Worst Game You've Ever Played?

[Gagballs The Great]

1)Advent Rising - been waiting fro this game like a ray of hope and ended up hating EVERY aspect of this game. Damn...It could've been so much more.
2)True Crime 2 - after the adventures of handsome devil Nick Kang I said to myself "Nope. The second part will not be that good. And I was wrong. It was so bad, that the God forbade to speak about it. Not only the plot was bad (In L.А it was cheesy but good, the whole game was drowning in glitches, artifacts and bad controls.

 

[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.

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.

Can you share the site?
Sorry for making insinuations about your age. I just didn't think anyone would subject themselves to ET the game...
knowing what we know now.
It (as well as Raiders) was on the Atari by the way and there were apparently a bunch of them buried with the cartridges. The NES is actually what brought the video game console back from the brink of extinction.

 

[Shavon513]

I tired playing the first Risen. What crap.

 

[PlatinumRenegade]

I tend to push any memory of any bad game out of my head, so in order to warn you all about a terrible game I would have to recall those horrid memories of the said game. I'm going to be selfish and not warn you all.

We wouldn't want you to have to go through those troubled days of horrible video games again.

 

[PlatinumRenegade]

Avoid the Noid. That was absolutely terrible.

The Noid has come to steal you of your video game time

 

[Launcelot111]

Sakura Wars: So Long My Love. I was pointed here because someone told me it was vaguely like Persona 3/4. So, so wrong on that count. The robot fighting was adequate, the rest was garbage. Terrifyingly grating characters, nonsensical story, and so many random things that really creeped me out for no reason. Also the casual racism

"I walked up to the gates of Harlem, and I was accosted by a couple thugs!" Please go away forever

 

[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.

Can you share the site?
Sorry for making insinuations about your age. I just didn't think anyone would subject themselves to ET the game...
knowing what we know now.
It (as well as Raiders) was on the Atari by the way and there were apparently a bunch of them buried with the cartridges. The NES is actually what brought the video game console back from the brink of extinction.

Ah yes, Atari, that's it. I can't remember the site though, because I went on it 2 years ago and never went on it again. I'm sure it's not so hard to find that a quick Google search of 'Play free Atari games' wouldn't get it on the first or second page of results. Or 'Play free retro games'. It shouldn't be too hard to find if you really wanna find it.

 

[Mycroft Holmes]

It had great movement capture tech

Movement Capture does not, a good game, make.

and a pretty great story. At least in the beginning.

Big emphasis on the beginning. It was like a B grade who dun it at the start where you know who did it already. Which was interesting enough, minus all the really weird your character must brush their teeth segments. And then it continuously got worse and worse and worse until it was legitimately the worst stories I have ever heard. Was something you'd expect on an amateur fanfiction forum. For someone to dramatically read on youtube and make fun of because it sounds like it was written by a 12 year old who is just randomly stringing together things that they think are awesome. Omg cyborg Neo with magical powers n then he like fights time traveling mayans and robots, sounds totely awesum.

Granted, it was mostly QTE's, but with some improvements, they would be awesome.

QTEs are one of the worst forms of gameplay ever. I don't mind them when it's used sparingly in a game like Mass Effect 2, where it's used as more of a would you like to throw this guy out of a 100 story building, or would you like to not do that. Because it's simply a way for them to give you more choice and not sacrifice the games cinematic qualities. I also didn't mind its limited use in Modern Warfare games or Metro 2033, because it was mostly just click buttan lots to proceed and wasn't the core gameplay.

But I would prefer anything to QTE being the gameplay. If it had been just sims murder edition, or like an adventure game pixel hunt. That would have been fine. And good God the QTE sex scene was the most embarrassing thing I have ever seen in a videogame, it makes Duke Nukem Forever look mature by comparison.

It does things better than a lot of current games, but it's not perfect. Far from the worst, though.

I have no idea what games you play, but I tend to stay away from the obvious garbage ones. The game play was a joke. The story devolved into drivel after the first hour or two. I'm sure hard rain is a lot better, but I don't play console games so I'll likely never know. But the absolute only thing going for Fahrenheit or Indigo Prophecy is the story line. And they completely dropped the ball on that compared to any videogame I have played, and I can look past almost every other flaw if the dialogue/story is actually good. I would have preferred it if you just played as an insane person who murdered some guy, and then you got to decide if he got away or if they police caught him by playing both sides. I might have even considered it an alright game if it did that. I mean besides of course the push left then right to brush your teeth, push up then down to penetrate woman weirdness it had.

 

[scarecrow350]

I absolutely despise 'operation flashpoint' i couldn't get past the first mission to a combo of a lack of ammo, impossible to spot enemies ans the fact it told me to use a key that i had no idea here it was, it wasn't even in the control scheme
oh and spore
(dark muttering)

 

[PlatinumRenegade]

I absolutely despise 'operation flashpoint' i couldn't get past the first mission to a combo of a lack of ammo, impossible to spot enemies ans the fact it told me to use a key that i had no idea here it was, it wasn't even in the control scheme
oh and spore
(dark muttering)

Ohhh that game sound absolutely dreadful.

 

[GeeksUtopia]

Alone in the dark....oh god so much potential and yet it fell so far...

 

[Chunga the Great]

I'd probably say Dead Rising. That game is so fucking atrocious I have no idea how in the hell it got a sequel. A saving system that makes the game far more difficult than it should be, standard-issue shitty Capcom controls, standard-issue shitty Capcom storyline. Ugh....

 

[OldDirtyCrusty]

I'd probably say Dead Rising.

I wanted to like this game so much. Everything seemed right (i don`t mind the wacky japanese storytelling in this franchise), but the save system ruined it for me too and i hated the timer, it ruined the fun in freeroam.
The second DR got another chance because i was able to get it cheap at the release. Dumb mistake, i should have learned my lesson by then.

 

[The Human Torch]

Dead or Alive: Beach Volleyball for the old X-Box.

I laughed my ass off the first 30 minutes, but after the novelty of polygon titties works off, you are left with a terrible game.

 

[Spectral Dragon]

*snipping away all your fancy shmancy logic*
I have no idea what games you play, but I tend to stay away from the obvious garbage ones. The game play was a joke. The story devolved into drivel after the first hour or two. I'm sure hard rain is a lot better, but I don't play console games so I'll likely never know. But the absolute only thing going for Fahrenheit or Indigo Prophecy is the story line. And they completely dropped the ball on that compared to any videogame I have played, and I can look past almost every other flaw if the dialogue/story is actually good. I would have preferred it if you just played as an insane person who murdered some guy, and then you got to decide if he got away or if they police caught him by playing both sides. I might have even considered it an alright game if it did that. I mean besides of course the push left then right to brush your teeth, push up then down to penetrate woman weirdness it had.

I definitely see your point. I've played it, and I liked it, but I guess it can be pretty bad. It seems more like an experiment - they tried a new kind of technology and a fairly odd storyline. I liked it enough to play, in fact, the first time around I thought it was fairly brilliant and innovative. But all counterpoints you had were valid. It could certainly have been handled better. Hmm... I'll definitely try Hard Rain, though. Seems like that could be even better.

 

[Snotnarok]

I'm stunned at the number of mediocre games listed here as WORST. You want worst?

Bebes Kids on the SNES, I think there's one LP of it ever and its bad, it's so bad. I don't think I made it past the second screen because every enemy seems to take 500 hits to beat

 

[PlatinumRenegade]

I'd probably say Dead Rising. That game is so fucking atrocious I have no idea how in the hell it got a sequel. A saving system that makes the game far more difficult than it should be, standard-issue shitty Capcom controls, standard-issue shitty Capcom storyline. Ugh....

I liked Dead Rising. You are right though about the saving system.

 

[dan-wah]

Tunnel B-1 for the PS1 anyone??? What a load of pish... there was also this fighting game I cannot remember the name of, for the PS1, that had you flying round inside a massive cube in the sky and using psychic powers and stuff, that was pretty terrible too if I remember. Maybe i just made it up :S.

 

[Mysterious Druid]

Off the top of my head, the Family Guy game on the PS2. I'm sure there's worse, but I probably blocked it out.

 

[Soopy]

Worst game in recent time for me would be Farcry2.