The worst multiplayer game to play with friends.

[Enigmatic_Apple]

Mario Party.

By far.

This game is the perfect game to play if you don't want to be someone's friend.

Just invite them over and it's over haha

I feel this comic sums it up pretty well.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/01/29

Would anyone like to oppose me on this?

I think not.

 

[The Irrelevant Gamer]

There was a Micro Machines racing game on the N64 that caused some strife between my friends when playing with four people. The heart of the problem was driving across the rulers they used for bridges, and one friend's constant swerving to knock the person next to him off the edge, which I thought was a perfectly valid tactic, but then I didn't try to pass him on the bridges.

 

[blackfly01]

Bad multiplayer, eh? I'll say Twisted Metal 3 only because the gameplay and physics engine made the game nearly unplayable coupled with no point in beating the game especially on multiplayer when you don't get to see an ending.

 

[eggdog14]

For lack of a better somewhat-demeaning phrase:

Who. . . . Cares. . .?

 

[innocent42]

There is no valid excuse for playing Mario Party if you have access to a Guitar Hero game. Now GH, that's fun to play with friends.

 

[Gunslinger Fox]

Bomberman...only cause I tend to destroy everyone in the room and it's the only game where I really talk trash

New players always run for powerups and are easily trapped then I tell them they got greedy.

 

[Kieran210]

Worms....I've got into fist fights with best friends over their cheating worm antics, especially with the ninja rope.

Never play worms with your friends, or they won't be anymore.

 

[cattypat]

I guess most of you guys don't want to loose your friends through bad multiplayer games, but to me annoying my friends is part of my funny bone, so let the torture commence!

Any golf games: seriously these can cause normal people to turn into a raging incredible Hulk from controls designed for 3 handed mutants with a degree in chaos theory.

Racing games with destructable vehicles: Loosing your vehicle early in race can cause spouts of extreme swearing and spittle.

RPG battles: Theres a reason you grind a billion weak monsters and bosses in these games, normally a 1-shot summon or spell removes your oponents party. Completly pointless.

Multiplayer Betas: Some are great near finished games, most are bug ridden unbalanced heaps destined to bargain bin greatness. Test at your peril.

Experienced v Newbie: This applies to all games, and will turn off anyone if they end up being pummled into the ground flailing. If you wish to stay friends, practise only as much as they do!

 

[GloatingSwine]

Worms....I've got into fist fights with best friends over their cheating worm antics, especially with the ninja rope.

Never play worms with your friends, or they won't be anymore.

Aaah worms, the game of fragile alliances and filthy double crosses. It's easily the best way to be evil.

 

[Alan Au]

Diplomacy.

- Alan

 

[Senor Pantz]

I used to hate brute force, hate it with a passion

 

[Kaisharga]

Halo 3.

Now, don't crucify me yet. Hear me out.

The worst thing in the world is playing Halo 3 co-op with a friend, through the campaign set. Let me provide three instances where this game completely soured my co-op gaming experience.

1. You remember the part towards the end, the first time you're able to fly the one-man JATO vehicles (I think they're called Hornets)? There's two of 'em there, one for you and one for your buddy. In my first time playing this, we take off and go, and start firing on some Banshees that have the gall to try to occupy the same sky as us. I get blindsided and go down quickly, and then I get to sit and wait until the Hornet part is completely over. I got to fly that sweet, sweet craft for all of ten seconds, unable to respawn because my friend was in the air, on a vehicle. Horse excrement. They didn't need to keep me from having fun just because I had the terrible fate of getting strafed from the back early on.

2. The coolest, if not the most functionable, thing about Halo 3 is the Spartan laser. The second coolest thing about Halo 3 is that you get to play as an Elite, which means for co-operative games one of you is the Arbiter the whole time. Which I was, because, I mean, how cool is that? On the other hand, guess who gets handed a Spartan laser fresh out of the box at the beginning of one of the later levels, and who gets a normal old plasma rifle and carbine.

3. May I remind you that the Spartan laser is really, really cool. In the last battle against the final enemy of the game, you can pick up a Spartan laser, if you can manage to dodge around long enough to get to it while the enemy is distracted. Guess where you're at? On a catwalk over a very, very long drop. Guess what the designers did not put on the catwalk? Safety rails. Guess what happened while my eyes were focused on the very serious task of not getting hit? Guess whether you can respawn after taking the dive? Yeah, I never got to play with the Spartan laser until my friend and I played through on Legendary (and only because my friend took the aforementioned leap of death instead of me).

That all just reeks, and I was disgusted with the game design allowing for, and promoting, such idiocy. Steps should be taken to try to allow both players to have as much fun as possible, or at least have equal fun, instead of having that kind of imbalance.

 

[woodchunkz]

Sonic 2k6. My friend nearly killed me because I convinced him to play 2 player.

 

[raefon]

How about Fury.

My god this is just bad alround.

 

[ShadowsSpawn]

Shadow the Hedgehog for gamecube. hands...fucking...down

 

[Xifel]

RISK/RISK2. Played at home with some friends, all in different rooms so you could not see what they were up to. We did not talk for 2 weeks...

 

[Triggerhappy938]

Monopoly. There is never enough time for Monopoly.

 

[RPJesus]

Legend of zelda 4 swords is a great multiplayer game, but only if your friends have a sense of humor (otherwise you'll end up at eachothers throats. Also, I personally think its a horrible game with exactly 2 people.
I always liked Mario party. Granted, that comic was fucking hilarious and true (as PA tends to be), but my cousins and I spent a lot of time together playing mario party, goldeneye, mario kart, and diddy kong racing on the ole N64. *sigh*, good times.

 

[MacCarth]

Red Steel...

Red steel is by far the WORST mutliplayer game on wii, or any system that has come out in the last 10 years.

Here's why: Single player is hard enough to control when you have one guy. The wii remote is your method of spinning around, and oftentimes you'll get stuck in a spin cycle and have to get out of this.

Now take this scenario, and split it into four smaller screens. Couple this with the fact that everything is fucking dark, the weapons are poorly animated, and the game blows.