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

[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?

[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?

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

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