The Worst Games You've Ever Played.

Idea stolen from Chyron8472's topic.

What is/are the worst game(s) you've played ever? I don't mean games that would otherwise be good if not for a few things wrong with them. I mean games that have no redeemable value and are complete FAIL.


I have a couple to start off with.

Dr. Jeykll and Mr. Hyde (NES)

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This game is the worst amount of retarded bull I've ever seen. I managed to make it six levels, before I got sick of the horrible level design and the fact the levels repeat. Everything is out to kill you when you're Dr. Jeykll, and there is no way to avoid attacks. You have to have the quickest reflexes and be the best friggin gamer in gaming history to beat this. You need nerves of steel. If you get hurt enough, you turn into Mr. Hyde, and go into a dark world sort of stage. The problem is you walk backwards and if you move too far or move Mr. Hyde yourself, you die. Lightning strikes you, for no reason. There's only one boss that I've seen, a fat opera singer who sprays musical notes at you. Just don't play it. Ever. Don't.

Traysia (Genesis)

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I've searched for the name of this game everywhere, and I found it today for the first time in order to post about it in this topic. This game is a Japanese RPG, and while it's got a great interface and not terrible graphics, the game is friggin horrible! It hates all mankind and wants to glue you to the TV in frustration until your eyeballs bleed out! It's the most difficult RPG I've ever played! You can't get anywhere without dying! I played this as a little kid, and constantly tried to beat it, and I couldn't. It refused to be played past the first town. Now in it's defense, I haven't played it for years, and a lot of people seem to like it. I might give it a try again, but I know that my memories of this game, are that it is a bucket of balls. I should probably be happy to own it, as it seems to be somewhat rare.


Now you don't have to post box art shots and screenshots and stuff. I just did that to show the games off. Just post your worst gaming experiences ever. Superman 64 bad. :)
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  • edited February 2010
    I have actually played "Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing"

    It was truly a tour de force
  • edited February 2010
    It's a toss-up between Fighting Force 2 and Mortal Kombat: Special Forces. (Funny that they both have "force" in the name)

    Unplayable wrecks. That's really all I can say about them. Hideous, depressing failures.

    I've played even worse games, but I'm sticking to titles that were developed by established teams. If I went into indie games, this post would never end.
  • edited February 2010
    ShaggE wrote: »
    I've played even worse games, but I'm sticking to titles that were developed by established teams. If I went into indie games, this post would never end.

    We had a BBC Micro back in the day, there was no shortage of poo games for it, but there were a couple of diamonds
  • edited February 2010
    the Iron Man videogame for the movie. never before had I played a third person game with First Person Shooter controls, and it didn't control well
  • edited February 2010
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    Not the worst game I've ever played, but it's pretty awful. I got it for PC and I got immediately sucked in. Interesting story, fantastic graphics, amazing combat music etc etc.

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    But while on the surface it appears to be a fantastic game, it gets boring super quickly. The dungeons look the same and the levelling system is retarted. You don't level up, but your stats increase. But that's fine.

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    The worst thing is the difficulty. You can be levelling up for ages in boring areas for hours, only to get up to a level where the enemies can kill you in one hit. If you google Nest of Eagles on gamefaqs, theres over 2 pages of help topics on it. You're able to one hit kill the enemies leading up to the fight, then you have to kill two super powerful enemies with 5000 health, the ability to one hit kill you AND you have to deal with 9 groups of normal enemies AND they get reinforced each turn.

    It probably deserves a 6.5/10, but it's worse because on the outside it looks so sweet.
  • edited February 2010
    I've luckily managed to avoid horrible games throughout my lifetime, so mine are small time to some of the horrors out there but they are still pretty damn bad.

    My younger cousin had a game called "Horsez" for the PC that I helped her out on a LOT, because they felt the need to put horribly glitchy and confusing quests, most without maps, in a kid's game. (some involved trying to find seriously miniscule objects in a big wide area with shoddy camera controls that were already camouflaged within the setting to begin with). The rest of the game is an incredibly dumb "*giggle* *giggle* teenagers" story and doing repetitive "horse care" crap five million times. I let her install it on to my computer for her to play and I was familiar with the "Dogz" and "Catz" series from when I was a kid, so I assumed it would be the same: take care of cute horses, only more realistically as the screens implied. Boy howdy, was I wrong.

    Also The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning. The whole trilogy is terrible enough but jesus christ the first game is quite literally nothing but going in a completely straight line of super walled-in areas and button mashing the same hordes of enemies to death over and over again. EDIT: Oh and super long and dull tutorial sessions in one place that you must do FOUR TIMES.

    Also I've never played it, but the AVG video reviewing a game called "Plumbers Don't Wear Ties" is hilarious and is pretty much the worst game I have ever seen.
  • edited February 2010
    I'm waiting to somebody to say "Mario is Missing" or "Mario's Time Machine".

    Of course, I'm probably just showing my age
  • edited February 2010
    Video of Plumbers Don't Wear Ties:
    http://screwattack.com/videos/AVGN-Plumbers-Dont-Wear-Ties-1

    Thanks PecanBlue, the video is hilarious :D
  • edited February 2010
    GinnyN wrote: »
    I'm waiting to somebody to say "Mario is Missing" or "Mario's Time Machine".

    Of course, I'm probably just showing my age

    Mario is missing… wasn’t it a SNES geographic quizz, like some organised plot by geography teachers, hiding behind Mario’s name ?
  • edited February 2010
    ShaggE wrote: »
    It's a toss-up between Fighting Force 2 and Mortal Kombat: Special Forces. (Funny that they both have "force" in the name)
    Unsurprisingly, MK was always referred to as "Special Farces" in the test lab.
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  • edited February 2010
    Ne0n wrote: »
    Video of Plumbers Don't Wear Ties:
    http://screwattack.com/videos/AVGN-Plumbers-Dont-Wear-Ties-1

    Thanks PecanBlue, the video is hilarious :D

    I love that guy. And man, is that game bad. It's just a slideshow set to music!
  • edited February 2010
    X2: Wolverine's Revenge... Terrible. How do you mess up playing as Wolverine?
  • edited February 2010
    GinnyN wrote: »
    I'm waiting to somebody to say "Mario is Missing" or "Mario's Time Machine".

    Of course, I'm probably just showing my age

    although I agree Mario is Missing totally sucks, I kinda liked Marios Time Machine
  • edited February 2010
    Ne0n wrote: »
    Video of Plumbers Don't Wear Ties:
    http://screwattack.com/videos/AVGN-Plumbers-Dont-Wear-Ties-1

    Thanks PecanBlue, the video is hilarious :D

    Holy crap that was freakin' hilarious.
  • edited February 2010
    Remolay wrote: »
    although I agree Mario is Missing totally sucks, I kinda liked Marios Time Machine

    I never played Mario's Time Machine to be fair. I just heard is bad.

    If you liked it, well, good
  • edited February 2010
    Terminator: Salvation on the 360. It's so bad, they didn't even sync the characters' lips, so when they speak, the camera goes to someone ELSE to cover it up. D:
  • edited February 2010
    Yohmi wrote: »
    Mario is missing… wasn’t it a SNES geographic quizz, like some organised plot by geography teachers, hiding behind Mario’s name ?

    Yes. I played the NES Version. Which was worse.
  • edited February 2010
    ET!
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    Took a game programming class outisde my normal studies for fun a few years ago, we got to play that game as the example of the worst game ever made. Worst one I played...
  • edited February 2010
    BadStrong wrote: »
    Holy crap that was freakin' hilarious.

    That was funny. The thing is, I don't think it qualifies enough as a game to even count as the worst game ever.
    (Also, that guy is hot. Not the slideshow guy, the guy who does the review)
  • edited February 2010
    Universal Studios: The game The game is just one giant advert for the park. The aim of the game is to complete 8 minigames (and a quiz) based on various rides. Whilst these can be quite fun, in order to access the rides, you have to build up points to buy tickets, by Picking up rubbish from around the park. Who the hell thought that would be fun?
  • edited February 2010
    brunner wrote: »
    X2: Wolverine's Revenge... Terrible. How do you mess up playing as Wolverine?


    What the hell it had mark Hamil, in it...that makes games good. I actually like everything about it.


    I think the worst game I've ever played is Batman Forever or Dr. Jeckly and mr Hyde.
  • edited February 2010
    The City Of Lost Children. No contest. It can be finished in around 20 minutes with a walkthrough, but without one you sit there going 'whaaaaaaaaaa?' wondering what the hell you're supposed to do, because the game gives you no guidance whatsover, it's vague as hell and, in general, it's bloody awful. Most of the reviews for it wax lyrical about how pretty it was for the time, but the gameplay is just terrible. As much as I love to hate Roberta Williams, this game is worse than anything she's ever made, times fifty. WORST ADVENTURE GAME EVAR.
  • edited February 2010
    Jen Kollic wrote: »

    Well that's sad. I've only heard good things about the movie (although I still haven't seen it), it's disappointing that the game would be that bad.
  • edited February 2010
    Jen Kollic wrote: »
    The City Of Lost Children. No contest. It can be finished in around 20 minutes with a walkthrough, but without one you sit there going 'whaaaaaaaaaa?' wondering what the hell you're supposed to do, because the game gives you no guidance whatsover, it's vague as hell and, in general, it's bloody awful. Most of the reviews for it way lyrical about how pretty it was for the time, but the gameplay is just terrible. As much as I love to hate Roberta Williams, this game is worse than anything she's ever made, times fifty. WORST ADVENTURE GAME EVAR.

    We rented that out once, we were all "WHY DO THESE BEECHES KEEP THROWING ME IN THE CELLAR!!" Many years later my bro and I picked it up again just to get closure, even though we knew it was pants
  • edited February 2010
    Avistew wrote: »
    Well that's sad. I've only heard good things about the movie (although I still haven't seen it), it's disappointing that the game would be that bad.

    Don't worry, from what I've heard the movie is good, it's just a pity that the game has very little to do with it. Apparently it's just as incomprehensible whether you've seen the movie or not.
  • edited February 2010
    For me the worst game I've ever played is Sonic 2006 on the PS3 (Oh god the loading screens)... Well the best way I think I can sum up why it's the worst game ever (if you really don't know why) is by showing you this Let's Play video
  • edited February 2010
    Icedhope wrote: »
    What the hell it had mark Hamil, in it...that makes games good. I actually like everything about it.
    Really? I found the gameplay to be on the verge of broken. Considering how much potential a Wolverine game has, I found it to be a huge disappointment.
  • edited February 2010
    mr_nutt wrote: »
    For me the worst game I've ever played is Sonic 2006 on the PS3 (Oh god the loading screens)... Well the best way I think I can sum up why it's the worst game ever (if you really don't know why) is by showing you this Let's Play video

    I love that Let's Play, I watched the whole thing a while ago, even the tedious parts, by leaving some videos on at night and watching them from bed before sleeping. "Billiards from hell" made me tear my own hair out but it was worth it for the shout of victory at the end.
    ET!

    To be fair, the makers are aware that it is bad and they had very little time to work on it. It was a feat in and of itself to finish within that amount of time, but yes, it is still bad.
  • edited February 2010
    It's undoubtedly Zombieville. The huge amount of bugs alone makes it unplayable. It's actually almost so bad that it's funny. Must be experienced to be believed :D
  • edited February 2010
    I too watched the entire Let's Play Sonic 2006. I felt for them at times, I really did.

    The worst game I've personally played was Drake of the 99 Dragons, which proved that memories of a half-decent demo from years ago can be completely and utterly false. The PC port was so bad, you couldn't even save because it claimed you didn't have a memory card inserted. ON THE PC. Gah.
  • edited February 2010
    The Let's Play Sonic 2006 was brilliant. Sadly, I couldn't finish it. After about an hour, all the jokes in the world couldn't save me from the on-screen suck. (That, and about halfway through most LPs, I realize that I've spent three or four hours watching a couple of SA goons play a game. Two days later, I start watching another one. I can't stop...)
  • edited March 2010
    It's undoubtedly Zombieville. The huge amount of bugs alone makes it unplayable. It's actually almost so bad that it's funny. Must be experienced to be believed :D

    Do you mean the one about a reporter who's comming to zombie-invaded area? One with soldiers who'd shoot you if you give them logicall answers?
    That was the worst game I ever played.
  • edited March 2010
    I own two copies of E.T. My dad bought them before I was born. A year or two ago, the curiosity finally got the better of me. The game deserves everything it gets.

    Also, I have a friend who collects bad games, so for his birthday last year, I got him Bible Adventures for the NES. And of course, I had to play it a little bit. It sucks about as much as you'd think.

    For something more modern, my friends got me Mega Man X: Command Mission for my birthday a couple years ago as a joke gift. I wouldn't call it bad so much as depressingly mediocre, and I have a high tolerance for mediocrity, so much that I didn't think that Shadow the Hedgehog was that bad. Considering that I usually manage to pick up decent games, it's definitely on the lower end of the spectrum in my collection.
  • edited March 2010
    Avistew wrote: »
    That was funny. The thing is, I don't think it qualifies enough as a game to even count as the worst game ever.
    (Also, that guy is hot. Not the slideshow guy, the guy who does the review)

    I was reading through posts and... lol, Avistew says James Rolfe is hot.

    Well, I'm a guy so I can't really say if he is , but I've just never heard someone call the AVGN hot before. =)


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    I've played E.T. (for Atari) my parents owned a copy of it. yeah it sucked, but once I got the hang of it, it wasn't as terrible as... let's say Superman64 (for N64) or T2 or Deadly Towers (for NES.) I have played all 3 of these, and they really do suck worse than E.T.


    Oh, and I'm a huge Zelda fan but I know enough not to go anywhere near the CDi Zelda games. The AVGN reviews are enough for me on that. Philips really sucks at making video games.
  • edited March 2010
    I have to say pagemaster on the sega genesis. The controls don't make sense and never have I gotten past the first level. It tried it 10 years after the first time I did and I still couldn't get past the level.
  • edited March 2010
    Chyron8472 wrote: »
    Oh, and I'm a huge Zelda fan but I know enough not to go anywhere near the CDi Zelda games. The AVGN reviews are enough for me on that. Philips really sucks at making video games.

    I wanted to try those but the so called "working" CDi emulators don't work.
  • edited March 2010
    So I came into this thread and immediately press Ctrl+F and typed "Superman." Good work, everyone.

    Superman 64. The only game review I've ever read where the phrase "not nearly as fun as watching static on a TV screen" was present.
  • edited March 2010
    Oh, I have played this Superman 64 you speak of. I'm just glad my brain survived.
  • edited March 2010
    From a review for Bible Adventures:
    Seanbaby wrote:
    Aside from the baby's lack of buoyancy, there's nothing fun about this game.

    Superman 64:
    Seanbaby wrote:
    Fun: 0/10
    Superman has about 300 different super powers, including the ability to see panties through women's clothing, and the only one the game thought to include was his fantastic ability to fly through hoops. It would have been more fun if they made a game about Superman window shopping with Aquaman.

    Realism: 9/10
    This game exactly recreates the pain you'd feel if you really were Superman being tortured in a virtual world filled with radioactive poisonous gas.

    Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon:
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    Fun: 0/10
    The gameplay is almost as deep and engaging as flipping from one option to the next on a DVD menu. Say for instance one person was playing Zelda: Wand of Gamelon, and another person was telling Terminator 2 to be played in French, then English, then French again, they'd both be having the same amount of fun. However, once the second person actually started watching Terminator 2 in French, they'd be having approximately 927,087 times more fun.

    E.T.:
    Seanbaby wrote:
    It got to a point where the world's children refused to take them for free. To put that into perspective, I've seen kids buy dead spiders from each other for a nickle.
  • edited March 2010
    strangely enough. I liked E.T. the game. Once I figured it out it came naturally to me and I had fun.

    I agree that superman64 sucks. I can't even get through the tutorial. They could have bothered to make the controls work you know
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