Games Not Worth Playing

[The_Blue_Rider]

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.

That really depends on where you live, Eg when I had Black Ops (Before MW3 came out), I could never find other New Zealanders playing, so i'd always end up in lobbies with people from the other side of the world.
Zombies managed to be even worse D:

(note I was using the PS3 so that probably has something to do with it)

I cant really think of any game that isnt worth playing, usually because most games I play have some redeeming quality

 

[Lt._nefarious]

Duke Nukem For-f**king-ever... You shouldn't just not play this, no, you should actively go out of your way to destroy every copy you find!

 

[Viridian]

Vampire Rain. If I hated someone so much that I would want to kill them, I would rethink homicide, and instead gift them this game. There's just... so much badness. And not the good kind of bad, either.

 

[thememan]

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.

First, I pride myself a bit on being grammatically correct when posting online. I'm not a grammar nazi by any means, but for my own posts I try to make it as humane as possible to read. In other words, I don't try to eye-rape you and leave you a muttering husk of a human being while a detective asks you to point out on the doll where the bad man touched you. This is about as close as I get to a "Thanks", so take it as you will.

Second, let me paint a picture for you:

My girlfriend and I usually don't play videogames together, as generally speaking most multiplayer games I play she doesn't enjoy. Those that are competitive, I trounce her to the point where she doesn't want to play anymore. I let up on her and she gets even angrier. So it's few and far between that we find games we both can play. The Lego series has always been fairly good at this, as most titles promote a simple gameplay style that is heavily cooperative. And I can find enjoyment in them, and she absolutely loves them. Awesome times!

Now, we rarely get to play. She works a lot, and I'm fairly busy. So we have to plan a few days at the least in advance. Now, she works at a library and imagine her glee when they got Lego Indiana Jones 2 in (Short aside: We loved the first game). She sent me a message that day telling me that our plans for Saturday were going to be staying in and playing Lego Indiana Jones 2! Cool, I thought. We did everything in the first, and the second will be a happy continuation. We will have a grand old time playing the game.

Well, the time comes to play the game! At first I noticed something... interesting. The normal hub is gone. It's a small change, I can deal with it and I'm sure it's nothing. And then everything fell apart.

Now, she has a bit more patience than I do, yet she was getting fed up with the Shitacular Spectacular (tm) that was presented before us. Granted, she was willing to go with it. I grated my teeth and tried to as well. My anger with the game rose as neither of us could figure out how the hell to proceed through inane obstacle after inane obstacle.

Now imagine how incredibly bad I felt as a person when I simply couldn't take this shit-fest anymore and had to tell my girlfriend I simply couldn't play it anymore. This was honestly the first game I have played in a very long time where I simply could not continue because of how bad it was. I was barely able to make it through the Crystal Skull mission line before I got to this point. There are still three more mission lines to do!

Simply put, very few games make me want to up and quit them. I have played through Superman 64 in its entirety for God's sake. It takes a very special kind of bad for me to tell my girlfriend that I simply cannot play a game any more with her. That kind of frustration is simply unforgivable.

 

[RustlessPotato]

The Force Unleased 2... Seriously. It prides itselfs on Look at the Shiny Shiny Graphix, but it's just an empty shell.

 

[Bvenged]

DMC series. YAWWWWN. I hate them, they suck.

The last one I played was DMC4, and you know a game's bad when half-way in that game tells you to turn around and run back to the start for the final boss, fighting a slightly different-coloured version of all the bosses you've fought already.

I'm not sure if that was specifically a design for the game, or just lazy on the developers part. But one thing's for certain, it's an ugly, ugly game.

Halo. Each Halo game has a special place on my bookshelf and I'm still playing them now... but when I end up playing someone from north or south america...

GOD DAMN IT WHY ARE THERE NO DEDICATED LOCAL SERVERS?!?!?!

If the Americans are hosts of the lobby (which they nearly always are), us Brits have to put up to the 1-2 second delay it takes for our signal to ping across the Atlantic to them. I have to shoot early, and where I think they're gonna' be stood, and even then my first shot is ALWAYS disregarded with a load of sparks, some blood splatter but no actual shield damage.

I despise playing Americans for connection reasons, but by-god will I bag them should we win on their turf.

 

[zeit]

Bioshock is the most overrated game I've ever played. I got excited when it was announced because I was a big fan of System Shock 2 and was waiting for another game like it. But Bioshock isn't anything ilke System Shock 2 other than the fact that you still have someone yelling at you over a radio throughout the game and the story is in the form of badly voice-acted audio logs. It's really a lot like Doom 3, except with weapon upgrades and pretty water effects. And just like Doom 3, you start with a shitty pistol and then you find a shotgun which you use for about 90% of the game.

There's only three types of enemies: splicers, automated turrets, and the big daddies which aren't really that tough at all. In fact, nothing in this game is really that tough. Everything's all consoled out, dumbed down, all the complexity and difficulty is gone. All the scary moments from SS2 are gone. The whole game you are just running back and forth doing fetch quests for the voice in your head and killing the same enemies and doing the same Pipe Dream minigame to hack into stuff.

The RPG elements don't help the game stay afloat for long, about 3/4ths of the way through I was just plain sick of playing it but I pressed on to see where the story went. Unfortunately, the big plot twist near the end is painfully predictable, and both the good and bad endings to the game are nothing more than 20 second long pre-rendered cutscenes that are just plain retarded. The moral choice system is a completely overhyped element that doesn't really add anything to the game. It doesn't even affect the game in any way, all it does is determine which ending you get and both of them suck.

I will say, the graphics and the atmosphere are very well done. But it seems like the developers thought they did such a terrific job on designing their big gilded underwater city that they didn't need to give you anything to do in it other than fetch keys and flip switches and shoot monsters with a shotgun. The beautiful visuals just aren't enough to compensate for the dated, simplistic FPS formula and the RPG elements feel tacked on and almost unnecessary.

I paid 60 bucks for this mediocre repetitive piece of crap and I still regret it. Don't buy Bioshock. If you want to play it, rent it. Or better yet, ask a friend if you can borrow it; trust me, he won't mind.

 

[Sean Hollyman]

Two Worlds. That game was repetitve, had bad combat, and the graphics weren't too nice.

 

[Jynthor]

Two Worlds. That game was repetitve, had bad combat, and the graphics weren't too nice.

I barely made it out of the first dungeon and I already ran back screaming to the shop to trade it in for something else.
It was THAT bad.

 

[tobi the good boy]

Come on, don't try and give this a classy title and talk it up, this is a ***** about a game you don't like thread. Or at least what it will descend into and you knew this well before making it.

 

[xPixelatedx]

Battlefield 3

No I am not a CoD fan, and no I am not trolling. I am a huge fan of Bad Company 2, and I went into BF3 with nothing but high hopes. Way too many things about BF3 seemed like a huge step backwards from Bad Company 2 (even bad company 1 in some regards)! The map design in BF3 is just... just terrible (Operation Metro anyone?), and they are just ugly. The weapon damage and suppression effects make only a few guns in the entire game useful now, making the overall selection moot. Dealing with the unbalanced Helicopters in BC2 was a pain, but seeing how unbalanced ALL the vehicles are now doesn't exactly fix that, even if you can shoot down a Heli with a guided missile now. All and all almost all games I play in BF3 result in spawn camping (one way or the other) due to bad level design and overall unbalance of the game. Do you know how many times this happened in Bad Company 2 games I played? 6, possibly 7 times in the TWO YEARS I played it.

Then there is the menus. You know your game is fucked when even the interface is broken. trying to get friends into your squad is a pain, and when they join you don't even know they are there until you press a button to see a separate menu showing just that. Even if you get into a game is almost always separates you even if there was enough room on the team you joined. Trying to change teams is an absolute pain in the ass to because the game is so picky about the stipulations for that. This results in constantly joining and leaving games for 10 mins before you can have the privilege of playing with even a few friends. Oh G, I didn't know that was asking for so much! I must be entitled to want something so unreasonable.
Also after the games it doesn't show you which map is next, so you have no idea what you are waiting for and are needlessly clogging up a spot on that server while someone else might want in.

All of this is just... no, hell no. There is no reason to move from BC2 to this.

 

[ElPatron]

I am going to go with MW3, even if am considering playing it.

In my mind it's just not worth it because I tried the multiplayer and it was far from my kind of shooter, and I know that the campaign won't last. I'm going to play it anyway for some reason.

I think that Black Ops 2 will be another "skippable" CoD. I can't imagine why would they settle for the same theme.

Battlefield 3

Aw geez, how could I forget Battlefield 3?

Long time BF fan here, and I don't think it's worth playing at all. I am actually considering playing MW3 just for the sake of it but I am definitely not going to try BF3.

If you thought BF3 was a shock after BC2, then imagine my shock since my last BF were 2 and 2142.

 

[Sean Hollyman]

The Force Unleased 2... Seriously. It prides itselfs on Look at the Shiny Shiny Graphix, but it's just an empty shell.

I got really excited when I saw the first trailer, I loved TFU1.


TFU2 just felt like TFU 0.5 with a new story. They got rid of all the cool combos.

 

[zombieshark6666]

Bioshock is the most overrated game I've ever played. I got excited when it was announced because I was a big fan of System Shock 2 and was waiting for another game like it. But Bioshock isn't anything ilke System Shock 2 other than the fact that you still have someone yelling at you over a radio throughout the game and the story is in the form of badly voice-acted audio logs. It's really a lot like Doom 3, except with weapon upgrades and pretty water effects. And just like Doom 3, you start with a shitty pistol and then you find a shotgun which you use for about 90% of the game.

There's only three types of enemies: splicers, automated turrets, and the big daddies which aren't really that tough at all. In fact, nothing in this game is really that tough. Everything's all consoled out, dumbed down, all the complexity and difficulty is gone. All the scary moments from SS2 are gone. The whole game you are just running back and forth doing fetch quests for the voice in your head and killing the same enemies and doing the same Pipe Dream minigame to hack into stuff.

The RPG elements don't help the game stay afloat for long, about 3/4ths of the way through I was just plain sick of playing it but I pressed on to see where the story went. Unfortunately, the big plot twist near the end is painfully predictable, and both the good and bad endings to the game are nothing more than 20 second long pre-rendered cutscenes that are just plain retarded. The moral choice system is a completely overhyped element that doesn't really add anything to the game. It doesn't even affect the game in any way, all it does is determine which ending you get and both of them suck.

I will say, the graphics and the atmosphere are very well done. But it seems like the developers thought they did such a terrific job on designing their big gilded underwater city that they didn't need to give you anything to do in it other than fetch keys and flip switches and shoot monsters with a shotgun. The beautiful visuals just aren't enough to compensate for the dated, simplistic FPS formula and the RPG elements feel tacked on and almost unnecessary.

I paid 60 bucks for this mediocre repetitive piece of crap and I still regret it. Don't buy Bioshock. If you want to play it, rent it. Or better yet, ask a friend if you can borrow it; trust me, he won't mind.

I paid 5$ for it and I couldn't wait until it was over. Got rid of it very quickly. Shudders.

 

[dimensional]

If this thread goes on long enough we are going to have every game possible in here so ill just simplify it the games not worth playing are the ones you dont enjoy and thats it. I could name a few games I did not care for in the slightest and consider a complete waste of my time but it would have no meaning for someone else who may have had a completely different experience with them and genuinely enjoyed them.

 

[RustlessPotato]

The Force Unleased 2... Seriously. It prides itselfs on Look at the Shiny Shiny Graphix, but it's just an empty shell.

I got really excited when I saw the first trailer, I loved TFU1.


TFU2 just felt like TFU 0.5 with a new story. They got rid of all the cool combos.

Me too ! The only major complain I head about TFU 1 was the long loading times.

TFU 2 was boring. Not only did they get rid of the cool combo's, but they gave you almost every force power from the beginning :/. No character progression at all.

The boss battles were a joke as well (seriously, Darth Vador was boring to fight). I kinda like the jedi battles in TFU 1, even if they could've handled them better.

Also, how they handled combat. I can see what they were trying to achieve by giving each enemy it's own weakness, forcing you to combine Force powers with the lightsabers, but they screwed up. You weren't combining anything. It was just Enemy Type A with Attack A,Enemy type B with attack B etc... Those bigger enemies with the QTE were just meh. The first one you see is cool, but if you have to repeat it like 10 times in a 6 hour game ? :/. Just lke the "falling from heights" parts. Yeah they were cool, but repetition made them tedious.

Storyline was a joke. Just when it got some resemblence of momentum, the game ends. Can't believe I payed 60 euro's for that.

 

[thememan]

Come on, don't try and give this a classy title and talk it up, this is a ***** about a game you don't like thread. Or at least what it will descend into and you knew this well before making it.

Oh my god, you're right. My entire life view has been changed, and gosh darn it I should just retroactively remove this thread from existence because you don't like the premise.

Oh, wait. That would be my reaction if I actually cared and weren't an asshole. Hint: I don't and I am.

 

[Arkvoodle]

Skyrim


An overrated and joyless massive pile of Medieval cliches. How this won so many awards is something I will NEVER understand.

 

[tobi the good boy]

Come on, don't try and give this a classy title and talk it up, this is a ***** about a game you don't like thread. Or at least what it will descend into and you knew this well before making it.

Oh my god, you're right. My entire life view has been changed, and gosh darn it I should just retroactively remove this thread from existence because you don't like the premise.

Oh, wait. That would be my reaction if I actually cared and weren't an asshole. Hint: I don't and I am.

The point I was trying to make was, If you bothered to look, we already have hundreds of these damnable things and they all just descend into fanboys screaming at one another. No one wants that.

 

[neverarine]

lol... using the shotgun in bioshock... i used the wrench even against the final boss... i just never felt the need to use my precious ammo...

Resonance of Fate, steampunk jrg third person shooter... sounded great until you find out that every fight requires you spend more time in the air like a circus clown than a gunslinger... :/