Bad video games are released all the time. A raft of factors conspire to influence the quality of the outcome. Maybe tight deadlines are to blame. Or maybe the problems include inexperienced developers, incompetent project management, impossible publisher requests, funding concerns. It's a seemingly unavoidable fact that not every game can be great, or good, or even average.
So how does a game, one made by a celebrated studio and backed by one of the richest game publishers in the world, turn out to be a bad video game? This is a story about exactly that. It's about Silicon Knights the studio behind the great Eternal Darkness, the miserable X-Men: Destiny. It's about a proud leader, frustrated ex-employees, many internal clashes and a secret sequel everyone hoped would be great.
Nintendo hasn’t been the biggest advocate for horror in recent years, but many years ago, with the help of Silicon Knights, it produced its most iconic horror game in Eternal Darkness
This week Junae(@JunaeBenne) from Black Girl Gamers(@Official_BGG) joins Mike (@AssaultSuit), Tiny (@Tiny415) and Aaron (@Ind1fference) to talk about: 60 Parsecs, Avengers Infinity War, Thor Ragnarok, Black Panther, Beauty and the Beast, cosplay, Solo: A Star Wars Movie, Childish Gambino, Donald Glover, Lauryn Hill, Pacific Rim 2, Spider-Man Homecoming, Prowler, The Dragon Prince, Jack Ryan, BumbleBee, Predator 2, Black Lightning, AMC Stubbs, Movie Pass, Fortnite, Jeopardy, HQ, Marvel's Spider-Man, 60 Parsecs, Crash Insane Trilogy, Marble It Up!, God of War, Metroid Samus Returns, The Messenger, Obi-Wan, Jaws, Hover, Marvel Nemesis, X-men Destiny, Necessary Roughness, Neo-Geo pocket color, Chrono Trigger, Pilot Sports, Wandersong, The Garden Between, MagiCat, Super Punch-Out, Creed, The Smurfs, Aggretsuko, BoJack Horseman, Telltale Games, X018, Oculus Quest, PS Now and more.
Mrs Nesbitt from BBG writes: "The superhero genre is massive in the movie industry with MCU dominating the scene with several Avengers movies and other subsequent titles. So, what about video games? Similar to the game to movie transition, movies have not always transitioned very well. (Dare I mention Charlie’s Angels for GameCube?) Luckily for us, we have had some spectacular superhero games, and equally, some downright “what were they thinking” titles."
PS1 Spider-Man Wins it for me because Stan Lee narrated it all, his opening speech alone gets you pumped, also Worst: Spider-Man: Web of Shadows...ew
I agree with the 1st spiderman. I have it on DC though. Hulk UD is a fun game as well.
Probably in the minority but I really enjoyed Batman Begins before the Arkham series came along.
Deadpool was trash though, it's surprising to me that Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker isn't on the list but then again that's probably a good thing.
Ah yes and Spider-Man (2000) man that game was my childhood but the sequel Enter Electro was so underwhelming.
Everything went wrong when they stopped being 2nd party for Nintendo
The whole SK team and their lack of talent
i mean it didn't even need the x-men brand to add extra pressure to making the game fall short of being acceptable. it was really the fact it was a generic game with the x-men brand and nothing about the gameplay or story was appealing to x-men or superhero fans.
An X-Men game where you don't play as any of the X-Men seems like a bad idea.
Awful camera angles, horrible character customization. They promised a ton and delivered none. I got it for 10 bucks from gamefly so I didn't get ripped off too much.