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What was the worst game adapation of a movie you have ever played? (piefed.social)
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[–] 12 points 7 months ago (10 children)

This sort of question has come up many times, and my knee jerk reaction is to always say E.T. for the Atari 2600, but I have actually played a worse licensed game that could arguably be said was an adaptation of a movie. It was Superman 64 for the Nintendo 64. It is just an utter failure of a game. It is boring, buggy, and frustrating. It looks bad, controls bad, plays bad. At no point does that game approach "fun".

In the spirit of the post, one could argue that this isn't specifically about the Superman movie and could be more about the comic books. I never read them, so I can't say. Honestly, the game was so bad it was hard to tell which inspired it.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Well… it’s based on the 90s cartoon…

    https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0115378/

    But in reality it was “inspired” by cash grab money and bad management.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Ah fair enough, I guess that technically disqualifies it from the post. Regardless, I feel it was good to spread awareness of what a piece of shit it was!

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    It really was so bad. In that egregious way that just shits on your childhood. It came out during the rise of popularity of the animated Batman and Superman shows that were top notch productions and I remember being excited that it was a game and fortunately I got to play a demo at toys r us before I wasted money on it.

    The one silver lining is watching humorous YouTubers do long plays of it now.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    I genuinely think that Superman 64 is more entertaining and fun to play than E.T. .

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Not a high bar, but perhaps you're right. I played a LOT more E.T. so I am for sure biased.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    We are all biased. :-) There is no other way to judge games for your personal taste or experience.

    It also depends on the context. I assume you was a E.T. fan and you was young, didn't have many games and really wanted to like it and played it a lot overlooking its flaws, until you got a bit the hang of it. I am assuming a lot here! Then decade later you have so much experience, filter out good from bad games and then comes Superman 64, maybe you don't even care about Superman (Just assuming here, let's put anyone in this role, not just you). And then "oh yeah shitty game, no one cares".

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I think you misunderstood the context actually. I was indeed young when I played E.T., but I wasn't a fan of the game (or movie really) ever. The game was very very frustrating to basically everyone that played it and I hate it so very much. I was actually glad to see that the rest of the human race hated it once the internet became common, it made me feel more in tune with the rest of society. All that being said, I think Superman 64 is a worse game and I consider that almost an accomplishment in itself.

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