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QOTW: What superhero game disappointed you the most?

Answer our weekly question and check out our favorite user answers from last week!

Words: Tyler Wilde, GamesRadar US

Every week the hosts of TalkRadar present and answer a new "Question of the Week" - a personal inquiry which unearths some of our deepest, and sometimes most sinister, gaming memories. Everyone is encouraged to answer each week's question, so go ahead, tell us your most glorious, nostalgic, or shameful story!


This week's question:

What superhero game disappointed you the most?

There have been a few really good, and a lot of really, really crappy comic-based games. Given that Comic-con is currently burning up San Diego, we decided to open the floor for some superhero related venting - dig in!

Answer this week's question in the comments!

Questions can also be answered in the QOTW forum thread. Our favorite posts this week will be read next week on TalkRadar 62, and appear in the next edition of this article. Listen to TalkRadar 61 on Friday for our answers to this week's question!


Last week's question:

What was the first movie game that made you hate movie games?

Below are a few of last week's answers that tickled our collective fancies, but since we can't feature them all here, check out last week's article and forum thread for more...



Opusander wrote...
"'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Incomprehensible Bullshit' commonly known as 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' for the Atari 2600."

"I had a fever dream once. It was surreal, unsettling. I can't be sure that some of it didn't actually happen. I speak of it in hushed tones to those I trust. When the memory of the dream haunts me, and I stay awake at night, I need to think of something else. I need to know that an undeniable shared experience exists. Something that assures me that I'm not alone in the universe. Something as unsettling as this dream. Then I remember. Raiders of the Lost Ark for the 2600 existed. It existed."



Elbo444 wrote...
"the Toy Story game for N64, I never knew how to save so I would have to do the first level over and over again, I was like 7 at the time so all I remember is Buzz Lightyear, possibly some jumping, but it was boring so we took it back"



Brettbot wrote...
"Die Hard on the NES. Seeing Bruce Willis get his ass kicked was kinda depressing."



RabidZombies wrote...
"Top Gun for the NES. Landing was hard as hell."



Pillowfort wrote...
"Jurassic Park on the Megadrive(or genesis, I guess).

The music is some of the least inspired on that system (Although maybe I'd just been spoilt by the Chemical Plant Zone theme) and the jumping was... Less than intuitive.

It was so bad that, while I think I might have only been 4 or 5 when I can first recall playing it, even then I knew better than to give it more than a few tries."



Egregious wrote...

"Rambo. Originally it was going to be Who Framed Roger Rabbit on the NES, until it dawned on me how much damage this game has done. The graphics are horrible even by '80s standards:"

"Rambo, a Green Beret and specially trained soldier, has to LEARN to use an assault rifle with every kill getting him XP. He not only fights Vietcong, but giant animals and creepy-looking water. The music was also pretty crappy and most of all: the password system. Oh man."



ChrisAntistaSmellsLikePizza wrote...
"Peter Jackson's King Kong the Offical Game of the Movie. F' you Gameloft, I didn't like the movie and I hated the game even more. Good for achievement whoring however."



CaptainHead wrote...
"007 Tomorrow Never Dies for the PS1. I remember hearing EA had grabbed up the 007 license after Goldeneye had bum secks'd everyone's n64. EA then proceeded to excrete a vile bastardized stump of a 007 game. Never again."

THE WEBSITE STILL EXISTS (http://www.tndgame.com/)



Jul 23, 2009

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louiec314  - 4 months 10 days ago 
That damn batman beyond game on PS1....the game was so short....u didnt even have time to get mad at the fact u couldnt save....
Cyberninja  - 4 months 10 days ago 
ironman i played the demo and wanted to end my life
Hurricrane  - 4 months 10 days ago 
fucking Iron Man. You have one of the coolest superheroes EVER! (screw you Elston, Iron Man > Spiderman) And you spend the entire game blowing up his goddamn weapon caches... and it looked like ass. THE GODDAMN SUIT HAD CUSTOMIZATION OPTIONS FOR GOD'S SAKE! So much potential thrown away like a porm night dumpster baby.
ChrisAntistaSmellsLikePizza  - 4 months 10 days ago 
Aquaman: Battle For Atlantis on Game Cube no less. Ya, I bought it, ya, I played it all the way through, and looking back on it I can say I kind of . . . THINK IT IS THE MOST APPARENT PIECE OF WORTHLESSNESS EVAR!!!!!
speno93  - 4 months 10 days ago 
ghost rider, i mean come on, you have a supernatural bike that can ride on most surfaces and has a fricking awesome way of melting tarmac with its fire wheels, you have a chain whip that is way cooler than Castlevanias whip and you are a DAMN DEVIL WITH A F**CING FLAMING SKULL FOR A FACE FOR F**K'S SAKE!!!!!!, and all you ever bloody do is trawl through dungeon after dungeon weakly punching some demons and when you do ride its just in bullshit alleyways whilst "dodging" random crap that appears

to call this game simply an epic fail is an understatement the same as simply saying that Hilter "wasn't that good"
NightAce84  - 4 months 10 days ago 
There is only one answer to this question: Superman 64
afroninjakatana  - 4 months 10 days ago 
@speno93 I agree with you The Ghost Rider video game was horrible because you had nothing to do but fight like a pussy thru random places. The bike was the worst part of the game.
killerwhalen  - 4 months 10 days ago 
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance

I know there's worse ones out there but this is the only one I thought wouldn't suck when I bought it. I must've read twenty articles in Nintendo Power telling me how great it would be, or how the story was great. Horse shit. The characters looked like Marvel Babies, I was stupid enough to get it for the wii, so half the time I was flaying my arms around not fully understanding quite was I was supposed to be doing. I actually turned the system off once and realized my hand was shaking. That scared the hell out of me. Plus, only about 5 percent of the fifty gazillion characters in the game were worth playing as/fighting. My friends didn't want to try multiplayer because I had to explain who characters like Moon Night and Fing Fang Foom were. Not to mention how the whole experience was clearly designed to teach two year olds with learning disabilities how to hone their motor skills. Al in all it was a cluster**** that I'll have to live down pre-ordering, playing until I got 100%, and forcing wii-motes and nunchucks down my friends throats in an attempt to find those stupid Black Panther action figures.
CORNHOL0  - 4 months 10 days ago 
Superman 64, oh my God where do we begin...
Bananban  - 4 months 10 days ago 
All of them. Nuff said.
boxmeizter  - 4 months 10 days ago 
killerwhalen...i am so agreed! in the videoes it looked like it would be like the new batman game (which looks awesome) but instead it was like a game boy-game!! i was sooo disappointed, i hate marvel ultiamte alliance....hm!
Marvelfan13  - 4 months 10 days ago 
I'd have to say Ghost Rider for PS2. It just didn't work for me because it didn't follow the movie AT ALL!!! Plus the gameplay was bad anyways.
dweller  - 4 months 10 days ago 
Spider-Man 3. I hate "cineractives".
DaveBoyle  - 4 months 10 days ago 
The most disappointing movie game ever I would have to say is Spider-Man 3. While the game is not the worst movie game ever, after Spider-Man 2, which was a good game, I just expected Spider-Man 3 to take all the good points of that game and improve on them. Instead they took them all out and produced the worst game of the last 3 years.
sbghost64  - 4 months 10 days ago 
Batman forever on the sega genesis. Me and my brother were 5 and loved batman, but this game just sucked. if i remember right, there was this one part where you needed the x,y, and z buttons to get past. we only had one controller that had those three (the other only had a, b and c)and we were always playing two playerif there was ever a way to get through without those, i woulodn't know, but it was always the one who had the xyz controller could get past and the other couldnt. it was so annoying and it was the like the one game that we didn't rent to try before buying too.
gopikmin  - 4 months 10 days ago 
I guess spiderman for gamecube is most disappointing for me. I was stuck in one of earliest levels. I had to lend my friend the game and my memory card to beat it.
norid  - 4 months 10 days ago 
spider man 3 and catwoman
GamerTagsSuck  - 4 months 10 days ago 
Oh god Superman 64. I was ten. I couldn't figure out WHAT THE PURPOSE WAS! I still don't know! There was a time limit! I couldn't even figure out how to fly! And then there was Top Gun for the 64. I can name these two games as the only two I have quit after 60 seconds. Besides the Wii Destroy All Humans game. That one sucked.
Jellyjiggler29  - 4 months 10 days ago 
Spider-man 3. Spider man 2 was AMAZINGLY fun but 3....ughhhhh
foxhound  - 4 months 10 days ago 
superman returns on the ps2
fly fly fly punch a badly rendered metallo(i thought i was fighting a piece of tinfoil) ok maybe theyll make it up with an epic final boss oh no wind!!!!!!
Superman returned to the shop
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