why didn't they just improve on III?
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Post by BobSega on Dec 18, 2018 22:50:36 GMT
Cyber Shinobi: Whoever made this should be ashamed. Why didn't they just improve on the original? Wonder Boy in Monster World: Far too easy. Why didn't they just improve on III? I agree, both those games weren't that good sequels. I was disappointed with a number of Shinobi sequels and spin-offs. I wished all the sequels had kept the stealth game-play i.e being able to jump up or drop down behind someone to kill them e.g the enemies with the shields, so being like a real ninja assassin. I agree that Wonderboy IV was too easy and not very interesting story and problem solving.
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Post by ShadowAngel on Dec 19, 2018 13:49:24 GMT
Cyber Shinobi: Whoever made this should be ashamed. Why didn't they just improve on the original? My guess would be because Shadow Dancer (the MS Port) came out around the same time and featured the classic Shinobi style of gameplay so as to not have another game in the same style at the same time they made it different. Sega back then also had that habit of making sequels completely different to the original game: Golden Axe Warrior, Battle Out Run, all the Alex Kidd games, Zillion 2, Fantasy Zone: The Maze and so on. It sometimes worked (like with Golden Axe Warrior) and sometimes didn't (like with Cyber Shinobi, altough i really don't understand how nobody at Sega saw what a atrocious game it is or maybe they just didn't care)
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Post by rossco on Dec 19, 2018 16:19:35 GMT
I recently bought Cyber Shinobi, I'm a massive fan of all the shinobi games and never even knew this game existed. Whoever made that game should be ashamed. Its one of the few games I have played that feels like you aren't even playing the game. Utter mince! The game should have a disclaimer it's so poor. Thats my "modern" disapointment
Biggest disappointment for me "back in the day" was Double Dragon, I love the arcade game and for some reason i expected a pretty identical port, the small sprites and choppy game play made me wishing for a refund. I eventually grew to love the game, back in the day when you only had a handful of games and the time between buying games was huge (especially as a young teenager). I still have fun playing it now and amazingly remember the waves of enemy's.
Slightly off topic but I would like to also name the game i expected the least from yet was super surprised at how good it was (for me anyway) and that has to be Ghostbusters. I played the spectrum version a lot and borrowed the MS one from a friend expecting trash and what a little gem the game was.
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Post by Phil on Dec 21, 2018 19:15:09 GMT
Champions of Europe Sega Pro gave this gamae 92% back in the day. It is probably one of the worst soccer game ever made. No control, just hopeless to keep the ball in play..
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Post by smsretro on Apr 30, 2019 17:59:18 GMT
Biggest disappointment for me as a wrestling mad 8 year old was getting WWF Wrestlemania Steel Cage Challenge for Christmas in 1993. So bland, so dull, so devoid of excitement and oh, so limited. Home console wrestling games were never much cop back then, but even now, it just seems like a desperate attempt to squeeze more money out of punters from the fading UK wrestling boom of the early 90s. When Papa Shango is on the front cover, you know whatever product inside has to be treated with caution.
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