Josh64 Posted January 21, 2013 Posted January 21, 2013 What are some of the best/worst mistakes you've seen in videogames? Be it a small typo, a huge glitch or something so incredibly obvious that you wonder how on earth it wasn't corrected sooner. For me, one of the funniest has to be the original Super Monkey Ball on GameCube. In the game, in all of the concept art and even on the back of the case they managed to get AiAi right, so I don't know why on the front cover he has a hairless, blocky fringe. To make matters worse, this is on every single print of the game. They never changed it. So, can anyone top the 'AiAi penis head' situation?
Dcubed Posted January 21, 2013 Posted January 21, 2013 Capcpom will never live those down Shane Kim "announcing" RE5 for the 360 1 year late is another classic gaming cockup that people will continue to make jokes about forever
Sheikah Posted January 21, 2013 Posted January 21, 2013 (edited) The stars highlighting the letters "U R M R G A Y" on the Super Mario Galaxy box deserve a mention: Edited January 21, 2013 by Sheikah
tapedeck Posted January 21, 2013 Posted January 21, 2013 The Resident evil 6 logo involving the giraffe and lady springs to mind. Only other thing that springs to mind is the Stop 'N Swop for Banjo kazooie on the N64. The stars highlighting the letters "U R M R G A Y" on the Super Mario Galaxy box deserve a mention Yep, loved that one...and the sequel... http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/98728-Super-Mario-Galaxy-2-Box-Art-Responds-to-Originals-Hidden-Message
Cube Posted January 21, 2013 Posted January 21, 2013 Only other thing that springs to mind is the Stop 'N Swop for Banjo kazooie on the N64. That's more "the N64's spec changed during development, so the feature had to be removed" than a mistake.
Sheikah Posted January 21, 2013 Posted January 21, 2013 The Resident evil 6 logo involving the giraffe and lady springs to mind. Only other thing that springs to mind is the Stop 'N Swop for Banjo kazooie on the N64. Yep, loved that one...and the sequel... http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/98728-Super-Mario-Galaxy-2-Box-Art-Responds-to-Originals-Hidden-Message Hahaha that's ridiculous. Surely after the first time they would say "right guys, make SURE no messages are being hinted at this time" Better yet, you might have thought they'd ditch the small stars altogether.
The Peeps Posted January 21, 2013 Posted January 21, 2013 Taken from the funny stuff thread... Hahaha, good luck friendcode blocking that, Nintendo!
tapedeck Posted January 21, 2013 Posted January 21, 2013 That's more "the N64's spec changed during development, so the feature had to be removed" than a mistake. OK, start the thread and we'll put it in there
Cube Posted January 21, 2013 Posted January 21, 2013 It was a mistake that the "original intention" of the Stop-N-Swop was apparently to unlock Xbox 360 dashboard themes and avatars.
Ronnie Posted January 21, 2013 Posted January 21, 2013 Yep, loved that one...and the sequel... http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/98728-Super-Mario-Galaxy-2-Box-Art-Responds-to-Originals-Hidden-Message Looking at this art for Super Mario Galaxy 2, the shine marks notate "U R M A I A Y." While "UR MAI AY" is nothing significant, and the controversial saga nearly ends right there, All is Brawl noticed that if you reverse the sequence, you get: "YA I M R U," or "Yeah I am, are you?" WTF?? Not only are they seeing things that aren't there and inventing a ridiculously convoluted decoding, they're missing the most obvious to all message in the title: U R M I A L Y You are my ally = Yoshi.
Sheikah Posted January 21, 2013 Posted January 21, 2013 (edited) WTF?? Not only are they seeing things that aren't there and inventing a ridiculously convoluted decoding, they're missing the most obvious to all message in the title: U R M I A L Y You are my ally = Yoshi. I'd say seeing M I as 'my' and A L Y as 'ally' is as much as a stretch as seeing M as 'am'. I don't see how reading something backwards is ridiculously convoluted as well... Either way, the first way is much funnier. :p Edited January 21, 2013 by Sheikah
Captain Falcon Posted January 21, 2013 Posted January 21, 2013 The Resident evil 6 logo involving the giraffe and lady springs to mind. I think the general consensus is that you could have just wrote "Resident Evil 6" and had done with it - no need to start calling out individual bits. The first things that sprung to my mind were games that insult people such as Ubisoft's Mind quiz game that called you a "Super Spastic" if you got a poor score. Mario Party 8 also went on to use the word and had all copies removed from store shelves. Plus, there was Wii Fit referring to kids as obese when they weren't because it uses the BMI scale since something with genuine scientific validity just isn't possible on a set of scales.
Ashley Posted January 21, 2013 Posted January 21, 2013 (edited) Isn't Ai-Ai's fringe just (badly) lit on the front of the box, making it look flesh-coloured? If you change around some of the settings it becomes a bit clearer, especially as you can see the light being shone on the ball: Edited January 21, 2013 by Ashley
Sheikah Posted January 21, 2013 Posted January 21, 2013 Isn't Ai-Ai's fringe just (badly) lit on the front of the box, making it look flesh-coloured? If you change around some of the settings it becomes a bit clearer, especially as you can see the light being shone on the ball: Yeah that's what I thought.
tapedeck Posted January 21, 2013 Posted January 21, 2013 I think the general consensus is that you could have just wrote "Resident Evil 6" and had done with it - no need to start calling out individual bits. Is it that bad?
Cube Posted January 22, 2013 Posted January 22, 2013 Is it that bad? From what I hear, it's a half-decent action game. If it wasn't Resident Evil it would have probably gotten average reviews and be forgotten fairly quickly. The biggest problem with it is that "Resident Evil" brings up certain expectations - in terms of horror and game quality - which RE6 certainly does not meet. Imagine if one of those many N64/GameCube era generic licensed platform games - one of the ones which wasn't exactly terrible, but also had nothing going for it - was a proper Mario title from Nintendo.
Ville Posted January 22, 2013 Posted January 22, 2013 Hahaha that's ridiculous. Surely after the first time they would say "right guys, make SURE no messages are being hinted at this time" Better yet, you might have thought they'd ditch the small stars altogether. I bet the next game's name is so long they can star "u r all faggots" : D
Josh64 Posted January 22, 2013 Author Posted January 22, 2013 If that's the case, then that is some of the worst lighting in history :p
Magnus Posted January 22, 2013 Posted January 22, 2013 Or some of the best lighting in history? It has to light up the tuft of hair - and only the tuft of hair - in such a way that it looks to be the same color has his face and ears. That's pretty impressive!
Debug Mode Posted January 22, 2013 Posted January 22, 2013 Always going to be my favourite E3 moment, it's just going to be so hard to top. At second place: Third place: (That fucking Wii Music section)
BowserBasher Posted January 22, 2013 Posted January 22, 2013 I think it was WWE No Mercy for the N64. The first run of copies had a major glitch that erased your save whenever you turned the game off. You could get the game replaced, but the new ones had blood taken out.
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