Games Not Worth Playing

[Daveman]

The most blatant one for me has to be Duke Nukem Forever. It's rare that I'll feel ripped off when I pay £2.50 for a game, but I do.

 

[josemlopes]

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.

Exactly, like only one guy mentioned Big Rigs and that is one of the best examples for a game that isnt worth playing, the rest of the guys seem to just choose one game of the popular ones and say how much they dont like it.

 

[Somebloke]

The PC port of Saint's Row 2.

I decided to check it out, when it was on the cheap, since I recalled Yahtzee had expressed a like for the title.

What I failed to research, was how absolutely abysmal the port from console to PC was, with terrible framerates on hardware that outpaces the original console target several times over and controls that are mapped all over the keyboard (the two controller sticks are each mapped to a set of keys, etc...) and sends a vehicle irrevocably lurching over a certain number of degrees, at the merest tap of a key - only way to stay on the road is to keep zig-zagging.

Virtually unplayable - a publisher with any self respect would remove it from the market.

 

[TheNaut131]

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.

Spoiler

Well, I guess we'll just have to live with it. It's just another one of the inevtible thing that happens on the internet. Just be thankful that so far no one seems to have had their feelings hurt by what some random stranger, who probably means next to nothing to them in reality, said about a game they like.

 

[Captain Booyah]

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.

Exactly, like only one guy mentioned Big Rigs and that is one of the best examples for a game that isnt worth playing, the rest of the guys seem to just choose one game of the popular ones and say how much they dont like it.

Yeah, it's a shame when potentially good threads are derailed like this by people who read "games not worth playing" as simply "games I hate and think are overrated". God knows we have enough of the latter. I was looking forward to some snarky and potentially useful posts, but I guess I should have known better. Are games like BioShock and Fallout 3 and Skyrim so shamelessly, horribly bad that they have absolutely nothing to offer to anybody, ever? Really? Really?

OT: I've never had the pleasure of playing it myself, but PepsiMan (not that many would ever consider playing it in the first place). Unless you're playing it for laughs.

 

[minarri]

Dragon Age 2. Playing it was like eating classroom paste; yeah you could do it, but it wasn't enjoyable or nourishing in any way.

I'd also like to nominate FFVIII and any of the ones that came after number 10 in that series. Too stodgy and obsessed with appearances but devoid of enjoyment.

 

[Issurru]

Front Mission Evolved or whatever it was, really they turned an awesome turn based Mech RPG into what is essentially Armored Core (which is a great series, well I thought so before it went all DBZ-speed) But 1 infinity times worse. Seriously there's nothing redeemable about the game, everything was retarded down (an even greater version than the normal dumbed down)

The graphics suck, the customization is awful and pointless, characters/voice acting were terrible, had a stupid bullet time and a bunch of other things. Seriously I would rather be subject to ET for the Atari or Two Worlds or Duke Nukem Forever, for all eternity than play this piece of garbage (which was totally my fault for buying, I saw FRONT MISSION and just bought it... Taught me a very good lesson)

 

[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.

Spoiler

Well, I guess we'll just have to live with it. It's just another one of the inevtible thing that happens on the internet. Just be thankful that so far no one seems to have had their feelings hurt by what some random stranger, who probably means next to nothing to them in reality, said about a game they like.

Very well, no point talking the apathetic. I can only hope in the future you think before you post, not of a singular person but the community you're a part of and realise you'd be doing us all a favour by keeping dribble that will result into frivolous flame-wars (which are against the forums rules) away from The Escapist.

 

[Danzavare]

Sonic 2006. It's a terrible experience and for even the most dedicated of Sonic fans it's worth ignoring. (Which is helped by the fact that its ending basically negates anything/everything you did)

I've played games, but Sonic 2006 is the only one I've played that should never ever be interacted with.

 

[TheNaut131]

Very well, no point talking the apathetic. I can only hope in the future you think before you post, not of a singular person but the community you're a part of and realise you'd be doing us all a favour by keeping dribble that will result into frivolous flame-wars (which are against the forums rules) away from The Escapist.

There's at least a 60% chance I'd fuck shit up somehow, so no promises.

Seriously though, if someone can't see what certain games have to offer, than I guess they simply don't see it. A lot their choices are bullshit, I will admit that. But their choices are their choices, so there. Now, here are a few games that no one should ever play is this:

Superman 64. Seriously, fuck that game.

Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days. It could've been goo-no, who am I kidding, that game was shit!

Call of Juarez 3: The Cartel...fuck the driving sections, the gun play, the murky washed out colors...just fuck everything about this game.

Dark Void. The jet pack can only make the game so enjoyable until everything else catches up to it and drags you down.

The Force Unleashed 2. ...how did they manage to take everything that was good about the first game and destroy them?

Sonic 06. Hey Sonic Team, why not release a finished game next time? Oh, and Silver was a terrible idea...and that cutscene that I refuse to mention. Seriously, this game was so bad it made me appreciate Shadow the Hedgehog: The Game.

 

[Emiscary]

Spore. Everything past phase 1 was downhill...

 

[The_Deleted]

Need For Speed: Unbounded:
I started off really enjoying the, like Bugbears previous Flatout games, they proved a challenge that felt fair and tough. For about 4 races. Then they proved to be fucking horrendous.

 

[mjc0961]

Okami
inFamous
Command and Conquer 4
Mafia

All of those games are just downright terrible.

Very well, no point talking the apathetic. I can only hope in the future you think before you post, not of a singular person but the community you're a part of and realise you'd be doing us all a favour by keeping dribble that will result into frivolous flame-wars (which are against the forums rules) away from The Escapist.

And maybe you should do the same before making a post like this that only serves to start one of those frivolous flame wars. Seriously, what other kind of reaction do you think you're going to get when you're such a massive asshole to people? The only thing posts like yours accomplish is other people calling you out on your bullshit, and thus your post is far more likely to be the cause of a flame war than this thread.

 

[Manji187]

Wii shovelware titles....sooooo much crap out there.

 

[josemlopes]

snip

Here is another game from the PS1, you could create your own characters and their attacks, like frame by frame, but the tools for it were so bad that usually this would be the end result:

 

[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.

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.

Yeah, they could have tried more variation on the combat. Also, I saw loads of stuff about Yoda being in it, lol.

 

[Austin Howe]

Snip.

It's not even worth playing to understand the plot of Defiance, especially since that game has the entire backstory right there in the manual.

My example is without question Metroid: Other M. You already knew about the character assasination, but what you didn't know about was the shallow, uninteresting, unfun, unchallenging gameplay that will absolutely bore you to tears. Oh, and the real final boss is Phantoon. Yay!

 

[Austin Howe]

Resonance of fate. I honestly thought I'd never find a JRPG I didn't like. Then this skidmark came along.

Seriously dude? Next to Xenoblade Chronicles, it's probably the best JRPG of the current gen.

 

[Realitycrash]

Sadly, Metroid Other M. For any fan of the Metroid series this is a game to steer away from lest one risk their perception of the whole series getting tarnished (I'd include the last several mins of Mass Effect 3 for the same reason.) Not only does it ruin the character of Samus Aran but it is an ill-conceived mess that is just horrendously broken and plays horrendously poorly.

You can't say a game isn't fun because of some bad voice acting/writing.

Haha oooooh yes, yes you can. If the voice-acting is so awful that you spend more time laughing at the apathetic-sounding third-grader doing what appears to be a poorly worded schoolplay than you spend trying to follow the storyline, then the fun stops.

Or, actually, you are enjoying yourself by laughing AT the game, but this gets old very quickly..

 

[Lovely Mixture]

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

I actually bought that as a launch title for my 360. I Hated it so much.

-Bad level design, and the game knows it by having little arrows guide you to where you need to go if you stay still for more than 20 seconds.
-Story is awful, and Joanna isn't even British.
-Gameplay is just eh.