The absolute worst game I think I've ever played.

[2600Lives]

Well, I really, REALLY wanted to like this one. Really, I did, but sadly, no, I can't. In fact, I think a 100 hour marathon session of Total Recall on the NES is a better way to spend one's time.

 

The game? Indigo Prophecy. I had heard all kinds of good things about this one, and REALLY wanted to try it. So, cool, my buddy buys it, and I buy it off of him.

 

Welp, the game IS pretty cool at first. You've got a unique control scheme (this is for the PC by the way). Instead of an interact button or something, you make little motions with the mouse to do stuff. Neat, huh? WRONG!!!

 

Everything is all good until you get to a stupid ASS flashback sequence, where you play as the most amazingly dorky kid in existence. You've got to climb a fence, right? Now, how hard can that be? Well, for this game, it's absolutely impossible, that's how hard. You've got to make a little right to left motion, then a half circular sweep upwards over and over to get up the fence. The way you do it is by following a little glowing marker with your mouse. Sounds easy. It's impossible. My two roommates counted. 375 tries for me, and I never got past the second part of the fence. 220 for my other roomie, and he never got past the first one, and 134 for my other roomie, and he's a ranked national Call of Duty 2 champion. None of us suck at games, but this was just utterly frustrating to the boiling point. I've got a really nice optical mouse, too, but no luck. We tried an old ball mouse, and both of their mice, but nothing.

 

How, HOW can a game with so much potential be ruined by a stupid ass little mini game simply designed to kill time? Never in my life have I seen anything this asinine, EVER. Quantic Dreams other game, Omikron, ranks up there with my all time favorites, but this, this. It's got a great story, and is compelling (and adult) as hell (it even has really good voice acting!), but it's ruined by shitty controls and stupid little things like that. I SO wanted to yell "Hey, buy this game, it's great!", but I can't because it's a flaming pile of shit.

 

Well, all's well that ends well, though. I snapped all three of the discs into multiple pieces and chucked them in the trash, and I felt REALLY good about that. Gamers talk with their wallets, so everyone, stay the hell away from this one. I know it's an old game, but even in the secondary market, stay far, far away.

[dinovelvet]

I'd just like to say I really enjoyed this game

 

I remember the part you're talking about. It took me a few tries, certainly no more than ten though. I played it on the Xbox, maybe that made a difference.

[2600Lives]

That's the tragedy of it all, I REALLY wanted to like it. Maybe it was the whole mouse thing, though I'm not sure that an analog stick would be much better, as I'm usually way more accurate with a mouse (at least for first person shooters). Oh, well, I've been meaning to get around to The Suffering - Ties That Bind for a while now, and it seems as good a time as any.

[+Lynxer2007]

I've been meaning to buy Indigo Prophecy for some time now, because I, too, heard good things about it. I'll just rent it from BlockBuster to see how it is. I guess this is probably a reason why Atari is in financial troubles right now.

Edited July 22, 2007 by EMZayas

[Lord Helmet]

I played the Xbox version and really enjoyed it. I wouldn't want to play it on a PC though. Of course, I don't play PC games at all anyway. I spend my whole day in front of a PC...why would I want to go home and play games on one?

[Tom_Explodes]

Sorry to bring this back, but I really need to say, this game is utterly amazing. I downloaded the demo originally and was hooked from the start. I hate those flashback sequences as well, but I'm not sure how you had such a problem. I'm truly sorry that ruined it for you, as the game is quite phenomanal. I fell off that fence once, I think. And no, I'm not some uber gamer who can do everything. I actually really suck at gaming in general. Hmm. You just need to click, slide left, then up to the right and vice versa, don't you? That's really weird that you had such trouble. I'm not saying you guys are stupid or anything, that's not what I mean at all. I'm just confused as to how that happened. Ah well.

 

I only babbled all this because Indigo Prophecy is one of my all time favorite games, up there with System Shock 2. I urge you to give it another try, because it makes me feel bad you got screwed on the experience.

 

EDIT: Or I would, 'cept I just noticed you said you snapped the discs.

 

That actually makes me really sad that you had a bad time of it. The flashback stuff is stupid but the rest is quite excellent.

 

I'm sorry.

Edited August 9, 2007 by Tom_Explodes

[+Mockduck]

I'm playing this game now for the first time on the PS2. I think the console route is the way to go on this game.

 

I'm loving it! And I got past the kid-guard-climbing part on the 2nd try. Great game. One of my favorites that I've played in the past year.

 

I can bet it'd be harder using a mouse, though. Hook up a game pad to the PC if you go that route!

[bdog_147]

I bought this game on the weekend (used copy xbox 10 bucks) and I find the game interesting. I haven't finished it yet. I think i'm roughly half way through it. The button combination parts get annoying other then that I like this game.

 

Came close to buying this when it came out but decided against that when I read that you can finish this in 6 hours....so I finally found a cheap used copy of it instead.

[godslabrat]

Rocket Ranger for the NES. This game pissed in my cheerios, ran over my dog, raped my mom, and got Star Trek: Enterprise cancelled. Yeah, it was that bad. Words cannot express how much I resent that anyone ever paid actual money for that game.

 

And this is coming from someone who owns Cheetahmen II. Stuck on a desert island with only those two choices, I'd take the fuckin' Cheetahmen.

[Gabriel]

Rocket Ranger for the NES. This game ... got Star Trek: Enterprise cancelled.

 

Where can I worship at the altar of this great game?

[Selfmindead]

I still have this game sealed for Xbox somewhere from when we shifted house.

[+remowilliams]

Sorry to bring this back, but I really need to say, this game is utterly amazing.

I picked up Indigo Prophecy dirt cheap recently, and although I only played it for a short time - it does look to be a pretty amazing thriller/adventure/interactive fiction game experience.

[Classic Pac]

To this very day the worst game I ever played was Bubsy 3-D on the PS1 . I have played freeware games, with crappy graphics and gameplay that must of been though out by a lizard that play better that that [email protected]#$%^&*

[Video]

Tell me about little shit that ruins games. All the ReQuIrEd mini games in Rampage (er....universal...I think) killed it. It wasn't that they were hard, they were just boreing as hell, and unskippable. That, and the fact you can't play this one playered, there's always computer players if there aren't enough human players, so you never can destroy the whole city.

 

Smash Brothers for the GameCube gave me such rage that I smashed the controller with a hammer (in hopes that it MIGHT register at least some of the button pushes befor it crapped out) and then the gamecube died as it was run over...repeatedly.

 

Oddly enough...years later, I got a new gamecube (for the gameboy player) and this game, and blew through the same exact part that gave me such agervation.

[godslabrat]

Oddly enough...years later, I got a new gamecube (for the gameboy player) and this game, and blew through the same exact part that gave me such agervation.

 

Funny you should mention that. I used to get my ass hended to me as a kid when I played Double Dragon II... now I'm pretty good, and I haven't played in years.

 

Though DDII is actually a good game

[2600Lives]

Double Dragon 2 is my favorite of the series on the NES (DD3 is ASS, and DD1 is just too far removed from the arcade, though it is fun for what it is). Once you get down how to do the "Hyper Knee" attack consistently, nothing will stand in your way on ANY difficulty level. Use a NES Max and you'll almost never miss with that move and kick the hell out of anything in your way.