The flat-out worst game you have ever played. EVER.

[Dfskelleton]

Cliver Barker's Jericho. It's a textbook example of how to not design a game. And before anybody gets any ideas, I bought the game knowing how shitty it would be, but I had thought I would get some amusement from writing a review. Sadly, that didn't happen...

I'll actually defend this one, largely because it has redeeming merits in some incredibly good writing, and the ideas at play were not bad, they just lacked on the implementation. I think the problem with the gameplay was that they were testing out an idea to sell cheat codes, where you needed a number from your disc that you would use when you paid in order
to have a unique code created to unlock the cheats. If you play the game "straight" without playing into the money making gimmick at least part way, your asking for trouble, though admittedly there are ways to get 4 of them (I think) for free, and they should still be on the gamefaqs forum.

At any rate Jericho is one of the few shooters I ever noticed getting an RP board on Gamefaqs (even if it later closed). Even now there is a dedicated fan community that wants a sequel given how it ended on a cliffhanger.

It's not a good game I suppose, but not one I think can be fairly called among the worst of all time. Being very weak in some areas, and very strong in othrs, with a small but dedicated fanbase holding out beyond all apparent hope, I think it pretty much fits the definition of "cult classic".

Please don't mistake this post for some sort antipathy filled diatribe, I'm genuinely curious about your responses.
First, what good writing? Granted, Clive Barker is a professional writer, but the story felt "far out there" for lack of a better phrase. There may be worse stories (eg MW2), but I would hardly call this good. I didn't care much for the characters either, as even though they had distinct personalities, they felt so damn stock and one dimensional. As for the cliffhanger, was it really one? Big bad was (presumably) killed by Lynch, and the surviving protagonists left the Breach.
Second, you said the game had some strong areas. What might those be?
Lastly, I realize everybody has different opinions, but the thread was dealing with the worst game you've [sic] ever played. In my case it's Jericho. Of course it's just my opinion, and had I said InFamous (yes, I consider it a horrible game, but not quite the worst), I would have pissed off other fanboys.

Well, you are correct that the storyline *IS* "Far Out There" and I guess that appeals to some people, and not to others. But then again, that's in keeping with a lot of Mr. Barker's writing which is substantially differant than the movies that have been based off of it. Simply put the whole "first born" concept was a somewhat differant spin on lovecraftian horror, and while not totally original, using superhumans as an opposing force was fairly well done. I think the appeal of the characters isn't so much the personalities which were fairly "stock" for horror and/or military fiction, but the unique spins on some of the powers. For example you had a guy with a fire elemental living in his arm.

The gameplay mechanic of controlling an entire squad in a shooter and jumping between them was decent, but it wasn't implemented well, and as many reviewers have pointed out the combat enviroments were simply far too confined.

As far as the ending goes, you don't know all of who lived and who died, the First Born is not dead, and apparently the water they are in is supposed to be in hell or purgatory, and apparently the sequel is intended to be set on an aircraft carrier playing home to the spirits of six hundred and sixty six dead children or something like that. Clive Barker apparently said how he intended the series to continue, but it's probably not going to happen.

The point here wasn't so much me defending it like it's a personal favorite of mine, because despite being a Clive Barker fan it's not, I was simply pointing out that this game is a cult classic. I think it's mediocre, but good enough where I was hoping to see if it could be improved upon in sequels.

To put things into perspective, at the very beginning of last year (2010) a fansite was launched to try and keep the fanbase alive, and there is still a 200+ message thread about it going on in the Gamefaqs 360 forum (last time I checked). This game managed to achieve a fanbase, even if it's not a large one.

http://www.jerichosquad.com/

I kinda liked it, it was okay. Worth the 2 dollars I paid for it (thank you hollywood video closing sale

 

[liger03]

NinjaBread Man. Sounds like an epic game to me, until I discover that it's a primitive hack-n-slash that doesn't even deliver well on that concept. There's so little variation that there aren't even bosses, and only three enemies. The tutorial was the longest part (seven minutes of tutorial, 5 minutes later i get 100% completion [I WISH I WAS FRIGGIN' EXAGGERATING]) and all it did was describe how to jump and run before pitting you against a mediocre platforming-esque level. I honestly am glad that it fell into a pit of obscurity; it shouldn't EVER be bought.
The one "interesting" point is that you can gain power as you kill enemies and lose it when hit, Cave Story style-- but two hits still kills everything and there's no graphical changes to your attacks. It basically fills a useless meter that shows a more awesome projectile weapon after reaching each stage.
Oh yeah, and the reason for such quick gameplay: there are five levels in which you activate a MacGuffin-porter to the next level. Then? Game over. That's it. They don't even give a little text on what you did, or a cutscene.

 

[Compatriot Block]

Anyone listing titles like Halo, Call of Duty, Dragon Age, etc., I'm in awe of your gaming career.

Really? Those are the WORST you've played? God, you're a bunch of lucky bastards then. Unless saying that is just a way for you to get...naaaah.

Anyways, my worst is Bomberman: Act Zero.

 

[black-magic]

mmmm, Cross country canada, for real games I really didn't like mirrors edge, most disappointing game ever.

 

[Vexik]

Bayou Billy on the NES. It was mostly incomprehensible, and the parts that weren't were still awful.

 

[WorldCritic]

Matrix: Path of Neo, bad hit detection, bad camera, bad controls, too long of a tutorial, too many glitches, and if you haven't already seen the movies, you will completely lose track of the story.

 

[C95J]

Turok or Haze, in that they had such hype, and both were just complete pieces of shit. Hell, calling them that is an insult to shit, they were everything wrong with the world squeezed onto two CDs.

Or possibly the Spyro games released on the PS2, not only were they fairly bad games on their own, but they took a preexisting series, and murdered it. They mashed it into a pulp, had its eyes gouged out, its elbows broken, its kneecaps split, its body burned away, its limbs all hacked and mangled, its head smashed in, heart cut out, liver removed, bowels unplugged, its nostrils raped, they had its bottom burned off, and its penis split.

Cookie for the reference

oh my god this made my day

which sketch is it called again?

 

[icame]

Final Fantasy 13

or

Turok (recent remake.)

 

[Starvin_Marvin]

For me it has to be "tokyo bus driving simulation" that i had on my dreamcast. One mile an hour over the speed limit, fail. One mile an hour under the speed limit, fail. One pixel over the line, fail. Horrible game but I refused to be beaten by it and just had to keep playing.

 

[Aegis A'Sha'Se]

Bionicle: the Game. I was a fan of the Bionicle toy line, and sill am, then EA released this blatant cash-in that I beat in an afternoon, and took another afternoon to get 100%. The Toa (the heroes of Bionicle) have this big melee weapons but they decided to just give them these week projectile attacks, and take their individual powers away.

I concur with Azure Knight-Zeo. Bioncle was a terrible, terrible game.

Also, The Simpsons Game.

 

[Cid Silverwing]

Hard to pin down the worst game I actually played. So I'll just say Neverwinter Nights 2.

BUGS!

 

[spinFX]

I say this every time I see this thread (this is about the 10th time, no joke): Superman 64. Wa so god awful ugh.

 

[Lonan]

Battlefield Vietnam
http://pc.ign.com/objects/568/568737.html
I don't understand that rating. I wouldn't play this game if it was free. Fortunately, the manager at Staples was really great and let me take it back when I explained just how bad it was.

 

[icame]

Half Life 2. I found it extremely bland in gameplay, and the story was meh.

So being average to mediocre equals the worst game ever made? I want your gaming track record because obviously you've never had to play through a really terrible game.

 

[natster43]

Superman 64.

 

[Radek1994]

Probably that Ninja Gaiden game for the DS, shadow dragon I think.

 

[NeedAUserName]

Turok or Haze, in that they had such hype, and both were just complete pieces of shit. Hell, calling them that is an insult to shit, they were everything wrong with the world squeezed onto two CDs.

Or possibly the Spyro games released on the PS2, not only were they fairly bad games on their own, but they took a preexisting series, and murdered it. They mashed it into a pulp, had its eyes gouged out, its elbows broken, its kneecaps split, its body burned away, its limbs all hacked and mangled, its head smashed in, heart cut out, liver removed, bowels unplugged, its nostrils raped, they had its bottom burned off, and its penis split.

Cookie for the reference

oh my god this made my day

which sketch is it called again?

Its from the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail, if you google Monty Python Sir Robin Song its the third video. I'd embed it, but I'm not tech savvy enough to do it.

 

[Kachiporra]

Final Fantasy 8, no more words

 

[thecoreyhlltt]

hands down the worst game i've played was Max Payne 2 for ps2. i didn't play the first one, but i don't feel i have to. But man, the game-play was awful, controls sucked more than a phillipino hooker, and the voice acting was dreadful... all in all it gets a 0.0000000000000000000000000000000001 out of a possible 100.






i liked the movie though