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 .. 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

[Doonzmore]

Batman Dark Tommorow .. 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

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.

[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.

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[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

[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!

[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.

[BricatSegaFan]

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

[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..

[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.

[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!

[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.