A link to the video that inspired this following blog post down below...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irb4GxkVvVw
Hello everyone I'm XboxClown89, this will be a rant blog entry. WhatCulture Gaming recently made their Worst Video Game Sequels of All Time video. I'm not here to fully go over the list in question. This is more about how much I agree ClayFighter 63 1/3 is worser than Duke Nukem Forever. Honestly, I got plenty of reasons to back up that was a great call on their part as someone who played both games.
First, most people would agree Duke Nukem Forever was a bigger disappointment. It was a sequel to one of the absolute best FPS games, Duke Nukem 3D. A lot of people waited a little over a decade for a surprisingly lackluster experience. To be fair, it does have many things over ClayFighter 63 1/3. For starters, the multiplayer as well as The Doctor Who Cloned Me campaign was better.
Duke Nukem still had some rememberable new lines. It technically was more playable in comparison. Yes they made bad calls but still better than ClayFighter 63 1/3. There's two versions of ClayFighter 63 1/3 with both costing more than DNF online especially true with Sculptor's Cut version. By itself will cost you easily a couple thousand dollars.
Yes I'm about to compare a lackluster FPS game to a bad fighting game including the updated version. I strongly felt if you are among the majority that haven't played either game, stay under that rock. You don't wanna experience these games!!! Trust me when I say neither is Sonic 06 level bad, thank frickin' god for that.
Yes both these games effectively killed off their franchises but I still think the damage ended up being worst in ClayFighter's case. Neither had a new rerelease since except for Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour. Later on, you'll be surprised I even brought this up in the first place. For now let's continue on with the comparison.
Duke Nukem was done somewhat well enough to get the job done. I can't say the same about the characters in both versions of ClayFighter 63 1/3. Some older characters aren't even done well. Like Bonker had a dramatically redesign. He went looking like a silly punk character to a piss off clown. Yes he's a clown but man he isn't happy with his job maybe I prefer the classic version more.
Hoppy from ClayFighter 2 got altered by Dr. Kiln to become T-Hoppy. Only Bad Mr. Frosty & Taffy been in every ClayFighter game. I strongly felt Taffy didn't change much though. I confess I actually liked Bad Mr. Frosty's new look. Blob has sillier facial expressions but mostly the same from the original ClayFighter.
Yes ClayFighter isn't done referencing Terminator franchise. I felt even discussing the newer characters, still doesn't fully describe how terrible the game was. Kung Pow not to be confused with the parody movie of a similar name was a cheesy parody of the late Bruce Lee. He also could be seen as being offensive towards Chinese people too.
Houngan is a witch doctor, N64 sure loved witch doctors. Baron Samedi in GoldenEye 007 as well as Mumbo Jumbo in Banjo-Kazooie series. Dr. Kilnklein aka Dr. Kiln is a parody of Dr. Frankenstein who wants to take over the world. Sumo Santa is an evil santa that sumo wrestles, really guys? The next four new characters bags many questions with not enough answers.
High Five so happens to be a giant hand that once belonged to Dr. Kiln. Oddly voiced by a female voice over oh okay then. Lady Liberty is a parody of the Statute of Liberty!!! Yes you play as a parody of a famous statute in a clay based fighting game. Lockjaw Pooch originally appeared on the original game's cover with no signs in the actual game because he got removed.
Lockjsaw with a handful of characters got added to Sculptor's Cut version. He is a vicious dog playing off the usual jokes you expect. Zappa Yow Yow Boyz is three brothers that worked together fighting other characters. I know their name sounds like a weird band but they aren't a band at all. Oh wait we still got two guest characters to talk about.
Boogerman & Earthworm Jim respectively. Both are strange cases for the franchise. Boogerman was one of the most disgusting hero characters Interplay owns. A character that flips boogers, burps, farts, and going down toilets. Such an odd choice for a guest character. Earthworm Jim has more of a story behind how he ended up in there.
Shiny Entertainment got bought by Interplay. Interplay chose to get a different team to make Earthworm Jim 3D. Which came out not long after Sculptor's Cut version. Which means in just a few years, Interplay virtually destroyed Earthworm Jim's reputation. I can kinda see why they had to go for Earthworm Jim in these ClayFighter games.
Not even Jon St. John could save DNF. But I still felt ClayFighter 63 1/3 done a greater injustice in comparison. A lot of big name voice actors like Frank Welker & Jim Cummings to name a few voiced in both versions. You would think with a cast with such reputations these should've been a home run but no they weren't.
I felt a major problem DNF had was too focus ripping off Half-Life 2. ClayFighter series was the non violent answer to many fighting games at the time. It's a shame they went for the worst jokes in ClayFighter 63 1/3 imaginable. Including the stages that got added in, some of them simply felt out of place.
Originally everyone would face Dr. Kiln as the final opponent. Thank god, Sculptor's Cut version changed that. Story is mostly meh in comparison to DNF's story. Yes there's several meh moments in that too. But at least they spice things up much better. Like one level took place inside a strip club, a small thing sure.
The best route to play either version is through emulators. Even there you may wanna expect some technical issues. I played DNF on two platforms, it played just fine. I also felt majority of moves within ClayFighter 63 1/3 were flat out cheap as well as stupid. Originally they had Killer Instinct style combo system but it got removed to fit in more stuff they planned to be in the previous version.
Keep in mind, DNF was either disc or digitally release while ClayFighter 63 1/3 was on an cartridge. Especially an N64 cartridge that are known to lose saves overtime. Not that you needed that for ClayFighter 63 1/3 because you don't. You still need to input the hidden character codes in though. The endings themselves are lackluster with some bad jokes thrown in.
At least DNF did offer some variety within the game play. Like some vehicle sections or being shrunk down. You also could interactive with some stuff within the environment like pinball machines or shoot some baskets in basket ball. Audio, DNF has better songs with some great voice overs. Sound effects is alright still way better than what you're going to hear in ClayFighter 63 1/3.
Some of those are just so bad. Maybe this is an cartridge issue or simply wasn't great to begin with. Who really knows or even cares in the first place!!! ClayFighter 63 1/3 led to two franchises getting buried other than just one in DNF's case. Not only that, it was even more dated than DNF especially during it's era.
Duke Nukem Forever has a more satisfying multiplayer experience. It quickly blows away playing against another player in either version of ClayFighter 63 1/3. Also The Doctor Who Cloned Me was better than doing every character in a row playthroughs. I felt that had the game's best jokes as well as facing two enemy armies was a nice touch.
There wasn't even a notable demand to do ClayFighter 63 1/3 either. There was one for DNF for the longest time. Which directly makes ClayFighter 63 1/3 even worse than DNF in a nut shell. Oh I'm not done yet folks. DNF also had unlockable features after beating the first campaign. Sure it wasn't done well but what do you get for beating ClayFighter 63 1/3?
I'll tell you absolutely nothing even with all the characters. Difficulty wise, DNF is still more fair as well as balanced. ClayFighter 63 1/3 is heavily unbalanced even on easier difficulties. Which means trying to beat it on harder ones is going to suck hard. I rather play two campaigns that takes hours rather than the same shorter game repeatedly with all the characters.
Now if it were a good fighting game then I would've chosen that over The Doctor Who Clone Me campaign easily. Of course it's not, DNF isn't even that bad of a game to begin with. By the time it came out, Serious Sam and other FPS franchises were killing it. ClayFighter never had that level of expectations from people.
By that point, some got to play ClayFighter 2. Considered to be the best of the franchise. It's amazing how we went from the best to the absolute worst!!! DNF has plenty of things over ClayFighter 63 1/3. I don't just agree ClayFighter 63 1/3 was actually worse than DNF, it deserved more negative attention. I am not kidding, easily among the worst fighting games of it's era yet not a lot of people talks about em.
Jeez I wondered why? It was never going to be the next Street Fighter, Killer Instinct, Mortal Kombat, Tekken or any other decent fighting game franchise. It even failed trying to properly parodied the genre itself. I would even say the fans themselves quickly distance from these games. More likely true than DNF's case.
DNF is a failure yes but it's still playable. It has a few over looked decent things. Which is just enough to say it was way better than ClayFighter 63 1/3. Not only that, ruining older characters is a sin among fighting games. Adding poorly done newer characters is over salting the wound. I can't even say one somewhat nice thing about ClayFighter 63 1/3 other than only those on N64 suffers playing it.
Let's be honest, that's not nice either. It's torture, there's plenty of great fighting games to play. It's a real shame something like ClayFighter fell this low. Maybe not Bubsy 3D & Superman 64 low. But low enough you can't even tell what's down that hole anymore. I can still see parts of DNF down the same hole though.
Another major point I wanna make is usually the updated versions of fighting games ends up being better. Somehow in this rare case, Sculptor's Cut ended up being even worst. It doesn't change the fact you have to buy both versions separately while I only need to buy DNF once for much cheaper!!! Honestly, I don't recommend either game but DNF has a few good things making it lesser of two evils.
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