What is the worst game you have ever played?

[votemarvel]

Ask me tomorrow and my choice may be different but for today I'd have to say Final Fantasy 13.

Sure it looked pretty but the story was bland and took you out of the world every time you had to delve into the codex to learn just what the hell they were talking about.

I could go on for a while but to skip to the end. I'd played for about five hours and was struggling to find any enjoyment. Talking with a friend and he mentioned that "oh it gets really good 15 hours in". I then stopped playing the game after that.

Why the hell should I play some tedious mediocre game for 15 hours before I can start enjoying it? Is it really wrong for me to want a game to be good from the very start?

 

[jademunky]

Alone In The Dark (2008). That was just a horrible, horrible game.

I want to comment on this for a second because I played both the XBOX 360 version and the PS2 version and, while both are terrible, the PS2 version might actually qualify as consumer fraud.

Honestly, there comes a point where I found myself in an underground parking garage where a scripted event fails to trigger and the game simply leaves you to wander it with no way to continue. I tried the game again from the start just to be sure and the same problem occurs. What is supposed to happen is that you get attacked by these burrowing monsters but probably due to rushed development and the fact that the PS3 was already out by the time the game was released, it was seemingly never properly playtested.

 

[Blood Brain Barrier]

The cat lady, hated that game.

Ridiculous. The Cat Lady is not only an awesome game, it's far better than the supposedly "best" games people here talk about in other threads.

 

[Chewster]

Probably Dragon's Lair for NES. FMV arcade games don't exactly translate well to consoles. Though they made something like eight hundred games for the system so I'm sure at least a hundred and fifty of them were terrible. Whomever posted the AVGN video for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was also on point because that game was hot garbage.

I recall Army Men Sarge's Heroes being a buggy mess too. Almost unplayable.

The Wii also had a lot of shovelware IIRC. Digging through megastore video game discount bins used to unearth a lot of crap. I'm sure one of them could easily take the title.

 

[sXeth]

Then there's APB Reloaded. It's like...it's...it wants to be GTA online, I think. But the Ride To Hell of GTA Onlines.


I don't feel like bringing up the more popular games right now for this, it's been said and done, plus it rings a bit hollow in comparison. Saying that though - hopefully this isn't a controversial opinion - but Agents of Mayhem looks frankly quite terrible, i have no desire to even try it. What happened to Volition? Did their team experience a mass exodus? Was the project canned halfway through by the publisher, forcing the option of releasing it now to recuperate some of their costs or not at all?
It looks like it was meant to be a hero-based multiplayer sandbox at some early stage in development that was hurriedly turned into something else for a release.

Oh yeah, APB Reloaded. I made the mistake of trying that one out on an idle whim cause it was free. Think me and my buddy lasted maybe 30 minutes tops trying to figure out what was going on. Also insane lag to the point you couldn't tell if you couldn't damage someone or they were just not really there up until someone did die.


Agents of Mayhem just seemed restrained. Which isn't something that should generally come into a Saints Row (spin off thing) game. The powers and variety in 4 were better then the powers and variety in this game about a huge roster of 80s cartoon superheroes. And I personally found the powers in 4 kind of half-assed. Either mimicking other popular games or sort of halfheartedly smacking in cheat codes (all the projectile things had terrible aiming controls to them, for instance). Then all the characters were boring straight-played tropes on top of it.

 

[maninahat]

Velvet Assassin. It's a horribly broken, woefully incompetent stealth game that sort of borrows from Splinter Cell and Hitman. There is a potentially interesting narrative decision, in that the protagonist is a woman dying on a hospital bed, recounting her previous missions (like Hitman 3). Unfortunately this framing device mostly exists so that you can have an in-game superpower buff (caused by a nurse giving you a morphine shot that makes you...misremember the mission I guess?) whilst running around in a skimpy slip.

It's very frustrating to play, where failing at stealth is usually a death sentence, including the parts of the game where you have to fail the stealth on purpose and still receive a death sentence. In the first level, have to flee through an exploding facility full of germans that can kill you on sight, all the while trying (and failing) to dodge invisible explosions that kill you without warning.

 

[dscross]

I owned ET for the Atari.

I still don't think it's as bad as Sonic 06 or Superman 64. Not as frustrating anyway. It's very short. It's... just shit.

 

[Deadguy2322]

The worst game I ever played is the SNES version of Wayne?s World. I only rented it because I worked at a video store and got to rent games for free, and I totally expected it to be awful, being a THQ-produced movie tie-in. I just wanted to see exactly how terrible the game would be. I was NOT prepared. Bad graphics, animation one might charitably call minimalist, bad hit detection, non-existent balancing, poor level design and cheap difficulty all added up to make something almost beautiful in its awfulness.