The Official Angry Video Game Nerd Discussion Thread

[Oobgarm]

You might as well be reaching into a dog's asshole.

[AB Positive]

Those of you who enjoyed the peek at Fighting Street may enjoy the Ashens review of an ST knockoff, "Human Killing Machine":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zUkK14bHDk

Ashen's TOGYPNHO (what an acronym...) is a great albeit short series.

I wonder how many of us watch a lot of the different game reviews... AVGN gets the main headlines but I'm a big fan of Spoony and Benzaie. Even if his "Incoming Mindfuck" moments make me want to scoop my eyes out with a melon baller.

[ShinobiMan]

Those of you who enjoyed the peek at Fighting Street may enjoy the Ashens review of an ST knockoff, "Human Killing Machine":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zUkK14bHDk

Holy Hell. That's an abomination of a game. Wow. Up there with "Plumbers Don't Wear Ties". Thanks for sharing? I think I'm going to be sick. :-)

[Soviet Conscript]

Hydlide is the game that almost single handedly turned me off of advneture/rpg games.

[Arkhan]

Hydlide is the game that almost single handedly turned me off of advneture/rpg games.

why does everyone hate on Hydlide!



Those games are great

[Ruudos]

Well he actually called it mediocre, not bad.

[AB Positive]

Well this is what I thought while watching it - did the original japanese computer versions have an actual save function? That might have saved a lot of grief, because I know the hydlide series is considered a classic in Japan.

[Jorpho]

Everything you ever wanted to know about the different versions of Hydlide and its sequels:
http://hardcoregaming101.net/hydlide/hydlide.htm

(Y'know, I would have never caught on to the similarity with the Indiana Jones theme if it wasn't pointed out.)

[kupomogli]

That was a good video. Last line was the best.

However, I kind of like Hydlide. The music sucks balls and the game has its flaws but it's a decent game. It's similar to the Ys series(without the crappy music.) I wonder what James would think of the Ys series if he played it.

[Daria]

He reviewed Hydlide?

HE REVIWED THE SHITTIEST RPG EVER MADE?

...awesome.

Edit: You know... the save/load feature worked fine as long as you didn't turn off the system. So you could Save/Die/Reload without having to enter any passwords. I remember the last time I sat down and tried to really give Hydlide a fair go I was saving and reloading like crazy to level up.

[Jorpho]

Ashen's TOGYPNHO (what an acronym...) is a great albeit short series.

A series, you say? Oh, rapture!

I do enjoy Ashens; he's like some suave BBC version of Yahtzee or something. It's just that there's only so much you can say about crappy LCD games.

[Soviet Conscript]

why does everyone hate on Hydlide!



Those games are great

i think great is stretching things...

when your a little kid and this is one of your first games and your soooo excited for a great adventure and end up with....hydlide. needless to say i was pretty dissapointed. maybe others here are alot better at video games but i thought it was just to hard to figure out as a kid and it wasn't even fun to try to figure out. i remember telling my neighbor at the time about it who was a bit older then me and claimed "i like almost any game". i let him barrow it and it was back in my hands shortly after with his apolagise for doubting me.

i revisited the game about 2 years ago and ended up beating it with mininal refrences for help. i found it much more palitable the second time around and enjoyed the retro gameplay but being a great game......i have to dissagree.

i have 2 and 3 for the MSX i plan to eventually play. i think there is an english version of 2 for the genny though i may eventually pick up.

[guitargary75]

Great as usual!

[vivaeljason]

Hydlide is/was the reason I've always had a hard time getting into RPGs. Now I know that I'm not the only one in the world. *sniff*

(Good review, as always.)

[fairyland]

Hydlide was probably the very first game that I had detested EVER! I had seen the cover and I had thought, wow here is another Dragon Warrior/Final Fantasy type game that I can enjoy this weekend. So I rent it and discovered an unplayable piece of crap. You know those grocery store rental stores at the time usually only had a sticker in a plastic box type directions and usually that was never enough to really understand what to do in the game. I remember unfairly dying trying to kill the lowest level monsters and getting no where fast with it's save system. It was so frustrating that I actually drove back to the store within two hours of renting to it get another game, it was that bad for me.

It's a game that I still hate today and I mentally spit on copies whenever I come across them. I will always rant to whoever would listen about it, much like I'm doing now, it's that bad. In fact I begun my ranting to my friend all about it when he told me that the Nerd had covered it. After seeing the Nerd's video, perhaps it is not as bad as I had thought, much like how Milon's Secret Castle is really a good game if you can just figure it out and overcome it's cheap kill system, but it's more fun to keep my blind hatred for it rather than reevaluate it again some 20 years later. ! I think the trouble is that people see all that RPG-ness and they expect something in the Zelda or FF line of games, but but when you actually get to play it, it turns out to be a really bad version of Ys.

[ReaXan]

Hydlide was probably the very first game that I had detested EVER! I had seen the cover and I had thought, wow here is another Dragon Warrior/Final Fantasy type game that I can enjoy this weekend. So I rent it and discovered an unplayable piece of crap. You know those grocery store rental stores at the time usually only had a sticker in a plastic box type directions and usually that was never enough to really understand what to do in the game. I remember unfairly dying trying to kill the lowest level monsters and getting no where fast with it's save system. It was so frustrating that I actually drove back to the store within two hours of renting to it get another game, it was that bad for me.

It's a game that I still hate today and I mentally spit on copies whenever I come across them. I will always rant to whoever would listen about it, much like I'm doing now, it's that bad. In fact I begun my ranting to my friend all about it when he told me that the Nerd had covered it. After seeing the Nerd's video, perhaps it is not as bad as I had thought, much like how Milon's Secret Castle is really a good game if you can just figure it out and overcome it's cheap kill system, but it's more fun to keep my blind hatred for it rather than reevaluate it again some 20 years later. ! I think the trouble is that people see all that RPG-ness and they expect something in the Zelda or FF line of games, but but when you actually get to play it, it turns out to be a really bad version of Ys.

I have the same kind of loathe except for a game called Mystery Quest. People claim it isnt horrible but in the eyes of an 6 year old it surely was.

Some games can be horrible yet it might have been given to them by a special person or they played it during a really happy time in their life. I heard one person say on here that Mystery Quest was a Thanksgiving tradition for one posters family!

[elvis8atari]

Here's his top 10 list about the worst movie cliches. Though I liked the Hydlide video, I actually thought this was a lot better.

http://www.spike.com/video/cinemassacre-top-10/3327701

[vivaeljason]

Here's his top 10 list about the worst movie sequels. Though I liked the Hydlide video, I actually thought this was a lot better.

http://www.spike.com/video/cinemassacre-top-10/3327701

Okay...that was funny as hell AND true. However, I'm a little disappointed that in the #1 cliche, there was no mention of "The Incredibles" and "monologuing."

[Jorpho]

Here's his top 10 list about the worst movie sequels.

See, I might have actually liked to have seen a top 10 list of worst movie sequels; there might be some insight in such a thing. But cliches have been very much done. Your linkage saddens me.

[elvis8atari]

sorry meant to say cliches