The worst game you've ever played
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Yeah... One thing I've learned. If a game includes bonus content and isn't a big title, its compensating for something, and usually its not compensating for having a small community.lord.jeff said:
A game I grab out of the bargain bin so I'd have something to play when I first got my PS2.
Worst game I've ever played? That's kind of hard, since I usually don't play bad games long enough to remember them. Probably of the ones I remember would be an MMORPG I tried back when I thought I could actually enjoy a traditional MMORPG (Like WoW, could never bring myself to enjoy it). I don't even remember the name, but it had a poor level system, narrow class selection (you were litterally picking "Healer", "Melee", or "caster), and very few quests. Most quests were also incredibly boring.
I think a better way to put it would be "What's the worst game you spent money on?" This has a bigger impact on me than free games, since I actually spent something more than 20 minutes on it. Worst game I spent money on was probably War of the Worlds for PC. It wasn't a bad game for its time, by any means, IMO. I just never got very far in the game, because I couldn't quite get the gameplay mechanics down (The game didn't have a great tutorial), and the opposing side was essentially stuck on "hard mode," and you couldn't really change it. I think if I had spent more time understanding the mechanics, it would have been fun. Had a Risk+Command and Conquer 95 feel to it.
Actually, on second thought, I just remembered Wall street Kid. A game about working on wall street, getting married (minus the fun parts), and... yeah... I don't know what got us to buy the game, but it was a horrible idea from the get-go.
For those interested...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_Kid
Ha... that's nothing, I stole it from a dying man... who had to sell his house to pay for meds and still feel like I got the shitty end of the dealRobert632 said:
MTV Sports: Skateboarding. Now, there were plenty of rusty nail buckets I dove into as a child in the cartridge days (re: KickMaster, Faxanadu, Low G Man), but all of those titles were at least functional.
You remember that godawful control scheme that Acclaim used for its WWF licensed games, where you had to enter in a five-key sequence to do anything more substantial than cough in your opponent's general direction? The same poor control scheme that probably ended up costing them the license when THQ came out with something more intuitive and occasionally fun? Well, someone at THQ decided to learn nothing from the mistakes of others, putting a cumbersome d-pad mudering system onto a skateboarding game.
Congested level design, buggy physics, and a propensity for AI skaters to run up and effectively punch you off your wheelie board during the middle of a long combo, these are all problems I'd normally expect from a skating game. But after Tony Hawk came out, I thought everyone would have a de facto control scheme for copypasting their own licensed extreme athlete cash-in, so the controls making the game unplayable are a bit of a shock.
My biggest complaint about the game, however, is the soundtrack. There were definitely some low points there (Pennywise, Snapcase, that sorta noise), but for the most part it was an addictive listen. So while the broken design turned my fingers into arthritic claws, the music in the game was a shot of morphine directly into my earhole. It damn well better have been considering the amount of cash it costs to get the MTV license. And so I kept playing that misshapen freak of a game, entranced by its dulcet voice. Now keep in mind that I was playing this game during the golden age of file sharing services, when high school computers came preloaded with Kazaa and Napster, and you'll see I'm a shortsighted idiot for not taking the easy way out to get that music.
You remember that godawful control scheme that Acclaim used for its WWF licensed games, where you had to enter in a five-key sequence to do anything more substantial than cough in your opponent's general direction? The same poor control scheme that probably ended up costing them the license when THQ came out with something more intuitive and occasionally fun? Well, someone at THQ decided to learn nothing from the mistakes of others, putting a cumbersome d-pad mudering system onto a skateboarding game.
Congested level design, buggy physics, and a propensity for AI skaters to run up and effectively punch you off your wheelie board during the middle of a long combo, these are all problems I'd normally expect from a skating game. But after Tony Hawk came out, I thought everyone would have a de facto control scheme for copypasting their own licensed extreme athlete cash-in, so the controls making the game unplayable are a bit of a shock.
My biggest complaint about the game, however, is the soundtrack. There were definitely some low points there (Pennywise, Snapcase, that sorta noise), but for the most part it was an addictive listen. So while the broken design turned my fingers into arthritic claws, the music in the game was a shot of morphine directly into my earhole. It damn well better have been considering the amount of cash it costs to get the MTV license. And so I kept playing that misshapen freak of a game, entranced by its dulcet voice. Now keep in mind that I was playing this game during the golden age of file sharing services, when high school computers came preloaded with Kazaa and Napster, and you'll see I'm a shortsighted idiot for not taking the easy way out to get that music.
I hate Sonic Unleashed. One of the few games I've traded in.
Also, for some reason I have terrible memories from a game called Herdy Gerdy (which my brother borrowed from a friend). Can't remember much from it, apart from that I found it to be bad.
Also, for some reason I have terrible memories from a game called Herdy Gerdy (which my brother borrowed from a friend). Can't remember much from it, apart from that I found it to be bad.
That's a tie between The original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for the NES or Crysis 2.
I can't decide between them because at the time I was too young to realize how bad TMNT really was and kept playing it because..well...I was 8 and it was TMNT!
Crysis 2 however I was fully aware of the experience I was having. And I NEVER had another game make me rage so hard over how mediocre, played out and full of itself it was that I quit and returned it after a half hour. Seriously, once the game started everything about it pissed me off.
I can't decide between them because at the time I was too young to realize how bad TMNT really was and kept playing it because..well...I was 8 and it was TMNT!
Crysis 2 however I was fully aware of the experience I was having. And I NEVER had another game make me rage so hard over how mediocre, played out and full of itself it was that I quit and returned it after a half hour. Seriously, once the game started everything about it pissed me off.