Name the most overrated Amiga game before its release - Page 2

BippyM · 28 March 2006, 16:54

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scifi · 28 March 2006, 17:07

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Originally Posted by bippym

scifi - thread title is correct - spelling and grammar!

Example : Name the most overrated Amiga game, before its release <-- Is correct (except the comma after game)

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Name the most overrated Amiga game before it is release

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No, no Bippym! I don't mean this title! I know that it's correct now!

When you enter in the Nostalgia & Memories section the title of the thread is wrong and I can't change it!

BippyM · 28 March 2006, 19:17

Ah got ya.. I've fixed it for ya.. now guys please get back on topic!

Bamiga2002 · 29 March 2006, 09:06

Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo

The screenshots looked cool but the game itself...blah!

Galahad/FLT · 29 March 2006, 10:45

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Originally Posted by manicx

Most Ocean games. Too much advertising and mediocre games at the end.

Elf, Hook, Robocop 3, F-29 Retaliator, I could go on. Not all Ocean games were shit.

adgloride · 29 March 2006, 14:52

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Originally Posted by manicx

Most Ocean games. Too much advertising and mediocre games at the end.

Some great ocean games were released that gave me hours of fun, not just on the amiga but on the c64. The thing is I can't think of ocean without thinking of imagine, I think ocean owned them.

plasmatron · 29 March 2006, 23:57

I LOVE OCEAN !

Hudson Hawk, Lethal Weapon, Batman The Movie, Sleepwalker, Operation Wolf, Plotting, Puzznic and so on.........

manicx · 30 March 2006, 08:23

Quote:

Originally Posted by Galahad/FLT

Elf, Hook, Robocop 3, F-29 Retaliator, I could go on. Not all Ocean games were shit.

Nobody spoke about shit games really. It's about overrated games and I think that most Ocean games in the 80s and early 90s were overrated. Certianly not bad, but hardly above the 70%.

gimbal · 30 March 2006, 08:45

a lot of the ocean games were crap, but none of them overrated because the ones that were utter crap usually got scores around the 30% or lower mark.

I think Addam's Family was overrated though. It was fun, but the inertia totally nerfed it. Luckily they added a way to get 60 or so lives before attempting to finish the game, or else it would have been a real fingernail-unfriendly challenge...

Parsec · 30 March 2006, 20:10

The first thing that came to my mind was that thing called DDT or Dynamic Debugger. Does anyone remember it, it was in the mag "The One" and was supposed to be the first game to run in HAM mode.

Seeing as it was never actually released, it might not qualify though.

mr_a500 · 30 March 2006, 20:49

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The first thing that came to my mind was that thing called DDT or Dynamic Debugger. Does anyone remember it, it was in the mag "The One" and was supposed to be the first game to run in HAM mode.

I thought the first game to run in HAM was "Mind Walker".

Speaking of HAM games, "Heart of the Dragon" was severely over-hyped. The advertisement says "Graphics so real, you'll forget it's only a game!"

When I actually got the game years later, I found that not only was it total garbage, but the screenshots in the advertisement were faked! The texts in the screenshots were replaced with crisp printed text and the images were cleaned up to remove HAM artifacting and look smoother. What a rip-off.

demoniac · 30 March 2006, 21:19

I remember the Heart of the Dragon ads too. I was not impressed when I saw their booth at the World of Commodore. Their ads were likewise unimpressive.

alkis21 · 30 March 2006, 22:11

Tip Off. We were expecting a game that would be to basketball what Kick Off was to football. We instead got a very buggy release that didn't even follow the basic basketball rules correctly.

Stein · 30 March 2006, 23:19

Zool and Microcosm (in that order)

I remember reading all the hype about Zool and how it was going to be Amiga's answer to sonic and mario, of course I believed it, any self respecting amiga owner (at the time) would I think....

and then I played Zool...

wtf... oh well

Microcosm had a good bit of hype too, all for a very poor game...

and hey! I liked Epic from Ocean

plasmatron · 03 April 2006, 15:35

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Originally Posted by alkis21

Tip Off. We were expecting a game that would be to basketball what Kick Off was to football. We instead got a very buggy release that didn't even follow the basic basketball rules correctly.

Yeah Tip Off really sucks. This game had really no rules, and was full of bugs.
You can run over the sideline, but the referee didn`t care.

Rogueraven · 03 April 2006, 17:28

tricky one too call Gunship 2000 maybe

Most underrated would be Golden Axe

DisposableHero · 23 April 2015, 23:09

Rise of the Robots or Zool. At least some reviewers did see through ROTR.

Adrian Browne · 23 April 2015, 23:27

Bad company by logotron...nope there was no hype, it was just plain shit!!!
We used to laugh at how bad that game was. My bad!

gimbal · 29 April 2015, 14:51

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Originally Posted by DisposableHero

Rise of the Robots or Zool.

Yeah Zool got a 96% in Amiga Action - that was a clear case of having eaten too many lollipops to call that a Mario and Sonic killer. Only Castlevania had more horrible loading times on top of that.

LuMan · 30 April 2015, 10:14

Nobody mentioned Shadow Of The Beast yet??

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28 March 2006, 16:54	#21
BippyM Global Moderator Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Derby, UK Age: 48 Posts: 9,355	scifi - thread title is correct - spelling and grammar! Example : Name the most overrated Amiga game, before its release <-- Is correct (except the comma after game) To test this simply write it as Name the most overrated Amiga game before it is release That doesn't sound right and to fix it you'd have to change it back or change it to: Name the most overrated Amiga game before it was released

28 March 2006, 19:17	#23
BippyM Global Moderator Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Derby, UK Age: 48 Posts: 9,355	Ah got ya.. I've fixed it for ya.. now guys please get back on topic!

29 March 2006, 09:06	#24
Bamiga2002 BlizzardPPC'less Join Date: May 2004 Location: Finland Age: 46 Posts: 3,210	Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo The screenshots looked cool but the game itself...blah!

29 March 2006, 23:57	#27
plasmatron Zone Friend Join Date: May 2003 Location: Germany Age: 48 Posts: 967	I LOVE OCEAN ! Hudson Hawk, Lethal Weapon, Batman The Movie, Sleepwalker, Operation Wolf, Plotting, Puzznic and so on.........

30 March 2006, 08:45	#29
gimbal cheeky scoundrel Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Spijkenisse/Netherlands Age: 42 Posts: 6,928	a lot of the ocean games were crap, but none of them overrated because the ones that were utter crap usually got scores around the 30% or lower mark. I think Addam's Family was overrated though. It was fun, but the inertia totally nerfed it. Luckily they added a way to get 60 or so lives before attempting to finish the game, or else it would have been a real fingernail-unfriendly challenge...

30 March 2006, 20:10	#30
Parsec Registered User Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Lancashire Age: 49 Posts: 434	The first thing that came to my mind was that thing called DDT or Dynamic Debugger. Does anyone remember it, it was in the mag "The One" and was supposed to be the first game to run in HAM mode. Seeing as it was never actually released, it might not qualify though.

30 March 2006, 21:19	#32
demoniac Registered User Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: - Posts: 1,698	I remember the Heart of the Dragon ads too. I was not impressed when I saw their booth at the World of Commodore. Their ads were likewise unimpressive.

30 March 2006, 22:11	#33
alkis21 Zone Friend Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Athens, Greece Age: 49 Posts: 1,408	Tip Off. We were expecting a game that would be to basketball what Kick Off was to football. We instead got a very buggy release that didn't even follow the basic basketball rules correctly.

30 March 2006, 23:19	#34
Stein Registered User Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: US Posts: 56	Zool and Microcosm (in that order) I remember reading all the hype about Zool and how it was going to be Amiga's answer to sonic and mario, of course I believed it, any self respecting amiga owner (at the time) would I think.... and then I played Zool... wtf... oh well Microcosm had a good bit of hype too, all for a very poor game... and hey! I liked Epic from Ocean

03 April 2006, 17:28	#36
Rogueraven Registered User Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Birmingham/England Age: 40 Posts: 79	tricky one too call Gunship 2000 maybe Most underrated would be Golden Axe

23 April 2015, 23:09	#37
DisposableHero Registered User Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: England Posts: 188	Rise of the Robots or Zool. At least some reviewers did see through ROTR.

23 April 2015, 23:27	#38
Adrian Browne Jackie Chan Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Ireland Age: 46 Posts: 988	Bad company by logotron...nope there was no hype, it was just plain shit!!! We used to laugh at how bad that game was. My bad!

30 April 2015, 10:14	#40
LuMan Amigan - an' lovin' it!! Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Nottingham, UK Age: 55 Posts: 557	Nobody mentioned Shadow Of The Beast yet??

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