That game is actually not bad. So long as you spec your character a very specific way which completely defeats the purpose of it being an rpg in the first place. Even still that boss is completely stupid and cheap. Loved the story in that game though.Soundwave said:
List the worst game you have ever played.
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I can't quite step to Big Rigs, but I was one of the unfortunate kids that received Superman 64 during the holidays one year. Having been fortunate enough to play some of the better video games of the time, I couldn't comprehend that I was playing a legendarily terrible game and kept at it for much, much longer than I reasonably should have.
Mass Effect 3.
It was emotionally, narratively and mechanically the worst experience that is possible to have with a video game.
Mind Jack, Call of Juarez the Cartel, and that Ride to Hell abomination are also pretty awful
Kane and Lynch 2 belongs there.
Gears of War 2, Gears of War 3 and Dishonored, but they're the odd men out in this list because they're actually mechanically functional they just aren't fun and the way they present morality is frankly insulting.
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It was emotionally, narratively and mechanically the worst experience that is possible to have with a video game.
Mind Jack, Call of Juarez the Cartel, and that Ride to Hell abomination are also pretty awful
Kane and Lynch 2 belongs there.
Gears of War 2, Gears of War 3 and Dishonored, but they're the odd men out in this list because they're actually mechanically functional they just aren't fun and the way they present morality is frankly insulting.
I think I'm gonna go with, in no particular order...
1. Deus Ex: Invisible War (PC)
2. Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel (original X-Box)
3. Dead Island (PC)
4. Brink (PC)
5. The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings (PC)
6. Aliens: Colonial Marines (PC)
7. Alone in the Dark (2008; PC)
8. F.E.A.R.
9. Champions Online (PC)
10. Jericho (X-Box 360)
Honorable Mention: Alpha Protocol
I went with games that, for whatever reason, I'd had at least some expectation of quality when I purchased them. Otherwise the list would be populated by nothing but bargain bin garbage that no one ever expected to be good, like the prior mentioned "Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing."
1. Deus Ex: Invisible War (PC)
2. Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel (original X-Box)
3. Dead Island (PC)
4. Brink (PC)
5. The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings (PC)
6. Aliens: Colonial Marines (PC)
7. Alone in the Dark (2008; PC)
8. F.E.A.R.
9. Champions Online (PC)
10. Jericho (X-Box 360)
Honorable Mention: Alpha Protocol
I went with games that, for whatever reason, I'd had at least some expectation of quality when I purchased them. Otherwise the list would be populated by nothing but bargain bin garbage that no one ever expected to be good, like the prior mentioned "Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing."
Timeshift. Worst game I've ever played.
Technically, it works; not buggy or anything. However, I can enjoy something like Turning Points or Big Rigs because they're funny. Timeshift was just pure boredom.
Technically, it works; not buggy or anything. However, I can enjoy something like Turning Points or Big Rigs because they're funny. Timeshift was just pure boredom.
Total Recall or MagMax (no, not Mad Max, MagMax) on the original NES. If my game crazed childhood self thought a game was terrible it must have been REALLY TERRIBLE.
I bought a NES bundle on ebay once, one of the games included was Wrestlemania featuring a bunch of the old 80s/90s stars. I played it once, that was enough. Poor graphics, muddled, sloppy gameplay, unresponsive controls, the works. Other then that I can't really think of another really bad one, I had a football (soccer) game that came with a Nintendo64 bundle I bought, which I never even put in the system let alone played it, so I can't actually slag that one off.
To be honest I rarely, if ever, play shitty games. If I was a reviewer then I'm sure me and my audience would take great pleasure bitching about it, but as an average game enthusiast I research alot of games in advance to make sure I'm not picking up an awful one.
To be honest I rarely, if ever, play shitty games. If I was a reviewer then I'm sure me and my audience would take great pleasure bitching about it, but as an average game enthusiast I research alot of games in advance to make sure I'm not picking up an awful one.
Scarlet Blade, and as I am trying very hard to blank the experience out of my memory I'll just quote some of my first (and last) impressions on it from a post a couple of months ago.
"This is The Worst Fucking MMO I Have Ever Played.
And quite probably the unsexiest. I'll always happily admit I'll support the old "If I need to stare at an ass for hours it might as well be a nice ass" adage of MMO gaming, but Scarlet Blade's character models are hideous - weirdly proportioned and oddly animated expanses of plasticky 'skin' with 'armour' that looks like it was applied direct to the model with a magic marker.
Did I say armour? My mistake. The starter gear in this is, I kid you not, some underwear and a pair of high heels.
The quests are crap - predictably - but the gameplay is even worse. There's an auto-move option where you click one button and your character automatically runs to the next quest marker. Then you thrash through a couple of interchangeable attacks until the nearest thing dies, then repeat. I honestly felt myself getting stupider as I played this monstrosity, to the point I had to quit before the MMO playing part of my brain atrophied from lack of use.
But it's the writing that really stands out. It's been localised by people with some grasp of basic english grammar, but bloody hell, why did they bother? I've seen porn movies with better writing than this. Almost every line has an innuendo in it and it's not even good innuendo. It's that special kind of innuendo last seen in british sex comedies of the 1970s. I started subconsciously hearing every line I read delivered in a cockney accent.
Just horrible. Horrible in every way."
"This is The Worst Fucking MMO I Have Ever Played.
And quite probably the unsexiest. I'll always happily admit I'll support the old "If I need to stare at an ass for hours it might as well be a nice ass" adage of MMO gaming, but Scarlet Blade's character models are hideous - weirdly proportioned and oddly animated expanses of plasticky 'skin' with 'armour' that looks like it was applied direct to the model with a magic marker.
Did I say armour? My mistake. The starter gear in this is, I kid you not, some underwear and a pair of high heels.
The quests are crap - predictably - but the gameplay is even worse. There's an auto-move option where you click one button and your character automatically runs to the next quest marker. Then you thrash through a couple of interchangeable attacks until the nearest thing dies, then repeat. I honestly felt myself getting stupider as I played this monstrosity, to the point I had to quit before the MMO playing part of my brain atrophied from lack of use.
But it's the writing that really stands out. It's been localised by people with some grasp of basic english grammar, but bloody hell, why did they bother? I've seen porn movies with better writing than this. Almost every line has an innuendo in it and it's not even good innuendo. It's that special kind of innuendo last seen in british sex comedies of the 1970s. I started subconsciously hearing every line I read delivered in a cockney accent.
Just horrible. Horrible in every way."
Arcade and WORST EVAR GAME
Galagher's Gallery from American Laser Games.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallagher's_Gallery
It showed up at an arcade rental place while I was in Highschool. They kept a bunch of very weird games around that they had trouble renting out. This was the only arcade game I ever played purely for ironic purposes. It was actually worth the quarter I put in from the reaction of my friends as to how lame it was.
The game that pissed me off the most though, was Ultima 8.
Galagher's Gallery from American Laser Games.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallagher's_Gallery
It showed up at an arcade rental place while I was in Highschool. They kept a bunch of very weird games around that they had trouble renting out. This was the only arcade game I ever played purely for ironic purposes. It was actually worth the quarter I put in from the reaction of my friends as to how lame it was.
The game that pissed me off the most though, was Ultima 8.
I'm impressed. There's only been a handful of people who have managed to justify putting quality games on their list. For the Escapist, this is unusual. For the sake of my blood pressure, I'm not going to delve into any of those arguments again.
My worst game that I paid for is probably Too Human. That said, I actually managed to enjoy some chunks of it, so hurray for small miracles.
My worst game that I paid for is probably Too Human. That said, I actually managed to enjoy some chunks of it, so hurray for small miracles.
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.
edit: and i just found out the escapist had an article on it... wow.. http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/89198-4-Minutes-And-33-Seconds-Of-Uniqueness
edit: and i just found out the escapist had an article on it... wow.. http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/89198-4-Minutes-And-33-Seconds-Of-Uniqueness
This game is on my list as well. I couldn't complete the game. I got as far as I was able to tolerate, then watched LPs of it. It seems to be one of those games that drive people insane if they try to play it all the way through.shrekfan246 said:
I'm also going to throw in Spyro: Year of the Dragpnfly. It was a silly terrible rather than an infuriating terrible. The game was broken and full of more glitches than features, but it's fun to see the game break for random reasons.
Im not really going to think that far so at least in this gen it was probably Brink (of all the games I played). Not that incredibly bad but to play on solo was a chore since the AI was a mess (it was either dumb as a rock or amazing one hit kill) and the online matchmaking was also a mess since you would only enter matches with other 3 people and the rest being filled with the clusterfuck AI that the game had.
For a multiplayer only game it really breaks whatever it was trying to accomplish.
Out of this gen and trying to go further I guess maybe Trespasser although I did have fun with how goofy the whole thing was. I still enjoy what it tried to do but damn, they missed the mark by a mile.
For a multiplayer only game it really breaks whatever it was trying to accomplish.
Out of this gen and trying to go further I guess maybe Trespasser although I did have fun with how goofy the whole thing was. I still enjoy what it tried to do but damn, they missed the mark by a mile.
Just to put my stance a little more in perspective, I'm a person who will rationalize the hell out of Sonic Heroes, Sonic Unleashed, and Shadow the Hedgehog. I got through the Sonic campaign and played a few levels each of Shadow and Silver before I just couldn't take it anymore, and it remains to this day the only Sonic game that I haven't beaten purely out of frustration and anger (there are a few others I simply got distracted from and never returned to, but still think are relatively fun).Nexxis said:
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.
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.
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.
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.