Worst game(s) you've ever completed
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Mass Effect 3
7 times!!!
I win the gamer masochism challenge
Physically painful to play, emotionally raping to experience to, mentally jarring to wrap your head around why, oh god why and how did they make something this bad.
Bioware did literally every thing wrong when it came to writing and designing ME3. It's on a level of bad that they had to put effort into achieving.
Let's take a series based on player choice and completely ignore all the choices
the player made so far (Except for like 2 which is just arbitrary and annoying)
Let's take a series with great character focus and writing, and completely butcher
everyone's personality with stupid out of nowhere development, and just flat Retcon
half the characters to be something completely different.
Let's take a cover based shooter and make the simple, vital act of taking cover
MOTHERFUCKING IMPOSSIBLE by putting the "Take cover button" on the exact same button
as run, and get out of cover, and vault over cover, and pick up item, and view data
pad and somersault.
Let's take a story that's two thirds done, and JUST FUCKING IGNORE THE FIRST TWO THIRDS
OF IT!!!!!!!
Let's take a Roll Playing Game and take out all of the fucking Roll Playing!
Let's take a bunch of characters people really liked and destroy their personalities!
I know I already said that one but it still bothers me!!! It should be mentioned twice
because of Citadel... The Horror...
The only possible explanation I can think of for why Mass Effect 3 is so bad is that Bioware
made a deal with the Devil, so every game they made from Baldur's Gate through
Dragon Age Origins was really really good, but then they had to make put badness into
the world equal to one million times the good they did.
and between Dragon Age 2, Mass Effect 3 and Citadel they've done that. And I'm looking
forward to Dragon Age Inquisition. Mehehehehehehehehehe.... [sub]please kill me now[/sub]
7 times!!!
I win the gamer masochism challenge
Physically painful to play, emotionally raping to experience to, mentally jarring to wrap your head around why, oh god why and how did they make something this bad.
Bioware did literally every thing wrong when it came to writing and designing ME3. It's on a level of bad that they had to put effort into achieving.
Let's take a series based on player choice and completely ignore all the choices
the player made so far (Except for like 2 which is just arbitrary and annoying)
Let's take a series with great character focus and writing, and completely butcher
everyone's personality with stupid out of nowhere development, and just flat Retcon
half the characters to be something completely different.
Let's take a cover based shooter and make the simple, vital act of taking cover
MOTHERFUCKING IMPOSSIBLE by putting the "Take cover button" on the exact same button
as run, and get out of cover, and vault over cover, and pick up item, and view data
pad and somersault.
Let's take a story that's two thirds done, and JUST FUCKING IGNORE THE FIRST TWO THIRDS
OF IT!!!!!!!
Let's take a Roll Playing Game and take out all of the fucking Roll Playing!
Let's take a bunch of characters people really liked and destroy their personalities!
I know I already said that one but it still bothers me!!! It should be mentioned twice
because of Citadel... The Horror...
The only possible explanation I can think of for why Mass Effect 3 is so bad is that Bioware
made a deal with the Devil, so every game they made from Baldur's Gate through
Dragon Age Origins was really really good, but then they had to make put badness into
the world equal to one million times the good they did.
and between Dragon Age 2, Mass Effect 3 and Citadel they've done that. And I'm looking
forward to Dragon Age Inquisition. Mehehehehehehehehehe.... [sub]please kill me now[/sub]
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I probably going to choose Dragon Age Origins. I don't know what so interesting about this game, especially the story. I was expecting a mature, engaging story with the choices really feel matter. I already created my damn origin character but I still get the same thing in the middle to the end, no sense of conclusion or reward whatsoever. I feel like the game feels tacky by putting all the problematic stories in the game when all you really need to do is just kill the Archdemon to stop the Darkspawn invasion, all the other things feels irrelevant.
The characters have no interesting traits to them except Allistair, I don't feel like the character's side quest feel that amazing when you only talk with them a little bit and give them present so that I will probably encounter someone that related to them in the small location. All the romance character feel just like that I can sleep with them because I did something for them but providing no dynamic changes to the main story itself. Neverwinter Nights 2's character is much better, and a better story too.
The world...is so small, no point of interest for me to explore the land of Ferelden, I only get to hear good things from it but I only found things to 'unite the whole people to defeat evil' without giving me anything to resolve the mystery or the lore. The codex feel like a collectible instead of design to explaining the lore, I hate that.
I thought the whole game will be like a Game of Thrones vibe or The Witcher series, but all I got is the most generic D&D story and label it a "mature theme". The ending is just a little change here and there and some text in the end. I probably going to put Mass Effect 3 but most people already choose it.
The characters have no interesting traits to them except Allistair, I don't feel like the character's side quest feel that amazing when you only talk with them a little bit and give them present so that I will probably encounter someone that related to them in the small location. All the romance character feel just like that I can sleep with them because I did something for them but providing no dynamic changes to the main story itself. Neverwinter Nights 2's character is much better, and a better story too.
The world...is so small, no point of interest for me to explore the land of Ferelden, I only get to hear good things from it but I only found things to 'unite the whole people to defeat evil' without giving me anything to resolve the mystery or the lore. The codex feel like a collectible instead of design to explaining the lore, I hate that.
I thought the whole game will be like a Game of Thrones vibe or The Witcher series, but all I got is the most generic D&D story and label it a "mature theme". The ending is just a little change here and there and some text in the end. I probably going to put Mass Effect 3 but most people already choose it.
Now, don't get me wrong, I liked this game despite the poor ratings, but I just finished Blade Kitten and have to say that. I only bring it up because the game was broken up into two portions (so I learned after I watched the "ending"), but Atari cancelled the second chapter.
So I finally finished the final boss fight, watch the brief cut scene, and it ends on a "To Be Continued". Only...there is no continue...what.the.hell.
I am sad face.
So I finally finished the final boss fight, watch the brief cut scene, and it ends on a "To Be Continued". Only...there is no continue...what.the.hell.
I am sad face.
Dynasty Warriors. Look I don't even know why, but I like unlocking all the shiny weapon progressions.
Final Fantasy IX.
I really enjoyed VII and VIII, but it took me a while to get into VIII, so i kept giving IX more and more chances, until i got to the end, fought a random boss that came out of nowhere and didn't care about, and saw the shitty play at the end.
Never again have I even put that disc near the playstation..
I really enjoyed VII and VIII, but it took me a while to get into VIII, so i kept giving IX more and more chances, until i got to the end, fought a random boss that came out of nowhere and didn't care about, and saw the shitty play at the end.
Never again have I even put that disc near the playstation..
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Tales of Symphonia 1 was the first in the Tales series I played, and it was quite good.
This game is a hackeyed lazy cash in.
Very rarely do I give a toss about games looking terribly dated if there's still effort put into them, but this game looked WORSE than the original. The story is fucking awful with a "twist" I called an hour into the game.
(and the flashbacks...all the goddamn flashbacks. Flashbacks to 10 minutes ago.)
It's just...awful.
This game is a hackeyed lazy cash in.
Very rarely do I give a toss about games looking terribly dated if there's still effort put into them, but this game looked WORSE than the original. The story is fucking awful with a "twist" I called an hour into the game.
(and the flashbacks...all the goddamn flashbacks. Flashbacks to 10 minutes ago.)
It's just...awful.
I admit; I convinced my buddy to rent this for all the wrong reasons. We had a blast tearing this stupid, broken game apart. Even better: Mindjack has a "sister game"... (well, on the similar/same game engine and also published by Squeenix around the same time no less)
Mindjack is one of those games that make you question everything about it. What's worse is that this game was already done once before and BETTER, on the Gamecube (Geist).
The shooting is awkward, enemies are retarded, the plot is hilariously stupid, broken, and badly translated, and of course, there's the game-killing glitches and bugs.
Mindjack is one of those games that make you question everything about it. What's worse is that this game was already done once before and BETTER, on the Gamecube (Geist).
The shooting is awkward, enemies are retarded, the plot is hilariously stupid, broken, and badly translated, and of course, there's the game-killing glitches and bugs.
This game wants to be Front Mission: Gun Hazard from the SNES. (and WOW is that an obscure title)
It tries so hard to be Gun Hazard. And it largely fails.
Where the fuck did all of the quality go from Front Mission? Oh right, it's a Square-Enix subcontractee (not named Eidos Montreal). While I definitely didn't hate the game (again, it was very fun to mock with friends) I can tell when I'm playing a stinker.
Stupid plot, gameplay that fails to really evolve or do much of anything beyond what you see in the first level...it's just tepid. Oh, and the moments when you exit your Wanzer (also from Gun Hazard) and go on foot can fuck right off.
More than anything, it was that clumsy canned jump-dodge and roll and cover-shooter gameplay that I recognized from Mindjack.
It tries so hard to be Gun Hazard. And it largely fails.
Where the fuck did all of the quality go from Front Mission? Oh right, it's a Square-Enix subcontractee (not named Eidos Montreal). While I definitely didn't hate the game (again, it was very fun to mock with friends) I can tell when I'm playing a stinker.
Stupid plot, gameplay that fails to really evolve or do much of anything beyond what you see in the first level...it's just tepid. Oh, and the moments when you exit your Wanzer (also from Gun Hazard) and go on foot can fuck right off.
More than anything, it was that clumsy canned jump-dodge and roll and cover-shooter gameplay that I recognized from Mindjack.
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I've played plenty of bad games. I've played and beaten HORRIBLE games. But no game will ever make me question reality like Dirge of Cerberus. It's not just bad in a "Milk the FF7 franchise for all its worth" way. It's not even bad in the usual Squeenix fashion. It pioneers new frontiers for bad video game story telling.
The gameplay is mediocre at absolute best, and is unbelievably frustrating outside of that.
It's amazing how a game can have such high production values in the intro and voice work and absolutely no production values at all for most of the game. Levels are hallways. Any real sense of player freedom doesn't exist, and the shooting mechanics are really awkward.
The gameplay is mediocre at absolute best, and is unbelievably frustrating outside of that.
It's amazing how a game can have such high production values in the intro and voice work and absolutely no production values at all for most of the game. Levels are hallways. Any real sense of player freedom doesn't exist, and the shooting mechanics are really awkward.
Grand Theft Auto IV
Yeah, I said it. The sandbox and the missions might as well be different games, because that game is not designed for missions. No mission has checkpoints, but most of them involve both driving and shooting with possibly terrifying cop escapes. It wouldn't be too bad, if the shooting didn't half-kill you for not falling into the cover-system rhythm and the driving didn't involve traffic that can easily knock your car over or otherwise incapable of chasing.
The cutscenes were good, though. The mission gameplay is the only bad part of the game, besides maybe the grey palettes everywhere.
Yeah, I said it. The sandbox and the missions might as well be different games, because that game is not designed for missions. No mission has checkpoints, but most of them involve both driving and shooting with possibly terrifying cop escapes. It wouldn't be too bad, if the shooting didn't half-kill you for not falling into the cover-system rhythm and the driving didn't involve traffic that can easily knock your car over or otherwise incapable of chasing.
The cutscenes were good, though. The mission gameplay is the only bad part of the game, besides maybe the grey palettes everywhere.
Final Fantasy XIII--wait, no I actually liked that one and I still do. Deal with it.
Anyway, keeping with my inadvertent FF trend, Dissidia Final Duodecim Fantasy Dynamo or whatever. I still play this game every now and again, even though there is very little I can say in its favor. The gameplay itself is lackluster (and in some cases broken as hell) and the story is some of the worst video game writing I've ever encountered, and this is from a genre that thrives on terrible writing. I think I only finished it out of spite. And I still play a quick round or two occasionally because I like the idea of a FF fighting game, even if this one fumbled every facet of its execution.
EDIT: Hmmm. Looks like I need something more obscure. Alright, ever hear of a game called Tang Tang? It was the first GBA game I ever got, and it was....not great. I hated it as a kid because it wasn't quite a platformer, not quite a shooter, and not quite a puzzle game. Also, every boss was just a reskin of each other and the level designs were repetitive. I never beat it as a kid, then I found it a year or so ago and beat it. I don't know why it was made or who made it. The only redeeming part of it was the soundtrack.
Yeah, this would be mine except I never came close to finishing it. My roommate saw me playing FFX and realized the battle system from LotR:TTA was directly pulled from it. So he's all "Dude, I LOVED The Third Age, you GOTTA play it!" I think I made it to Moria before I died of boredom...?kickyourass said:
Anyway, keeping with my inadvertent FF trend, Dissidia Final Duodecim Fantasy Dynamo or whatever. I still play this game every now and again, even though there is very little I can say in its favor. The gameplay itself is lackluster (and in some cases broken as hell) and the story is some of the worst video game writing I've ever encountered, and this is from a genre that thrives on terrible writing. I think I only finished it out of spite. And I still play a quick round or two occasionally because I like the idea of a FF fighting game, even if this one fumbled every facet of its execution.
EDIT: Hmmm. Looks like I need something more obscure. Alright, ever hear of a game called Tang Tang? It was the first GBA game I ever got, and it was....not great. I hated it as a kid because it wasn't quite a platformer, not quite a shooter, and not quite a puzzle game. Also, every boss was just a reskin of each other and the level designs were repetitive. I never beat it as a kid, then I found it a year or so ago and beat it. I don't know why it was made or who made it. The only redeeming part of it was the soundtrack.
Damnation. That fucking game. I started the game liking the steampunk aesthetic and thinking this could be good. Past the start menu I wanted to shoot myself for spending 60 american on it. One of the worst gaming experiences I have ever had in my life. I rarely, and I mean rarely, ever feel like I wasted money on a game but that one was it. Platforming and controls were ass, story was just WWII but early, and the characters had the personality of wood. There was no enjoyable moment of that game.
Superman Returns. Hands. Down. The movie tie-in curse, released early in the 360's lifespan, AND the Superman game curse? Was like a black hole of voodoo. Only reason I finished it was because I turned on cheats, and had rented it, so damn right I was going to $&#%^# finish it. >.>
The worst part about it was that it did, legitimately, have such potential behind it. The first perhaps five and a half minutes were actually legitimate, nerdy bliss, because I started on the street level, pressed a button and WHOOOSH, flew hundreds of feet into the air in seconds. (The city was eighty square miles in size.) I could fly at, according to the article I read, up to eight hundred miles an hour, release super-breath so intense it could clear an entire highway of cars (I did this often,) blast heat vision, literally run faster than a locomotive... the stamina bar that allowed the use of most of his powers would charge faster if up in the sky, in direct sunlight! When it came to making you feel like a Kryptonian God, this title had it all, and for those three hundred and thirty seconds, it was absolutely glorious.
Then trickled in the crap. I couldn't really enjoy the powers, because instead of a health bar for Superman, there was a health bar for the city itself, the idea being that you have to protect it from ne'er-do-wells who might smash it. This meant that aforementioned blowing-cars-off-highway glee could actually get me 'killed,' as could so much as sprinting carelessly through the streets. A cheat activated Unlimited Health, though, so it helped.
Then I realized the 'plot' was basically a string of random encounters against the same six or even enemy-types (and, trust me, when there's hundreds of the fiends, six or seven types isn't that much,) making even the enjoyment of super-speed chasing incredibly fast robots through the street an inevitable chore. Mini-map shows trouble, Superman flies to trouble, Superman beats up trouble while reciting the same five $*@&$# catchphrases, rinse and repeat. The occasional boss fight punctuated it, or a twenty-second cinematic that looked terrible. There were no interiors at all, with the entire game occuring in the open city, which meant there wasn't even the nerdy option of wandering around dressed as Clark Kent.
Then I finally reached the final boss.
A tornado.
A %*#&$&% tornado.
I won't spoil the thrilling way THAT climactic encounter came to an end, but suffice to say, after its defeat... well, that was it. No more enemies. At all. I just spent half an hour wandering around an empty city, throwing cars and intercepting them in midair half a mile away before they could even hit the ground. Not that there weren't side activites! I think you could find collectible cats scattered around the city! Dat's right! CATS! There was also a mini-game where you played Bizarro, and basically were supposed to smash the city up, and that was kind of fun... but it was a timed mini-game, with no option to free-roam as the crazy clone.
Anyway, what made this game worse was, again, potential. It was a movie tie-in, so it probably ran out of time, or money, etc, and therefore turned into a rush job that wrecked it. It also probably solidified the Superman curse, which is a shame, because it at least shows that a proper approach, perhaps on the next-gen consoles, could come up with something really special. ._.
Some gameplay footage below. Recommend skipping to around 5:15, see some of the flying about. Looking at it now, Jebas the graphics are dated beyond all measure, but this was out around the same time the PS3 was being released, so I hadn't had many glorious sparkly 360 titles to raise my expectations yet. x3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obsqyBzpKD8
The worst part about it was that it did, legitimately, have such potential behind it. The first perhaps five and a half minutes were actually legitimate, nerdy bliss, because I started on the street level, pressed a button and WHOOOSH, flew hundreds of feet into the air in seconds. (The city was eighty square miles in size.) I could fly at, according to the article I read, up to eight hundred miles an hour, release super-breath so intense it could clear an entire highway of cars (I did this often,) blast heat vision, literally run faster than a locomotive... the stamina bar that allowed the use of most of his powers would charge faster if up in the sky, in direct sunlight! When it came to making you feel like a Kryptonian God, this title had it all, and for those three hundred and thirty seconds, it was absolutely glorious.
Then trickled in the crap. I couldn't really enjoy the powers, because instead of a health bar for Superman, there was a health bar for the city itself, the idea being that you have to protect it from ne'er-do-wells who might smash it. This meant that aforementioned blowing-cars-off-highway glee could actually get me 'killed,' as could so much as sprinting carelessly through the streets. A cheat activated Unlimited Health, though, so it helped.
Then I realized the 'plot' was basically a string of random encounters against the same six or even enemy-types (and, trust me, when there's hundreds of the fiends, six or seven types isn't that much,) making even the enjoyment of super-speed chasing incredibly fast robots through the street an inevitable chore. Mini-map shows trouble, Superman flies to trouble, Superman beats up trouble while reciting the same five $*@&$# catchphrases, rinse and repeat. The occasional boss fight punctuated it, or a twenty-second cinematic that looked terrible. There were no interiors at all, with the entire game occuring in the open city, which meant there wasn't even the nerdy option of wandering around dressed as Clark Kent.
Then I finally reached the final boss.
A tornado.
A %*#&$&% tornado.
I won't spoil the thrilling way THAT climactic encounter came to an end, but suffice to say, after its defeat... well, that was it. No more enemies. At all. I just spent half an hour wandering around an empty city, throwing cars and intercepting them in midair half a mile away before they could even hit the ground. Not that there weren't side activites! I think you could find collectible cats scattered around the city! Dat's right! CATS! There was also a mini-game where you played Bizarro, and basically were supposed to smash the city up, and that was kind of fun... but it was a timed mini-game, with no option to free-roam as the crazy clone.
Anyway, what made this game worse was, again, potential. It was a movie tie-in, so it probably ran out of time, or money, etc, and therefore turned into a rush job that wrecked it. It also probably solidified the Superman curse, which is a shame, because it at least shows that a proper approach, perhaps on the next-gen consoles, could come up with something really special. ._.
Some gameplay footage below. Recommend skipping to around 5:15, see some of the flying about. Looking at it now, Jebas the graphics are dated beyond all measure, but this was out around the same time the PS3 was being released, so I hadn't had many glorious sparkly 360 titles to raise my expectations yet. x3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obsqyBzpKD8
Pimp My Ride the game.
It started out OK, but after the first area the soundtrack just kept repeating over and over AND OVER AGAIN! And one of the repeating songs was one of Xzibit's attempts at conscious rap so it drained what little energy this car driving game had.
It started out OK, but after the first area the soundtrack just kept repeating over and over AND OVER AGAIN! And one of the repeating songs was one of Xzibit's attempts at conscious rap so it drained what little energy this car driving game had.
I beat Super Smash Brothers Brawl against my will because my friends at my party wanted to. Really boring game play with many enemy's you can't combo in a game that repeats certain stages, it was fucking torture. Not to mention some of the fun strategy's were cut and the random tripping sometimes happened at the wrong time. One of the few games where I truly despise it's existence because now I have to worry how the next one will turn out.
I'm amazed with the people who said they completed Sonic '06. Why would you do that to yourselves?
I'm amazed with the people who said they completed Sonic '06. Why would you do that to yourselves?
i think a lot of people are confusing worst game ever with game that didnt meet expectations.
worst game ive ever played? definitely final fantasy 12, without question. broken combat system, zero character development, barely existent story, and running through screen after screen of empty areas. literally the only reason i finished it was because my friend bet me i would give up because of how bad the game is
worst game ive ever played? definitely final fantasy 12, without question. broken combat system, zero character development, barely existent story, and running through screen after screen of empty areas. literally the only reason i finished it was because my friend bet me i would give up because of how bad the game is
I think a lot of people don't get the actuall topic. It's not "worst game you have ever played" but "worst game you have ever played through". Naturally, a lot of really, really crappy games were probably never completed by the majority of players, so they don't count here.
To stay on topic: TES IV Oblivion. I forced myself through the so called campaign once and it was sooooo boring. The strange thing is, every once in a while (when my memory faded enough) I'm like "well, there are some good mods out there, I'll just give Oblivion another chance". Till I play it...