It's So Bad

This week on the podcast, we take on yet another Uwe Boll classic and our third entry in his canon on the list of video game movies: It's Far Cry! This Till Schweiger led vehicle introduces the podcast to the concept of a German production English language movie filmed in British Columbia. Why did this happen? Well, tax credits, Uwe Boll seems somewhat unhinged and more! Find out where it landed on the List of Video Game movies by clicking on this link!

This week on the podcast, we're adding another one towards the bottom of the list: It's 1992's Spider-Man Return of the Sinister Six. One look at the box art and you'd think yes I want to spend my money on this game. One look at the gameplay and you'd immediately know you've made a huge mistake. Definitely one of those games that benefit from the time before the internet and when rentals were booming. This is an avoid at all costs game that you'll love hearing about as we add it to the Endless List of Video Games. Where did it end up? Find out on the podcast or check out the complete list (linked here).

This week on the podcast, we're adding the 2nd Batman Arkham game in Batman: Arkham City. A much improved game to the already pretty good Arkham Asylum, this game brings Batman to an entire district within Gotham which has been converted into a prison (for some reason). All the Batman villains are here: Joker, Catwoman, Penguin, Mr. Freeze, Poison Ivy, the Riddler, Two-Face and more! Where did it land on our Endless List of games? Find out on the podcast or check out the complete rankings here.

This week on the podcast, I once again forgot to record and we started speaking for 5 minutes before we realized: It's the Secret Island of Dr. Quandary. By listener request, we added this game to the podcast. We felt powerful David Lynch vibes and got lost in the edutainment. Is this a good game? (LarryDavid.gif) Is it a bad game? Find out on the podcast or check the complete rankings linked here.

This week on the podcast, we're adding our first Japanese produced live-action movie to the list of video game movies with Yakuza: Like A Dragon. This movie was a totally unknown quantity for the entire crew on the podcast. We also had done very little research before watching it so we had no clue what to expect. Turns out the movie is pretty good and keeps to the Yakuza-style quite well. It even pulled off the wild antics of Goro Majima and was able to showcase some of the wilder side stories from the game series. Where did it land on our list of video game movies? Find out on the podcast or click here for the spoiler.

This week on the podcast, we add another all-timer to the Endless List: It's Portal. We're thinkin with Portals now as we rank this FPS puzzle platformer about shooting portals to solve puzzles and save your companion cube. This game largely helped to popularize the notion that FPS games aren't just about shooting anymore. You can do other things with those types of games! Where did end up on the Endless List? Find out on the podcast or check out the complete rankings which are linked here.

This week on the brocast, broing down on some Broforce as we add it to the brolist. You play as a parody of a 80s/90s action movie star in this action platformer inspired by Spelunky and Contra. Play as Brommando, Rambro, the Brode, Brochete and many many more as you kill terrorists, aliens and other nonsensical things that Americans in the 80s/90s loved. Where did it land on our Endless List? Find out on the podcast as we rank another game in our Endless progression through playing every game ever. And check out the complete list (linked here).

This week on the podcast, we add another AKI wrestling game to the Endless List of Video Games: It's Virtual Pro Wrestling 2. This game sits at an interesting point in the development of the AKI N64 wrestlings games. This is directly between Wrestlemania 2000 and WWF No Mercy. Only released in Japan, it has the All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) license but cleverly features reskins of wrestlers from a wide variety of pro wrestling and MMA promotions including NJPW, FMW, Pride and so much more. The game was a cult classic among importers and some say it's the best wrestling video game ever. Where did we rank it on the Endless List of games? Find out on the podcast or click here to see the full list of games.

Hironobu Sakaguchi, the man who made Final Fantasy, decided he wanted to create a CGI studio and make a final fantasy movie. In the early 2000s, when Final Fantasy VII was one of the best games of the last decade and the JPRG franchise was becoming a massive cultural hit they decided to make a "Final Fantasy" movie with zero Final Fantasy references! This movie ain't great folks! Where did we rank it? Find out on the podcast or check the complete rankings (linked here).

This week we play a much maligned NES game in Top Gun in anticipation of the new arrival of the new movie in the franchise, Top Gun: Maverick. You play as a fighter pilot who could or could not be Maverick. Your mission is to go on four missions with the ultimate goal of destroying the enemy's space shuttle(?). We ask the questions: Is the landing too hard? Is this game fun? Where does this game go on the Endless List of Video Games? Find out on the podcast or check out the complete rankings (linked here).

This week on the podcast we're adding another oddball: It's Video Poker. There was much internal debate as to whether or not this is a video game and yes we deemed it to be both using Video and a Game thus it is a video game. How does one rank a game where you bet money that a random sequence of cards will produce a result that yields you money? Are you ranking the format or the game or maybe both? Find out on the podcast and view the complete rankings (linked here).

This week on the podcast, we're adding not only an action-adventure game but also a shoot'em up (or shmup if you will) all in one handy-dandy package: it's The Guardian Legend. This game developed by Compile crossed two genre's in one. It's kinda like Zelda + Blaster Master + Zanac but way more generic than all of those! You play as a woman who turns into a spaceship that shoots things! It's great. Where did it end up on the Endless List of Video Games? Find out on the podcast or check out the complete rankings (linked here).

This week on the podcast, we're adding an iconic 3D platformer to the Endless List of games: Banjo-Kazooie! You're bear and a bird on a mission to stop Gruntilda and save Tooty. This game features a plethora of movement options and nine full worlds to explore. It also features some of the strictest standards for collectibles in any platformer! You have to get over 90% of them in order to have any chance at beating the final boss who has four phases?! Where did this go on the list of all lists? Find out on the podcast or check out the full list (linked here!).

This week on the podcast, we're adding another movie from the 2000s and Timothy Olyphant's summer in Bulgaria: It's Hitman! The movie based on the franchise of the same name is about a dude named Agent 47. Agent 47 is a bald guy who's been trained from birth to be a Hitman. He gets involved in a conspiracy with the Russian government. It's a whole thing. The actual plot of this movie is confusing as fuck and involves the assassination of the Russian leader's body double(?), Desmond from Lost, the Organization(who are they?) and a subplot with a Russian prostitute that literally makes no sense. This week we're solving the mystery of where it goes on the List of Video Game Movies. Find out where it landed in the complete rankings.

This week on the podcast, we're adding the Presidential Election simulator from 1992: Power Politics! This game pitted you against computer or human foes as you a run campaign for the President of the United States. Run as a Republican like George Bush, Ronald Reagan and more or a Democrat like Paul Tsongas, Bill Clinton and Michael Dukakis. Or create your character. Then you pick where you want to campaign and plot out the activities. Then find out who won the election! We pick only the niche-est of niche games. Find out where it landed on the podcast. Or check out the complete Endless List (linked here).

After an over 100 episode break from adding racing games to the list, we're adding a fan favorite game in Cruis'n USA to the Endless List. Drive through California and California and California and California and then Arizona! and the Midwest? and Washington? Is this all of the United States of America? Or is Cruis'n USA lying to me? Where is the South? Where is New York City? Where is Texas? Where is our beloved Massachusetts!? Not here! Thanks Midway games! Where did it land on our Endless List? Find out on the podcast or check out our complete rankings! (linked here)

This week on the podcast, we play a game from two of Chris' perfect game categories: Wii games and hidden gems. We've combined them together for the ultimate Chris game experience as we added Sin and Punishment: Star Successor to the Endless List of games. This rail shooter is basically what if they made a Star Fox Wii game and it's pretty fucking good! Did Mike end up throwing the Wiimote across the room? (no!) Did anyone waggle suggestively? (no?) Did Mike like a Wii game? FIND OUT ON THE PODCAST. Also check out the complete rankings (linked here).

This week on the podcast, we're adding yet another movie to the list of video game movies: It's Sonic the Hedgehog. This movie starring Ben Schwartz, James Marsden and Jim Carey brings the blue blur to life in his own live action story. And it is shockingly somehow a good movie which is fucking wild considering the trajectory of this franchise. Against all odds, they pulled off something they shouldn't have! And we're here for it. Where did it land on the list of video game movies? Find out on the podcast or check out the complete rankings!

This week on the podcast, we're adding another Max Payne game to the Endless List. It's Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne. This game came out only a few years after the first one and it shows! This feels like almost a Max Payne 1.5 but it features tighter level design, improved storytelling and overall better game design. Where did it land on the Endless List? Find out on the podcast or check out the complete rankings (linked here).

This week on the podcast, we're going down the deep dark well as we play and add Downwell to the Endless List of Video Games. This Devolver Digital published and Moppin developed game puts you in the gunboots a person who wants to make to the bottom of a well. It's a fun, well-designed and infinitely replayable. But where did it land on our Endless List? Check a look on the podcast or check out the complete rankings (linked here).