Worst First-Party Games?

[Richter]

never cared for Zombie Revenge on the DC

[Ed Oscuro]

I thought it would be fun to devote a thread to the worst first=party games. For the few of you who don't know what that means, I am talking about games made my the company that made the system that the game is for. So if we were talking about the Atari 2600, then it would be the worst game made by Atari. I only did a few systems, but these are games that I think are really bad.

Atari 2600: Pac-Man
Nintendo NES: Baseball
Super Nintendo: Super Play Action Football
Sega Genesis: G-Loc: Air Battle
Sega Game Gear: G-Loc
Playstation 2: Syphon Filter: The Omega Strain

I'll add more later.

Chris

I also didn't care for G-Loc on the GG, but I would imagine there's got to be something worse for the system that Sega put out. It's not a ton of fun, for sure.

Add any port of Galaxy Force (SMS) or Galaxy Force II (Genesis) on a Sega system before Saturn. Fantastic game (just got my FM Towns copy), but only if you can view it in its original glory. The others are too cut-down for me to enjoy much.

[Push Upstairs]

Yeah, Zombie Revenge was kinda crappy. The control on that game wasn't good at all.

And i'll second "Mario Kart: Double Dash". A simple and fun game that was made overly complicated. Select karts, select partners...why? What happened to just selecting a racer and heading off to race/battle?

[CartCollector]

Fairchild et al.

[PapaStu]

Add "anything 989" to that comment, and you have it.

I enjoyed some of their stuff:

Twisted Metal 3
NFL Gameday '98
Gretzky 2005

But yeah, most of their stuff sucks.

World Series Baseball 2K1 wasn't too hot on the DC. Other than those I'm drawing a blank.

I really liked the first Syphon Filter game. Maybe I am alone there. That was a 989 game, was it not? Pretty darned sure.

Chris

989
Once They got their hands into Twisted Metal it went to shit. 3 was OK at best.
All their sports stuff around 98/99 was horrible.
Syphon Filter 1/2 were good. 3 was just more of the same (and had by then gotten stale)

I'll second Syphon Filter Omega Strain for PS2. That game is SOOOOOO horrible.

[Ed Oscuro]

I thought the level of quality in the Syhpon Filter series went down markedly right after the first one (which I played all the way through, loving nearly minute of it, aside from some dodgy climbing stuff in the ruined subway). I haven't gotten too far in 2 yet, and while I don't mind the first level, the stupid "let's be stealthy" mission for level 2 is, well, inexcusably bad.

[Iron Draggon]

Just curious: If a first party game is one developed by the same company that made the system, and a third party game is one developed by another company, then what is a second party game?

[evildead2099]

NES: Mario Is Missing.

[keiblerfan69]

Just curious: If a first party game is one developed by the same company that made the system, and a third party game is one developed by another company, then what is a second party game?

I don't think there is such a thing. Its like how a game is a First person and Third Person game. Just like in books.

[keiblerfan69]

NES: Mario Is Missing.

I always wanted to play that game just because it looks so terrible.

[Gapporin]

I don't think there is such a thing. Its like how a game is a First person and Third Person game. Just like in books.

Actually, you can write a book in a second-person perspective (although it hardly ever gets written this way, if at all). It would take the perspective of the person who is reading the book (a la text adventure games).

"You didn't want to come into work today. But you had to. You decide to take the first folder from your desk. Bah, paperwork. You put it back."

Very bizarre, but I'd like to see a book written this way. But, I digress.

[keiblerfan69]

I don't think there is such a thing. Its like how a game is a First person and Third Person game. Just like in books.

Actually, you can write a book in a second-person perspective (although it hardly ever gets written this way, if at all). It would take the perspective of the person who is reading the book (a la text adventure games).

"You didn't want to come into work today. But you had to. You decide to take the first folder from your desk. Bah, paperwork. You put it back."

Very bizarre, but I'd like to see a book written this way. But, I digress.

Well I learned something new today.

[retroman]

how about Baseball or Allyway for the original Gameboy when it launched. They sucked real bad..

[CRV]

how about Baseball or Allyway for the original Gameboy when it launched. They sucked real bad..

I liked Alleyway. Used to play it quite a bit...

[KeeperBvK]

Just curious: If a first party game is one developed by the same company that made the system, and a third party game is one developed by another company, then what is a second party game?

Of course there are second party games.
First party games are made directly by the company that makes the console whereas second party games are made by game developers that belong to the hardware creator.
So for example Kameo and PDZ for 360 are second party and Eternal Darkness is, too. There are probably way more second party games than first party ones in fact, since Ninetndo e.g. rarely creates games reall in-houe these days.

[evildead2099]

Mario Is Missing actually shouldn't belong on here.

I looked it up, and apparently the game was developed by Radical and published by Mindscape. So technically it isn't a 1st-party NES game.

It still sucks, though

[anagrama]

Now, as I much as I'm a fanatic for the Master System, some of Sega's efforts for that system were just god-awful. Great Baseball and My Hero immediately spring to mind.

(Of course, since 90% of the Master System's library was developed by Sega, there's always a Phantasy Star to every Great Baseball, and an OutRun to every My Hero.)

As idrougge said above, very few SMS games were developed by Sega, the majority being farmed out to friendly 2nd-parties such as Sanritsu/SIMS.

[jajaja]

Pit Fighter for SNES is also horrible. One of the worse game on the console.

[anagrama]

Pit Fighter for SNES is also horrible. One of the worse game on the console.

And nothing to do with Nintendo.

[jcheatle]

I don't think there is such a thing. Its like how a game is a First person and Third Person game. Just like in books.

Actually, you can write a book in a second-person perspective (although it hardly ever gets written this way, if at all). It would take the perspective of the person who is reading the book (a la text adventure games).

"You didn't want to come into work today. But you had to. You decide to take the first folder from your desk. Bah, paperwork. You put it back."

Very bizarre, but I'd like to see a book written this way. But, I digress.

There have been books written in this format (actual novels, not just choose your adventure), but damned if I could name what they are. I just remember my prof in a novel writing class talking about them being, as you said, bizarre. Suppose you could always google for examples of said style. And if I remember correctly, somebody in one of my writing classes did a few short stories in 2nd person perspective. They were alright, but he wasn't exactly talented either. I digress.

Oh, and to stay on topic. NES - 10 Yard Fight. God, I hate that @$#%! game.