10 Utter Trash Video Games You Love Anyway

Star Fox Adventures was one of the most disappointing and confusing game announcements ever. With two excellent entries, the StarFox brand had solidified itself as a shoot-em-up. And StarFox 64, in addition to being one of the defining games of its generation, also gave us the rumble pack! Can you imagine society was once so backwards that controllers had no rumble? We've come so far.

So when fans naturally expected a threequel for the GameCube and got this instead, they were a little confused. And by "confused," I mean filled with unmitigated rage! The gaming message boards quaked that day, my friends.

Putting Fox on foot with a magic staff and talking to magic dinosaurs... What? Why? It was so incongruous that it often felt like you were playing two completely different games.

Well, as it turns out, that's because you were!

Star Fox Adventures was a last-minute pivot to inject a familiar face into an N64 game called Dinosaur Planet. And it showed, like a puzzle piece mashed into the wrong space.

So what did it have going for it? Put simply, it was gorgeous. This was one of the most polished and detailed video game worlds we had seen up to that point. It was the first time many gamers had seen fully rendered fur, rather than just flat textures. If you could let go of your very understandable disappointment, you were treated with a pretty solid 3D Zelda clone that was top to bottom eye candy.