Not really. I completed that game on the nightmare difficulty. Sure, it was tough. But I found the androids more annoying than the alien. You can drastically reduce the amount that the alien shows up just by being quiet.
It's also on every single list about ending games early. Makes sense to try and pick examples that are a bit more interesting to try and get more viewers.
Mario Kart 64 was ironically given a 6.4 by Gamespot, and they claimed it was "very likely to disappoint you after about a week." Obviously, we know that wasn't the case.
@@viewtifuljon8105it's my favorite one, personally, but if we're going by more objective measures, I would still say that it's better than the SNES and game boy advance ones, and maybe even the 3DS one as well.
Two Worlds when you first meet the final boss attack him and run into the village. Watch the NPCs kill him and then interact with his dead body. complete the game in under 3 minutes
The fact that critics rated alien isolation so low is a crime against humanity! That was the fourth game I ever played on my ps4 me and my girl played it in the dark and the fact that the alien was scaring her and she was hitting me out of fear I got the double whammy of terror! Still play that game to this day
There was a review by IGN years ago about Mugen Souls, when it transpired the reviewer didn't even have the trophy for starting the game. It was not a good review... Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory has a trophy for starting the game that takes a pop at this in the flavour text.
While Idea Factory & Compile Heart do deserve the reputation for reusing the same engine and gameplay loops in almost every single game they make, the Nep games certainly don't hold back when it comes to 4th-wall jabs and references.
I was hoping that The Witness would be on this list. You can beat it in less than a minute after exiting the tutorial tunnel by opening the first gate you come to.
I'm surprised that Zero Time Dilemma wasn't on this list. Not only is it a game where you can get to an ending after the first cutscene, but the game forces you to reach that ending before the rest of the game even becomes available to play.
Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town also gives you an option if you wish to continue your grandfather's legacy in the beginning and when you choose to decline, the credits will roll.
I learned about metal saga, because my friend was a game tester for it at Atlas. He hated it, but gave us a free copy. Our entire college frat house got together to try the game and immediately picked the option of being a mechanic. Watching the protagonist get such a boring ending at the very beginning of the game, we were all dying laughing, and immediately declared the game of masterpiece.
Yeah I remember choosing Mechanic just expecting the typical communist choice as so many games did back then only to have my mouth drop when I got the ending credits. I never laughed so hard in my life as well
I would say two somewhat hidden gems are Jaws Unleashed and Scarface on Xbox OG. Maybe I'm blind by nostalgia but I thoroughly enjoyed both as a child and no one else seemed to like them
@martinde-serres8724 so edgy! Have you even finished it? It's actually pretty original, bike and hoard systems are completely new, basically the only post apocalypse game with color, no zombies in it.
In the PS2 title, Soul Nomad & the World Eaters, your protagonist is possessed by an ancient evil named Gig. Very early on in the game is a “supposed to lose” fight against one of Gig’s minions (the titular World Eaters) but Gig gives you the opportunity to win if you give him full control of your body and…yeah, that’s not a good idea, but it DOES get you to an ending a heck of a lot faster!
Herzog Zwei for the Sega Genesis, one of the very first FPS games ever made. Hated by critics, especially EGM. Too far ahead of its time. Now considered a classic.
Axiom verge was reviewed terribly by IGN. I'm not sure even if they played it ...... As for games you can finish quick besides a ton of Atari 2600 games, there's The Legend of Zelda: A link to the past that you can beat in about two minutes. Also speed runners have got King's Quest 1 for the PC down to about a minute! You should check that out. The "zips" are next level.
Woah what! When did Jules leave what culture?! I must have missed something 😮💨 but good to hear you back for Tuesyourownadventure! Glad the algorithm brought me this nice tidbit!
Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric. Why? because after they fixed a few big bugs, it was a fairly decent game to play. I kinda dislike the fact that games like No Man's Sky and Cyberpunk get praise after initial bugs are seen, laughed at, fixed but then forgotten, but Sonic Boom gets flack even after the biggest of the bugs get fixed like the infinite Knuckles jump, just because it's Sonic. I'm not a Sonic fanboy, I just wanted to see what all the fuss was about with the game and found it to be quite a delightful romp tbh.
Two more: 1. Shacked - the arcade version, there is a secret path in the very first area of the first room that takes you right to the ending. It probably takes about 15 seconds to beat. 2. Infernax - When you get off the boat in the beginning and encounter the first zombie, you can turn back to the boat and trigger an ending that shows you running away from all the danger. That maybe takes 45 seconds.
I would like to point out that Metal Saga, that ending? It's as long as the 'real' endings the game offers(There's technically two, though one is after the other). Maybe even longer honestly, and more detailed. That said, yes, some of that is the listing of things found in the game...like the doggie with a gun on its back. Which is adorable...and sadly it can't drive a tank so it slowly loses out to those metal monsters for which the game is named.
GameInformer’s Mario Party 1 & 2 reviews are absolute gold when you look at them more than just the plaque Nintendo sent them as a thank you. Their aggregate score for the first game was a 3.5/10, but this was based on 3 separate reviews they made. One of these rated it a 2.25/10 for being (and I quote) “extremely boring and more of a chore than anything else” (he rated it a .25/10 for playability and entertainment). Another rated it 2.5/10 and called it “'Satan' and 'Torture.'” Mario Party 2 faired better, but received a 5.25/10. One of the 3 reviewers for GameInformer wrote that “anyone who purchases this game is mentally deficient.” He did make a good point that the game was very much reliant on luck. Another reviewer wrote that, like the first game, “this release brings out the devil in me as well.” He rated it a 5.75/10, compared to his 2.25/10 for the first game
With Super Paper Mario, I would not argue that a "Game Over" screen counts as "completing the game". Otherwise you can beat the original Super Mario Bros. in under 60 seconds by running into the first goomba 3 times.
It's okay, and has some decent stuff in it, plus Fragile and Cliff, who are the best parts of the game. MGS4 sucked. I played 8 to 10 hours, but I watched 14 hours of cutscenes.
Inescapeable is a utterly fascinating visual novel that has a metacritic in the 50s, I find it interesting because the kind of game that you think you are playing becomes that kind of game. For instance, if you are distrustful of people it becomes a murder mystery, if you try to spend your time with all the sexy characters, it becomes game very fanservice-y game, and if you tried to complete minigames to their fullest, it becomes a competition between the characters.
Splatterhouse (2010 PS3/360) had an absurdly terrible review from an IGN critic - the game is pretty awesome but the reviewer made it sound like it was utter *garbage* in every conceivable aspect - I'm still baffled by it to this day
Suggestion for great game with crap reviews: Days Gone. Because of a slow start, it was written off as a dull zombie wannabe, but once you start encountering hordes, it turned into one of the whitest knuckle gaming experiences ever. And a beautiful open world to explore too. Such a shame the follow up got cancelled because of its initial poor performance. A real gem.
I had it, as well as "Monty Python's Complete Waste of Time." They're both delightful, but "Holy Grail" especially (though you have to do some very specific things in order to get the bodice, and if you didn't, you had to restart).
With path of neo, if you complete the game on easiest mode, you can redo the last mission on hardest difficulty and unlock all the cheats without having to play the whole game again
Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub Zero is actually a great action adventure game with interesting puzzles and an interesting storyline and good cut-scenes, BUT: (1) you have to play the PS version (the N64 version can't show the video cut-scenes), (2) you have to remap the controls to make sense (the default settings are terrible), (3) you have to enter the cheat code for 1000 lives because the game is full of instakill booby traps that ruin the game when combined with limited lives, AND (4) you have to play on at least "Normal" difficulty, or you miss half the game. Do these four things, and it's not just playable--it's downright good.
Days Gone is one of the greatest games on PS4 (and it plays even better on PS5!). The early reviews were lazy and didn't reflect the true quality of the game, and it undersold... now, the chances of a Days Gone II are virtually zero as the creative team have left Bend Studio. Such a travesty!!!
Taking the blue pill or refusing to save the world in Paper Mario is not finishing the game. If that were the definition of finishing a game, then I could finish any game in seconds by just dying ASAP, like jumping off the first cliff I come across. But what that does is END the game, and that's not the same as finishing the game, because in both cases you don't see an ending or credits.
I'm not sure about this list. You haven't finished a game just because it sends you back the main screen. To 'finish' a game, you at least need to see the end credits, see the final cut-scene or beat the end boss. Paper Mario for example, you got the Game Over screen, then sent back to the Start screen. Game Over is NOT completing a game!
Monty Python and the Holy Grail? "I fart in your general direction! Your Mother was a Hamster, and your Father smelt, of Elderberries" (John Cleese with a bad French accent)
What the Fudge?!? I just went from watching Jules on another channel to stumbling upon this video on a channel I've never watched before. He's everywhere!!!
I'm certain Deadly Premonition is already on the list, so I'll say Killer 7 instead. Not only was this game panned by critics at the time it first came out, but it's re-release was also panned for being a worse version of the original! It can't win!
_A Link to the Past_ also has a similar quick win as Spyro where you clip through the walls in the castle and blind walk your way to the Triforce ending cutscene.
Don't agree with the ones that give you a game over. That's not finishing the game. That is ending the game. You can do that with any game at any time.
IGN complaining that a Pokémon game centered around travelling between archipelagos having “too much water” is a classic. But the worst of the worst is all those Steam reviews that don’t provide any substance, ask for likes / awards or are just an old gamefaqs text picture. These provide 0 substance and shouldn’t even be counted as a reviews. It kills the purpose of user generated reviews, I get it, no one is a word smith. But FFS if I see another frog as the review of a video game…
There was also Shadow Complex. Righr after the protagonist's girlfriend is captured, you can just get back into the car. He'll drive off saying it wasn't worth the risk. The player DOES miss out on a really good game by doing so.
I have to give an honorable mention to Chrono Trigger which has multiple endings. The quickest one is achieved by dieing in battle. The game fast forwards about 1000 years, and the world more or less ends. The crazy thing is that this is technically what's "supposed to" happen.
I remember back in like 2012 my buddy let me borrow his copy of enter the dragonfly because I was so astounded that that was his first experience with Spyro so in exchange I lent him my copies of the PS1 games and when I booted up enter the dragonfly mind you I played it at release, I completely by accident clipped into the ripto final boss and yeah,, very well may have been a world record contender
Farcry 4 and Farcry 5 both had ways of ending the games shortly after starting them. In 4 you don't leave Pagan Min's dining room and in 5 you don't arrest Joseph Seed.
What’s odd with Metal Saga is that, the end of the game involves you stopping the evil AI from killing every human left on the planet, so it’s sort of a mystery how you would live very long as a mechanic.
