I don't normally go out of my way to play games everyone knows are terrible, so I hadn't actually played this until today. It's actually worse than I imagined. Genuinely baffling controls.

You know, when most people see hundreds of others saying "Don't put your hand in fire, it's hot" they think "Better not put my hand in that fire, it's probably hot" not "I bet they are all lying and this fire is actually a hidden gem!"

By the way, everyone says Superman 64 is terrible.

>>11814414 (OP)
What is it with boomer/gen x game devs back in the day creating mascot characters whose entire personality is just making TV and pop culture references? Bubsy and Gex come to mind.

>>11814436
Gex at least made sense since his backstory was that after the death of his father he went from hanging out with his friends outside to being a recluse that used his inheritance to just stay at home and watch a shitload of TV all day. The entire game is about being pulled into a TV and ending up in "TV Land".

Bubsy however has no excuse, his backstory is that he's... a bobcat, that's it, and aliens that for some reason are obsessed with wool steal all of his yarn. The "attitude" was clearly everyone just trying to copy Sonic, but the movie references didn't make sense like they did for Gex.

Fun Fact: The 3DO version of Gex was the only version that supported saving. The PS1, Sega Saturn, and even for some reason the PC version all inexplicably relied on passwords instead of using a save system.

Bubsy has BDE

>>11814414 (OP)
The controls aren't baffling in bubsy3d. They're predictable in their behavior.

>>11814414 (OP)
"3D" now was the late 1990s equivalent of what "AI" is now. It was perceived to boost interest and sales of any product regardless of how pointless, useless or objectively mediocre it actually was.

>Surreal ludo kino graphics and aesthetics that perfectly embodies the console gen it's from
>Charismatic, funny protagonist on-par with Bugs Bunny
>Fully 3D spaced level design, no corridor shit like most popular platformers
Better than Crash at least.

>>11814428
I get OP though. I'm someone with a surprisingly high tolerance for bullshit, so when I see people talk poorly about something, I often find a couple of things that appeal to me and it's enough for me to at least give it a chance, often it goes badly, but still, many times I end up finding a subpar experience that I'm still fond of because of a few aspects that made it worth playing still.

>>11814470
>being a recluse that used his inheritance to just stay at home and watch a shitload of TV all day
Gex was living the dream...

Filtered.

>>11814414 (OP)
>I can't believe the game absolutely everyone says is bad and can blatantly be seen to be just from a few seconds of gameplay is bad