List the worst game you have ever played.

[BloatedGuppy]

Lots of predictably ludicrous responses in here. Good to see they're not getting fed.

My worst game would be Ultima IX. Nothing else really comes remotely close. I've played some bad games, but Ultima IX was on a whole other level of bad. Like Spoony, I'm halfway convinced it's one of the greatest travesties in all of fiction, never mind simply "games", although it's an utter failure on countless technical levels as well, almost rivaling the likes of Big Rigs in its instability, bugginess, and poor design.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Dungeon Lords. Bland, broken, and most of the gameplay features weren't even present upon initial release and had to be patched in later.

 

[eBusiness]

Lots of bad games, but if I limit the selection to games that I actually played for some length of time, paid good money for, had some anticipation for and don't feel like I just didn't get into it, there is one that stands out:

"Victoria", historical real time 4X game. Buggy and steep learning curve is apparently par for the course for these types of games. The first thing that makes Victoria stand out is that for all the complexity and micromanagement there isn't a lot of choices, you have to get some kind of economy running, but mostly it seems like you have to wait for the game to give you some new options.

I tried as best I could to overcome the obstacles and find the game in there, but two events combined made me realize the truth:

Playing as the british empire things went sorta okay for a couple of years, then in quite quick succession I get some events that modify my people to just be plain mad at me. Why? Because I neglected to implement social reform? Because I run a big hulking empire? Because of anything that I could have done anything about? No, no and no. Because those are scripted events in the game designed to further the historical fall of the empire. They could have implemented some mechanic that punish a country for having a vastly spread territories with people of different religions and little desire to be part of the empire. They could have given people in an industrialized area a happiness modifier to reflect the workings of pollution and shit jobs. But they opted for FU events.

Also as the british empire, trying to bargain with the United States for a load of contested provincial territories in the Canada and north US region I found the AI to be extremely willing to part with anything within region of the future Canada, but completely incapable of selling anything from future US no matter how lavish the offer.

Ultimately it felt like the game tried to force history upon me, rather than letting me create one of my own.

 

[spartandude]

The worst game ive ever played is the last game ive ever pre-ordered.... Aliens Colonial Marines

 

[DSK-]

Alpha Protocol. Got about halfway through it, and then a coked up crazy piece of bullshit stabbed my techie character to death over and over and over. It was worse than the final boss of street fighter IV.

Funnily enough, you can get someone to "spike" that person's coke and make him easier to deal with. Only realised that a few weeks back when I did a third playthrough.

OT: Hmmm. I've played a few I consider to be pretty terrible, but the most recent example that comes to mind more than anything else at the moment (that many people will hate me for) is Witcher 2.

I might even re-play it to make sure I haven't missed some orgasmically awesome part of the game that almost everyone else seems to have found in it.

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

Big Rigs: Over The Road Racing. But that piece of octopus diarrhea barely counts as a game.

I don't know, I've played plenty of terrible games: Sonic 2006, Clive Barker's Jericho, Shaq Fu, 3D Ballz, Kasumi Ninja, Ride To Hell, Sonic R, Ultima IX, the list goes on. Hard to pick just one.

 

[Truniron]

Because I am a gamer who likes to know what my objective is and where I am supposed to go, my (several) experiences with Super Metroid, aka Metroid 3, was ruined. I had no idea what I was doing here, what was I looking for, what was my objective, why do I get stuck because I explore? aaarrrggg. Now, I have nothing against games that gives you freedom to explore the world before you go on the assinged quest/mission, but when nothing/no one ever tells you hat you must do or what you are looking for, why do I want to play? To run aimlessly around like an idiot going places only to think I am making progress, only to either end up in an area where I´ve already been or end up somewhere where I get stuck or can´t get past. In short, I did not like it. It is not a bad game, and I can understand why people like it, but it was not the right game for me.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

Alpha Protocol. Got about halfway through it, and then a coked up crazy piece of bullshit stabbed my techie character to death over and over and over. It was worse than the final boss of street fighter IV.

I actually quite liked Alpha Protocol and while I would certainly say it had a few issues, I'd be hard press to point to an actual problem. The mechanical issues (the fact that the unskilled can barely operate a firearm for example) I was more than prepared to deal with given that this more or less represents the approach used by the original Deus Ex; it isn't a problem so much as it is an out of favor mechanic. That said, the game does share a flaw with Deus Ex Human Revolution: the game actively encourages a stealth style of play and focusing on a character who excels at stealth and unarmed takedowns is a supremely effective way to play the game. Until you reach a boss fight of course - then if you don't have significant gun skills you're more or less utterly boned and your only path to victory was a silly amount of cheese.

My own pick is a game I played a great deal: <a href=http://www.defunctgames.com/review/1158/revolution-x>Revolution-X. I've played both the Arcade Version as well as the SNES version and, thanks to the magic of childhood, actually remember enjoying it. The style of game is a standard rail shooter but, on the balance, it's probably the worst version of that game type ever made and you see it at every turn. The majority of the people you fight are just dudes in yellow rain slickers and they appeared to have but three frames of animation: 1) Guy gliding across the screen 2) Guy taking a single shot while simultaneously not caring that you're spraying him in the face with bullets and 3) guy finally dying from the combined effect of several hundred gunshot wounds. The game featured a cycling and poorly digitized soundtrack of various Aerosmith tracks and your special weapon appears to be CDs. The plot, such that it is, revolves around Aerosmith being captured by the New World Order. As a member of the audience that night, it appears it is your solemn duty to rescue the band because the most important qualification for saving the world is being a huge aerosmith fan.

In the time since then I've gone back to play it and my opinion of the game has nosedived dramatically. Even today the game regularly places highly in lists of worst games ever made.

 

[SovietSecrets]

Final Fantasy XIII. Walk in a straight line for 20 hours before I get to a game? No thanks.

 

[Sarah Kerrigan]

Note that my list is in no order...and that I have a flameshield ready.

Halo 3
Call of Duty Modern warfare (not two or three..those were ok)
(sadly) The Pacific Rim Xbox game.
Amy
Alone in The Dark
Fallout 3
Fallout New Vegas
Aliens Colonial Marines
Ride to Hell Retribution.

 

[Werewolfkid]

I try to find something good in every game I play and I can say that are only 2 games that I can say I hate. Anna and Star Wars The Force Unleashed II. For people that think Dear Esther is pretentious they should play Anna and then they'll know what pretentious, abstract garbage really is. Star Wars The Force Unleashed II is the worst game ever made by a human. It took the flawed, but fun concepts of the original game and created an abomination that represents the worse of triple a gaming. I would have to go into a Mr. Plinkett style rant to properly describe how much I hate this game.

 

[nogitsune]

I'm going to have to say Stonekeep, I know some people consider it a classic but I found it boring even as old dungeon crawlers go. The Story is cliche and boring, not helped by the fact that the characters only speak in awkward exposition and the Hero just sounds bored, but the combat is horribly broken, Relying on more breaking the AI (usally throwing arrows at them) than using any real strategies and then there's battles where you just click and pray.

 

[Al-Bundy-da-G]

I like how almost all of these are games that the posters just didn't like as opposed to actually bad games. Games that had bad controls or boring stories. Lots of CoD's, games with bad stories but solid controls and gameplay.

There's not many bad games like that big rig racing game, or Ride to Hell, or even the ET game that everyone knows about but never played. We need to set a line between bad games and games that we just dislike.

That being said the worst game I've ever personally played?

Spoiler

 

[sth1729]

Silent Hill:Homecoming and FFXI or XII or one of those new ones that starts with a chicken in an afro and some depressed looking chick. Other than these two I can't really think of any game I really hated, maybe ones that just didn't strike any chords in me but not anything that was exactly bad.

 

[Billy D Williams]

This is a tough one for me cause if I'm not liking a game within an hour than I'm pretty much just gonna put it down and never play it again and I usually look into a game before I buy it to see if I'll like it so its rare I play games I don't like, so I guess maybe Too Human? Played it for an hour just to see how bad it was and it was really, REALLY bad.

Also, NBA Street Homecourt. I don't even know if its a bad game on its own merrits but compared to NBA Street on the Gamecube it just is inferior in every aspect but graphics and since it added no improvements or anything new to the series I found nothing entertaining from it.

 

[Specter Von Baren]

I like how almost all of these are games that the posters just didn't like as opposed to actually bad games. Games that had bad controls or boring stories. Lots of CoD's, games with bad stories but solid controls and gameplay.

There's not many bad games like that big rig racing game, or Ride to Hell, or even the ET game that everyone knows about but never played. We need to set a line between bad games and games that we just dislike.

That being said the worst game I've ever personally played?

Spoiler

Response if serious.

-_- Complains about people complaining about games they don't like instead of objectively bad games... proceeds to give an example of a game he just didn't like instead of an objectively bad game.

Response if joking.

Pffff!

 

[[REDACTED]]

I like how almost all of these are games that the posters just didn't like as opposed to actually bad games. Games that had bad controls or boring stories. Lots of CoD's, games with bad stories but solid controls and gameplay.

There's not many bad games like that big rig racing game, or Ride to Hell, or even the ET game that everyone knows about but never played. We need to set a line between bad games and games that we just dislike.

That being said the worst game I've ever personally played?

Spoiler

I honestly can't tell whether this is a joke or not.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

There are some terrible games out there that's undeniable.

and I think we need a bit of a change of pace.

So list below the worst game you have ever played in your life.

my contribution?

Two worlds.

think oblivion now downgrade the graphics so it looks like it belongs on the original xbox, then imagine that the game-play was designed by a rhesus monkey, then take out all the good parts of the story.

I have played some rip offs and some of them were ok but two worlds? IT is without a doubt the worst game I have ever played in my 12 years of being a gamer.

Two Worlds had its moments. Two Worlds 2 however blew chunks hard enough to achieve escape velocity and stain the cosmos. THAT is the worst game I've ever played in this generation. I don't believe there is a worst of all time, because each era/generation is a different evolution of the gaming world.