Worst game you've ever played?

[RyQ_TMC]

Was that the one where the characters were a bunch of copy-paste lookalikes of the trilogy's main cast, to the point where they were following unseen in the Fellowship's shadow and reusing their dialogue verbatim?

No, the characters in that one were the main cast. I think it had been originally released in 1990. And to be honest, there probably was a big level of disappointment at play there - I was hyped for a LOTR RPG (that was back when I was obsessed with Middle-Earth), while the game was probably a 5/10.

 

[tsb247]

Extreme Paint Brawl was an old DOS PC game I picked up when I was really young. It has gone down in history as being the only game I was so frustrated with that I put pen to paper and wrote a rather lengthy and unhappy letter to the developers.

I mean, really? Just look at this garbage?!


Captcha: one hit wonder - Oh the irony! XD

 

[FishforBrains]

Sneak King for the XBox.

I bought it because it only cost .99 cents. After playing it, I discovered It was highly overpriced.

I wouldn't suggest getting it in less you're being paid at least ten bucks to take.

 

[FishforBrains]

Sorry about the double post.

 

[Chaos Isaac]

Dark Souls.

Just a cavalcade of broke-ass design and completely wrong headed approaches to difficulty. I wouldn't have put this here, but the sheer number of people who like this game and rush to rabid defense of it just makes me hate it and everything it stands for.

Would you prefer it if people liked it but didn't talk about it?

They can talk about it, that's fine. It's when I say I don't like it for X reasons, and they jump down my throat, calling be things like "casual", and saying I need to "learn the game" so I can "experience the sense of accomplishment."

I've had so many fans of this game up and dismiss any faults of the game. It's really frustrating play and talk about.

Well that kind of approach to stating your opinion isn't really asking for a good discussion. Eh, in short, i'd disagree mostly. But there are some goofs on it, but hey, what doesn't goof? I think it's a really good game, though there was a time i'd agree thoroughly with you.

Well, i'll start with mine... it'd probably be something like Dead Island or Bulletstorm. The former being a pretty boring and terrible game, and the latter being even more boring that I just put it down and walked away. That was the first time in twenty two years i've ever just put down a game and walked away. I only got like an hour in, but I think that says something.

 

[Callie]

Any modern sonic game is pretty horrible.

I nearly said sheep, but lets face it that game is amazing.

*thinks*...got it. The simpsons wrestling for PSX. That game was poorly designed and just plain cringeworthy. I could almost smell the desperation being emitted from the game as I was playing through it.

 

[aguspal]

PC, I am pretty sure it was 2 or 3 hours before uninstall. AND that was mainly because I didnt had anything else to do at the moment and I was bored as hell. The game didnt exactly helped...


I am sorry if I came of as incredibly harass or a mindless hater, but I just cant help it, its my honest opinion about it. I fail to see what people see in that game, but if it is fun for them, then good for them I guess.

Not all mate you didn't to me, it's your opinion and your experience of a game so your perfectly entitled to it.

What I would say is, if you ever find time/money to try it again it may be worth another go, and see if you feel the same around the 5-6 hour mark.

I know it's quite a lot of effort to invest in a game before you start enjoying it, but I was in a similar position to you, and upon return I was hooked and now class DA:O as one of my fave games ever. One of the main differences for me was trying a different character class and using a beginners guide too, (mages & rogues are way more fun than warriors IMO).

Just a suggestion though chap, I wouldn't force it on anyone, but I look back at my own personal experience and am eternally grateful I gave it another blast.

Thank you for actually begin comprensive.


Honestly thougt, I doubt I will ever touch it again, especially since it supposedly requieres 6 hours to actually get to the "good part". Honestly, It just dosnt seems like my kind of game from the get-go. That may be the problem.


I am more of a Skyrim person, hell even maybe Fallout 3 Cant stand so much dialoge and all of that. I want more action, more GAMEPLAY (And apparently even DA fans themselves dont consider the gameplay the strong part of it). I mean, even Alpha Protocol, a game that was full of dialoge and all of that, had SOME decent gameplay on it. In fact I expected DA to be somewhat like Skyrim. That was obviously my fault and absolutely retarded so I dont blame the game for that- but its just a fact: I and DA dont go together-



(The whole post sounds a lot more dramatic that it is suppused to be lol).

 

[Mikejames]

Was that the one where the characters were a bunch of copy-paste lookalikes of the trilogy's main cast, to the point where they were following unseen in the Fellowship's shadow and reusing their dialogue verbatim?

No, the characters in that one were the main cast. I think it had been originally released in 1990. And to be honest, there probably was a big level of disappointment at play there - I was hyped for a LOTR RPG (that was back when I was obsessed with Middle-Earth), while the game was probably a 5/10.

Ah, I think I was thinking of The Third Age. A game where I suddenly remember it ending with you literally duking it out with the fiery Eye of Sauron on top of his tower.

...Don't play it.

 

[B.U.C.K]

Though many would disagree with my choice this game made me throw away the game case because I was so disappointed in how wrong everything felt to me.

Neverwinter Nights 2

I know it received solid reviews but when it came out it was a just a broken mess; endless patching, bad camera, horribly broken and really power hungry considering that it wasn't a pretty game to begin with.

The original Neverwinter was really worth the entire experience simply for the amazing Hordes of the Underdark expansion. I guess I was expecting the sequel to take that game as a stepping stone forward but I just couldn't bother to play it with all the technical difficulties.

This is definitely not the worst game ever and I am blatantly aware of that but it is one of my biggest disappointments in a franchise that I love...which unfortunately turned into an MMO..

Other honorable mentions:

Command & Conquer 4 - Was this the way to end a beloved franchise? changing core game mechanics into something else entirely?

Rage - If I ever gave the first Borderlands the critique of feeling to empty (for a none-coop experience) than compared to Rage it would feel like mardi gra. Rage has beautiful graphics, killer character animations and sounds but that's it really..Not a game but more of an ID Tech 5 engine demo.

Fable 2 & 3 - Peter Molyneux's ode to "I do not listen those who play my games" simply demonstrated how a studio can make the same mistakes two times in a row while learning nothing from community feedback and reviews..Focusing on the wrong things in the game while neglecting to change or balance an outdated and easy to abuse combat\skill system.
Because the first Fable has a special place in my heart it made Fables 2 & 3 all the more disappointing for me.

 

[Charlie_Ruskiy]

I dont want to say that this is objectively the "worst" game but by far the most disappointing game I've ever played was Final Fantasy XIII. I don't know, for whatever reason I was incredibly psyched for its release because it was the first FF game for the 7th generation and the trailers showed some phenomenal graphics. I am also clearly a fan of the franchise as a whole. Then it came out and I realized that thats all it was - phenomenal graphics. The level design is absurdly linear, the gameplay is horrid as every repetitive battle is essentially on autopilot with the player having next to no control and the story is the most convoluted garbage. The graphics ARE very pretty though...

So yeah, of course there are worse games out there but this one really felt like a tremendous disappointment.

 

[D-Class 198482]

The Coronation Street game.
Fuck you for not making that video before I played the 'game', Caddi.
I would've actually put The Last of Us here, but then I realized it was entirely for the sake of /those/ kind of fans of the game, who put the game above criticism and jump down your throat if you don't yell it's 10/10 to the heavens.

 

[SouthernStar]

Bubsy 3D for ps1

Lol best answer. For me any thing made by Treyarch or Infinity Ward are just sludge on top of the giant mountain of shit the business is turning into.

 

[Reven]

For me, it has to be Too Human.I just HATED that game, I've played lots of bad games, but honestly this was the first game in my memory that i could find nothing redeemable about, the story was bland. The enemies were total BS, (at least in single player) and the death scene. OH WHY THE DEATH SCENE EVERY SINGLE TIMEDGLIHDSFLSGINSGoGNWROIHHOG>F.
*takes pills*

*...*

*right...*

err so yeah not a fan of that one.


captcha: "sounds of sirens".... i knew i shouldn't have killed that neighborhood in my fit of insanity...

 

[Xarathox]

Call of Juarez.

I'm a huge Western fan. Grew up watching all the old classics with my grandpa (the Clint Eastwood films are the best), and so I have a bit of a bad habit of blindly throwing money at a game that runs with that theme. That bad habit, of course, bit me in the ass with that game as it's the one that officially convinced me Ubisoft is truly terrible at game design, and was the very game that put them into my do not buy from list.

I mean, I was already disappointed with SCA and their disrespect of the PoP franchise, but this...was just a flaming pile of shit.

 

[kingthrall]

Dark souls. Worst game ever made (PC), the keyboard controls are impossible to play with so unlike even the crappiest of games which you can die horribly and you can still move your character with. In dark souls you cant even do that.. which makes it the crappiest useless game ever.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Hmm... Luckily for me I've managed to not play a lot of awful games. I did hate Gears of War 2 though, it was left in the 360 we bought off a friend, and it was dire. That said, there are definitely worse games that I've played... Lego: Creator was a buggy mess, and I've had to play Maths & English With Rayman before, but I'm not sure that counts. Other than that... CoD3 was pretty dire too. I don't care what people think of the latest ones, they're not as bad as that.

 

[original_funk]

Superman 64. It's crappiness is legendary, although I didn't actually play it until last year, when I found out a friend of mine had a copy and and old N64, my curiosity got the better of me. The damn thing is unplayable.

 

[Roberto Hadi]

The worst one I owned was Batman Forever on the Snes but someone mentioned that one already.
Max Payne 2 on the ps2 was an unplayable disgrace. But that was the port, not the game.
Battletoads was crap too. And Double Dragon 3 on the NES.
The worst one I currently own is Lords Of Shadow. I still cant believe the evolution of Castlevania is a God of War clone. I stopped playing at the colossus fight.
Now, the one I feel conflicted about hating is Bioshock. It was decent but the vita-chamber thing broke the game for me. It's not a game if you cant lose. I felt it was designed for a film critic instead of a gamer.

 

[Tzatziki3301]

- There were a couple of Resident Evil lightgun games.
- Kameo and Perfect Dark Zero for the Xbox360.
- The Bouncer was pretty shit, yet oddly enjoyable in that "not too bad for a launch game" sort of way.

I'm sure there's worse games I played, but I probably displaced them from my memory.

I wouldn't say Kameo was terrible, maybe a solid 80%-er but not terrible by any means (but then, I bought my 360 on release date with Kameo and Perfect Dark Zero so I have a soft spot for it and can understand people thinking it sucks if they got it post-CoD4. Perfect Dark Zero was also not what it could have been, but again it wasn't awful. Especially since it was basically still close to the Perfect Dark experience of N64)

Risen was the most terrible game I've loved for being terrible. Risen 2 took everything wrong with Risen 1, ignored trying to make it any better and upped the difficulty.

Sonic the Hedgehog for 360 is dire. Ridge Racer for the NES was the game I suffered through while smiling at my grandpa in thanks one Christmas. I'd wanted Mega Man 3.

 

[lemby117]

Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly.
Glitches upon glitches, bad sound sync, nothing in the department of new ideas ("hey, let's recycle a villain from Gateway to Glimmer with "gotta catch 'em all" objection from Year of the Dragon! We're original!"), horrendous loading and the fact that it was one of my first games on PS2. I'm just glad I bought Vice City shortly afterwards and completely forgot about it.

Funny that was one of my first games on PS2 and I have fond memories of it, though the ps2 was my first console so I guess that there may be a nostalgia factor.

Robotech Invasion, oh Robotech invasion you were an affront to good games