Worst Game You've Ever Played?

[karcentric]

Test Drive: Unlimited 2.

After playing Forza 4 and NFS: Hot Pursuit boy did I regret that one...

If TD:U2 was anything like the first one, yeah... It's like a driving game from a decade ago in the way it handles and the game play options.

I wasn't particularly taken by Forza 4 either. Loved Forza 3, I waited for F4 to come down it price though. They did a COD job on it. Forza 3 + DLC and a graphics spit shine.

TD:U2 makes the first look good. The whole online scene is really shit too. No one has a sense of humor. Yes I rammed my Range Rover through a crowd of other players, but it was funny.

I nabbed my friends copy of Forza 4 but got sucked in to the session pass... Though the driving is a little better, personally speaking after playing the hell out of F3 and comparing it to F4.

Top tip for F4... Take a Saleen S7 and dump the Raptor engine in it... speed!

 

[Mikeyfell]

Almost every fiber of my being wants me to say Gears of War 3.
That game had the kind of awful you can only get from knuckling down and trying to make a bad game.

But nothing has left more broken of devastated than Mass Effect 3.
Because Gears 3 was bad, and I was expecting it to be bad, but it turned out worse, but at the very least I liked having my preconceptions turn out to be understatements.

But watching ME 3 sputter and die only to get reanimated long enough to rape and murder the first two games. Then to have the end irrevocably destroy any hope you could have deluded your self into holding on to for the future of gaming.

ME 3 wasn't just a bad game, and it didn't even just ruin a formerly amazing series, it ruined the future of western RPGs. Because anyone who may have wanted to make a game with an epic player driven branching narrative has a very clear example of why it will never fucking work. and it's all EA and Bioware's fault.

I guess it's up to Bethesda to pull RPG's out of this black hole they're heading towards.

[sub]Elder Scrolls: Online. [/sub]
Mother fuckers.

 

[TheLizardKing]

Turning Point: Fall of Liberty
THE HORROR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seriously look it up, it's the biggest piece of shit i have ever played.
Good idea but executed VERY POORLY.

 

[Bostur]

I probably don't remember the worst game I ever played. It might have been a pirated game from the '80s or a free game of the disc of a computer magazine. Possibly a flash based browser game.

I remember that the Amiga version of "Universal Military Simulator II" was incredibly bad:
http://amr.abime.net/review_156

The screenshots on the box looked awesome at the time, but the game mechanics were awful. The rendering was so slow that it literally took minutes to scroll the map, and combat resolution could last for hours.

I probably remember it because I wanted it to be awesome. In most cases when I played a really bad game I gave up on it after a few minutes, and quickly forgot about it.


Among modern games I consider DA2 one of the worst. That is not a troll attempt, I really need several pages to explain everything that went wrong with that game. Thats another cases of a bad game I played a lot because I hoped that it would be good or have some good parts in it. It only adds insult to injury that it got so many perfect scores among reviewers.

Edit: Oh and Skyrim. Skyrim is awful and good at the same time. As a game it is 100% awful, as an environmental hiking sim it's good. As an interior decoration sim it's ok. Thats often the case with games that are too big, and try to do too many things.

 

[I.Muir]

Ive played games that did not work and they were bad in that way

But id say the worst game I ever played was dungeon something on the pc
It just used a few horrible horrible ideas, gave no indication of wtf you were supposed to be doing and was just stupid....

I think it's thing was that you leveled down by dying which was nearly unavoidable
Magic mechanics sucked

 

[Soopy]

I probably don't remember the worst game I ever played. It might have been a pirated game from the '80s or a free game of the disc of a computer magazine. Possibly a flash based browser game.

I remember that the Amiga version of "Universal Military Simulator II" was incredibly bad:
http://amr.abime.net/review_156

The screenshots on the box looked awesome at the time, but the game mechanics were awful. The rendering was so slow that it literally took minutes to scroll the map, and combat resolution could last for hours.

I probably remember it because I wanted it to be awesome. In most cases when I played a really bad game I gave up on it after a few minutes, and quickly forgot about it.


Among modern games I consider DA2 one of the worst. That is not a troll attempt, I really need several pages to explain everything that went wrong with that game. Thats another cases of a bad game I played a lot because I hoped that it would be good or have some good parts in it. It only adds insult to injury that it got so many perfect scores among reviewers.

Edit: Oh and Skyrim. Skyrim is awful and good at the same time. As a game it is 100% awful, as an environmental hiking sim it's good. As an interior decoration sim it's ok. Thats often the case with games that are too big, and try to do too many things.

Completely agree, as a game there is nothing particularly good about Skyrim.

 

[Iwata]

Let me pull out my list here of popular, well-selling games:

Elder Scrolls, all of them. Wait, Arena and Daggerfall weren't all that popular. Cross those two off. Start at Morrowind where the franchise started to become successful. Oh, excuse me, where they started to "sell out."

Mass Effect, all of them. The third one had a pretty negative reaction from the fanbase, that one almost didn't make the list.

People like the Diablo series, you say? Throw that one on there, too.

World of Warcraft has how many subscribers? Pah, no question. That one is on the list.

I feel so damn hip right now, I can't even begin to explain it.
.

I'm getting married soon, but I think I just fell in love with you...

 

[Greni]

I've played many awful games in my time but I did play the explicitly because they are awful.
With that said the one game that's absolutely horrid in it's own right as well as bringing shame and humiliation to a series that I love: FlatOut 3: Chaos & Destruction. Everything about it is broken, it got horrible reviews everywhere and shows that with enough dedication, even a racing game can be utterly fucked up to the point of unplayability (which is now a word apparently).

 

[Alex113]

Every single FPS i've played the last 3-4 years. I'm also starting to hate games that try to throw in a bit of RPG no matter what the original genre of the game is supposed to be. Same thing goes for RPGs that seem to be dumbing their RPG elements more and more in favor of the mainstream action game approach. Bethesda's games are the finest specimen (since this approach made them so popular)

I have so many friends that are addicted to Skyrim. I personally don;t mind the game, but it's not bad.

v Late response. I never said its bad, im just saying skyrim and games such as skyrim are heading towards a not so desirable carebear path for older RPG gamers such as my self.
Oh well there's always hello kitty adventure island to fill the emptiness inside

 

[Skeggers]

King Kong on the DS.
That game. Was shit.
Just... shit.

 

[kubus.puchatek89]

Recently I played several games, but the worst was not the NBA in 2012 somehow appealed to me. Despite the good graphics the game is poorly presented

 

[Ambient]

Destroy all humans! Path of the furon, Alice:Madness Returns and Bioshock 2 are the worst games I ever bought.
DaH!Potf glitched out on me after 30 minutes of playing, one mission was completely impossible to finish and I never got to play rest of the game.
Alice:Madness Returns was oddly choppy for me. I can't remember why, but it's the first game that made me rage quite.
Bioshock 2 is...Bioshock 2.

 

[woodsymoments]

Resi 6 took a great game series and made it into a bland generc game that had no character and spit all over its fan base

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Dungeon Lords. That game was glitchy and broken and incomplete upon release. Not to mention the spawn rate of enemies was insane.

i like my rpgs and picked that up in a bargain bin. installed it. playe it for an hour, uninstalled it took the disk and packaging outside and burned it..

my personal contribution is... master of orion 3.. the game that almost killed the x4 genre and wiped out the master of orion series in one fell swoop

The real sad part is that if Dungeon Lords had actually delivered on everything that had been promised it would've been one hell of an awesome game.
Incidentally, I once saw on EB Game's website Dungeon Lords: Collector's Edition, so my first thought when I saw that was "What's that, the version that has inc. everything the original version was supposed to have?"

 

[mohit9206]

my most recent game i played i thought was absolutely atrocious was Alone in the Dark on the ps2.
an.absolutely terrible game in every manner be it convulated story, piss poor graphics and dialogue, atrocious gameplay etc.
other examples being mercenaries 2 and driver parallel lines. both were terrible

 

[SilkySkyKitten]

Let me pull out my list here of popular, well-selling games:

Elder Scrolls, all of them. Wait, Arena and Daggerfall weren't all that popular. Cross those two off. Start at Morrowind where the franchise started to become successful. Oh, excuse me, where they started to "sell out."

Mass Effect, all of them. The third one had a pretty negative reaction from the fanbase, that one almost didn't make the list.

People like the Diablo series, you say? Throw that one on there, too.

World of Warcraft has how many subscribers? Pah, no question. That one is on the list.

I feel so damn hip right now, I can't even begin to explain it.

You forgot Call of Duty in that list. It's the highest selling franchise of all time? Yeah, obviously it's the shittiest thing out there then.

OT: To seriously answer this question, the worst game I've ever played in my life has to be a relatively unknown Wii game called "Spy Games: Elevator Mission". Basically, think of the worst-possible Wolfenstein 3D clone with constantly respawning enemies, really annoying sound effects, and graphics that, while the game was released in 2007, would have been shameful for a Dreamcast launch title.

Seriously, to anyone who believes games like CoD and GTA and Mass Effect and *insert popular game here* are the worst you've ever played: You can't even know what a terrible game is until you've played Spy Games: Elevator Mission. Seriously...

 

[Rooster893]

Metal Gear on the NES. It is just as bad as AVGN said it was.

Sonic 2006 sucked pretty bad too.

 

[white rabbitt]

Vampires the masquerade bloodlines, if this is the actual name.
and EVE online. there may be other bad games, but I only played these 2 long enough to remember.