Worst Game You've Ever Played?

[Oro44]

Gonna go with Force Unleashed 2. I didn't realize that you can make an entire game out of filler.

 

[Iwata]

EDIT: also Alone in the dark...the Wii version...dont know what it was like on other consoles but on the wii it was horrific, the worst driving controls and just generaly a very bad game. Shame too because i was looking forward to it.

I've said this in another thread, but I'll share it with you as well: get the PS3 version, Alone in the Dark: Inferno.

I too bought the game on release (for both PS2 and PC) and was underwhelmed by one of the games I'd most been looking forward to. I even bought the Collector's Edition and ended up keeping everything but the game, which I gave away.

Skip to a couple of years later, and I get a PS3. I saw that version of the game on sale for something like 10 bucks, and found out that it was the game as it was meant to be on release. That's why the PS3 version is different, they released it much later than the rest, fixed a lot of the bugs and added to it the Inferno title to differentiate it from the other versions. And THAT was the game I had been waiting for. A shame that by then, everyone had dismissed the game and that upgraded version came out all but un-noticed.

Then why the hell did they release the original game if it seems they KNEW it was unfinished??!!

from what I remember, publisher pressure. The PS3 version didn't come up until later, so they had all the time in the world to work out the kinks.

 

[Amaror]

Played Super smash Brothers (The new one, don't know name) on the wii of a friend lately.
Oh my god! Is this bad! I never stoped playing the first one and even now i enjoy it with a couple of friends when we enjoyed some "nature". But this one is just bad.
I just didn't get what my character was doing. I know that the wii controlls are shit, but why did my mister game just transformed into an octopus and finished off every enemy on the screen, when I didn't do anything.

Seriously the wii - controlls screw this game, because it's not a game to learn an entire new controll sceme for. It's a game you're supposed to fire up with a couple of friends, where nobody has to know something about it and still have fun.

 

[Chester Rabbit]

Ummm...I would have to say Too Human. I don't even understand how that game got out of the gate.

 

[Roroshi14]

The worst game I have ever played was Phantasy Star: Universe.

I am a huge fan of narrative role playing games, with heavy story and characterization focuses. So with me I have to be able to like the story above all else (i.e. graphics, aesthetics, combat, voice acting ect.) And unfortunately this game was slow to get the story going, never mind that along with that every other aspect of the game was POORLY done. Confusing and uninteresting battles, over extensive yet not really fulfilling items/ weapons. how can something offer so much yet it so empty?

Also I'm not a fan of FPS' honestly I hate them, BUT I will not say they are the worst games ever, cuz I understand why they are popular and 'good'. I just dont personally agree with that.

 

[Issurru]

I'm sad at all the hate for Too Human, some days it does feel like I am the only one who likes it (shut up I know i'm not the only one, I think)

OT: Front Mission Evolved, sure as shit showed me not to buy a game on name alone. Seriously I saw Front Mission on the front page of Steam so I instantly went and bought it. Holy shit was I disappointed. They turned a sweet Turn Based RPG with pretty decent mech customization. Into an FPS with shitty customization. They tried to make it an Armored Core type of game or just a mech FPS. It probably almost gave me cancer

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Tekken 6. Working at Blockbuster, I thought to myself "I haven't given the fighting genre a shot in a long while" and got it as a free rental. The next day I brought it back. I started the game and either I missed something or, it really did force me into a sort of adventure-mode beat-em-up thing where my character (who I couldn't select) was fighting...I don't remember...moved around like a tank with broken treads and, had hit detection on par with a blind person.

I hated this game even after giving it the 5-minute test. Too Human (the demo) was better. Predator on the NES was better. Force Unleashed 2 (the demo) was better and people who read my rantings know how I feel about that last one. Hell, I had more fun with SHAQ-FU.

 

[GonzoGamer]

ET the extra terrestrial or whatever the name of that old game based on ET was called. It's pretty classic for it's sheer terribleness (it's apparently up there in the top 10 of worst games of all times) and chances are you've heard of it. I can honestly say it was the most nauseatingly fucking awful thing I've ever played.

That was really awful my fellow geriatric.
ET is easy to remember because it was so bad it crashed the industry and there's all the urban legends of the ancient video game burial ground where tons of them were buried....
and those poor people who lived in the house built over it for a while.

I also remember the Raiders of the Lost Ark game (my friend Greg had it) being just as awful. Movie based games have always been bad.

 

[Xan Krieger]

I actually played E.T. for the atari 2600 on my xbox. The game literally drains your will to live, after 5 minutes if someone would've handed me a gun I'd have shot myself.

 

[psicat]

Worst Game I played as a child Superman 64, of games I've played more recently Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust.

 

[Wintermoot]

Duke Nukem Forever do I need to tell why? in other threads I mentioned COD Black Ops but those guys at least tried

 

[Ruedyn]

Sonic Riders, Sonic Unleashed, Too Human, Deus Ex invisible war, Duke Nukem Forever, Superman 64, and the Green Lantern movie tie in game. I'm surprised I still like video games.

 

[itsausernamewhatofit]

Two Worlds.

I've come to suspect that the only reason it even exists is so that I have an immediate answer to these types of threads.

Same here, I'd like to make a joke about The Taint and how it was a terrible game or something but it's just too easy.

 

[Dfskelleton]

A racing game with futuristic hovercars sounds fun, right? Well, how about a racing game with some extremely bland futuristic hover cars that don't go over 20 MPH and constantly fall through the floor of the map?
Maybe the game thought that inertia actually was fatal, so you're not allowed to gain any.

 

[Spambot 3000]

ET the extra terrestrial or whatever the name of that old game based on ET was called. It's pretty classic for it's sheer terribleness (it's apparently up there in the top 10 of worst games of all times) and chances are you've heard of it. I can honestly say it was the most nauseatingly fucking awful thing I've ever played.

That was really awful my fellow geriatric.
ET is easy to remember because it was so bad it crashed the industry and there's all the urban legends of the ancient video game burial ground where tons of them were buried....
and those poor people who lived in the house built over it for a while.

I also remember the Raiders of the Lost Ark game (my friend Greg had it) being just as awful. Movie based games have always been bad.

Ah, sorry, I should've mentioned I wasn't actually existing at the time that game was released. I just found this site that let me play old games for the ... NES was it? I'm not sure, but I found this site that let me play EXACT copies of old games online and ET was one of them. So I gave it a try.
Worst thing I've ever done. And I feel sorry for anyone who actually PAID for that game.
But, I'm no geriatric though, haha.

 

[Mycroft Holmes]

Fahrenheit or The Indigo Prophecy

 

[Starblazer117]

Turok.

 

[Johann610]

Two top-down adventure, abandon-ware Super NES roms, both with sticky, unworkable combat, terrible framerates, lousy animation, flimsy plotting, pathetic maps, and useless weapons:
Big Sky Trooper (which I finished)
King Arthur and the Knights of Justice (which I did not)

 

[Olas]

Rainbow Six for the GBA. Imagine all the complexities of Tom Clancy games. The stealth, the radar, the different guns and grenades and visors and shit. Now imagine it on a 50 pixel screen with 2 buttons to control it all and no in game tutorial.

You guys can complain about Skyrim and Assassins creed all you want, at least those games are essentially playable.

 

[Violator[xL]]

Soldier of Fortune 3

I don't know what happened to that decent shooter series, SoF2 was epic back in the days.
Customizable kit, random level generator. Then someone made it turn pffffrrrtttt.