Your first 'bad' game

[meowchef]

I never really appreciated that a game was bad until I got old enough to afford them on my own and could just buy them/sell them on a whim.

When a game was a 3 or 4 times a year thing, I enjoyed every little bit of said game. Whether it was good or terrible.

 

[minuialear]

A very shitty platformer called "Glover". Poor controls, bad graphics, and you played as a fucking GLOVE.

YES. Such a poorly-made game.

 

[PsyberGoth]

Joust, on the Gameboy. Fucking bird. Not going where I tell you, SATAN HAS A SPIT IN HELL FOR YOU!

 

[Cozzzy]

Tunguska for the PS1 was the first game I'd not even tried to complete. Over a few years, every now and then I'd try it again but it ended up the same each time.

The first game that was truly bad to the point I was desperate to get a refund was Brink; I've never played a game before where I couldn't find any fun to be had whatsoever.

 

[Jack and Calumon]

Alone in the Dark: Inferno (The PS3 version of the new one).

I was promised a better version that what people were complaining about. I got a horrible, unscary and unlikable game. What's that? I have to use fire to kill these guys? Okay I'll just... wait, I have to shoot a certain part of their body unique to them in order for it to work? I guess I could... What? Aiming and moving in first person makes you bounce side to side like you've got the biggest double limp in the world? Also the woman who's nagging at me is completely pointless? Forget this!

Calumon: I only play games I know I'd like. Why'd I play anything else? :3

 

[Sectan]

That I owned? Medal of Honor: Rising Sun for the GameCube. Looking back at it it was a complete piece of shit, except for the first level featuring Pearl Harbor.

Jesus I sat down with my brothers and we just played and played and played that for Gamecube. At the time I really thought it was awesome.

Back on topic...Can't really say. I'd just blindly follow what the critics on X-Play said or buy games that my friends had. I never really made my own decisions on a game. Maybe Battlefield: Bad Company 2. MP was a blast. SP just felt lacking, but was playable.

 

[Mondai Randy]

I have Shaq-Fu on the Genesis and the Super Nintendo...............but I find them oddly fun

 

[Quigglebert]

Shadow the Hedgehog... nuff said

i loved shadow, but none the less........ assasins creed (prepares defences for incoming onslaught)

 

[VGC USpartan VS]

Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones on the Gameboy Advance.

Excluding all other flaws... the one that stands out the most to me is the fact that this game USES A PASSWORD SAVE FEATURE!

I thought we dumped those with the NES!

 

[Thistlehart]

Orphen: Scion of Sorcery for the PS2. It was mostly cut-scene and what game-play there was bordered on unplayable. It was pretty, though.

 

[Oilerfan92]

It's a tie between Mario Is Missing and Marios Time Machine.

I'm giving the edge to Time Machine. It still bothers mento this day. I see it for sale at the Flea Market and Im considering buying it, just to slay the demon.

Yes. It bothers me that much.

 

[an874]

This might be a bit controversial, but... The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina... HA, gotcha! What I really mean is Majora's Mask. I know it has a lot of fans, but it was the first game I remember really finding bad, and I know I'm not the only one who hated it.

 

[penguindude42]

My grandparents have an Atari 2600.

Pac-Man and ET were a pain. At least there was Berzerk to make things right.

~TOM<3

 

[Link4422]

Shadow the Hedgehog... nuff said

i loved shadow, but none the less........ assasins creed (prepares defences for incoming onslaught)

Why? I'm not judging you, just wondering why you didn't like it.

For me, it would be the Sonic game from 2006. It's just so bad...

 

[TurtlesAreDelicious]

Sonic '06 is technically the first,
but the first game to really slap me in the face with its badness was Without Warning.

I feel like I should clarify, but I don't feel like putting in the effort right now.
[sub][sub]Besides, who doesn't know the tragedy that is Sonic '06.[/sub][/sub]

 

[New Frontiersman]

The first video game that I played that I felt I really regretted purchasing, that I felt was truly bad was Gex: Enter the Gecko for the original Gameboy.

I had played the original for the N64, and I enjoyed it enough (I was young and naive). I bought the it used for the Gameboy several years later thinking that it might be fun, after all I enjoyed the console version, how bad could it be? I was mistaken, it was terrible.

I was put off buying used games for nearly ten years until I forced myself to buy the original Paper Mario for nostalgia's sake. Paper Mario on the other hand was an excellent purchase, made slightly redundant by the fact it would come out for the Wii's Virtual Console not but a few years later... where I would in fact, buy it again.

 

[Voxgizer]

Every LJN game on the NES. I guess the guy who started that company is now roasting on hot coals in hell.

 

[Quigglebert]

Shadow the Hedgehog... nuff said

i loved shadow, but none the less........ assasins creed (prepares defences for incoming onslaught)

Why? I'm not judging you, just wondering why you didn't like it.

For me, it would be the Sonic game from 2006. It's just so bad...

assasins creed really rubbed me the wrong way, i dont know why, it just did, and i cant play it with out being stupidly bored

 

[Hristo Petrov]

Final Fantasy V&#1030;&#1030;&#1030; (Flame shield on)

 

[Maeta]

There probably were ones beforehand, but the first that i remember is Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone... pretty bad... but actually I think it was better than Prisoner of Azkaban (which tried to mimic Bully, to an extent, and spectacularly failed, because Bully was a good game, and this was fucking awful) and Goblet of Fire (which was a downgrade- they seemed to remove everything from the game and simplify it to escape from the previous shitfest, rather than correct what was wrong and try to be a great game like Bully was)...
I'm sure that there were some before and between, but now I'm over 21 my memory's beginning to go...