This Is The WORST RPG Ever Made

[@-Eclipse14-]

Over 10K views...I still can't believe my eyes. I never expected this to blow up like it did. Maybe 300, 500 if I was absolutely lucky. It was just a video I made to shoot the shit with my online friends since we were constantly playing good stuff. It's stunning to me. I saw a bunch of comments lately about the mic peaking. I'll do what I can about that, as it's something I've had some difficulty properly managing. Regardless, I do have something else in mind I'm planning, but of course these things take time and I do quite a bit outside the internet. All I can do is hope it works out. Thanks for the support!

[@OvercookedOctopusFeet]

New here, and i like this video... but, too much bad language.

[@betasequence4885]

Wonderful video, i saw this come past, saw your intro and am now subscribed. Wonderful video and very well written :)

[@deluxebucket]

some of your euphemisms remind me of old AVGN and there is a certain nostalgic old youtube feel that happens naturally because of your editing :) Keep it up man! If you ever wanna bounce ideas, I've been trying to get started on talking about some oddities and obscurities.

[@OvercookedOctopusFeet]

@@deluxebucket AVGN? I wouldn't use that as a compliment. Please do not be like James Rolfe, he's obnoxious and an embarrassment.

[@JamesShow]

right off the bat the problem is you delivered. usually a video like this is total clickbait bashing, I dunno, Dragon Quest III or something.

[@HammerspaceCreature]

Intro: "There are 4 psychic children who are the only ones who can fight against the evil computer." First NPC you talk to: "This village is invisible to the supercomputer because everyone is town is using psychic powers." Zero to plot hole in one line.

[@planescaped]

Chosen one! Only you can wield the legendary Dragon Sword +7 against the evil overlord! All you must do is seek out Jeffery, the town drunk, who is currently using the sword to slay the overlord!

[@drakarthus]

truly the Bubsy 3D of the RPG genre

[@feliciavale4279]

🤣🤣🤣

[@larrylaffer3246]

That's an insult to Busy 3D. At least it had the excuse of budget & time constraints to explain why it was in the shape it was. Plus its engine got used for Siphon Filter later on so clearly it wasn't a total waste.

[@LikaLaruku]

I wonder what the guy who made Bubsy 3D went on to do. The guy who made Superman 64 learned nothing from his mistakes & repeated them years latter in an Aquaman game.

[@KasumiRINA]

@@LikaLaruku as comment above said, Syphon Filter trilogy. THE equivalent of AAA shooters on PS1, along with Medal of Honor. SF was 3rd person and very story driven, it competed with Tomb Raider and Metal Gear Solid, and at the time, there wasn't a clear winner. The franchise, unfortunately, fumbled through PS2 & PSP era of games that somehow put Bubsy 3D responsiveness to Syphon Filter moveset. I tried Omega Strain and it was janky as hell, while Syphon Filter 2 still holds up (played both recently). Emulate it if you can!

[@CranberryFo]

You have me convinced! It's one thing to have a bad story or bad gameplay mechanics. It's another to be a broken mess full of horrific design decisions.

[@Bob-jv4yf]

Dustborn

[@venommillan1102]

@@Bob-jv4yf Dustborn at least WORKS though, that game's shitty ON PURPOSE, like as a design decision. With this game it's hard to tell what's intentionally jank, what's hardware limitations and what's just the result of running out of time. Honestly I kinda wanna know the story behind this game's development now; Was it just a rush job like Square Enix's, "King's Knight," or was it just mismanaged the whole way through, I wonder

[@mariusamber3237]

A 'lot' of the really bad stuff was left in Japan; Hoshi wo miru Hito, Maka-Maka, Dual Orb... truly the most wretched JRPGs out there. Some others made it outside of Japan, but I'd argue the worst ones stayed there.

[@almightycinder]

Dual Orb 1 is apparently so bad, people refuse to translate it. Other games have had translations just to do an April Fools joke. Not Dual Orb.

[@enzoquiriconi8948]

I heard dual orb 2 is quite good, is this true?

[@almightycinder]

@@enzoquiriconi8948 I beat it but I had to use Game Genie. It's really difficult. Other than that, it was great.

[@enzoquiriconi8948]

@@almightycinder ok thanks

[@mariusamber3237]

@@enzoquiriconi8948 It's solid. I imported it from Japan a few years back and it was quite good, if a little unoriginal. Dual Orb 1 is like a bad RPG Maker game, but released in the early 90s... thankfully you don't need to play it to make sense of the 2nd game.

[@Patrick-vv3ig]

You Sir, have yet to discover the RPG Maker Community to find truly awful RPGs (not as in 5 minutes template projects, but games with actual effort behind them that despite that still turned out to be awful).

[@lpfan4491]

Reminds me of the 2000s to early 2010s infamy of game series like Alte Macht(german for "Old Power")

[@neoqwerty]

Forget RPG Maker, he's never played The Demon Rush by Dragoon Entertainment. Which was an engine a guy made himself, that managed to make RPG Maker 2000's demo story look impressive and whose aesthetic be "MS paint OCs on early DeviantArt drawn by clearly 12 years old kids". It's both broken AND un-speedrunnable because even with a way to skip half the game it's still like 4 hours of slog and battle mechanics that manage to ALMOST work as something innovative and then faceplant and cover you in its broken mess. And the game manages to be both full of cliches and yet to assemble them in the most awful, nonsensical, unpredictable ways possible and STILL end up generic and managing to never explain ANYTHING, and drop plot points like a sieve drops water. It was being sold on Steam. For 20 bucks. And now the almost as broken 3D remake of the first game is the only version to play it legit and also asks for 20$. Neither has a speedrun community, when even Hoshi Wa Miru Hito does. They're so bad that the original The Demon Rush had two speedruns and that's it, and the 3D remake was speedran once.

[@DetectiveGrey]

Can't believe they never finished Destiny's Call Complete. But I thought Jay's Journey was pretty good. The old RM2k days were odd as hell.

[@AndroidFerret]

Guys... You are all missing MOBILE Ones

[@lpfan4491]

@@DetectiveGrey They never finished the thing that has "complete" in its name?

[@everythingisterrible8862]

It's really generous you didn't count the map tiles as a critical disaster. The blue-green on green trees, everything butting up right against one another, a mess of noise everywhere... it's legitimately eye-melting pain. A game that cripples you permanently just by looking at it... all the other problems are honestly tertiary and minor to that. The in-battle art is quite good, though diminished by choosing to put those frames around every unit in the battle. They distract and diminish their quality, making everything feel cramped and boxed-in. It's kind of a shame that if the.... everything else were competent, this could have been a little franchise like Glory of Heracles. .... I'm horrified that there's a playlist of the OST because of course there is: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ooC2coacbNCBeaM ..... it's annoying there's sparks of competence here and there, too. If they'd not do the bits where they stab your ears with a knife repeatedly. ..... I wonder if some of the men who made this look back at this and think to themselves 'my god, what have I done?'

[@baddragonite]

To be fair the truncated HP number is accidentally kinda clever. Nothing warns the player of their impending doom like having literally 0 HP left lol Kinda like having 0 lives left in an old platformer I guess

[@PowerStar004]

Well, the platformers often counted "extra" lives, not "total" lives. In other words, the life you're using is not counted in your live count, only the "extras".

[@KasumiRINA]

There are many games (or modes) that hide your HP in games, hell, aren't many AAA games like that? The health is shown by screen edges bloodying. Survivor version of Tomb Raider is also notorious for making screen black and white when you're "near death", I wish we could turn that off. Since original game, Resident Evil relied on your walk animation to tell health, and only had a vague colored heartbeat for the health, while game actually used hit points internally (you could be green at 100% or 80% so close to truncating second number with only 4 color states visible. Green, yellow, orange, red.

[@ori.g4mi]

Man I love that someone finally covers this game more deeply beyond dowolf's speedrun at GDQ and RPG Limit Break. I've been fascinated with this game since and NO ONE ELSE was looking at this beautiful trash.

[@rfmerrill]

2:22 I feel angry that you did not mention the first Megami Tensei game coming out Sep 11th 1987... but I understand why you would leave it out.

[@-Eclipse14-]

I never dove that deep into Megami Tensei, unfortunately. I've been wanting to, but other priorities have had my attention.

[@Vulpas]

​@@-Eclipse14- Skip, it's overrated. Check out the Xeno series instead.

[@TheDiscoGenre]

Quest 64 is not even close to the bottom in all fairness. Its just a 6/10 that got too demonized.

[@senatortombstone]

The best "bad" RPG I have completed is Beyond the Beyond. The worst "good" RPG I have completed is Albert Odyssey. The worst RPG by a serious developer that I have played is Cosmic Fantasy. There is no excuse for TG CD game released after several FFs and DQs being so basic, flawed, and broken.

[@gurvmlk]

Beyond the Beyond could've been fun, if the timed hits made any sense beyond mashing buttons until your arm falls of at least once per battle. That said, I've also beaten it, but I would absolutely never want to do it again.

[@calvinskye]

There's waaaaaaay worse games out there than Sonic Chronicles. Heck, there's way worse Sonic games than Sonic Chronicles. Not saying it's great, just it not 'worst rpg ever' levels. If it had good music it would be solid.

[@ColdSnapVA]

This script, or at least that first minute, is lifted directly from UrinatingTree's video on Hugh Culverhouse.

[@-Eclipse14-]

Admittedly, that video was an inspiration for this one. Being a regular viewer of his material, and his original background, helps in this degree.

[@ColdSnapVA]

@@-Eclipse14- Fair enough, I love his work too, but I didn't want you accused of plagiarism or something before you could improve. We all have to start somewhere.

[@rondroske3623]

I love that this comment has this response from the creator, and that this response has that response from the commenter. You two are both gentlemen and are actively restoring my faith in the young men of today. (I'm assuming you're both young men, I apologize if not, I'm old.) Edit: spelling

[@ColdSnapVA]

@@rondroske3623 Oh, I'm not young anymore, but I appreciate it. I was just tryin to be cordial in case this was just some beginner trying to get started in video-making, and I'm glad I did because that's basically what it was. Even UrinatingTree himself started out similarly, and he is NOT proud of the videos he made back then--at the time, he was called Fat Mann Judgeth (I"m not joking). Hell, I myself recently got started in voiceover. If you want to hear me in something, check out a show called "Best Buds" by Regme.

[@ColdSnapVA]

@@rondroske3623 Heh, I'm not young anymore, but I appreciate the sentiment. And hey, just as he's new to video-making, I'm new to the voiceover world. If you want to hear me in something, check out a show called "Best Buds" by Regme.

[@RedMage4evah]

I vaguely remember an AGDQ run of this game and they mentioned something run-ending with the Paralysis status and death. IIRC if a character dies while paralyzed, they straight up can't be brought back to life anymore.

[@-Eclipse14-]

That was mostly an oversight on my part. I wanted to get it captured on camera, but it never occurred in my attempts and I forgot about it. We can just shove them into the "You're Screwed" bracket, it'll be fine.

[@cyanmage1]

I first heard of this game while watching that AGDQ seemed like such a great game in concept sadly they failed at nearly everything while making it

[@dekufiremage7972]

Never heard the term Eastern RPG before today but I think I prefer it over jRPG. Fits more countries with very similiar RPG conventions as Japan and also contrasts the term Western RPG better.

[@Kaheiyattsu221]

sonic chonicles was good, reported for fake news

[@tmon3y777]

Quest 64 wasn't good at all but I gotta say it was innovative and unique, I've definitely played worse games.

[@zimzam9166]

Great. It's a game you hate. Thanks for that

[@damiencouturee6240]

I totally understand not wanting to make a longer video, but if you ever do a part 2 of this game I'll definitely watch it. Somehow I've never heard of this game, (at least not that I recall) and it's legit impressive how bad that is lol

[@-Eclipse14-]

One of my main online friends dared me to play it for the channel. It might be a thing at some point!

[@calic737]

Great video! Mythic algorithm pull, subscribed.

[@Scarcheeze]

This game is better than dustborn

[@The_Cooler_Will]

Somehow for some reason I am obsessed with Hoshi Wo Miru Hito. Literally nothing in this game is redeemable, yet I can't stop loving it.

[@WingCap0]

Idk, I think the story sounds neat and I really like the idea of the characters aging as they level up. Just a shame the programming and mechanics seemed to let this game down hard.

[@Ratty524]

That’s because this isn’t just a bad game, it’s an EXCEPTIONALLY bad game that gets you wondering what the hell even happened for this to get released into existence. It’s bad in areas you take for granted and realize how far RPGs have come after it. It does so many things fundamentally wrong that you can’t help but be awestruck. It’s truly deserving of the title of “legendary shit game”

[@ShadowMoses900]

Quest 64 wasn't bad. It was okay. The hyperbole surrounding it is ridiculous.

[@Dhalin]

After seeing the video I think I'd have to agree. It's one thing for an RPG to have terrible story, or a non-existent plot, or to have bad mechanics, or too much grind, or be too primitive, it's another thing entirely when half of the game's systems don't even work properly. It's basically what half the Triple A games are today that get released as buggy messes that crash constantly. Don't matter how good or bad your game appears, if stuff doesn't work, it's going to suck. There's plenty of other 8 bit games that are way more competent and it baffles me that the game was actually released in such a state. Did nobody in a QA department go "uh guys, this isn't the final release candidate, is it?" or anything? Seriously.

[@neoqwerty]

There was, apparently, no QA department. Like, this game is such a fuckin' mystery EVEN TO JAPAN that we don't know its actual release date. If you see a release date for it, it's a lie, because the "real" answer is that there's a bunch of conflicting info when you actually get around to asking. And the game was made by a whole total of three people who used pseudonyms, one of which is not identified, one who was _probably_ Naoki Morishima, the main programmer at Hot-B's development subsidary Another (not to be confused with a bassist guy with the same name, probably?), and one who a Japanese superfan named Torosshan deduced was probably the creator of the game and its writer, Okinaka Hidemitsu. (Dude also has writing credits for the VN "The Angels With Strange Wings".) There's been a storyboard artist (admkino) who shared stuff on Twitter, too, so we know an art team probably existed. But that's it. That's all we know. As far as ANYONE can tell, there's only three people who worked on this (admkino as artist, Naoki Morishima as programmer, Okinaka Hidemitsu as project lead/writer, MAYBE as programmer). There was no bugtesting around as far as ANYONE can tell.

[@eightcoins4401]

This was common even on the NES, not just the Famicom. Alot of games released as unfinished buggy messes. Most people just don‘t remember those games.

[@Dhalin]

@@eightcoins4401 And that's the way it should be, the buggy messes rarely made it out of Japan or if they did arrive here, a few people bought them but then nobody cared about the games and they faded away into obscurity. There are a few notable exceptions of course, but nothing quite as bad as this.

[@KasumiRINA]

@@eightcoins4401 even well remembered RPGs were horrendously buggy, half the magic statuses in NES Final Fantasy don't work, Only one of two Magic Evade and Evade stats are used for both in FFVI, you can vanish/doom bosses in 6, or phoenix down one hit destroy undead in most of them. Fallouts have 1000s of fixes in fan patches, Daggerfall softlocked you in some quests, Baldur's Gate has NPCs send you on orphaned quests, RPGs are complex beasts and even best ones have issues. Some games even had cartridge re-releases because bug broke save games or something, for example WWF No Mercy, which isn't a kusoge but TO THIS DAY considered by many the best wrestling game of all time. Broken on release. Plastic & silicon was recalled. So yeah, even with the games that ARE very famous, people tend to downplay of forget what horrible mess they were released as, and many bugs became staples in speedruns so they keep them in remasters... and some like KOTOR 2 are never finished.

[@HandlebarOrionX]

The music from this game sounds like if all the members of Jethro Tull had a panic attack on mushrooms while figuring out chiptune for the first time

[@Mr.Hardesty]

I wouldn't place Quest 64 on the list for bad rpgs. If one takes the time to understand, play, and appreciate Quest 64 as well as look into its history and development you will find that Quest 64 is indeed a hidden gem and one worthy of game preservation. I understand that people will say it's boring and a slog fest, but the rpg is intended to be more of a realistic slice of life style rpg with magic thrown in and the story is heart warming imo because you play as a boy desperately trying to save his father no matter what or what you might have to face. It's an American take on the genre and a shame it didn't pop off because I am quite honestly exhausted and burnt out with almost every new rpg copying the jrpg formula.

[@demi_shin]

Quest64 was developed by Imagineer, a Japanese studio. THQ published the game in North America, but it was never American. Also where did you get that it was meant to be a "realistic slice-of-life?" I can't find that anywhere

[@MrTAG-re5ym]

I need some of whatever you’re smoking bro

[@Dhalin]

@10:06 Faxanadu also wiped your gold and any XP past your current level if you saved with a password. The difference, however, is that when you level up, you get a 'starting gold' amount based upon your current rank/level. You just had to make sure that when you got enough XP to level/rank up that you better go and do it or you'll lose it if you die, or you'll lose it if you fell just short of a level up and then received a password. EDIT: Ooo, I love the Lufia 1 music in the background near the end of the video. One of my favorite games on the SNES.

[@cyanmage1]

That game password system still haunts me 35 years later I still question if I'm seeing a Zero or an O every time I have to enter letters anywhere thanks to bad font choices in the 80s, I do regret never beating it I did find out till recently how close I was as kid was at final section of the game but I didn't know that and I wrote my password down wrong and never went back

[@Dhalin]

@@cyanmage1 If you're talking about Faxanadu, you can always use a password generator online to generate a password that gives you something close to what you had.

[@SimuLord]

Faxanadu is on the list of "worst games I ever loved." Fallout 4 is at the very top of that list. Laughably bad writing, atrocious quest design, terrible worldbuilding, but it was a whole lotta fun if you just ditched the main story and explored the map shooting stuff.

[@Dhalin]

@@SimuLord For it being 1985, I'd say that Faxanadu was a darn good game for its time. The graphics were actually rather well-done for the system it was on, the music wasn't bad at all (the Boss Battle remains one of my favorite 8-Bit Boss Themes right next to TMNT1's despite it only being like a 20 second loop because it's tense AF), and while there is some jank and a few bugs (the Pendant...), it's actually rather well put together. Not sure why you label it "worst game I ever loved" to be honest. Now, FO4.... Eh, from what I've seen of the game (I can't get more than 10-15 hours in without CTDs that make me wanna quit, even after the next-gen, I got 30h in and hit a CTD and haven't played it since), yeah, I can kinda agree there. It can be fun gameplay wise, though the story I end up just shrugging. Like any other FO game to be honest. The only exception is Dead Money which I _loved_ the story and atmosphere of. Too bad even after 95+ mods from Viva New Vegas, my latest attempt to play that, again, CTD. Right in the middle of playing Dead Money after spending like 40 hours grinding up to properly do the DLC. I'm about done with Crashesda games to be honest.

[@KasumiRINA]

@@Dhalin wait are you dropping long playthroughs because the game crashed once? (Which is expected with modded New Vegas memory overflow)... or because you are stuck in a place where you cannot proceed the story because of CTDs in a specific spot? Because if former, just try again, if latter, try older save.

[@lindenstromberg6859]

Quest 64 is one of the worst I'd play. Final Fantasy 13 is godlike by comparison. But I've played worse: including multiple Lord of the Rings RPGs from the 80s and 90s which were filled with bugs, including progress blockers. There are RPGs out there that make The Seventh Saga seem polished.

[@frostare]

Me before seeing it: Oh my goodness, is it gonna be the one with the dolphins ending? Me after seeing it: Yup, and it's worse than I remember! 1:58 Hahaha, exactly! Finally! Thank you! Though in their defense, at least they tried something different for Final Fantasy II and with Final Fantasy III they had the perfect foundation to build upon further titles. Great video, thanks so much!

[@canadianturtle7240]

Thank you for reminding me of FF13. I'll never forgive SE for how bad that game was. And they gave it 2 sequels x(

[@OffToBattle]

Just to say it, I'm a translator, nothing but approval for the citation of "kusoge" and its meaning.

[@theflyingninja1]

Love the old school feel of this video. It reminds me of Urinating Tree, Stan Burdman and other great content creators from yesteryear.

[@Xylus.]

Videos like this are always fun because I just cant imagine having the time to find out about this stuff myself. Im still working my way through all the good rpgs

[@daveypocket8847]

This was an awesome video! I loved how you reviewed the game and explained its history. Please do more like these! Subscribed!

[@mswerkmeister]

I like how he mentions a bunch of decent-great games in the beginning and calls then honorable mentions for worst rpg

[@Enoby_Darkness]

The very idea of someone unironically calling FFXIII the "worst RPG ever made," like honestly now. Even thinking about putting that in the same tier as Lunar Dragon Song is hilarious. I know a lot of people love to exaggerate the hell out of things, but still.

[@KasumiRINA]

@@Enoby_Darkness it's such a solid game overall, it's not buggy or broken, doesn't have bad balance, major bugs, or poorly designed encounters, it's also very polished, especially compared to beloved but broken messes that are spell systems in FF1, statuses in FF6, quests in Fallout 2, cut content in KOTOR 2, or any Bethesda games in general. I need to get into Lunar since Grandia was one of my favs of all time, but now I beware of the bad later ones at least.

[@di3727]

Quest 64 isn't a bad game, not every game needs to be filled with angst and "Kill God". The music is beautiful and the gameplay isn't even bad. I don't understand the hatred people feel around it.

[@KillAllCommies2]

Finally a video with a great title that was NOT clickbait. I am 100% convinced.

[@robertanderson9447]

I genuinely can't tell if the HP thing is a bug or not. It may have been an early attempt at what the Madou Monogatari games would do years later. In that series all exact HP and MP values are invisible, instead you have to gauge it based on your character's facial expression outside of battle, and reaction text during battle. Hoshi Wo Miru Hito's truncated HP, in theory, could achieve a similar effect of adding tension/strategy by keeping your health vague. How much it actually succeeds at that, I couldn't say.

[@thefalsehero]

Surprisingly great video here. Keep it up, man!!

[@LeoMidori]

I'm always amazed at just how terrible some NES/Famicom releases can be. Your review was thorough, keep up the good work!

[@JamesShow]

This sounds so fun! I hope a fully-playable remake happens in the future.

[@Gecko1993HogheadIncOfficial]

Well, maybe I’ve been too hard on Quest 64. It at least functioned, and it was in 3-D...

[@Bullman422]

This game is so horribly shitty it actually has some charm to it. LOL!!

[@SuperKlondike64]

I decided to rip the graphics for this game onto TSR, which meant I had to play through this thing from start to finish. Needless to say, I'd rather step on a Lego than do that ever again.

[@itainteasywhenitshard7087]

great video, reminds of old AVGN-type videos, without all the overexaggeration.

[@Diwasho]

Fox Junction: "Finally a worthy opponent, our battle will be legendary"

[@cbmalta42]

The Switch version of Neverwinter Nights, hands down. It’s a broken game and legitimately unplayable, and has never had any updates or attempts at fixing it.

[@Mamiya645]

2024 has been a golden year in me finding new channels to subscribe to wth. I make the recommended-videos system of YT function real well somehow.

[@doozy5184]

As someone who collects Japanese games, this looks like it would be an interesting collector's piece. Damn shame it goes for $60 on eBay...

[@CrashGordon94]

An interesting watch. Kind of baffling some of the mistakes they made in this game, when 8-bit RPGs are already kinda notorious for jank in even the good ones. Kind of sad because it seems like it could have been interesting if it was made competently at least.

[@MerlinCross13]

Damn, the game drops at the start of it when talking about bad games. Hell you knew Dragonsong. That's a sub right there.

[@hydrolythe]

RndStranger has a review of spectral tower on PS1. If hoshi wo miru hito is inept spectral tower is made by lazy hacks. And do you own panzer dragoon saga? One of the holy grails of gaming?

[@-Eclipse14-]

Unfortunately not now, though I tried to get my hands on a copy last year after some stuff happened. It just didn't work out. I did, however, play it long ago, and last year I did a playthrough on the channel to celebrate its 25th anniversary of release.

[@polytanksan5761]

It's even worse because spectral tower is in a franchise, it's in the same universe as spectral force genesis on ds where you can do only one thing per turn

[@Romeo_of_Romelution]

I finally found another video for my worst RPH playlist

[@movezig5]

I like that you played Final Fantasy music when you started talking about Dragon Quest.

[@hylianfelldragon1308]

I didn't think Final Fantasy 13 and Sonic Chronicles were THAT bad TBH.

[@JoeFpoc]

This is one of those crap games I probably would have gotten as a kid and just kept trying to play thinking it was going to get good. Back then if you got a crappy game you were stuck with it

[@joelvannatta3266]

I would argue that Florida is not flat; it is so full of sinkholes that I consider it concave.

[@wolfgangervin2582]

Playing this looks like an 8-bit death march. Also, seeing that very Panzer Dragoon-esqe font made me smile right off the bat.

[@ORLY911]

So its like the video game equivalent to Chargeman Ken

[@scottydu81]

That piano tutor episode is Kino

[@uncaringgenius]

Record of Agarest War: the Hugh Culverhouse of RPGs.

[@Nirakolov]

My "worst RPG ever made" answer is always Obitus... i hate that game

[@RetroPixelLizard]

You have to wonder what the mindset of the devs are when they see the HP counter and go: This Is fine. Truly an unsolvable mystery.

[@Kuja66613666]

aww, I would have liked to see a deep dive for this one. oh well, subbed anyway

[@DarkOverlord96]

Calling FFXIII "the worst RPG" sounds like you're stuck in 2010.

[@Dhalin]

Maybe not the "worst", however after trying it recently I would have to say it is definitely among the worst _of the franchise._

[@UltimaKeyMaster]

@@Dhalin I beat FF2 recently. Playing 13 still feels like Max enjoying FF7 by comparison.

[@madaraman27]

Ff13 is a masterpiece, amazing atmosphere amazing combat. The graphics still hold up to this day look like a modern game in a lot of places. I literally have a lcie tattoo on my arm lol

[@Dhalin]

@@UltimaKeyMaster FF2 pixel remaster is 10x better than any previous version of FF2. Highly suggest giving it a try! It plays MUCH smoother.

[@Dhalin]

@@madaraman27 This is a "agree to disagree" type thing. I prefer the oldschool turn-based or ATB systems (or Turn Priority like X/Shadow Hearts 2/3), and having direct control over my characters, and I can't say I'm a fan of how on-rails the whole thing is. I've gotten like 5-6h into the game and I still have zero control over where to go or who is in my group.

[@cosettapessa6417]

9:20 english alphabet? Ahah Nice video dude!

[@stupidusernamestaken]

I would watch you talk about every horrible design flaw in this video game

[@idontwantahandlethough]

good video man!

[@NegativeHeadspace]

Great vid. Ur mic was peaking a bunch. But otherwise outstanding content. I'd almost forgotten about this one.

[@-Eclipse14-]

I'm doing what I can about it. Hopefully it'll be more tolerable on the next one of these I'll do.

[@TheWashableBomb]

"Guys! Games were better back in the day! No bugs! Finished games! It was just the best, guys..."

[@eightcoins4401]

Its hilarious how „unfinished buggy mess“ games are as old as home consoles. Even the Atari 2600 had those.

[@eightcoins4401]

Same on the 2600. unfinished Mess is as old as Home Consoles

[@gurvmlk]

I feel like the main difference is that back then, a lot of bugs weren't things you would actively notice while playing the games. They either had very obscure triggers, or they might cause something to not function in a way that you either wouldn't realize isn't functioning, or you'd just assume that the function you're getting is the intended function. Whereas nowadays, games much more frequently suffer from bugs that are more blatant, and impossible to either ignore, or not notice at all.

[@gonzoengineering4894]

The difference is that then a disastrous launch was a failure instead of standard operating practice, and you probably didn't pre-order it

[@Miridia]

The Legend of Alon D'ar is the worst RPG ever made change my mind

[@rydrake9509]

I can totally see that, its definitely a game that I would not play, Thanks for showing us how bad the game is before I was going to try it out

[@felixdaniels37]

This game should be studied by up and coming game designers, to show them precisely how NOT to make an RPG.

[@tokadaproject]

Good video, it has a nice explanation and pacing! However, your microphone is a little too hot and it's ringing and clipping constantly. Try turning the gain down 15% or moving a few inches away and then in your editing software boost the volume if it's too quiet.

[@-Eclipse14-]

I'll see what I can do about it. Definitely something I have to figure out on my own.

[@riverstarmusic8656]

I LOVE this!!! You better blow up and become a large channel!!

[@RoninCatholic]

Limited to _professional_ RPGs that _I have played_ , the worst is Phantasy Star 3 followed by Final Fantasy 8. Which somewhat shows how good I've generally been at finding out if an RPG is any good before deciding to play it. If you include unprofessional RPG Maker tier amateur hour games, I've made things worse than what you've played. I've played horrors far worse than the laziest slop I made myself, using the same engines.

[@justsignmeup911]

Your microphone could be better but otherwise I enjoyed this video. I like finding out about games that are well-known in Japan but nowhere else.

[@renegaderaven3777]

And the story was looking so decent at the start of the video too. Not great but not terrible. Your characters “aging” up as they grow stronger is a fun idea even. But literally every aspect of gameplay looks terrible. Kind of interesting in trying it out of gross curiosity but know I’d drop it after 5 minutes.

[@LikaLaruku]

Wow, this really does sound worse than the Final Fantasy 1 port on on old Samsung flip phones.

[@Ravenpoe121]

I'm sure the music is there to show off how bad the music in the game is, but I can't make it through the video with that sound screeching in my ear.

[@ace0135]

Damn I didn’t know Sunraku started a KZbin channel Neat!

[@DendyMolotov]

Spectral Tower is still my #1, that game BLOWS But this is a solid #2. Pretty fitting.

[@KasumiRINA]

FF13 isn't even near worst Final Fantasy game, lol. Does Takeshi's challenge count? I'd vote it as the worst RPG, deliberately.

[@scottydu81]

Final Fantasy 2, Quest 64, Final Fantasy 8, and Illusion of Gaia are some of the worst RPGs I’ve ever played. This seems to definitely take the cake!

[@Lar_me]

Final Fantasy 8? I know a lot of people dislike FF8, but come on... it has some of the most awesome parts in the series! The entire parade sequence at the end of Disc 1, the war of the Gardens, the time compression sequence... It's all so COOL!!

[@scottydu81]

@ I find not a single thing about FF8 enjoyable. It’s simply too convoluted in its mechanics. The characters were whiney. The story had way too many coincidences. The actual final boss was like a matryoshka doll. FF6 was the true pinnacle, in my opinion. Kefka was the best villain.

[@JemyM]

The Infernal Tome is the worst I seen. I had to play it on a challenge to finish every realtime blobber in existence (the list had 55 games and I finished almost all by now). TIT have 3 chapters and in each fighters lose their ability to deal damage half way through due to bugs. The game have multiple gamebreaking bugs in general and play like a choppy slow mess even when running the game at a modern computer (it's a DOS game) making it hard to use the games main menu. The story is insultingly bad as well. There is a delay in how the game play voice clips causing frequent delays which make the spoken text excruciating to listen to. It looks like someone completely incompetent did the game but it also seems that it was at one point sold.

[@gurvmlk]

Maybe I just love RPGs too much to find flaws in very many of them, because of the bad games you listed at the start of the video, I liked all of those that I've actually played.

[@planescaped]

Wow... I was expecting some RPG-maker slop made by a 13 year old, but even that low hanging fruit would probably be better.

[@cesaru3619]

JRPGs are a copy of the first CRPG: Ultima 1 (June 1981) created by Richard Garriot.

[@scottydu81]

Akalabeth!

[@cesaru3619]

​@@scottydu81 Akalabeth is the first pseudo3d dungeon crawler

[@scottydu81]

@@cesaru3619 I’ve seen it referred to as Ultima 0

[@Ratty524]

Wizardry was also a major influence to the subgenre

[@cesaru3619]

@@Ratty524 Yup, I think the only thing they changed was the horizontal battle mode.

[@Mister-Sinner0]

the algorithm has blessed thee this day

[@EZFlames]

I'm not sure I had a least favorite RPG game, so this one can eaaaasily take that crown 🤣

[@TheLeadElite]

Wait so exiting out of any location sends you back to starting location on the over world? That even by itself is a deal breaker for me.

[@zakkuth7447]

A lot, if not most, of points you brought up are identical to those from a review from Hardcore Gaming 101. It's not a bad thing by itself, it just warrants a mention of the source you used.

[@ThingsOnDemand]

Star Ocean: Until the End of Time is the worst RPG ever commercially released, objectively

[@TheDiscoGenre]

Star Ocean 3 is a competently made game with one of the most idiotic plot-twists of all time. It can never be the worst anything for better or worse.

[@ThingsOnDemand]

wrong, it’s the worst

[@TheDiscoGenre]

@@ThingsOnDemand Bar goes way lower than a game that is 2/3rds filler and the remaining third is an idiotic plot twist.

[@biohazardbin]

man, I liked Sonic Chronicles 😔

[@StellaEFZ]

I came here expecting ancient roman, color me surprised!

[@vxicepickxv]

I think you have bugs and design flaws intertwined. Moving like a snail is a design flaw. Having your HP not show all the numbers is a bug.

[@FurnaxIkki]

Crusader of Centy is pretty high up for me on account of how the game straight up advocates for racism.

[@Mikewee777]

My measure of a quality RPG is by checking if COSTUMES and CONVERSATION actually have a effect on the plot . Also , checking if the game can be completed without VIOLENCE or RNG dice rolls . If a game fails to offer these four features , then in my opinion : the game is a unplayable mess .

[@MateDrinker33]

Not sure I understand the final line of your comment; with the exception of the Undertale series, very few RPGs can be completed without killing a single enemy (e.g., Chrono Trigger, etc.).

[@KasumiRINA]

Costumes having effect on plot? O_o so by your definition, 99.9% of RPGs are literally unplayable, starting with Baldur's Gate and Fallout and ending with Elder Scross and Final Fantasy, so, everything that isn't Costume quest or the Hat in Time or something.

[@Mountainmonths]

there is something there though. I think with a lot of romhacking it could be made into an ok game

[@Slvl710]

worst games Ive ever completed, (that had actual studios publish them, I dont include bs somebody made on their home computer in a afternoon as even being allowed in the debate) - men in black the game -Overblood ....Ive played worse, but never beat those games because they are unplayable

[@KasumiRINA]

MiB on PS1? It was an okay shooter in a console not known for them.

[@Slvl710]

@@KasumiRINA not that one, the resident evil clone