Games you really, really hated

[Runemaul]

I can't believe nobody has mentioned Rogue Warrior. This steaming pile of crap is so awful flies wouldn't touch it. It's pretty bad when a game's most redeeming feature is hearing Mickey Rourke phone it in for voice overs. Five minutes into the game, you can tell he's not putting any effort into it, and just wants to collect his paycheck and go home.

Awful controls, awful AI, and more profanity spewing than a multiplayer Halo match full of twelve year olds.

Also, Two Worlds. Still the biggest waste of money I've seen yet. So horrid, it's not worth going into.

 

[Captain Hat]

Hah, I bought Sherlock Holmes Vs. Jack the Ripper for kicks and giggles. After the first ten minutes of the horrible voice acting and gameplay, I took it to a pawn shop and sold it.

Does it seem like a big deal? No. But I'm an avid fan of Sherlock and have the book collection to prove it...so it was pretty dang offensive how they could take such an awesome idea and throw up their chuke all over it.

Lesson learned, kiddies: If it's in the discount bin at the store, it's usually for a good reason.

That game is really easy for gamerscore though. Bad move.

So was the "Saw" horror-game with bad controls and combat. But you gotta think, where's the line between working for digital "gamerscore" which really has no use, versus sitting down and playing a game you actually enjoy? Achievements should be a fun side-quest to a game you already like, they shouldn't be the only reason you play a game. But... that's another topic for another time.

 

[Slowpool]

Deus Ex.

Let the shitstorm begin.

 

[Vancleef]

One that stands out to me is Darksiders. The game was truly maddening because it had so much potential to be awesome but it was completely ruined by a slapdash effort in making the game. The first and biggest problem which is the source of almost all my other problems is that your character walks around extremely slowly. There is no good reason for having a character traverse their world so slowly while on foot. The solution to this that was put in was that you have a dash button but multiple times while I was playing I dashed past an autosave point and the game could not load the area fast enough so the game crashed. Doing anything while the game is autosaving is a huge gamble as one time it crashed while pausing while I was autosaving. Another time while dashing at the beginning to get to my sword I fell through the stairs to the pedastle where my sword was sitting. So in short it was a very buggy game in a way that was very disruptive.

My second problem with the game came in the form of balance. There were lots of upgrades and new skills one can get over the course of the game but the game difficulty is not designed in a way that acknowledges that youll get more upgrades as time goes by instead the boss of the first dungeon is very hard and the rest of the enemies and bosses get progressively easier because you get more and more stuff which would mean that the difficulty curve for the game is a straight line instead of a parabola

The whole thing was such a frustrating boring mess to play through

I really enjoyed that game. What platform did you play it on? I played it on pc and it only bugged for me once (I fell through the world).
I kinda agree about the difficulty-curve, but still, one of the last bosses would have been very hard to defeat without those health-upgrades.



Lost Planet: Extreme Condition

At first it was kind of cool, being an early xbox 360 title and all, but the game was so clunky, frustrating and boring I could not finish it.

 

[Stormz]

Man, it's like everyone hates FFXIII..For pretty much all of the same reasons too, 'linearity', 'battle system', 'characters/story'.. If I had a gripe about it, it's the sudden jump in bosses HP into the millions level. Other than that, I liked it.

Anyways, as this isn't a 'favorite game' thread, I'll come up with a game I at least disliked.

Probably one of the few games I actually disliked was Prince of Persia, for the Xbox 360 (and possibly PS3). I couldn't exactly tell you why, it's been quite a while since I played it.

I'm not a fan of 13 either but I didn't mind the battle system that much. I agree with the health. One battle could take 2 hours because the boss had millions of HP and healed like 100k HP every couple of moves. That's why I don't like it very much. It pissed me off so much I wanted to snap the game in half.

Anyway. I HATED Star Ocean 4. It was a horrific game that pretty much uses every generic Japanese stereotype in the book. I really think the writers for that game need to pick a new career a long with the English voice actors because clearly they don't know what the fuck they're doing.

 

[KILRbuny]

Brink, Too Human, Two Worlds, Assassins Creed, Halo ODST, Lost Planet.

Some of the worst games of the last 5 years right there. I think the only one there that really gets disputed is AC, but that was one of those games that you either loved or hated. I HATED it.

I beg to differ with your statement that AssCreed is the only one disputed; I loved Halo 3 ODST. In my opinion, it hosted a much better cast of characters than any of the Halo games before it and the story to me was told in a way that was well paced and involved the player in the lives of the characters more. In other Halo games, with the exception of Reach, I could care less if any character died. But in ODST, I found myself wanting to defend each and every one of the NPC's in the game.

 

[Hunter15]

i never found a point to finishing all three AvP campagins i only finished 2, also anime games...cant find a point to it at all

 

[GonzoGamer]

Of this generation?
Fallout New Vegas - Which I might have liked if it had worked.
No More Heroes - Which I might have liked if I enjoyed roaming barren and boring open worlds with very repetitive and uninspired combat areas, and QTE-like minigames based on jobs so boring and tedious, we make immigrants & convicts do them. I dig Suda51 (the guy is hilarious), I just hate his games.

 

[Johnnydillinger]

I'll jump the bandwagon of FFXIII haters; that piece of shit really deserved all the beatings. My other picks would be only 2 other games:

Mass Effect - as much as I wanted to love it, it was horrible. I was expecting a plot similar to that of KOTOR, which might have been a problem; but on the other hand Jade Empire succeeded to entertain me and turned out to be a superb game, even if not as awesome as KOTOR. I hated the empty characters, lead by my whole team. Hated how the money just got hoarded up in such a ridicoulous way that I started selling and buying back the same item until it looked "okay". Hated the repetitive combat that was annoying to begin with... The only thing I loved about it was the galaxy map, and its music of course. The rest of the music was quite ass for me.

Need For Speed: High Stakes - God, I literally broke a keyboard over this abomination. I don't really know how they managed to make this one different from the series (the rest is just about as frustrating), but it drove me insane. The damage system basically blocked me from any income, as I kept breaking my cars like in Carmageddon, and the overly long races just made me want to lick a lawnmower from under.

 

[Images]

Red Alert 3

Loved the first two games and the expansions, the third put such an emphasis on multiplayer that it pissed me off utterly. The fact that it forced you to have an AI ally all the time in the hope you'd get someone to play co-op with you. I just don't play RTS's multiplayer...especially the SINGLE PLAYER CAMPAIGN! Arg. That and it took away all the cool cold war bluster and replaced it with some bizarre techno thing.

 

[AlternatePFG]

I could never bring myself to genuinely hate a game. Sure I've played plenty of bad games before, but I never felt like "Oh this game is awful, I loathe every single aspect of it and there are absolutely no redeemable qualities." If I play a game and don't like it, I just decide it's not for me and stop playing it, instead of forcing myself to get through it and end up loathing it.

The only game I can think of that really pissed me of was Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel (Not Tactics, Tactics was pretty cool but also didn't really fit with Fallout in some ways) but even then that's because of my inherent bias towards Fallout, and how the game absolutely shit on the universe as a whole. When looked on upon it's own merits, it's really just a subpar shooter, nothing more, nothing less.

 

[Michael Delvey]

Fuzion Frenzy 2. This was the only game that I played for 2 hours, quit, and returned it for another game. I played Sneak King for christ sake and I didn't trade that in. FF2 was the worst game I played.