Re: CRAP Poll: Favorite Era of Gaming

On Wed, 18 Sep 2024 02:51:31 -0400, Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> wrote:

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
say:
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* an older game, I know, but "Terminator: Rampage" is one of those
games that instantly pops into my head when I think of bad games. ;-)

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Along with Descent to Undermountain?

I'm more forgiving of "Descent to Undermountain". It wasn't a good
game, no, not at all. But it had the _potential_ to be a good game.
More than anything, it felt rushed out the door. It had some good
concepts; its level design wasn't too bad, the idea of a fully 3D
dungeon was neat (and the game tried to utilize it more fully than any
other game had at the time) and the setting was interesting. It
_could_ have been a good game.

"Rampage", though, was pure slop. Its engine was sluggish and awful,
its levels were incredibly large, dull mazes that all looked alike,
the enemy placement was awful, the guns were awful, the sound was
awful, the story was awful... look, pick a feature of that game and
just append 'awful' to it.

"Undermountain" wasn't good. But "Rampage" was bad.