8 Video Games That Just Aren't As Good As You Remember

[@joelambert7331]

Jules is definitely a gem with his pauses at the end of the episodes to talk about mental health and well-being. What makes it even more awesome is it's not some trend, because I don't know of other KZbinrs who do this as well. Kindness is often forgotten in the rushes and stresses of life. It's refreshing to see it on display in those times that we do.

[@Alianbow]

I never had a problem hitting anything in morrowind, but I also understand the stat and birthsign system really well and can achieve the same hit ratio in Daggerfall.

[@jdmuller1906]

This. Also, Morrowind isn't for casual gamers like Skyrim is.

[@gavinmuir694]

10 Missions That Are So Tedious They Stop You Replaying The Game

[@low-budgefudge2164]

Number 1. Halo CE The Liberty

[@KoloXD]

Mass Effect Legendary Edition - any Mako mission

[@javrolet2]

Phantom Hourglass' main tower. Horrible AF.

[@NOfearNOinfinity]

The beginning of Skyrim 🤷

[@AshwathGokul]

@@low-budgefudge2164 the library you mean?

[@robbotheblade]

Top 10 games that deserve a sequel, but won't get one

[@stalkholm5227]

Skyrim, I feel like I've been waiting for Skyrim 2 forever now.

[@HeskeyBoy21]

Simpsons Hit & Run :(

[@Sci-Fi_Freak_YT]

The evil within 2 was so underrated and sadly won’t get its sequel due to poor sales numbers.

[@mrwwwebs]

Legend. Of. Dragoon.

[@terrencemangold4734]

Jade Empire. I STILL love that game and that was all the way back on the original XBox system.

[@rogerswab2131]

I absolutely love how Jules went from being a sometime presenter to the face of the channel.

[@DankFenrir]

Lets be real, he is the most charismatic and funny of the bunch

[@junebug3254]

He is the Crown Jules after all. He is the best one on the channel though. All of them are pretty solid though.

[@mboettcher349]

Or at least the gleaming dome of the channel.

[@makasete30]

I miss the the two dudes who left a couple of years ago(their channel is called vidiots I think) . They were really great presenters and really rivalled Jules. It’s after they left, that Jules became the face of the channel.

[@nuggythebear]

All the women leave after a few months and claim unhappy working conditions. So they only have like 3 main guys.

[@brobafett21]

One really cool thing about the controls in GoldenEye is there was an option to set it to 2.1 mode and you could plug in a 2nd controller so you could play with 2 joysticks and it made it much more like playing with the 2 stick controllers we have today.

[@MrMaradok]

If I recall correctly, the makers of XCOM: Enemy Unknown where tasked with beating the original XCOM before they could work on the project.

[@Rob17Cotton]

If i made a game & I wanted to bring in new people to work on the sequel, I'd make sure they had played & completed my previous game & had extensive knowledge of the already established game lore & story so we don't have do any pointless retcons or a ridiculous story line to explain something different in the new game.

[@Bman32x]

@@Rob17Cottonalmost like this should be a requirement working on video games, comics, tv shows and movies.

[@artydean9892]

Wasn't it supposed to be almost unbeatable because well aliens would wipe the floor with us unless your stupidly lucky

[@ivancerecer5758]

One day people will learn you can't just spam attack in Morrowind, and that you need to conserve stamina, and level up your weapon skill

[@MrBioniclefan1]

I know right

[@valiroime]

And download the mod that calms cliff racers down.

[@_annoyed4692]

@@valiroime Pah... you need mods for more immersion, better graphics, more alive landscapes... not to make gameplay even simpler. If you have trouble with cliff racers: Enchantment drop cliffracer: levitate 1 point for 1 second on target. (And if the hipster can't hit a mudcrab: I hear good things about candycrush...)

[@OBEYTHEPYRAMID]

@@_annoyed4692 Hey ! calm down with the hipsters. I'm a hipster and i've probably finished this game vanilla more times than you have teeth in that nasty mouth, homeboy.

[@beatles42ohgg94]

@@_annoyed4692 yeah, im replaying as a non combative caster. still gotta fight stuff. im dealing with the early game slowly but surely. 15 dagger with like 50 speed. ill get there soon enough though XDDD

[@k_ottickjustjeremy1134]

Top 10 games where "nah mate, I'll pass" should have been a dialogue choice

[@Midragor]

See Golden Sun 1 & 2 for correct use of this mechanic, the ''No'' path is epic

[@k_ottickjustjeremy1134]

@@Midragor 🙌 thank you

[@Midragor]

@Wayne Smith The real problem is the puzzling, your skills/spells can be done in the world map to solve puzzle, wich is a good idea, but some of them are really like ''thank god for the internet''

[@Kwink]

"10 ingenious game mechanics that didn't catch on."

[@daseancedoesgeek2667]

I like this one.

[@thatll-do7606]

Consider: Top video game moments where you realized your plot armor was thicker than a bow of oatmeal

[@metalloproteases]

Pretty much the Uncharted series

[@TinKnight]

Isn't that nearly all games? How many times can you be shot in a level of CoD & still survive to the end? Even the Dark Souls series lets you survive a hit or two from weapons that are larger than rooms in a house. I think a better list (if it can even be one) would be games that DON'T have plot armor.

[@brodriguez11000]

@@TinKnight : Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3

[@traceyrinaldi4759]

@@TinKnight You can at least argue itd due to being undead is why you can survive those hits. Games like CoD, Uncharted, Horizon, numerous others have the thickest of plot armor.

[@jaywills5898]

I heard the thicker than a bowl of oatmeal while watching lock up raw lol.

[@westtexastiger]

"Pray-station" was a hilarious bit.

[@maddogkilla1]

My chinese friend always calls it a praystation but im not sure exactly why

[@austinramsay4837]

Morrowind is literally my favourite game of all time, i didnt beat it until around 2016 tho. so i am fully aware that mechanically, its a nightmare. great story and quests tho

[@darthgorthaur258]

There's no way in the world you can call a list something like you have an have a of Morrowind of all games as the thumbnail....it is literally the best ESO game ever...and quite easily arguably the best game ever...period....

[@Mr47CRO]

@@darthgorthaur258 sorry Witcher 3 takes that cake of goat game.

[@ThrottleKitty]

Morrowind is better than Skyrim and Witch 3 combined, it is one of the best games ever made, and is the best RPG ever made.

[@Mr47CRO]

@aDg 2k18 sorry but it does. Deepest story and quest arc. No one can touch it

[@thedonofthsht76-58]

Idk how u did that. I went to try skyrim for the first time recently and couldnt even play that lmao

[@ibfrobzilla]

I'm currently replaying elder scrolls 3 Morrowind right now on original Xbox. It plays way better then I thought it would. All the problems u mentioned are because your level is too low. Once u hit around level 15-20 which happens pretty fast just doing guild quest. I got spells to fast travel. U can levitate. I literally can jump like the hulk. The only issue I had is caves or tombs can be a little too dark. I use a HD converter too so it fits the whole tv screen. The load times are way shorter then I remember them being too.

[@johndrumm9914]

Jet set radio breaks my heart as its one of the best games ever….then you remember how hard it was to get on stairs.

[@MudNugget]

I wish I had a Dreamcast growing up, I had a 64 instead. But when the sequel came out I had it on the xbox, I still consider it my most favorite game ever.

[@Jovane2707]

Better watch out! The funky rhythm 🥁 coming at yeah !

[@NOISEf7]

Check out Bomb Rush Cyberfunk... it's not out yet but it look cool it's basically the same game, same graphic but instead of rollerblace, it's parkour with slick shoes

[@justrok79]

Hmm...still good to me 🧐

[@Smorechore]

I still love Jet Set Radio still a great game.

[@ChurchillGeoff]

I think the reason we remember games like XCom and Morrowind better than they are is because we remember the late stages when we've unlocked all the toys Morrowind is very different when youve unlocked levitation spells and can fly over the fjordas an unscalable mountain sides

[@joshmakeitrite]

You start weak on xcom2 and skyrim as well and end up having all the badges weapons at the end. After playing newer versions you see the weaknesses of older versions more

[@sillyweevil]

10 mods/edits that made it into games (and made them better)

[@anoobis117]

Mudcrab

[@holstorrsceadus1990]

Gameranx 2 months ago

[@milehighgambler]

Gary's Mod

[@goaway5152]

Sonic 2006 mod.

[@alexanderramsey2821]

I mean this reminds me that dota was once just a mod, then it became it's own title and game genre which then created dota 2, league of legends, heroes of the storm, smite, ect.

[@Bluestar-bh3bf]

Hey Jules I’ve got a few lists for you 1. Top 10 most helpful video game merchants OF ALL TIME!!! 2. Top 20 video game worlds we wouldn’t survive 3. Top 10 horror games that deserve a remake 4. Top 10 video game cliffhangers that need to be resolved 5. Top 10 video game characters we’d be happy to be friends with

[@SilverSonic72]

Top 10 video game moments that literally brought us to tears

[@tomboysamusmemeposting]

Do you have the dsm? We got it sir! Good, that's one less loose end.

[@tidepoolclipper8657]

Child Rosalina saying her mother is "sleeping" underneath that tree, Johnson dying in Halo 3, some of the deaths in the Fire Emblem series, Shadow "dying" at the end of Sonic Adventure 2 (he was originally meant to remain dead), Aeris dying in FF7, and Klonoa never seeing Huepow again at the end of the first game.

[@Betlejuse420]

@@tidepoolclipper8657 Dude, don't forget Dom in gears of war 3, and aggro in shadow of the colossus. 😢 Those still get to me to this day.

[@Betlejuse420]

Oh, and your dog in fable 2.

[@pissedkuma67]

"Hello you little Demons, Jules Here!" Thanks for the self esteem boost

[@nicholas920us]

I didn't know that Jeremy the Neck Vein would play such a prominent role here...

[@donjuan2766]

Haha go to sleep maybe wake up on the not corny side of bed

[@deathbymazda]

Dusted off my N64 and played Conker’s Bad Fur Day. Still better than 90% of the games out today lol

[@DankFenrir]

I can't belive Morrowind is the thumbnail, it's the best elder scrolls, and I'll defend that with my dying breath 😂

[@Drummingwizkid]

I will help you defend that hill.

[@Estorium]

It definitely has the most interesting world, and with mods on PC it can still look pretty good.

[@mariawhite7337]

Its a GOOD game, and I say it is the best Elder Scrolls game, but dear god. The Mechanics? The strange way the to-hit-ratio is? Do you remember cliff-racers? It is the best game, but seriously. Come on.

[@DankFenrir]

Oh i remember cliff racers 😂 I spent weekends on 1 man crusades attempting to wipe all of out! The mechanics were terrible, but levitation and mark/recall were so fun to play about with

[@nickcampbell5626]

Ultimate power fantasy. Unlike Skyrim where you have to deliberately manipulate the level scaling to give yourself a challenge, Morrowind starts with maggots being a genuine challenge and ends with you being an almost literal god.

[@cphtfluke7565]

When I saw Shadows of the Empire on this list I got to think "Jules, you best be careful what you say, boy. This was the first video game my father bought for me, and played with me. Two of my favorite college professors worked on this game. You better have a damn good reason for putting this treasure of a game on this list." And you know what, you did. Hindsight is 20/20, but only when you take off the rose tinted lenses.

[@FallenAdam]

Games that inexplicably switched perspectives in sequels.

[@ChaosReacon137]

I'll definitely add in Guitar Hero 1 for its infamous timing for Hammer-Ons and Pull-Offs where you would rather strum the notes instead

[@SerathDarklands]

As someone who has logged over 5,000 hours in_Morrowind_ between both PC and Xbox, I think I am more than qualified to tell you that you are absolutely wrong. _Morrowind_ is a masterpiece of storytelling, has amazing worldbuilding, a phenomenal soundtrack, great characters, and an amazing, immersive open world. Mods are not, by any means, necessary. They're icing on the cake. And before you say that my comment is affected by rose-tinted glasses, my last play session was less than a week ago, and was on the Xbox One, and thus was with no mods.

[@nvexe8822]

Watch the video again. He agreed with all the things you're saying are good. You didn't even mention any of the things he said were bad.

[@dcpigpen]

I still remember my jaw dropping the first time I played the original top-down Grand Theft Auto. But going back to it after GTA3 and beyond, it felt almost unplayable to me.

[@KitiaraFlint]

I said it months ago and I say it again: Games that are exactly as good as we remember them.

[@minitumen]

Please do it, Jules

[@jimmy_the_squid9456]

No game is exactly as good as we remember it

[@KitiaraFlint]

@@jimmy_the_squid9456 I beg to differ.

[@DoctoroProfesoro]

@@jimmy_the_squid9456 I beg to differ as well

[@emofascist]

I have several examples that say otherwise. Ultima 9 is probably the biggest

[@Astraeus..]

Idea: 10 games with way WAY too many weapons. As a note; I'm only talking about games with a specific, set weapons list. Things like Borderlands, Diablo, etc.. wouldn't be included.

[@natbatlightwood5288]

As much as i love the original Rayman i am inclined to agree. As a kid it drove me mad, i still love it but it was a maddening experience. I still love these messages at the end of the videos as well, they're just a nice thing to round off the video.

[@JoeFlyd1]

My god man, your message at the end has me crying...Thank you Jules.Ive really been going through it lately and your words really brought my spirits up.Oh and you are a bloody brilliant host! Stop putting down your hosting capabilities, I honestly think you would be a great actor. Have an epic day.

[@geoffreyporter7567]

“Put it on a margarita glass instead of your rim”… Jules, you are an absolute lege

[@v2joecr]

When I was introduced to X-COM: UFO Defense for DOS shortly after it launched, I was also introduced to a save game editor. It was awesome to make it, so all your troops had maxed-out stats.

[@RoadsideAtlas]

When morrowind is actually great, but you try and play it for the first time in this day and age you wouldn't understand why it is so love. Then again when goldeneye is on here then there should be nothing else said

[@TrueRomancer04]

Whoo this is a bittersweet list. I absolutely agree with bad gameplay outweighing all other good things in Morrowind/Shadows of the Empire/etc. But RAYMAN?!! Rayman of the joyful platforming, beautiful themed game biomes, and soundtrack to shame the angels?

[@exiaxzero]

These games were some of the best of our childhood, they were simpler times back then. However, we have been spoiled by a lot of technological and gameplay innovations and advances over the years, and if we go back to these games now we will find that they have aged rather poorly. We look fondly at them and they have a special place in our hearts for sure, but it's best that they stay there only, otherwise we'd ruin our memories of them. Nostalgia is indeed a very powerful drug.

[@AbeWaltChan]

Hearing you say my name made me smile like a fan should! Very cool (FYI, this is Step One in my master plan to move to Europe and gain employment with whatculture)

[@Nerdy_The_Punk]

When I was young I figured out a trick in morrowind for travel. My guy had insane enchanting skills so I made either boots or a ring of insane speed and flying lol

[@LadyOnikara]

I downloaded a mod that added a flying race. They naturally have a really fast levitate spell that makes you MOVE!

[@ericpeterson818]

Honestly at this point I stay for the words of encouragement at the end. It's genuine and the world needs more people like him.

[@madalice5134]

Ikr. Jules is a perfect example of what actual positivity and encouragement is. Nowadays it's become so common for people to mistake toxic positivity i.e. "don't bother me with bad things, I'm trying to keep my head in the sand here!" Or people who get mad at people who don't put on a fake smile for the toxic persons comfort. Like, how dare you have an emotion that I don't feel comfortable with?! Real positive thinking isn't ignoring the bad or sneering at people who are going through a hard time. It's being kind, compassionate and acknowledging that the world can be dark but with help, kindness and hope you can find a light in the dark.

[@Novarcharesk]

Trite scripts said by a person that doesn't know we exist beyond a random comment.

[@Mr47CRO]

Jules your messages at the end are pure gold in a world that needs kindness more than ever. Thank you for being awesome and always remember that ❤️

[@ThrottleKitty]

Morrowind was, and still is a 10/10 game. It is the best RPG ever made. No, it does not need mods. You're mixing it up with Skyrim. Morrowind just needs for you to get the stick out of your butt so you can enjoy the story and world. If you are playing for combat or visuals, don't.

[@Synthetic-Rabbit]

I love Morrowind. Something about forcing you to actually travel most places (you can take the riders) and no quest markers meaning you actually have to read things and find the correct path make it the best in the series IMO..

[@CP-uw4ts]

Elden ring does the same with not giving you the direct route, since playing that I can’t go back to morrowind.

[@robbytheviking8279]

Would agree if the combat system wasn't so bad

[@CP-uw4ts]

@@robbytheviking8279 luckily since Skyrim came to GOG and I own morrowind and oblivion on there(and that’s a prerequisite to using the mods), luckily once the remakes of oblivion and morrowind come out in Skyrim modding on nexus I’ll have access to them.

[@Synthetic-Rabbit]

@@robbytheviking8279 Eh, it's fine. The combat in Oblivion and Skyrim isn't anything to write home about either imo. ~smack, smack, cast spell, smack~

[@CP-uw4ts]

@@Synthetic-Rabbit Skyrim has weight to its combat, actually gives rumble so it feels like you’re actually slicing through flesh, at least with a controller that is.

[@kayokayo7917]

Shadows of the Empire was all about the space dog fight game. I finished it, but most of my time in that game was just doing the final space mission, over and over again. I believe there were heat codes to fly a TIE or Xwing as well.

[@jeremylayman3684]

I think Shadows of the Empire was based on a book with the same name. Of course, Disney made it non-canon. Its main character was Dash Rendar as well.

[@MattChoo93]

"Margarita rather than your rim"...gahd I love this Eggy Egg Emperor.

[@thealexiled]

Top 10 games with absolute banger soundtracks. And don't you dare to not include Hotline Miami 2. That game made me fall in love with an entire new music genre

[@thef0ctastic186]

Games that survived the test of time AC4, Skyrim, gta v... Etc. I'm actually playing black flag for the very 1st time and I love it 😁

[@m.ta.r.6443]

Black flag killed it for me due to the sea battle controls.

[@Ten80pete]

Thank you Jules, I got Parappa for the PSP to “relive my youth” and I kept thinking “Okay, I know I Loved this game as a kid, maybe I’m just bad at it now.” Nope, that lag is pretty awful, and no one ever mentions it.

[@residentevilfreak3oo]

I genuinely find vanilla Morrowind to be a fantastic game to this day. My one big caveat is the combat is annoying at the start of the game.

[@stephensloniker1761]

Shots fired at Morrowind, yikes. Always felt like the stiff gameplay mechanics somehow added to the weird mystique of that game. Damn cliff riders just couldn't be hit. The story was truly on another level. I get the criticism, but the gameplay was and is part of the charm. Agree with absolutely everything else.

[@Kinda_ANastyDude]

Shadow of the Empire being on this list made me gasp out loud with sadness.

[@medicusofthedamned]

The morrowind battle music plays in my head when old patients talk to me.

[@1D991]

I stopped the video I was watching just to come here and say I'm still playing Morrowind 19 years later and yes, it is as good as I remember. Still the best TES game there is. So your thumbnail is a lie.

[@JamesGedda]

I feel like people who don't understand Morrowind's combat and just dismiss it as dicerolls and missing all the time have no business playing RPGs.

[@crisisamonginfinitedarthsa4220]

Top 10 Bosses Jules can defeat if he was magically sucked into a video game.

[@eliotshoffner]

1) Nakayama End of list

[@unchartedrocks1]

The Icon of Sin. Shouldn't be a problem for Jules.

[@MeigetsuNoSeishin]

I can definitely feel that with Morrowind...I've never played it modded, but I also never made it far in the game to begin with. I was playing it on PC the first few times I attempted to play it, and I'd never played much more than puzzle games on PC. So nevermind that it's next to impossible to actually hit something in that game when you're used to PC controls, I wasn't even used to using a keyboard to play a game at all! I died so many times that it just wasn't fun for me.

[@tjk21504]

Recently built a pc and bought morrowind on steam, i can confirm the rest of this list, but man this game still delivers even after this many years.

[@ThrottleKitty]

10 defenseless video game animals you senselessly murdered

[@JustAVerySmith]

Thank you for letting my girl, Lara Croft, safely survive this list!

[@RegBeta]

🤔 How the hell did they miss her?!?! They need to make an part 2 of this list ASAP!!!

[@monfr0]

Tomb Raider of is still good as I remember it when I played it last year

[@RegBeta]

@@monfr0 The original or the anniversary version?

[@mnArqal93]

I never really played the original tomb raiders, mainly due to finding Lara hard to control (was never a fan of the tank controls). But I imagine like most games, Lara evolved with each new console. Playing newer games and going back to playing some older ones I guess would fit the Tomb Raider series in regards to the controls. Although I'm not saying the originals were bad.

[@BucklingSwashes]

Agreed. I remember trying to go back to the original Tomb Raider not long after playing Legends (and before Anniversary). It DOES NOT hold up, due primarily to the awful controls and movement.

[@countzrathknock6737]

I agree with the golden eye entry 100%. Went back a few years ago to play with some friends. God those controls

[@steeltowngamerjay3514]

Top 10 Boundary breaks in games - I will always remember the Splashdown PS2 game where if you went out of bounce a giant whale would show up and smack you with his tale and you would go flying through the map. I wonder if there are any other games that had this mechanic and if they had fun with it.

[@jamescameron-clarke2560]

Motocross Madness had a big cliff around the map, but if you managed to get up it and went too far into the featureless plain beyond.... BOOM. Shot back onto the map.

[@WardReacts2]

@@jamescameron-clarke2560 Dude I'd ride up that cliff over and over for hours when I was a kid. So much fun.

[@suicidal_donuts6191]

Mario Kart Wii time trial records had you screwing with boundaries so hard. Grumble Valcano and Mushroom Gorge come to mind. I feel like we never get boundary breaks in games anymore. Honestly the “airship” in FFXV felt like a boundary break. You can tell they did not texture some of the terrain to be seen from those angles in an otherwise gorgeous game.

[@steeltowngamerjay3514]

@@suicidal_donuts6191 Agreed they need to bring these back!

[@joeco7171]

8 habits you do in video games that you would never do in real life. (Example entering a car from the passenger door. )

[@polargames6693]

10 games that gave us legendary Easter eggs

[@TheDraykwing]

1 commander keen: dopefish

[@thegaminglord2190]

10 video game merchants that sells you the top stuff

[@taramathews7391]

I love you man! Vids are always a light on my day. But morrowind will never age, Cliffracers or not

[@bigbadgrun8821]

I'm sorry but when I came back from fighting in Iraq, Morrowind was the game I fell in love with on the original Xbox with my roommate. We would hot seat the game, never turned off the console. This game captured my imagination like no game had since the original bard's tale in 1986....

[@charleswebb5193]

You always make my day that much better thanks Jules 😊

[@ViralPhoenix]

That first THPS game is one I still love. There's a way to go into an infinite combo on the first stage. Found out randomly playing it around the year 2000. Felt good to get 1mil. But I still love that game now

[@familyLe297]

P lol 0:42

[@asham868]

Morrowind is still just as good as I remember it being.

[@soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342]

Same. I think gamers are too used to sprinting lolz. Take it easy fellas. Enjoy the ride. No need to rush.

[@drburgin3151]

Top 10 games that didn’t need a sequel. Sometimes the nostalgia of the original wasn’t there for the sequel or it was just done so badly that we just popped the original back in

[@tomnewton4320]

That closing monologue was insane. To hold a position online and to make a positive statement and take time to address fans health and wellbeing is absolutely amazing.

[@Janthonythegreat]

I remember playing parappa the rapper in a demo and thinking I either suck at the game or have no idea how to play the game because I could never hit the buttons on rhythm. Knowing that was just something wrong with the game makes me feel better

[@brandonferreira854]

Jules, do top 10 16-bit games that make Dark Souls look easy.

[@davidaward82]

the one that always gets me is when they're not only not as good, but also several orders of magnitude more difficult than they used to be. :P growing older sucks.

[@Chrisxerri]

I loved Morrowind when it came out and completed it 4 or 5 times at least. OK, now it doesn't hold up but that story was so good!

[@brandibilodeau2560]

I like when you guys quote somebody from the comments you can never just quote them, you either add or take away from the quote, and you even put it on screen while doing it. Genius

[@Zanime98]

10 games with the coolest side characters

[@Terryhunt385]

I have to add a game that you missed, my friend. Super Mario 64 for the Nintendo 64. The graphics and control was mind blowing when it came out. Playing it on the Super Mario All Stars on the Switch, and the camera and control does not stand up. Especially when Sunshine and Galaxy play so much better on the same game.

[@bobjobtinkledob2285]

10 Games that aged perfectly

[@tidepoolclipper8657]

Hard to say what games have truly aged perfectly, but there are potential contenders for that such as Ms. Pacman, Centipede, Space Invaders, Asteroids, Kirby's Adventure, Super Metroid (well, close to it), Super Mario Bros. 3 (All-Stars version), Super Mario World, Yoshi's Island, Kirby Super Star, Sonic the Hedgehog 3, Sonic&Knuckles, Lunar Silver Star Story Complete, Breath of Fire 3, Breath of Fire 4, Trials of Mana, Final Fantasy 6, Dragon Quest 5, Super Mario Strikers, Mario Power Tennis, Mario Party 6, Mario Party 7, Kirby: Nightmare in Dreamland, Metroid Zero Mission, Super Mario Galaxy, Super Mario Galaxy 2, Super Mario Strikers Charged, Mario Party DS, Mario&Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, Pokemon Heart Gold/Soul Silver, Kirby Super Star Ultra, Half-Life 2 and its episodes, Portal 2, Assassin's Creed 2, and Amnesia: Dark Descent.

[@LucaFox]

Man Rayman was so hard. I remember breaking a controller fighting the space viking lady. It took me days to outrun the shadow Rayman too.

[@PlanetNateGaming]

When I was a kid I played Parappa The Rapper near perfectly even with input lag, I'd learned the exact timing for it to get through the whole game in one sitting

[@Trekmaster47]

Topic Suggestion: Bosses with a steep learning curve, but were dead easy the second time you faced them. For me that was LoZ:BotW Thunderblight Ganon

[@rsmcroberts]

How's about "Weapons that don't belong in the game that they're in"?

[@BlakeTheDrake]

Umm... gonna have to throw your words back at you, Jules, and ask if you were playing the same X-Com: UFO Defense as I was. Not that it was (or is) a perfect experience by a long shot, the bit about the clunky interface and aliens bombarding you with attacks from beyond your sight-range is entirely accurate. The interface in particular, both in the tactical combat and strategical sessions, looks more like a spreadsheet with illusions of grandeur when viewed with modern eyes. But 'ultra-difficult'? Seriously? I pushed through that game as a kid, without any access to the internet - reaching Mars and eradicating the Alien threat on my first game. Took a fair bit of save-scumming, of course, but that's really part of the X-Com experience IMO! The game just isn't that hard, strategically or tactically - sure, the aliens will take potshots at you from beyond your reach, but they'll whiff just as often as YOU do, and while there are some really unbalanced weapons and abilities in the game, you can wield most of them yourself once you've done the research. The START of the game is pretty damn rough, of course, but that's the case for every XCOM-style game ever - you're basically expected to go through a few stables of green recruits before you wind up with a reliable team who've proven themselves by surviving a few engagements. Hardly worth singling the original UFO Defense out for that! Is it possible that you're getting the first game mixed up with its sequel, 'Terror from the Deep'? Because THAT one is ALL THAT and SO MUCH MORE! Absolutely brutal, sadistic difficulty, which ramps up faster than your researchers can keep up, challenging you harshly in both the strategic and tactical view, being basically designed as a challenge for those who have already mastered UFO Defense. I never managed to finish THAT one as a kid, though that was in part due to the rather egregious and subtle bugs it was tainted with, causing certain vital research-options NECESSARY FOR FINISHING THE GAME to fail to appear if you researched the wrong things in the wrong order. Or sometimes just because they felt like it. But even trying it again as a grown-up, using a fan-made patch to fix all the bugs and issues, I STILL wound up giving up on it due to the absolutely bullshit levels of difficulty it gradually ramps up to. When I encountered THREE rocket-launcher-armed T-Rexes in a single mission - a Cruise-Ship Defense, with tons of narrow corridors and blind corners - each of them capable of wiping out half my team in a single shot, I eventually just gave up and went off to play something else. :-\ So yeah - X-Com: TFTD definitely fits the bill here, but the original? Not so much.

[@ATHFNoobie]

10 Games where one character ruins the whole experience

[@MarkAltosaar]

Loved the original X-COM, but what makes it unplayable to me nowadays is the tedium of having to equip your characters properly before every single battle. Luckily mods exist that fix that, and there's the especially excellent OpenXcom project that smooths out so many of the rough edges and allows you to tweak the rules to your heart's content. I also really recommend Xenonauts which is extremely similar in gameplay, but the setting is transposed in the the Cold War during the 1970s. Different research tree too. It also has some new rules that smooth over tedious tasks, i.e. you can opt to air-strike UFO crashes for most of the profit instead of having to send a team out for every single piddly little UFO.

[@Gonzie6]

I think older games were so hard on purpose as the devs were getting money from mags for guides and cheats

[@jeltevl8868]

the original legend off zelda is a prime example off that. The final dungeon in that game is so convoluted and hard that if its your first playthrough its pretty impossible to beat. Magazines covered the way to beat that dungeon. But here is the thing: even tho legend off zelda was released in europe those mags where not. Wich ended in that situation that I could never beat that final dungeon till walkthroughs started popping up on the internet.

[@baldeaglenor7156]

Difficulty in games was mainly to make the game "longer" The limits in terms of system memory and funding for game development time made making actual long games quite difficult. So in order for people to actually put a decent amount of time into the game, they upped the difficulty. Megaman and TMNT are prime examples of this

[@granthazzard5170]

My kneejerk reaction to your mention of Goldeneye was nothing compared to my reaction to you mentioning Shadows of the Empire, i audibly gasped... then I remembered the shooting mechanics...

[@ghostofhaven8076]

Most accurate description of Morrowind gameplay I've ever seen.

[@TheNotoriousCheeto]

Morrowind is challenging when you first start, but do a little grinding to level up, and it is incredible. And no game has ever had a better magic system. It is so versatile, and you can do so much with it, that you really feel like a wizard.

[@zacharycashman4801]

10 games that make you feel like you’re really good at it, until you play the multiplayer online 🤧🤕💩

[@mullerpotgieter]

All of them?

[@heatseeka4468]

Fightings games af

[@janusiers]

So. Every game ever

[@rudebodega]

JSRF was the first game I ever played on Xbox, mostly because it came with the console. But no regrets, it was really fun and I still listen to some of the songs from the soundtrack

[@paparoo9924]

I'm cooking dinner for my son and his wife 😂

[@jpfoland01]

Kingdom Hearts 1. Absolutely loved it back in the day, but man is it rough after playing the better sequels.

[@jeltevl8868]

you are not wrong. Its clunky at best. Also if you really want to start hating the game: Do monstro while not skipping any fights. The only way I can really do the monstro world without having a fit off rage is by just running past all fights.

[@ingle1990]

Morrowind seriously needs a remaster spent hours playing that game, ESO bringing back vivec, suran etc was a real nostalgia trip though

[@ThrottleKitty]

Morrowind is still amazing, I still play it, fight me. RPGs age like wine!

[@hippiekilgannon]

Saw the preview was Jet Set, had to watch. Wasn't disappointed. Thank you for your service in lifting up JSRF ❤ now let's get somebody on the damn remake we need so badly!

[@TheMeanAdmin]

When he starts bitching about aliens in X-com having better eyesight at night (which is a declared feature) and doesn't even mention stuff like aliens being able to mind control your crew without ever seeing them - you can tell he's got no clue what's actually wrong with it and never was good enough to get to the real problems...

[@Themaxwithnoname]

I played XCOM; UFO Defense after Terror from The Deep. I'd found UFO Defense at a local used bookstore. I rather liked it. As for aliens having better weapons, that's the point. They have advanced tech. Pop some smoke when you first start a mission to provide your squad with some concealment & then branch out so you don't bunch up. I thought everyone used the ship as cover, like the landing gear. (Fins too when you get the excellent flying armor.)

[@hurd136]

I feel ya on Golden Eye and Tony Hawk, I tried to go back to it and just couldn't do it. Also with Parappa that's very true, as a musician it's so frustratingly off beat that it's unplayable.

[@nicolassellers2694]

Star Wars shadows of the empire was never a “good” game 😂 that’s why it rocks. It’s nostalgically bad.

[@Rubble_BN]

10 classic video games that you forgot about.