Worst game you've ever played?

[WhyWasThat]

It was a History Channel game, which kind of means I've only myself to blame.

 

[Kinitawowi]

Jet Set Willy where they didn't even make an end, the dev just thought 'Fuck it no-one will get this far' and gave you an instant kill when you climbed out of the toilet.

Oh please. Yeah, sure it's hard as shit and the Attic Bug is rank carelessness (it's obviously a three-second fix to patch that these days, but this was 1984), but "I can't finish it" doesn't equate to being terrible. (Also, getting into the toilet is the end of the game.)

You want Spectrum era terrible games? Try Super Trolley. I didn't know that game even had an ending until I looked it up on Youtube, and after some four hours of shelf stacking it is NOT WORTH IT. (Still isn't my worst game of all time, because I went into it with no expectations.)

 

[Orbi16]

I'm not going to count games I've emulated like Bubsy 3D or Superman 64 (though out of the two, Bubsy is the worst by a mile), so I have one I really, really despise, being a dumbed down disappointing experience as a desperate attempt to regain lost fans.

Sonic Unleashed: I will admit that Sonic 06 is much more unpolished and generally disappointing... but from a game-design stand, Unleashed should be lucky that 06 even exists because without that, Unleashed would be the worst Sonic game bar none, not even Chronicles. Every single design decision made in that game is baffling, stupid, not well executed or all of the above. Shredding a lot of platforming and exploration focus in exchange for high-octane linear speed stages littered with scripted events (including one that can be activated by holding down the X button, can be refuelled, gives extra lives occasionally and there is no worthwhile penalty for using it), making Sonic control like a car, remapped controls and horrible turning and all, and the werehog isn't much better.

I personally can tolerate games like Singularity and Darksiders if they can offer something new with all of the rehash they bring, the Werehog doesn't do that. It rips off God of War with no intent to add anything aside from Kingdom Hearts enemies. It plays it safe. It's a by-the-book design. Though that's miles better than the horrible design of the Daytime stages... and above all, it isn't fun. Sonic 06 had that fun of being somewhat of a guilty pleasure of mine with it's shining moments of brilliance and pretentious story, here though the problems are too large and numerous to overlook.

I wonder how many Sonic fans holding ancient blood rituals sacrificing lambs it took to increase the quality of Sonic games recently. Colours was actually decent, Generations was a tad disappointing but overall another big improvement, and I won't pass judgement on Lost World yet, but it looks to be an entire game of "Playing it Safe".

 

[FPLOON]

Then there's the game I'm most disappointed in its' terrible-ness.

As someone who is quite the big Sonic fan, nothing hurts more than this game. The opinions on some of the other games vary wildly, but everyone is in agreement that this is absolutely horrid, and the single redeeming quality of the game is its' music.

And yet, for some reason I played it to 100% completion.

Yeah... Even though I wanted to rage-quit every chance I got at this poor excuse for a Sonic game... I still wanted to beat it 100%... It's a week I'll never get back, but it's not a week that should be forgotten or regretted (that much...)

OT: Most of games I consider to be "the worse" are not as bad as I think they are...

With that said, The Spongebob Squarepant Movie: The Video Game...

With only about 3 levels I liked to just fuck around in (since those levels were both not only pretty straight forward but also forced you to keep going forward), the rest of the game was just too terrible to even try to complete 100%...

Sure, because it was a Nickelodeon game as well as a movie game, it had irritating challenge throughout but you can still beat it (somehow), however revisiting levels just made the experience worse and the collectibles were either too hard to find (Seriously, I looked fucking everywhere... How am I still missing something?) or just weren't worth the extra work unlocking them to begin with (All that... for a useless sound bit? FUCK!). I still find some of the extra challenges you couldn't do because you didn't get a certain upgrade on a particular weapon cheap as fuck...

But, then again, this was the worse game that I've experienced playing through... otherwise I would have said Big Rigs...

...and I find this game just adorable at how bad it is... *pinches the game's nonexistent cheeks*

 

[Zombie Badger]

The worst game I've played to completion was either Final Fantasy XII or Bioshock: Infinite

I've never played any of the historical stinkers to completion, so those are the only games I've played whole way through that occur to me as being not just mediocre or even kinda bad but really just legitimately terrible.

Would you care to expand on your dislike of Bioshock Infinite? I'd be interested to hear why you didn't like it.

I would've actually put The Last of Us here, but then I realized it was entirely for the sake of /those/ kind of fans of the game, who put the game above criticism and jump down your throat if you don't yell it's 10/10 to the heavens.

Don't be afraid to fly in the face of public opinion mate, it's what makes threads like this interesting.

Then there's the game I'm most disappointed in its' terrible-ness.

[Sonic 2006 pic]

As someone who is quite the big Sonic fan, nothing hurts more than this game. The opinions on some of the other games vary wildly, but everyone is in agreement that this is absolutely horrid, and the single redeeming quality of the game is its' music.

Going off on a tangent here, I've always wanted to say I have a weird sort of respect for Sonic fans for staying with the series for at least a decade after I would have burned all bridges. After Mass Effect failed me that badly it was dead to me within a week.

In my case the worst game I've ever played was Alone In The Dark 2008. I'll admit that I try to avoid playing truly awful games, but that thing was unplayable. I ended up using the built-in skip level button (advertised as a feature on the back of the box) to get to the end and I still had to burn the sodding tree roots.

 

[Austin Howe]

The worst game I've played to completion was either Final Fantasy XII or Bioshock: Infinite

I've never played any of the historical stinkers to completion, so those are the only games I've played whole way through that occur to me as being not just mediocre or even kinda bad but really just legitimately terrible.

Would you care to expand on your dislike of Bioshock Infinite? I'd be interested to hear why you didn't like it.

TBH the problems that I have with the politics of the game are pretty well described here: http://critdamage.blogspot.com/2013/04/some-preliminary-thoughts-on-bioshock.html So I won't harp on that.

The gameplay was also really bad. Every enemy sponged bullets like crazy and some other enemies sponged even more bullets, the excellent soundtrack is underused, tons of the worst kind of "about to do an objective wait no three more sub-objectives", the Lady Comstock fight is the worst boss fight I've ever played, and the ending in particular somehow made a game of 12 hours feel long. TBH I had a lot of these criticisms about the original Bioshock as well, but even though I never liked the gameplay, I felt that the narrative did eventually add up to something (even if it was saying something that Spec Ops would say much, much better a few years later and something MGS2 and MGS4 both did with far more subtlety.)

In all honesty, the first half hour or so was amazing, I would've loved a BS:I that was maybe a first-person adventure game or something along those lines, something that would encourage the soft, warm atmosphere of the game's opening. That kind of feeling I find to be seriously lacking in most games, and I really liked the sort of dissonant effect of that warm feeling against the boiling racial tensions etc etc that totally gets lost when the game becomes a gratuitously-violent-even-for-an-FPS-in-2013 killfest.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I've played some pretty crappy games though not so many recently...lemme see...

Hey...if you're played Sonic 06 and say you hated it and/or it's the worst Sonic game ever made then I implore you to play Sonic and the Secret Rings. Black Knight was a bad Sonic title too but I would play Black Knight again before I infect my Wii/U with the Secret Rings disc again. Crush 40's then-new song was the only good thing in that disc and you can get that same song in Smash Bros Brawl: a vastly, greatly, infinitely better game.

I thought I'd have more but I don't really...OH! I'VE GOT ONE!

The Game Boy port of Mortal Kombat! The visuals were to be expected considering the limitations of the console but the laggy controls make the game neigh unplayable.

Spoiler: bonus round: a short list of games I hate (one per/console)

Game Boy - Mortal Kombat
Nintendo 64 - Roadsters...also the Crusin' games
NES - Total Recall
Nintendo Wii - Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Sonic & The Secret Rings, Fortune Street & Mario Party 9 [sub](I prefer Metroid Other M to all 4 of those Wii games)[/sub]
Sega Dreamcast - Ready 2 Rumble
Xbox 360 - Fable 3 and, Final Fantasy XIII

 

[CannibalCorpses]

Dark Souls.

Just a cavalcade of broke-ass design and completely wrong headed approaches to difficulty. I wouldn't have put this here, but the sheer number of people who like this game and rush to rabid defense of it just makes me hate it and everything it stands for.

Would you prefer it if people liked it but didn't talk about it?

They can talk about it, that's fine. It's when I say I don't like it for X reasons, and they jump down my throat, calling be things like "casual", and saying I need to "learn the game" so I can "experience the sense of accomplishment."

I've had so many fans of this game up and dismiss any faults of the game. It's really frustrating play and talk about.

Sounds a little like my experience...had a warning or 2 for getting pissed off at some fanboy who can't accept even the slightest fault about the game. Not sure it's the worst game ever but the fanboys are some of the worst i've ever had to deal with. My view on this game is tainted by the fact i was told i would find it challenging and when it arrived...it challeged little more than my patience.

 

[CannibalCorpses]

Hrrmmm *ponders* What was it's name...that norse mythology futuristic sci-fi item based RPG bollocks...you know, it had 6 levels of pure shit and terrible gameplay.

Also, a game called Quantum theory that was the worst wannabe gears of war i've played...just a fucking mess.

 

[Baron Tanks]

Hrrmmm *ponders* What was it's name...that norse mythology futuristic sci-fi item based RPG bollocks...you know, it had 6 levels of pure shit and terrible gameplay.

Also, a game called Quantum theory that was the worst wannabe gears of war i've played...just a fucking mess.

Sounds like Too Human to me

One of the few that comes to mind is Halo Wars. It wasn't necessarily bad as in that it was broken, just enjoyable for every minute I played it. Which is only 2 hrs because of that reason.

 

[Zombie Badger]

Would you care to expand on your dislike of Bioshock Infinite? I'd be interested to hear why you didn't like it.

TBH the problems that I have with the politics of the game are pretty well described here: http://critdamage.blogspot.com/2013/04/some-preliminary-thoughts-on-bioshock.html So I won't harp on that.

The gameplay was also really bad. Every enemy sponged bullets like crazy and some other enemies sponged even more bullets, the excellent soundtrack is underused, tons of the worst kind of "about to do an objective wait no three more sub-objectives", the Lady Comstock fight is the worst boss fight I've ever played, and the ending in particular somehow made a game of 12 hours feel long. TBH I had a lot of these criticisms about the original Bioshock as well, but even though I never liked the gameplay, I felt that the narrative did eventually add up to something (even if it was saying something that Spec Ops would say much, much better a few years later and something MGS2 and MGS4 both did with far more subtlety.)

I can definitely see where you're coming from with the story gripes. Although I didn't feel the same way, I found Fitzroy to be poorly developed and a missed opportunity (I personally hope the DLCs will expand on her). The gameplay I thought was pretty good if nothing spectacular, but the Lady Comstock fight was no fun at all.

 

[Zombie Badger]

Sorry, missed the edit button.

 

[SweetShark]

Well, I see many answer and clearly most of you don't know what means to say your WORST game you ever played.....

For me is this game:

What happens when you see the coolest trailers when you were a little young boy.....


....and then you buy to play this game?


OH.MY.GOD.THIS.GAME.MAKE.ME.ANGRY.

 

[scorptatious]

I know it's beating a dead horse at this point but...

Sonic 06.

Pretty much the worst and most disappointing game I've ever played. I've only beaten Sonic's story and played through bits of Silver and Shadow's before I stopped playing.

On the bright side, it's fun watching other people play and suffer through it like I did.

 

[Raika]

I'm surprised nobody's said Heavy Rain yet.

Oh well.

*ahem*

Heavy Rain.