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!

Last week's question:

What once-beloved game do you now hate?

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...

The Web Swinger wrote...
"GTA III. Of course I was blown away at the time (wait, wait, wait...I can go anywhere??), but as my soul has hardened with the pudding-skin-crust of age, I began to absolutely hate the game. It's ugly; not that it was ever good looking. It's repetitive; I can only kill so many generic guidos ya know. But worst of all, the hookers that 13 year olds like myself at the time were supposed to cream themselves over looked like this:"

Ratsor wrote...
"Bucky O'Hare for the NES. I used to love that shit. I played it daily and beat it at least once a week. Then I tried playing it a couple weeks ago and I can't believe how much time I wasted."

Evan_007 wrote...
"Twisted Metal 2-Back when I first got my Playstation 1 this was the first game I got and I played the hell out of it. Of all the games I ever owned on the system, I would always go back to TM2 and it without a doubt got the most play time. Eventually I moved on to PS2, and after a couple years I sold my beloved Twisted Metal in favor of newer, better looking games. Now I own a PS3 and one day while browsing the store I said "NO WAY TWISTED METAL 2!" I quickly downloaded it and started playing. The main menu brought me back and I was happy as could be. Then I started actually playing the game and within the first 5 minutes I thought, "this used to be fun?" The controls are terrible, and the graphics just look like 2D cutouts made into paper craft. I guess games have advanced a long way since I first played TM2. Some games hold up against the test of time... but not this one."

BoondockSaint54 wrote...
"X-Men for the Genesis. I remember playing it growing up and loving. I guess because I was a huge X-Men fan then and had rose colored glassed on. I played it again on a friends computer through an emulator the other week and I about vomited because it was so bad. Horrible controls, getting stuck in the levels, mutant powers were used horribly... That's kinda why since then I've refused to play any older games, either on emulators or on Live. I guess it's better to have a good memory of them than to relive it."

Corsair89 wrote...
"Sonic Adventure 2 Battle. I played that game to death as a kid. I picked it up years later and realized how bad it was. And how annoying Shadow was. What pisses me off the most was that back when I somehow liked this game, I spent most of my time in the Chaos Garden playing those abysmal Chaos minigames."

bdog91 wrote...
"I would have to say that Crash Bandicoot 3. It was the first game I rented and the joy I had was enough to block the memory of all other PSX games I had. Recently however, I came across the rascal on the PSN and now it appears that Crash has aged as well as a turd on a month old pizza. The graphics and humor that gripped me at the tender age of 8 have given way to what appears to be one rule. Run in a straight line. Possibly hit X every now and again to liven the proceedings up. There is some good natured 'jokes,' but I'm pretty sure deviant art has some better pictures of the thrusting pelvis of a ginger bandicoot. The worst thing is that my childhood now feels like it's been raped by that f***ing pelvis. Oh, and I'm probably a Sony Fanboy, so my childhood's wrecked and I'm going to be hunted down."

CanadianBaconFlavouredNipples wrote...
"Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II

The choices in that game didn't ever seem to reflect anything. You do things for the light side but in the end it says you're the DARK SIDE! The visuals were bland. The only things I love about that game still are SOME force powers (the other ones were spotty at best) and the boss battles, epic boss battles.

Sadly everything else about it I hate.

Espiacilly these GOD DAMN LIVE ANIMATION CUT SCENES! "

Aug 13, 2009

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