Worst vehicles in gaming

[That_Sneaky_Camper]

The helicopters in the Battlefield games, can't speak for the older games but as far as my experience with Bad Company 2 and Battlefield 3 goes they are so difficult to control that I either end up flying them out of the map boundaries or crash. I have only ever managed to get a kill on the helicopter as a minigun passenger, driving it myself I fail every time. Making a vehicle difficult to control doesn't make it "realistic" or "edgy", that's bad game design.

The tanks and the cars on the other hand are at least manageable to control, if not a little clunky.

 

[redrefugee]

The Helicopter from Earth Defence Force. All of the vehicles in that game had handling problems but the chopper was the worst.

This guy knows what he's talking about!

That helicopter was hilariously bad. It had such terrible maneuverability, the guns and rockets were tough to aim properly and didn't really do much damage even if they hit... ugh.

BUT!

I'd argue that it's not actually the worst vehicle in that game. With the helicopter, at least you could fly up to the very top of the map, hop out, then fire a bazooka downward from the helicopter's wing and rain death and destruction upon the heads of your foes while keeping yourself safely out of their range.

The speeder bike on the other hand...

Now THAT was junk. Fixed-direction guns that did practically no damage and couldn't be used against jumping or aerial targets, the bike itself had such low armor that it would be instantly destroyed if it took any fire, and it managed to combine difficult controls with high speeds - meaning you were probably just going to slam into a building or something, destroy the bike, and hurt yourself.

Having considered your post, your completely right. I suppose now I think about it, I didn't really use the speeder (because it was so utterly useless) which is why the helicopter pooped into my head first.

The only thing the speeder was any good for was putting distance between yourself and the enemies, or quickly getting to a better vehicle.

P.S. Have you tried the Mech in insect Armageddon? The controls for it have been fixed, but it travels as quickly as a cruise liner would on land.

 

[Wayneguard]

I LOVE the motherfucking mako.

On the other hand, I hate the horses from red dead redemption. Fuck driving cattle and fuck using RT for slowing down.

 

[galaktar]

The ever-present pintos from Far Cry 2. Couldn't run away from anything, were transparent to bullets, and you always managed to forget where you left it until it exploded because of the fire everywhere... right next to you.

 

[Infernai]

Pretty much every vehicle in "Shadow the Hedgehog".

God,that game was awful!

^ I'm gonna have to go with this. Everything in that game was fucking atrocious though. Sonic 06 was worse though...oh so much worse.

 

[realist1990]

Horses in Red Dead Redemption.

They freakin run away from you if you don't immediately jump on them after whistling!
And there's no easy way to make them stop. It's annoying.

this...my way of dealing with those bastards?
expend ALL my bullets from an evans repeater in red-eye into the fucker then use the war horse deed to get a new one...I would then try to intimidate the new horse by skinning the old one in front of it...I like to think it worked

 

[Jolly Co-operator]

Recently had a wee bit of frustration with the X-0 Heavy Tank in Starhawk. It works fine in multiplayer, where the maps are more wide open, but in the tighter single player maps, it gets stuck on EVERYTHING! It didn't take very long to jostle it free, but it really doesn't ease the frustration while there's artillery raining down on you. But again, this has really only been a problem in single player so far, and even that was just once.

As for the absolute worst, I'd say the tank in Sly Cooper 2. I absolutely hated that thing.

 

[Songblade]

Not a vehicle, but the horses in Skyrim are just AWFUL.

 

[Iwata]

This fucking thing in IL-2 Sturmovik. It won't do anything except, maybe, fly straight ahead and eventualy crash/explode/burn/shatter into a million pieces when the aura of an enemy plane gets anywhere near you.

 

[Torrasque]

The tank from Halo: CE.
You controlled the turret AND the movement with one stick, and yet the other stick controlled the turret when you were static...?
The machine gun turret was absolutely useless, and the main cannon was inaccurate as fuck.
Compared to the beauty that is the Halo 3 tank, that thing was a piece of shit.

The Slick Star in Kirby Airide... I just don't get why it was built. It cannot make turns sharper than around the end of a football field, it has so much trouble stopping, it's just so... useless!

Don't knock the slick star, you just probably haven't gotten over the learning curve. Though I agree that's irrelevant because it offers no benefits another star wouldn't, thus no reason to use it at all. The bulk star is far worse though.

The slick star was amusing if you had a lot of turn and acceleration, but I still get tears of nostalgia about my dark star with 12 glide and 8 attack... You know you made your star right when you can 2-shot a fucking Hydra and out-glide the Dragoon.
*sigh*
I love that game so much. I must have spent days in the City mode.

I loved the Mako, as long as you drove it right everything was fine.

The Dodo on the other hand.

That thing could have a mind of its own.

"Oh hey, I finally figured out how to fly this piece of shit! Sweet!"
*suddenly something happens despite you doing nothing*
"AHH WHAT THE FUCK. WHY AM I DOING BARREL ROLLS TOWARDS THE GROUND"

 

[dudagato]

Pretty much every vehicle in "Shadow the Hedgehog".

God,that game was awful!

^ I'm gonna have to go with this. Everything in that game was fucking atrocious though. Sonic 06 was worse though...oh so much worse.

They still controled better than shadow himself.

 

[Girl With One Eye]

The MAKO was awesome compared to this pure excuse of a tank:
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I swear that thing was made out of plastic and cardboard.

I HATED that damn thing!! If there was an award for worst vechile in game, this would surely win.

 

[Scow2]

The MAKO was awesome compared to this pure excuse of a tank:
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I swear that thing was made out of plastic and cardboard.

I HATED that damn thing!! If there was an award for worst vechile in game, this would surely win.

Sounds like you need to play more games with vehicles in them, then, because your perspective must be VERY narrow if the Mako's the "Worst"

 

[Girl With One Eye]

Sounds like you need to play more games with vehicles in them, then, because your perspective must be VERY narrow if the Mako's the "Worst"

Well to be fair you are probably right, but I just hate that thing with a passion !!

 

[Alexias_Sandar]

I actually loved the Mako too. Sure it bounced like the world was made of rubber at times, if you were going over sharp peaks, and things occasionally ran into...interesting physics situations...and if you wanted to get full XP you got out and did your final shots outside it... but it let you get all kinds of interesting places, and set up nice sniping shots on poor, not so innocent Geth outposts and Slavers and Bandits and the like. I enjoyed the exploring, and even just the driving, despite all its problems.

Now for something that I occasionally hated with a passion, and which will age me a bit... the Airco D.H.2 in Red Baron. Yes, the original Red Baron. Actually had solid handling...just one minor problem...if you took advantage of its maneuverability it was rather likely to literally fall apart in the sky from the strain you'd put on the thing...not from enemy fire...but from the g-force you'd just put your own aircraft through. Not to mention its...stalling problem.

 

[Berenzen]

Gravbike in Tribes: Ascend.

Easy to wield, but a stray spinfusor will kill you and the guy that's riding 2nd. Not to mention that the guns are stupid inaccurate.

Also the Shrike- that thing is just a useless box in the sky unless someone who actually knows how to drive it is in the thing.

 

[TheColdHeart]

Quite a few of the vehicles in Just Cause 2 were pretty crap. I swear the tuk tuk on any incline was slower than walking up the hill.

Some of the other cars had an odd 'tap the brake to do a slow turn...instant crazy skidding 90 degrees turn' which made any form of high-speed escape more an unpredictable adventure through whatever terrain you were near in which you'll probably explode.

 

[DanteLives]

F35 in BF3 is rubbish. You can't even fly it without it acting stoned.

 

[Killspre]

I don't know if this counts but nothing made me more frustrated at first than the planes from GTA San Andreas.

 

[Vrach]

Choppers in BFBC2 come to mind, on the PC. They handled like absolute arse and had awful maneuverability, hated piloting those things.

Cars in Saints Row 2. Cruise control was wonderful, the way cars handled... I'd rather be driving a drunk rhino on roller skates. I don't even wanna think of the bikes, though in all honesty I haven't seen bikes done right (or at least made fun) since the older GTA games (VC/SA).

F35 in BF3 is rubbish. You can't even fly it without it acting stoned.

Oh fuck yeah. F35 is goddamn awful, I only use that thing if no one's piloting them and I need a quick flight to the mainland. Don't get why they couldn't just give them:
a) A normal fucking crosshair. Seriously, a little white dot? That thing's impossible to track most of the time, I have to start firing just to see where the bloody hell it is.
b) Decent banking (largely, but not completely the fault of c, as it's hard to not end up stopping in the air and turning into a sitting duck for the next 10+ seconds)
c) A button to switch between hover and normal flight modes. I mean, really, how hard is that to implement?
d) A way to control the plane in hover mode (can hardly be implemented without doing c first). The whole idea of hover mode is to make it behave like a helicopter afaik, yet all the F35 can do is sit there impotently.