You know your game is terrible when...

[SideburnsPuppy]

...you sit down to start programming your next one, then find out that your keyboard has somehow transformed into a piece of cardboard with "Will streamline for food" written on it in stolen sharpie.

 

[Thundero13]

You know your game is terrible when it's called Final Fantasy III

 

[pretentiousname01]

When you give out an additional free month, and no one still wants to play.

 

[Teachingaddict]

when your game is based of a ring tone mascot.

noooooooooooooooooooo! I had managed to get "that" awful horrible grey tthing out of my head. Damn you to hell!


You know your game is terrible when the sales assistant tells you "not" to buy it.

 

[MrGalactus]

When EA sends a singing box to your house to convince you to play it.

 

[helldragonX]

You know your game is terrible when you feel compelled to return it withing six hours of buying it.(I've done this)

 

[Cowabungaa]

You know your game is terrible when you feel compelled to return it withing six hours of buying it.(I've done this)

Old friend of mine did that not because the game sucked, but because he finished it. Traded it in for an awesome multiplayer title, can't remember which but it was damn fun.

Anyway...oh damn, what hasn't been done. Well you know a game is terrible when even the developer won't acknowledge it's existence. You know, like they did with Rogue Warrior. No advertisement or anything at all about it. Can't blame them.

 

[captaincabbage]

You know you're game is bad when you are too busy watching a fly crawl across the ceiling to select your next move.

 

[sageoftruth]

You know your game is terrible when the purpose of the game's creation is to make the player buy x or to make the player belive in y.

 

[sageoftruth]

You know your game is terrible when you are trying to find ways to play it without actually having to be there yourself.

 

[Rofl-Mayo]

You know your game is terrible when the cutscene is can't be skipped.

 

[BioHazardMan]

You know your game is shit when Rebellion or LJN have touched it.

 

[sageoftruth]

You know your game is terrible when the title has a Z where an S should be.

 

[moose_man]

You know your game is terrible when you just grab a random person and keep running up the side of building and never bother getting further into the storyline of the game.

...but that's awesome!!!

 

[repeating integers]

You know the game is terrible if you can't die/lose.

Aww, you just made LEGO Star Wars go cry in a corner. How mean.

(You can't lose in that game, and dying only removes a bit of money - which you can sometimes recollect... but it was still a quirky, fun little thing.)

In a similar vein:

You know your game is terrible when the cutscene is can't be skipped.

I don't think you can skip Mass Effect's cutscenes. Either you were specifically referring to this and how much you disliked it, or it was an oversight.

Regardless, I think Mass Effect is awesome, and cutscenes are practically its cornerstone.

 

[PrimoThePro]

When in a cut scene it couldn't load fast enoguh so Page was firing an invisible gun at Reaver, Yugioh style.

I lol'd. Mine rendered fine in the first playthrough... Not so fine in the second.
You know your game is terrible when everyone mistakens it for a better game.

 

[Rofl-Mayo]

You know the game is terrible if you can't die/lose.

Aww, you just made LEGO Star Wars go cry in a corner. How mean.

(You can't lose in that game, and dying only removes a bit of money - which you can sometimes recollect... but it was still a quirky, fun little thing.)

In a similar vein:

You know your game is terrible when the cutscene is can't be skipped.

I don't think you can skip Mass Effect's cutscenes. Either you were specifically referring to this and how much you disliked it, or it was an oversight.

Regardless, I think Mass Effect is awesome, and cutscenes are practically its cornerstone.

I forgot about that, I was referring to the original Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles for Gamecube and a few other games, but not Mass Effect. Thank you for pointing that out.

 

[Fetzenfisch]

You know your game is terrible when its genre starts with the letter J. Yes Jockey-Simulators i am looking at you! Jabberwock-Managers are quite alright though.

 

[Ambient]

You know your game is terrible when you just grab a random person and keep running up the side of building and never bother getting further into the storyline of the game.

...but that's awesome!!!

Sure, but when that and other 'I'm neigh invincible and can kill people in the most brutal ways possible' behavior is the only interesting ting in the game?

 

[wolf92]

You know its a bad game when gamestop won't even accept it for a trade in