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

[MikailCaboose]

Bebe's Kids. Dear god, that game is...painful. I'll point you to the Nostalgia Critic on this one...

 

[benbenthegamerman]

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)

Au Contraire (spelling/correct grammatical use?), for you have obviously never played Star Wars Trilogy Arcade a.k.a. best movieliscensed game ever (yes, evem better than GoldenEye.)

OT:

 

[Worgen]

every game you've ever loved, you should not play any of them at all, they are horrible

 

[viranimus]

Unfortunately for my second pick I have to sacrifice in order to make my first pick

1: Unlimited saga - PS2

2: I was torn by the bevy of shooters, but I have to go with WoW, simply because it not only adversely effected the MMO genera, it adversely affected gaming as a whole.

 

[Yvl9921]

Red Ninja and Countdown Vampires. Red Ninja because it's just a perverted and terribly put together Tenchu clone, and Countdown Vampires because it's just Resident Evil without anything remotely scary or compelling about it.

 

[Sronpop]

I haven't really hated any games, I try to buy games that I will enjoy.

Actually fuck that I remember one now. SvR 2008 on the wii, horrible game, controlled like ass and only had 4 matches! madness! I had to bring it back the next day, it was just awful.

Spore, I rarely buy pc games, very rarely, very very rarely buy pc games. This was an exception, and one that I regret deeply. I still haven't been able to face going back to pc games.

 

[Beastialman]

Lost: Via Domus, that game was terrible.

 

[dohteM]

The thing is, even bad games have standards. Sadly, developers forgot about standards completely while making that game:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdAW5I9Oc2E

 

[Glover09]

Juiced- Eerything that could be wrong with a racing game WAS wrong. Sequel was alright, though.


NFL Head Coach 2009-Worst parts of The Sims mixed with the worst bits of Madden.

 

[dohteM]

Oh, and in my mind, all Pokemon games are horrid. Take your pick ^__^

 

[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.

Have you actually played them? Everyone hears about them being shit, then just instantly agrees without knowing anything about them other than maybe what Wikipedia says.

I wouldn't have nominated them if I hadn't played them. Granted, I didn't spend long on them, but there was pretty much nothing to do in ET, and Superman 64 was atrocious, so I went back to Banjo Kazooie after twenty minutes or so.

 

[Sylocat]

You know, Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing was an abysmal game in every way, but it was actually kind of fun. Granted, I got it for five bucks, but I actually had a good time just breaking the game and laughing at all the screw-ups. It's actually So Bad It's Good, so I can't honestly recommend NEVER playing it.

I will, however, nominate Two Worlds, five minutes of gameplay was enough for me. A story so abysmal and pretentious that it qualifies as a desecration of the English language, voice actors incredibly well-suited for their parts, gameplay that has made the game practically synonymous with the term "broken," and more, much more.

I'll try to think of another one. I haven't played Two Worlds, so I wouldn't know about that. I'm trying to avoid mentioning the obvious E.T. and Superman 64, but I'll need more time to think about it.

 

[pyrosaw]

Sly Cooper: Band of Thieves. This is actually my favorite game of all time, but i want the series to stay a cult series, because iam a nerd, and therefore dislike things are popular

I can't regard this as a vote.

Note: yes, I know I keep bringing this topic back from the dead, but I can only check this once a day.

 

[L4Y Duke]

I'm going to say Crash: Twinsanity and Pariah.

Twinsanity ruins the classic Crash formula, and Pariah seems an awful like an UT2004 mod you have to pay for.

 

[Lacsapix]

Two worlds

It spoils every rpg you've ever played.

 

[srm79]

-Formula One '98 (PS1). Just fucking terrible. It looked bland and awful, played worse than any other racer I can ever remember playing and was never, even for a second, anything remotely resembling FUN. And this is coming from the guy who forgave all the problems with F1 '97 and had a great time with it.

-Mace Griffin: Bounty Hunter (PS2). Looked bad, sounded bad, played bad, felt bad in every way. It was a good idea as well. Just a shame it was so terribly, terribly executed. Incidentally the fate I wished on the bastard sales assisstant who assured me it was a "great" game. Yeah, thanks dickhead.

 

[Lullabye]

Final Fantasy XII. No interesting characters, terrible combat, a generic story, boring environments and disappointing music. It was basically a single player MMO. AVOID.

I actually enjoyed listening to Balthier quibble with others in the cutscenes. He just destroys them verbally. But then, playing the actual game is another matter....

Um, I will say......Deadliest Warrior: The Game. Why? It is the definition of an unbalanced fighting* game.
*[sub]It's categorized as a fighter, but it's actually just a hack 'n slash with limited moving area.[/sub]

 

[zatzie zombie num666]

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

yeah that

 

[TsunamiWombat]

Supreme Commander 2. After the advances made in Total Annihilation (TA), the spiritual successor that is Supreme Commander (it was very buggy for me personally, however I can let that pass with the stand-alone add of Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance). Both SupCom and SupCom:FA are good games that pretty much follow the TA ethos, with a few changes here and there. I personally favour SupCom:FA because I didn't get any bugs with it at all.

Then there is Supreme Commander 2. Essentially it is dumbed down in every conceivable way. From the economy, the tech trees and units. It is a massive step down from the games mentioned above. The singleplayer story which was touted by Gas Powered (The developer of all SupComs and with Chris Taylor, the man who practially made TA) to be an excellent narrative is completely horrible.

I was horrified to play a skirmish mission to find that the tech tree and unit lists were very small. It was a very sad moment for me indeed.

Second place would go to the PC release of Unfinished Tournament 3.

*SOBS* OH GOD MY FLYING BUGS WHAT DID THEY DO TO MY FLYING BUGS

oh...oh god I hate you so much SupCom2...

~goes back to replay SupCom~ Tip of the Spear boy... Tip...of...The...Spear...