What is the worst game you ever played?

[Groovewood]

Donkey Kong

 

[Tabloid Believer]

Most of the terrible games I've played weren't spectacularly bad, because (as people have said) usually I don't get past 15 minutes with a spectacularly bad game. So, the worst games I've played were really, really mediocre, or started out okay but then became massive let-downs.

Halo 3. That was certainly a gigantic let-down. It simply had none of the magic that the first two games did. All of the wonder was gone.

Assassin's Creed. That game started out with so much promise and coolness. And then it rapidly got extremely repetitive.

Tenchu: Fatal Shadows. Wow. A supreme let down, after Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven. WoH was such a good game with a high degree of re-playability. An excellent stealth game. Fatal Shadows is simply frustrating.

Mortal Kombat 4. What was posted earlier about MK3 was absolutely correct. MK3 was just a Frankenstein of MK, with a whole bunch of different colored ninjas. But MK4 was simply a travesty. It's ugly, for one. And the game play is truly terrible. They were trying to make a 2D fighting game 3D and failing miserably.

Numerous wrestling games - they get a mention. So many bad ones to choose from....

 

[Powas]

Oblivion.

 

[Snake422]

Mace Griffin bounty hunter it was a good game conceptually but shitty graphics bad game play horrible bugs and glitches and Henry Rollins bad voice acting held it back and left me with a bad taste in my mouth.

 

[Flour]

Either you have been amazingly lucky in your gaming life or you need to get down off that fucking bandwagon.

Obviously a lot of people like Halo, but for those who don't like it, it's an average game: not apocalyptically bad, just overrated. Sure it has deficiencies - all games do. But no amount of muddy storytelling, repetitive Flood levels and "bloom turned up too bright" could put it within ten miles of games like Big Rig Racing, ET, Shaq Fu, Superman 64, Bomberman: Act Zero, Ninjabread Man, Spider-Man 3 or any movie-licensed game ever created (except Goldeneye). And maybe you've never played any of those games or any of the thousand other irredeemably broken, pointless, frustrating, insulting or unplayable titles out there, but if you insist Halo 3 is the worst game you've ever encountered then I'm calling you a liar and a sheep.

And now comes the part where you write me off as a Halo fanboy or say "I'm entitled to my opinion" because I'm refusing to let you call one of the most popular and highly-rated games of all time the worst game ever.

I've always ignored games that I didn't like, and I've never really followed any hype.(except for Halo 2 which immediately punished me for it)
So.. yes, Halo3 IS the worst game I have ever played.

 

[Ace of Spades]

Mass Effect. Only works if the orbit of the moon coincides with the vertex of the earth with the outer rotational velocity of Jupiter on Monday.

Funny. Mass Effect was one of the only games I ever got to work without any problems. My worst game I suppose would be any 3D sonic game. Just let the franchise die already.

 

[UltimateXShadow]

Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly

The frame-rate issues gave me a headache every time I played it.

 

[DigitalSushi]

PEOPLE WHO DISAGREE WITH ME ARE WRONG!!!1

I think people are just recalling recent games they've played that they felt were 'bad' or unenjoyable, and not necessarily the worst game they've encountered in their life. As someone mentioned in the thread earlier, you don't often remember the horrible games for long as you don't play them that much. Recalling a recent game one did not enjoy seems like a semi-reasonable response to this thread to me.

I like to buy things on steam when they go on sale if they look like they might be interesting, and for some reason I decided to buy 'Overlord' which probably is not the worst game ever, or the worst I've ever encountered, but definitely disappointed me greatly and didn't hook me in any real way. I also don't get hooked by nintendo's main franchises because they seem repetative and unoriginal to me at this point (ie Mario 48 and Zelda 22 and Metroid 12 or whatever iteration those games are on).

I did actually stipulate in my post that it was recently, but watching the fanboys foam at the mouth was rather amusing, so I'm glad I said Halo 3.

 

[MercFox1]

No. It is my own opinion. It was a turd. I beat it in 4 hours and hated every minute of it. Its easy and crappy, somthing sonic team can only do half of.

Well I guess we disagree. I did not see the easy part, but I started it out on Hard here on PC after playing it through once on the PS3. It looks better on PC than it does on the consoles; it's a great concept and the engine is perfect. They were going to have a fundamental problem with game length as soon as part of their design became: "Get through the level as fast as you can", but if they can address that issue (coupled with a more accessible story), and maybe add something like a multiplayer component, or a free-roaming component, it would be utter brilliance.

And this is DICE we're talking about, they're a tried and true game company.

 

[Flour]

I've always ignored games that I didn't like, and I've never really followed any hype.(except for Halo 2 which immediately punished me for it)
So.. yes, Halo3 IS the worst game I have ever played.

How can you know that you don't like a game if you've never played it?

Gameplay videos(often taken from speedrunning websites or Lets Plays), forums and asking friends who have played those games.

 

[Doeo]

Blue Dragon made me want to slay babies.

 

[Marioninja1]

The New Prince of Persia (I take a damn chance on it and I lose...shoulda just got the cheaper Assasin's Creed, atleast that was a good game!

 

[Same River New Water]

Maybe I'm easily entertained but I do find most of those entertaining. Which Spiderman 3 are you talking about by the way because I own the DS version and thought that although it was short, it was thoroughly enjoyable. Superman for the N64 was pretty bad though.

That'd be Spider-man 3 for the 360, PC, PS3 or (especially) the Wii. It was atrocious - not as bad as the rest of the games on that list, but I figured a few more people might have played it. I have heard the DS version is pretty good though, so well picked.

A lot of people seem to struggle with the idea that you can think something is neither amazing nor complete crap. The only nice thing I said about Halo was that you couldn't call it the worst game and you'd think I said it was the Holy Grail from some of the responses. Shades of grey, people!

 

[DigitalSushi]

Either you have been amazingly lucky in your gaming life or you need to get down off that fucking bandwagon.

shut up, its my opinion, I really dont like the game, the way the mechanics work make the game feel broken to me.

Broken? What are you, dim? The mechanics are a piece of piss. "Use sticks to move, use right trigger to shoot, left trigger to 'nade". It's practically retard-proof. There are far more broken games out there than Halo, of that I can assure you.

Yes I am dim, what about you, can you read?, I said the mechanics of the game, not the controls.

I thought of another one today from the previous generation, Star Fox Adventure, what was up with that?, he seemed so fucking full proof when I heard about it, its Zelda style RPG adventure with the Lylat system bad ass fighter mercenary, it should have been great!

 

[cyber_andyy]

Empire Earth 3

 

[pieeater911]

Azurik: Rise of Perathia.

Hands down the worst thing I have ever spent fifty dollars on.

 

[Jharry5]

Either this...

Revolution X. It was an arcade shooter that was ported to the SNES. Being a sucker for arcade shooters I played the game for quite some time. Looking back I realize just how silly the game was:

1) The main characters are saving the world from the New World Order, who begin their takeover of the world by kidnapping aerosmith at a concert the player is watching.
2) Apparently the player's qualifications for being world saviors include the fact that they are giant Aerosmith fans AND they happened to go to concerts armed to the teeth.
3) When it comes to firepower, your usual weapon is a machine gun. For a special weapon you shoot CD's (yes, compact discs) at your enemies.
4) The NWO seems to possess an endless supply of grunts dressed in yellow rain slickers wearing gas masks
5) Said grunts have only a handful of frames of animation: Grunt running (two frames), grunt not caring when you spray hundreds of bullets into his groin and finally grunt finally succumbing to the bullet storm to the crotch.
6) Special boss fights include fighting sentient toxic waste in a sewer.

I'm sure there is more that I've blocked from my memory. What really gets to me is just how much I played the game when it was clearly awful and derivative.

(By the way, I did the same on this game as well. I'm embarrassed to say I used to play it)

Or, The Simpsons Wrestling which I got as a present off a friend. I didn't play a Simpsons game until Hit and Run.

 

[ZomgSharkz]

Zapper: One Wicked Cricket for the Game Cube. I have no idea what I was thinking when I bough it and every time I think of those $15 wasted I cry inside. Played about 10 minutes of it and all I can remember is that it was some sort of puzzle platforming...."thing" that was terrible in every way.

 

[Calax]

I know nobody has heard of this Ubersoldier. Bought it on a whim and found that even though it looks like Source or UT3 engine, it's engine is completly different and required a monster machine at the time to run. Voice acting sounded like the production team took a crack at it, nobody had any sort of enthusiasm for it. Also this was a sort of gimmick game. the gimmick being that you could project a shield around yourself that would freeze bullets in mid air and then you just had to charge your opponent and let the frozen bullets touch his body and he dies. Oh and the level design had alot of backtracking and very few save points.

Probably the worst game in recent memory that I've played is the atrocious Xmen 3 game. Seriously I couldn't finish it it was so bad IMHO.