Games Not Worth Playing

[Erttheking]

Prototype. The graphics are nothing to write home about, your attacks get interrupted every 5 seconds, the hunters have stupid amounts of health, it's a freaking grind at points, and to be honest any joy you get from slaughtering people en mass tends to vanish after an hour or two. I guess games like that just don't appeal to me.

 

[Praetox]

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.

Same here. So glad I watched gameplay videos before deciding whether to buy it or not. Just watching it made me want to break something out of frustration.

 

[Eventidal]

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.

You hated DMC? Why?

The only reason you gave is that 4 made you backtrack through the whole game. Perfectly valid as that is, it's hardly a reason to hate the WHOLE series. Only one game did it. Though it still wasn't as bad as the complete, boring, terrible mess that was 2.

If you never played 3, you're missing out. DMC3 was the best one. The action in cutscenes was way over the top, the combat was intense and there were some great fights. It was a fairly memorable game with some good exploration in places as well. It's definitely the best in the series.

 

[Jazoni89]

Risen (Console) - Its just bad, the controls suck, the voice acting is frighteningly bad, and overall its just boring, I player the game for about 2 hours then I just hated it and traded it in.

FarCry 2 - Its like the characters have no knowledge of what punctuation is and it is annoying as hell and really immersion breaking because the characters just go on and on If you buy the DLC for the game you get a load of OP weapons that you get at the start of the game see what I did there I just randomly changed topic but you didn't know because punctuation doesn't exist in FarCry 2

Crysis 2 - Its all "Look at my shiny graphics, but my story, multiplayer and mechanics suck, but still, SHINY!" (Also what is it with Crytek putting a "Cry" in all of their game name?)

Risen on the 360 has got to be one of the worst PC ports ever made, which is a shame because the PC version is actually quite decent.

Glitches, terrible graphics, jerky framerate...you get the picture. A great example of lazy downgraded porting.

Which is in fact, the total opposite to the recent 360 Witcher 2 port, which is a great example of a great port that does the PC version justice.

 

[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..

No. No you can't. Because the gameplay is still fun, therefor the game is still fun.

If you eat a pie with poor packaging does the pie suddenly taste like crap?

Flawed analogue: The voice-acting is part of the gameplay, and thus part of the "pie", and not just packaging. I see story as a crucial part of the gameplay, and they ruined it. So I can call bullshit on it. YOU can of course say "I don't care about story/don't care about voice-acting, and the story is still good" and I can say "Okey, fine, you don't care, but I do, and I am calling it".

With your logic, anything before the age of the N64, PS1 and Dreamcast was an utter piece of shit.

No, because A: We didn't even have voice-acting back then, so it didn't matter and B; The few games that did you were marveled by the fact that they had. You didn't have any form of standard back then.

 

[ABLb0y]

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.

Well, then it appears we like different things and have different opinions. Not a big thing.

PS: No offence, but I personally think Final Fantasy 13 was the best JRPG of this generation. I'm sorry, but do other JRPGS have Vanille? Thought not.

 

[Busard]

PS: No offence, but I personally think Final Fantasy 13 was the best JRPG of this generation. I'm sorry, but do other JRPGS have Vanille? Thought not.

I think my brain bleeds a little everytime I read this. But hey, tastes and colours

 

[ABLb0y]

PS: No offence, but I personally think Final Fantasy 13 was the best JRPG of this generation. I'm sorry, but do other JRPGS have Vanille? Thought not.

I think my brain bleeds a little everytime I read this. But hey, tastes and colours

See? We have different opinions. Doesn't make us worth any less, because we don't share the same opinion.

 

[fish iron4]

Haven't played Skyrim yet, probably won't until cheap-ass computers are good enough to run it. I played Oblivion and hated it and don't imagine Skyrim to be that much better. Bethesda's games bore me to tears.

Fallout 3 was okay, I guess. It lacked the charm and the humor and all the other cool things about Fallout 1 and 2, and the DLCs were mostly shit, and you had to buy a DLC just to be able to play the game after the ending which I thought was pretty stingy on Bethesda's part. The main quest is just boring, you just do a bunch of fetch quests for the Imperial Legi...er, I mean Brotherhood of Steel and when you get right down to it, it's just a first person shooter with clunky controls.

Fallout New Vegas just plain sucked. It was buggy to the point of being nearly unplayable, ran at about half the speed of Fallout 3 despite being exactly the same game, and the whole thing about picking sides between the different factions was really poorly done. The graphics sucked too. New Vegas is a grey, full-bright eyesore with neon lights taped to it and the worst part is the Caesar's Legion camp which is just a big brown hole in the desert. Geckos with stupid gaping grins run at you with only their legs animated and nothing else, guns are unresponsive and often glitch out, rotating in weird directions until you load a saved game. It seems like something a team of amateur modders would make, not a professionally-made game.

Oh and when you finally get the coolest armor in the game, the Ranger battle armor, the thing you've been waiting for the whole time; guess what? All your guns clip right through the middle of the fucking trench coat because the developers were too lazy to fix it, even after a bazillion updates that introduce more bugs than they fix. Even though they hired some of the original Fallout team, New Vegas is even shittier than Fallout 3.

If you don't like Bethesda's games then why did you buy 3 of em and plan to buy a 4Th? Im a bit con-fuddled

 

[Tsaba]

every video game, because, your bound to either find a game you don't like or play a game you do like and be judged because all the cool kids don't like it.



Every game is worth playing, worth paying for..... that's another story.

 

[Quaidis]

I don't feel like quoting that fight back there, but Metroid Other M is a game that isn't worth playing. Sure the gameplay can be fun, but the story, the terrible handle on the characters, and the voice acting are cringe-worthy. And the cutscenes last forever. I ended up leaving the game during cutscenes to take piss breaks and watch paint dry - they were so boring and bad as a whole. And not MGS funny-bad, either. Just bad.

Before someone quotes me about pie, keep in mind that M was made around the story, the characters, and the 'universe' that the voices want to pull you into. That and you can't skip cutscenes on the first play-through. There are far better games out there with the same gameplay, and I don't want to have to dig through week-old dirty cat litter to find the shiny marble that represents what could be good about the game.

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Two other games I think people should pass on:

Grandia 3. While Grandia 1 and 2 are brilliant, 3 is a nightmare. You start off with the main character, his mom, and later make friends with this bad ass gambling bandit guy. All are awesome and in league with the first two games. Then you bump into a generic elf named Alfina (not kidding you), and the other bad ass characters in your party leave. Leave you all alone in a world of generic, un-fun characters and some absolutely painful story choices and dialogue. I played through it, beat it, and while the game play is addictive and a jerk as a whole, the end-plot was far more painful than the rest of the story.

... I was so wound up in the whole Metroid Other M thing that I forgot the second game I wanted to rant about. Sadness.

 

[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..

No. No you can't. Because the gameplay is still fun, therefor the game is still fun.

If you eat a pie with poor packaging does the pie suddenly taste like crap?

Flawed analogue: The voice-acting is part of the gameplay, and thus part of the "pie", and not just packaging. I see story as a crucial part of the gameplay, and they ruined it. So I can call bullshit on it. YOU can of course say "I don't care about story/don't care about voice-acting, and the story is still good" and I can say "Okey, fine, you don't care, but I do, and I am calling it".

With your logic, anything before the age of the N64, PS1 and Dreamcast was an utter piece of shit.

No, because A: We didn't even have voice-acting back then, so it didn't matter and B; The few games that did you were marveled by the fact that they had. You didn't have any form of standard back then.

Games back then were able to have a storyline. So now we're back to "With your logic, anything before the age of the N64, PS1 and Dreamcast was an utter piece of shit."

Yeeees, and they did it without a horrible voice-acting that ruined immersion? I mean look at Fallout 2, that had minimal (and yet better than most games at the time) Voice Acting. If they had voice-acted EVERYTHING in the game, and done it as poorly as Other M, It would have been a serious demerit to the game, and depending on other aspects, would have made it bad.
Other M is bad because the rest of it can't carry that horrible story and voice-acting.

 

[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..

No. No you can't. Because the gameplay is still fun, therefor the game is still fun.

If you eat a pie with poor packaging does the pie suddenly taste like crap?

Flawed analogue: The voice-acting is part of the gameplay, and thus part of the "pie", and not just packaging. I see story as a crucial part of the gameplay, and they ruined it. So I can call bullshit on it. YOU can of course say "I don't care about story/don't care about voice-acting, and the story is still good" and I can say "Okey, fine, you don't care, but I do, and I am calling it".

With your logic, anything before the age of the N64, PS1 and Dreamcast was an utter piece of shit.

No, because A: We didn't even have voice-acting back then, so it didn't matter and B; The few games that did you were marveled by the fact that they had. You didn't have any form of standard back then.

Games back then were able to have a storyline. So now we're back to "With your logic, anything before the age of the N64, PS1 and Dreamcast was an utter piece of shit."

Yeeees, and they did it without a horrible voice-acting that ruined immersion? I mean look at Fallout 2, that had minimal (and yet better than most games at the time) Voice Acting. If they had voice-acted EVERYTHING in the game, and done it as poorly as Other M, It would have been a serious demerit to the game, and depending on other aspects, would have made it bad.
Other M is bad because the rest of it can't carry that horrible story and voice-acting.

Is that why it got mostly good reviews? (Don't bring Yahtzee into this. He's not a reviewer)

I don't care what reviews it got? It's bad according to me. I never claimed it was bad according to general consensus.

 

[bullet_sandw1ch]

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.

you must be joking. everything in B3 is an improvement. the graphics [on pc] are like god slapped you in the eyes with is cock. op. metro , and seine crossing are the only maps with bad design, and the servers are stable this time around. and in BC2 the vehicles could make you their *****. they made the controls more realistic and cumbersome to simulate the tank or heli controls. every gun is different, even similar guns in the same class have quirks that can make one better for you. the only downgrade is them not learning from BC2's campaign, and making one as that.i think you had expectations that could not be met by B3, and as a result of that, the game was crap to you.

 

[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.

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.

Perfectly valid point that the OP, instead of talking in a civil manner, insults you and puts the question off.

I do wonder, why do people keep creating these threads? Are they just not smart enough to realize what they had put? Or are they specifically trying to start flame wars? I swear these places are breeding grounds for tro... oh my god. THAT'S IT! The OP is trying to populate his race of Stupid Trolls! I KNEW IT!

I'm an asshole. I don't hide the fact that I'm an asshole. I find civility to those attempting to derail topics through meaningless drivel about how it's a pointless topic to not be worth civility. They don't have to come into a thread and post a valueless statement, and I'm sure as hell not going to respond in any serious manner to those that do.

As for me being a troll, that's a bit rich really. It's a perfectly valid topic that I posted, and I provided a game that I honestly do not believe is worth the time or effort. Further, I explained my reasons for this. I disagree with what some others have posted, but at least they are staying within the topic and not making a trolling attempt at saying that the concept of the thread is invalid. If they honestly believed it, they wouldn't post. Rather it is a blatant attempt at trolling that I have very little patience for. Thus I mock them incessantly.

 

[geK0]

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)

I made the same mistake; that game was a tragedy really.