Really Bad PlayStation Games!

[digitalpress]

Recently someone mentioned how horrible the PSX game "The Fifth Element", based on the movie with the lovely Milla Jovovich and my favoirite action guy Bruce Willis. I had only played the game briefly at an E3 years ago and generally don't judge a game based on its pre-release E3 performance.

Well lo and behold it was in my collection, so I decided to give it a go.

YIKES.

Here's where you come in. Think back to the PlayStation (PSX, PSOne) games that made you go "YIKES". The games that have so much wrong with them that it's really hard to begin explaining all of the problems.

Who's up first?

[Nez]

Ill give it a shot or two even!

First up is Cubix robots for everyone: Racin Robots, so bad I actually hurt myself playing it. At one point my hatred grew so much that a threw my controller to the floor sadly my foot was in the way OUCH!

Second Driver 2. The frist driver was ok but the second was a rush job. There was this mission were you had to jump off of a boat and back on to the docks. Well I tried to jump off of the boat with my car going 30 miles perhour flying to the dock nothin in my way I was going to make it. UNTILL THE INVISIBLE WALL OF DOOM! I hit this invisible wall and SPLASH right into the drink. I have no idea how many times I retried that mission but I failed each time. SPLASH!

[OldSchoolGamer]

Well I played, loved and finished both Driver games but yes the 2nd was mega hard. Anyway, I seem to recollect a horid PSX game called THE ONE or something similiar, if anyone can comment please help......

[tholly]

I bought Tunnel B-1 for $1 at EB knowing full well that it would probably suck, and low and behold, when I put it in to play.......it sucked. I don't know if I just didn't know what I was doing, but I couldn't get the thing to control too good, and really couldn't figure out what to do with it.

[SamuraiSmurfette]

Breakout.
Not only did this game not need a 3D re-release,
but it certainly didn't need a plot:
Your paddle must rescue his girlfriend paddle who has been kidnapped!
WTF!
I feel ashamed paying money to RENT it.

[Gamereviewgod]

Batman and Robin. I couldn't figure out how to get out of the Batcave. Of course, Batman the Arcade Game sucked, The Crow was abysmal, and Killing Zone is one of the worst fighters I've ever played.

[Cmosfm]

I don't have to think back that far...

...Rascal Racers

oh man, talk about a terrible game. I've played FLASH games with more depth, replay and overall entertainment value.

[thegreatescape]

Chaos Break- Its like resident evil only crap.

-Poorly translated unhelpful clues to terribly stupid puzzles.
-Punching does more damage to enemies than guns do.
-its set in an underground complex where everything looks the same and there are even dead ends. Dead ends in an underground complex !!!
-Its really dull.


Your paddle must rescue his girlfriend paddle who has been kidnapped!
Hey i know a paddle that had this happen to him :P

[chrisbid]

hooters road trip
spice world
speed racer
battle arena toshinden
wcw backstage assult

[Flack]

When I first got my Playstation I didn't own any games. For a couple of months I just rented games, trying lots of different games out.

In the fall of '96 I was walking through the mall when I saw a bunch of discount PSX games sitting in a bin. That should have been a red flag -- that a year after launch these games were already in the bargain bin. With caution to the wind, I picked up a spacey, futuristic looking fighting game.

CRITICOM.

I just checked IGN's review -- I think their 3.0 overall rating is a bit optimistic, personally.

First of all, this game has a frame rate of like ... 2. Ok, maybe it's higher than that, but it should have been renamed MOLASSES FIGHTER because that's what it's like. If you like to mash buttons like I do, you will laugh when your fighter is still throwing punches and kicks long after you've stopped hitting buttons.

Then there's the graphics. At the time, there were some decent cut scenes, but when you got to the actual game it was awful. I haven't played it in forever, but it seems like I remember some of the fighters being made out of about five or six polygons total.

The worst part of the game was the control system. Moves are done by holding multiple buttons down at the same time instead of in a row. To do a spinning kick you have to hold like triangle, square, and L2 all at the same time. Of course, it takes a second or two to pull off a move, so while the game is deciding whether or not to grant your request, the CPU whomps on you.

The onyl reason I've kept my copy of Criticom is because I'm sure that sooner or later every other copy of this game is going to be destroyed by frustrated gamers, leaving me with the sole surviving copy of this sucky game.

[ManekiNeko]

I honestly was having trouble thinking of a Playstation game that I truly hated. Anyone who knows me knows that I'm not fond of Sony, but I think the Playstation's software library is pretty solid. Sure, it has its share of duds, but so did the NES. In both cases, I think the good outweighs the bad.

Anyway, there was just one Playstation game I can think of that really got on my nerves... Irritating Stick. This title had two strikes against it already... it was designed by the creators of that Neo-Geo misfire Shinoken, and it was based on a Japanese game show so obnoxious it makes even Regis Philbin and Jeff "Rectal" Probst seem pleasant by comparison. The third strike was a combination of hideous graphics, simplistic gameplay, and the world's most nerve-wracking soundtrack. What's most pathetic is that a similar game was released on the Neo-Geo, and it was five times the game Irritating Stick was despite being made for a much older system.

I bought Irritating Stick for five dollars. To this day I still wish I had my five dollars back.

JR

[Rogmeister]

Now call me crazy...


You're Crazy! :D

...but I liked Battle Arena Toshinden...the original anyway. I never played any of the subsequent editions. I thought it had a fair amount of charm with the somersaults or cartwheels you could do to get out of the way and everything.

The first baseball game for the system was quite lame...Bases Loaded' 96: Double-Header or some such (I'm not sure that's the exact title). Very lame gameplay and the players actually looked like mannequins. And was there even any play-by-play announcing? I can't remember... :hmm:

[Daria]

Eternal Eyes...

*shudders*

[norkusa]

I've got around 250 PSX games in my collection. Allot of them I picked up from EB for $3 or less, so I admit I have allot of cheapie stinkers in the lot. But the worst PSX game by far in my collection is Time Commando by Activision. The graphics aren't bad, but it has the most sluggish controls I've ever experienced in a game. Press the punch button and your guy will respond a couple seconds later. The battles are ridiculously long and drawn-out too. I was checking out online reviews of this game from back in the day and couldn't believe some of them were actually favorable. This game should have never of been released!

[Jibbajaba]

Hexen

[geelw]

i actually LIKE terrible games (well, the ones with interesting aspects to their badness), but sometimes you run across games that make you go O_O at what's going on... for example:

danger girl- a horny fanboy's dream does NOT a playable game make. this game makes any andy sedaris film look like return of the king. it does such a good job of thrusting polygon t & a in your face that it makes you immune to the real thing (well, that's what i've heard)...

steel harbinger- in the future, the world will be saved by a half-naked cyber babe who walks like her thong is too tight AND her heels too high to move, while enemies respawn on all sides and run in front of the occasional hostage that you have to save, causing you to shoot them both. well, at least a sequel wasn't made...

excalibur 2555 A.D.- the REALLY poor man's tomb raider. featuring perhaps the most unattractive female character ever in a ps game, klunky action sequences, and some really interesting voice acting that sounds like a bottle was passed around during the v.o. sessions. one of those games where if you don't pick up a certain item in a certain spot, you're screwed forever and have to restart from the beginning...

o.d.t.- sort of the cosmic twin to the fifth element. poor in every aspect, the game just feels so rushed that even when (or if) you get used to the twitchy action and platforming, you'll still run across enemies that make you want to stomp all over your ps one controller.

planet of the apes- the dc version was killed, but this snuck out and stunk up the cage something awful. not as awful as the remake, but when the best thing in the game is the title screen, you're in for a real "treat"...

psybadek- a futuristic snowboarding platformer (!) by psygnosis that i don't think i recall anyone ever finishing because of the mind-popping, goofy level design and pesky enemies.

largo winch- even the title is bad. it's a stealth/action game with no action or stealth that actually works very well, and yep, that's the main character's name (largo=big, i guess, so he's got a big winch? making this bad joke was the ONLY fun i had with this game)

sentient- great idea, really sloppy excecution. i'd actually like to see someone do this idea over with much better visuals and some actual reliable control scheme...

bug riders- ummmm... riiiight. break out the raid. a racer where you can only move forward, and turning requires whipping your ride like it's a leather-covered VW beetle with a bad transmission...

nightmare creatures 2- take an ok original game with repetitive gameplay and make it worse by turning it into an even more mindless button masher with no plot. the dreamcast version looks like it actually uses the playstation assests and adds texture smoothing and more filtering.

overblood- love the title screen/intro, techical stuff like the switchable camera angles and some of the gameplay ideas. but the monsters look stupid, the characters can't run worth a damn, and at one point you can click on and get killed by an armless, legless statue! the hysterical thing about that last part is in the much better sequel (overblood 2, which has nothing at all to do with the first game), there's a statue in that game as well as an in-joke to folks who fell for it in the first game. when you go to look at it, if you click on it, it falls and kills you as well!

[Kid Ice]

I was going to mention Planet of the Apes but Greg beat me to it. That game may have the worst fighting engine ever conceived.

Street Racquetball and Putter Golf are two horrible budget titles. The players in Street Racquetball have no arms and legs (think Rayman) and the ball in Putter Golf is square.

Fighter Maker is in a league of its own. I wouldn't even call it a "bad game". Bad software maybe. Or a reason to give up religion, perhaps.

[Retsudo]

"Iron and Blood" comes to mind when you ask about bad Playstation games.

[Rogmeister]

Of course, no bad Playstation thread can go long without someone mentioning Bubsy 3D...or V.I.P. :D

Has anyone here played Fantastic Four? I've heard that's awful but never had the pleasure (pain) to play it myself...

[DDCecil]

I'll second Criticom (which I dub Criti-Crap, though there was 1 background in the game I liked, the Meteor background) and must mention a game that really left a bad taste in my mouth:

Perfect Weapon. Ugh.

I also didn't care for Battle Arena Toshiden 3 (I loved the 1st 2 games) mostly because they got rid of the pits and replaced them with barriers so you can't fall off...

[Eternal Tune]

SaGa Frontier made me want to stab myself in the face. The second one wasn't as bad...but...it was pretty "meh."

I also don't care for any of the Syphon Filters, after the original. Same with the Spyro series on the Playstation.

[PapaStu]

Ah, thanks Joe. Just love this topic. Now to pull just a few bad ones out of my more than 500 PSOne games......

A coupla stinkers for everyone


V.I.P.
This is one of the worst games ever. You play as the different members of the V.I.P. detective agency. But they each can only do 1 thing. Pam beats people up with her Purse and you activate it by doing the D-pad in a pattern. One other character does a whole Hogans Alley thing. By and far one of the worst PSOne games EVAR!

The Mary-Kate & Ashley Trilogy
Nuff Said.


More to come later...

[-hellvin-]

Well, I picked up this PSX game I hadn't seen anyone mention yet cause I saw it in a rental store and it was a longbox game. It was Kileak: The DNA operative or something like that. Well, I could tell it was horrible but I picked it up anyways cause it was cheap and it is abyssmal. It's not even on the shelf with my other stuff. It's just thrown on the floor of the closet. Where I can't see it....and where it will stay.

[davidleeroth]

Two words, Lone Soldier.
All the way from the cover art to the back insert stating a Play magazine score of 92%, it truly is the biggest pile of fertilizer I have come across.

Found the front cover, just look at it:

http://jaltet.free.fr/PSX_L/LoneSoldier.jpg

[Jasoco]

I have TONS of crappy PSX games I didn't buy to play. I even have Hooters: Road Trip, V.I.P. and Irritating Stick. I've come close to buying Steel Harbinger many times and have the Saturn version of Criticom.

I don't think Hexen sucks. Actually, I have both the Saturn and PSX version. I just find the PSX one hard to control given the default controls, and the shitty controller.

[briskbc]

The demo for Titan AE was awfull. Let's be thankfull it wasn't made into a game.

[Arcade Antics]

http://www.swgamechamber.com.ar/Imagenes/master001.jpg
Worst. Playstation game. Ever.

[DigitalSpace]

Simpsons Wrestling. It may not be as bad as some of the games previously mentioned, but damn, what an awful game.

[Crush Crawfish]

Dragonball Z: Ultimate Battle 22
Frogger

These two are about as much fun as being castrated with a dull spoon in a pit of scorpions while being forced to watch Dora the explorer. Mmyep.

Also, I didn't care much for crash bash. I don't think anyone but mario should be allowed to do a party game, as I'm still desperately trying to forget this and sonic shuffle.

[Raccoon Lad]

Worst I've played: Rascal

Up untill this POS, Travellers Tales actually made GOOD games.

[Daria]

it does such a good job of thrusting polygon t & a in your face that it makes you immune to the real thing (well, that's what i've heard)...

Mmmm blocky lego tits. :-P



LOL

[Mark III]

Off the top of my head I'd Say:

Crypt Killer : A bad arcade game in turn makes a terrible playstation game. Bad graphics even for the time, as well as dull gameplay and other glaring faults. While most gun games have the inherant "white flash" across the screen when the trigger is pulled, in this came it seems to be particularly long, meaning that in a two player game the screen is whited out about half the time. If you're like me and masochistic enough to play through the first level or two, be prepared for a mean headache from the constant assault on your eyes.

Rise 2 Resurrection: Not as bad as the original, but still pretty damn bad. Was there really a big demand among all the hardcore Rise of the Robot fans out there that the developers thought it was necessary to make a sequal?

Any and all army men games: Who bought these games? Why are there so many? Who greenlighted the line of action figures this series spawned? I'd like to think this franchise died with 3DO, but I'm sure some other company will pick up the liscence and start pumping out more.
My money's on Akklaim.

[Algol]

Two worst PS1 games I have:

Criticom-If the controls weren't so hard to figure out, this would almost be decent for an early PS1 game. The computer drains half of your life while you just sit there, wondering what to push.

Chess-Unless you are desperate to play chess and have nobody to play against, what's the point? There is nothing different about the PS1 version, and the computer beats you 99.9% of the time. (Although, to be fair, I also get beat 99.9% of the time while playing against a human. :P )

[Boboduo]

Of course, no bad Playstation thread can go long without someone mentioning Bubsy 3D...or V.I.P. :D

Has anyone here played Fantastic Four? I've heard that's awful but never had the pleasure (pain) to play it myself...

I own and have played Fantastic Four. The character animations and
cutscenes are terrible- the controls are also pretty horrid. Cool concept
but poor execution of a license.

[Kid Ice]

Well I played, loved and finished both Driver games but yes the 2nd was mega hard. Anyway, I seem to recollect a horid PSX game called THE ONE or something similiar, if anyone can comment please help......

I believe the game you are thinking of is called "One". At the beginning of the game you are running through this building with a helicopter shooting at you. You must jump over the concrete holes made by the missiles it launches. Then you are at the bottom of a hole and a whole bunch of guys attack you at once, so you use your "rage power" (or whatever) to mow 'em down. Then a spaceship type thingy suddenly appears in the hole and you have to keep jumping up on ledges to reach the top while it shoots at you (and knocking you back down to the bottom, or killing you, when it hits you). I gave up after this part.

The main problem here is that the camera can't keep up with what you are doing, so you are always jumping into places you shouldn't be jumping. And that hole is even harder to get out of than the ones in E.T.

The "rage" thing is kind of cool, but done better in other games (especially Sword of the Berzerk). Otherwise, it's total garbage. They should have called it "None" because that is how much fun you will have with the game.

[geelw]

Two words, Lone Soldier.
All the way from the cover art to the back insert stating a Play magazine score of 92%, it truly is the biggest pile of fertilizer I have come across.

Found the front cover, just look at it:

http://jaltet.free.fr/PSX_L/LoneSoldier.jpg

heh heh heh... i have this one. that cover kinda looks like someone on the boards here, but only he and a few others know that... LOL

[geelw]

Well, I picked up this PSX game I hadn't seen anyone mention yet cause I saw it in a rental store and it was a longbox game. It was Kileak: The DNA operative or something like that. Well, I could tell it was horrible but I picked it up anyways cause it was cheap and it is abyssmal. It's not even on the shelf with my other stuff. It's just thrown on the floor of the closet. Where I can't see it....and where it will stay.

i'd have to disagree with you, but only because i've played all the genki mech games and like them a lot. i'll drop in a replacement bad game for you, however:

expendable- how do you port a dreamcast game to the ps one? not very well, as this game shows. not only does the graphical hit make the game painful to look at, the controls are so poorly translated as to render the game unplayable with the default setup.

another? ok:

spawn the eternal- i never thought mc farlane could draw all that well, and even though he had nothing to do with the programming, the game captures that same crappy feel as his distortion city artwork. worse still, is that mc farlane hasn't learned one bit, and has let his name and ego get attached to worse and worse projects...

one more:

darklight conflict- has anyone ever finished this game? it's got the touchiest control in a 3D space shooter ever, and it's entirely possible to finish a long ass mission but blow up your ship while landiing every single time you try. one of those "looks good, but don't you dare play it" games...

oh, yeah:

the crow: city of angels- worst (and i mean it) ps game. ever. unfinished, it is, and blows, it most certainly does. you'll want to don a black leather coat, put some shoe white on your face and go after the programmers. fantastic four is like metal gear solid compared to this one. i STILL think it's an incomplete, buggy beta after all these years... x_x

and yes, fantastic four is terrible. i usually keep my bad games, but jack kirby was spinning in his grave so loudly it kept me up, so i sold it off to some guy for way too much money a few years back...

[VACRMH]

Oh man, Killing Zone...

Even when I was 12 I knew Acclaim ment "Suck". I got the game for Christmas and immediately set it to the side so no one would open it and I could return it.

But Dad had to be "kind" enough to open it for me :angry: :angry: :angry:

[little arms]

Cardinal Syn ---absolutely a terrible game

[Howie6925]

Destruction Derby 2 is one game that sucks and makes me :bad-words: thinking about it.(i think i put this on another post, too)

[RichD]

Here's a couple

Pong - Why do you have to have the whole field of play twisting back and forth. If you could of turned this off it might of been a descent game.

Rascal - You are in a small room with lava, with stones to jump around on,add a large dragon in the middle attacking you, then add a camera that wants to show you the walls. Enough said.

[Richter]

Street Fighter: The Movie

talk about craptacular
XD

Tail (Tale?) of the Sun was pretty bad as well

[Jasoco]

I have SF:TM and Rascal as well. I'll agree. But Pong, I have that and I don't think it's all that bad. It's Pong. 'Nuff said.

[Balloon Fight]

Definitely Criticom and Fantastic 4. Two waste of space games. O_O :eek 2:

[Rogmeister]

Wow, how could I forget Street Fighter: The Movie?! LOL

Don't forget the recent release of The Three Stooges and it's NES-quality graphics... :D

[PentiumMMX]

I can't Beleave nobody said that "2XTreme" sucked!
(AAAH! MORGAN!)

[thegreatescape]

Destruction Derby 2 is one game that sucks and makes me :bad-words: thinking about it.(i think i put this on another post, too)

Im kinda curious to hear the reasoning behind that position, as i thought it was a decent game :hmm:

Add to the list of truly woeful games- China: The Forbidden City
Good god that was a bad game. Think myst and riven except even duller and with worse loading times than a tape drive.

Oh and i too liked pong, even if the later levels werent as much fun as the lower ones and half the games werent even pong but it was still a good game and the paddles had those cool little dances :D

[RJ]

HELLBOY
CRUSADERS OF MIGHT & MAGIC

The only games I ever bought at full price & sold back used in a few days.

I don't think Hexen is so bad.

[TheSmirk]

http://www.swgamechamber.com.ar/Imagenes/master001.jpg
Worst. Playstation game. Ever.

Man! You beat me to it.....this game is a turd, thankfully my losses were only the price of a rental and about 1 hour play time....but I basically beat the game in my first sitting and talk about a "slap a license on a crappy engine" fighting game......ugh...


bug riders- ummmm... riiiight. break out the raid. a racer where you can only move forward, and turning requires whipping your ride like it's a leather-covered VW beetle with a bad transmission...

Arrrrgghhhhh, you opened an old wound in my mind! You want to hear something sad, I worked for GT and had to help the QA department play test this "game" as if more testing would've somehow made the game good. Actually since I was paid to play it, its not so sad, but even with pay that was hard to do. x_x

[den68]

a few stinkers I've played and owned over the years:

Lucky Luke - I only played this once but the controls seem so damn stiff I don't think I stuck with it for more than 20 minutes.

Vs. - awful fighter with awful graphics and even worse box art.

Tobal #1 - another lame fighter

Kurt Warner's Arena Football Unleashed - I can't really say if the gameplay was bad because the graphics are so bad it's difficult to even see what's going on.

Fox Sports NHL Championship Hockey - I'm not sure if that's the exact title, it's the one with Mike Modano on the cover. This game blows. The gameplay is standard hockey fare but it's full of errors. The replays were not from the play that just happened. The score was not accurately recorded. total crap.

[Captain Wrong]

I dunno. I didn't think Tobal #1 was that bad. No Virtua Fighter, but interesting ideas and playable.

There's some early FPS/Mech game I have. The name escapes me, but it's turd-tastic.

[Darkness X]

The Syphon Filter games, a lot of people liked them, but I have always hated these games. One of the worst things about the games are the controls, even though I like the PS1 controller I had a hard time playing this game. Everything just seems to spastic/twitchy. Add in cheap deaths and lame AI, and what do you get? a MGS ripoff that sucks...

Twisted Metal 3, I love the TM series(I even liked 4 and Small Brawl). But I just can't find anything I like about this game(besides the music). Even after giving it many chances over the years. The new characters are lame, the arenas are VERY small(even compared to TM1), Plus the arenas are very rushed/poorly thought out(the second level is just a a big square arena on flat ground). Plus the "truphysics" that 989 was bragging about are complete crap! Your vehicles control like their on ice and they flip over on almost any surface that isn't flat. Plus the cool crashes of the first 2 games are now gone, you can ram a vehicle at full speed and neither of you will even take damage(well maybe just a very small amount)

Those are probably my most hated PS1 games. And whats even worse is that they should have been awesome! :angry:

[Kid Ice]

The Syphon Filter games, a lot of people liked them, but I have always hated these games. One of the worst things about the games are the controls, even though I like the PS1 controller I had a hard time playing this game. Everything just seems to spastic/twitchy. Add in cheap deaths and lame AI, and what do you get? a MGS ripoff that sucks...


But could you honestly call the Syphon Filter games BAD, in relation to junk like SCARS, Vanark, and Who Wants to be a Millionaire? There are some of well-regarded PSX games that I don't care for...Cool Boarders 2, Crash Bandicoot, and Final Fantasy Tactics to name a few...but I wouldn't call any of those games BAD.

[sabre2922]

I bought Tobal #1 becuase most of the mags were ranting about how great it was fu@# that freakin game was and is total crap I played this game for like 20 minutes then preceded to the outside world were me and my best buddy used it as a new frisbee :P
and yeah I didnt care for Final Fantasy tactics either so after owning the game for a whole 2 days I gave it to a friend that is a total FF nut she played it through like 3 times!

[geelw]

[
But could you honestly call the Syphon Filter games BAD, in relation to junk like SCARS, Vanark, and Who Wants to be a Millionaire?...

now hold on, i say hold on there ( LOL )- any game that references gerry anderson AND starfox on the same disc has got to be played 'til the end. vanark was cool in it's own way, but too many people took it the wrong way, like it was supposed to be colony wars or something. think of it as a pilot episode to a late 60's or 70's sci-fi show, and it's not junk at all. you have to admit, bit town really did some cool visual tricks with the ps hardware, as well. hell, maybe they should have left the shower scene from the import version in, just so the folks who groove on that sort of thing would have snapped this up...

[Kamino]

it's real simple.
95-99% of the psx library reeks of utter suckitude...

[Kid Ice]

[
But could you honestly call the Syphon Filter games BAD, in relation to junk like SCARS, Vanark, and Who Wants to be a Millionaire?...

now hold on, i say hold on there ( LOL )- any game that references gerry anderson AND starfox on the same disc has got to be played 'til the end. vanark was cool in it's own way, but too many people took it the wrong way, like it was supposed to be colony wars or something. think of it as a pilot episode to a late 60's or 70's sci-fi show, and it's not junk at all. you have to admit, bit town really did some cool visual tricks with the ps hardware, as well. hell, maybe they should have left the shower scene from the import version in, just so the folks who groove on that sort of thing would have snapped this up...

Yeah, I guess Vanark wasn't a particularly good example of a horrible Playstation game...it was just one of the first games that popped into my head as a bad one. My take on the game is this:

-the game is 1/4 shooter, 3/4 3rd person exploration
-the shooter part is decent, with cool graphics, but too derivative of Star Fox 64 and WAYYY too short
-the 3rd person exploration part is totally unnecessary and uses up a majority of the play time. It reminds me of the worst parts of the Resident Evil games, where you have already killed all the monsters and are just wandering around figuring out what to do next.

[DigitalSpace]

Another game that deserves to be mentioned is Batman Beyond: Return Of The Joker. Acclaim did some pretty bad stuff with the Batman license, but they have nothing on the horror Ubisoft created.

IGN wrote a witty review of the game that explains how awful this turd truly is:

Link (http://psx.ign.com/articles/164/164923p1.html)

[DigitalSpace]

EDIT: Posting fail.

[DigitalSpace]

EDIT: Posting fail.

[Icarus Moonsight]

it's real simple.
95-99% of the psx library reeks of utter suckitude...

I second KK's sentiment... though my percentage tops out at around 80.

Some games I own/have owned that I found particularly stinky;

FFVII - let the flames begin! LOL But seriously, 7 killed the whole FF series for me. I haven't purchased a FF game since (save Tactics). That's why I put it here.

Trap Gunner - This game single handedly forced me to think about buying any Atlus trans-title again, just on the merit that it's Atlus.

Frogger - WTF did they do to my little green buddy? Truly craptacular.

Driver - I'm all for hard games, but to make it so hard that it's unplayable?

There's more I assure you. Thankfully I have succeded in eradicating these games titles/experiences from memory.

[dendawg]

http://www.swgamechamber.com.ar/Imagenes/master001.jpg
Worst. Playstation game. Ever.

Wrong! THIS is the worst game of all time! :devilish:

http://www.1stvideo.com/psx/BeastWars.jpg

Spent $39.99 U.S. on this stinking pile of dog shit and headed straight for the nearest game store to trade it in the very next day. Words cannot describe the horrible, pixellated, frustrating difficulty curve that this waste of plastic was. :rockets: I shudder just thinking about it today. @_@

[Kamino]

in the end i've found that there are a grand total of roughly 20 psx games that interest me. that's not even a percent of the library.

[davidleeroth]

I've found a new one: Strike Force Hydra. I think it's a straight port from GBA.

[CartCollector]

Blast Lacrosse. What can I say, typical Acclaim. Didn't play it for over five minutes. Thank God it was only $2.

[ubersaurus]

I can't beleive no one's mentioned Dragonball GT: FInal Bout, the only fighter that takes 3 seconds to turn around in.

Pong and Teras Kasi didn't seem that bad...nothing really great, but not outright bad.

[Aussie2B]

I've had the opportunity (unfortunately) to try out a lot of PlayStation games in the last few months that I wouldn't normally buy since I've been buying lots and getting games for free and such. It's no surprise that many of them are stinkers. A few of the worst of the worst:

Men in Black - The Series: Crashdown - Ugh, I have no witty comment or observation about this game; it just sucks... HORRIBLY. I think there should be a rule that stuff shouldn't be allowed to be based on something that's based on something else (in this case, the game is based on the cartoon which is based on the movie). You get one degree of separation, and THAT'S IT.

The Mummy - You know a game is bad when they attempt to make a seamless transition from the movie clips to the game but as soon as the dialogue from the movie ends and the game voice acting kicks in it's an entirely different voice. o_O Not to mention they TOTALLY screwed up the character faces. It's as if they took a photo of the actor but they weren't capable of wrapping the image around his polygonal head, so he ends up with a flat face the width of a platter.

Grand Theft Auto - Perhaps an unpopular opinion, but I truly believe this is one of the most pathetic PSX games I've played. I seriously believe the creators only excuse for making this game was to have a game with a farting/belching/cursing button.

Tomb Raider 3 - Here's my experience with it: I kept slowly sliding down a cliff into spikes and dying. My boyfriend's little sister figured out how to get past the spikes, she killed a monkey at the bottom, got lost, and then we turned off the game.

[Kid Fenris]

There's some early FPS/Mech game I have. The name escapes me, but it's turd-tastic.

Krazy Ivan? Kileak? I want to be erudite and suggest the import Metal Jacket too, but I don't remember if it used a first-person perspective or not.

[Dimitri]

The only PSX games on my shelf that I can say seem to be thoroughly bad are Blazing Dragons and Panzer General...but that's probably because they're hardly the kind of games I like to play, so my opinion isn't really valid there.

I do recall wanting to destroy my friend's copy of 2Xtreme back in the day, though. Hardly a "greatest hit", despite what the packaging might say...

[Cauterize]

Never Play "Tiny Tank"

*shivers with a sick feeling*

[The Brown Eye]

I thought of a few that made me want to shove a burning needle into my eye:

Rise 2: Resurrection - ARRRRRGH, see my ROTR post for more info
VS. - What the hell is this game trying to be? "Gangs" with only four people? Yuck. Good music though.
Psybadek - Another game that doesn't know what it's trying to be. Let's spin around and shoot 50 penguins! Or not.
Expendable - Absolutely horrid control on this otherwise promising shooter.
Vanishing Point - Wonderful music, horrible control. It is absolutely frustrating to race with the beginning cars in this game.
Monkey Hero - Lackluster Zelda clone without any of the fun.
San Francisco Rush - Awful control, very poor version of the arcade game

[RJ]

Kid Fenris wrote:
Captain Wrong wrote:
There's some early FPS/Mech game I have. The name escapes me, but it's turd-tastic.


Krazy Ivan? Kileak? I want to be erudite and suggest the import Metal Jacket too, but I don't remember if it used a first-person perspective or not.

i hope he doesnt mean BRAHMA Force. I think it's pretty cool.

[The Great Dane]

Cybersled- This is one of the very first psx games I ever played. I rented it the day that I got my psx (along with Kings Field, so I was at least happy about one game :)) and man was this game awful. It was attempting to be a 3D game, but it just looked horrid. This seriously has to be one of the worst games I have ever played, ever.

Deathtrap Dungeon- Now, don't get me wrong, I think it is a very cool concept, and it is a decent game, but the controls are VERY badly done. I don't mind how the graphics look (though, they do look pretty bad), but with the controls being as bad as they are the game is nearly unplayable. Plus the game is very hard. An okay game, though. Much better than Cybersled.

[Cirrus]

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned Aquanaut's Holiday.

I bought that game assuming it would be a really cool free roaming experience, exploring the ocean and seeing interesting fish.

Well, I was exactly right, except about the "really cool" part. What a bore.

[Dimitri]

Cybersled- This is one of the very first psx games I ever played. I rented it the day that I got my psx (along with Kings Field, so I was at least happy about one game :)) and man was this game awful. It was attempting to be a 3D game, but it just looked horrid. This seriously has to be one of the worst games I have ever played, ever.

You don't mean Cyberspeed, do you? Now that was a terrible game. Literally, an on-rails racer, and it looked worse than any SuperFX game. I remember Cybersled being a damn fun twin-stick mech game ala Virtual On in the arcades. Maybe the PSX port was just really bad...X_x