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Thu Feb 13, 2014 8:06 pm
UGH. E.T. is terrible.
It's generally assumed that most of the E.T. Atari cartridges were buried in a New Mexico landfill. Millions of them. Because the game is so terrible and sold so badly that Atari just wanted to escape from it.
And it is really bad. It's not...for instance...Daikatana bad. It's more like Darkest of Days bad. It's not just not fun. It's a terrible game. It's a terrible program. It's a terrible digital mess. The stupid searching of pits for intergalactic telephone parts is tedious and random, and the pits are a PITA. It's really, really terrible. It's easy to die in the "wrong" pit because you've run out of energy (which is constantly being expended unless you're finding reese's pieces). Falling in pits costs energy. Moving costs energy. Leaving pits costs energy and it's easy to fall back into the same one. And when you die, you restart with a newly randomized set of pits. The very worst trial-and-error game I've played.