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Funny story about Superman 64. My grandpa used to pick games up for me and surprise me with them on visits. This worked out most of the time since that is how I ended up with amazing stuff like the N64 Goemon games that probably would have flown under my radar but after he got me Superman 64 he watched me play for a bit and vowed to never buy me a game I didn't personally pick out ever again. To this day 25 years later he still won't get me a gift on holidays without running it by me first.

Suffering with feet damage from glass is the truest, purist canonical way of playing Die Hard.

At a time when almost all games for the Atari 2600* took 6 months to make, Howard Scott Warshaw was given 5 *_WEEKS_* to create "E.T." to be ready for the upcoming holiday season. Considering that, I say he did an amazing job! Howard also made "Yars Revenge", widely considered as one of the greatest games ever made for the system, so he definitely knows how to make a good game when given the time. * The Atari 2600/VCS was a very challenging system to program for. It has almost no RAM (only 128 _BYTES_ of memory) and no video buffer (the program itself had to do almost all of the work). It's really amazing that programmers could get it to do anything useful whatsoever, but they did!

“Just forget this hole and go on to the next one. “ -priceless life advice.

Castlevania 64 is almost the only castlevania where the vampires tend to act like...vampire.I loved the scenes where we meet vampire especially in the Villa.

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde features peak 8-bit cat animation. Nothing can ever take that away.

I blame AVGN. A lot of people watched his reviews and declared certain games "bad" without ever having played them, simply because he reviewed them on the show. The thing is, AVGN gives bad reviews for comedy purposes, and James Rolfe doesn't even dislike a lot of the games he featured on AVGN.

29:28 Oh hey i actually finished this game several times over so I can tell you how it works. So, stamina is tied to your moves, and it doesn't increase your input delay, but it takes away your options as it gets lower. Moves require a certain amount of stamina to execute. At 3 bars you cannot attack. 2 or lower you cannot do ANYTHING. You need to mash A/B to recover stamina. Wakeup is also affected by stamina, at 3 bars your robot slowly gets on its feet, 4 bars and up it does a kip up. Stamina regen rate depends on health remaining. You also didn't get into how you are fully invuln while crouching or flying. You can't throw someone who's crouching. You also cannot air to air. it simply does not exist. If both of you do a jumpkick it will mutually whiff. Oh also the round timer lasts like 6 minutes :)

The villagers giving you false info isn't a translation issue. In both the Japanese and English manuals it states that some villagers will lie to you. The translation has issues though.

You don't stop Dracula from resurrecting. You had a curse placed on you at the end of the last game. And you need to collect Dracula's parts, resurrect him yourself, and kill him again to remove the cruse.

In the early 90s i remember finding the nes Hydlide game semi buried in the back yard of my moms best friends house while visiting them. I decided to swipe it since it seems to me that they didn't want it if it was just thrown out there to rot. After cleaning it up i was amazed it still worked. After playing it for 5 minutes I realized why it was semi buried in the backyard 😂.

I'll actually throw my hat in the ring for MK Mythologies. The unforgiving gameplay is really the only major issue with the game, because everything else surrounding it is great. The dark moody atmosphere is perfectly complemented by Dan Forden's stellar soundtrack, the FMV cutscenes are delightfully goofy, and if you care about the MK story even a little bit, it honestly cannot be understated what a treasure this game is. It's the best lore that John Tobias has ever written during his tenure, and there's so much of it that it didn't even completely fit into the manual (!); there's some real juicy tidbits that only exist on the game's old website, which has thankfully been archived. It's a real shame that it failed, because it was clearly Tobias' passion project. If you read some of the old interviews, he was convinced that nearly every MK character deserved to have a story told about them and was really excited to start revealing some of the backstories stewing in his brain. Mythologies was supposed to be a whole side franchise, with 5 or so more story-focused solo games in the works, but MKM's failure and Midway's complete butchering of Special Forces during development put an end to all that. A shame, really.

Fun fact, apparently the original Dark Castle was not just aiming with the mousebut it was the first known game to use WASD control.

Loved Castlevania 64 back in the day, really enjoyed the side characters and it's the first time in a Castlevania game you save the soul of a Vampire and fight Death with genuine anger rather than the typical boss encounter.

a thing you should know about heavy nova: you NEED the manual. why? because it tells you the attacks, and that you have to mash the bottuns to refill your bar. (the input delay thing.) it's not so much a fuel gauge as it is a stamina bar, better attacks empty it faster, and keep away is the other way to refill it. this message has been brought to you by the guy who beat the game.

I'm surprised to hear Castlevania II is hated. For some reason I thought it was a speed running classic...

St1ka I am starting to get the impression you have an alarming high threshold for game frustration.

sure an adult can play superman 64, more so with a modern controller on a emulator, but 5 year old me broke the thumbstick trying over and over to get through those rings. ruined my whole summer because my parents didn't get me another controller. so that game has been up at the top for games i dislike for quite awhile.

I wouldn't say Friday the 13 was completely faithful to the movies since his mom's head can attack you and he game overs clearly not-adult children.

What I really like about this video is that I can often NAME the early 2010s gamerboy KZfaq video that created the dominant narrative around the game in question, but you never once name the video or refute them point by point. You let the qualities of these games speak for themselves and what they were trying to do in a really honest way. It's a refreshing contrast from the videos that brought us all here.

Hotel Mario had one additional issue that most people that play it currently would not run into. The CDi original controllers were a mixed bag, playing it on a emulator with a good controller goes a long way into improving the game.

Correction about Hydlide... it DIDN'T remove the ability to save at any time. Just pull up the menu and the option is right there. Although there is one caveat: .. this isn't the "turn your game off and come back later" type of save (that would be the password system). This more just creates a restore point you can pull up after dying (that's what the "restore" option in the menu is for). So it works more like an emulator save state.

I always enjoyed ET's walking animation and the rhythmic stomping sounds. 😂

There's a super cool romhack for Simon's Quest called "Castlevania 2 Simon's Quest Revamped" and it fixes a lot of the problems you mentioned in the video, including the day/night interruption and the cryptic citizens. IF you're not into the updated graphics and other things, there's "Castlevania II: Simon's Redaction" which just fixes the text and keeps the original look.

Virtual Hydlide runs on a GOLF ENGINE??? Oh my god that's so jank I LOVE IIIITTT ...plus these old golf games always had super interesting pseudo-3D engines that no one ever talks about

The reason most of these games are hated can be boiled down to four simple letters…AVGN. The fact that James is playing a character, and is dramatizing the bad parts of games, is lost on a lot of people. It’s the same way people used to vote on the worst movies of all time using appearances on MST3K as the main criteria.

I don't think I'd ever seen anything on this channel before but this was randomly recommended to me. Honestly quite solid, interesting to see the differing perspectives, the cases where it was rightly deserved versus the times when people might have been overly harsh on something that's just a bit weird or meh.

I don't agree with you on some of these (you didn't even mention one of the most annoying parts of Friday the 13th: the fact that you can be walking left while actually moving right on the map), but I always love hearing different perspectives. Either way, I agree that none of these games should be considered the worst of all time when you have games like Big Rigs that are straight up unfinished.

Superman 64 was the first game I ever got right around release, and was a birthday present from my grandma; my brother and i had enough fun despite the clunky controls. Of course I eventually gave up when, after hours and hours of frustrating progress, I finally got to the very last level, and promptly glitched into the floor. I turned it off, and never turned it back on again after that. The happy ending is that the same grandma a few years later took me to pick out a PS1 game for another birthday, and I spied a chunky box set with some anime art which she agreed to grab for me despite the slightly higher price - Lunar 2 Eternal Blue. I managed to hold on to it in the years since (during which every other game I owned was stolen), and it's the most expensive game in my collection now 😁

With Quest 64 I feel it's greatest issue was expectations based on what came before, the Super NES WAS the system for RPG's with tons of games still regarded today, when the N64 came around I'm sure many picked it up to continue with those RPG's (Square did announce FF7 was going to PSX but I'm sure people still figured the N64 would get tons of them). But then no RPG's appeared for some time so I'm sure a lot of people were placing there hopes on Quest 64 to meet the standards of what came before but then suffered when it wasn't what people wanted it to be.

I know why E.T. gets hate. While playing, if you fell in a hole, it was difficult to get out of the hole for a stupid reason. While in a hole, you hold "up" to go upward and out of the hole. But once you are at the top of the hole and your perspective shifts, you need to continue holding "up" even though that direction is currently north instead. Until you realize this, the game is almost impossible to play, and I bet many people give up at this point.

A complicating issue with movie tie-ins is that they're often set to a deadline as long as there is "minimal viable product" and if it doesn't feel relevant to the movie, it will disappoint more. E.T.'s reception in particular was exacerbated by the fact that the people most likely to want to play an ET game were people who identified with its 10 year old boy and 7 year old girl characters - younger kids who were double-whammied by the game's insufferable difficulty, and how repetitive the pit-escape sequence was. And it felt very little like anything that happened in the movie.

Can confirm that Die Hard is pretty decent, it just takes a bit of know how on how to actually finish it. Castlevania 64 has been on my list for some time, but don't know if I should go with it or Legacy of Darkness.

I love anybody that gives the underdogs a fighting chance. Thanks for the video! And thanks for getting the Hydlide music stuck in my head for weeks again 😂

I remember playing ET when I was a kid....I was proud of my young self when I beat the game. People don't realize that most of atari games didn't even have an end; they just went on till you died, or you gave up!

A lot of KZfaq game review channels can be surprisingly dismissive and negative. As a programmer myself, I really, truly appreciate how you try to see the good in games. Thank you.

So Virtual Hydlide is an action based roguelike (rather than turn based) that was made literally decades before games like Binding of Isaac or Hades popularized that idea? Damn.

Quest was limited at the time, but the innovative combat/spirit system was a great idea that wouldve thrived on later systems

Dark Castle - they're right, it's absolutely horrible Jekyll and Hyde - it is playable but painfully slow

I actually loved the E.T. game so much as a kid, and I hate people slamming it who probably never even played it, or didn't read the manual. Once you get used to the quirks of how the holes work (and get off of hard mode), it's REALLY not a bad game!

You know, i really wish there was a way to get a 4K Re-Release of Mortal Kombat 1,2,3 "the ones with Digital Actors" and Sewer Shark/Night Trap and the like. Just MK being Ultra HD would be AMAZING though.

Amazing video ST1KA!! Was awesome hearing your opinion on Quest 64 the most :) That game needs more love!

One thing I see in most videos about ET that I didn't see here and was glad I didn't see it, is the complaint that you have to fall in random holes. If you press the red button and use a tiny bit of energy, the hole with a phone piece has a tiny light flash in it. Making it slightly easier to complete.

I’m still fuming mad about wasting $60 of my hard earned dollars as a kid on Quest 64. It was pure robbery.

Simon's Quest and Castlevania 64 are both rather good. They are awkward compared to other entries in the series sure but they are still quite good. Hell, I don't really see how Castlevania 64 is all that much worse than the PS2 3D Castlevanias.

Yep, right there with you on Castlevania 2 as well. The game has some flaws sure but it's far from a bad a game and I mostly think it's a very fun adventure. Not to compare them too closely but I think the first Ninja Turtles game is similar. Definitely flawed but still very fun and not even close to the worst the NES has to offer.

Honestly, Quest 64 is one I'd like seeing get a remake. Especially since, as I've seen on other corners of the internet, it has a lot more potential.

Unfortunately Castlevania has a complete game breaking glitch and you can be hard locked

I see a common element of most of these games is unrealized potential... Either because of badly implementation of interesting ideas, comparison to superior sequels/prequels, or straight up rushed development. Like quite a few of these were frustrating because you could feel that there was great potential but a key defects really bogged down the whole experience; so there's a conflict of liking it but at the same time being overly frustrated when those faults showed up. Super Mario and Castlevania games have come to be classics because even to these day are superb, polished gameplay; and in the time the came out it blew minds how insanely good they were, so when facing with inferior sequels spinoffs , the comparison is dreadful, because the expectations were super high. It makes the perfectionist obsession of Shigeru Miyamoto and other accomplished developers much more understandable, because their own previous success put the bar always higher, it's a lot of pressure.

Important note: the NES Hydlide actually *does* allow you to save anywhere at any time. However, it only retains the save while the console is powered on. You'd have to copy the password for separate gaming sessions.

I’ve noticed Fester’s Quest for the NES gets a bad rep and while it does have issues, I enjoyed it. My only serious problem is that it could really use a password system. It expects you to beat the whole game in one sitting

Has anyone pointed out yet that Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hide has multiple endings? That is the brilliance of it. If you can solve Mr. Hides madness by keeping him up all night (i think that's how) , you can repeat the day as Dr. Jekyll but this time there are no enemies and happy music, you can simply stroll straight to the wedding and get a glorious ending. There is also a Mr. Hide wedding version , and also generic crap wedding if you beat the game the hard way by surviving as Dr. Jekyll.

I remember my first ever instance of experiencing a more balanced opinion of a game. I grew up with AVGN; Spoony and the like and it was easy back then to misread hyperbolic statements as fact, instead of jokes that many of them were. I then started watching HalfBlindGamer and he did a playthrough of the Zelda CDI games. I remember thinking 'oh yeah here we go, this is going to be hilarious!' only to find that his let's play was much more balanced and pragmatic than what I was accustomed to. Basically he played the game and explained what it did well and what it didn't - whilst also highlighting that for a CDI game, the game was kind of a technical marvel. That was over a decade ago now but ever since then, I've tried to have the same kind of outlook. Sure it can be funny to say something is terrible and some games truly are objectively awful (The Uncanny X-Men on NES is absolutely one of the worst games ever). But a lot of the time, what is funny is usually a joke and it's best not to take jokes too seriously. Especially when it risks putting someone off playing a game they might actually enjoy.

I saw this video preparing to drop and in the back of my mind I was hoping to see Castlevania 64 and I'm not disappointed. Such an underrated game.

I realized this was a meme video when Superman 64 showed it's smooth head and you ended with the E.T. game for the perfect chef's kiss send off. Great job!

So ACTUALLY: Castlevania 2 isn't about trying to stop Dracula from resurrecting. In fact, you're trying to get his parts TO resurrect him, to kill him again and destroy the curse on you. This has a whole time mechanism system behind it for how long it takes to beat. Too long, you die anyhow.

Good video St1ka 👍 Covered a few of my fav games that get too much hate. (I really like Quest 64, Die Hard & ET 😅) I want to check out Virtual Hydlide now, it looks interesting.

Regarding Heavy Nova, it is not stated anywhere in the game (or in the manual, if I recall), but mashing the buttons (not the D-Pad like you were) causes your power meter to regenerate faster, and can even rarely cause your character to throw the enemy if they're in front of you while you're below the third power bar. It makes a big difference in the game's playability if you know this. I've actually played the game quite a bit, and while it's definitely a flawed game, I enjoy playing it.

One of my greatest gaming achievements was beating all three levels of Friday the 13th. Its still one of my favorite games and the music is perfect.

I not only finished Heavy Nova but I managed to pile drive the last boss. I still don't know how I did it.

Actually, the townsfolk in Castlevania 2 lies to you in the Japanese original also.

Thanks for the video, St1ka. It is always nice to hear other perspectives about video games that have received a bad reputation.

The Quest64 community has always acknowledged that it was an average game. No more or less.

I DON'T CARE WHAT ANYONE SAYS, I LOVE BOTH CASTLEVANIA GAMES FOR THE N64!!!

I always tried to preach that ET wasn't that bad. It wasn't that good either....but definitely not the worst game of all time as it's been labeled.

I respectfully disagree and firmly believe those games are truly terrible. Some of them those I even played myself back in the days of games rental, and they were the worst wastes of money I have ever been guilty of.

Heavy Nova becomes a lot more playable once you read the manual The power gauge you were refering to actualy can be replenished my mashing a and b while downed. And it will fillup up naturaly if you are not crouching or jumping. But the lower your health are the slower it recovers. The whole game strategy is that while crouched or jumping you are immune to attacks, but your energy doesnt recover. And becouse takes time to raise up or turn around, whoever is standing has an advantage. so it turns into a battle for who can stay standing in a advantageous position.

FC version HYDLIDE is not a low rated game in Japan, so I was very surprised when I saw that it was heavily criticized by people outside of Japan. The timing of the release, including the PC version, is mentioned in the video, but I sometimes wonder if it would have been rated a bit differently if it had been released before Zelda, as it was in Japan.

Please reply back if you can but when you played 64 Superman you were talking about. What where you are playing It on? Was it on an emulator because if you play It for the 64. The fog was a lot worse than what i saw in the video clip you shown. Just let me know please and thank you.

I think Bubsy is my favorite hated game I was shocked not to see it on this list

Superman 64 was the game that, as a kid, convinced me that I was not good at games. No hype, the controls were bad enough that I never truly figured out how to really play it.

DIE HARD was hotline Miami before there was hotline Miami

I greatly enjoyed the video. A few things regarding Quest 64, as I understand, the lack of currency and sidequests was due to running out of resources and having to rush the game out rather than it beijg 'intended' as an introductory rpg. (I saw in another comment you already knew about the other playable characters that were cut.) Also, none of your gameplay showed you dodging any of the enemies attacks. In case you didn't know, you can move during their attacks. It makes a big difference. Your stats go up as you use them, basically. If you keep hitting enemies with your staff, it gets stronger. If you keep getting hit, your defense goes up. If you tape your controller down overnight and continually run into a wall, I forget, your agility or something goes up. Yes, I'm nostalgic, and it was my first RPG outside of Pokemon. Just wanted to share, especially since this is the second or third video I've seen of players who don't realize they can dodge.

"Sewer Shark", "Friday the 13th" and "E.T." are 3 of my favorite games! Great video!

Virtual Hydelide makes a lot more sense when you think of it more as an arcade action game than an RPG.

I always loved Castlevania 64, and I was indignated when I learned from the game's reputation online. Until I saw Ragnarrox's video and felt completely validated in every point I loved about CV64. The atmosphere is on another level and the gameplay is really, really good. It is kinda of like Tomb Raider, but... WITHOUT TANK CONTROLS. It is also like RE in the castle base levels, and the puzzle to progress is really well made. The combat is also good in my opinion. I really found the holy water and the crosses useful, the water for crowd control and the crosses for dealing with bosses and some unwieldy enemies (like the werewolves, the cerberus and the vampires). And while the attack is automated, the game also asks you to dodge enemy attacks which adds a good chunck of depth. About Carrie: the thing is that you also have a secondary weapon for each character. In the case of Reindhart is the short sword, and in the case of Carrie some weird rings. It is a handy second option. But the most important thing is that Carrie can charge up her shots like Megaman X, and coupled with the lock on, she becomes kinda broken when you level up. Because yes, you level up your attacks during the game like in Sonic Heroes (three levels). If you die you reset as a punishment. That is not to mention that the level design and boss fights are accommodated to Carrie in crucial moments. Like the fight against Actrise, which is equally epic as fun, or the Crystal Tower where it would be kinda painful to play as Schneider. Just things I wanted to recommend if you wanted to give a shot to the game Las thing: about the camera. I think that while not a modern camera system (in fact the camera controls are really cluncky), the game especifically does not expect you to control the camera. Because it was made before that stuff was standarized, you actually have to turn and attack and considerate the camera movement relative to your character. It works pretty well in my opinion, aside from the first boss of the Dracula fight were it just doesn't at all. But look at the second form, every camera is worked, and the work done is astounding. They didn't go for fixed camera angles, no: they said hell we will program every camera in the game. A few mistakes should be forgiven

Castlevania 64, slowdowns besides, for me is a masterpiece. I never understanded why is sooo hated from gamers, I have very very enjoyed Legacy of Darkness at times

I have fond memories of playing Friday the 13th as a kid. It genuinely creeped me out and was quite challenging. I didn’t manage to beat it until I was older and used a walkthrough. I was surprised to find out that many others thought it was terrible. Fun fact: The game was developed by Atlus and only PUBLISHED by LJN, and it’s infamous for being one of the most difficult horror games on the NES.

Castlevania II is a childhood favorite, to the extent that my friends and I used to pretend that we were vampire hunters on the playground. Maybe it’s because I owned the off-brand strategy guides that helped explain some of the more cryptic moments, but I still think the game is a classic.

17 games that reputation has been killed by AVGN

Yeah, this video should be titled "17 Terrible Games You've All Heard of But A Few Of Which I Think Didn't Completely Suck"

I've recently worked with one of the programmers behind Superman 64, and it turns out that they had an almost complete game made when the IP owners finally gave insane feedback, had them scrap the game of almost everything and redo almost the whole game in a very, very short time. While I wouldn't bet that the first version would have been a great game, it certainly would have been better!

quest and castlevania 64 lets gooo

I agree with you that Simon's Quest is a pretty good game, but I wish you'd mentioned one of the big problems with it -- the almost complete lack of bosses, which is a lot of where CV usually shines.

If you took Virtual Hydlide, ported it to PC, and called it a Dark Souls retro de-make it would sell like hotcakes.

Die Hard NES walked so Hotline Miami could run.

The Angry Video Game Nerd was wrong?! Understandable. He's a movie guy.

Seems very often people hear a game is bad and just parrot the statement and make fun of it. Important to always form your own opinion. Many games get a bad rap, while others are genuinely terrible. I mean people were saying Quake 2 and Doom 64 were bad for the longest time, until they actually played them.

Simon's quest will always hold a special place in my heart... 6 yr old me, beating his first game, on a sat afternoon..

Great video! Glad to see you gave ET a fair shot. So many people say it's the worst game ever without having plumbed the depths of what the Atari had to offer. Also glad to see you enjoyed Castlevania 2, that's long been a favorite of mine. Mental note: Play Die Hard and Friday the 13th sometime.

there was a good youtuber cygnus destroyer/LJN defender now "the slum archive" who make good video in bad game juging them by comparing good/bad point and announcing if it innocent/guilty in conclusion.And in france, our local AVGN "Joueur Du Grenier" make once with his partner a tier list of the game he "tested" to elect the worst and during that time, he come to "rehabilitate" games like E.T.

Heavy Nova, "get up, get up...oh f*ck this game!" had me laughing so hard.

I do agree with your feelings on ET. It is more of a scapegoat for the failings of the industry as-a-whole then a bad game on its own.

Seeing this Quest 64 footage gives me a weird nostalgia i wasnt even aware i had..

Been playing Castlevania 64 thanks to RetroAchievements and I'm having a great time, at least as Carrie. I haven't tried Reinhardt yet.

Superman 64 gave me seizures. I don't care if you defend it, it is always going to be bad to me.

I have a soft spot in my heart for Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero. It and NBA Live 98 were my first PlayStation games back on Christmas day 1997. Is it a good game? No, of course not, but it's tied to some really great childhood memories, and we all know nostalgia is a potent drug.

As the resident Night Trap fanatic, worth noting that the game also does an immaculate job of interworking action between rooms, you'll often see one person go from one to the next with a near-seamless transition.

YES CASTLEVANIA 64 YES A GEMMMMM ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤