The Worst Games You've Played
I'm sure that all of us here play video games to some extent (I mean, this is the forum for a game developer), and I'm certain that all of us have, at one time or another, run into games that are really, really bad. So, I want to know- what's your personal worst?
I've gotten pretty lucky with games in the past, but I'm going to say Shadow the Hedgehog. It wasn't even that bad, just mediocre and kind of stupid. Nowhere near as bad as Sonic 2006, that's for sure (I haven't played it, but I have seen it played through).
I've gotten pretty lucky with games in the past, but I'm going to say Shadow the Hedgehog. It wasn't even that bad, just mediocre and kind of stupid. Nowhere near as bad as Sonic 2006, that's for sure (I haven't played it, but I have seen it played through).
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1.Friday The 13th-NES (Worst Ending, Horrible game-over.)
2.Nightmare On Elm. Street-NES (I'm sorry, but they screwed up big time.)
3.Sonic Next Gen-XBOX360(Slow, and the camera makes it look as though sonic is high on crack.Or the programmers.Hard to tell.But that little Elise "thinking" about sonic...yeah, whoever made this was on drugs.)
Well, not the worst, but it was pretty boring, and too unfair in parts. And the developers seemed to go nuts any time anyone dared put in a bad word for the game on their forums, even if it was things like "Don't space out your save points so much, it's making it nearly impossible to play".
I couldn't really say what the worst of the worst games I've ever played are, I usually do a good job of avoiding bad ones. Rugrats Search for Reptar was pretty terrible though, seeing as the game lasted less than an hour. Crash Bandicoot 4 was a disappointment too, wish they'd just let it die after Naughty Dog moved on.
1: Sonic Fighters (sorry i bought it)
2: Spongebob: Atlantis Squarepants (they failed terribly, i finished the game in 2 hours!)
3: James Bond: Night something (it was sucky)
4: Namco Museum Remix (to much motion, all you play is pacman)
oh and Jimmy Neutron: Attack of the Twoonkies, don't get me wrong i liked it but it crashed ALL the time!
Genestealer (PC)- set in the Warhammer 40k universe. You're a Space Marine terminator trying to fight off aliens. Impossible controls + a first level where you die repeatedly while trying to defeat a single alien = fail. Seriously, I know I'm bad at FPS type games, but this one was ridiculous.
Milon's Secret Castle-NES(NO other weapons besides a very close range bubble.It's to hard to kill the FIRST BOSS with them.And how was I supposed to know that I had too push a block to get the required bouncy shoes or whatever?)
Medal Of Honor: Rising Sun(Sheesh, each enemy race's whole infantry has the same face, WAY too shaky, no check points.Big pile of crap.)
It would have been good if it hadn't been rushed. It had more bugs in it than Leonard Steakcharmer's stomach.
Actually I haven't played it.
I don't know what the worst game ever is.
I'll just go with E.T.
By the way, the most dissapointing game I played was "Nerverwinter Nights". I don't know if it also sucked so bad, if the german voices were done by professionals, and not just by four(!) random people Attari (or whoever was responsible for that cruelty) picked up from the street in front of their office.
But as for the worst professional game, I'll have to go with Mortal Kombat Special Forces.
Ah, that was released as Space Hulk on the Playstation. I loved that game! Though it was ridiculously hard, and the controls weren't much fun. Never died on the first level, though...
Worst game I ever played? Man, that's a lot of games to sort through in my head. I'd have to say Bad Dudes for the NES. The arcade version was fine, but the NES version was only one player. Unacceptable!
2. Superman 64: The graphics made The Man of Steel look like a Man of Cardboard!
3. Croc: What can I say, I had a weakness for cute, cartoony lizards.
4. Ty the Tasmanian Tiger: Way to easy! It only took me two days to finish, and I thought Tasmanian Tigers are supposed to be extinct.
Nuff said.
A game of jump, grab a rope and jump to the next (unless you miss the rope)
Jump, jump, jump, ladder, jump, jump, jump, ladder, rinse and repeat
the thing about the sims is that it isn't a bad game by any account, just not everyone likes that sort of game. a lot of people hate it for this reason.
1. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic: LucasArts game. Please remind me when the last time Jedi stood as lifeless as stones and took turns attacking stormtroopers. Yeah, I didn't think so.
2. Star Wars: Rebel Strike: Rogue Squadron III: LucasArts game. It's isn't really that bad, but when you pull off two games in a row as flawless as Rogue Squadron I and II, Rebel Strike is just below mediocre - which makes it feel really, really bad.
3. Command & Conquer: Renegade: Westwood game. Again, another game that isn't just terrible, but no. C&C is no place for first person shooters.
4. Shadow The Hedgehog: Sega game. Is trying to make Sonic edgy by using his antithesis as a protagonist and throwing in some off-color language and assault rifles really all that bad? Yes. There is nothing more telling of Sega's incompetence to make a game based on it's beloved franchise than this game (and the new 2006 STH which I have never played).
5. Super Mario Sunshine: Nintendo game. This is actually an excellent game, as well as one I've never played thoroughly. But knowing Nintendo and their ability to create whole franchises without almost any flaw in them, SMS just seems out of place. Oh, and last time I checked, Mario shot fire, not water.
7. Descent Maximum: Interplay game. What happens when you take one of the finest examples of a PC game and transport it to a console? Well, first, there was a port of the first installment of the series on PC called simply "Descent," which was only mediocre. But then there's Descent Maximum, a rehash of the second installment with far shorter levels, gaudy texture reproduction, uninspired level design, and bad controls. It just doesn't do a classic like Descent justice.
But if I have to give you the worst game I've ever played, I present you a shocker that will no doubt bring me condemnation from the gaming community:
Halo 3: Bungie game. It truly says something about Marketing when you can actually convince a whole generation of 20-somethings and younger that a game is revolutionary when it merely rips off everything good about a preceeding Macintosh game series and every other half-way decent first person shooter on the shelves. Am I the only one who remembers Marathon? Half-Life? Goldeneye 64? Perfect Dark? Apparently so. Everyone loved the first Halo (I even have it for the Mac because it's occasionally fun if there are other people with PCs), so why not make two more? By Halo 3, it's been enough. I'm incredulous that such mediocrity has become a cult classic. Is it really the worst game ever designed? Far from it: it's a pretty slick combination of everything good in FPS games since 1996. But when you manage to amass millions and millions of adoring fans with a stereotypical plotline with stereotypical weapons fighting stereotypical enemies on stereotypical worlds, I have to wonder why this game isn't shunned as a chess club president at a Sadie Hawkin's. It just feels like a rusty cash in on marketing gold.
Hey, wasn't Chuck Jordan a designer for some of the Sims games?
Eh, I think that qualifies as complaining about genres you don't like more than anything else.
It's like complaining about Sam & Max not having enough action, or Mario not having enough guns.
Worst games off the top of my head that I've played:
- Cliffhanger
- Mario Is missing
- WWF Super WrestleMania
- Wayne Gretzky 3D hockey
The controls were horrendous and you spend most of the game with the weakest weapon (snowballs) trying to kill wave after wave of endless turkeys. F(orget) that game.
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.-Zelda for the Nes
.-LOOM
.-Quake 4.
.-Alone in the dark 4
.-Devil may cry
i thought you could when in first person.
the worst game i have played could well be goldeneye rogue agent.
Loom- While not one of the best adventure games out there you have to give it credit for doing something different. Music/Adventure game. I don't think it should get the title of worst. I'd actually like to see another loom game. Good old bobbin threadbare
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Barbie on Sega Genesis: I know what you're thinking, but I was 5 yrs old at the time. My mind was like all rainbows and sunshine to even care how stupid it was!
You want bad dialogue?!Play House of the Dead 2!!!Although it was the crappy voice acting rather than dialogue that really got to me.Good game though!!!
I love the sims!!!!:(
Nuts!
Loom was quite all-right, but if you don't have the ear for it, playing above easy is very difficult.
Anyway, if you haven't heard the intro, play (or read!) the intro and then play the game. The added context improves the game a lot.
I would have loved to play the sequels, but LA decided otherwise.