thaddius' Console Roast 2014 Edition - Round 16 - FINAL

[Veho]

How the fuck is the CDi winning? What is wrong with GBATemp.net!?

Like chavosaur said, people vote for what they know, not for what's objectively worst.

 

[JulietStMoon]

My cynical opinion? A lot of butt-hurt Zelda fanboys voting on it because of the terrible zelda games that Nintendo has since spent the rest of its time ret-conning out of canon.

While they'll happily defend the Virtual Boy that could literally cause eye damage because OMG RED LASERS INTO MY RETINAS!

If it helps your faith in humanity, I'm a serious Zelda fanboy, and I voted for R-Zone.

 

[HtheB]

I rather own a CD-I then a R-Zone....
The R-Zone is just a simple LCD game.

While the CD-I is a true console. Yes, maybe one of the shittiest, but it still is a MUCH more mature console then R-Zone..
Hell, ALL consoles are much better then R-Zone...

 

[KingVamp]

IDK, guys. It's looking bad for the R-zone.

 

[Taleweaver]

I still can't believe the CD-i is winning this. Again: I understand how it's a shitty console and (after watching some youtube) those Zelda-clones are much worse than the campy cutscènese lead you to believe. But still...did nobody ever play a Tiger game before? They were like game & watch games with blinking lights, except they were an entire generation late. And the R zone wasn't just a cheap knockoff of the virtual boy...it played THOSE SAME KIND OF GAMES. Which meant that it not only butchered just about every franchise they got a hold on (imagine Street fighter where your ONE AND ONLY character consists of a few lights hopping and pressing buttons), but that the games looked like this...

(I wish I was kidding. I really was )

Meanwhile...sure, the CD-i managed to take Mario and Zelda games from the very good end of the spectrum to very bad, but very bad is still better than the atrociousness of the previous. At least it was able to show images like this:

I know playing hotel mario isn't as smooth as most platformers, but seriously...compare these pictures. Do you guys REALLY think this is even remotely comparable? Even when taking the handheld vs console into account, this is just nuts. And keep in mind that the R-zone was released 4 years later (1995 vs 1991 of the CD-i), so you can't blame anything on technology either.

 

[The_Hulkster]

This is just horrendous!
The CD-i is only remembered by the bad games, while there were certainly very good ones as well.

Among other great platformers was The Apprentice.


Sure it's not a glamorous as most games from that era, but still it provided a fun enough gameplay to keep, at least me, entertained for hours if not days at a time.
It also contained nudity, can't say that for many "cartoon" games these days.

CD-i also offered a great port of Space Ace (Dragon's Lair series)


There were also some great shooters, one of which featured Terry "The Hulk" Hogan!


And let's not forget the "adult" games, which you can't find on any game system.

Most of the voters probably haven't even touched either of the consoles from the poll and are just voting based on inaccurate or incomplete information.
Sad.

 

[Patxinco]

Never used any of them, but after reading the comments: i agree that CD-i made Zelda and Mario want to die, but after reading this:

Only in glowing red on black. With terrible music. And with a headpiece that keeps slipping down your face unless you tighten the headband so much your brain starts leaking out your ears.

And you can only see the screen with one eye.

There's nothing more i couldn't ever think of worst console in my whole life; Tiger R-Zone, go to Hell and never come back!!!

 

[KingVamp]

And the R zone wasn't just a cheap knockoff of the virtual boy...

It was barely that. The only thing really comparable is the black and red and they couldn't even get that right.

 

[Gahars]

I like how a console with some hilariously bad Nintendo adaptations is somehow worse than one that literally did not work.

Only on GBAtemp. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[Taleweaver]

It was barely that. The only thing really comparable is the black and red and they couldn't even get that right.

That picture isn't from the R-zone: it is built up from pixels. My guess would be that it is from the virtual boy.

This would be a screenshot from the R-zone...except that it would need to be red and black instead of this color (screenshotting was apparently pretty hard, and it doesn't clearly show on youtube videos either):

I played those Tiger games. This was a typical "terrible birthday present" in the nineties. Your parents don't see the difference, so they get you a cheap knock-off instead of the real thing (yes...the above is supposed to be mortal kombat). They were worse than the game & watch games from years earlier (especially in sound and build quality) and totally obsolete by the time the gameboy hit the market...if it wasn't for those uninformed parents who just bought the damn things.

 

[KingVamp]

That picture isn't from the R-zone: it is built up from pixels. My guess would be that it is from the virtual boy.

I know it isn't from the R-Zone. I was comparing it to the VB. In fact, I quoted the R-Zone.

 

[MTSoph14]

I think I was born at just the right time to avoid Tiger crap, but even I can see it's the inferior to the infamous CDi

 

[matpower]

I think I was born at just the right time to avoid Tiger crap, but even I can see it's the inferior to the infamous CDi

That is when I am grateful to be born at '99.
But I had the good and old 9999999-in-1 Tetris clone.

 

[PolloDiablo]

Like chavosaur said, people vote for what they know, not for what's objectively worst.

the tittle says: "least favourite" not "worst"

 

[Veho]

the tittle says: "least favourite" not "worst"

But the first post says:

Welcome back to thaddius’ Console Roast 2014 Edition. For those of you who are not aware this is a poll where you, the GBATemp user, get to vote on what GBATemp thinks is the worst console ever.

Conflicting information

Instructions unclear, got my dick stuck in CD-i disc tray

 

[thaddius]

God damn it guys. Just vote for whatever you want for whatever reason you want. No semantics.

 

[matpower]

God damn it guys. Just vote for whatever you want for whatever reason you want. No semantics.

NO! THE R-ZONE MUST WIN!
(Meh, rename that poll to worst console, pronto! )

 

[codezer0]

Already I have encountered fanboys who felt that there was somehow something wrong with me for liking Nintendo systems but not the Zelda franchise. And that even after I demonstrated my many criticisms about the series, they still blindly defend it and instead accuse me of being at fault.

I swear, if the CD-i wins, all this will prove is that the franchise and shiggy needs to die. I've already got Iwata on my shit list because he kicked Reggie out of leadership for no reason, and has been running the company into the ground. Objectively the RZone is worse.

 

[JulietStMoon]

Already I have encountered fanboys who felt that there was somehow something wrong with me for liking Nintendo systems but not the Zelda franchise. And that even after I demonstrated my many criticisms about the series, they still blindly defend it and instead accuse me of being at fault.

I swear, if the CD-i wins, all this will prove is that the franchise and shiggy needs to die.

Good grief, if that's really the attitude you demonstrate about the series to other people, then of course they think something's wrong with you. There's nothing wrong with disliking the Zelda series, but blaming the outcome of a poll on it and thinking the series and its creator needs to die is just extreme.

I voted for the R-Zone, but I think it's pretty believable that people vote for the CD-i simply because it's more infamous than the R-Zone (those Zelda games probably helped that infamy, but that's besides the point), not just because they're butthurt Zelda fanboys.

Tl; dr: Quit whining and get over it. It's just an internet poll, after all.

 

[jacksprat1990]

Pathetic set of voters.