As a kid I had a habit of researching games before buying them (I had subscriptions to Playstation magazines for most of my childhood so I would read reviews and/or try demos) and would rarely impulse buy a game based on seeing it on the shelf. I honestly only recall two impulse purchases where I bought a game knowing nothing about it.
Bust a Groove 2 was a great surprise.
ODT: Escape Or Die Trying was a confusing and boring mess.
Thihihi! That's what makes it fun! Those whiny "meh i'm trackin your butt and send a Vertibird Squad over to you" Privates are too easy to troll. But Mr. "you're going to lick the toilets clean for the next 500 years, maggot!" Sergeant makes it interesting.
Hm, i wish he would have called the developers of "Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel" and talked some sense in them. Come on guys, a "Dark Alliance" clone? Okay it wasn't "the worst game of all time" or something like that, but honestly!
Well, at least i could unlock and play as a Hobo. ...Wait. This Hobo is supposed t be... The Vault Dweller?! Oh, Son of a-
I need something to cheer me up. Ooh, i got it! I'm gonna prank call the Enclave and remind them that i am THE CHOSEN ONE! ...the one who's chosen to repair the comm-units.
Probably Dragon Age Origins. That game was so fucking uninspired. It gave me cancer. It killed my family. It assassinated the arch duke Ferdinand. But worse of all? It was really, really boring.
Is there a bad story you won't defend? You're like the stalwart defender of mediocrity. There was nothing redeemable about Dragon Age, and the bit with the mages was the worst slog in the game.
In any case, there's no need to be melodramatic. Cruel and wrong? Why? Because someone worked hard on the product? The creators of Birdemic and The Room worked hard too. That doesn't make them good film makers. As it stand, I derive far greater joy from train wrecks like The Room then I do from mediocre films. I'd rather watch that then give another second to dragon age. Besides, I'm not sure why you're acting like you have the high ground. Aren't you the one who lied about liking Warcraft in order to sell enough tickets to get a sequel?
Mine's probably David 'emosiuns' Cage's Fahrenheit. Less of a game to play, more of an interactive torture program with a 'story' bolted onto it which may've been written by a particularly dense 13-year-old boy who'd stumbled, drunkenly, into a bookstore and started rifling through the philosophy section before collapsing amidst a pile of conspiracy theory tomes.
A passing gin-soaked tramp - possibly some kind of hallucination or vision - may've muttered the word 'existentialism' and exclaimed 'totally incongruous and awkward sex scenes equal mature art'...
Fahrenheit was the unholy creation willed into being as that kid sobered up.
I'd rather Cage was still knocking around, though, making his non-/anti-games for the sake of diversity even if I feel he's fumbling around in the wrong medium.
Mine's probably David 'emosiuns' Cage's Fahrenheit. Less of a game to play, more of an interactive torture program with a 'story' bolted onto it which may've been written by a particularly dense 13-year-old boy who'd stumbled, drunkenly, into a bookstore and started rifling through the philosophy section before collapsing amidst a pile of conspiracy theory tomes.
A passing gin-soaked tramp - possibly some kind of hallucination or vision - may've muttered the word 'existentialism' and exclaimed 'totally incongruous and awkward sex scenes equal mature art'...
Fahrenheit was the unholy creation willed into being as that kid sobered up.
I'd rather Cage was still knocking around, though, making his non-/anti-games for the sake of diversity even if I feel he's fumbling around in the wrong medium.
It's sad because Farenheit, when starting out, looks like it could be start of something amazing. Instead, it turns into something both cliche, broken and incomprehensible.
Beyond: Two Souls might be worse, just because of how disturbing it is. The whole thing feels like Ellen Page torture porn.
Probably Dragon Age Origins. That game was so fucking uninspired. It gave me cancer. It killed my family. It assassinated the arch duke Ferdinand. But worse of all? It was really, really boring.
Is there a bad story you won't defend? You're like the stalwart defender of mediocrity. There was nothing redeemable about Dragon Age, and the bit with the mages was the worst slog in the game.
In any case, there's no need to be melodramatic. Cruel and wrong? Why? Because someone worked hard on the product? The creators of Birdemic and The Room worked hard too. That doesn't make them good film makers. As it stand, I derive far greater joy from train wrecks like The Room then I do from mediocre films. I'd rather watch that then give another second to dragon age. Besides, I'm not sure why you're acting like you have the high ground. Aren't you the one who lied about liking Warcraft in order to sell enough tickets to get a sequel?
The broder picture is that I hate this era of negativity we live in in the internet.
I blame the likes of Yatzhee and AVGN fostering it now we live in an era where evertything is so overly critical, so nitpicky, so unfair that I am sick and tired of it.
Back in the day we pick apart games like Superman 64, CDI zelda, because they were broken and awful.
Now we are picking apart geniuenly and technically good games like DA:O and FarCry Primal and Mass Effect 3 (Yes the game as of now is a great game) because appearently to use an example just being "Average" is now worse than being Outright Awful which is some weird fucked up topsy-turvy way of thinking imo.
When I see threads like this I get pissed because I know people are not gonna refer to actual bad games or actual bad movies.
And I HATE HATE HATE the whole "its so bad its good" excuse.
Its a game that i couldnot find a single good thing about. it made uncharted feel like Deus Ex 1. it has terrible one button platforming, terrible combat and shooting, worst protagonist in the history of video games.
Probably Dragon Age Origins. That game was so fucking uninspired. It gave me cancer. It killed my family. It assassinated the arch duke Ferdinand. But worse of all? It was really, really boring.
Is there a bad story you won't defend? You're like the stalwart defender of mediocrity. There was nothing redeemable about Dragon Age, and the bit with the mages was the worst slog in the game.
In any case, there's no need to be melodramatic. Cruel and wrong? Why? Because someone worked hard on the product? The creators of Birdemic and The Room worked hard too. That doesn't make them good film makers. As it stand, I derive far greater joy from train wrecks like The Room then I do from mediocre films. I'd rather watch that then give another second to dragon age. Besides, I'm not sure why you're acting like you have the high ground. Aren't you the one who lied about liking Warcraft in order to sell enough tickets to get a sequel?
The broder picture is that I hate this era of negativity we live in in the internet.
I blame the likes of Yatzhee and AVGN fostering it now we live in an era where evertything is so overly critical, so nitpicky, so unfair that I am sick and tired of it.
Back in the day we pick apart games like Superman 64, CDI zelda, because they were broken and awful.
Now we are picking apart geniuenly and technically good games like DA:O and FarCry Primal and Mass Effect 3 (Yes the game as of now is a great game) because appearently to use an example just being "Average" is now worse than being Outright Awful which is some weird fucked up topsy-turvy way of thinking imo.
When I see threads like this I get pissed because I know people are not gonna refer to actual bad games or actual bad movies.
And I HATE HATE HATE the whole "its so bad its good" excuse.
However, I honestly wonder if we live in an age of criticism or an age of mediocrity. Everything is focus tested to hit as many demographics as possible. Everything is sanitized to be inoffensive. Everything is dumbed down so that everyone can easily understand it. Studios want everything to be safe, and familiar. Movies are shot for convenience instead of impact. Scripts are written based on formulas and graphs, and are designed to spawn infinite sequels. Companies are more concerned with spectacle then story. The fact is that most companies aren't interested in producing art, their interested in producing products. Most of the films being produced today are the entertainment equivalent of toothpaste. Mediocrity isn't the byproduct of normal people doing the best they can. It's the targeted goal. Films are made to be mediocre be nature, because a film that has to be exceptional in order to succeed is too much of a risk. I'm personally sick of the cowardly, risk averse nature of most films, games, and books. I hate the way executives fit us into categories like cattle. They treat storytelling like a formula, and now they treat us like one. So now every time we choose to celebrate a soulless cash grab we reinforce an extremely negative trend in entertainment. A trend forever exemplified by the words of one top studio executive: "we don't tell stories anymore."
It's sad because Farenheit, when starting out, looks like it could be start of something amazing. Instead, it turns into something both cliche, broken and incomprehensible.
Yeah, one of the reasons I was so disappointed/annoyed/confused was because after the demo I'd been looking forward to seeing it play out. I suppose the warning signs were all there, but back then it felt quite fresh and at least stood out from the crowd.
I think the guitar playing and 'work out' sessions in the main character's apartment were when the penny dropped; sitting there dumbly obeying prompts to a scene/direction I couldn't pay proper attention to. It wasn't a game I was playing, nor was it a film I was watching - it was something worse and less than either.
Beyond: Two Souls might be worse, just because of how disturbing it is. The whole thing feels like Ellen Page torture porn.
Heh, that might be my favourite least-disliked Cage product, at least that I've seen all the way through; perhaps as I just consumed it as an LP it felt more in its element. Plus I sorta have a weak spot for Ellen Page, so her performance - which is mostly quite good, script/story/direction aside - at least made it novel.
It's wildly misjudged, sure. I don't, for example, see any sense or dramatic benefit to its non-linear structure, regardless of how the final few reels try to give it some forced greater meaning. But at least they dialed back on the stream of prompts, so in a sense even less interactivity helped it.
Seriously, some posts here are beyond hyperbolic... Tomb Raider 2013, Dragon Age Origins?
Worst recently...well let's see, Raven's Cry, I was rolling on the floor laughing half the time.
Outside of that, I only "hate" two games: Dead Space III and Mass Effect III. Both overall mediocre in their own right, but made me wish I stayed away from the series.
Oh, and Motherhip Zeta dlc for Fallout III. How in oblivion, Bethesda pulled that one is almost admirable.
Probably Body Harvest, though I didn't play it long enough to give it a fair assessment. Similar 'prizes' go to Sonic and the Secret Rings and Hugo (a GBC game).
Man body harvest was awesome! I mean it control like crap and looked worse than that, it was incredibly unclear what you were supposed to do and you'd constantly die for random reason and vehicle were almost useless since they couldn't be driven properly, what a great game
Worse is hard to answer, I mean the real answer is probably some random flash game I played at some point and since forgotten. I will say FF13 is a tempting choice, its not really the worse game I ever played, but if you take into account the budget and time spend on it, the fact that it was the best they could come up with is pretty insulting.
Worse is hard to answer, I mean the real answer is probably some random flash game I played at some point and since forgotten. I will say FF13 is a tempting choice, its not really the worse game I ever played, but if you take into account the budget and time spend on it, the fact that it was the best they could come up with is pretty insulting.
It's wierd. I haven't even played the game, but I ended up watching a LP with all the cutscenes edited together.....and at the end wished I had those 10 hours of my life back. The whole thing would have been far better as an anime series, preferably one season. Then they'd actually have to focus on telling a story instead of meandering around for hours on end.
Granted, it still wouldn't solve the problem of most of the characters being bland and annoying. It's one of those "games" that pretty much needed a complete script rewrite to fix a lot of it's major problems.
It's really sad, because on paper, the plot and setting sound awesome. It's just they couldn't find anything interesting to do with either.
This isn't exactly a bad game so much as the most boring game that I have played in recent memory:
Final Fantasy Explorers. It's not a bad premise. Final Fantasy meets Monster Hunter. What could go wrong?
Not everything, fortunately. The game itself isn't bad. It's just... mind-numbingly dull. And I like most boring stuff. But this... this entire game misses the entire purpose of the Monster Hunter games. The flow of combat is vital to Monster Hunter's core. And the game misses it by a mile. Imagine Monster Hunter, but all the enemies and players feel static. They don't move anywhere other than just on the ground. Even when Monster Hunter DID do that, which was rarely, at least the dodge lifted you off the ground. At least you could dodge through a monster's legs or under the monster's limbs. At least you could do ANYTHING other than just hit the target and manually move out of the way when it attacked. I couldn't play more than a few minutes before I put it down. I still have it. I refuse to sell it, but I sure as shit won't play it ever again.
Hmm... okay, it's not the worst game i've ever played but it's pretty bad and the first that pops up in my mind and nobody mentioned before. So here we go:
Ever heard of Dungeon Lords? Came out back in 2005 i think. Oh boy! That was a snoreburger with a side order of bug fries. Horribly unnfinished, buggy and incredibly boooooooring!
Most NPCs got stuck in walls, furniture, doors, rocks, and your Avatar... if they showed up at all. Quest items just disappearing from your inventory at random. Doors that would not open and doors that would open but lead to absolutely nothing.
When i had enough of it, i ran into the dark Woods, hoping some random monster would end my misery. And lo and behold, a Dragon appeared... aaaand got stuck between a tree and some shrubbery. It tried to kill me with a forklift some fireballs but they were no match against the little bush i was hiding behind... but for some reason i could shoot through the bush with my bow just fine. After 10 minutes of bush-penetration-with-my-starting-bow i killed the Dragon and gained enough XP to raise 20 Levels at once.
I took that as a clear win over this game, ended on a "high note", deleted this crap and never touched it again.
I was actually going to name that one. Amazingly enough I actually managed to finish it after downloading the numerous patches required. It's always the first game I think of when some one asks what's the worst game I've ever played.
Man body harvest was awesome! I mean it control like crap and looked worse than that, it was incredibly unclear what you were supposed to do and you'd constantly die for random reason and vehicle were almost useless since they couldn't be driven properly, what a great game
But the Sun-Shield was a nice weapon though. Burns those pesky oversized bugs away in no time. And for what did we use the shield in the end? To ignite a torch... Outstanding! Not a waste at all!
*takes a sip of coffee*
canadamus_prime said:
Spakko said:
Hmm... okay, it's not the worst game i've ever played but it's pretty bad and the first that pops up in my mind and nobody mentioned before. So here we go:
Ever heard of Dungeon Lords? Came out back in 2005 i think. Oh boy! That was a snoreburger with a side order of bug fries. Horribly unnfinished, buggy and incredibly boooooooring!
Most NPCs got stuck in walls, furniture, doors, rocks, and your Avatar... if they showed up at all. Quest items just disappearing from your inventory at random. Doors that would not open and doors that would open but lead to absolutely nothing.
When i had enough of it, i ran into the dark Woods, hoping some random monster would end my misery. And lo and behold, a Dragon appeared... aaaand got stuck between a tree and some shrubbery. It tried to kill me with a forklift some fireballs but they were no match against the little bush i was hiding behind... but for some reason i could shoot through the bush with my bow just fine. After 10 minutes of bush-penetration-with-my-starting-bow i killed the Dragon and gained enough XP to raise 20 Levels at once.
I took that as a clear win over this game, ended on a "high note", deleted this crap and never touched it again.
I was actually going to name that one. Amazingly enough I actually managed to finish it after downloading the numerous patches required. It's always the first game I think of when some one asks what's the worst game I've ever played.
I was actually going to name that one. Amazingly enough I actually managed to finish it after downloading the numerous patches required. It's always the first game I think of when some one asks what's the worst game I've ever played.
Well i'll be damned! You Sir, deserve a medal! I salute you! So, was it actually worth the effort? Should i dig it out of the jumble-box and give it another try? No, seriously, I'm very curious now.
I genuinely HATE very few games. Only two actually, and The Evil Within is one of 'm. Not only does it aesthetically look like garbage, presenting the player with the most insultingly generic monster/horror designs, it's also rendered like an early PS3 game. And the mechanics are so fucking clunky it's baffling. It's like they made this game without ever quality checking or balancing anything.
And the cherry on top is that it was made by Shinji Mikami. Was he suffering from a brain-eating bacteria during the developement or what?
I like to think that it was Mikami trolling hard enough in the hope that he can get out of this apparent name he has made for himself in horror games when he really only just wants to move on to fresher pastures. Sort of like Kojima being made to keep churning out metal gear solid games well after he said he was done with the franchise. I mean, Resident Evil 4 wasn't even a damn horror! The Evil Within feels like a purposeful exercise in cliche. Yes the game is an unoriginal mess that was frustrating in so many ways that did not need to be at all. Why does the guy hop merrily about at a painfully slow speed like a miniture pony savouring a summer meadow? And...the entirety of the game is full of annoyances.
OT: This topic is baiting hyperbole, well hyperbole is what it gets! The last gen ports of Shadow Of Mordor were pretty bad, but playable mostly. It's tricky to remember any terrible games, I tend to know what I want before getting it. Not always though, games that were considered good, even great, but very much not for bears. Those recently would be Street Fighter games and Defense Grid games, possibly the average bullet hell games too.
Dynasty Warriors, all of them.
Bad games would be; Baubles of Doom (only tried the demo, thank the demons it wasn't a purchase). Not sure if it was supposed to be a comedy, it came off as a Saturday morning children's cartoon that kept referencing testicles like it had Freudian tourettes. The gameplay played like a bad ps2 era experience also.
The Wii port of The Force Unleashed.
Army of Two? Ok, I'm struggling to think of anything recent now.
I had the misfortune to rent this ingenious "52 games in one cartridge" clusterfuck way back in the day for the NES. The main game is a terrible TMNT Ripoff(which has all of like 5 levels and none of them long), a good number of the games will crash if you try to play them and quite a few others will crash before you finish them(or will just stop). For the games that did work, no balancing was done at all, the difficulty was all over the map. It's fairly obvious the company working on the game didn't have a QA department....or just didn't care.
I don't remember any of the games being remotely interesting either.
At the time, I wondered why I was encountering so many bugs and crashes, thinking I got a bad cartridge. Later found out the game is just that broken.
as for my suggestion, its an old game .. phantasmagoria 2 a puzzle of flesh.. a main character who is completely obnoxious and unlikable and some of the worst FMV acting full stop
I thought the twist was interesting and the weirdness leading up to it worked well.
Besides, how do you put it as worst when the first game exists? A game with a Main character who incredibly stupid and awful puzzle design. I don't actually hate that game either, but I found it very meh. At least I remember parts of sequel, more then I can say about the first game.
Man body harvest was awesome! I mean it control like crap and looked worse than that, it was incredibly unclear what you were supposed to do and you'd constantly die for random reason and vehicle were almost useless since they couldn't be driven properly, what a great game
But the Sun-Shield was a nice weapon though. Burns those pesky oversized bugs away in no time. And for what did we use the shield in the end? To ignite a torch... Outstanding! Not a waste at all!
*takes a sip of coffee*
canadamus_prime said:
Spakko said:
Hmm... okay, it's not the worst game i've ever played but it's pretty bad and the first that pops up in my mind and nobody mentioned before. So here we go:
Ever heard of Dungeon Lords? Came out back in 2005 i think. Oh boy! That was a snoreburger with a side order of bug fries. Horribly unnfinished, buggy and incredibly boooooooring!
Most NPCs got stuck in walls, furniture, doors, rocks, and your Avatar... if they showed up at all. Quest items just disappearing from your inventory at random. Doors that would not open and doors that would open but lead to absolutely nothing.
When i had enough of it, i ran into the dark Woods, hoping some random monster would end my misery. And lo and behold, a Dragon appeared... aaaand got stuck between a tree and some shrubbery. It tried to kill me with a forklift some fireballs but they were no match against the little bush i was hiding behind... but for some reason i could shoot through the bush with my bow just fine. After 10 minutes of bush-penetration-with-my-starting-bow i killed the Dragon and gained enough XP to raise 20 Levels at once.
I took that as a clear win over this game, ended on a "high note", deleted this crap and never touched it again.
I was actually going to name that one. Amazingly enough I actually managed to finish it after downloading the numerous patches required. It's always the first game I think of when some one asks what's the worst game I've ever played.
I was actually going to name that one. Amazingly enough I actually managed to finish it after downloading the numerous patches required. It's always the first game I think of when some one asks what's the worst game I've ever played.
Well i'll be damned! You Sir, deserve a medal! I salute you! So, was it actually worth the effort? Should i dig it out of the jumble-box and give it another try? No, seriously, I'm very curious now.
This is the game that we all played while we anxiously waited for Metal Gear Solid 2 to come out, even though taking one look at the cover you know you will be dissapointed. Hmm...I wonder who that looks like?
For those of you who haven't played this horrendously done stealth MGS knock-off (more like a Headhunter knock-off, which is basically the store brand version of MGS & GTA mixed together) you take control of a squad member during a hostile takeover situation at a certain location (I know - super original) and as you press on (if you can get past shit mechanics and bear to at all) things aren't really as they seem.
That's about it for the plot, but that's not even why I thought it was so bad of a game. The fact that the AI was literally stupid made every firefight feel like a carbon copy of the last. If you were pinned down, all it took was a readjustment of the camera (and a few patient seconds) to allow the enemy to cease fire and have you take them down from a jump-out shot. There was absolutely no dynamic changes in the enemy's actions whatsoever. The controls overall felt like they were trying too hard to have a MGS feel to the game (especially when it came to corner views and jump-out shots) and it just fell so flat on its face because certain button mappings just felt uncomfortable or didn't make sense. Of course the game does not contain any customization options for controls.
During more intense portions of the game, such as boss battles, it felt like the enemy had an unnecessary upper hand in order to make them difficult. It almost felt like the enemy was cheating in a sense, and I'm no sore loser. On the contrary, I actually favor rather extreme challenges and I still remember feeling robbed of victory due to shitty level design, enemy placement, particular boss actions, and so on. Also, due to the awkwardness of the crouch-walk technique, it made maneuvering past laser trips and other dangerous obstacles feel ridiculously hard for no reason. This of course lead to many cheap deaths and early frustration over things that could have easily been avoided if there was any heart put into the actual design of the game.
The voice acting was also some of the absolute worst I have ever heard. This game makes Resident Evil look like the Shawshank Redemption. It's something that is so bad I almost don't want you to even hear it.
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