Weekend Open Forum: What's the worst game you've ever played?

[Guest]

Master of Orion 3. After excellent MoO and MoO 2 it was utter garbage.

One game I also had high expectations for was Reunion. "Dune 2-like ground combat", "space exploration", "colony building", "strategy" etc., what was not to like? It turned out to be completely linear, with only two possible outcomes (you either get trashed by Morgul fleet 7 (?) or you win), might as well have been a spreadsheet because colonies were irrelevant, additional combat groups were irrelevant, strategy was irrelevant (just produce units and thriow them at the enemy before they cheat up the ungodly large fleet you cannot defeat), exploration is pretty much irrelevant (it comes as natural progression of linear game) ... dissapointing.

 

[yukka]

Nemesis by konami on the ZX Spectrum. The version that was reviewed didn't ahip and it was just awful. Really disappointing after the 5 star reviews. If anyone is interested, here is the story of one of the most awful things to happen in gaming in 1986....
http://worldofstuart.excellentcontent.com/pt1.htm

 

[Cycloid Torus]

Privateer 2: the Darkening - with great hopes I tried patches and fixes (GOG version), but never succeeded in a truly playable state. I hate BUGS.

 

[Guest]

Nobody remembers Duke Nukem Forever? Picking up **** from the toilet, stupid puzzles, the waste of your time, etc, etc.

 

[Guest]

Superman 64

 

[Burty117]

I've played quite a few bad games, but usually if a family member has given you a known bad game and you know it's going to be bad, It's had to class them as terible, because you were kinda expecting it, for me it's games that had a really good first game or so then ruin it the second time round.

One that sticks out for me was Crysis 2, biggest let down and the absolute most disapointing game I've played to date. Company of Heroes 2 also springs to mind, first one was fantastic, second, really ruined it. This also goes for any Call of Duty after the first Modern Warefare and any Need for Speed after Underground 2.

BUT, since we have to pick a single game based purely on the merit that the game simply is bad, and not judge it by past experience with said game and/or fraqnchise I would go for:

Wareface
By Crytek, it's free to play, I'd suggest never installing it or ever remembering I mentioned it, it truely was diabolical. It was painful to play, just so rubbish...

 

[cmbjive]

Deadly Towers. No game is worse than that game. Even E.T. was fun for two minutes. Deadly Towers just looked pathetic.

Whatever happened to Broderbund anyway?

 

[MrFisk777]

This is a tough one. Sadly, I've seen far more terrible games than great ones. To be truly awful I would assume the game should have multiple areas of weakness but run well enough that you can actually get a feel for it. Dishonored was pretty bad: recycled HL2 graphics, incredibly ugly character models, transparent story and a mess of a world that felt like a collision of AC and Oblivion. The irony of being punished for killing when it was impossible to finish a level without taking lives was also infuriating. The numerous bugs didn't help either. Everyone I know gave up on on this steaming pile pretty quickly.

Dishonored is probably the best stealth game ever made. It got 91/100 for a reason. Just because you suck at it doesn't mean it sucks.

 

[mrtraver]

I'm not sure if it was the worst, but the most disappointing was Road Runner Death Valley Rally for SNES. I loved the concept but the game was just uncontrollable (for me at least). I was never very good at platformers anyway, but I would constantly overrun and fall off cliffs, ledges, contraptions, etc.

 

[tonylukac]

Need for speed is bad as it is atrocious to steer with a keyboard A power blip blew out my video card so I played star wars the old republic on onboard graphics and it moved like molasses in july in antarctica.

 

[WangDangDoodle]

Darkspore is by far the worst game I've ever played. However, SWTOR is the biggest disappointment.

 

[Guest]

Witcher 2. Unplayable game, even the game devs are aware of it and advise's you to install an unofficial mod to fix some of the problems. But for some reason it's gotten a very vocal fan base that defend's it like it's their retarded child, I don't know maybe it's the digital boobs that you get to see.

 

[Cryio]

Dissapointing games:

• Need for Speed Carbon: Bad graphics overall. Either too weird looking graphics and lighting or just overall worse graphics than Most Wanted 2005, even the PS2 version. Comparing it with the X360 version of Most Wanted would bring even more shame. The cars were too weighty, the handling too ridig and the drift races were crap. Police almost never appeared.
• Need for Speed Undercover: Nothing was good about this game: Horrible graphics, bad optimization, empty streets, useless open worlds. Useless tunning older cars because newer cars were by default faster than the most tuned out older cars. Police was too innocent or wasn't at all. It required Pixel Shader 3 back in the day for nothing, so it also limited people for from playing it just because. ProStreet looked miles better.
• Prince of Persia: Forgotten Sands: Except from some decent platforming enabled by the new powers .. eh? Combat crap. Story filler. Prince design .. horrible. Graphics overall .. decent? The platforming was overall less impressive than the previous trilogy or of that of PoP 2008.
• Avatar: The Movie game: Too stiff movement, too uninteresting stuff to do. Good graphics.
• FEAR 2: Couldn't stand up to the awesomeness of FEAR1. Extraction Point was the *true* sequel.
• FEAR 3: Except for awesome sounding weapons (a FEAR staple), it was eh all the way.
• Harry Potter: Quiditch World Cup. Could've been so much more.
• Burnout Paradise: Except for good graphics for the time (awful now) and terrific optimization, the game was too repetitive. The same locations for start and end of races with zero variation. Sure, you could go wherever, but you could only go to the same starting/ending points so many times. Horrible soundtrack. Horrible implementation of ambient occlusion. On PC, a total lack of police and on all platforms bikes were useless.
• Crysis 3. After the awesome story of Crysis 2 they've made it small and personal and boring in Crysis 3. The gameplay and graphics were better than ever but the game was short and the story just wasn't there. Such dissapointment.

Bad games:
• Turning Point, Fall of Liberty
• Dark Sector
• Unreal/Unreal 2
• James Bond: Quantum of Solace
• Harry Potter games, 6-7-8.
• GTA Vice City. Sorry guys, I freakin' hated this game.
• Two Worlds 1. Just ... atrocious all around.
• Gothic 4: Arcania: Bland combat. Bland world design. Bad dialog. Bad performance on PC. Bland RPG mechanics.
• Battlefield 3, the single player part. Worst campaign in the history of FPS.

 

[slamscaper]

Sword of Sodan for Sega Genesis.

This is the first game that came to mind for me too, lmao. Positively horrible.

 

[Guest]

For me it has to be Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex. It had horrible unresponsive controls and a million different ways to unfairly screw you over. It also had the longest load times I have ever experienced, and it did the full level load EVERY SINGLE TIME you died (which was a lot due to the slow controls).

This game is the only game I have ever seriously raged at. The disc ended up in a lots of pieces after being thrown at my wall in frustration one day.

My most disappointing would be The War Z. A friend of mine told me that this was the standalone version of the DayZ mod so I went ahead and dropped $50 on the biggest pack you could buy. I couldn't play it for more than 30 mins before alt f4 and delete forever.

 

[Nero7]

Rome 2
Over 16 patches in its still fundamentally broken. Pathfinding problems with AI armies bring the game down to 5 fps and no setting the graphics down does not help...
Melee combat is also much worse than in the old titles due to engine limitations.
Wrath of Sparta dlc is trash.

The worst game is the one that I still want to play and occasionally do, while enduring all the problems until it becomes too much to bear... then the next day you fire it up again out of lack of alternatives...

 

[Nero7]

Rome 2
Over 16 patches in its still fundamentally broken. Pathfinding problems with AI armies bring the game down to 5 fps and no setting the graphics down does not help...
Melee combat is also much worse than in the old titles due to engine limitations.
Wrath of Sparta dlc is trash.

The worst game is the one that I still want to play and occasionally do, while enduring all the problems until it becomes too much to bear... then the next day you fire it up again out of lack of alternatives...

Ow and it needs mods to be enjoyable. Playing vanilla is awful. With every update they break the mod compability so you have to track down every single mod if its updated and works...
The launcher does not let you disable all mods at once making you click each one over and over again...

 

[mgwerner]

1994 Sierra Online Outpost. Worst money I ever spent on a game. Many of the features reviewed positively were never finished, breaking gameplay. That was the last time I bought a game from Sierra, or any of their later iterations, and I canceled my subscription PC Gamer after their review proved to be based on an early version, which they never followed up on.

The early days of the WWW saw this as a major issue. Bulletin boards were scorched with pissed off customers. We called it "Compost...."

 

[DanUK]

The Elder Scrolls Online is absolutely awful. It's like the people who designed it had no brain... the game design and mechanics are terrible.

I was also massively disappointed with Planetary Annihilation.

 

[Guest]

Anyway from Ubisoft. That company truly sucks. All their games have bugs and they don't give damn. Don't believe me? I have emails to prove it.

 

[OortCloud]

Dishonored is probably the best stealth game ever made. It got 91/100 for a reason. Just because you suck at it doesn't mean it sucks.

I agree Dishonoured was awesome - and it had a really unusual atmospheric feel too.

Less awesome for me would be :

Altered Beast on the Megadrive/Genesis - "Wise Fwom Your Gwave!"
X Rebirth
Seventh Guest

 

[Tekkaraiden]

Transformers for the C64.

 

[Guest]

Holy crap Sword of Sodan was so bad. The gaming industry had an anal prolapse and that game fell out.

 

[Evernessince]

Gauntlet, Seven Sorrows. It was supposed to be the successor to dark legacy but it turned out to be nothing remotely similar game-play or quality wise.

 

[Evernessince]

Witcher 2. Unplayable game, even the game devs are aware of it and advise's you to install an unofficial mod to fix some of the problems. But for some reason it's gotten a very vocal fan base that defend's it like it's their retarded child, I don't know maybe it's the digital boobs that you get to see.

Troll guest post? The witcher 2 has always been very well optimized and I've never even seen someone have an issue with the game.

The claimed "devs don't card" is a fallacy. CD Project is one of the best companies for after launch support. All The Witcher 2's DLC was even released free.