Games Not Worth Playing

[thememan]

We've all played em, we've all been frustrated out of our mind to the point where you just want to throw your controller at the screen in anger. To save the pain from others, what games have you played that are just not worth the time.

My current "Game Not Worth the Time" award goes to:

Lego Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure continues.

One of the main reasons why I enjoy the Lego games is that they are classically easily accessible games with a bit of character playing heavily on nostalgia. They are games that my Girlfriend and I can both play together and are generally fun little diversions that aren't overly complex yet deep enough to keep us coming back for more.

And this game destroys that utterly. First, the overworld system is absolutely confusing and does not give any clear idea of how you should progress at all. For a level based game, this is just idiotic. I already went through the god-damn previous level, just let me continue on without having to complete some inane and pointless task to continue even further.

On this subject, what the hell were the developers smoking when they decided to make completely obtuse "puzzles" in the overworld system that require you to spend obscene amounts of time just to progress through the main mission? I can understand for bonus levels and the like having this system. That's fine. But the main mission line? Seriously? God damn it, I just want to play the god-damn game already and not spend 20 minutes trying to figure out that I have to jump on the motherfucking pusher that doesn't give a single hint that it's a god-damn pusher, and doesn't resemble the other god-damn pushers in the game at all.

This obtuse design permeates through out the entire game as well! Several bosses involve idiotic tasks with absolutely no hints or real visual cues of what you are supposed to do to progress. On many occasions the "obvious" method of continuing is completely wrong, and rather you are supposed to do something completely different than what your intuition tells you.

Moving on, anyone who has played Lego games has known that vehicle controls are shit. Thankfully, the developers have steered far away from making them large parts of the game. This time around, however, they decided to make entire levels of vehicle "combat"! You'd think they'd fix the driving scheme or tune it up a bit. Nope! Same fucking awful controls that are almost impossible to use with any finesse, and this time you have to spend an entire level using it! Good fucking job!

Of course, they couldn't be stopped there with shitty designs. Oh no. Almost all of the god-damn driving levels have obscuring foreground structures that make it absolutely impossible for you to see what's going on! God forbid you get stuck, because there is no getting out at that point.

Next, the unlockables. Unlockables don't carry over between chapters. The fuck is that shit. That's all I have to say on this issue. It's just blatantly stupid.

And replayability. Let's go into that. Previous installments required you to go back with your unlocked characters into the levels so that you could get everything. Not this time! The only thing you have to do is get more coins! Woo-fucking-hoo. Gone is the exploration (limited as it was), gone is the finding all the secrets you can. Nope, you just need to go and get more coins to get "Complete Adventurer!" Yay.

And that brings me right around to the last and biggest problem of the game. The worst sin committed, the one that completely ruins it: Playing it with another person isn't fun. Before, the various unique abilities of each character were needed to do different tasks. With one being Indy, and the other being some other character with a unique ability, you felt as though you were both contributing to the gameplay. This time, almost every last puzzle or thing in the game is completed with Indy alone. The other player is simply along for the ride and it doesn't act as though you are both contributing to completing the level. It's stupid, it's idiotic, and it defeats the point of having multiple characters. My girlfriend effectively sits back as I swing around as indy doing damn near everything. It's not fun for her, and it's not fun for me because of this.

Of course there are many, many other problems with this game. These are the major ones, and if you aren't sold on it being a borderline unplayable game after these idiotic moves, then my other gripes aren't going to convince you further.

For all it's flaws, Lego Indiana Jones 2: The Complete Adventures gets my "Game Not Worth the Time" award for being the most frustratingly bad game I've played in a good long while.

 

[krazykidd]

Games not worth my time :

FFXIII-2 : i feel myself getting dumber playing it ( i swear i do)
Agrest war zero : a battle takes up to 40 mins , death of a haracter is not something to take lightly , so much time wasted on normal battles

That's all i got for the moment . But any has tips on how to play agrest war properly ( because i assume i'm doing it wrong ) please do tell.

 

[The Wykydtron]

Hmm, continuing with the frustrating stuff, i'm gonna go to the opposite end of the spectrum and say Dark Souls for being frustratingly good.

I swear you need to pour so much time into the game to learn the little things it likes to pull as well as just learning the enemy patterns and just dealing with some of the frankly unfair/trollish stuff it goes for at least once per area.

For example, if you can see an enemy through a doorway there will be enemies hiding just to the side of the doorway to punish the person who decides to just sprint at the one enemy you can see. This happens around 80% of all doors in any dungeon in the game.

You don't know what an illusionary wall looks like? Fuck you! Lose an ungodly amount of content including Bonfires, Covenants and all sorts of cool shit.

Oh, poke all chests past Sen's Fortress btw, I don't give a fuck if you can tell by the chain on the side i'm gonna be a Dark Souls scrub and poke every chest in the game just so I don't get instakilled by the most hilarious enemy in the game.

It's a good game with some amazing enemy design, really good co-op* and PvP, even if I suck at the PvP stuff. Apparently having a seperate character for PvP is pretty important XP

It just takes ages, literally months in my case to get anywhere near good enough to progress past the first few areas!

*Seriously, my first time on co-op helping this guy with the O&S (or Golden Bros) boss fight. Him waving me goodbye before he progressed onward is a highlight of my gaming career

 

[Batou667]

Perfect Dark Zero. A hideous, horrible, disgusting game that embodies everything wrong with "classic" console FPSes.

Sniper: Ghost Warrior. A promising idea absolutely broken into smithereens by sloppy execution and horrible, over-padded non-sniping sections.

 

[DoPo]

Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen 2

My goto example for a bad bad bad game.

Let's get this right out of the way - good parts:
- the stealth kills are satisfyingly brutal. Two varieties per weapon (although some weapons do repeat. The unarmed is either snap a guy's neck (meh) or Kain punches through the guy's back, grabs his hearth in the process, his fist then sticks out of the poor victim's chest and Kain just plops the heart in his enemy's feet as they watch. Not bad.
- the boss fights are all right - the puzzle bossfight variety where you're not just grinding down somebody's HP.
- Simon Templeman is the VA.

Now, let's turn to the bad parts.
- bugs. Bugs everywhere. From minor annoying ones (several known sound ones) to several that would make you curse and reload an earlier save. Oh yeah, have more than one save, as they get corrupted, too.
- the blood sucking animation would have been a good part, I mean it does look cool...but it gets old after the fifth time you do it. And it's taking so long, by the end of the game, you'd probably have seen an hour of it. The same thing over and over again. And that's because you have to do it - suck blood out of corpses/artefacts to restore your health, your health gets drained continually anyway, and by sucking blood, you get a small measure of blood lore (or whatever it was called) and when the meter fills, you get more max HP.
- weapons break. That would have not been a bad thing if they only break when Kain is holding them. You attack an enemy and they block - your weapon gets damaged, your enemy attack you and you block - your weapon gets damaged. In 4-5 hits like that, the weapon breaks. Not for anybody else, though, only for you.
- speaking of combat, the combat is so boring. Attack, attack, block, block, block, repeat until the enemy dies. You've seen one battle, you've seen them all. OK, I lied - there are abilities you can use that actually bypass the block. The problem is that to fill your rage meter, so you can use them, you have to hit an enemy that blocks or block attacks. So it's the same with the odd Fury thrown in every once in a while.
- the world is retarded. For example, nobody has a clue that the Sarafan lord (the sarafan are a sect of human vampire hunters that sort of banded together after the so called lord) is not human. First of all, he has been around for two centuries. Second, he looks like this

Spoiler: I'm totally a human, guys

Among other things, of course. Another example is the little puzzles Kain has to solve - take over a dude's mind on the other side of a window, use him to go to a lever, pull lever, the dude, the lever and the wall next to them explode, so Kain can walk through it. Think about it, who the fick would need a suicide switch that causes such destruction? That's in some sort of factory, by the way.
- the devs are retarded. Let me give you the actual names of some things: the Beast, the Device, the Mass, the Builder, the Seer. There is the Eternal Prison but that is better than the one word descriptions. I'm just surprised the action wasn't set in the City or something.
- plot inconsistencies. Oh so much. The next game tried to fix them but didn't manage to correct all of them. And it's pretty glaring - a character who was dead, beheaded even is back to life. Or whatever happens with vampires.
- forget inconsistencies with other games, there are internal inconsistencies to boot. One
location appears to be on three different locations, for example.

The game is BAD. I can't express how much. Conclusion: find a video or something with all the stealth kills, if you wish, and go read a plot guide. That will cover it. And it would save you money, time and frustration.

 

[Offworlder_v1legacy]

Big Rigs has some....sorry I could't resist.

Bugsy 3D. Yes I own Bugsy 3D, I thought it was the shit as a kid but as I've grown I've read...things about it. I won't say anything more, because there is too much to say, and you probably already know the worst of it. I must play it again sometime, just to see if it's changed since I played it all those years ago.

 

[Saladfork]

Welp, I was recently pestered by a friend of ine into playing Sonic Heroes with him.

Sonic Heroes, is, quite frankly, an atrocity (as is almost every single other Sonic game. Yes, even that one.)

So I'd say that.

 

[Grey Day for Elcia]

That one that everyone likes. Because I'm a black sheep and that's cool.

But seriously: I can't really think of any games flat-out not worth playing at all. I mean, even if you laugh at them, that's something, right?

 

[Folji]

Ever heard of a game called Twin Sector? It's a first person puzzle platformer that's been collecting ideas from other puzzle platformers with a giant fish net. You're a female protagonist in an apocalyptic sci-fi setting who's stuck in a dilapidated facility with only an AI voice to guide you around. Golly, that sounds familiar, doesn't it? What a charmingly thoughtful story base. Your puzzle-solving tool of choice is a pair of colour-coded kinetic gloves, one that attracts and one that repels, which would have sounded like an interesting idea had they actually done something good with it. But they didn't. Instead it just leads you on through a few hours of clunky puzzle mechanics and a difficulty curve copied off of a seismic chart, with no incentive for any other than the most puzzle-obsessed completionists to actually finish it.

 

[thememan]

That one that everyone likes. Because I'm a black sheep and that's cool.

But seriously: I can't really think of any games flat-out not worth playing at all. I mean, even if you laugh at them, that's something, right?

The problem with Lego Indiana Jones 2 is that it's simply aggravating. There is no laughing, and on several occasions I was about to chunk my controller at the TV.

Another one is Condemned: Bloodshot. This late-term abortion of a game takes everything that was good about the first game and throws it out the window. It is honestly the very first game to have ever given me motion sickness with it's unsteady movement, and has been the only game to do so since I played it. Who honestly thought it'd be a good idea to make it seem as though you are playing a character with his right foot lopped off? God dammit, what were they thinking? Couple it with removing the "Horror" aspect from the game after about the first quarter of the way through, and you have a really shitty action game with an incoherent plot.

I should note that I am rather relentless when I don't like a game at all.

 

[thememan]

Big Rigs has some....sorry I could't resist.

Bugsy 3D. Yes I own Bugsy 3D, I thought it was the shit as a kid but as I've grown I've read...things about it. I won't say anything more, because there is too much to say, and you probably already know the worst of it. I must play it again sometime, just to see if it's changed since I played it all those years ago.

Oh god... I had to look that up as I had purged it rather completely from my memory. Even for it's day it was awful on almost all fronts and is a complete assault on all of your senses (Taste included, as the inevitable vomitthon occurs).

 

[Glover09]

NFS: The Run
NFS: Shift
NFS: Shift 2
NFS: Undercover
Juiced
Sports games (at times)
Twisted Metal
WWE '12
Uncharted Series
Fighting games (I just suck)
Final Fantasy VIII (only attempt)
Sonic & Mario (again, I'm crap)
Gran Turismo 5


Give me some time and I'll give more.

 

[SnowyGamester]

All sports games, all military shooters, most newer JRPGs, most racing games... um. All dance games

Hey...DDR is a fun game. Also, Bad Company 2 has its moments, and there are some ok racing games (Mario Kart Wii 4tw). But I mostly concur.

OT: Rage. I trudged through because it seemed like it was building to something, then it just ended. Nothing is really explained, no big twists. I was at least hoping that John Goodman was going to betray you at the end, but he just never came back after the first few missions. le sigh.

Also FF7 without nostalgia. Heard little aside from praise before I played it...really couldn't stand the gameplay, though I somewhat enjoyed Crisis Core and Advent Children.

 

[NerfedFalcon]

If you already own one Call of Duty game, you can probably still find plenty of other people playing it in your region - heck, on the days I'm willing to put up with over-nationalistic clans, I still have fun with CoD4's multiplayer. So, if you play CoD for multiplayer you only need one, and if it's single-player you're after the last good one was CoD4.

 

[Murmillos]

Fable 3.

There were ample problems with Fable 1 and Fable 2, but the continued failure to improve the franchise and further water it down so that it would only please gamers of 8 years of age make the game in the Not Worth Playing.

Long loading times, everything down to the most simplest matters must be done in the sanctuary and NPC interaction is butchered down into random toilet humor -- I swear 90% of my interaction choices was to either fart or burp.

 

[distortedreality]

Any CoD game after CoD4MW.

Really nothing worthwhile after that.

 

[Kriptonite]

Jesus Christ man. That review was scathing, filled with anger, resentment, and sarcasm. And damn it was a pleasure to read. Not only was it funny, and it was, I didn't see a single misspelling or blatant grammatical error throughout the entire fucking thing! That's something you don't often see around here anymore. So seriously, congrats. It was a pleasure to read but I'm sorry you were subjugated to the shitty-ness of Lego Indiana Jones. Sounded awful.