| The Ghost of RubangB said: For me, uh... I don't know. I mean, I really think most games suck, but I never have expectations, so I'm never particularly let down. In all seriousness, I have to go with a NES game called Color a Dinosaur. It came out AFTER Mario Paint came out on the SNES. It lets you color 16 dinosaurs. Sixteen. That's it. You can't even draw your own dinosaur. It might be the biggest step backwards ever made in a single game. Here is a link to a Java version: http://www.nintendo8.com/game/9/color_a_dinosaur/ Another reason why it is the worst game for me is because it helped start the game-music-composing career of Tommy Tallarico. The music is fucking horrible and repetitive, and he actually blames the limitations of the NES hardware, as if all NES music was poor and limited. This game was made in 1993, 8 years after Super Mario Bros, but the music sounds like it was at least one generation earlier. And now Tommy Tallarico hosts his dumb concert (playing right down the street tomorrow night but I can't afford to go!) where they play the Super Mario Bros. music from 1985, but somehow ignore his own Tallarico-Jams from 1993. Limitations of hardware my ass.
No way!!! Are you serious? If it's still bothering you, they remade it for DS so you can finally figure it out and have some closure with it. I loved it and played it for a really long time. I will gladly answer any questions you have. Basically, you're G-d, and you can morph the terrain as you see fit, mostly to flatten it out so the tribe that worships you can build their village and prosper. Then you tell your tribe to fight the opposing village, which has its own G-d working for it. You can also try to mess with their terrain to get in the way of their building, and slow them down. You do this on several stages in several worlds. It was even one of the main influences for one of the phases in Spore.
A couple years ago, a friend and I came across 2 copies of Shaq Fu. $2 each. We didn't even say a word, but immediately bought both copies, went back to my house, and played it all night long, and had the time of our lives. That game ages like a fine wine. I had much more fun with ClayFighter when they were both new (1994), and the theme song is still in my head, but ClayFighter didn't age the same way. ClayFighter got worse and Shaq Fu got better. I dare you to revisit both games. You will have more fun with Shaq Fu. The reason is that ClayFighter tried to be intentionally campy, so the jokes quickly wore off. Shaq Fu didn't mean to be so campy, so the sad unintentional joke just gets better and better. It's like the worst action movie ever, and I love it. But also, did you really have any expectations for Shaq Fu at the time? Why did you "give a damn" about it? I've never understood why people were so disappointed with a basketball player's 2-D fighting game, which was released when both Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat were in their prime. I will have no more Shaq Fu bashing in this thread. |
First of all, I kind of think tallarico is pretty funny, in a complete douchebag sort of way. And he made the music for Earthworm Jim.
I'll admit it has been a while since the last time I played Shaq Fu, but I remember pretty clearly not being able to hit shit, and thinking that the story was on crack (and for a kid to think that, it's a quite a feat). Maybe if I get high and play today with some friends, I'll change my mind.
I had expectations on the game 'cause I knew who Shaq was (despite basketball not being popular where I live) and I thought the name of the game was pure badassery, so to me the game would be badassery in a cartridge. I was a kid. I was stupid. "Shaq Fu" sounds pretty awsome if you're 8. I mean it's the guy's name with Fu in it. I kept thiking that maybe someday I could grow up to be so famous that I would create a game about me, add Fu to my name and make it the title.
Quem disse que a boca é tua?
Qual é, Dadinho...?
Dadinho é o caralho! Meu nome agora é Zé Pequeno!
