February Bum Poo Wee Games Reviews

This is kind of a separate project, and it is happening in February, so: new thread, new name!  (Thanks as always Jimbob.)

The basic idea of this thread is that everybody who wants one gets a crap game to play in February and writes a review for us all to laugh at.  The original plan was this:
- I use Meta/Opencritic to find eShop games that have < 40%;
- I check which of those games have a price of under a tenner;
- Everyone who wants to play is given a randomly chosen game from that list to buy and review.

There are a few issues with this.  Issue one is that there are actually only 32 games with Metascore under 40.  Not a big deal: there are almost 100 under 50.  Issue two is that people have mentioned that they already have games of less than a quid that they might want to review.  My suggestion there would be that any game that's under a fiver that doesn't have a Metascore becomes eligible for selection too, and maybe also anything that's under a pound with a score less than 65(?); but this doesn't allow for people who have already bought games and want it to be restricted to their collection.  So, I'm open to ideas!

Please: mention below if you're interested, and let me know what you think about the above/whether you would rather pick from games you already own.

Looking at my collection I would be happy to play any of these, unless I spot something in a sale before Feb or is part of sub like I have a feeling Street Power Football will be a Stadia Pro game for Feb

Submerged on Stadia, 44 Meta
Monster Jam Steel Titans on Stadia, 49 Open
Adam's Venture: Origins on Xbox One, 48 Meta
The World II Hunting BOSS on Xbox One, No Score
Morkredd on Xbox One, No Score
Strength of the Sword ULTIMATE on Xbox One, No Score, I backed this for Wii U and played it on Wii U at EGX

Those are below 50 and on modern systems, now I could go retro and play likes of Universal Studios Theme Parks Adventure on the GameCube and good knows what on 3DO that I might have.

If the score is higher than 50 then I did spot a few other games that I own that I may consider playing even things like Killer is Dead which I can't believe is a 64, like I'm now curious why so low.

Unless I find something retro that really catches my attention, I think I'll go get Vroom In The Night Sky with its 17% Metacritic score.

Oh lord, I've seen footage of that one Cappa... good luck!

I'll have a browse through the eShop sales and see if I can unearth any hidden nuggets of shite to share with you all.

There's a couple of these that are also on PS4 which I'd gladly join in with

Fear Effect Sedna
Woodle Tree Adventures Deluxe

I think below 50 is probably rubbish enough to include, which I have two of, Scribblenauts Showdown and Shaq-Fu neither of which seem THAT bad I suppose. I'm happy to also include PS4 games as well if it adds to it though, I'm sure there's some trash on that too. Happy to spend at least a tenner though, I waste money anyway so I might as well waste it on this.

I don't think I have any games that are ranked that poorly (because I'm a lady of taste), so am happy to take a suggestion of a total jobby of a game.

Okay, it's looking like there are a fair few people who want to take part but want to use specific games or games from their libraries. If you folks want to pick your games, then I'll randomly pick games that aren't those for Rum, Smurf (maybe?), myself, and anybody else who wants to trust their game pick to the RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR.

I'm up for random, just something that own which you can see from my backloggery link if you want to find something else bad

I've got a couple of 8p impulse purchases already and I don't trust numbers, random or otherwise.

Yeah I'm definitely fine for random, I'll play any ol' shite.

I'm going retro for this, I've found some utter rubbish in my collection that's begging to be slaughtered. 

Looking forward to those!

masofdas wrote:

I'm up for random, just something that own which you can see from my backloggery link if you want to find something else bad

Not the point of random Mas. Fine though, once I've done the other random picks I'll give you a pick from your list above.

Buskalilly wrote:

I've got a couple of 8p impulse purchases already and I don't trust numbers, random or otherwise.

What if one of those 8p purchases is quite good though? What do you use as a metric for potential shite when you don't trust scores?

I own 1700+ games (okay I can't play any of the PS4/5/PSN games at the moemnt) plus have access to more due to Game Pass etc that I'm sure you can do random from such a wide selection compared to check 4500+ Switch games (not sure how accurate that is as that seems a lot) okay maybe not.

I will happily purchase any cheap shit I am told to purchase. Just checking: if I have the game on another format, am I allowed to just play that version?

Oh yep of course! It doesn't need to be on Switch: see Cappa, Mas, and GJones above.

So that's Jim me Smurf and Rum who I'm picking games for tomorrow (and then Mas out of his list). Can't wait to read some of these reviews! (Definitely can wait to get whatever I'm allocated...)

Everyone who wanted a random shoddy game has a random shoddy game!  I made the executive decision to skip one pick that was multiplayer-focussed: I don't want anybody else to be subject to this drivel.  There was also one game in those depths that clocked in at £17, so that got skipped!  

By the way: if anybody else wants to join in the 'fun' and for me to designate them a shoddy game, let me know.

What was the £17 game?

https://www.metacritic.com/game/switch/thief-of-thieves-season-one So at least you'd have been getting 47 Metascore for your money!  Some of us did not get anywhere near that...

By the way: for those going down the random route, the idea I had in mind is that nobody would know what you're reviewing until you splash it all over their screens, but that's just my idea. Do whatever you need to do to assuage the despair.

I've played Thief of Thieves and I actually liked it

Balladeer wrote:

By the way: for those going down the random route, the idea I had in mind is that nobody would know what you're reviewing until you splash it all over their screens, but that's just my idea.  Do whatever you need to do to assuage the despair.

That's a nice idea, although I am Switch pals with many of you, so the surprise might be revealed through that!

Is there a deadline for getting these played and reviewed?

Argh, good point. Oh well, I'll try not to pay too much attention to those alerts during February!

And I guess technically the end of Bum Poo Wee Games Month? But nobody's going to hassle you too much if you miss the 'deadline'. I might ask you if it's going okay, once.

You can probably have my review in a couple of days, I'll type up my thoughts on my next break.

In your own time Cappa, of course - but needless to say (but I’ll say it anyway), I can’t wait to read exactly what hole you rip this particular game.