Awesomeness in crappy things.

axeman61

Title is self-expanatory. Sometimes a crappy movie, tv show, or game has its good moments.

For example, I recently watched Spiderman 3, and it was just as crappy as every critic and internet video said it was. But the sequence when the guy gets morphed into Sandman was pretty cool.

leileilol

Streets of Simshitty had an awesome soundtrack.

Hotobu

This thread?

Naw seriously, but how about when you've gotta take a big shit? I don't mean the normal big shit, but that once in a blue moon shit that has you doubled over the toilet wanting to make a deal with the devil to end the madness? You know it's either the the one that feels like a blowtorch, or a clipper ship is about to come out your ass. It sucks, but man when it's over I just want to go out and dunk a fucking basketball.

hubcapsignstop

I heard N.Koreans sift through pigfeces for the undigested bits on which to survive
that is most definitely awe inspiring

yesterday I found a dope spiderman Tshirt for $3 at joblots

WTF-AKUMA-HAX

Elbow tight, that's some good form for a gdam... "no look" Jump shot :eek:

Spoiler:

Don't even try to get fancy and cr MK xx Taunt... he then misses the pass if the MK hit or got blocked.

goodm0urning

hubcapsignstop, post: 7397649, member: 3396 wrote:

I heard N.Koreans sift through pigfeces for the undigested bits on which to survive

This is going to be my go-to metaphor for so many things.

Rabbit2k7

Games that are considered "bad" or just barely considered "good".

Take Risen for example. Incredible game. Ridiculously difficult for all the right reasons, all of which are very video gamey reasons. You spend your play time learning to combat the game engine, instead of learning how to combat enemies in the game itself. It's so old school in that aspect.

Okay, if I stand in this door way at the right angle, the enemies don't realize I'm here and I can kill them.

My jump is stupid floaty, but its also really late, so you can jump and continue to move forward for 3 feet before you even leave the ground, despite not walking, and the game thinks you're in the air, so you can technically walk over pressure plates without setting them off.

Enemies will immediately kill you without warning. You have to know exactly how to bait them out one at a time, and know exactly how their stupid animations are going to hit you.

I love games like this.

Lazyjosh2

Enemies will immediately kill you without warning, sounds like demon and dark souls.

M.D.

- When you scratch an insect bite or a poison ivy rash.
- The satisfaction of pulling out a splinter from your hand.
- Major Snowstorms (Sure, we can't go anywhere, but look at all this pretty snow.)
- When it's finally your turn to ride a roller coaster after waiting in a long line.
- Spending anywhere from 50 minutes to an hour & a half filling out an application and assessment, then actually getting the job.
- Putting Goldbond powder on a busted blister (THIS STUFF WORKS!).
- When you get that high mark in a class you grind out for.
- Mastering that hard link/maneuver/combo you spent hours in training mode trying to do.
- When you get that paycheck after a 60-hour work week.
- Finally getting your food after a long wait at a busy restaurant.
- When all that diet, weight training and/or exercise pays off and you start to see results.
- Unlocking that hard to get character/stage/item/mode/ending after putting in work.
- Placing high in a tournament that more than a 2-hour drive.
- Getting a shot from an attractive female doctor.
- Seeing your game in action after hours of programming (or drag-and-dropping; I suck at coding).

Rabbit2k7

Lazyjosh2, post: 7397959, member: 56799 wrote:

Enemies will immediately kill you without warning, sounds like demon and dark souls.

DeS and DaS does this correctly. Often times an enemy will not slap you once and instantly murder you. Risen is like... the first god damned bird thing on the beach as soon as the game starts will immediately kill you.

NickRocks

the mvc2 subforum on SRK

Lazyjosh2

Rabbit2k7, post: 7398001, member: 10547 wrote:

DeS and DaS does this correctly. Often times an enemy will not slap you once and instantly murder you. Risen is like... the first god damned bird thing on the beach as soon as the game starts will immediately kill you.

those guys who jump at you at the very beginning and swing their sword like a mad man can kill you instantly if you dont know how to dodge them

Rabbit2k7

Lazyjosh2, post: 7398073, member: 56799 wrote:

those guys who jump at you at the very beginning and swing their sword like a mad man can kill you instantly if you dont know how to dodge them

Yeah but they leap at you, which telegraphs the move, and then stand still and swing like idiots and hit you a bunch of times so you can expect to lose a lot of life. Also, you can easily dodge that and kill them.

DeS and DaS is built around this mechanic. The combat is absolutely brilliant. Everything is created with care. Its smooth, its smart, its perfect.

Risen is like... wake up on beach, first fight is the clunkiest bullshit combat and controls ever, and an ostrich pecks you once and straight murders your ass because the combat is just shit.

Vynce

-The first 50 minutes of Watchmen
-The scenes in Gamer in which GB appeared
-Action scenes in Matrix Reloaded
-Damon in Vampire Diaries, though the show really stepped it up late into this past season

True Grave

Batman & Robin for the Sega Genesis. A technical feat for the system with many impressive visuals for sure, but....OMG! The difficulty is so savage that it just kills any fun to be had.

This shit is worse than Ghoul's N Ghosts.

Cannonspike1994

The action in the Matrix sequels.

True Grave

Raul Julia's great performance in the Street Fighter movie.

geadom

Lazyjosh2

Dragon Warrior 2, the battles were fucking dumb. You die in like 1 or 2 turns fuck, still its not one of the worst games ever. Its just a pain in the ass, maybe the hardest rpg

Amazing Funbags

How Team Aqua/Magma almost destroy earth in Pokemon Emerald.

Tweleve

True Grave, post: 7398360, member: 5816 wrote:

Raul Julia's great performance in the Street Fighter movie.

And what would the "crappy thing" be?

shin neferio

True Grave, post: 7398320, member: 5816 wrote:

Batman & Robin for the Sega Genesis. A technical feat for the system with many impressive visuals for sure, but....OMG! The difficulty is so savage that it just kills any fun to be had.

This shit is worse than Ghoul's N Ghosts.

hahahah oh man i just googled this. looks like contra

Gigas Breaker

Equilibrium is dumb as hell, but some of the action scenes are cool.

True Grave

shin neferio, post: 7398742, member: 8526 wrote:

hahahah oh man i just googled this. looks like contra

Worse! The difficulty is simply unreasonable.

Thankfully there is a stage select code.

Combo_Knight

WTF-AKUMA-HAX, post: 7397770, member: 69818 wrote:

Spoiler:

Elbow tight, that's some good form for a gdam... "no look" Jump shot :eek:

Spoiler:

Don't even try to get fancy and cr MK xx Taunt... he then misses the pass if the MK hit or got blocked.

I look at that gif and I can only think
"Sean just jumpered away the last fuck I gave :( "


Awesomeness in crappy things.....Diesel in shaq fu. that nigga was REALLY good fuck all that Beast and Sett Ra hype shit. Fucking Diesel was the man. If I coul take his moveset into a street fighter or Marvel game I would do that shit in a heart beat. Diesel was the fucking best And he had a kick ass theme for his stage.

Spoiler:

Red Lotus

-Spending too much money on a Light Gun arcade game, but beating it anyways because your pride demands that you finish what you started.
-Ending a long losing streak in a fighting game.
-Getting a hot girl to give you her phone number. Then when you ask her about the strange area code you discover she lives across the country.
-Discovering combos, and ways to break a character in a fighting game that no one else plays.
-Finally figuring what's wrong with code you've written after hours/days of frustration.
-Doomsday Warrior for the SNES. Overall a pretty crappy game, but it had a great soundtrack.
-Final Fantasy Mystic Quest...quite possibly the easiest RPG imaginable, but again awesome soundtrack.
-Hagane for the SNES. Insanely hard to beat. Great soundtrack.
-Being madly in love with an Ex-girlfriend for what seems like forever...then when she finally calls you, you've gotten over her.
-Winning a fight, but not looking like you won.
-Losing a fight, but the other guy looks so messed up, everyone thinks he lost.
-Winning a bet...against a guy who won't pay up. Not everyone can pull a Stewie when they want to.
-Losing the first two rounds in a fighting game online, winning the second two, and having your opponent rage quit on round 3.
-Winning any type of a case in court, because going to court is always crappy.
-Filing taxes...and getting tax returns.
-Discovering a band/artist you like, only to learn they only released 1 album...and that was a couple years back.
-The Intros in poorly written 80s & 90s cartoons.
-Even though Mako died, Tartakovsky has all the audio needed to finish Samurai Jack. But...it ain't gonna happen.

Manx

Marvel 2?

Fuck you!

shin neferio

Red Lotus, post: 7399284, member: 5634 wrote:

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-Even though Mako died, Tartakovsky has all the audio needed to finish Samurai Jack. But...it ain't gonna happen.

fuckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk samuraiiiiii jack -single tear-

Jocelot

That once scene in the newer Ghost Rider movie where the guy with the 'rot things by touching it' powers grabs the Twinky and nothing happens to it.

Smoothjazz101

Videogames in general

Gigas Breaker

Shitty pizza with Tobasco

JediLink

Sonic Colours. Crappy game, but goddamn are the cutscenes hilarious.

de BLOO

Whenever Pulp Fictions shows up in shitty memes.

example

WTF-AKUMA-HAX

JediLink, post: 7405402, member: 67446 wrote:

Sonic Colours. Crappy game, but goddamn are the cutscenes hilarious.

Various Music in that game is also good.

JediLink

WTF-AKUMA-HAX, post: 7405421, member: 69818 wrote:

Various Music in that game is also good.

That too. I like Tropical Resort in particular.

PatakaReada

Wait hold on, how is Colors bad?

JediLink

PatakaReada, post: 7405711, member: 17556 wrote:

Wait hold on, how is Colors bad?

The gameplay in Colours was just bad. First, there was too much 2D and not enough 3D. Unleashed and Generations both got the blend perfect, Colours screwed it up massively.

Also, there was too much of an emphasis on platforming. That's not usually not a problem, but in this case they're reusing the physics/controls from Unleashed, which was designed for speed and speed only. Platforming with Daytime/Modern Sonic isn't fun because he wasn't designed for platforming. Again, Unleashed and Generations did this properly by having all of the platforming as separate (Werehog/Classic Sonic) where it actually worked. Well, not so much with the Werehog but at least they tried.

And, most importantly, there was no sense of speed. This ties in with the previous two. Since the series' inception, the main appeal of the Sonic games has been just how fast you can go. When you've memorised all of the shortcuts in a level and you can play the level perfectly, that's when Sonic is the most fun. Unleashed did this especially well because they made the requirements to get an S-Rank really strict, making it all the more satisfying when you finally got it. In Colours, if you look at any level you can clearly see that the developers didn't have speed in mind when they were making it. Further evidence is in the way that the ranking system works. In Unleashed and Generations, to get an S-Rank you needed to finish the level as fast as possible without dying. In Colours, you basically needed to just get a wisp and use its power over and over and over.

tl;dr version: Sonic Unleashed was good. Sonic Colours tried to copy Unleashed but in the process screwed up everything that made Unleashed good. Sonic Generations also tried to copy Unleashed, and actually did it properly.