Worst game you have ever played

[Collector_Gaming]

Now before we go into the "ERMAHGERD ET FOR ATARI = WORST GAME EVER!" frenzy...
I wanna ask you for real what seriously is the worst retail video game/pc (this means none of those home brew download.com freebie games that get spat out every 5 minutes) game that you have ever played?

I know i own some really bad ones but never sat down and played them so you know i'll throw this one out there and say

Shellshock 2 Blood Trails for the xbox 360.

This was a complete blind buy and miss interpretation i got from a friend when i was at gamestop like 3 years ago asking "dude i need a new game any suggestions?"

I beat it but mind numbingly bad. From its close end hallway style level design system i thought we left behind in the last generation. To pointless mini game style puzzles to get zombies/enemies off you to mind numbingly hard action sequences that have no reason for being so damn hard to a fairly boring story. If it was a early xbox release i would be alright whatever cool. But for being a xbox 360 game... come on really. The only good part was the end where they played
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSAJ0l4OBHM which is a super badass tune

Also what spawned this thread was me watching this video on youtube. http://youtu.be/rozlyKhm1GQ about a game called "Country Justice: Revenge of the Rednecks" which is a super broken game released by a company made to make cheap game. The game has PS1 graphics and feel but yet recently released. Go figure

[BricatSegaFan]

Any call of douchey modern crapfare

[FieryReign]

Dragon Riders: Chronicles of Pern on Dreamcast. There was no dragon riding whatsoever, it was a crappy adventure game. The loading times were ridiculous, camera angles sucked and sometimes got stuck, and the game just felt incomplete. Not to mention piss-poor controls.

Somehow, I actually stuck it out and finished the game. Only because I spent my hard-earned 20 bucks on it when it first came out. My most torturous gaming experience by far. I remember thinking to myself " I will remember this game forever only because of how shitty it is".

[heybtbm]

If you're grading on the basis of:

Talent + Budget = End Product

...it would be Homefront (single player campaign).

It's just the most mediocre, cliched, broken, cheap-death, disaster I've ever played. There are certainly worse games out there, but I can't think of one that deviated so far from it's potential. A total Shit Sandwich.

[kupomogli]

Trine 2. I've never played the first, but I heard the second was is the exact same. The moment I took control of the character, I was bored of this game. I was playing with a friend so I went as far as getting all characters and beating the first boss, but the entire time I played I was bored as hell. The friend I was playing with, one who likes almost everything, didn't even like it.

XBL games, PSN games. You truly get what you pay for and is one reason why cheap digital games won't ever be better than full retail games. These games may have been play tested and work properly, but being a working game doesn't make it better than a game that's buggy as all hell and incomplete. I"ve played a lot of bad retail games, but I would rather play a bad game than one that bores me as much as this.

[xelement5x]

Magna Carta, Tears of Blood for the PS2.

I was suckered into buying it by the awesome art, but the voice acting was horrible and the game is a grind fest with a battle system that left so little margin for error that it was near infuriating.

I still keep it around to punish myself for not doing more research on the game and caving into an impulse buy.

[RCM]

Wii Sports, which is more tech demo than game. It established a shit system that should have failed.

[BricatSegaFan]

Wii Sports, which is more tech demo than game. It established a shit system that should have failed.

Oh yes someone who agrees

[Flashback2012]

My immediate answer whenever a thread like this pops up is Amagon on the NES.

[Aussie2B]

Bubsy 3D.

I could come up with games that are more buggy and unplayable than Bubsy 3D, but no game has been more unpleasant to experience. It literally gave me nightmares and put me in a weird depressed funk for a few days.

[The 1 2 P]

That ones easy: ET for the 2600 .


Now before we go into the "ERMAHGERD ET FOR ATARI = WORST GAME EVER!" frenzy

Oh. Well it was the worst game I have ever played, nothing but a broken mess. But I'll pick something more recent for the sake of this thread.

Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes. I hope you like falling....alot, because 40-70% of this game involves you falling to your death. The AI is pretty retarded as well. Despite being a Star Wars fan I could find very little to like about this game.

[AMG]

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes of the Lance. (NES)

Nothing comes close to this mess.

[Collector_Gaming]

That ones easy: ET for the 2600 .



Oh. Well it was the worst game I have ever played, nothing but a broken mess. But I'll pick something more recent for the sake of this thread.

Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes. I hope you like falling....alot, because 40-70% of this game involves you falling to your death. The AI is pretty retarded as well. Despite being a Star Wars fan I could find very little to like about this game.

Well no if you for real feel ET was the worst be my guest. But I didn't want this to be a ET hate a thon when probably half the people who would post probably have played a even worse game in their opinion..... and then have them just jump on the band wagon for shits and giggles.

That why I am asking what is the worst game IN YOUR OPINION that you have played. Whether its Classic or New.. I also take into consideration of the technology before smacking a game around. Say for instance if its a atari 2600 game and the graphics look like crap... well thats a given its atari 2600. or game play doesn't have super epic story that modern games have on say NES... well thats a given thats gonna happen its NES.

Thats why I didn't post ET.... ET Was bad... it was very quickly rushed for no reason really (yea I know speilberg and the executives wanted their game now for the christmas season but that was just plain stupidity so we won't blame atari for that). And yes it is very broken but in all seriousness how many atari 2600 games weren't in some way broken themselves? I will give it that ET was the most broken of all atari games but still.. I don't know.. I felt like another game needs some hate light put ET on the back burner for awhile. Or perhaps I felt bad for a game that was destined to be doomed because of eager clients that didn't understand how video game development works at the time.

CONTINUE!

[FieryReign]

Well no if you for real feel ET was the worst be my guest. But I didn't want this to be a ET hate a thon when probably half the people who would post probably have played a even worse game in their opinion..... and then have them just jump on the band wagon for shits and giggles.

That why I am asking what is the worst game IN YOUR OPINION that you have played. Whether its Classic or New.. I also take into consideration of the technology before smacking a game around. Say for instance if its a atari 2600 game and the graphics look like crap... well thats a given its atari 2600. or game play doesn't have super epic story that modern games have on say NES... well thats a given thats gonna happen its NES.

Thats why I didn't post ET.... ET Was bad... it was very quickly rushed for no reason really (yea I know speilberg and the executives wanted their game now for the christmas season but that was just plain stupidity so we won't blame atari for that). And yes it is very broken but in all seriousness how many atari 2600 games weren't in some way broken themselves? I will give it that ET was the most broken of all atari games but still.. I don't know.. I felt like another game needs some hate light put ET on the back burner for awhile. Or perhaps I felt bad for a game that was destined to be doomed because of eager clients that didn't understand how video game development works at the time.

CONTINUE!

It looks you are the one making it an "ET hate a thon". This person mentioned ET in one sentence, yet you post three paragraphs? And they did post about another game. Great way to be a dick!

[Collector_Gaming]

It looks you are the one making it an "ET hate a thon". This person mentioned ET in one sentence, yet you post three paragraphs? And they did post about another game. Great way to be a dick!

Way to keep it going!

and for the record you obviously didn't read my post.. Some how your vision saw "gerble gobble blah blarg ET sucks... blah bler bloo dooble ET sucks" because if you read it you would notice I was trying to explain the idea behind the whole thread a lil further. But once again thanks again!

[FieryReign]

Already mentioned my worst game. This is the main reason I don't post much on message boards/forums, because of assholes like this. My bad for posting in this sorry-ass thread!

[Dr. BaconStein]

Pirate games... easily. If we're going by licensed games, I never had the privilege of being graced by monstrosities such as Hydlide, Big Rigs, or Bubsy 3D, but I have been disappointed by a number of popular big name titles where the overall quality just doesn't line up with the budget and production values. Mentioning my dislike for those games usually makes people mad, though.

[JSoup]

Meanwhile, back on topic.

My reflex post for these topics is Rascal for the PS1.

And I liked E.T.

[Collector_Gaming]

Pirate games... easily. If we're going by licensed games, I never had the privilege of being graced by monstrosities such as Hydlide, Big Rigs, or Bubsy 3D, but I have been disappointed by a number of popular big name titles where the overall quality just doesn't line up with the budget and production values. Mentioning my dislike for those games usually makes people mad, though.

Its a pure shame about hydlide. Your not the only one i have heard hate about from. Sounded like a great idea and perhaps should have been a true zelda/Final Fantasy competitor but had poor execution. Anyone know why this happened?

[mailman187666]

I just recieved a copy of Johnny Bazookatone for saturn. Maybe its not the worst I've ever played but holy crap does it suck. The graphics and music are good, but the control and gameplay are horrible. The screen just moves around way too quickly and you'll never know when you'll run into an enemy. It could have been a good game with a little more work done to it, but to me it just isn't.

[G-Boobie]

If we're going by technical or design failure, then it's Bazooka Joe for the C64, followed closely by The Wheel of Time doom clone on PC released in the mid-nineties.

If we're going by heart breaking disappointment, then it's Silent Hill Homecoming or Street Fighter x Tekken.

[Hawksmoor]

Smashing Drive for GCN

[Lerxstnj]

Gears of War

I found myself calling it Gears of Whore after a while.
Too difficult, not fun, repetitious, slow moving, over-rated, boring.

[RCM]

Smashing Drive for GCN

The arcade version was fun.

[Rob2600]

Pit-Fighter for any home or portable console. Tail of the Sun for PlayStation.

[pseudonym]

Not the worst games but Mega Man x6 and x7. Should have been left in the development room for a few more months at least. Both are complete disasters and ruined my interest in any future Mega Man titles.

[geezuzkhrist119]

Have any of you played Turning Point Fall of Liberty? If not stay clear and as far as possible.

The only thing going for it, is the concept IMO. What if Germany invaded The States in World War 2? seems like a good idea right?
Gameplay is the worst i have seen. The AI got the IQ of a sack of lemons. I made it to the stage and gave up due to the shittyness.

[dgdgagdae]

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes of the Lance. (NES)

Nothing comes close to this mess.

This was the one I was going to say.

If not that, then Porky's. I can't get past the first screen, and where are the boobies?

[SparTonberry]

Its a pure shame about hydlide. Your not the only one i have heard hate about from. Sounded like a great idea and perhaps should have been a true zelda/Final Fantasy competitor but had poor execution. Anyone know why this happened?

Probably because Hydlide is older than both Zelda and Final Fantasy (released on FC in 1986), and because it was such an early game it was made on a low-memory cart (40K).
(though because it was released on the NES much later (1989), I guess that doesn't excuse why they didn't make it better, or just release a better game?
Or maybe because it was a 40K game released in the days of 1 megabit (128K) and 2 megabit (256K) games, it was cheap enough to make that they decided to release it anyways?

[Zaracoatl]

I remember being greatly disappointed with this Sega CD game called Panic! when I was younger. All you do in the game is press buttons. If you push the right button you move onto the next scene, if it's the wrong one you just watch some strange scene play out and "die". And when I say strange, I mean REAL strange. I am convinced the people who made this game were on drugs.

[Genesaturn]

My immediate answer whenever a thread like this pops up is Amagon on the NES.

So I AM the only person who loves Amagon lol - I remember renting it from the store down the road all the time when I was little. I haven't played it in 20 years though so who knows what I'd think now.

Worst game ever...Dark Castle on the Sega Genesis....worst...game...ever...I even wrote a review on it on my blog..link to it in my Sig....

Seriously though, the entire premise of the game is retarded and the controls...well you might as well be playing as a retarded character. The thing is that this game sells for more than your average Genesis game too...this is my case that just because games are rare and or expensive to collect..doesn't mean their good.

[Rob2600]

In addition to Pit-Fighter and Tail of the Sun, I'll also add The Tick (SNES) and Last Battle (Genesis). Both are extremely repetitive and boring.

[Blitzwing256]

Skyrim is quite honestly the worst most generic piece of shit over rated game i've ever played.

[Gamevet]

You guys need to try harder.

Stretch Panic is not only the worst game Treasure has ever made (I didn't think that was possible), it the worst game I could possibly think of that was made for the PS2.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hmyn5VkLMYU

[The Dord]

Literally it's Batman: Dark Tommorow. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman:_Dark_Tomorrow)

Very poorly animated, stiffer than Richard Nixon's corpse, and as unresponsive as Capcom is to gamers about making more proper Mega Man games.

[Crystalian]

Deadly Towers-NES

Wow, what a steaming turd that was...

[Spidey80]

So I AM the only person who loves Amagon lol - I remember renting it from the store down the road all the time when I was little. I haven't played it in 20 years though so who knows what I'd think now.

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You aren`t the only person...I myself liked Amagon:D

[lakerstowin]

I got two. Superman for the n64 and conan for the nes.

[hbkprm]

where do i start?
glitchiest: alpha protocol (obsidain shoud have spent more time to devel or sega should have pushed it back even further), download version of sf ii hyper fighting (screen goes black after you select go back to dashboard), bloodrayne
clunky or difficult controls: sonic r, the world ends with you (solid story but your hand will hurt), armored core series, battle fantasia
major letdown/waste of time: mindjack, breath of death vii, deep labryth

[Doonzmore]

N64:
Superman 64
Carmageddon 64
Batman Beyond
Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue

PS1:
VR Powerboat Racing
The Crow: City of Angels

Gamecube:
Nickelodeon Party Blast

[Ryudo]

Indigo Prochecy. My hatred if David cuntbag Cage aside. The game is just awful. Foced in Sex scenes WTF office bugs to QTE fest to narcissistic cage spoileing the first part of the game. ....Game? HA!