Worst game(s) you've ever completed

[kuolonen]

For some reason I felt the need to stick with Hitman: Absolution to the end.

"Well there was that one level near the beginning which kinda resembled what Hitman's supposed to fucking be about, so it must come back at some point... right?"

No, son. No.

Oh yeah, that. I had managed to purge the memory from my mind. Hitman:absolution so much. After a good start I kept thinking maybe, just maybe, it gets better later after dipping right down to crap valley but it never did.

That and the combat oriented perks awards for playing as stealthily as possible and 47 magically developing conscious because target is genetically modified like him... Bleurgh.

Yeah, worst game I had to forced myself to play through in recent memory.

 

[Xisin]

I've got to go with FFXIII-2: Serra's awkward journey with Noel to save Hope, since he loses and gains his ability to fight from one cutscene to the next.

This game is a travesty. It has everything that was wrong with original, but with the added bonus of a truly ridiculous story.

The only good things about this game are some of Mog's quotes and the paradox endings. Youtube them and save yourself the hassle.

 

[Lucyfer86]

Tes: Oblivion... oh wait, i didn't even finish that.
Let's see, this is a hard one, gta: Vice City? Honestly, i think it's the worst of gta series, which still means it's pretty decent tho.

 

[Ayay]

Warhammer Mark of Chaos . I finished it but damn i hated that game , still every new battle in the linear story i was going , maybe it will become better. I so badly wanted to like it.

 

[WhyWasThat]

Area 51 for PS2 springs to mind.
After a strong start, it descends into mind-numbing mediocrity until the damn thing finally ends with a sigh. And it's a looooong game. Jesus I hope I never play a game so bland and repetitive ever again.

And David Duchovny makes for a lousy, mumbling protagonist too.

 

[Leemaster777]

Final Fantasy X-2. Just... just X-2. I don't feel like writing an entire rant about this, so let me just sum everything up:

Spoiler

 

[erbkaiser]

The Saboteur. Everyone told me it was pretty good, but the game I was slogging through was repetitive, uninspiring, and had the worst "German" and "French" accents since Allo Allo.

 

[Emmenia]

Hard to think of a really bad game I played through to the very end. Red Faction Armageddon springs to mind although that wasn't necessarily bad, it was just instantly forgettable and very meh.

Actually how about Night Trap on Mega CD? That was pretty awful but I did multiple play throughs to the point where I trapped ALL the vampires (or whatever the hell they were supposed to be) in a hope there was an alternate ending for doing this. There wasn't.

 

[Woodsey]

For some reason I felt the need to stick with Hitman: Absolution to the end.

"Well there was that one level near the beginning which kinda resembled what Hitman's supposed to fucking be about, so it must come back at some point... right?"

No, son. No.

Oh yeah, that. I had managed to purge the memory from my mind. Hitman:absolution so much. After a good start I kept thinking maybe, just maybe, it gets better later after dipping right down to crap valley but it never did.

That and the combat oriented perks awards for playing as stealthily as possible and 47 magically developing conscious because target is genetically modified like him... Bleurgh.

Yeah, worst game I had to forced myself to play through in recent memory.

To be fair, the series has had the odd habit of giving you loud weapons as a reward for the SA rating since Silent Assassin.

 

[Zen Bard]

I have to throw "Titan Quest" into the mix.

It looked like a unique take on the "hack 'n' slash" style RPG, but set in Ancient Greece. And at first, it seemed like a worthy successor to Diablo.

But, the skill tree is terrible, the leveling is horrendous and end-level boss fights were just tedium.

Each Boss is "tethered" to a single spot and only has a certain range from that spot. So the only tactic is to run in, whittle away the hit points and dash just outside the radius. Lather, rinse, repeat.

And Typhon, the main Boss at the end was damn near impossible. He had an energy and life drain he could cast from a distance. So I'd be clear across the arena from him, dodging his meteor attacks and I'd just die (because I wasn't keeping an eye on my suddenly depleting health).

I ended up rolling back the code level to a previous version/release because the new "patch" made Typhon too powerful.

And I instantly sold it back to Gamestop after I beat it.

 

[SD-Fiend]

Pokemon Black Version.

Black 2 and White 2 ARE NOT sequels or third installments, but instead REBOOTS as they fix all the issues of the previous games by adding content from the previous 4 Gens and fixing most issues from their predecessors.

I just unlocked all I could as quickly as possible and buried that mess under my mess of things.

I'm not going to bother you with the rest because opinions and all that but B2 & W2 are sequels. The story takes place 2 years after the first game and the game makes reference to what happened in Black and White.

 

[James Treanor]

Mario and Luigi: Brothers in Time.

What a waste of potential, coming off the back of what can only be describes as on of the best Mario RPGs. Lazy and pointless DS mechanics, awful story, simply ridiculous difficulty levels (ranging from insulting to "Fuck you") and the babies...MY GOD the babies. Nintendo: King of the good idea, master of the slow murder. There is no limit to the horrendous things I would do to this game if I hadn't thrown my copy under the bus. But I finished, so pretty much guaranteed access to heaven now....Right God?! Here's to pray that the 3DS can wow me like the first.

 

[Danial]

Wolverine Origins, God that game was bloody terrible, Button mashing with faintly racist and repetitive levels, and Gohans voice actor from DBZ used on loop. I still to this day Don't know why i finished it (otherwise DNF, but i couldn't for the life of me finish it)

 

[chocolate pickles]

Saw 2 flesh and blood. yes, i knew the rules on movie based games, but i thought it was an interesting idea.

It wasnt. Looked like a ps2 game, repeated the same 5 puzzles the entire game, and replaced the old combat system with QTE'S. meant that instead of improving on the last games combat system, they just got rid of any kind of tension entirely.

 

[funkyjiveturkey]

Shadow the Hedgehog -
a game that turned a fresh faced 6th grade boy into the twisted creature speaking before you. i paid $50 for this game back in the day, and it was a good lesson in fiscal responsibility. what i'm basically saying is, i'd sooner swallow a container of bottle caps than play this again. terrible story, gameplay, combat, level layouts, graphics, and is about as jarring a shift of tone for a sonic team game as you can get without splicing porn into movies like Tyler fucking Durden. i was determined not to let a game that i paid 50 bones for beat me though, so i sat and played until i 100%-ed the game. then i shut it off, threw it in the case, chucked the case on a shelf and never looked back. i ended up just giving it away.

FarCry Vengeance for the Wii was another one.

i recieved this game as a gift one year from my brother, so i thought i'd try it out. within 20 minutes i had to shut it off and walk away. This game would only pass on the N64, NOTHING MORE. i normally don't give much of a toss about graphics, i can forgive bad graphics most of the time, but when leaves on trees are rendered as BITS i start to take issue. the gunplay was glitchy, the gameplay mechanic of beast mode was luckluster, and there was never really a clear explanation of where to go. glitches frequently cause random death, particularily in a tank-driving sequence where the tank fell under the map itself with me still trapped inside. i ended up beating the game, and the ending was so bad i actually had a good laugh at it; it's basically just the main character reaching the bad guy and female support character who betrayed, then he beats the main boss, basically just tells them both to fuck off, and walks away without doing anything.

 

[Kukakkau]

Aliens: Colonial marines... I still need the therapy to get past the sheer depression I experienced playing it

 

[CrimsonBlaze]

Pokemon Black Version.

Black 2 and White 2 ARE NOT sequels or third installments, but instead REBOOTS as they fix all the issues of the previous games by adding content from the previous 4 Gens and fixing most issues from their predecessors.

I just unlocked all I could as quickly as possible and buried that mess under my mess of things.

I'm not going to bother you with the rest because opinions and all that but B2 & W2 are sequels. The story takes place 2 years after the first game and the game makes reference to what happened in Black and White.

Time skips do not constitute a sequel.

Pokemon Gold, Silver, and Crystal version are the only true sequels to any handheld installment, as they also take place 3 years after Pokemon Red, Blue, and Yellow version while adding many new features and Pokemon.

Or was Black 2 & White 2 suppose to be homages to those titles?

Compare them and see which seems more like a sequel.

 

[V TheSystem V]

Grand theft auto IV. Horrid,boring game. i seriously don't see how anyone could enjoy it, horrid control of your character, sluggish responses and movement, boring missions and combat, even the free-play is far from enjoyable.

I completely forgot about this game when making my list! I managed to get it cheap second hand with an unused month of Xbox Live, so that made me a bit happier about my purchase after I'd completed it.

When a game is said to include 90 story missions, that makes me happy. What DOESN'T make me happy is when driving your cousin to a random building or throwing a brick through a window counts as a mission. That is NOT a mission, that is a part of a mission. The story was also pretty crap, constant phone calls due to the social interaction stuff, and not-too-great driving mechanics for a GTA game, made this wholly disappointing.

The only part I really, really liked was the Three Leaf Clover mission, because it was genuinely amazing to play. That was 30 minutes in a 25 hour game. That is not worth £15.

If it wasn't for Red Dead Redemption being my favourite game ever, I probably wouldn't have preordered GTA5.

 

[TheCrapMaster]

I had a similar story to the creator of this post. I had a friend who played alot of JRPG games for awhile and i despised them(playing as a 12-16 year old hero taking out ancient demons and way more experienced foes felt silly, amd the hairstyle and look of the charachters, its not my style).

But he made a fair point "how do you know you hate them if you dont test one?". So i made a deal and borrowed The Last Remnant from him and promised to play the entire game, god when i think back into the wasted hours into that game it almost makes me sick. All my fears and dread over JRPG games came true and more. *shivers*

 

[Proverbial Jon]

Assassin's Creed: Revelations - Soooo bloody boring. Boring setting, the same tired characters and all new ones are boring, boring gameplay with boring additions that are pointless and boring.

Fable 2 - I actually played this twice all the way through just in case I missed something that actually made it a good game. Nope, just as shit the second time.

Silent Hill: Homecoming - Seemed to be made by people who had never played a Silent Hill game and had watched only pieces of the movie for reference. A truly god awful game by any standard.

Clive Barker's Jericho (by Clive Barker) - Oh god why? Why did I play the whole damn thing? In case it got better? Because I was so horrified I couldn't look away? Who knows. A waste of my precious life though.

Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard - Boring and repetitive gameplay. I was only in it for the pop culture references and the video game parodies, none of which were that entertaining anyway.