In your opinion, what was the worst game you ever played?

[Life_Is_A_Mess]

I can't decide whether I hated inFamous or Okami more. When I played inFamous, I felt like every single thing it did, it did wrong. But with Okami, the controls were broken to the point of the game being unplayable. One set of weapons is unusable, and if I hadn't found a different weapon when I did, I would have quit playing very early into the game. Then later, it was the combination of the extremely unresponsive brush drawings (HINT: maybe if everything wasn't a variation of a circle, it'd be easier for the game to tell what power I wanted) that needed to be used to beat a timed digging mini that required near perfection to beat that finally made me get rid of the awful game. I tried it over and over again for days. I tried all the tips all over the internet to make the game better understand the drawings I wanted. But nothing worked, and the mini-game ended in failure again and again and again due to the game being broken.

So I dunno. inFamous was extremely unenjoyable, but Okami was actually broken, and is the kind of game that should be getting those "1/__ - completely broken and unplayable" ratings and sit next to games like ET and Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing in video gaming's hall of shame.

So I guess in the end, the worst game I ever played is Okami, because it's a truly and undeniably bad game thanks to broken controls instead of just a game with no gamebreaking issues that I happened to strongly dislike.

Okami? Seriously? The game is a masterpiece, I found no flaws whatsoever when playing the game. It was original, innovative in game mechanics and art-style (that would give it at least a 7/10).

I would say InFamous is average, but not extremely unenjoyable. I prefered Prototype though.

Do you actually know what a game has to be like to deserve a 1/_- thing? "Forklift Simulator 2000".

Hate to say it, but the Wii's controls certainly couldn't have helped your opinion of Okami. Quite a shame too, as the game has some genuinely good parts in it, and feels like a stylised Zelda to an extent, with a few more intriguing innovations to boot!

Played it on the PS2 so no control problems here. =3

 

[RelexCryo]

Operation Flashpoint:
Dragon rising

That game... it... I can't...

the only word I can use to describe it is; Broken.

the thing

You mean the PS2 quasi horror game? I actually liked it. It had a lot of good ideas. I wasn't expecting a triple A game when I bought it, just a low budget game with some good ideas. Which it actually was.

yes this one. only i played it on pc.
the ai is useless and it doesnt have any consistency in the infection mechanic or the thrust mechanic. you try to keep your team alive but:
some get stuck in corners outside and die because of the cold.
some transform even if you tested them one second ago and the test turned out negative.
also the scare factor is completely missing.

this sums some of it flaws up
http://spoonyexperiment.com/2007/02/25/the-thing-review/

yes it had some good ideas but those were broken.
if you make a game based around a feature or market a game around it you should make sure it works. just like arcania: gothic 4 where they would talk for hours how they spend days working on the enviromental rain to flow and fall realistic and they had to make it rain every goddamn 15 min in the game.

they should have spend more time developimg the fighting mechanics and story instead.

btw bad game that i also played:
arcania: gothic 4 (spellbound and piranha bytes should smooth down their differences/ quarrel because when they work together they make awesome games. alone they just suck)

I forgot about enemies turning one second after you tested them. I just remembered that. In some areas your allies would automatically turn the second they entered the area, even if you tested them one second prior and the results came back negative. Admittedly, that was very stupid. Now that I think about it, your criticisms are totally valid. My bad. I kind of liked the idea of people only trusting you after you gave them a gun though.

 

[Zyntoxic]

I would say FF VII but that wouldn't be fair since I've played Valhalla... that game... I practically got it for free but I still felt cheated after I played it.
some kind of wanna be RPG with no graspable plot what so ever and incredibly boring characters and worthless outdated graphics and game mechanics.

the top of that game was meeting an NPC named "Blotglade" which pretty much translates to "eager to sacrifice"(usually animals or fruit, but occationally humans too) who is supposedly ones friend or somthing...

afterwards I've met people from Paradox(the game company) and I have been told that the creators of Valhalla deeply regretted the game and wished it to disapear for human memory.
I still won't forgive Paradox for realeasing such a horrible horrible game though...

 

[MRMIdAS2k]

Men In Black or Tattoo Assassins.

 

[kasperbbs]

Command And Conquer 4 Tiberian Twilight, i know its good to try something new but why do this!?

 

[Captain Booyah]

I guess it wasn't too awful in terms of gameplay, but my answer is the same every time -- Prince of Persia: Warrior Within. It was just such an utter stab in the back in comparison to Sands of Time. It's like, they took out everything that made SoT good and replaced it with raging emo angst. No meaningful character interaction or charmingly snarky Prince, no pretty environments. Just stupid miserable Prince, and stupidly little armour for the well-endowed women for the 13 year-old boys, and a stupid plot, and stupid ninjas who constantly spewed out stupid innuendo, and a stupid amount of combo moves, and stupid monotonous scenery with the same stupid colour palette, and I really hope I got across just how stupid I thought that game was.

I usually make a point to at least finish something before making a judgement of it, but I couldn't bring myself to get past the halfway mark.

 

[Hugga_Bear]

Damnation.
I borrowed it from a mate who is a complete trophy whore. He said it wasn't too bad and was an easy plat, it was terrible. The fights were pathetically easy, the platforming was poor in every respect (simple but still managing to be broken). Shooting was piss poor with the aim being slow even on the highest sensitivity, enemies being out of range even when you can see them (and are using a sniper), enemies don't react to their friends being killed and so on.

Never play it, despite having it free and the pathetic ease of the game I never finished the second level it was just so bad.

 

[Anthony Abney]

Megaman Battle Network

it wan't horrible, it was just repetitive and I don't consider it to be a "real" Megaman game, it just used the characters and the brand and put them into a game that played more like a real time version of Pokemon (and even that's a bit of a stretch)

 

[JemothSkarii]

For me, a rare 'gem' called World Super Police on the PS2. Here's the premise; you are a part of an elite highway police group in 'Merica or Japan (You get to choose) where you and ffour other police cars chase after others cars and blow them up with bonnet mounted miniguns/rocket launchers.

Sounds awesome right?
Wrong.

You are constantly timed and you drive in a straight line, occassionally dodging obstacles, the voice acting was hilariously bad and the story was ridiculous. It also lagged like a mofo and the enemies were OP'ed as shite later on.

 

[Frybird]

Just remembered that i actually played something far worse than what i've posted above and what is probably worse than most of the games posted here.

...So it's called Quizz My Azz...and yes, this is the actual title of the game.

It was the only game review ever i HAD TO write since i used to write for a Online-Music-Magazine.

Quizz My Azz is a german heavy metal trivia/quiz game that DOES have actually kinda hard and in-depth questions about various Metal Genres as well as some Rock Questions.

What it doesn't have is..just about anything else.

You know how people say about some games that it looks/plays like a Flash-Game. Well, this one looks and plays like a Geocites HTML page. It doesn't even have music, with the exception of a few annoying Sound Effects.

And while much can be forgiven when it comes to a low-budget Quiz Game, you'll still come of disappointed since the game is just THAT horrible.

Oh, and it looks like this:

 

[Simeon Ivanov]

Um ... Prince of Persia on the NES maybe ... I don't know, I don't play a lot of bad games

 

[dfphetteplace]

The one I can think of right now is Alpha Protocol. I really looked forward to a spy RPG, and I stop playing this game before an hour was up. It was terrible. I'm sure there is worse, that is just the one I could think of.

 

[GeneralFungi]

Nano Breaker. It's an extremely badly paced slasher with obnoxiously bad swordplay and repetitive gameplay. I got it for Christmas.. but I only played the first 30 minutes because it really irked me.

 

[nad302]

Wet, well i only played the demo but still the full game would have to change everything and stop being shit for me to change my opinion

 

[Araksardet]

Honestly, this is really difficult, because I usually stop playing games very, very quickly if they irritate or frustrate me (like, within 10 minutes).

That said, off the top of my head, Empire Earth III was a really bad game and a major letdown. There were probably worse ones, but I've forgotten them (thank the gods).

 

[Michael Logan]

I wanna say Dragon Age 2, but while the game was shit im sure I must have played something worse, I just cant think of it right now.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

Well considering I'm quite old and have played some rank shovelware in my time I'm going to limit it a bit.

They only game I've regretted recently was Final Fantasy 13. It's just not a final fantasy game, it's running down a corridor interspersed with watching a movie about characters that are impossible to like.
FFX was teetering on the 'oh god its so linear' edge for me but the characters and storyline saved it, no such luck here.

I also regret getting Dragon Age 2 but that wasn't completely terrible it was just massively dissapointing for Bioware.

 

[Jake Martinez]

Hmm this is pretty easy (in order of crappitude):

1) Alone in the Dark (the remake from a couple of years ago, it was TERRIBLE).
2) Dungeon Siege 3 (Bland console game with a terrible PC port and almost no game mechanics)
3) Dragon Age 2 (It was worse than the first game in every area, so the dissapointment factor here is in play)
4) Hydrophobia (So close to being something interesting, but ultimately just a mediocre FPS)
5) Fable III (So boring I couldn't be bothered to do the final mission to actually beat it)

That's pretty much it. I've been pretty lucky and I haven't paid for too many shitty games in my life, but oddly enough, they're all from the last couple of years. Either I am buying more dubious games (possible, since they are cheap and easy to access now via Steam) or there is more crap out there masquarding as a triple-a release (it might be a combination of the both, for instance, I would never have said that Dragon Age 2 would be as shitty as it based off of Bioware's track record, but alas, I have been disabused of that notion...)

 

[goldendriger]

MW2...it licked the shitring from my toilet.
Seriously MW2 worst game ever, and i played LOTR: Two Towers For PS2

 

[TheScientificIssole]

SHADOW THE HEDGEHOG is the worst game I've ever played. Though it holds a special place in my heart as my favorite game.