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naznatips on 19 May 2008
Final-Fan said:
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Final-Fan said:
How could no one mention Big Rigs yet?! In all seriousness that has to be the worst game of all time. Other games are more infamous, other games have done more damage, other games have been bigger flops, but I find it hard to imagine that a game exists that has as many things broken or as few things functional as this game.
Well, in Big Rigs you can at least see what's in front of you. In that London game in the OP, stuff is appearing on the screen right at the moment you bump into it.
But at least the taxi game has things to bump into. You watched the video, right? The taxi game is playable. It's just bad (extremely so, of course). Big Rigs is like a SHMUP where the enemies and obstacles are all intangible. Worse -- watching the SHMUP levels scroll by might be interesting.

I'd argue that as stupid as big rigs is that Animal Soccer World easily gives it a run for its money.



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Red4ADevil on 19 May 2008

One little title thats really irking me




My Horse and Me every time see that title on the most popular on wii i just want to grab all the copies and burn them.



The_vagabond7 on 19 May 2008

I love that big rigs video. I don't know how I forgot to mention that.



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Final-Fan on 19 May 2008
naznatips said:
I'd argue that as stupid as big rigs is that Animal Soccer World easily gives it a run for its money.
Was that actually marketed as a game???

It actually doesn't matter.  It's a ridiculous copyright pirate, obviously modeling most if not all of its characters on various Disney IPs (I recognized characters from half a dozen unrelated movies), with dialogue that may well have been put through Google's translator program, retarded story etc.  I never thought I'd see a cartoon that made Hanna-Barbera look like masters of the art of animation.  Whose framerate Speed Racer puts to shame.  Et cetera.

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L.C.E.C. on 19 May 2008
LordTheNightKnight said:
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None of those can touch Imagine: Babyz.
See now this is the difference between shovel ware and something of a different taste. Imagine babyz is probably fun for an eight year old girl. Actual thought went into that and imagine dancing or whatever the other one is, in order to be fun for little girls. London Cab Challenge and Animal Soccer are just crap. They aren't fun for anyone, they are hideous from a technical standpoint, and contain little if any entertainment value for anyone.

L-O-L, you don't know the half of it with Imagine: Babyz. They actually show full vaginal and penis parts on the babies in the game. IGN gave the game a 1-2 out of a 10 lmao They said it was that pathetic AND horrible for not censoring private parts lmao I think an 8 year old girl would get off to a male baby and their uncensored penis.


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Venji on 19 May 2008

I watched 7 mins of the Animal soccor World cartoon...wow..I've never seen anything quite like it..did any one watch the whole thing, i would of been impressived if it was written, drawn and preformed by a class of 8 year olds.

London Cab makes big rigs look like a masterpiece of programing and design, not to mention a graphical powerhouse. It has created a new game concept - Pop in Dodging.

Home improvement looked fun...anything with Grappling hooks is fun...



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Final-Fan on 20 May 2008
Venji said:
I watched 7 mins of the Animal soccor World cartoon...wow..I've never seen anything quite like it..did any one watch the whole thing, i would of been impressived if it was written, drawn and preformed by a class of 8 year olds.

London Cab makes big rigs look like a masterpiece of programing and design, not to mention a graphical powerhouse. It has created a new game concept - Pop in Dodging.

Home improvement looked fun...anything with Grappling hooks is fun...
I watched the whole thing.  About 5 min. in I wanted so badly to stop it, but then I thought, "I'm almost to the end!" 

Please don't make me defend London Cab against Big Rigs.  It may scar me for life, but I can't let people say that Big Rigs is the better game and get away with it.  Did you READ that description?  Did you SEE that video?  Big Rigs' only gameplay is unintentional hilarity; London Cab may epitomize suckage but at least the game kind of functions. 

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Kasz216 on 20 May 2008

Does Far Cry Vengence count? Worst game i've ever played... and I have an Atari which is known for having some bad games.



Baddman on 20 May 2008
Final-Fan said:
How could no one mention Big Rigs yet?! In all seriousness that has to be the worst game of all time. Other games are more infamous, other games have done more damage, other games have been bigger flops, but I find it hard to imagine that a game exists that has as many things broken or as few things functional as this game.



Wikipedia describes it thusly:

The box of Big Rigs states that the player may "race trucks across the country, with cops chasing [them]." GameSpot's Alex Navarro wrote that this description of the game is nothing more than "horrible, horrible lies", since there are no police in the game. Additionally, they pointed out, the computer-controlled opponent vehicles have no AI and never move from the starting position, making even the description of the gameplay as a "race" questionable.

There are technically no obstacles for the player to negotiate in Big Rigs, as the truck may freely be driven on and off roads without any loss of traction, straight up 90° mountains (with no loss of speed), through structures, simply falling right through bridges, and even out of the boundaries of the map into an endless grey void. No matter what the player does, it is impossible to lose the race. When the player's truck is put into reverse, the truck will accelerate infinitely; however, the truck will halt instantly when the reverse key is released.

Upon completion of the race, the player is presented with a large, three-handled, on-screen trophy cup overlaid with the text "YOU'RE WINNER !" Due to a developer oversight, the game occasionally fails to distinguish between whether the player is starting or finishing the race when they pass through the starting checkpoint, and so this screen may appear to end the race before it even begins. In addition, one of the game's five maps causes the game to crash altogether when accessed.
OMG! wow that video is hilarious

 



Godot on 20 May 2008

Big Rigs would make the Video Game nerd wants to... I don't even wanna now.



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