Games "So Bad, They're Actually Good" - The Lost Era

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    So Bad, It's Good, Guilty Pleasures, terrible janky games that you love. Be they on PlayStation or Nintendo consoles, these "classics" have been a staple of gaming for decades. At least until recently. The chance you'll drop in on some AA or AAA nonsense is a lot lower these days, it almost feels like a Lost Era.
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    00:00 - Intro
    03:58 - The "Legendary" Picks
    08:05 - Absolutely Bizarre
    12:50 - Kusoge Fighting Games
    17:33 - Seventh Gen Japanese Games
    23:12 - T*rment Your Friends
    27:04 - Wanted: Dead
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  • @austineruption
    @austineruption  9 месяцев назад +57

    The first 500 people to use this link and code AUSTIN30 will get 30% off their first order with Soylent: bit.ly/47PFpFV
    What are some "So Bad, It's Good" Video Games you enjoy? I KNOW the answers are gonna be all over the place, cause some people have wacky tastes. I better not hear any Drake of the 99 Dragons today.

    • @spectrumbots4268
      @spectrumbots4268 9 месяцев назад +1

      Bubsy 3D
      Superman 64
      Pepsiman
      Smashing Drive

    • @diamondhamster4320
      @diamondhamster4320 9 месяцев назад +6

      You can rip your head off and use at as a grenade/object in "Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse" too not just "NeverDead".

    • @otaking3582
      @otaking3582 9 месяцев назад

      When I think SBIG video games, I think of Stop Skeletons From Fighting, the N64 version of Power Rangers: Lightspeed Rescue, and YIIK

    • @jacksonteller3973
      @jacksonteller3973 9 месяцев назад

      i'll defend a lot of City Interactive games on this basis.

    • @jacksonteller3973
      @jacksonteller3973 9 месяцев назад

      Infernal Hell's Vengeance, Jonathon Kane the Protector, Psychotoxic and Drake of the 99 Dragons come to mind.

  • @djordjekrsmanovic
    @djordjekrsmanovic 9 месяцев назад +202

    I think the reason there aren't as many "so bad it's good" games compared to movies is because unlike with movies you can't just sit back and laugh at it you have to play through it
    Watching a movie where the actors are bad and the plot is nonsensical is less frustrating than trying to play a game like Bubsy 3D

    • @austineruption
      @austineruption  9 месяцев назад +61

      I'd TOTALLY play some Bubsy 3D with the right friends though

    • @DeadBoneJones
      @DeadBoneJones 9 месяцев назад +28

      Yeah, playing a bad game is like trying to watch the Room, but the DVD and DVD player were also made by Tommy Wiseau

    • @jamesredline1352
      @jamesredline1352 9 месяцев назад +4

      Bubsy on the SNES is one of my all time favorite games. So I’ve always been too scared to play Bubsy 3D 😂

    • @PosthumanHeresy
      @PosthumanHeresy 9 месяцев назад

      @@austineruption Have you played Bubsy 3D: Bubsy Visits the James Turrell Retrospective?

    • @thomasffrench3639
      @thomasffrench3639 7 месяцев назад +1

      It find that it’s easier to have so bad it’s good for a game than a movie. The problem is that most bad movies are boring as hell, and bad video games are entertaining

  • @xVibra
    @xVibra 9 месяцев назад +116

    That handgun animation from Wanted Dead has got to be a reference to the famous Spriggan animation doing the same exact thing. Such a smooth animation for something virtually inconsequential pads out so much style and care for their work that it can't help but be appreciated.

  • @Gojiro7
    @Gojiro7 9 месяцев назад +195

    gotta respect a man who appreciates the simple brilliance of the Earth Defense force games, I hope you and Derick from StopSkeletonsFromFighting can shoot the shit over it in a video someday

    • @Alurkerdood
      @Alurkerdood 9 месяцев назад +10

      Hoping the the NA release of EDF 6 is coming soon.

    • @pious83
      @pious83 9 месяцев назад +3

      I always saw the series as the spiritual successor to Body Harvest.

    • @QF_Dan72
      @QF_Dan72 9 месяцев назад +2

      Mark from Classic Game Room love EDF too

    • @PosthumanHeresy
      @PosthumanHeresy 9 месяцев назад +3

      Fun fact: a bunch of them have soundtracks from the composer of No More Heroes, God Hand, Vanquish, and Danganronpa; Masafumi Takada. He also did the soundtrack for Michigan: Report from Hell.

  • @ElysianAura
    @ElysianAura 9 месяцев назад +133

    Actually worth pointing out for the CDi games, the creator of Arzette (the spiritual successor game) actually made a few "reimagined" versions of the games, where he corrected a lot of the issues people have with them mechanically.

  • @Arassar
    @Arassar 9 месяцев назад +338

    It's a lot easier to shrug off a $5 movie ticket than a $60 video game. That's why people get so much madder at bad video games.

    • @changotv5847
      @changotv5847 9 месяцев назад +107

      5 dollars for a movie ticket. Damn, whats the last movie you went to see, blair witch lol??

    • @princesstamika
      @princesstamika 9 месяцев назад +35

      more like $20 movie ticket.

    • @Ireee702
      @Ireee702 9 месяцев назад

      ​@@changotv5847Where do you live? Switzerland?

    • @paulbogaty3787
      @paulbogaty3787 9 месяцев назад +23

      I actually just saw Oppenheimer and since I went on a Tuesday it was only 6 dollars!

    • @wahmaster2788
      @wahmaster2788 9 месяцев назад +29

      I go every week, movie tickets are 12.50 where I am, that's still much easier to shrug off then an 80 dollar game (game price here)

  • @Megaritz
    @Megaritz 9 месяцев назад +114

    Ride to Hell: Retribution is an anti-masterpiece. I have watched a dozen or more playthroughs of it, and I see lots of new unique glitches in every single playthrough. Amazing.

    • @kurtpaulsen6579
      @kurtpaulsen6579 9 месяцев назад +5

      I recently bought this gem for my PS3... and my Switch and PS4 backlog has grown as a result...

    • @jameslawrenson1208
      @jameslawrenson1208 9 месяцев назад +8

      "Toledo, Ohio, stay awhile. There's a Burger King down the road."

    • @PosthumanHeresy
      @PosthumanHeresy 9 месяцев назад +8

      A Disasterpiece.

    • @nahomgirma5095
      @nahomgirma5095 8 месяцев назад +2

      It is the video game equivalent of The Room or Sharknado.

    • @herekongato
      @herekongato 7 месяцев назад +1

      But why, why did you watch it multiple times lol 😂 i remember finishing that game ONCE and it was a fkin nightmare

  • @JoshuaJacobs83
    @JoshuaJacobs83 9 месяцев назад +23

    Fun fact: Rogue Warrior's dialogue is 100% accurate to Dick "Demo" Marchenko. I never knew how creative you could get with profanity before I read his autobiography.

  • @arthurdurham
    @arthurdurham 9 месяцев назад +62

    I remember being so stoked for Never Dead bc the marketing was everywhere and I liked the premise. Then it launched and suddenly I never heard of it.

    • @davethejew
      @davethejew 9 месяцев назад

      I got it because I loved the studio and it was $10 when Best Buy used to have their excellent game club to compete with Gamestop. Got so many cheap 360 games through them. I really enjoyed Neverdead. It got a bit wonky but that's it.

  • @shobitts1127
    @shobitts1127 9 месяцев назад +17

    25:24 funnily enough here in Mexico Pepsiman was super popular because it arrived here as a bootleg and pretty much if you had a ps1 you had Pepsiman lmao

  • @turtlemike5279
    @turtlemike5279 9 месяцев назад +17

    Thing about EDF is that the challenge and stakes does ramp up. It was ants, then red ants, then bipedal giant units, then Tripods, 2nd gen Aerial units, then heavy armored units with bigger weapons and bigger health. It Keeps going and by the near end of the missions you'll be in total despair by the ridiculous numbers you'll suppose to clear. It's hella fun in Multiplayer.

    • @herekongato
      @herekongato 7 месяцев назад +1

      One of the best coop shooters from the era, its definitely not a bad game. I havent played anything with such a ridiculous weapon lineup, also the destruction is cool too

  • @KremBotop
    @KremBotop 9 месяцев назад +66

    I found PepsiMan goodies in some imported japanese merch shops a few times. It was mesmerizing. And fun fact: the Sailor Moon S game mentioned in 16:12 was one of the first ones made by "the" Arc System Works.

  • @Ashtarte3D
    @Ashtarte3D 9 месяцев назад +30

    In the fighting game section I was expecting Bio F.R.E.A.K.S. The game felt like a fever dream. It was from the era of absurdly violent fighters trying to one-up Mortal Kombat with insane character designs, 3D combat and random dismemberment that you had almost no control over when it would work. It was bananas.

  • @ashley2449
    @ashley2449 9 месяцев назад +27

    gungrave gore and wanted dead are actually some of my favorite games of the last ten years and their both "so bad it's good" AA games.

    • @SilentSte
      @SilentSte 9 месяцев назад +1

      Gungrave Gore is super fun. It can get very repetitive but I really enjoyed it.

  • @kurtpaulsen6579
    @kurtpaulsen6579 9 месяцев назад +15

    Austin, while hearing you talk about Spider, it brings back memories of my time working in a second hand game store... I had a policy to never lie to my customers, so I played some of the cream of the crap that we had, looking for positive information to share with my customers... My boss at the time was impressed with some of the games I sold, and even more impressed with the low return percentage on crap games I talked people into buying with just straight up truth... That being said, never just trust critical reviews, always try a game that sounds interesting to you, because even if glitch riddled or subpar on graphics or sound, it can still be a fun experience.

  • @LeMasterofSwords
    @LeMasterofSwords 9 месяцев назад +27

    Uchikoshi working on a Pepsi man game sounds like the next 5 minute piece of trivia Aiba would spout in the next ai somnium game

    • @Dwagginz
      @Dwagginz 9 месяцев назад +6

      Zero creates a game where you have to play Pepsi Man and if you die within 9 minutes you die.

  • @TheInfectiousCadaver
    @TheInfectiousCadaver 9 месяцев назад +57

    i still play alone in the dark. that game is funny as hell and fun to play with a friend while drinking

    • @shadowpeople89
      @shadowpeople89 9 месяцев назад +10

      "I'm the fucking universe!!!" I was pissing my pants when I heard that the first time I was laughing so hard

    • @endymallorn
      @endymallorn 9 месяцев назад +1

      And I still play the DOS original from time to time, because both in story and in tech, that game is a masterpiece.

    • @rickimaru915
      @rickimaru915 9 месяцев назад +7

      I still maintain that Alone in the Dark 2008 is actually pretty good

    • @sozaj
      @sozaj 9 месяцев назад +6

      @@endymallorn the original is so good. I love the New Nightmare, as well.

  • @themodernfrontiersmen
    @themodernfrontiersmen 9 месяцев назад +86

    WAnted Dead and Deadly Premonition are my fav so bad it's good games

    • @donovanfaust3227
      @donovanfaust3227 9 месяцев назад +1

      Yeah I don't think it's going to be 10 years for Wanted: Dead to get a cult following, it's an instant cult classic that a lot of video game youtubers are covering, praising it for being so bad it's good.

    • @gmorgcyborg
      @gmorgcyborg 9 месяцев назад +1

      Only thing about that game is that it locked my progression and couldn't finish the game. But I loved it

  • @fiskburk2908
    @fiskburk2908 9 месяцев назад +16

    remember playing a game on the saturn called "Anarchy on japan or tokyo" or something like that, and being a bad virtual fighter clone, but the interesting was the story for every character, there was one that was a housewife that while walking from the grocery to home got into fight everyone in her way(every character of the game) and that was her story nothing more

    • @medes5597
      @medes5597 9 месяцев назад +4

      Goiken Muyou: Anarchy in the Nippon
      It's not exactly a virtual fighter clone - it was made by most of the team behind VF2. It's a bizarre mess.

  • @sauskeuzumaki121
    @sauskeuzumaki121 9 месяцев назад +25

    Man Austin I normally don’t comment but you really know a lot about videogames unlike other youtubers.

  • @gwarriorfromhell
    @gwarriorfromhell 9 месяцев назад +27

    I loved the hell out of Neverdead. I only saw one teaser ad for it and was intrigued. When I went to Gamestop to pick up a different game I saw it on the shelf and was immediately reminded of the game. Also seeing Megadeth on the soundtrack helped.
    So dumb to play, but it's tons it goofy fun.

  • @lucasLSD
    @lucasLSD 9 месяцев назад +14

    For me, my game that's so bad it's good is Raw Danger (Disaster Report 2), it's so janky but also so unique with you trying to survive a tsunami while keeping warm and running away while everything falls apart around you.

    • @kates5183
      @kates5183 9 месяцев назад +3

      I came here to post Disaster Report 4. It's not a good game, it's janky, it's ugly, but it is so special. In my whole PS4 library, it's one of my top games by far.

  • @adrianboyle6517
    @adrianboyle6517 9 месяцев назад +15

    Definitely adding Wanted Dead to my playlist.
    I'd recommend Magus for PS3, the edge lord dialogue tree alone is perfection. Also the Ring Terror's Realm for Dreamcast is some of the finest voice acting I've seen in a game.

  • @luigimcdingle1951
    @luigimcdingle1951 9 месяцев назад +11

    Ben and Ed did an extremely similar limb-removal mechanic to Neverdead in 2015, but as a speedrun platformer where you play as a zombie -- and yes, tearing off your head and throwing it like a softball is a core mechanic.

    • @dapperfan44
      @dapperfan44 9 месяцев назад +2

      Just like MediEvil where you can use your own arm if you have no other weapons.

    • @SpecShadow
      @SpecShadow 9 месяцев назад +1

      sounds like Stubb - Rebel without a pulse

  • @joshhale9355
    @joshhale9355 9 месяцев назад +18

    I got really drunk with some friends and we beat Devil’s Third in one night laughing our asses off because we couldn’t figure out what was happening. One of my favorite college memories.

  • @XeCuTioNR
    @XeCuTioNR 9 месяцев назад +23

    Shout out to Game Center CX & the Takeshi's Challenge episode. Seeing the Kacho suffer through that and then later interviewing one of the devs about how much Beat would be completely drunk, suggesting all the crazy drunk ideas and Taito throwing them in anyways 😂

  • @PapaPandasHasNoDad
    @PapaPandasHasNoDad 9 месяцев назад +36

    RE6 is one of my favourites. It's not terribly offensive but it is very funny to play through with a friend.

    • @SHVRWK
      @SHVRWK 9 месяцев назад +3

      they really crammed every game mechanic in that thing.

  • @Alurkerdood
    @Alurkerdood 9 месяцев назад +8

    Sub Rebellion was fun. It’s an 3D sub game for the PS2. The polar ice caps melt and you had to lead your submarine had fight the regime that controls the remaining land masses.
    There’s also Metal Wolf Chaos. A From Software game where you play as the President of the United States fighting the Vice President who successfully took over the United States. The President fights back in a mech called “Metal Wolf,” and he and the vice president take turns chewing up the scenery and seeing who can out ham the other.

  • @murabitoreal
    @murabitoreal 9 месяцев назад +7

    everyone needs a bit of kusoge every now and then

  • @ubermaster1
    @ubermaster1 9 месяцев назад +11

    I swear Austin uploads exactly when I get home to eat a meal.

  • @weregretohio7728
    @weregretohio7728 9 месяцев назад +11

    Deadly Premonition is legit one of the few games from the past decade+ I have truly cared about. It's that much of an experience.

    • @maszkalman3676
      @maszkalman3676 9 месяцев назад +1

      Yeah it's like a bad b movie no matter how bad it's still entertaining.

    • @lutherheggs451
      @lutherheggs451 7 месяцев назад +1

      People can like it all they want and call it so bad its good, but its just a FACT an undeniable fact that at best the game is a 5/10. The score isn't supposed to be how much one liked a game and, the technical problems do not in anyway make it so bad its good. The technical issues and slide show it can become at times are literally broken technical aspects. The audio is literally mixed like someone let their brain dead brother mix the audio, those aren't things that should be ignored.

  • @arbington
    @arbington 9 месяцев назад +44

    For me a recent game comes to mind, Star Wars: Squadrons. Never before have I seen a game so good be so ignored. If you’re not a dogfighting fan, you’ll be shocked by the accessible controls. If you are a dogfighting fan, you’ll be shocked by how well they adapted the genre to the simplicity of a console. And if you’re a Star Wars fan, especially if you’re a fan of the pilots and space battles, you’ll be blown away by how cinematic it is and how well it recreates the feeling of being in the action from the films, and I didn’t even get to play it in VR. Such a shame the servers are so dead, and the devs dropped support when the fans never showed. At least the game lived long enough for them to add my B-Wing. Not “so bad it’s good” I guess. More “so good and everyone says it’s bad.” But I still can’t recommend it enough.
    For “so bad it’s good,” I’ll nominate Lord of the Rings: Conquest. Did you ever play Battlefront and think “Man, this game needs Gandalf and hobbits.” No? You never thought that? Well they made it for you anyway. lol

    • @lmno567
      @lmno567 9 месяцев назад +11

      I wouldn't have called Squadrons "so bad, it's good." It was a niche game. It was good at what it did but unfortunately, the game just didn't appeal to a larger audience (the VR is amazing). It was fun while it lasted.

    • @arbington
      @arbington 9 месяцев назад +5

      Exactly, kinda realized that “under-appreciated” and “so bad it’s good” aren’t quite the same thing, and corrected my post. For “so bad it’s good,” like I said I nominate LotR: Conquest. It’s a heck of a thing if you’ve never played it. Still definitely feel like Squadrons isn’t bad like people say it is, but as you say, not quite the same thing.

    • @lucasLSD
      @lucasLSD 9 месяцев назад +3

      Never knew abount LoTR Conquest, sounds fun.

    • @arbington
      @arbington 9 месяцев назад +1

      Very fun. It’s a half baked idea and it’s horribly balanced, but it’s also a great time there’s no denying. One of the last games Pandemic made before they went under so it still has a more or less Battlefront II feel. Only with Lord of the Rings instead. Better than LotR: Gollum!

    • @davethejew
      @davethejew 9 месяцев назад +2

      LOVED Lotr conquest! I don't even like lotr! Squadrons was fun too. Enjoyed it, played it casually over a couple months, always fun to hop into a mission or two before bed.

  • @themanwithsauce
    @themanwithsauce 9 месяцев назад +4

    "Streets of Sim City" is my favorite bad/good game. It's a very old school arcade driving combat game. BUT! You can import your Sim City cities form Sim City 2000 and drive them in the game. There's also multiple little story lines and modes. It's bad, it's cheesy, the presentation is wonderfully basic, and it's such a lovely throwback to the mid 90s.

  • @yinyang920
    @yinyang920 9 месяцев назад +8

    You couldn't throw it, but in Stubbs the Zombie from the ps2 era lets you rip your head off and use it like an exploding bowling ball! Amongst also detaching your hand to move around and mind control and probably others i forget lol.

    • @aydenbeta1380
      @aydenbeta1380 9 месяцев назад +1

      Stubbs never came out on ps2, you might have gotten confused with og xbox or the pc version.

    • @yinyang920
      @yinyang920 9 месяцев назад

      @@aydenbeta1380 definitely did confuse it. I played it on the Xbox and just assumed it was on all the consoles!

  • @daniboypicazzo
    @daniboypicazzo 9 месяцев назад +10

    Dude... I remember watching a lot of trailers and getting hyped for Wanted: Dead... Mainly for Stefanie Joosten, but I got real hyped, and then... Forgot it existed until today when I saw this video! Thanks for reminding me of it's existence pal!

  • @Jersh.
    @Jersh. 9 месяцев назад +6

    I play through Timestalkers every few years on the Dreamcast. It’s so bad but I know it so well that it’s become comfort food. RPG roguelike from 24 years ago, worth a try if you haven’t played it yet.

  • @LittleMissGhostess
    @LittleMissGhostess 9 месяцев назад +4

    Wanted: Dead is the purest form of art and I’m not kidding. I don’t know what executives greenlit the project letalone kept it funded through development but the world is all the better for it

  • @israelpereira2088
    @israelpereira2088 9 месяцев назад +10

    Deadly Premonition is one of my favorite games of all time,i love the characters,story,soundtrack, and so on.
    Francis York Morgan is an amazing FBI Special Agent.

  • @darienb1127
    @darienb1127 9 месяцев назад +4

    Fun fact about that Fist of the North Star game: one of the charatcers in that game has a move that can hit an infinite amount of times if under the right circumstances. This glitch is so powerful that if used on real hardware, it causes the motherboard to ovearheat and potentially BURST INTO FLAMES. I'm not fucking joking, this is 100% real! The Dustloop Wiki had a giant warning about it as well. I don't know what happenes if you do it for emulation, but the fact that this is even possible in the first place is insane!

  • @Zeema
    @Zeema 9 месяцев назад +2

    Fun fact : Wanted Dead also mentions in one of its youtube videos that other characters also think that Stone talks very strangely
    As in the youtube video is voiced by one of the other characters giving backstory and lore mentions this

  • @LoliconSamalik
    @LoliconSamalik 9 месяцев назад +10

    Part of the reason why games like these are so hard to find compared to the interruptive nature of movies is because most games are deliberate, working with animation, code, mechanics and other ruth goldberg things. So you have to be deliberate or else something will break. And it's usually never fun when a computer program breaks on you, hence why gamers are less kind. That's why I usually call games more "so earnest, it's endearing" when games aren't perfect but you like them anyways.

  • @bender9740
    @bender9740 9 месяцев назад +3

    Also, Dong Dong Never Die is a masterclass in game design, and no one can change my mind... The fact that it plays SO DANG WELL is mind boggling.

  • @Blizzard-kf3qm
    @Blizzard-kf3qm 9 месяцев назад +1

    That Dong Dong Never Die reminds me of a fake fighting game idea that was on the page of a gaming magazine from the early 2000s. The game was called SNK vs SNL; and it had photoshopped pictures of SNL characters in fighting game stages alongside SNK characters from Samurai Shodown to King of Fighters. It was only on a single page of one magazine, but that idea has stuck with me for over 20 years.

  • @brycestrife5605
    @brycestrife5605 9 месяцев назад +7

    My dad and I really enjoyed Spider. It was a genuinely good 90s game. For sure. Thanks for the memories

  • @SubaruMalibu
    @SubaruMalibu 9 месяцев назад +17

    I unironically love Wanted: Dead. It’s jank, and low budget, sure. But it’s also really fun, with some great characters and a cool parrying/combat system (once you’re fully upgraded). I for one want to see more games like it, Evil West, and Gungrave G.O.R.E. in the future. I’m a sucker for these over-ambitious AA-tier titles.

    • @CrowScareify
      @CrowScareify 9 месяцев назад +3

      Dude same. On all those games. I’ve enjoyed them more than most AAA games of the last 5 years lol

    • @lucasLSD
      @lucasLSD 9 месяцев назад +1

      Yeah, they were so fun even though I got filtered at the park boss in wanted dead.

    • @SubaruMalibu
      @SubaruMalibu 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@lucasLSD He’s easily the toughest boss in the game, not sure why they put him in Stage 2. 😆 Still, once you figure out parrying, the game becomes way easier.

    • @supahflykev
      @supahflykev 9 месяцев назад +2

      Evil West is great, the story has Hugh Jackman Van Hellsing vibes and the combat is fun and it has alot of enemy variety.

    • @NadeemShekh-uy9zn
      @NadeemShekh-uy9zn 9 месяцев назад +1

      Evil west is awesome reminds me of the Van Helsing movie with Hugh Jackman

  • @lucasrodriguez8957
    @lucasrodriguez8957 9 месяцев назад +3

    Instantly added wanted dead to the wishlist! Totally flew under my radar.

  • @PosthumanHeresy
    @PosthumanHeresy 9 месяцев назад +1

    1:39 I will never stop hearing that phrase and thinking of the meme usage regarding controversial anime body types.

  • @PuppetMasterIX
    @PuppetMasterIX 9 месяцев назад +2

    Beastly for Wii (yes, an adaptation of that crappy ABC TV movie) is so baffling in the fact that it exists, and its gameplay so clearly grasping at straws to justify it existing, that it ends up being hilarious.
    On the subject of Prank Games, I bought myself and three of my friends a copy of Bad Rats for April Fools one year, simply because it altogether cost $2. The reactions were worth it.

  • @Plumbly
    @Plumbly 9 месяцев назад +4

    oh na not the soylent sponsor 😭

  • @comfyghost
    @comfyghost 9 месяцев назад +4

    my personal favourite kusoge game is overblood 2, it's laggy, confusing, needlessly ambitious, the first release was broken and you couldn't get past a certain point without crashing, and the entire series got written off as resident evil clone (despite the first game coming out way to close to resy 1 for that to be the case) but it's genuinely one of my favourite gaming experiences ever for reasons that have to be seen to be believed, and at the very least you should watch gaming brits video on the game.

  • @simonebernacchia
    @simonebernacchia 9 месяцев назад +1

    That *apologize to the pork" scene is a pun to the movie Tampopovin a scene where a Ramen sensei is teaching a disciple

  • @moleyface
    @moleyface 9 месяцев назад +1

    I'd never heard of Wanted Dead but man I think you kinda unintentionally sold me on it. I couldn't help but think as you went through all these details and random piled-on minigames that it felt like a project the team thought they only had one shot at, so they just threw in everything they could afford to do. There were precisely 0 darlings killed here because there might not be another project to allocate them to. And for a game that's already an homage, why not just throw in a dozen more mini-homages? It's fittingly maximalist.

  • @frozenacetylene3470
    @frozenacetylene3470 9 месяцев назад +5

    An Eruption video isn't so bad it's good. It's so good it's good :3

  • @whatthefudgegaming4403
    @whatthefudgegaming4403 9 месяцев назад +5

    NeverDead was a pretty fun game overall I think its the only one in this list I've played directly.

  • @irkalla100
    @irkalla100 9 месяцев назад +1

    I had forgotten about Spider, and I'm so happy you've reminded me of it!

  • @tipsy634
    @tipsy634 9 месяцев назад

    LOL you posted this while i was binging your other videos.Time to watch it almost live!

  • @Fernando-ek8jp
    @Fernando-ek8jp 9 месяцев назад +4

    While maybe not "so bad it's good", a couple of janky games I enjoy are:
    -The Matrix: Path of Neo (seriously, using two enemies to beat down on a third one will always be amazing)
    -Advent Rising
    -Mount and Blade (the whole series is janky, the latest one less so, but they're all incredibly fun)

    • @davethejew
      @davethejew 9 месяцев назад +1

      Path of Neo was fantastic. Bought it the week it came out and it blew my mind.

    • @Fernando-ek8jp
      @Fernando-ek8jp 9 месяцев назад

      @@davethejew it is such a flawed, but fun game

  • @amnril
    @amnril 9 месяцев назад +3

    EDF is and always will be a massive laugh. The latest games are pretty smooth too.

  • @sognar2240
    @sognar2240 9 месяцев назад +2

    Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse done a lot of similar things to never dead, including ripping your head of to use as a weapon
    It was pretty fun if a bit short

    • @enemy1191
      @enemy1191 9 месяцев назад +1

      One of my favorite games, because it's unique. But yeah, kind of short, and there are some levels that get a bit boring tho.
      A bit sad that they just remasterd it, but didn't gave a full on remake like what "Destroy All Humans!" got, even with the same publisher, except developers were different.

  • @PosthumanHeresy
    @PosthumanHeresy 9 месяцев назад +1

    16:15 That's just the power of Megumi Ogata.

  • @thomaswrightson2230
    @thomaswrightson2230 9 месяцев назад +5

    I think I'd class Kingdoms of Amalur Reckoning as my guilty pleasure. It's got a flat as pancake story, severe progression problems at points, and it feels...janky, but its design and gameplay are solid. (Also maybe add Fairy Fencer F ADF, because...yeah, that's guilty pleasure, especially the PC version that's got some pretty bad technical problems)

    • @arbington
      @arbington 9 месяцев назад +3

      I loved Kingdoms of Amalur, I think a lot of people do. I’d call it more a “cult hit” than “so bad it’s good.” But the game I first proposed also falls in that category the more I thought about it. It’s hard to think of games that are so bad they’re good when if a game is bad I probably stopped playing it. lol

  • @TheG_Boy
    @TheG_Boy 5 месяцев назад +3

    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NOT THE SOYLENT AD!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

  • @sodajoke348
    @sodajoke348 9 месяцев назад

    Off-topic comment, but I’ve been watching you since waaaay back in the 5,000 subs-era (when Furst was a constant collaborator, and so on); even sent you some pixel fan-art I made that probably wasn’t too great but you were so nice about nonetheless and it made my year as a young teenager. It’s been lord knows how many years since then, I’m 22 now, but still love your videos. Also, your statement about your soylent helping you get healthy is true, you look great. Keep it up man, always a great watch.

  • @johnathoncisneros395
    @johnathoncisneros395 9 месяцев назад +2

    One of my favorite "so bad its good games" is Akiba's Trip: Undead and Undressed.
    Basically it a hack and slash game with the objective to strip vampire-like beings who have invaded Japan.
    It got terrible reviews and wasn't expecting much from it, but I got it for like 2 bucks on a psn sale and had a great time.

  • @drazzi
    @drazzi 9 месяцев назад +3

    I'm a simple girl. I see Deadly Premonition, I slap that like with a sinner's sandwich

  • @ChickenOfTheCaveMan
    @ChickenOfTheCaveMan 9 месяцев назад +3

    For me it's the Splatterhouse reboot, I loved that game but I know there's so many things in there that are bad for so many people.

    • @brendanroberts1310
      @brendanroberts1310 9 месяцев назад

      It had some of the original games as unlockables, thats why i got it.

  • @BreakMan333
    @BreakMan333 9 месяцев назад

    Super cool to see one of my uploads used for a RUclips video about Kusoge! (Sailor Moon S) It's definitely an honor! 16:13

  • @JamesLawner
    @JamesLawner 9 месяцев назад +1

    I remember playing Pepsi Man when I was a kid, but it got too complicated for me and I never finished it.

  • @KazerLeanne
    @KazerLeanne 9 месяцев назад +3

    I honestly still love Buck Bumble even thou its terrible lol I also have such a soft spot for Godzilla 2014 it ends up good after you get upgrade so its super grindy but it can be fun like slowly causing chaos

    • @KrimsonKattYT
      @KrimsonKattYT 9 месяцев назад +1

      I remember I saw Godzilla 2014 all the time in bargain bins for like $5 or less. Now it's THE rarest PS4 game ever going for over $400 USED. I have no idea what happened.

  • @shadowmaksim
    @shadowmaksim 9 месяцев назад +3

    I always feel like such a weirdo when it comes to stuff getting labeled as "so bad it's good". As well as "guilty pleasures". Mainly since I don't actually believe it should be a thing. I guess to me, nearly every game is some degree of being flawed. It's mostly a factor of whether or not you can enjoy enough the rest of the experience to overlook or tolerate those flaws. Of course, that line differs between each of us for a variety of reasons.
    I don't know, maybe it's cause I'm that person who has been regularly playing and genuinely enjoying C-B tier, 60-70s rated games growing up...my idea of something being "bad" must just not be the same as everyone else's. A good helping of jank or lack of polish is not enough for me to see it as being as such. Like, the more I see of it, the more I'm actually starting to get interested in trying out "Wanted: Dead". I don't know if I will but I'm considering it now. If anything, that kind of stuff piques my interest more than most AAA affairs these days.

  • @Diyomaro
    @Diyomaro 9 месяцев назад +1

    I only know Earth Defense Force for working at CEX and it being a game that either installed quickly on PS3 and 360, or didn't have to install at all, so we used it to test game consoles before buying them.

  • @thomasffrench3639
    @thomasffrench3639 7 месяцев назад +1

    I find that “so bad it’s good” is so much better as video games. It makes me laugh more, while most bad movies just bore me. Also my favorite is Super Monkey Adventure

  • @walterandrews4985
    @walterandrews4985 9 месяцев назад +10

    I think Cyberpunk 2077 1.0 is a good example of this. It's so broken that its it's own unique and experience and is worth a few hours from anyone that owns the disc.

    • @lucasLSD
      @lucasLSD 9 месяцев назад +2

      Agreed, specifically because of the bullet time that allowed you to become sonic speeding around in the city, that they sadly patched, some glitches shouldn't be patched.

  • @ahoyichimi
    @ahoyichimi 9 месяцев назад +6

    Deadly Premonition isn't "so bad it's good", it's just a genuinely good game with a low budget and an oddball sense of humor.

    • @firstname474
      @firstname474 9 месяцев назад

      Ahoy

    • @Etrius0023
      @Etrius0023 9 месяцев назад +1

      Yeah, I always hate when people say this.
      Did you enjoy the combat in DP because it's "so bad?" No.
      Did you enjoy the story and characters in DP because they're compelling and funny? Yes.
      No one plays DP for the bad parts (driving, combat, graphics, etc.) they play it for the good parts (humor, story, protagonist, etc).

  • @Clayton0301
    @Clayton0301 9 месяцев назад

    My dog Spike and I always get so excited on upload days! That’s for all the hard work my dude! You and I are around the same age and have a lot of tastes in common when it comes to media, and it’s awesome seeing other people think the same!

  • @marts4169
    @marts4169 9 месяцев назад +1

    15:28 "Whoever though each character should have two movesets and a toggle for you weapon is silly."
    Wait, you mean like the 3d era Mortal Kombat games?

  • @hexangel1523
    @hexangel1523 9 месяцев назад +3

    E D F! E D F!

  • @MattDesind
    @MattDesind 9 месяцев назад +1

    I can not tell you enough how much i love your love of wrestling and how you are able to get reference in to your videos, i legit watch them to wait and see what you say about wrestling, and its great! no idea who else likes it, but i love it!

  • @LurkingCrassZero
    @LurkingCrassZero 9 месяцев назад +1

    The steampunk western, Damnation on the PS3, 360 & PC was universally panned, but I loved it.

  • @abdelali9279
    @abdelali9279 9 месяцев назад +1

    19:04 EDF! EDF! EDF!
    Definitely the "We got Starship Troopers at home" but boy, it sure is a good time for less.

  • @Ultradragon16
    @Ultradragon16 9 месяцев назад +1

    Yo! My friend"s and I have been looking at Ace of Seafood for quite some time now. Nice to see some coverage for it

  • @picahudsoniaunflocked5426
    @picahudsoniaunflocked5426 9 месяцев назад

    29:28 I think that's a Tampopo homage, in which case, class act. My all time fave film.

  • @TheUltraPingu
    @TheUltraPingu 7 месяцев назад

    In uni ours was the original 'Two Worlds' on 360. Clearly an ambitious open world RPG that had been rushed. I remember running from bears that run at the exact same speed as you, so you just had to run forever, as you ran past more animals they would steadily join the queue chasing you. It was like a conga line.

  • @winterbourne2343
    @winterbourne2343 9 месяцев назад

    That Stephanie Joosten track in wanted dead is forever stuck in my fucking head. Swear hearing Castaway in the police station is the biggest thing I remember outside of that baller anime cutscene with Maniac blasting at full audio.

  • @crimsoneclipse0618
    @crimsoneclipse0618 9 месяцев назад +1

    It's insane that two of the people I subbed to, you and IH, talks about Wanted Dead in the same month lol

  • @bingoblackdynomite
    @bingoblackdynomite 7 месяцев назад

    5:40 You can't out-wrestling-reference my ears, Austin. I hear that FTR theme in the background!

  • @rin-joh8644
    @rin-joh8644 9 месяцев назад +1

    Stubbs: the Zombie let's you remove your head and use it as a bowling ball.

  • @RocketSlug
    @RocketSlug 9 месяцев назад +1

    I saw the Kyanta and you referred Dong Dong Never Die, but have you seen Arm Joe? The Les Miserables fighting game?

  • @Ctrybpkm
    @Ctrybpkm 9 месяцев назад +1

    The funny thing about EDF is that I just discovered the series a few weeks ago and bought EDF 4.1 last week and it’s been a blast

  • @54Skeletons
    @54Skeletons 9 месяцев назад +2

    Nanobreaker is almost so bad it's good. But the gameplay isn't involved enough to be worth the amazing cutscenes. That and the platform sections, gotta love that in my character action game.

  • @OrochiFlamez
    @OrochiFlamez 9 месяцев назад

    Hearing FTRs theme in the background popped me.

  • @Ikcatcher
    @Ikcatcher 9 месяцев назад

    I remember playing this game called World Super Police on the PS2, a game where police cars have mini guns and missiles strapped to the front of the car and taking down criminals.
    Voice acting was so atrocious but I always seem to remember it

  • @AHomicidalTelevision
    @AHomicidalTelevision 9 месяцев назад +1

    i'm so sad you didnt mention Bad Rats: the Rats Revenge.
    i bought that game for all my friends for like 2 bucks total.

  • @McGruder25
    @McGruder25 2 месяца назад +1

    Oh god, I remember either renting or playing the demo of Spider the videogame.

  • @EdgeyvonKarma
    @EdgeyvonKarma 9 месяцев назад +2

    Honestly, this is kinda how I feel about Shadow the Hedgehog. The level design is awful, the story makes no sense, the controls are somehow worse than Sonic Adventure 2 despite seemingly using the same engine, but it's just so earnest that I can't help but love it. Someone at Sonic Team was genuinely trying to make something good and it shows, and even if they weren't and it was just a paycheck for them, it's so weird and unique to the time that I cannot help but love it.

  • @PrinceXTC86
    @PrinceXTC86 9 месяцев назад

    Guys, what NES game is that background music from starting @15:46? Thx in advance.

  • @legospacememe8468
    @legospacememe8468 9 месяцев назад +1

    22:01 talks about KONAMI published game then shows the pachinko level from mario sunshine. nice

  • @Ramsey276one
    @Ramsey276one 9 месяцев назад +1

    28:15 Wait
    I watched all the boss fights
    THAT is from the same game?!

  • @SpectralOoze
    @SpectralOoze 9 месяцев назад

    Holy crap, you reminded me of the splendor of Power Shovel. I randomly ended up with that game after a trip to K-Mart when I was in 2nd or 3rd grade. What a time. I miss those days.

  • @sametkucuk7305
    @sametkucuk7305 9 месяцев назад +1

    wanted: dead actually feels like a tarantino movie empty dialogs with not connected scenario and nonsense things vb and feels like parody something.