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The Top 7… worst games in great games

Because playing bad games in good games breaks our brain

Words: Tyler Nagata, GamesRadar US
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Craza  - 9 months 15 days ago 
Hehe, I remember playing Pazaak, I kinda liked it, but I loved the whole game....still haven't beaten the second one yet. D: *Ashamed*

Oh, and Chewie is playing against C3P0 not R2D2, but I'm sure that's already been pointed out.
RedOutlive10  - 9 months 15 days ago 
I agree with this article. I remember how Pazaak and GTA:SA games were downright terrible.
Ravenbom  - 9 months 15 days ago 
I actually like most of these games, except the stupid GTA games and Fable 2 Pub games, which made you learn new rules to new stupid games to win very little in game and waste a ton of time.


And to the Star Wars fanboys, stop already. Boba Fett only lives in the EU, for as far as strict canon is concerned, he's dead. Boba Fett's history was totally rewritten by Episode II, so you can't take EU SW as strict canon. And he both crawled out and got shot out of the sarlaac and then recued by Dengar, because he's fallen in the sarlaac twice. So you're both right.
JoeMasturbaby  - 9 months 15 days ago 
i spent hours trying to get to the blitzball championship.

i hate that game in general now.
fucking Seymor...what a dick.
skelt  - 9 months 15 days ago 
I'm surprised nobody mentioned the PDA mini game in Alien Hominid on XBLA. I thought that game was awesome but that minigame was just straight tedious.
Red  - 9 months 14 days ago 
Those were pretty good, but what I'd really like to see is a Top 7 Best Games in Games.
deathnote89  - 9 months 14 days ago 
nice article....but u 4got punch the turkey in doom 3!!!
Neoid  - 9 months 14 days ago 
My friend hasth Jedi ofrepublicminigame Ijust think its soooooo lame!!!
Dinkymod  - 9 months 14 days ago 
Wtf? No one mentioned the Doom 3 mini-games? Well, I guess the Doom 3 mini-games were fun. :D

If you haven't seen them, here they are (D3 and the expansion):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiIYCR9dX44&feature=related

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=341702591069930017&ei=UxCaSfmQKpKwqwLqsu3MDQ&q=Doom+3+Mini+games
Zaphers  - 9 months 14 days ago 
I loved me some Blitzball. I won over a 100 games! I liked Wakka too. I'm probably stupid.
theschwartzb  - 9 months 14 days ago 
I had very little trouble on the Zero-G basketball, even though my kenesis had nary and upgrade. Wasnt the greatest mini-game (nor as fun as the shooting range in Dead Space) but better than many others i have played as well.
FrozenImplosion  - 9 months 14 days ago 
what about the snake minigame in naruto the broken bond? its not just that it wasn't fun, but not being able to do it prevented two achievements.. TWO ACHIEVEMENTS.
Reaver1892  - 9 months 14 days ago 
thats C3PO not R2D2 and speaking of R2D2 how do you get the Bret2d2 ringtone?
raidramon0  - 9 months 14 days ago 
I thought the would've had rollgoal from Zelda: Twilight Princess on the list. That one was so frustrating.
TimShank  - 9 months 14 days ago 
I'm surprised there was nothing from FFVII in there. Most of the minigames in that were pretty fail.
revrock  - 9 months 14 days ago 
How about a twist? "good game inside of a bad game" for the only home version of an arcade perfect Donkey Kong being found inside DK64?

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reyalejandro13  - 9 months 14 days ago 
well, not that i know anyone who played Prey, but that had some pretty bad minigames. I remember a blackjack-esque card game(or was it poker? aww, who cares) and a horrible pac-man ripoff. just hated them. and they were actually worth achievements. THAT I GOT! i feel more sad now.
Icehearted  - 9 months 14 days ago 
I didn't think Prey was all that bad. The Pac-Man style game was flimsy, but not awful.

I am a little surprised you guys missed the worse mini-game in a bad game; that masturbation game in Leisure Suit Larry: Magnum Cum Laude. From what I recall of it the game looked and sounded like something from the days of the Atari 2600, and it was how Larry masturbated (and I think it was how he enjoyed the occasional whore).

A truly awful game in a truly awful game.
Ironmaus  - 9 months 14 days ago 
Has there been a list of good games-within-games? That list is one I'd be interested in seeing. I'm sure there are some awesome mini-games out there (that might even make good full games on their own) that I've passed over because I never played the game that contained them.
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