List the worst game you have ever played.

[LaoJim]

I read reviews carefully before buying games and never pre-order so I've never been stuck with a truely bad game. The price of games these days is such that I'm not going to buy a game unless it's at least competent. Back in the day however there were truely some shockers.

E.T. (for the Atari 2600) - famously the worst game ever made, I didn't have an Atari so I missed out on it at the time, but a friend showed it to me a few years ago and it truely is woeful.

Pac Man (for the Atari 2600) - if you'd played the arcade version and then got this. I actually read really good book about the Atari a few years ago (called Racing the Beam) which describes how difficult it was to program even the simplist games on it. Basically the Atari couldn't draw 4 ghosts and Pac-Man all at the same time without a hack that made it flicker like crazy.

 

[Specter Von Baren]

Ah yes, another awful one for me was Advent Rising. Rather full of itself with its grandeur, poor characters, too much melodrama, and the gameplay is just glitchy and... loose. The combat portions just go on forever and the areas are so huge that it can take forever to get through them and it's easy to get lost. The part where the aliens first attack set the bar as there's a point where you need to get to a certain place and there's people and aliens fighting all over the place and unfortunately I thought of trying to fight my way there but no, that's the exact wrong thing to do, just avoid everything even if it seems like you'll die because of it because the enemies never stop and you won't ever last going through them all. The game just drags on and on and on. The height of the bullcrap was when I got to a part, I can't remember why, but I was stuck on the second floor inside a building and I couldn't go anywhere, none of the doors would open but I was also stuck there because that's where the last save for me was. Eventually I just found a way to use the glitches in the game to my advantage and jumped off of something and braced myself on support structures until I got to the first floor.

And to top it all off... the game ends on a "to be continued" ending.

 

[bug_of_war]

Well, like a few others I guess I'd have to break it down into 2 games.

Terrible gameplay and mechanics: Predator: Concrete Jungle, I love this game, but holy shit it has some major flaws. The control scheme isn't exactly stellar, or average...it's quite bad. The camera is worse, the difficulty curve is outright mental. Fun game if you can get over all that though.

Game that I really just didn't enjoy: Half-Life, game played just fine but I found the story boring and the game just wasn't made for me. I really felt like the game was a poor mans Doom.

 

[ShinyCharizard]

Arcania: Gothic 4...... What an irredeemable piece of shit that game was. Everything about it was terrible.

 

[prpshrt]

Fifa, madden, most sport games... Why? I simply don't understand their purpose. I mean if I wanted to enjoy playing a sport, I'd go out and play the sport. The gameplay is also kinda boring given how much hype and that I'm led to believe that they have massive budgets. I get the feeling people might jump on me for saying this about sports games.

 

[DelphiSantano]

3 games in particular come to mind for me:

Call of Duty: World at War (and, consequently, possibly Black Ops)
- It had elements of slight potential quality, but the gameplay was shoddy at best and I was finding bugs before I actually started looking for them. I have yet to see something made by Treyarch that I would class as "not awful", but WaW really made me think twice about putting time into any of their games.

Mass Effect
- I put way too much time into this game and got next to nothing back. I think it's more down to BioWare's storytelling methods, because I've always had trouble liking their games, but the only reason I kept playing was because I was informed that "it's going to get better soon", which doesn't help if I can't enjoy the game up to the point where it may or may not improve.

Fahrenheit
- The epitome of a poorly made game as far as I've found. The controls were appalling, the story went nowhere and I was sorely disappointed by a game that had so much potential. The only good thing that came of it is that I now really make sure I know what I'm buying before potentially wasting money on a game.

 

[Qvar]

a game called Gothic is the worst game I've ever played, It took me 10 minutes of mashing random keys followed by 2 minutes Google searching just how to pick up items off the ground.

For some reason you need to use the action key + the down key to pick up items off the ground, and to open chests its the action key + the up key, to loot the chest it was the action key and the Right key, in all of these examples wouldn't just the action key work? surely the fact that im using the action key means I want to make an action.

although reading some of what you guys have played I might be blessed in the fact that this is the worst game that I have came across.

You guys really need to polish your definitions of "worst game ever". It's sounds funny at first reading people saying that they absolutely hate some otherwise popular game because "oh well the story was bad". Then it turns sad. You're the type of people who make Metacritics totally useless after filling it with "I give it a 0 because I liked the previous one in the series and this one is different"s (Saints Row 4, I'm looking at you).

Gothic 1 & 2 are some of the best RPGs ever made. Having to push 2 keys to do certain things (mostly because you didn't look it up rigth away, to begin with) doesn't change that a sligth bit.

 

[OneCatch]

Err, Section 8.
My friend got it, and we played for a grand total of 20 mins before giving up.
I can't really pin down what was crap about it - there were a lot of little things, but nothing to warrant the fact that I found it basically unplayable.
I do remember the weapon loadouts being uber generic, the health/shield system being weird, and the orbital drop thing being gimmicky. And the controls were infuriating.

 

[Specter Von Baren]

a game called Gothic is the worst game I've ever played, It took me 10 minutes of mashing random keys followed by 2 minutes Google searching just how to pick up items off the ground.

For some reason you need to use the action key + the down key to pick up items off the ground, and to open chests its the action key + the up key, to loot the chest it was the action key and the Right key, in all of these examples wouldn't just the action key work? surely the fact that im using the action key means I want to make an action.

although reading some of what you guys have played I might be blessed in the fact that this is the worst game that I have came across.

You guys really need to polish your definitions of "worst game ever". It's sounds funny at first reading people saying that they absolutely hate some otherwise popular game because "oh well the story was bad". Then it turns sad. You're the type of people who make Metacritics totally useless after filling it with "I give it a 0 because I liked the previous one in the series and this one is different"s (Saints Row 4, I'm looking at you).

Gothic 1 & 2 are some of the best RPGs ever made. Having to push 2 keys to do certain things (mostly because you didn't look it up rigth away, to begin with) doesn't change that a sligth bit.

Well... Keep in mind that the title of the thread isn't "worst game ever" it's "worst game you've ever played".

 

[Olikar]

Bioshock Infinite has to the worst game I have ever played by a long way (no I am not trolling or exaggerating)

 

[Maximum Bert]

Probably The incredible Hulk on the C64 simply because I could never figure out how to play it. You are in a chair at the beginning and I only ever managed to get out of it once (no idea how) and then I died and never got out of the chair again yup I never saw the second screen or got any gametime out of this game. Maybe it was an awesome game but I never figured out how to play it so for me it fails.

Well actually Ocarina of Time, FFVII, Planescape Torment, Chrono Cross and Super Mario Bros are worse but we all knew that

 

[Qvar]

Well... Keep in mind that the title of the thread isn't "worst game ever" it's "worst game you've ever played".

I know, but still, how on earth could some strange keybiddings make for somebody's worst gaming experience ever? Maybe I happen to be an extremely hardcore gamer (I don't think so), but I've played MANY games that were so bad I just couldn't stand having open anymore. It screws my mind to see half of the posts giving petty reasons to consider those games "worst thing i've played ever". For example, I totally hate Left 4 Dead. It's just outside my comprehension how somebody can extract fun from that game. but that hardly makes it worst game ever.

Seems to me that people is just looking for the popular games and trying hard to find a reason to be nitpick about them. Hell, they have named all the games that has been regarded as "best game ever" by somebody at some given point: Ocarina of time, Skyrim, Final Fantasy VII, Mass effect... I just can't accept that somebody is being honest when they say that they cannot find any redeeming feature on those games, even if they generally disliked them.

Anyway, the worst game I've ever played... Turns out I can't say, there are so many games that instantly turned me off, such as Waking Mars, Superbrothers: Sword and Sorcery, Avadon The Black Fortress and others, that I don't feel entitled to say they are bad, because I haven't seen enough of them.

 

[Jarek Mace]

Impire. I tried. I tried to support a game that might be successful to help sspark further dungeon games like an Evil Genius sequel or an official DK2 sequel.
I gave them my money for a literally incomplete game that was riddled with bugs, was atrociously repetitive (build rooms, clear underground, send a spam of minions to surface, get attacked, call minions back, kill heroes, send minions back. Then do that for the whole game. It is undeniably among the crappiest games I've ever touched.
Then don't get me started on Dead Money for New Vegas

 

[Raminax]

Probably Infinite Undiscovery or Unlimited SaGa.

Both games were obvious betas or in dire need of polish. Infinite Undiscovery at least had an interesting premise I felt, but the story turned into a trite mess, difficulty was easily broken in two and combat was just awful buttonmashing after buttonmashing. Not to mention, secondary characters that couldn't even be used in actual combat and could only be assigned to NPC groups/squads during larger missions. What the heck?

Unlimited SaGa, meanwhile, had an interesting gameplay premise, seemingly deciding to go for a tabletop gaming approach with (admittedly hidden) dice rolls and such. Yet combat turned into an exercise in tedium and frustration. I honestly can't remember much more than that, but whenever I think of Unlimited SaGa, I clench my teeth and cry a bit, so it couldn't have been pleasant.

 

[The_Scrivener]

All-time is tricky, but I will say that the worst games I've played this year were Jet Set Radio and Battlefield 3. Holy God was Battlefield 3 awful. I'd always disliked the franchises because they're really uninspired and they've obviously watered down the industry by catering to camo-wearing simians, but dear lord, I could never have guessed the gameplay was so terrible. Around my second "out of bounds for walking 8 feet away" mission failure I uninstalled it. It was free and I still got ripped off.

 

[ItouKaiji]

Without a doubt the worst game I've ever played was Clive Barker's Jericho. Everything about this game sucks. The character are the worst lowest common denominator stereotypes, the time travel story has possibilities but it's never used for anything other than to move you from one dingy castle to another, you fight the same six enemies the whole game and the AI is hair pullingly retarded to deal with. Just thinking about the game pisses me off to be honest. It was some of the most frustrating gameplay I've ever had. I never freaking go to shoot anything because I had to constantly heal my AI team mates, if a grenade was thrown you better better one of those brain dead idiots would run to stand on top of it. They did everything they could to get themselves killed. So instead of an intense shooter, I was playing nursemaid to mentally handicapped mercs. It was awful.

 

[Aesir23]

Probably not the worst game I've ever played but the worst in recent memory would have to be Resonance of Fate.

It's essentially just tedious level grinding connected with sections of story that remind me too much of the episodes of some sort of slap-dash tv series with vague plot points to connect them. Even the heroes don't really come into interaction with the main plot until two or three chapters before the end which wouldn't be too bad if there weren't one story mission per chapter. Some things also really just came out of nowhere or there were elements introduced that weren't expanded upon.

Oddly enough, it's still fun and I'll probably end up playing it again once I've beaten it. Yet if one of the only positive things you have to say about the game is "the battle system was fun and I liked the main characters" it's probably not one of your more positive playing experiences.

My gripe probably seems very minor but I'm a more story-oriented gamer so it tends to be one of the things I concentrate on the most.

 

[Silvanus]

none of you have ever played a bad game in your life. the worst game is called '4 Minutes and 33 Seconds of Uniqueness'. play that, then name something worse. there's no contest.

Mel Gibson's Safari is a worse game. I guarantee it.


It can only play at half-a-frame per second, and once you get to a certain point, there is no way of progressing that allows you to avoid dying.

Upon death, the game crashes, and the only method of exiting is ctrl-alt-dlt. Mel Gibson's voice, saying "Better luck next time, Mate!", will play in the background.

 

[Legendairy314]

Modern Warfare 3. Yeah, I'm dead serious. NEVER has a game bored me or just completely failed to entertain in a way that this game has. Frustrating multiplayer where connection matters above everything else. A single player that had me literally falling asleep while playing it. And even a dumbed down version of the once glorious spec-ops. Are there worse games out there? Of course! Have I seriously played any of them? Nope. I'm so glad I never bought the game.