What is the worst video game ever made?
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A lot of people would probably say either Ride to Hell : retribution or Big Rig Racing, but those still have an entertainment value in how bad they really are. And since I've never played them, I can't really judge them anyways.
But here's a list of games that I litterally keep on my bottom shelf so noone notices them straight away.
- Brink : They wanted to do a lot of things, including knocking TF2 down a peg or two, but failed horribly at everything. There was no real distinction between classes except walk speed and how big a gun you could carry, not enough difference in silhouette or colour to be able to distinguish between classes or even teams and guns felt horrible using them. Most objectives were 'if you're an engineer, stand here and press use' if not that than it was a soldier who needed to press use on things.
- Prototype : A lot of people like this game, but I don't get why. The graphics are only acceptable if this was a ps1 game, but it's a ps3 title. The environments have the empty feel that most ps1 titles had, because they didn't have the processing power to render any real detail. Plus, i felt like it was just released to compete with Infamous.
- Duke Nukem Forever : The back of the box says 'brace yourselves for the coolest and cruelest game you'll ever play' ... Sigh...
- Socom U.S. Navy Seals : I remember shouting a lot while playing this game. "i shot the guy, why won't he die" "I Shot you, in the face, seven times, with a large calibre sniper rifle, YOU SHOULD DIE" "Why aren't any of my shots hitting that guy" Why won't my claymore go off" "I SERIOUSLY EMPTIED MY ENTIRE RESERVE OF SNIPER BULLETS INTO YOUR BRAIN CAVITY, JUST DIE NOW PLEASE!" " Why is my team stuck behind that rock" "Why is my team in another zipcode"
It did however have a cool system with the ps2 headset, where you would say commands instead of selecting them. But this mostly misregistered or just plain didn't. I even witnessed one instance where my whole team sprinted head first into the enemy compound in a competition to catch as many bullets as they could before they died, after me saying "take cover"
- Mace Griffin, Bounty Hunter : Whenever someone says 'generic brown space marine shooter', this is the exact game i have in mind. It was advertised as 'Halo Killer' and just did not deliver. The cover states two 9/10 scores from magazines that i had never heard from then, and have never heard from since. Graphics were ok, but brown brown brown brown and brown. The bits that weren't brown were grey. But mostly brown. Space combat was ok. overall a bland experience.
But here's a list of games that I litterally keep on my bottom shelf so noone notices them straight away.
- Brink : They wanted to do a lot of things, including knocking TF2 down a peg or two, but failed horribly at everything. There was no real distinction between classes except walk speed and how big a gun you could carry, not enough difference in silhouette or colour to be able to distinguish between classes or even teams and guns felt horrible using them. Most objectives were 'if you're an engineer, stand here and press use' if not that than it was a soldier who needed to press use on things.
- Prototype : A lot of people like this game, but I don't get why. The graphics are only acceptable if this was a ps1 game, but it's a ps3 title. The environments have the empty feel that most ps1 titles had, because they didn't have the processing power to render any real detail. Plus, i felt like it was just released to compete with Infamous.
- Duke Nukem Forever : The back of the box says 'brace yourselves for the coolest and cruelest game you'll ever play' ... Sigh...
- Socom U.S. Navy Seals : I remember shouting a lot while playing this game. "i shot the guy, why won't he die" "I Shot you, in the face, seven times, with a large calibre sniper rifle, YOU SHOULD DIE" "Why aren't any of my shots hitting that guy" Why won't my claymore go off" "I SERIOUSLY EMPTIED MY ENTIRE RESERVE OF SNIPER BULLETS INTO YOUR BRAIN CAVITY, JUST DIE NOW PLEASE!" " Why is my team stuck behind that rock" "Why is my team in another zipcode"
It did however have a cool system with the ps2 headset, where you would say commands instead of selecting them. But this mostly misregistered or just plain didn't. I even witnessed one instance where my whole team sprinted head first into the enemy compound in a competition to catch as many bullets as they could before they died, after me saying "take cover"
- Mace Griffin, Bounty Hunter : Whenever someone says 'generic brown space marine shooter', this is the exact game i have in mind. It was advertised as 'Halo Killer' and just did not deliver. The cover states two 9/10 scores from magazines that i had never heard from then, and have never heard from since. Graphics were ok, but brown brown brown brown and brown. The bits that weren't brown were grey. But mostly brown. Space combat was ok. overall a bland experience.
Bad Rats. It's a 2D physics puzzle game that doesn't have consistent physics. The graphics are terrible, the effects are even worst, the puzzles themselves are both too easy and impossible to get right the first time even if you follow the instructions (oh yeah, there's a mode which gives you the answer to the puzzle, but spoiler alert the physics engine is not consistent anyway).
I thought it was that bus game where you have to drive on a highway for many hours with the only challenge being boredom and the bus pulling slightly to the side.
To be fair though, that game was specifically made as a joke as the concept was created by magician-comedians Penn and Teller.carlsberg export said:
Beyond that, I've heard that every year there's a charity pledge drive that has people play that game for the 8 hours straight it takes to "beat it", as such the game raises money for a good cause. Don't know if I'd call that the "worst game ever made".
OT: I'd say about 60%-80% of the games on Steam's Early Access could qualify as "worst games ever"
As for the reasons, well any game that's obviously just a randomly slapped-together piece of shit to con people out of $10 with absolutely no intention of ever finishing - or even improving - it is about as bad as you can possibly get in terms of video games.
hmm I did not know that, thanks for informing me.RJ 17 said:To be fair though, that game was specifically made as a joke as the concept was created by magician-comedians Penn and Teller.carlsberg export said:
Beyond that, I've heard that every year there's a charity pledge drive that has people play that game for the 8 hours straight it takes to "beat it", as such the game raises money for a good cause. Don't know if I'd call that the "worst game ever made".
OT: I'd say about 60%-80% of the games on Steam's Early Access could qualify as "worst games ever"
As for the reasons, well any game that's obviously just a randomly slapped-together piece of shit to con people out of $10 with absolutely no intention of ever finishing - or even improving - it is about as bad as you can possibly get in terms of video games.
Frenesis. It's a really obscure 8 Bit game, but for me it sums up the experience of buying a game because of the cool cover picture and exciting blurb on the back of the case and then finding out the actual game is completely different. And shit.
I can't recall the name of it, but the worst one I ever played was some bootleg Gameboy Color game that featured weird bastardized text lifted from Titanic, dancing forks and the chubbiest, weirdest-lookin' Pikachu sprite I ever did see. I managed about forty minutes before I had to turn it off because I just felt so...unclean.
The worst video game ever made is a game that had no name and was played by only a handful of people.
It was a game made by a friend of mine for a programming class project. It had no meaningful goal, almost no gameplay to speak of, it's controls were unresponsive and would randomly change bindings, and it had to be alt-F4'd to close. Even worse, if you somehow managed to 'win', it would cause Windows to crash.
It was, beyond a shadow of a doubt, the worst game ever made. I truly believe, had I tried playing it for more than five minutes, it would have given me cancer.
It was a game made by a friend of mine for a programming class project. It had no meaningful goal, almost no gameplay to speak of, it's controls were unresponsive and would randomly change bindings, and it had to be alt-F4'd to close. Even worse, if you somehow managed to 'win', it would cause Windows to crash.
It was, beyond a shadow of a doubt, the worst game ever made. I truly believe, had I tried playing it for more than five minutes, it would have given me cancer.
Man, the bar is too low on this one.
My choice: MTV Celebrity Deathmatch. A wrestling game that includes all the animation, control and collision problems of PS1 wrestling games, with a fraction of the features (it doesn't even have a Story Mode), and whose only appeal was to see the special move/victory animation of all the characters... Which were a ridiculously small number (10, I believe). So the whole game could be done for in less than half an hour, which is 25 minutes more than the time it takes for its gameplay to kill you of boredom.
My choice: MTV Celebrity Deathmatch. A wrestling game that includes all the animation, control and collision problems of PS1 wrestling games, with a fraction of the features (it doesn't even have a Story Mode), and whose only appeal was to see the special move/victory animation of all the characters... Which were a ridiculously small number (10, I believe). So the whole game could be done for in less than half an hour, which is 25 minutes more than the time it takes for its gameplay to kill you of boredom.
APOX. While I doubt it's the worst game ever made, it's pretty damn close. It's a post-apocalyptic RTS with "FPS-style" mechanics that lets you tell your units to pick up new guns, get in vehicles, etc. A neat concept, one that Company of Heroes 1&2 have used quite well. But not APOX. APOX is the epitome of doing just enough to call it done. Nothing is actually broken or unplayable about it, but it sucks nonetheless. Between the incessant need for micro-managing, the bland environments, and the boring visuals, this game makes my list of worst games I've ever played.
Legends of Pegasus is another good example of how not to do an RTS. Also on my shit list for similar reasons.
And, last but not least, Call of Duty 3, the game Activision and Treyarch buried so quickly most people forget it even existed. Now, I will be the first to admit, I played this on the Wii back when it first came out, but I also played Medal of Honor something-or-other on the Wii and it wasn't bad. CoD3, however was bad. Very bad. Easily the worst FPS I've ever played, and I beta tested Battlefield 3 on PC. CoD3 was so bad that I returned the game to the rental store that same day. Yes, there were still rental stores back in 2007.
Legends of Pegasus is another good example of how not to do an RTS. Also on my shit list for similar reasons.
And, last but not least, Call of Duty 3, the game Activision and Treyarch buried so quickly most people forget it even existed. Now, I will be the first to admit, I played this on the Wii back when it first came out, but I also played Medal of Honor something-or-other on the Wii and it wasn't bad. CoD3, however was bad. Very bad. Easily the worst FPS I've ever played, and I beta tested Battlefield 3 on PC. CoD3 was so bad that I returned the game to the rental store that same day. Yes, there were still rental stores back in 2007.
Unplayable.
Oh, you wanted a title... Hmmm. Well, World War 2 Combat Road to Berlin sucks a whole lot. And it has a sequel! Unbelievable. It alone has made me avoid any games made by Zombie studios (Direct Action games was their budget label). It's so bad that it removed any and all confidence in their abilities as developers (Also all the other games they made are horrible too).
Oh, you wanted a title... Hmmm. Well, World War 2 Combat Road to Berlin sucks a whole lot. And it has a sequel! Unbelievable. It alone has made me avoid any games made by Zombie studios (Direct Action games was their budget label). It's so bad that it removed any and all confidence in their abilities as developers (Also all the other games they made are horrible too).
Brink sucked a whole lot. Completely screwed up objective and level design. Everything was a choke point. The game stalemated the moment you met the other team. It was infuriating. And almost impossible in singleplayer. I really, really hated that game.SoreWristed said:
Worst thing a game can be is boring. I've never seen a game as boring as that one. Even WW2 Combat Road to Berlin is somewhat entertaining in it's awfulness.SoreWristed said:
Really? I though the game was pretty interesting. Not good, but not that bad either. It had that cult with video screens on their faces showing stylized expressions. How can you not love that?SoreWristed said:
I was going to say, "Hasn't it already been decided that E.T. is the king of this?"LostGryphon said:Obviously,
It did essentially kill the entire gaming industry for a while, after all.
Now, as for worst game that I have ever played, which is totally not what this subject is about, I'd say either Aliens: Colonial Marines or Medal of Honor: Warfighter.
Gone home
Kane and lynch two
Ninja bread Man
Far cry 2
The walking dead
Don't starve
Amnesia
Dragon age 2.... cant even remember the name of it
Pretty much anything on the original wii aside from zelda, mario, moster hunter, and smash bros.
Kane and lynch two
Ninja bread Man
Far cry 2
The walking dead
Don't starve
Amnesia
Dragon age 2.... cant even remember the name of it
Pretty much anything on the original wii aside from zelda, mario, moster hunter, and smash bros.
The only game I found irredeemably bad that I ended up with in my Steam library is Bob Came in Pieces. I'm certain there are worse games out there, but they probably could be enjoyed for being bad. BCiP has all the ideas of a real game, but no gameplay worth mentioning to go with it. I made a special category in my Steam folder where I put the beta versions and Mac versions of other games I own. BCiP is the only real game I have in there to get it away from the rest of my stuff.
Yeah i'm pretty sure we need to add the subtitle "except ET for the Atari" since I doubt the fact that the game crashed the video games industry for a while is beaten by a game with offensively bad mechanics.
OT: I'm usually good at avoiding bad games, AKA the entire Steam Early Access page aside from Darkest Dungeon and Sunrider: Mask of Arcadius/Sunrider Academy. However the former needs to lower the amount of RNG in the hit/miss/crit department before I continue playing it again since it's a pure dice roll as to who lives in a raid no matter how well you do in the combat sections.
I guess i'll go for a small little Visual Novel named Yandere. Don't get me wrong, it's a perfectly functional piece of software free of graphical bugs but when they preface the game with potentially distressing content and graphic as fuck violence they were not kidding around.
I got baited into Meiko cuz it was either overpossessive Saki who somehow has the physical strength to overpower you despite how small she is or that psycho teacher chick and Meiko looked the most normal. Ohhhhh fucking hell that was disturbing, I uninstalled the moment she cut her own stomach open during sex because she's so overly masochistic.
[sub][sub]She also sewed her own vagina shut with clothing thread before that, how I even pushed past that to the next phase of that scene is beyond me[/sub][/sub]
Should have gone for Saki. At least she's only possessive and not just disturbing. Well. Less disturbing than the rest anyway. They try to soften the blow by making your guy an unlikable cuntlord but even so, nobody deserves to be subjected to this game, neither him nor the poor sod playing the game in real life. Recommend this game to your worst enemy, trust me.
OT: I'm usually good at avoiding bad games, AKA the entire Steam Early Access page aside from Darkest Dungeon and Sunrider: Mask of Arcadius/Sunrider Academy. However the former needs to lower the amount of RNG in the hit/miss/crit department before I continue playing it again since it's a pure dice roll as to who lives in a raid no matter how well you do in the combat sections.
I guess i'll go for a small little Visual Novel named Yandere. Don't get me wrong, it's a perfectly functional piece of software free of graphical bugs but when they preface the game with potentially distressing content and graphic as fuck violence they were not kidding around.
I got baited into Meiko cuz it was either overpossessive Saki who somehow has the physical strength to overpower you despite how small she is or that psycho teacher chick and Meiko looked the most normal. Ohhhhh fucking hell that was disturbing, I uninstalled the moment she cut her own stomach open during sex because she's so overly masochistic.
[sub][sub]She also sewed her own vagina shut with clothing thread before that, how I even pushed past that to the next phase of that scene is beyond me[/sub][/sub]
Should have gone for Saki. At least she's only possessive and not just disturbing. Well. Less disturbing than the rest anyway. They try to soften the blow by making your guy an unlikable cuntlord but even so, nobody deserves to be subjected to this game, neither him nor the poor sod playing the game in real life. Recommend this game to your worst enemy, trust me.