"Game programmers are generally lazy individuals. That's right. It's true. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Since the dawn of computer games, game programmers have looked for shortcuts to coolness." Kurt Arnlund - Game programmer for Activision, Accolade...
gbpxl (11-11-2019)
well yeah that and the fact that the last post is from 12 years ago, none of the people commenting on the topic are even around
a lot of these topics that are in the archives are interesting to look at in the context of when they were originally active. if youre gonna condense a topic made in 2019 into one made in 2007, might as well do that for every other vague topic while were at it. my two cents. i could be way off on my analysis of this of course
Some of the users who posted in this topic years ago are still around.
I would've combined it with a more recently active topic, but others were like "worst game you've played" and "worse game in your collection", so I was looking for something less specific. I'm not going to merge all topics on the subject because forum policy is to merge a new topic with an older topic before the new topic has many posts. If you've got two topics with pages of posts each, merging them together can make the flow of the discussion hard to follow, depending on when the posts were made.
Does worse game of all time really even matter when there are so many bad games out there? Yeah, the thread was made in 2006, and now we're in we're in 2019 and Steam has several thousand games released on a monthly basis 99.9% of them unplayable, but even back then there have been so many bad games that it doesn't matter imo. Although an accumulation of bad games should be brought up so people who collect would know what not to purchase.
Rocky and Bullwinkle on the NES. A huge disappointment compared to the GameBoy game.
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Sonic '06. It was a big name game that many looked forward to for a year or more (including myself). It had the Sonic name on it, all of the Sonic games up to that point (except Shadow, a spin-off game) had been well reviewed, and this was supposed to be THE re-birth for Sonic, the game that brought Sonic into the HD era...
...and it was a pile of fucking shit. There have been series that have been built on good games in the past and then a mediocre game comes in and it's a huge letdown. This was beyond that. This wasn't just a mediocre letdown, this was BAD, like one notch above Superman 64 bad. If it weren't a Sonic game, it wouldn't be the worst game of all time (it would be close, though). But the fact that it was a big name + a literally horrible game = the worst game of all time. People didn't expect as much from Superman 64. It was a big name in comics and movies, but a good movie or comic =/= a good video game. Sonic was a series of good video games made by a manufacturer that was once the biggest name in the industry (admittedly, over 10 years earlier) and they release a game that my parents paid 60 bucks for and I played it for 45 minutes before deciding that it was a horrible piece of crap.
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