Make Up Your Own Mind About Critically Panned PS1 Platformer Bubsy 3D from 9th September on PS5

Game preservation at work folks, you asked for it.

In all serious, it’s cool to see this come back. Bad art needs to exist to provide context for good art.

I'll always love the first Bubsy game as I played it a lot with my dad on the Genesis. Don't think I ever played any of the others though so this is interesting to see.

This game was so terrible it’s basically my sleeper agent trigger to turn me into the hulk. It makes me so mad. It’s so so bad.

We couldn’t afford much as a kid, so a game was a rare treat. This was not a treat. It was hell. A hell I cannot escape from, even almost 3 decades later.

The devil has decided to do this. Why does he torment me so?

Bubsy is great

Every time I see Bubsy come back in some form, I get disappointed cause it's getting more attention then so many other ips that lay dead/dormant for years.

Bubsy 3D has to be of the crappiest games ever lol

Having played it in 1997 I can confirm it's an abomination in every way.

An assault to your eyes and ears and sense of touch with it's awful gameplay. Pretty sure it's tasteless humour takes care of taste and I bet it friggin stinks too

And Sony went on and said "yep, we'll have you guys".

Whenever anyone says any contemporary release is the 'worst game ever,' the memory of Bubsy 3D flickers in my heart and I immediately realize they don't know what the f*** they're talking about.

I loved the first 2 Bubsy games

Bubsy 3D "Refurbished Edition" featuring full analog controls. Not sure if this is a gift or a curse.

I can't see Bubsy 3D without thinking about Ulillillia. The man loves that game and knows every inch of it.

How could Bubsy 3D be the worst platformer of the PS1 era when Blasto existed.

I remember playing this with my uncle on the mega drive. If I remember correctly you could do 2 player and choose to be friendly or feisty, the latter of which let you drop banana skins which at the time was comedy gold for me.
The 3d one is utter trash though.

Never played this game, and don't ever plan to, but it definitely seems to have nine lives.

@Stevemalkpus I actually liked blasto back then, played it for hours. I didn't get that far in though, it was ridiculously hard. I want to say level 4? Can't remember lol.

I always thought his name was Busby. Right up until this very moment. I'm not sure what to do with this information

I really enjoyed the Atari Jaguar version of Bubsy.

When the world of platform gaming enthusiasts are begging for some sort of resurgence for Ape Escape/Sly Cooper/Ratchet/Jak&Daxter/Rocket Knight etc we get this Monkey arse kebab of a game repackaged? Bubsy was always an unplayable frustrating ordeal of a game. The eternal truth is you simply cannot polish a turd💩

I think it will be fine. I've played Atari Jaguar games with the polygon generation and awkward controls and many play BETTER than N64 ones. I've played PSP games to completion. It's possible for me to get into Bubsy 3D. I've played more frustating old or modern era platformers or seen boring bland modern era games, so an early one that had dev issues, sure, I can handle that.

Plumbers Don't Wear Ties or others, yeah those never needed to return but companies love to fuel stuff like that. Maybe it's a better version who knows.

It's still a bad game Bubsy 3D, but i mean, context, enjoyment of history, I've seen worse, played worse and admired what still was achieved/executed besides annoyance or missing the mark.

I'm played some good FMV games of the modern era, not older ones so who knows.

But Bubsy 3D seems fine enough to experience with the right mindset and not a meme one. At least to me.

So sure it's more particular in Bubsy of glitched look textures, fair tank controls for the time, the atoms to interact with, the secrets may be annoying but even still. It's game design of the era, what do people expect?

I never grew up on tank controls besides Croc and I have played 99% of the time non tank control games, so I have learnt them and it's not that bad. XD

Sure they rushed Bubsy 3D out the door but even still. I've played shovelware and even they play decent, so to me the internet is full of idiots and I'm willing to play it as it's not that bad.

I haven't even emulated Bubsy 3D or the 2D ones, that's how much I want to experience it via modern systems out of interest.

It has ok design for what was an early 3D platformer, many others are just as basic or trying to approach what a 3D platformer is back then.

Sure it has it's issues but a lot of 2D games are still cryptic,

Rascal had bad camera and not the best tank controls compared to others of the era, but that was a publisher issue, otherwise runs at 60FPS, don't tell me Traveler's Tales don't know how to make a PS1 game run well or have fair location design of even before Yooka Laylee or others, 2 versions of a level, sure the boss fights are eh but even then.

You can tell I ignore the played for a few minutes, repeat the same garbage messaging type nonsense Youtubers say online. XD

But yeah older studio, now some Bend staff. I think Bubsy 3D just looks bad (but fair compared to Atari Jaguar or SNES 3D or even GBA 3D games), has early era issues but I mean Croc isn't perfect and is loved by many, many other early 3D games aren't it's just Bubsy looks "worse". Or people take Youtubers too seriously. I know what to see of gameplay/messaging, played enough, watched enough.

I enjoyed my time with Atari Jaguar/Lynx games that's what I bought Atari 50 for. So Bubsy. Yeah the 2D ones will be a pain to play but I'm playing Prinny 1 and 2 so I am getting better at learning games like this.

Bubsy 3D to me is appealing to play, not for punishment but historical and how bad it really isn't it's just people fuel the memes and never actually play the games. I do.