List the worst game you have ever played.

[Mr F.]

In b4 half of the responses are "CoD/Battlefield/Halo/Skyrim/Half-Life 2/*insert popular game here*, lolz"

We don't actually get that much any more. We get far more people saying what you are saying then people attacking popular games for no reason. Just saying. Its like when people post 2 pages worth of "EPIC SHITSTORM COMING GUYS" and no shitstorm materialises.

Although in all seriousness, for me it would have to be Spy Games: Elevator Mission. It's not buggy or incomplete or anything of that sort. It works as it probably was intended to work. However, since it's obvious the developer's intention was "make the most boring and worst possible Wolfenstein 3D clone with no redeeming qualities and stick it on the Wii", the game plummets into being easily the game I despise the most out of everything I've played. And considering I rarely ever end up hating a game (the only two others I can think of being Duke Nukem: Forever and Need for Speed: Undercover), that is saying something.

Worst game I have ever played?

A Game of Thrones: Genesis.

Fuck that game. Fuck Cyanide Studios. Fuck George RR Martin for being a fucking moron and giving Cyanide the rights. That game was painfully bad. It was barely playable, looked like ass, lagged out despite looking worse than a game made a decade earlier (Warcraft 3.). So yeah. A game of thrones genesis.

Also, Looking over the first page... There are three posts going "Wow, Intelligent discussion/OMFG TROLL POSTS COMING!" and two posts in which popular things are being bashed. One accurately stating that FF7 and Baldurs Gate do not stand the test of time, cause they don't (I tried with Baldurs Gate. I really did.) and one ME3, which is fair enough.

Nobody has said CoD. Or BF. Or HALO. Or Skyrim. Or HL2. Two people, out of 35, have made unpopular statements, not even close to the 50% you were predicting.

Guys, can we get over ourselves and accept that as a site we have moved on and matured slightly?

 

[Fallere825]

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.

thats how you pick things up? you lasted longer than i did with it and i never did work out how to pick things up

I did play it after learning the different controls for the action key, but it did get on my nerves, not the fact that that's how the controls were, but the fact that they didn't bother telling you.

 

[bat32391]

Fucking ET, I had to play that fucking piece of shit for 4 hours because I lost a bet. Whoever made that game can go fuck themselves.

 

[bat32391]

Stupid Double posts

 

[Olikar]

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The gameplay is afwul generic trash, two weapon limit, iron sights (not that I am against iron sights all together they work in some games well), regenerating shields, dumbed down vigours and strictly linear level design.

The story is not only insultingly stupid (nonsensical magic is written off with poor references to theoretical physics in an attempt to seem deep) it is actually broken, the story constantly contradicts itself in terms of tone, characterization and even it's own internal logic.

 

[ArithianFlame]

Fable 3. It destroyed everything I loved about the first, and everything I barely tolerated about the second.

 

[CrimsonBlaze]

I would have to say Call of Duty: World at War for the Wii because I love the same game for the PS3 and the sheer drop in clarity and aesthetics on the Wii is heart wrenching.

The graphics are so bad that I needed to stop playing it because it was making me physically ill just looking at the game.

 

[Brian Tams]

Well, I played Superman 64 back in the day, so there's that.

Ummm, the N64 port of Doom was horrendously done. It was the most broken pile of shit I had ever seen.

 

[UrinalDook]

As there is no qualification in the OP that states these have to be the worst games we as a collective audience have ever played on a technical level...

Slenderman.

Holy. Fucking. Shit.

I'm not normally easily scared by media that I know going in is intentionally scary. The worst most horror films, for example, ever make me feel is uncomfortable.

Slenderman scared the pants off me. I only played a couple of months back, years after the big hype. I didn't really know too much about it mechanically, but I knew what people said about it. I'd travelled with a couple of mates to visit another friend who's moved away. He suggested we play it before we went out that night. So, I'd had a couple of drinks but wasn't yet drunk (deduce for yourself whether that left my mental state negatively disposed to a game like this), he turned out the lights and I was first up, playing in pitch black.

I was awful at it. I think I got two pages, before I turned around... and there he was! I screamed, leapt away from the screen and curled up in the fetal position on the floor.

Despite my nervous giggling before this happened, at no point during that game did I have any fun at all.

All kudos for that game doing to me exactly what it set out to do, but fuck me... Worst game I have ever submitted myself to. That image is still burned into my brain.

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

The worst 2 games I have ever played (to completion, because I am sadist and mascochistic) are the original Spec Ops and Army Men: Sarges Heroes 2... Both games were inexplicably nails, both games looked horrific and made eyes bleed within 40 yards, whether they were looking at it or not, both games were glitchy as fuck and both were incredibly short, with no story what so ever...

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Naughty Bear.

A terribly broken and soul-crushingly unfunny Manhunt clone.

It had so much potential...that first level was alright but...That game hurt me...

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I thought Dragon Ball: Ultimate Tenkaichi was a load of garbage...and this is coming from someone who enjoyed playing Shaq-Fu (on the SNES). I'm not really big into fighting games to begin with but I remember liking Shin Budokai on the PSP. I also remember playing around with a friend's copy of Super Butoden [sub][sub]that was on his computer[/sub][/sub] and I liked that as well. Not that I expect a fighting game to stay the same after a decade and a half...

That last sentence reminded me: Mortal Kombat on the Game Boy is the all-time worst game I've ever played. It's like a step-and-a-half up from the Tiger hand-held version.

 

[Charli]

I was made to play those 'learning games' back when that was a fad in schools.

So...yeah. I win thread? Because I think I do. They have to be the worst thing ever to have graced gaming... early 80's gamez for schools on that archaic computer schools got donated...

I'm fairly sure they're the reason no one tries to approach the education format again. Too much of a bad taste in their mouth over THOSE days.

 

[SonOfMethuselah]

Hmm...

Back in the PS2 days, I happened across a game called Red Ninja: End of Honour. It was in a bargain bin somewhere, cost me $2. I think - and I'm fairly confident in my assessment - that the entire point of the game was just to stare up the bottom of the kimono of the female ninja you're playing as. It is, at best, a poorly executed Tenchu ripoff with a host of untapped potential, and at worst, a mind-numbing slog through uninteresting environmental traversal, AI that are incapable of standing up to you in a fight, a lack of any real motivation for what you're doing, and controls that oftentimes feel more adversarial than the enemies you're facing. It works, to be sure, but it's the only game I've ever played that manages to make being a ninja feel completely boring.

Special mention goes to Superman 64, which I rented when I was a kid, and knew immediately was a steaming pile of shit. And childhood me enjoyed just about everything he played, so that game must be a special kind of awful.

 

[Varrdy]

That Ghostbusters effort that was put out a few years ago. As a big fan of the movies (yes, both of them!), The Real Ghostbusters cartoons and the associated toys and books, I was stoked about this game, especially when I heard it would feature many of the old cast members doing their respective characters voice-acting and that it was written by Harold Ramis and Dan Aykroyd.

Never have my hopes been dashed so much by a game as it was awful! I hated the umpteen-squillion mods that were made to the proton-pack, the overall gameplay, iffy voice-acting, pitiful excuses to revisit old locations from the films and the whole thing felt more like an arcade button-masher, which when you add-in some shoddy partner AI, a drawn out and improbable storyline and a glitch that meant I never saw the ending cutscene, is pretty bad! I traded it in after one playthrough and I don't miss it!

 

[Arslan Aladeen]

Man, after seeing games like ET, Superman 64 and Big Rigs, my list is going to seem very pedestrian. Oh well. Most of the bad games I played I knew ahead of time they weren't going to be very good, but I just had to know how bad they were. Devil May Cry 2, Metroid Other M, Residen Evil 6. I seem to be developing some strange fetish now for wanting to play bad games, and not because I enjoy them. I do have to mention one slightly popular one, and that's Castlevania: Lords of Shadow. The story and characters seem so dull, and the combat is so limiting, and all mindless platforming. I just don't get the appeal.

 

[Headdrivehardscrew]

Bethesda's Rogue Warrior (Rebellion)
Eidos's Shellshock 2: Blood Trails (Rebellion)
Dragon Age 2... really, EA, how could you. It felt like you were whoring out your stepdaughter and let some high ranking Scientologist retcon the story. Too bad people still liked it.

Those were just the ones that instantly come to mind, as they traumatized me.

 

[teebeeohh]

the xcom shooter(no not the new one, the old where you are a robot)
otherwise probably some piece of shovelware i don't remember.

 

[Marlon Petty]

Last of Us. Yeah shut up. I hated the Last of Us. Between proving that enemies pop-in to the renderverse like this is the late '90's, proving human enemies all have a group telepathy that allows them to know when I am reloading my shit gun with shit ammo and finally some imbecilic super-zombie that magically knows judo because of brain-fungus...yeah. I was pissed.

 

[KnightOfTwo]

If by worst game you have ever played you mean a game that you absolutely hate, for me that would be FF12. Describing why would take far too much time so just to establish I am not trying to "troll", I am clarifying this by saying that yes there is nothing necessarily wrong or broken with the game. It is simply something I had absolutely no fun for myriad reasons and remains to this day one of the few games I have traded in a few days after getting it simply because I couldn't stand playing it anymore.

If we are talking about clunky or badly implemented games I would say Mars: War Logs.

Thing is the game had potential with its premise but was absolutely abysmal. The voice acting was incredibly awful and wooden (to the point that I believe they had to re-record the dialogue after release for the english version), the dialogue itself was terrible ("I never really thought I'd end up in the middle of a war, but didn't really understand how." is the first line of the game to give you an idea of how bad it is), the physics were pretty wonky to the point where I got stuck climbing over a wall in the first half hour, the magic system is pointless since you can be interrupted by any attack so you can't cast for ****, the rest of the combat isn't much better since you can only block what is directly in front of you and fighting more than 2 enemies at once becomes a constant battle of hit and run, even for a relatively low budget game it looks ugly and muddy with poor lip synching, the narrative is badly structured and inconsistent in tone, the characters are robotic and have no personality to the point where one of the characters is constantly just referred to as "The Fat Guy". I can see that the developer wanted to try and make a more low budget mix between Mass Effect and something like Rage or Fallout but it really, REALLY didn't end well.

 

[Link_to_Future]

Duke Nukem Forever is the one that jumps to mind immediately. It's almost feels too easy of an answer but it feels right to me.

The gameplay alternates between bland and almost broken while the sense of humor doesn't appeal to me in the least. I beat it simply to say that I was able to sit through the whole thing.

I may have played games more objectively bad but Duke Nukem Forever was the one that left me the most totally frustrated by the end.