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Oct 25, 2017
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2. Pac-Man
It was loads of fun to control a yellow ball with a mouth, and make it eat drugs and fruit. Pac-Man could have been a wonderful experience, had Namco not made the inexplicable decision to add villainous ghosts to the game. Ghosts, as you may know, are the restless souls of the dead, and are pretty much the last thing you want to see, especially when you're trying to eat fruit in a maze. Namco only compounded its error by making the ghosts chase Pac-Man and, no joke, try to murder him. Getting murdered by ghosts is not fun at all and ruins what is otherwise an arcade gem.
3. Street Fighter II
Street Fighter II is a virtual vacation simulator that lets you travel around the world to exotic locales like a palace in India, the Amazon rainforest, or a fancy Las Vegas casino. Once your character arrives at their vacation destination, friendly people there stand in the background and cheer at you. Inexplicably, Capcom ruins your globe-trotting trip by including numerous enemies that try to punch and kick you using their martial arts skills. The frustrating control scheme of the game lacks any button to call the police, so you have no way of contacting the authorities for help while you're mercilessly beaten to within an inch of your life. Street Fighter II is yet another potential gaming masterpiece ruined by the developers' baffling decision to include villains.
 

Stalker

The Fallen
Oct 25, 2017
6,733
Should be a banned site tbh
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KillstealWolf

One Winged Slayer
Avenger
Oct 27, 2017
16,097
Super Mario Bros. is ruined because Bowser keeps sending the princess to another castle.
 

chalkitdown

Member
Oct 26, 2017
3,224
In all seriousness, I've genuinely felt like this while playing some games. Ico is probably the most obvious example. It would be so much better without the awful combat sections.

Mirrors Edge as well, though it's down to the shooting being bad rather than the existence of enemies in general.
 

Playsage

Member
Oct 25, 2017
1,371
Really, devs should stop trying to get in the way of our escapism.

Yes, I'm looking at you, Miyazaki!

Gimme that Boss skip button and let me enjoy a walk!
 

PSqueak

Member
Oct 25, 2017
12,464
The DKC one is amazing

Gotta love Clickhole


I love that they chose the banana hoard when it could have pointed out you can also just let DK stay at his home playing with a bouncy tire.

That said, a Mario-esque game with no enemies and pure platforming challenges doesn't sound that bad tho. It's basically the basics of Super Meat Boy and Knytt.

I feel like people should have at least a minimal intelligence level to post here, so if they can't handle this that's 100% on them.

I dunno, in etcetEra it's kinda an unspoken but accepted rule that you need to put "Clickhole" or "Onion" in these sort of threads.
 
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OP
hydrophilic attack
Oct 25, 2017
21,466
Sweden
That said, a Mario-esque game with no I dunno, in etcetEra it's kinda an unspoken but accepted rule that you need to put "Clickhole" or "Onion" in these sort of threads.
I guess so, since I got a warning

It's really ridiculous though, that makes sense for articles that could be assumed to be actual news (say something about Trump or Half-life 3, but not for what is making fun of an opinion piece
 

PSqueak

Member
Oct 25, 2017
12,464
I guess so, since I got a warning

It's really ridiculous though, that makes sense for articles that could be assumed to be actual news (say something about Trump or Half-life 3, but not for what is making fun of an opinion piece

Enough people have respect low enough on Gaming journalism that will believe these sort of stuff is legit in lieu of failing at cuphead or the very real "Doom should have an option to negotiate with demons" article back when the original doom came out.
 

Hex

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
3,415
Clickhole...more like shithole....
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Nothing good ever comes from a thread based on a clickhole article
 
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OP
hydrophilic attack
Oct 25, 2017
21,466
Sweden
Enough people have respect low enough on Gaming journalism that will believe these sort of stuff is legit in lieu of failing at cuphead or the very real "Doom should have an option to negotiate with demons" article back when the original doom came out.
Shouldn't those people be warned for not reading the thread in that case

Who can read
Street Fighter II is a virtual vacation simulator that lets you travel around the world to exotic locales like a palace in India, the Amazon rainforest, or a fancy Las Vegas casino. Once your character arrives at their vacation destination, friendly people there stand in the background and cheer at you
and think the writer is being serious?
 

ChrisD

One Winged Slayer
Member
Oct 25, 2017
4,612
oh praise Cranky, Donkey Kong Country is still a great game, unlike some games presented