The worst game you have ever played.

[sanspec]

call me yahtzee but in a way all games suck exept portal but this game takes the cake

the worst game i have ever played was recently released on the ps3 i forget what its called but its a formula 1 racing game.

i crave racing games cause i'm good at them and when i mean good i mean i dont grind the wall on every turn, so i was browsing a games store and had a go at this racing game demo, so i start it up and get to the first corner and i brake for the turn and i stop, yes i stop on the race track so i wonder what the heck and speed back up and try again and the same thing happens, but on the second try i noticed my car went down a gear without me doing anything, thats when i bought the orange box and when i did i asked the employer about the game i just played and he replys "it has driver assist".......explain please "it auto down shifts and brakes for you" that isnt good cause i know how to play a racing game and that takes the skill out of it, though i guess its good for all the young kids constantly holding down the acceleration on sharp turns and turn but only to find themselves running into the wall at death causing speed.
well grats to whoever made that game you just took the fun out of playing racing games there for the worst game

 

[Buckbad]

Eragon on the 360...Graphics are worst than regular Xbox and the story is awful.

 

[Girlysprite]

Big Rigs win in my book.

 

[Kemmler0]

I would have to say that there should be some rules about what classifies the worst game ever played. If it is produced by some backwater smalltime company with a shoestring budget, you can't expect anything more.

No, the worst game has to have everything going for it, the advertising, the hype, the massive multimedia company backing it and of course a legacy and 1000nds of fans to disappoint.

That game is.......Command & Conquer: Tiberium Sun

This game is not my worst game because it had severely bad graphics, or lacked depth and breadth. It's because it leaves and indelible blank in my mind.
I bought the game with zeal after waiting for so long for it after the original C&C(all praise due), and about four missions into it just forgot to ever play it again. It wasn't that i thought it was rubbish, or my focus was on another game. I just never though of it again.

Bad games you remember because they were bad, but at least it was a quality. C&C: Tiberium Sun passed through my life as though it was never even there.

 

[CyberAkuma]

Double Dragon 3. (NES)
You get 1 life - ONE LIFE - that's all.
You die - it's game over and you restart from the BEGINNING OF THE F'ING GAME.

Virtually every game during the CDi-era.
During that time game developers didn't seem to know what they could fill out 600 megs of data with on the CDs, so they made all those "interactive" games (See Dragon's Lair, Space Ace, etc.) Really, pressing the right button/button-pad-direction combination at the exact right time 400 times is just really not fun.

These games ruined my childhood, because I thought - and was told that these games had the hottest graphics of all time and I was stupid enough to believe in them.

I remember a friend that was actually dumb enough to buy the SEGA MegaDrive CD Add-on.
Oh sweet Mary and Joseph...

 

[the_carrot]

Any game wherein you have to aim a gun in the third person.

 

[Anton P. Nym]

Sorry gang, but I've got you all beat.

Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing [http://www.gamespot.com/pc/driving/bigrigsotrr/index.html?tag=result;title;0]

Sylocat brings out the nukes... Yeah, I think BRORR probably qualifies as the worst game ever released. I didn't mention it as I haven't "played" it myself, but the reviews I read of it really made an impression.

Actually, the slagging it received was probably better entertainment than the game itself.

-- Steve

 

[xbeaker]

Airlock for the 2600. It had one level. ONE! Once you beat it, game over. No scoreing, nothing and it took all of about 3 minutes to beat. They sold this as a retail game.

 

[strayjay]

The Rocketeer for SNES, and Bushido blade for PS1.

Both had horrifyingly broken controls. Bushido blade is worse because the concept was so, so soooo good, and could have been incredible, but they raped it with controls that made no sense and weren't responsive.

 

[Chilango2]

This reminds me of the various ways games can fail, and why "worst games" discussions can be so wide ranging. Just as an example, I could divide the failure of games into three general categories, which are not mutually exclusive.

1) There are games that are horrible because they fail on a technical level, they have bugs, or bad graphics, or bad controls/cameras.

2) Then there are games that fail on a more effort based level, i.e its clear the game was rushed out or sloppily done, bugs play part here as well, but often you also have rushed storylines or plot holes (KOTOR 2), shallow game mechanics, or alot of "filler" materials, eg. shallow environments, corridor after meaningless corridor, etc.

3) Games that fail on some artistic level: The story is present, but actively bad (Fable: The Lost Chapters), or the game mechanics are executed competently (i.e are not bugs) but are ultimately unsatisfying (Oblivion, Black & White), or quite simply are part of a franchise but betray or otherwise subvert what fans of the franchise liked about it (I've never played any of them, but I hear later Sonic games got like this), or the Franchise is just getting a little tired in its tropes (Several Final Fantasy games), or the game quite simply did not live up to tis hype, even if tis a perfectly decent game, just not the second coming that was promised.

Often, games that are widely recognized as failures cover more than one of these categories, I tend to reserve my worst scorn for games that fail in the third category, because its clear that the developers can *do* better, they just didn't. The first two is more or less the rocket blows up on the launching pad due to gross incompetence, and while its more insulting to be made to pay for the fetid product as a result of said process, it can be written down as gross negligence and incompetence.

All of this is a long way of asking, which category drives you (plural you) the most nuts? Or what categories of failure would you delineate?

 

[soladrin]

I would have to say that there should be some rules about what classifies the worst game ever played. If it is produced by some backwater smalltime company with a shoestring budget, you can't expect anything more.

No, the worst game has to have everything going for it, the advertising, the hype, the massive multimedia company backing it and of course a legacy and 1000nds of fans to disappoint.

That game is.......Command & Conquer: Tiberium Sun

This game is not my worst game because it had severely bad graphics, or lacked depth and breadth. It's because it leaves and indelible blank in my mind.
I bought the game with zeal after waiting for so long for it after the original C&C(all praise due), and about four missions into it just forgot to ever play it again. It wasn't that i thought it was rubbish, or my focus was on another game. I just never though of it again.

Bad games you remember because they were bad, but at least it was a quality. C&C: Tiberium Sun passed through my life as though it was never even there.

cant agree with you at all.. first of all.. C&C 3 sucks far worse then this...and i actually enjoyed tiberium sun, i liked it better then RA2 and generals ... ~~ but yea, the first one is the best anyway, hope universe at war is good

 

[Kesash]

Battlecruiser 3000AD. Derek Smart, we award you no points and may god have mercy on your soul, you big blog of ego, you.

But... But... It's going to be patched! SOON! ROTFLMAO! I had totally forgotten about that game. I think the cardboard box got a higher score than the actual game... Wait... The box was actually better designed than the game. Mr. Dreck Notso Smart (yes, deliberately mis-spelled) your game sucks like Cygnus X-1 (that's a black hole, btw).

 

[Darvoid]

Yaris without question is the worst game I ever played. I know, no fair to berate a free game but seriously, I want my 10 minutes back.

 

[Sylocat]

I would have to say that there should be some rules about what classifies the worst game ever played. If it is produced by some backwater smalltime company with a shoestring budget, you can't expect anything more.

I don't mean to be rude, but that's bull$h!t. The original Myst was made by a dozen guys in a garage on some ancient Macs that were outmoded even in 1995.

But if you want a game with real budget and hype that sucked, I can't believe nobody's mentioned Superman 64 yet.

 

[raankh]

Interesting to see Xenogears make peoples' sh*tlist, I happen to love the game. Combos galore!

I've fired up any number of games just to shut them down and return them to the shop and demand a refund within five minutes (and cursing myself for being honest enough to not even pirate it first and THEN buy it). So although it's a bit more of a "let-down" game, I did give the game a fair chance but in the end I just hate it, everything is wrong in my book; interaction, presentation, persistence, yadda-yadda.

And that game is .... Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind. I don't like anything at all about that game, the figthing, the graphics, the game world, the characters, the gameplay ... nothing. To tell you the truth I almost cried when I heard who's developing Fallout 3.

My opinion, mind you.

 

[kieranlol]

Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Battle 22.

Nothing more should be said about that.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

i totally agree

 

[jimmythenoob]

hellgate london all the way....some people seem to like it, ive played some tterrible games before but ive given them a chance and always played at least an hour or so to give it a chance, hellgate was so ugly bad and just horrible to me i was unable to play for more than 15mins before uninstalling, i cannot see how 6gb or so is justifyed buy this game...also its dx10..and yet (to me) it looks terrible i mean far cry an deus ex look better to me (its not my hardware because crysis runs fine)

 

[xbeaker]

Sylocat, Superman 64 was mentioned. Back on the first page I think. Never played it myself. I have only heard the legend.

 

[blackadvent]

Dragon Ball Z: Ultimate Battle 22.

Nothing more should be said about that.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

i totally agree

I saw the review for that game on Gamespot.

"Yeah, that game still sucks."

"Yeah, that game still makes me want to kill myself."

 

[ruyzen]

Lunar: Dragon Song, definetly.

The worst gameplay I've ever seen, you can't choose which opponent you want to attack in battle (IT'S THE BASIC THING). This is the main problem you'll notice while playing the game, especially when you're using your "Ultra-super-mega-blast-technique" to strike a boss, it strikes the puny little fly near it instead.

The game is also dam boring at the start because you can't run (well, you can, but because you'll lose health from running, and you're so poor at the beginning, running will result immeadiate death at battle).

Of course, because it's an "RPG" the gameplay should be grinding like Yahtzee said, but Lunar's grind is just bullshit:
Everytime you level up, even the most weakest monsters won't be killed with 1 strike. Why?
BECAUSE THEY FREAKING LEVEL UP WITH YOU!! And even thought they are tougher than before, they won't give you any more exp than before, like what kind of system is THAT?

Also, the lack of saving points is just frustrating:
Everytime there's a special event (usually "kill 100 enemies and then the 1000hp boss with no chance of getting healed") there won't be a saving point or even a chance to go save the game. And of course, if you die, you have to play the whole FLOCKING section again because you don't own a future-seeing ability to predict WHEN there's gonna be a event like that.

Overall, the game sucked, too much actually, good thing that I didn't need to pay for it because I got it as a present.