the worst game you ever played!

[splicer]

for me,a goddamm awful point&clicker called NECRONOMICON-it turned my brain to mush!-whats yours?

[^ilovebioshock!]

SIMS SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!
VIVA PINIATA SUCKS!!!!
FARCRY IS KIND OF STUPID!!!!
BURGERKINGS SNEAK KING SUCKS NOODLES!!!!
WARCRAFT(JUST WARCRAFT)SUCKS!!!!
STARCRAFT EATS BALLS!!!
TOO MANY CANT THINK!!!

[Jeff]

wow, the way you elaborated so eloquently on the games you listed as slightly disliking has me gasping for air, my brain trying desperately to process all the information you've given us at a rate reasonable enough to give me the ability to comprehend it. Not only that but the way you used the standard text so masterfully I'll be astonished if you don't receive a pulitzer prize in the area of literature for this post alone.

All I can add is that I hope you remain here for an extended period of time, brightening our little community with your excellence in writing. You sir, are like a ray of sunshine on an otherwise gloomy day.

[Gimli]

wow, the way you elaborated so eloquently on the games you listed as slightly disliking has me gasping for air, my brain trying desperately to process all the information you've given us at a rate reasonable enough to give me the ability to comprehend it. Not only that but the way you used the standard text so masterfully I'll be astonished if you don't receive a pulitzer prize in the area of literature for this post alone.

All I can add is that I hope you remain here for an extended period of time, brightening our little community with your excellence in writing. You sir, are like a ray of sunshine on an otherwise gloomy day.

Jeff, are you aware how much a new sarcasm-o-meter(tm) costs? So please, think of the little people next time. ;)

[Hatesink]

Pulling no punches...

Nibiru: Age of Secrets (the name says it all)

Bad enough to be a cult hit.

How it scored so highly at Gamespot is a total mystery— I think the review must have been some kind of private joke (Black Mirror is about ten times as good (at a push, Black Mirror may possibly even be worth playing)).

If you ever need cheering up, download the Nibiru: Age of Secrets demo (you'll swear that when asked for I.D. he showed the soldier his wang) and then wonder incredulous at the fact that people actually seek to play games that are just this bad.

[king_clueless]

The Getaway on PS2

I thought it was going to be like GTA3 but in London but how wrong was I? Very!

The whole thing (I say that having not bothering to finish it) was bloody awful. The so called "SAT-NaV like detail" of London was nothing like and being from London was always trying to se roads that weren't actually in the game.
The whole concept of London gangsters is crap anyway and I'm glad I didn't buy it and just played my bro's copy instead.

Oh btw FarCry rocks ur mental ilovebioshock :P

[splicer]

SIMS SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!
VIVA PINIATA SUCKS!!!!
FARCRY IS KIND OF STUPID!!!!
BURGERKINGS SNEAK KING SUCKS NOODLES!!!!
WARCRAFT(JUST WARCRAFT)SUCKS!!!!
STARCRAFT EATS BALLS!!!
TOO MANY CANT THINK!!!

How beautifully articulated,the overt manner in which the author expressed his dislike of said software is utterly mesmerising!

[v.dog]

You know sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, right? Enough already, the point has been made.
Let's move on and discuss games.

SiN 1: poor level design, entire underwater levels (and by that I mean swimming) , weak AI, rats that came up to you and started eating your toes, and an annoying sidekick (note to developers and directors: if the protagonist(s) find the sidekick irritating, odds are, so does the player/audience).

SiN Episode 1: poor pacing (eg: after beating a boss monster, you're thrown straight into another firefight), vision blur/control drift from a mutagen overload has fatal consequences in a firefight, Elexis's bra carries too much weight (ie: it was like her cleavage was more important in terms of what I spent my money on than the plot, gameplay, and level design).

Starsky & Hutch: a driving game with poor physics and worse collsion detection. Nuff' said.

[Silent Film]

Red Faction II.

So bad it's not even worth discussing why, it's just bad. Yeah.

[jackinthebox]

Pulling no punches...

Nibiru: Age of Secrets (the name says it all)

Bad enough to be a cult hit.

How it scored so highly at Gamespot is a total mystery— I think the review must have been some kind of private joke (Black Mirror is about ten times as good (at a push, Black Mirror may possibly even be worth playing)).

If you ever need cheering up, download the Nibiru: Age of Secrets demo (you'll swear that when asked for I.D. he showed the soldier his wang) and then wonder incredulous at the fact that people actually seek to play games that are just this bad.

hmm i liked Black Mirror because it has a great atmosphere , but Nibiru was really lame :( the puzzles were just bad... i liked the setting though.

Red Faction II.

So bad it's not even worth discussing why, it's just bad. Yeah.

i couldn't express it better... don't even dare to touch the game-cd.

[D'Sparil]

Mary-Kate and Ashley's Sweet 16 game on ps2... (5-ish years ago)my ex-girlfriend bought it thinking that maybe there would be a video game she would like... well.... wrong.

[nmrahde]

Recently? I'd have to say Gauntlet Seven Sorrows on PS2. While the background on it looked gorgeous, the levels were almost entirely linear.

But worst ever? Probably this PC game called Shattered Light published by Simon & Schuster Interactive so that oughtta tell you something. Infact, I think it may have given me cancer.

[Hatesink]

hmm i liked Black Mirror because it has a great atmosphere , but Nibiru was really lame :( the puzzles were just bad... i liked the setting though.To be honest I only played the demos for those two games, but if the demo was an example of how good Nibiru gets, I definitely wouldn't play it.

As for Black Mirror, I was being more harsh than I should have been. It was pretty good. I don't really like 3rd person adventures, but Black Mirror is one I probably will end up playing. I just don't understand why it got such a bad rap at gamespot. It's clearly one of the better, if not the best of that crop of Adventure Company titles (although I must admit my experience of their latest releases is a little limited).

Another bad game:

Voodoo Vince. The game itself is good, and setting and music is great, but Vince's character really detracts from the game— he's just got such a lousy personality it's vaguely sickening. Listening to one-liners like "Time for a dirt nap" over and over again is just kind of soul destroying in a very subtle way. At one point I actually searched for an option to turn his voice off.

Edit: I enjoyed Far Cry, but it felt like a broken stealth game tweaked into something new, for necessity's sake. It felt to me like no one would sit down a plan a game that plays quite like Far Cry. It also felt like a lot of it's success came from the fact that it was in some ways a break from the norm.

[borgdrone89]

probably the worst games i've played are:
Age of empires: the age of kings DS
metroid prime pinball (DS)
and the whole spiro series was kinda lame as well.
generally, i follow reviews of games before i consider buying them, and i usually dont go below the 8/10 mark on any of the review sites. this way, i play decent games. AOE was an exception because it scored highly, but it is a turn-based strategy. I HATE TURN BASED STRATEGY GAMES (the only ones i may play from time to time are the advance wars series, but i dont like them either).
I also hate sports and racing games.

[LowEnergyCycle]

Recently I was forced to return Just Cause - it's a game that just doesn't want to be played. It shrugs you off, casually, like an insect. Every time you attempt to do anything sand-boxy and fun, it just sticks two fingers up and yawns non-commital like.

It's too easy to get into a police chase, yet near-impossible to die or become challenged by one, unless you decide you're bored of said chase and want to try something new. Then it becomes impossible to lose the chase. Ever.

Your character runs at exactly 2mph, and there is no sprint button. So when your car inevetably hits one of the many tree-stumps and minor hills that dot the countryside, and you end up at the bottom of a cliff with a smoking write-off, watching him jog for half an hour before reaching civilisation is almost as boring as... well... nope. Can't think of anything.

You will spend 75% of your time doing the above.

Parachuting from aircraft is fun exactly once. Then it becomes a useless gimick.

As does car-jumping and all the other rediculous stunts.

Buggy physics cause all manor of irritating moments: for instance, why won't my Monster Truck drive over this tiny Mini? Instead it's just sitting, embraced in some twisted car union, rear wheels twitching.

Everybody goes on about how beautifull it looks (and quite often, it does). But some of the things I saw...
On two or three occasions, due to some missing polygons, I could see right through the floor, into The Void.
Police would quite frequently just appear, as if by magic, right before my eyes. In Helecopters.
Ever notice how the surf effect of the waves crashing on the beach, actually crashes some 10ft above the surface of the land? Well after spending countless hours scrabbling around at the bottom of shear cliff faces, I noticed it quite a lot.
I'm sure everybody's also noticed how, when adopting the Stunt Position(tm) on a helecopter, your body safely passes straight through the deadly spinning rotor blades like a ghost, rather than returning to it's component atoms in a savage whirlwind of razor-sharp steel.

There's more, I'm sure.

Wanna do more than just fetch-and-carry or so-simple-it's-boring-assasination quests? Tough titty.

Anyway. It's just a god-damn Frustration Simulator.

[Club Heaven]

I also quit playing Just Cause, mainly because it had a dumbass story with dumbass characters. But the flying part and skydiving I miss even today. You could get up to a few kilometers high and actually see the whole (huge) gameworld while slowly freefalling. Also, seeing the night turn into day while dropping like rock through the sweet 3d clouds was unprecedented. The aircraft were very easy to control and flying close to the ground, doing all kinds of stunts among the skyscrapers was deeelicious.

Now the worst game I've ever played was probably Halo. Might have been worse ones like Shade: Wrath of Angels, but Halo annoys me even more because garbage like that does not deserve to be so popular under any circumstances. If anyone disagrees, I'm not really up for a debate cause it's been years since I played it and I can barely remember any details. Only my disgust remained.

EDIT: laughable grammar mistakes

[jackinthebox]

I'm sure everybody's also noticed how, when adopting the Stunt Position(tm) on a helecopter, your body safely passes straight through the deadly spinning rotor blades like a ghost, rather than returning to it's component atoms in a savage whirlwind of razor-sharp steel.


i was at the games convention in Germany and i listened to some guy from Eidos playing Just Cause in a live presentation... he did that helicopter stunt and everybody was like: "what the...?!"
but he just smiled and said: "i do not recommend doing that at home."

[LowEnergyCycle]

he just smiled and said: "i do not recommend doing that at home."

And that's a good enough excuse for shoddy game design?! That's just plain lazy, in my book at least. I know they were going after a more Arcade-style of play and everything, but it just seems like they totally botched where, how and with what pen to draw the line with.

Well I recomend his exact advice for anybody thinking about playing Just Cause :p

[Mr.Bubblez]

Key word here is purchased. When have you spent your hard earned money on a load of crap?

For me, its exceedingly rare for me to buy a game and not like it, mainly because I always do a ton of research before buying and I'm quite particular about what I play.

Worst game I ever purchased:

Nexus: The Jupiter Incident

The gameplay was actually pretty good, as were the reviews, but the game was full of bugs and crashed about every 30 min. In fact there were so many bugs that it was impossible to progress through the game at certain difficulty levels. Bad game, bad game!

[^ilovebioshock!]

does $6 count as a lot of money cause i bought the Sneak King game from burger king and it was a total turdy lump of crapppp:D

need i say why it sucked

[poopypooperson]

*hides* Shrek... the original for the Xbox...


...er...

[Poison17]

I bought Red Steel and then sent it back a month later even though I only played it for one day, that is not the worst game I owned the worst games I ever owned was Spyro: Orange (but I didn't buy it I got it as a gift and it was bundled with Metroid Zero Mission, I sold it a few weeks ago to put money down on the limited Edition of Bioshock)

[Mr.Bubblez]

I bought Red Steel and then sent it back a month later even though I only played it for one day

Yeah, everyone thought that game would be so cool and it totally blew.

[Rapture_Survivalist]

"Touch the Dead" for the DS. Don't even touch this game, (no pun intended ;)). Biggest waste of money in a long time for me.

[^ilovebioshock!]

Yeah, everyone thought that game would be so cool and it totally blew.

yea i thought the sword slashes could go anywhere but it turns out they were like diagnol up down and left right

[godot]

Probably Deus Ex: Invisible War.


Interviewer: "Why didn't you release it with a Quick Save feature."

Harvey Smith: "Um... We forgot."

More likely, they forgot that they were making a game for PC as well as console. :rolleyes:

[Justlookaway]

let's see...need for speed 2 for the DS. It was awful.

[That_dude]

The worst, for me hands-down, was Predator: Concrete Jungle for the PS2. I thought this was going to be a gem, but low and behold, IT BLEW.
I don't know why I did not do research for this one.

[Bartekk]

Earth 2160

It's not like it's a crap, but it's the only game I have bought that I don't play and haven't finished.

[LordLeckie]

probably speed thief an insignificant race made by a nobody developer, played it once for 5 minutes and never touched it again.

that said has anyone here purchased big rigs? you know just to say you own it?

[Mr.Bubblez]

that said has anyone here purchased big rigs? you know just to say you own it?

hah i remember the gamespot review. if everyone had played that game this thread would be boring :)

[LordLeckie]

too true but still, you have to think what the hell were the developers thinking??? but then i read the wikipedia article on the company Stellar stone LLC which apparently has a habit of hiring crappy russian devs.

check it out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_Stone_LLC

[borgdrone89]

age of empires: the age of kings for DS

[splicer]

Necronomicon-like attempting to pull your own teeth out!:(

[Giftmacher]

Master of Orion 3... Total, total trash. Unlike previous versions you've no real sense of control, the AI does most of the work for you. Worst of all if you want to micro manage anything (like say a border outpost to get it off the ground quicker) you end up being punished for it.

Running a close second are the UFO games... not a patch on Xcom, buggy as hell on release and malware copyright protection thrown in for kicks.

Really I could rant all day on either of the above. :p

Gift.

[v.dog]

SiN (the original). I bought it with SiN Episode 1 (which wasn't much better) as I thought the bundle was a good deal. I knew it had lost the HL1 in the Great FPS War of '96, but I had no idea of how badly it had been beaten.

[Ectoplasm]

Sigh.... Ultima Underworld for PocketPC. A very kludgy port, very much unsuitable for PPC interface. I loved the original on the PC, and thought I'd get a version I can play on the go, but it turned out pretty much unplayable.

[Bioshock_FTW!]

Fate of Atlantis and Ultima 9.

[501105]

Big rigs *shudder*

[BioShockWins]

stickman sam 1 lol

[rocky1007]

OK. This is going back a ways but I owned this game and it caused me to give up games for about 5 years. "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial" for the ATARI 2600 has got to be the worst game ever. It crashed the game market. All I remember is you fell in pits and could not get out even though it was supposed to be easy to get out somehow. That has to be the worst game ever. Who can believe that a movie tie in game was bad. That never happens.

[FreshLaundryX]

OK. This is going back a ways but I owned this game and it caused me to give up games for about 5 years. "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial" for the ATARI 2600 has got to be the worst game ever. It crashed the game market. All I remember is you fell in pits and could not get out even though it was supposed to be easy to get out somehow. That has to be the worst game ever. Who can believe that a movie tie in game was bad. That never happens.

Hahahaha!

I wanted to love that game so bad. :( I tried so hard.

The irony is that in the end, that game was thrown into a pit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.T._the_Extra-Terrestrial_(Atari_2600)) and could not get out - a landfill actually.

The game did not do well commercially, and cost Atari millions of U.S. dollars. E.T. is seen by many as the death knell of Atari and is thought by some to be the worst video game ever made as well as the biggest commercial failure in video gaming history. A major contributing factor to Atari's demise, the game's failure triggered the video game crash of 1983.

Worst Games on the Face of the Earth (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DTjLG3usQo&mode=related&search=)

[FreshLaundryX]

p.s. After all the *****ing I did about 'Call of Juarez', it didn't end up to be too bad in the end. I kind of enjoyed it.


Most annoying "next-gen" video game moment:

The endlessly repeating electrical "bzzt! bzzt!" legs/treads are nearly broken sound in the xbox 360's "Chromehounds"

The Japanese have an amazing tolerance for repetitive sounds that I just DO NOT share. I was ready to burn that game no matter how good the graphics were.

The interface was clunky and terrible too. :(

[jackinthebox]

OK. This is going back a ways but I owned this game and it caused me to give up games for about 5 years. "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial" for the ATARI 2600 has got to be the worst game ever. It crashed the game market. All I remember is you fell in pits and could not get out even though it was supposed to be easy to get out somehow. That has to be the worst game ever. Who can believe that a movie tie in game was bad. That never happens.

it's the worst game for the Atari 2600 i think... they had to bury 5 million copies in the desert:

http://www.snopes.com/business/market/atari.asp

[LordLeckie]

Jeff, are you aware how much a new sarcasm-o-meter(tm) costs? So please, think of the little people next time. ;)

oh a sarcasm detector thats really useful

[lilwyvern4]

Metroid Prime 2: Echoes. *dons flame retardant suit* The game was just ANNOYING, especially the Dark World, I tried to like it, I really did, I even game it a second play a year after I bought it, but I just HATED it. The Dark World was the friggin' worst. Your energy dropped like a rock outside of the little safety bubbles and while waiting for the bubbles to recharge your energy, you could actually go and cook and eat dinner for a family of 4 and STILL have to wait 10 minutes for it to fully recharge. Yes, you do get the Dark Suit, and it helps, but then you have to fight bosses outside of the protective bubbles. Case in point: the Boost Guardian.

I could go on, believe me I could go on, but this is too depressing even for me.

[splicer]

I've rememberd a few more stinkers from my archives of pain!

Martian Gothic Unification
Dracula Resurrection
The First Evil Dead Game


All major Migraine inducers...Avoid!:eek:

[lotkrotan]

hmmm, I games I have bought and thought sucked:

Twisted metal 4
Twisted Metal Black
Twisted Metal Small Brawl
Twisted Metal PSP
Almost every PSP game I ever bought (minus Wipeout and Untold Legends, those were fun)
Yoshi Island DS (I thought I wanted more Yoshi's Island, I was wrong)
Super Mario 64 DS (see above)
Grand Theft Auto San Andreas (played it 2 times after I bought it, then went back to vice city)
World of Warcraft, I finally got the game, played it, and asked "is this it?."
Brute Force for Xbox
half of my Sega CD games (Sewer Shark I'm looking at you)
Sonic Shuffle for Dreamcast
Chromehounds for 360 (boring)
GRAW for 360
Full Auto for 360
F.E.A.R. (it just didn't draw me in)

[Fuzzy OneThree]

Wreckless for Xbox, good thing we only paid $5 for it.

[Raveness]

Master of Orion 3 was one of the largest sequel failures in strategy gaming. For those who loved Part 2, you'd be completely dissapointed with the Excel-spreadsheet application that #3 had become, and even user mods couldn't salvage it from disaster.

It became the first game that was less interesting than my desk job as a secretary.

Honorable mention to SiN Emergence. It is so utterly formulaic that I felt like I was playing another FPS. I saw some cyberpunk potential in continuing episodes, but a casual games company swallowed up the makers of SiN. They had merit, they made more compelling "games".

[Necros]

for me,a goddamm awful point&clicker called NECRONOMICON-it turned my brain to mush!-whats yours?
I've always wanted to get my hands on that. Is it really that bad? :( I love HP Lovecraft's work and I thought it was a good game after a preview.

Most recently Halo 2. Piece of crap... And the Vista thing, LOL... :D Can't think of anything else right now, I'm waaaay too exhausted after a long day.

[BioShockWins]

I've always wanted to get my hands on that. Is it really that bad? :( I love HP Lovecraft's work and I thought it was a good game after a preview.

Most recently Halo 2. Piece of crap... And the Vista thing, LOL... :D Can't think of anything else right now, I'm waaaay too exhausted after a long day.

halo 2 vista really is a pile of bull sh!t

I don't know if teams like CMT will be able to re-make the single player like they did for halo 1... But I doubt the PC version will be usefull for anything outside of campaign

[nyoe]

The Getaway on PS2

I thought it was going to be like GTA3 but in London but how wrong was I? Very!

The whole thing (I say that having not bothering to finish it) was bloody awful. The so called "SAT-NaV like detail" of London was nothing like and being from London was always trying to se roads that weren't actually in the game.
The whole concept of London gangsters is crap anyway and I'm glad I didn't buy it and just played my bro's copy instead.

Oh btw FarCry rocks ur mental ilovebioshock :P

i liked that game but two movies that are important in order to like the getaway are "lock stock and two smoking barrels" and "snatch"