Worst Game Ever?

Majin said:
How about Terminator 2 for the SNES.
The GFXs were painfull, their was a never ending amount of bad guys to kill, even after you killed every guy in mall level there was always 100 more.

The levels went from hard to boring to stupid hard... and that MIDI sound track drove me insane.

I wouldn't know about the mall level. I ALWAYS died on the truck level. That level was impossible hard. I passed it once with one health and no continues. Didn't even time travel if I remember correctly. Who can hit a jet moving barely subsonic from the left side of your view to the right, when you can't turn your head and have a 60 degree viewing angle? :mad:
 
banGerprawN said:
Aww, man! Spy VS Spy! For the Sega Master System II. Ahaha. God-DAMN, I remember that game well. I played it when I was like, 8 or something. Christ. I can't comment on how good it was/wasn't, as I haven't played it for quite some time, but I do remember it kept my attention. There must have been something about it.... :confused:
I played the PC version of the game in glorious four-colour CGA! I admit I did play it a lot, though in retrospect, I am not sure why. As I've stated before, I am easily amused, much to the thanks of my parents.
 
LoneWolf said:
Duke Nukem 3D was at least an original game; plus it had a pretty good deathmatch with some interesting weapons, such as laser trip-mines, the freeze gun, and the shrink ray. And if you understood a little more about traditional samurai, you'd also no that for a samurai to act like that would be grounds for ritual suicide according to traditional samurai code of honor. Duke's character was what he was supposed to be. Lo Wang didn't even fit the definition of his very own character.

I played Duke when it was brand new, and at the time, it was pretty groundbreaking. Shadow Warrior came out long after Duke, when far more inventive games had already arrived, another reason why I panned it as a retread. Perhaps you weren't playing games back in 1996; if you had, maybe you'd understand.
The last I checked, the reasons we play games are to escape reality. I am no expert, but I imagine most people are not educated enough about Samurais(sp) to know how their way of life was. If you want to nitpick, I am sure that there are thousands of games that contradict things, even things that they are founded upon.
 
TheAcorn said:
You know, I really hated Duke3d and all of the other 3d Realms games that came out using it's engine.

It was Duke3d, Blood, and Shadow Warrior, right? The art, textures, and animation were awful even for the standards of the day, and for the latter two games we'd all already been playing Quake at that point.

I think Duke3d was a boring, plodding lousy "look-what-we-can-do" (in terms of graphics and adult content) FPS with a few cool, albeit halfway-implemented, ideas. The games that came after were rehashes of the same idea.
I thought the Duke3D vs. Quake debate ended years ago with a tie. People liked either game for different reasons. Personally, I have never finished Quake, even though I bought it, because it simply became too boring. Duke Nukem had levels that you could relate to, like dirty cities, but it also had a lot of neat 'what if' scenarios, like space stations. To me, it was a matter of Dukem Nukem doing a lot of things well, whereas Quake did only one thing great: the engine. But the rest of the game was lacking, I found.

Regardless, I wouldn't give either of them the title of worst game ever. I need to go through my collection and rekindle some old, horrible memories, to see what is the absolute worse that I have played.
 
Majin said:
I liked that game too.
Remember the NUKE bomb that was so overly strong it didn't matter where you were you almost always killed your self using it!
I remember that! Or the sticky bomb, with all of the random quotes when you hit someone with it! "Sticky bomb stick to Mister Stupid!" "Sticky bomb LIKE you!" etc. :) It was great to see the enemies run around with these spiked grenades stuck to them! :D
 
Boar-Ral said:
To me, it was a matter of Dukem Nukem doing a lot of things well, whereas Quake did only one thing great: the engine. But the rest of the game was lacking, I found.

...except Quake was ths model for all online FPS and still is in many ways.

Good argument, though :eek:
 
hikeskool said:
...except Quake was ths model for all online FPS and still is in many ways.
Definitely! The fact that it was a true 3D engine spoke volumes. For me, the big draw to Duke Nukem was the humour - I am just that sort of person, whereas I found Quake to be too serious. Not really a fault, and that is what we've found in the past in this thread - a lot of people are listing games here that they just aren't too keen on, but it would be unfair to call them the worst ever. Duke Nukem Forever, on the other hand, I can see being here. (And someone already listed it.) It truly is a disappointment. The very fact that it is not finished after all these years speaks volumes more than even a horrible release can. I keep my fingers crossed, because I've been a Duke Nukem fan for ages, but I am losing what little faith and confidence I had left. :(
 
Yea CnC Renegade was really, really bad. I stuck through it for my love of the cnc series but I was done when I finished making Haunted House 2.

They sent me the game for free too - and I still want my $50 back.

CnC Generals wasn't that good either.
 
JRPereira said:
Yea CnC Renegade was really, really bad. I stuck through it for my love of the cnc series but I was done when I finished making Haunted House 2.

They sent me the game for free too - and I still want my $50 back.

CnC Generals wasn't that good either.
I must have more faith in the Command & Conquer series, because I still play Generals. Though this might be partially due to the extreme difficulty I have getting the older C&C games to work on my current system, and due to consolidating my PCs, I only have one - no legacy box for me. Generals is a staple at the LAN parties I attend, most of the time.
 
Boar-Ral said:
Definitely! The fact that it was a true 3D engine spoke volumes. For me, the big draw to Duke Nukem was the humour - I am just that sort of person, whereas I found Quake to be too serious. Not really a fault, and that is what we've found in the past in this thread - a lot of people are listing games here that they just aren't too keen on, but it would be unfair to call them the worst ever. Duke Nukem Forever, on the other hand, I can see being here. (And someone already listed it.) It truly is a disappointment. The very fact that it is not finished after all these years speaks volumes more than even a horrible release can. I keep my fingers crossed, because I've been a Duke Nukem fan for ages, but I am losing what little faith and confidence I had left. :(

Well even though DN4 may be on permanent hiatus, Prey seems to be alive and well:

http://www.3dgamers.com/dlselect/games/prey/e305preyvideo.zip.html

Just the stuff I see in that video makes me happy. Even though I'm not too crazy about the vehicles, the gameplay looks decently innovative.
 
Flesh Feast

Still remember being pumped up getting a pre-release copy to play and hype to my friends as part of a heat.net promotion. Segasoft sent posters, bumbersticker, etc...Then I played it...think it was installed on my system less than an hour.
 
Star Wars Commander. My sweet God, how did LucasArts screw up a Star wars game that bad? An awesome idea that had everything wrong imaginable go wrong.
 
There's tons of terrible games to name, but how about Global Operations? I have friends at EA that absolutely hated having to work on this game.
Hell, you cant even get to its page on EA's site without backdooring it thru a Google link LOL
Luckily my friends warned me before I wasted money on this wannabe "CS Killer"
 
hikeskool said:
Well even though DN4 may be on permanent hiatus, Prey seems to be alive and well:

http://www.3dgamers.com/dlselect/games/prey/e305preyvideo.zip.html

Just the stuff I see in that video makes me happy. Even though I'm not too crazy about the vehicles, the gameplay looks decently innovative.
That DOES look pretty incredible. I really hope that the final product is close to what we see in the movie. Duke Nukem Forever had two nice E3 movies, but look at where it stands at the moment. There are a lot of neat innovations that I can in Prey from the movie, though, and that will make it stand out a lot. At the end of the day, Duke Nukem Forever is just a shooter.
 
I am so surprised no one mentioned this one so I must be the only ID10T to have ever played it....

PHANTASMAGORIA 2: A PUZZLE OF FLESH

I can't believe I played it all the way through. <shudder> The only redeeming quality was the nudity in the game and even that wasn't special.

As for Ultima IX, I actually enjoyed that game a lot. Mind you, I used the hint book to walk me through the game but it still gave me over 50 hours of gameplay and the story was good. Sure it had some bugs but it was patched and after the big patch, it never gave me any issues. My two cents...
 
I'd thrown Laser Blast for the Atari VCS (aka 2600) onto the list. Visually, it was nice for the time, with the glowing laser lines and the aggressive sound. But there was just nothing to the game - it was the same 5 seconds over and over again!

Did anyone else old enough to have played this game have this experience:

Blam Blam Blam
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Blam Blam Blam
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Blam Blam Blam
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Blam Blam Blam
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Blam Blam Blam
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Blam Blam Blam
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Blam Blam Blam
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- repeat for several hours...
 
Medal of Honor Pacific Assault

That game was a steaming turd of crappiness. Granted, the graphics were pretty, but when it takes like 3-4 shots in the chest from a bolt action rifle to kill a storming Japanese soldier, your patience wears thin quickly.
 
I have a couple to add.

Arcanum: Even after several patches, the game was severely bugged to the point where you could end up being unable to progress. Combat went from very difficult at the start to ridiculously easy even against what should be the hardest opponents by midgame. While I had fun with the game, I think it qualifies for this thread due to all the bugs.

Axis and Allies: The original one that remained true to the boardgame, not the more current one. This too was bugged bad enough that you had to restore a saved game to finish a game, and it would frequently crash. The AI even on the hardest setting was pathetic. The only way this game was at all worthwhile was if you were playing it with no AI players, and even then you would have to restore saved games fairly frequently to recover from game lockups or crashes. This is another like Arcanum...fun (with other people), but too bug ridden to be worth dealing with.
 
Star Wars Galaxies is one of the worst games I've ever played. It had a shit interface to start with, horrible graphics (even for the time) and franky. it was boring as fuck. It also managed the cardinal sin of having a Star Wars aesthetic with all the right sound effects and music yet still managing to feel nothing like Star Wars at all. It's a game that had potential in concept but its execution was inexcusably bad. Even with the JTL expansions and what not, it still never ended up being the game it should have been from the start.

Die by the Sword was another terrible turd of a game. I didn't enjoy it at all. Other atrocities include Oni, Daikatana, and Deus Ex.
 
I'v been feeling the last couple of years has been very poor for gaming, with one disappointment after another. Am I the only one feeling this way?

There have been no decent RPG games since Kingdom Come: Deliverance. I was so excited for Cyberpunk 2077, and I found it to be incredibly lacking. I didn't feel immersed in my character at all. Outer Worlds seemed like a quick on-rails theme park with no exploration. Fallout 4 was another lackluster experience, feeling worse to explore and play than 3 or NV. Final Fantasy 15 was very forgettable and seemed to be filled with plot holes.

Shooter games have also tanked very hard. Battlefield Series has felt pretty bad the last couple of releases, and CoD hasn't felt good to play since MW2. My only enjoyable FPS experience in the last 5 years has been playing Squad.

Then the MMO-style games have all gone downhill. I try playing ESO recently and it seems so casual. The PVP keeps getting worse for anyone who wants to take it seriously and not be in a zerg ball. WoW, Shadowlands also seems pretty meh so far, and WoW classic is dead outside raiding.

Damn, 17 year necro. Impressive.
 
I'v been feeling the last couple of years has been very poor for gaming, with one disappointment after another. Am I the only one feeling this way?

There have been no decent RPG games since Kingdom Come: Deliverance. I was so excited for Cyberpunk 2077, and I found it to be incredibly lacking. I didn't feel immersed in my character at all. Outer Worlds seemed like a quick on-rails theme park with no exploration. Fallout 4 was another lackluster experience, feeling worse to explore and play than 3 or NV. Final Fantasy 15 was very forgettable and seemed to be filled with plot holes.

Shooter games have also tanked very hard. Battlefield Series has felt pretty bad the last couple of releases, and CoD hasn't felt good to play since MW2. My only enjoyable FPS experience in the last 5 years has been playing Squad.

Then the MMO-style games have all gone downhill. I try playing ESO recently and it seems so casual. The PVP keeps getting worse for anyone who wants to take it seriously and not be in a zerg ball. WoW, Shadowlands also seems pretty meh so far, and WoW classic is dead outside raiding.
ESO was actually really good in beta and early launch. They dumbed it down big time when they switched to buy to play from sub only (One Tamriel), never fixed pvp latency, and kept making things for the cash shop to address design flaws that should have been fixed instead. It's a shame because it was basically DAOC 2 at launch.

Amazing necro by the way. pendragon1 how'd he do?
 
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On topic, I can't even think of a game to categorize as the worst I've ever played. Colonial Marines would probably have to fill that position, even though I did enjoy my time with it. Coop was surprisingly a lot of fun in the first week of release. It was no nonsense, drop-in coop and it just worked.
 
Die by the Sword was another terrible turd of a game. I didn't enjoy it at all.

Die by the Sword suffered from having a neat idea that wasn't very good. Controlling the sword with a mouse or the keypad was just too cumbersome; the simplified controls weren't very precise, but at least understandable. Maybe it could work with a vr hand controller (although I dunno about the rights, the studio is part of Activision, but it was published by Interplay which is pretty dead). Also, cutting off limbs and heads is fub, but I don't know that there was much game beyond that? Kind of like Time Killers; field amputation gets you attention, but you need substance behind it.
 
On topic, I can't even think of a game to categorize as the worst I've ever played. Colonial Marines would probably have to fill that position, even though I did enjoy my time with it. Coop was surprisingly a lot of fun in the first week of release. It was no nonsense, drop-in coop and it just worked.

I don't think a game you enjoy and put a lot of time into really counts. Sure, you can like a bad game but it's that really the worst game you've ever played? I doubt it.
 
I don't think a game you enjoy and put a lot of time into really counts. Sure, you can like a bad game but it's that really the worst game you've ever played? I doubt it.
I only put around 3-4 hours into it, never finished it. Just because you can enjoy one piece of a game before it gets old doesn't mean the game can't be your worst game ever played.
 
ET for the Atari, so bad they buried them in a landfill next to Jimmy Hoffa.
 
I only put around 3-4 hours into it, never finished it. Just because you can enjoy one piece of a game before it gets old doesn't mean the game can't be your worst game ever played.
Typically, bad games are pretty bad from the start with most aspects of the game sucking.
 
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one of the worst games I ever played on Steam probably Unepic.

Its a 2d clone of Metroid, except with way worse map design, clunky combat and unskippable cut-scenes voiced by the worst idea for a 4-wall-breaking demon ever
 
I'll have to go with outriders, I'm sure there are worse games, but nothing that I've played.
 
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