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

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Dango

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Minority Report, it's just boring, and the fighting mechanics are terrible.
 

rob_simple

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Pengowen said:
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Sword of the Berserk: Gut's Rage on the Dreamcast. I didn't realise til several years later that this was based on a manga, but the game was awful even by those low standards. You had a sword the size of a light aircraft and the game constantly pitted you against enemies in narrow corridors leading to a repetitive *swing* *CLUNK* *swing* *CLUNK* *dead* scenario.

Every Super Smash Brothers game after the first one. To this day, I have no idea how Nintendo got away with re-skinning characters with the exact same moves and calling them unlockables. I read tonnes of reviews and none of them ever seemed to pick up on this fact. Even for a company that loves brand resurrection and regurgitation as much as Nintendo, copy pasting charcters in the same game takes incredible balls.
I recently got Sword of the Berserk! Only picked it up because im a fan of the manga, and I admit it is a bad game, playable but bad. There is a soft spot for it with me tho. The series hasn't taken to the newer generations as far as games go, and it was a good excuse to dust off the Dreamcast!

As for smash bros, I agree with you. The first one was alot of fun on the 64 but as time went on, lack of innovation really make it feel like a copy paste, like you said.
I get what you mean as far as being a fan of the manga goes, that's why I can't wait for the new Fist of the North Star to get released here even though it's just a Dynasty Warriors carbon copy. I can't connect my Dreamcast to my new television; it was a sad day indeed when I discovered that.
 

ProfessorLayton

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littlebigplanet. unless spending 3 hours fine tuning a SPRING don't play this game.
Question: Did you play the whole game single player or with friends? Because I played it with friends and loved it and when no one was online and I just tried to play by myself it was super boring.

Umm... all of the games that I don't like I wouldn't recommend staying away from because they had so much potential... so I'll just say... the Conduit. Horrible graphics, horrible controls, lame story, horrible controls, full of cliche, horrible controls... and bad controls. I like to play my shooters on low sensitivity, but on the Conduit I turned as fast as a tank, so I slightly moved the sensitivity up and I couldn't precision aim. Plus turning is a pain and if there are two guys at different parts of the room you're pretty much dead because you can only aim at one person as opposed to other games in which you can shoot one guy and whip around and shoot the other guy.
 

Mr. Omega

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Too Human: I played this game for five minutes at a friends house and I quit. But the funny thing is he wanted me to play it just so I could see how bad it was. Horrible controls, bad enemies, unimaginative everything, just flat out horrible. Those who made this game will (or should) be the laughing stock of the industry.

My second choice was a toss up between Ninety Nine Nights and Two Worlds, but seeing how there have been so many votes for Two Worlds its garunteed to be in the top 100, I'm going to say N3. Don't get me wrong, Two Worlds was GOD AWFUL. Hell, worse than N3. But N3 deserves a spot on the 'do not buy' list. Repetitive combat, terrible voice acting, glitches, a story they probably found in a fanfiction for a better game, and over all suck.
 

DSK-

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TsunamiWombat said:
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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...
You have my deepest sympathies :(
 

Cresscendo

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lets see here...two worst games ever? final fantasy XIII for sure, it just lacked so much in the way of the typical FF greatness, it even made XII look like Zelda Ocarina of Time by comparison...and my number 2 worst game ever would probably have to be gladius for the gamecube. if youve played it youll know the horror of the experience as it stretches on for hours with the same dry and oh so boring battles while giving you a very similar storyline. honestly its one of the very few games ive never finished, along with FFXIII ironically.
 

pyrosaw

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i need eight more games to finish this list. someone post eight games they hate.
 

SomeBoredGuy

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I have to say that I seriously do not like how this thread is just a list of games the poster does not like, and not ones that you should never play. The only candidates for a list of games you should never play should be games that are near unanimously hated.

Hell, somebody here listed the third Timesplitters game. Now, he his 100% entitled to his opinion and my opinion is in no way better than his (and vice versa), but I loved that game and so did a lot of people who played it. By making it a game you should "never play", people who look at this list will assume that it is near-unanimously agreed that Timesplitters: Future Perfect was terrible and they will not get the chance to make their minds up about a game which has about the same amount of people thinking it's excellent as it does people who think it is bad/is not as good as other games in the series.

I honestly do not have a game I would honestly say "nobody should play this", because what I think is crap, another man may actually like (or vice versa).
 

Hybridwolf

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Too Human. The controls were shite, the combat was an exercise in suicide charging, and the story was horrible. Horrible Cutscenes, Horrible Voice actors, just plain horrible...

...and looking up three posts, I see I have been ninja'd. Damnation. In that case, number two is bullet witch. It's slow as hell, combat is iffy, and the game makes little sense. I just couldn't finsh it, I was that fustated at it.
 

Scarecrow

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Halo:ODST
One of the worst shotters I have ever played. Bad story, bad controls, just bad everything.