Games That Should Not Be Games…

You know the sort of thing. Games that are created and just shouldn’t really be made into a game.

For example, cricket. The idea of cricket is a slow paced tactical game that spans over five days. The teams score runs slowly, most of the time they don’t hit the ball, and it’s generally just an excuse for most of the crowd to sit there and drink beer and cheer the odd four or six…

Then along comes Brian Lara Cricket. I sit there for half an hour, amass a score of 600-2 (playing as England, which is even more unrealistic) and then skittle the opposition for 80 odd runs (Australia, which is even MORE unrealistic.) In the game time, a day of "play" has barely gone by. So I’m scoring at quite a fierce rate to get 600 odd runs.

Anyone else think of any games that are unusual and perhaps not suited to be computer games? Anyone think that most sporting games are like this in general?

Shadow of Memories was verging on becoming one long movie, making the game aspect of it pretty irelevant, but still, a rather entertaining and most interesting ‘movie’ for a rainy weekend.

And, oh yah, while I think about it, Star Trek – Starship Creator, seeing as I always used to do the ‘Live Long and Prosper’ hand gesture (a bad habbit to pick up, but still, what can a fanboy do? :p ), a friend got me the game as a birthday present.
But to call it a game would be an insult to Steve Russel (n.b. the godfather of games).
It’s the most tedious pile of unplayable garbage to ever exist, you just stick a crew together, put them on a ship, and just sit and watch as statistics pop up on the screen. -_-
It’s impossible to actually ‘play’ anything, and is more use as a frisbee/placemat/mirror/shiny thing.

edit: Please don’t double post. Use the edit button 🙂

Sport fishing. I mean, seriously… In real fishing you sit there, like, all day, waiting for a fish to come and chomp his little fishy mouth onto your hook, and then you reel him up out of the water until his flopping body is splishing water all over your clothes.

…is that REALLY something that should be recreated as a VIDEO game??

I seriously don’t get it. XD

I think I once read that when Steven Spielberg had the idea for The Dig he first wanted it to be a movie, but then turned it into an adventure… a really good one even.
It would have been a cool movie, though! Maybe with Harrison Ford as the main character, cool special effects and… Yeah, this mysterious story would have made a good movie.

yeah sport/fishing games suck, if you wanted to play them you would play them for real!
them army man games arnt very good also

"Where’s Waldo?" for the NES..I pity anyone who spent money on it. The whole game takes from literally 5 to 10 minutes…if you paid more than a dollar for this game, you’ve been ripped.

Waldo was meant for books…(the Sega version wasn’t AS bad though..)

And yeah..sports games aren’t m’fancy.

Basically any form of sport games. That’s just not where my interests are.

Mini-Golf. Tennis. Cricket. Rugby. Others.

Anything that tries to be both fun and educational is destined for failure. Captain Novolin, anyone?

not all sports games are bad. i love hot shots golf 2.

the fifth element. it was an AWESOME movie (hence my name). the game…. ….well, sucked… …really bad. ’nuff said.

Burning Desire.

Dear god, this is one seriously f–ked up peice of work. As if it wasn’t bad enough that somebody went and made a porn game for the Atari 2600, they had to go and make it a porn game where you play a fireman who rescues women from cannibal cook-offs by AIRLIFTING THEM TO SAFETY WITH HIS GIANT PENIS. That’s right: you find a woman on fire, you dangle from the helicopter and extinguish the said fire in a way I’d rather not talk about, and then you heroically jet the distressed damsel to safety by graciously letting her hang onto your monster dong with… with her teeth. Anyway, when that’s done, the mission is considered to be a success and you’re "rewarded" with a 2 second animation that’s supposed to be erotic but really just looks like two tan coloured lego bricks rubbing up against each other. And then the game resets and you get to do it all over again. Provided, of course, that you haven’t already stabbed your own eyes out with a plastic spoon. I know I wanted to.

I say any game based off a cartoon that was a failure to being with. example power rangers…I figure the reason they made this game was to comfirm the crappiness of the actual show itself…if that wasn’t the point then i’m lost more than ever about it

Dodgebal.

I find it would be rather difficult to make an enjoyable game where you try to dodge the balls while running yet need to make precise throws on moving targets. I think generally controls have not evolved that much to make that enjoyable.

Actually they made a game of Dodgeball and it’s probably one of the best few games on my NES and GBA list. It’s called Super Dodge Ball, you should pick it up. ^_^

And the first three Power Ranger games for SNES rocked. ;_;

I’m guessing the control scheme is not very precise though.

Does it involve groups of people throwing balls at you and you dodge them while also trying to throw the balls at them?

My guess is you can’t do a manual aim that I’m thinking of.

Football (soccer) games are great, as are racing games. Both are sports and they are fun to play. Cricket it a naff idea and so is fishing.

As for Atari 2600 porno, along with Fireman-Wang, there was one where you had to guide a woman along a path and above her was a guy shooting out man juice and you scored points for the more juice you caught.

Along with this is another game, where you play a prostitute who has to get to the houses, screw the customers while avoiding the law.

Prostitution is not a game! It is a serious profession! :nono: