Worst game(s) you've ever completed

[Bruce]

Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor.

It is a special kind of bad when a game won't even let you uninstall it.

 

[Mr Mystery Guest]

Shenmue 2, though i wish i didn't. I kept my Dreamcast meaning to come back to it, and one weekend the family went away and so i had time to kill. What a total waste of my life. The last disk was an excruciating experience, you had to escort some girl through the woods and talk about every flower and waterfall you passed. It was pretentious wank and i hope Ryu dies of exposure in that bloody cave

 

[F-I-D-O]

Splinter Cell Conviction.
The game devolved into a third person shooter (due to cramped areas and an over abundance of enemies) despite the terrible shooting mechanics, all of the levels were small, you were railroaded into using certain gadgets, the weapon followed a liner pattern of shit-good-better-best, and mark and execute felt like a cheat code. The story was idiotic, and it was just an overall bad stealth game and a worse TPS.
Conviction felt more like a betrayal to me then Colonial Marines.
At least in marines I knew I would be shooting aliens, and it did that.
Conviction decided it was just done being a half-decent stealth game and would hide behind Mark and Execute halfway through.

 

[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.

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.

B&W 2 are a continuation of Black & Whites stories within the same generation. The story takes place 2 years after the M.C. from the last game beat Ghetsis and the game itself makes repeated references to it. If it were a reboot then they would have tossed out any mention of the last game.
The game itself also introduced new features such as Pokestar studios and Funfest missions at the entralink.
The first game was meant to be an homeage to Gen 1 so I guess B&W2 could be in the same vein. I really don't understand why you can't see them as sequels, especially since they are a far more direct sequel than S/G/C was.

 

[Mahoshonen]

Master of Orion 3

Good to know that someone else here shared in my pain.

The worst part for me is I bought into all the nonsense surrounding the development, and up until release and two weeks of playing I was convinced it was the best game ever.

So every time I read a post getting all hyped for a game that has 'disaster' written all over it, my chuckles have a ting of sympathy, because I know how easy it is to believe.

 

[The Youth Counselor]

Far Cry 3.
Haven't "completed" it as such, but i've basically completed it and i'm at the second island. So many reasons as to why i don't like this game.
It's incredibly buggy, you can barely play the game without running into several bugs. I've just finished the co-op and in one small section, my friends and i found about 6 bugs. in a tiny 5 minute segment of the game.

The story is, to put it bluntly, shit. You're supposed to be some normal teens/young adults, lost in an island. The second you get a gun, all of the character build up is broken and he immediately turns into a rambo character after being terrified of killing anybody about 5 minutes ago. His friends are all pretty shitty characters as well, they don't really seem like humans, and they're not really very likable.

The AI in the game is really bad. Even on the hardest difficulty, the AI is still sort of broken. Sneaking is dull and annoying, and pointless to do past the first mission and the mission involving stealth on the second island.

The textures in the game look sort of melted and just not good in general. Character models especially in the game look really ugly and horrible. That's playing on high graphics quality.

The side missions and activities in the game are boring and just borderline broken. The missions at an allied camp are pretty much the same every time, usually just "kill a bear" or "assassination". Finding the radio towers and recapturing the bases around the world is also not interesting and just tedious after the third or fourth time you've done it.

It also has some terrible pacing, you become overpowered about 3 or 4 hours in. The crafting system is mostly not needed because of this- i managed to get to the second island just fine with one weapon, basic loot sack.. etc. The only thing i upgraded was my wallet, because i wanted to buy the revolver that i unlocked from achievements on uplay. Money is pretty much useless in the game, since you unlock just about everything that requires money, very quickly. Even if it was useful, the misc. items that you find which you sell are also useless because of how little money they give you, that and they take up space in the loot rucksack which you also need for skins and such. You don't really need health needles considering after you get a few skill points, the healing that you can do without any syringes will bring you back up to almost full health, and syringes are barely any quicker than that.

The game has dubstep.

You're far from completing it if you're on the second island. As for the story, having the main character and his friends be unlikable self absorbed twats is intentional. It's a classic horror movie trope and a way to play with expectations. The audience is introduced to pretty self-absorbed rich young ne'er do wells so that we actually cry for their blood, and at first take pleasure when they start getting suffering. But as time moves forward we start to get uncomfortable and feel sorry for these sad souls. As for Jason Brody suddenly gaining superhuman abilities it's part of the story. Since you don't care enough to continue here's a spoiler.

Spoiler

None of the story is actually happening. Brody is crazy

It might be a compatibility issue if you're getting poor models and textures. I can understand the rest of your grievances even if I don't agree with them. My recommendation is not to do side quests if you don't enjoy them.

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The worst game I finished?

A point and click puzzle adventure game called Dracula: The Last Sanctuary that made me quit point and click puzzle adventure games forever. You couldn't finish it without reading a walkthrough every step of the way because of the crazy moon logic that carried the entire
way through.


One of its puzzles that will forever be ingrained in my head in this game goes like this:

*The player has to take out a big furry monster.
*The monster sees you and can leap like the Hunters from L4D but politely waits for you to kill it.
*There is a cannon next to several barrels of what could be gunpowder in it and you have matches.

What do you do? Open the barrels of gunpowder, place it in the cannon and light it? Nope. Instead the puzzle goes like this.
*You must gather up snow, a bucket, and planks of wood.
*Fill the bucket with snow, then pour it into the cannon barrel along with the cannonball.
*Place wood underneath the cannon and light it.
*Wait for snow to melt into water and for the water to boil.
*Boiling water causes a Steam explosion that fires the cannonball into the monster and kills it.

In the universe the developers live on, a gallon of boiling water is a superexplosive that rivals C4, gunpowder, and AMPO and has enough energy to send a 80 pound object hundreds of feet away. Keep in mind that this monster can leap like the Hunters from Left 4 Dead and sees you. Yet it patiently waits for you to point a cannon at it, gather up materials to load said cannon, and for water to boil.

 

[KB13]

Venetica.... yes I actually wasted the money on it. Not only is the voice acting deplorable, but the glitches in this game make games like Skyrim seem like glitch-less wonders. While the story line didn't drive me up the wall the morality system really didn't exist outside of trophies. Most of the so called 'villains' I could have beaten with a wet rolled up newspaper, there was absolutely no strategy in defeating them regular minion fights were harder. Oh by the way even if these things don't bother you here's the kicker, it takes 10 minutes and 47 seconds to save AND that's if it saves; 90% of the time half way through the saving process the whole system would freeze not just the game everything, brand new game to; no damage to the disc and the system working just fine.

 

[babinro]

The actual answer to this question is forgotten in a sea of poor games I owned on Commodore 64 or rented for the NES as a child. Back then a game could be bad but it didn't matter. This might be the only form of entertainment for the next 6 months so it'll be beaten eventually. I'm sure just going down the list of AVGN game reviews would name over a dozen of them.

The more current and interesting answer would be: Skyrim

Now Skyrim isn't a bad game, it's just a boring one. Having put over 1000 hours into Oblivion I just couldn't wait to experience Skyrim's world. I wanted the game so bad that it's my first and only ever Steam game bought at full price.

I played the game and was impressed by the environments but bored stiff by the gameplay and story. Sadly, the combat was barely tweaked from Oblvion and felt dated the instant I used them. Skyrim quickly became a game about grinding through minimal combat to experience the content. Before long the world and quests became largely underwhelming for me as well.

I feel like I'm playing a game 1-2 generations old but with no nostalgic element to keep me invested.
Forums and reviews kept telling me this was the game of the year.
Even the Escapist had a poll declaring it the BEST GAME OF ALL TIME!

I couldn't just put the game down due to boredom. I was clearly missing something. I forced myself through almost 70 hours of gameplay and through to the end of the game but never found the love others did.

I'd be wrong in calling Skyrim a bad game. It's just a game style I've outgrown.
I can't get around how little impact I have on the world in this RPG.
I can't get around how boring combat is when compared to other western RPG's or even JRPG's.
The fact that the game is (or was) very buggy like all Bethesda projects only added to the frustration of playing.

 

[james0192]

Venetica.... yes I actually wasted the money on it. Not only is the voice acting deplorable, but the glitches in this game make games like Skyrim seem like glitch-less wonders. While the story line didn't drive me up the wall the morality system really didn't exist outside of trophies. Most of the so called 'villains' I could have beaten with a wet rolled up newspaper, there was absolutely no strategy in defeating them regular minion fights were harder. Oh by the way even if these things don't bother you here's the kicker, it takes 10 minutes and 47 seconds to save AND that's if it saves; 90% of the time half way through the saving process the whole system would freeze not just the game everything, brand new game to; no damage to the disc and the system working just fine.

You're not the only one who wasted money on Venetica! I have it too. I only persevered with it for a few hours mind you, some parts of that game are just plain broken!


The worst game I've ever completed:

Underworld: The Eternal War.

It's a game based upon the Underworld film series and whilst I can't remember it much I can remember it being terrible but very short. The only reason I completed it was because it was so short - I have a terrible record when it comes to completing games in general, let alone bad ones.


This is odd because it'll be the second time I've mentioned it one these forums today, the third time in total.

 

[Matthi205]

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. God is that game bad. I played the main story through the first time on an old laptop from 2004, when it ran at somewhere around 12 frames per second. After some time though, I picked it up again and found out about TESNexus, and now I play the game with Morroblivion + a gigantic pile of other mods (most of them modifying the gameplay in some slight way) and have a reasonable amount of fun in Morrowind (TES III is just broken from today's standpoint, which is why I refuse to play it. I only own it for Morroblivion).

This might sound strange: I actually enjoyed Venetica. For some reason, I just like this type of ARPG (I also like Sacred 2: Fallen Angel and Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning). I absolutely hate how it crashes to desktop during boss fights, but otherwise I like it.

EDIT: I play all of my games on PC, usually with Mouse+KB. Only recently did I start learning how to configure X360CE correctly and how to actually aim with a controller.
I have an unusally fast HDD (WD Black 1002FAEX) as well as a good GFX card (HD6670 2GB), a good CPU (Intel i3-3220, 3.3GHz) and 8GB RAM, with a 16GB page file on a separate HDD (which is also the system HDD).

 

[Infernai]

Shadow the Hedgehog- Responsible for ruining Shadow completely and for wasting an interesting opportunity to see more of arguably the most well developed character in the videogames by taking away everything that made him interesting. This game had one job....ONE FUCKING JOB! Is shadow an Android or not, and if not how did he survive the fall from the arc? This is answered in a single throw-away line...THE OVERARCHING QUESTION OF THE FUCKING GAME IS ANSWERED IN A THROW-AWAY LINE! That's not even getting into the copy-paste endings, artificial padding and horrendous gameplay..

SOnic 06- Don't need to even explain why this one sucks.

Dirge of Cerberus- A game-maker promised to turn his thirteen year old ff7 fanfic into a game, this is the result. The gun mechanics and upgrades are pretty cool, although needed some more polish. Gameplay definitely needed to go through some more testing and ironing out of mechanics to try to make it a funner experience. Then, the plot happened....and Final Fantasy 7 has never recovered.

DrakenGard. Horrible combat, horrible story, horrible characters, horrible endings. Horrible "how am I supposed to figure this out" weapon unlocks, and after all 60+ weapon unlocks... what do I get?

I.Hear.A.Sound. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B09qyRzXU_4]

THAT'S RIGHT KIDS! A TERRIBLE RHYTHM GAME END BOSS!
And the ending is a big screw you moment as well. Damn you Cavia.
And that was ending E. This friggen PoS has 5 damned endings. All of them suck butt.

I admit this game had ALOT of faults, but i still kind of enjoy it in a way. I liked the fact it subverted the ever-loving fuck out of the more typical Final Fantasy protagonist archtypes that started to become the norm around this era, and i still think Caim is a really cool character that should be put in Kingdom Hearts.

On the subject of the ending...agreed. Although, the developers did outright say they were completely trolling with that ending. Yet, even that ending gave birth to Nier so i think it's fair to forgive them at this point.

And hey, could have been worse...you could have played Drakengard 2 -shudders-

 

[Ernil Menegil]

Has anyone mentioned Lord of the Rings: The Third Age at all?

Terrible characters, terrible writing, shiny bling graphics for the PS2 at the time, but all in all it was horrible! The worst turn-based RPG I have ever played, everything so shitty that, to this day, it's the one game I have ever regretted buying.

Over 50 bloody euros it cost me, at that.

Never again.

 

[SadakoMoose]

Umbrella Chronicles
Stupid headshot indicator never worked...
Just a weird complaint, but the in UC you could get headshots if you aimed at this really small red circle at the top of their heads. But, wouldn't it be just as deadly a few inches down? Actually, if I managed to hit the base of the spine or medula, it would stop them cold. I'm not expecting scientific accuracy from a zombie game, but it still feels really broken.

 

[pearcinator]

Knights of the Old Republic. Ugly to look at, dull characters, dull dialogue, dull setting, laughable combat, nothing else of note. The absolute nadir was those two sequences where you wear a space/diving suit Twist and walk very, very, veeeeeeery slowly down empty corridors for absolutely no reason. Twist was kinda cool though.

Completed it because I'd been told it was some kind of wonderful gem from "the golden age of Bioware". No gold was forthcoming.

Wow...you're the first person I have heard of that hated KOTOR.

As for me, it's my #3 favourite game of all time behind the two N64 Zeldas!

*Hides face in shame* Runescape was the single most awful game I have ever completed. Even though I hated the game with a passion, I maxed my character in all skills and then left. The worst part though was they kept making the game worse instead of better while I played it, to the point that I couldn't stand to even look at it while I played and had to play other games at the same time. I just had to finish it because I said I would. Then looking back I had to ask "Why the hell did I waste that much time on something so crappy?!"

Ok, I haven't played Runescape in 6 months but I don't think it's that bad...sure I don't tell anyone I played it but you have to admit that it's fun in some ways...sure, grinding levels isn't fun at all and you mostly afk those skills, but there's always other things you can do instead and when you get an awesome loot drop it's so good! You make bank

Runescape 3 actually looks pretty awesome I have to admit.

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[rasputin0009]

Halo 4 was fucking terrible. It felt so broken for some reason. The story wasn't worth paying any attention to. The AI felt especially broken for a Halo game. I'm not the biggest Halo fan, but I really enjoyed playing Halo 3 multiple times. I only finished it because I was playing Co-op with a friend and it only took a couple hours. I guess I'm just not one of those people who gets a rock hard boner whenever Master Chief enters the room.

 

[Hexadeximal]

Shellshock 2. Someone thought adding zombies to Vietnam was a good idea, and I can't for the life of me decide why I thought it was worth seeing through to the end.

 

[Ham Blitz]

Dark Void sticks out in my mind, and Hitman Absolution. Hitman was kind of enjoyable, but at the end I was like "That's it?.
Also Aliens: Colonial Marines.

 

[Nadia Castle]

Turok Evolution. I was young and naive and assumed that I wasn't playing the game properly when ammunition kept appearing in levels for guns that it took away from you, the enemies ran blindly into walls and the damage physics vanished after the first level. To think that once I could not see the limitations of lazy, rushed development... To think I was once a fool.....

 

[Diddy_Mao]

Silent Hill: Homecoming

I have never played a game that so clearly didn't "get it."
Within the first few minutes of game play there's enough material to piss off any fan of the series.

Within the first hour I was sick and tired of the combat system.

By the time the "twist" in the plot occurred I was really just playing partly out of morbid curiosity and partly out of a desire to feed my own anger.

The icing on the "fuck you" cake was the fact that on my first play through I got the UFO ending.

I might have actually preferred an ending that was just a video of the development team laughing at me with the words "Ha ha! That's 7 hours of your life you aren't getting back!"

 

[Carnagath]

Batman Arkham Asylum. I know people seemed to love it, but damn. I rented it for my PS3 on a Saturday night and had nothing better to do, so I finished it. I'm not a fan of comic books, or brawlers, so maybe that's the reason.

The combat system was ok I guess, but the game was too easy and there's something about punching and kicking in videogames that makes me fall asleep, it just seems like such an archaic mechanic to base your whole game around in this day and age. The story also was so exciting that I forgot every single thing about it 2 days later, it was just a parade of "famous villains" for purposes of fan service.

It also had that special kind of sandboxing that I find utterly pointless, where it feels like a truck drove through the levels and dropped a bunch of unrelated shit everywhere and the game naturally expects you to search every nook and cranny and pick them up, as if your autism is taken for granted. Dumping a bunch of shit everywhere and telling me to pick them up doesn't really work for me, unless the sandboxing is tightly woven into the game mechanics themselves (like in Just Cause 2 for example), it's a really poor way to pad your game. Don't even get me started on the Croc boss. The Scarecrow segments looked great though.

Somehow I ended up buying Arkham City as well though, during the recent 5$ Steam sale, but haven't played it yet.