Worst game you've ever played?

[Patathatapon]

It's rare I play a game without doing research first, but most of that came from the second thing I ever pre-ordered, Quantum Conundrum.

The first game I pre-ordered was Bioshock, and that was fuckin great, Quantum conundrum had a portal creator behind it, and steam virtual hats! I pre-ordered it, and got the biggest disappointment a game has ever given me.

I played AMY and I didn't mind it as much as quantum conundrum for fuck sakes. The puzzles were lame, and the majority of the challenge either came from the game not having anything close to a hint, or the fact that platforming was nearly impossible. I eventually got to a point where I said "Fuck this, I'm not this sadistic."

I've played games with challenge, FTL, Deus Ex, etc, but the thing about those games is that they didn't make me want to bash my head against my CPU screen! Not to mention, they were actually FUN.

 

[The White Hunter]

Some of you people really just haven't played bad games have you?

Most popular game that I personally can't stand is Shadow of the COlossus.

Worst game I've ever played? Would have to go diving into my Master System titles to find the one I'm thinking of and tell you then. I think it's some "Outrun" game that isn't really an Outrun game it's just awful.

 

[HarlequinGrey]

Warhammer 40,000: Fire Warrior.

I'd love to complain about the gameplay. I'd love to complain about the story and characters. I'd love to whine about terrible voice acting, but I can't; Fire Warrior was far too buggy to get far enough to experience those things.

The only thing that seemed to work right was the sound, and even that was terrible. Every weapon fired with a sad, flaccid 'pew.' I was firing the pinnacle of intergalactic technology, and all I heard was a muted and unsatisfying generic 'lasergun' noise.

My God, what an awful game.

 

[The_Echo]

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.

To be fair, all three of Enter the Dragonfly's predecessors were collection-based. Dragons in the first, Orbs in the second, dragon eggs in the third. Also gems.

Had it not been rushed, it might have actually been great, given what the devs wanted to do with it.

But yeah, that's easily the worst game I've ever played.

 

[James Crook]

I played Lego Star Wars II for Nintendo DS. My God was it fukken broken. It was really, really, really buggy, with missing collisions, wonky physics, poor sound. Ugh. Didn't even exploit the DS's touch screen correctly.

 

[Ace Morologist]

Because I'm old...

Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde for the NES.

("Stop singing, you *****! Your singing hurts me! What the hell is going on?")

--Morology!

 

[DanielBrown]

Probably not my worst(hard to remember every game I've played), however those that made me cringe and wish it was all over the most was definetly Bayonetta and Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom. Hated everything about both games, but I had to beat the fuckers for the trophies.
Tried replaying Bayonetta recently to grab some more. Didn't last long until I had to turn it off. She has zero sex appeal to me, so every damn cutscene and the combat makes me feel ill.

Duke Nukem Forever is a close third. Got it just recently through a game bundle and figured it would be fun to see what I'd think who have never played any Duke Nukem games before. Even though I went in with a blank slate I hated every minute of it. Outdated combat, horrible vehicle controls and dull mini-games...

 

[TheRaggedQueen]

Shadow the Hedgehog. I was young and stu-well, I was younger and more stupid than I am now, and at the time my newly-teenaged mind almost couldn't come to terms of the Sonic world mixed with guns. It was also the first Sonic game after SA2 that I'd picked up (pre-ordered, oh the shame!) and I had yet to realize that Sonic was in for a long, loooong drop in quality.

 

[Marcus Kehoe]

final fantasy 13

It was the first game I had that i just couldn't beat. It was just so boring, and this is from someone who liked final fantasy 10 and 12.

 

[Aptspire]

As so many have said before:
It requires no other explaination.

 

[Poetic Nova]

Big Rigs comes to mind (yes I have played it).
But to make a proper contribution:

Resistance 2 for PS3 is godawfull, dull, boring and it got rid of what made Fall of Man great: No weapon carrying limit and health didn't fully regen unless you picked up a medkit.

Next contender is N3: Ninety Nine Nights, boring hack and slash that doesn't change gameplay and actually made me fell asleep due to it repetitive gameplay.

I'll prolly gett lynched for this one, ohwell: I personally find Half Life 2 overrated garbage with dull gameplay. It's episodes kinda made up for it but the base game is bland and boring.

Alone in the Dark for the 360: Clunky mess and it felt just unfinished. Some introduced mechanics (albeit half-assed) were ok but nothing to write home about.

There are probably a few more but they don't cross my mind atm.

 

[WhyWasThat]

It was a History Channel game, which kind of means I've only myself to blame.

 

[Kinitawowi]

Jet Set Willy where they didn't even make an end, the dev just thought 'Fuck it no-one will get this far' and gave you an instant kill when you climbed out of the toilet.

Oh please. Yeah, sure it's hard as shit and the Attic Bug is rank carelessness (it's obviously a three-second fix to patch that these days, but this was 1984), but "I can't finish it" doesn't equate to being terrible. (Also, getting into the toilet is the end of the game.)

You want Spectrum era terrible games? Try Super Trolley. I didn't know that game even had an ending until I looked it up on Youtube, and after some four hours of shelf stacking it is NOT WORTH IT. (Still isn't my worst game of all time, because I went into it with no expectations.)

 

[Orbi16]

I'm not going to count games I've emulated like Bubsy 3D or Superman 64 (though out of the two, Bubsy is the worst by a mile), so I have one I really, really despise, being a dumbed down disappointing experience as a desperate attempt to regain lost fans.

Sonic Unleashed: I will admit that Sonic 06 is much more unpolished and generally disappointing... but from a game-design stand, Unleashed should be lucky that 06 even exists because without that, Unleashed would be the worst Sonic game bar none, not even Chronicles. Every single design decision made in that game is baffling, stupid, not well executed or all of the above. Shredding a lot of platforming and exploration focus in exchange for high-octane linear speed stages littered with scripted events (including one that can be activated by holding down the X button, can be refuelled, gives extra lives occasionally and there is no worthwhile penalty for using it), making Sonic control like a car, remapped controls and horrible turning and all, and the werehog isn't much better.

I personally can tolerate games like Singularity and Darksiders if they can offer something new with all of the rehash they bring, the Werehog doesn't do that. It rips off God of War with no intent to add anything aside from Kingdom Hearts enemies. It plays it safe. It's a by-the-book design. Though that's miles better than the horrible design of the Daytime stages... and above all, it isn't fun. Sonic 06 had that fun of being somewhat of a guilty pleasure of mine with it's shining moments of brilliance and pretentious story, here though the problems are too large and numerous to overlook.

I wonder how many Sonic fans holding ancient blood rituals sacrificing lambs it took to increase the quality of Sonic games recently. Colours was actually decent, Generations was a tad disappointing but overall another big improvement, and I won't pass judgement on Lost World yet, but it looks to be an entire game of "Playing it Safe".

 

[FPLOON]

Then there's the game I'm most disappointed in its' terrible-ness.

As someone who is quite the big Sonic fan, nothing hurts more than this game. The opinions on some of the other games vary wildly, but everyone is in agreement that this is absolutely horrid, and the single redeeming quality of the game is its' music.

And yet, for some reason I played it to 100% completion.

Yeah... Even though I wanted to rage-quit every chance I got at this poor excuse for a Sonic game... I still wanted to beat it 100%... It's a week I'll never get back, but it's not a week that should be forgotten or regretted (that much...)

OT: Most of games I consider to be "the worse" are not as bad as I think they are...

With that said, The Spongebob Squarepant Movie: The Video Game...

With only about 3 levels I liked to just fuck around in (since those levels were both not only pretty straight forward but also forced you to keep going forward), the rest of the game was just too terrible to even try to complete 100%...

Sure, because it was a Nickelodeon game as well as a movie game, it had irritating challenge throughout but you can still beat it (somehow), however revisiting levels just made the experience worse and the collectibles were either too hard to find (Seriously, I looked fucking everywhere... How am I still missing something?) or just weren't worth the extra work unlocking them to begin with (All that... for a useless sound bit? FUCK!). I still find some of the extra challenges you couldn't do because you didn't get a certain upgrade on a particular weapon cheap as fuck...

But, then again, this was the worse game that I've experienced playing through... otherwise I would have said Big Rigs...

...and I find this game just adorable at how bad it is... *pinches the game's nonexistent cheeks*

 

[Zombie Badger]

The worst game I've played to completion was either Final Fantasy XII or Bioshock: Infinite

I've never played any of the historical stinkers to completion, so those are the only games I've played whole way through that occur to me as being not just mediocre or even kinda bad but really just legitimately terrible.

Would you care to expand on your dislike of Bioshock Infinite? I'd be interested to hear why you didn't like it.

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.

Don't be afraid to fly in the face of public opinion mate, it's what makes threads like this interesting.

Then there's the game I'm most disappointed in its' terrible-ness.

[Sonic 2006 pic]

As someone who is quite the big Sonic fan, nothing hurts more than this game. The opinions on some of the other games vary wildly, but everyone is in agreement that this is absolutely horrid, and the single redeeming quality of the game is its' music.

Going off on a tangent here, I've always wanted to say I have a weird sort of respect for Sonic fans for staying with the series for at least a decade after I would have burned all bridges. After Mass Effect failed me that badly it was dead to me within a week.

In my case the worst game I've ever played was Alone In The Dark 2008. I'll admit that I try to avoid playing truly awful games, but that thing was unplayable. I ended up using the built-in skip level button (advertised as a feature on the back of the box) to get to the end and I still had to burn the sodding tree roots.

 

[Austin Howe]

The worst game I've played to completion was either Final Fantasy XII or Bioshock: Infinite

I've never played any of the historical stinkers to completion, so those are the only games I've played whole way through that occur to me as being not just mediocre or even kinda bad but really just legitimately terrible.

Would you care to expand on your dislike of Bioshock Infinite? I'd be interested to hear why you didn't like it.

TBH the problems that I have with the politics of the game are pretty well described here: http://critdamage.blogspot.com/2013/04/some-preliminary-thoughts-on-bioshock.html So I won't harp on that.

The gameplay was also really bad. Every enemy sponged bullets like crazy and some other enemies sponged even more bullets, the excellent soundtrack is underused, tons of the worst kind of "about to do an objective wait no three more sub-objectives", the Lady Comstock fight is the worst boss fight I've ever played, and the ending in particular somehow made a game of 12 hours feel long. TBH I had a lot of these criticisms about the original Bioshock as well, but even though I never liked the gameplay, I felt that the narrative did eventually add up to something (even if it was saying something that Spec Ops would say much, much better a few years later and something MGS2 and MGS4 both did with far more subtlety.)

In all honesty, the first half hour or so was amazing, I would've loved a BS:I that was maybe a first-person adventure game or something along those lines, something that would encourage the soft, warm atmosphere of the game's opening. That kind of feeling I find to be seriously lacking in most games, and I really liked the sort of dissonant effect of that warm feeling against the boiling racial tensions etc etc that totally gets lost when the game becomes a gratuitously-violent-even-for-an-FPS-in-2013 killfest.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I've played some pretty crappy games though not so many recently...lemme see...

Hey...if you're played Sonic 06 and say you hated it and/or it's the worst Sonic game ever made then I implore you to play Sonic and the Secret Rings. Black Knight was a bad Sonic title too but I would play Black Knight again before I infect my Wii/U with the Secret Rings disc again. Crush 40's then-new song was the only good thing in that disc and you can get that same song in Smash Bros Brawl: a vastly, greatly, infinitely better game.

I thought I'd have more but I don't really...OH! I'VE GOT ONE!

The Game Boy port of Mortal Kombat! The visuals were to be expected considering the limitations of the console but the laggy controls make the game neigh unplayable.

Spoiler: bonus round: a short list of games I hate (one per/console)

Game Boy - Mortal Kombat
Nintendo 64 - Roadsters...also the Crusin' games
NES - Total Recall
Nintendo Wii - Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Sonic & The Secret Rings, Fortune Street & Mario Party 9 [sub](I prefer Metroid Other M to all 4 of those Wii games)[/sub]
Sega Dreamcast - Ready 2 Rumble
Xbox 360 - Fable 3 and, Final Fantasy XIII

 

[CannibalCorpses]

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.

Sounds a little like my experience...had a warning or 2 for getting pissed off at some fanboy who can't accept even the slightest fault about the game. Not sure it's the worst game ever but the fanboys are some of the worst i've ever had to deal with. My view on this game is tainted by the fact i was told i would find it challenging and when it arrived...it challeged little more than my patience.

 

[CannibalCorpses]

Hrrmmm *ponders* What was it's name...that norse mythology futuristic sci-fi item based RPG bollocks...you know, it had 6 levels of pure shit and terrible gameplay.

Also, a game called Quantum theory that was the worst wannabe gears of war i've played...just a fucking mess.