Did you ever play a terrible game when you were young, but remembering that you thought it was a good game?

[Specter Von Baren]

Quest 64

Would play it for hours just in the first town alone. I remember always getting to the first boss and always dying but I'd keep coming back to it. I think eventually I beat the guy with the wolf head, but I didn't get much further than that.

Played it only a couple years ago and have only realized how shallow its "RPG" mechanics were. I think ProJared explained it better than I ever could. Rock spell for damage, water spell to gain healing magic, repeat until you beat the game.

Driv3r, if only because when I went to my grandmother's house my uncle had his Xbox there and it was one of the games I could play. I actually played through the whole story back then, and when I tried it again recently I don't think it's the absolute worst game I've ever played, but it's certainly buggy and unpolished in several areas.

Ah, this would actually be my best example too. It's a shame really, I think if it were remade (Not that there's anyone who would :/ ) that it could actually be pretty good. It's combat system in terms of movement and aiming was interesting though heavily flawed and the world, while for the most part being very empty, was very detailed (for the time), large and made you want to explore it. I also rather liked its art style. There's potential in it for a fantastic fantasy game but it has so many glaring problems with it...

 

[TT Kairen]

Most people and Final Fantasy 6. One-dimensional characters, boring villain with no depth, and bare-bones gameplay. I was so excited to play this shining masterpiece of the series and I got... this.

Things from MY OWN childhood though? Probably the original EverQuest. Can't believe I thought endless kill grinding for literal YEARS to level up was fun.

 

[iwinatlife]

Most people and Final Fantasy 6. One-dimensional characters, boring villain with no depth, and bare-bones gameplay. I was so excited to play this shining masterpiece of the series and I got... this.

Things from MY OWN childhood though? Probably the original EverQuest. Can't believe I thought endless kill grinding for literal YEARS to level up was fun.

you earned that ding though! and apparently people do given the relative success of official EQ Legacy Servers

 

[Rangaman]

Holy Jesus, where do I begin?

3D Sonic games generally would be a good start. Not that they're all awful, but I every time I replay one, the fun I had decreases by a massive amount. For example, I remember loving Sonic Colours but on my last attempted playthrough I stopped playing after the first few levels of Sweet Mountain and Starship Carnival due to sheer indifference to the game.

Medal of Honor: Rising Sun. Hands up if you remember this turd. As a kid, I was in constant fits of laughter from the singleplayer, but I remember enjoying the multiplayer with my brother. After digging up my Xbox and going through the games...there were some casualties, but this game activity tried to make me angry. Horrible level design, ugly fucking graphics (even for a sixth-gen title and ESPECIALLY for an Xbox game), bad AI, hilariously crap animations, the list goes on. Never went back to try the multiplayer. Most of the games were average more than anything else (some Scooby-Doo tie-in, The Incredibles, Blinx the Timesweeper) but Rising Sun was just fucking awful.

The aforementioned aggressively average games that were lacking in fun. They weren't laughably bad, but they weren't very good either. Hell even the games that were fun weren't as good as I remember them being (sorry Simpsons Hit'N'Run).

Finally, Mario Party 4. One of my first gaming experiences, ever. At some point down the line, I ended up with Mario Party 8. I thought "My god this is bad. There's no way the old ones were this shitty, right?" Wrong. Unfortunately I didn't own the game (I played my step-brothers copy), so I had to resort to SGB's Drunk Let's Play. All I saw was the same game I had just dismissed a little while earlier.

 

[Samtemdo8_v1legacy]

I have not played this game as a kid but still counts that I played it by today's standards.

GTA 3 has been heralded to be an increadible game and worth playing, Bought the Playstation 2 version of the game, and it was the most visually boring, narretively shallow, mechanically dated game ever.

The game has no world map, the game's combat is more dated and broken than the Tank Controlled Resident Evil games, the story is practically non-existant because I did not care.

The city was boring, the radio music tracks SUCKED for me, nothing interesting to listen to.

Its amazing how much Rockstar improved from GTA 3.

Vice City had some of the same issues but did made needed improvements, San Andreas was THE GTA game that perfected the GTA gameplay and presentation.

In the end I find the Niko Bellic GTA 4 to be a much better game than GTA 3.

 

[Saelune]

I have not played this game as a kid but still counts that I played it by today's standards.

GTA 3 on the PS2 has been heralded to be an increadible game and worth playing, Bought the Playstation 2 version of the game, and it was the most visually boring, narretively shallow, mechanically dated game ever.

The game has no world map, the game's combat is more dated and broken than the Tank Controlled Resident Evil games, the story is practically non-existant because I did not care.

The city was boring, the radio music tracks SUCKED for me, nothing interesting to listen to.

Its amazing how much Rockstar improved from GTA 3.

Vice City had some of the same issues but did made needed improvements, San Andreas was THE GTA game that perfected the GTA gameplay.

In the end I find the Niko Bellic GTA 4 to be a much better game than GTA 3.

When did you play it? I still enjoy 3, but 3 is mostly so praised for being the first GTA like that. IV was more a step backwards compared to Vice City and San Andreas. If IV came out after 3, Im sure most people would say it was only better.

 

[Samtemdo8_v1legacy]

I have not played this game as a kid but still counts that I played it by today's standards.

GTA 3 on the PS2 has been heralded to be an increadible game and worth playing, Bought the Playstation 2 version of the game, and it was the most visually boring, narretively shallow, mechanically dated game ever.

The game has no world map, the game's combat is more dated and broken than the Tank Controlled Resident Evil games, the story is practically non-existant because I did not care.

The city was boring, the radio music tracks SUCKED for me, nothing interesting to listen to.

Its amazing how much Rockstar improved from GTA 3.

Vice City had some of the same issues but did made needed improvements, San Andreas was THE GTA game that perfected the GTA gameplay.

In the end I find the Niko Bellic GTA 4 to be a much better game than GTA 3.

When did you play it? I still enjoy 3, but 3 is mostly so praised for being the first GTA like that. IV was more a step backwards compared to Vice City and San Andreas. If IV came out after 3, Im sure most people would say it was only better.

I'd say 4 years ago but I still remember my playthrough of the game to this day and it was just bad. I only beat it just to see it to the end.

Oh yeah and the difficulty of that game? Lets just say there is a reason why games lately have been casualized a bit. And yet I found GTA Vice City to be harder. (Flashesback to the godawful water mission in Vice City)

 

[Saelune]

I have not played this game as a kid but still counts that I played it by today's standards.

GTA 3 on the PS2 has been heralded to be an increadible game and worth playing, Bought the Playstation 2 version of the game, and it was the most visually boring, narretively shallow, mechanically dated game ever.

The game has no world map, the game's combat is more dated and broken than the Tank Controlled Resident Evil games, the story is practically non-existant because I did not care.

The city was boring, the radio music tracks SUCKED for me, nothing interesting to listen to.

Its amazing how much Rockstar improved from GTA 3.

Vice City had some of the same issues but did made needed improvements, San Andreas was THE GTA game that perfected the GTA gameplay.

In the end I find the Niko Bellic GTA 4 to be a much better game than GTA 3.

When did you play it? I still enjoy 3, but 3 is mostly so praised for being the first GTA like that. IV was more a step backwards compared to Vice City and San Andreas. If IV came out after 3, Im sure most people would say it was only better.

I'd say 4 years ago but I still remember my playthrough of the game to this day and it was just bad. I only beat it just to see it to the end.

Oh yeah and the difficulty of that game? Lets just say there is a reason why games lately have been casualized a bit. And yet I found GTA Vice City to be harder. (Flashesback to the godawful water mission in Vice City)

Well, difficulty can be for a few reasons. Many games are hard because they just did not figure out themselves yet. Hitman 2 is really fucking hard, but thats because its in this sour spot of being more complex than Hitman 1 but not yet as open as Blood Money. Blood Money is easy cause there is so many ways to play it, not because they intentionally made the game easier.

I'd imagine its the same for GTA, where the expanding freedom and options is what makes it easier, rather than an intention to make it easier. Just being able to swim makes San Andreas a less hazardous place.

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

I played Daikatana when it came out. Now I'll emphasizes that I had never heard of the game, or Romero or have a concept of game development. What do you want from me, I was 10. My most recent games were Diablo 2 and Perfect Dark, and Daikatana felt like the middle ground between them. Run gun fun, while time traveling to fight plague werewolves and skeleton gladiators. And I loved it!

Looking back I can see why everyone hated it, especially considering the backstory of development. But without knowing the story, and just going on the game itself, its no worse than Turok or Quake, and even had a few interesting ideas. I remember all my older cousins laughing at me and calling me a liar for liking it, but I assume now they knew the backstory then, and falsely assumed I knew it to.

But I was 10! 6 Oreos a day was a little much for me, let alone keeping track of a game development cycle that started when I was 7.

 

[Worgen]

Sonic Adventure 2. Although I do still like it, I know that its a bad game. Weirdly enough its the only sonic game I actually like. I don't even like the 2d games.

 

[barbieboy]

I can't remember the name but it was in PS 1. It was a mashed-up game of Pokemon and whack-a-mole. Everything's nice when there's pokemon in it back when I was a kid. I guess I have a terrible taste back then, huh..

 

[iwinatlife]

Sonic Adventure 2. Although I do still like it, I know that its a bad game. Weirdly enough its the only sonic game I actually like. I don't even like the 2d games.

But why is it a bad game if its enjoyable (excluding a few parts, looking at you biolizard fight)? It was one of my favorite games on the game cube I logged hundreds of hours raising chao and collecting emblems, and raising more chao...the whole game was an excuse to play the chao garden...thats why it was bad

 

[Worgen]

Sonic Adventure 2. Although I do still like it, I know that its a bad game. Weirdly enough its the only sonic game I actually like. I don't even like the 2d games.

But why is it a bad game if its enjoyable (excluding a few parts, looking at you biolizard fight)? It was one of my favorite games on the game cube I logged hundreds of hours raising chao and collecting emblems, and raising more chao...the whole game was an excuse to play the chao garden...thats why it was bad

Well the controls are pretty bad, they work, but they never really feel good. The camera is pretty bad, more than a few stages have big issues with it. The story is bad, sonic in the real world is just dumb. Aside from a few stages most of them have bad layouts and mechanics. Like the whole timed puzzle thing in the temple. Really when most people say they like it, they tend to have fond memories of the chao. I messed with them a little but I liked the rest of the game more, despite how bad it is. Really though, I think a big part of that is Rouge the bat and the sound track. Allow me to explain. One of my biggest pet peeves in any kind of scifi or fantasy is extreme sexual dimorphism. Like its pretty common to have something be a monsterous male then the female be a human hottie with maybe ears and a tail, anime is particularly bad with this. Rouge the bat is made to be sexy, shes got bouncing tits so obviously, but she fits with the art style of sonic. They didn't try and human her up or anything, that gives it some points. Then the music is also pretty fantastic butt rock that goes with the game perfectly.

 

[jademunky]

System shock 2

Played the hell out of it when I was young, had a hacker-sniper build and actually finished the game. I replayed it a few years ago only to find that it had the most user-unfriendly controls ever and that I could not even finish the game! Not due to difficulty (although it is frikkin hard) but because I needed to put points into a specific skill or not be able to advance beyond a certain point at all.

 

[Maximum Bert]

I have not found a game yet that I have gone back to and it was not largely as I remembered. I did play Bubble Bobble later and found it to be trash with absolute yank controls that felt nothing like I remembered as I played that game to death in my youth but then years later I found out it was actually the port that was yank and the game (in a good port) is just like I remembered which is great.

I have had the opposite a few times most notably with FFVI and Zelda Ocarina as I hated these on release but much later went back and found that I quite liked FFVI and Zelda Ocarina was ok as well.

If you are specifically on about terrible games but I thought were good errr I suppose a few of the old lcd handheld games could fit I mean I knew they were not very good but honestly I did not care as it was all I could get at the time until I finally managed to get a C64.

 

[Specter Von Baren]

Sonic Adventure 2. Although I do still like it, I know that its a bad game. Weirdly enough its the only sonic game I actually like. I don't even like the 2d games.

Uhhh. What?

 

[Worgen]

Sonic Adventure 2. Although I do still like it, I know that its a bad game. Weirdly enough its the only sonic game I actually like. I don't even like the 2d games.

Uhhh. What?

I don't understand what is hard to understand.

 

[balladbird]

Bubsy 3D. Seriously. XD

This game has become something of a punchline on the internet, and looking back... yeah, it was terrible, but my family had a fair bit of fun trying to beat the thing.

It all started when I saw commercials for Crash Bandicoot... I can't remember which one, I think "warped". I asked for it for christmas, but never caught the name, as my child attention span couldn't be bothered to watch the whole commercial, so instead I just asked for the game with the "orange cat thing"... and thus I got bubsy, instead.

 

[gsilver]

Not sure if you have heard of it, but I used to like a game called E.T.

Oh man, me too.
I once beat it 6 times, in a row, on the same day.
And the SNES was already out at the time.
...But I was poor and had very few games. I was also sick with mono and couldn't do much except dumbly stare forward.

Desperate times call for desperate measures.

 

[MHR]

South Park for N64. It was pretty cool murdering turkey hordes with snowballs, plunger launchers, and Terrance and Philip fart grenades. But thinking back, it was only kinda cool because my mom didn't want me playing it, it was Southpark, and it was the second FPS game I ever played.

The game is actually quite horrible I hear. Probably the fact that I didn't bother to make it past level 2 says a lot. And as a kid I didn't exactly have tons of choices.