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| 25 JUN 2009 at 11:42pm |
GonchiSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Online | The Mystery of the Mummy (Sherlock Holmes) was downright awful.
But I'm not so complicated as to flee, &&or stand here in silence. &&But I'm not so simple as to not caution, &&that there aren't three minutes, or a hundred words, that could define me.&&&&[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlR-6Tw-5bE]Brief description of my person[/url] - Cuarteto de Nos
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| 26 JUN 2009 at 12:57am |
karlaAdministrator
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Location: US, Close to the Edge
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Jenny100 (25 JUN 2009 9:03pm)
Originally Posted By karla (25 JUN 2009 7:37pm)
You might compare those games with the recent Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust (http://www.justadventure.com/reviews/LSL_BoxOfficeBust/BoxOfficeBust.shtm) , which was declared in the review to be the worst game of the decade and was also awarded an "F," but it didn't make it into the Dungeon of Shame.
Well, it wasn't really an adventure game, was it? And it clearly had none of the "blood, sweat, and tears" referred to in the Dungeon of Shame description. It was just a "slap it together and make some money off an old IP" sort of thing.
Oh, I didn't mean it should have been included, I was just trying to highlight the difference between a Dungeon of Shame inductee and a typical run-of-the-mill stinker.
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| 26 JUN 2009 at 1:51pm |
portiafimbriataIntergalactic Janitor
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Joined: 12 FEB 2009
Status : Offline | The Mystery of the Mummy (Sherlock Holmes) was downright awful.
You're killin' me Gonchi! :'( I loved that game. But I can forgive a lot in a game (pixel hunts, oddly triggered events, pixely character modeling) - anything except bad programming.
Cthulu loves me, this I know&&The Necronomicon tells me so
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| 26 JUN 2009 at 3:30pm |
bysmittySpace Cadet
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Joined: 29 JUN 2004
Status : Online | I never played more than 5 minutes of Mystery of the Mummy. After seeing how similar it was to Nautilus, I decided to save my time. It seems Frogwares started kicking out quality titles after that though.
...bysmitty
Things I need to do today:&&-change out of pajamas&&-[s]come up with witty yet sophisticated signature[/s]&&-sober up&&-[s]watch simpsons at 6pm[/s]
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| 26 JUN 2009 at 4:04pm |
| Deleted User | I completed Mystery of the Mummy. It was not bad if you like puzzles only. It was not so good if you enjoy story and dilaogue as well. The story really did not make sense to me, and Sherlock was a grumpy unlikelable fellow, besides that he had no one to talk to anyway.
I agree with bysmitty's comment that Frogwares improved a whole lot after that.
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| 26 JUN 2009 at 5:30pm |
Mr Innocent.Journeyman
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Joined: 15 JAN 2008
Location: GR
Status : Offline | As far as gameplay and puzzle design is concerned, The Ring certainly deserves to be in the worst adventure games ever list. So does Of Light and Darkness, come to think of it. But both had great production values for their time, breathtaking graphics and outstanding music (well, obviously, for The Ring). So I guess that saves them from being considered absolute stinkers.
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| 27 JUN 2009 at 9:23am |
InesrocksPrivate Detective
Posts : 682
Joined: 16 OCT 2008
Location: PT
Status : Offline | Belief & Betrayal.
Playing: Skyrim (ongoing)
Last Finished: can't recall, been too long.
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| 27 JUN 2009 at 11:07pm |
BlountSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 271
Joined: 19 APR 2006
Status : Offline | Hey! I liked both Daughter of Serpents and Orion conspiracy!!
Originally Posted By Inesrocks (27 JUN 2009 9:22am)
Belief & Betrayal.
Yuck, that one was a disaster...
Currently Playing: Dracula Origins&&&&Check out my Videogame Music Covers!! http://www.youtube.com/user/SixStringsGeek
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| 28 JUN 2009 at 3:05am |
Jenny100Guild Master
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Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | Isn't Daughter of Serpents essentially the same game as The Scroll?
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| 28 JUN 2009 at 4:48pm |
SAMSpace Cadet
Posts : 148
Joined: 13 FEB 2004
Status : Online | Jenny100:
Ya still want to trade The Scroll for postage?
I PM'd you, if I did it correctly.
I bought a Star Trek action/adventure game(Final UNity or something
like that), it my have been good,excepting I negver got to play it.
The program kept saying to insert th orginal disc, I was inserting
the original disc.
The game company didn't have a technical support email, and
I finally gave up
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| 28 JUN 2009 at 5:11pm |
MikekellyPrivate Detective
Posts : 612
Joined: 25 JUN 2004
Status : Offline |
I loved "" and played it many times. A great game to some.
The recent game with really bad reviews is Lux Pain. However, even poor DS games like Lux Pain have some entertainment value.
I love most DS adventure games. I really enjoyed "Thersia - Dear Emily" quite a bit.
Broken Sword DC - is a fabulous version of this classic with new material and graphics.
Hotel Dusk is getting a second play right now and is as good as these games get.
Miami Law has gotten terrible reviews and Its on my list of DS adventure games to buy!!!
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| 28 JUN 2009 at 6:49pm |
sg7Sorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 213
Joined: 8 JUN 2004
Location: UK
Status : Offline | Drunna was awful impossible to walk anywhere
The Ward played demo , bought game , got into room after where the demo finished and gave up
I hated Jack Orlando his voice drove me to distraction
Belief and betrayal had a terrible graphics glitch I gave up and uninstalled it before leaving the apartment!
SAM ST a final unity is a dos game and is adventure (mostly you can die and has a nasty dead end if you forget to pick up a metal plate!)) ,it wont run or install from disc , but patches are available
I finished it recently and its one of the best Star trek games ever
read here http://web.archive.org/web/20070206055147/www.emulator-empire.com/finalunity.htm
Playing ME3-Citadel ,TOMB raider ,Skyrim Dragonborn
Waiting fot journey down episode 2 ,Dragon AGE 3
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| 28 JUN 2009 at 9:07pm |
Terry PenrodGrand Inquisitor
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Joined: 16 OCT 2004
Location: US, Texas
Status : Offline | .
Also having played tons of shooters, RPGs and games from other genres as well as adventures, I've seen a LOT of real dogs. So my all-time-worst list would be mighty long. I just don't want to dwell on all those lost hours, wasted dollars and frustrating moments.
As for warning people, well... there are already loads of good review sites on the web and all one needs to do is scan the final scores in any given category to see which titles are generally considered to be total garbage by most people.
Cheers, Terry
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| 29 JUN 2009 at 1:38am |
Jenny100Guild Master
Posts : 3510
Joined: 12 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By SAM (28 JUN 2009 4:48pm)
Jenny100:
Ya still want to trade The Scroll for postage?
Sure.
I PM'd you, if I did it correctly.
I'm not seeing any new PM's.
I'll try PMming you.
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| 29 JUN 2009 at 4:16pm |
BlountSorcerer Apprentice
Posts : 271
Joined: 19 APR 2006
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Jenny100 (28 JUN 2009 3:05am)
Isn't Daughter of Serpents essentially the same game as The Scroll?
Yes it is. The Scroll is a CD-version of Daughter of serpents.
Currently Playing: Dracula Origins&&&&Check out my Videogame Music Covers!! http://www.youtube.com/user/SixStringsGeek
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| 29 JUN 2009 at 5:29pm |
SirDaveGuild Master
Posts : 4939
Joined: 17 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Online | At least 2 games on on my 'worst-of' that haven't been mentioned yet:
Jazz & Faust
Titanic-Dare to Discover (a game that almost no one seems to have heard of- not to be confused with Titanic Adventure Out of Time). I've always felt (and said often) that, by far, most 'Myst-clones' or 'Myst-like' games are not bad games the way they are often dismissed as. But 'Titanic-Dare to Discover' would be possibly 'the worst' of them. On the other hand, just like some movies are so bad they are good- perhaps one would get a laugh out of playing this game...
The future ain't what it used to be!
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| 29 JUN 2009 at 6:47pm |
| Deleted User | Oh, please tell why Jazz and Faust is so bad? I've been trying to get hold of it because the screenshots looked so pretty.
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| 29 JUN 2009 at 11:05pm |
SirDaveGuild Master
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Joined: 17 OCT 2002
Location: US
Status : Online | Originally Posted By TheTraveler (29 JUN 2009 6:47pm)
Oh, please tell why Jazz and Faust is so bad? I've been trying to get hold of it because the screenshots looked so pretty.
It's been quite awhile since I bought it and tried to play it so I've forgotten some of the specifics except the fact that I quickly shut it down. Probably the biggest factor for me was that it was badly translated and the way things were 'said' just didn't seem right. I could have gotten over that, but as I recall nothing was very intuitive when it came to knowing which items to pick up when and characters not knowing that you had something unless you specifically took it out of the inventory and gave it to them.
On the good side was some of the graphics- it really tried to be a 'pretty' game and it's very linear- almost to a fault- something that I usually like. Perhaps I should also add that I really dislike very few AGs on the basis that they are just awful games. I may dislike a number of them because they have too much 'talk' -blah-blah-blah- and much of it repetitive or when they are so non-linear that you are going all over the place, retracing your steps, but when it comes to these types of games, a number of people prefer them so it's just my taste that is at work.
So maybe some people might actually like Jazz & Faust, but according to most reviews I read after I dumped it (I wouldn't have bought it if I'd read them beforehand) most didn't. I would say that if you can get it dirt cheap then you might give it a try- what's to lose?
The future ain't what it used to be!
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| 29 JUN 2009 at 11:37pm |
AubstopperIntergalactic Janitor
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Joined: 19 MAY 2008
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By TheTraveler (26 JUN 2009 4:04pm)
I completed Mystery of the Mummy. It was not bad if you like puzzles only. It was not so good if you enjoy story and dilaogue as well. The story really did not make sense to me, and Sherlock was a grumpy unlikelable fellow, besides that he had no one to talk to anyway.
I agree with bysmitty's comment that Frogwares improved a whole lot after that.
I remember getting it with my mother when it came out all those years ago...i must have been 15 or so...and playing it for like an hour and dumping it, never to touch it again. It was the first game that i never played all the way through...even my mother who was a bit more forgiving of adventure games thought it was absolutely horrible.
It's not the worst, i think..i seem to block out the bad games i've played, because honestly i can't think of many that are THAT bad to mention here...i've been reading through this and agreeing with many of your suggestions, but i can't think up any myself! haha! the experiences while playing them must have been THAT traumatic to me that i blocked them out completely!
"Man's greatest tragedy is that he can perceive of a perfection that he can never attain."
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| 30 JUN 2009 at 12:20am |
IviniaGuild Master
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Joined: 7 JUN 2003
Location: US
Status : Offline | I'm with you on this one Traveler. I didn't think Mystery of the Mummy was bad. It wasn't great, but not bad either. I seem to recall one of those color the boxes based on numbers lining up on the sides and top. I have to admit to being a bit disappointed in that one as it didn't seem very original since you can find those puzzles all over the place. I think I recall feeling like they ran out of ideas. :-/
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| 30 JUN 2009 at 1:26am |
chronotigger65Journeyman
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Joined: 23 FEB 2005
Status : Offline | I wasn't expecting this many replies on this thread.
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| 30 JUN 2009 at 2:47am |
MrLipidPrivate Detective
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Joined: 10 OCT 2002
Status : Offline | Originally Posted By chronotigger65 (30 JUN 2009 1:26am)
I wasn't expecting this many replies on this thread.
Really? Considering how many offerings over the years fall deservedly into the "worst" category, I would expect this thread to go on and on...
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| 30 JUN 2009 at 12:43pm |
| Deleted User | I must say that I don't really understand the hate regarding Mystery of the Mummy. Nothing about it was really abysmally bad (ok, bar the story perhaps ), and some puzzles were actually quite enjoyable. As I mentioned earlier, they should IMO have found a different writer for the story and setting.
Some games have been harder than Mummy for me to get into... - such as MOTOE, The Last Express, and, dare I say it - even TLJ seems pretty boring just after the beginning dream sequence.... (talk, chatter, talk, chatter, blah blah, blah di blah).
Thanks for your input re Jazz & Faust, SirDave. I'm one of those people who will forgive bad graphics for a good story, but also conversely try and get used to bad gameplay for nice graphics and/or an interesting setting/story.
I had also seen the less than enthusiastic reviews - but one simply cannot trust reviews when it comes to AG's, as I've often liked games that got bad scores, or disliked games that got good ones.
...so I'll still keep an eye out for the game, but I shall be forewarned.
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| 30 JUN 2009 at 2:01pm |
TechnoSpikePrivate Detective
Posts : 581
Joined: 26 APR 2005
Location: PT
Status : Offline | For me, my stinker of election would have to be Gadget. I bought it some years ago because it came in a 2 game package (can't remember which game was it though). I couldn't make myself finish it, it just seemed boring and weird...
From the posts I've seen that I have another 2 games that some call stinkers: Jack Orlando (this one came in a PC magazine, played it found it a somewhat ok kinda of game) and Mystery of the Nautilus. Mystery of the Nautilus was bought in a shop promotion and, being a sucker for that kind of thematic, I decided to buy it. It's still on my to play pile... is it really that bad? :-?
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