Games So Bad...You Just Can't Finish Them...

[Genesaturn]

So..I recently attempted to play through Dark Castle on my Genesis in order to write up a review on my blog...needless to say after 5 minutes of playing the game....its all the time I needed to write up my review. This game is so terrible, I will never ever burden my Genesis again with its presence. Then I thought of other games so terrible I couldn't finish...So I was wondering...what games were so bad you guys couldn't finish?

Also if your curious about Dark Castle - click the link to my blog in my sig below :)

[tom]

Taboo the sixth sense on NES
So bad, Rare should have been thrown in the dungeon for writing such a turd.

[The Dord]

Batman Dark Tommorow (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman:_Dark_Tomorrow) .. My god was this a horrible game when I rented it back then for the Xbox 360.. Horrible controls, nauseating gameplay... thinking of of it makes me wanna hurl :puke:

[treismac]

Taboo the sixth sense on NES
So bad, Rare should have been thrown in the dungeon for writing such a turd.

Don't let Edmond Dantes catch you dissing Taboo!

Seriously though, what can you expect? It is a game based on tarot cards. It did what it set out to do.

[Natty Bumppo]

King Arhtur and the Knights of Justice for the SNES. It was painful. The only game I ever sold back to a game store.

[Daltone]

I love awful games, I really do.

I maintain that Supreme Warrior on the Mega CD is acutally impossible to complete (of course, I fully expect 17 people to chime in that they have done just that! Probably sold their souls to the devil or something.) Urban Runner, another dodgy FMV game, was particularly difficult simply because it was so horribly bad.

Also, nice subtle bit of advertising for the blog!

[Sunnyvale]

Batman Returns on the Genesis. Unbelievable that a game that looked as good as it did for it's day was so crappy. I got so sick of trying to find the grappling points that I only put it in when one of my kids or nephews wants to play.

[Kevincal]

tmnt 1 nes
silver surfer nes
friday 13th nes
top gun nes
+ a whole ton of other nes games..

quad racer genesis

myst (any system) ya, i went there ;)

highlander Jag CD
Bubsy Jaguar version

[Doonzmore]

Batman Dark Tommorow (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman:_Dark_Tomorrow) .. My god was this a horrible game when I rented it back then for the Xbox 360.. Horrible controls, nauseating gameplay... thinking of of it makes me wanna hurl :puke:

I finished the Gamecube version of DT in 3 nights. The cutscenes were all that kept me invested. The storyline is first rate, but who the hell thought the camera angles were acceptable?

I would advise any bat fan who is interested in playing it to just watch the cutscenes on youtube.

[xelement5x]

Not really retro, but the original Magna Carta: Tears of Blood killed me. I pushed and pushed to try and finish that game, even using a gameshark thinking it would make it more bearable. Nothing saved me, to this day it the only RPG I've played that I've yet to finish. :'(

[todesengel]

Toxic Crusaders for the Genesis is the only one I can think of at the moment. What an amazingly broken ass game that was, some of the worst hit detection of any game I had played at the time.

[Masamune]

Anybody ever try Pit Fighter for the SNES?

[MASTERWEEDO]

Cheetahmen 2 comes to mind

[Manhattan Sports Club]

Rocket Ranger on NES.

Also, Tama on PS1/SS for being so boring.

[gameofyou]

Crow: City of Angels - Saturn
Death Crimson -Saturn

[FrankSerpico]

myst (any system) ya, i went there

I know what you mean, lol. I've tried time and again to beat Primal Rage on my Genesis but the combination of terrible controls and an ainsanely hard last level have always stopped me

[Rickstilwell1]

myst (any system) ya, i went there

I know what you mean, lol. I've tried time and again to beat Primal Rage on my Genesis but the combination of terrible controls and an ainsanely hard last level have always stopped me

I only ever beat Primal Rage on Game Boy.

[Gameguy]

Lure of the Temptress on the PC. Usually I finish adventure games once I start them but this was so bad I got rid of it well before I finished it. The people you need to talk to are able to wander around town on their own so you always have to search for them, this can get annoying after awhile as the game has a circular path and you can keep missing them as they make their way around town and can enter any number of buildings along the way.

[Genesaturn]

tmnt 1 nes
silver surfer nes
friday 13th nes
top gun nes
+ a whole ton of other nes games..

quad racer genesis

myst (any system) ya, i went there ;)

highlander Jag CD
Bubsy Jaguar version


Oh man, I played Myst first on my Sega Saturn back in the day and I still love that entire series - I guess it's just really a niche game. But really? You didn't like TMNT 1? Come on man, disarming under water bombs is classic!

[BricatSegaFan]

Any call of duty is Soo bad I can't finish let alone play that stagnated series lol

[Rob2600]

Anybody ever try Pit Fighter for the SNES?


myst (any system) ya, i went there

I agree. Add Riven to the list.

I'll also add The Tick for the SNES. I loved the cartoon show, but the game was psychotically repetitive.

[jupitersj]

Hidden Invasion for Playstation 2

Sadly this was the first game my friend picked up with his new PS2 haha..

[Carnby]

Anybody ever try Pit Fighter for the SNES?

So bad. For some reason they made your money also your energy. That made no sense.

[Daltone]

Any call of duty is Soo bad I can't finish let alone play that stagnated series lol


Woo fight the power.

[retroman]

The Hunt For Red October for the NES was very bad..

[ubersaurus]

So..I recently attempted to play through Dark Castle on my Genesis in order to write up a review on my blog...needless to say after 5 minutes of playing the game....its all the time I needed to write up my review. This game is so terrible, I will never ever burden my Genesis again with its presence. Then I thought of other games so terrible I couldn't finish...So I was wondering...what games were so bad you guys couldn't finish?

Also if your curious about Dark Castle - click the link to my blog in my sig below :)

Just try and play the CD-i version. It's potentially worse.

[hellraiser]

Strider returns for the genesis...

[Gameguy]

The Hunt For Red October for the NES was very bad..
So it's faithful to the film it was based on?

[Aussie2B]

There are very, very few cases of games that I've given up on. Casually playing something is one thing, but once I set my mind to beating a game, I almost always do so, no matter how bad, difficult, or whatever else the game may be. In a couple instances, I gave up because it seemed like I had gotten myself stuck into a situation that appeared to make it impossible to win.

But in terms of stopping because of sheer awfulness, I gave up on Road Runner's Death Valley Rally on SNES. There are definitely worse games out there, but I generally don't plan to beat complete garbage games. Road Runner seemed promising, but between the awful music, horrible slippery controls, terrible level design, and the annoying Wile E. Coyote constantly popping onscreen with no way to get him to leave me alone for awhile, I just said screw it. If the game was fast-paced, I probably could've forced my way through, but despite the speed you actually move at, the levels are so long and huge. And all of it is just randomly launching yourself towards crap you can't see until you either land on a desired platform (hopefully) or fly face first into something that kills you.

Another game I quit after a good amount of serious playing is Magi Nation for Game Boy Color, although I do intend to go back to it someday (even though it's been years now). My brain cannot fathom how this game is well regarded. The gameplay is broken, the music is wretched, the graphics are a mix of hand-drawn sprites and art that look like a elementary school kid is responsible and hideous digitized poo, I loathe the "I'm an American kid with attitude, so I'm going to constantly make sassy, smart alek remarks" dialogue, and the design of the dungeons is so nonexistent that it may as well be randomly generated. Ugh. Somebody please explain to me how people love this game. What a disappointment, considering I went into it expecting it to be pretty good.

[Ryudo]

Indigo Prophecy is easily the worst game I have ever played to the point I actually burned the copy.
Bad enough the narcissistic dumbass David Cage rips off other games denies it then puts himself in the game spoiling the first part. Then the rest of the game just get's worse as you go in. The horribly designed QTE and Cage feels he must FORCE a sex scene in every game. The game became unintelligible when it came to story. By the time the retarded office space giant bugs I could nto take anymore. Heavy Rain was shit as well and Omikron was ok. But by god IP is THE WORST game I ever played and yes I played many LJN games & Superman 64.

[PROTOTYPE]

Funny you bring up this topic, When I've bought games over the years always notice on games with multiple Discs that the first disc always as marks and scratches on it ...but the rest of the disc are like brand new? Hmmm Maybe people quit games for all kind of reasons?:roll:

[Manhattan Sports Club]

Funny you bring up this topic, When I've bought games over the years always notice on games with multiple Discs that the first disc always as marks and scratches on it ...but the rest of the disc are like brand new? Hmmm Maybe people quit games for all kind of reasons?:roll:

I've noticed it too, it's interesting.

[BricatSegaFan]

I would also like to add Streetfighter the movie the game......nuff said

[wiggyx]

Put me down for Myst as well. That stinker shoulda stayed in the realm of PC gaming. No business on a console IMO.

[Emperor Megas]

I'm having a really tough time staying interested in Doom 3 for the XBOX right now. It's just SO FUCKING BORING. Every area looks like every other dark bland area, and they're all very sparsely inhabited with enemies, and once you have the chainsaw there seems to be no reason to ever use anything else. Almost every time you engage an enemy with it, it's an instant kill. I honestly was more moved by the 3DO version of the original Doom.

Fantasia for the SEGA Genesis is also a real stinker. Bugs galore and just all around terrible. So many fans of the infinitely superior Castle of Illusion were duped out of their hard earn cash purchasing this garbage thinking that it's of the same quality when it's ANYTHING but.

[Shriek of the Mutilated]

My, there are many games I've given up on, because the gameplay irritated me beyond all tolerance. From the top of my head:

- Pocahontas (gut-wrenchingly awkward DOS puzzle-platformer; unrelated to the Disney movie)

- The Broken Land (PC action RPG; basically Diablo, if it were designed by the actual devil)

- Chester Cheetah: Wild Wild Quest (mascot platformer for the SNES; the first game, Too Cool to Fool, was bad in an amusingly trashy kind of way. This one's bad in a disturbing I-don't-fear-death-anymore kind of way.)

- Bet on Soldier (mediocre PC FPS with a few neat multiplayer features, whose SP mode is rendered practically unplayable by an atrocious checkpoint save system)

- Dark Apes (worst PC FPS I've ever played)

- The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion (don't interpret this as trolling; I'm genuinely turned off by this game's combat implementation and RPG mechanics, so much so that even the admittedly decent atmosphere can't save it. I've attempted to complete this game about five times so far.)


Honorable mention:

Someone else in this thread brought up Fahrenheit/Indigo Prophecy, and that's definitely a pick I would agree with. Aside from the consistently awkward controls (I played the PC version), I ultimately quit the game for good at the point where you have to avoid some giant insect monsters via insultingly bad quick time events.

[Genesaturn]

Just try and play the CD-i version. It's potentially worse.

I find it hard to believe there is an even worse version

[Atarileaf]

So it's faithful to the film it was based on?

??? What? You're dissing one of the greatest movies of the last 20+ years??? Wow!

[SonicBoom]

Honestly shocked that this hasn't come up.
Dr.Jekyll and Mr. Hyde on NES. I Also haven't seen Double Dragon III on this list.

[Mister_Pal]

Any call of duty is Soo bad I can't finish let alone play that stagnated series lol

:roll:

At any rate I never finished the FMV game Critical Path.

[j_factor]

Fantasia for the SEGA Genesis is also a real stinker. Bugs galore and just all around terrible. So many fans of the infinitely superior Castle of Illusion were duped out of their hard earn cash purchasing this garbage thinking that it's of the same quality when it's ANYTHING but.

That game is both terrible and brutally difficult. I tried to tackle it in earnest, and it took me a long time before I could beat the first level. Then I couldn't get anywhere in the second level. Then I quit.