Gift idea: Worst PC Game ever
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Here is a review of the demo, [http://www.screencuisine.net/screencuisine/video-games/the-demoman/demoman-infernal/] by that smart chap who made the Half Life 2 parody comics.
Long story short: marvelously bad writing (the hero is called "Dark Eaville"), idiotic mechanics (like being able to turn invisible, but only whilst rolling forward) and generally so bad it's good.
Here is a review of the demo, [http://www.screencuisine.net/screencuisine/video-games/the-demoman/demoman-infernal/] by that smart chap who made the Half Life 2 parody comics.
Long story short: marvelously bad writing (the hero is called "Dark Eaville"), idiotic mechanics (like being able to turn invisible, but only whilst rolling forward) and generally so bad it's good.
There is one problem with this idea, he only plays PC games (i'm assuming you don't mean Zynga crap) so he is actually more than likely to be well informed and discerning in his taste and he wouldn't even try to install it. It's like giving someone who like wine wine-in-a-box, they won't even attempt to drink it and will find it stupid. Unless you put a real bottle in the box, so thats the trick. By a cheapo crap game for the box than put something awesome inside much better gift and good laughs will be had instead of groaning at your attempt at a bad gift.
I've seen really offensive things in my timeMammothBlade said:
But Damn...
I think the racist remix of the Beastie boys as the soundtrack really takes the cake though.
I think Postal 3 is a decent choice, you need a game you can get drunk and laugh at while you take turns. There are some great mentions of truly horrible games here but you need something with that 'plan 9 from outer space' feel where it's terrible but you keep coming back to it. Also suggested is Boiling point road to hell & Duke nuke'em forever.
Personally I think you should get him a good game or even get 2 copies of a co-op crap game that you can get dirt cheap like Kane and Lynch 2 and play through it with him, again laughing at the horribleness
Personally I think you should get him a good game or even get 2 copies of a co-op crap game that you can get dirt cheap like Kane and Lynch 2 and play through it with him, again laughing at the horribleness
I can't believe some people are saying Mass Effect 3 or Dragon Age 2. Even if you don't like them (I really love ME3) that's not a good gag gift of an awful game.
I'd sugget Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing. Widely reguarded as one of the worst games ever made. Unfortunately copies go on AMazon for about $100 so you'd have to be committed to the joke. Though any hardcore PC gamer should love to own a copy of such an infamous game.
I'd sugget Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing. Widely reguarded as one of the worst games ever made. Unfortunately copies go on AMazon for about $100 so you'd have to be committed to the joke. Though any hardcore PC gamer should love to own a copy of such an infamous game.
PieBrotherTB said:
In the name of all that's holy, why does that exist?!And there I was about to suggest Roadworks Simulator...
Aaaaaaand someone beat me to it anyway. I guess I'll just slink off in shame.Hero in a half shell said:
You take that back! That game is (probably) the best game ever!PieBrotherTB said:
When I first saw it being sold in GAME I removed the leading game in their 'Top Ten' section and replaced them all with that game in hopes that they would correct their foolish mistake.
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You should totally buy that Coronation Street game.
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Are you a very serious person, or do you just have very serious friends?veloper said:
Hmmm, well if I understand the intent of the gift my advice would be "Planet Alcatraz" from Gamersgate.
To explain this one, a title you've never heard of probably, it's one of those objectively terrible, but oddly entertaining games. It has probably the worst voice acting in history, which might not even have relevency to what your doing. We're talking "makes Two World look like Oscar material" here.
The game itself is a top down RPG where your some kind of special agent called a Vampire (if I remember) sent to perform a "Escape From NEw York" type rescue on a prison planet. Your shuttle crashes, killing the rest of your team, and hilarity ensues.
The game itself looks like it's from the mid-late 1990s, looking and playing similarly to "Fallout 2" which the game seems to borrow liberally from, including things like choosing 3 skills to "tag" for your character upon creation.
I believe the game was made in Russia.
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If your considering "Left Behind" I actually recommend against it. To be honest it's bad, but not THAT bad, and to be fair it is based on a rather popular series of Christian fantasy novels. To really "get it" you would have had to read them. It's really no more offensive than anything based on any other mythology (like that Revelation 2012 game) just a differant take on the end of the world, if your not a Christian and don't believe it, it can be appreciated on those merits.
If you want OFFENSIVE, I recommend finding a game called "Ethnic Cleansing" a white supremacist video game based around saving the world (violently) from minorities. You can play as a KKK member or a Skinhead, and the game includes RL instructions for getting in touch with real white supremecist groups. The stated intent of the game being to "give white kids hope". Take your guns to the ghetto, secret jewish enclaves, and eventually make it to Isreal for a showdown with a rocket launcher wielding Ariel Sharon. It's needless to say dated (I think right on the edge of what your talking about). A guy I met was showing it off on his laptop, he picked it up as a paid download. One of those "I can't believe it actually exists" games.
At any rate those are a couple of suggestions that will probably catch your friend by surprise. I consider Planet Alcatraz sort of the "Deadly Premonition" of PC games on a lot of levels so that's probably the best choice if you actually want to see him play the game for a while, as opposed to just snicker and never actually play it.
To explain this one, a title you've never heard of probably, it's one of those objectively terrible, but oddly entertaining games. It has probably the worst voice acting in history, which might not even have relevency to what your doing. We're talking "makes Two World look like Oscar material" here.
The game itself is a top down RPG where your some kind of special agent called a Vampire (if I remember) sent to perform a "Escape From NEw York" type rescue on a prison planet. Your shuttle crashes, killing the rest of your team, and hilarity ensues.
The game itself looks like it's from the mid-late 1990s, looking and playing similarly to "Fallout 2" which the game seems to borrow liberally from, including things like choosing 3 skills to "tag" for your character upon creation.
I believe the game was made in Russia.
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If your considering "Left Behind" I actually recommend against it. To be honest it's bad, but not THAT bad, and to be fair it is based on a rather popular series of Christian fantasy novels. To really "get it" you would have had to read them. It's really no more offensive than anything based on any other mythology (like that Revelation 2012 game) just a differant take on the end of the world, if your not a Christian and don't believe it, it can be appreciated on those merits.
If you want OFFENSIVE, I recommend finding a game called "Ethnic Cleansing" a white supremacist video game based around saving the world (violently) from minorities. You can play as a KKK member or a Skinhead, and the game includes RL instructions for getting in touch with real white supremecist groups. The stated intent of the game being to "give white kids hope". Take your guns to the ghetto, secret jewish enclaves, and eventually make it to Isreal for a showdown with a rocket launcher wielding Ariel Sharon. It's needless to say dated (I think right on the edge of what your talking about). A guy I met was showing it off on his laptop, he picked it up as a paid download. One of those "I can't believe it actually exists" games.
At any rate those are a couple of suggestions that will probably catch your friend by surprise. I consider Planet Alcatraz sort of the "Deadly Premonition" of PC games on a lot of levels so that's probably the best choice if you actually want to see him play the game for a while, as opposed to just snicker and never actually play it.
I actually remember enjoying that game! Although they broke a few things that were perfectly fine in the original and the kiddie presentation was quite annoying.ischmalud said:zoo tycon 2, the tutorial alone is so fucked up it drives ANYONE up the walls
What can I say, I used to be a real management game nut. With the sort of barely-functional tripe that turns up in that genre, you learn to accept mediocre.
Beach Life and Ski Resort Tycoon are two properly terrible examples that spring to mind. The only good features I can think of for Beach Life were that the box art was quite nice and the interface was clear. Ski Resort Tycoon had no redeeming features at all.
I'd go for a really shitty "point and click" adventure. Something like Dreamweb.
Or the PC version of TMNT.
Space Bunnies Must Die if you want something more recent.
But the truly stand-out example has already been pointed out. Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing is the most hilariously buggy, poorly made, poorly thought out title to ever see release.
The fact that a patch had to be released to make the opponent vehicles participate in the race is hilarious. But even then they still stop before they reach the finish line, making the game still impossible to lose.
Big Rigs, all I can say is Congratulations:
"You're Winner!"
Or the PC version of TMNT.
Space Bunnies Must Die if you want something more recent.
But the truly stand-out example has already been pointed out. Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing is the most hilariously buggy, poorly made, poorly thought out title to ever see release.
The fact that a patch had to be released to make the opponent vehicles participate in the race is hilarious. But even then they still stop before they reach the finish line, making the game still impossible to lose.
Big Rigs, all I can say is Congratulations:
"You're Winner!"