Worst game you've ever played?

[Xarathox]

Call of Juarez.

I'm a huge Western fan. Grew up watching all the old classics with my grandpa (the Clint Eastwood films are the best), and so I have a bit of a bad habit of blindly throwing money at a game that runs with that theme. That bad habit, of course, bit me in the ass with that game as it's the one that officially convinced me Ubisoft is truly terrible at game design, and was the very game that put them into my do not buy from list.

I mean, I was already disappointed with SCA and their disrespect of the PoP franchise, but this...was just a flaming pile of shit.

 

[kingthrall]

Dark souls. Worst game ever made (PC), the keyboard controls are impossible to play with so unlike even the crappiest of games which you can die horribly and you can still move your character with. In dark souls you cant even do that.. which makes it the crappiest useless game ever.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Hmm... Luckily for me I've managed to not play a lot of awful games. I did hate Gears of War 2 though, it was left in the 360 we bought off a friend, and it was dire. That said, there are definitely worse games that I've played... Lego: Creator was a buggy mess, and I've had to play Maths & English With Rayman before, but I'm not sure that counts. Other than that... CoD3 was pretty dire too. I don't care what people think of the latest ones, they're not as bad as that.

 

[original_funk]

Superman 64. It's crappiness is legendary, although I didn't actually play it until last year, when I found out a friend of mine had a copy and and old N64, my curiosity got the better of me. The damn thing is unplayable.

 

[Roberto Hadi]

The worst one I owned was Batman Forever on the Snes but someone mentioned that one already.
Max Payne 2 on the ps2 was an unplayable disgrace. But that was the port, not the game.
Battletoads was crap too. And Double Dragon 3 on the NES.
The worst one I currently own is Lords Of Shadow. I still cant believe the evolution of Castlevania is a God of War clone. I stopped playing at the colossus fight.
Now, the one I feel conflicted about hating is Bioshock. It was decent but the vita-chamber thing broke the game for me. It's not a game if you cant lose. I felt it was designed for a film critic instead of a gamer.

 

[Tzatziki3301]

- There were a couple of Resident Evil lightgun games.
- Kameo and Perfect Dark Zero for the Xbox360.
- The Bouncer was pretty shit, yet oddly enjoyable in that "not too bad for a launch game" sort of way.

I'm sure there's worse games I played, but I probably displaced them from my memory.

I wouldn't say Kameo was terrible, maybe a solid 80%-er but not terrible by any means (but then, I bought my 360 on release date with Kameo and Perfect Dark Zero so I have a soft spot for it and can understand people thinking it sucks if they got it post-CoD4. Perfect Dark Zero was also not what it could have been, but again it wasn't awful. Especially since it was basically still close to the Perfect Dark experience of N64)

Risen was the most terrible game I've loved for being terrible. Risen 2 took everything wrong with Risen 1, ignored trying to make it any better and upped the difficulty.

Sonic the Hedgehog for 360 is dire. Ridge Racer for the NES was the game I suffered through while smiling at my grandpa in thanks one Christmas. I'd wanted Mega Man 3.

 

[lemby117]

Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly.
Glitches upon glitches, bad sound sync, nothing in the department of new ideas ("hey, let's recycle a villain from Gateway to Glimmer with "gotta catch 'em all" objection from Year of the Dragon! We're original!"), horrendous loading and the fact that it was one of my first games on PS2. I'm just glad I bought Vice City shortly afterwards and completely forgot about it.

Funny that was one of my first games on PS2 and I have fond memories of it, though the ps2 was my first console so I guess that there may be a nostalgia factor.

Robotech Invasion, oh Robotech invasion you were an affront to good games

 

[Patathatapon]

It's rare I play a game without doing research first, but most of that came from the second thing I ever pre-ordered, Quantum Conundrum.

The first game I pre-ordered was Bioshock, and that was fuckin great, Quantum conundrum had a portal creator behind it, and steam virtual hats! I pre-ordered it, and got the biggest disappointment a game has ever given me.

I played AMY and I didn't mind it as much as quantum conundrum for fuck sakes. The puzzles were lame, and the majority of the challenge either came from the game not having anything close to a hint, or the fact that platforming was nearly impossible. I eventually got to a point where I said "Fuck this, I'm not this sadistic."

I've played games with challenge, FTL, Deus Ex, etc, but the thing about those games is that they didn't make me want to bash my head against my CPU screen! Not to mention, they were actually FUN.

 

[The White Hunter]

Some of you people really just haven't played bad games have you?

Most popular game that I personally can't stand is Shadow of the COlossus.

Worst game I've ever played? Would have to go diving into my Master System titles to find the one I'm thinking of and tell you then. I think it's some "Outrun" game that isn't really an Outrun game it's just awful.

 

[HarlequinGrey]

Warhammer 40,000: Fire Warrior.

I'd love to complain about the gameplay. I'd love to complain about the story and characters. I'd love to whine about terrible voice acting, but I can't; Fire Warrior was far too buggy to get far enough to experience those things.

The only thing that seemed to work right was the sound, and even that was terrible. Every weapon fired with a sad, flaccid 'pew.' I was firing the pinnacle of intergalactic technology, and all I heard was a muted and unsatisfying generic 'lasergun' noise.

My God, what an awful game.

 

[The_Echo]

Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly.
Glitches upon glitches, bad sound sync, nothing in the department of new ideas ("hey, let's recycle a villain from Gateway to Glimmer with "gotta catch 'em all" objection from Year of the Dragon! We're original!"), horrendous loading and the fact that it was one of my first games on PS2. I'm just glad I bought Vice City shortly afterwards and completely forgot about it.

To be fair, all three of Enter the Dragonfly's predecessors were collection-based. Dragons in the first, Orbs in the second, dragon eggs in the third. Also gems.

Had it not been rushed, it might have actually been great, given what the devs wanted to do with it.

But yeah, that's easily the worst game I've ever played.

 

[James Crook]

I played Lego Star Wars II for Nintendo DS. My God was it fukken broken. It was really, really, really buggy, with missing collisions, wonky physics, poor sound. Ugh. Didn't even exploit the DS's touch screen correctly.

 

[Ace Morologist]

Because I'm old...

Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde for the NES.

("Stop singing, you *****! Your singing hurts me! What the hell is going on?")

--Morology!

 

[DanielBrown]

Probably not my worst(hard to remember every game I've played), however those that made me cringe and wish it was all over the most was definetly Bayonetta and Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom. Hated everything about both games, but I had to beat the fuckers for the trophies.
Tried replaying Bayonetta recently to grab some more. Didn't last long until I had to turn it off. She has zero sex appeal to me, so every damn cutscene and the combat makes me feel ill.

Duke Nukem Forever is a close third. Got it just recently through a game bundle and figured it would be fun to see what I'd think who have never played any Duke Nukem games before. Even though I went in with a blank slate I hated every minute of it. Outdated combat, horrible vehicle controls and dull mini-games...

 

[TheRaggedQueen]

Shadow the Hedgehog. I was young and stu-well, I was younger and more stupid than I am now, and at the time my newly-teenaged mind almost couldn't come to terms of the Sonic world mixed with guns. It was also the first Sonic game after SA2 that I'd picked up (pre-ordered, oh the shame!) and I had yet to realize that Sonic was in for a long, loooong drop in quality.

 

[Marcus Kehoe]

final fantasy 13

It was the first game I had that i just couldn't beat. It was just so boring, and this is from someone who liked final fantasy 10 and 12.

 

[Aptspire]

As so many have said before:
It requires no other explaination.

 

[Poetic Nova]

Big Rigs comes to mind (yes I have played it).
But to make a proper contribution:

Resistance 2 for PS3 is godawfull, dull, boring and it got rid of what made Fall of Man great: No weapon carrying limit and health didn't fully regen unless you picked up a medkit.

Next contender is N3: Ninety Nine Nights, boring hack and slash that doesn't change gameplay and actually made me fell asleep due to it repetitive gameplay.

I'll prolly gett lynched for this one, ohwell: I personally find Half Life 2 overrated garbage with dull gameplay. It's episodes kinda made up for it but the base game is bland and boring.

Alone in the Dark for the 360: Clunky mess and it felt just unfinished. Some introduced mechanics (albeit half-assed) were ok but nothing to write home about.

There are probably a few more but they don't cross my mind atm.