The Worst Game Ever Made?

[GonzoGamer]

Either ET or Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing. Both are equally horrible in my opinion.

If OP really means "Ever" it would have to be ET. I remember playing that game and being thankful that the entire game industry crashed shortly after because it meant I would never have to play something that bad (until maybe Big Rigs Came out). They tried to make an open world but it ended up being even worse than the one in No More Heroes. It did have guys that chased you around but they somehow made it more lame. It started the legend of the cursed ancient video game burial ground.
It is legendary.
Current generation: so far, that Bionic Commando remake was pretty awful. My shortest rental so far: less than an hour.

 

[CatsAttackAgain]

most harry potter games :l

 

[archvile93]

To me, Bioshock, actually, no. Bioshock wasn't bad...just disappointing. Well, I found it to be crap, but that's me, and no, I'm not being a troll, I REALLY didn't like that game. It's the one that sticks out to me the most, that and I can't remember any other games.

If you wonder why I didn't like it, I found the gameplay to be samey shooter, the levels looked nice but navigation was quite horrible. Hacking got REALLY old REALLY fast, the story was uninteresting and after the first 15 mins the horror atmosphere left me alone with a samey shooter. And I tried 3 times to beat it, if not more. I got past more than the first level, and if I need my friends to keep saying "oh, beat that level, the next play place is where the game gets REALLY good" as an excuse for me to keep playing and that the ONLY reason, then why should I spend my time playing it? I tried it more than once and disliked the game.

The reason I make sure to put it here was because the first 15 mins were truely a horror atmosphere that gripped me tightly, my adventure senses tingling as I crawled into that bathysphere and traveled to rapture. The thunderous clomps of the Big Daddies and the sheer horror of not knowing what was around the corner gripped me, the highlight being when I had the shotgun, the lights went out all around, and I heard screaming, and just fired into the darkness. But after that, it felt samey. The BDs were more pestful and obnoxious, as I lit them on fire before dying for the bazillionth time and navigating my way to their area AGAIN. The hacking became WAY to necessary to deal with and the levels felt repetitive.

I'm honestly not trying to troll here, I really didn't like the game. That's why I explained why I didn't like it, so people can't say "why didn't you like it" or whatever

I agree with you for the most part, but you forgot to mention the fact that every plasmid is useless except where one is required to progress, the horrible hit detection (crossbow bolts going clean through enemy heads without registering), or the fact the game thinks it's funny to refuse to give you any ammo. The wrench was the only weapon I could use reliably since all my other weapons had constant ammo shortages despite buying making and even pulling some out of my ass (pretty sure that last one was a glitch). This wasn't hnelpedd that the basic mooks had more health than I did and could take an entire machine gun clip of anti personnel to the face without dieing. Still, I wouldn't call it the worst game ever made. I'd like to bestow that honor to Action 52. Bad samey games, all with broken controls, andnumerous bugs, many game breaking. One of the games (I can't be bothered to remember which one) couldn't even start.

 

[The Night Shade]

BLOOD WINGSumpkinhead's Revenge is the worst game ever

 

[obliviondoll]

Worst game ever? Not going there. Haven't played enough games in my many years to qualify as a judge. But here's what I CAN say.

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Least fun game I ever played?

Ken's Labyrinth.
This game came out less than a year before Doom 2 did. It had less involved combat mechanics than Wolfenstein 3D. Only the ability to use coins in vending machines made any measure of sense, and the rest of the game made modern JRPGs look coherent, rational and original.

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Worst-made and concieved game I've ever played?

Light Duel.
This game is literally <1-dimensional.

I'm not using the word literally to mean anything but what it should mean. And I'm not meaning 1-dimensional as an insult, or a reference to poorly developed characters or storyline (there aren't any characters or storyline to be 1-dimensional anyway). It has literal 1-dimensional graphics, and less than one full dimension of control over what could arguably be called your "character."

You are a beam of light. So is your opponent, whether another person or the computer. One is red, the other blue. When they collide, one continues, and the other vanishes. Pressing one of your two buttons makes your beam more likely to survive, consecutive presses of the same button don't, so you have to alternate as fast as possible.

The AI player registers its alternating keypresses faster than a keyboard was capable of inputting data at the time, so single player was literally impossible without editing the code for the game. And the game wouldn't register more than one keypress at a time in two player, so blind luck determined the winner.

And it was STILL more fun than Ken's Labyrinth.

EDIT:

For me it's this game.

People who call Fallout 3 the weakest of the series have obviously never played this game.

Agreed on worse than Fallout 3. But I still liked it better than Ken's Labyrinth or Light Duel. It was marginally better on PC. Well, the controls were VERY SLIGHTLY less buggy, anyway. Other than that, it was just as bad, and didn't look as pretty if you didn't have a high-end gaming PC.

 

[Googenstien]

you can break this shit into a 80s, 90s, 2000s and now 2010s

80s - Barbarian: The Ultimate Warrior - was some hack and slash POS I bought for the Commodore 64

90s - Shaq Fu - Rented this POS and wow was it sad, and unneeded

2000s - Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust - what a way to ruin a cult classic

2010s - Prison Break: The Conspiracy - My pal has this and its so bad. The AI and Cameras are about the worst ever.

 

[Blind marskman]

Zelda Cd-i
No question why, Mah boy

 

[CheckD3]

To me, Bioshock, actually, no. Bioshock wasn't bad...just disappointing. Well, I found it to be crap, but that's me, and no, I'm not being a troll, I REALLY didn't like that game. It's the one that sticks out to me the most, that and I can't remember any other games.

If you wonder why I didn't like it, I found the gameplay to be samey shooter, the levels looked nice but navigation was quite horrible. Hacking got REALLY old REALLY fast, the story was uninteresting and after the first 15 mins the horror atmosphere left me alone with a samey shooter. And I tried 3 times to beat it, if not more. I got past more than the first level, and if I need my friends to keep saying "oh, beat that level, the next play place is where the game gets REALLY good" as an excuse for me to keep playing and that the ONLY reason, then why should I spend my time playing it? I tried it more than once and disliked the game.

The reason I make sure to put it here was because the first 15 mins were truely a horror atmosphere that gripped me tightly, my adventure senses tingling as I crawled into that bathysphere and traveled to rapture. The thunderous clomps of the Big Daddies and the sheer horror of not knowing what was around the corner gripped me, the highlight being when I had the shotgun, the lights went out all around, and I heard screaming, and just fired into the darkness. But after that, it felt samey. The BDs were more pestful and obnoxious, as I lit them on fire before dying for the bazillionth time and navigating my way to their area AGAIN. The hacking became WAY to necessary to deal with and the levels felt repetitive.

I'm honestly not trying to troll here, I really didn't like the game. That's why I explained why I didn't like it, so people can't say "why didn't you like it" or whatever

I agree with you for the most part, but you forgot to mention the fact that every plasmid is useless except where one is required to progress, the horrible hit detection (crossbow bolts going clean through enemy heads without registering), or the fact the game thinks it's funny to refuse to give you any ammo. The wrench was the only weapon I could use reliably since all my other weapons had constant ammo shortages despite buying making and even pulling some out of my ass (pretty sure that last one was a glitch). This wasn't hnelpedd that the basic mooks had more health than I did and could take an entire machine gun clip of anti personnel to the face without dieing. Still, I wouldn't call it the worst game ever made. I'd like to bestow that honor to Action 52. Bad samey games, all with broken controls, andnumerous bugs, many game breaking. One of the games (I can't be bothered to remember which one) couldn't even start.

It isn't the worst game ever, yes. There are still good things about the game in the mess of it that both you and I experienced. I will say that watching others play this game is a lot more fun than playing it. But I put it here because A) Many love it and I wanted to point out my thoughts on it, and B) A bad game sticks out in your memory. There are 3 types of game qualities. There's Amazing, those experiences that live in your subconcious for years and you randomly remember. Average, moments you remember here and there, and you had a good time with the game, but overall it's just a game. You'd buy it used but not new, and it was memeroable but forgettable. And then there's bad. Bad you remember more than amazing because it upset you so much. That's why Bioshock is here for me. I remember the pain of dying against the same Big Daddy so much, then when it died a new one, and that took me 30 mins to get past when I finally gave up on killing the 2nd. I remember the good parts, yes, and the letdown on it when what I loved was nothing more than a passing glance. Bad games, as Yahtzee says in his L4D2 and NSMBW review, have a spot in gaming history as a how not to do it example. For the gamer, it's a "what didn't I like about it" or "why didn't I like this" kind of thing that helps molds us as a gamer trying to find our genre and where we stand in that genre. Being an FPS fan, one may find RTS games just such garbage that they can't stand it, but find certain FPS games worse than RTS.

I know that there are games out there that people have quoted as being bad just by design, but I think the true bad games only exists in the player, because SOMEWHERE out there, I think there's a person who loves the E.T. game. For every form of media, someone would suck it's cock like a hoover if they could because they love it so much, and someone would cut it's dick off if there was one because they hated it so much

 

[HT_Black]

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. Bad writing, bad gameplay, bad controls, bad level design, bad art direction, and a sea of technical errors. Oh, and pedophilia.

In short, that game was BAD. And creepy.

Them's fightin' words. I get that this topic is all subjective, but to call a Zelda game, ANY Zelda game the "worst game ever made" is barbecueing a sacred cow. And inferring that Twilight Princess involved in pedophilia? Sir, that kind of accusation is something you can't throw out there without explanation, so I'd like to ask for one.

As you'd have it:

At its heart, Twilight Princess was simply mediocre: the camera barely worked when you needed it to thanks to the limitations of the Wii remote; the platforming was awful, in a word; the "puzzles" were simply Uncharted-esque exercises in key-card insertion and search-and-find; the imprecision of the frequent quick-time events made it nearly impossible to tell how they were done or if you had done them; and the combat was at best boring button-mashing in the vein of No More Heroes.

What propelled the game into true horribleness was the incredibly low quality of the writing and art design. While art design is entirely subjective, and as such shall not be discussed any further, anyone with a pair of eyes, a comprehensive understanding of their native language, and a passing familiarity with logic will realize that Twilight Princess's writing was irredeemably bad. Plot holes and stupidity abound, from Link's inexplicable transformation into a wolf to those fucking retarded children the game kept bringing up and then quickly forgetting. Case in point: why in sin's bad name would a child make you surrender your only weapon before you can go chasing after a monster SO YOU CAN RESCUE HIS OWN SISTER?! Furthermore, why can't you, someone twice his size and age, smack him aside and go your merry way? Why does the game make you concede to his ridiculous demands?

Finally, my accusation of pedophilia: while it's hardly as explicit as a sex tape, keep in mind that the underage main character--who is naked, suffering from severe psychological trauma, and through no fault of his own, a wolf-- is frequently straddled by a naked millennia-old imp thing. To deny that that isn't suggestive and disturbing in the extreme is to tell a fib.

 

[Arehexes]

As a not so proud owner of an E.T. Atari Cartridge (I feel like it's a cursed artifact...a burden I must carry with me to my grave lest I bestow its evil onto another) and somebody who has played Big Rigs: Over the Road...Racing? I'm going to have to give worst game to E.T.
At least Big Rigs is funny, where E.T. is just an exercise in frustration.

Cursed artifact? I have my E.T. cart and I'm going to put it in a frame, I might buy a second cart just to have it .

 

[Cheesebob]

Half Life 2

 

[Irony's Acolyte]

I'm sorry, Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing? Could that even constitute as a game?

You've got it there. Not only was the "game" horrible to play it didn't even work as it should.

There are games that have the occansional glitchs. There are games that are simplistic. There are games that are short. There are games that make no sense. There are games that look bad. There are games where parts of it are found boring by certain gamers. And then there are games that fail at the one single thing they were attempting. One of those games is Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing.

Spoiler: Behold its crappiness

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[spartan231490]

I would actually say that dino crisis 3 is one of the worst games I've played. I know there was at least one, and maybe two that was much worse, but i have erased the trama from my mind. Dino crisis 3 sucked not because it was all that bad, it wasn't far under mediocre, it sucked because the first two were amazing, and everything good about those gamees, was removed, and replaced with pants on head retarded.

 

[Funkysandwich]

If we're going to go by games that we actually own, then for me it's a stalemate between Borderlands, Crysis and Bioshock. All three were boring and repetitive, all three had crap stories. I think Borderlands was the worst though because the NPC's never actually moved, and there were only about 3 different enemies in the whole game. That and the ending was a massive anti climax. And I had such high hopes for Borderlands too. I really WANTED to like it, and that's why it's the worst.

I actually own all three of these games, I usually don't buy a game unless a friend of mine buys it first and convinces me to play it, so I haven't played many games I actually hated, but Borderlands was really bad. It had a lame story, boring NPCs, boring quests, and a TERRIBLE ending.

As for Bioshock and Crysis... I enjoyed both games to the point that I also bought Bioshock 2 and plan to get Crysis 2.

Borderlands had everything I hated about Bioshock in it with nothing I liked. Honestly, the two games feel remarkably similar to me.

 

[IamSofaKingRaw]

The Getaway. Worst. Game. Of. All. Freaking. Time.

HAha I remember that game. It took me a while to past the first level where you need to do a car chase. The shooting mechanics were terrible the drving was terrible. What a waste of my life now that I think of it...

EDIT I think the worst game is this...

Spoiler: I win?

[/spoiler]

why is it the worst game you may ask? Well the game doesn't explain to you how to play it. All moves are done by pressing random button combinations (literally, press A,A,B, you'll throw a batarang then press BAB and you'll throw a batarang). The game is just flat out terrible. I swear in ET and Big Rigs you can actually accomplish something. In this game I doubt any one who owned it ever passed the first level.

 

[Twilight_guy]

ET?
Superman 64?
A game that was canned half way through development?

 

[scorptatious]

Worst game I've ever played would be Sonic 06. BIGGEST disappointment in my life as a gamer.