Worst. Game. Ever.
 

Have you played a video game so bad you just wanna die? Ever put a reservation on a game that was supposed to be good but ended up being total garbage? Is there a certain game that everybody likes but for some reason, you yourself just can't tolerate it?

If you answered yes to one of these tell us about it. Remember: it has to be a title that YOU, not everyone, didn't like for whatever reason.

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Fable.

It had enormous potential, and instead the developers decided to take that potential to the board room and go, "Okay guys, how can we possibly make this idea shitty?"

Course, I feel worse for my friend, he BOUGHT an Xbox just for it, and regrets it ever since.

X^3 (X Cubed?). That games is slower than Ben Stein reading The Great Gatsby underwater while stoned, and that is really fracking slow my friends. It promised me intense, fleet sized space warfare and the ability to build a huge business empire. But then it makes you spend two years flying energy cells (the ONLY trade good to yield a profit) around at random. Its the only game I've ever been willing to cheat to get ahead in, but there doesn't seem to be any cheats for it. If any of you know of any, please, for the love of the Emporer, share them with me!

Win get!

What's so terrible about this game is the Video Review.

They don't even say anything or talk about the game. They just play it and let you watch. It's hysterical.

Midnight nowhere. It tries to be an adventure game thriller with a lovable anit-hero.
What it is is a game where the puzzles don't make sense, the items are nigh-impossible to find, unlike the porn in nearly every screen somewhere like a perverted where's wally, the speach is so garbled you have to turn on the subtitles, and the subtitles aren't actualy what the people are saying becuase the whole thing was translated from Russian. Badly.
The "hero" is a guy with amnesia who finds a random name and decides it must be his, then mouths off to the police as he emerges from a hospital, the sole survivor of a horrible massicere, refusing to even talk to them and unsurprisingly getting kicked in jail, where, after a delightfully pointless escape attempt you're interigated, thrown in a new cell, and are again the sole survivor of a bloody massicere for no reason at all. I mean, the guy just killed everything in the building that moved, even the rats, but you, all alone and defenceless in your plainly visible cell, are left alone, even though a cop died not a meter away from you, allowing you to use his keys to escape, once again wading through the dead bodys of everyone you've ever met.
And after all that, do you finaly get to find out who it is that's been killing everyone in Russia? Do you finaly find out who you are, and what the hell's going on?
No, of course not. Ha, what idiot whould play through a whole part crappy part gibberish game just to find out what's going on? No, lets just give the main character a load of fuzzy and barely hearable flashbacks that make no sense and explain nothing before having him killed after releasing some clone from cryo-storage.

And what's really sad is that despite all that, it's the only game I've ever wanted a sequal to so badly. The game was horrible, but I really need to know what was going on so that the loss of about 12 hours of my life would be worth it.

Like I said in the "I could cry" thread, Katamari Damacy. I was willing to overlook the graphics in screenshots, but they just look repulsive in motion. The much-hyped music was just annoying. The gameplay would've been fun if you wern't under such retarded time limits and you didn't lose stuff you collected every time you so much as nudge something big. The only good part was when I had a big enough katamari to pick up people.

The Aidyn Chronciles: The Last Mage...or First Mage...or 13th Mage...whatever it was, I probably forced it from my memory. To this day I thanks the gods that I rented it before I bought it.

Bad gameplay, worst graphics. Graphics so bad I couldn't even tell if I was on the path that would take me to my objective. They said "follow the path"...HOW AM I SUPPOSE TO FOLLOW THE "PATH" WHEN THE "PATH" LOOKS LIKE THE REST OF THE FREAKIN' GROUND?!

::ahem:: ...Sorry. Is also compounded by the fact it took me a half hour to run there. No random encounters...a few battles, maybe...but the vast majority of the time was traveling...down what was either the "path" or a random piece of dirt texture on the ground.

Big Rigs is one of the few games that is so horrible, the failure actually folds in on itself and creates something awesome.

As for games that everyone loves that I can't stand, Xenogears fits the bill nicely. Just... ugh. If I wanted to watch a damn movie or read a book, I would.

Oh yeah? Take THAT!!!

Superman 64, of course.

Gundam Battle Assault 3 was DAMN bad, I hate to say. I actually did like the first two, especially the second, but the learning curve and hoards of useless abilities was just awe inspiring. Not to mention half hte fights weren't even fair. One you vers 12 of these pretty descently armed fuckers? If I'm fighting a group of guys, I want them to be WEAK, you fucks.

That, and the GUndam selection was topped off by Devil Gundam, which should not be. Where's my Psycho!? >:O

I'm smart enough to be able to tell that a game is going to be bad, i mean who didn't see Superman 64 being terrible? The worst game i've ever played was Sword of Mana for the GBA.

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One of our staff really loathes Xenogears and wasn't too keen on FFVII either, at least at the ending that he says makes zero sense. To paraphrase him, "We could make an RPG that takes every overused element from science fiction and mix it in with some hackneyed philosophical elements, then call it Xenogears."

It was my childhood. I rented countless SNES games. Most of them were crap, but I didn't care; my standards for good games were much lower back then, but there was one game I rented that I felt was bad even back then. It's name; was Dream TV. It was a 2-D platformer, like many other games of the day, but everything about it was just wrong. The story was stupid, the graphics hurt my eyes, the music caused my ears to bleed, the play control was FUBAR, and the gameplay mechanics were so broken, it was impossible for me to get past the first level. I rented Dream TV once, and vowed never to play it again. To this day, it remains the single-worst piece of video software that I have ever played. *sniffle* I promised myself I wouldn't cry. *leaves with tears in his eyes*

When I had my trustful SNES, many bad games passed through my hands...
One from Daffy Duck, super Metroid(You read it right), ANY Sports one(I don't like they. Except Wrestling, but I hated those in the SNES), Mario's Time Machine and I think there are more...

Today, I don't like Side-scrollers( Klonoa or Crash for example) and Sports.

I match your bet, and raise.

But seriously, anyone else play Quest 64? Don't.

I hate you both.

Good that I didn't say I hated Link to The Past from the bottom of my soul...

Agreed.
BURN HIM!
One game I really couldn't stand was Wind Waker. Why cell-shade it? Link looks like that retarded kid in my second period. You know, the one with a what I assume is a tumor covering practically his entire head.

Mario's Time Machine/Mario is Missing.

God awful monstrosities.

also, Kya: Dark Lineage

I'll admit Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing is the worst game in the world, but I kinda liked how unfinished it was, and the YOURE WINNER! thing.

Mario is Missing was made of failage. Not even close to a Mario game. It shamed Luigi.

I have a friend. Really, I do. He owns an XBox. I do not. At one time, he said "Aw man, Ghost Recon is so amazing!" so I rented it for my 'Cube.

I punched him the next day.

A bit later he said "Aw man, Ghost Recon 2 is so amazing." This time, I made sure he let me play it on his XBox. It was good. I pre-ordered it for the Cube.

I punched him after I played the Cube version.

Then we fondly remembered our N64 days, and how much fun we had with Winback. We heard there was a sequel. Believing the magic would be back, I bought it.


We don't talk a lot anymore.

Sim Earth.

It was like if they took my tenth grade trigonometry teacher, and turned her into a video game.

Turok....
No, not just Evolution...
EVERY GAME from this series just really is a pile of bad....
If I were to call it a peice of shit then I would be actually saying those games are better then they really are...
My friend somehow loved the first one and Rage Wars and still defend both to this day calling it "Better than Quake"...
He's been pummled many times...

Enter the Matrix. End of discussion.

Pretty much EVERY game with a basketball player starring that isn't about basketball.

Shaq Fu? MJ in Wind city? Go to Hell!

I'm pretty careful about the games I buy, so my "worst games ever" are gonna be sacred cows that weren't so bad as they were mega disappointments.

That said, FF7. The battle system was standard RPG fare for me, but I must admit, I liked the Materia system. However, I had just come off of Tales of Symphonia and Paper Mario 2, so I was a bit spoiled in regards to random encounters. FF7 was par for the course, but for me, any random encounters can be too much, unless I really like the battle system. The story was the biggest letdown for me. Since I had played mostly post-FF7 games up until then, it offered nothing new, except for the story.

Now, the story is waaay over-rated. Thanks to Cloud, I have a seething hatred for "badass" mercenary people, especially if the have amnesia or a "mysterious past." Even the uber-oblivious ("What? You mean she likes me? I had no idea!"), blockheaded Tales heroes are preferable to this. And the surprising twists? A whole lot of "surprising revelation... SURPRISE! Not rly!" Sephiroth's the last Ancient! SURPRISE! Not rly! It was like that except for Aeris's death, which was pretty much expected. I'm sure it was great when it came out, but for me, it was just a chore to play. And something you play should never be a "chore."

Any game starring the American Gladiators. That is all.

I think the title was "Dark Skye", or something like that. Starred a teenage girl wielding a staff, if I remember clearly.

I'm okay with the occaisonal pop culture reference. Hell, I'm even okay with a game being based on pop culture. But Dark Skye just went overboard with it. At several points I was wondering if the game was just a giant melting pot of commercials disguised as an action/adventure title.

Honorable mentions go to Quest 64, for being a game with near-infinite potential and a complete lack of trying to acheive any of it. If it weren't for the battle system, I would have scrapped it in favor of the GBC version, which at least made an attempt to make sense of the messed up plot.

Edit: Darkened Skye. That's the title. Also, taste the rainbow.

Psh. Fly silicon runs until you can afford a cheap bio factory, and then go from there.

Anyway, egosoft.com's scripting forums have all sorts of cheats for people wishing to jumpstart their game. So you may wish to check those out.

Personally, I loved X3, but it was a bit slow, yeah...

They actually made a videogame of the American Gladiators?

That's pretty hilarious.

American Gladiators for the NES.

First mention of SA in this thread? I sure hope not...

Shifters of the PS2.

Good concept, but you couldn't have made a more flawed game.

The story was awful, the battlesystem was uninspired, the glitches were almost constant, and your main character was almost always stronger than the transformations you aquired.

It was such a good idea too. ;__;

For the NES, SNES, and Sega Genesis. They all sucked and involved various amounts of button-pressing, swearing, and shitty response time.

FYI, I'm playing Grandia III right now, and it's just about as horrible as you could imagine it to be. Barring a scene where I, myself, actually reach into the TV screen and choke the characters with my bare hands, I don't see much that's going to save this thing.

And I'm only on like the first ten hours or some shit, I understand it only gets worse from here.

It's mostly funny because I always sort of thought of American Gladiators as a live-action videogame. And then they went and made a video game out of it.

Just resist the urge, the final boss has some beautiful music....


As for my contribution - Todd Mcfarlane's Evil Prophecy. I tried playing it (got it for a christmas gift), and managed to for a bit, but the textures are muddy, sound practically non-existant, and the "special moves" did no more damage than the rest.

Two Words ,Darkened Skye, Almost unbeatable, the magic is controled by SKITTLES, and the charecters are just plain anoying

SaGa Frontier 2 and Unlimited SaGa.... I loved SaGa Frontier. I've played it dozens of times. I thought those two games would be worth playing... Much to my surprise and horror, I hated them... Even returned Unlimited SaGa...

Final Fantasy Legend 1-3 on the original GameBoy. they were freakin' impossible to properly play!

Also, Spy vs. Spy.

I was extremly bored so i went to rent a game and got tak 2 (like i said REALY bored) it was ok till the end ware they had tak wake up and the entire game be a waste of time ecause it was all a dream.

Superman for the Atari 2600. There was nothing to that game. You literally just pick up "criminal" persons, some of which have guns that do nothing to you, and you act as their personal transport to the "jail" area. I think the "Lex" person carried kryptonite so if you touched him it would rob you of flight until you go and touch the "Lois" person. Repeat that over and over until you switch it off.

Aquaman: Battle for Atlantis.
*Shudder* That game is the GC-XBox-PS2 Era's Superman 64.
On that note, Superman 64 as well.

But I LIKED Saga Frontier 2...
Also, new worst game ever. Megaman X8. I have the original MMX for SNES and it is great, but this game is a disgrace.

I have a couple for you:

Orphen: Scion of Sorcery - It claimed itself as an rpg but there were no random encounters, leveling up, or gaining spells unless it was scripted. What was even more horrible was that you could get killed outside of battle. Don't even get me started on the boss battles. The storyline was also horrible. Orphen and his comrades(plus those two idiots trying to follow him) were completely out of character from how I saw them in the anime. The battle system was broken beyond repair.

I have nothing more to say for this...

There's one game I bought which I was completely disappointed...

Naruto: Clash of Ninja - I know, we just got the first one here, but there are already four in Japan! What really bothered me was the selection of characters you could play as and the length of the storyline(so cheap it only goes up to the Haku/Zabuza fight on the bridge). The fighting and specials were fine but they just made this one too short and too easy to get 100% of the items on this game. It only took me a length of two days to get 100%. I hope the second one provides more characters to play as and more to the storyline mode.

I know those posts were made a while but man does the idea fun video gaming experiences make you gag with disgust? I mean you hated the two best Nintendo developed games for the SNES? you have the right to hold any opinions but I just couldn't help not saying anything about it.

For me, I hate the first Maximo game for the PS2. I expected a fun experience that had me effortlessly cut through hordes of the undead. But I got an experience simlar to a kick to the balls except not as fun. The game was blazingly difficult, you had limited continues, you could only keep three or four special attacks out of the many important ones, and to top it all off, you had to pay money to save the game and that sucks if you really have to save now, but you're broke. I beat the first boss and then I gave up that piece of defecation.

Deadly towers. the worst game that has ever been made for the NES. I can't believe why the programmers made a crappy game like that one. I just do not want to play it again in my life...

Halo 2, all I have to say is: "Pass me the rifle"

Inside, self joke. Don't worry about it

Holy crap, I didn't make a post here? I gotta start paying attention. Well, here goes...

Deathtrap Dungeon. I looked forward to this. I should not have. Instead of being enchanted and given some amazing and fun places to explore and interesting creatures to fight, I find myself thinking at each new stage "Great, I gotta slog through this now?". The camera angles were pretty bad, too.

Lifeline. Listen to me, bitch! Listen to the words that're coming outta my mouth!
Me: "Middle Eye."
Rio: "What?"
Me: "Middle Eye. Middle Eye."
Rio: "What?"
Me: *repeats those same words about seven more times, even trying pathetic accents to see if Rio would understand those.*
*Rio is killed. By one pathetic black mutant caterpillar.*
Me: *talking to self* "...She's blonde. Give her time for the command to process."
It just saddens me when games that give me a new way to play completely fail in giving me that new way to play...and they don't bother allowing you to control Rio without using your voice.

Death by Degrees. I'm not a Tekken fan. I'm not a Nina fan. But I am a man who had money to blow at the time this came out. I wasn't expecting much. I got so much less. So much less, in fact, that I couldn't even defeat the first boss's second round. Ridiculous. Completely ridiculous. If only the game gave me a chance to level up and collect more healing items. But instead it thought maybe I was too high level and that, God forbid, I could defeat this incredibly cheap boss.

Spiderman-2 for PC. I saw it played for PS2 and it was awesome, so I went out and bought it for PC. I almost cried. It wasn't nearly as good as even the first one.

My most hated game of all time eh..................

black&white creature isle............. OMFG!!

they took a great game and had the chance to improve upon it but all they ended up doing was adding new creatures and make the singleplayer campaign damn near unbearable to play. it is so damn boring. I would rather shoot my mother than play that game again.......


thank the lord for black&white 2 tho that game is kronick!:D

Ape Academy.

Ever since they did off with Spike, changed the music style, and pulled a 4-Kids move on Ape Escape 2, that franchise has gone downhill.

Underwater, even.

There's a certain game I once loved, but was totally ruined for me: Half Life 2. The story was good, the gravity gun kicked major butt, but I just HATED the freaking headcrabs/zombies! I can't play the darn game anymore because everytime Alyx "gets sidetracked somewhere," I know a bunch of flesh-eating zombies will get me. And they don't even have the decency to just run up at me, either! They have to pull the "get you from behind" game.

And don't get me started on black headcrabs. They ruined the game for me.

I've played the Japanese version of Naruto 2, and it was much better than the first. New characters include Ino, Shikamaru, Gaara, Kankuro, Kiba, Neji, and Hinata (and maybe Gai, I forgot). They alone make the second greater than the first.

Still, I won't forgive the English translators. "Shadow Clone Jutsu" works and all, but changing "Naruto Rendan" and "Shi Shi Rendan" to "Uzumaki Barrage" and "Lion's Barrage" is just ghey in my book. "Rendan" means "combo," yooze (in all the fan-translated anime, at least)!

I'd also recommend the third and fourth installments, but I doubt they'll be released stateside, what with the Wii coming out in the near future.

Mystical Ninjas for GameBoy. I was young (somewhere between 8 and 10), and this game allready had an uber negative effect on me, and nearly turned me off to the entire market as a whole (at least for handhealds). Now that Im thinking about it, Star Wars V: Empire Strikes Back had the same effect on me as well.

For me, perhaps one of my least favorite games, that really annoy me is Soul Calibur 3. They changed anyone good, and made some of them just horrible. It's just annoying. Arcade most was eliminated, the CotS was perhaps the worst idea for a game of this kind.. and the Weapon diciplines arn't really that good, except for soul weapons.

Doesn't anybody remember the horror that was Aquaman? That golden mullet of suck will the haunt the 'Cube till its dying day as its #1 bad game.

Also, does the name Drake of the 99 Dragons ring a bell?

soooo <.< I'm almost afraid to admit this on an online videogame message board but I cant STAND Final Fantasy. Random encounters make me want to kill small mammals, I find the newer games cheesy if visually appealing, and to top it off I really think that there isn't enough strategy to the game to warrant a turn based combat system.