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Posted October 13, 2021
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Matewis: I don't have a picture of it anymore sadly, but in school I coded a raptor/space invaders type game (only way, way more simple) for a school project,...
I did something similar but I mostly used geometric shapes as enemies. (The game was programmed and ran on a 286) One of the bigger and more 'elaborate' enemies was an ellipse with eye-stalks and some tentacles (just wiggly lines, really). Imagine my surprise when many years later a similar creature spread across the internet. Somehow my enemy sprite of yore has an uncanny resemblance to the flying spaghetti monster that was invented much later.

Or wasn't it invented after all and I had a divine inspiration by the FSM, years before anyone else? Am I a FSM prophet?
Posted October 13, 2021
King Poo always bothered me from Blue Dragon...it was just a giant piece of...well...poo? suppose you could call that shitty design!
Posted October 13, 2021
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hmm any modern pc game reference? All these old/console games examples have 0 connection to
Posted October 13, 2021
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Linko64: King Poo always bothered me from Blue Dragon...it was just a giant piece of...well...poo? suppose you could call that shitty design!
I raise you the Great Mighty Poo.
Posted October 13, 2021
Drakkhen famously had the dancing woman shadow. I remember thinking WTF first time I saw it in game back when.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnE9XEC5mWw
Post edited October 13, 2021 by mqstout
Posted October 13, 2021
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Darvond: I feel like that's a slight cheat.
Perhaps. Still, for all its faults Spore was a fount of entertainingly bad monster designs.
I'd mention some Shin Megami Tensei entries, but got to admit, even the worst monster from there was a work of art.
As for some stronger emphasis on the stupid, ugly, generic, and bad I'd nominate most enemies and bosses that debuted in Serious Sam 2, doubly odd because monsters from earlier games were pretty cool.
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Orkhepaj: racist ? how?
Think faithful recreations of characters featured in Nick Bouga's comics, for example.
Post edited October 13, 2021 by Chasmancer
Posted October 13, 2021
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ConsulCaesar: Trubbish and Garbodor. What would I want to do with a bag of trash other than take it out?
There's a lot of latter day pokemon that I really don't think were worth the time of designing. And Jynx.

But why is that a wikialink when Bulbapedia is there?
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mqstout: Drakkhen famously had the dancing woman shadow. I remember thinking WTF first time I saw it in game back when.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnE9XEC5mWw
It also had the laser panther, but that was radical.
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Linko64: King Poo always bothered me from Blue Dragon...it was just a giant piece of...well...poo? suppose you could call that shitty design!
Japanese culture has something of a (thankfully outmoded) fascination with that shit. Made localization anime a bit hard in the 90s, though.
Post edited October 13, 2021 by Darvond
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Serren: Haha. That reminds me of a shooter that I was programming for a school project on an Apple II which ended up having such an elaborate title animation sequence that I ran out of memory and couldn't progress further with development, nor did I have time to rework it. I still received a passing grade from the commandant/instructor, however.
Sometimes I feel a bit sorry for never having had to worry about such memory constraints when I learned programming :) I would've probably a great deal from it - that game was unfortunately horribly inefficient

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Lifthrasil: Or wasn't it invented after all and I had a divine inspiration by the FSM, years before anyone else? Am I a FSM prophet?
Oh yes definitely, that's a religious experience if I've heard of one! If you could find that game again, then it could be the book, or rather code of revelation for the church of the FSM ;)
Post edited October 13, 2021 by Matewis
Posted November 10, 2021
I have been thinking of buying Shin Megami Tensei IV on 3DS (a well known series that I have never played before), and it looks like the series has its fair share of bizarre monsters.
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