games that should have NEVER EVER been made

[Nazulu]

There's a correct answer to this question:

Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

Yep, the biggest disaster I hyped up for bloody 3 years! I'll never forget it. In fact I was so disappointed it changed me as a person.

How they can go from such a great game like Melee to a horribly designed turd such as Brawl is beyond me.

 

[idodo35]

all sport games just waste off discs and IQ

 

[Nautical Honors Society]

The Witcher, Half-Life, Black and White, Crysis, Dwarf Fortress, Dungeons and Dragons.

The list goes on and on

Wow. I can only assume this is trollbait

Oh god I totally misread that title. Thought it was best games EVER made. Wow my brain is off today.

Uhm a game that should have NEVER been made? I'd say Shadow the Hedgehog

 

[Alcamonic]

Duke Nukem Forever. It's an average shooter but it will never live up to the nostalgia factor of the 3D.
They should've just remade it all together instead of just polishing the turd 3Drealms had done.

 

[Retronana]

What? Super mario galaxy 2 a piece of money wasting shit? It's freakin amazing, near perfect and takes steps forward from the original in terms of challenge and level design.

Now viva pinata 2, that was underwhelming.

The CoD series could've taken steps in a different direction but that possibility has been forfeited for NET profit sadly. I really hope MW3 bombs not because I hate the series but it would show activision that sitting in the same stagnant pool of gameplay for 5 years isn't going to advance gaming as a whole in any way.

Needless to say the CD-i zelda titles as well.

 

[meryatathagres]

Ultima 8 and 9.

 

[Polite Sage]

Hitman 1 is a piece of shit excuse of a game with poor story and horrible, buggy gameplay mechanics. Though the sequels are really good.

 

[LemonFury]

Final Fantasy. Sure, 1-7 were okay but from 8 and on are dreadful. In like four years the bad games will WAAAAAY overweight the old/okay ones. And then boom, the world ends.

 

[Yuno Gasai]

WET. I wanted that game to be so much more than it was, but no, I found it to be entirely dreadful.

 

[C95J]

so basically this is a thread which gives people an excuse to ***** about games they don't like... personally I don't really see the point, everyone likes and hates games, and threads like this only worsen the problem of complaints, fanboyish behaviour and flame wars in The Escapist...

 

[siahsargus]

Too Human
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II
Super Mario Galaxy 2
The upcoming Halo 4

Keep in mind that not all of these are bad games (afterall, how can I judge Halo 4 after one teaser?) I have just listed them here simply for the fact that they have no right to exist at all. For the sequels (and interquel) there was no plot holes to fill, no extra story to tell, so really there was no reason for them to have been made with the exception of
A. Pleasing the fans
B. Making money

Also if someone at Sony decides to make a Legend of Dragoon 2 I will say the same thing about that game because while I loved the first game, it does not need a sequel.

Didn't you see the sequel hook at the end of the Legendary ending for Halo 3? They had to make a Halo 4.

 

[mcattack92]

Delta Force Extreme series: some of the most retarded AI in the history of gaming.
World of Warcraft: would save nerds everywhere billions of hours that they have wasted in that game.
Half Life 2: Because of it, we are still waiting on Episode 3
Supreme Commander 2: Shrinking the epicness of the original ruined it.
Final Fantasy: Now with 99% movie, 1% gameplay.

 

[Andy of Comix Inc]

Darksiders. It was just... so... bland. It had no right to exist, not a shred of originality, and art design that was schizophrenic and aesthetically just... ugly. It wasn't a bad game, I just don't see why it got greenlit and produced.

1: Why the hate against Mario Galaxy 2?

I loved every minute of Mario Galaxy 2. I also resent its very existence. Go figure.

 

[frans909]

Now,this is a tough question because lots of games that SHOULDN'T have been made actually cause very important things to happen by them being made (i.e. E.T. and Pacman for the Atari causing the video game crash),but if you would ask me in personal preference,I would say Action 52.It was really just a waste of a game,an expensive one too.

I enjoyed both Pacman and ET for the Atari quite a lot. ET was freaking hard but it had a great intro picture, music, and it had a very satisfying ending. Pacman was fun. Sure, it didn't look like the arcade, but it WAS pacman. And it WAS an atari 2600.

 

[Bobbity]

KotOR 2.

It was a good game, sure, but it's soul crushingly depressing when you think how much potential it had.

I really want Bioware to come back and re-do KotOR 1 when they're sick of Mass Effect it was such a freakin' awesome game, and I'd love to see a re-imagining of it on even a next gen console.

 

[ReaperGrimm]

Superman 64

 

[ReaperGrimm]

Daikatana. I believe I just won the thread.

I see your Daikatana, and raise you Custer's Revenge.

Custer's revenge is retro Duke Nukem!

Also, every time I see Yuna after playing FFx-2 I want to barf.

i feel you man

 

[funguy2121]

EDIT: Totally misread the title, I'd have to say Shadow the Hedgehog

I love Nautica. She's so gorgeous!

 

[TheSchaef]

Well, I'm torn. Half the commenters are naming games that are of a reasonable quality but they seemed not to like it personally for whatever reason (primarily for cash-in, it seems) and the other half are naming games that were probably covered on Angry Video Game Nerd due to their unequivocal awfulness.

So I won't stir a hornet's nest by saying something like WoW because I refuse to do subscription-based gaming or Halo just because I don't play it, because there's nothing really wrong with the games. And I won't waste my time looking to see if Master of Orion 3 or Quest64 has been mentioned yet, and just say, look at the AVGN video catalog. If your game is on there (except his positive review of Mario 3), you should never have made it.