games that should have NEVER EVER been made

[nickyv917]

Ok, first off, I'm actually surprised we haven't had that much Nintendo hate. I like the Nintendo games of recent years (except Other M, screw that, and to a much lesser extant, Kirby's Epic Yarn). But, to answer the thread, Big Rig Truckers, Bejeweled Quest for the DS, and Daikatana

 

[Drummie666]

Fuck it, I'm not sifting through 5 pages to see if anyone's said this yet.

Metroid: Other M.

It ruined everything... Everything.

 

[h0ll0w0ne]

That new XCOM.

...okay so that one isn't out yet, I'll choose a different one... Shadowrun, or Final Fantasy X-2

Agree with the X-com, agree also with Shadowrun has long has you mean the 360 version, cause the one on genesis, for the time it was made, was the best adaption they could've made. Hell I sometimes still play that game, didn't grow old to well but it's still rocks.

OT: Any Final Fantasy after 7, especially the MMOs.

 

[pyrrhic victory]

CoD,Halo and battlefield
i enjoy these 3 game series but the internet would be better off without the flamewars they spawn >_>

I really hope you're joking. Really.

OT: I don't believe there is a single game that shouldn't have been made. To quote Yahtzee: "Even bad games have a place in gaming history, even if it's just to feature in some 'how not to do it' guide."

 

[Soljourn]

There are a lot of games I don't like. Including some really popular ones, like Call of Duty or Halo or Heavy Rain. Does that mean those games should not have been made? No. I will list a few games I *do* think would've been better left on the cutting room floor. Also included...my reasons (shocking, I know).

Secret Service - Glitchy AI, glitchy interface, impossible first mission.

Clive Barker's Jericho - I was excited for this after playing Undying. Even thought the demo was cool. Just turned out to be...well, utter crap. No save system other than auto-save? I have no problem with that as long as you don't have to advance the story 45 minutes (without dying) to reach the next checkpoint.

FFX-2 - Do we really need (mostly) awesome characters going the way of Britney Spears? I honestly can't understand what Square was thinking here. The whole outfit-power system was idiocy.

Wheel of Time - I love the books, so of course I bought the game. I regret it still. A fantasy epic series prime for an awesome RPG, and we get some B level shooter game instead. It baffles me.

 

[ilspooner]

I can't think of any that shouldn't have existed. If people enjoy the game, why shouldn't it exist? A game is for entertaiment, and if people enjoy a game, then it has fufilled its purpose.

 

[Nautical Honors Society]

EDIT: Totally misread the title, I'd have to say Shadow the Hedgehog

 

[The Geek Lord]

There's a correct answer to this question:

Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

Spoiler: ^Oh your god this.^

HI-YI-YI-YAH
That game needs so much fixing. The single player is completely broken, the online multiplayer sucks, and the local multiplayer sucks horribly when the only person willing to play with you picks Pit, runs to the other end of the room, spams arrows, and runs to the other side when you get close, over and over and over and over like some kind of player-driven Get Back Here Boss. What makes that situation even worse is when said person excuses their *****-strategy by saying "IT'S EFFECTIVE" and is also physically stronger than you, can and has kicked your ass in real fights.

To this day I still say the original was the best, and I will always stand by that statement. It was the only one that was fun.

... BUT WAIT. I then remembered a game also on the Wii far worse than Brawl. Far, far, far worse. A game with so atrociously awful that it systematically raped my childhood, and I never looked on its predecessor with the same sense of joy and nostalgia again.

Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World.

I normally would get into why and start ranting and raving about how much it sucks, why everyone who likes it sucks[footnote]For god's sakes please don't start going "EVEREE-1 HAZ RITE TO OPINYUN" on me, it's... It's an exaggeration, okay?[/footnote], etcetera, but it's 11:15 at night and I still have one last day of my junior year to go. Joy.

 

[Jaime_Wolf]

Custer's Revenge is the ultimate standout in this category.

Among more modern, mainstream games: DNF. An outdated genre, outdated (lack of) humor, and a socially outdated concept.

 

[Brainst0rm]

Shadow The Hedgehog

So much this.

 

[scully745]

Anyone ever heard of a game called Ghost Vibration? Possibly the worst example of a rail shooter, take a genre where story is supposed to be the key, awkward controls and horrific animation even for its time and mix them together.

The only decent description of it I could find is this:
http://www.neoseeker.com/Games/Products/PS2/ghost_vibration/

 

[Gigano]

Command & Conquer 4: Tiberium Twilight

Certainly was the twilight for that series, the beginning of an endless night.

 

[tthor]

Postal 1&2

 

[Bek359]

FFX-2 - Do we really need (mostly) awesome characters going the way of Britney Spears? I honestly can't understand what Square was thinking here. The whole outfit-power system was idiocy.

Yes, it was shit, but I can kind of explain some of it. Square was nearly bankrupt after Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within bombed, and they needed cash to survive, so they made their next game a sequel to FFX so that they could re-use most of the character and enemy models, the setting, and a lot of other things to save on money. I actually have heard from some that the power-outfit system could actually be fun - when the game wasn't making you do tons of ridiculous minigames. Essentially, the battle system strikes me as a Barbie-doll-ified version of FFV's system.

The rest of that game's gibbering insanity? I got nothing.

 

[sora91111]

Modern Warfare 3. Why, because they've released nearly identical games since the original modern warfare. I liked CoD 4, but when all your doing is adding a tact on story and updating the graphics and online does not a game make. As a very very very(just infer infinity here)sarcastic Australian guy said "It isn't a good game unless the single player can stand on it's own." Though the story does have some spectacles to watch till your eyes bleed, but let me ask you this CoD people, how often do you think about the story the game is built on while you go around quick scoping? Take this as a troll speech or anything else, but really should this have lasted this long.

 

[Lazy Kitty]

Any Call Of Duty made after CoD2.

 

[kingcom]

The Witcher, Half-Life, Black and White, Crysis, Dwarf Fortress, Dungeons and Dragons.

The list goes on and on

Wow. I can only assume this is trollbait

 

[Smooth Operator]

I'll put it otherwise, I wouldn't want them gone just for the developers not to look at them as the pinnacle of innovation, because they are not.

- Halo (introducing the new wave of crippled shooters, or if you prefer the politically correct "accessible")
- CoD (pushing the crippled shooters to new disabled heights)
- GoW (QTE till your anus bleeds, thanks guys, we always wanted those in every game)
- ME (crippling the RPG gameplay, and the rest of the world goes: "We don't need complexity in RPG's anymore? Woohoo, yearly stamp outs here we come!")

 

[Ninjafire72]

F.E.A.R 2

WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO THE STORY!?? The ending was so horrible I was ready to snap the game disc in half. What, the mute character with a camera for a head (Player character, can't even remember his name) casually got up from that chair and walked off? Presumably to start up a college fund for his kid now that he's a proud parent.

Seriously, Monolith needs to be wacked over the head with a rolling pin for that travesty of a game.

 

[Mavinchious Maximus]

I wish Battlefront 3 was never made.