What is your most Hated Video Game

[Angry Caterpillar]

well you can sell gears 2

and buy both orange box and bioshock. Both of those games are under 20 bucks at Gamestop.

I'd love to, but I doubt I'd get forty or so dollars from selling it. I just need to get a job so I can earn back all those goodies I've had to sell in the past (sequels coming out for Mass Effect and Bioshock really hadn't occurred to me before, so I suppose I'm to blame anyways).

 

[TyrannicalDuck]

I figure that the deepest pit in hell is reserved for Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits for PS2. The game has the worst end-boss in the history of end bosses. Sure, an easy end-boss is a disappointment (and it doesn't even take long to think of any), but an end boss that is all but impossible UNLESS you have the right items on you? There's no indication beforehand that you'll need the items, either, and it's pathetic that you're penalized to ridiculous extent for not having them. Without these items, your attacks are worthless and your defence is less so.

To pour salt in the wound, the last save point before the end boss is over 45 minutes away, making the entire ordeal a painful experience, because you still need to go through a library worth of dialog and a mini-boss between the last save point and the end boss.

Can you believe that it actually gets worse? The last shop in the game is an entire dungeon back, and you have NO way of going back once you enter the dungeon. And just to put a cherry on a cake made of pure, shining fail, iced with hatred, with candles of oozing malificence: the boss generates little mini-bosslings every 2 to 3 rounds. It takes well over 8 rounds to kill ONE of these things. By the time you eventually succumb to the sweet numbness of game-overness, the room is so crowded with evil little eyeballs, that they're jostling each other for space, and crowding you out of the game and into the afterlife.

I despised that game with every blackened, deep inch of ichorous hatred I could muster.

 

[y1fella]

Honorable mention goes to broken steel (which i maintain was a deliberate insult).But metal gear solid 4 without question. It might be unfair to criticize it for being aimed at the anime audience rather then the 1000 plus page sci fi/fantasy novel reading crowd i'm part of. But everything about that "game" was horrible. Close to ten hours of cut scenes was to much for me. And just to make sure the PS3 fanboys will hunt me back to my home the final fantasy series was shit from the start and i am a bit of a halo fanboy.

 

[Tanfastic]

Metal gear solid games, and most CoD games... CoD are just clones of the first one, giving no extra fun and Metal Gear Solid's characters are so unoriginal and boring its a pain to play it.

 

[FrakMaster4000]

Why thank you, im glad someone agrees with me hehe

 

[BatOtaku13]

dark sector is right up there with me. this is what happens when designers don't even legitimately try to do anything remotely original, interesting, or compelling in any way or form. one of the dumbest video game stories ever, keanu reeves level acting, and atrocious controls all add up to be one of the most painful game experiences i've ever played.

 

[FrakMaster4000]

fuck idk how to respond to people lol

 

[FrakMaster4000]

Well I'm not saying I hate Modern Warfare 2, but lets just say its like the hooker at the bus stop corner. Everybody plays with her and she is filled with so many viruses(glitches for those of you who don't quite know how analogies work)that you cant even find one person who isn't effected by one after using her. I hope you get my point.

That was the single best description of the game that I've ever read.

ha got it! anyways thank you sir. im glad somebody sees it my way hehe

 

[FrakMaster4000]

fuck idk how to respond to people lol

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[Pegghead]

While I've always found it difficult to dislike a game with full fanboy-proof flameshield ready for action I'm going to say Mass Effect.

Right now I'm currently borrowing it from a friend in exchange for my beloved copy of the orange box and I actually asked him today if I can give him back mass effect in exchange for something else. Now I've always loved games that are rather grindy because there's normally enough action (I.e Borderlands) or enough variety (I.e World of Warcraft) to keep it interesting and Jade Empire is one of my favourite games (The relevance is that Bioware made both Mass Effect and Jade Empire). But in this case I just do not care what happens to my generic party members, the oh-so intense intergalactic laser rifle battles with evil robots are more boring than watching paint dry, the story is INCREDIBLY lax, I feel less like a fantastic spaceman on a quest to save the universe and more like kind old sergeant Shepard keeping robotic riff-raff out of galactic super-happy-ville.

 

[blindthrall]

Bioshock, because it didn't live up to the hype. Yahtzee had it right with his review.

Even though he later retracted that opinion? It's very derivative, basically being System Shock 2 with new graphics and Atlas Shrugged for a storyline, but it's still a good game. If you didn't get into the backstory, wasn't fighting the splicers fun? Well, for the first 2/3 of the game anyway. There is a big dropoff in entertainment after Fort Frolic's done with.

Where did he retract the statement? In a review?

Yeah it was shortly after the Bioshock review so it's an old one (I want to say Dead Space). It was something to the effect of "After experiencing this turd, I think I may have been too hard on Bioshock."

 

[gim73]

Counterstrike.

Took a good game and made it shitty. Really not that fun at all to play.

 

[PxDn Ninja]

Street Fighter.

 

[blindthrall]

Going to have to say Gears of War 2.

I have no problems with the game itself, but after my friends had spent two weeks playing nothing but it and telling me just how OMFGAWESUM it was, I had to sell both Bioshock and the Orange Box to get it. I hate myself to this day.

Damn. You got hosed BAD. Reminds me of the time a friend and I were in Gamestop, and he was going to buy Planescape: Torment. The clerk talked him into buying The Sims. I've never let him live that down, and I never trust any employee's opinion on a game especially when one tried to get me to buy Halo instead of Deus Ex.

 

[Craftybonds]

I have no idea what Heavy Rain is outside of a few videos. To me it looks like an interactive movie, or a Guinness World Records attempt at most QTEs in a game.

That would be Guitar Hero.

Not even going to attempt to feed this troll.

 

[CrysisMcGee]

Bioshock, because it didn't live up to the hype. Yahtzee had it right with his review.

Even though he later retracted that opinion? It's very derivative, basically being System Shock 2 with new graphics and Atlas Shrugged for a storyline, but it's still a good game. If you didn't get into the backstory, wasn't fighting the splicers fun? Well, for the first 2/3 of the game anyway. There is a big dropoff in entertainment after Fort Frolic's done with.

Where did he retract the statement? In a review?

Yeah it was shortly after the Bioshock review so it's an old one (I want to say Dead Space). It was something to the effect of "After experiencing this turd, I think I may have been too hard on Bioshock."

Ah yes. It was Halo 3. I haven't played Halo 3 because I don't have an xbox 360. Only played the first one. Lots of fun.

 

[Craftybonds]

Counterstrike.

Took a good game and made it shitty. Really not that fun at all to play.

Counter strike as a series? or just Source?