The Escapist Community's- Top 100 games you should NEVER play before you die!

[pyrosaw]

Note: Yes I know someone made a top 100 games you should play, but what games should you avoid like the plague?

OT: Just say your game/games, and at the end of the topic, I will tally them at the end of all this mayhem.

RULES:

1. This is not a flame war. You don't agree with something, take it somewhere else.
2. Please elaborate why you hate said game.
3. Only two games. No more, or you will be disqualified. Everyone will get there chance to talk.

 

[Marter]

Beyblade on the PS1. You get so little control it's not worth playing.

 

[TheStickman]

Superman 64

That's all I can think of off the top of my head.

Um... E.T.

EDIT: Didn't read the rules. >.>

Shrek 2: The Game: Just a terrible game.

 

[Crayzor]

Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing. Anything that could possibly be wrong with a racing game, that game had wrong with it. Just ... stay away from it.

 

[Frequen-Z]

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Horribly written story, horrible multiplayer, horrible price, horrible everything.

Sonic the Hedgehog (2006)
Clipping, control problems, camera issues, weak excuse for a story.

 

[pirate64]

The worst £35 quid I ever spend... Alien vs Predator... :'( it could have been so good but no...

 

[scnj]

ET and Superman 64 are my choices. Many other peoples' as well I assume, although I expect a few nominations for Halo and CoD.

Edit: I chose them because they're objectively terrible games.

 

[maddawg IAJI]

In my opinion? Brutal Legend. Now hear me out before you call me a witch and burn me at the stake.

I reaaallly disliked Brutal Legend. Was it the voice acting or the Story? No, it was the gameplay that killed it.The world was vast and the only way to get around it was to drive around in a hot rod, which while not horrible, it does get repetive quickly. It was really short, the game litterally seemed to cut out around the time I defeated the second big bad boss fight. They quite literally, had the final boss appear in the cutscene and then started up another mission against him. In short, you're fighting two bosses back to back. What? Did Double Fine run out of money to finish the final campaign against him? What about the area where his entire army is stationed? Do we just forget about all that?

Finally, the most painful part of the game, was probably the controls and the AI. When I ask my teamates to follow me into the climatic battle against the enemy troops, I expect my troops to be at my back, not staying at my base. This game was one of my biggest regrets as a gamer.

 

[Vilcus]

Two Worlds: The creators slaughter ye olde English, and the combat is horribly copy pasted (every attack is identical, wielding two swords of fail gives you the same animation as wielding 2 swords of slightly less fail), and the game is just so anticlimactic.

Smuggler's Run: Not sure if anyone has even played this, but I got it in a trade that involved me trading one game, and receiving 4. This game alone made the trade seem bitersweet to me. The story is dreadful, the controls don't respond when you need them to, and there are so many glitches that I stopped playing a quarter of the way through.

Those are mine, and I know a lot of people will agree with Two Worlds (although some may have liked it for the unintentional camp value).

 

[Applejack]

Romancing Saga is just terrible and worthy of the list. You can choose your hero out of like 8 different ones and play through their stories but it's like choosing how you want to be tortured.

 

[Snork Maiden]

Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing. Anything that could possibly be wrong with a racing game, that game had wrong with it. Just ... stay away from it.

I thought Big Rigs looked brilliant. I have no idea how much it costs from Amazon or whatever, but its worth a fiver just to own a game that can credibly claim to be the worst racer ever.

 

[Tharwen]

Eragon for the DS, and Burnout: Legends for the DS.

Those are the two worst games I own.

 

[Volstag9]

y'know, i'll probably try to play some of the games on the list, just because they were said... oh, wait i already had... that was quick.

my recommendation goes out too, Mercenaries 2. Compared to the first one it is just terrible... Why? well i had an entire city and all its populace despawn on me... i was sad.

 

[Chrono180]

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Crummy controls, mediocre source material (even for a kid's book), roughly as short as two movies played back to back, and overall rather boring.

Fast food Tycoon. No manual, no tutorial, no practice mode, hardly ANY help whatsoever, and a concept so stupid it makes Harry Potter look like a masterpiece by comparison. I mean seriously, who on EARTH would think managing a fast food joint would be a good idea for a game?

 

[superbatranger]

Surfing H30 for the PS2. It had some of the worst controls I have ever seen in a game. I played it for all of 20 minutes.

 

[Good morning blues]

Two awful games that nobody should ever be subjected to? All right. The first is Enter the Matrix, a game for which I had great expectations that ended up being an incredibly mundane and repetitive shit-pile where pretty much all of the cool stuff you wanted to do in a Matrix game occurred in cutscenes. The second is the Animorphs Game Boy game. It was a gift when I was a kid because I liked Game Boy and I liked Animorphs. The game itself was this bizarre card-based (why card-based? This was a big trend back in the day and I never understood it, it doesn't even make any sense in the fiction) semi-JRPG that was most notable for its random encounters that would last somewhere around 10 or 20 minutes each.

EDIT: I'd also like to say every Simpsons game from the 1990s except the arcade game, but I don't think that would be acceptable.

 

[weker]

cod
wow

anything which is remotely involved with activision as it breaks the industry corrupting it from the inside out with wow and cod any many other games which are just a way to make money with no innovation

call of duty is ruining shooters
wow has destroyed the mmo genre (but is now repairing)

they dont make games to be good they make them to be addictive

CALL OF DUTY no one says is good
WOW is well made but still way to addictive
guitar hero.... wait what you can become gods in the game... wait i thought this was about guitar playing oh so your done with that now..... well i guess it could make money and the fans will follow it

there are no games which arnt worth playing really as all give you something to think about and therefore worth while
even some of the worst games i have played like cod have given me something too look at and think about

one game called cryostasis has one of the most confusing stories i have ever seen and is something i would dream to miss but so many people told me to avoid like the plague

 

[Space Spoons]

It's been said before, I'm sure, but I'm going to say it again, just for good measure; Shaq-Fu. The level of awfulness this game commands is nothing short of legendary, yet still, curious gamers who have never experienced the tragedy are drawn to it. Maybe it's the mystique of playing a game that many consider the worst ever, maybe it's grim fascination with a fighting game that stars an NBA player, or maybe it's just strong resilience to all the hype, the dogged determination that it simply cannot be that bad.

It most assuredly is that bad, and no one should play it. Ever.

 

[Not-here-anymore]

EDIT: I'd also like to say every Simpsons game from the 1990s except the arcade game, but I don't think that would be acceptable.

The arcade game was awesome! Or at least the nostalgia goggles say it was.

Pretty much every movie tie-in game, ever
Too many? Then specifically Star Wars: Episode 2 for the GBA. I borrowed it from a friend on holiday, and was appalled by how bad it was, even back then when I would have been... 12 maybe?. Episode 3's GBA game was no better. (I still completed both of them, though)

 

[Good morning blues]

EDIT: I'd also like to say every Simpsons game from the 1990s except the arcade game, but I don't think that would be acceptable.

The arcade game was awesome! Or at least the nostalgia goggles say it was.

I actually managed to find it earlier today, and it totally holds up. It also summons memories of abominations like "Bart Versus the Juggernauts" and "Bart and the Beanstalk."